Third of nation's bird species are threatened, study says.

Article from Nation & World printed on Friday, March 20, 2009 on page 5A in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. Work is urgently needed to prevent "a global tragedy" of bird loss. Habitat destruction, pollution and other problems have left nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species endangered, threatened or in serious decline, according to a study issued Thursday. Described as the most comprehensive survey of American bird life, the report analyzed changes in the bird population over the last 40 years. "This report should be a call to action." Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a news conference in Washington.

There was a brief article that said, "Climate change will make things worse, and work is urgently needed to prevent "a global tragedy" of bird loss, the report added. Climate change over the past 40 years has made things worse. Ozone depletion is currently at 16.5 million square miles and continues to grow. We will lose the bird population, polar bears, low land gorillas and many other animals if NASA and the other 45 Space Agencies don't stop their frequent launchings that average every 2.7 days. They are the real culprits to blame for Climate change, not aerosol sprays or refigeration products.

Five-inch debris chunk causes space station evacuation.

Three astronauts from the International Space Station spent 10 minutes Thursday hunkered down inside a Russian Soyuz space capsule as a five-inch piece of space junk hurtled perilously close to the station. Traveling at an estimated 20,000 miles per hour, the piece of debris could have caused a fatal loss of pressure had it hit the space station. One NASA official said it was the closest call he could remember in more than 15 years of tracking debris. This article appeared in The Baltimore Sun Newspaper.
Is it just now dawning on NASA that with more than 18,000 pieces of space junk orbiting this planet that one of these objects could collide with the space station? With that amount of space junk in orbit from launches over the past 29 years is why Ozone Depletion is at a record high 16.5 million square miles, Global Warming continues to grow and Climatic Weather Disasters continue to escalate. NASA, The Russian Space Agency, The European Space Agency and the other 43 countries Space Agencies that are averaging a launch every 2.7 days MUST STOP launching useless satellites into orbit. When will it stop? When debris hits the space station, possibly destroying it or killing astronauts, or the debris falling to earth and killing innocent humans? Satellites and space explorations are not worth the destruction of this planet and its inhabitants.

GAO report blasts NASA spending.

This week auditors found that on nine projects alone NASA is nearly $1.1 billion over-cost estimates that were set in the last two years. Still, the new stimulas package gives NASA $1 billion for climate-watching satellites and exploration, among other things. In a statement, NASA said its missions "are one-of-a-kind and complex, which always makes estimating challenging. ... We do believe NASA is a good investment of federal funds and strive to provide the best value."
A second GAO report used NASA as one of its leading poster children for bad practices in estimating costs. The space agency has a budget of about $18 billion, needs "a more disciplined approach" to its projects, the GAO (Government Accounting Office) said.

The auditors did not mention the total cost and cost increases of these nine projects. That grand
total is $7,815,200,000.00. Plus the complete loss due to equipment failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on February 24, 2009, this satellitte was launched to study global warming. The loss of this satellite was $311 million. The next project Glory, slated to track global warming is scheduled to launch in June, 2009. Do not be surprised if this mission also fails to either equipment failure or technology problems on the satellite. All the projects and missions that have been scheduled by NASA to track global warming in the past ten years have not succeeded. The reason is that they will expose themselves and the other forty five space agencies as the real culprits that are causing global warming, climatic weather disasters and ozone depletion. The auditors claimed that NASA was a good investment (over $7.8 billion dollars). This same investment could have saved both Social Security and Medicare programs.

Kepler set to begin search for Earth-like planets.

This was an article printed in the New York Times newspaper on March 2, 2009. NASA is prepared to begin its first "planetary census" Friday evening with the launch of the Kepler space telescope. Armed with a 95-million-pixel digital camera, Kepler will spend three and half years staring at the same area in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations, monitoring some 100,000 stars for blips that would indicate the transit of a planet crossing in front of a star. Th goal: to determine whether Earth-like planets at a proper distance from the sun are common or rare -- a first step in seeking out other life in the universe.

Once again, notice that the cost of this endeavor was not mentioned. The cost was $467 million. Also not mentioned is that the closest constellation Cygnus, is 149 light-years away from Earth.
The most distant space probe, Voyger 1, was about 14 light-hours away from Earth as of March 9, 2007. It took that space probe 30 years to cover that distance. Should Kepler find the right combinations for a star and a planet location for life in that constellation, it would only take 927 earth years to get there. Good Luck.

Antarctic is melting faster than thought.

This article appeared on page 14A (back page) of the St. Petersburg Times on Thursday, February 26, 2009. GENEVA - Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area then previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday. Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations indicate it is more widespread. By the end of the century, the accelerated melting could cause sea levels to climb by 3 to 5 feet-levels substantially higher than predicted just two years ago.

When my manuscript "The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth" was written in 1998-2007, I predicted at the end of Chapter 1 that sea levels could rise 3-5 feet worldwide and submerge cities along all coastlines throughout the world. Scientists predict this will happen by the end of the century. If NASA and the other 45 countries continue launching satellites at an average of every 2.7 days, I predict that the 3-5 feet sea level rise will occur by 2030, not 2099 as predicted by the scientists of 60 countries.

Failure hits NASA's 'CO2 Hunter'

Nasa's first dedicated mission to measure carbon dioxide from space has failed following a rocket malfunction. Officials said the fairing - the part of the rocket which covers the satellite on top of the launcher - did not seperate properly. Data indicates that the spacecraft crashed into the ocean near Antartica. The $270 million mission was launched on a Taurus XL - the smallest ground-launched rocket currently in use by the U.S. space agency. This mission was billed as "NASA's global warming satellite"
Since its debut in 1994, the Taurus II rocket has been flown eight times, with six successes and two failures including this launch. Thats a 75% successful rating. This was the first time NASA has used the Taurus XL. Why didn't NASA use a more reliable rocket for this launch? These are a few of the rockets that could have been used ; LIDOS, Atlas V411 or Atlas V421, Delta II, AMC-14, LGM-30G minuteman III, Pegasus XL. These rockets all have a 100% orbital success rate. Could it be that they did not want to reveal the reasons for carbon dioxide and the true reason for global warming? Why did it take NASA nine years to launch this spacecraft?

NASA spacecraft to seek out Earth-like planets.

A U.S. spacecraft toting the biggest camera ever will be launched next month to scour our region of the Milky Way galaxy for warm, rocky planets like Earth that may host life, NASA said on Thursday. The Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to spend 3-1/2 years looking at more than 100,000 stars similar to our sun, seeking evidence of planets similar in size and composition to Earth. The Kepler launch is scheduled aboard a Delta II rocket on March 5, 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Well, here goes another launch! Another hole in the ozone layer and another few million dollars spent to find out if there is life on another planet. If so, it certainly won't be in the Milky Way galaxy, thats already been proven. If they do find similar circumstances between planets and near by suns in other far away galaxies, how many light years will it take to get there? Let's take care of this planet by not creating additional holes in our ozone layer.