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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:10 am

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Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets
https://theconversation.com/traveling-t ... kets-58705

Kepler’s ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Just Got Weirder
http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructu ... 06224.html

Mysterious Supernovas Explode Twice, Giving Birth to Powerful Magnets
http://www.space.com/33680-supernovas-e ... gnets.html

Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -explained

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 080916.php

Curiosity has disproved ‘old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet’
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-curiosity- ... altic.html

Cassini finds hydrocarbon flooded canyons on Saturn’s moon Titan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 150010.htm

Commercial Space to Smash the Astronomy ‘Funding Wall’?
http://www.seeker.com/could-commercial- ... 77465.html

How Humans Could Go Interstellar, Without Warp Drive
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... ace-travel

Earth interacted with supernova remnants for 1 million years [This is based on conventional Earth rock strata wrong dating methods]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 104412.htm

Alberta fossil site hints to ‘epic disaster’ for group of dinosaurs (the bone bed is merely one section of a much bigger find that stretches across two to three kilometres and may contain the remains of an entire herd of centrosaurs wiped out in one fell swoop ... tens of thousands of individuals dying at once [the Great Flood!])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le31219826

That Giant Asteroid Wasn’t the Only Thing That Killed the Dinosaurs (So Did Vulcanism [and the unmentionable Great Flood])
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/ ... ate-change

Why did Tutankhamun Have a Dagger Made From a Meteorite?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... ite-006408

Even a dwarf galaxy with very low mass is capable of accreting smaller nearby galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-galaxies-v ... -flea.html

How a star cluster ruled out MACHOs ([theory of] massive black holes hiding in the halos of galaxies ... ruled out by a star cluster)
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-star-cluster-machos.html

Astrophysicists discover [wrong as usual] mechanism for spiral-arm formation in disk galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-star-cluster-machos.html

Scientists able to reprogram mice through laser-guided neuron manipulation
https://www.sott.net/article/325124-Sci ... nipulation

This Woman sees 99 million colours more than the rest of us
https://www.sott.net/article/325173-Sci ... r-receptor

‘Neural dust’ can listen to body’s electrical signals
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neu ... als?tgt=nr

About 20,000 kilometers beneath the sun’s surface, magnetic fields rise no faster than about 500 kilometers per hour ... implying that moving parcels of gas help steer magnetic fields toward the surface
http://www.sciencenews.org/article/magn ... our?tgt=nr

Humans may have taken different path into Americas than thought
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hum ... ght?tgt=nr

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:29 am

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Did Meteorite Impacts Sterilize Subsurface Mars Life?
http://www.seeker.com/did-meteorite-imp ... 43776.html

Canadian meteorite may be first visitor from the Kuiper belt
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... uiper-belt

Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri Discovered
http://www.universetoday.com/130276/ear ... discovered

Have we detected an alien megastructure in space, at Tabby's Star?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -telescope

Message from Outer Space? The Mysterious Indecipherable Script of the Inga Stone (Brazil)
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... one-006442

The giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain, temple at Cholula, dwarfs the Great Pyramid at Giza
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2016081 ... a-mountain

Remarkable ancient structure found just two miles from Stonehenge
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 90476.html

Brown dwarfs reveal exoplanets' secrets
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-brown-dwar ... crets.html

Nine new open clusters found in the Sun's neighborhood
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-clusters-s ... rhood.html

Giant planet and brown dwarf discovered in a close binary system HD 87646
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-giant-plan ... inary.html

Researchers validate ancient astronomical structures
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-validate-a ... mical.html

Supernova ejected from the pages of history
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-supernova- ... story.html

Classical nova observations before, during and after exploding
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-classical- ... tured.html

Researchers [wrongly think they] uncover 340 million year-old oceanic crust in the Mediterranean Sea using magnetic data [Rapid continental drift after asteroid impact caused the seafloor magnetic striping]
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-uncover-mi ... crust.html

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-humble-mos ... phere.html

Recent connection between North and South America reaffirmed [5,000 BP, not 3 million]
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-north-sout ... irmed.html

Himalayan migration northward found to be result of tectonic lift
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-himalayan- ... tonic.html

New Galaxy Pair Seen Getting Closer to Earth
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142637.htm

Asteroid Redirect Mission: Design Milestone
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 190643.htm

Comet That Disappeared: What Happened to Ison?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 162358.htm

Close Encounters between Centaurs and Gas Giants Form Our Solar System’s ‘Pinky Rings’
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/centa ... 04117.html

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:49 pm

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Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound Uncovered
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142602.htm

Discovery of 'live' iron-60 in Pacific ocean sediment linked with 2.7 million year old Type II supernova event [Dating is wrong]
https://www.sott.net/article/326044-Dis ... nova-event

NASA Just Found a Lost Spacecraft
http://gizmodo.com/we-get-a-happy-endin ... 1785623536

Chinese scientists study viability of manned radar station on the moon
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies ... ar-station

Mystery of ‘eclipse wind’ solved after 300 years
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-mystery-eclipse-years.html

Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... a-centauri

OSIRIS-Rex: Bringing Home Pieces of an Asteroid
http://www.space.com/33776-osiris-rex.html

Test for damp ground at Mars streaks finds none
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-damp-groun ... reaks.html

Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fossilized ... -mars.html

Standing stones across the UK were used as astronomical calculators
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

Lost cities #9: racism and ruins – the plundering of Great Zimbabwe
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016 ... plundering

The Magnificent Helmet of Greek Warrior Miltiades
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... des-006455

Easter Island not destroyed by war, new analysis shows
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-easter-isl ... lysis.html

Will the Voynich manuscript finally be cracked? [This says no word or letter from the manuscript has been decoded]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

10 Words in Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Decoded [This says 14 words were decoded 2 years ago and the manuscript was first found in 1912 and is carbon dated to the 1400s]
http://www.livescience.com/43542-voynic ... acked.html
[And this link says it was obtained in 1912 from a Jesuit college in Italy and included a letter dated 1666 {in Italian?} which named previous owners of the manuscript]
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_voyni ... y_can_read

Giant ancient supervolcanoes threw rock right across Australia
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -australia

Ancient air pockets changing the history of Earth’s oxygen [still getting it way wrong]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 174234.htm

Buried Tectonic Plate Reveals Hidden Dinosaur-Era Sea
http://www.livescience.com/55855-newfou ... n-sea.html

5,000-Year-Old Mystery Structure Discovered Near Stone Age Temple in Scotland
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... and-020962

Astronomers discover a large cavity around the Tycho's supernova
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-astronomer ... rnova.html

Distant Galaxy Clusters
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-cosmic-nei ... ation.html

ALMA finds unexpected trove of gas around larger stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-alma-unexp ... arger.html

Rosetta captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-rosetta-ca ... burst.html

Scientists discover a Massive galaxy of [undetectable] dark matter
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-scientists ... alaxy.html

Japan scientists detect rare, deep S wave Earth tremor for first time
https://www.sott.net/article/326395-Jap ... first-time

Self-destruction of science: Most findings are wrong or useless
https://www.sott.net/article/326582-Sel ... or-useless

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Sci News Blog: Ball Lightning

Unread post by Lloyd » Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:34 am

Interesting 19 page article [I've only read the abstract] on ball lightning, apparently from about 2012. I just posted other science news Sunday in the previous post.

Ball Lightning: Bubbles of Electronic Plasma Oscillations
http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/BL-Theory.pdf
Auguste Meessen
Institute of Physics, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, B-1348 Belgium
E-mail: auguste@meessen.net
Abstract:
We present a theory that explains all known properties of ball lightning (BL) in terms of collective oscillations of free electrons*. The simplest case corresponds to radial oscillations in a spherical plasma membrane. These oscillations are sustained by parametric amplification, resulting from regular “inhalation” of charged particles that are present at lower densities in the ambient air. BL vanishes thus by silent extinction when the available density of charged particles is too low, while it disappears with a loud and sometimes very violent explosion when this density is too high. Electronic oscillations are also possible as stationary waves in a plasma ball or thick plasma membrane. This yields concentric luminous bubbles. Ball lightning is a remarkable example of dissipative and self-organizing open systems, depending on non-linear processes.

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:00 pm

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NASA: Earth is Vulnerable to Invisible, Microscopic Black Holes – “Universe is Filled with Primordial Black Holes Speeding Through Space Like Bullets” [a different kind of "catastrophism"]
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... es-fo.html

SETI has observed a “strong” ET signal that may originate from a Sun-like star
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/ ... -like-star

Another ‘Alien’ Signal Had Earthly Cause, Russian Scientists Say
http://www.space.com/33922-mysterious-s ... cause.html

Hunt for ninth planet reveals new extremely distant solar system objects
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 093242.htm

Weird Grooves On Mars’ Moon Phobos Traced to Asteroids
http://www.space.com/33895-phobos-groov ... olved.html

Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ceres-tiny ... erupt.html
See Charles Chandler's explanation at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6199 especially the sections on Tidal Forces, Volcanoes and The Moho; eruptions are caused by tidal forces on internal electric double layers.

Images from Sun’s edge reveal origins of solar wind
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 090116.php
Charles Chandler noticed that a few years ago too

Doomsday Asteroid Goes Undetected, Narrowly Misses Earth one week ago
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/09/d ... sses-earth

Sabercats Kept the World Green
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lae ... orld-green
See the Savory Institute for modern implementation

Wood from a 5,000-year-old boat has been found on a building [time of Great Flood]
sitehttp://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... t-11816247

How a ‘weather bomb’ shook the Earth – and why that’s not an earthquake
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-weather-sh ... quake.html

Nasa [believers in black holes say] Earth is warming at a pace ‘unprecedented in 1,000 years’ [if you don't count the 1930s etc]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... re-warming

The rise and fall of galaxy formation
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fall-galaxy-formation.html

Galaxy cluster discovered at record-breaking distance [except their distance calculations are way flawed]
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-galaxy-clu ... tance.html

Two new fast X-ray transients discovered in the galactic plane
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-fast-x-ray ... plane.html

Rosetta collects and examines space dust samples from comet 67P
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-rosetta-sp ... t-67p.html

Sulfur, sulfur dioxide and graphitized carbon observed on asteroid for first time
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-sulfur-dio ... eroid.html

Ice not a major factor of dwarf planet Ceres' surface features
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ice-major- ... lanet.html

Jupiter's north pole images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything seen on any other gas giant
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-jupiter-no ... solar.html

Eta Carinae 1840s Great Eruption was only the latest in a series of massive outbursts of the star system since the 13th century
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-supernova- ... tions.html

Stratospheric deviation in wind pattern reversal observed for the first time
https://www.sott.net/article/327222-Str ... first-time

Quantum computer created that can tap into parallel universes [& other fantacies]
https://www.sott.net/article/327317-Qua ... -universes

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:18 pm

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9,000-[no, 5,000]year-old stone houses found on Rosemary Island, off Australia's north western coast
https://www.sott.net/article/327883-900 ... tern-coast

China says it has stealth-defeating quantum radar with single photon detection technology
https://www.sott.net/article/327733-Chi ... technology

The Dashka Stone - A 120 million year-old map? [nope]
https://www.sott.net/article/327407-The ... ar-old-map

Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it? Duh, EM?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... f-darkness

Nasa’s Osiris-Rex probe set to grab a speeding asteroid
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... roid-bennu

‘Impossible engine’ set for space test: Controversial technology to be launched on shoebox-sized satellite
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... llite.html

“Giant Comets from the Kuiper Belt Pose a Real Threat to Earth” –NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft to Probe These
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... obe-1.html

Are We Living in a Simulation?
http://www.universetoday.com/130704/are ... simulation

Cyprus Abuzz Over ‘Exploding Meteor’
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09 ... eteor.html

Did Asteroid Strikes Help Spur Life on Earth?
http://www.space.com/34003-asteroid-str ... s-rex.html

NASA’s Other Asteroid Mission: Grab A Chunk And Put It In Orbit Around The Moon [just as I requested]
http://www.space.com/34016-why-osiris-r ... eroid.html

Dark matter clumps [or maybe something real] may have punched through star stream
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... tar-stream

Mini-lightning may flash in the coldest moon craters vapourising soil
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -thin-soil

Accounts of Roman Infanticide and Sacrifice All Just Myth and Legend?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... nopaging=1

Were The Vikings in New York?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... nopaging=1

Prehistoric Cochno Stone unearthed in Europe
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37290979

An exceptional palaeontological site going back 100,000 years is unearthed in Arrasate (Spain?)
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/09/an ... ate/112588

Global effort launched to preserve precious sites
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37312217

Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-brown-dwar ... solar.html

Detailed age map shows how Milky Way came together [not likely]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-age-milky.html

Remnant of the early Milky Way harbouring stars of hugely different ages revealed [using bad dating methods]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hubble-rar ... early.html

Titan's dunes and other features emerge in new images
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-titan-dune ... mages.html

Young magnetar likely the slowest pulsar ever detected
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-young-magn ... ulsar.html

Mars rover Curiosity views spectacular layered rock formations
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-mars-rover ... cular.html

Canadian activist: Canada and the U.S. have no right to preach about human rights
https://www.sott.net/article/328011-Per ... estruction

The case against trust in Big Data: 'It's like you're being put into a cult, but you don't actually believe in it'
https://www.sott.net/article/327829-The ... ieve-in-it

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 18, 2016 12:54 pm

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(I'm including a few excerpts in some of these article links.)

Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fabricatin ... dence.html

The value of the open science movement
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-science-movement.html

Small Universe: M33 Internal Motions
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/avm-bib.htm
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/m33rcm.htm
The author of these pages is of the opinion that van Maanen's internal motions in spiral nebulae were actually [wrongly?] rejected by mainstream cosmology (which is focused on the idea of the big bang with it's expanding universe, populated by other island universes, i.e., galaxies). If van Maanen's internal motions are real, their magnitudes would imply that the whole observable universe is compri[s]ed solely of the Milky Way and its very nearby environment. Spiral nebulae wouldn't be island universes, and they would be no further from us than the Milky Way's galactic halo. For more on this idea, see Cosmology's Missing Mass Problems - Part 3.
... Comments on Knut Lundmark's "Studies of Anagalactic Nebulae"
Lundmark(2) reported internal motions in M33. These were on the same order of magnitude that van Maanen found, but he concluded that the motions were of a random nature. See M33 Internal Motions According to Lundmark. See the blink comparator (its not aligned right yet) which shows van Maanen's internal motions compared to Lundmark's.

Small Universe: Cosmology's Missing Mass Problems - Part 4
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/missmas4.htm

A fresh look at discordant redshift galaxies in compact groups 03/1996
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Ap%26 ... db_key=AST
We reexamine the statistics of discordant redshift galaxies in compact groups. We find that 43 out of 100 groups in the Hickson catalog contain at least one discordant redshift galaxy. We show that, despite the prevailing impression, all previous attempts have failed to explain this large number of discordant redshift galaxies. The order of magnitude excess survives all of our attempts to refine the sample.

1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes, A NEO Connection (Meteorite)?
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/1811.htm
- The New Madrid seismic zone earthquakes of 1811-1812 may not have been caused by strictly run-of-the-mill seismic activity. This is a study into the possibility that some Near Earth Object (NEO), such as the Great Comet of 1811, was an outside-the-box crustal stressor. If a NEO involvement is found, then some fear of the unknown about the timing of the next big one may come to be dispelled.
... Where's the New Madrid Event Crater?
- The first jolt of the 1811 New Madrid quakes is thought to have been centered near Marked Tree, AR. The region of Marked Tree would, therefore, be a logical place to search for a meteorite impact structure.
- Just north of Marked Tree, AR there is a swampy region called the Saint Francis Sunk[en] Lands. (The 1811-12 earthquakes are said to be responsible for the sinking of the lands.) This particular swamp is fed by the Saint Francis river.
- In 1889, in the middle of the swamp, ... there was a body of water called St. Francis Lake. At that time it had a circular southern border (which doesn't look like an oxbow feature) and a centrally located island. The island is now known as Hatchie Coon Island. [The lake is SE of Jonesboro]

The ‘impossibly bright’ monster pulsar: Researchers recreate mysterious mammoth galactic event in a supercomputer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... puter.html

Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... est-quakes

Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-chemistry- ... cated.html
"In one model, a low-energy impact leaves the proto-Earth and Moon shrouded in a silicate atmosphere; in the other, a much more violent impact vaporizes the impactor and most of the proto-Earth, expanding to form an enormous superfluid disk out of which the Moon eventually crystallizes." The isotopic study used K239 and K241 and determined that the second theory was correct. "Supercritical fluids can flow through solids like a gas and dissolve materials like a liquid." "Wang ... predict[s] the Moon condensed in a pressure of more than 10 bar, or roughly 10 times the sea level atmospheric pressure on Earth."

Massive dunes on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan, shown in detail
http://www.space.com/34026-saturn-moon- ... video.html

Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... verse.html

It’s official: You’re lost in a directionless universe [say directionless scientists]
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/ ... s-universe

Universe’s reionization is based on a galaxy’s dust content
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 173840.htm

A giant meteorite has just been unearthed in Argentina
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s ... -argentina

Beneath This Medieval German Town Lie Over 25 Miles of Forgotten Tunnels
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ex ... 47/?no-ist

New-found 42-by-26-foot stone in Scotland is covered with enough Neolithic circle and cup drawings to be the inspiration for most crop circles
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/09/m ... d-reburied

5,000-year-old seal found in Turkey's Hacılar mound excavations shows evidence of ‘sign language’
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/ ... n-language

Perfectly-preserved road that led Roman soldiers to London from the coast is found after 2,000 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

ESO Mapping our galaxy: a three-dimensional map of a billion stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-galaxy-milky-revealed.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-billion-st ... -star.html

X-ray detection sheds new light on Pluto
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-x-ray-pluto.html

B-type main-sequence star designated HD 30963 has unusual overabundances of Hg, Mn, Pt, Y, Zr, He, Ni
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hd-chemica ... -star.html

Large reddish polar region Charon (from Pluto?)
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-pluto-larg ... n-red.html

Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... earth.html

Tantalising clue Mars may contain habitats which can support life
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hebridean- ... -mars.html

Blackholes [or something] cause some galaxies to change dramatically in only 10 years
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-starving-b ... alaxy.html

Thirty years ago something dramatically brightened, becoming a Type 1 quasar; it has now dimmed again
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-distant-quasar.html

New isthmus timeline between North and South American landmasses [based on wrong dating methods]
https://www.sott.net/article/328556-New ... landmasses

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:15 am

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Note: I also post Tech News links at:
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... ic=23835.0


Mysterious 6,000-year-old fortresses in Jordan reveal surprisingly advanced early society
https://www.sott.net/article/328462-Mys ... ly-society

DNA reveals possible link to mysterious branch of humanity
https://www.sott.net/article/329005-DNA ... f-humanity

Wireless signals can detect your feelings with new device
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-wireless-device.html

The FBI has released their files on Tesla - info on his death ray, ball lightning, and much more
https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla

Invasive species may unexpectedly reduce disease prevalence
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-invasive-s ... lence.html

University of Calgary successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon six kilometres using fibre optic cable infrastructure
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-quantum-in ... etres.html

Echoes of black holes eating stars discovered
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142609.htm
A black hole destroying a star, [in] "stellar tidal disruption," releases an enormous amount of energy, brightening the surroundings in a flare. ... The WISE spacecraft, which maps the entire sky every six months, allowed the variation in infrared emission from the dust to be measured. ... [D]ust heated by a flare causes an infrared signal that can be detected for up to a year after the flare is at its most luminous. ... "The black hole has destroyed everything between itself and this dust shell," [leaving] a patchy, spherical web of dust located a few trillion miles (half a light-year) from the black hole itself.

Some ancient Mars lakes formed long after others [or maybe not long]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142043.htm

Interstellar Clouds [or something] Eroded Martian Atmosphere
http://www.seeker.com/interstellar-sour ... 15479.html

Scientists Baffled By Pluto’s Intense X-Ray Emissions
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... g-x-r.html

Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock [not from moon geysers?]
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... g-icy-rock

Uranus & Neptune May Keep Orthocarbonic acid Stable Under Massive Pressure
http://www.universetoday.com/130666/ura ... e-pressure

NASA’s Voyager I hit by third solar ‘tsunami’
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-voyager ... ar-tsunami

Does Our Galaxy Have a Habitable Zone?
http://www.universetoday.com/130914/gal ... table-zone

‘Mars-quakes’ might give off hydrogen for Mars colonists
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 103618.htm

Hubble Telescope Snaps Best-Ever Views of a Comet’s Disintegration
http://www.space.com/34092-comet-disint ... hotos.html

Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... t/90793160

ESA: Moon village the next step for space exploration
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... -thinks-so

The British Museum distorts history, denies racist past, as excuse not to return objects to their countries of origin
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/09/th ... ast/112651

Early Earth was largely covered with an oceanic crust-like surface
https://d1pbog36rugm0t.cloudfront.net/d ... /logo2.svg

Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... y-confirms

Chemically peculiar star HR8844 could be a hybrid object
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-chemically ... ybrid.html
HR8844 [is a] superficially normal A0V star [but its] light elements are under-abundant [and] very heavy elements are overabundant [so] the star should be reclassified as a chemically peculiar star. ... Besides their chemical composition, [such stars] have magnetic fields and experience very slow rotation with an average velocity of 29 km/s, which leads to extremely sharp-lined spectra.

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by kell1990 » Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:28 pm

Lloyd, I appreciate the time and effort you put into compiling this blog.

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Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:41 am

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Thanks, Kell.

(See Tech News at http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... #msg299258.)

Evidence Moon formed by object hitting young Earth: Layer of iron and other elements deep underground
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-moon-creat ... hesis.html
A stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle ... appears in seismic data.... [T]he stratified layer ... some 200 miles thick and ... 1,800 miles below the Earth's surface ... [is] believed to consist of a mix of iron and lighter elements, including oxygen, sulfur and silicon.

Shrinking Mercury is Tectonically Active After All
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-incred ... -after-all

Pluto’s Liquid Water Ocean Might Be Insanely Deep, over 100 km
http://gizmodo.com/plutos-liquid-water- ... 1787010446

Europa moon 'spewing water jets'
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37473617
"The (earlier work) used spectroscopy, so they really could discern evidence of dissociated water molecules". "The Sparks team discovered evidence of plume activity through imaging - visually." The suggestion is that the jets reach several hundred kilometres in height before then falling back on to Europa. The ... estimated a volume of water [is] equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool ... spewed into space about every eight minutes.
[I wonder how dissociated oxygen and hydrogen would fall back down. Or do they mean only some of the water dissociates? And when they say water, do they mean ice? I don't think it's very warm above Europa.]

First-Ever Binary Alien Giant Planets Possibly Found
http://www.space.com/34121-first-ever-b ... anets.html
They are similar to each other in size and age between the gas giant and brown dwarf stages.

Giant Green Space Blob Mystery Solved
http://www.space.com/34130-giant-green- ... olved.html
Two huge galaxies were observed in the blob’s core, and they’re surrounded by a swarm of smaller galaxies in what appears to be the birth of a massive cluster of galaxies.

Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -asteroids
[Asteroids would quickly vaporize into ions near a pulsar, which is a huge natural tokamak, i.e. a torus of magnetically confined ions.]

X-rays that don't come from any known source
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 104700.htm

China Completes Largest Radio Telescope In The World
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... -the-world

Impact debris and evidence of widespread wildfires around eastern North America suggest a large space rock whacked Earth around 56 million years ago at the beginning of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum [That was really about 5,000 years ago, the time of the Great Flood]
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gla ... ock-impact

Rosetta mission ends in comet collision
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37520420

Was Bolivia-Peru the Sunset Land of the Sumerians? [or the Phoenicians]
http://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion- ... ans-006708

Ancient Roman Cult Site in Rugged Mountains Revealed with Drones
http://www.livescience.com/56186-drones ... italy.html

Scientists say ocean fossils found in mountains are cause for concern over future sea levels [Nonsense! They arrived by tsunamis and recent mountain building via rapid continental drift, not sea level rising]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-scientists ... uture.html

A Polish Stonehenge? Discovery of New Burial Mounds
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... ory-006727

The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/09/th ... ion/112762

14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery [Make that 5,000 years]
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/ ... al-mystery

Natural born killers: humans predisposed to murder, study suggests [probably to remove threats or to eat]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... y-suggests

Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins [kind of like EU's Comparative Mythology]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... al-origins

Hubble views a colorful demise of a sun-like star [or it could be an exotic star, like a pulsar without a demise]
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-hubble-vie ... -star.html

Astronomers image newly discovered comet C/2016 R3
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-astronomer ... comet.html

Pulsar discovered in an ultraluminous X-ray source
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-pulsar-ult ... ource.html

The ultraviolet diversity of supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ultraviole ... novae.html

Kepler watched a Cepheid star boil
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-kepler-cepheid-star.html

Rosetta measures production of water [or its components] at comet over two years
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-rosetta-pr ... years.html

Discovery of an extragalactic hot molecular core, a cocoon surrounding a newborn massive star
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-discovery- ... -core.html

Protoplanetary disk around a young star exhibits spiral structure
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spiral-arm ... -star.html

Record-breaking gamma-ray binary in galaxy next door
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-fermi-reco ... -door.html

Evidence of Mars crust contributing to atmosphere
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-curiosity- ... uting.html

Scotland's asteroid strike [at time of the Great Flood]
https://www.sott.net/article/329871-Sco ... oid-strike

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Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:52 pm

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(See Tech news at http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... #msg299258.)

New analysis shows simple relationship between the way galaxies move and the distribution of ordinary matter regardless of how much dark matter they contain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/lif ... in-science

Superfast spinning stars cause strangest weather in the universe
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... e-universe

The universe is expanding uniformly [No it's not. See cause of redshift at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9273]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 093823.htm

Saturn’s moon Dione may harbor a subsurface ocean
http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2016/09/2 ... face-ocean

A Million Humans Could Live on Mars By the 2060s
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... ce-science

Erratic pattern of abrupt fading and re-brightening in KIC 8462852 unlike any other star
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-galaxy-mos ... omers.html

Tidal forces from Venus, the Earth and Jupiter can directly influence the Sun’s activity
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 100416.php
Charles Chandler explains tidal forces here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9925

Magnetic oceans and electric Earth [EU?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-magnetic-o ... earth.html

Planet-size plasma cannonballs whipping past dying star
http://www.space.com/34323-mysterious-b ... -star.html
Charles explains red giants are not dying stars: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=16754

BU archaeologists uncover 6,000-year-old long barrow in the Cotswolds, UK
https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/201 ... -cotswolds

DNA of Tibetans adapted to low-oxygen conditions at high altitudes via mysterious group of ancient humans, the Denisovans
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evo ... hts-021009

Skipsea Castle was built on Iron Age mound
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... -age-mound

Millisecond pulsars
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-millisecond-pulsars.html
I think Charles explains pulsars here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9273

New magnetic cataclysmic variable star discovered
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-magnetic-c ... -star.html
The strong magnetic field and the white dwarf mean it's a ring star, or natural tokamak; the ring is ions flowing in a circle.

Potential new satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... lanic.html

Detonating white dwarfs as supernovae
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-detonating ... novae.html
White dwarfs are actually ring stars, or tokamaks; they don't explode; they only flare; when the circular flow of ions decreases sufficiently, they "evaporate".

X-ray telescopes find evidence for wandering black hole OR extremely luminous, variable X-ray source located outside the center of its parent galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-x-ray-tele ... -hole.html
Luminous is kind of the opposite of black. Charles explained that x-rays and gamma rays are not visible from regular stars with atmospheres that absorb the radiation, but from ring stars, or tokamaks, which are circular flows of ions without atmosphere.

Study predicts next global dust storm on Mars [i.e. within a few weeks or months after the end of October]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-global-storm-mars.html

New insights into early terrestrial planet formation
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-insights-e ... ation.html
"Relatively high levels of precious metals (gold, platinum, etc.) in the Earth's mantle likely originated from one large-scale planetary impact prior to the formation of the Earth's crust"

Using oxygen as a tracer of galactic evolution [?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-oxygen-tra ... ution.html
Charles explains galactic evolution here: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5941

Scientists find unexpectedly deep seismic activity along California fault
https://www.sott.net/article/330539-Sci ... rnia-fault

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Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:26 am

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(See Tech news at http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... #msg299327.)

Lab Experiment Tests What Triggers Massive Solar Eruptions
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/lab ... -eruptions

(Here's a full EM explanation of CME's: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=8292)

Team simulates a magnetar to seek dark matter particle
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-team-simul ... ticle.html

(Here's an EM explanation of magnetar-like stars: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5738)

Auroras are directly linked to disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field
http://www.space.com/34330-aurora-myste ... lites.html

Proxima b ‘likely’ to support life
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 50231.html

Ancient stars may explain Milky Way’s bulge
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/ ... ay-s-bulge

(This EM context helps explain galaxy features: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5941)

More than one thousand asteroids perilously close to Earth
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/7 ... ERED-space

Scientists propose cosmic shield to protect Earth from asteroids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016 ... mic-shield

These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth
http://www.sciencealert.com/these-ocean ... e-on-earth

Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-proxima-ce ... ought.html

Effect of rare solar wind on Earth’s radiation belts
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-effect-rar ... belts.html

New Dwarf Planet Found in the Kuiper Belt
http://www.universetoday.com/131378/new ... tem-family

Buried glaciers on Mars [or Great Flood]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-glaciers-mars.html

Colonizing the moon? Frequent meteor impacts may get in the way
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1 ... in-the-way

A Super-Saturn Ringed Exoplanet 200 times bigger
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/scien ... 1407b.html

Earth’s Largest Field of Extraterrestrial Objects in Remote Autonomous Region
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... us-re.html

Physicists demonstrate everlasting quantum coherence [?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-quantum-ph ... rence.html

Uranus might have two dark moons we’ve never seen
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... een-before

Case of Earth’s missing continental crust solved [NOT]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-case-earth ... vedit.html

Methane muted: How did early Earth stay warm?
http://www.lastscience.space/2016/10/me ... -stay.html

(The Late Heavy Bombardment warmed Earth etc: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=15407)

Treasure Trove of Ancient Human Footprints Found Near Volcano
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... no-science

Remarkable size of the largest known depleted galaxy core
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... leted.html

New infrared source detected in supernova remnant RCW 103
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-infrared-s ... t-rcw.html

Chaos in cosmos: Stars with three planet-forming discs of gas [not really]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-chaos-cosm ... discs.html

VISTA finds remains of archaic globular star cluster in Milky Way center
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-milky-anci ... chaic.html

NGC 6624 cluster's advanced age in razor-sharp focus [but misread]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ngc-cluste ... sharp.html

Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-cosmologic ... sters.html

How Martian moon Phobos became the 'Death Star'
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-martian-mo ... -star.html

The Sun's coronal tail wags its photospheric dog [clueless]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-sun-corona ... heric.html

Lunar surface features younger than assumed [way younger]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-reveals-lu ... unger.html

Astronomers observe a supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype [or VR?]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... sient.html

Possibility comet struck Earth only 10M years after dinosaur extinction
https://www.sott.net/article/331196-Pos ... extinction

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Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:22 am

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Mysterious 6,000-year-old fortresses in Jordan reveal surprisingly advanced early society
https://www.sott.net/article/328462-Mys ... ly-society

Archaeologists unearth 9,000 year old shamanic sanctuary in Poland
https://www.sott.net/article/328515-Win ... -in-Poland

History of human migration reconsidered after discovery of ancient Phonecian's DNA
https://www.sott.net/article/330829-His ... NA-is-made

14,500-year-old cave art hailed as 'Iberia's most spectacular'
https://www.sott.net/article/331097-145 ... pectacular

Obama Orders Government Plan for ‘Extreme Space Weather’ [manmade?]
http://www.newsweek.com/obama-orders-go ... her-509891

Surface waves of shock waves in space are potential sites of plasma heating and Cosmic Ray particle acceleration
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ripples-sp ... -rays.html

Dark Side of the Mystery of Sun’s Bursts of Radiation
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... ation.html
Charles explains better: http://qdl.scs-inc.us/2ndParty/Pages/6031.html

Patent For “Impossible” EM Spacecraft Drive Made Public
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/10/p ... ade-public

Antimatter sail propulsion spacecraft could reach ‘Earth’s twin’ in 84 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

Comet 67P cracking under pressure
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/com ... r-pressure

Dusty Avalanches Probably Cause Comet Outbursts [if gravity is all there is]
http://www.space.com/34425-dust-avalanc ... setta.html

Clouds on Pluto? Dwarf Planet’s Weather Gets Weirder
http://www.space.com/34430-clouds-on-pl ... ather.html

Volcanoes on Venus Erupted Recently
http://www.space.com/34420-venus-volcan ... gests.html

Electric oceans change the magnetic field on Earth [Actually it's Earth's internal electric double layers that produce the magnetic field]
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.as ... ureCode=en

Did LIGO detect black holes or gravastars? [No, probably ring stars]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ligo-black ... stars.html

X-ray point source discovered at the center of a distant dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 [another ring star]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-x-ray-sour ... dwarf.html

We are seeing strange X-ray flares [made by electric discharges and ring stars]
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/ ... xplanation

More evidence for ninth planet roaming solar system’s outer fringes
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-evidence-n ... solar.html

Ninth planet may also be the reason for a tilt in our solar system
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... stronomers

King Philip’s 2,300-year-old Fountain in Macedonia is Oldest Still In Use
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... rld-006822

Armenian Stonehenge: Incredible History of the 7,500-Year-old Observatory of Zorats Karer [Can't be older than the Great Flood ca. 5,000 years ago]
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient- ... rer-021027

Artifacts on Azores Islands: Evidence of Advanced Ancient Seafarers?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... ent-021028

New Theory Suggests Ancient Greeks Helped Build Terracotta Army in China
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... tta-021024

Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... lten-magma

Interbreeding with Neanderthals allowed early man to develop a stronger immune system [?]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

Siberian Town Stakes a Claim as Humanity’s Cradle [not likely]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world ... ss&emc=rss

A novel approach to studying a star's environment from light curves
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-approach-s ... nment.html

Deep-space images show violent wind collision in one of the heaviest stars in our galaxy
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-deep-space ... viest.html

NGC 5128: Mysterious cosmic objects erupting in X-rays discovered [Only EDs and ring stars show x-rays]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ngc-myster ... -rays.html

Discovery of first binary-binary calls solar system formation into question
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-pluto-disc ... ation.html
HD 87646's primary star has 1.12 solar masses; its secondary 22AU away has .9 solar masses; its two giant planets with 12 and 57 Jupiter masses are only .1AU and 1.5AU away respectively, too close to be stable according to conventional theory. But Charles has a better explanation of star and planet formation at http://qdl.scs-inc.us/2ndParty/Pages/6031.html.

Astronomers explore mysteries of star formation with uniquely sensitive camera
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... ation.html

Astronomers predict possible birthplace of Rosetta comet [in Kuiper belt]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... comet.html

Hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-results-lo ... tions.html

Cassini sees dramatic seasonal changes on Titan
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-cassini-se ... titan.html

Did Viking lander discover life on Mars?
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-year-old-v ... -mars.html

Is the universe really expanding at an accelerating rate? [nope]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-universe-rateor.html

Oldest known planet-forming [or ejection] disk
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-oldest-pla ... tists.html

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-mars-recon ... relli.html

Extinction event: Evidence of supernova blast found in fossils
https://www.sott.net/article/331402-Ext ... in-fossils

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Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 30, 2016 10:43 am

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New Secrets Revealed about Ancient Mars from ‘Black Beauty’ Meteorite
http://www.sci-news.com/space/ancient-m ... 04294.html

Earth faces another ICE AGE within 15 YEARS as Russian scientists discover Sun ‘cooling’: Solar activity this low not seen since mini-ice age 1645-1715
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/7 ... r-activity

The rise of ‘citizen astronomers’: An era of new discoveries and collaboration
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1 ... laboration

Looting Asteroids’ Water Will Make Manned Missions Cheaper
http://www.seeker.com/space-tug-asteroi ... 43672.html

Cold Gas ‘Halos’ Found Around Brightest Objects in Universe: distant galaxies
http://www.space.com/34504-quasar-halos ... holes.html

‘Time crystal’ of ions created in lab
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tim ... reated-lab

Bright new nova discovered in Sagittarius
https://www.sott.net/article/332112-Bri ... agittarius

Saturn’s weird hexagon changes colour
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37766918

Ancient Quasars Cast Light on Mysteries of the Cosmic Web
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... c-web.html
Previous studies have shown that around 10% of all quasars examined were surrounded by halos, made from gas [of] the intergalactic medium, [which] extend up to 300 000 light-years away from the centres of the quasars. This new study ... involv[ing] 19 [bright] quasars.... has ... detect[ed] large halos around all 19 quasars [instead of just 2 of them]....

Jupiter-Like Planets Can Send Mars-Size Worlds out of their star systems
http://www.space.com/34480-gas-giants-e ... anets.html

First peek under clouds reveals Jupiter’s surprising depths [over 400 kilometers]
https://www.sott.net/article/332210-Jup ... Juno-probe

Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep in the Black Sea
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -black-sea

Pacific islanders Genetic study reveals ancient Melanesians interbred with a mysterious hominid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... paign=1490

X-Rays Are Revealing the Mysterious Writings in Mummy Coffins
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/x-rays-re ... my-coffins

Binary 'Heartbeat stars' unlocked in new study
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-heartbeat-stars.html
In a heartbeat star system, the distance between the two stars varies drastically [from] a few stellar radii to ... 10 times that distance during ... one orbit. At ... closest encounter, the stars' mutual gravitational pull causes them to become slightly ellipsoidal in shape, which is one of the reasons their light is so variable.

Hotspots in an active galactic nucleus
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-hotspots-g ... cleus.html
Here's something on Charles Chandler's model on that: Galactic Jets from Quasars [not Black Holes]
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/forum/phpB ... 99#p115587

Earth-sized planets with abundant water statistically likely around red dwarfs [This supports the Earth-Saturn theory]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-earth-size ... y-red.html

Four luminous blue variables found to be much closer than previously assumed [about 2-5 times closer]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-luminous-b ... ously.html

10 years of revolutionary solar views
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-stereo10-y ... views.html

Astronomers use observations of a gravitationally lensed galaxy to measure the properties of the early universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-astronomer ... rties.html

Young stellar system dusty disk of material fragmenting into a multiple-star system
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-young-stel ... iples.html

Dead star's ghostly glow [supernova glow]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-dead-star-ghostly.html

Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the moon
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-formation-crater-moon.html

NASA missions harvest a passel of 'pumpkin' (strong x-ray source) stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-nasa-missi ... mpkin.html
Charles explains that x-ray sources can only be ring-stars and I think also electric discharges.

More than 15,000 near-Earth objects and counting [not counting satellite debris etc]
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-near-earth.html

Something is happening: Outer solar system getting weirder (L91's distant path is shifting etc)
https://www.sott.net/article/332319-Som ... ng-weirder

Enormous dome discovered in central Andes result of an injection of magma from below
https://www.sott.net/article/332379-Eno ... from-below

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:52 am

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(See recent tech news at http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... #msg299356 - which will be updated in a few days.)

(In last week's post above, note the link to evidence of global cooling. The current exposure of major corruption in politics {e.g. http://forum.freestateproject.org/index ... #msg299370} may be the opportunity for alternative science to show itself less corrupted and more scientific than conventional corrupt science, including global warming, old earth theory, etc. Right?)

GRAPES-3 indicates a crack in Earth's magnetic shield
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-grapes-ear ... hield.html

49,000-year-old Aboriginal settlement discovered in Southern Australia
https://www.sott.net/article/332885-490 ... -Australia

Distant Niku's Weird Orbit Puzzles Scientists
http://www.space.com/34479-niku-weird-o ... tists.html

Scientists plan to create ‘Asgardia’ nation state in space
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37650274

Stephen Hawking leads investigation into ‘alien megastructure’ around distant star
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ca ... n-12086124

New Particle May Hide in Old Atom-Smasher Data
http://www.livescience.com/56663-new-pa ... -data.html

NASA’s New ‘Intruder Alert’ System Spots An Incoming Asteroid
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... g-asteroid

New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought
http://www.space.com/34372-new-moon-cra ... ought.html

Mystery solved behind birth of Saturn’s rings
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-mystery-birth-saturn.html

Forming star system spits out a third star
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/ ... -mechanism

3,800-Year-Old ‘Tableau’ of Egyptian Boats Discovered
http://www.livescience.com/56695-ancien ... vered.html

Interpreting the Murals of Egypt through the Eyes of the Hopi
http://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion- ... opi-006909

The Ancient Earthworks of Ukraine May Be the Biggest Solar Observatory in the World
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient- ... rld-006917

God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rt-comment

Hypervariable galactic nuclei
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-hypervaria ... uclei.html

Swarm reveals why GPS satellites lose track over the equator between Africa and South America
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-swarm-reve ... track.html

New instrument could search for signatures of life on Mars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-instrument ... -mars.html

Study reveals relationships between chemicals found on comets
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-reveals-re ... omets.html

Astrophysicists conduct very high energy studies of a highly extended pulsar wind nebula
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-astrophysi ... ulsar.html

Pillars of destruction: Colourful Carina Nebula blasted by brilliant nearby stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-pillars-de ... ebula.html

Close galactic encounter leaves 'nearly naked' supermassive black hole [or something]
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-galactic-e ... black.html

Study confirms that stellar novae are the main source of lithium in the universe
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-stellar-no ... thium.html

Scientists catalog nearly 100 dusty globules in the Crab Nebula
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists ... ebula.html

Hubble with the toucan (galaxy) and the cluster
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-image-hubb ... uster.html

Gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-detour-gra ... alaxy.html

Oil production may have caused several of California's major earthquakes in early 20th century
https://www.sott.net/article/332873-Oil ... th-century

New study suggests Paul Kammerer's scientific 'fraud' was authentic discovery of epigenetic inheritance
https://www.sott.net/article/332723-Vin ... nheritance

Weird 'gravity' waves above Antarctica caused by ice vibrations
https://www.sott.net/article/332761-Wei ... vibrations

Mount St Helens is actually cold inside, steals fire from elsewhere [electric forces]
https://www.sott.net/article/333162-Mou ... ng-weirder

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