![]() InformationWeek.com: News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces! Check out our breaking stories on Hollywood?s hottest stars! Surely Nothing but Satan Himself Could Explain This European Heat Wave Named 'Lucifer'A devastating heat wave surging through southern Europe has earned the unofficial moniker of “Lucifer,” according to several news reports this weekend. Things over there do seem pretty bad, real bad, bad enough there that the only logical conclusion is Satan danced down there himself, possibly with a fiddle, and played a song which cursed the very winds themselves with the tunes of brimstone and ruin after somebody lost a bet. At least two people died over the course of the heat wave, which caused temperatures to spike as high as 4. Celsius (1. 11 Fahrenheit) in southern Spain and 4. Celsius (1. 04 Fahrenheit) in the French Riviera, per the New York Times. Temperatures were forecast as high as slightly over 4. Celsius (1. 08 Fahrenheit) in mainland Greece. According to Agence France- Presse, local conditions in Italy’s Campania region caused temperatures to feel much higher, around 5. Celsius (1. 31 Farenheit). Surging electrical demand in Poland caused the government to warn of “possible infrastructure failures” and disperse staff early. Train tracks in southern Serbia warped, the Romanian government urged Bucharest residents to stay indoors and an Italian drought which has already cost over $1 billion dragged on. Per Reuters, the Italian grape harvest started weeks early, with Slow Food movement leader Carlo Petrini telling La Stampa he had never heard of it ever starting before August 1. Reuters also reported 3. Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Croatia. While the Times reported two deaths, AFP reported as many as five, with hospital admissions in Italy running 1. It’s almost enough to make one wonder if this heat wave could be correlated with all those other heat waves across the world, or the inexplicable trend of the planet breaking global heat records on a regular basis. Maybe there’s some kind of thing that we, humans, are pumping into the atmosphere that causes it to retain more heat, perhaps making said events more likely. Hmm. But since no such theory, perhaps of so- called global climate “change,” has been devised or vetted by the vast majority of climate scientists, we’re just going to have to hand it to the devil on this one and guess the thing we are pumping into the atmosphere is sin. Curse you, Lucifer![New York Times]. Mars' Small, Stressed Out Moon Is Painfully Relatable In New Photo. Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are like the bay leaves of the solar system: they’re fine I guess but what are they trying to do? The larger satellite, Phobos, is interesting because its existence is almost poetic: it’s small, falling apart due to stress, and apparently, desperately in need of validation. In new photos from NASA’s Hubble, our favorite frightened moon gloriously photobombs its dad. The images, taken back in May 2. Phobos orbiting around Mars when the planet was 5. Earth. Hubble captured the moon’s orbit in 1. According to NASA, Phobos orbits closer to Mars than any other moon in the solar system orbits its planet, further exhibiting its unbelievable neediness. The fact that its name literally means “panic or fear” feels offensively on- the- nose. Its easy to laugh at Phobos for being, as NASA puts it, possibly “a pile of rubble that is held together by a thin crust.” Honestly though, who among us isn’t? Phobos is doing its best, and that’s all that really matters.[NASA].
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