Sporadic rain on the central left coast too. I’ve been on Facebook for about 8 months to connect with my social scene, and there is some diver’s group that posts seafloor photos or shots of shipwrecks with women posed as though it was shot on dry land. Very cool.
This was many years ago, but I heard there was an exhibit in NYC with a large indoor room that has a heavy and uniform imitation rainfall coming out of the ceiling. But as you walk into the room, sensors track your motion and the “rain” is instantly switched off above you. That sounds like a fun experience.
I stayed and watched both videos. Enchanting. Slow- very good body control. You forget that she is underwater: in a new dimension. She is suspended in space and the viewer is suspended in perception. Music reminds me of Philip Glass.
I think I held my breath through most of that video. Lovely!
RE: U.S. Military’s guidance on reporting UFO encounters, and dealing with any material from such encounters.
Well, for something which commenter om keeps telling us is as real as unicorns, our military seems to betaking such encounters rather seriously.*
I also notice that they have also adopted the “5 observables” (now really 6 when you count UFO effects on biological systems) which Lou Elizondo did such a good job of letting the public know about.
Only six observables? How pedesterian, they are after all beyond all human understanding, science, and technology. How can one ennumerate their infinite capabilities and characteristics?
Just how vulnerable has been and is the Earth today to what could possibly be “extinction level events,” to things like meteor strikes, especially large ones?
Well, here is a video illustrating the evidence of some 200 meteor strikes, whose impact points are scattered throughout the world (and these are just the ones we have currently identified). Notice just how heavily North America has been hit, over and over again.*
And I’m sure that there are a lot more such impact sites which scientists just haven’t identified yet.
I keep reading about efforts to develop comprehensive monitoring of near Earth space to detect such meteorites, and one experiment, deliberately crashing a space probe into a small meteorite, which I believe effected it’s course to some small degree.
But, could we–as of today–detect a large incoming meteorite in time to send out a nuclear tipped missile to deflect it from hitting Earth, especially if such a meteorite was a big one?
An unlikely source of aid for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)—who is facing a motion from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust him after bringing the government funding package to a floor vote—might come from House Democrats.
“It’s absurd he’s being kicked out for doing the right thing, keeping the government open. It has two-thirds support of the Congress, and the idea that he would be kicked out by these jokers is absurd,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) told CNN on March 22. He said he would vote to retain Mr. Johnson as House Speaker and hoped other Democrats would do the same.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) expressed a similar sentiment in a March 22 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I do not support Speaker Johnson, but I will never stand by and let [Ms. Greene] take over the people’s House,” he said.
Ms. Greene filed her motion to vacate Mr. Johnson from the speaker’s chair the morning before the House approved the funding package, 286–134, which is now headed to the Senate before the 11:59 p.m. shutdown deadline.
However, not all Republicans are eager to face the same gridlock and uncertainty that bedeviled the GOP caucus in the weeks after Mr. McCarthy’s ouster. Even some of Mr. Johnson’s harshest critics from the House Freedom Caucus have dismissed Ms. Greene’s efforts.
Mr. Gaetz, who initiated Mr. McCarthy’s downfall, said he would not support a motion to vacate Mr. Johnson.
“When I vacated McCarthy, I made a promise to all of you, to the entire country, that we would not end up with a Democrat speaker,” Mr. Gaetz said on his “Firebrand” podcast on March 22, after the House vote.
old films like meteor, from my youth, suggested they could just destroy the artefact, whereas deep impact and armageddon, suggested more invasive methods
nearly half the caucus, voted to support the mutilators the gun grabbers, and other slithy toves,
Cervantes:
“ nearly half the caucus, voted to support the mutilators the gun grabbers, and other slithy toves,”
They did no such thing. They voted to live on to fight another day. What have you done to support the Republicans to have a larger majority in the House and to get control the senate and the presidency? Do you think Mike Johnson should lose the speaker position?
The Republicans caved, like they always do. You seem to think that’s a good idea. That’s stupid.
the fraudster elias has been allowed to steal whole delegations in NY in GA, in N Carolina, the census stole a whole host of districts from red states, entire,
we don’t have a regime we have a contagion, like a virus that is destroying the remaining timbers of this country, that sees orthodox countrymen as a threat, that enables criminals, and disarms law abiding citizens, exactly what a foreign power would do to a conquered nation,
Snow on Pine,
1. “But, could we–as of today–detect a large incoming meteorite especially if such a meteorite was a big one?
B) “… in time to send out a nuclear tipped missile to deflect it from hitting Earth…”
III: “I keep reading about efforts … and one experiment, deliberately crashing a space probe into a small meteorite, which I believe effected it’s course to some small degree.”
Regarding 1, (First, one minor nit, Astronomers are not particularly interested in detecting a “meteorite,” or a “meteor.” A meteor is some form of matter [“rock”] that enters the Earth’s atmosphere [a “shooting star”] and a meteorite is one such thing big enough that it does not completely burn up before reaching the ground. Given the speed of the objects and tininess of the Earth’s atmosphere one typically has seconds or fractions of a second to “detect” meteors. I imagine most Astronomers, like me, think meteors are very cool and are happy when skies are clear during the annually occurring Perseids and Leonids [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meteor_showers] and they can see some, but they don’t do that in their day jobs, as Astronomers.)
Yes. We very much can detect any Asteroid or piece of space debris today that is big enough to alter the Earth’s climate or create a sizable hole or tsunami upon impact long before it strikes the Earth. We and other nations have a lot of expensive and very cool equipment doing just this. Elaborate, detailed maps are made and we know a lot of it years, if not decades out. There is a small segment of space where our “view” (including the non visual spectrum) can be blocked by the Sun and we could miss something biggish until it’s close, if it’s on a very specific trajectory, and smart people are working to fix that hole also.
B) and III: altering its (you wrote it’s [paging neo and other grammarians 😉 ] trajectory “to some small degree” is very, very sufficient. The Earth’s diameter is about 8,000 miles across. Mars is about 140 million miles away. That’s over 17,000 times the Earth’s diameter. Imagine a triangle with one leg the Earth’s equator and the other two legs the distance to Mars. The angle formed by the two, equally, exceedingly long legs is effectively a point, 0.00337 degrees! So, you can see, if we interact with it at the distance of Mars we only need to alter a literal, very small degree to get it to completely miss Earth. And the same is true for 1/2 the distance to Mars (0.00674 degrees) or 1/4 the distance of Mars (0.013481 degrees).
A few more things to help you rest more easily. Yes, the Earth has been hit by a lot of big things in its past. Also, the Earth’s orbit, and the solar system, had A LOT more big, and little, things to hit in the past. A large percentage of that stuff has been cleared out over the ensuing, billions of years. There is a reason we call the area beyond the Earth’s atmosphere “space.” 99.99999999999 ad infinitum % of it contains nothing. And it contains even less nothing than it did millions of years ago, when all those 6 mile and bigger things were smashing into Earth.
There are multiple ways to deflect it and the DART mission (https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php), that I think you are referring to was one, such test to determine what is the best option. Something as simple as setting a lander down on it and using the inertia of firing the lander’s engines for a bit could be plenty enough to move something from a collision course with Earth if done far enough away (the longer the non-Earth diameter triangle legs the lesser the degrees (and force) necessary for a successful nudge. The good news is very nice, smart people are very actively working on this and we are much further along than we were even just a few decades ago. We are w-a-y ahead of the technology the dinosaurs were using, 65 million years ago. The existing map is quite good and we are down to detecting smaller and smaller threats. And DART was very successful.
Sic itur ad astra!
there’s also the matter of the plane of the approach, something I hadn’t considered till maybe an adaptation of the ‘cold equations, if you think in two dimensions you don’t capture the whole frame of vision,
the snowflake nature of NASA personnel as revealed with the last major lander, doesn’t inspire much confidence,
I am not happy with the deal, but what is your alternative? Would you like a government shutdown that the left would use to great effect to make the Republicans look radical?
I also repeat what I asked Cervantes, but he did not answer. What have you done to increase the majority of the Republicans in the house and allow them to take over the Senate and the presidency?
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina.
Craters with diameter 20 km (12 mi) or more are all older than 10 Ma
This does not mean something bigger than 12 miles can’t hit us. There could very possibly be some huge chunk of interstellar matter on a trajectory to enter our solar system for the first time. Such things happen. But looking at the lists on that page gives you a good feel for the large percentage of Earth strikes that were due to our solar system’s growing pains.
oh shes ignorant in many languages, and any able translator would have stabbed themselves with a ballpoint pen, to get the pain to stop,
she is possessed of a certain feline animal cunning, I’ll give her that,
they have been given the monies to pursue a national red flag strategy, three guesses who will be targeted by this, they will continue enabling the invasion, la Reconquista and in other tongues, the persecutions of patriots like Harrison Floyd to cite one example, another leviathan of headquarters building,
+ Bonus:
Looks like that Horse Dewormer’s making a genuine comeback!
“FDA Settles Ivermectin Case, Agrees To Remove Controversial ‘Stop It’ Post”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-settles-ivermectin-case-agrees-remove-controversial-stop-it-post
File under: “STOP taking effective medications!! (Otherwise, how we gonna ensure that y’all gotta panic!! And how’s Big Pharma’s gonna make those huge profits we promised ’em???)”
how do they make any sense of what she says, they put the babelfish in the ear canal, now her significant other was part of the smartmatic alliance with that british duke or some such, who has been pushing digital voting for a generation,
I’m trying to remember what was the most recent long form classic film that I saw that had an interlude, was it quo vadis, or it was man for all seasons, maybe it was ghandi,
they made an interesting choice starting the film midway into his career in South Africa,
And from the “Free, Fair and Transparent Election” File…. (Or should that be, “Freest, Fairest and Transparentest Election” File…)?
Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is being sued for working with local officials to stonewall a citizen’s efforts to access public election records from the Nov. 8, 2022 general and the May 2, 2023 primary elections.
Ms. Benson has a record of resisting transparency dating back to the 2020 presidential contest, after which she ordered local clerks to delete all electronic poll book (EPB) data from that election. In Nov. 2022, just days after the midterms, she ordered local clerks to deny public information requests to examine certain election data stored on their EPBs.
EPB files are an original public record and a component of the electronic voting system audit trail….
(Just one reason, of many, why “Biden” is not terribly perturbed about November 2024….)
this was the era when there was a slew of Indiaphillic films and series like Passage to India, Jewel in the Crown, I think there was one other of note,
meanwhilehttps://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/the-new-1-2-trillion-spending-bill-is-an-abomination/
miguel,
Going from memory; “The Ten Commandments” and “The Great Race” have intermissions. I think “It’s a Mad, Mad, etc. World” does also. And I seem to remember a very distant memory of a Barbra Streisand comedy having one. “Funny Girl?”
I need to watch, “Quo Vadis” one day. I DRV’ed it several times, and started it once or twice, but I definitely need to watch it. I’ve also never seen, “Ben Hur.” Need to watch that one day.
in recent viewings, I might have missed one, they had the last emperor was probably the last film of its type, of course the notion that another more brutal hegemon did not take power, that would be outside bertolucci’s vision,
Impact Risk Data
The following table summarizes by object the potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations…
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years.
It currently has 26 entries. 26. The largest listed object has a diameter of 1.3km and will not potentially impact us until 2880. In the 67 years since Sputnik was launched we’ve successfully crashed a probe into an asteroid, diverting it from its path. Imagine what we’ll be doing 923 years after launching Sputnik.
Of the remaining 25 entries, only 10 have potential to hit us in the next 20 years and the largest of those is 100 meters across. The average diameter of the remaining 24 objects is 50 meters across, 3 are less than 10 meters across. So you can see we are able to identify even small threats many years before they are near Earth.
And, even more good news. Regarding the second link:
It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects will disappear from this table whenever there are no longer any potential impact detections. For this reason we maintain a list of removed objects with the date of removal.
As the set of available observations for a given object grows we are often able to rule out previous potential impacts as no longer consistent with the observations. The following table gives a listing (in reverse chronological order) of such objects for which all previously detected potential impacts have been eliminated.
The list of objects identified as potential impacts that more research has shown are not actual threats? 3,250 entries.
Snow on Pine: “And it contains even less nothing than it did millions of years ago…”
I like that phrasing and image. 🙂
Miguel on VP Harris: “she is possessed of a certain feline animal cunning…”
I happened to see Donna Brazile on some political show this morning, which reminded me that I had previously wondered by Biden did not select her as his female black VP. While I would not want her in the VP slot either, she is clearly much more capable as a Dem foot soldier and aware politico*. Of course he probably did not want a competent competitor to his own public presence and persona. But Donna or some other black female candidate still seems preferable to Harris, such that I would have thought other party influencers would have found a way to veto selecting Harris.
*Would the discovery that she gave debate questions to H Clinton really be enough of a scandal or stain to keep her off of the ticket? Compared to the Harris-Brown relationship??? Some Dem’s might even have considered that debate assist a real plus in her favor!
Re: Intermissions
I think of “Lawrence of Arabia.” “Dr. Zhivago,” “2001” and “Patton.” Amazing movies.
We don’t get such beautiful, large-scale, magnificent films anymore. Maybe “Oppenheimer” fills the bill, though I haven’t seen it.
I haven’t been impressed with anything Christopher Nolan has done. Great technique but deep down his films seem hollow and pretentious.
There was such a golden age of culture in the 20th C. I thought that was the way it was and always would be.
I get a lot of things wrong.
Nolan directed interstellar which is the great 2001 type space epic the more gritty superhero arc the batman series inception i dont know where you would put it as for tenet it was a great genre bending attempt
Re: UFOs and comment by Snow on Pine @ 8:02 AM
The link he posts says this:
“…..uniform procedures to be followed for gathering data and reporting on CONTEMPORARY military encounters with Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena (UAP),…..”
Note the reference to “contemporary.”
Has not the US Military been documenting UFO stuff since, when? 1945 or so.
This “new” federal effort is simply the govt’s way to obscure, to suppress, to stall, to obfuscate, to prevent presenting the stuff they have found over the last 75 years or so.
No new committees or procedures are needed; all they need do is release all the info they have gathered over this time period.
UFOs are either the real deal or not.
The US govt (and probably that of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc) know for sure if UFOs are real or not. They have the data that shows it’s all bullshit or it’s for real. They just have no intent on allowing the citizenry to see the evidence (or lack thereof).
Just another example how our govt. (since ???) cannot be trusted and how the Federal agencies, including the military, basically do whatever they choose to do without any real oversight. They are accountable to nobody.
If congress would actually do their job, they would subpoena all documents re: UFOs and if the military refused (or provided “blacked out” pages), subject those defying the subpeona to be found in contempt of Congress and then be jailed.
(But apparently only Trump officials – Peter Navaro – that defy congress can be jailed for contempt. Geez, what a surprise).
So much for the claim we live in a Constitutional Republic.
(As I have mentioned before; there are billions of stars in our galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. Tough to believe humans are the only intelligent beings that exist. This does not necessarily mean ET folks have visited earth, but it should not be a surprise to anybody to learn that they have).
Speaking of Majorie Taylor Greene: she is one of the very few republicans that has the cohones to point out the disastrous spending policies and out of control budgets that congress passes; and almost all republicans say nothing at all.
Perhaps her in-your-face personality makes it easy to find her obnoxious, but the comments she makes are on point.
If one wishes to commit political suicide or have a burning tire tossed around your neck, attack the Washington DC power structure.
Do not dare disrupt business as usual in DC.
Whatever one thinks of MTG, she brings up those things which Must Not Be Said for public discussion. One way or another.
Unicorns were there before “DOD-ID10T” was formalized.
Indeed, it is all one big conspiracy, and the world is flat, and ……
Air force intelligence is as much an oxymoron as you think
Its all really bad theatre
Mike Howell (@MHowellTweets) on X
Britt is as good an actress as scarlett
JohnTyler, Richard+Aubrey:
Props to MTG too.
Bob Wilson dresses down MTG’s commitment. While miguel just fears caving to the child mutilators.
I am in both camps. Bob’s point is practical and safe, on the one hand; but debt spiral fears in the soon to be $1 trillion per year debt services cost tells me how IMPRACTICAL.
God save the Queen! May the Fed’s Sift Landung manifest and permit lower interest rates.
Sporadic rain on the central left coast too. I’ve been on Facebook for about 8 months to connect with my social scene, and there is some diver’s group that posts seafloor photos or shots of shipwrecks with women posed as though it was shot on dry land. Very cool.
This was many years ago, but I heard there was an exhibit in NYC with a large indoor room that has a heavy and uniform imitation rainfall coming out of the ceiling. But as you walk into the room, sensors track your motion and the “rain” is instantly switched off above you. That sounds like a fun experience.
Here it is, or was, in Los Angeles:
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/rain-room
When I saw the title of “Interlude,” I was reminded of this song: Sarah Vaughan & Her All-Stars – Interlude; A Night In Tunisia.
I stayed and watched both videos. Enchanting. Slow- very good body control. You forget that she is underwater: in a new dimension. She is suspended in space and the viewer is suspended in perception. Music reminds me of Philip Glass.
I think I held my breath through most of that video. Lovely!
RE: U.S. Military’s guidance on reporting UFO encounters, and dealing with any material from such encounters.
Well, for something which commenter om keeps telling us is as real as unicorns, our military seems to betaking such encounters rather seriously.*
I also notice that they have also adopted the “5 observables” (now really 6 when you count UFO effects on biological systems) which Lou Elizondo did such a good job of letting the public know about.
*See https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/uap-reporting-and-material-disposition-procedures-released/
“DOD-ID10T, Policing up Unicorn Skittles”
Only six observables? How pedesterian, they are after all beyond all human understanding, science, and technology. How can one ennumerate their infinite capabilities and characteristics?
Morton Gould, Interplay III. Blues (4:04): https://youtu.be/rQbpXDizDJI?si=VK7Vlrk05kR1NPHk
Gershwin Songbook, [Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano] (20:02): https://youtu.be/mJ9o6PPSL88?si=8VCFgf4Jq-z7pQeo
Charlie Kirk schools a woke student about the ideas of white privilege and reparations for blacks.
One startling statistic, Kirk points out that, while Black males make up only 6% of our population, they are responsible for 60% of the murders. *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuhoUJKr4ao&t=419
Just how vulnerable has been and is the Earth today to what could possibly be “extinction level events,” to things like meteor strikes, especially large ones?
Well, here is a video illustrating the evidence of some 200 meteor strikes, whose impact points are scattered throughout the world (and these are just the ones we have currently identified). Notice just how heavily North America has been hit, over and over again.*
And I’m sure that there are a lot more such impact sites which scientists just haven’t identified yet.
I keep reading about efforts to develop comprehensive monitoring of near Earth space to detect such meteorites, and one experiment, deliberately crashing a space probe into a small meteorite, which I believe effected it’s course to some small degree.
But, could we–as of today–detect a large incoming meteorite in time to send out a nuclear tipped missile to deflect it from hitting Earth, especially if such a meteorite was a big one?
Apparently not.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTed69ef1ks
Good news Is hard to find. Are there any moderate Democrats? I suppose it helps that MTG is such an idiot.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/some-democrats-say-they-would-save-speaker-johnson-ouster
An unlikely source of aid for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)—who is facing a motion from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust him after bringing the government funding package to a floor vote—might come from House Democrats.
“It’s absurd he’s being kicked out for doing the right thing, keeping the government open. It has two-thirds support of the Congress, and the idea that he would be kicked out by these jokers is absurd,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) told CNN on March 22. He said he would vote to retain Mr. Johnson as House Speaker and hoped other Democrats would do the same.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) expressed a similar sentiment in a March 22 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I do not support Speaker Johnson, but I will never stand by and let [Ms. Greene] take over the people’s House,” he said.
Ms. Greene filed her motion to vacate Mr. Johnson from the speaker’s chair the morning before the House approved the funding package, 286–134, which is now headed to the Senate before the 11:59 p.m. shutdown deadline.
However, not all Republicans are eager to face the same gridlock and uncertainty that bedeviled the GOP caucus in the weeks after Mr. McCarthy’s ouster. Even some of Mr. Johnson’s harshest critics from the House Freedom Caucus have dismissed Ms. Greene’s efforts.
Mr. Gaetz, who initiated Mr. McCarthy’s downfall, said he would not support a motion to vacate Mr. Johnson.
“When I vacated McCarthy, I made a promise to all of you, to the entire country, that we would not end up with a Democrat speaker,” Mr. Gaetz said on his “Firebrand” podcast on March 22, after the House vote.
old films like meteor, from my youth, suggested they could just destroy the artefact, whereas deep impact and armageddon, suggested more invasive methods
nearly half the caucus, voted to support the mutilators the gun grabbers, and other slithy toves,
Cervantes:
“ nearly half the caucus, voted to support the mutilators the gun grabbers, and other slithy toves,”
They did no such thing. They voted to live on to fight another day. What have you done to support the Republicans to have a larger majority in the House and to get control the senate and the presidency? Do you think Mike Johnson should lose the speaker position?
The Republicans caved, like they always do. You seem to think that’s a good idea. That’s stupid.
For seven years this bloody clot ran the Republican National Committee.
==
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ronna-mcdaniel-breaks-with-trump-says-january-6-prisoners-should-not-be-freed/
the fraudster elias has been allowed to steal whole delegations in NY in GA, in N Carolina, the census stole a whole host of districts from red states, entire,
we don’t have a regime we have a contagion, like a virus that is destroying the remaining timbers of this country, that sees orthodox countrymen as a threat, that enables criminals, and disarms law abiding citizens, exactly what a foreign power would do to a conquered nation,
Snow on Pine,
1. “But, could we–as of today–detect a large incoming meteorite especially if such a meteorite was a big one?
B) “… in time to send out a nuclear tipped missile to deflect it from hitting Earth…”
III: “I keep reading about efforts … and one experiment, deliberately crashing a space probe into a small meteorite, which I believe effected it’s course to some small degree.”
Regarding 1, (First, one minor nit, Astronomers are not particularly interested in detecting a “meteorite,” or a “meteor.” A meteor is some form of matter [“rock”] that enters the Earth’s atmosphere [a “shooting star”] and a meteorite is one such thing big enough that it does not completely burn up before reaching the ground. Given the speed of the objects and tininess of the Earth’s atmosphere one typically has seconds or fractions of a second to “detect” meteors. I imagine most Astronomers, like me, think meteors are very cool and are happy when skies are clear during the annually occurring Perseids and Leonids [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meteor_showers] and they can see some, but they don’t do that in their day jobs, as Astronomers.)
Yes. We very much can detect any Asteroid or piece of space debris today that is big enough to alter the Earth’s climate or create a sizable hole or tsunami upon impact long before it strikes the Earth. We and other nations have a lot of expensive and very cool equipment doing just this. Elaborate, detailed maps are made and we know a lot of it years, if not decades out. There is a small segment of space where our “view” (including the non visual spectrum) can be blocked by the Sun and we could miss something biggish until it’s close, if it’s on a very specific trajectory, and smart people are working to fix that hole also.
B) and III: altering its (you wrote it’s [paging neo and other grammarians 😉 ] trajectory “to some small degree” is very, very sufficient. The Earth’s diameter is about 8,000 miles across. Mars is about 140 million miles away. That’s over 17,000 times the Earth’s diameter. Imagine a triangle with one leg the Earth’s equator and the other two legs the distance to Mars. The angle formed by the two, equally, exceedingly long legs is effectively a point, 0.00337 degrees! So, you can see, if we interact with it at the distance of Mars we only need to alter a literal, very small degree to get it to completely miss Earth. And the same is true for 1/2 the distance to Mars (0.00674 degrees) or 1/4 the distance of Mars (0.013481 degrees).
A few more things to help you rest more easily. Yes, the Earth has been hit by a lot of big things in its past. Also, the Earth’s orbit, and the solar system, had A LOT more big, and little, things to hit in the past. A large percentage of that stuff has been cleared out over the ensuing, billions of years. There is a reason we call the area beyond the Earth’s atmosphere “space.” 99.99999999999 ad infinitum % of it contains nothing. And it contains even less nothing than it did millions of years ago, when all those 6 mile and bigger things were smashing into Earth.
There are multiple ways to deflect it and the DART mission (https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php), that I think you are referring to was one, such test to determine what is the best option. Something as simple as setting a lander down on it and using the inertia of firing the lander’s engines for a bit could be plenty enough to move something from a collision course with Earth if done far enough away (the longer the non-Earth diameter triangle legs the lesser the degrees (and force) necessary for a successful nudge. The good news is very nice, smart people are very actively working on this and we are much further along than we were even just a few decades ago. We are w-a-y ahead of the technology the dinosaurs were using, 65 million years ago. The existing map is quite good and we are down to detecting smaller and smaller threats. And DART was very successful.
Sic itur ad astra!
there’s also the matter of the plane of the approach, something I hadn’t considered till maybe an adaptation of the ‘cold equations, if you think in two dimensions you don’t capture the whole frame of vision,
the snowflake nature of NASA personnel as revealed with the last major lander, doesn’t inspire much confidence,
https://twitter.com/PhilWMagness/status/1771978286064607572
the crime is spotting the fraud
Colbo
“The Republicans caved.”
I am not happy with the deal, but what is your alternative? Would you like a government shutdown that the left would use to great effect to make the Republicans look radical?
I also repeat what I asked Cervantes, but he did not answer. What have you done to increase the majority of the Republicans in the house and allow them to take over the Senate and the presidency?
Snow on Pine,
This wikipedia page gives you a good, visual gauge of size, frequency and distance ago in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_Earth
This does not mean something bigger than 12 miles can’t hit us. There could very possibly be some huge chunk of interstellar matter on a trajectory to enter our solar system for the first time. Such things happen. But looking at the lists on that page gives you a good feel for the large percentage of Earth strikes that were due to our solar system’s growing pains.
This moment of clarity brought to you by VP Green Goddess herself…
“Embarrassing moment Kamala Harris claps along and smiles to protest in Puerto Rico (before vice president is told what they were ACTUALLY saying)”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13233075/Embarrassing-moment-Kamala-Harris-claps-smiles-protest-Puerto-Rico.html
oh shes ignorant in many languages, and any able translator would have stabbed themselves with a ballpoint pen, to get the pain to stop,
she is possessed of a certain feline animal cunning, I’ll give her that,
they have been given the monies to pursue a national red flag strategy, three guesses who will be targeted by this, they will continue enabling the invasion, la Reconquista and in other tongues, the persecutions of patriots like Harrison Floyd to cite one example, another leviathan of headquarters building,
200 Earth impact craters mapped by size and age (10:19): https://youtu.be/iTed69ef1ks?si=q1p4rkcxbJQHmMoT
“…animal cunning…”
Heh, well she’s certainly been well coached on “Biden”‘s foreign policy mumbling points….
“VP Harris Leaves Door Open for Consequences if IDF Enters Rafah”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/idf-hamas-rafah/2024/03/24/id/1158438/
Nothing to worry about, though: “Biden”‘s” just protecting “his” allies….
+ Bonus:
Looks like that Horse Dewormer’s making a genuine comeback!
“FDA Settles Ivermectin Case, Agrees To Remove Controversial ‘Stop It’ Post”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-settles-ivermectin-case-agrees-remove-controversial-stop-it-post
File under: “STOP taking effective medications!! (Otherwise, how we gonna ensure that y’all gotta panic!! And how’s Big Pharma’s gonna make those huge profits we promised ’em???)”
how do they make any sense of what she says, they put the babelfish in the ear canal, now her significant other was part of the smartmatic alliance with that british duke or some such, who has been pushing digital voting for a generation,
I’m trying to remember what was the most recent long form classic film that I saw that had an interlude, was it quo vadis, or it was man for all seasons, maybe it was ghandi,
they made an interesting choice starting the film midway into his career in South Africa,
And from the “Free, Fair and Transparent Election” File…. (Or should that be, “Freest, Fairest and Transparentest Election” File…)?
“Michigan Man Sues To See Election Records After His Freedom Of Information Requests Were Denied”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/michigan-man-sues-see-election-records-after-his-freedom-information-requests-were-denied
Opening grafs:
(Just one reason, of many, why “Biden” is not terribly perturbed about November 2024….)
this was the era when there was a slew of Indiaphillic films and series like Passage to India, Jewel in the Crown, I think there was one other of note,
meanwhilehttps://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/the-new-1-2-trillion-spending-bill-is-an-abomination/
miguel,
Going from memory; “The Ten Commandments” and “The Great Race” have intermissions. I think “It’s a Mad, Mad, etc. World” does also. And I seem to remember a very distant memory of a Barbra Streisand comedy having one. “Funny Girl?”
I need to watch, “Quo Vadis” one day. I DRV’ed it several times, and started it once or twice, but I definitely need to watch it. I’ve also never seen, “Ben Hur.” Need to watch that one day.
in recent viewings, I might have missed one, they had the last emperor was probably the last film of its type, of course the notion that another more brutal hegemon did not take power, that would be outside bertolucci’s vision,
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1771945320827719708
Snow on Pine,
Another resource to help you sleep calmly: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/ and https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/removed.html
Regarding the first link:
It currently has 26 entries. 26. The largest listed object has a diameter of 1.3km and will not potentially impact us until 2880. In the 67 years since Sputnik was launched we’ve successfully crashed a probe into an asteroid, diverting it from its path. Imagine what we’ll be doing 923 years after launching Sputnik.
Of the remaining 25 entries, only 10 have potential to hit us in the next 20 years and the largest of those is 100 meters across. The average diameter of the remaining 24 objects is 50 meters across, 3 are less than 10 meters across. So you can see we are able to identify even small threats many years before they are near Earth.
And, even more good news. Regarding the second link:
The list of objects identified as potential impacts that more research has shown are not actual threats? 3,250 entries.
Snow on Pine: “And it contains even less nothing than it did millions of years ago…”
I like that phrasing and image. 🙂
Miguel on VP Harris: “she is possessed of a certain feline animal cunning…”
I happened to see Donna Brazile on some political show this morning, which reminded me that I had previously wondered by Biden did not select her as his female black VP. While I would not want her in the VP slot either, she is clearly much more capable as a Dem foot soldier and aware politico*. Of course he probably did not want a competent competitor to his own public presence and persona. But Donna or some other black female candidate still seems preferable to Harris, such that I would have thought other party influencers would have found a way to veto selecting Harris.
*Would the discovery that she gave debate questions to H Clinton really be enough of a scandal or stain to keep her off of the ticket? Compared to the Harris-Brown relationship??? Some Dem’s might even have considered that debate assist a real plus in her favor!
Re: Intermissions
I think of “Lawrence of Arabia.” “Dr. Zhivago,” “2001” and “Patton.” Amazing movies.
We don’t get such beautiful, large-scale, magnificent films anymore. Maybe “Oppenheimer” fills the bill, though I haven’t seen it.
I haven’t been impressed with anything Christopher Nolan has done. Great technique but deep down his films seem hollow and pretentious.
There was such a golden age of culture in the 20th C. I thought that was the way it was and always would be.
I get a lot of things wrong.
Nolan directed interstellar which is the great 2001 type space epic the more gritty superhero arc the batman series inception i dont know where you would put it as for tenet it was a great genre bending attempt
Re: UFOs and comment by Snow on Pine @ 8:02 AM
The link he posts says this:
“…..uniform procedures to be followed for gathering data and reporting on CONTEMPORARY military encounters with Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena (UAP),…..”
Note the reference to “contemporary.”
Has not the US Military been documenting UFO stuff since, when? 1945 or so.
This “new” federal effort is simply the govt’s way to obscure, to suppress, to stall, to obfuscate, to prevent presenting the stuff they have found over the last 75 years or so.
No new committees or procedures are needed; all they need do is release all the info they have gathered over this time period.
UFOs are either the real deal or not.
The US govt (and probably that of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc) know for sure if UFOs are real or not. They have the data that shows it’s all bullshit or it’s for real. They just have no intent on allowing the citizenry to see the evidence (or lack thereof).
Just another example how our govt. (since ???) cannot be trusted and how the Federal agencies, including the military, basically do whatever they choose to do without any real oversight. They are accountable to nobody.
If congress would actually do their job, they would subpoena all documents re: UFOs and if the military refused (or provided “blacked out” pages), subject those defying the subpeona to be found in contempt of Congress and then be jailed.
(But apparently only Trump officials – Peter Navaro – that defy congress can be jailed for contempt. Geez, what a surprise).
So much for the claim we live in a Constitutional Republic.
(As I have mentioned before; there are billions of stars in our galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. Tough to believe humans are the only intelligent beings that exist. This does not necessarily mean ET folks have visited earth, but it should not be a surprise to anybody to learn that they have).
Speaking of Majorie Taylor Greene: she is one of the very few republicans that has the cohones to point out the disastrous spending policies and out of control budgets that congress passes; and almost all republicans say nothing at all.
Perhaps her in-your-face personality makes it easy to find her obnoxious, but the comments she makes are on point.
If one wishes to commit political suicide or have a burning tire tossed around your neck, attack the Washington DC power structure.
Do not dare disrupt business as usual in DC.
Whatever one thinks of MTG, she brings up those things which Must Not Be Said for public discussion. One way or another.
Unicorns were there before “DOD-ID10T” was formalized.
Indeed, it is all one big conspiracy, and the world is flat, and ……
Air force intelligence is as much an oxymoron as you think
Its all really bad theatre
Mike Howell (@MHowellTweets) on X
Britt is as good an actress as scarlett
JohnTyler, Richard+Aubrey:
Props to MTG too.
Bob Wilson dresses down MTG’s commitment. While miguel just fears caving to the child mutilators.
I am in both camps. Bob’s point is practical and safe, on the one hand; but debt spiral fears in the soon to be $1 trillion per year debt services cost tells me how IMPRACTICAL.
God save the Queen! May the Fed’s Sift Landung manifest and permit lower interest rates.
For those looking to get schooled on the scary problem of US debt spiral, he here https://themacrobutler.substack.com/p/a-house-of-cards-on-borrowed-times
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