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Anonymous ID: 2fe286 Oct. 14, 2021, 10:30 a.m. No.14784603 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4645 >>4837

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Lucy in the sky: Spacecraft will visit record 8 asteroids

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10093201/Lucy-sky-Spacecraft-visit-record-8-asteroids.html

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system´s most enticing space rocks.

The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend on a 12-year cruise to swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter - unexplored time capsules from the dawn of the solar system. And yes, there will be diamonds in the sky with Lucy, on one of its science instruments, as well as lyrics from other Beatles' songs.

NASA is targeting the predawn hours of Saturday for liftoff.

Barely a month later, an impactor spacecraft named Dart will give chase to a double-asteroid closer to home. The mission will end with Dart ramming the main asteroid´s moonlet to change its orbit, a test that could one day save Earth from an incoming rock.

Next summer, a spacecraft will launch to a rare metal world - an nickel and iron asteroid that might be the exposed core of a once-upon-a-time planet. A pair of smaller companion craft - the size of suitcases - will peel away to another set of double asteroids.

And in 2023, a space capsule will parachute into the Utah desert with NASA´s first samples of an asteroid, collected last year by the excavating robot Osiris-Rex. The samples are from Bennu, a rubble and boulder-strewn rock that could endanger Earth a couple centuries from now.

Unlike so many NASA missions, including the upcoming Dart, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, Lucy is not an acronym. The spacecraft is named after the fossilized remains of an early human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in 1974; the 3.2 million-year-old female got her name from the 1967 Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

"The Lucy fossil really transformed our understanding of human evolution, and that´s what we want to do is transform our understanding of solar system evolution by looking at all these different objects," said Southwest Research Institute´s Cathy Olkin, the deputy principal scientist who proposed the spacecraft's name.

One of its science instruments actually has a disc of lab-grown diamond totaling 6.7 carats.

And there´s another connection to the Fab Four, a plaque attached to the spacecraft includes lines from songs they wrote, along with quotes from other luminaries. From a John Lennon single: We all shine on . . . like the moon and the stars and the sun.

Kyrsten Sinema is reportedly threatening to hold Biden's agenda hostage. She wants to pass the bipartisan roads-and-bridges bill now.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kyrsten-sinema-threatening-to-hold-bidens-agenda-hostage-2021-10

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Kyrsten Sinema is reportedly threatening to hold Biden's agenda hostage. She wants to pass the bipartisan roads-and-bridges bill now.

Natalie Musumeci 7 minutes ago

Kyrsten Sinema

Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images

Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is threatening to torpedo Biden's agenda, telling a group of fellow moderate Democrats in the House of Representatives that she will not support a multi-trillion dollar reconciliation package until Congress passes the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill first, Reuters reported Thursday.

Reuters cited a source briefed on the meeting in its report about the decision of Sinema, a key moderate whose resistance to the reconciliation deal has stalled Biden's signature legislation.

Sinema wields power to prevent legislation from moving forward in the split 50-50 Senate.

The $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package is a staple of President Joe Biden's agenda. But moderates Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin are holding out on the bill as a separate bipartisan infrastructure package is discussed in the House.

House progressives, meanwhile, have refused to pass the infrastructure deal unless the reconciliation package is approved at the same time.

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Anonymous ID: 2fe286 Oct. 14, 2021, 10:54 a.m. No.14784722 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4740

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I used to check Other and write in Human on employment applications, they told me i could not do that, I told them I did and stand proudly by that. Never got the job, but still human and self employed 😂kek

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