VULT CULT: Space

The US has backed Japan's controversial decision to release over 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Why is it I can see that this is a really stupid idea?

2020-12-21

Happy shortest day of the year!

AKA Winter Solstice.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/winter-solstice.htm l

And on the first day of winter - actual snow of the ground.

2020-09-04

The wonders of nothingness.

aka Black Holes.

GW190521 (or GW190521g; initially, S190521g)^[5] is a gravitational wave signal resulting from the merger of two black holes near a third supermassive black hole, which was associated with a coincident and uncharacteristic flash of light.^[2]^[6] The event was observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors on 21 May 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC,^[7] and later confirmed in studies published on 2 September 2020.^[4]^[5]^[8] The event was located 17 billion light years away,^{[n 1]}^[5]^[9] in location area 765^[10] deg²^{[n 2]}^[11]^[12] towards Coma Berenices, Canes Venatici, or Phoenix.^[1]^[2]^[6]^[13]

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW190521}

2019-12-28

The kinds of things I end up watching online, thanks to CV jr.

2019-09-13

So close and so far.

When I first saw this - I thought: another Earth that can be fucked up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-18b

But then I saw this point -

"Astronomers emphasised that the discovery of water in the atmosphere of K2-18b does not mean the planet can support life or is even habitable, as it probably lacks any solid surface or an atmosphere that can support life"

2019-05-22

New word I learned today - 'advertorial'.

Context here - https://fair.org/home/wapo-hypes-space-capitalists-one-of-whom-owns-the-paper/?awt_l=Ke_9G&awt_m=i7878mLs.IR._TQ

2019-05-17

"We own the world."

That's the US hegemony world view - Chomsky had it right - https://chomsky.info/20080101/

Only in this day and age, it applies to apparently space itself.

https://fair.org/home/for-corporate-media-space-belongs-to-washington/?awt_l=Ke_9G&awt_m=hktZpTB9hIR._TQ

Noam Chomsky once explained that American news coverage operates on the premise that the US “owns the world,” but it’s clear that outer space belongs to the US as well, since corporate media frame any nation failing to treat space as Washington’s private property as enemy trespassers (RT, 2/13/19). It’s not enough to be No. 1 in the space race, because every other nation could “gain ground” on the US, driving a vicious circle of never-ending military buildups. As the global space economy is expected to multiply several times over the next few decades—with lucrative deals for military contractors—we can expect more alarmist reports from corporate media about the “threats” posed by countries seeking a peace treaty with the US in outer space.

2018-12-14

Maybe Voyager 2 can find smarter lifeforms out there to save us from ourselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Interstellar_mission

"In December 2018, the Voyager project scientist, Edward C. Stone, announced that Voyager 2 reached interstellar space on November 5, 2018.^[9]^[10]"

2018-10-31

Totality!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#Terminology_for_central_eclipse

Totality—the Moon obscures the entire disk of the Sun and only the solar corona is visible.

2018-06-09

ORGANIC material on Mars?

Certified Organic by NASA!!

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finds-ancient-organic-material-mysterious-methane-on-mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on the Red Planet. While not necessarily evidence of life itself, these findings are a good sign for future missions exploring the planet’s surface and subsurface.

2018-04-29

The planet's Moment of Truth?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-what-now-threat-to-life-on-planet-earth-ozone-dying-and-the-deadly-ultraviolet-cosmic-radiation/5637864

The bearer of the horrendous message is Dr. Marvin Herndon together with Raymond Hoisington and Mark Whiteside, who have their respective Research results just published in the “Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International”, Vol. 14, Issue 2, – titled:

“Deadly Ultraviolet UV-C and UV-B Penetration to Earth´s Surface: Human and Environmental Health Implications” (1)
In their article, the authors explain that UV-B radiation is a “stress factor”, that has a negative influence on the survival and growth of organisms in marine and freshwater, for instance Plankton, both as vegetable as well as animal. Thus, the food base of the marine and generally water inhabitants is endangered. In addition, UV-B can affect the photosynthesis, growth and metabolism of the underwater world, it can disturb the coral reef communities and destroy them by coral bleaching as well as by leading to a genome instability of plants. However, UV radiation is also harmful on land, for example generally for trees because it alters their biological and chemical environment. Conifers can produce deficient pollen under UV-B radiation and be disturbed in their reproduction or even become sterile. The toxicity of UV-B is known. It also applies to all other living beings.
UV-C, again, has for example lethal effects on insects and microorganisms. It even leads to a programmed cell death in plants. In rats, it causes cell damage, in humans, depending on the duration of irradiation, at least skin damages. In the announcement of the publication, there is a summary:

It is widely believed that atmospheric ozone blocks the deadly portion of solar radiation, UV-C and most UV-B, from reaching Earth’s surface. A just published scientific paper challenges this assumption. Published this week in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, the paper by J. Marvin Herndon, PhD, of Trans dyne Corporation, Raymond D Hoisington of I Ray Spectra Metrics, and Mark Whiteside, MD, MPH, a Florida Department of Health physician, confirms evidence NASA published and then failed to follow-up on in 2007.“

2018-03-15

RIP Stephen Hawking.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/15/hawk-m15.html

His wisdom was both simple and poweful -

Hawking encouraged his reading public to search for rational answers and explanations for everything. “My goal is simple,” he said in 1985. “It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” He told Der Spiegel in 1988, “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

2018-02-02

Everything you wanted to know about the Supermoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2018_lunar_eclipse

2017-05-21

'change life horribly forevermore'

... that's how life at times feels for me nowadays.

But that's not exactly where that comes from ... or what it's about.

"If greenhouses gases (GHG) like CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuels, like oil and coal, continue at today’s high levels, parts of Antarctica could break up rapidly with a resultant 6’ of sea level rise by the end of this century, which is double the maximum increase projected by the international panel only four years ago."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/19/early-stage-antarctica-death-rattle-sparks-ny-times-journalists-trip/

2017-05-02

The future of things?

A link worth checking out from time to time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies

2016-10-26

How unfortunate.

Well, try again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiaparelli_EDM_lander

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