tag > Space
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In 1954 while the CIA was engineering the banana coup, Guatemala's government announced it had learned of the plot. Coup headquarters in FL sent a telegram to CIA's station in Guatemala w/ advice on suppressing the info; one strategy was to seed flying saucer stories in the press
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The complexities of the sun
The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly changing because the Earth's orbit around the Sun is VERY irregular. Start by learning the three Milankovitch Cycles, then look into Solar Inertial Motion. None of this has anything to do with humans. None of this has anything to do with CO2. The models of the Solar System you grew up believing as a child were gross over simplifications. They conditioned you to believe that the Solar system has regular orbits, of which the Earth is one. Yet that is not the reality: not only the earth both tilts and wobbles as it orbits, but the orbit is an ellipse not a sphere, meaning the distance from the Sun is not constant. These are the three Milankovitch cycles. Then the combined mass of the planets also changes the centre of the Orbit, meaning the Sun appears to move rather than being in the fixed centre of the Solar System. This is called Solar Inertial Motion. And this is just the beginning of the story of irregularity in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, then there are cycles of Sun activity, making it stronger and weaker according to how many Solar Flares we are exposed to.
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Induction of a torpor-like hypothermic and hypometabolic state in rodents by ultrasound (Nature)
We achieve a long-lasting (>24 h) torpor-like state in mice via closed-loop feedback control of ultrasound stimulation with automated detection of body temperature.
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Is the cosmic speed limit a conspiracy?
If there are electromagnetic signals of extremely low frequency (ELF) whose wavelengths are thousands of kilometers long, can there not be wavelengths so long that they exceed the distance of the velocity of light (186,000 miles/s) itself?
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Cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula
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"The Quantitative Comparison Between the Neuronal Network and the Cosmic Web"
"Our analysis showed that the distribution of the fluctuation within the cerebellum neural-net follows the same progression of the distribution of matter in the cosmic web"
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These are the last known photos of the Miskatonic University expedition to Sudan (1908). The expedition disappeared without a trace three days later in a sandstorm. No bodies or artifacts were recovered; attempts to reconstruct the location through global imaging have failed. Art by Andrea Bonazzi
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The belief that intelligence is exclusive to a specific level of complexity (animals/humans) is absurd. Consider the possibility of unconventional computation occurring on the scale of planets & galaxies. What other forms of collective, super-intelligent life are we overlooking?
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"Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years" - Our primitive in-silico creations have much to learn from multi-species plant ecosystems and their incredible resilience, efficiency & adaptability.
