NASA tries to make space sustainable, and other stories
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Welcome to Ramin’s Space, the newsletter from science writer Ramin Skibba. You can read more about the newsletter here. If you like it, please consider subscribing and sharing this post. First, I have to comment on what’s happening right now. It’s heartbreaking and frustrating watching Israel’s war in Gaza continue, now for more than 200 days, following Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7. Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, more than two thirds of whom have been children and women, and now mass graves have been found next to two major hospitals, with some bodies showing signs of torture, execution, and people buried alive. The remaining population of the besieged territory is now on the cusp of famine (as is Sudan, a so-called “forgotten crisis”), so the death toll could rise as families struggle to survive. The United States is further funding Israel’s war, with billions of dollars of weaponry, and prolonging it (as well as the Russia-Ukraine/NATO war, and arming Taiwan against China, conducting military exercises nearby, and banning TikTok). Israel has repeatedly violated international law and has had a pattern of committing war crimes (as Russia has done as well), and it’s plausibly committing genocide in Gaza. Yet US foreign policy and unequivocal support for the jingoist Israeli government has hardly changed, as Israel’s war now extends into 16 countries, risking a broader and bloodier conflict. Americans always seem to have an appetite for more war, and for xenophobia too: 51% of people, including 42% of Democrats, now say they’d support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a disturbing
NASA tries to make space sustainable, and other stories
NASA tries to make space sustainable, and…
NASA tries to make space sustainable, and other stories
Welcome to Ramin’s Space, the newsletter from science writer Ramin Skibba. You can read more about the newsletter here. If you like it, please consider subscribing and sharing this post. First, I have to comment on what’s happening right now. It’s heartbreaking and frustrating watching Israel’s war in Gaza continue, now for more than 200 days, following Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7. Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, more than two thirds of whom have been children and women, and now mass graves have been found next to two major hospitals, with some bodies showing signs of torture, execution, and people buried alive. The remaining population of the besieged territory is now on the cusp of famine (as is Sudan, a so-called “forgotten crisis”), so the death toll could rise as families struggle to survive. The United States is further funding Israel’s war, with billions of dollars of weaponry, and prolonging it (as well as the Russia-Ukraine/NATO war, and arming Taiwan against China, conducting military exercises nearby, and banning TikTok). Israel has repeatedly violated international law and has had a pattern of committing war crimes (as Russia has done as well), and it’s plausibly committing genocide in Gaza. Yet US foreign policy and unequivocal support for the jingoist Israeli government has hardly changed, as Israel’s war now extends into 16 countries, risking a broader and bloodier conflict. Americans always seem to have an appetite for more war, and for xenophobia too: 51% of people, including 42% of Democrats, now say they’d support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a disturbing