“Nick Breeze chats with Arctic Russian researcher Igor Semiletov on some important issues surrounding methane”
“Sources of Arctic Methane | Igor Semiletov | Unseen footage of methane plumes from 2020 voyage | pt1”
Aphrodite Fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2020-08-12 _F2A6874aaa
Sam Carana:
“TERRIFYING ARCTIC METHANE LEVELS
A peak methane level of 3026 ppb was recorded by the MetOp-B satellite at 469 mb on December 11, 2021 am.
This follows a peak methane level of 3644 ppb recorded by the MetOp-B satellite at 367 mb on November 21, 2021, pm.
A peak methane level of 2716 ppb was recorded by the MetOp-B satellite at 586 mb on December 11, 2021, pm. This image is possibly even more terrifying than the first image, as it shows that at 586 mb, i.e. much closer to sea level, almost all methane shows up over sea, rather than over land, supporting the possibility of large methane eruptions from the seafloor, especially in the Arctic.
Also, the image was recorded later than the first image (with the 3026 ppb peak), indicating that even more methane may be on the way. This appears to be confirmed by the Copernicus forecast for December 12, 2021, 03 UTC, as illustrated by the third image, which shows methane at 500 hPa (equivalent to 500 mb).
Furthermore, very high methane levels have recently shown up over Barrow, Alaska, and carbon dioxide levels have also been very high recently at Barrow, Alaska.”
*
“Jet Stream Collapses - California Burning in Dead of WInter - Day After Tomorrow Comes True”
*
“Jean-Michel Pourny:
“Extreme Climate Risks: What are the worst-case scenarios?”
*
“Brutally Cold Outbreaks in Our Warming World”
*
Louis Nuyens III:
“Forecast — This coming week, Antarctica is going to see temperatures between 65-75° warmer than normal
“See "7 day forecast" for Antarctica.”
*
“A swath of rainforest the size of 40 football fields disappears every minute.”
Rainforest Alliance:
“2021 was a tough year for forests. In the Amazon alone, deforestation increased 33% over 2020 levels. This needs to change! Join us and help end forest destruction in 2022.”
*
Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, etc. :
“US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must”
*
Planetary Death Spiral:
Jim Bateman
“#cryosphere #darksnow #polarregions #doomsdayglacier
Major Disaster is Unfolding in the Cryosphere, and at Both Poles
The #Arctic is thinning relentlessly and increasingly showing signs of what ice expert, Jason Box, calls "dark snow." This is a deadly ice-albedo feedback.
Massive holes in the sea ice are opening in #Antarctica. Pine and #Thwaites, known as the "Doomsday glacier," are the ones to watch. Ice is thinning in these areas. If you zoom in on NASA Worldview you can find holes. Bellingshausen sea ice is mainly gone. Scientists warn that the Doomsday glacier may collapse in less than 5 years, adding 10 feet of sea level rise (SLR).
It’s a strange thing. In the dead of the subzero Antarctic winter, when the oceans at the bottom of the world are frozen over, that scientists have begun to observe these massive holes the size of South Carolina or larger opening up in the sea ice since 2016 and earlier.
Now, scientists have a good grasp of why such great holes, known as polynyas (Russian for "hole in the ice"), form. The water under the glaciers is too hot, due to anthropogenic climate change. The glaciers are being melted from above and below. New science shows how the ocean under the ice gets mixed up, like a bartender shaking up a cocktail, when it's too hot.
That dooms great swaths of ice. And there's growing evidence that these striking bouts of warming are happening more often.
Worse still, this is not a gradual event. The gaping holes form rapidly, without notice. Suddenly a hole appears in the floating ice. This is what abrupt change looks like.
#climatechange #climateemergency #climate #climatecrisis #wedonthavetime #savethearctic #climateemergency
Want to learn more? Here is a link to Scientists' Warning Knowledgebase on the cryosphere, The Arctic Death Spiral:”
*
“Even Democracy Requires Constant Vigilance From Corrosive Attacks Within”
“"As we spent long days and nights waiting for the rioting mobs to attack, before we finally realized no rioters would come, our boredom was broken only by 'crime and suspicious activity' reports—a macabre form of entertainment," a Washington, D.C., National Guardsmen writes for The War Horse.”
*
Congress and the Senate should be charged with murder:
“This is Alex Smith. He died this year at age 26 because he couldn’t afford insulin in America.
He made $35,000 a year as a restaurant manager, and couldn’t afford his $450 a month health insurance with a $7,600 out-of-pocket deductible.
The insulin he needed for diabetes was $1,300 a month. When he turned 26 and was kicked off his mom’s insurance, he started rationing his life-saving insulin.
He died a month later.
All this in the richest country in the world.”
“I don’t care where you think you fall on the political spectrum, this is wrong. It is immoral and it should have never happened, especially not in the richest country in the world. Beyond the moral argument for #SinglePayer healthcare, there is the fiscally conservative argument for it. Here in the US we pay more in premiums, copays, and deductibles per person for shitty health insurance compared to countries that have #UniversalHealthcare which is paid through line item taxation. Even #RossPerot, a conservative billionaire oil magnate from Texas advocated for a single payer system because he understood the economics behind it. Time to wake up! I don’t care if you’re a #Democrat or a #Republican, both factions of the corporate party fights against moving to a single payer system because the #oligarchy that controls them, profits from our sick society. Enough is enough.”
*
Jean-Michel Pourny:
“Thawing Permafrost Releases Nitrous Oxide, a Greenhouse Gas
“Nitrous oxide (N2O) follows carbon dioxide and methane as the third-most significant greenhouse gas. It is nearly 300 times more powerful warming agent per unit mass compared to carbon dioxide. Microbial activity is the source for the production of nitrous oxide in soils.”
“Thawing Yedoma permafrost is a neglected nitrous oxide source” - by Maija Marushchak et al.
*
“Attacks on Critical Race Theory Seek to Insert Fascist Politics Into Education”
*
“The Senate just voted to uphold the Jim Crow filibuster and deny Americans essential voter protections.”
Almost as important is what the [voting rights] bill would not do.
It would not require automatic voter registration for federal elections upon turning 18, leaving it up to individuals to go through the process themselves.
It would not offer voting to noncitizens at any level, as recent legislation in New York City has provided for residents in Municipal elections.
And it would not set up a nationwide universal vote-by-mail system akin to the ones states like Colorado and Washington have successfully managed for years.”
*
Bizarre:
“This is astonishing. What does it say about the undergraduate education of these Ivy League students? And especially their economics courses? Social sciences? Literature? And what does it say about their attitudes toward working people? What kind of bubble are these students in? Where have their distorted perceptions come from?
"Nina Strohminger, professor of legal studies and business ethics, asked her Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k. Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k."”
*
“Succession Is a Show About Capitalism in the Era of Economic Stagnation”
““Succession” captures the insanity of elite culture in contemporary capitalism. Like their real-world counterparts, the show’s characters desperately fight for an ever-higher place at the top as the millions below them suffer.”
*
Dr. Ward Q. Normal:
“My new hobby is taking graphs of economic data over time and indicating the year that Ronald Regan was inaugurated, in case people find the that helpful or informative”
“As these economic charts clearly show, Ronald Reagan was the WORST President in US history and shattered the lives of working and middle class families. They haven't been able to recover ever since Ronald was inaugurated.”
*
“Four-day work week ‘an overwhelming success’ in Iceland. Shorter hours, same pay, same or even improved productivity, smaller carbon footprint. This should be the future of work.”
*
“A 10 day forecast for Antarctica by Climatereanalyzer.org predicts the maximum 2metre above ground temperature to be 3 - 5°C ABOVE freezing over the Thwaites Glacier... stay tuned for more....”
*
“Arctic Sinkholes Preview ““Make sure to watch researchers at University of Alaska Fairbanks explain some unusual phenomena of methane release from permafrost in Russia and Alaska. Nova have confirmed they'll be broadcasting 'Arctic Sinkholes' on 2nd Feb at 9pm ET.”
*
“Tens of millions of middle class homeowners pay annual taxes on the unrealized gains of their homes – but the idea that 700 billionaires should also pay taxes on the growth of their stock portfolio is sending folks into a fit of rage. Stop defending billionaires. Start taxing them.”
*
“Giant canyon discovered underneath Vanderford Glacier in Antarctica, revealing history behind rising sea levels”
“The East Antarctic Ice Sheet was meant to be the most stable ice in the world. Because it's almost entirely landlocked ice, above sea level, on solid ground, it should (theoretically) be the last ice to melt.
These findings could throw a spanner into that idea.
As someone who lives just across the Southern Ocean from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, this is very concerning, and will almost certainly accelerate my death.
But oh well”
*
Why do your politicians’ plans for the environment, including COVID assume so many of our deaths?
*
Kirk Brent Norring:
“There are three things that can destabilize underwater methane hydrates.
1. Less water pressure.
That is the only good thing about rising sea levels because that adds more water pressure.
2. Warmer water temperatures.
That can't be avoided. The oceans are warming up.
3. More tectonic movement such as earthquakes or underwater landslides.
Again that is speeding up thanks to isostatic rebound due to the melting of world glaciers.
Below is a map of where you can find underwater methane hydrates.
It's not just found in the Arctic.”
“Energy from Ice
Global Distribution of methane hydrate deposits on the ocean floor”
Fossil Fuel reserves (in billions of tons of carbon) Source: Energy Outlook 2007, Archer& Buffet
96 Natural Gas
160 Oil
675 Coal
3,000 Gas from hydrates” (the “Clathrate gun” that is going off)
Kirk Brent Norring:
“And if it can happen once, it can happen again. Lake Nyos. It can happen many times all over the Earth.
“Permian History Methane Gas Explosion From Ocean Wiped Out 95% Of Life”
“Now you can see just why the following video is so damn scary.
All these methane hydrates is a bomb waiting to go off.”
“Earth's Long-Term Warming Trend, 1880-2015”
Harry Allington comment:
“It's possible that more than 80% of the methane will dissolve in the water before reaching the atmosphere. Even then, it's STILL a planet killing event. Enough of the hydrates are on shallow shelves near the water surface, and the total amount of methane is so mind warpingly huge, we're toast.
That's before you consider the dozens of other feedback loops which are already coming online.
Live with urgency”
*
War$$$ - feeding the rich with our blood, treasury and environment.
“Democrats are planning to expedite a massive bill that would dramatically increase U.S. security assistance to Ukraine and lay the groundwork for substantial new sanctions on Russia.
“DEMOCRATS ARE RUSHING THROUGH A MASSIVE UKRAINE DEFENSE BILL
The House of Representatives is looking to skip markup and hold a floor vote as soon as next week.”
This is who America is supporting in Ukraine:
“Sending billions and high tech technology to an army that integrated an entire white supremacist and nazi battalion, including their leaders... what could possibly go wrong?”
“Azov Battalion”
*
“In a previously unpublished eulogy to John Brown from 1908, Eugene Debs proclaimed Brown the “greatest liberator this country has known” and declared that ”the Socialist Party is carrying on the work begun by John Brown.” We publish it here in full.”
“Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry”
*
America – Merchant of death and destruction the world over from every conceivable angle:
“The United States spends more on defense than the next 11 countries combined” Bar Graph
[Politicians get kickbacks (“campaign donations”) based on the overall total amount]
*
Democrats Extinction of species\Liquidating the Commons for Votes is ECOCIDE. But sadly as American as apple pie:
“New Idaho law allows killing of 90% of state’s wolves”
“Montana Legislature launches a war on wolves”
“Hunters kill over 200 wolves in Wisconsin in 60 hours”
Deb Haaland MUST RESIGN:
“Demand Congress protect the Endangered Species Act and vulnerable populations like the gray wolf!”
*
“The Official Dem Slogan....”
“Yes we can and no, we won’t.”
*
“Eat like everyone’s life depends on it. Because it does.”
“PETA Attacks Slaughterhouse Openings With Full-Page Ad Appeal to Consumers”
*
“There is no justice without truth.
And there is no truth without deep inward reflection, intellectual honesty, and critical thinking that leads to moral wisdom.”
*
John lieber
“Step 1: find any inequity between developed and non developed countries
Step 2: apply a blanket narrative of colonialism without historical nuance or context
Step 3: establish moral superiority
Step 4: Receive recognition and funding for "decolonizating science"
Science has become a joke”
“Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity”
*
“1950s propaganda. Good thing capitalism stopped this from happening.”
“A government does not announce that they have become fascist, they announce that anti-fascists are enemies of the state”
“One of the World’s Wealthiest Oil Exporters is becoming unlivable”
*
Biden\Trump should have never been allowed to be President:
“Under the radar, Why corporate exploitation remains unchallenged and unchecked.
“The primary purpose of every corporation is to profit. Large corporations apply vast resources to shape public policies and create laws that protect their material interests. And they do this without regard for its impact on human and planetary welfare.
“Ordinary people, on the other hand, have no such power. Nor do they have the time and energy to conduct the research needed to fully understand the political and legal systems of which they are bound. For this reason, they go about their daily routines with blind faith in the structures of society, its rules of law and the values upon which they are founded, never giving a thought to how these laws were created and who they are meant to serve.
When people are driven to break these laws, the assume the infractions are caused by their own failings. It doesn’t occur to them that society itself has been structured to favor a capital class and, as a result, has placed them under conditions where they must make unreasonable life choices in order to survive. The dominant social narratives cause them to believe that their hardships must be entirely of their own making, that they are to blame, even though their conditions could have been avoided had they been lucky enough to live in a more humane society.
The facts tell us a different story. More than in all other developed nations of our world, people living in the United States no only bear their own financial burdens, they are also expected to sacrifice in order to help increase the inordinate wealth of its capital class.”
*
“‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ has begun, scientists warn”
*
“Earth's sixth mass extinction has begun according to scientists
A study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that hundreds of land animals could go extinct in the next 20 years.”
*
“Safe planetary boundary for pollutants, including plastics, exceeded, say researchers”
"“There has been a 50-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950. This is projected to triple again by 2050,” says co-author Patricia Villarubia-Gómez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Plastic production alone increased 79% between 2000 and 2015, the team reports.
The pace that societies are producing and releasing new chemicals and other novel entities into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity."
*
“Rising temperatures, dying cattle Iraq is reeling from climate change.mp4”
*
“The Metaverse Is Worse Than You Thought”
*
“TERRIFYING ARCTIC GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS CONTINUE
Very high greenhouse gas levels continue to show up over the Arctic.
One image, created with a Copernicus forecast for January 4, 2022, 03 UTC, shows methane at 500 hPa (equivalent to 500 mb).
Another image is a screenshot of a Copernicus forecast for January 5, 2022, 03 UTC, again showing methane at 500 hPa, but this time using a North Pole projection.
Note that the darkest-brown color on the scale for 500 hPa indicates methane concentrations from 1950 to 2360 parts per billion (ppb). Sadly, there is no color distinction for concentrations above 1950 ppb at this altitude, but it's clear that concentrations above 1950 ppb predominantly show up over the Arctic.
Another image also shows a Copernicus forecast for January 5, 2022, 03 UTC, this time showing methane at surface level and using a Eurasia projection. Note that the darkest-brown color on the scale for surface level indicates methane concentrations above 2160 ppb.”
“2653 ppb with a Mean of 1913.”
*
“Climate Change - does the 1.5 degree target make sense”
*
John Berbatis\Scott Duncan:
“Extreme temperature contrast. Certainly one way to start 2022...
Summer & winter separated only by a few States.
The 99°F at Falcon Lake on Texas is provisionally the hottest temperature ever recorded in the USA in January.”
*
“Kevin Lester
Waking up at night feeling scared.
Russia is about to invade Ukraine and Europe is about to be consumed in war with all the same mechanisms in place as with the 1st World War;
Methane is blowing off in the Arctic and runaway climate change has entered its final stage;
A global food emergency has brewed;
Inflation has ramped up everywhere;
Global political stability and unity has collapsed, with BREXIT a clear demonstration of the consequences;
And our press is focused on a party in Downing Street, while ignoring that consistent press failures have allowed Downing Street to descend to an analogue of Hitler's Eagles Nest.”
*
“Putin, Ukraine, and the Preservation of Power
Once more, the Russian President is poised to invade the nation. His weapons include military hardware, malware, and propaganda.”
*
Sam Carana:
THE CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF A NUCLEAR WINTER ON A WARMING EARTH - by Andrew Glikson
The Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary (~66 million years-ago) asteroid impact, described in 1980 by Alvarez et al., caused enough dust and debris to cloud large parts of planet and result in the mass extinction of some 80% of all species of animals.
When Turco et al. (1983) and Carl Sagan (1983) warned the world about the climatic effects of a nuclear war, they pointed out that the amount of carbon stored in a large city was sufficient to release enough aerosols (smoke, soot and dust) to block sunlight over large regions, leading to a widespread failure of crops and thereby extensive starvation.
Current nuclear arsenals by the United States and Russia could inject 150 Teragram (Tg) (10⁹ kilogram) of soot from fires ignited by nuclear explosions into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (Coupe et al., 2019), lasting for a period of 10 years or longer, followed by a period of intense radioactive radiation over large areas. Even a “limited” nuclear war, such as between India and Pakistan, would release enough aerosols to affect large regions, killing millions or billions through starvation. As stated by Robock et al., 2007): “The casualties from the direct effects of blast, radioactivity, and fires resulting from the massive use of nuclear weapons by the superpowers would be so catastrophic … the ensuing nuclear winter would produce famine for billions of people far from the target zones”.
By 2021, with a global arsenal of ~13.000 nuclear warheads, 90 percent of which held by Russia and the US, regional conflicts such as in the Ukraine and Taiwan threaten to spill world-wide. As the clock of the atomic scientists is set at 100 seconds to doomsday, the rising probability of an intended or inadvertent nuclear war, in the background of rising global warming, indicate an hour of truth for the species―a choice between the defence of life on Earth and global suicide.
While the inhabitants of the planet are preoccupied with the 24 hours news cycle, media hype, superlatives, a deadly Virus, economic issues and sport games, the hair-trigger nuclear gun loaded by the powers to be, east and west, are threatening all life on Earth.
When Sagan and colleagues published their observations of a nuclear winter scenario as a warning to humanity, Sagan was painted as an “alarmist” by many, facing extensive criticism not just from pro-nuclear conservatives but also from scientists who resented him for leveraging his personal fame for advocating what some regarded as political views. A similar situation occurs nowadays with regard to the accelerating global warming and the nuclear threat, as confirmed by the warning by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
From the post 'The climatic effects of a nuclear winter on a warming Earth', at:
*
“Every term at school, the army came in to do a recruitment day.
Only when I got to university, I found out that they did not do the same thing in private schools.
That it was a certain type of person that fought in wars.
And a different type of person that declared them.”
*
“Demand billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.
If we taxed the top ten richest men on their Covid-19 gains, there would be enough to vaccinate the entire world and still leave these men $8b richer. Enough is enough. Sign the petition today!”
*
“Animals infecting Humans is scary. It’s worse when we infect them back.”
"A spillback can ignite epidemics in wild species - including endangered ones - ravaging whole ecosystems. It can establish new wildlife reservoirs that shift the pathogens’ evolutionary trajectory - unleashing novel variants that can fuel new, dangerous waves of disease in humans."
*
Look! Look over there! See what Russia is doing!:
“An Abyss of Human Wickedness, You Can’t Get Much Worse Than Threatening Nuclear War”
“Val Eisman
Excerpt:
"As the West worked itself into a lather in the last month over Russia moving its troops within its own borders, one GOP senator, Roger Wicker of Mississippi bellowed on December 8 that the U.S. should attack Russia with nuclear weapons. This horrifying threat to end human life on the planet comes from someone of no little puissance, as others quickly noted. Wicker sits on the armed services committee. So he communes regularly with Pentagon bigwigs, many of whom are said to have little regard for presidential professions of concern for posterity and promises never to explode the nuclear devices that would eliminate that posterity once and for all. One must assume when someone of Wicker’s exalted position speaks, he speaks not only for himself.
Fortunately, the five most impressively nuclear-armed nations moved quickly to throw cold water on those who advocate an atomic apocalypse, and that included drenching senator Wicker. China, Russia, France, the U.K. and the United States issued a joint statement on January 3 that avoiding nuclear war is a paramount goal. “We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” agreed the five countries. “We each intend to maintain and further strengthen our national measures to prevent unauthorized or unintended use of nuclear weapons.” The statement also calls for progress on disarmament. It could not be more apposite.
That’s because the Western Russophobic propaganda machine – the biggest and most deafening of its kind in world history, cranked up to full volume at all corporate news outlets, drowning the world in cuckoo-bird ravings about treacherous Slavs – now would have us believe that the Russians are planning false flag attacks in Ukraine. False flags are pretty much a U.S. military/media specialty, in fact, Washington owns the patent on them, but most U.S. Americans, blissfully ignorant of this fact, are thus easy marks for such hysteria. So now, this rubbish, regurgitated by credulous newspaper scribes and repeated by government officials, screams at us daily from the headlines. There is practically nothing, zilch, to counter it. The most preposterous prevarications abound (vide Ukraine’s president, in November, breathlessly announcing that Moscow intended to overthrow him “next week”). Among these fabrications lurk tales about Washington’s and NATO’s supposedly benign and even altruistic motives.
For what the U.S. is doing in Ukraine and Eastern Europe is one step removed from nuclear brinksmanship. NATO’s existence rests partially on the lie of post-Soviet Russian military aggression (which the West does its darnedest constantly to provoke). Therefore, NATO claims its own aggressions are all defensive. They are not. Were Ukraine to join NATO, the only historical parallel would have been Mexico uniting with the Warsaw Pact. Had such ever occurred, the U.S. would have launched nuclear missiles – as it came close to doing during the Cuban missile crisis, which is perhaps a more accurate comparison. Washington didn’t want nukes in Cuba, just as Moscow doesn’t want nukes on its borders or other NATO weapons. Russia has thus demanded that NATO foreswear absorbing Ukraine. This is reasonable, rational and sane. NATO refuses. Such pig-headed belligerence speaks for itself."
*
“TERRIFYING ARCTIC METHANE LEVELS
Copernicus forecast for December 12, 2021, 03 UTC, showing methane at 500 hPa (equivalent to 500 mb).
Note: the later version of this image (in this set) has a more accurate scale.
From the set at:
https://www.facebook.com/SamCarana/posts/10166131455050161
From the post 'Terrifying Arctic methane levels', at:”
*
“Going Rogue with Caitlan Johnstone:”
“Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear”
*
“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” Peter Kropotkin
*
“HUMAN EXTINCTION BY 2022?
The October 2021 temperature anomaly shows that the Arctic is heating up enormously, with anomalies up to 9.1°C (first image).
The second image shows anomalies from 1900-1920. Globally, the temperature over the past century, i.e. from 1920 to 2020, has risen by 1.3°C. When adjusting data to reflect a pre-industrial base, ocean air (2m) temperatures and higher polar anomalies, temperatures may have crossed 2°C long ago.
The third image shows two trends, based on NASA 1880-October 2021 data, adjusted to reflect a pre-industrial base, ocean air (2m) temperatures and higher polar anomalies. The linear trend (green) misses the point that the temperature rise is accelerating. The polynomial trend (black) shows the potential for 3°C to be crossed by 2026.
Acceleration of the temperature rise may speed up further soon, for reasons including aerosols, sunspots and El Niño, further decline of Arctic snow and ice, seafloor methane and more.
There could be a rise from pre-industrial of more than 18°C by end 2026.”
*
Washington just passed out money,…Tom Brady got a PPP loan for his employees?! He bought a yacht:
“$500 Billion of PPP loans have been forgiven in 2020& 2021”
“PPP Loans List” (and it should be cross referenced to any political donations)
*
Douche bags polluting space:
“A SpaceX rocket that launched almost seven years ago is on a collision course with the Moon, experts have warned.
The Falcon 9 booster, which launched in February 2015 as part of an interplanetary mission, has been following a chaotic orbit since running out of fuel following its mission.
The four tonne rocket is expected to hit the Moon at a velocity of 2.58km/s at some point in the coming weeks.
The space junk is being tracked by Bill Gray, the creator of the Guide software used to monitor near-Earth objects, asteroids, minor planets and comets.
The astronomer put out a call for other observers to help gather data and calculate when the rocket might crash into the Moon, concluding that there will be a “certain impact” on 4 March, 2022.”
“SpaceX rocket on course to crash into moon, astronomers warn
The four-tonne Falcon 9 booster is expected to hit the moon at a velocity of 2.58km/s on 4 March”
*
“Tax Wealthy Private Universities Now “
“Elite universities like Harvard and Penn are using their tax-exempt status to rob public coffers blind. The solution is easy: tax them.”
*
“Russia starts naval drills to rehearse protecting Arctic shipping lane
The Northern Fleet's exercises in the Barents Sea were to assess its readiness to protect the Northern Sea Route, officials said.”
Kevin Hester
“More aerosol pollution lowering the albedo of the ice, more hot exhaust emissions in the oceans and the atmosphere, more preparations for the coming war, more of everything except time.”
Comments