In general, I disapprove of LEDs masquerading as incandescents. That being said, the use of LEDs *has* introduced an entertaining new failure mode for business signs, which evidently involves the use of a rectifier bridge. When half of the bridge fails, the sign flashes on and off at a frantic 60Hz. The flicker rate is so fast that you can still read the sign without problems.
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Iran requires heavy, sustained bombing. I don't think we can really risk waiting that much longer. Trump's instincts as a peacemaker do him credit, but there are times when one needs to give war a chance, distasteful as it may be.
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Chinese moon sampler lands! Those are interesting-looking rocks to the right of the landing leg - they're prolly some sort of feldspar, perhaps even albite, freshly broken to reveal white interiors. Surely the lander engine didn't kick those up? If they're debris from a recent meteor impact, then that was a most lucky choice of landing site.
Personally I'd have liked to have seen them go a bit south and east, to that fascinating area just south of Herodotus and Aristarchus. It's badly broken terrain, and undoubtedly hard to land on, but still... Probably a good half of all the transient lights seen on the moon come from there, around Aristarchus and the Serpent.
Edit: It's interesting as well if you look just above the landing foot. The ground seems to have crumbled there, but it's not the smooth sort of texture that I'd expect from a dust slide, still less from the foot having touched down there and skidded a bit. It looks to me, honestly, as though there had been some sort of small hollow under the surface, that collapsed when the lander disturbed it. Surely not, though?
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