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A tale of two headlines on inflation.

Headline from Yahoo Finance -
"Inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns"

Headline from Wash Post -
"Inflation held steady in July as tariffs ripple through prices"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-rises-by-most-in-six-months-stoking-tariff-driven-price-concerns-123415069.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/12/inflation-july-trump-tariffs/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f008

#Economy #Inflation
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Headline from Yahoo Finance - Inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns

Headline from Wash Post - Inflation held steady in July as tariffs ripple through prices

Graph of CPI from Yahoo Finance

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Alas, most posts on twitter about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) are about 3I/ATLAS being an alien ship, not a comet. Avi Loeb gets a lot of mentions; many others have joined the bandwagon.

If aliens really want to destroy earth or turn earthlings into slaves, they don't need to send spaceships, they simply should get on twitter and post such brain-cell-killing garbage.

Wait a minute ... 👽

Below - image taken by Hubble on July 21. Shows dust plume and a faint dust tail.
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This is a Hubble Space telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on 21 July 21 2025, when the comet was 365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure.

[Image description: At the center of the image is a comet that appears as a teardrop-shaped bluish cocoon of dust coming off the comet’s solid, icy nucleus and seen against a black background. The comet appears to be heading to the bottom left corner of the image. About a dozen short, light blue diagonal streaks are seen scattered across the image, which are from background stars that appeared to move during the exposure because the telescope was tracking the moving comet.]

Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)

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"Earthrise" - captured on Dec. 24, 1968 by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders.

Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to witness the awe-inspiring sight.

50 years later, Anders observed - "We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth."

Wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called Earthrise "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken."

What are your thoughts?

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-story-behind-apollo-8s-famous-earthrise-photo/

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"Earthrise" - a blue earth rising above the grey landscape of the moon - captured on Dec. 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, from the Apollo 8 spacecraft.

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Why is the surface of Kuiper belt object Arrokoth red in color, when its primary component Methane Ice is generally white in appearance?

It is believed to be caused by complex organic compounds called tholins, which are produced from the photolysis of various simple organic and volatile compounds by cosmic rays and ultraviolet solar radiation.

https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Discovery-Stories.php
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Graphic illustrating Arrokoths surface composition and explaining the red appearance

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Short #introduction - my area of research is Satellite based communications. Industry-based, not SpaceX.
I also follow space missions and astronomy.
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