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  1. Feb 2020
  2. Jan 2020
    1. Applicants must be single, women over the age of 20 and someone who is "interested in going into space and able to participate in the preparation for it" and "wishes for world peace."

      Wow, this guy (44) is willing to go with anyone over 20.

    2. "I want to find a 'life partner,'" he added. "With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space

      He wants to find a life partner, but paying a woman to go to outer space with him can't guarantee that.

    3. famously paid his way to become the first private passenger to visit the moon with Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX.

      Wonder how much it cost to get a private passenger to the moon.

    4. A lonely Japanese billionaire is seeking a "life partner" who can accompany him on his upcoming trip to the moon.

      I think its pretty interesting that this guy has billions of dollars yet he wants to do this with his money.

    1. "If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount."

      80 million Iranians are willing to contribute money for the death of President Trump.

  3. Dec 2019
    1. North Korea said Tuesday that dialogue with the United States has been nothing but a “foolish trick” and warned Washington that it could be on the receiving end of an unwelcome Christmas gift.

      North Korea is threatening us on Christmas with a possible projectile, and Trump should take every pro-caution to protect us.

    2. North Korea chose Thanksgiving Day to launch two projectiles from what it called a “super large multiple-rocket launcher,”

      I didn't know know North Korea launched projectiles at us on Thanksgiving.

    1. Juice WRLD began posting songs online that he had recorded directly onto his cellphone while in high school in 2015.

      He started at a young age and got discovered only 4 years ago.

    2. No cause was given, and the office said an autopsy would be performed.

      I wonder if he died due to drug overdose since doctors couldn't find cause of death.

    1. A small diamond-encrusted sword and a necklace strung with 177 pearls were among a hoard of priceless jewels stolen from one of Europe's most important collection of royal treasures,

      I wonder how they got away with stealing this if its one of Europe's most important collection of royal treasures.

  4. Oct 2019
    1. Nearly 90,000 people were evacuated Saturday as the fire jumped over highways and roads jammed with people trying to flee. More evacuation orders followed, reaching nearly 200,000 people, about 90 percent of them in Sonoma County in the heart of wine country.

      It is so sad that 90,000 had lost everything due to these fires

    2. Download the NBC News app for breaking newsSaying "we are deploying every resource available," Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency for not only the fires in the north but also a fire in Los Angeles County that had damaged dozens of structures and injured three firefighters.Video Will Begin In...3Lebron James, Natalie Morales and more stars flee homes amid California wildfiresOct. 28, 201902:17Numerous smaller fires created havoc and diverted critical resources. Nearly all left destruction in their paths.mps._execAd("boxinline",0,1,false);The Soda Rock Winery, the most recent occupant of a historic site of wineries going back to 1880 in Healdsburg, in Sonoma County, was burned to the ground by the Kincade fire. In Contra Costa County, a new fire that was sparked on Sunday afternoon destroyed the Lafayette Tennis Club, sending players and spectators fleeing from a tournament that had been underway, NBC Bay Area reported. In Solano County, one of several small new fires drove cadets from the campus of the California State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo — except for a handful assigned to fire duty, who stayed behind to protect the training ship Golden Bear.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.Sign UpThis site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of ServiceCould not connect to the reCAPTCHA service. Please check your internet connection and reload to get a reCAPTCHA challenge.The cadets had recently completed major wildfire training at the school, one of seven across the country that train crews for the Merchant Marine and other shipping duties.Cadet Adrian Goldfarb told NBC Bay Area that he saw smoke building up at about 10 a.m., and then "it took only about 10 minutes till ash started falling.""We grabbed our hoses [and] we hooked up to the fire," Goldfarb said. "Our goal was just to somewhat contain the fire until the fire department arrived."Firefighters credited the cadets with keeping the ship safe and suggested that they should get extra credit in their classes.Gov. Gavin Newsom declares statewide emergency as wildfires spreadOct. 27, 201902:30Nearly 90,000 people were evacuated Saturday as the fire jumped over highways and roads jammed with people trying to flee. More evacuation orders followed, reaching nearly 200,000 people, about 90 percent of them in Sonoma County in the heart of wine country.Cox, of CalFire, said further evacuations could be needed."This is the largest evacuation that any of us at the Sheriff's Office can remember," the Sonoma County sheriff said on Twitter. "Take care of each other."RelatedNewsNewsPhotos: California continues to battle wind-fueled wildfiresExtremely low humidity was helping the fires spread. The National Weather Service said the winds would continue into Monday morning before subsiding — only to return Tuesday night or Wednesday morning."With the constant dry offshore winds, poor humidity recovery is expected and fuels will remain dry," the agency said.Those are the conditions that led the state's largest power utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Corp., or PG&E, to trigger rolling blackouts across Northern California over the weekend, the third time it has done so this month and the biggest blackout yet.Flames from the Kincade fire consume a home in Healdsburg, Calif., on Sunday.Noah Berger / APThe blackout, which PG&E said was needed to prevent downed and damaged power lines from sparking more fires, shut off power to 940,000 homes and businesses, roughly correlating to about 2.5 million people, across Northern California on Sunday.The three consecutive blackouts have infuriated Northern Californians, including Newsom, the governor, who has called them an unacceptable consequence of decades of PG&E neglect.RelatedNewsNewsPG&E slammed for rolling blackouts for millions of CaliforniansBecause of the heavy winds forecast to revive in midweek, PG&E said Sunday night that it had begun alerting slightly more than 500,000 homes and businesses that yet another blackout could be needed beginning Tuesday.In Southern California, authorities said the wind-fueled 4,615-acre Tick fire in Los Angeles County was at 70 percent containment by Sunday night. The county fire department said that 22 structures were destroyed and that 27 more were damaged.Three firefighters injured, the fire department said.Evacuations continued early Monday morning, as fire encroached on Los Angeles. A fast-moving brush fire erupted near the Getty Center on LA's Westside, expanding to 250 acres as people fled their homes in the middle of the night, according to NBC Los Angeles.Basketball star LeBron James tweeted that he and his family had to evacuate his house early Monday and were searching for rooms where they could spend the night. "I [pray] for all the families in the area that could be affected," James said. "My best wishes as well to the first responders." Southern California Edison, which serves much of the southern half of the state apart from the cities of Los Angeles or San Diego, said only a few hundred customers were without power on Sunday. But it warned that it, too, could have to shut off electricity to more than 300,000 customers, correlating to about three-quarters of a million people, to secure its power lines and transmitters.Newsom on Sunday announced a $75 million plan for state and local governments to "mitigate the impacts of power shutoffs" and help medically vulnerable people during massive power shutoffs.by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored StoriesThe Legacy ReportThe Legacy ReportMan Who Called NVIDIA's Rise Makes Bold 5G PredictionUndoTech4youTech4youThis Japanese Invention For $79 Let's You Speak 43 Languages InstantlyUndo

      Wildfires are extremely difficult to prevent and is taking people out of their homes, taking out infrastructures, and injuring many.

    3. burning tens of thousands of acres, driving almost 200,000 people from their homes and seriously injuring a firefighter.

      So many people have lost their homes and have been injured due to Wildfires and winds

    1. Research shows that later school start times can increase the duration and quality of adolescent sleep, which has been linked to health benefits such as lower rates of depression and a reduced chance a teen will be involved in a car crash.

      Most high school students not only have loads of homework and on top of that, sports, jobs and other commitments outside of school, leading to the lack of sleep

    2. Advocates hope that California’s new law, which over the next three years will bar most high schools from starting classes before 8:30 a.m., and most middle schools from starting before 8 a.m, will supercharge a public health campaign that has until now reached schools on a piecemeal basis, one district at a time.

      In my opinion starting classes after 8:30 will benefit highschool students greatly because so many of us lack a good amount of sleep

    1. He said the final system will need to be able to survive for years in the difficult ocean conditions and be able to hold the plastic for months between pickups, in order for the plan to be financially viable.

      Scientist are currently trying to create an invention that is durable, long lasting and able to with stand the oceans conditions

    2. It's been deployed in "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch" -- a concentration of trash located between Hawaii and California that's about double the size of Texas, or three times the size of France.

      The location of having this trash collecting system in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so very important because having this invention located in an area where most of the trash is concentrated would benefit the environment and truly utilize the machine.

    3. A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic,

      Finally, an invention has been introduced and in use to solve a problem that should have been resolved a long time ago.

    1. “provides government with unprecedented power to track people going about their daily lives. That’s incompatible with a healthy democracy.”

      San Francisco has implemented this law to stay compatible with the United States Healthy democracy, I personally think that these facial recognition technology should be put into areas that are highly concentrated with crime.

    2. The authorities used the technology to help identify the suspect in the mass shooting at an Annapolis, Md., newspaper last June. But civil liberty groups have expressed unease about the technology’s potential abuse by government amid fears that it may shove the United States in the direction of an overly oppressive surveillance state.

      Facial recognition technology has been used to identify suspects of crime. Understandably, having every person being under surveillance will make citizens feel uncomfortable and that the government has invaded their privacy.

    3. What are your thoughts on it? Does it excite you or creep you out? How would you feel if the police and other government agencies were to use this technology in your community? Why?

      As technological advances like these start to arise it could benefit us while making others feel that their privacy has been invaded.

  5. Sep 2019
    1. There are at least six cases of pregnant women border-wide who have been sent back to Mexico, according to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general demanding an investigation into the issue.

      This scenario has happened before to at least six other women, carrying children. I am not saying that pregnant woman should use their pregnancy as a leverage to get in to the US, but the US border patrol should have treat these woman carrying their babies lives better.

    2. “She’s concerned about having the baby in the street or having to have the baby in a shelter,” Goodwin said.

      The US border control showed no sympathy for the wellness and health of this woman and her baby. Sending her to the streets when she's about to give birth is inhumane.