The Daily Populous

Tuesday June 19th, 2018 night edition

image for Nick Hague dreamed of the stars as a boy, now he's heading to space

HOUSTON (Reuters) - As a boy growing up in Kansas, Nick Hague looked up at the stars and wanted to explore the unknown.

In October, his dream will come true when he blasts off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station.

An engineer and colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Hague was one of eight selected in 2013 for NASA’s astronaut candidate training program.

Then he attended test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, and realized his dream might be within reach.

While his sons appreciate the “neat” work their father is doing, Hague said he remains “just dorky dad” at home.

He will work with Russian cosmonauts to monitor shifts in bodily fluids that occur in space.

Such issues need to be better understood before humans are sent on longer space flights into deep space. »

Ajit Pai Now Trying To Pretend That Everybody Supported Net Neutrality Repeal

Authored by techdirt.com

By now it's abundantly clear that the Trump FCC's repeal of net neutrality was based largely on fluff and nonsense.

With the rules now passed and a court battle looming, FCC boss Ajit Pai has been making the rounds continuing his postmortem assault on stubborn facts.

First Pai tries to claim that the public supported his repeal, then when pressed tries to claim that the polls that were conducted were somehow flawed. »

Daily fasting works for weight loss

Authored by today.uic.edu

The study is the first to examine the effect of time-restricted eating — a form of fasting that limits food consumption to select hours each day — on weight loss in obese individuals.

We observed that fewer participants dropped out of this study when compared to studies on other fasting diets.”.

“The 16:8 diet is another tool for weight loss that we now have preliminary scientific evidence to support,” Varady said. »

Americans own 40 percent of world's firearms: study

Authored by yahoo.com

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world's firearms, a new study said Monday.

Americans have access to powerful firearms that are not available in many other countries due to tighter legislation.

Only 28 countries released information on their military stockpiles while 28 nations offered information the firearms owned by law enforcement agencies. »

This Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years

Authored by space.com

A physics laboratory in Tennessee just unveiled Summit, likely to be named the world's speediest and smartest supercomputer.

Put another way, if one person were to run the calculations, hypothetically, it would take 2.3 trillion days, or 6.35 billion years.

Editor's Note: This article was updated to correct the speed of the former "world's fastest supercomputer.". »