2020. This was supposed to be the year we made contact. Mighty nuclear exploration spacecraft slashing through the aether on clouds of insalubrious particles, flying cars, orbital Hilton's... Or was that supposed to be ten years ago. sigh
Some cool Space news: A paper published yesterday (subject to space-time distortions!) details observations of Pulsar-White Dwarf pair PSR J1141-6545, which is seen to be 'swirling' space-time in the region. 10-25 thousand light years distant in the Constellation Musca, the Neutron-Dwarf star pair are exhibiting a phenomena called 'Frame-Dragging', or Lense-Thirring effect, which has been explored in orbital Satellite-Earth interaction experiments. Distortion of space-time by massive rotating objects were predicted in General Relativity, so score another one for Einstein.
Just a few hours until BREXIT; the sky has not turned black as sack cloth, the moon is not blood red, and the sea has not swallowed Albion.
Confirmed Coronavirus cases have passed 10,000 cases. Some 50 million PRC citizens in the Wuhan area are locked down.
WHO has declared a 'Global Health Emergency', while 'praising the PRC's response to the crisis.'
Addendum: From the Black humour Department. Within the WHO news conference run time, 200 new cases were confirmed by health officials in the PRC.
Mongolia has closed land links to the PRC.
Somewhat alarmingly, confirmed cases of Coronavirus appearing in Germany have shown a very long incubation period before manifesting symptoms.
As more PRC diaspora is 'repatriated' to countries where they are nominally 'citizens', officials are bracing for the virus to spread, according to sources somewhat less than sanguine about the PRC's efforts to contain the outbreak, particularly in light of the long incubation period.
Related: PRC Authorities are employing Drones networked with China's formidable Social Credit System's advanced biometric panopticon to enforce quarantine and bilogical measures.
As of 06:53, some 274 'canadian passport holders' are still stranded in the PRC as Chinese officials refuse entry of charter aircraft.
Sources intimate this is in retaliation for the Huawei espionage trial under way in Vancouver.
Foreign Affairs Canada has evacuated Embassy personnel dependants and vulnerable(medical or other) staff.
Some 200 UK nationals have arrived at a UK MoD airfield on a chartered 747 from the PRC. The returnee's will be subject to a 2 week quarantine at the base.
The Republican controlled Senate will vote against calling further 'witnesses' in the Democrat led impeachment effort after Democrats failed to entice 4 Republican 'fence sitters' to the impeachment attempt. Senate majority leader McConnel(R) has called the vote today.
It is likely that the Impeachment trial will grind to a halt in real terms today, though the noise level from partisan media will surely rise to apocalyptic volume.
Palm Beach Sheriffs department has released a statement: A black SUV had blown through 2 security points at the Trump dacha in Mar-a-Lago, spurring security forces to take the vehicle under fire. 2 subjects were arrested at the scene, no injuries have been reported as of this time, the subjects condition or motivations are not reported at this time.
Melbourne has declared a state of emergency as fire conditions worsen, a number of fires in that complex have taken a run, exhibiting extreme and erratic fire behaviour. Update: fires in the Ballarat area have taken a run, with evacuations of several towns ordered.
Some twenty new fires were reported in Victoria tonight. Melbourne's power grid is also becoming heavily stressed, according to state officials. Related. Many major media outlets are a little foggy on Australian State and National Capitals.
Canada has become the latest country to ban single-use plastics. Though a positive step , commentators note that 90% of global oceanic garbage originates in the PRC, India, African countries, and Pakistan, who are reluctant to address the problem. Environmental pressure groups are strangely reticent to pressure these nations. Earth Resources satellites also continue to monitor a massive CFC emissions plume that originates at a petro-chemical complex in central China. This single plume accounts for some 99% of global ozone depleting CFC's.
In other environmental news, a climate icon's parents, both of whom have close ties to Tsoros-controlled EU banking conglomerates specializing in carbon taxation speculation, have doubled their already significant net worth.
Today in History: On this day in 1920, nothing of any significance occurred at Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta.
Aggregated from API, Reuters, Haaretz, RT, 7News, UCRL, CBC.
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