9/11 First Responders Bill passes the senate 97-2! A long overdue honoring of our debt to them. Here’s a nice photo of McConnell walking in to vote, taken by the great Bill Clark:
Shooting star streaking over a thunderstorm and the Atlantic ocean seen from Pine Knoll Shores, NC tonight. Storm is about 120 mi from the coast. #ncwx
If you wield the power to snap your finger and end half of all life in the universe — to preserve resources for those who remain — then you surely have the power to snap your finger and double the resources instead.
@Avengers, I checked the math on that one.
FYI: An average comet contains as much water as has ever been consumed by all humans who have ever lived.
FYI: A garden-variety metallic asteroid contains vastly more gold than has ever been mined in the history of the world.
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
Today, I used an airhorn to demonstrate how disruptive seismic airgun blasting is to marine life. It was LOUD. Now imagine that sound 16,000x louder, repeated every 10 seconds for months, when you depend on sound to communicate/navigate. That's what seismic airgun blasting does.