Category Archives: NASA

Space Lasers: GRACE-FO and LISA

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Space Lasers Let’s make clear that this article is about actual space lasers, currently used in the GRACE follow on (FO) satellite to detect the earth’s gravity field and study sea level rise and water depletion in aquifers.  It will … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Proposed 2019 DoE and NASA Cuts, and Actual Increases

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump’s Proposed Cuts to the Department of Energy and NASA, with their actual Congressional Increases. Department of Energy Budget In the following table for the science sectors of the Department of Energy, we give, in millions of dollars:  the 2019 … Continue reading →

Posted in Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Conservation, Department of Energy, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, NASA, Nuclear Energy, Particle Physics, Renewable Energy, Science and Engineering Education, Science Funding, Solar Energy, Trump Budget, University Funding, Wind Energy | Tagged | Leave a comment

Trump Dreams of Mar-e-Luna

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump Dreams of Mar-e-Luna This is an article of non-science fiction, since science is ruled out in Trump’s dreams.  Trump wants to colonize the moon, where he has his typical dream of opening another Trump International Golf Course.  In this … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Narcissistic Moon Landing Disaster

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump’s Narcissistic Moon Landing Disaster Trump is speeding up the Man Moon Landing from 10 years plus needed delays to six years max.  This is purely to satisfy his EGO to have the glory of the landing occur before the … Continue reading →

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Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018 The NASA author is Gavin A. Schmidt, and the NOAA author is Derek Arendt. I have put photos of the graphs from the above analysis on a Flickr album NOAA/NASA Annual … Continue reading →

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Rep. Bridenstine Is Only a Political Choice for NASA Administrator

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We have to note that Donald Trump is again exercising his “terminate with extreme prejudice” agenda against climate science. Nobody has suggested where this came from, other to secure funding from oil billionaires like the Koch brothers of Texas, and … Continue reading →

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