On April 28, the Pentagon gave believers in other-worldly phenomena some tantalizingly real pieces of evidence with the release of three short videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" - or UFOs. The Pentagon’s confirmation of the footage has stirred the interest in aliens and out-of-this world phenomena once again. Here are a few podcasts about aliens and UFOs to listen to.
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Hosts John Goforth and Brent Hand give listeners an everyman approach to the world of UFOs, aliens, mysteries and the paranormal. Goforth and Hand also get help from the Conspiracy Bot examining a different topic each week. Recent episodes include "The Movie: The Sequel," "The Gulf Breeze Incident(s)" and "Doomsday Clock: Countdown to Extinction."
'The Vast of Night' Reboots the Glee of UFO Conspiracy Culture | WIRED
Amazon Studios' latest release, The Vast of Night , is a movie that almost doesn't need to be watched. Which is odd, but not an insult. Quite the opposite, actually: Ears drive the plot. The retro sci-fi thriller follows a switchboard operator and a radio DJ as they chase a mysterious sound of potentially extraterrestrial origins. Their informants are callers, disembodied and sometimes never seen at all.
This blend of innovation and nostalgia is what's most remarkable about The Vast of the Night , and the same is true of its release. Initially, the movie was slated to hit theaters in a completely standard way, and watching it, you can imagine a quiet weirdo movie like this being drowned out by splashier summer blockbusters. However, in a rare instance of the Covid-19 pandemic producing anything remotely positive, shuttered multiplexes necessitated a different type of release.
Strange lights off the Outer Banks spark UFO debate: Was it aliens or the military?
OUTER BANKS, N.C. (Mark Price/The Charlotte Observer) - A fleet of lights recorded off North Carolina's Outer Banks has ignited a debate about whether they are honest-to-goodness UFOs or just part of a mysterious military exercise.
William Guy posted a 31-second video Sept. 28 on YouTube , showing what appears to be 14 glowing orbs over the water. He refers to it as a " real UFO sighting ."
"Anybody tell me what that is?" Guy says in the video. "We're in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry, nothing around. Look. Nothing around. No land, no nothing."
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Privately owned orbital human spaceflights are here. A new era of commercialized space travel begins.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 is off to a roaring start. After a delayed launch earlier in the week, the spacecraft lifted off at 3:22 pm ET on Saturday. It left the planet, and entered Earth's orbit where it will later dock with the International Space Station (ISS), beginning a new era of commercial space tourism and exploration — all with the help of mercurial billionaire Elon Musk.
Scientists say the upcoming SpaceX launch with NASA is a crucial moment in history. Alex London, curator of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, says space travel going commercial could create jobs and research for the next generation like never before.
"There are so many folks who may have not had these opportunities 10 years ago that now have the opportunity to be an engineer and work on the SpaceX team," London said. "It's great for our younger viewers because if you want to do this, there's a role for you in this."
Today: For the first time in history, a private company is sending astronauts into space. Science reporter Kenneth Chang on the dawn of a new era in space travel.
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I've forgotten. Because I started covering these at the end of the space shuttle era. So it was probably five or six then. And there was a few other scattered ones. And I've actually made more trips than that. Because especially with the space shuttle, they would postpone the launch at the last second a gazillion times. So I would just fly in in, fly out, fly in, fly out, and not even see a launch.
Behind the scenes as FAA prepares for Space X launch - The Washington Post
From a command center in Warrenton, Va., a special team at the Federal Aviation Administration will be keeping a close watch on the historic launch of the first astronauts from U.S. soil in almost a decade. Two NASA astronauts are headed to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster.
"It's a very exciting day for us," Duane Freer, manager of space operations at the FAA, said in an interview on Wednesday, just hours before the mission's scheduled launch, which was later postponed because of weather. "This has been a long time in the making. There's a lot on the line for the country."
Lucas Praises Successful SpaceX Launch: This is a New Era of Space Travel
Press Release From: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2020
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas released a statement today congratulating NASA and SpaceX on the successful launch of the Crew Dragon Capsule on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
"Today marks a new era in space travel," Lucas said. "It's been nearly ten years since we last launched American astronauts from American soil on an American rocket.
TechWorks! discusses local contributions to aviation and space travel ahead of SpaceX Launch
BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- With astronaut and Apalachin native Doug Hurley heading into space in the coming days, TechWorks! is discussing Binghamton's major role in developing modern aviation and space travel.
"It's said that of all the simulations for visuals and simulators they've tried, NASA has said this is the one they like the best," said Susan Sherwood, executive director of the Center for Technology and Innovation, better known as TechWorks!.
TechWorks! is currently home to the Apollo Mission Simulator and Lunar Module. It was constructed in hanger two at the Binghamton Airport back in the 1960's. Without it, astronauts wouldn't have been able to get around in space.
Ohio's role in the latest era of American space travel
TOLEDO (WTVG) - The anticipation is only growing stronger in these parts with today's launch called off at Kennedy Space Center.
Crew Dragon Demo-2 would not be on the launch pad if it wasn't for a trip to Ohio by Crew Dragon Demo-1. It underwent two tests at Plum Brook Station near Sandusky in the summer of 2018.
"Making sure it can handle the stresses of space, we did that in our in our in space propulsion facility, and SpaceX wanted to test it against the strains of going super sonic up in the air, we can put more forces on it than any other place on earth to make sure the mechanical structure can withstand the rigors of the shock waves," said Plum Brook Station Director, David Stringer.
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We tend to think of Mars as similar to Earth, and in many ways that is true. It's relatively small and rocky. It has an atmosphere and recognisable geological features. We can identify the composition of its rocks, study its weather patterns , and detect seismic activity .
But Mars is also very unlike Earth, too. And this is never clearer than when looking at photographs of the Red Planet taken by its rovers and orbiters. What we take for granted on Earth can turn into breathtakingly alien phenomena just a planet away.
The Music of Mars: Rising LA Artist Captures Sound of the Future
LOS ANGELES , May 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world buzzes from NASA and SpaceXs' manned launch to the ISS this week, one of Planet-Z's rising and ambitious LA creatives has crafted a new album for the event. Zahid Pasha's project, FM2M celebrates the next generation of Space Exploration and dives into the idea of "home" in a genre-bending and contemporary "Space-Centric" universe of his own.
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Let's just say the last "M" stands for Mars. Pretty much anything the listener thinks of from there would be acceptable.
New Marsquake study could shatter theories on how Mars was born | Space
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has revealed tantalizing details about Mars ' seismic activity for the very first time in one new study. These results could make or break theories surrounding the Red Planet's origins and provide details about its composition.
The fourth rock from the sun might be one of the closest worlds to us — swinging between distances of 34 million and 249 million miles (55 million and 400 million kilometers), dependent on its position and Earth's position relative to our star — but it is often much safer and less expensive to investigate the Red Planet through simulations on Earth, rather than launch a spacecraft .
On This Day, May 30: Mariner 9 launched toward Mars - UPI.com
In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at age 19. She had been convicted of wearing men's clothing. Advertisement
In 1783, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first daily newspaper published in the United States.
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In 1943, the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu off the Alaskan coast were retaken by U.S. forces after being occupied by Japanese troops .
In 1971, the unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on a mission to gather scientific data on Mars. It was the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth.
What SpaceX's historic NASA flight means for Elon Musk's Mars goals
Elon Musk is never one to shy away from setting ambitious goals. In fact, the billionaire's most ambitious goal might just be the one he often talks about the most: going to Mars .
On Wednesday, Musk and his private spacecraft company, SpaceX, nearly checked off a historic milestone that could put him another step closer to one day achieving that goal. That milestone would be SpaceX's first-ever manned space mission. The company was set to launch two NASA astronauts on a flight taking them to the International Space Station, but SpaceX postponed the launch at the last minute due to inclement weather.
Scientists in Europe have found that some features on Mars that were thought to be lava flows may actually have been flows of muddy water.
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We know that Mars used to be volcanically active in the past. The planet is dotted with enormous now-dormant volcanoes, and the remains of old lava flows can still be seen today. Now, it seems, some of those lava flows weren’t composed of lava at all, but rather mud, according to researchers in Europe.
The intriguing peer-reviewed results were published in the journal Nature Geoscience on May 20, 2020.
Mars Doesn't Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here's a Map - Universe Today
One of the striking things about Mars is all of the evidence, clearly visible on its surface, that it harbored liquid water. Now, all that water is gone, and in fact, liquid water couldn’t survive on the surface of the Red Planet. Not as the planet is now, anyway.
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Mars has only a thin atmosphere now, and that atmosphere isn’t thick enough to maintain water now. So it must have had a thicker, warmer atmosphere in the past. And that atmosphere could only have persisted if Mars also had a protective magnetosphere.
'International collaboration must to put man on Mars'- The New Indian Express
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BENGALURU: While space scientists even in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have taken cognizance of the need of private sector participation in realising inter-planetary missions, former NASA rocket scientist Anita Sengupta adds to that thought by saying that having humans on Mars would require collaborations beyond national borders.
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MAXI J1820+070: Black hole outburst caught on video
The companion star orbiting the black hole has about half the mass of the sun. The black hole's strong gravity pulls material away from the companion star into an X-ray emitting disk surrounding the black hole.
While some of the hot gas in the disk will cross the "event horizon" (the point of no return) and fall into the black hole, some of it is instead blasted away from the black hole in a pair of short beams of material, or jets. These jets are pointed in opposite directions, launched from outside the event horizon along magnetic field lines.
Cosmic Search Continues for Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), at Monash University, developed a new method to detect colliding supermassive black holes in our Universe.
In parallel, astronomers have been looking for the collision of supermassive black holes with light. A number of candidate sources have been identified by looking for regular fluctuations in the brightness of distant galaxies called “quasars.” Quasars are extremely bright, believed to be powered by the accumulation of gas clouds onto supermassive black holes.
Black hole news: THIS is what would happen if you got close to a black hole | Science | News |
Black holes completely break the laws of physics with their singularity at the centre, which is a one-dimensional point where gravity becomes infinite and space and time become curved.
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The friction generated by these discs as they are pushed and shoved by the extreme gravitational force is so large that it can produce a tremendous amount of energy, depending on the size of the black hole.
According to astrophysicist Paul Stutter, getting close to the accretion disc would burn you to a crisp.
The Moon revolves around the Earth, Earth revolves around the Sun, and the Sun — along with everything else in our galaxy — revolves around a supermassive black hole that sits at the very center. It's a dance that began long before we got here, but scientists are doing their best to make up for the lost time by explaining how black holes work, why they exist, and what they can teach us about the formation of the universe.
In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters , researchers describe their observations of rapidly-flickering light curves coming from the location of Sgr A*. Black holes themselves don't glow or emit light, so what could it possibly be?
Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole To Earth — 1,000 Light-Years Away | WUWM
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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski speaks with astronomy contributor Jean Creighton about what astronomers know about black holes so far and how the coronavirus has impacted astronomical research.
While 1,000 light-years may seem like a vast distance away from Earth, it's practically in our backyard because of the scale of the universe. And it's just 1,000 light-years away from Earth where astronomers found the closest black hole to the Earth in the double-star system HR 6819 .
Earth’s natural satellite taken by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during his Beyond mission on the International Space Station on 15 August 2019. Credit: ESA/NASA–L. Parmitano
Development of Europe’s first ever lunar lander was agreed upon by ESA Member States in 2019 and now ESA is seeking your ideas for science and robotic missions on the Moon.
Artist’s view of the configuration of Ariane 6 using four boosters (A64). Credit: ESA – D. Ducros
"In the Sky" discusses the moon & Mercury in this edition | wkyc.com
CLEVELAND — Our moon and Mercury are hot topics in this edition of "In the Sky" with Jay Reynolds (@reynoldsastro) and Gale Franko from the Cuyahoga Astronomical Association (@cuyastro)
Daughter of Astronaut Edgar Mitchell remembers father's historic moonwalk
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. -- As the nation counts down to the launch of a new era in spaceflight, a Palm Beach County woman is remembering the strides her father made nearly fifty years ago.
Kimberly Mitchell is the daughter of Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, one of only 12 men who walked on the moon.
Touching down 238,000 miles from home, Edgar Mitchell landed a lunar module on the moon on February 5, 1971.
As Apollo 14's lunar module pilot, Mitchell helped collect nearly 100 pounds of lunar rock and soil samples that were distributed across the United States and more than a dozen other countries for analysis.
Our nation is on the verge of launching NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on a commercial American rocket and spacecraft — a historic mission. NASA is in this position today because of our early investments in an emerging space economy in low-Earth orbit, which started with innovative public/private partnerships for cargo resupply services and has grown to include commercial crew.
Simultaneously, NASA has a bold plan to quickly and sustainably explore more of the moon than ever before under the Artemis program. Even as we shift focus to the moon, NASA remains committed to supporting a space economy in low-Earth orbit for research, crew training and more. As a government agency, NASA must lead in exploration for scientific discovery and go where there is not yet a commercial market. With the right architecture, we will foster a new lunar economy, too.
Space Force review: Netflix comedy lands on the snark side of the moon - CNET
The general may not know his astronaut from his elbow, but he's assisted by the technological genius of John Malkovich as a sinuous civilian adviser. Rolling his eyes so hard they practically have an orbit of their own, he's deeply cynical about the military program as he wrangles both the rigors of science and the chain of command. Immaculately turned out in precise suit and tie at all times, Malkovich brings a gravity to proceedings that adds a sheen of class even when the comedy gets silly.
A 'Memorial Day' Moon, A Spaceship And 'Manhattanhenge': What You Can See In The Night Sky This
WEEHAWKEN, NJ - NOVEMBER 27: The sun rises above 42nd Street in New York City on November 27, 2016 ... [+] as seen from Weehawken, NJ. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
This week it's all about a crescent Moon on display with Mercury and a fast-sinking Venus—all visible together on Memorial Day in the US—as well as a rather special spaceship, and a quirk of urban design. As the Moon waxes this week it will also pass some notable bright stars, which is a great chance to learn a few constellations.
Holli Diel: An open letter to Sheriff Moon | TheUnion.com
Are you a "constitutional sheriff?" I ask because we need our sheriffs more now than ever. Will you take a stand in agreement with Sheriff William Honsal?, "As sheriff," he said, "I am the protector of constitutional rights in Humboldt County, and if an order is issued that I believe violates our constitutional rights, I will not enforce it."
This sheriff is one of several incredible "Constitutional Sheriffs" taking a stand for freedom. What future will you leave for your children, a free society, or a society led by tyrants?
Strawberry Moon Eclipse 2020: Timing, where to watch and all you need to know - The Financial
Lunar Eclipse June 2020 timing in India: Between June 5 and 6, India will witness the second of the four penumbral lunar eclipses expected to occur this year. The first one was visible on the night intervening January 10 and 11. The penumbral lunar eclipse occuring around this time of the year is called a "Strawberry Eclipse".
According to an IE report, the eclipse will begin at 11:15 pm in India on June 5 and will last until a little past 2:30 am on June 6, for a total duration of 3 hours 18 minutes. The full stage of the eclipse will be visible at 12:54 am.
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For a week, it was a truly stunning crumb of the solar system — until scientists realized it was just a dirty hunk of ice with an identity crisis.
The twisted tale revolves around a surprising, dusty tail spotted among a clump of distant space rocks. And it begins in Hawaii, with a program called the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS .
ATLAS is a serious project with its sights on more existential solar system mysteries than identity fraud. Every night, its two observatories perched on Hawaiian peaks survey the sky, watching for anything that moves against the background of stars. The goal is to spot any large space rocks that may collide with Earth as soon as possible, so humans have more time to try to fend off a possible apocalypse.
Bennu and Ryugu may have come from the same asteroid collision
Approximately 600 million kilometers from Earth, fragments of rock are scattered in an orbit around the Sun, roughly between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The asteroid belt contains millions of oddly shaped rocky bodies, and some of them make their way closer to Earth.
Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are two such near-Earth asteroids, famous for their irregular spinning-top shape. And a new study suggests that they came from the same region of the asteroid belt as a result of a major collision, and may have even broken off from the same parent body.
Asteroid news: 'Dangerous asteroids' warning system makes groundbreaking discovery |
Subsequent observations in July revealed a faint trail of gas or dust behind the asteroid, giving it the appearance of a comet.
As comets race around the Sun, they melt and the frozen chunks of ice and rock leave behind distinct tails of dust and glowing plasma.
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Astronomer Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast said: "We have believed for decades that Trojan asteroids should have large amounts of ice beneath their surfaces, but never had any evidence until now.
Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs created a network of hot waterways | Daily Mail Online
A team of researchers found that the impact of the city-sized space rock produced a network of warm waterways under the crater, which is in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico .
Hydrothermal minerals (analcime and dachiardite) inside a tiny cavity within impact rocks that fill the Chicxulub crater. Authors say this is a sign of the heated waterways
The study was carried out by an international team from the Universities Space Research Association, Imperial College London and the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu were formed by the destruction of a large asteroid
The simulations also show that Bennu and Ryugu may have formed from the disruption of the same parent asteroid even though their levels of hydration are different. The scientists conclude that the overall properties of these asteroids could directly result from the disruption of their parent body.
The analysis of return samples from Ryugu and Bennu by the Hayabusa2 (JAXA) and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) spacecraft will allow scientists to verify this by precisely measuring their composition and by determining their formation age. Explore further
Asteroid Day TV launches In Advance Of United Nations International Asteroid Day 30 June 2020
"We have all seen how unprepared the human race was, faced with a pandemic. An asteroid strike is just as real. The consequences could be as serious. We regard it as our duty to make sure we are prepared to deal with the consequences, on an international level, and also to do our utmost to learn how to prevent such an event, by finding and deflecting potential impactors. That is what Asteroid Day is all about," says Dr. Brian May .
Due to COVID19, the official 2020 Asteroid Day programmes will be all digital. In prior years, thousands of independent events were organized around the world. This year local independent programming happens based upon local governmental guidance.
Asteroid, climate change not responsible for mass extinction 215 million years ago
"Previous hypotheses seemed very nebulous, because nobody had ever approached this problem—or any ancient mass extinction problem—in the quantitative way that we did," Fastovsky said. "In the end, we concluded that neither the asteroid impact nor the climate change had anything to do with the extinction, and that the extinction was certainly not as it had been described—abrupt and synchronous. In fact, it was diachronous and drawn-out."
The Adamanian/Revueltian turnover was the perfect candidate for applying the quantitative methods employed by the research team, Fastovsky said.
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The Kuiper Belt is a collection of small, icy bodies that orbit the sun beyond Neptune, at distances larger than 30 AU (one astronomical unit or AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun). These Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) range in size from large boulders to 2,000 km across. KBOs are leftover small bits of planetary material that were never incorporated into planets , similar to the asteroid belt .
The discoveries from the most successful Kuiper Belt survey to date, the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) , suggest a sneakier explanation for the orbits we see. Many of these KBOs have been discovered to have very elliptical and tilted orbits, like Pluto .
'Extreme' Kuiper Belt Objects Cast Doubt on Hypothetical Planet Nine | Astronomy | Sci-News.com
In 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown proposed a strange alignment of icy Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) on the outskirts of the Solar System could be explained by a massive planet — dubbed Planet Nine — orbiting eccentrically beyond Neptune. Since then, scientists have been busy gathering evidence of its existence. But does Planet Nine actually exist?
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The Kuiper Belt is a collection of small, icy bodies that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, at distances larger than 30 AU (astronomical units). These objects range in size from large boulders to 2,000 km across.
Collision of galaxies may have spurred our solar system's formation - Reuters
A star-formation binge in the Milky Way spanning the time when the solar system was born more than 4.5 billion years ago was apparently precipitated by the collision between our galaxy and a smaller one called Sagittarius, scientists said on Tuesday.
Such collisions typically do not involve stars smashing head-on, they said, but can foster conditions for star formation by, for example, amping up the amount of gas in a galaxy or having gas clouds come together.
The Solar System Might Not Exist if There Wasn't a Huge Galactic Collision with the Milky
The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies ; nearly 60 of them, depedending on how we define them. One of them, called the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr d Sph), may have played a huge role when it comes to humans, our world and our little civilization. A collision between the Milky Way and the Sgr d Sph may have created the Solar System itself.
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy was discovered in 1994, and at the time astronomers thought it was the closest dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way. Sgr d Sph is currently about 70,000 light years away from Earth. It travels in a looping polar orbit around the Milky Way.
Macon Habitat, Mercer University receives $60,000 Solar Power System Grant - 41NBC News | WMGT-DT
The All Points North Foundation has awarded a $60,000 grant to Habitat for Humanity of Macon and Mercer University to provide installation of low-cost solar panel systems on 5 Habitat homes.
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"We will work with Mercer with their engineering school, and with students from Mercer to lead the project and install the solar panels on each of the houses," said Ivey Hall, executive director of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat for Humanity of Macon plans to complete the project by 2021 to help homes become more energy-efficient.
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SAN ANTONIO – Whether you are a homeowner or a business owner, if you have solar panels on the roof, it's important to regularly check the general condition of those panels, experts say.
To ensure your panels have longevity, South Texas Solar Systems has provided four tips on how to maintain your solar panels properly.
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Using the generator. The power station’s two AC plugs and four USB ports make it easy to plug in and charge away. It has a handy LED display showing its percent charged, which lets us know when we need to get it back to the solar panel as well as how much each of our gadgets uses.
We’ve learned that the LEDs use next to nothing over several hours — maybe a percent. The cellphone uses almost as little, while the computer will drain a few points over a couple hours. My Ryobi tool battery charger drains the power station rapidly — maybe 40% for one battery.
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