After picking up steam immediately ahead of landfall, Michael has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm, and its eye is now approaching southeastern Alabama and southwestern Georgia.
“This is a storm that is going to be life-threatening in several ways,” ...Michael is "still expected to make landfall close to Panama City, FL midday Wednesday..."
... the US space agency plans to “drill up to 10km down into the supervolcano, and pump down water at high pressure,” thus slowly extracting heat from it.
A new tropical storm has developed off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and could become a dangerous Category 2 hurricane with an expected Wednesday landfall on the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle region.
“... there were flames 8 or 9 feet high shooting out of a hole about 2 feet in diameter. It burned that way for 30 to 45 minutes before it went out..."
People are so used to being spied on now that many are shrugging off the possibility that the system is more invasive than it appears. Cybersecurity expert John McAfee is not one of them...
"Claiming the climate change is the big villain in the current wildfire situation, may be a useful tool for some ambitious politicians and for those searching for arguments to support climate-related initiatives, but the truth is probably elsewhere..."
"The second scary possibility is that the quarks would reassemble themselves into compressed objects called strangelets... transforming the entire earth in a hyperdense sphere about one hundred meters across..."
"The memes mocking Trump’s new alert system are already flooding the internet, and most people have already formed an opinion on it... If only they would opt out of the mentality that their participation in this entire system is voluntary."
