BREAKING: O’Keefe Questions Trinity School Director Jen Norris Over How She ’Promotes an Agenda’
James O’Keefe gives Trinity School NY Director of Student Activities the opportunity to comment on undercover recordings which show her boasting about sneaking a political agenda into school activities while disparaging students based on their race.
https://rumble.com/v1idk5n-breaking-okeefe-questions-trinity-school-director-jen-norris-over-how-she-p.html
https://youtu.be/kOeXlQY_bWw
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sep 2 2022
M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
Find the Big Dipper and follow the handle away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you'll come upon this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with well defined spiral structure is also cataloged as NGC 5194. Its spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (left), NGC 5195. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant and officially lie within the angular boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici. In direct telescopic views, M51 looks faint and fuzzy to the eye. But this remarkably deep image shows off details of the interacting galaxy's striking colors and galactic tidal debris. The image includes nearly 90 hours of narrowband data that also reveals a vast glowing cloud of reddish ionized hydrogen gas discovered in the M51 system.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
An Update on Our Artemis I Moon Mission on This Week @NASA – September 2, 2022
An update on our Artemis I Moon mission, a first for our James Webb Space Telescope, and a new target launch date for the next commercial crew mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
https://youtu.be/jYE1xEzlX3Y
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An Update on Our Artemis I Moon Mission
Our uncrewed Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System, or SLS, the most powerful rocket in the world, and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the course of about 38 days, the mission will see Orion travel thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.
Webb Space Telescope’s First Direct Image of an Exoplanet
For the first time, astronomers have used our James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of an exoplanet. The planet, called HIP65426 b, is a gas giant about five to 10 times the mass of Jupiter. Taking direct images of exoplanets is challenging because stars are so much brighter than planets. But Webb has an instrument called a coronagraph that blocks out starlight and makes it possible to capture direct images of certain exoplanets. This ability could help Webb reveal more information than ever before about exoplanets.
NASA, SpaceX Adjust Crew-5 Launch Date
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 12:45 p.m. EDT on Oct. 3 for the launch of the agency’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. The launch date adjustment was made to accommodate spacecraft traffic coming to and leaving from the space station. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from our Kennedy Space Center.
New Target Launch Date for Water and Ocean Observing Mission
NASA, the French space agency, CNES, and SpaceX are now targeting Dec. 5, for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite. SWOT is the first satellite mission that will survey nearly all water on Earth, at an unprecedented level of detail. The mission will help inform water equity and water management decisions, provide new insights into Earth’s water and energy cycle, and help prepare communities for rising seas and changing coastlines resulting from climate change.
Engineers Solve Data Glitch on Voyager 1 Spacecraft
Engineers have fixed an issue that was affecting data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. They discovered that Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system, or AACS, a critical system aboard the probe, had been sending garbled telemetry data through an onboard computer that stopped working correctly years ago. Consequently, that computer corrupted the information. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are celebrating an anniversary. The twin probes, which were launched weeks apart in late August and early September of 1977, have been exploring our solar system for 45 years.
That’s what’s up this week @NASA … For more on these and other stories, follow us on the web at nasa.gov/twan.
https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/this-week-nasa-sept-2-2022
Bizarro World
Mill Fire burns 1,200 acres in Siskiyou County, multiple homes destroyed
WEED, Calif. 4:01 P.M. UPDATE - The Mill Fire has burned 1,228 acres in Siskiyou County and several buildings have burned, according to Fire Integrated Real Time Intelligence System (FIRIS), which is funded through Cal OES and CAL FIRE. The fire has a rapid rate of spread.
FIRIS says numerous aircraft are at the scene and are on order.
The Associated Press reports the fire is threatening hundreds of homes and at least 5,000 people have been evacuated.
Weed, Lake Shastina and Edgewood were all evacuated.
Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services reports that several animal shelters are being set up for the Mill Fire. A dog shelter is currently being set up in Oberlin, a large animal shelter is being set up at the fairgrounds, and another shelter is being set up at the Rescue Ranch. A cat shelter is currently in the works.
A Red Flag Warning is in effect in Siskiyou County through 8 p.m. on Saturday as winds could gust up to 40 mph. The relative humidity is expected to by 8% to 13%.
Caltrans District 2 has posted on Twitter that Highway 97 is currently closed from the junction with Highway 265 in Weed to the south of Macdoel near Ball Mountain Road due to the fire.
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/fire-watch/mill-fire-burns-1-200-acres-in-siskiyou-county-several-buildings-destroyed/article_c4a1804c-2afe-11ed-944e-bf6e2299b218.html