North America’s Best Bar Has a Funny Name, but Serves Seriously Good Cocktails

Tori Latham

Fri, May 5, 2023 at 3:00 PM EDT·3 min read

The best bar in North America doesn’t even sound like it would be a bar.

New York City’s Double Chicken Please was just bestowed that honor by the 50 Best organization on Thursday evening. Led by GN Chan and Faye Chen, the Lower East Side cocktail spot serves up libations inspired by culinary delights, like Cold Pizza (Don Fulano Blanco, Parmigiano Reggiano, burnt toast, tomato, basil, honey, egg white) and Waldorf Salad (Dewar’s 15-year, Laphroaig 10-year, apple, celery, ginger ale, walnut bitters). Last year, Double Chicken Please came in at No. 17 on the North American list, and at No. 6 on the list of best bars in the world.

Hundreds of pounds of pasta dumped near New Jersey stream OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they are no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped near a stream.

Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry said Friday that the pasta, including spaghetti and macaroni, was cleaned up last week by public works crews, shortly after officials learned about the oodles of noodles that quickly drew national attention when photos of the pasta were posted on social media.

The estimated 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of pasta were apparently raw when it was dumped, but subsequent heavy rains softened the food and made the mounds look like they had been cooked, officials have said. It’s unclear who dumped the pasta there or why, but it’s not believed the pasta had been at the site for long before it was discovered.

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attention when photos of the pasta were posted on social media. (Nina Jochnowitz via AP)

OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they are no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped near a stream.

Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry said Friday that the pasta, including spaghetti and macaroni, was cleaned up last week by public works crews, shortly after officials learned about the oodles of noodles that quickly drew national attention when photos of the pasta were posted on social media.

The estimated 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of pasta were apparently raw when it was dumped, but subsequent heavy rains softened the food and made the mounds look like they had been cooked, officials have said. It’s unclear who dumped the pasta there or why, but it’s not believed the pasta had been at the site for long before it was discovered.

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NASA is planning to construct a wide range of infrastructure on and around the moon, including
a human habitat, a new space station, and a lunar web service that can keep everything
connected.
“On Earth now, we also have all the cellphone towers and WiFi hotspots and things to give us
network connectivity, and that really changed the way that we go about our daily lives,” says
Dave Israel, a principal investigator and division architect at the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center. “What we want to do is make that experience possible for the astronauts and robotic
missions that are going to the moon, and then—in the future—to extend it up to Mars and
wherever we’re going to go.”
There are challenges, though. Transmitting data between Earth and the moon isn’t exactly easy,
partiNASA is also working with Nokia to build a 4G cellular network for the moon. The
company has already won a more than $14 million contract from the space agency, and its first
base station—along with radio equipment—should be delivered to the moon via a SpaceX
rocket scheduled to launch sometime next year.Feb 28, 2023
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Inside NASA’s big plan to bring the
internet to the moon
The agency is planning to build a number of
infrastructure on and around the Moon, including a
human habitat, a new space station—and a lunar web
service that can keep it all connected
Humanity is going back to the moon—and this time we’re bringing the internet.
Last year, NASA launched Artemis 1, the first in a series of missions that aim to return American
astronauts on the lunar surface, and, eventually, establish a permanent U.S. base camp. Now,
the agency is preparing for an equally important objective: making sure that when future
astronauts do finally land on the moon, they’ll be able to post a selfie.
he U.S. space agency is in the early stages of developing LunaNet, a nascent but critical plan
to build an internet network for the moon. Of course, the effort is about far more than just
allowing astronauts to snap a few selfies. Compared to the historic Apollo missions, which
focused on bringing humans to the moon for the first time, the Artemis program has loftier goals.
cularly from the lunar south pole and the far side of the moon, which doesn’t directly face Earth.Transport presents another hurdle: Trips to the moon aren’t too frequent, so actually
transporting the lunar internet equipment may take quite some time. Several upcoming
launches— including the crewed Artemis II mission currently scheduled for 2024—will involve
demonstrations of moon communications technology. Still, Israel says he doesn’t anticipate
things getting fully up and running until later this decade.
One big step for space internet
Here on Earth, we’ve used satellites in our orbit to connect the web (especially on planes) for
years. And companies like SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon are currently in the process of
building out networks of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide even faster service
from space. The International Space Station is also hooked up to the web. Unfortunately, the
same can’t be said about the moon.
“The data rates that customers are currently getting on the moon on is like dial-up—it’s not even
like dial-up—it’s like dial-up you’re fighting to get access to,” explains Kelly Larson, the CEO of
Aquarian Space, a startup that focuses on lunar communications.
To improve service, NASA is planning to launch lunar satellites that will connect with each other,
and then back to communications infrastructure on Earth. Relay spacecraft will be particularly
helpful for the harder-to-reach areas of the moon, like the far side and the lunar south pole,
which the space agency is hoping astronauts will eventually explore. NASA will also deploy a
series of ground stations, which will essentially work like cell towers, on the lunar surface. In
theory, lunar communications will work less like a phone line and more like an internet network.
Private companies have a role to play in building this new internet infrastructure. Aquarian
Space, for example, is planning to launch its first lunar communications satellites in the second
quarter of 2025, and eventually hopes its tech will eventually offer a 100 megabit-per-second,
24-7 lunar surface. NASA is also working with Nokia to build a 4G cellular network for the moon.
The company has already won a more than $14 million contract from the space agency, and its
first base station—along with radio equipment—should be delivered to the moon via a SpaceX
rocket scheduled to launch sometime next year.It doesn’t look that different to us compared to a
mine or a rig or a remote wind farm or a factory,” explains Thierry Klein, the president of Bell
Labs Solutions Research at Nokia Bell Labs. “It just happens to be very far away. It just happens
to be very harsh. But from a communication perspective, it just looks like the extreme version of
what we do every day.”
The European Space Agency is working on a parallel project, called Moonlight, which aims to
recruit companies to build lunar telecoms infrastructure, too.
Much of the motivation behind the moonshot internet service is actually about basic logistics. As
human visitors and robots start trekking across the surface of the moon in greater numbers,
they’ll need a communications network to help them with directions—somewhat like the global