Jim Brobeck

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Water Policy Analyst with a focus on Northern Sacramento Valley aquifers
We have become numb to the kinetic energy associated with horizontal speed. But climb to the top of a ladder, a rooftop, or a 10 story building and stand on the precipice and check your gut feeling. Now compare normal auto speed to Free Fall speed: 10 feet = 17.3 MPH
15 feet = 21 MPH
20 feet = 24.5 MPH
25 feet = 27.3 MPH
30 feet = 30 MPH
40 feet = 34.59 MPH
50 feet = 38.7 MPH
100 feet = 54.69 MPH
200 feet = 77.35 MPH
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January 7, 2025, M7.1 earthquake near Xizang, China (Tibet). Continental collision between the India and Eurasia plates drives uplift of the Himalayan Mountains. Earthquakes of this size are more appropriately described as slip over a larger fault area. In the past century, there have been 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 and greater within 250 km of the January 7, 2025, earthquake.
Universal condemnation by the 2021 press has been replaced by timid editorial cowardice. On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters on the order of defeated president Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup d'état two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Explanation: What are these bubbles frozen into Lake Baikal? Methane. The lake is also a vast storehouse of methane, a greenhouse gas that, if released, could increase the average temperature of the entire planet. Fortunately, the amount of methane currently bubbling out is not climatologically important. It is not clear what would happen, though, were temperatures to significantly increase in the region, or if the water level in Lake Baikal were to drop. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Bobby Kennedy wearing a forced smile as he is served McDonalds fun meal on Trump's private plan. Don jr laughs, "Make America Healthy Again will have to wait
'till tomorrow." Good thing Bobby likes to eat wild animals. Here he is eating crow.