(Galaxy Vault) Marine scientists using AI (artificial intelligence) finally decode whale "language" -- and what they've been saying is a surprise. Whale vocalizations? These earthling giants of the ocean have a real language with many dialects and great sophistication? We can now communicate with them? Project CETI (CEtation Translation Initiative), following the model of the SETI program, leads the way.
According to current scientific theories, whales (which are mammals not "fish") evolved from land-living mammals.
They must regularly surface to breathe air, although they can remain underwater for long periods of time. Some species, such as the sperm whale, can stay underwater for up to 90 minutes [2]. They have blowholes (modified nostrils) located on top of their heads, through which fresh air is taken in and expelled.
They are warm-blooded and have a thick layer of fat, called blubber, under their skin. With streamlined fusiform bodies and two limbs that are modified into flippers, whales can travel at speeds of up to 20 knots, though they are not as flexible or agile as seals. Whales produce a great variety of vocalizations, notably the extended songs of the humpback whale.
Although whales are widespread, most species prefer the colder waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and migrate to the equator to give birth. Species such as humpbacks and blue whales are capable of travelling thousands of miles without feeding.
Males typically mate with multiple females every year, but females only mate every two to three years. Calves are typically born in the spring and summer; females bear all the responsibility for raising them. Mothers in some species fast and nurse their young for one to two years. More
Galaxy Vault; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
(Divine Light Vibes) Feb. 12, 2025: Psychic Channel "Bashar" (Darryl Anka) 2025 🚨 Hidden truths revealed! 🚨 In this eye-opening session, Bashar uncovers shocking realities about Japan’s high radiation levels (from Fukushima) concentrated in a ten-mile radius, UFOs, and the role of reborn "souls" (individuals) in solving Earth’s crises -- as whales and dolphins can through understanding their songs and communicating with them rather than hunting and destroying them. What is our Moon, and why is it there? (Don't worry about it). Are ETs influencing global events? Can children hold the key to human survival? What’s the true karmic impact of hunting dolphins and whales out of existence, Japan? Take a deep dive into mind-expanding insights and explore the power of consciousness, frequency shifts, and interdimensional wisdom. 🌍✨
What is Fukushima (March 11, 2011)? The US found a way to surreptitiously attack Japan with yet another atomic explosion, more polluting than the first two (Nagasaki and Hiroshima). It is unclear what shima means in Japanese, but the first two phonemes are clearer: fuk and u. Young people and those out of the loop may not realize or remember that it is yet another Love Canal, NY, USA.
New heart-stopping footage of massive great white shark attack
(CNN) Jeff Kurr, the producer and director of Discovery's "Shark Week," discusses footage his team captured of a great white shark destroying a diver's enclosure. (Discovery and CNN share a corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
Florida's waters hide a beast: Record-breaking great white shark discovered offshore
Scientists have found the largest great white shark ever recorded swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.
[Do they grow bigger in the Pacific Ocean near California, the Mariana Trench, or Hawaii? Years ago, I saw one I'd estimate was one ton and 15 feet from a trawler in Santa Monica Bay as swimmers and surfers frolicked on LA and OC County beaches without a care in the world. This fish was so big, had I fallen from the rail, it could have swallowed me without chewing like a biblical whale. It was so big and alarming as it surfaced, chasing a halibut, I carefully climbed off the rail as my hair stood on end. This predator was no joke and bigger than Jaws.]
The largest white shark in the Northwest Atlantic, named "Contender," was found off the coast of Georgia on Jan. 17th, 2025. Ocearch, a nonprofit conducting research on sharks, reported that ocean researchers have been tracking Contender's movements around the Atlantic.
As of Sunday, Contender was swimming off the coast of Florida, near the tourist beaches of Orlando, near Disneyland (Walt Disney World), where kids love to go and cool off.
The shark is measured at 13.8 feet long, weighing an estimated 1,653 pounds. He has swum nearly 200 miles since he was first tagged.
By tracking Contender the researchers will be able to learn more about his migration patterns. The tag will record real time data for the next five years on Contender's movements. More
Are orcas (killer whales/dolphins) apex predators? - How big could a giant squid even be?
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, for the Year of the Dragon, Angelenos and people from all over will come to LA' Chinatown to participate at the 125th Golden Dragon Parade.
According to legend, Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian (a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains) during the annual Spring Festival.
The Nian would eat villagers, taking children in the middle of the night [19]. One year, they decided to hide. An old man [extraterrestrial] appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that he would stay the night and take revenge on the Nian [draconianreptilian?]
The old man put up red papers and set off firecrackers. The villagers came back to town and saw that nothing had been destroyed. They assumed that the old man was a deity who came to save them.
The villagers then understood that Yanhuang had discovered the Nian's fear of the color red and loud noises [19].
The tradition grew when the New Year was approaching and villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors, and use firecrackers and drums to frighten away the Nian. Nian never came to the village again and was eventually captured by Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk [20]. More
This year's celebration
With 2024 to look forward to, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles will celebrate the Year of Dragon on February 17, 2024.
Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to gather and line the streets in the five block radius spanning North Broadway and Hill Street in Chinatown.
Families, friends, and children of all ages will cheer on marching bands, kung fu martial arts performers, lion dancers, and a newly crowned Miss Chinatown Los Angeles and her royal court. (Take that, Rose Parade).
This will be the 2024 Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Court’s first public appearance since being coronated on January 27, 2024, at the 61st Miss Chinatown Los Angeles competition at the San Gabriel Sheraton.
The 125th Golden Dragon Parade is sponsored and has floats, which with convertible cars will represent 120 years of this tradition.
ABC7 has done a live streaming on its website of the entire 2023 Parade. Massive broadcast and reports from all media, online media, and social media.
In 2024, a Pre-Parade VIP reception for the parade’s honored guests, main sponsors, and important dignitaries will be held at 11:00 am, with opening remarks from Chamber Chairman Chester Chong and President Kevin Chen.
The grand marshal and four honorary marshals represented by members of the City Council and Congress will preside over the festivities. During this reception, Chinese Chamber of Commerce will be recognized for both its work promoting US-Chinese business relations and cultural exchange and well as its avid support of important Chinese cultural traditions, such as this Lunar New Year Celebration.
I don't believe in dragons, and I don't care what Christianity has to say about them. It used to be that Christians had to believe in them because they are all over the Bible, but now people laugh.
Cleo Abram, Huge If True, Oct. 2, 2023; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps
(Cleo Abram) Why deep-sea maps are BAD (and how to fix that)... Our maps of the ocean are surprisingly bad! Google Maps makes it look like we know a lot, but we know less about the ocean floor than we do the surface of Mars.
And that’s a big problem, because we are using the ocean all the time: We’re laying internet cables across it, we fight wars in it, we search it during a crisis -- like the imploded OceanGate Titan submersible or the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370...
[Or that time US forces sabotaged the NordStream Oil Pipeline and tried to blame it on the Russians, creating one of the very worst environmental disasters in the ocean, not to mention a shortage of heating oil for Europe and skyrocketing prices and a war of revenge on the Russians].
After all, 71% of the surface of the Earth is water. Yet, we have a surprisingly limited view of what’s below the water.
But that’s also understandable. Because cartographically speaking, water sucks. For Mars or Earth’s surface, we can take pictures. But light doesn’t penetrate to the ocean floor, so we need other ways to see it. The good news is we’re developing that tech right now, and an international group called Seabed 2030 is working to piece together a better map.
There is a terrifying, incredible, alien world on our own planet, and we’re FINALLY using technology to see it more clearly.
In this episode of Huge If True, I dive deep -- with help from my friend and fellow video journalist @johnnyharris -- to show how we’re mapping the ocean, the surprising things we’ve discovered in the depths, and why this new technology could be huge if true.
Chapters
00:00 How bad are our ocean maps?
01:40 How deep is the ocean?
03:05 What is the deepest part of the ocean?
04:04 The craziest method to map the ocean
06:20 How does sonar work?
07:31 What did the first ocean maps look like?
09:30 How do we map the ocean now?
10:30 What is Seabed 2030?
11:40 How do we use underwater robots?
12:27 Concerns with mapping the deep ocean
13:11 Why deep ocean mapping is huge if true
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BIO:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, she explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, she was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching: To see recent seafloor visualizations (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/ocean-...
- To learn more about the high-stakes race to map the Earth's oceans: The Deepest Map, by Laura Trethewey https://www.harpercollins.com/product...
- To see how amazing our Mars maps are (Murray Lab): https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V0...
- Livestream of ocean research (my favorite):
/ @evnautilus
- Deep Ocean: 10 Hours of Relaxing Oceanscapes, BBC Earth:
• Deep Ocean: 10 Hours of Relaxing Ocea...
- The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think, RealLifeLore:
• The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think
- What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea, Kurzgesagt:
• What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Pl...
- The Unspeakable Horrors of the Deep Sea, Casual Geographic:
• The Unspeakable Horrors of the Deep S...
- Why no aquarium has a great white shark, Vox:
• Why no aquarium has a great white shark
- This Incredible Animation Shows How Deep The Ocean Really Is, Insider:
• This Incredible Animation Shows How D...
- How Much of the Seafloor Is Left to Explore? NOAA: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/world-...
- How Deep is the Ocean? NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/o...
- About Seabed 2030: https://seabed2030.org/our-mission/
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM and 35mm prime
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX
Music: Musicbed
Follow along for more episodes of Huge If True: https://www.youtube.com/cleoabram?sub...
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Welcome to the joke down low:
Why did the fish blush?
Because it saw the ocean’s bottom.
Use the word “blush” in a comment so I know you’re a real one :)
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New cycle activation | summer solstice | meditation June 2023
(Calm Whale) Started streaming on June 19, 2023. Finding our bliss and rejuvenation is what this is about. The June summer solstice invites us to celebrate the abundance of earth and sun and the beginning of a new astrological cycle with shaman drum, gong, and handpan.
What scientists discovered in the Grand Canyon is scary
(Missing Files) Ever been to the United States? There’s a lot for tourists to see and do. And plenty of things are being added daily. From a space alien's skull and skeleton found in the Grand Canyon to a patch of forest shaped like a smiling face to a phone booth in the desert to a graveyard dedicated to ice cream, here are 20 shocking things recently discovered in the USA. For copyright issues, feel free to email:
TSindustries32@hotmail.com
Secret: subterranean monsters are abducting citizens and pulling them underground
We feed on surface-humans. At dawn we sleep.
The largest cave systems have a mysterious secret: Although nothing can be proven by correlation alone, there is something to be investigated based on these concerning images.
The maps correlate too closely with mysterious and unexplained disappearances and the United States' largest cave systems.
American Cryptids (K.W. Irish)
What could be living in and emerging from these large cave systems? The terrifying picture these maps are painting seems to go beyond mere coincidence. Caverns large enough to hold entire societies or collections of reproducing cryptids (odd creatures not yet confirmed to everyone's satisfaction in science but known to exist by eyewitnesses, lore, and other bodies of evidence short of a living sample in captivity).
It is only a matter of time before Netflix takes these maps and uses them as the inspiration for a next crime documentary series -- Missing 411 with Detective David Paulides. More
(National Geographic, May 30, 2019) In the award-winning SEA OF SHADOWS, a multinational team of scientists, activists, journalists, and undercover agents go up against drug cartels and illegal traffickers to save the most endangered tiny whale on Earth. In select beginning theaters July 12, 2019.
Race to save the last vaquita whale
The filmmakers of Sea of Shadows talk about their quest to save the world's smallest porpoise, of which there are less than 15 left in the wild, from a web of illegal fishing, Mexican drug cartels that have switched from selling drugs to fish bladders worth more than gold, and the Chinese mafia.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Killer whale comes to greet native Tulalip Nation canoe families.
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The killer whale-loving Tulalip Tribes of Washington is a federally recognized tribe of Duwamish, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish people.
Great white shark spots white-and-red seal playing in surf, moves in for surprise attack (IF).
A juvenile great white monster beached itself while trying to kill seagulls off Chatham, MA. But the harbor master and compassionate beach goers tried to save this lucky shark (Mike Bartel).
Great white shark (3,175 kg) US/Cuban waters
Sympathy for the devil? Some feel sorry for Mara like they do for a killer, say a great white shark, who suddenly ends up on the wrong side of karma. Schadenfreude is not a better choice when equanimity will do.
The great white shark and the killer whale are the most formidable predators in the sea. These animals are so dangerous that they would never challenge each other -- or so was thought.
One morning, off the coast of California, a boatload of tourists witnessed the ultimate clash of the ocean titans: an unexpected kill challenges the great white shark's supremacy as the ultimate predator when it falls prey to a killer whale.
The Whale That Ate Jaws
"Killer" whales? Ha, stupid orcas, bring it!
"The Whale That Ate Jaws" examines this extraordinary incident. It features amazing underwater footage of two whales feeding on the shark, revealing an astonishing new perspective on the relationship between the ocean's two top predators.
Amazing footage of a killer whale or orca attacking and partially eating a great white shark was filmed by a whale-watching tourist. During a trip for tourists near the marine sanctuary of the Farallon Islands, the killer whale was spotted and filmed as it broke the surface with a great white shark gripped in its jaws.
This was not only the first filming of such an incident, but also the first time marine biologists had even heard of such an attack. This incident lead to further research on the subject, finally convincing marine biologists that the killer whale is the top predator in the ocean.
Devil's not so bad once you understand his problems. Just ask Steven Spielberg.
Killer whales are very sophisticated and effective predators.
Thirty-two cetacean species have been recorded as prey for killer whales, judging by examinations of their stomach contents, scarring on the prey's body, and feeding activity. Groups of killer whales also attack larger cetaceans such as minke whales, gray whales, and on rare occasions sperm whales and blue whales.
Hunting large whales usually takes several hours. Killer whales generally choose to attack young or weak animals instead. However, a group of five or more have been known to attack a healthy adult. When hunting young whale, a group chases it and its mother until they are worn out. Eventually, they separate, and the group surrounds the calf, preventing it from surfacing to breathe, and it drowns.
Pods of female sperm whales sometimes protect their young by forming a protective circle around calves with their flukes facing outwards, using them to repel the attackers. Rarely, large killer whale pods can overwhelm even adult female sperm whales.
Adult bull sperm whales, which are large, powerful, and aggressive when threatened, and fully grown adult blue whales, which are possibly too large to overwhelm, are not believed to be prey for killer whales.
Other marine mammal prey species include nearly 20 species of seal, sea lion, and fur seals. Walruses and sea otters are less frequently taken. Often, to avoid injury, killer whales disable a seal before killing and eating it. This may involve throwing it in the air, slapping it with the tail, ramming it, or breaching and landing on it. Sea lions are killed by head-butting or with a stunning blow from a tail fluke.
Around the Aleutian Islands, a decline in sea otter populations in the 1990s was controversially attributed by some scientists to killer whale predation, although with no direct evidence. The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbor seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.
Those seals had it coming. Look at this one!
In steeply banked beaches off Península Valdés, Argentina, and the Crozet Islands, killer whales feed on South American sea lions and southern elephant seals in shallow water, even beaching temporarily to grab prey before wriggling back into the sea.
Beaching, usually fatal to cetaceans (whales), is not an instinctive behavior; it can require years of practice for the young. "Wave-hunting" killer whales spy-hop to locate Weddell seals, crab eater seals, and leopard seals resting on ice floes. They then swim in groups to create waves that wash over the floe. This washes the seal into the water, where other killer whales lie in wait.
Killer whales have also been observed preying on terrestrial mammals, such as deer and moose swimming between islands off the northwest coast of North America.
Killer whale cannibalism has also been reported based on analysis of stomach contents, but this is likely to be the result of scavenging remains dumped by whalers.
One killer whale was also attacked by its companions after being shot. Although resident killer whales have never been observed to eat other marine mammals, they occasionally harass and kill porpoises and seals for no apparent reason.
Life, what is life? Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
The enlightened are free of all fear of death.
In Buddhism -- as in other Dharmic religions like Jainism, Hinduism, shamanic Bon, and Taoism-- saṃsāra is the endless cycle of birth, life, and death (rebirth) as individuals experience the result of their karma (actions) with redounding effects of the past, present, and future.
Literally, in Buddhist usage, it means "the continued wandering on" through lives oppressed and motivated by craving, aversion, and delusion.
According to Buddhism, a living being (who is always dynamic and therefore better thought of not as a "being" but a "becoming") in this current life is only experiencing one of many (countless) lives that have been and are yet to be lived -- with all the attendant suffering if nothing is done to intervene in the process and gain freedom from it.
Rebirths stretch back long before the most recent birth into past lives on various planes of existence; they reach forward far beyond death into future births. During the long course of each life, the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny or "fate" of each stream of becoming (each individual).
The Buddha did not reveal any beginning to this cycle, but he did indicate that it can be ended through perceiving reality with insight. The goal of Buddhism and the Dharmic religions is to realize the liberating truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha (liberation), which the Buddha defined as nirvana, the end of all further rebirth and ALL suffering. More
Lucifer/Satan is more like the titan (asura) chief Vepacitti fighting Sakka and the devas.
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In some accounts of the Siddhartha's great enlightenment, it is said that the devil Māra did not send his three daughters to tempt him. Instead, they arrived willingly after Māra's failure to derail Siddhartha's quest for spiritual awakening.
Mara's "three daughters" are identified as Taṇhā (Craving), Arati (Aversion/Discontent), and Raga(Attachment/Desire/Greed/Passion) [Prof. Ananda W.P. Guruge, The Buddha's Encounters with Mara the Tempter: Their Representation in Literature and Art]. For example, in the Connected Discourses or Kindred Sayings (Samyutta Nikaya) section called the Māra Saṃyutta ("sutras related to Mara"), Mara's three daughters strip in front of the Buddha but fail to entice him:
[Bhikkhu Bodhi (SN 4.25, v. 518)The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, 2000, p. 220. Boston: Wisdom Publications]
Some stories refer to five daughters, who represent the Three Poisons (Attraction, Aversion, and Delusion) and also Pride and Fear.
Mara in Buddhism is a killer, an obstructor of enlightenment who repeatedly tempts the Buddha -- trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful females who, in various legends, are called his daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is the personification of unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, "Death" (nirvanadhamma.com), and frustration/dissatisfaction with the spiritual life.
Who cares about karma, ethics, precepts?
He is called "the Tempter" distracting humans from practicing the spiritual life by making mundane things alluring and negative things seem positive. Metaphorically, "Mara" refers to the defilements, contaminations, and bonds.
Evil Mara/Cupid is SO cute!!!
Many are sympathetic to his situation -- a "Cupid" like god in the highest sensual heaven, who considers himself the king or ruler of the entire Sensual Sphere (Kama Loka) beneath him.
He does not want anyone escaping to higher worlds in the Fine-Material and Immaterial Spheres (Rupa and Arupa Lokas). What really scares him -- and why he so attacked Siddhartha to prevent his enlightenment and hounded him as the Buddha to stop his Teaching (the Dharma) from spreading -- is that anyone escape rebirth.
For so long as we are in the Round of Rebirth (Samsara), we will again fall into the lowest, the Sensual Sphere, and remain stuck. Unlike the Devil in other traditions, Mara does not want people to go to hell. He is satisfied with them being reborn again and again in miserable worlds of allure, like the human world and the lower sensual heavens. More
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(Galaxy Vault) Marine scientists using AI (artificial intelligence) finally decode whale "language" -- and what they've been saying is a surprise. Whale vocalizations? These earthling giants of the ocean have a real language with many dialects and great sophistication? We can now communicate with them? Project CETI (CEtation Translation Initiative), following the model of the SETI program, leads the way.
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