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Love it though it's not my brainchild, just a great thread to have

The article about tracing the origins of the Black Plague is particularly interesting. I didn't know DNA of plagues survive in teeth.
 
phoenix2020 said:
Love it though it's not my brainchild, just a great thread to have

The article about tracing the origins of the Black Plague is particularly interesting. I didn't know DNA of plagues survive in teeth.
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I thought this was kool... About 2 minutes... I like FULLSCREEN sound on...
That is what Tony DiNozzo had on NCIS - y pestis (black death).


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Scientists Simulated 100,000 Different Futures.
Which One We Get Depends Only on Us

Scientists Simulated 100,000 Different Futures. Which One We Get Depends Only on Us

Most of us have at least one moment in our lives when we wish we'd made a different choice.
www.sciencealert.com
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Most of us have at least one moment in our lives when we wish we'd made a different choice.

It's easy to recognize what went wrong in hindsight, but key factors that could have made all the difference at the time are often easily missed as we experience them.

Understanding those pivot points becomes even harder for complex systems on global scales. Predictive modeling, however, is the one thing that can get us remotely close to pinning down those important factors before they pass us by.

To that end, environmental policy researcher Frances Moore from the University of California, Davis, and colleagues across the US used computer simulations to predict and analyze 100,000 climate change futures.
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However, the future scenarios demonstrate that we still do have a decent shot at keeping emissions below 2°C. In 30 percent of the scenarios the future plays out like this:
"Rapid diffusion of support for climate policy leads to a rapid increase in policy ambition over the 2020s. Effective emissions-reduction technologies and rapid diffusion around the world reduce global emissions to zero by 2060."
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Astronomers in China claimed to have detected radio signals from Extraterrestrial Civilizations.

But then they pulled it from their website and never mentioned it again. Conspiracy! With Aliens!

Sadly not. Someone forgot to turn off their cell phone is all.
 
Meanwhile, on the alien spaceship;
"Did you try phoning the humans again?"
"Yep, straight to voicemail again."
"How rude! Shall will just destroy them?"
"Yes, lets just destroy them."

 
There are pictures of the craters caused when a rocket booster hit the moon

Astronomers Found a Crater From The Mystery Rocket That Smashed Into The Moon

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) – NASA's eye-in-the-sky in orbit around the Moon – has found the crash site of the mystery rocket booster that slammed into the far side of the Moon back on 4 March 2022.
www.sciencealert.com

Yes I said craters. No-one knows why.
 

Humans have a natural lifespan of only 38 years - but our life expectancy has more than DOUBLED over the centuries thanks to lifestyle changes and advances in medicine​

Humans are genetically hardwired to only live for 38 YEARS

Scientists at Australia's national science agency used genetic markers of different vertebrates to identify the lifespans of living and extinct animals, including humans.
www.dailymail.co.uk

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WHAT IS THE LIMIT TO HUMAN LIFE? A STRIKING NUMBER EXPLAINED​

Why there's an "unlikely but not impossible" chance of a 130-year-old human

While a new statistical analysis suggests that there is no limit to the human lifespan, the concept of infinite longevity is more complicated than that.
www.inverse.com
 
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HonestJoe said:
Meanwhile, on the alien spaceship;
"Did you try phoning the humans again?"
"Yep, straight to voicemail again."
"How rude! Shall will just destroy them?"
"Yes, lets just destroy them."

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They were desperately trying to reach us about our car's extended warranty.
 
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PHYSICS
Large Hadron Collider Finds Evidence of 3 Never-Before-Seen Particles
1 day ago
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How did we not see this coming? Quarks initially held the promise of reducing the number of exotic particles, but it looks more and more like there will be every possible combination of the SIX types of quark. That's dozens of particles we have no earthly use for!

Note though that this pentaquark still obeys quark confinement, and is more like a nucleus than a particle.
 

The Large Hadron Collider Is About to Ramp Up to Unprecedented Energy Levels​

The Large Hadron Collider Is About to Ramp Up to Unprecedented Energy Levels

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.
www.sciencealert.com

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4 JULY 2022
Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.
 
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This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists​

A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial.
But its supporting pillars sure are stable.

This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists

A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
bigthink.com

Multiple, independent Universes, causally disconnected from one another in an ever-expanding cosmic ocean, is one depiction of the Multiverse idea. The different Universes that arise may have different properties from one another or they may not, but we do not know how to test the multiverse hypothesis in any way.

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