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Blog for Sunday, June 18, 2023

I’m a day late. It was a busy Father’s Day with setting up a new weather station and stopping in for some early Sunday donuts and mead at a local establishment. This is the 8th weekly blog, I think it is a habit. Hope you enjoy. Any feedback is appreciated.

Today, Monday June 19, US astronaut Frank Rubio will overtake US astronaut, Andrew Morgan, for the 13^th longest stay in space, 271.53 days. Of course, he is setting this record stay with his two fellow cosmonauts from the Soyuz 68S mission that launched on September 21, 2022. If he stays until September 27 of this year, he will set the US record for the longest stay in space at 371 days, breaking Mark Vande Hei’s record of 355 days set in 2022. Not bad for a rookie astronaut on his first mission. He will still be behind 5 other Russians and tied with his 2 fellow cosmonauts for the longest stay in space by any country. Valeri Polyakov has the record of 437.75 days set in 1994-1995 aboard the Russian Mir space station.

It slipped under my news radar but the show ‘Stars on Mars” started on June 5. You can catch the previous episodes on streaming or watch new ones at 7PM on Mondays on FOX TV. It is an analog Mars mission with William Shatner as the Earth based communicator, and 12 people including, 2 ex-football players, Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman, cyclist Lance Armstrong and various other TV personalities. I watched the first 2 shows on streaming and it is heavy on the reality-TV and light on the Mars science. I’m not sure if I would recommend it, but I might be hooked on the on-going person dynamics. My biggest question would be what our actual Mars simulation analog astronaut, Beth, thinks of the show?

UAP news is taking off– NASA recently had their first public presentation by their UAP Panel. UAP now stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, (recently the word, Aerial, was replaced with Anomalous so that events in space and under water could be included). Now on 6/12/23, we have a high security clearance official, David Grusch, claiming he heard that alien craft with bodies have been recovered and some American people have been murdered by them. These outrageous claims need evidence and so far, none has been produced. Grusch even admits he hasn’t seen evidence directly but only relaying second or third hand accounts. Mick West, a UFO video debunker, has done his best to be a rational mind analyzing the claims, but I’m worried that his level-headed responses will be dismissed by the radicals on the other side. NewsNation has done some broadcasts with Grusch, but they are far from being unbiased reporting. This type of coverage is undermining the report from NASA’s UAP panel which has studied the phenomena for the last 7 months and is trying to bring scientific analysis to the subject.