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AR-15

Preparedness Notes for Monday — March 16, 2020

Today is the anniversary of the Battle at Pound Gap, Kentucky. (1862) — There are now less that two weeks left in for Round 87 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. Please get your entries in soon! Note that they must be at lest 1,500 words long. Articles on practical…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

Moon Mission

Orion completes testing at Plum Brook

by Jeff Foust — March 15, 2020 The Orion spacecraft built for the Artemis 1 mission at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Ohio after completing environmental testing there. Credit: NASA/Marvin Smith WASHINGTON — The Orion spacecraft that will fly on the first launch of the Space Launch System has completed…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

Mass Tourism

As the global war on drugs fades away, the only people who benefited were drug traffickers

America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. It also seems as if the mass incarceration fever driven by the war on drugs has finally broken, although tens if not hundreds of thousands…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

Nuclear Weapons

How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet

India tests its Agni-5 rocket in 2013, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.Credit: Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty It all starts in 2025, as tensions between India and Pakistan escalate over the contested region of Kashmir. When a terrorist attacks a site in India, that country sends tanks rolling across…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

1619 Slavery

Freeing hostages could save Iran and other commentary

March 15, 2020 | 7:16pm | Updated March 16, 2020 | 2:00am Foreign desk: Freeing Hostages Could Save Iran “Extraordinary circumstances can yield diplomatic breakthroughs,” remarks The Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian, and we “might be on the cusp of achieving that with Iran,” which has been hit “particularly hard” by…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

Paris

France preparing confinement order to fight coronavirus sources

FILE PHOTO: An information sign is seen at a school in Nice as France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), France, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Eric GaillardPARIS (Reuters) - France is preparing an order that would put…

bubmagMarch 16, 2020

SpaceX

“Liftoff! Disregard.” Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Abort a Planned Launch at the Last Second

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, shown above, at the moment when it was supposed to take off. Screenshot: SpaceX (YouTube)A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aborted a planned launch on Sunday morning at the last second due to an engine power issue. The event produced confusion at the Kennedy Space Center in…

bubmagMarch 15, 2020

Panda

40+ Virtual Field Trips Your Kids Can Take From The Couch

Parents, we see you. The current situation in the world has taken over our lives and now we are with our kids all the time. The learning shouldn’t stop just because school is closed, so I’m choosing to see this whole thing as an opportunity to learn new things with my…

bubmagMarch 15, 2020

Brasilia

UFC Brasilia: Fights to make

UFC Brasilia did not start out on a great foot considering that the world’s largest MMA promotion basically had Saturday sports programming all to themselves. Nine straight decisions matched the organization’s all-time record. But, the evening ended up saved by the main event, where Kevin Lee and Charles Oliveira put…

bubmagMarch 15, 2020

Paris

Coronavirus: EU states record highest one-day death toll

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPolice use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infectionThe three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day.Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total…

bubmagMarch 15, 2020

Preparedness Notes for Monday — March 16, 2020

Orion completes testing at Plum Brook

As the global war on drugs fades away, the only people who benefited were drug traffickers

How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet

Freeing hostages could save Iran and other commentary

France preparing confinement order to fight coronavirus sources

“Liftoff! Disregard.” Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Abort a Planned Launch at the Last Second

40+ Virtual Field Trips Your Kids Can Take From The Couch

UFC Brasilia: Fights to make

Coronavirus: EU states record highest one-day death toll

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