Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Says Justice Department Won’t Defend Refugee Ban.

Picnic Day

103rd annual UC Davis Picnic Day. And Sacramento’s​ Picnic Day, too.

David Schaedler 4/22/17 

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Report: Russian elite invests nearly $100 million in Trump's buildings, report shows. Huffington Post, 3/19/17.

Ocean’s Source

    Where does Earth’s oceans come from? It is said that comets brought water tot the earth, but look at comets. The comet that was landed on recently is veritably dry. Meteorites hold 22% of water in their rocks. If you seen the video where part of a meteorite is crushed and heated, water vapor forms. Meteorites that formed the Earth brought water in their rocks. You may say comets did the same, but have you thought of the amounts needed? Whatever rocks with that much water did it.

David Schaedler November 25, 2015

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Want to take a Ride?

The American River bike trail, ARBT, runs with no bumps or potholes, nearly, from downtown Sacramento Discovery Park to old Folsom, both are Pony Express stops. It’s 35 miles of “green traveling” along a well maintained asphalt pathway following the American and Sacramento rivers. Some spots are even being fenced off and replanted. . Drinking water and portable outhouses are provided, no worries for tired riders or bike tires. Very scenic, lots of trees, plants, bushes, Grey  or Ground Squirrels, the occasional pet, and of course, bicycle riders. There are many access roads from Folsom, Sacramento and places in between. Many will drive from Folsom, park the car, ride or raft to Sacramento, driving or bicycling back home. I rode one way in 3 hours, very scenic. You could be careful by having an extra tire, but that’s just in case. . From the trees and such, it’s a quiet ride mostly, but the trail crosses under several more than 2 lane roads, it’s “God’s bicycle country”. In any case, you will see only bicyclists or joggers of both sexes only. Many days will see empty trails; however, it’s a good sign in seeing others, knowing your bicycling efforts are not alone. . There is at least one sign, thank you Department of Public Works and County Parks, with 100’s of Golden Poppies, California’s State Flower, this 2014 Spring. . So we gravel roads run parallel for maintenance trucks that travel the route and keep all up to shape. It’s well travelled, but well maintained. A riding rules and large map are available from county parks.

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November 2017

November is National Diabetes Month, here in the U.S. Watch for Diabetes articles in the news.

David Schaedler 11/9/17.

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NSA? NSA!?

What 10,000 documents did Edward Snowden steal anyway?

Who gave a National Security Worker oversight of his own 10,000 private, classified NSA documents? What security measure?

What were these - stolen and private - documents anyway? Telephone records? He has 10,000 private telephone records?

The Russians have 10,000 stolen, private, American telephone records?

Who wants a Communist listening to his private phone calls?

What do you do? Complain about the theft.

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Russian Hacking

Russia is flooding the internet with fake news about the Syria Satin Gas Attack. 8:15am PST, 4/14/17 GMA channel 10, Sacramento. So, now we know what Russian hacking is really about, to blind America, to cause the American people to think differently, to put something other than the truth up in front of the American public. This would be used in wartime, to cause sensors to become nonfunctional, so their directed weapons would not work well. No surgical strikes. So we must be very close, or closing in. We know what Russia can do. We must be watchful for the truth in what little we get from this news source. And we know Putin's background, too. He was a former KGB operative. So, this makes the Russian leadership dangerous. Together, this makes Russia a very dangerous place. David Schaedler 4/14/17

Tillerson wants to merge the State Dept. and USAID. That’s a bad idea. Article gives description of USAID and State Dept, and tell why the merger would be bad. David Schaedler 7/2/17.

Project Blue (@proj_blue) tweeted at 1:49 PM on Dec 04:

Interested in the science of imaging Earth-like #exoplanets? See this @reddit_AMA w NASA scientists doing just that:

Project Blue is a Kickstarter, crowd funding campaign to finance plans to build an orbiting telescope capable of imaging a planet in the AlphaCenturi star system, a first. No telescope, however large, has yet done that.

It will employ nested lenses capable of being focused by warping, and also of blocking the intense light of a star, 4.37 light years away, in order to see the dim planet.

So far, Kickstarter has received 1,000 donations, and that was the first number to tackle. Now Project Blue has gone beyond that.

It appears their next goal include building a starship that can get there in 40 years instead of 10’s of thousands. That’s would be at approximately 1/10 the the speed of light!

This starship may only include machinery, sensors computers and a radio, as well as propulsion and antenna, and not include people. Since it took 9.5 years for a conventional spacecraft to reach Pluto, the idea of a non-conventional positron-electron powered ship to reach the nearest star in 40 years is a real jump in propulsion invention and may have barriers to overcome. This idea of a new way is not uncommon in America, we invent news ways all the time. Kickstarter and Project Blue and are standing on the edge of reality, both in devices and present knowledge. David Schaedler 12/6/16

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2016 from CALIFORNIA!