6-23-11
WASHINGTON (WJZ)—Don’t panic if you see large planes flying unusually low over Maryland roadways next week. It’s all part of a major plan by NASA to help study air pollution over major cities.
Derek Valcourt explains where you’ll be seeing some of those low-flying planes.
The study will focus on air pollution over many of Maryland’s major roads, from Baltimore’s beltway, to the 95 corridor, even over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
This is no ordinary plane, it’s a specially fitted NASA aircraft designed with equipment to measure air pollution levels in flight. And starting next week the skies over Maryland will become a pollution detection playground for the plane and for NASA scientists.
“The public I think is very interested in knowing where air pollution problems are the largest, and then they have the ability to make their own decisions about their own activities and times and places they would like to avoid,” said Dr. James Crawford, NASA atmospheric scientist.
Maryland’s Department of Environment already has six pollution monitoring stations on the ground, but they’re spread out and only can tell you pollution levels in the immediate area.
Read on at the above link, if you can stand it.
You might be puzzled by this picture. This is a picture of a male eunuch, a male with his penis removed. To perform special duties in society, special males were produced—we call them eunuchs. They have since been a special sector of society. This practice originated in the Hsu Dynasty. Not only was it a means of punishment but also a means to obtain a post to serve the Emperor. The number of eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty amounted to about 70,000. The benefit of being an eunuch was the chance of obtaining supreme power—sometimes over and above that of the emperor, although self-mutilation to become a eunuch was illegal. The practice was stopped in 1912 and the number of eunuchs dropped to 470.
Note how the number Eunuchs grew so large by 1644. As with all bureaucracies, their main function is self serving growth and preservation, not public service. Even if the Bureaucratic Eunuchs could not naturally multiply, their numbers grew exponentially none the less.♘
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