[U] DART Will Impact Asteroid Dimorphos -- A Celestial Object -- In 15 Days...

The goal of the Johns Hopkins-infused NASA mission is of course to test whether we may safely alter the near Earth orbital path. . . of a smallish asteroid. . . by directly ramming into it, at a precise angle of inflection.

We've covered it since August of 2020. . . but the time is finally (almost) here:

. . .Monday, Sept. 26 (DART Impact Day)

Media interested in covering the DART impact from APL must complete this form by 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2.

6 p.m. – Live coverage of DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos will air on NASA TV and the agency’s website. The public also can watch live on agency social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

7:14 p.m. – DART’s kinetic impact with asteroid Dimorphos. . . .

We will be watching NASA-TV. . . for the confirmation of both the impact, and the change in trajectory of Dimorphos. Sometimes, even small nudges. . . far out into the night. . . make significant differences -- in the lives of others. . . over time. Smile. . . be excellent to one another.



UPDATED, Sunday -- in a drenching rain: This will be our last remembrance of 9/11. It is time to move on. That may be an upopular opinion. But it is my opinion.

We live in a world wildly different than the feckless, clueless, largely care-free and frankly mean spirited time that preceded 9/11. Bush and Cheney were glibly claiming a new mandate to take away safety net programs from people of limited means, restrict asylum seekers and rip off ordinary Americans, for oil and mineral profits.

Since then, we've seen two wars in the middle east, a pandemic, and now Russia getting its ass handed to it in Ukraine. The world has. . . moved on.

But the airlines still charge what they call a "9/11 fee", 21 years on. The pandemic nearly ended commercial air travel in the US for over a year.

There is no "COVID-19 fee", listed in my ticket price.

It is time to let it go.

Never forget those who perished, including my friends at Cantor Fitzgerald. But. . . the world has moved on. The total death count (~3,000) was about equal to two Titanics.

OTOH, over a million in the USA are gone now -- from COVID-19. [Yet many of the same people who say all of the Muslim world attacked the US on 9/11. . . say COVID was a fake virus -- manufactured to "control" them. They also are the same people who mostly deny the outcome of the 2020 elections. Right; nuts.]

We need to completely accept (and thus move on; ask forgiveness of neighbors we slighted, intentionally or otherwise) that the vast majority of people of Muslim faith wanted, and still want, nothing to do with the radical violence that led to 9/11.

It is well-past time to move on.

This is the last time I'll post a remembrance of the 9/11 victims here.

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