Trump States Rally Needed Another 10,000 Seats.
Now Looking At Sports Stadiums For future rallies.
Followup story.
NYC, SF, LA, Atlanta and Chicago Mayors quick to pass ordinances prohibiting mass gathering and rallies in Metro-Owned stadiums. Citing reduced Police force size issues
Biden campaign states the new ordinances will not affect them given the size of crowds he draws.
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I don’t think there is much available in NH for a winter rally. There might be something at UNH of suitable size. Good luck in that negotiation. The hub of New England spokes into Boston for sizable venues.
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A three times higher accident rate?
Poss a 3 times higher travel rate?
Good, consistent, oblivious ped and gate crosser performance. [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Florida's Brightline train has brought higher-speed rail to the Sunshine State
But is vexed by fatal collisions with pedestrians and motorists at crossings
Per mile traveled, the line has the highest fatality rate of any US railroad
At least 108 people have died on Brightline tracks since it began operations in 2017, roughly one death for every 38,000 miles traveled, three times higher than the second-worst railroad
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^ Yes. I don't live near the Brightline, but I do cross the Florida East Coast's tracks every day. People waiting out the red light of a nearby intersection on the tracks, driving around the gate while it's down all very common.
That's not the railroad's fault.
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Near where I live in Ohio, they have started putting in concrete lane dividers at RR crossings to prevent anyone from driving around the arm. I have never see anyone take the risk in years here regardless.
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The former president, 77, graciously thanked the Florida Governor for endorsing him after ceremoniously dropping out of the Republican candidate race
Trump called Nikki out for previously arguing against his border policies, and told the cheering New Hampshire crowds: 'She will never secure the border'
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[Regnum] The fall of a small celestial body was observed by residents of Germany on the night of January 21. The newspaper Bild am Sonntag writes about this.
According to the publication, an asteroid about 1 meter in diameter exploded in the sky over Berlin. The fireball left a long trail of light, and fragments of the meteorite are being searched on the ground.
Whether the four second video at the link is impressive must be a matter of taste.
There is probably little left of the celestial body. There is no information about possible damage yet. Thanks to the calculations of specialists, they knew about the approach of the asteroid in advance.
The meteor's passage could also be observed in Leipzig and Prague. According to NASA calculations, the estimated crash site is the territory of the Nehnhausen community in the federal state of Brandenburg.
In April 2023, a small meteorite fell in northern Germany in the city of Elmshorn. It broke through the roof of one of the houses, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) reported.
As Regnum reported, on January 15, a small fireball appeared in the sky over Japan, and footage of the fireball spread on social networks.
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We note without comment that the article following A small asteroid exploded in the sky over Berlin
is UK Successfully Tests ‘DragonFire' Laser Weapon Against Aerial Target
[Breitbart] The United Kingdom has successfully used an "advanced future military laser" to shoot down an aerial target for the first time.
The British Ministry of Defence hailed a "milestone" on Friday after a successful test of its "DragonFire" high-powered laser weapon that it hopes will increase the military’s accuracy in targeting aerial targets such as drones while reducing the need for ammunition.
The laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) is claimed to have the ability to hit a precision target the size of a coin from a kilometre away. Although the exact range of the weapon is classified, the ministry said that it can engage with any visible target.
The MoD said that the average cost of firing the laser is around £10 per shot, meaning that the weapon has the "potential to be a long-term low-cost alternative to certain tasks missiles currently carry out."
Both the British Army and the Royal Navy are currently considering adopting the weapons system as a part of their future air defence apparatus, the ministry said.
[Yahoo] NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India's Vikram lander, which successfully touched down on the Moon's surface in August.
The LRO's laser altimeter aimed its sights at Vikram in December, shooting it with a series of laser pulses. Vikram's 2-inch-wide retroreflector, which comes courtesy of NASA, bounced these signals right back, with scientists confirming the first-of-its-kind "ping" moments later.
The feat could revolutionize the way we locate objects and determine their exact locations on the Moon's surface from vast distances using a surprisingly low-tech solution.
"We’ve showed that we can locate our retroreflector on the surface from the Moon’s orbit," said Xiaoli Sun, team lead at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in a statement. "The next step is to improve the technique so that it can become routine for missions that want to use these retroreflectors in the future."
CAT'S EYE
The tiny retroreflector is outfitted with "eight quartz-corner-cube prisms set into a dome-shaped aluminum frame," per NASA, giving it a highly unusual look. It doesn't need any power and is surprisingly durable, meaning it could "last for decades."
In short, it's vaguely reminiscent of the cat's eye reflector that keeps you visible to cars when you're on your bike in the dark.
These tiny devices could give future space explorers a way to find their way in the dark and assist them during landings.
Unfortunately, gathering more data may prove difficult as the LRO's altimeter is the only laser in the Moon's orbit right now. And it's been operating for 13 years past its intended lifecycle.
The latest feat involving Vikram also didn't work on the first try. It took the team at NASA eight tries in total to make contact. And that's not surprising since it needs to be accurate within just one hundredth of a degree of the retroreflector.
However, NASA will soon have plenty more opportunities to work on the tech as several landers with NASA retroreflectors are already scheduled to attempt to land on the Moon — including Japan's SLIM lander, which has now touched down on the surface.
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Well, the moon is gradually receding from the earth due to angular momentum. No word yet on what sort of global tax may need to be instituted to stop it.
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Well, the moon is gradually receding from the earth due to angular momentum.
Wait! What if that is the cause of Global Warmening? We need to bring the Moon closer to Earth to try and stop the warming. Come on, man! Don't you want to save the planet?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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