SEATTLE — A woman with Western Washington roots was chosen by NASA to join the next astronaut candidate class. Lauren Edgar, 40, is an experienced geologist who considers Sammamish her home and went to Skyline High School. She’s one of 10 candidates picked for the 2025 class. “They will take classes in geology, land and water survival and space health. …
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SEATTLE — A woman with Western Washington roots was chosen by NASA to join the next astronaut candidate class. Lauren Edgar, 40, is an experienced geologist who considers Sammamish her home and went to Skyline High School. She’s one of 10 candidates picked for the 2025 class. “They will take classes in geology, land and water survival and space health. …
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Today we are shipping Release Candidate 1 for 1.21.10, a hotfix release fixing a couple of issues that have bubbled up to the surface following the release of The Copper Age drop. Happy mining! Fixed bugs in 1.21.10 Release Candidate 1 MC-211096 – Entities in cobwebs clip though pistons MC-278182 – Items glitch inside the piston head when pushed through …
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Wilson is making $10.5 million from the Giants this year, but $8 million of that came in a signing bonus. Thus, a team trading for Wilson would assume just a portion of his $2 million base. That’s cheap enough to happen midway through the season, when wallets are tight against the salary cap. The Giants are likely to consider such …
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Lauren Edgar has spent nearly two decades at NASA studying the moon and Mars, guiding rover missions and helping design lunar science for the Artemis program. Now, she’s trading her role behind the console for a shot at flying to space herself. Edgar is one of the 10 people in NASA’s 2025 astronaut class, which was announced this week at …
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Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson is calling on Sinclair Broadcast Group to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s show on KOMO-TV. On Thursday, Wilson announced in front of KOMO Plaza—which houses the studios of KOMO-TV—that she will not participate in the October 8 debate at Seattle University, co-hosted by KOMO, unless Sinclair reverses its decision to pull Kimmel’s program from its stations. She …
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We are now releasing the first, and hopefully only, release-candidate for 1.21.9. If all goes well, no further changes will be made before the full release. Happy mining! Fixed bugs in 1.21.9 Release Candidate 1 MC-302243 – Creakings can spawn with the “spawnMonsters” game rule set to false MC-302278 – The texture in the middle of conduits is upside down …
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There’s no replacing Nick Bosa’s impact. As the 49ers face up to the reality of losing their star pass rusher for the rest of the 2025 season, they also must accept the fact there is no single one player who can replicate what he does for their defensive front. Losing Bosa is a hammer blow for the 49ers, one that …
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One of NASA’s newly announced astronaut candidates already has a spaceflight under her belt. On Monday (Sept. 22), the space agency announced the 10 members of its newest astronaut class — five men and five women who will train for potential missions to commercial space stations in Earth orbit, at the moon and (perhaps) on Mars. One of the 10 …
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Clashes between protesters and federal agents Friday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview saw an officer shove a congressional candidate to the ground, agents firing tear gas and pepper balls into crowds and multiple arrests in a tense series of confrontations over President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign. The demonstrations, which began about 5 a.m. and …
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