John Dean's perspective: Trump has already exceeded everything Nixon did, and is now much more intimately involved in the coverup than Nixon ever was: "Trump is Nixon on steroids and stilts."
Sure, he's a contributor on CNN, but with all due respect, considering the role Dean played in Watergate, what he has to say is certainly worth listening to and taking seriously for consideration. His authority on the matter is not without some credibility.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Getting to know Jupiter
The fact that we mere humans engaging in and utilizing science(s) can build and send machines to low-Jupiter orbit and continue to communicate with those machines and receive data they collect is most certainly a testament to the epistemic standing and credibility of science(s) as a collection of investigative methods for gaining knowledge and understanding that towers above the epistemic standing and credibility of just about every other method intended for gaining knowledge and understanding.
We had no idea that Jupiter's poles are such complex cyclonic storm systems! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180308.html (Note: that's an infrared (composite) image; i.e. not the coloring we would see with our own eyes (or instruments calibrated to the light wavelengths equivalent to our eyes). In other words, read the caption to the image.)
Everything more about the Juno Mission:
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
It is also worth checking out NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php
And, as a side note, because I can't resist pointing it out:
The generous amounts of openness and transparency with which all of this kind of scientific research is done is more than enough to diffuse the plethora of conspiracy "theories" about anything to do with any of this kind of scientific research and work. And I have to put scare quotes around 'theories' because they don't deserve to be called theories, because they're really just a bunch of hypotheses strung together with a few or more facts that are cleverly misrepresented and misconstrued, while other facts are intentionally ignored. To be called a theory requires meeting some rather rigorous and stringent standards and criteria, which includes, by the way, being open to modification (or even replacement) due to new and well-confirmed findings (data, experimental results, discoveries, etc.).
We had no idea that Jupiter's poles are such complex cyclonic storm systems! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180308.html (Note: that's an infrared (composite) image; i.e. not the coloring we would see with our own eyes (or instruments calibrated to the light wavelengths equivalent to our eyes). In other words, read the caption to the image.)
Everything more about the Juno Mission:
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
It is also worth checking out NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php
And, as a side note, because I can't resist pointing it out:
The generous amounts of openness and transparency with which all of this kind of scientific research is done is more than enough to diffuse the plethora of conspiracy "theories" about anything to do with any of this kind of scientific research and work. And I have to put scare quotes around 'theories' because they don't deserve to be called theories, because they're really just a bunch of hypotheses strung together with a few or more facts that are cleverly misrepresented and misconstrued, while other facts are intentionally ignored. To be called a theory requires meeting some rather rigorous and stringent standards and criteria, which includes, by the way, being open to modification (or even replacement) due to new and well-confirmed findings (data, experimental results, discoveries, etc.).
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