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Back To Execrable Lies — Since The Proud Boys Will Each Soon Be Doing Half-Decades In Jail… Minimum..

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So… we see that the Powerliners are now back down the rabbit-hole — with nothing except sad stories of the dying GOP left on the wires. And so it is that down that hole, we find Hinderaker telling more flat-out lies, on a Sunday night — about the violence at the 01.06.21 insurrection inside the Capitol, ostensibly telling these lies (he thinks) to protect the Proud Boys.

I will note for the record that he and Ms. Stauffer and Tucker Carlson have all become utter laughing stocks, in all of sensible society — because their thesis relies exclusively on the preposterous claim that the existence of some non-chargeable video suggests the chargeable video… doesn’t exist.

Sadly… hilarious.

It is beyond obvious — but let’s think of their arguments in a clear historical example: they would argue President Kennedy was NOT felled by a rifleman, on the grassy knoll, that awful day in Dallas… why? Well, of course — because… there is over three hours of parade footage of the limo and entourage travelling peaceably, and sweetly down the streets, uniformly being venerated by many thousands of citizens of Dallas.

John — we all saw his blood on Jackie’s impeccable designer dress/suit. He was and is dead.

Hinderaker: some stray footage is… just that: stray footage. You are a true demon, from Hell-spawned, to argue that Tucker’s footage means that… Ashlie Babbitt was not the victim of felony murder, inside the inner office halls of the Capitol. The footage is crystal clear — that crowd was violently attacking where they assumed Congress was hiding, inside the inner building’s office complex.

Hinderaker thus treasonously writes tonight, knowing full well that the below is a lie, as follows:

…The idea that the protesters who entered the Capitol (mostly peacefully, as far as I could see, more or less invited in by Capitol guards) were mounting an “insurrection” was and is absurd, given that not a single one of them brought a firearm, and they made no attempt to harm anyone inside the Capitol….

John — this is no longer sad and distasteful political blustering, on your part.

This is now the sort of stuff your Maker will ask you about (since you’ve repeatedly said you believe in that concept), in deciding whether you are the “penitent man — who may… pass.”

Not my call… but I’d bet on… Damnation.

It Takes Only Two Seconds — To Debunk Crazy Hinderaker…

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Like his 2017 to 2022 mantra, that Trump is/was a “serious president”(!?) — this one too is… self-refuting.

Again today, he claims that “the US left” is going to force him to eat bugs, not steak.

Anyone with a working forebrain laughs at this — but senile John believes it, apparently.

Or… more likely, he thinks his frothy hard right followers are the dumbest people on Earth.

That’s my version of Occam’s Razor, on all of this.

Out.

Continuing “Space Science Weekend” — Here Is A Look At ESA’s New HQ, In Paris, France!

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The European Space Agency has rebuilt its HQ, literally from the foundation up — and reopened it this week, as a 21st Century marvel.

Do take a look, below:

…After five years of intensive refurbishment works, the Headquarters of the European Space Agency has reopened its doors on rue Mario Nikis in Paris, France. As flexible as it is ultra-modern, ‘ESA HQ Mario Nikis’ is the very embodiment of a European organisation at the cutting edge of high technology and is resolutely open to the city it calls home….

Now you know… smile.

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With A H/T To Our Anon. Commenter — I Had Forgotten To Check In, On Lil’ Ingenuity — The Mars ‘Copter…

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Anon. reminds that it continues to break all sorts of solo powered flight records, on Barsoom.

According to Space.com, and the official mission log dashboard page at NASA — she has now logged 48 flawless solo “hops” — wildly-exceeding the designed-for hope — of at least three no-fault flights. Though a demonstration project, this tech may also prove to be useful (with scaled up lifting power, and a cargo hold and robotic arm) to retrieve core samples and ferry the same dozens of miles, on multiple hops, back to a future return launch platform. We shall see — but here is the latest, from Space.com:

…NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its 48th off-Earth flight on Tuesday (March 21).

Ingenuity buzzed over the Martian landscape at a maximum altitude of around 39 feet (12 meters), observing potential science targets that could be studied by its robotic partner, NASA’s life-hunting Perseverance rover.

Ingenuity traveled at a top speed of 10.4 mph (16.7 kph) during Tuesday’s flight, which covered a horizontal distance of around 1,300 feet (400 meters) and lasted nearly 150 seconds, according to the mission’s flight log….

Now you know. Onward… with a lil’ girls sweet sleepover tonight, but a home-going celebration before that — on a slushy gray day, here. Smiling just the same….

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Sure, John: “He’s A Serious President!”

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Here almost seven years on, Hinderaker finally just said Tangerine isn’t a serious candidate, based on an image ole’ Tangerine himself put up today on his platform (see centered below).

Ah, but as ever — John was leading the band for these last seven years, as at right.

Senility… it’s an ugly thing to watch.

Out — no, I won’t give any more oxygen to Baby-T’s actual texts — of obstructions and threats.

But his imagery suggests… they are both senile. Utterly. [So also John — no rear view mirror… we all KNOW he’s gonna’ go third party if the GOP ousts him. Buckle up!]

And… That Busted Soyuz MS-22 Module Will De-Orbit (Uncrewed) And Drop Into The High Desert of Kazakhstan, On Tuesday, March 28, 2023…

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Just some more space-science related “clean up”, on Aisle MS-22.

You’ll no doubt recall that this craft was spewing its coolant into space, back in late November, and was deemed a hazard to burn up on re-entry, so a replacement craft was ferried up to the International Space Station. Now Russia is ready for it to come home, on auto-pilot.

Or, at least, that’s the hope. But as it speeds into the increasing friction of the atmosphere, it is possible, and maybe even likely… that its circuits and even the back-up analog altimeter will all burn up, and thus the chute will never be commanded to… open. Here’s NASA’s latest on it all:

…The uncrewed Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 28.

The spacecraft will depart the space station’s Rassvet module at 5:57 a.m. EDT, heading for an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

NASA will provide coverage of the undocking and departure from the station beginning at 5:30 a.m. on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.

[But] there will be no televised coverage of the deorbit burn or Soyuz landing. The station blog will be updated after the events occur….

I supsect it might not land under parachute — it may come in dead stick, and hot. And that would mean it will all burn up, and break apart, over Kazakhstan. But we shall see. Onward, and it looks like next week for any Tangerine indictment. Yikes.

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In The “Tell Me You Are Colossally Stupid” Dept.: Try To Connect Auto-Accident Deaths… To George Floyd’s Murder.

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I’m looking at you, Steve Hayward [and Heather Mac (space) Donald]. And I debated about not giving any oxygen to these two malignant twerps. But here you go:

Because, in a similarly-lunacy laced fashion, Hayward argues that an increase in homicides in some Black communities… is due to whyte reactions to what he calls “the George Floyd death“.

There’s been a set of state and federal jury verdicts, son.

M U R D E R.

Do try to keep up — or read a paper, it was mentioned once or twice.

It was a murder by cops. And… just as with the auto accident data — the spikes happened to coincide, in large part… with the pandemic.

But he doesn’t argue that car crashes in Black communities were due to COVID-19 (gee, I wonder why?!). No, he and Heather argue it was all George Floyd’s fault for being murdered. Inconveniently, by whyte cops.

OTOH, maybe what he means to suggest is that both more whyte cops are refusing to engage to protect Black lives, in harm’s way — and that these whyte cops are more prone to shoot-, and kill- , first — and only ask questions later, if the person they see in an ambiguous situation is of color.

[To be clear, I do not believe that. And the US data would not support it, at least not post the murder of George Floyd. But it is actually less fanciful than the idea that the murder of George Floyd caused people (and, disproportionately, Black people) to be more careless — when driving.]

Damn, Steve. Sit down. Shut up, already.

Goddard’s Next-Gen Space ‘Scope Spies A “Gritty” World, ~40 Light-Years Away, Orbiting A Pair Of Tightly-Locked Warming Stars…

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To be sure, as suggested by our erstwhile commenter, we will post new thoughts on the Mars copter’s 48th flight over the weekend… but this morning — I was transfixed by a pair of warm, tightly orbiting stars about forty light-years off in the night skies. And more precisely, by the gritty, twisting copper-colored mega-planet that orbits them only once every 10,000 years.

The planet, which generates enough heat to melt sand into shiny glass-beads in her upper atmosphere, is four times more distant from the pair, than Pluto is from our Sol. So this is a very slow motion orbital dance, indeed. Here is all the data (with specific scope name redacted, as ever — but still great science):

…Cataloged as VHS 1256 b, the planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits not one, but two stars over a 10,000-year period. “VHS 1256 b is about four times farther from its stars than Pluto is from our Sun, which makes it a great target for [redacted],” Miles said. “That means the planet’s light is not mixed with light from its stars.” Higher up in its atmosphere, where the silicate clouds are churning, temperatures reach a scorching 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (830 degrees Celsius).

Within those clouds, JWST detected both larger and smaller silicate dust grains, which are shown on a spectrum. “The finer silicate grains in its atmosphere may be more like tiny particles in smoke,” noted co-author Beth Biller of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “The larger grains might be more like very hot, very small sand particles.”

VHS 1256 b has low gravity compared to more massive brown dwarfs, which means that its silicate clouds can appear and remain higher in its atmosphere where [redacted] can detect them. Another reason its skies are so turbulent is the planet’s age. In astronomical terms, it’s quite young. Only 150 million years have passed since it formed – and it will continue to change and cool over billions of years.

In many ways, the team considers these findings to be the first “coins” pulled out of a spectrum that researchers view as a treasure chest of data. In many ways, they’ve only begun identifying its contents. “We’ve identified silicates, but better understanding which grain sizes and shapes match specific types of clouds is going to take a lot of additional work,” Miles said. “This is not the final word on this planet — it is the beginning of a large-scale modeling effort to fit JWST’s complex data….”

Now you know… grinning ear to ear, here — have a great weekend one and all.

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Johnson, Again — Thinks $1 Million Paid By A Chinese Company To Someone Who’s NEVER Held Any Office…Even If True (It Isn’t) …

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Okay. Time to put up — or shut up boys, and grrl.

I will make you four a deal: you answer, completely, truthfully and unflinchingly — about why you were silent as Ivanka sold $45 million of Chinese made, personally branded voting machines (enabled to be jimmied over the internet, as to outcomes!) TO Moscow election officials, WHILE working in Tangerine’s West Wing…

And then and only then… I will let you howl — at length — about one Hunter Biden, on a private company contract in 2018, in a private Chinese commercial arrangement (reputedly only ever worth $1 million), but his father was not in the White House, and who personally has never served at any level of government. Ever. Is Hunter a troubled soul? Yes.

Is Ivanka… a corrupted one? Also, YES.

Also, you’ll need to defend Ivanka and Jared making about $240 million from a mid-east led real estate financing — WHILE BOTH WORKING in the West Wing.

Yeh — I’ll wait.

And — just for fun: explain why Chinese banks have private offices on several floors of Trump Tower in Manhattan, ones that allowed meetings in secret, with Trump family members during his time at 1600 Penn.

Please. I’m all ears.