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[Ivanhoe]

Scientist says "nothing that should worry us."

That's pretty much proof we need to worry.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Its probably just the Meg. No need for alarm.

[JWB]

 

[Ssnake]

Great. Another mindless bureaucracy in pursuit of anything but Space Exploration, to placate the Roswell conspirationalists that will never believe anything that said bureaucracy will generate, anyway. There was a time real engineers and scientists worked at NASA in pursuit of actual achievements. What a travesty.

[Ivanhoe]

How else can the elites distract the plebes from the current kleptocracy, global instability, growing authoritarianism, inflation, crime, sociopathy in the public health sector, etc.?

if GDP was growing at 5% per annum, the government wouldn't say a single word about UFOs.

 

[Ssnake]

...or maybe we have a low GDP growth because of all the distraction. We're living in a world where public discourse is more and more detached from reality. Objectively, the poor in the west have it better than any time in human history, never had people more opportunity to live their dreams (including pretending to be of a different sex, because biology is apparently an oppressive social construct now).

From that perspective you wouldn't think that distraction is actually necessary. Maybe, the more real problems we solve, the more problems people create for themselves because we can't stand paradise.

[lucklucky]

Mission for LCS?

https://abc7news.com/oakland-estuary-marinas-pirates-us-coast-guard-boats-pirate-attacks-shipwrecks/13779792/

[Ivanhoe]

6 hours ago, lucklucky said:

Mission for LCS?

https://abc7news.com/oakland-estuary-marinas-pirates-us-coast-guard-boats-pirate-attacks-shipwrecks/13779792/

The Bay Area is more likely to deploy LCSWs (Licensed Clinical Social Workers).

 

[DB]

On 9/15/2023 at 11:14 PM, Ssnake said:

...or maybe we have a low GDP growth because of all the distraction. We're living in a world where public discourse is more and more detached from reality. Objectively, the poor in the west have it better than any time in human history, never had people more opportunity to live their dreams (including pretending to be of a different sex, because biology is apparently an oppressive social construct now).

From that perspective you wouldn't think that distraction is actually necessary. Maybe, the more real problems we solve, the more problems people create for themselves because we can't stand paradise.

Perhaps GDP growth requires more hunger (literal and figurative) to drive it. When your country has achieved a sufficient state of development such that the bulk of the people in it can coast through whilst being reasonably content, perhaps that's the end of growth.

How many cars does a person need? How many TVs?

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.newsweek.com/x-ray-scans-alien-bodies-mexico-reveal-1828146

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Two small "non-human" bodies, displayed to the Mexican Congress last week, have been subjected to a CT scan and X-rays in a bid to determine their origin, and confirm whether they are aliens, or "not part of our terrestrial evolution," as the self-styled UFO expert who presented them said.

The small humanoid shaped specimens were presented by Jaime Maussan, who claimed they had been discovered in Peruvian mines and were "around 1,000 years old, of antiquity" based on carbon analysis by the the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Each body, which is roughly comparable in size to a newborn human baby, has what appear to be eyes, ears and a nose clearly visible.

However, online sceptics claim they appear to be the same specimens included in a 2020 documentary released on conspiracy focused website Gaia, which palaeontological experts concluded contained a combination of human and non-human bones with incorrectly positioned joints.

The CT scan and X-rays were conducted by José de Jésus Zalce Benitez, a forensic scientist who was also involved in a now debunked reported discovery of aliens in 2015.

 

Surely a hoax, but a couple of interesting wrinkles so far. One is that the hoaxers are avoiding reference to the bodies as extraterrestrials, I think they are encouraging people to assume they are simply a very different bipedal mammal. Another is that they seem to have people convinced that the purported creatures have a testable DNA type. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

Fungi are creepy;

https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/horrifying-photo-captures-moment-parasitic-fungus-bursts-from-huge-spiders-body

[lucklucky]

I have this one in winter. Smells like death and attract lots of flies.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

That looks like something that needs to be nuked from orbit. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66969843

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Police in Slovakia have fined a car owner whose dog was behind the wheel.

A speed camera photo, posted on Facebook, appears to show a smiling canine in the driving seat of a Skoda.

The car owner insisted that his pet - a brown hunting dog - had suddenly leapt into his lap.

But officers in the village of Sterusy, north-east of the capital, Bratislava, said footage showed this was not the case as there was no sudden movement in the car.

 

What I find interesting is that the dog wasn't cited for any moving violations, which seems to imply that the dog was doing a decent job of driving (aside from driving without a license, I suppose).

 

[Ssnake]

The only logical conclusion is, this is a weredog trying to hide his true identity after having been caught slob lipped.

[Stuart Galbraith]

On 9/20/2023 at 4:50 AM, Ivanhoe said:

https://www.newsweek.com/x-ray-scans-alien-bodies-mexico-reveal-1828146

Surely a hoax, but a couple of interesting wrinkles so far. One is that the hoaxers are avoiding reference to the bodies as extraterrestrials, I think they are encouraging people to assume they are simply a very different bipedal mammal. Another is that they seem to have people convinced that the purported creatures have a testable DNA type. 

 

The same happened with the Roswell autopsy film. The guy who delivered it said 'I dont know its an alien, I just have the film man, you figure it out'. Im sure PT Barnum did much the same thing.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/03/Mahoning-Valley-Animal-Hospital-Tank-tortoise-found/7821696350114/

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Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Tank the tortoise has been returned to a Pennsylvania veterinary clinic more than a week after the slow-moving reptile escaped for the third time.

The Mahoning Valley Animal Hospital, located in the Lehighton area in Carbon County, said Tank was found on a West Penn Township family's property, about 2 miles from where he escaped his outdoor enclosure through a hole in the fence.

Tank belongs to veterinarian Mike Nelson and lives at the animal hospital.

The hospital said in a Facebook post that Tank has now escaped three times, and each time he ended up being found in the same area.

Hospital officials said they are planning to outfit Tank with a GPS tracker so he can be found more easily if he escapes again.

 

Given his name, perhaps what they need is Blue Force Tracker. 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.fox4news.com/news/bigfoot-caught-on-camera-colorado-mountains-couple-claims

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SILVERTON, Colo. - A married couple believes they spotted a mythical creature earlier this week while celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary.

"It’s story time y’all!," Shannon Parker said in a Facebook post on Tuesday, claiming she and her husband Stetson spotted Bigfoot while traveling on a train between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. 

"As we are passing by the mountains, Stetson sees something moving and then says, ‘I think it’s Bigfoot,’" Parker, 44, continued.

Parker told FOX Television Stations that the reaction from the few people on the train who saw it was "excitement, awe and astonishment."

 

 

Its completely unrelated that Colorado has become the weed capital of America. 

[TrustMe]

1 minute ago, Ivanhoe said:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/bigfoot-caught-on-camera-colorado-mountains-couple-claims

 

Its completely unrelated that Colorado has become the weed capital of America. 

LOL, I saw this video on the news at the weekend and its true !!!

[Ivanhoe]

 

 

[TrustMe]

Now if i'm a criminal what shall I steal first...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67235631

[Ivanhoe]

https://bigthink.com/health/look-alike-genetics-behavior/
 

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Ricky Joshi of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute in Barcelona and his colleagues collected headshots of 32 pairs of unrelated look-alikes from the photographs of Canadian artist François Brunelle, who has been collecting photographs of lookalikes since 1999.

Joshi and his colleagues used three different facial recognition algorithms to analyze the photographs to determine the similarities between each pair. Twenty-five of the pairs were classified as being “very similar” by at least two of the algorithms, and half were matched by all three, with scores comparable to those of identical twins. They then contacted all of the people in the photographs that they had chosen and asked them to complete a questionnaire about their lifestyle and to submit a sample of saliva. 

The researchers extracted DNA from the saliva samples and analyzed it in three different ways: They (1) compared each participant’s genome by mapping more than 4.3 million genetic variants called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); (2) looked at the participants’ “epigenomes” by comparing over 850,000 DNA modification sites; and (3) used RNA sequencing to compare the participants’ microbiomes. 

The analyses revealed that 9 of the 16 very similar pairs shared over 19,200 SNPs in more than 3,700 genes, and that these similarities were not due to any shared ancestry. By contrast, there was very little similarity in their epigenomes and microbiomes. Furthermore, these “ultra look-alikes” also shared physical characteristics such as weight and height, as well as habits and behaviors like smoking and educational level, suggesting that the shared genetic variants influence not only physical appearance but also lifestyle.

 

 

[Rick]

May not technically belong here, but I don't use tiktok, have heard women use this "logic😘", and thankfully the wife is not one of them.

 

[sunday]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5848205/Clarinetist-wins-damages-ex-girlfriend-deleted-email-offering-lucrative-scholarship.html

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Clarinetist, 24, wins $260,000 from ex-girlfriend who deleted email offering him a place at his dream school then posed as a legendary professor to tell him he'd been rejected only to be found out years later when they came face to face

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/46871/20231103/wooly-rhino-genome-reconstructed-dna-extracted-cave-hyena-fossilized-poop.htm

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Scientists were able to reconstruct the extinct wooly rhinoceros' (Coelodonta antiquitatis) mitochondrial genome from DNA taken from cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelea) fossilized poop.

Wooly Rhino Genome Reconstructed

This is the first time Europe's wooly rhinos' genome was recovered. All the species' previous genomic data were taken from Siberian animals.

With this, scientists may be able to get clues regarding regional differences across rhino herbs. However, more than that, it also shows that coprolites, or fossilized poop, could be a vital resource.

 

Clearly I'm not the only one wondering how wooly rhino steaks would taste.