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Trump Just This Morning Publicly Threatened / Warned Musk — Not To Provide Funding To Democrats… Geez.

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Let us stipulate, yet again — that when two narcissistic boy-babies brawl. . . it often rapidly devolves into… satire.

But, in this version… not so much, so far — with these two.

Musk may leave Tangerine 2.0 (after campaigning on a promise of humans on Mars!) with the humiliating posture that we need to “hitch rides” with Putin’s / Russia’s Soyuz, as the only real option for getting our astronauts to the ISS, and home again.

In turn, Trump can nearly bankrupt SpaceX and more importantly, Tesla and the AI projects Musk runs — by pulling government funding (as he’s tried to do, with USAID, PBS, NPR and Harvard, among many others). That Trump would ultimately lose in a court months from now would not matter (much) — as the damage to Musk’s empire would be profound, deep and lasting.

Honestly — I could not be more pleased that this is staying white hot — perhaps for weeks yet to come. It deeply damages both of them — and the MAGA/GOP in total. [Maybe even conservatism, more broadly defined — as it is very publicly and starkly unmasked for the hollow, evil, misogynist and racist “philosophy” it has been — ever since the days of Barry Goldwater.]

Here’s The Hill — on Trump’s latest threat — that Musk “better not” back any Democrats at the mid-terms:

…While Trump could pose new risks to Musk’s business outlooks, analysts say the fight could also impede the president’s ability to run the government.

SpaceX held federal contracts with agencies like NASA and the Pentagon long before Trump’s presidency, becoming a crucial partner to the federal government as it phased out the space shuttle program.

If Musk reverses on his decision to keep Dragon in commission, experts say it could debilitate the U.S. space program….

“If such threats were carried out, it would be catastrophic,” said space policy expert Mark Whittington, adding later, “Without SpaceX, we’re back to being dependent on the Russians.”

NASA has increasingly relied on SpaceX for its infrastructure, including the Dragon capsule, which is the only U.S. system capable of getting crews to the International Space Station….

Then, on Saturday, President Trump said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill….

Damn. What a vastly-ugly clown show. And I am grinning ear to ear.

For his part, Paul Mirengoff this morning tries to suggest Trump will “win” this epic smack-down / battle of the cry-babies — but as he does so, he openly admits this is already scorching a LOT of Earth, as against many hard right objectives he had hoped to achieve — with Tangerine 2.0 at 1600 Penn. [He admits that Musk is right — as well — the “Big Bill” is a fetid pile of brown wooly monkey excrement.]

All of that is twisting in the wind… now.

Lovely!

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Let’s Get Granular, Shall We? Yes, Let’s… People In The US Need Not Comply With “Show Me Your Papers” Demands — From Local Traffic/Beat Cops…

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First — EmptyWheel will now do a two parter (part one is up already), on the indictment particulars, and the inconsistencies there — with the detention motion. Do go read hers; they are much better than mine, below.

But I write here — on mid-Saturday morning — to make some plain English, common sense observations. These observations should give sensible Americans pause — about what the government will ever be able to prove, as to Mr. Abrego Garcia. And there is no need to assume that the Tennessee troopers falsified evidence in any manner.

I will accept for now (unless shown otherwise) that the bodycam footage from that November 2022 traffic stop (a speeding ticket, near Cookeville) is genuine.

First — inside the US, at least more than 100 miles from any international border (which middle Tennessee clearly is), any person / passenger who is NOT DRIVING a vehicle is in no manner required, as a passenger, to carry ANY ID. The police may ask to see any ID a passenger may be carrying, once a valid stop is initiated — but no adverse inference may be drawn from a failure to have ID, or even a refusal to provide an ID (absent other idicia of lawlessness), even if one has one, on his/her person.

Second, Mr. Abrego Garcia (or KAG, for short) may have been speeding. But he paid that ticket over three years ago. And that’s definitively the end of the state law traffic matter. He effectively pled guilty by paying (assuming it was actually him, in the first place).

Third, Kristi Noem claimed in late March that he was picked up — as a lethal gang member. There was no warrant; no judicial involvement of any kind. But she had exactly zero evidence of any gang involvement at the time. And she had him flown to an offshore hell-hole without even a parade before an ALJ. She effectively kidnapped him off the streets of Baltimore.

At that late March date, he possessed a 2019 US court order (never rescinded) forbidding any ICE or DHS moves to take him out of our country. She willfully violated that 2019 order.

Ultimately, the US Supreme Court ordered Noem to promptly return him to the US, to have a due process hearing — since even she admitted it was “a mistake” to take him away to El Salvador, without a hearing.

Noem then dragged her feet for over two months, before obeying that Supreme Court order.

During that time, Tangerine 2.0 forces resurrected the 2022 traffic stop, and made wild-eyed accusations — well beyond anything they can prove in court — about the nature of the people (now gone) in the van.

Likely having threatened some supposed “co-conspirators” (men already in US custody, as MS-13 gang members, on competent evidence) with being dumped in the hell-hole CEDOT, down in El Salvador, Noem ONLY NOW claims she has at least one “witness” who will G for her whole “conspiracy to traffick humans” (by KAG) story.

She claims it will place KAG as at least a hired driver (as of 2022). But again, why should we take the word of one “witness” who is trying solely to save his own skin (and stay inside the US prison system — to avoid a torture prison offshore)?

In sum, this is very thin gruel. And the grand jury wasn’t impaneled until two months after KAG was taken, without process — in any event. That is undisputed.

Now consider that in mid-April, under oath, the Noem lawyers, in a status update, said that they would eventually comply with the US Supreme Court order by bringing him to a US prison near the Southern California/Mexico border — and have an ALJ order him deported for “lies” — to the Mexican side of the border, below San Diego.

There was no allegation — let alone proof offered — of any charge of trafficking (back in April) — and the Grand Jury didn’t indict until a week or so ago. Finally, no judge has rescinded KAG’s 2019 “no removal” order. That supposed move outside San Diego, itself, by Noem — would thus be. . . wildly unlawful.

All of this — fairly reviewed, with a sober and reasonable eye — strongly suggests ICE / DHS (after the fact) cooked the whole Nashville indictment thing up — after realizing that the kidnapping of people off US streets (people with lawful orders not to be removed)… is a bad look.

More, when EW posts her part two. Onward, resolutely.

Mr. Abrego Garcia may win his freedom to stay in the USA, yet.

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Power Alley: Moderna Wins Out, On Patent Appeal — Against Alnylam mRNA Covid Vaccine Infringement Claims…

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But first, a quick aside — some months ago (November 2024), a commenter had asked what I thought was a fair entry price for an investment in Moderna. At the time it was trading in the mid-$30s. I suggested that anything below $48 was a very good value bet (so it was safe to buy in), and that Moderna would in a few years rise well above — perhaps doubling. In fact, I guessed that Moderna might be an $85-plus stock by 2026.

Well… as of this moment, it sits at a only little over… $27 (but to be fair, it was over $150, just a year ago). I based my sunny view of its prospects on the strength of its mRNA vaccines generally, not just the wildly successful COVID-19 one. [And I had discounted the idea that Tangerine 2.0 would place a vax-denier at the head of HHS and FDA. I was wrong.]

Even so, I continue to hold that sunny view: mRNA vaccines are the future. And Moderna is very well-positioned to lead, after an appeals court has ruled that Moderna’s methods of manufacture do not infringe a pair of prior Alnylam patents (affirming the trial court’s view). So here is that Federal Circuit opinion, below, and a bit — but this is still going to be an $85 plus stock in a year or two:

…Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., brought two suits against Moderna, Inc., ModernaTX, Inc., and Moderna US, Inc. (collectively Moderna) in district court, alleging that Moderna’s activities involving its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine SPIKEVAX® infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 11,246,933 (parent) and 11,382,979 (child), issued to Alnylam as both applicant and assignee. Specifically, Alnylam alleged that Moderna’s vaccine contains a cationic lipid, SM-102, that is claimed by the asserted patents. The appeal here turns on a single issue of claim construction. The district court concluded that Alnylam had acted as lexicographer regarding the claim term “branched alkyl”….

The district court treated… [it as] a definition furnishing the governing construction of a “branched alkyl” and two related claim terms. Claim Construction Order at 1–2, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Moderna, Inc., No. 22-cv-335-CFC (D. Del. Aug. 21, 2023), ECF No. 125 (Order); see Transcript, at 144:7–147:8. The parties stipulated that Moderna did not infringe the asserted patent claims under that claim construction, because Moderna’s product does not meet the “branched alkyl” requirement of a carbon atom bound to at least three other carbons, and the district court entered final judgment accordingly. J.A. 5665–71; J.A. 1–2.

Alnylam appeals. We conclude that Alnylam acted as lexicographer in its requirement of a carbon bound to at least three other carbons “[u]nless otherwise specified” and that Alnylam did not otherwise specify for purposes of the asserted claims. We therefore affirm….

Onward — as on many fronts, real bioscience will win out, after the 2026 midterms are in the books. What an odd time for life sciences, between on again/off again tariffs on APIs and so on… predicting the next ten months to fourteen months will be very difficult, for would-be stock pickers.

Now you know. But do hold Moderna — for its long term leading positions. [Same, as to Merck.]

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Update: A Career (Non-Political) US Attorney, The Head Of Nashville’s Criminal Div., Has Resigned — In Protest Of The Charging Of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

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Well. That didn’t take very long. Although he is not commenting for the record, people familiar with his resignation (he’s also a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School) say he is deeply concerned that this was a mostly-political prosecution, driven by Tangerine 2.0 appointed heads in the Middle District of Tennessee.

So — to be fair, I’ve re-edited my prior images, to guassian blur-out the face in the 2022 police body cam image, as this fairly implies that such a case could have simply been “manufactured” — after Kristi Noem became aware that she had zero basis to grab Mr. Abrego Garcia in Maryland, over two months ago.

We will cover this case out of Music City quite closely. [In fact, I may fly down for the preliminary hearings.] This reporting comes from ABC News — tonight:

…The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader’s decision told ABC News. Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said.

Schrader, who spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was most recently the chief of the criminal division, declined to comment when contacted by ABC News….

D A M N A T I O N.

As a largely trivial footnote, I should note that almost every major assertion in Hinderaker’s post on the case tonight… is demonstrably false.

In Tennessee, this is a two count indictment, which relates solely to transportation of people without papers. The indictment makes no allegation about any gang affiliation, about any domestic abuse, and does not make the claim that Mr. Abrego Garcia is here unlawfully.

In fact, the government has previously acknowledged that as of 2019 Mr. Abrego Garcia had a specific ALJ order prohibiting ICE and DHS from trying to remove him. That order was never rescinded.

But in John’s telling of his vindictive lies, he makes the false claims that (a) Mr. Abrego Garcia is here unlawfully, that (b) he is a member of a gang, and that (c) he is a domestic abuser.

Of course, we all know that John’s vision is clouded by his racism, here as ever.

Once again, the man is a libelous pile of dog shit.

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[U] Good News/Bad News: Mr. Abrego Garcia Is On His Way To Nashville, Tennessee Now — But He Has Been Indicted On Smuggling People Without Papers Charges There…

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Updated: The matter has led a US Attorney with 15 years of tenure — and the head of the criminal division in Nashville… to resign, in protest. See immediately following post. End update.

This is reported, without rancor. It is only fair to set out what is — to the moment — known. The felony indictment was just unsealed today, as the Noem / Rubio forces were having him flown out of El Salvador.

As ever, while the body cam images bear a reasonable resemblance to the accused (Mr. Abrego-Garcia)… let us simply report the facts, as known to this moment — and trust that the able federal district court judges in Nashville will sort this one out. We will withhold judgment, in short.

The good news is that he is no longer in a private black ops torture prison in El Salvador. And none of this justified abducting him to El Salvador without any process, in any event. Nor the foot-dragging in bringing him back, stateside. He may yet win a large judgment against Team Noem, even if convicted on these much later arriving charges. There was no indictment, or even any real substantial investigation of one — when he was grabbed out of Maryland. In fact, In fact, as late as mid-April, the government was saying (under oath) only that if they brought him stateside, they would do so at the Mexican border below San Diego, and immediately deport him into the interior of Mexico. [That is, there was no allegation of any earlier crime like this.]

[The grand jury wasn’t even convened until May 21, 2025 (almost two months after he was grabbed without process!) — and the skeptical City of Big Shoulders lawyer in me guesses that the foot-dragging on his return to the US was to give the Tennessee officers time to build an after the fact case, for his detention.]

But as I say… we will wait and see.

Here is the unsealed indictment out of Nashville.

Here is the motion to hold him in custody in Nashville, until trial. He will doubtless move (through his counsel) for bail. We will keep you informed. Trust that. Onward.

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[U] The “Oppenheimer Moment” May Have Come Via A Guy Named Gor — Who Scuttled Musk’s NASA Pick (On A Stupid “Loyalty Test”). Hilarious.

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Updated, 3 PM EDT on Friday afternoon: Hinderaker has finally weighed in on it all. His take is… utterly predictable. In his view, this is all Elon’s fault. That is of course (as we see below)… silly posturing.

But John does correctly assess that this “mutually assured (nuclear) reciprocal destruction event” is now doing grave damage to all of Tangerine 2.0’s ambitions, and perhaps even to what Hinderaker cheerfully calls… “conservatism itself“. [I might quibble there — and say that if this is what the GOP thinks of as conservatism, in 2025 — they are misspelling that word: it. is. spelled. racism. But why quibble, right?!]

Tellingly, John does NOT list among the reasons for this Oppenheimer Moment… the scuttling of Isaacman’s bid to lead NASA. That is where Trump most clearly broke a brand new promise to Musk: Musk could have his guy run NASA — but then Gor’s harping that that billionaire had donated to Democratic candidates and causes… dumped him.

Hilarious — so John confirms, with his silence on the matter, that Trump again welshed, and Musk has had enough. To be clear, I don’t want Musk back — as a blue dog. I want them to tear each other to shreds. John acknowledges that is what is best for us Democrats. True dat. End updated portion.

I am not sure — and I guess I don’t really care — whether this Axios reporting is absolutely iron-clad, as Trump and Musk have grown increasingly distant over the past three weeks… but I am interested in it, insofar as it affects NASA — one of my favorite federal research centers. [“I am become death — destroyer of worlds.” Heh.]

Without any additional ado then, here’s the item — purporting to set a timeline, as to why the nuclear meltdown occured yesterday, in particular:

…Trump acknowledged Thursday that canceling Jared Isaacman’s NASA nomination had “upset” Musk, who’s close to Isaacman. It was a factor, among many, that led to Thursday’s shocking falling out between the president and his one-time “First Buddy,” the world’s richest person.

Musk spent the afternoon flaming Trump on X. It left presidential advisers stunned — and some of them angry at Gor, whose tense relationship with Musk was a backdrop to the controversy.

Senate Republicans also blamed Gor for helping undermine the NASA nomination to settle a score with Musk, who had been critical of Gor’s management of the White House personnel office.

Gor declined to comment….

What a shockingly-public debacle — for Trumpians. Feuding with the richest man — and biggest donor — on the planet, to MAGA/GOP causes.

Fascinating — in the end though, this was (and is) all about Trump (again) breaking his word to Musk — about preserving Musk’s access to the federal gravy train at SpaceX — via NASA collabos… and at Tesla, via EV subsidies. Wow.

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The Savage Texas Razor Wire Barrier Cases Rumble Onward, On Appeal In The Fifth Cir. — US Parties In Texas Dismissed, But Private [Lacerated/Injured] Migrants Remain…

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It has been about five months since we took a look in on Texas SB 4, a law that purports to grant Texas Rangers the right to usurp federal US Border jurisdiction — and erect savage concertina wire barriers, the principal goal of which was to maim people without papers who sought a better life, by swimming the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass / Shelby Park, Texas.

Several of my commenters thought that the fact of a second Tangerine administration would mean the US would simply dismiss the litigation against Texas, and end the matter. What was missed in those suggestions was that private plaintiffs, including people without papers (including several children) had joined the suit, as maimed/injured parties. The Tangerine 2.0 parties cannot foreclose those people’s rights, to a redress of their grievances / injuries.

So the appeal rumbles on. At this point the only modification to the injunctive orders provides that Texas authorities may not be ordered NOT to “cooperate” with federal ICE/DHS agents. They may aid ICE agents — but not directly arrest — any people that they encounter on the US side of the Rio Grande. Of course they may provide humanitarian aid. But there hasn’t been a single instance of that, in over three years. So here is where it sits, according to the ACLU’s latest letter in the Fifth Circuit:

…Defendants [Texas (MAGA) Gov. Abbott; Tangerine 2.0 BoP] note that the Eighth Circuit vacated its opinion in United States v. Iowa, 126 F.4th 1334 (8th Cir. 2025). The court concluded the appeal as to the United States was moot. No. 24-2265, 2025 WL 1140834, at *1 (8th Cir. Apr. 15, 2025). But the court recognized that the appeal as to the private plaintiffs was not moot. See Iowa Migrant Movement for Just. v. Bird, No. 24-2263, 2025 WL 1140762, at *1 (8th Cir. Apr. 15, 2025), vacating 2025 WL 319926, at *1 (8th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025). The same is true here. ECF No. 252 at 2-3.

Nor is vacatur warranted here. In Iowa, the court of appeals had resolved the merits of the appeal in its published opinion. That case therefore involved a typical application of United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), as Iowa stood to lose its opportunity to seek further review of the panel’s decision. See 2025 WL 1140834, at *1 (8th Cir. Apr. 15, 2025). Here, Defendants seek vacatur of the Court’s stay opinion, but the time for seeking further review of that is long since past, so Munsingwear is plainly inapplicable. See ECF No. 252 at 3.

Defendants also submit the transcript from a status conference in district court. That discussion underscores Plaintiffs’ position that the court’s January 31 order only confirmed that the “injunction does not bar Texas officials from cooperating with the federal government.” Id. at 7; see Tr. at 11. Defendants suggest that the district court’s comments indicate some change of view on the legality of S.B. 4. Not so. The court’s point was that Texas’s proffered justification — the supposed dereliction of federal authorities“ — has been rectified,” id. at 12-13, further undercutting the State’s rationale for S.B. 4, see ECF No. 252 at 6.

Finally, Plaintiffs note that two more courts have joined the unanimous rejection of laws like [Texas] S.B. 4. See ECF No. 84, Idaho Organization of Resource Councils v. Labrador, No. 25-cv-178 (D. Idaho); ECF No. 67, Florida Immigrant Coalition v. Uthmeier, No. 25-cv-21524 (S.D. Fla.)….

Now you know. Things are generally looking up, here — for the future of ordered liberty, in America. Sanity is making a comeback for everyone not completely (and irrationally) mesmerized by the Tangerine 2.0 cult of personality (which now draws its chalked-up circle… to EXCLUDE Elon Musk’s persona, and his both bad and a precious few good ideas) — and that’s a decidedly good… thing. Trump’s grip is weakening — by the day.

[To be clear, I mean that already (at Day 3!), the Silicon Valley tech bros (and more importantly, their collective PAC and dark money billions) are picking sides. The early returns look like Musk’s biz greed is besting Trump’s irrational tariff- and border- lunacy. So — come 2026 — many of those MAGAts who voted in Congress FOR Trump’s measures… will be sent home / packing. They will be primaried by the tech bros aligned with Elon.] Not perfect; but good. After all, the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Onward, grinning.

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This “War Of The [Orange] Roses” Just Went Thermonuclear: Musk Allegations Against Tangerine 2.0 Are A Multi-Billion Dollar Libel Per Se — If Untrue.

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First — as ever, the caveats: both of these guys are narcissistic little boys, wearing big boy suits. They are both well-known (and very public) liars. But that is why (I suspect) Elon has the goods on Trump here.

If Elon Musk does not have a reasonable basis to believe the truth of his statement (pull quote, below in blue), he could owe Trump tens of billions in a libel per se suit. [Which Trump is now likely to bring no matter what.]

I did not expect that this would escalate so quickly — to become a deadly game, between these two odious trolls. But Tesla stock dropped double digit percentages today, due to Trump’s threats to end electric vehicle subsidies — erasing over $160 billion in market cap, in a day. He also threatened SpaceX’s federal contracts — about 85% of its revenue.

In return, Musk shot back the below. Sure, it could be hyperbole — but if it is not — that leads to a life sentence, since Trump is not likely to live even ten more years. The sentence would involve the felony of statutory rape. And a state level AG (NY, MI or IL or CA, or Colorado or Oregon) might well charge it. The Roberts immunity opinion is off the table here, for acts that predate this current preznit-cy — and have zero to do with running 1600 Penn. The trafficking victim deserves justice. Again, all only if Musk has the goods on him. Damn — what a “mutually assured complete destruction” scenario these two have now created — for each other.

Here’s The Hill’s reporting on it — and a bit:

…[Musk just wrote] “Time to drop the really big bomb. . .” on X, the social platform he owns. “[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

Minutes later, he followed up: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out….”

I really did not intend to follow this story closely — as I assumed it would be — and remain — fifth grade school yard insults, exclusively. But we are well beyond that now — they’ve both crossed the Rubicon here. Damn.

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And, As Trump vs. Musk Goes Into High Dungeon — And Imperils His Whole Preznit-cy… Mirengoff Prattles On — About [Re-]Naming Navy Ships.

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This is a very telling allegory — in small strokes — of everything broken in the MAGA/GOP world — writ large.

These feckless jokers… name, and rename (and re-rename) bases, ships and features (Gulf of America, anyone?) on the map… all to avoid attention on the racist deportation gulags they are trying to help Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and Tangerine 2.0 hisself to create. All without colorable due process.

And rather than Trump and Musk debating the MERITS (such as they are) in the wild-eyed and cruel spending bill (with tax breaks for billionaires!), now moving from the House to the Senate… the pair engage in fifth grade name calling on their respective social platforms.

This is what the GOP is now: a pack of “Lord of the Flies” lil’ boys.

Damn, Paul — just stop flatulating — about “sh!t that don’t matter” (much) — and tell your GOP handlers that they are ruining the liberty that once was… America.

What a bunch of ancient, embittered dead end losers these people have become.

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MAVEN Mission Directly Observes “Sputtering” — In The Barsoomian Very Thin Atmosphere — Confirming CU Prof. Curry’s Thesis About Water Loss, There…

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Yes, this is another “palette cleanser” (from Tangerine’s bitter lunacy — now saying Musk “suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome“; and Musk responding that Tangerine “would not have won in 2024” — without him!). Where was I? Oh, right — the below highlights the decade long work of Dr. Shannon Curry, at the University of Colorado at Boulder — on what happened to Mars’ atmosphere, billions of years ago, now.

Well done, Dr. Curry! Her work is the centerpiece of the video below, and she is the PI (principal investigator) on this NASA mission. Very rarified air, indeed. Do read on:

…Scientists have known for a long time, through an abundance of evidence, that water was present on Mars’ surface billions of years ago, but are still asking the crucial question, “Where did the water go and why?”

Early on in Mars’ history, the atmosphere of the Red Planet lost its magnetic field, and its atmosphere became directly exposed to the solar wind and solar storms. As the atmosphere began to erode, liquid water was no longer stable on the surface, so much of it escaped to space. But how did this once thick atmosphere get stripped away? Sputtering could explain it.

Sputtering is an atmospheric escape process in which atoms are knocked out of the atmosphere by energetic charge particles.

“It’s like doing a cannonball in a pool,” said Shannon Curry, principal investigator of MAVEN at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder and lead author of the study. “The cannonball, in this case, is the heavy ions crashing into the atmosphere really fast and splashing neutral atoms and molecules out….”


As previously printed, here is a haiku from a few years past — one that traveled on board Maven to Mars, from one student’s submission — one of thousands — one that now seems rather prophetic:

“Mars, your secret is
unknown for humanity
we want to know you…“

Now you know. We do… want to know you. Again.

And so, do go watch this fine video explainer above (featuring Dr. Curry’s narration) — and root for my Buffs, this coming fall — under Coach Prime — again! Heh — but know that UCLA is an away game this year; the best home game (viewable from Dr. Curry’s office window — looking down into Folsom Field) will probably be Arizona, or ASU (in mid November). Onward, grinning….

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