Moscovium

Back in 2003, element 115 was synthesizes by a team of Russian and American scientists  ... and was dubbed Moscovium ... see: Wikipedia Entry. Like many synthesized elements  Moscovium is very unstable ... with its most stable isotope to date having a half-life of 0.65 seconds.

The reason for interest in this element is that, if a stable isotope can be found, it might be the basis of nuclear rocket ships and missiles. In fact speculation has it that this element might have been involved in the recent nuclear accident in Russia ... an attempt to launch a supersonic missile ... possibly fueled by (a more stable?) Moscovium ... see: The Guardian Story.

I suspect that our spooks know the answer to this speculation.

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Powell gets a chance this week to make up for his ‘mid-cycle adjustment’ [comment]

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Michael Savage slams media silence over [his] UK travel ban after Tlaib uproar

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Dubious Augury

Martian Levittown

I have major doubts whether the following popular forecasts will come to pass ... at least in our lifetimes ...

-  Go-everywhere self-driving vehicles

- Serious global warming caused by increases in carbon dioxide

- Electric vehicles/airplanes totally replacing internal-combustion ones

- Widespread G-5 communications

- Colonization of Mars

- Artificial intelligence/robots controlling humans

- Nuclear-powered missiles

- Vegetarian “meat” replacing real meat

- Total elimination of nuclear and hydrocarbon-based power plants

- Nuclear fusion power generation

- Quantum computers

- Plastic products disappearing altogether

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Mueller: My report did not exonerate Trump ... Can be indicted after office ...

Trump triumphant: Republicans ‘had a very good day’ ...

Mueller dodged lawmakers’ questions roughly 130 times

South Korea says North  Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea

Rep. Tlaib to receive ‘big welcome’ in family’s Palestine village ...

NYPD Memo: Cops should press charges for water-bucket dousing

Facebook discloses FTC antitrust investigation is under way

Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she opposes 2020 Democrats’ plans to expand the Supreme Court

Google engineer goes public: Tech ‘dangerous,’ ‘taking sides’ ... Manipulated, political ...

Robert Mueller corrects earlier remark that he would have indicted Trump

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Trump stays silent on media-hating Coast Guard officer

Venezuela’s Maduro closes border with Brazil, says Columbia crossings could be next

200 ‘peacekeeping’ US troops to stay in Syria after pillout ...

Maxine Waters on Smollett: ‘I would be disappointed’ if it is a hoax

IRS analyst charged with leaking Cohen’s financial data to Avenati

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India orders ‘staggering’ evictions of indigenous people ...

Global warming: Snow in Los Angeles

Over the Line

I think that the latest planned provocation by North Korea ... to shoot four ballistic missiles "in the vicinity of Guam" ... any or all of which could be carrying a nuclear warhead ... is well over the line. Imagine someone threatening to shoot four bullets "in your vicinity" .... clearly a punishable assault. And so the United States should treat this intended action by the Norks equivalently.

Guam is a strategic U.S. territory about 2,200 miles from Korea containing the Andersen Air Force base, a home for B1s, B2s, B18s, and B52s ...see: Business Insider Story. This place is far too important to be trifled with by the tin-pot dictator in Pyongyang. The United States should make it crystal clear to Kim Jong Un that such a provocation will be considered an act of war and will be responded to accordingly. Anything less will be considered by this fat midget to be a sign of weakness .... encouraging further escalation of this madness.

Yes, going to war with North Korea and reducing it to charcoal over this provocation is an extremely dangerous act ... but it is, in my opinion, even more dangerous not to so respond. We have reached the tipping point ... one that everyone knew was coming ... the result of decades of equivocating, backing down from this looming certainty. We now have an imperative to be decisive, to demonstrate to other possible nuclear bad actors what could be their future. There comes a time when such crazies as Kim Jong Un have crossed over the line.

Now is such a time.