Ivanhoe Posted November 25, 2024 Author Posted November 25, 2024 https://phys.org/news/2024-11-ryugu-asteroid-sample-rapidly-colonized.html Quote Researchers from Imperial College London have discovered that a space-returned sample from asteroid Ryugu was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms, even under stringent contamination control measures. Andromeda Strain stuff.
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 3 hours ago, Ivanhoe said: https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-scientists-have-confirmed-whats-inside-the-moon Lies! This was settled to my satisfaction decades ago.
Ivanhoe Posted December 25, 2024 Author Posted December 25, 2024 https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/12/airport-security-stunned-by-extremely-concerning-contents-of-womans-carry-on.html Quote LOS ANGELES — A woman flying from Los Angeles to Philadelphia wound up on the TSA’s naughty list after an officer discovered a trove of almost 90 forbidden items inside her carry-on. A Transportation Security Administration officer flagged the woman’s bag during a routine X-ray screening at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday after noticing what appeared to be several prohibited items, officials said in a statement. The officer opened the bag in front of the passenger and was shocked to see what was inside: 82 fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms and a canister of pepper spray — none of which are allowed in carry-on luggage. Gal certainly knows how to party!
X-Files Posted December 25, 2024 Posted December 25, 2024 I'll just leave this inventory list here https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-5
Ivanhoe Posted December 29, 2024 Author Posted December 29, 2024 Man, I need to add a flamethrower to my toolkit; https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-arizona Quote Following a torrential summer downpour in northern Arizona, hundreds of bizarre, prehistoric-looking critters emerged from tiny eggs and began swimming around a temporary lake on the desert landscape, according to officials at Wupatki National Monument. These tadpole-size creatures, called Triops "look like little mini-horseshoe crabs with three eyes," Lauren Carter, lead interpretation ranger at Wupatki National Monument, told Live Science. Their eggs can lie dormant for decades in the desert until enough rainfall falls to create lakes that provide real estate and time for the hatchlings to mature and lay eggs for the next generation, according to Central Michigan University.
Stuart Galbraith Posted December 29, 2024 Posted December 29, 2024 Give it a month and they will be eating your car, or attacking your underground rec rooms.
NickM Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 Was watching the Greek version of who wants to be a millionaire, and one of the questions was "how many Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows?".A surprising number apparently....Given how many city slickers have no idea where food actually comes from, I shouldn't be too surprised, but I can't help but think it was a poorly phrased gotcha question
Ivanhoe Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 They live among us; https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-new-blood-group-after-50-year-mystery Quote When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time. After 50 years, this strange molecular absence finally led to researchers from the UK and Israel describing a new blood group system in humans. In September, the team published their paper on the discovery. Quote While we're all more familiar with the ABO blood group system and the rhesus factor (that's the plus or minus part), humans actually have many different blood group systems based on the wide variety of cell-surface proteins and sugars that coat our blood cells. Our bodies use these antigen molecules, amongst their other purposes, as identification markers to separate 'self' from potentially harmful not-selves. Quote When someone has a mutated version of both copies of their MAL genes, they end up with an AnWj-negative blood type, like the pregnant patient. Tilley and team identified three patients with the rare blood type that didn't have this mutation, suggesting that sometimes blood disorders can also cause the antigen to be suppressed.
X-Files Posted January 4 Posted January 4 NORTH STONINGTON, CT (WFSB) - A man was arrested for yelling profanities near a church in North Stonington while wearing a bike helmet that had a sex toy attached on December 27th. Police say that units responded to the area of the Grace Fellowship Evangelical Free Church, located on Providence New London Turnpike, on November 24th on a report of a suspicious incident. Witnesses reported that the suspect, identified as 52-year-old Jason Mitchell, yelled profanities while on a bike. He was also wearing a sex toy on his helmet. It was reported that he had done the same thing a week prior. Police say that Mitchell was trying to recreate a German helmet that his grandfather wore during World War II. Police also say that they were called to Mitchell’s home nine times between September 2024 and November 2024 for numerous incidents, including him riding his bicycle while naked with a cowboy hat on and retrieving items from his neighbor’s yard while naked. Man arrested for yelling profanities near church in North Stonington while wearing bike helmet with sex toy attached
Steven P Allen Posted January 5 Posted January 5 On 1/3/2025 at 8:22 PM, Ivanhoe said: They live among us; https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-new-blood-group-after-50-year-mystery It's stories like this that make me so suspicious of nearly every claim the medical field makes. If something so basic has eluded them for so long, what else are they missing that affects everything they do and prescribed? Follow the science (into ignorance)!
Ivanhoe Posted January 5 Author Posted January 5 Sir, the science is settled! I can't find it, but there's a joke some eminent geologist used to say at every talk in his later years. He said something like "When people ask me how old I am, I tell them 4 billion years. Because when I was earning my first geology degree the science said the Earth was 2 billion years old, and now they say it is 6 billion years old."
NickM Posted January 6 Posted January 6 On 12/30/2024 at 8:30 AM, NickM said: Was watching the Greek version of who wants to be a millionaire, and one of the questions was "how many Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows?".A surprising number apparently....Given how many city slickers have no idea where food actually comes from, I shouldn't be too surprised, but I can't help but think it was a poorly phrased gotcha question Bump
lucklucky Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Beep beep... https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/wild-coyote-yanked-from-refrigerated-section-of-aldi-supermarket-in-chicago-shocking-video-shows/
Ssnake Posted January 14 Posted January 14 3 hours ago, Ivanhoe said: What could possibly go wrong? But think of all the ways it could go right!
X-Files Posted January 16 Posted January 16 On 1/14/2025 at 1:42 PM, lucklucky said: Beep beep... https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/wild-coyote-yanked-from-refrigerated-section-of-aldi-supermarket-in-chicago-shocking-video-shows/ At least the coyote wasn't puking on itself like the urban woman I saw by the cold cases that one time.
Ivanhoe Posted February 4 Author Posted February 4 I guess we can write off Ireland now; https://www.popsci.com/environment/zombie-spider-fungus/ Quote While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to manipulate spiders’ behavior–and turn them into “zombies.” The fungus named Gibellula attenboroughii is described in a study published January 24 in the journal Fungal Systematics and Evolution. The shaded orbweaver or orb-weaving cave spider (Metellina merianae) appears to serve as the fungus’ primary host. This normally reclusive species of spider is found across Europe in dark and damp habitats. The novel fungus was initially found during the filming of the BBC series Winterwatch in Northern Ireland in 2021. The infected specimen was spotted on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom. The images that the team took indicated that some news fungal species might be infecting the spider.
Ivanhoe Posted February 4 Author Posted February 4 Somehow, this story from 2004 slipped past me, but people revisit the tale annually. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dave-matthews-band-bus-septic-tank-tour-boat-chicago-river-bridge-anniversary/ "The Crappening" Quote CHICAGO (CBS) -- It's been 20 years since the driver of the Dave Matthews Band tour bus band made a disgusting mistake along the Chicago River. The driver hit the eject button on the septic tank on the bus while it was on the Kinzie Street bridge, sending 800 pounds of human waste through the metal grates on the deck—and right down on to people taking an architectural tour boat cruise on the river below. Tourists were soaked in what was described in the Chicago Tribune as a "brownish-yellow slurry." More than 100 passengers were on board that day, Aug. 8, 2004. The boat immediately returned to its dock and was disinfected, and officials with the Chicago Architectural Foundation, which operates the tour, offered refunds. They said they received several calls from angry passengers who also demanded compensation for clothing and personal items. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_bus_incident Not surprisingly, the government and NGOs made a lot of money off this, but the actual victims were given nothing AFAICT. Dave Matthews could have paid each victim $10,000 without making much of a dent in his net worth. What a weasel.
Ivanhoe Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 Fun movie, BTW. Example number 17,429 of where Hollywood tries in vain to warn us about the dystopia we are eagerly creating.
urbanoid Posted February 24 Posted February 24 On 1/14/2025 at 7:26 PM, Ivanhoe said: What could possibly go wrong? https://myanimelist.net/anime/13601/Psycho-Pass
Ivanhoe Posted February 26 Author Posted February 26 https://www.popsci.com/science/nailed-head-ritual/ Quote Severed heads like these were a unique funerary practice within the Iron Age Iberian world. For archaeologists and anthropologists, they offer a way to analyze these prehistoric communities. Most bodies were cremated at this time, so there is very little evidence of death rituals in the archaeological record. After death, iron nails were placed into the skulls of certain individuals. The skulls were then put out on exhibition for all to see. Archaeologists have recovered some of these skulls with signs of nailing and in some cases with the nail still embedded into the skull. Over time, archaeologists have debated if these skulls were war trophies, relics of important members of the community, or something else. No coming back from that;
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