Walking Evening News: Ways to prevent planets from hitting the earth ?☄️

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Good night,

NASA launched its spacecraft today, hitting a 160-meter-diameter asteroid called Dimorphos. This experiment is designed to test whether we have a way to use the impact force of the aircraft to cause the star to change its orbit before it hits the earth and causes huge disaster.

The official name of this defense experiment is “Double Asteroid Redirection Test,” or “DART” for short. Scientists involved in the project say that while there are many asteroids large enough to cause global disasters in the universe, none of them currently orbits close to the Earth – but there are still many smaller and numerous asteroids in the universe that have not yet been observed by scientists. Asteroids, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not pose a threat to the earth in the future.

As for whether the asteroid Dimorphos has actually changed its orbit? Scientists will need to observe for another week to reveal the answer. ?☄️

Global Hotspot

• Snowden, whistleblower on US internet surveillance program, gets Russian citizenship ????

• Shinzo Abe’s state funeral sparks protests in Japan??

Today, the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was held at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Outside the venue, the Japanese Self-Defense Force fired 19 cannons to offer condolences to the outgoing head of state who was assassinated more than two months ago. Meanwhile, on the streets of Tokyo around Budokan, thousands of people rallied to protest the state funeral.

According to a recent poll by the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi Shimbun, as many as 62 percent of respondents oppose holding a state funeral for Abe. Opponents questioned that the government should not spend up to 1.6 billion yen (more than NT$300 million) in public funds to hold a state funeral for Abe Shinzo. Although Abe enjoys a positive international image, many people in Japan have long been He is very dissatisfied with the Abe government’s ineffectiveness in fighting the epidemic, suppressing freedom of the press and amending the constitution.

This is Japan’s first state funeral in 55 years. The last state funeral was that of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida who passed away in 1967. The Japanese government has always had no precise criteria for “who is eligible to hold a state funeral”. Therefore, in the past few months, with the continuous increase of the state funeral budget andthe revelation of the Liberal Democratic Party to which Shinzo Abe belongs has many links with the Unification Church , the public has become concerned about The backlash for state funerals continues unabated.

Further reading

• The death of Shinzo Abe: After two shots, the future of Japanese politics and the situation in East Asia?

• An Abe, each with their own words: “supporter” or “destroyer” of democratic peace?

out of gender

• Results of Cuba’s same-marriage referendum: Two-thirds of voters voted “Yes” ???️‍?

On the 26th, Cuba’s same-marriage referendum overwhelmingly approved the newly revised “family law”. The detailed code will not only allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt, but will also redefine the rights of children and grandparents. The referendum turned out to be 74%, with two-thirds (66%) voting yes and one-third (33%) voting no.

“Love is now law,” the country’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, tweeted. “…From today, we will be a better country.”

I can’t be the only one who knows

• Qatar’s milk tea battle ???

This winter, with the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar, many are starting to wonder about the tiny oil-rich Persian Gulf nation. Al Jazeera reporters visited the streets of Duha, the capital of Qatar, and found that many people here are milk tea lovers: including a richly spiced milk tea called “karak”, and a metal tea called “samovar tea”. Fresh milk tea brewed in a heated container “samovar”.

Karak has been rooted in Qatar for a long time. It was brought by South Asian immigrants in the 1950s. It has always been popular with the local people; samovar tea came to Qatar in 2014, and its popularity came later, and it has the momentum of threatening the former. . Stores selling samovar tea will imitate the decoration of small tea houses in the Malabar region of India, which makes immigrants from Kerala, India, especially fond of this drink.

The biggest difference between the two is that karak is mostly made with canned condensed milk and has a strong sweetness, while samovar tea is made with fresh milk and has a lighter sweetness. Often compete with each other. If you’re in Qatar, try these two local favorites.

Quote of the Day

“Zan, zendegi, Azadi!” (“Women, life, freedom!”)

–< What can angry Iranian masses change after a woman dies from a hijab? >

Iranians, who have long been grumbling against the government, took to the streets to protest after a Kurdish woman, Masha Amini, was arrested by Iran’s moral police for not wearing a hijab. The core slogan of the protest, “Women, life, freedom” (Zan, zendegi, Azadi), summed up the three things that Iranian protesters want most.

The women’s rights struggle called for the headscarf has a long history in Iran. Why this time “Amini’s death” will make the people so angry and even risk their lives to protest in the streets? This time, ZOZO invited Zhang Yuxuan, the founder of “Talk About Iran”, to analyze this Iranian protest from the perspective of women’s rights and the political situation. Curious readers should not miss it. ?

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