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  • California braces for third day of towering FORTY foot waves that have damaged oceanside mansions - as foolish locals flock to piers and lifeguard almost drowns while trying to rescue one thrill seeker

    12/30/2023 11:31:47 AM PST · by Libloather · 33 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/30/23 | Alex Hammer
    Californians are bracing for third day of monster surf that has already damaged countless ocean-side properties. During the first round of severe surf Thursday, nearly 20 beachgoers were swept away by a particularly powerful wave that slammed into a barrier in Ventura County. First responders also rescued about 10 people there Friday after the group 'thought they were able to navigate that high surf,' officials said. Two beachgoers then had to pull a lifeguard out of the water as he struggled to make it back ashore, a firefighter told CNN. Though hazards are expected lessen Saturday, waves slamming into California’s...
  • Massive waves smash into million-dollar homes along Malibu coastline as relentless storm surge continues to pound California and piers are closed

    12/29/2023 2:31:55 PM PST · by Libloather · 51 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/29/23 | Alice Wright
    Million-dollar homes along the Malibu coastline are being slammed by huge waves as a relentless coastal storm continued to bash California on Friday. Extraordinarily large waves, generated by powerful swells from Pacific storms caused pier closures early Friday morning and warnings from first responders. Powerful surf was seen crashing against beachfront homes in Malibu, where emergency sand barriers have been constructed in an effort to limit the damage to the expensive properties. The exclusive coastline is a property hotspot for celebrities including Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton and Kanye West. Conditions are moderately better than Thursday, which saw a large rogue...
  • Liz Cheney makes waves on her way out of Congress

    11/06/2022 2:25:56 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Thehill ^ | 11/06/2022 | Mike Lillis
    Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is going out with a bang, ramping up her attacks on the pro-Trump forces in her own party with a highly public exit tour designed to prevent the same GOP leaders she once embraced from winning power next year. The Wyoming conservative was clobbered in her August primary after lambasting former President Trump for his role in last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol — a single-minded crusade that made her a pariah in the ruby-red Cowboy State, where Trump remains a revered figure.
  • U.S. Navy Releases Video Training Sailors to Use ‘Right’ Pronouns, Not ‘Misgender’ Colleagues

    06/22/2022 9:47:05 AM PDT · by DFG · 46 replies
    breitbart ^ | 06/22/2022 | Joshua Klein
    A newly-released Navy training video teaches sailors to use the “right” pronouns, “show that we’re allies,” and create “a safe space for everybody,” while instructing service members on how to proceed after having “misgendered” someone. The official U.S. Navy video posted by Air Force Staff Sergeant John Vannucci, according to The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), begins with two rainbow-clad hosts — both Navy civilians — introducing their personal pronouns and announcing they are there “to talk about pronouns.” “Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone’s identity,” one host says. “It is a signal...
  • 'Completely new' type of magnetic wave found surging through Earth's core

    05/28/2022 12:28:59 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    livescience.com/ ^ | Brandon Specktor
    Scientists have detected a completely new type of magnetic wave that surges through Earth's outer core every seven years, warping the strength of our planet's magnetic field in the process. The waves — dubbed "Magneto-Coriolis" waves because they move along the Earth’s axis of rotation, per the Coriolis effect — creep from East to West in tall columns that can travel up to 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) per year, the researchers wrote in a March 21 paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using a fleet of European Space Agency (ESA) satellites, the team pinpointed the...
  • Strange new type of solar wave defies physics

    03/27/2022 6:03:21 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    livescience.com ^ | Ben Turner
    Scientists have detected a strange new type of high-frequency wave on the sun's surface, and the waves are moving three times faster than scientists thought was possible. The acoustic waves, called high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves, were spotted rippling backward through the sun's plasma in the opposite direction of its rotation. The previously unknown type of wave was described in a study published March 24 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Scientists can't see into the sun's fiery depths, so they often measure the acoustic waves that move across its surface and bounce back toward its core to infer what's going...
  • Navy to christen future USNS Harvey Milk during ceremony in San Diego

    11/06/2021 7:14:52 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 96 replies
    FOX 5 ^ | Nov 5, 2021 | City News Service
    The Navy will christen its latest ship Saturday, a replenishment oiler named after slain civil rights leader Harvey Milk, during a ceremony in San Diego. The future USNS Harvey Milk is the second ship in the Navy’s John Lewis class of fleet replenishment oilers, which will serve to refuel Navy ships at sea.
  • California Recall: Polls Close 8 p.m. PT; Three ‘Waves’ of Results to Be Reported

    09/14/2021 9:26:50 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/14/2021 | Joel B Pollack
    Tuesday is Election Day in the California recall election, which will decide the fate of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), the 11th recall election in the history of the state. Voting has been going on for nearly a month already, thanks to early voting and the state’s decision to extend universal vote-by-mail rules adopted in 2020 during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic. Polls will close at 8 p.m. PT, though ballots will be accepted for seven days if they were postmarked by September 14th.
  • Climate Change Is Making Ocean Waves More Powerful

    06/14/2021 11:41:08 AM PDT · by Jayster · 43 replies
    The Inertia ^ | June 13, 2021 | Thomas Mortlock
    Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published on May 20, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. We plotted the trajectory of these stronger waves and found the coasts of South Australia and Western Australia, Pacific and Caribbean Islands, East Indonesia and Japan, and South Africa are already experiencing more powerful waves because of global warming. This will compound the effects of sea level rise, putting low-lying island nations in the Pacific — such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands — in further danger,...
  • Backlash After Official Marine Corps Twitter Account Blasts Tucker Carlson

    03/14/2021 2:14:44 PM PDT · by DFG · 93 replies
    breitbart ^ | 03/14/2021 | Joshua Klein
    Following outrage from progressives in the military towards Fox News host Tucker Carlson for contrasting China’s push for a “more masculine” military against the U.S. military’s focus on inclusivity for women, the official Marine Corps Twitter account joined in the criticism, sharing an image of a female soldier carrying another soldier with hashtags aimed at Tucker Carlson and Fox News. On Tuesday evening, Carlson noted how in January the Chinese Ministry of Education released a proposal to cultivate students’ masculinity amid a Chinese military buildup, then played a March 8 clip of President Joe Biden introducing two female generals he...
  • Biden On ‘Wave’ Of Immigration: ‘It’s Not Going To Stop’

    02/23/2021 8:26:51 AM PST · by buckalfa · 34 replies
    Yahoo ^ | February 18, 2015 | Daily Caller Staff
    During introductory remarks at a three-day summit to address violent extremism on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden welcomed future waves of immigration which he predicted are “not going to stop.” ~snip~ “I’m proud of the American record on culture and economic integration of not only our Muslim communities but African communities, Asian communities, Hispanic communities,” Biden said. “And the wave still continues. It’s not going to stop. Nor should we want it to stop. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the things I think we can be most proud of.” Embracing immigration was part of the theme of...
  • Why so many people are getting swept to sea along California's coast

    01/12/2021 5:43:25 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 59 replies
    SF Gate ^ | January 12, 2021 | by Ashley Harrell
    A magazine editor visiting from Salt Lake City was walking along a Humboldt Bay jetty with her son. A school principal was on vacation, taking family photos by the sea in Mendocino Big River Headlands State Park. A father and his two young children were spending a Sunday at Blind Beach in Sonoma Coast State Park. A man in his 30s was hiking with friends along the coast in the Marin Headlands. A man and woman were searching for mussels on the rocks at Pescadero State Park. Then came the waves. Each of these people was swept from dry ground...
  • Navy SEAL's change official ethos to be gender neutral, remove "brotherhood" and more

    09/30/2020 3:36:11 PM PDT · by hillarys cankles · 36 replies
    American Military News ^ | September 28, 2020 | Ryan Morgan
    The US NAVY SEALs and the Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) recently changed their ethos and creed statements to reflect a gender neutral presentation of the elite NAVY outfits, doing away with gendered terms like "brotherhood".
  • An 'unknown' burst of gravitational waves just lit up Earth's detectors

    01/15/2020 3:52:50 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 126 replies
    CNET ^ | 01/14/2020 | Jackson Ryan
    Earth's gravitational wave observatories -- which hunt for ripples in the fabric of space-time -- just picked up something weird. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo detectors recorded an unknown or unanticipated "burst" of gravitational waves on Jan. 14. The gravitational waves we've detected so far usually relate to extreme cosmic events, like two black holes colliding or neutron stars finally merging after being caught in a death spiral. Burst gravitational waves have not been detected before and scientists hypothesize they may be linked to phenomena such as supernova or gamma ray bursts, producing a tiny "pop" when...
  • China To Waive Tariffs On Some US Soybeans, Pork In Goodwill Gesture

    12/06/2019 6:46:47 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 30 replies
    CNBC ^ | 12/06/19
    The tariff waivers were based on applications by individual firms for U.S. soybeans and pork imports, the finance ministry said in a statement, citing a decision by the country’s cabinet. It did not specify the quantities involved. China had imposed the levies in response to tariffs launched by Washington over allegations that China steals and forces the transfer of American intellectual property to Chinese firms, known as Section 301. That includes tariffs of 25% on both U.S. soybeans and pork in July 2018 and a further 10% on pork and 5% on soybeans in September this year.
  • Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions (there aren't any)

    09/15/2018 2:10:37 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 34 replies
    Phys.org ^ | 9/14/18 | Louise Lerner
    In new study, UChicago astronomers find no evidence for extra spatial dimensions to the universe based on gravitational wave data. Credit: Courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center CI Lab While last year's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars was earth-shaking, it won't add extra dimensions to our understanding of the universe—not literal ones, at least. University of Chicago astronomers found no evidence for extra spatial dimensions to the universe based on the gravitational wave data. Their research, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, is one of many papers in the wake of the extraordinary...
  • Coast Guard searching for cruise passenger who fell overboard

    05/22/2018 9:55:45 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 22, 2018 | 7:45pm | Alexandra Deabler, Fox News
    The man, identified as Brian Lamonds of Greensboro, NC, was reported missing Tuesday morning as the ship was sailing from Tampa to Key West. The Coast Guard was notified of the missing guest and is conducting a search, Carnival Cruise said in a statement to Fox News. … Coast Guard Key West watch was notified of the missing passenger around 10 a.m. and sent out a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, an Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft crew and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Isaac Mayo to aid in the search.
  • How to Listen to the Background Hum of Gravitational Waves From all the Black Holes Colliding...

    04/19/2018 3:27:17 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 15 replies
    Universe Today ^ | 4/19/18 | Matt Williams
    How to Listen to the Background Hum of Gravitational Waves From all the Black Holes Colliding into Each Other Article written: 18 Apr , 2018 by Matt Williams The first-ever detection of gravitational waves (which took place in September of 2015) triggered a revolution in astronomy. Not only did this event confirm a theory predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity a century before, it also ushered in a new era where the mergers of distant black holes, supernovae, and neutron stars could be studied by examining their resulting waves.In addition, scientists have theorized that black hole mergers could actually...
  • California Coast Big Waves Hike

    01/20/2018 1:40:51 PM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 63 replies
    Self ^ | January 20, 2018 | ProtectOurFreedom
    I haven't posted any "Hiking California" threads in a while. I joined a couple of local MeetUp hiking groups and these folks move at a good clip, so not much time for photography. But it's great fun getting out with others with similar interests and very motivational. When I went to bed on Thursday (Jan 18, 2018), the local news said that there were 55 to 60 foot waves at Mavericks north of Half Moon Bay (this is not far south of San Francisco). So, when I woke yesterday morning and saw we had a glorious morning, I decided I...
  • Generating terahertz radiation from water makes 'the impossible, possible'

    09/29/2017 9:29:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    phys.org ^ | 09-28-2017 | Provided by: University of Rochester
    Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle that many in the research community believed to be impossible: producing terahertz waves—a form of electromagnetic radiation in the far infrared frequency range—from liquid water. Now, as reported in a paper published in Applied Physics Letters, researchers at the University of Rochester have "made the impossible, possible," says Zhang, the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics. "Figuring out how to generate terahertz waves from liquid water is a fundamental breakthrough because water is such an important element in the human body and on Earth." Terahertz waves have...