Notices by Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social), page 4

@sundogplanets They can’t allow those Canadian dollars to cross the border. Thanks for trying though.

@chad I hope that large passenger planes are more resistant, since they have to deal with hail and large birds.

@chad I expect that changes in regulations will happen after this incident. The 249 grams drone is enough to do damage to the Super Scooper.

@DoomsdaysCW Those earthen bricks may be fire-resistant, but they look like the worst possible building material for earthquake risk.

@alienghic That is great news! I am grateful to the firefighters who stopped the fire from reaching the Observatory.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department made a short briefing this morning (Sunday, January 12), on the status of the Eaton Fire. The containment of the fire perimeter has increased greatly, but the southern part in residential and commerical areas of town of Altadena and city of Pasadena is complex for firefighters to declare no chance of spread. #EatonFire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w3GUMcIqU

@dsmdexter @ai6yr @acdha The town of Altadena was full of modest houses, many a century old. It was a place where people could live in a home close to the city for a lower price than nearby cities and had a large Black population from the time when it was one of the few places that Blacks were allowed to buy houses.

@ohmu I know Kyle MacDonald very well. He used to be in the office next to me. He has moved to New York to be a professor at City University of New York, but he maintains an affiliation at JPL. I still work with him often on radar image analysis. He and I both work on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.

@realTuckFrumper The USA has troops stationed in dozens of countries. Does Vance want to invade Germany next?

@ohmu Yes, I work at JPL. I don’t put that in my profile to be clear that I don’t represent or speak for JPL.

@Schouten_B @elticoloco It seems that they only stopped using the 747 tanker in 2021, not that long ago.

@ohmu @ErickaSimone The Eaton Fire was stopped just before the Arroyo Seco near JPL. I think the closest homes that were burned were about 200 yards from the East Gate of JPL.

@andybrwn @ai6yr Oh, I don't know where the LADWP transmission lines are, but I know that at least some of the big lines in Eaton Canyon are SCE.

@c_merriweather @StillIRise1963 The largest jet dropping fire retardant they are using in California now is a modified DC-10, which is even larger than the 737.

@andybrwn @ai6yr Altadena is SCE. It is in LA County, not in the City of LA. Pasadena has its own PWP, but Altadena is SCE.

@me_valentijn @ai6yr I am sure there will be a detailed investigation.

Yeah I’m calling it.
This is going to be worse than the Northridge earthquake and the ‘94 Malibu fires combined. In terms of buildings, heritage/history and lives lost.

Octavia Butlers house gone. Jackie Robinsons house is gone. Will rogers estate lost. Abolitionist John Brown’s site gone. The legendary 150 year old Christmas tree lane destroyed. #JPL #NASA in the line of fire.

#Altadena barely exists anymore. #Pasadena is going to shift forever. It is heartbreaking. #eatonfire #LAWildfires

@ai6yr The transmission towers in Eaton Canyon are the huge high-voltage lines, nothing like the small and very old power lines that probably caused the Camp Fire in 2018.

@ai6yr Southern California Edison denies that their equipment started the Eaton Fire. They say that their transmission lines through the area were de-energized. It could still have started in the vegetation beneath the power lines and towers.

@StillIRise1963 Yes, the material they drop from the airplanes is called fire retardant, because it can slow the fire progression.