The Daily Populous

Friday January 24th, 2025 day edition

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US President Donald Trump has reiterated his earlier claim that Russia stole a plan to create hypersonic missiles during the Barack Obama administration.

Source: Trump in an interview with Fox News on Thursday, as reported by European Pravda.

Details: Trump said that Russia stole the project for developing hypersonic missiles from the US.

"Russia stole the design; they got it from us," he added.

"Some bad person gave them the design," he said, adding that the United States will have super hypersonic missiles, "which is even one step better".

In 2023, he told supporters that Russia had stolen plans for "super-duper missiles".

The Kremlin responded to these claims by saying that they had their own missile. »

An asteroid got deleted because it was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

Authored by astronomy.com

To be precise, it was Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster mounted to a Falcon Heavy upper stage, which boosted into orbit around the Sun on Feb. 6, 2018.

If left unchecked, astronomers say the growing number of untracked objects could hinder efforts to protect Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids.

For the Falcon Heavy’s first test flight, the upper stage launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster onto a Sun-orbiting trajectory that takes it past Mars. »

Solar overtakes coal in the EU, and gas declines for 5th year running

Authored by electrek.co

EU gas generation declined for the fifth year in a row, and total fossil generation fell to a historic low.

Solar generation (11%) overtook coal (10%) for the first time in 2024, as wind (17%) generated more electricity than gas (16%) for the second year in a row.

Strong solar growth, combined with a recovery of hydropower, pushed the share of renewables to nearly half of EU power generation (47%). »

Putin has no right to veto any country's NATO accession, NATO Secretary General says

Authored by kyivindependent.com

NATO Chief Mark Rutte said on Jan. 23 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no authority to influence NATO's future membership decisions.

“We must clearly understand that Vladimir Putin has no veto power and no say over who will join NATO in the future.

Unless, of course, he himself wants to join NATO, but I don't think he wants that,” Rutte said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. »