Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 16, 2025 The Los Angeles area wildfires have killed at least 24 people, displaced more than 200,000, and destroyed over 12,000 buildings. The eventual price tag of the fires will exceed $200-300 billion and outstrip the billions of dollars given to Ukraine. Some fires that are still completely uncontained. “No one […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A deadly space competition between China and the United States was demonstrated by Jan.12 article in the unofficial Chinese state media South China Morning Post (SCMP) on how Chinese engineers are developing the means to target U.S. satellite mega-constellations. The SCMP article was likely coercive […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 13, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JANUARY 12 ■ Mars is nearest to Earth tonight, appearing 14.6 arcseconds wide and magnitude –1.4. That’s as bright as Sirius, which sparkles whitely about four fists to Mars’s lower right in early evening, and directly below Mars when they’re highest around midnight or 1 a.m. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct In the second Trump administration, U.S. troops in South Korea may be expected to focus primarily on defending against the threat from China, rather than North Korea analysts say. Elbridge Colby, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is skeptical that North Korea will […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For its first satellite launch for 2025, China decided to demonstrate the dual-use nature of its space program, by launching its Shi Jian (Experimental)-25 satellite, ostensibly to test satellite refueling, but which can also perfect satellite interception, capture and destruction skills for the new Aerospace […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 7, 2025 [The following is from a Jan. 2 Facebook post by Blaze TV host Steve Deace.] Yesterday was another grim reminder that worldview is destiny. Dread it, run from it, ignore it, believe you can defy it — destiny arrives all the same. Following the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 6, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, JANUARY 6 ■ First-quarter Moon (exactly first-quarter at 6:56 p.m. EST). Find the Great Square of Pegasus to the Moon’s upper right shortly after dark, and directly right of the Moon later. A diagonal through the Square points at the Moon (for evening in North America). […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 6, 2025 WORDS OF LIFE Proverbs 14 The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. 2 Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise him are devious in their ways. 3 A fool’s mouth lashes out with pride, but the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 1, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In Dec. 2024 China has revealed that it is making advances that could enable its domination of “Near Space,” which could go far to ensure that China can dominate military conflicts on Earth. Like the United States, China has long viewed the region known as […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 30, 2024 By Bill Federer, December 29, 2019 [The following is excerpted from American Minute] Robert Lee Frost began publishing poems in his high school bulletin. In 1892, he graduated co-valedictorian with the woman he was to marry, Elinor Miriam White. He briefly attended Dartmouth, then Harvard, but left to go […]
