Sometimes it seems like the water bill keeps going up, but water usage stays the same, leading many consumers to puzzle over how the water company determines rates. A number of factors go into water pricing, but consumers may be heartened to hear that rate increases are usually regulated; in order for rates to rise, they must often be approved by a government agency or a vote from elected...
What Factors Help Determine Water Rates?
What Factors Help Determine Water Rates?
•It took over 12 hours to designFalling Water Gingerbread House (via Geekologie)
•It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate
•There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread
•It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that's four large batches) to make all the walls, floors and roof
•Over 8 bags of powdered sugar were used to make all the frosting
•It took over 40 sleeves of large Smarties which are used to simulate dry stack stone on the building exterior
•The river and water fall are made up of three batches of hard candy
Wright's Falling Water in gingerbread
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Ten months after officially giving up on getting Spirit out of the Martian sand trap that ensnared it last year, NASA announced the rover had made perhaps its biggest discovery in that very spot.
Spirit's wheels dug up soil beneath the crusty surface that contains minerals thought to be hematite, silica and gypsum, which don’t dissolve easily in water. But just below this soil, there are layers of iron sulfate minerals, which do dissolve easily. These layers suggest water, maybe in the form of frost or snow, seeped into the ground relatively recently and carried the soluble minerals deeper into the soil.
Sadly, this serendipitous discovery may be Spirit’s last. NASA hasn't heard from the rover since it went into hibernation for the Martian winter in March.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
Sleeping Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water
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