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Best evidence, from a number of lines of inquiry, confirm that the universe is expanding. Individual galaxies remain relatively tight, helped by internal gravity. But the distance between them is increasing, and the more distant these are from each other, the faster they go. Like raisins in rising bread dough. Dark energy ( ? matter) is doing the pushing, we're told, but noone knows at all what this is. Freaking out here over all this. Aa-V.

Friday night was cold in South Florida. A front passed through in the morning with cold rain and high winds. Temperatures dropped to the 40's (Fahrenheit) and Saturday was clear skies, cold and windy. Sunday morning was also into the 40's.
We tried to get through Friday night without heat and the room temperature was around 68, much too cold for sleeping with 4 blankets. I said, the heater goes on and Saturday night with the thermostat set at 73. It was nice.
What I did notice (different than air conditioning) is the bedrooms were warmer than the living room. It was probably a difference of 4 degrees with the thermostat in the hall in the middle of the apartment. I have the louvers on the vents half way open for the bedrooms and all the way open for the living room.
This is the same adjustment all year round, but the air conditioning in the summer months has the bedrooms comfortable and the living room gets really cold. It's cold enough to have a fan blowing the cold air back toward the hallway to stabilize the overall temperature.

I'm puzzled why there is such a difference between the efficiency between heat and cool...

This temple was built in North Cambodia in the 12th century. One thing that stands out on the decorative panels is a design of what appears to be a prehistoric animal. A stegosaurus. How could people of that time have known about such a creature? It is not until 200 years ago that any such animals could be identified.

Of course, a claim like that, has us think about a somewhat similar claim about the Titanic, and we now
know, that didn't work out so well.
But, for a moment, think about a ship made from a material, that itself is unsinkable.

Researchers at the University of Rochester used short pulses of a powerful laser to make the microsurface of metal highly hydrophobic. It now repels water. So, the material itself floats, no matter what shape it is in.

Currently, the shape of the hulls of ships displace a lot of water to make the ship float. However, if the hull is damaged, the ship can sink. Imagine the same hull made from the hydrophobic metal. You could shoot holes in the hull and it would still float.

For more on this topic, here's a video

Fully 25 % estimates of all known species (metazoan), and 40% of their kin in the class Insecta. Sure, those colorful hard protective second retractable wings (elytra) may have played a part. And possessing the miracle of metamorphosis can't hurt. Those larval stages can bore through even the toughest tree barks. Protection then through the harsher seasons, and from most clever predators, only to emerge as adults in prolific reproductive/migratory life stages. But so what? Other orders of Insecta enjoy similar evolutionary adaptations. No, oh my brilliant CS friends, these Coleopteran marvels somehow have figured out much more in the struggle for life. Several threads of evidence now converge to show how, as with some ruminant mammals, these insects can digest all sorts of plant based very tough items, many based on the strongest cellulose polymers. But ready for the kickers here? Seems as though this huge survival trick was borrowed from bacteria, and "lower" plants, such as fungi. And accomplished, again somehow, by incorporating the DNA of these other life forms, into their own genomes. But more amazing, is that these little friends, again somehow, may have done so 100 large, VERY large, years before even the dinosaurs shuffled onto the scene. And they are still here, in strong numbers, VERY strong, some 60 million years after the dinosaurs sauntered OFF the scene. Sure, bacteria, using quasi " mating" techniques, can swap genetic material. One factor behind the growth of resistance to most commercial antibiotics. And deep shite for us all. But how the heck can the beetles have done so? Let's hear from the marginally educated ignoramuses here who will complain that a post like this, as with religion, and politics, so important to many, and definitely revealing in the great search for mates, is out of place. Pathetic. Revealing. Not unexpected. Pretty soon these mini minds will begin to call for a ban on flirting-on a dating site-of all places----can't make this stuff up folks.

What is the Internet of Things? And why should you care?

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..up on the sun / meat puppets
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Y..........673..fruit + full........deut..9:11
Mr. Green.................Psalm 119...
...out of the clear blue........prov.9:11..
Purple Royale ...................2 Jn.9-11.
....white horse.....
.. paradox alert.} ..the continuation of the block &. chain takes us to Event horizon @ rev.9:11. And the event is Horus*rising...* [ aka Apollo nee Nimrod.
..... particle physics..13 lectures.......
6...mass °+ E.............x... rainbow in the dark/ Dio
7. Colliding particles.....y...Psalm 2 / blur..
13.. Event horizon......z.. stargazer / rainbow
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.. Friday the 13th / atomic rooster
Critical mass 1-3 / threshold
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US Sen. Johnson & A Panel Of Doctors & Scientists Discuss Pandemic Responses.


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..we salute you..

...start me UP / rolling Stones
Family affair / sly & family stone
... another brick in the wall pt.2 / p Floyd
This is the One /. stone roses
...rocky Mtn. Way / walsh
Rosetta stoned / Tool
...total.} Rock of Ages / A M Toplady [ 1775.
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( 2 call us his children....?
...Y should the spirit ..hear it...when we pray...
( it's all because of what the son has done....)
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Tag. ..trick n Treat | perm. Halloween

Like a cross word puzzle, this will give you sum chill & cheer ..in between the knocking on your chamber door...
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4385. Document
3091...[ 2...3068 & 3467..( . deduction.
..the song ] .of the prophets is written on the subway walls.. --Simon
.part 2. .it's only rock n roll..
..stone Wall s. | .3 tall pines.
..thick as brick. } Jethro Tull
.start me up.} . rolling Stones.
..part 3.. .. yellow journalist meets
..great red China wall...( .
.part 4. ) Mene meme tekel..) .the meme is weighed & divided.
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But it was too Mighty for me. The whole land had assembled , the populace thronged around it...- Epic of Gilgamesh.
...to be continued..* UN fortunately..