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NASA Mission Control Has Been Restored

Half a century after the Apollo Missions, the facilities at Johnson Space Center are alive again. Everything looks like it did back when it was active.

Friday’s grand opening — just three weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first otherworldly footsteps — culminates years of work and millions in donations. It opens to the public Monday.

The goal was “to capture the look and feel of July of ’69,” said NASA’s restoration project manager Jim Thornton. “The place is designated a National Historic Landmark,” he said. “It’s not for the brick and mortar of the building, it’s for the amazing feats that happened inside of the building.”

With the International Space Station’s Mission Control running 24/7 one floor down and work for future moonshots going on all around, Thornton said it was challenging to create a museum. But the painstaking work paid off. Some Apollo flight controllers were so moved at seeing the restored room that they teared up.

Seems that Thornton's team did some really good work, there.

 

Snow Days Are Outdated

(CNN)Technology disrupts everything, and now it's coming for beloved snow days.

Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have just greenlit a bill that would transform snow days into work-from-home days for students. Senate Bill 440 would create an opt-in program for school districts to establish "flexible instruction days," using technology to fill the gap rather than have students and teachers take the day off for inclement weather.

If districts choose to participate, young scholars will spend snowy days inside working on writing assignments and math problems, rather than building snowmen and pelting friends with snowballs.

 

Hmm. When I was a young'n, we didn't have snow days. You could have two or three feet of the stuff on the ground, and you still had to walk to school. The only kids who got snow days lived in outlying communities served by buses; no buses running, then they got snow days. My schools were located a mile and a mile and a half from home, respectively, which were considered within walking distance.

 

We still had snowball fights on the way to and from school, though.

 

It appears that times have changed.

 

With Government Out Of The Way....

WASHINGTON, DC: President Trump was speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition when he called up bone cancer survivor Natalie Harp. The President asked Harp to talk about the Right to Try act. Right to try gives terminally ill patients a chance to try potentially life saving drugs before FDA approval.

Natalie Harp is one of the first to benefit from Right to Try. Remarkably her bone cancer is now in complete remission. Calling her on stage to speak, Natalie delivered what has to be the most heartfelt endorsement of Donald Trump ever seen.

Right to try gives terminally ill patients a chance to try potentially life saving drugs before FDA approval.

The establishment had been fighting this approach for four decades, but for Harp, the act has truly been a life-saver.

You might say she's survived governmental interference in her health care.

 

Free Parking For Those Nifty Electric Scooters!

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday on Twitter the department's dive team recovered a total of 57 scooters and bikes over a two-day period in the Willamette River in Portland. "The team had to quit early because they needed a bigger boat!" the sheriff's office said. 

The War's Over. Bomb Outside Shoulda Told ya.

The second world war may be long over, but its weapons remain deadly. This huge crater in a field near the town of Limburg, Germany was created when a bomb exploded without warning during the early hours of 23 June.

They figure that a decaying detonator may have triggered the blast, some 75 years after the bomb was dropped.

 

More Nutters

The anti-vaccine event’s headliner was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense who has become the celebrity face of the national anti-vaccine movement.

Well, he has lost relatives to shots....

 

Parkland: Two More Deputies Fired

The sheriff in Broward County, Fla., announced the firing of two more deputies Wednesday because of their actions during last year's school shooting in Parkland. An investigation found that neither deputy tried to locate and confront the shooter. Seventeen students and faculty of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were killed.

When Broward County deputy Josh Stambaugh arrived at the school, he heard gunshots, put on a bulletproof vest and took cover behind his patrol car. After five minutes, he got in his vehicle and drove to a highway overlooking the school, taking him away from the police response. Deputy Edward Eason also heard gunshots when he arrived. Instead of going toward them, he went in the other direction, to a nearby middle school where he remained.

No word from the Hogg kid yet.

 

Figures

The latest Trump accuser appears to have plagiarized her story:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday interviewed E. Jean Carroll, a woman who alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990’s. Bergdorf Goodman is a very high-end department store packed with attentive salespeople and security which makes Carroll’s claims even more preposterous.

 

Animals

A California girl was attacked and killed by three sharks as she was snorkeling with her family off the Bahamas. Apparently, the USA and its territories are number one in shark attacks globally.

But when it comes to bear attacks, Russia's got us beat:

A MAN resembling a "mummy" has been found alive in a bear's den a month after the beast attacked him and kept him in its lair for a future meal. Named only as Alexander, the victim was severely injured and close to death when hunting dogs found him in Russia’s remote Tuva region.

With photos, should you be interested.

 

"Survivor?"

The publicity-seeking ass hat wasn't even there, but he hopped on his bicycle and pedaled furiously to get to the school after realizing that there was no danger involved.

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg said he has been the target of seven "assassination attempts" in the last year.

This is just his latest attempt to achieve some degree of relevance.

I really despise that punk.

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