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Mysterious Streaks of Light Seen in the Sky Friday in California
The lights lasted about 40 seconds, remembered one witness who filmed the lights while enjoying a local brewery. The brewery then asked on Instagram if anyone could solve the mystery, the report continues:
Jonathan McDowell says he can. McDowell is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. McDowell said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press that he’s 99.9% confident the streaks of light were from burning space debris.
McDowell said that a Japanese communications package that relayed information from the International Space Station to a communications satellite and then back to Earth became obsolete in 2017 when the satellite was retired. The equipment, weighing 310 kilograms (683 pounds), was jettisoned from the space station in 2020 because it was taking up valuable space and would burn up completely upon reentry, McDowell added….
He estimated the debris was about 40 miles high, going thousands of miles per hour. The U.S. Space Force confirmed the re-entry path over California for the Inter-Orbit Communication System, and the timing is consistent with what people saw in the sky, he added.
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Cigar-shaped UFO Emerges from Smoke over California Wildfires in Shocking Live Footage — But All is Not as It Seems – …
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California agency must provide Tesla with details of racial bias investigation
California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) must provide Tesla with details of the investigation it conducted prior to filing a lawsuit against the company for racial discrimination, a judge has ruled. The CRD first sued Tesla in February last year after receiving several allegations that Tesla’s Fremont factory was a racially segregated workplace where Black workers […]
California agency must provide Tesla with details of racial bias investigation by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
California court upholds Prop 22 in win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash
A California appeals court on Monday reversed a lower-court ruling that found Proposition 22, the ballot measure passed in November 2020 that classified Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, to be illegal. The decision by three appeals court judges, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is a win for app-based […]
California court upholds Prop 22 in win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Nicki Minaj Has Technical Malfunction at Rolling Loud California Surprise Set
Nicki Minaj was a surprise guest during Lil Wayne‘s set at Rolling Loud California last night (March 4).
However, the Rap royal was hit with quite the surprise herself when the audio began to malfunction mid-performance.
Full story after the jump…
After being welcomed onto the stage by Weezy, Minaj launched into a medley of hers –
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Why Some California Cities are Banning Children’s Balloons
There are several recent cases of sea turtles, seals and sea lions off the California coast discovered entangled in or choked by balloon strings, or in physical distress after ingesting balloons. Among the key findings of a 2020 Oceana report on ocean plastic was that balloons were one of the most common types of plastics entangling or consumed by marine life, along with bags, recreational fishing line, sheeting and food wrappers.
The threat to sea life is one of the main reasons a handful of coastal Southern California cities have slapped restrictions on the use of balloons, ranging from prohibiting the sale or release of lighter-than-air balloons (which generally means those filled with helium) to a ban on the sale, distribution or public use of all balloons passed by Laguna Beach on Tuesday.
If this trend sounds familiar, that’s because a few years back it was single-use plastic straws that were targeted by local bans. Eventually, there were so many different rules about distribution of plastic disposable straws that a statewide law, beginning in 2019, made sense. Balloons may be heading for the same fate….
California will phase out mylar balloons by 2031 because their metallic nylon foil shells have a tendency to cause blackouts and spark wildfires when they float into power lines. That’s good, but now California legislators should consider placing restrictions on the use and release of latex balloons. The balloon industry markets latex rubber balloons as biodegradable, but studies have found that they don’t break down in the ocean. Furthermore, the strings attached to balloons are generally plastic. This makes them single-use trash in the same way that grocery bags and straws are, and releasing them into the environment is littering.
A Laguna Beach environmentalist tells the Times people need to rethink the way they look at plastic. “When people say they throw things away — there’s really no away.”
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A Snow-Buried California Declares State of Emergency
More than 75,000 customers in California were without power Thursday afternoon after yet another winter storm dumped feet of snow.
California Company Sets Launch Date for World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket
After securing a launch license, Relativity Space is eager to see its Terran 1 rocket get off the ground. The California-based company opted to skip a final engine test and set a launch date for the inaugural flight of its groundbreaking 3D-printed rocket.