Posted on 09/07/2015 12:47:49 PM PDT by PROCON
(CNN)—NASA's rockets are astounding machines, capable of blasting into space at thousands of miles per hour and withstanding temperatures twice the melting point of steel.
But they can't take off underwater.
Rising sea levels caused by melting ice caps threaten to disrupt a handful of NASA launch sites along U.S. coastlines, the space agency warns. In the coming years, launch facilities at Florida's Kennedy Space Center and other places may need to be retrofitted or even moved inland, NASA says.
"Every NASA center has its own set of vulnerabilities, and some are more at risk than others," NASA climatologist Cynthia Rosenzweig said in a recent post on one of the agency's websites. "But sea level rise is a very real challenge for all of the centers along the coast."
In other words, NASA has a lot of people and property potentially in harm's way, especially in a big coastal storm.
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“Just trolling for budget $$$”
Yeah, for sure. If they really believe what they’re saying they shoul be spending weekends stacking sandbags around the launch site. sarc/
Isn’t it obvious? Gravity is different there. This causes the sea level to rise only in areas that are dramatic to the uninformed.
She is based at Columbia University same as that mega-kook James Hansen. Perhaps she took over from him.
|||||Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she heads the Climate Impacts Group.||||||
When was the last time she was at a NASA launch site to see something being sent up? American universities have been graduating a large surplus of do-gooder, save the planet, “climatologists”. They all want to be on the Federal tit directly or indirectly. The jobs don’t exist for them in the dreaded private sector. I wonder why!
“So why doesn’t Ellis Island and all of the east coast have the same problem?”
That sure is a silly question. Don’t you know that ocean water levels selectively rise only where the experts are pointing to? And the fact you are a denier makes you the crazy one?
Ha. Forgot about Stingray.
You just can’t trust anything anymore that comes out of academia, especially the so-called “elite” schools.
Rising verbal sewage threatens to flood launch sites with govt bullsht, NASA says
there fixed it
Such BS.
Nope. The seas are not rising. And the climate is 100% natural 100% of the time.
If they truly believe that they will put the next five years of budgets into moving to higher ground.
They should have been built someplace other than a swamp.
“Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!” —Deacon character, “Waterworld”
Ya but these people are a lot dumber than the Dutch.
We’re all gonna die!!!
Yup! Eventually the water will reach my house at 7,600 ft above current sea level. I will be soooo long dead by then. lol
indeed
I think the suit, vest, and tie need a little color coordination, sure... but for the love of God, the Jerry Rivers 'stache and glasses gotta go.
My favorite parody of Jerry Rivers - Hector Ramirez on the 80s GI Joe cartoon.
Maybe find some money for LASIK too.
That transformational clothing, command ship & vehicles, and center neptune must eat every bit of yen in the budget and then some.
No, NO!!!!!
This stuff is for real!
I was just looking outside in the river. This morning the water was at the bottom of the bluff. We had to climb up the ramp to get out of the marina (we live on a sail boat).
This afternoon, when we came home, the water was so high that it was almost over the bluff! When will it end!
(wait a moment, my wife pointed out that it was just the tide coming in...Never mind!) :D
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