GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN: ITS FIERY DEATH AND THE AWE INDUCING STATS.

ICHEOKU says the wonderment of science at its best, that a man made super machine could travel 932 million miles at 77,000 mph from this planet earth to another planetary space; and survived there for another 13 years. It wrecked in 5 billion miles of travel through the rings of Saturn, orbiting it 294 times before finally being vaporized through a controlled crash and burn orbital maneuver. 

Cassini was indeed a thing of beauty, a stellar product of the extraordinary ingenuity of some brilliant minds; and it handsomely rewarded the world of Planetary and Rock Science. 

The numbers associated with Cassini are simply mind blowing: it took a 7 years of traveling, at a speed of 77,000 miles per hour, to traverse the distance of 945 million miles between earth and Saturn. Once aligned within the rings of Saturn, it clocked in another 5 billion miles during  its 13 years of life orbiting and observing Saturn. The Saturn probe rocketed off in October 1997 and reached the rings of Saturn in July 2004.  

Just close your eyes for a moment and imagine the science that went into building this super machine; factoring in the rocket fuel that sustained the engines for that long and length of travel; the communication instruments that kept on going for the duration of the mission and the distance it took to bring back to earth all the information mined while observing Saturn, transmitting bits of data at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second,which took 83-and-a-half minutes to cover the distance back to earth

During the course of its 13-year mission, Cassini executed 2.5 million commands, carried out 360 engine burns, completed 162 targeted flybys of Saturn's moons, took more than 453,000 images and discovered six previously unknown moons, covering 4.9 billion miles since launch in 1997. Most important, the spacecraft collected 635 gigabits of data resulting in nearly 4,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers. 

How they did it, ICHEOKU cannot begin to conceptualize; only to say that the team are exceptionally awesome. They are science par excellence and brilliance personified. The Cassini Project was indeed a true mission accomplished and a testament to what the human brain could and is capable of accomplishing. 

The bus-sized spacecraft was fast running out of rocket fuel and crashing just anywhere was not an option acceptable to the mission controllers and they had to force crash and burn it Saturn's atmosphere all in the name of protecting the planet's natural satellites. In NASA's own words explaining their action: Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure that Saturn's moons — in particular Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity — remain pristine for future exploration. 

Continuing, "This morning, a lone explorer, a machine made by humankind, finished its mission 900 million miles away. A superb machine in an amazing place, doing everything we could possibly do to reveal the mysteries and secrets of our solar system. As you just heard, the signal from the spacecraft is gone and within the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft. I hope you're all deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment. Congratulations to you all. This has been an incredible mission, an incredible spacecraft and you're all an incredible team. I'm going to call this the end of mission." With these words by Project Manager Earl Maize, the Cassini Mission to Saturn came to an end and it was indeed a mission accomplished. ICHEOKU says the world is proud.

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