Bob Michaelson | Substack
Bob Michaelson
Bob Michaelson
@bobmichaelson899580
Retired librarian; once a chemist, long ago.
The enormous and increasing number of satellites in low orbit creates significant problems of space debris, including the Kessler syndrome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K…. It is also increasingly interfering with astronomical observation.
Donald Trump Isn't Sounding Like Himself
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25th Amendment would just make JDV President, and he is as evil as Trump, though not quite as stupid - the thought of his finger being on the button is also terrifying. Any plausible successor to JDV as VP is also evil. Thanks to the GOP, the US is up shit creek without a paddle.
Posing As Jewish
I got to thinking, how Jewish am I, really? I’ve started to wonder. My main connection is respect for my father, who passed away in 1984. He had a heavy Jewish upbringing, to the point of being able to speak Yiddish (though never at home with us). His parents were immigrants; he was born in 1912, in a different world.
Like you, Einstein was not bar mitzvahed, and wasn't Jewish in a religious sense (didn't believe in a personal god, or consider any "holy books" of any religion to be "holy"). He did become a Zionist in reaction to German antisemitism, and generally supported Israel. However, in a talk in NYC in April 1938 he said "I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from practical consideration, my award... "