APOLOGIES... AND SOME NEWS
Ok, we suck. Each of us here at This Week In Science has been, do to forces beyond our control, unable to post any news on this website of late. Apologies are due. Sorry! Greg, Kirsten, and Ted have each been involved - separately - in moving out of their homes in a somewhat protracted fashion. For Kirsten and Ted, respectively, their moves were between cities - Kirsten from the Bay to Davis, Ted from Davis to the Bay. Greg has been building muscle tissue doing demolition and raising his home several feet off of its foundation intact, an engineering feat that while impressive is not done quickly, nor should it be. That being said, all of us here at TWIS are eager to get back to the earnest work of delivering the latest and greatest in science news to you, the listening public. And away we go...
EUROPEAN FLOOD'S LEGACY
It is being called a "mini-Chernobyl" by the head of an investigating body lead by the Czech government. The chemical production plant known as Spolana is situated on the banks of the Elbe river in the Czech Republic, about fifteen miles north of the city Prague. During extremely heavy rains and flooding over recent weeks, a systems failure at the plant caused up to an estimated 900 pounds of chlorine gas to be released. No one is reported directly injured, but crops and trees around the plant were burned. Germany is now checking it's part of the Elbe for contaminants; the river flows from the Czech Republic into Germany, and then to the sea.
ATLAS SHRUGS OFF THE LAUNCHPAD
On Wednesday the 21st of August, the newest launch rocket in our inventory lifted off from Cape Canaveral. It is called the Atlas 5, and its maiden flight is riding on a billion dollars. Energia, the Russian company that built the Soyuz and previous soviet spacecraft, is manufacturing the rocket's first-stage engines, the ones used to get it off the ground and high into the atmosphere.
current science news posted by ted at 8/26/2002 03:31:00 PM
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