Showing posts with label science news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science news. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Mysterious TikToks; 3i/ATLAS object


What is this space object, a UFO or comet?
3i/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar object (comet? [16][17]) discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station at Río Hurtado, Chile, on July 1, 2025.

When it was discovered, it was entering the inner Solar System at a distance of 4.5 AU (astronomical unites, 420 million miles or 670 million kms) from the sun.


The object follows an unbound, hyperbolic trajectory past the sun with a very fast hyperbolic excess velocity of 36 mi/s (58 km/s) relative to the sun [5][d].

3I/ATLAS will not come closer than 1.8 AU (170 million miles or 270 million kms) to Earth, so it poses no threat [18].

Terraforming a planet makes it habitable: Oxygen
on Earth is result of life with Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It is the third interstellar object confirmed passing through the Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (discovered in Oct. 2017) and 2I/Borisov (discovered in Aug. 2019) [19], hence the prefix "3i." More
  • Ben Colson, YouTube, Parts 21 and 22; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, May 26, 2025

Oldest art on Earth twice as old as Europe's


Borneo (/bore-nee-yo/) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 288,869 square miles (748,168 km2) and a population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses) [1, 2, 3]. Situated at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is crossed by the equator, which divides it roughly in half. More
CAVES: Borneo has significant cave systems. In Sarawak, the Clearwater Cave has one of the world's longest underground rivers while Deer Cave is home to over three million bats, with guano accumulated to over 330 feet (100 meters) deep [28]. The Gomantong Caves in Sabah have been dubbed the "Cockroach Caves" due to the presence of millions of cockroaches inside [29, 30]. The Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak and Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst in East Kalimantan have karst areas that contain thousands of smaller caves [31].

History of Borneo: the original headhunters
ANCIENT HUMAN ART:
 Scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 years old (perhaps as old as 52,000 years old), of an unknown (bull) animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the island of Borneo in Nov. 2018 [52, 53]. It has been proposed, based on house construction styles, linguistic, and genetic evidence, that Madagascar may have been first populated from southern Borneo. More
Science?
Gold standard peer reviewed publication
Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years ago (ka) and hand-stencil art from the same region has a minimum date of 40 ka1. Here we show that similar rock art was created during essentially the same time period on the adjacent island of Borneo. Uranium-series analysis of calcium carbonate deposits that overlie a large reddish-orange figurative painting of an animal at Lubang Jeriji Saléh-a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo-yielded a minimum date of 40 ka, which to our knowledge is currently the oldest date for figurative artwork from anywhere in the world. In addition, two reddish-orange-coloured hand stencils from the same site each yielded a minimum uranium-series date of... Source: Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (PubMed)

The Oldest art on Earth: Discovered in a hidden Borneo cave
(documentalism) May 19, 2025: Deep in the rainforests of Indonesian Borneo, a scientist has uncovered ancient secrets hidden in unmapped limestone caves. Join Steve Backshall and an expedition team as it battles through jungle to film what is the oldest figurative cave art ever discovered — dated as being up to 50,000 years old.

This was one of the most memorable expeditions I have ever directed and filmed. It is an amazing privilege to have worked with such an amazing and competent team. In memory of the brilliant Pak Pindi Setiawan. Huge thanks to Steve Backshall, Pak Pindi Setiawan, Aldo Kane, the whole filming team and True To Nature, UKTV, FMI. Watch the full episode on the BBC: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002... Watch more wild expeditions: u.co.uk/shows/expedition-with... #Borneo #CaveArt #Expedition #AncientHistory #SteveBackshall
  • Steve Backshall, documentalism, May 19, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

US Moon Lander fails as Japan succeeds

Team Comedy (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism); Dick Speed (The Register)
NASA’s new moon lander is turning into a disaster (Futurism/msn.com)
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Stars suddenly visible? That pale blue dot is BS.
Once upon a time a group of American scientists went to an international tech conference in Tokyo, bragging about how great capitalism is for scientific advances.
CGI or artist's rendition of Japan's SLIM
But then they saw what the Japanese had built with government support to land on the moon and rove around. They were abashed, so they bragged about future plans for their next project after conquering the Moon.

"What's that?" the Japanese scientists asked the Americans, curious about getting to the next celestial body. "Mars, Venus?"

 "The Sun!" the Americans boasted.

The Japanese were dumbfounded at America's great boldness.

"But how," one Japanese engineer inquired, "will you overcome the heat?"

The American team scoffed, "Ha, that's easy! We'll be landing at night."


The Japanese team giggled behind the American team's back, "We'll concentrate on the Moon."

"Whatever," the U.S. team dismissed the other science teams, "we've already conquered the Moon! We can do it again easy. We have Elon Musk!"

"Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected, and too soon elate!
Sudden, these honours shall be snatch'd away,
And curs'd for ever this victorious day.
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd,
The [walkies] crackle, and the mill turns round.
On shining altars of JAPAN they raise
The silver lamp; the [SLIM lander doth] blaze."
-Alexander Pope, "The Rape of the Lock"
Look, you can even see the curvature of our moon
The private capitalist company Intuitive Machines -- backed by NASA technology, boosted by Elon Musk's private SpaceX Corporation launcher -- has failed miserably in its propaganda campaign of pretending to land on the moon a second time 52 years after putting the USSR to shame with fake footage of a first landing. What can we do? I know! Let's throw more money at the problem. That fixes everything. Who cares that everyone is trying to claim the lunar surface or that the Earth's satellite is hollow, watery, and full of enslaved beings! We're cleared to take the surface, if we can get to it. And Eric Dubay says we can't, even if it's actually very close and smaller than we've been told.
  • LANDER BLUES: NASA's new Moon lander may have touched down in one piece, but the story keeps getting more embarrassing and underwhelming for the space agency. Intuitive Machines, the company that built the Odysseus lander, said in a series of updates posted on its website and on X (Twitter) that although the craft is online and beaming images back to Earth, its operators believe it won't be able to keep up communications for much longer [as the battery dies and fails to get charged by solar panels].
  • Machine breaks through digging HS2’s longest tunnel
  • American Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after [tipping over] (Dick Speed, The Register, 2/27/24) Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander. Intuitive Machines' Odysseus Lunar Lander is facing another countdown. This time the question is how much longer it can continue to operate until it exhausts what remains of the battery life.… On Monday, flight controllers reckoned they had until Tuesday morning before communication with the lander [died and] ceased [until Japan's SLIM can come by and give it a nudge, lift, or something]. At the time of writing, controllers hoped there might be as much as 10-20 hours of battery life remaining. While the landing has been called a success, surviving a few days on the lunar surface is far from the original plan of seven days or more before the lunar night arrived and Odysseus ceased operations. The question now is exactly how much work the stricken lander can actually do on the Moon, considering it is on its side -- or "on the wonk," as one space agency insider memorably told us to put it more nicely -- with its battery life fast depleting. According to Intuitive Machines, the lander has "efficiently sent payload science data and imagery in furtherance of the Company's mission objectives." More

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Scientific study: Covid-19 no benefit to masks...

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Bombshell COVID study ELIMINATES justification for mask mandates, lockdowns: David Zweig
I'm extra-protected? No, what do you mean no?
(The Hill) Sept. 5, 2023: Journalist and author of SilentLunch.net David Zweig elaborates on his latest report on a study that reveal narratives touted by the media and many in the scientific community are not all accurate. #transmission #covid About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on social media: Website: Hill.TV #transmission #covid

Sunday, July 30, 2023

Egyptian pyramid secret explains all (video)


One pyramid secret that explains everything
(Without History) Premiered May 14, 2023. How could ancient people -- with the help of space aliens or not -- quarry and carry millions of massive stones to build structures we still do not fully understand?

World's richest man: Emperor Mansa Musa
The key is that the blocks were not stones quarried and carried then put into place. The blocks were liquid poured in place with great precision. Here's the scientific evidence that proves it.

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Friday, September 4, 2020

Moon "science": consensus reality (video)

The Richest, July 20, 2020; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


China's weird moon discovery baffles scientists
Will all the life found be revealed?
China recently stumped the world's scientists with what they found on the dark side of the moon. This discovery, along with its camera footage and still pictures, claims to reveal something about our past.

The United States is alleged to have spent some $288 billion [in equivalent dollars to today's decreased value of American currency] to reach the moon in 1969. Now China’s found something strange, and the USA is allegedly seething that it didn’t find it first.

For decades, powerhouse governments have been locking horns in a "Space Race." Once the USA landed on the moon, the focus turned to Mars. And now it’s all about finding life that is being harbored on other planets.

The USA and Russia’s space race is well documented, but who knew China and India run ongoing lunar projects as well? Recently, they found an odd gel-like substance on the dark side of the moon, and this discovery sent the space world into a tailspin.

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Did a black scientist invent bulb we use?

Theblackpeoplematrix.com; Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


What if we could all swim together? (AP)
Let's give credit where credit is due. We are taught to worship Thomas Edison and forget about the greater genius Nikola Tesla and never even told about American scientist Lewis Howard Latimore. The U.S. government confiscated Tesla's inventions and notes, innovations Tesla reported as having come from another planet and communicated to him telepathically. To  hide his genius, such as lighting up New York City with electrical power generated at Niagara Falls and developing a coil (used along with Rife technology to make a healing wand with noble gases), Edison is promoted. Therefore, Latimore has to be kept completely out of the picture.
Surviving in a Matrix of bias
Franklin Jones (theblackpeoplematrix.com) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
"The art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

White societies now subdue Black populations without fighting by using racially demoralizing ("divide-and-conquer" psychological warfare) propaganda.

Why? Oppressed people are easier to control when they are self-loathing. This insidious warfare tactic is so efficient that it not only makes Black people comply with white dominance over them, it makes many prefer it.

This covert system of control is at the root of both the profound feelings of self-loathing now affecting many Black people and the feelings of false racial superiority that many whites now possess.

"Those who know must teach."
-African proverb

It's no coincidence or strange occurrence that many Black people are self-loathing, perceiving themselves to be their own worst enemies and thinking favorably of whites in spite of a history of brutality that tells them the contrary.

These thoughts and ideas, which clearly benefit white societies, were shrewdly programmed into the minds of millions of Black people through the mainstream media's subliminal programming without most even realizing it.

As a means of protecting white societies from retribution by Blacks, Black people are the unknowing targets of the most elaborate divide-and-conquer warfare campaign in history.

The white media's unrelenting negative depictions of Black people -- which distorts reality to amplify the negative -- is much more than just biased media reporting. It is a divide-and-conquer strategy.

Throughout the history of the world, oppressors have deployed this tactic against oppressed peoples because self-loathing and division makes them easier to control. This modern system is deployed like a massive media marketing campaign constantly subjecting Black people to seeing only the worst within themselves. More

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Eggs communicate from inside shell (video)

Daily Mail Science Correspondent Colin Fernandez (The Daily Mail, July 22, 2019); VeganKit.com; ScienceAlert.com; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Bird eggs vibrate to communicate with each other to warn of imminent attack to their nest, scientific study finds.
Rather than sitting blissfully unaware of the world outside, gull eggs -- or rather the living embryos inside of them -- have a "sophisticated" awareness of what goes on around them, the study found.

The research found that yellow-legged gull eggs, which are found around the UK's coastline, can pick up on warning squawks from adult birds.

The eggs -- having heard [or otherwise sensed] the warning -- will then delay hatching because the coast is not clear [insofar as potential danger exists]. More

COMMENTARY: When does life begin?


Life in the womb (Genetic Literacy Project)
The same happens to us. Human embryos in our mother's womb are aware of the world for nine months before we are officially "born." But life actually begins at conception. So in Buddhist Asia, people are born 1-year-old because of the ten lunar months they spent swimming in the womb on earth are counted as being here and being far more aware than we ever thought. This is unlike the Judeo-Christian West where our age is counted from our birth date. So we in the West are "younger," but we don't look it when we see race groups side-by-side in the same society. "Asian don't raisin" and "black don't crack," it is said. Caucasian skin needs all the antioxidant help it can get, even if that is the self-deceptive youthful number we label ourselves with. But egg science shows the baby inside is alive. This has karmic implications for egg eating and abortions. Think what are doing before you act. Life is precious, and not just our lives but the lives of living beings who make it to the womb.

Friday, June 15, 2018

Scientists teach conscious robot to hug (video)

Sarah Cahlan (
Huggiebot
"HuggieBot," a life-sized humanoid robot, has been programmed to hug in many different ways, from friendly to romantic (Alexis Block/Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

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Why are scientists teaching this bot to hug?
Human embraces bring big health benefits, but what about embraces from bots?
Hug me, you stupid fleshy water bags!
These days [the future overlords we call] robots can do just about everything [steal jobs, surveillance, trade stocks, infect computers, make automated marketing calls, drop teargas and bombs from their drone bodies...]
 
They also caffeinate us, assemble furniture, and sort recyclables.

F that. No way. That programmer is a wuss.
But can bots safely wrap us in their deadly metal arms and give us a squeeze that provides the same sense of comfort as a human hug?

Researchers are seeking to answer that question with help from “HuggieBot,” a humanoid robot programmed to offer hugs to humans.
 

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Oh, that's nice. What else does it suck?
“We were interested in enabling robots to hug because of how common hugs are in daily life and because of their numerous health benefits.”

So said one of the researchers, Alexis Block, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany.
 
Studies have shown that hugs can reduce stress and blood pressure and can even help stave off symptoms of the common cold. In one 2015 study, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University... More

Building artificial "consciousness"

 
How sentient robots could become a reality
In HBO's critically acclaimed sci-fi series Westworld, the robots or "hosts" fight to free themselves from human control when humans experiment with using them to upload human consciousness.

On the show the robots have attained a measure of consciousness, the central idea of which has moved from whether consciousness can be artificially manufactured to whether we can preserve "immortal" human consciousness by printing it onto AI.

In real life, we've only just begun to understand where human consciousness comes from…This is Mach at the Movies -- a show where we explore the plausibility of our favorite sci-fi shows. More

Thursday, May 3, 2018

5 non-food things that make us FAT

Five things you might be surprised affect weight
There's a healthy person in here. Just wait.
People might think battling obesity is down to sheer willpower, but medical research says otherwise.

Here are five potentially surprising factors that can affect our weight, as unearthed by The Truth About Obesity.

1. Gut microbes
Prof. Tim Spector has been tracking their progress over 25 years as part of the Twins Research UK study.
 
He believes a lot of their weight differences are down to the tiny organisms -- microbes [probiotics, beneficial bacteria] -- that live deep in the gut. 
 
"Every time you eat anything, you're feeding a hundred trillion microbes. You're never dining alone," he says. 
 
A stool sample from each twin revealed Gillian, the thinner of the two, had a very diverse range of microbes, whereas Jackie had very few species living in her gut. 
 
Don't call me "fat"! I'm "big boned."
"The greater the diversity, the skinnier the person. If you're carrying too much weight, your microbes aren't as diverse as they should be," says Prof. Spector, who found the same pattern in a study of 5,000 people.

Having a healthy and varied diet, rich in different sources of fiber, has been shown to create a more diverse range of gut microbes. 
 
Prof. Spector warns most Britons [to say nothing of the SAD Americans or "Standard American Diet people of the USA"] eat only half the fiber they should. Good sources of dietary fiber include:
  • wholegrain breakfast cereals
  • fruits, including berries and pears
  • vegetables, such as broccoli and carrots
  • beans
  • pulses
  • nuts
2. The gene lottery
Why do some people diligently follow diets and exercise regularly but still struggle to see results, while others do very little and don't pile on the pounds?

Scientists at Cambridge University believe 40-70% of the effect on our weight is down to variation in the genes we inherit. "It is a lottery," says Prof. Sadaf Farooqi... More

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

National Geographic apologizes for racism

Prof. Hub Brown, Libby Denkmann (AirTalk®, Pi Day, 3-14-18); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

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I'll take that one, on the left. How much?*
As National Geographic finally admits it has been promoting implicit bias, white supremacy, stereotyping, ethnic prejudice, scientific racism, and apologizes in general for past racist coverage, will other US media follow suit?
 
I like reading it. It's a very good magazine.
As part of its April issue focusing on RACE, National Geographic (natgeo.com) made the bold move to acknowledge its own past racist coverage.
 
To explain the magazine’s decision, Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg wrote: “We thought we should examine our own history before turning our reportorial gaze to others.”

Me, too. If I read.
The list of past missteps included a slavery-era slur being used to describe California cotton workers and a 1916 story on Australia with a photo caption that read: “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.
 
While this admission is unexpected, the content is not surprising given that National Geographic has been around for over 100 years, and they certainly aren’t alone in their offensive past.

"Post Truth World" of Trump (ThisModernWorld.com by Tom Tomorrow)
I don't read Nat Geo, just da Bible. It's a Southern thang. All y'all wouldn't understand.

I don't read, but if I did, I'd read this 1
For instance, The New York Times reported that it retroactively wrote obituaries for women who were initially overlooked.

And in 2016 Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal publicly apologized for continuing to publish Muhammad Ali’s "slave name" Cassius Clay rather than his adopted freeman's name, even after the boxer legally changed his name in 1964.
 
National Geographic’s move has been trending on social media, and whether or not the response around it has been positive, it’s definitely been a conversation starter.

Libby Denkmann
What do readers think about National Geographic’s acknowledgement of past racist coverage? Will it prompt other media publications to do the same?

Are you yourself more apt to read the magazine now, or does this hinder you from supporting the old time magazine? More + AUDIO
  • GUEST: Associate Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism and Associate Dean for Research, Creativity, Int'l Initiatives and Diversity at Syracuse Univ. Hub Brown
*White men didn't RAPE black children as "property," did they?

I wish it were the olden days! - Why, John?
Because of the power relationships at work, slave females in the United States were at high risk for child molestation, rape, and forced impregnation.
 
Many slaves fought back against sexual attacks by whites, and some died resisting.
 
It's not what it looks like!
Others carried severe psychological and physical scars from the attacks. Sexual abuse of slaves was rooted in part in a patriarchal Southern culture that treated black [and Native American] women and children as property or "chattel."
Black children as young as 6 were advertised and sold by white men to other white men to "satisfy their lust." It was not an aberrant practice looked on as violent "child molestation" and/or rape, but just a property right.
 
He loves black girls. - But with his tongue?
Whereas Southern culture strongly policed against sexual relations between white women and black males -- purportedly on the grounds of "racial purity" -- by the late 18th century, the many mixed-race slave children showed what white Christian slave owners were doing to slave girls and women. More
Curious? So's the government. Big Brother spies from low-earth orbit and you say nothing.