The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned SpaceX it has not completed an environmental review of a new tower currently under construction at its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, indicating the tower might have to be demolished.
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$28 Million Ticket-Holder for Jeff Bezos’s Flight to Space Suddenly Has Something Better to Do
I mean, we’ve all been there, haven’t we.
ETA:
Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead
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The lunar cycle hasn’t changed to any significant degree over the last few (thousand) years. This is climate change.
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Yes it is, and the Moon can amplify it:
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Scientists have actually known about the wobble for centuries – it was first discovered in 1728 – however the issue is that sea levels have already risen to a point where we now must consider how the moon’s existing tide cycles will affect the globe.
Experts split the moon’s 18.6-year orbit into two halves, or tide cycles. For the duration of the first half, tides on Earth are suppressed, with high tides lower than average and low tides higher than average – a “meet in the middle” kind of effect. For the other half, however, the effect is reversed. Tides are amplified: High tides get higher and low tides get lower.
The issue is that in the 2030s, when sea levels are expected to have risen considerably, the Earth will be in the amplified part of the tide cycle. High tides will be higher than ever, causing flood numbers to dramatically increase on the coastlines.
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Has anyone contacted Bruce Willis and his rough-and-ready wildcat oil drillers yet?
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So this is a headline issue. The actual text is correct: we have been lucky to be in part of the lunar cycle where tides are damped, so the flooding from global warming is suppressed a bit, but will then move into part where they are exaggerated, so it will be much worse. But all the headlines make it sound like the moon will be doing something new…some haven’t even mentioned climate change at all.
Given that we have a world where congressmen still try to pin changing climate on the sun and moon rather than humans, it’s kind of a poor way to report it.
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Once again the anniversary of the first moon landing is upon us.
Also in an interesting coincidence, the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon was the same day that Roy Hamilton, the singer of “You’ll never walk alone” , died.
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And with the biggest windows in spaaaaace (his words, not mine) to boot!
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Isn’t that what “being back online” means-- actually doing the observations that it was designed to do?
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But in a way it was not designed to do it, and waaaaay past its design life.
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