FINGAL, N.D. -- Most every newspaper and magazine is boohoo-ing about the end of the space shuttle program -- the golden calf of destruction, pain and sorrow for more than 25 years.
Lingering effects
The actual effects from this last mission in our weather disruption won't end until sometime in 2012. We can prove that by going back to the first shuttle explosion in January 1986. Every rocket fanatic sat back to study. Why? Leaving the atmosphere alone. But our erratic weather started about six weeks after the shuttle exploded in 1986 and didn't stop until the end of September.
We averaged a rain every 3.2 days from April 1 to the end of September.
Our farming year in 1987 was awesome. Ten days of sun and then rain -- no stress.
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Russia put up the Mir Space Station in 1988. We had the least amount of moisture in the history of record keeping that year. It was worse than the Dirty '30s. The Dirty '30s were caused by Germany inventing the rocket in 1929 in its desire to stick something in that giant blue sky overhead.
NASA figured out its flaw in the shuttle and we started floating away in 1991. It hasn't stopped and it won't stop because the Clinton administration sold China all our technology; and now they have all our money and cheap labor to build one rocket after another.
Editor's Note: Buchholz is a certified organic farmer from Fingal, N.D.
