Speed of Sound NASA (click here)
December 9, 2018
By Eleanor Imster
On December 1, 2018, NASA’s InSight lander, (click here) which touched down on Mars on November 26, provided the first ever sounds of winds on the planet Mars.
The spacecraft’s sensors captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind, estimated to be blowing 10 to 15 miles per hour (6-24 km per hour) from northwest to southeast. The winds were consistent with the direction of dust devil streaks in the landing area, which were observed from orbit.
You can listen to full-length uncompressed .wav files here.
Bruce Banerdt is InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Banerdt said in a statement:
Capturing this audio was an unplanned treat. But one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves.
InSight (which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is not a rover; it’s designed to stay in one place and to drill into and study Mars’ deep interior. NASA said:
InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the moon,
formed....
Monday, December 10, 2018
Voyager 2 has joined it's sister, Voyager 1 into interstellar space. I wonder?
By Charlie Wood.
Voyager 2, (click here) the little spacecraft that could, continues to hurtle outward into the universe, moving around 10 miles away from the sun every second. Those miles have added up over the course of 41 years, taking it past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. On November 5 it finally joined its sibling Voyager 1 in the unexplored reaches of interstellar space....
Why is Roof allowed contact with the outside world?
December 10, 2018
By Yaron Steinbuch
An Ohio woman (click here) who corresponded with Charleston, SC, church shooter Dylann Roof was accused Monday of planning to commit “an upscale mass murder” at a Toledo bar, according to reports.
Elizabeth Lecron, 23, one of two people arrested in terrorism-related cases, was charged with purchasing bomb-making materials that the FBI said she intended to use at the drinking joint, the Toledo Blade reported.
Toledo police received a tip about Lecron’s social media activity and alerted the Northwest Ohio Joint Terrorism Task Force, US Attorney Justin Herdman said Monday.
On Friday, she bought two pounds of a muzzle-loading propellant, and then went to another retailer in Perrysburg, where she bought 665 screws of various sizes....
Dylann Roof is a confessed mass murderer. He is not married and short of his immediate family visiting why is he allowed contact with the outside world? The USA isn't violent enough?
Police pulling toddler from mother at NY food stamp office (click here for article - thank you)
This is outrageous. There are at least six officers attempting to remove a child from the arms of the mother. New York City police have nothing better to do than harass food stamp recipients. WHERE ARE ALL THE CHAIRS?
This started because a woman waiting for an appointment regarding food stamps was in line for two hours and sat down along a wall with her child. I suppose after two hours waiting a child gets a little heavy and the mother got tired. The police decided "the lazy black mother" had no right to sit down even after a two hour wait.
Everyone of those officers should be put on leave without pay while the investigation continues. This is outrageous. The police don't know how to behave. They started the assault and now a child could be injured for the force they were using.
This started because a woman waiting for an appointment regarding food stamps was in line for two hours and sat down along a wall with her child. I suppose after two hours waiting a child gets a little heavy and the mother got tired. The police decided "the lazy black mother" had no right to sit down even after a two hour wait.
Everyone of those officers should be put on leave without pay while the investigation continues. This is outrageous. The police don't know how to behave. They started the assault and now a child could be injured for the force they were using.
December 10, 2018
By Pete Williams
...Medicaid patients in Kansas and Louisiana, (click here) two of the states that took action against Planned Parenthood, claimed the states violated Medicaid's requirement that patients must be free to seek their health care from any qualified and willing provider. They sued, and lower federal courts found in their favor, entering injunctions that ordered those states to lift their bans.
In declining to take up the states' appeals, the Supreme Court's action on Monday leaves those lower court victories for the Medicaid patients in place.
Planned Parenthood offers Medicaid patients vaccines, wellness examinations, screening for breast and cervical cancer, contraception services and pregnancy testing. But abortion is not offered, because federal funds cannot pay for them except in cases of rape, incest or life endangerment. The Kansas affiliate said it provides "essential medical care for hundreds of low-income Kansans each year."...
Donald Trump does not have a political future. He broke ELECTION laws. He needs to be impeached now.
Where is Ryan? He needs to get started. There are three days left on the US House Calendar. There is a criminal in the White House that needs to be removed. This is not as complicated as climate science. He broke campaign laws and he needs to be removed. Simple.
December 10, 2018
By Kaitlan Collins
Washington - While President Donald Trump (click here) and Nick Ayers were still in the middle of negotiations about him replacing John Kelly as chief of staff, Trump had already given Ayers a task, according to a source familiar with the discussion. He wanted him to conduct a thorough review of how the West Wing operates, including evaluating staffing, in order to make it more politically focused over the next two years.
Trump has become increasingly concerned in recent weeks about what his administration is facing come January, when newly empowered Democrats are expected to unleash the full force of their oversight powers on the Trump administration....
It seems as though Ryan has had a difficult time breaking away from being Trump's lackey.
December 7, 2018
According to our friend Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4), (click here) Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and his leadership team, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Whip Steve Scalise, refused to lobby for the Trump-supported Goodlatte immigration bill, which would have built a border wall, enacted E-Verify procedures, and offered DREAMERS a path to citizenship. It failed to pass the House after nearly 20 Ryan loyalists voted against it.
Now, many of the 20 Republicans who voted “NO” on Goodlatte are gone, defeated or retired in the 2018 midterm election, and Rep. Goodlatte has been clear on why his bill did not pass, when Republicans had the majority in the House.
Our friend Neil Munro reports Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the retiring Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, says the GOP leadership let the House immigration reform die in June by allowing a critical bloc of GOP legislators to split their votes between two rival reform bills.
“The strategy of having two options really let people have an off-ramp — they could vote for the more conservative bill and against the other, or vote for the second bill and not the first,” Goodlatte said, adding according to Munro’s reporting:
That is just not a good strategy and I complained about it at the time. I said ‘You’ve got to narrow this down to one bill and then work really hard to get the members to vote for that one bill.’
Mr. Goodlatte confirmed that House Speaker Paul Ryan made the decision to create the rival bill that blocked Goodlatte’s bill.
On November 30, Ryan told an interviewer that he preferred the second bill, which he credited to Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo....
By Kaitlan Collins
Washington - While President Donald Trump (click here) and Nick Ayers were still in the middle of negotiations about him replacing John Kelly as chief of staff, Trump had already given Ayers a task, according to a source familiar with the discussion. He wanted him to conduct a thorough review of how the West Wing operates, including evaluating staffing, in order to make it more politically focused over the next two years.
Trump has become increasingly concerned in recent weeks about what his administration is facing come January, when newly empowered Democrats are expected to unleash the full force of their oversight powers on the Trump administration....
It seems as though Ryan has had a difficult time breaking away from being Trump's lackey.
December 7, 2018
According to our friend Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4), (click here) Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and his leadership team, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Whip Steve Scalise, refused to lobby for the Trump-supported Goodlatte immigration bill, which would have built a border wall, enacted E-Verify procedures, and offered DREAMERS a path to citizenship. It failed to pass the House after nearly 20 Ryan loyalists voted against it.
Now, many of the 20 Republicans who voted “NO” on Goodlatte are gone, defeated or retired in the 2018 midterm election, and Rep. Goodlatte has been clear on why his bill did not pass, when Republicans had the majority in the House.
Our friend Neil Munro reports Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the retiring Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, says the GOP leadership let the House immigration reform die in June by allowing a critical bloc of GOP legislators to split their votes between two rival reform bills.
“The strategy of having two options really let people have an off-ramp — they could vote for the more conservative bill and against the other, or vote for the second bill and not the first,” Goodlatte said, adding according to Munro’s reporting:
That is just not a good strategy and I complained about it at the time. I said ‘You’ve got to narrow this down to one bill and then work really hard to get the members to vote for that one bill.’
Mr. Goodlatte confirmed that House Speaker Paul Ryan made the decision to create the rival bill that blocked Goodlatte’s bill.
On November 30, Ryan told an interviewer that he preferred the second bill, which he credited to Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo....
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