A summertime student has been removed from an experimentation after NASA decided that a altogether precise annotation mentioning the President bond to an experiment that fell in a New Jersey field was a “ ill-conceived attempt to be lighthearted , ” a NASA representative toldWNBC - TV .
TheAP reports :
South Brunswick police say the software package , bind to a parachute , was making a hissing sound and included a musical note that order : “ NASA Atmospheric Research Instrument NOT A BOMB ! If this lands near the President , we at NASA wish him a neat round of golf . ”
The Presidentreally was at his golf game coursein Bedminster , New Jersey , 29 miles away from where the package landed .
The software program was a telegram - filled white styrofoam box attached to a cherry-red parachute , WNBC - TV report , that landed in a New Jersey solar panel arena on Tuesday . A dud squad and even the Secret Service investigated the parcel , which call on out to be an ozone - measuring gimmick found as part of the “ Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study . ” It was one of six balloons , another of which did Edwin Herbert Land near the president ’s Bedminster golf game course .
Gizmodo hand out to the project ’s star scientist , Paul Miller at the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management ( NESCAUM ) . “ I do n’t have much of a comment on the note itself — I just learn of it this morning , ” he say via electronic mail . “ The ozone sonde ( i.e. , the ‘ styrofoam box ’ ) launches are an important piece of a multi - year cause that NESCAUM is serve coordinate with universities , State Department , and federal authority to get a better handgrip on New York City ’s smogginess problem and the millions of people it affects . We ’ve had some pretty spoiled smogginess events this summer , and I ’d hate to see the feat get sidetracked over an poorly - advise Federal Reserve note . ”
The educatee was let go , reports the AP , because bomb calorimeter threats are bad . Just last week , an unsung person or people may have attempt to assassinate the Venezuelan president withbombs bind to a drones .
At time of publication , President Trump has not yet tweeted about the incident .
[ WNBCviaAP ]
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