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Remote Sensing as Art 🎨

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Remote Sensing as Art 🎨

Remote Sensing is the use of things like satellites πŸ›° and aerial photography ✈ to take pictures of the land below. Nowadays with so much data easily available it’s wonderful not just from a scientific perspective but also to look at land and the patterns it represents from an artistic perspective.

In furtherance of artistic goals, I actually added a new feature to the internals of the blog, that allow me to modify the brightness, saturation, and color of any satellite image to make it look even prettier or capture a certain artistic effect on the blog live. 🎨

β€˜Wobble’ in moon to cause severe flooding in US coastal cities in 2030s – syracuse.com

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β€˜Wobble’ in moon to cause severe flooding in US coastal cities in 2030s – syracuse.com

The moon is currently in the “tide-amplifying part of its cycle,” according to NASA, but by mid-2030, when this intensified series returns, people living in coastal cities may be dealing with severe floods “every day or two.” Why? This natural yet amplified lunar cycle will be coupled with higher sea levels caused by global warming, triggering a decade of dramatic surges in the number of days with high-tide flooding on nearly all mainland coastlines in the U.S., Hawaii and Guam. High-tide flooding, also known as “nuisance” or “sunny day” floods, is projected to exceed thresholds across the nation more often and occur in clusters that last a month or longer, the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team of the University of Hawaii said. Their study was published last month in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Solar weather and fire risk

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I wonder how successful fire departments would be at putting out fires during severe solar weather. While it’s safe to say severe solar weather would require shutting down the power grid and would take offline most cellphone service and even radio communications, it’s not clear if it would it be strong enough nterfere with diesel engines or the largely gravity fed water systems.

It really depends on how strong the EMF is from the solar weather, how successful power companies are at grounding out power lines and even how dry the grass is under the certain to be arcing power lines. Peppers aren’t wrong to be very concerned with severe solar weather. It really would be very devastating in modern society.