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“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something... but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
SpaceX planning launches every 3 days from Vandenberg Air Force Base; refuses to talk to Coastal Commission. https://www.independent.com/2024/06/01/spacex-plans-to-launch-90-rockets-from-vandenberg-space-force-base-by-2026/ #spacex #vandenberg
SpaceX Plans to Launch 90 Rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base by 2026

Space Force shares plans to increase launches, though SpaceX refuses to appear at Coastal Commission Hearing.

The Santa Barbara Independent
62 dead in earthquake that struck Japan's Noto Peninsula; search operations continue https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240103/p2g/00m/0na/018000c
62 dead in earthquake that struck Japan's Noto Peninsula; search operations continue - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- At least 62 people were killed in the powerful earthquake that jolted the Noto Peninsula and surrounding areas in central Japan on Ne

The Mainichi

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy On Directing ‘Star Wars’ Film: “It’s About Time” A Woman Shaped “A Story In A Galaxy Far, Far Away”
#News #SharmeenObaidChinoy #StarWars

https://deadline.com/2024/01/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-star-wars-film-woman-director-1235694074/

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy On Directing ‘Star Wars’ Film: “It’s About Time” A Woman Shaped “A Story In A Galaxy Far, Far Away”

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a two-time Oscar winner and the first female director of a Star Wars film. Having an iconic franchise in her hands thrills the filmmaker as she says it was “about tim…

Deadline
Interesting: Mississippi #River dredged to make it suitable for larger ships. The Army Corps of Engineers has known for decades that its continual efforts to deepen the #Mississippi River for bigger ships would eventually trigger the #saltwater crisis that has now gripped the New Orleans area for weeks. #water https://www.nola.com/news/environment/corps-long-knew-river-dredging-would-trigger-water-crisis/article_76c28910-6483-11ee-a6e0-af56a4538a58.html
Corps knew for decades that dredging the Mississippi would trigger a water crisis

The Corps of Engineers has long known that dredging the Mississippi River would cause trouble for drinking water supplies.

NOLA.com
The temperature finally reached freezing at Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) on the evening of September 13, ending freeze-free season as the second longest on record at Alaska’s northernmost community at 81 days. In the 20th century it was't uncommon for Utqiaġvik to have a maximum free-freeze season of less than three weeks. #akwx #Arctic #Summer2023 @Climatologist49 @cinderbdt @ajatnuvuk
Tonight there are now 10 #kakapo living wild in the North Island of #NZ - probably the most for over a century. We’ve just released six more at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari to add to the four transferred there in July. #conservation #returnofthekakapo #parrots

@mappingsupport @ai6yr

Possible false alarm. There are a few homes up there and the utility is trying to decide when/if to evacuate personnel working on site.

USPS just dropped some sick new stamps I know all you nerds will love. (They are forever stamps so you can put them on your bills and cards and mean letters to Clarence Thomas for the next six years or whatever. )

"Life Magnified" features wonders of the microscopic world. (Sorry for the $14 hit to your bank account.)

https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/life-magnified-stamps-S_484004

Life Magnified Stamps | USPS.com

The pane features images taken using microscopes and highly specialized photographic techniques to capture details of life undetectable by the human eye.

GISsurfer General Purpose Web Map and GIS Viewer | Surf GIS DATA

GISsurfer lets you surf a nearly endless amount of GIS data. Click a layer in the GIS server's table of contents and that data appears on the map.

A few pictures from our trail walk this morning. First is a native California wild grape that actually set fruit. Second is a photo of Madrone bark peeling. Shedding your bark every year may help keep the grapes from attaching.