Sunday, February 14, 2021

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  1. I just finished listening to an interview about The Mysterious Interstellar Object Oumuamua With Harvard's Dr. Avi Loeb. [Click] He makes a good case for not dismissing the possibility that it is an artificial object. It has several evidently peculiar properties that taken together would be exceedingly strange, and never before observed, for any previously known natural object. And then there is a strange non-gravitational acceleration (which I hadn't heard about before) that would be consistent with a solar sail; the proposed natural explanations have never before been observed, and in his opinion seem rather fantastic. Evidently telescopes coming on line soon should enable us to determine whether there are other such objects whizzing past which we have not previously noticed. If natural, there should be more of them.

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    1. Sorry if it's facile, but reading this reminds me of Rendezvous with Rama.

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    2. I read an interview with him a week or so ago. He sounded reasonable enough but failed to convince me. In particular, the shape of the object could account for the solar sail effect.

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    3. Cat--I have not read Rendevous with Rama, but you are not alone in noticing the resemblance. I read a synopsis of it this morning.

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  2. Trump Still Lost
    February 13, 2021 at 10:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

    David Frum: “If you looked to the U.S. Senate for a full measure of accountability, you did not receive it, of course. Donald Trump, the twice-impeached president, is also a twice-acquitted president. He lives in a palace on the sea, supported by unconstitutional emoluments from foreign governments, unethical payments from the U.S. Treasury to his businesses, and gullible donations from the suckers he duped. Almost half a million are dead from the plague he promised would go away by itself, even as he received the benefit of miracle treatments available only to the most favored few.”

    “But if justice failed, democratic self-preservation is working. Trump lost the presidency, and that loss held despite all his attacks on the vote and the counting of the vote. His party split against him on this second round of impeachable offenses. He has lost his immunity to civil suit and his impunity against federal indictment. The world is crashing down upon his head.”

    “The impeachment did not prevail. But Trump still lost.”

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  3. OHIO; COVID cases 939,350 and 16,346 deaths.

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    1. Hostage, huh?
      Well, the R's put themselves in that position.
      And now they are reaping what they chose.

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    2. No one has seen a major party implode in this country since the 1850's; no one knows how it proceeds. But people haven't changed since then, and I think the demise of the Whig Party has some lessons for us.

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  5. VT cases: 13,677-13,561=116
    2829 active cases
    189 deaths(0x2)
    Recovered 10,659 (77.9%)
    Hospital:44(-4) ICU:11(+3)
    Tests 317,470 (+932)

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