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A Queensland camper has made a momentous scientific discovery after taking a closer look at a hairy poo.


Entomologist James Tweed was chilling out in the lush rainforest that sits behind the Gold Coast's busy beaches a while back.


As he wandered off to clean his teeth, his gaze fell upon what he thought was a blob of bird poo, turning furry with mould in the humidity.


But it turned out to be Australia's newest creepy-crawly – a longhorn beetle so distinct from its relatives that it's not just a new species, but a whole new genus.

"AI robocalls impersonate President Biden in an apparent attempt to suppress votes in New Hampshire"


I have watched a few videos and in my opinion Biden could in fact be an AI

his disjointed movements and speech patterns,his pauses as he seems to reboot, all classic signs of the puppet masters trying to drive this robot in real life situations

On 30th October 1938, a radio broadcast in USA of the story, " War of the Worlds" stated that an alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Many people missed the opening statement that the story was fictional. Panic ensued. The police and fire services received many calls from the public.
What would you do if the above situation was real?
Would you stay put? Say your prayers? Pack your bags and head for the hills?
Maybe soon this event could become a reality. We may encounter extra terrestrials. After all, many ancient civilisations state in their writings that their gods who once visited them will return.
Remember the film, " Close Encounters of the Third kind, " This was a Stephen Spielberg production based on an alleged true story.

Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus.

I am not saying it isn't a sphere...however, there are some out there who are trying to make a case that our planet is flat.

I have a question. But first, imagine you are looking at a globe. It is round (sphere), like a basketball right? Are we not being told that is the shape of our planet? We are being told that our planet spins on its axis. The north pole stays north and the south pole stays south...correct?

Okay, when you are visualizing this globe. What do you notice if you were to travel to the south pole? Would not somebody at the south pole technically be upside down? That person must have a lot of blood rushing to his/her head. And what about if you are at the equator, you must be standing sideways?

What do you think?

Is the planet still a sphere or flat?

Connecting Singles members are really apathetic when it comes to science and astronomy. I've blogged about eclipses, comets and all sorts of celestial phenomena and those blogs get little to no comments when compared to political blogs... a subject that although readers complain so much about, they comment on.

For a while, I've scanned news about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that was launched in December 2021. JWST is 3 times the size of the Hubble telescope and equipped with sensors to detect the full light spectrum near ultraviolet to infrared.

The JWST has been sending images back to earth that are nothing less than spectacular, images not only of visible light to humans, but infrared light that passes through dust clouds that normally block visible light.

Coming up on the anniversary of the launch, and just a few days ago, I saw an article about new JWST images of the icy planet Uranus and some of it's 27 moons. These images are far greater than seen by Hubble.

Most people, even certain intelligent ones, seem to think CO2 is a harmless transparent gas that is not a pollutant.

Well, that is sort of true, it is a colourless transparent gas and not an air pollutant, without CO2 all life on earth would die.

HOWEVER, It has a major effect on keeping the Earth's surface temperature at an even level, no CO2 would create a planet of ice.
Too much CO2 creates the opposite, warming the Earth's surface and that is what is called Global Climate Change.

Excessive CO2 heats up the air which in turn affects the sea temp, weather formations and the overall climate across the entire world.

Do not be deceived by those who say CO2 is harmless, it is not, it will affect every single living being on Earth.

Global warming is a real fact, as can be seen, and felt by the weather pattern changes we have all experienced over the last 2-3 decades.

A Juggalo (Clown Posse fan) friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that she had seen 3 lights in the night sky moving in a strange triangular formation. Although many other people on the road had also stopped their cars and gotten out to look at the 3 bright white lights, she took a picture of them for me (and her) and sent them to me. When I expand the positions I see them. Sure enough, 3 bright, white, lights in an Equilateral triangle formation. She advised they were pretty bright and moved together in formation before finally just going way up and disappearing. I found no online reports about that day's sightings. Therefore I filed it away as a Hmmm incident.

Yesterday morning she advised of a second incident the night before (Tuesday). Again 3 lights in a triangle formation darting here, darting there, going up, then down, then darting away again. She doesn't believe they were more than 5 miles distant. What was different this time is that the lights changed color, Red, blue, green, yellow and white. Seemingly at random. Sje could hear a faw away hum. Then they went way up high and the lights went out and a few seconds later the noise stopped too. Again she took a photo and sent it to me. Yes 3 noticiably bright lights in triandle formation. A blue, a red and a white. I went online and scrolled backwards in the FlightAware air traffic radar for the time period she described. Nothing found. To me that is interesting. Visible by camera and the naked eye, but not by radar?

A more extensive online search pulls up a similar report from a bunch of US Marines on Maneuvers, about 50 of them who also reported, in 2021, seeing a triangle of lights in the sky. However unlike my friend they had aerial flare capability she doesn't. So when it was overhead they provided some local overhead illumination to light it up. They reported seeing a black Delta shaped aircraft that could hover and fly in any direction without turning that was at least the size of a football field. Seconds after being illuminated it slew sideways and then straight up, it went once around the sky, horizon to horizon, very quickly and then simply disappeared. Several of the Marines made posts about the incident, but it is not generally believed the incident was included in the list of known UAP incidents.

There will be a solar eclipse tomorrow morning, Saturday, October, 14, 2023 that will run in an 'S' curve diagonally across the United States, through Central America and sweep out across Brazil.
Starting around 8am in Oregon and goes to 10:30 in Texas. They are the lucky ones to see a full eclipse. With the exception of the the northeast, Pennsylvania to Maine are out of the path. More than half of America should see some of the eclipse.
It's called a ring of fire because some places will see a perfectly aligned eclipse where the sky will darken and only the outer edges of the sun will show through giving an illusion of the fiery ring.


Yahoo has a news story:


Time & Date actually have an interactive map showing the graduated areas of the most eclipse.


Always, there are warnings not to look directly at the sun, only former presidents can do that. Use a pinhole projector or specialized eclipse glasses. Always there will be reports of people losing their vision because they stared at the sun without proper protection.
Don't be a statistic.

in 2029. On April's Friday the 13th. An okay day for some, but probably a really bad day for a few million people. April 13, 2029. This asteroid is no bigger than the Rose Bowl, but it will make the closest approach of any known asteroid to date.

Asteroids that already hit the Earth and caused extinctions are not being counted in that last sentence.]

Apothis will pas within 18,000 miles of Earth (below many satellites). Should the calculations prove to be a little off, or an impact with something else causes a variation of only 600 miles, then Earth's gravity will catch it and just 7 years later it will hit and devastate the planet.

The US's NASA is aware of this of course, as are several other space agencies, however no one has allocated any budget money to do anything about it. The US Congress is much more concerned with such critical things as nominating Donald Trump to be the next Speaker of the House, the infiltration of WOKE thinking into the education system, darker skinned people crossing the boarder and of course this week's super model. So don't look to under funded NASA to save the Earth. Bruce Willis is needed to fix a leak on an oil well.

China, Japan and India in theory have the potential to launch an intercepting missile and divert the asteroid, but they haven't even mentioned it yet. Russia of course already shot it's wad at the moon and has no money or facilities for such a mission.

The real question becomes what is the safest place on Earth to watch the catastrophe with your date from?