2021-09-09

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'Dog-Bone' Asteroid Is Even Weirder Than We Imagined

the team came up with a figure for Kleopatra’s mass that is 35% lower than previous estimates. Kleopatra is a metallic object, but it appears to be less than half the density of iron. This suggests the asteroid is a porous “rubble pile” that formed from a big impact. Kleopatra is a relatively loose conglomeration of small objects, but given its high rate of spin, it might actually be spewing some debris into space.
(2019) No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again… | OrangeBean Indiana
(2017) DDWFTTW Vehicle Ananlys. Dead down wind faster than the wind.
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The Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US | naked capitalism

A couple of years ago, when Lambert would talk about professional pundits and official Democratic spokescritters behaving as if they were trying to stoke civil war in the US, I thought he’d been spending too much time on Twitter and might benefit from a dose of smelling salts. It now looks like he was correct, albeit so early it was still possible that the impulse could have fizzled out or moved in another direction.

Hatred of The Other was supposed to a hallmark of the uneducated, provincial, and intolerant. Yet we now see bloody, vicious fantasies about what should happen to Them for being wrong-thinking and wrong-acting being not just voiced freely, but even applauded.
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Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
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Smoke alarms go off at the International Space Station
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William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) ISS: Station crew looked behind panels near the smoke alarm that tripped, but did not see anything obvious; filters were activated to remove the odor and after discussions, the crew was told to go back to bed
- Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk despite smoke, alarm on space station

The Roomba j7 has poop-detecting artificial intelligence onboard
Americans Turned Away From Hospital As Afghan Refugees Take Priority | The Daily Wire

“A hospital near the Dulles Expo Center that federal officials designated as a go-to spot for medical treatment began running out of available beds, forcing the hospital to turn away non-Afghan patients who weren’t in need of critical care,” The Washington Post reported.

FBI releases video outlining movements of suspect who left pipe bombs outside DNC and RNC ...
Introducing RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Dataset | RealClearInvestigations
- The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. George Floyd rioters were found to have used more sophisticated and dangerous tactics than did the Capitol rioters, and in some cases weapons of greater lethality.
- Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases. Many accused Capitol rioters, unlike accused participants in the other riots, have been held in pretrial detention for months – with one defendant serving more time than the maximum sentence for the charge to which he pleaded guilty. Some allegedly endured solitary confinement and other mistreatment.
- With authorities applying lenient prosecutorial standards in many major cities torn by the summer riots, the vast majority of charges last year were dismissed, as were charges in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Charges have to date been dropped in only a single Capitol riot case.