A Public Service Announcement
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MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Typical Republican response...make fun of Pelosi. Never mind that Newtie actually agrees that global warming exists, instead of squatting in a cave and pretending that the overwhelming scientific data that supports the theory is wrong. Most of you Neanderthals choose to ignore things like the polar ice cap or glaciers melting away at an extreme rate since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. And BP looks pretty good for being 70 years old.
Now, go back to your charcoal pictographs of men beating women with clubs.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
No silly, it's Nancy Pelosi. Her husband's pet name for her is Bubbles, thus the reference to BP. I can't believe you of all people didn't know that. I'm shocked to say the least.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
Mr. Pelosi has called her that way before Michael and his monkey!
trplnkl
555
You're right, the polar ice caps were melting before the industrial revolution...this time. The time before it was because of fire breathing dragons. There is "overwhelming" evidence that the earth has gone through several "climate changes" in history. Ever wonder what happened to dinosaurs and unicorns? Yep, climate change.
trplnkl
555
Wonder if that's where MJ got the idea?
wkmac
Well-Known Member
You could be on to something there!
Babagounj
Strength through joy
WASHINGTON (AP) — A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt Friday, the second-straight blow to NASA’s weakened environmental monitoring program.
The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite lifted off early Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but fell to the sea several minutes later. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring satellite two years ago with the same type of rocket.
“We failed to make orbit,” NASA launch director Omar Baez said at a press conference Friday. “Indications are that the satellite and rocket … is in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere.”
Officials explained that a protective shell atop the rocket didn’t come off the satellite as it should have about three minutes after launch. That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit.
The 2009 failed satellite, which would have studied global warming, crashed into the ocean near Antarctica. Officials said Glory likely wound up landing in the same area. Both were on Taurus rockets launched by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va.
The $424 million mission is managed by the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. NASA paid Orbital about $54 million to launch Glory, according to Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski.
The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite lifted off early Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but fell to the sea several minutes later. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring satellite two years ago with the same type of rocket.
“We failed to make orbit,” NASA launch director Omar Baez said at a press conference Friday. “Indications are that the satellite and rocket … is in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere.”
Officials explained that a protective shell atop the rocket didn’t come off the satellite as it should have about three minutes after launch. That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit.
The 2009 failed satellite, which would have studied global warming, crashed into the ocean near Antarctica. Officials said Glory likely wound up landing in the same area. Both were on Taurus rockets launched by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va.
The $424 million mission is managed by the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. NASA paid Orbital about $54 million to launch Glory, according to Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski.
