Daily Archives: April 1, 2009

Readers: Your help needed to recover old satellite imagery

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As WUWT readers know, I covered a fascinating project on 3/31 here showing how a team of dedicated technical archaeologists are trying the get old AMPEX 2″ reel to reel data recorders functional again so that they can recover thousnads … Continue reading →

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What’s that smell? Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure

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Sometimes, you really don’t need to make up an April Fools joke. Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, except for the part about “four gallons” which is part of the original Telegraph article ;-) – Anthony From the Telegraph … Continue reading →

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NASA Headline: Deep Solar Minimum

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NASA Science News, Dr. Tony Philips The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 … Continue reading →

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