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JimNastics

Oh Venus !

Named after a goddess of beauty, Venus is our closest neighbor in the solar system and thanks to reflected sunlight, one of the brightest points of light in the night sky.
Because the surface of that planet is very hot and considered inhospitable to life, it has not been the focus of our unending search for other life in the universe. Indeed, attempts to explore the planet have not been very fruitful, as even metals melt upon arrival.

However, at one ancient time, Venus may have been more teeming with life than Earth was at that time. Hundreds of millions of years ago, Venus had oceans. Perhaps it may even today have some life remaining. Astronomers recently found a lot of phosphine within the clouds around Venus. Some rule out other sources of the biomolecule and conclude, that it must be actively produced by microorganism(s) within the clouds. Indeed, since sunlight breaks down phosphine, there must be some current active source. Of course, some others believe otherwise. Nonetheless, life may be much closer, than most predicted. Venus may once again become an area of interest.

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Today in The New York Times;



(continued in my first comment below)
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Yellow Alert! A signal has been Detected

Project SETI, after 60 years of listening, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) organization acknowledged that in April and May 2019 radio signals were received by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope run by CSIRO in South Wales, Australia. As usual when listening on many frequencies a vast variety of radio signals are received during any observational period. Normally several months of work are required to isolate and analyze each separate signal to determine it's origin. The current endeavor is called Project Breakthrough Listen which collects and analyses signals from many participating radio observatories around the planet. In the case of this particular signal (known as BLC-1) the analysis of the signal did not occur until October 2019.
The radio signal is a not modulated (non-informational) tone that was broadcast on a frequency of 982 Megahertz. The tone was broadcast for about a half hour. Data from other radio observatories and listening stations was then collected and the presence of the signal in their recordings also was confirmed.
Triangulation reveals the point of origin appears to be in the direction of Proximi Centauri, a nearby star 4.3 light years away Doppler radio analysis indicates the signal was blue shifting (i.e., moving). No known natural process can produce a unwavering radio signal of the nature received. .Because the same data was found on multiple radio listening points, some thousands of miles apart a local man made source near the Parkes Observatory was soon ruled out. Subsequent investigation has determined no satellite launched by Earth has ever been set up to transmit on a frequency of 892MhZ. Further, no known satellites launched from Earth are known to be in the position of the sky the signal was determined to be originating from.
Continued monitoring of the frequency has not resulted in any further signal being received.
Scientists are continuing to monitor that area of the sky and are also preparing papers speculating about what may have caused the signal and what it may mean.

Verification:
National Geographic


Scientific American


Private Analysis: So while CNN, NBC, RT and FOX worry about President Trump, President Elect Biden, and Covid19 masks, over 4 years ago, someone or something pressed a car horn for a half hour. I say car horn because that is fairly similar to what was done. When a human leans on a car horn for awhile, we are usually doing so in an attempt to signal something to someone. Three questions fill my mind. Was the signal meant for us? If not, then what did the signal signify and to who (or what)? What kind of response to the signal is to be anticipated?

Tik-Tok whatever the response will be, depending on how far away that listening point manned by the sending species is, it is possible the response is already underway.
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chatillion

Utah Monolith...

The Utah Department of Public Safety department helicopter was helping Utah Division of Wildlife Resource and spotted a tall metallic monolith in a remote area of the Utah desert.
Photos and videos of the object went viral and it was described to be something like the monolith from the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, less the monkeys.

It's not known how it got there, who did it, how deep in the earth it's erected. It appears to have been man-made from stainless steel sheets that were riveted in the corners.

Today, in the news, it's reported the monolith is gone and only a flat plate that marked the location remains.

The Utah Monolith
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So I want to write about

Handel's quantum 1/f noise and quantum blinking.
You know the theory, how the reason everything inn the Universe flickers and creates wave function instability and electronic noise is because nothing is real anyway, so the illusion of reality is held together mostly by inertia. Well I wrote a math equation which seems to show that (yes, I may submit it for a peer review) and was gonna talk about it here too, but then I realized most here would have zero idea what I am writing about. So instead of doing that, I will resume watching a grade C horror flick on Torrent. "Ouija Craft" It is a great movie if you are having trouble sleeping or just like horrible movies. LoL It is about these high school witches who use a magical ouija board to bring back one of them after she mixes and drinks 2 magical potions that should never be mixed and just explodes. They use the board in a cemetery to resurrect her, but of course the spirit inhabiting the recreated corpse isn't as friendly as the person they used to know. Should we blame their inexperience, the Board, the cemetery or the script writer? I dunno. It was making me sleepy so I came here, but this place is as dead as that movie tonight.

professor tongue
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lovecanberealonline today!

Fractal Generator: The Mandelbrot Set....NOT Your Average Blog!

Video link/s to the famous Mandelbrot Set - To Some of the Highest Levels of Detail Ever Recorded! (i.e the most Iterations)...

The Mandelbrot Set was discovered (mathematically) by Benoit Mandelbrot, (in 1980).



To Infinity, and Beyond? (At the Microscopic Level)?

This would seem to suggest Infinity is possible in the reverse direction (Think Zeno's Paradox). It is all a matter of scale. To think in this way; is to understand how the Big Bang could have come from an Infinitely Small Singularity. In fact, all of the Cosmological Evidence (background radiation) would seem to point toward the veracity of this statement.......

To Infinity, and Beyond? (At the Macroscopic Level)?

Consider this, now, from the Reverse Point of View: Since the MS is Infinite in one direction; then why not the other way around? Likewise, this would seem to suggest that the Universe is Infinite at Vast Scales; which the human mind cannot process; and indeed fits the Mathematical Definition of Genuine Infinity....(there are various interpretations of this).......

Here the Argand Plane is used:

The x-axis (horizontal) represents the Real Numbers;
(as in a Cartesian standard graph)

The y-axis (vertical) represents the Imaginary Numbers;
(designated the iy axis);

where i = (-1)^1/2 = {the square root of (-1)}

Therefore, any Complex Number z can be written in the form:

z = a + ib

For any point (a,ib) on the Complex Plane.

The Real part of the Complex Number z is written:

Re(z) = a

The Imaginary part of the Complex Number z is written:

Im(z) = b



The iterative function f(z) For the Mandelbrot Set is:

f(z) = z^2 + C (for any complex constant C)

On the Argand plane (x, iy) axis.

(Start with z = 0)

Fractals at ANY level of magnification will produce self-similar but NOT Identical Patterns (generated by the information contained in the Original Set)....

Everything in Nature is Fractal; (The classic example would be a snowflake) - they are all indeed different, yet superficially the same; due to their self-similarity. Other examples would include leaves on a tree, and forks of lightning....

The Universe itself, is Fractal/Chaotic

This is why (mathematically) these Fractal Sets are very significant and important to study...

The Mandelbrot Set is probably the most famous fractal set; although there are many others (depending on the mathematical parameters chosen, and, of course, the initial function)...

These are the Link/s (below):










There are higher levels of Magnification (Iterations) available, like this one:



The final image, here, is Magnified to 10^4004 (10 to the power of 4004). That is to say, a phenominally Large Number.

Or in other words, the number 10, with 4004 zeros after it! - (or 400,000 Iterations).

Only to get to a "typical" MS motif at the end......(Completely Mind Blowing!)


And two 3D ones for Enthusiasts:

(These are usually based on a 4D form of Complex Numbers called Quaternions)

I really recommend this one..




And...



The math is further explained, here (for those interested in more detail)...





Btw, I'm Not trying to show off here, I just find the Mandelbrot Set (and Fractals, in general) to be F..king Amazing!.......


***TRIGGER WARNING**** Use Extreme Caution if you have Epilepsy, or are otherwise susceptible.....

Watch and be amazed
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Humans have created a new top predator

that is taking over the Northeast

Humans are not newcomers when it comes to messing around with nature. While we haven't created Frankenstein's monster yet, what we do transforms the natural world.

One recent example is the creation of the coywolf — a hybrid of the coyote and the wolf that is also known as the Eastern coyote. According to a new article from The Economist, their population seems to have reached more than a million.

These animals have a completely new genetic makeup: Their genes are about one-quarter wolf DNA and two-thirds coyote DNA; the rest is from domesticated dogs. A 2013 study suggests this dog DNA is mostly from a few specific breeds, including German Shepherds and Doberman Pincers.

Human activity likely played a role in the species' creation. As humans cut down wolves' forest homes and hunted down their populations, the lack of available partners for wolves led them to search elsewhere for mates, leading them to coyotes and dogs.

Scientists think this intermixing began with wild wolves in southern Ontario about a century or two ago.

The coywolves' success is astounding scientists. According to The Economist:

The animal’s range has encompassed America’s entire north-east, urban areas included, for at least a decade, and is continuing to expand in the south-east following coywolves’ arrival there half a century ago. This is astonishing. Purebred coyotes never managed to establish themselves east of the prairies. Wolves were killed off in eastern forests long ago. But by combining their DNA, the two have given rise to an animal that is able to spread into a vast and otherwise uninhabitable territory.

Here's the coyote, which traditionally maxes out at 75 pounds and has pointier features, and readily populates cities:

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And this is what a wolf looks like. Wolves are usually bigger, weighing in at about 100 pounds, and prefer more wild habitats.

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While the grey wolf and the coyote are each other's closest living relatives, the two animals separated evolutionarily 1 to 2 million years ago.

Usually hybrids — even between two closely related species — don't survive as well as their parent species, but the coywolves seem to be an exception. They've only really emerged in force during the last few decades, but they seem to have a few advantages over their parent species.

According to The New York Times' Moises Velazquez-Manoff: "[The coywolf] can be as much as 40 percent larger than the Western coyote, with powerful wolf-like jaws; it has also inherited the wolf's more social nature, which allows for pack hunting."

According to The Economist: "With larger jaws, more muscle and faster legs, individual coywolves can take down small deer. A pack of them can even kill a moose."

These animals are even better fitted to our changing world than we thought, and their proliferation has been more "rapid, pervasive, and transformational than once thought," according to The Economist. The genetic combination of the two animals seems especially well suited to the northern habitat. The wolf genes allow the coyote to take down bigger prey, while the coyote genes let them adapt to cities and other populated areas.

The wolves even follow railroads into cities, making themselves scarce during the day — adopting a nocturnal schedule. They even look both ways before crossing the highway.

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Randy Droniuk caught this coywolf lounging in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Another reason the animals are so successful could be their wider diet, according to The Economist:
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Agentbob

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micleeonline now!

Compare What's Seen & Heard In These Three Vids ...

See @ 0:47 ...

See @ 0:55 ...

See @ 2:05
cowboy
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zmountainmanonline today!

Panic on Tenerife

VOLCANO WARNING: Panic on Tenerife amid fears huge Mount Teide is about to BLOW uh oh wow

Some 92 microquakes were recorded in Adeje and Vilaflor in the space of four hours, with one measuring more than 1.5 on the Richter scale professor



I'm not giving much credence to the rumour the seismic swarm has been rectified by fitting a rubber pad between the headboard & wall in Sola's bedroom roll eyes
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Johnny_Sparton

how we are being dumbed down

I have not even given this a lot of thought and I do not even know if there is a point to this. I think perhaps it is just to stimulate possible postulating. I just started a new book and only on chapter one. It has to do with physics and its link to Eastern Mysticism. The little bit I have read has gotten me thinking a bit. I was fascinated to hear that mathematics is a language of nature, only thing with symbols. Also how our spoken language is only a guide of sorts to efficiently understand one another. It would take way to long to describe every aspect of a tree, or a person. Not to mention, it would be impossible...so we use tree or person to describe that object. This is all we are taught to care about and understand. But what is a person? ...or a tree for that matter. Both are made up of matter and both have this mysterious energy force connected to them.

Okay, this is just about as far as I got with my thinking...lol.

But,

I left the best for last. At least to me it is, there was a saying I read in the book.

"The map is not the territory."

It is like we are taught how to identify and read the map, but we never go seeking for the territory.

wave


...thus, we are being dumbed down.dunno
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