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CU Boulder has engraved Ralphie on every space instrument for more than 30 years

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

Since the 1980s, the University of Colorado Boulder has carved an image of Ralphie on every instrument that’s gone to space on more than a dozen missions.It’s become a CU Boulder tradition for Ralphie and the school logo to be engraved into aluminum exteriors and even sewn into a thermal blanket on every instrument that goes to space.“I think it’s great,” Frank Eparvier, associate director for science at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, said. “I think it shows our school pride and pride of wanting to send our mark out into space, and a lot of these probes will be out there forever.”Ralphie on the Interstellar Dust Experiment instrument, which is scheduled to launch on NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe in 2025. (LASP/Courtesy Photo)Thomas Sparn, director of engineering at LASP, said the tradition began when CU Boulder was building an instrument for a 1986 mission called Spartan Halley. It was an expe...

Kicker Jordan Noyes proving to be clutch for CSU football

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

In the past two weeks, Colorado State kicker Jordan Noyes has proven he can kick under pressure, and he can kick for distance.Those two qualities not only make head coach Jay Norvell’s job easier when the situation calls for three points, but also prove Noyes is everything the Rams could have asked or hoped for when they signed the 31-year-old transfer from Utah.So far this season, Noyes is a perfect 21-for-21 on PATs and 7-of-9 on field goals, including six of his last seven. He had a season-high three against UNLV on Saturday, including his season-long of 55 yards.But before the Rams traveled to Las Vegas last weekend, Noyes provided one of the most exciting moments of the season when his penalty-lengthened extra point gave CSU its first-ever win over Boise State on Oct. 14.It came after Dallin Holker’s improbable Hail Mary catch in the end zone as time expired that tied the game against the Broncos.“That was something we work on every week in practice,” No...

49ers Studs and Duds: Defensive coordinator Steve Wilks embarrassed in Minnesota

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

The 49ers are on a losing streak.Yes, two is a streak.After losing to the Browns last weekend in Cleveland, the Niners dropped another road game Monday night in Minnesota.San Francisco was out-gained, out-muscled, lost the turnover battle, and, subsequently, outscored 22-17.Here are the studs and duds from another dud of a game.:STUDSRelated ArticlesSan Francisco 49ers | Kurtenbach: The 49ers’ biggest weakness is now impossible to miss San Francisco 49ers | 49ers’ loss to Browns a necessary gut check for Purdy, Shanahan San Francisco 49ers | 49ers’ Studs and Duds: Brock Purdy and Jake Moody need to wear the Niners’ first loss San Francisco 49ers | Kurtenbach: The 49ers are huge favorites against the Browns, but Sunday’s game is still a big challenge San Francisco 49ers | 10 thoughts on the Warriors, 49ers, Sharks, and baseball’s horribly structured playoffs Javon Hargr...

Instant analysis of 49ers’ 22-17 loss at Vikings

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS — A second straight road game had the favored 49ers desperately in need of a fourth-quarter comeback. This one failed, too.The 49ers’ defense was in retreat throughout Monday night’s 22-17 loss to the Vikings, but it wasn’t until Brock Purdy had two passes intercepted in the final 5 1/2 minutes to seal a second straight defeat.It was Purdy’s first career game with two interceptions, and they came on targets to Jauan Jennings and Ray-Ray McCloud, the receivers summoned to help fill in for Deebo Samuel, who is out with a shoulder he fractured in the previous week’s loss at Cleveland.The 49ers (5-2) saw their defense repeatedly blow assignments and allowed 378 passing yards to Kirk Cousins, who did not get sacked and did not even have the services of star receiver Justin Jefferson (injured reserve).The Vikings (3-4) have won seven straight home games against the 49ers dating back to 1994.Purdy and the 49ers offense had chances to rectify ...

Modesto City Schools becomes one of first districts to have half-electric bus fleet

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

(FOX40.COM) -- Modesto City Schools has become one of the first school districts inCalifornia to convert half of its bus fleet to electric vehicles.“The completion of our fleet of electric buses is just one of many steps we are takingtoward environmental sustainability at Modesto City Schools,” said Dr. Sara Noguchi,Superintendent of Modesto City Schools. “This project speaks to the impact that anydistrict can choose to have – by committing to environmental sustainability andprioritizing dollars and effort toward that goal.” Modesto police arrest 17-year-old for drive-by shooting Modesto City School is scheduled to receive its 30th electric bus this month. According to a recent press release, replacing 30 diesel-powered and polluting school buses in Modesto with zero-emission vehicles reduces harmful carbon emissions in the Central Valley by 367.5 metric tons annually, which is the equivalent of taking 81 gasoline powered cars off the road for anentire year.“We are proud to contr...

Californians fear this thing the most, according to a new survey

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Halloween is a time for spooky frights, and there's nothing that will send a tingle down a spine quite like confronting one's biggest "irrational" fear."Phobias" can feel just as scary as a haunted house for some, even though they are unlikely to actually cause harm in the course of everyday life. Whether it's heights or spiders, these overwhelming fears come in varying forms and degrees of intensity.However, there's a few common phobias that keep more people up at night than others. One recent survey, conducted by online gaming site Casino.org, sought to figure out what some of the biggest fears of Americans are and how it breaks down by state.The survey found that Acrophobia, or the fear of heights, came in as the most widespread fear across the U.S., with respondents in 21 states putting that at the top of their list. California was among those states. San Diego has hundreds of ghost stories. Here are six you may not have known Social phobia came in the No. 2 spot ...

Fight shuts down Vallejo high school football game

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) – Several brawls broke out at a high school football game between Vallejo High School and Kennedy High School this past weekend. The fighting got so bad that referees stopped play with nearly 10 minutes left in the game. “This was not a good night for Vallejo,” said Thomas Grase, a sports writer for the Vallejo Times Herald. “Fights were flying everywhere, it was just crazy.”Grase says when he snapped a photo showing the Vallejo High team, the coaches were trying to calm the team down so that play could resume. But then, Grase says another fight occurred. Who is Danny Serafini? Bay Area native goes from top MLB draft pick to murder suspect “And the referees were saying, ‘Game over. Game over. It isn't safe,’” he recalled. On Monday, Corbus Field, where the game was held Friday night, was vacant as several investigations got underway. The Vallejo Unified School District sent KRON4 this statement:"Vallejo City Unified School District condemns any form of ...

Rangers slugger Adolis Garcia sets postseason record with 14 ALCS RBIs, extends HR streak to 4 games

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with his 14th in the AL Championship Series and extended his home run streak to four games after going deep in Game 7 against the Houston Astros on Monday night. García stretched his RBI streak to six games with a single in the first inning of the pennant-deciding game. He added an opposite-field solo homer in the third and a two-run single in the fourth that pushed the Rangers to an 8-2 lead. He’s also the first player with RBIs in six straight games within a postseason series.The Dominican slugger known as “El Bombi” broke the previous postseason record held by Nelson Cruz. Cruz had 13 RBIs for the Rangers in the 2011 ALCS against Detroit, which was the last time they went to the World Series. It has been an eventful series for García, who hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the sixth inning of Game 5, when he spiked the bat and took a slow trot after putting the Rangers ahead. In ...

Astros’ Abreu gives up 2-run homer in Game 7 after suspension upheld but pushed to next year

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — Astros reliever Bryan Abreu gave up Nathaniel Lowe’s two-run homer in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series against the Texas Rangers on Monday night after his two-game suspension for intentionally throwing at Adolis García delayed until the start of next season.Abreu was suspended Saturday by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill, a day after the incident. The reliever appealed, allowing him to pitch in Game 6, and a hearing was held Monday before John McHale Jr., a special assistant to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. McHale put off the suspension until the regular season.Abreu entered in the sixth inning of Game 7 with Houston trailing 8-2 and hit his second batter, Mitch Garver, on the left side with a 97.2 mph fastball. Lowe homered with two outs, raising Abreu’s postseason ERA from 2.45 to 4.32 in nine appearances. Abreu said before the game he was pleased with the discipline resolution because it allowed him to pitch this postseason despite the su...

U.S. climbers charge to Paris Olympics with teenager Watson, exercise science graduate Piper Kelly

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:21:41 GMT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The United States sport climbing team is dominating the Pan American Games in Chile and giving a boost to a teenager from Texas and a 24-year-old exercise science graduate to bid for Olympic medals in Paris.The 17-year-old Samuel Watson and Piper Kelly won the men’s and women’s speed events in Santiago, and their U.S. teammates were among the favorites for the boulder and lead competitions, which combine two techniques of rock climbing.Texan Watson started climbing at age 5 at a local Lifetime Fitness health club. Last year, as he perfected his ritual of kicking the wall before the start, he brought home a gold medal in his first year on the circuit.In Santiago, Watson scaled the wall in just 5.37 seconds on Sunday to beat teammate Noah Bratschi and put his father Ray into tears as his son took the Pan American gold medal. “Now it is all about getting stronger and faster for Paris,” Watson told The Associated Press on Monday before his other teamma...