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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cops got warrant to conduct botched raid that led to fatal shooting of sleeping black EMT by giving judge false information that dealers were using house to stash cash, drugs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Family of Kentucky woman is suing Louisville Metro Police Department

  • LMPD officers launched botched raid on home of Breonna Taylor, 26, in March

  • Officers executed 'no-knock' raid on her home just before 1am on March 13

  • Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, at time of the raid

  • Walker, who was licensed to carry gun, shot at cops, thinking they were burglars

  • One of the three officers who raided the home was wounded in the leg

  • Cops then returned fire, shooting at least 20 rounds, killing Taylor

  • Walker was arrested and charged with attempted murder

  • Raid was launched based on search warrant that was approved by a judge

  • Warrant cited detective claim that drug dealer used home to receive packages

  • But a postal inspector said that no suspicious packages were ever sent to home
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Manslaughter by proxy
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2020 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Story keeps changing: Originally it was reported that the raid was to capture a wanted fugitive...who had already been jailed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/19/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  And Walker has had the charges dropped?
Posted by: Dacama || 05/19/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Score another one for a corrupt system full of pigs.
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#5  All the cops involved in this need to have their badge and gun seized and put in jail.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/19/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  FISA warfare at the street level.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Good analogy, B. /\
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#8  New drug war slogan: "Killing the innocent. If it saves just one life..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Resume' enhancer for all concerned.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 05/19/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Mercurio that was in alabama
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 05/19/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#11  How in the hell do you come up with A-M for Walker?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||


#13  Qualified immunity has got to go.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/19/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#14  I would vote for 1st degree murder in this case. Fry all the cops, jail their superiors and the judge involved.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/19/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#15  No knock raids should have been outlawed some time ago. Better if you surprise them leaving the house anyway.

Giving false information to a judge should be a felony with 10 years minimum.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/19/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#16  #12 And I'm sure all the "good cops" demanded that he be removed from the force and never covered for him.

On a somewhat related note, has there been any news on the mass resignations of all the "patriotic" FBI agents in the wake of the revelations of a trumped up case against Flynn?

I've no doubt that they're leaving in droves and we just haven't heard anything yet.
Posted by: charger || 05/19/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
South Korean team FC Seoul are forced to apologise after filling their empty stands with 'SEX DOLLS'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] in place of fans for behind-closed-doors game
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One can only imagine what kind of dolls the SF 49ers would put in the stands....
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/19/2020 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Kaepernick blow-up dolls?
Or would the doll's 'fro violate the distancing requirement?
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Apologize to whom? Sounds like a great idea.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/19/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Anyone else see Lars and the Real Girl? Amazing movie.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/19/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Good enough for cheesy 80's comedy flick, good enough for modern meterball.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Did all the inflatable fans have that 'shocked expression'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/19/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||

#7  "We have confirmed from the very beginning that they had no connection to sex toys." well at least before the game...

I'm amazed gays and others weren't upset at not being represented.
Posted by: ruprecht || 05/19/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Actually there was one guy in the photo series... who knows how he identifies.
Posted by: ruprecht || 05/19/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Big Tech Is Turning Hospitals Into Real-Time Surveillance Centers
[Mass Private Blog via ZeroHedge] Recent events have come to light about hospital surveillance that should concern everyone.

Big Tech is using the pandemic as an excuse to turn hospitals into mirror images of law enforcement's real-time crime centers.

When Google announced that they were donating 10,000 Nest cameras to hospitals, my jaw dropped.

"With these Nest Cams, nurses and doctors will be able to check in on patients, supplementing in-person checks. This means there will be a reduction of physical contact, and therefore less of a need for personal protection equipment (PPE), which has fast become a scare resource."

What makes Google's donation so jaw dropping is how Big Tech companies are using the pandemic to make them appear magnanimous.

"With both contact tracing and the Nest Cam solution, however, Google needs to rebuild a reputation as a privacy concerned company due to the sensitive nature of both projects. It's not going to be an easy task, but one that should remain at the forefront of all such efforts."

Because nothing says reputation builder, like putting real-time surveillance cameras in patients rooms. Not only will hospitals record patients but they will record, nurses, doctors, hospital staff and anyone else who enters a patients' room. That also includes minors, so no one will be safe from Big Brother's prying eyes.

As The Guardian discovered, it also sends that information to Google servers.

"However, Nest admits that when connected to Google's "Works with Nest integration" system, which allows other devices such as ceiling fans, washing machines and car sensors to integrate with Nest's products, it does share personal information with Google."

Why would Google donate 10,000 Nest cameras to 6,146 hospitals? Because they are hoping that the staff and patients will grow accustomed to being surveilled 24/7, and they hope hospitals will eventually purchase a Nest Aware subscription.

Nest cameras also record audio, making them the perfect hospital surveillance tool for law enforcement. Although a Google search of 'total hospital police departments in the U.S.' turned up nothing, we know that there are more than 6,000 hospitals and there are more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

So if we were to make a conservative guess and say that at least half of America's hospitals have police departments, that puts the number at roughly 3,075. Does anyone really think that 3,075 hospital police departments will return Google's Nest cameras after the pandemic?
They will if the public fusses enough.
A recent Wall Street Journal article warned that hospitals are also using thermal imaging to scan everyone entering hospitals....
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Going to have to get some lense caps.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/19/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Right.

Giving our most sensitive medical information to a sh!tty opaque oligarch firm whose entire business consists of mining our behavioral data in order to dominate the behaviorally-targeted advertising market.

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  More like ‘Person of Interest’ every day.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/19/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Are they monitoring everyone going into planned parenthood? Or is that different?
Posted by: Airandee || 05/19/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||


Super cyclone to sweep over Bangladesh, India
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Indian officials claim that it will be the most dangerous cyclone to hit India's east coast in decades. It should include winds of 165 mph.
Posted by: b || 05/19/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  the storm will weaken before it hits so winds will be down a bit

but the storm surge will be enormous, maybe 10 to 20 feet at worse point

big storm and the shape of the coast funnels the

surge
Posted by: lord garth || 05/19/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||


Coronavirus roundup
Courtesy of Lex:
James Woods: ''Well he would say that, wouldn't he?': Killer Cuomo proposes convenient amnesty for nursing home perps

BCG vaccine doesn't protect against COVID-19, Tel Aviv U researchers find
[Jpost] The BCG vaccination administered during childhood does not protect against COVID-19 in adulthood, a new study by researchers at Tel Aviv University, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded, according to The Hindu.

The finding is significant as a previous study, yet to be peer reviewed, found that countries which had universal childhood BCG vaccination programs had fewer coronavirus cases and deaths than countries which did not have a vaccination program, suggesting that the BCG vaccination had conferred protection again COVID-19.

Israel's population served as an excellent natural sample for the study, as a national immunization program which ran from 1955 until 1982 ensured that children born in Israel were routinely given the BCG vaccination. However, since 1982 only immigrants from countries with high prevalence of tuberculosis have been given the vaccination. Researchers were therefore able to compare the rate of coronavirus infection in the two groups.


Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Latin America
[AA.TR] Two South American countries reported more cases and deaths Monday from the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
as the continent continues to grapple with the pandemic.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Peru rose to 94,933 with 2,660 recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry.

A total of 2,789 people have died from the virus, including 141 over the same period.

At least 28,621 people have recovered.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber...
the corpse count in Ecuador climbed by 63 to 2,799, according to the Health Ministry.

The number of confirmed cases in the country rose by 400 to 33,582.

After originating in Wuhan, China last December, COVID-19 has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, with Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the US currently the worst hit.

The pandemic has killed more than 317,000 people worldwide, with over 4.7 million confirmed cases, while recoveries have surpassed 1.7 million, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University of the US.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  USA tests are now over 350,000 per day

Connecticut close to being the 3rd State, after NY and NJ, to have over 1000 wu deaths per million population.
Posted by: lord garth || 05/19/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Lesotho premier steps down over wife's alleged murder
[AA.TR] Thomas Thabane, prime minister of the southern African nation of Lesotho, announced Monday he will step down from office amid allegations over his role in his estranged wife's murder, local media reported.

Thomas Thabane, 80, has been under pressure for months to step down after he was accused of being involved in the murder of his wife, 58-year-old Lipolelo Thabane, three years ago.

Thabane addressed his constituency in Ha Abia, in the capital Maseru saying he is stepping down as prime minister but not as leader of his party the All Basotho Convention (ABC), according to a report by South African news site EWN.

Last week, Lesotho’s coalition government led by Thabane collapsed after alliance partners pulled their support.

Earlier today, deputy leader of Lesotho’s new coalition partner Motlalentoa Letsosa of the Democratic Congress (DC), said the state council had accepted the nomination of Moeketsi Majoro as the new prime minister who will be sworn in on Tuesday.

The DC signed a deal with Thabane’s ABC to form a new coalition after Thabane’s government collapsed in parliament last week.

According to Lesotho National Assembly Speaker Sephiri Motanyane, Thabane was supposed to resign as prime minister by May 22.

Earlier this year, Maesaiah Thabane, 42, the outgoing prime minister’s current wife, was formally charged with Lipolelo Thabane’s murder.

Thabane and Lipolelo separated in 2012 and their divorce proceedings were ongoing when she was killed.

She was rubbed out near her home in Maseru in June 2017, just two days before Thabane’s inauguration as prime minister.
"Today, we take care of all family business"
“Isn’t that pronounced bidniz, Your Firstness?“
Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
England reports far fewer COVID-19 deaths in care homes than European states
[YNet] - England has reported the lowest level of deaths in nursing homes as a share of total COVID-19 fatalities compared to other European nations, a document from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) showed on Tuesday.

The EU report compared figures made available by national authorities in European countries. It did not explain why the number of deaths in facilities for elderly largely varied across Europe but stressed under-reporting of COVID-19 cases in care homes "has been a common feature" throughout the pandemic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 13:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coronavirus: What's going wrong in Sweden's care homes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like Sweden needs an emergency injection of American plaintiffs' lawyers.
Posted by: Matt || 05/19/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||


Europe
Popular European party spots mull inventive ways to lure tourists back
[France24] The Mediterranean resort town of Ayia Napa in Cyprus is known for its boisterous parties. Each summer, thousands of young foreign tourists pack the dance floors of its nightlife district after a day at the beach.

But the pandemic silenced the exuberant Napa Strip district as the island nation of Cyprus went into a lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Now nightclub owners wonder when social distancing rules will be eased enough for the party to resume — and what those new parties will look like.

"We know at nightclubs, young people will go to dance and have a good time. But then you have to tell them that they have to keep 2 meters (6 feet) apart from each other?" asked Charalambos Alexandrou, the spokesman for a group representing local clubs, bars and restaurants.

Across southern Europe, in places where tourism drives much of the economy, officials are weighing how to entice travelers to come back, even while the pandemic remains a threat. Juggling the sometimes-competing needs of health and business, authorities are introducing measures to reassure visitors that taking a holiday is safe again.

Still, those are not likely to solve the quandary facing Ayia Napa’s nightclub businesses.

Alexandrou said this will be "a season of trying to survive," not seeking a profit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2020 04:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anybody gets on the plane to get to these parties is, IMO, crazy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting -

Guests eyeing a vacation in Portugal, another major southern European holiday destination, will probably look beyond a hotel’s online reviews to see if it has the “Clean&Safe” seal now being awarded by local tourism officials. The seal indicates that the establishment, be it a hotel, restaurant or other venue, has enacted recommended hygiene and safety procedures to protect against the virus.

Whatever those procedures are.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/19/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  This is turning out to be a bureaucrat's wet dream.
Posted by: Raj || 05/19/2020 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Indeed. Thanks to Whitless, Michigan bureaucrats are having more fun than ever.

Just imagine the indescribable joys in store for the Eurocrats tasked with devising new rules related to bars beaches clubs sidewalks bedrooms
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Glad to meet you, Grom. I'm Crazy!
Posted by: Iblis || 05/19/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#6  At the time, a social distance champ, to my dismay.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Every party will have to be a foam party.

It's the only way to be safe.
Posted by: charger || 05/19/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Blacklights.

Minimum clothing as well.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||

#9  You are all right. Like you are right about coronavirus spelling the end of large cities.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Nah, Dubstep can do that just fine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2020 18:15 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Scientists say Israel may become a desert by the end of the century
[YNet] - "The past decade has been warmer than usual and it's getting warmer each year, for longer periods and with more extreme weather as a result," said Prof. Uri Shanas from The University of Haifa Faculty of Sciences at Oranim College. "Scientists' predictions are coming true right before our eyes. Global warming is here, it's no longer the future."
These guys really hated their thunder being stolen buy epidemiologists for the last few months.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 08:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, "my numbers are more magical than yours" goes back to pre-biblical times.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  If he really believed his prediction, he'd quit his government job and become a water merchant.
Posted by: Elmath Thuter1871 || 05/19/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Yes, "my numbers are more magical than yours" goes back to pre-biblical times.

There's an app book for that. And a chapter, and a verse:

Numbers 12:6
"And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." Fiat Ferguson!
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Those who track sunspots would disagree. We are now entering an ice age.
Posted by: b || 05/19/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Sun’s Lack Of Activity Indicates Deep Solar Minimum Period
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Wow "exponential" "Computer model" is the new "science"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/19/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#7  One pretty chart to rule them all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#8  It was pretty much a desert before. Something changed, around 1948.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  California is a desert and people rave about the climate.

Also last week the sun was sending us into Global cooling so these scientists need to catch up with the latest liberal talking points.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/19/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 1880es.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Make the desert, Bloom!
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#12  News flash:

It was warmer in Roman times. That allowed more evaporation from the oceans which meant more rain. That meant a wetter middle east. Like one that could support a 10,000 man Roman force that sieged Masada. They had a nice mule train that ran 24/7 to a spring a few miles away. That spring today couldn't support that many men, but could then. 'Cuz it was wetter and warmer.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/19/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#13  "Scientists' predictions are coming true right before our eyes."

I don't think right now is the time to be invoking scientists' predictions
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 05/19/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#14  two rainy winters in a row have now raised the level of the Sea of Galilee to the highest level in several decades

nice graph of this at the website below

http://www.savethekinneret.com/
Posted by: lord garth || 05/19/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#15  "Experts say SOME_EVENT *may* occur"
Man, that phrase is really starting to cheese me off. No one ever mentions likelihood. I *may* win a coin flip. I *may* win the Lottery. Monkeys *may* fly out of my butt. These events *may* happen but they all have different likelihoods associated with them and some of them simply are not worth worrying about.

Also, isn't Israel already pretty much a desert?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2020 21:36 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Israeli hospitals use UVC lamps to sanitize COVID-19 patient rooms
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 08:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  assuming this works, all hospital rooms, not just for patients with wu should use this

hospital borne infections, both bacteria and viral are major problems

nearly 2M infections a year and nearly 100k deaths per year in USA
Posted by: lord garth || 05/19/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  War is the biggest producer of technological innovation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||


70% of coronavirus cases in Israel started in the US - new study
[Jpost] Flights from Europe and other parts of the world began to be halted between February 26 and March 4 – but not from the US. Only beginning on March 9 did Israel block its borders to anyone who came from abroad who couldn't complete 14 days of quarantine in Israel.

The remaining nearly 30% of infections in Israel were imported from Europe and elsewhere: Belgium (8%), France (6%), England (5%), Spain (3%), and 2% each from Italy, the Philippines, Australia and Russia.

STERN NOTED that another important finding is that “we very clearly see a reduction in transmission as of March 20, which is when the lockdown was implemented in Israel – which means the social distancing measures worked… The lockdown saved lives.”

Moreover, the study showed that “super-spreaders” were responsible for most of the coronavirus cases in Israel – around 80% of cases were infected by only between 1% and 10% of patients, or at “super-spreading events, such as large parties or other social gatherings.”

Stern believes that no more than 1% of the Israeli population contracted the virus – “a far cry from herd immunity.”

She said that closing borders and social distancing are two obvious and very important measures that would need to be implemented in any future spike. However, “we have developed tools that will allow us to cope, in real time, with the next outbreak that may occur.”
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 00:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NYC?

Note that if Trump had shut down the air hub in NYC in January all hell would have flooded the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises with their honor the Governor and Mayor screaming unending diatribes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2020 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Again, the US doesn't have a COVID problem so much as it has a New York problem: incompetent, shameless, criminally-negligent NY pols.
Posted by: Lex || 05/19/2020 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  As much as my governor (Baker - MA) is an asshole for slow walking every damn thing about 'reopening the Mass. economy', at least he's not Cuomo, Newsom or Whitmer.
Posted by: Raj || 05/19/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Ahem, actually I posted this to ask you to imagine the headlines if it was the other way around.😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Well at that point it would be proof that the Juices were behind it and trying to kill everyone to complete there takeover of the world!
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/19/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean it's not a Rothschild's plot? (sarc)
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ THAT's what the Juices would want you to think!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  I posted this to ask you to imagine the headlines if it was the other way around.

Is there a word for people who want to be victims of something that didn't happen?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 05/19/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Give us an example of that you mean, and maybe I'll be able to help you - no promises.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Vespasian Ebboting9735, judging by the number of false racial hoaxes and fake sexual harrasment claims bouncing around these days I think the best word for someone that wants to be a victim of something that didn't happen would be Democrat.
Posted by: ruprecht || 05/19/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||


SpaceX will launch its first manned mission next week
Elon Musk's rocket company will carry astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil for the first time since 2011
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lots of local officials are asking space tourists to stay away but local businesses see a great chance to bootstrap their way out of the lockdown. The way Florida has been going, the space tourists and local businesses will win.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||


Space Force launches secretive X-37B space plane back into orbit
for its sixth flight after mission details were revealed for the first time - and is not expected to return home until 2022
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Boeing noted the The cost to launch a vehicle into space in 2015 was $5,000 to $10,000 per pound. It then began to work on a reusable space plane which would decrease that expense to as little as a few hundred dollars per pound. It looks as though Boeing has succeeded.
Posted by: b || 05/19/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Now it's time to build the X-37C...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  RE #1: The Atlas 5 rocket that the X-37 rides in costs over $100 million per launch, is expended and uses Russian main engines. In all, no way a good deal.

In the best case orbit, Atlas 5 costs about $2500/pound to LEO. The X-37 flights cost closer to $10,000/lb since it doesn't use the full capability of the Atlas 5.
Posted by: Elmath Thuter1871 || 05/19/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Atlas replacement using American made engines to be tested in 2021.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||


Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promise in Early-Stage Study
Mostly PR fluff. Still a snapshot of vaccine development. Expect massive Chinese hacking attemps.
[Newsmax] Moderna Inc. said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed promise in a small early-stage trial, with the vaccine producing virus-neutralizing antibodies similar to that found in recovered patients.

The company's vaccine is at the forefront of the efforts in developing a treatment for the fast-spreading virus and last week, won the U.S. health agency's "fast track" label to speed up the regulatory review. Moderna expects to start a larger late-stage trial in July.

Eight patients who were administered Moderna's vaccine were found to have antibody levels similar to those in blood samples of people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to early results from the study conducted by the National Institutes of Health.

All 45 participants in the study were given three different doses of the vaccine and Moderna said it saw dose-dependent increase in immunogenicity, the ability to provoke an immune response in the body.

"We are investing to scale up manufacturing so we can maximize the number of doses we can produce to help protect as many people as we can from SARS-CoV-2," Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel said.
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#1  And there's this You forgot to give your link a bit of text to hold on to, Clem :
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Using this tablet is hard.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/popular-tesla-analyst-explains-why-investors-should-be-extremely-skeptical-moderna-and-its
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2020 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  They had a vaccine for the Hong Kong Flu in 4 months.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/19/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a safe bet that the usual shoddy regard for intellectual property rights will be completely out the window in the case of a Chinavirus vaccine. It will be appropriated in classic marxist fashion "for the good of all mankind."
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Incoming freshmen urged to take gap year as COVID-19 uncertainty looms
[CollegeFix] A similar message greets readers of Harvard University’s Crimson student newspaper. “Dear Incoming Freshmen: Take a Gap Year!” writes student Jonathan Katzman, an editor with the paper.

“I have one piece of advice for incoming freshmen. Don’t come. Yet. Harvard is a wonderful place and we are excited to have you. But right now, the Harvard experience is a shell of its typical self,” Katzman writes.

“Don’t be fooled by emails sent by the administration. The academic experience on Zoom is fundamentally flawed — no amount of summer planning will fix it,” he added. “More importantly, the social experience is non-existent. As the chances of an atypical fall seem more and more likely, freshmen are presented with a pretty good alternative: deferring college for a year.”
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