Recent content by Saracen1955

You are two weeks late with this report. It makes it sound as though the Doomsday Clock was just reset,but the reset actually happened back on January 22nd. Nothing like "Timely" reporting.

And as I said, Lunar New Year 2023 is celebrated this year on Sunday Jan 22 as the Year of The Cat, in Vietnam, because they do not include a rat in their zodiac https://www.asiahighlights.com/vietnam/new-year/date

In the interest of completeness, this is also the Year of The Cat. No, not Al Stewart song. In Vietnam, the Celestial calendar does not include a Rabbit, thus today marks the first day of the Year of The Cat.

In the final paragraph, the phrase "Global pandemic" is redundant. A pandemic is, by definition, global. When a disease is declared to be a pandemic, it means that there are cases of that disease on every continent of the world, thus it is global. Pandemic does NOT mean "Zombie Apocalypse".

Wow, a blast from the past! This idea was first put forward back in 2010, when photos revealed the existence of "skylights" or entrances to a series of caves and tunnels in the side of the Pavonis Mons volcano. Scientists at that time suggested that they could be used as a safe haven for...

You are talking about the beginning of a year. but we are talking about the END of the year at which point you are one year old, just as we are talking about the END of the decade which is xxx0, not xxx9. You tell me I'm wrong, and then make my case for me stating that a year is not complete...

Actually, it has nothing to do with the Gregorian Calendar. That was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII (hence the name Gregorian Calendar) in 1582 (AD). As I mentioned above, (well, I didn't bother to state that it wa the Julian Calendar, assumed that would be known) it's because the Julian...

Despite all that was said about the turn of the Century back in 2000, people still don't get it. This was NOT the last winter solstice of the decade. That will come in December 2020. A decade is ten years, not 9. To refresh; there was never a year 0 it went from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D,, nor were...

Starliner probably made the in-orbit burn thinking that it had to correct for too steep an angle of attack. I can hear the astronauts slated for the Crewed Test Flight, now; "Okay, whatever we do, we don't let it fly on autopilot!"