Comments on: California’s first cubesat to be named after Jerry Brown

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:58:24 +0000

From the article: “Brown recalled that in 1978, during his second term as governor, he proposed that California launch its own communications satellite. … ‘They called me Gov. Moonbeam for that,’ Brown said. ‘I didn’t get that moniker for nothing.’”

He is right that he was called Governor Moonbeam for proposing an expensive and redundant communication satellite, when it would have been far less expensive to do as everyone else does and rent time, as needed, on commercial communication satellites. He got that moniker for idiocy. Brown has embraced the moniker, but it still means that he is an idiot.

This is the same governor who brought to California The Train To Nowhere (high speed rail), going from Modesto (just north of a state prison) to Fresno (where there is a tavern).

In this time of identity politics, California has its token idiot Governor. Multiple token idiot governors.

By: ELF

ELF — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:05:43 +0000

Newscum says the satellite will be to observe weather and climate change .
BET ME ! I’m sure it would NEVER be used as a spy satellite , NOOOO .
In Riverside , CA. where I live , the damn city government already has ariel photos of my entire property .
I can’t do ANYTHING in my own backyard , lawful or otherwise , without wondering what Sky Cam is
looking at me .

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:50:05 +0000

If for some reason this cube sat leaves earths orbit and crosses an advanced alien civilization we will be embarrassed. They may even come back to destroy us … or maybe just California

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:32:00 +0000

back to the Topic—

P.O.D. –
“Satellite”
2001
https://youtu.be/02vSlktZE6M
3:30

“As I look up to the sky today
Well I can see you looking down on me…”

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:13:02 +0000

California Governor’s Forum
Ronald Reagan & Edmund “Pat” Brown
11-3-1966
C-Span3 (excerpt)
https://youtu.be/442rW8QaRtA
3:05

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:04:12 +0000

Victor Davis Hanson –
Insights from Mexifornia
C-Span 2003 (excerpt)
https://youtu.be/egn3kp2mI5w
12:41

By: M Puckett

M Puckett — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:30:17 +0000

Naming it ‘Moonbeam’?

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:22:03 +0000

Planet 9 already has a name: “Pluto”

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 01:45:02 +0000

A free state should shoot launch a ‘destroyer’ cube sat to take down Jerry Brown.

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:53:43 +0000

How about we name the planet Columbia ?

“Jerry Brown” is an appropriate name for the smallsat as it is supposed to have a highly erratic, very strange orbit.

It’s like the way we have had the US Navy’s ship naming traditions prostituted. Cesar Chavez may have been a great man, but I don’t recall he had anything to do with national defense, yet T-AKE 14 bears his name. What did John Murtha ever do to deserve LPD 26 being named in his honor? Gabrielle Giffords managed to stop a madman’s bullet, does that mean she gets LCS 10 named for her? The official Navy line is that DDG 80 is named for FDR >and< Eleanor. My dad served in WW2 and he considered her "morale raising" interference with the military to be a sad joke. As did all my uncles, every one which was in uniform. And my dad's elder sister, who served in Burma in the Army Nurse Corps. Every one thought she was a foolish busybody. At least CVN 71 was named for the Roosevelt who saw combat – Theodore.

http://nation.time.com/2011/05/18/the-uss-cesar-chavez-the-navys-name-game-cont/

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:28:02 +0000

The other day I was watching an episode of “How The Universe Works”. The subject was the characteristics and search for the so-called “Planet 9” which according to some would explain the existing structure of the solar system. It was an interesting program but in the end I found myself hoping they would never find it because its naming would quickly devolve into a politically correct firestorm.