Category: News: US

Using Science to Debunk Anti-Mask Claims

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Bill Nye the Science Guy takes to TikTok to explain why everyone should wear a mask.

Bill Nye urges everyone to please wear a mask.

He’s gone viral but in a good way. A TikTok video by TV’s Bill Nye the Science Guy becomes a social media smash with more than 15 million likes. In it he uses physics, a few props and sound effects to explain how masks work to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Here shooting down the false claim Covid can travel thorough masks. “Because viruses don’t travel by themselves. They travel in droplets of spit and snot.” As he demonstrates, “When the droplet gets into the fibers of a mask, it gets trapped. This is not that hard to understand, everybody.” And that Nye says is why we have rules about wearing a mask. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

SpaceX Aborts Starship’s First Test Launch

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The first test flight for SpaceX’s new Starship did not go as planned.

SpaceX Starship SN8 Prototype on Launchpad in South Texas

The countdown for the test launch of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship prototype went well right up until T-minus 1.3 seconds.

 Countdown: 3, 2, 1 …

SpaceX aborted the launch from its south Texas site when it detected something abnormal with one or more of the three Raptor engines. The next test launch to send the prototype 8 miles high will depend on how long it takes to fix the problem. Whatever that is. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

SpaceX wants to use its Starship to carry people and cargo to the moon and beyond.

First Human to Fly Faster Than the Speed of Sound Dies at 97

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Retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager was a 24-year-old Captain on that day decades ago.

Captain Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier in 1947

Chuck Yeager made history flying an X-1 jet on October 14, 1947.

USAF: “With all four rockets firing Yeager flies to 56,000 feet in less than two minutes.”

The US Air Force documenting the flight of the legendary pilot.

USAF: “And he does it. The first human to crack the sound barrier.”

Yeager died last night at 97. Carmen Roberts Fox News

2020’s Biggest Meteor Shower

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The December skies will be filled with lots of shows including the Geminid meteor shower
which starts the night of December 4.

The Geminids will peak overnight between December 13 and 14.

Look up tonight and you may see the annual Geminid meteor shower which will last through the 17th. NASA says this year’s show in space will be brighter because it coincides with a nearly new moon, making the skies even darker.

The Geminids arrives each year as the Earth plows through the debris left in the orbit of an asteroid known as Phaethon or what NASA says could actually be a burnt-out comet. For the best view find a spot away from bright city lights and then just look up. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

You can catch another show on December 21 when Jupiter and Saturn appear so close they will seem to be “one” in the night sky. They won’t make this great conjunction again until 2080.

Nicolas Cage’s Real Martial Arts Moves

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Nicolas Cage’s new martial arts movie comes out Friday and the director says Cage certainly knows his moves.

Nicolas Cage plays a mentor to young warrior.

“I can fly too.” You’ll see Nicolas Cage flying a lot in his new martial arts movie “Jiu Jitsu” and it won’t always be a stunt double because Cage really knows how to fight. The film’s director Dimitri Logothetis tells the New York Post that Cage is trained in jiujitsu and that in his words, “He knew an awful lot and did a lot of moves on-camera.” But he adds, “We didn’t let him do the dangerous stuff.”
“He’s crazy like me.” You can see just how crazy good Cage is on Friday when the film hits theaters. Carmen Roberts. Fox News