Gary Clement’s week in review for March 18-24
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The “best new thing in the world” is that our local Veterans for Peace have made Maddow for their “eat in” at Babylon in Lowell, MA.
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Penn State Students Go Nuts After Joe Paterno’s Firing
Thousands of Penn State students poured into the streets of State College, overturning cars and tussling with police after the university decided to fire coach Joe Paterno late last night. Paterno had offered to resign at the end of the football season, but the Board of Trustees dismissed him and university president Graham Spanier immediately.
The gathering didn’t exactly devolve into a full-fledged riot, but police did resort to pepper spray and some arrests to disperse students. The worst trouble makers threw bricks and bottles at police, smashed car windows, and overturned a TV news van adding more embarrassment and heartache to an already troubled community. But as CBS Sports pointed out, the fact that there was very little resistance to the police crackdown shows their hearts were really in it. Read more.
Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
In 2006, while flying by Saturn’s moon Titan, the radar on NASA’s Cassini orbiter discovered seas of liquid ethane and methane on the moon’s –300ºF surface, the only bodies of liquid we know of that exist anywhere but on Earth. Some of the oily seas appeared on Cassini’s radar to be larger than Lake Superior, but visibility was poor because Titan’s atmosphere is thick and hazy. Now NASA is considering sending a probe called the Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) to splash down on one of Titan’s seas for a closer look. The mission would be humankind’s first extraterrestrial nautical expedition.
NASA estimates payload of Hurricane Irene using satellites
NASA has totaled the impressive rainfall from Hurricane Irene using highly precise microwave measurements from a satellite.
The map, created using data recorded by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite from Aug. 20-29, reveals rainfall in some bands of the now-dissipated 10-day-long storm exceeded 2 inches per hour.
…power is out there now. C.C. Chapman reports his power is out as well. NECN’s Matt Noyes is a mad tweetin’ fool. The effects of Hurricane Irene are beginning to be felt in New England.
