NASA Scientists Conduct Air Pollution Study Over Seoul
It should be interesting to see what comes out of this study from NASA where they are trying to determine how much of the pollution over Seoul is produced domestically compared to what blows in from China:
The cockpit warning blared insistently as the plane spiraled downward to 500 feet above Seoul: “Too low, too low, terrain. Pull up, pull up, pull up.”
The pilots ignored the automated voice despite a nervous glance from a visiting reporter. Their mission was to take the DC-8 as low or as high as the NASA scientists working in the back required.
The flight was part of a six-week joint Korea-U.S. air-quality field study — known as KORUS-AQ — which officially kicked off on April 29. The timing coincided with the so-called yellow dust season that sees fine particulate matter swept into the air from neighboring China’s Gobi Desert. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read more at the above link as well as more about Korea’s yellow dust problem at this link.
Fuuck everybody involved in this farce.
NASA should be spending their budget and effort on putting things into space rather than diicking around with foreign air quality, global warming data manipulation, and all the other crap they are into while America has to buy Russian rockets to get anything into space.
From drones to balloons, there are lots of cheap ways to collect air samples that can be done at university level on university budgets.
For the same 20 million dollars, I will be happy to set this up… likely collecting more data, more accurate data, and for a longer time.
NASA jumped the shark: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-set-to-approve-moon-mission-by-commercial-space-venture-1465166277
Setnaffa, the real weenie there is that you need “approval” to go to the moon.
If I had the technology, I would go to the moon WITHOUT approval…
…and I would set my rayguns to “disintegrate”… and target anyone who acted against me.
Pew pew pew, motherfuukers!
Read Rocketship Galileo, or even watch Destination Moon. The Government has almost always been the enemy of actual progress…