We replaced the hybrid battery on our Prius this week-seriously. And this same week, a NASA press release announces the "retirement" of the Kepler Space Telescope more than 3 years after its fuel cell battery was slated to be depleted. Now that is some awesome technology. I will miss the artistic renderings for which Kepler was credited all these years. It sure beats my cell phone that seems to always have a dead battery and never gets a signal on the other side of the hill. Credit to OneIndiaNews; NASA press release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-retires-kepler-space-telescope-passes-planet-hunting-torch ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOJIeQOofrI

In a lifelong career of accusations of deathly criminal enterprise, he finishes on a whimper of #MeToo sexual groping accusations, apologizing to actress Heather Lind and then was also named by NY actress Jordana Grolnick. After outliving accusations of direct involvement involving the Nazi Party as son of known supporter Prescott Bush, the death of JFK, Bay of Pigs, Zapata Oil, 40 years of (official) CIA, Opium Wars earning the nickname George "Poppy" Bush in Afghanistan, Iraq invasion I and many others, the legacy ends after a past year of only the lowliest common denominator of sexually abusing women. https://www.firstpost.com/world/george-hw-bush-apologises-to-heather-lind-for-groping-her-new-york-actress-jordana-grolnick-alleges-he-grabbed-her-too-4176973.html George HW Bush apologises to Heather Lind for groping her; New York actress Jordana Grolnick alleges he 'grabbed her' too World FP Staff Oct 26, 2017 10:35:37 IST Two actresses have come forward accusing former US president George HW Bush of sexually harassing them in public. Within a week after actress Heather Lind accused Bush Sr of groping her from his wheelchair while at a screening, actress Jordana Grolnick accused the former US president of grabbing her in an 'extremely similar' fashion. Grolnick was working on the production of The Hunchback of Notre Dam in Maine in August 2016, when the incident took place. It was near the Bush family compound when he went backstage and 'grabbed her' while taking a picture, reported The Washington Post. “He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?’ As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!’” Grolnick said. Grolnick, a New York actress, narrated the incident to Deadspin. "We all circled around him and (former first lady) Barbara (Bush) for a photo, and I was right next to him,” she said, adding, “He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?’ As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!’" Grolnick said that all the women in the room "laughed politely out of discomfort". Around that time, "Barbara, who was among those nearby, said something along the lines of, ‘He’s going to get himself put in jail!’ to which we laughed harder,” Grolnick told the news website. The incident is "entirely similar" to what Lind had described earlier this week. Lind, 34, said that the incident occurred four years ago at an event to promote the TV series Turn: Washington's Spies, according to the Daily Mail, which saved a screenshot of a lengthy Instagram post she wrote and later deleted. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwmvtBNvYNE