You’ll need to keep replenishing it since the tidal forces of the sun and the moon will tear it apart. But yes, it would look cool. Of course, it is likely to interfere with the space elevators, which we will need more than a pretty set of rings.
This Earth looks like Saturn . In these Italian nights we can admire in the South sky Jupiter and next this Saturn and , apart to South-East Mars is shining red . At dawn Venus rise from the East
When the E.U. announced its ban on U.S. travel — based on our ballooning coronavirus cases, relative to much of the rest of the world — it placed us in a rarefied category of other countries that are also banned: Russia and Brazil.
Which shows that Trump’s disastrous failures haven’t just helped cause tens of thousands of needless U.S. deaths. They aren’t only helping to cause new coronavirus spikes in many states that could prolong our economic calamity.
They’ve also turned us into a kind of global pandemic pariah. And that will carry all sorts of other destructive consequences.
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The E.U. is reopening borders to 15 countries, but it excluded the United States, Russia and Brazil.
The metric the E.U. used was the number of new cases in the past two weeks per 100,000 people. As the New York Times notes, “the average among the 27 European Union countries was 16 in mid-June; in the United States, it was 107.”
Taken together, all this serves as an indictment not just of Trump’s presidency but also of his illiberal populist nationalist worldview (as well as our woefully underfunded and piecemeal public health system and welfare state).
It shows us parting ways with Western countries — which appear to have managed the pandemic far more successfully — while lumping us in with Russia and Brazil, whose responses were hampered by their own leadership’s disdain for scientific advice and empirical evidence of the threat, much as ours was.
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Trump has also repeatedly blamed China, hailing his own ban on travel from there as an act of brave and heroic leadership.
This, even though his depraved indifference to the coronavirus allowed it to rampage out of control here long after that.
Even before news of Russian bounties broke, Trump’s bond with the military appeared to have become fractured.
Some veterans and members of the military were horrified by Trump’s pledge to deploy active-duty military forces to anti-racism protests and demonstrations.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try,” said Gen James Mattis, Trump’s former defense secretary, in an extraordinary critique of the president in early June.
“Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort.
We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”
Since then, things have only got worse for Trump.
The New York Times reported on Friday that the Trump administration had ignored intelligence about a Russian plot to offer bounties to Afghan militants to kill US troops.
Trump has called the report – aspects of which have been confirmed by other outlets – a hoax, and insisted he was not briefed on the Russian plan.
The New York Times and CNN have since reported that the information was included in a daily intelligence briefing in February, although Trump is known to rarely read those briefings.
The report of the plot, and Trump’s response, could prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to the armed forces.
Even Republicans were shocked by the allegations.
“I’m not really sure he absorbs a lot of this stuff,” US congressman Paul Cook, a marine veteran, who represents several military installations, told Associated Press. “He’s probably thinking about the polls.”
Cook, who is retiring from Congress at the end of his current term, added: “I’m not going to be an apologist for Trump. Trump is Trump.”
Well, the current space debris doesn’t really qualify as a candidate for a ring system. But guys like Elon Musk are going to give us the a little bit of the “feel” of a very thin and narrow ring system with tens of thousands of satellites in nearly identical orbits.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Like!
(Now, if all the neighborhood fireworks nuts would go to bed – so I could! – It’s midnight, for crying out loud!)
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 4 years ago
You’ll need to keep replenishing it since the tidal forces of the sun and the moon will tear it apart. But yes, it would look cool. Of course, it is likely to interfere with the space elevators, which we will need more than a pretty set of rings.
amethyst52 Premium Member over 4 years ago
That ring is made up of the s*&% that comes out of dumpty’s mouth every second, every minute, every hour, of every day.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 4 years ago
This Earth looks like Saturn . In these Italian nights we can admire in the South sky Jupiter and next this Saturn and , apart to South-East Mars is shining red . At dawn Venus rise from the East
Kurtass over 4 years ago
Side note: is Mo coming back? I see she is back in the lineup.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member over 4 years ago
We’re almost there! After a few more of Elon Musk’s orbital launches there should be enough debris out there for it.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
When the E.U. announced its ban on U.S. travel — based on our ballooning coronavirus cases, relative to much of the rest of the world — it placed us in a rarefied category of other countries that are also banned: Russia and Brazil.
Which shows that Trump’s disastrous failures haven’t just helped cause tens of thousands of needless U.S. deaths. They aren’t only helping to cause new coronavirus spikes in many states that could prolong our economic calamity.
They’ve also turned us into a kind of global pandemic pariah. And that will carry all sorts of other destructive consequences.
✄
The E.U. is reopening borders to 15 countries, but it excluded the United States, Russia and Brazil.
The metric the E.U. used was the number of new cases in the past two weeks per 100,000 people. As the New York Times notes, “the average among the 27 European Union countries was 16 in mid-June; in the United States, it was 107.”
Taken together, all this serves as an indictment not just of Trump’s presidency but also of his illiberal populist nationalist worldview (as well as our woefully underfunded and piecemeal public health system and welfare state).
It shows us parting ways with Western countries — which appear to have managed the pandemic far more successfully — while lumping us in with Russia and Brazil, whose responses were hampered by their own leadership’s disdain for scientific advice and empirical evidence of the threat, much as ours was.
✄
Trump has also repeatedly blamed China, hailing his own ban on travel from there as an act of brave and heroic leadership.
This, even though his depraved indifference to the coronavirus allowed it to rampage out of control here long after that.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/02/biden-just-slammed-trump-new-hidden-vulnerability/
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Even before news of Russian bounties broke, Trump’s bond with the military appeared to have become fractured.
Some veterans and members of the military were horrified by Trump’s pledge to deploy active-duty military forces to anti-racism protests and demonstrations.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try,” said Gen James Mattis, Trump’s former defense secretary, in an extraordinary critique of the president in early June.
“Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort.
We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”
Since then, things have only got worse for Trump.
The New York Times reported on Friday that the Trump administration had ignored intelligence about a Russian plot to offer bounties to Afghan militants to kill US troops.
Trump has called the report – aspects of which have been confirmed by other outlets – a hoax, and insisted he was not briefed on the Russian plan.
The New York Times and CNN have since reported that the information was included in a daily intelligence briefing in February, although Trump is known to rarely read those briefings.
The report of the plot, and Trump’s response, could prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to the armed forces.
Even Republicans were shocked by the allegations.
“I’m not really sure he absorbs a lot of this stuff,” US congressman Paul Cook, a marine veteran, who represents several military installations, told Associated Press. “He’s probably thinking about the polls.”
Cook, who is retiring from Congress at the end of his current term, added: “I’m not going to be an apologist for Trump. Trump is Trump.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/02/trumps-bond-with-veterans-cracks-over-russian-bounty-plot
rossevrymn over 4 years ago
A la Avenue 5, it’s Trumpster Fire’s collection of lies.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Geophysical effects aside, yeah that would be kinda cool.
Kip W over 4 years ago
Bacon makes everything better, with the possible exception of vegetarianism.
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
We might have to do something like that to cool the planet if we don’t get our s*** together.
i_am_the_jam over 4 years ago
If the Earth had rings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CItDiuBWP5I
timbob2313 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Given the vast amount of space junk floating in NEO, I would think that we already mostly have a ring, of garbage.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 4 years ago
Well, the current space debris doesn’t really qualify as a candidate for a ring system. But guys like Elon Musk are going to give us the a little bit of the “feel” of a very thin and narrow ring system with tens of thousands of satellites in nearly identical orbits.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Making the Earth cool again