Earth will be overhead for all of the near side. Using the apparent location of the GMT line would add 49 minutes to every day. That allows time for sleeping in and generally relaxing.

The direct lazer communication lines would rise at the same time everyday. Geostationary satellites would eclipse at the same time everyday too.

>...will do nothing...

Not so fast. It can keep the cost of electricity inflated. It helps to ensures that other types of business do not move in.

Which one of the schemes are you asking about?

A Brita pitcher is a shity lawnmower. It just does not get the job done.

Someone will post hard science data showing that Brita water has less lead than the tap water poured into it. This fan might claim Brita has a great taste. I agree. I drink Brita water too and I like it. It just is not the right tool for lawn care.

The Chinese are trying to stop epidemic spread of Covid 19 strains. The Omicron variants were clearly not contained by Pfizer vaccines. Use hammer for nail, wrench for nut, and driver for screw. Pfizer is a good tool for lowering the fatality rate. I can say this and also say that Pfizer is not the tool that the Chinese are looking for. It is not because Chinese national pride prevents them from using an American made adjustable wrench (though that may also be true). If we offered a nice American made hamner they might swallow the pride and buy it to pound nails.

That website is horrible.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm

>...New Covid boosters work better against infection than previous shots...

This word "infection".

Ann gets sick. Gives it to Bob who gives it to Chris who passes to Dave who gives it to Edna who passes to Frank. All these people got vaccinated. They are not dead. None went to the hospital. Chris and Edna do not even know they are sick. CDC and Pfizer are claiming this as "effective against infection". Now Frank gives me covid19 at work and I give it to my wife. This story pisses me off.

"Transmission" is a much better word. We will probably soon have data on the bivalent booster's effect on transmission. A even better term is "secondary attack rate" or "SAR". If one person in a household is sick with ba5 strain what are the odds that a second person living in that household gets sick. Specifically if the primary infected person had the shot how much does that reduce the likelihood of a secondary?

Viruses have a reproduction number. A strategy defeats an epidemic if the combination of measures reduces the reproduction number below 1.0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33233-9

Pfizer lowers the secondary attack rate when the primary had Delta. Two or three Pfizer shots did not lower the transmission of Omicron in a statistically significant way in that study.

Numbers are too low to be viable as a barrier to epidemics.

Sinovac fails in the same way that Pfizer fails. Omicron just spread anyway.

Obviously not dying is something important and Pfizer lowered the number of deaths. It simply is not a containment strategy.

The hospital here was overloaded last January. That did not really effect me on a personal level. That feeling like acid was being poured down my throat effected me personally. Also that bizarre intense headache, the crazy chills, the not being able get enough oxygen to keep up with the shiver.

I had three shots of mRNA vaccine. It is plausible it could have been worse. The idea "China could buy mRNA vaccines and then let 'er rip" is absurd. There are a lot of dead people in Western countries that had mRNA vaccines. We can dismiss the death and you still have a massive problem. People who are middle aged healthy and vaccinated still miss work due to covid19 infection and due to long covid. The entire work force is down for multiple weeks every year anyway.

On Earth water condenses and forms clouds. There is very little of it at the top of the atmosphere. Instead we see atomic oxygen and ozone.

>The one issue I have with this hypothesis of deep oceans that have evaporated away is the apparent lack of surface evaporite deposits. Where's the salt flats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastitas_Borealis

>"Results published in the journal Science after the Phoenix mission ended reported that chloride, bicarbonate, magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, and possibly sulfate were detected in the samples"

Not too far off from "salt flat".

Mars has extensive dunes and dust storms. The frost reworks water soluble material. It should not look exactly the same as Earth's salt flats.

Do the meds help with getting to Mars or help with figuring out how?

UV light splits water into hydrogen and hydroxyl. Atomic hydrogen would quickly escape.

Earth does not have enough gravity to retain helium.