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To: robert b furman who wrote (3111)	8/23/2019 1:17:32 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13876

Your old alma mater GMI is still in business. - gmiweb.com . Hamburger University is pretty exclusive as well - harder to get into than Harvard because you have to own a McDonald's franchise or be the franchisee's senior manager. - businessinsider.com You've gotta love the custom-made diplomas .

To: robert b furman who wrote (3111)	8/24/2019 3:58:51 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13876

REMOTE SENSING (with a twist) NASA MODIS satellites Acqua and Terra are in polar orbits and scan the planet every 2 days. Now can detect fires. (see below) Let's follow an orbit: From the Bering Strait it enters Trump's US Alaska and detects huge fires. Enters Trudeau's Canada. Thousands of Km2 of forests. No fires. Crosses the North Atlantic. Next comes Norway. That country that got rich exporting fossil fuels. No fire. Then 'flight shame' country Sweden zero fires there. No fires in Finland either. Now comes Putin's Russia Siberia and the Hell got loose. Tundra on fire. Permafrost melting. You saw it. In the southern hemisphere, the satellites found no fires, in the tropical forests of Africa nor Kalimantan's (Borneo) Indonesia. But as soon as they spotted South America, it picked Bolsonaro's Amazon fires ! As you can see the NASA MODIS satellites are very selective in their monitoring: Trump's US. Putin's Russia and Bolsonaro's Brazil. The brain behind the fire detecting software is James MacKinnon, a software engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He designed the software to help firefighters on the wake of the fires that erupted in the dry mountain grass in Butte County, Calif. last November. Once the MacKinnon's system worked, he needed approval: “NASA is always open to partnership,” MacKinnon wrote in an email. “Having buy-in from the government of California would definitely go a long way in getting it approved.” eos.org By the way: MacKinnon's software is a tool for the good. NGOs quickly found a way to partner with NASA in a win-win deal The system would do selective sensing and created this Summer's mayhem. With that high visibility MacKinnon would get his approval. NGOs coffers would over flow with cash pouring in from the outraged donations.