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  • The Atlantic Ocean could be SWALLOWED by a terrifying 'Ring of Fire', scientists say as they discover a 'sleeping' subduction zone beneath the Gibraltar Strait

    03/18/2024 8:46:34 PM PDT · by week 71 · 34 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Jonathan Chadwick
    Although it may seem like an eternal feature of Earth, the Atlantic Ocean could be swallowed by a vast subduction zone, dubbed the 'Ring of Fire', a new study warns. Scientists in Portugal say this subduction zone is currently located beneath the Gibraltar Strait, the narrow gap of water between Spain and Morocco. But the experts think it could grow and expand westwards into the Atlantic and eventually become responsible for a 'closing' or shrinking of the ocean basin.
  • Chinese battery giant Gotion accused of 'bullying' rural Michigan community after CCP-linked firm SUES town over its resistance to $2.4BILLION plant

    03/18/2024 4:06:08 PM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Miles Dilworth
    A Chinese battery giant has sued a small Michigan town over its opposition to plans to build a $2.4billion factory in its community, sparking accusations it is trying to 'bully' residents into submission. Gotion, which 'pledges allegiance' to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), stepped up its war with Green Charter Township on Friday by filing a federal complaint accusing local officials of trying to scupper the project illegally. The row centers over a deal agreed between Gotion and the previous township board, which was booted out by residents in a recall election in November over its support for the project....
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma

    03/18/2024 2:31:35 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    NASA ^ | 18 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Erik Vallestad
    Explanation: A bright comet will be visible during next month's total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks's return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth's April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to the unaided eye, best visible with binoculars in the early evening sky toward the constellation of the Fish (Pisces). Comet Pons-Brooks, though, is putting on quite a show for deep camera images even now. The featured image is a composite of three very specific...
  • 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct.7

    03/18/2024 6:03:31 AM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | FEBRUARY 21, 2024
    While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period.. An 11-year-old boy found a 2,000-year-old coin belonging to the Hasmonean king and high priest Alexander Yanai, Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday. Nati Toyikar was evacuated from his home, Kibbutz Magen, following Hamas's October 7 attacks. He is currently living in one of the hotels for evacuated residents along the Dead Sea, where, on one of his explorations, he unexpectedly found an ancient coin from the time of Hasmonean...
  • Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old

    03/17/2024 9:14:09 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 61 replies
    Earth via MSN ^ | 03 17 2024 | Eric Ralls
    The fabric of the cosmos, as we currently understand it, comprises three primary components: 'normal matter,' 'dark energy,' and 'dark matter.' However, new research is turning this established model on its head. A recent study conducted by the University of Ottawa presents compelling evidence that challenges the traditional model of the universe, suggesting that there may not be a place for dark matter within it. Dark matter, a term used in cosmology, refers to the elusive substance that does not interact with light or electromagnetic fields and is only identifiable through its gravitational effects. Despite its mysterious nature, dark matter...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision

    03/17/2024 2:01:58 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    NASA ^ | 17 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl
    Explanation: Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars? Probably not. Although the precise dynamics behind the featured image is yet unclear, what is clear is that the pictured galaxy, NGC 7714, has been stretched and distorted by a recent collision with a neighboring galaxy. This smaller neighbor, NGC 7715, situated off to the left of the frame, is thought to have charged right through NGC 7714. Observations indicate that the golden ring pictured is composed of millions of older Sun-like stars that are likely co-moving with the interior bluer stars. In contrast, the bright center of NGC...
  • Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 03/16/2024 Vol.489, Q Day 2331

    03/16/2024 10:02:38 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 495 replies
    qalerts.app ^ | 3/16/2024 | FReeQs, FReepers, LurQers and Vanity
    Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDTQ !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).>Decide for yourself (be resistant to...
  • Harvard Medical School Professor Was Fired Over Not Getting COVID Vaccine

    03/16/2024 9:50:46 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/16/2024 | Zachary Steiber
    A Harvard Medical School professor who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine has been terminated, according to documents reviewed by The Epoch Times.Martin Kulldorff, epidemiologist and statistician, at his home in Ashford, Conn., on Feb. 11, 2022. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist, was fired by Mass General Brigham in November 2021 over noncompliance with the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate after his requests for exemptions from the mandate were denied, according to one document. Mr. Kulldorff was also placed on leave by Harvard Medical School (HMS) because his appointment as professor of medicine there “depends upon” holding a position...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - ELT and the Milky Way

    03/16/2024 12:04:19 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 13 replies
    NASA ^ | 16 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit & License: European Southern Observatory - Courtesy: Jens Scheidtmann
    Explanation: The southern winter Milky Way sprawls across this night skyscape. Looking due south, the webcam view was recorded near local midnight on March 11 in dry, dark skies over the central Chilean Atacama desert. Seen below the graceful arc of diffuse starlight are satellite galaxies of the mighty Milky Way, also known as the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. In the foreground is the site of the European Southern Observatory's 40-metre-class Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Under construction at the 3000 metre summit of Cerro Armazones, the ELT is on track to become planet Earth's biggest Eye on the Sky.
  • Marine Archaeologists Discover 10 Shipwrecks, Including One From Roman Era

    03/16/2024 9:43:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 15, 2024
    Marine archaeologists have identified 10 shipwrecks, including one from the Roman era, in the waters around a Greek island in the Mediterranean. The finds came to light during a multiyear project carried out by a team in collaboration with Greece's National Hellenic Research Foundation and the country's Ministry of Culture. The project has been surveying an area around the island of Kasos, which lies in the Aegean Sea, a portion of the Mediterranean between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey's Anatolia peninsula to the east. "This research was conducted to shed light on the maritime history of the...
  • Mark Steyn appeals hockey stick verdict

    03/16/2024 4:24:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 Mar, 2024 | Peter Kauffner
    Climate bully Michael Mann, with mixed results, has been suing those who criticize his “hockey stick” graph of climate history. This 1998 graph purported to show that global temperature was stable until about 1900 when human-induced warming struck. In February, Mann scored a $1 million libel judgement against Canadian columnist Mark Steyn in a court in the District of Columbia. Steyn has responded with an appeal. Punitive damages are typically calculated as a ratio to actual damages. With only $1 in actual damages, the ratio in this case is a staggering million to one. This amount is so excessive that...
  • Unexpected Discovery of “Impossible Galaxy” Shatters Astronomical Boundaries

    03/15/2024 12:54:00 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | MARCH 13, 2024 | By KIM BAPTISTA, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    The unexpected discovery of the dwarf galaxy PEARLSDG, which is isolated and quiescent, challenges established views on galaxy evolution and highlights the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope in uncovering cosmic phenomena. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com PEARLSDG, an isolated dwarf galaxy found by the James Webb Space Telescope, defies standard galactic evolution theories by not forming new stars, indicating a need to revise our understanding of galaxies. A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University Assistant Research Scientist Tim Carleton, has discovered a dwarf galaxy that appeared in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imaging that wasn’t the primary...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Portrait of NGC 1055

    03/15/2024 12:14:16 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    NASA ^ | 15 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Doctor
    Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way. But the telltale pinkish star forming regions are scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's thin disk. With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a...
  • Long COVID ‘indistinguishable’ from other post-viral syndromes a year after infection:

    03/15/2024 10:21:16 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Eurakelert ^ | 03/15/2024
    Authors, who include Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, say it is time to stop using terms like ‘long COVID’ as they wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer term symptoms associated with the virusReports and ProceedingsEuropean Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 27-30 April). Please credit the congress if you use this story**Long COVID appears to manifest as a post-viral syndrome indistinguishable from seasonal influenza and other respiratory illnesses, with no evidence of increased moderate-to-severe...
  • Giant Volcano on Mars, Hiding in Plain Sight for Decades, is 'Long-Sought Smoking Gung' for Scientists

    03/15/2024 8:29:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    The Debrief ^ | MARCH 13, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
    Scientists have discovered a gigantic volcano on Mars near the planet’s equator that remained unnoticed for decades, according to newly published research. The huge volcano was found in the Red Planet’s eastern Tharsis volcanic province, along with what researchers interpret to be a large sheet of buried glacial ice beneath the Martian surface. The discovery came as a surprise, partly because orbital spacecraft have photographed this region of Mars since the early 1970s. Hidden in plain sight now for decades, the giant volcano, which has undergone extensive erosion over time, somehow remained unnoticed. The feature has been given the temporary...
  • The Latest Development on 'Long COVID' Is Going to Make You Angry

    03/15/2024 7:48:28 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/15/2024 | Matt Vespa
    So, what the hell did we go through all of this for? I expected another wave of either anger or hilarity regarding the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued earlier this month about COVID: we can pretty much treat this viral infection like the flu. Remember, it was not long ago that even uttering such a thing could land you in social media jail or be branded a science denier. The footnote for the COVID pandemic will be that the people were right, and the experts were wrong. Masking is grossly ineffective. The vaccine is...
  • It's Science: Petting Dogs Is Good for You

    03/15/2024 7:39:03 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 03/15/2024 | Stephen Green
    A new study shows what dog lovers have known all along: petting dogs isn't just nice for the dog—it's good for you, too. Scientists being scientists, they had to headline today's best story with this buzzkill of a buzzword salad: "Psychophysiological and emotional effects of human–Dog interactions by activity type: An electroencephalogram study."I'm curious why Dog is capitalized but human isn't. Maybe these guys like Dogs as much as I do. Or maybe the AP Stylebook considers Dogs to be a marginalized group worthy of capitalization, like "Black" but not "White." Also, I had to look up "electroencephalogram," and I'm...
  • No Such Thing as ‘Long COVID,’ Health Agency Says in Shock Claim: ‘Unnecessary Fear’

    03/14/2024 8:37:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 14, 2024 | David Landsel
    The term “long COVID” should be tossed aside like a stack of expired N95 masks — that’s according to health experts in one country, who found that symptoms of those reportedly suffering a year on weren’t any different than your typical virus, such as the flu. Government-backed medical researchers in Australia say it’s time to stop using the fear-inducing phrase, which became popular after high volumes of people testing positive for COVID-19 led to a surge in generally non-severe “virus fatigue symptoms” that would normally have gone unnoticed, South West News Service reported. “We believe it is time to stop...
  • Snake Steak Could Be a Climate-Friendly Source of Protein

    03/14/2024 1:50:30 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 69 replies
    Scientific American ^ | March 14, 2024 | BY MEGHAN BARTELS
    Pythons turn their food into meat pretty efficiently, a study finds, making them an intriguing alternative to climate-unfriendly cows. Put aside your chicken cutlets and meatloaf and say hello to python curries and satay skewers. Some snake scientists think eating these reptiles—already customary or at least acceptable in parts of the world—might help lessen the damage our food choices have on the environment. With some eight billion people on the planet today, all of whom require protein to stay healthy, finding new sources of these nutrients is a crucial issue. But how do you get from the challenge of providing...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

    03/14/2024 12:20:10 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    NASA ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez (El Cielo de Canarias)
    Explanation: What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full for several days, the Moon is truly at its full phase when it is Pi radians (aka 180 degrees) from the Sun in ecliptic longitude. That's opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. Rising as the Sun set on March 9, 2020, only an hour or so after the moment of its full phase, this orange tinted and slightly flattened Moon still looked full. It was photographed opposite the setting Sun from Teide National Park on...