Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
#Weather #Hurricane #Florida #SpaceCoast #Milton
Topical storm winds projection.
#Weather #Hurricane #Florida #SpaceCoast #Milton
The averages for where the models show the eye to pass ... Landfall around Tampa, exiting the state through Cape Canaveral. But it's early; almost the entire state is in play, except for the Panhandle.
#Weather #Hurricane #Florida #Milton #SpaceCoast
We're where the "A" is on the right ... I'm rooting for Plan B.
Now at 90%. #Milton if it reaches tropical status.
Now at 80%. The next name on the list is #Milton.
The ten-day forecast for Merritt Island is showing more confidence. Winds for Wednesday now at 22 MPH.
#Space This is the Orlando Evening Star's front page, Monday October 7, 1957. The #Sputnik fallout has begun. The lead story from #AP blames the Pentagon for not having used von Braun's Army Jupiter C missile to launch a satellite first.
The Eisenhower administration had rejected the Jupiter C in favor of a civilian rocket, part of a new project called Vanguard. Using a military rocket for the civilian IGY was thought to appear belligerent. The Soviets had no problem using an ICBM. (6/6)
#Space There was no panic at first but, as the American media cranked up the hysteria, Khrushchev realized there was propaganda value in turning up the volume so he started making outlandish statements to embarrass the American public. Ike tried to convince the nation there was nothing to worry about it, but failed. (4/x)
#Space Sputnik was the Soviet contribution to the International Geophysical Year, which coordinated the nations of the world to conduct research into the geology and physics of Earth. Both the US and USSR had agreed to launch the world's first artificial satellites to study the planet.
For those paying attention to the IGY, Sputnik was no surprise. But for the uninformed American public, it was a metaphor for the Soviet nuclear threat because Sputnik was launched by an ICBM. (3/x)
#Space In Russian, Sputnik's official name was "simplest satellite." ("Sputnik" is Russian for satellite.) It did nothing but go beep-beep. The beeping transmission was to prove to the world that it was really there. (2/x)
Courtesy of Mike's Weather Page on Facebook ... Looks like this is going to become something. Right now, our ten-day forecast shows thunderstorms for Wednesday with 20 MPH winds, with two days of rain before that.
Mark Robinson isn't the only Republican crazy on the #NorthCarolina ballot. Michele Morrow is running for superintendent of public instruction. She believes that a network of child traffickers and pedophiles is torturing and killing children to harvest their blood for an anti-aging elixir.
#Politics This morning's #OCRegister confirms Politico's reporting, after speaking to a #Trump staffer who worked the disaster response at the time. (2/2)
#Trump denied disaster aid to #California after 2018 wildfires because most voters there are Democrats. He only approved the aid after being shown that many Trump voters live in Orange County. (1/2)
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022