http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3405259/Now-David-Bowie-really-Starman-Constellation-shape-iconic-lightning-bolt-registered-name.html
> Is it official?
MIRA Public Observatory and Studio Brussels registered constellation
Google Sky developed website that allows fans to leave a tribute inside the constellation and the more notes the brighter it gets on Google Sky Galaxy
For the record, any constellation made up of stars from other constellations is called an asterism, but whatever. Now you have a special place you can imagine David Bowie's face in the night sky.
Looks like the Gatorade logo if you ignore Bowie
>>27000
Cannot unsee
Something something celebrity worship, literally.
>>27000
The Brawndo constellation. Brawndo's for what stars need.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racism-high-school-game_us_56d5f99ae4b0871f60ecf4a3
What is the deal with this guy Trump? Is he popular because he says what everyone is thinking or is he really offering solutions to real problems? Even if he gets elected I don't see any of his idea's actually happening..
Is America past the point of fixing? If so Trump is the perfect leader to light the spark leading to total Anarchy.
http://www.thearcanevault.com/
>>26797
posting in epic thread
>>26797
>Is America past the point of fixing? If so Trump is the perfect leader to light the spark leading to total Anarchy.
Yeah, it's totally Trump. HE'S the last straw, War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq and the erosion of rights and the NSA spying programs and Guantanamo Bay and the Housing Bubble and market manipulations and et all were all perfectly tolerable.
But one showboating populist candidate? Naw man, that's too fucking much.
>>26797
>Is he popular because he says what everyone is thinking
Yes, specially since ameriburgers are racist af,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-cuts-billions-in-aid-to-lebanon-opening-door-for-iran.html
>BEIRUT, Lebanon — Even as Iran and Saudi Arabia supported opposite sides in a bitter and bloody proxy war in Syria, the two adversaries managed to preserve a tense calm just over the border in Lebanon, where they have long competed for influence.
>Now, suddenly, it looks as if Saudi Arabia is walking away — leaving Lebanon perhaps more firmly than ever in the grip of Hezbollah and its patron, Iran.
>Instead of vying behind the scenes to counter Iran, as it has for decades, the kingdom has taken to punishing Lebanon for Hezbollah’s siding with Iran in Syria. It has slashed billions of dollars in aid, ordered Saudi tourists to avoid the Mediterranean nation, and, on Wednesday, declared Hezbollah, Lebanon’s most powerful political, social and armed organization, a terrorist group.
>Suddenly, this sliver of a nation, long beloved by Saudis for its night life, beaches and mountains, is once again thrust into the middle of the battle for regional dominance between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. The consequences could be enormous for a nation that barely survived its own civil war, borders Israel, hosts well over a million Syrian refugees and relies on a shaky power-sharing arrangement between sects for its own stability.
>Iran has not shifted tactics in Lebanon. But Saudi Arabia has in what is seen as the latest of a series of newly assertive — critics say impulsive — foreign policy moves pressed by a new king and his son, the deputy crown prince.
>In each case, Saudi Arabia has asserted what it calls its right, even duty, to counter Iranian influence. In Yemen, it is fighting an Iranian-backed rebel group. In Syria, it has supported rebels fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad, whom Iran supports.
...
>So it was surprising that in Lebanon, rather than once again taking the fight to Iran, the kingdom has taken a step back — a move that risks increasing Iran’s influence and fragmenting its Sunni rivals. It is a tactic that virtually no one here thinks has any chance of actually coercing Lebanon to constrain Hezbollah, a Shiite group.
>Ali Rizk, a Lebanese political analyst close to Hezbollah, echoed many analysts across the Middle East in saying that Saudi Arabia had been prone to hair-trigger reactions since its leaders became incensed over the nuclear deal between Iran and the United States.
>“They just went crazy,” he said.
>The move by Riyadh threatens not only to reshape the politics of the region, but to undermine this tiny nation’s fitful economy and delicate political balance. Already, the tensions have boiled over in small ways: After a television station broadcast a spoof ridiculing Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, the group’s supporters blocked roads and burned tires on Saturday night, setting off brief confrontations in the streets with rival groups.
>In a speech on Tuesday night, Mr. Nasrallah struck back, accusing Saudi Arabia of crimes and massacres in its air war in Yemen and calling on it to “settle scores with Hezbollah and not with the Lebanese people.”
>Diplomats and analysts have spent several weeks trying to understand why the Saudis would precipitously start penalizing Lebanon — and perhaps their own Lebanese allies — over the powerful influence of Hezbollah, which is nothing new.
>Even politicians in the Saudi camp say that the kingdom’s moves have put Lebanon in an impossible position. The Shiite group’s forces are more powerful than the Lebanese military and act autonomously, most notably carrying out a major ground operation in Syria that has helped keep Mr. Assad in power.
>Political figures on all sides point out that what Saudi Arabia has demanded from Lebanon — condemning Iran and Hezbollah, for example — is unrealistic.
>“If some think that Hezbollah will pull out from Syria due to some Arab stances,” Walid Jumblatt, the Druse leader who lately has been allied with the pro-Saudi Future Movement, told Orient TV, a Syrian opposition news outlet, “well, they won’t withdraw.”
>Not even the Future Movement, the Lebanese party closest to Saudi Arabia, could bring itself to call Hezbollah a terrorist group — rather declaring on Wednesday that Hezbollah was involved in “terrorist activities.”
>Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and their allies in Lebanon and throughout the region, have been increasing since the start of the conflict in Syria, which is in its fifth year. Those tensions have risen further since King Salman rose to the Saudi throne last year and pursued a more assertive foreign policy, including the war in Yemen.
>The Saudis have carried out an airstrike campaign that has killed civilians and destroyed hospitals and historic areas, and it has been roundly criticized by Hezbollah — even as Hezbollah was backing an indiscriminate Syrian government campaign to put down the rebellion there.
>The newest round of recriminations began when Saudi Arabia executed a pro-Iranian dissident Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Iranian demonstrators attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
>In January, at meetings of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Saudi Arabia sought formal condemnations not only of the embassy attacks but also of Iran’s and Hezbollah’s roles in the region. Lebanon did not sign on.
>The country’s foreign minister, Gebran Bassil — who leads the Free Patriotic Movement, a Christian party aligned with Hezbollah — declared that Lebanon stood “in solidarity” with Saudi Arabia over the embassy attacks. But signing on to the statement, he said, would violate Lebanon’s policy of disassociation, or official neutrality, on the Syrian conflict.
>Saudi Arabia’s main Sunni ally in Lebanon, the Future Movement led by Saad Hariri, criticized Mr. Bassil, saying that his stance did not represent Lebanon.
Yesterday Russia announced they would be conducting a ICBM drill via there submarines, two to be exact. Not before I go further, the most ICBM's ever launched at once are 2 from the USA I believe they were Ohio's. Russia is planning on launching all 16 ICBM's from a single Submarine. Let the sink in. This very extremely out of the ordinary for Russia to do something this fucking insane.
I'm not trying to scare anyone because this could just be a drill. But please keep this news is the back of your mind knowing some day shit will boil over. Ill finish this off with some links I've found.
Stay safe anons.
http://www.defconwarningsystem.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4480
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160302/1035660040/russia-submarine-missile.html
Please bump this post or could an admin sticky this post please.
>>26738
It's been happening a lot on both sides lately, no cause for concern. The nuclear stockpiles of all the nuclear powers are aging rapidly and there isn't a lot of R&D money spent on new designs.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/ellsworth/minot-tests-minuteman-iii-with-launch-from-vandenberg-afb/article_c5b501fe-69bd-5c21-9e0e-38cf247c3e86.html
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/02/26/vandenberg-minuteman-3-nuclear-missile-launch/
So will they be actually testing these? Or just the subs themselves?
Also it is probably just russia flexing.
I know I'm a little late on this topic but what do you guys think of the discover by LIGO of gravitational waves because of two black holes colliding?
Link: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211
>>26804
We had this thread when it was still current news.
It's pretty nice. I'm a bit excited.
>>26804
It looks like a pig snout.
The two black holes were estimating to be colliding at half the speed of light. Such huge condensed masses moving so fast before meeting. In the last few kilometers they even made some sound.
Honestly it's the stuff that fuels my spacephobia. Just imagining myself floating in space some distance from the event and observing.
But back to the issue, this is very exciting as we now have a new means of gravity radar to see the universe, and especially black holes beyond the event horizon. What's more it's pretty chilling how Einstein was right yet again and his theory has so far been flawless, something that almost doesn't happen as theories are almost always inaccurate on some level.
http://wtkr.com/2016/03/02/sugar-babies-on-campus-how-some-local-college-students-are-selling-themselves-to-pay-tuition/
I'm sick of the college stories on /news/. Let's have something else, perhaps?!
>>26679
You're kind of right, college life is depressing in many ways, and it's been said a million times in a million ways.
>>26685
Glad I'm a tradesman.
Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, has apparently committed suicide a day after being indicted.
here's the link:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/02/news/chesapeake-ceo-dead-aubrey-mcclendon-car-crash/index.html
>>26671
He hasn't been the Chesapeake CEO for a couple of years. Chesapeake was already fined for wrongdoing while he was CEO and has been cooperating with the Feds in this case against this guy. He was indicted on the first federal anti-trust charges against an individual in over 100 years. Also, he's a billionaire and owns a lot of varied things like the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team. This is a pretty big deal, even bigger now that he's apparently killed himself.
Whatever else it is, it's a sadly under-reported story.
more coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/business/aubrey-mcclendon-is-charged-with-conspiracy-in-oil-and-natural-gas-bidding.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2016/03/01/the-federal-indictment-of-aubrey-mcclendon/
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14880310/oklahoma-city-thunder-part-owner-aubrey-mcclendon-indicted-bid-rigging-charges
>>26693
You mean like Ken Lay?
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/03/04/0200000000AEN20160304001100315.html
As with most things that come out of NK this could be yet another attempt which fails miserably.
But the threat of nuclear weapons should never been taken lightly.
Will we get another earthquake out of this?!
>>26907
related:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/02/18/seouls-spy-service-says-north-korea-preparing-attacks.html
>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching "terror" attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said Thursday, as worries about the North grow after its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
>In televised remarks, senior South Korean presidential official Kim Sung-woo said North Korea's spy agency has begun work to implement Kim Jong Un's order to "muster anti-South terror capabilities that can pose a direct threat to our lives and security."
>He said the possibility of North Korean attacks "is increasing more than ever" and asked for quick passage of an anti-terror bill in parliament.
>>26925
In a recent /news/ comment section we learned that North Korea could hit almost anywhere in the northern hemisphere, they weren't confined to their portion of the Tropic of Cancer. Now what?!
How is it that none of you homos are talking about this?
''A construction worker found a knife buried on the perimeter of the former O.J. Simpson estate ... and it's currently being tested by the LAPD in a top secret investigation ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
The story is incredible. We're told a construction worker found the knife years ago -- we have heard several different stories, ranging from "several years ago" to 1998, when the house was demolished.
The weapon is a folding buck knife.
Our law enforcement sources say the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he saw an LAPD cop. He told the officer where he found the knife and the cop took it.
Turns out the cop -- who worked in the traffic division -- was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. Our sources say the officer took the knife home and kept it ... kept it for years.
In late January of this year, after the cop retired from the LAPD, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division (RHD). The cop told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.
We're told the friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired cop turn the knife over, which he did.
Our sources say the knife is currently being tested for hair and fingerprints. It will be moved to the Serology Unit next week, where it will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence.
One source familiar with the investigation tells us, cops who eyeballed the knife think it could have blood residue on it, but it's hard to know without testing because it's extremely rusted and stained.''
http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/
>>26981
MEDIA CIRCUS
>MEDIA CIRCUS
We should lock OJ up but no he got away with it. Now he can be Donald Trump's running mate.
http://bigstory.ap.org/40c90205458b49898462443723c67e85
>mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea by land, sea or air; a ban on all sales or transfers of small arms and light weapons to Pyongyang; and expulsion of diplomats from the North who engage in "illicit activities."
>It also bans aviation fuel exports to the country, including "kerosene-type rocket fuel."
>The resolution bans Pyongyang from chartering vessels or aircraft, and call on countries to "de-register" any vessel owned, operated or crewed by the North.
>As with previous resolutions, the test will be whether U.N. member states enforce the sanctions. A U.N. panel of experts monitoring the sanctions has repeatedly pointed out that enforcement in a significant number of cases has been weak.
What will Kim III the Fat do with his new airport without fuel? Will these sanctions even matter?
>>26605
Will China or Russia actually refrain? Who knows, but hopefully he will feed his people.
>>26607
Even if Chinese and Russian companies would circumvent the sanctions, I think it's symbolically significant that China and US together agreed on these terms. A nice 'fuck you' to Norks
>>26618
This.
China is NK's biggest supporter and the only ones who can say anything that NK would actually care about.
http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/
The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov.Rick Perry’s sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton’s penis, and insisting that members of the Bush family should be in jail.
He also found time to call Hillary Clinton an “angry bull dyke” and accuse his county vice chair of betraying the values of the Republican Party.
“The people have spoken,” Robert Morrow, who won the helm of the Travis County GOP with 54 percent of the vote, told The Texas Tribune. “My friends and neighbors and political supporters —they wanted Robert Morrow.”
Morrow’s election as Republican chair of the fifth-largest county in Texas left several members of the Travis County GOP, including vice chair Matt Mackowiak, apoplectic. Mackowiak, a Republican strategist, immediately announced over social media that he would do everything in his power to remove Morrow from office.
“We will explore every single option that exists, whether it be persuading him to resign, trying to force him to resign, constraining his power, removing his ability to spend money or resisting any attempt for him to access data or our social media account,” Mackowiak told the Tribune. “I’m treating this as a coup and as a hostile takeover.”
“Tell them they can go fuck themselves,” Morrow told the Tribune.
The Travis County GOP, which operates in one of the most liberal counties in the state, nonetheless is the local party for a number of prominent Texas Republicans, including Gov.Greg Abbott. The county party’s responsibilities include running elections and precinct conventions and working to elect Republicans at the local level.
>>26591
Mackowiak said he was especially uncomfortable with the prospect of Morrow engaging in local politics, the core function of the job to which Morrow was just elected.
“We have someone who ran here who absolutely has no intention of serving the Republican Party with leadership and faithfulness,” Mackowiak said. “His social media account is something that no child should see. He is a total disaster.”
Although Morrow was elected with just more than 25,000 votes — 6,000 more than his one challenger, the incumbent chair James Dickey —Mackowiak said he and others would consider leaving the county party altogether to form a new Republican organization if they could not remove Morrow from office.
“I will not rest until we remove him as chairman,"Mackowiak told the Tribune. "He’s going to be an absolute embarrassment to the party. And if we fail in these efforts, we will start an alternate organization.”
Even as Mackowiak attempts to unseat Morrow, Morrow has called Mackowiak’s own conservative credentials into question, especially because of recent tweets from Mackowiak that included the hashtag #NeverTrump.
“I don’t even think Mackowiak is going to support the Republican nominee, who is probably going to be Trump,” Morrow said. “What kind of traitor to the party is Matt Mackowiak? The incredible amount of damage someone like him does to the party —and he’s a douchebag.”
Morrow, who’s also tweeted that Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is “very likely a gayman who got married,” said he supports the brand of Republican politics he most closely associates with Donald Trump and Sen.Ted Cruz.
“The Republican Party, I would hope, is about limited government with a libertarian perspective,” Morrow said. “But it’s a big tent, and there are many factions in it, and that’s okay with me.”
>>26592
Morrow’s main complaint is with “establishment” Republicans, who he does not believe should hold elected office, he said. Last week, he tweeted that the Republican National Committee was just a “gay foam party.”
Morrow has a long history of critiquing prominent state Republicans in vulgar, and often sexually explicit, terms. For years, he has alleged that Perry is secretly bisexual; in 2010, he referred to him as “Gov. Skank Daddy” in an email.
“Perry is an epic hypocrite,” he told the Tribune on Wednesday. “I think he has been a rampaging bisexual adulterer for many decades.”
Though Morrow has tweeted often about sexually explicit acts involving Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and his last several Facebook profile pictures were of scantily clad women, he said he denies any charge that he is sexist.
“It’s derogatory toward Hillary Clinton because I hate Hillary Clinton," he told the Tribune. "But I’m not sexist. Why would you ask that? I’m not sexist.”
“I like beautiful women, I celebrate feminine beauty,” Morrow added. “I’m like Donald Trump —I love women.”
When the Tribune asked about the content of some of Morrow’s social media posts, without using the specific racial slur Morrow had employed, Morrow seized on the omission as an example of corruption within the media.
“You are a perfect example of what the Trump movement is revolting against because you can’t even pronounce the word n----- when you are talking about a Facebook post,” Morrow said. “What a pathetic excuse for a reporter you are.”
“The context of the post is quite gentle, but maybe you’re not smart enough to figure that out,” he added.
Morrow did not spend much time campaigning for the position he now holds.
“I didn’t spend one penny,” he said. “I barely asked anyone to vote for me.”
Morrow will assume his party post in June.
>>26591
more coverage:
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/travis-county-gop-officials-seek-to-remove-new-cha/nqbz9/
looks like this is about to go national
here are his twitter accounts if anyone wants to see for themselves:
Primary: https://twitter.com/RobMorroLiberty
Secondary: https://twitter.com/LBJCIAkilledJFK
He's retweeting haters and trolls this morning.
Or "New York Times Knows!" and they do but they don't want to release the tapes:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/politics/ted-cruz-new-york-times-immigration-tape/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/29/trump-on-nyt-interview-leak-everythings-negotiable/
https://www.tedcruz.org/news/cruz-calls-on-donald-trump-to-authorize-the-release-of-new-york-times-immigration-tape/
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-immigration-negotiable-220013
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-everythings-negotiable
This is it, you big lying FRAUD Art of the Deal-writing faker.
>>26561
After Hillary releases her speeches to GS :^)
i don't understand, first they go, "dont build wall that raicyss" then "i will also build wall :^)" and now "hey, i heard from some sources that trump may not build a wall"
i am ready to hear someone say, "wow trump disavowed that ex-KKK David Duke guy, talk about listening to every american and getting along with everybody eh? :^)"
serious i am not american, but if you see all this bullshit and still don't vote for him you kinda deserve to be used as a slave to the elites
>>26570
I think Trump's scandal is worse because he has nothing to campaign on anyway - so now we learn that his core issue is a lie? Say it ain't so, Don!!!
https://www.change.org/p/free-davontae-sanford
His last name is "Smothers" and he's homocidal... pretty ironic, eh?!
>>26642
a little more info would be appreciated.
Petition to stop a criminal from being arrested? Fuck off.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/1/donald-trump-drives-republican-turnout-to-record-d/
>Republicans continued to shatter turnout records in their presidential primaries and caucuses Tuesday
>Virginia’s GOP primary tallied more than 1 million votes, shattering the record set in 2000 by more than 50 percent
>Donald Trump said he’s the chief reason for the shifts in both parties, saying he’s drawn Democrats and independents into the Republican process
>By contrast Democrats’ turnout is down 25 percent compared to their record-setting 2008 campaign
I'm sure he paid them.
Remember that meme?
I remember the low turnout = Republican win meme.
Ah salty tears.
>>26542
Maybe I am misreading this, but are you confused about how primaries work?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/01/apple-fbi-congress-hearing-iphone-encryption-san-bernardino
>The Justice Department is on a “fool’s errand” trying to force Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, lawmakers told FBI director James Comey on Tuesday.
>Lawmakers of both parties sharply challenged Comey as the House judiciary committee considered the FBI’s court order to unlock an iPhone owned by Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, in December and was killed by law enforcement.
>Legislators repeatedly accused the Justice Department of overreaching its authority and undermining both privacy and cybersecurity. Several endorsed Congress passing a law settling the boundaries – something Apple supports – and accused the FBI of trying to circumvent Congress by launching a lawsuit against Apple.
>“Can you appreciate my frustration with what appears to be little more than an end-run around this committee?” asked Democratic congressman John Conyers. Representative Zoe Lofgren called FBI demands to weaken Apple’s security a “fool’s errand” that undermined cybersecurity.
>Comey, a well-respected figure in Congress, likened impenetrable digital encryption used to protect customer’s privacy such as that of Apple to a “vicious guard dog”.
>“We’re asking Apple to take the vicious guard dog away and let us pick the lock,” Comey said. “It’s not their job to watch out for public safety. That’s our job.”
>He said that neither Apple nor any other tech company ought to be permitted to create “warrant-free spaces” through the use of robust encryption, particularly as mobile and software manufacturers increasingly render user keys inaccessible to themselves.
It's good to see the police state losing...for once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=571BuZeeQjE
>>26511
>neither Apple nor any other tech company ought to be permitted to create “warrant-free spaces”
So basically he believes nobody is allowed to have any level of privacy or protection from police or government agencies.
>>26511
yep. it's good to see they clearly can't access the technology to do it themselves. That doubt has always been on the back of my mind.
Also, that they don't seem to know how the things work
>>26731
Anybody with the internet can reset the password on an iPhone. I've done it three times myself (twice, due to my boss being an idiot, and once because my friend's father died without giving anyone his password.)
This is a power grab. They don't need Apple to crack the phone. Even if they did, there's likely next to nothing on the phone itself. Most everything you do on those ends up in the cloud, so they could just as easily go after the, traditionally cooperative, ISPs.
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