Tag: Vietnam

3…………> Bonjpur Earth: Nasty Asteroid Flying By

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An asteroid bigger than the Eiffel tower will fly close to Earth next week, with researchers estimate 2021 KT1 to be between 492 and 1,082 feet, and travelling at an extreme speed of 40,000 miles per hour. NASA says the celestial body will whizz past our planet at a distance of 4.5 million miles, which is nearly 19 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The space agency has categorized 2021 KT1 as a potentially hazardous asteroid, as it monitors around 26,000 near-Earth objects, whose orbits bring them into close proximity with our planet. Every 10,000 years an asteroid larger than 100 metres is expected to reach the Earth’s surface and cause major destruction or produce tidal waves that can inundate low lying coastal areas.

Despite the gloomy forecast, NASA says the threat to any person from an asteroid is much smaller than “from auto accidents, disease, other natural disasters, and a variety of other problems”. NASA is currently working on a project called DART that will help it deflect potentially dangerous asteroids. During the space mission, scheduled to take place in 2022, the space agency will crash a probe into a double asteroid, Didymos.

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https://sputniknews.com/science/202105291083028234-bonjour-humans-asteroid-bigger-than-eiffel-tower-will-whizz-past-the-earth-next-week

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4…………>  North Korea Propaganda Export: Germany

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North Korea’s elite university brags of alleged partnerships with Western institutes, including two German ones, as Kim Il Sung University is considered the pinnacle of the country’s higher education system, and those who have been selected by the regime to study at North Korea’s top university, the Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, belong to the country’s academic elite. Named after the founder of North Korea, it is the most important institution for training cadres in the isolated, communist country. It also proudly claims to be the alma mater of the state’s current leader Kim Jong Un.

Generally, North Koreans’ contacts with the rest of the world are kept to a minimum, including in higher education establishments. So it is all the more surprising that on the English version of its website, Kim Il Sung University boasts of being associated with dozens of partner schools around the world, including two in Germany. Apparently, the university has cleverly compiled an imposing list of past, current and alleged partnerships with “sister universities” and claims that “international academic exchanges are in full swing.”

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https://www.dw.com/en/how-north-korea-uses-berlin-universities-for-propaganda/a-57702387

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5…………>  Vietnam Detects New COVID19 Mutation

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Vietnam’s Health Ministry on Saturday said it has detected a new variant of the coronavirus that is a mix of the virulent Indian and UK variants, and spreads quickly by air, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday.

“After running gene sequencing on newly detected patients, we have discovered a new variant that is a mix of India and UK ones,” news website VnExpress quoted Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long as saying.

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https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-vietnam-detects-new-hybrid-variant-amid-covid-surge/a-57710642

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6…………> A Message Of Peace