Weird, cool SCIENCE!! stuff

[Ritafee]

Why are scientists playing around with a 12 ton sphere of molten sodium?

Because SCIENCE!

Why? Because we need to be able to predict things like when the field is going to flip in order to prepare for these events.
So not only is this experiment weird and cool, but it could save our sorry little butts some day.

The market is like the climate, and whether or not humans bear some ultimate responsibility, it operates inexorably, obeying only natural law, and there is bound to be a scramble for the high ground as the waters rise.

Bezos needs to mine just enough of the market to build himself his rocket ship, or at least his bunkers. Several thousand transnational billionaire brothers (the sisters are rare) share this view. They have won the lottery, and they intend to abscond with their winnings.

They will not make it into space, but their fleets of private jets and their walled, fortified compounds already exist.
Billionaires in Space: Escapist Fantasies in the 'Age of the Refugee'

When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family. And the more they can expand this ethos of inclusivity to the rest of their business practices, supply chain management, sustainability efforts, and wealth distribution, the less chance there will be of an “event” in the first place. All this technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but entirely more collective interests right now.

They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space — as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity for corporate promotion. And if a few people do reach escape velocity and somehow survive in a bubble on Mars — despite our inability to maintain such a bubble even here on Earth in either of two multibillion-dollar Biosphere trials — the result will be less a continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite.
Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

 

[Luce NDs]

The market is like the climate, and whether or not humans bear some ultimate responsibility, it operates inexorably, obeying only natural law, and there is bound to be a scramble for the high ground as the waters rise.

Bezos needs to mine just enough of the market to build himself his rocket ship, or at least his bunkers. Several thousand transnational billionaire brothers (the sisters are rare) share this view. They have won the lottery, and they intend to abscond with their winnings.

They will not make it into space, but their fleets of private jets and their walled, fortified compounds already exist.
Billionaires in Space: Escapist Fantasies in the 'Age of the Refugee'

When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family. And the more they can expand this ethos of inclusivity to the rest of their business practices, supply chain management, sustainability efforts, and wealth distribution, the less chance there will be of an “event” in the first place. All this technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but entirely more collective interests right now.

They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space — as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity for corporate promotion. And if a few people do reach escape velocity and somehow survive in a bubble on Mars — despite our inability to maintain such a bubble even here on Earth in either of two multibillion-dollar Biosphere trials — the result will be less a continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite.
Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium

Death may be the easiest way out of here ... making one wonder about the Hebrew connection between death and wisdom ... stuff entirely beyond the overly emotional? Who wrote this stuff as if to appear as satire when actually asinine in functions of intellectual hosts ... who may also bein High Flight in the other tensor ... Augurs?

Then in the Dark Forest woo D'antes ... carpenters of a different shade as found deep in the tree ... put your ear towit and hear ... profound gnawing inside the symbol of reason ... tree of ingenuity? All things are turned to compost for the next generation ... evolutionary cycles? Dark things that bug yah ... like JAHWAH on matrix ... once phonetician as Jowee, or Joey ... dream catcher ... den-cere parts of the upright?

Ever wonder about rising suicide rates as an un-con-science in control node? Un Sea 'n ... as that inner dark pool ... something more to visualize ...

 

[Mendalla]

Lots of good science videos to watch last night, but as a longtime paleontology buff, this one stood out. It's a short, well-done piece on the evolution of birds, and the evolution of our theories about bird evolution, by the team at PBS Eons.

 

[Mendalla]

And that story really puts the lie to the "lack of transitional fossils" nonsense. It was precisely the discovery of such fossils that let us put the bird story together as we have it today, most particularly that they are definitely a direct line from the dinosaurs rather than branching off from another reptilian lineage and evolving alongside the dinos as mammals did.

 

[Luce NDs]

If birds had teeth ... imagine the exponential biting syndromes ... worms would wear shells and become a variety of snail to fill the gap ... hardly you say ... or scarcely long?

 

[Mendalla]

"Spooky action at a distance" was Einstein's term for the mysterious thing known as quantum entanglement. Basically, if you measure an entangled particle, it's partner will show the same result instantaneously no matter how far apart they are. This seems to violate special relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than light. However, it is increasingly clear that Einstein's skepticism, along with that of several other physicists, was misplaced. Spooky or not, it does happen.

https://gizmodo.com/spooky-quantum-entanglement-confirmed-using-distant-qua-1828474906

 

[Luce NDs]

"Spooky action at a distance" was Einstein's term for the mysterious thing known as quantum entanglement. Basically, if you measure an entangled particle, it's partner will show the same result instantaneously no matter how far apart they are. This seems to violate special relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than light. However, it is increasingly clear that Einstein's skepticism, along with that of several other physicists, was misplaced. Spooky or not, it does happen.

https://gizmodo.com/spooky-quantum-entanglement-confirmed-using-distant-qua-1828474906

Tis like parcels of paring parse in biblical rendering down .. can be expounded on to no end .. like unknown dimensions in spatial concerns ... they're out there ... doing the Dans ... high end bobbling? Nous clear fusing creating fu 'tsha?

 

[Luce NDs]

The stuff that goes on obscurely because of tyrannical tampering with intellect ... stoned religion as addiction?

Mental confinement .. until the head person aches to go forward ... Achin type ... as Lord Achin? And the beaver was brooked or breached ... as Nous type ... benefactor of Freddy ... that frigging rear end thingy, in diform ... schismed?

Bun SET ... R's up ...

 

[Delightful Life]

"Spooky action at a distance" was Einstein's term for the mysterious thing known as quantum entanglement. Basically, if you measure an entangled particle, it's partner will show the same result instantaneously no matter how far apart they are. This seems to violate special relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than light. However, it is increasingly clear that Einstein's skepticism, along with that of several other physicists, was misplaced. Spooky or not, it does happen.

https://gizmodo.com/spooky-quantum-entanglement-confirmed-using-distant-qua-1828474906

Sounds like time travel t'me
(Reminds me of the venerable Mage: the Ascension rpg. In universe they made the Hubble Space Telescope a device used by the systemic oppressors of reality, The Technocracy, to "fix" the reality of anything it could view. So if they didn't want Faeries on Proxima Centauri, they'd turn the telescope on it and bam! No Faeries. Just a ball of burning gas surrounded by balls of dirt etc)
Oh and woo-hoo! Human beings discovered this. Imperfect & finite that we are, out of the full # of cultural possibility spaces a finite # has resulted in things like the linked 2 article.
WOW.
Reality seems to be non local. And realism seems to be local (and the result of competing superpositions of states).
I just hope that, if indeed the QM interpretations where consciousness plays a role in collapse of the wavefunction that b4 we get too far into space we grow out of our materialism/physicalism BS.
Or zomething like that.

 

[Luce NDs]

Sounds like time travel t'me
(Reminds me of the venerable Mage: the Ascension rpg. In universe they made the Hubble Space Telescope a device used by the systemic oppressors of reality, The Technocracy, to "fix" the reality of anything it could view. So if they didn't want Faeries on Proxima Centauri, they'd turn the telescope on it and bam! No Faeries. Just a ball of burning gas surrounded by balls of dirt etc)
Oh and woo-hoo! Human beings discovered this. Imperfect & finite that we are, out of the full # of cultural possibility spaces a finite # has resulted in things like the linked 2 article.
WOW.
Reality seems to be non local. And realism seems to be local (and the result of competing superpositions of states).
I just hope that, if indeed the QM interpretations where consciousness plays a role in collapse of the wavefunction that b4 we get too far into space we grow out of our materialism/physicalism BS.
Or zomething like that.

If fair thoughts are eliminated ... to these become essence of imagination ... thus godly equivalence is distorted ... demon ished?

Flipping is a crime ... so plough on ... Walter Brennan ...

 

[Mendalla]

One of the hot topics in palaeoanthropology for the past few years has been the discovery that ancient modern humans interbred with two related species, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Some, perhaps many, of us here likely have Neanderthal DNA in our genome. Now we have evidence, very good evidence, of interbreeding between the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Daughter of Neanderthal mom, exotic foreign dad revealed by ancient DNA | CBC News

The most interesting part of it all is that these hybrids have to have been fertile, else we wouldn't be finding the DNA traces of them in contemporary modern humans. So Neanderthals and Denisovans were likely a lot closer to, and a lot more like, us than popular culture sometimes gives them credit for.

It also, interestingly, validates a key plot point in Jean Auel's novel Clan of the Cave Bear. The story featured a modern human girl bearing a child with a Neanderthal father, something that there was no evidence for in the early eighties when she began writing the series that novel kicked off. Though, oddly, I don't recall finding that offspring problematic at the time. Neanderthals have been classified as a subspecies of homo sapiens in the past so I guess I had that in mind (I was probably 15 or 16 but already into paleontology and evolution).

 

[Luce NDs]

One of the hot topics in palaeoanthropology for the past few years has been the discovery that ancient modern humans interbred with two related species, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Some, perhaps many, of us here likely have Neanderthal DNA in our genome. Now we have evidence, very good evidence, of interbreeding between the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Daughter of Neanderthal mom, exotic foreign dad revealed by ancient DNA | CBC News

The most interesting part of it all is that these hybrids have to have been fertile, else we wouldn't be finding the DNA traces of them in contemporary modern humans. So Neanderthals and Denisovans were likely a lot closer to, and a lot more like, us than popular culture sometimes gives them credit for.

It also, interestingly, validates a key plot point in Jean Auel's novel Clan of the Cave Bear. The story featured a modern human girl bearing a child with a Neanderthal father, something that there was no evidence for in the early eighties when she began writing the series that novel kicked off. Though, oddly, I don't recall finding that offspring problematic at the time. Neanderthals have been classified as a subspecies of homo sapiens in the past so I guess I had that in mind (I was probably 15 or 16 but already into paleontology and evolution).

Subspecies ... subsistence, or subtle in the trading of amines as some amino compound displaced in a sublime sense of instant losing it ... a vast impact that can mark an occasion ...

May explain psyche-science's attitude to tryptamines as causing fears in stance bonds between soul-body situations ... flaky sublimation of wisdom?

The conflict allows depletion of wisdom when emotions are preferred ... and without smarts does a species vanish?

May appear as spotty scattered intelligence ... suggesting there is A' Moor out there ... stretch of vert ego ...

 

[Mendalla]

Arguably one of the weirdest families of animals alive today has to be the turtles and tortoises. They are reptiles but look like none of their reptile cousins. Their ribs have developed into a huge, boney shells. They sport beaks but unlike those of birds. And they range from largely aquatic (sea turtles) to entirely land bound (desert tortoises). So where, evolutionarily speaking, did they come from? The picture is getting increasingly complex, based on recent fossil evidence coming out of bone beds in China.

Turtle fossil with no shell sheds light on a reptile’s murky origins

 

[Luce NDs]

Arguably one of the weirdest families of animals alive today has to be the turtles and tortoises. They are reptiles but look like none of their reptile cousins. Their ribs have developed into a huge, boney shells. They sport beaks but unlike those of birds. And they range from largely aquatic (sea turtles) to entirely land bound (desert tortoises). So where, evolutionarily speaking, did they come from? The picture is getting increasingly complex, based on recent fossil evidence coming out of bone beds in China.

Turtle fossil with no shell sheds light on a reptile’s murky origins

Evolution of hardshells ... really pis toff the rabid to control what's contained under that stack ... Green Grass Running Water gains momentum ... and it's turtles all the way down ... interspersed with ammonites ... inverta brats ...

Guesses and guests of the past ...

 

[Mendalla]

So sharks are not all carnivores after all. Apparently bonnethead sharks eat and can digest sea grass, making them true omnivores.

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-discovered-the-first-known-omnivorous-s-1828811449

 

[Luce NDs]

The stuff we don't know is stunning ... leaving those that didn't wish to know things beyond traditional knowledge kind of in stunned shock ... and thus happy in the bliss of ignorance!

And it is dependant a lot on how you read what was cryptically writ ... if you don't understand alien script! Thus questionable?

Biblically; there is a move to test all things ...

Alas it depends on the depth of reading into it ... some lear may be necessary as if in a trance ... ʘ-ʘ ... that peculiar stare ...

 

[Luce NDs]

God I love the science of old seldom used words ... and the way people react to archetype of such form!

People get mad at past things ... and all these go by ... the present ones will too ... I wonder where they go ... the pits? Or perhaps the water carrier's well t float them later ...

Will that hold water? It is just an odd saying, right? So many odd words floating out there ...

 

[Mendalla]

We don't usually think of Japan as being a major player in space exploration, but they have one mission running right now that's exciting the space community in a big way. Hayabusa 2 has not only reached and orbited the asteroid Ryugu, it has dropped two small landers on to the surface.

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

And they have more expeditions to the asteroids surface planned as well, including an attempt to take samples for return to Earth.

Hayabusa is, incidentally, the Japanese name for the Peregrine Falcon.

 

[Luce NDs]

Some don't believe in such metaphors ...

 

[Mendalla]

I love dinosaurs so I always get a bit excited when a new species is discovered. This one's quite exciting, demonstrating once again parallel evolution. While this species looks for all the world like a classic sauropod like Apatosaurus or Diplodocus, it actually represents a parallel line that resembles sauropods in many ways, but also has some key differences.

https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-new-long-necked-dinosaur-called-giant-thunderc-1829359100