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I've gotten Venus every morning lately because the dog wants to walk before sunrise. I don't even know where or when to look for Mars though.

It's not far from the Moon tonight. Look for a reddish star near there. 

I spotted the Huskers at the Kohl Center

An interesting list for Cincy.............

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/

For centuries, vodka has been made by fermenting grains like corn and wheat, a process that naturally results in carbon emissions. The Brooklyn-based startup Air Co. thinks it’s found a better way, distilling the spirit from nothing more than water and carbon dioxide, in a process that transforms the CO² into ethyl alcohol. Not only does Air Vodka (starting at $65 for 750 ml) do the trick in a Moscow mule, but it’s also carbon negative: for every bottle that’s produced, the company’s NASA-award-­winning technology removes about a pound of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

one for utee..........

“Clean” rooms, in which air remains contained in a closed system for filtering rather than mixing with the rest of the facility, are in high demand at hospitals. Enter the OptiClean ($2,000–$4,000), a mobile air purifier built by Carrier that has two air-scrubbing functions. It can turn any room into a so-called negative air-­pressure space to prevent potentially contaminated air from flowing out, pushing it instead through a high-­efficiency HEPA filter before releasing it back into the room. Or, it can simply filter out pathogens from a room. So far, the company has 15,000 orders for the units from hospitals as well as schools, universities, offices and other buildings looking to provide safe indoor environments.

Creating the tons of steel and concrete we use to build our world requires a massive amount of heat—and most of it comes from burning dirty fossil fuels. HelioHeat cleans up that process by using the power of the sun. Here’s how it works: A field of 100,000 motorized, computer-­controlled mirrors concentrates sunlight in the direction of a 40-m-tall tower, “like a giant magnifying glass,” says Heliogen founder Bill Gross. There, a hot spot gets up to 2,000°F, where the heat can be harnessed to melt steel or make cement or electricity. Future iterations of the tech, says Gross, could use the sunlight to create hydrogen to power zero-emission automobiles.

Odd, the way I always think of "clean rooms" is in manufacturing, where your goal is positive pressure. You're only allowing highly filtered air in through a known path and every other exchange of air with the outside world is venting air. I.e. the goal is that any impurities go away, instead of getting trapped in a single room and not allowed to escape.

But I suppose if your goal is to not allow pathogens out into the wild, negative pressure would be ideal.

Yup, exactly.  I've worked in a lot of cleanrooms in my time.  Some took it more seriously than others.

At the facility in Sicily where I installed an ion implanter, the techs didn't like going through the entire gowning/ungowning process for their (numerous) smoke breaks.  So they just threw open the back cargo doors into the alley.  I didn't allow them to run my machine during that, because I had to keep it clean on the surfscan particle tests in order to get the machine signed off and for me to go home after 3 or 4 months.

If you position yourself so that the Moon looks like a capital "D" then the upper corner is pointing almost directly at it.

That's just for tonight. Tomorrow the Moon will be in a different spot, but Mars won't.

well this tip is now outdated, but the planets follow roughly the same path across the sky as the sun and the moon. There are five that you can see with the naked eye, but I've never been able to time Mercury right, as it is really close to the Sun. 

You need a telescope for Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. Pluto is next to the Christmas star right now, and Neptune is also out at night right now. 

Yup, exactly.  I've worked in a lot of cleanrooms in my time.  Some took it more seriously than others.

At the facility in Sicily where I installed an ion implanter, the techs didn't like going through the entire gowning/ungowning process for their (numerous) smoke breaks.  So they just threw open the back cargo doors into the alley.  I didn't allow them to run my machine during that, because I had to keep it clean on the surfscan particle tests in order to get the machine signed off and for me to go home after 3 or 4 months.

Yeah, our factories definitely wouldn't let that slide! 

Yeah, our factories definitely wouldn't let that slide!

As a Zymurgist your brewing operation wouldn't allow it either - I'm guessin'