Category: NASA

Space Junk

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Remember the Cold War Space Race between the former Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s and 1960s? During the past year, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk went ahead and turned that into a modern-day dick-measuring contest, for lack of a better phrase, to see who could get there first for the longest. Their space outfits, extensively reported on by CNN Science, received more attention than the pollution caused by this narcissistic billionaire power competition, in which one rocket launch produced an estimated 300 tons of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, where it can remain for years.

Space Junk

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Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Lev Golinkin

Earlier this year, Harvard unveiled a report of the university’s history of profiting from slavery. “I believe we bear a moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard and on our society,” Lawrence Bacow, the university president, wrote in an open letter to the community. The study was heralded as a long overdue reckoning by an elite institution with its dark past.

Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past?

America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.

From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century

America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia (Alternative source)

Biden Admin Weighs Blocking Twitter Deal On “National Security” Grounds… Just As Musk Wanted

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

One month ago we joked that should the Delaware judge force Musk to buy Twitter, then none other than the US government would step in and prevent the South African from gaining control over the blue-checkmark echo chamber of record, the one social media network which congressional testimony after congressional testimony has argued it can manipulate the outcome of elections.

Biden Admin Weighs Blocking Twitter Deal On “National Security” Grounds… Just As Musk Wanted

H/T: Alex Christoforou

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What’s wrong with the USA?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

China has been, variously described as a rising power, a sleeping dragon and a collapsing economy. Most of the rhetoric is driven from the US. Inside their government, both the Senate and Congress have anti-China hawks, their State Department seems to see a threat at every turning point and their military seems to believe that a defensive People’s liberation Army is a bad thing as it threatens US interests. Books reports and documentaries are created about mass dissatisfaction which extended academic research seems unable to identify.

What’s wrong with the USA? (archived)

Updated: NASA moon launch postponed after hydrogen leak

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Artemis 1 could now lift off from Cape Canaveral on Friday, after missing its launch window today.

NASA moon launch postponed after hydrogen leak

Originally:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fuel leaks and a possible crack discovered during final liftoff preparations threatened to postpone the launch of NASA’s mighty new moon rocket Monday morning on its shakedown flight with three test dummies aboard.

Rocket launch: Leaks, possible crack threaten to delay NASA moon launch