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Shit Dogs Would Say. If dogs could talk, this is the shit they would say…Funny Compilation. A comedy spoof of Shit Girls Say. From singing with their owners, to voicing their opinions about bath time, these are the most vocal dogs around. Original Videos-- Talk and whisper dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttE66jOGGpM Pit bull makes weird noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5AUjKR9Dg dog with attitude https://www.facebook.com/Luketheboxer/videos/994074497355350/ dog tells other dog to shut up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj-xGi8kOk dog learns to meow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM0iaADo9Bg puppy imitates owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-b1HnecR0 dog makes funny noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5pqzA7CDY talking husky puppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0kKZfHNNb0 golden makes weird noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1NVJlm5THo Chihuahua puppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5pqzA7CDY guy sings with dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0kKZfHNNb0 schnauzer makes funny noises https://instagram.com/p/4nQKISgnta/ Dog hates getting bath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ge5JSaghKw One eyed screaming pug .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-4k7YfCyg weird french bulldog noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b658KxvS0I pug says I love you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSRSzY6iSVQ Yoga vs Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZYurXMhZI

Horrifying moment out-of-control rampaging wild boar attacks Chinese villagers as their family members desperately try to drive away the beast. CCTV footage captured the moment Chinese villagers fighting off a wild boar. An old man was brutally attacked and his daughter-in-law was seriously injured. The wild boar was killed by a sniper at a distance of 131 ft, local police stated. A wild boar in northwest China was shot dead by snipers after attacking an old man and his daughter-in-law in a village. CCTV footage shows the boar attacking an elderly man who fell on the ground, as his four family members try to distract it using shovels. According to Beijing Youth Daily, the elderly man, surnamed Zhang, was chased after by a 220lbs wild boar when he was picking the coal to make fire in his house on January 31 afternoon. Zhang was living in Peiba village in Ziyang of Shaanxi Province, along with a bedridden wife, his son and daughter-in-law. Four villagers, including his daughter-in-law, known by the surname Xie, were driving the boar's attention away from the old man. Xie was gored by the animal when she was making a phone call. She fell and crawled along the ground. She was seriously injured and had to send to hospital for treatment. Ziyang Police Bureau issued a statement claiming that they had sent out officers and snipers to the location to shoot down the wild boar. Snipers had to use QBZ-95, an assault rifle to kill the boar at 40 metres (131ft) away. Police officers also reminded the public not to alert the wild boar by assaulting or shouting.

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan fragileoasis.org/bloggernauts/Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011 Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com Shooting locations in order of appearance: 1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night 2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night 3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia 4. Aurora Australis south of Australia 5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night 6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern PaciLc Ocean 7. Halfway around the World 8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East 9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East 10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night 11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay 12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night 13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam 14. Views of the Mideast at Night 15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea 16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night 17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean 18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night Music: "Forgotten Shore" By Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ex2DEb https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/neptunes-overtone http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

The Chalk Guys, Julian Beever and Edgar Mueller 3D street art. Music: "7 In Touch" & Halls of Neptune (Breaks Mix) by Dhruva Aliman - Amazon- https://amzn.to/3dgKA52 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

A Mexican college student is alive after falling 80 feet from her balcony while practicing a yoga pose. Alexa Terrazas, 23, was known to do yoga on her sixth-floor apartment’s balcony, often using the guardrail as a prop for extreme poses. But a risky move nearly cost the yogi her life on Saturday afternoon, as she slipped and landed on the pavement outside her building in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, according to reports in El Imparcial. The health and nutrition student at Tecnológico de Monterrey was treated by paramedics with the Red Cross and Nuevo León Civil Protection, then brought to the hospital, where she underwent 11 hours of surgery. She was considered to be in critical condition as of Monday, having suffered fractures to both legs and arms, hips and head. El Imparcial reported that doctors had to “reconstruct” her legs, and that it may be three years before she walks again. People on social media asked their followers to consider giving blood to help her. As of Sunday, a relative of Terrazas tweeted that there was no need. Neighbors claim they saw Terrazas perform the upside-down pose over the edge of her terrace. The Nuevo León Attorney General’s Office also confirmed that the rail was structurally sound, and that the woman’s slip was an accident. El Imparcialreported the woman, originally from Chihuahua, was a student of Wellness and Nutrition at theTecnológicode Monterrey. Other organizations said she was the daughter of a local entrepreneur Alberto Terrazas Seyfert, a former President of the National Chamber of the transformation industry in the young woman’s hometown.

1.0 AU = 149.6 million km = 93 million miles = 8.3 minutes light travel. Voyager 1 is 20.6 billion km (12.8 billion miles) away. Credit: NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Music: Halls of Neptune (Breaks Mix) by Dhruva Aliman https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along Top 10 Most Distant Spacecraft from Earth.... 10. Rosetta 9. Galileo 8. Juno 7. Huygens 6. Cassini 5. New Horizons 4. Pioneer 11 3. Voyager 2 2. Pioneer 10 1. Voyager 1 Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. It originally was launched (along with Voyager 2) in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system. However, it has remained operational long past expectations and continues to send information about its journeys back to Earth. The spacecraft officially entered interstellar space in August 2012, almost 35 years after its voyage began. The discovery wasn't made official until 2013, however, when scientists had time to review the data sent back from Voyager 1. Voyager 1 was actually the second of the twin spacecraft to launch, but it was the first to race by Jupiter and Saturn. The images it sent back have been used in schoolbooks and newspaper outlets for a generation. Also on board was a special record, carrying voices and music from Earth out into the cosmos. Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5. Since then, the spacecraft have been traveling along different flight paths and at different speeds. The Voyager missions were intended to take advantage of a special alignment of the outer planets that happens every 176 years. It would allow a spacecraft to slingshot from one planet to the next, assisted by the first planet's gravity. The spacecraft’s next big encounter will take place in 40,000 years, when Voyager 1 comes within 1.7 light-years of the star AC +79 3888. (The star itself is roughly 17.5 light-years from Earth.) However, Voyager 1's falling power supply means it will stop transmitting data by about 2025, meaning no data will flow back from that distant location. Recognizing that the Voyagers would fly out of the solar system, NASA authorized the production of two records to be placed on board the spacecraft. Sounds ranging from whale calls to the music of Chuck Berry were placed on board, as well as spoken greetings in 55 languages. The 12-inch, gold-plated copper disks also included pictorials showing how to operate it, and the position of the sun among nearby pulsars in case extraterrestrials were wondering where the spacecraft came from. Eye on Jupiter Voyager 1 almost didn't get off the ground at its launch, as its rocket came within 3.5 seconds of running out of fuel on Sept. 5, 1977. But it made it safely, and raced past its twin after launch, leaving the asteroid belt before Voyager 2 did. Voyager 1's first pictures of Jupiter beamed back to Earth in April 1978, when it was 165 million miles away. To NASA's surprise, in March 1979 Voyager 1 spotted a thin ring circling the planet. It found two new moons as well – Thebe and Metis. Additionally, Voyager 1 sent back detailed pictures of the Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) as well as Amalthea. Like the Pioneer spacecraft before it, Voyager's look at Jupiter's moons revealed them to be active worlds of their own. Voyager 1 came out with some intriguing findings, as well. Io's volcanoes and mottled yellow-brown-orange surface were intriguing finds, proving that, like planets, moons could have active interiors. Additionally, Voyager 1 sent back ephemeral pictures of Europa showing a smooth surface broken up by lines, hinting at ice and maybe even an ocean underneath. Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter was on March 5, 1979, when it came within 174,000 miles of the turbulent cloud tops. Then it was time to aim for Saturn. Halls of Neptune (Breaks Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/3dgKA52 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

Amazing Scenes of Japan 2011 Earthquake Tsunami. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake shook northeastern Japan, unleashing a savage tsunami. The effects of the great earthquake were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. Tsunami debris continues to wash up on North American beaches years later. The unexpected disaster was neither the largest nor the deadliest earthquake and tsunami to strike this century. That record goes to the 2004 Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra, a magnitude-9.1, which killed more than 230,000 people. But Japan's one-two punch proved especially devastating for the earthquake-savvy country, because few scientists had predicted the country would experience such a large earthquake and tsunami. Japan's scientists had forecast a smaller earthquake would strike the northern region of Honshu, the country's main island. Nor did they expect such a large tsunami. But there had been hints of the disaster to come. The areas flooded in 2011 closely matched those of a tsunami that hit Sendai in 869. In the decade before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, a handful of Japanese geologists had begun to recognize that a large earthquake and tsunami had struck the northern Honshu region in 869. However, their warnings went unheeded by officials responsible for the country's earthquake hazard assessments. Now, tsunami experts from around the world have been asked to assess the history of past tsunamis in Japan, to better predict the country's future earthquake risk. "For big earthquakes, the tsunami is going to be the big destructive factor," said Vasily Titov, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Tsunami Research in Seattle, Washington. "But if the nation is prepared, warning and education definitely saves lives. Compare the human lives lost in Sumatra and Japan. It's about 10 times less." The 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck offshore of Japan, along a subduction zone where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide. In a subduction zone, one plate slides beneath another into the mantle, the hotter layer beneath the crust. The great plates are rough and stick together, building up energy that is released as earthquakes. East of Japan, the Pacific plate dives beneath the overriding Eurasian plate. The temblor completely released centuries of built up stress between the two tectonic plates, a recent study found. The March 11 earthquake started on a Friday at 2:46 p.m. local time (5:46 a.m. UTC). It was centered on the seafloor 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of Tohoku, at a depth of 15 miles (24 km) below the surface. The shaking lasted about six minutes. [Infographic: How Japan's 2011 Earthquake Happened] Scientists drilled into the subduction zone soon after the earthquake and discovered a thin, slippery clay layer lining the fault. The researchers think that this clay layer allowed the two plates to slide an incredible distance, some 164 feet (50 meters), facilitating the enormous earthquake and tsunami. Music: Black Wind by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/3eLFy0P https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hello-moon http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

Wolf Facts- Average life span for wolves in the wild up to 13 years in wild (usually 6 to 8 years) up to 16 years in captivity. Average weight for females is 27 to 36 kilograms (60 to 80 pounds) and for males 30 to 50 kilograms (70 to 110 pounds). Average height is from 66 to 81 centimeters (26 to 32 inches) at the shoulder. They have gray, black or white fur color. Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family, which includes domestic dogs, coyotes, dingoes, African hunting dogs, many types of foxes, and several kinds of jackals. There are 2 widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray. However, there is debate over how many species of wolf exist and if there are different subspecies of the gray wolf. Wolves are excellent hunters and have been found to be living in more places in the world than any other mammal except humans. Wolves are legendary because of their spine-tingling howl, which they use to communicate. A lone wolf howls to attract the attention of his pack, while communal howls may send territorial messages from one pack to another. Some howls are confrontational. Much like barking domestic dogs, wolves may simply begin howling because a nearby wolf has already begun. 10 More Interesting Facts About Wolves 1. Wolves are renowned because of their Spine-tingling howl that can be heard from miles around. Magical yet Frightening. 2. It is rumored that wolves howl at moon which is wrong. In order for howl to be effective & high-pitched, a wolf has to bend the neck upward. They tend to howl more at night because they are nocturnal. 3. Wolf Packs are established according to a highly organized and strict hierarchy. Average Pack size is 6 to 8 Wolves with a dominant leader ‘Alpha Male’ at the Top. He make the decisions and is responsible to all the wolves in the Pack. He’s leads the Hunt and usually eat first. 4. Wolves are highly territorial animals and typically hunt within territories, ranging from 50 to 1,000 square miles. They establish territories far larger than they require to survive 5. Approximately 1/3 of the life of a wolf will be spend moving around their territory and thus known to roam large distances. So much so that they may travel 50 miles or more each day in search of food. 6. The territory is marked out accurately by urine, droppings, scratches and sound calls and is defended actively against trespassing wolves. 7. They hunt as a group which make it possible for them to hunt down animals much larger themselves, such as elk, deer or moose and can eat 20 pounds of meat in a single meal 8. Wolves can smell other animals several kilometers away & from the smell they can tell if other wolves were in the territory. This is because Wolves have about 200 million scent cells as compare to Humans who have only about 5 million. 9.Wolves have several ways to stay warm in cold weather. They have a very heavy double coat of fur which allow them to survive in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius. 10. After the last wolf was killed in Yellowstone National Park in 1926, a wolf reintroduction program was implemented in 1995. A couple lived with the wolf pack for 6 years in Idaho to create a documentary and named the pack ‘Sawtooth’ The program is considered to be a great success—the wolves are reproducing at a rapid rate, and there are currently around 100 wolves in the Yellowstone park. Music: The Wolf and the River by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2Mgr7pg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wolf-and-the-river http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

‘Party Bros’ Protest House Party Crackdown at L.A. City Council Meeting-- Los Angeles City Council meetings are often criticized as political theater, but this hearing really was a show. Two comedians posed as surfer bros at the hearing, testifying against a city proposal to crack down on house parties. Calling himself a “house party enthusiast,” Chad Kroeger urged council members to abandon a plan to regulate the parties, which have brought widespread complaints about traffic and noise. Kroeger, who spoke with a Jeff Spicoli-inspired accent, recounted one high school party where he downed a “tall can of Bud Light,” an experience that later gave him the confidence to ask a girl to prom, he said. “House parties were the bedrock of my development as a young man in San Clemente,” said a sincere-sounding Kroeger. His pal, JT Parr, testified that the country’s deep divisions could be solved with “a fricking rager.” Kroeger and Parr are played by Tom Allen and John Parr, two West Hollywood-based comedians who run a web series called “Chad Goes Deep.” They have also testified at a San Clemente City Council meeting to urge leaders to commemorate the late actor Paul Walker by chiseling his image into a coastal bluff. Their appearance Wednesday was their first visit to the L.A. City Council. “Whenever we see an issue that speaks to us, we know we have to go," Allen said in an interview Friday, adding that they plan to return for future hearings on the house party issue. City Council President Herb Wesson, who is known for running a brisk meeting, acknowledged the pair and their act with a smile before moving on to the next speaker. “Thank you, thank you,” he said. “And I want to welcome you to L.A. Council’s ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.’” Follow Chad on instagram: @chadgoesdeep "The city of LA is trying to outlaw house parties in the Hollywood Hills so Chad and JT stepped in to thwart a potential disaster."

Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program. For most of his 18-year career as a U.S. Navy pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor said his mother-in-law used to ask him a question: Had he seen a UFO? For 15 years, the answer was no. But one clear afternoon off the coast of California in 2004, he says, that changed. Fravor, the commanding officer of a Navy squadron at the time, said he saw a flying object about the size of his plane that looked like a Tic Tac after a break in a routine training mission. The object moved rapidly and unlike any other thing he had ever seen in the air. He has not forgotten it since. Fravor’s story emerged this week after the Pentagon publicly acknowledged for the first time the existence of a recent program dedicated to studying unidentified flying objects. The funding for what was known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012. But officials familiar with it said some of its efforts have continued. The news of its existence marks one of the most significant disclosures about government research into flying objects — and the so-far-unproven possibility of extraterrestrial aircraft — since Project Blue Book, a lengthy Air Force study of thousands of UFOs that was shut down in 1969. Project Blue Book failed to find “any technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge,” and no evidence of any “extraterrestrial vehicles,” according to the Air Force, though a small portion of the events it studied remain unexplained. The encounter Fravor described was analyzed by the recent Defense Department program, he said, but its most significant questions — the nature of the object and what it was doing — have also remained unanswered. Fravor says he is certain about one thing: “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” he said in a phone interview on Monday, as he described the sighting, on Nov. 14, 2004. Asked what he believes it was, 13 years later, he was unequivocal. “Something not from the Earth,” he said. Fravor was the commanding officer of the VFA-41 Black Aces, a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes doing an exercise some 60 to 100 miles off the coast between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico, in advance of a deployment to the Persian Gulf for the Iraq War, he said. An order came in for him to suspend the exercise and do some “real-world tasking,” about 60 miles west of their location, Fravor said. He said he was told by the command that there were some unidentified flying objects descending from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet and disappearing; he said officials told him they had been tracking a couple dozen of these objects for a few weeks. Music: Snooper (116 BPM) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2MbZ3TF https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/snooper http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

Jack Ma, the wealthiest man in China spoke with Charlie Rose early this year at the Davos World Economic Forum about his journey founding Alibaba, a Chinese E-Commerce website that today handles more traffic than Ebay and Amazon combined. Last year, Alibaba raised the largest Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange, at the tune of $25 Billion, valuing the company at approximately $200 Billion and Jack Ma’s net worth at $20+ Billion. In his interview (video above), he gave a few interesting tips on his success: 1. Make it a daily habit. In order to learn English, a teenage Jack Ma with limited resources decided to go to the Shangri-La Hotel every morning and pick up Western tourists to give them free tours of his home town HangZhou, in return for English lessons and some practice. He did this every morning for 9 years, rain or snow. 2. Do not give up. Rejection is something Jack Ma is extremely familiar with and it does not seem to faze him one bit. He failed his university entrance exam 3 times. He applied to 30 jobs when he was looking for work and was rejected from all of them, including a job at KFC where 24 people applied and they hired everyone but him. He wrote to Harvard for a total of 10 times and was knocked back every single time. When asked about his failed applications to Harvard during the interview, he replied: “Someday I should go teach there maybe”. Jack Ma, the wealthiest man in China spoke with Charlie Rose early this year at the Davos World Economic Forum about his journey founding Alibaba, a Chinese E-Commerce website that today handles more traffic than Ebay and Amazon combined. Last year, Alibaba raised the largest Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange, at the tune of $25 Billion, valuing the company at approximately $200 Billion and Jack Ma’s net worth at $20+ Billion. In his interview (video above), he gave a few interesting tips on his success: 1. Make it a daily habit. In order to learn English, a teenage Jack Ma with limited resources decided to go to the Shangri-La Hotel every morning and pick up Western tourists to give them free tours of his home town HangZhou, in return for English lessons and some practise. He did this every morning for 9 years, rain or snow. 2. Do not give up. Rejection is something Jack Ma is extremely familiar with and it does not seem to faze him one bit. He failed his university entrance exam 3 times. He applied to 30 jobs when he was looking for work and was rejected from all of them, including a job at KFC where 24 people applied and they hired everyone but him. He wrote to Harvard for a total of 10 times and was knocked back every single time. When asked about his failed applications to Harvard during the interview, he replied: “Someday I should go teach there maybe”. 3. Take initiative and make it happen. The first word that Jack Ma searched on the internet in the early 90s was ‘beer’. Upon seeing all different types of beer on the net, the second word he searched was ‘China’ and it returned no results. This gave him the idea to begin his first internet business. 4. Have no fear. That internet business was called ‘China Pages’, in which he and his wife borrowed $2,000 to set up the company. When asked about this venture, he replied: “I knew nothing about personal computers or e-mails. I had never touched a keyboard before that. That’s why I call myself a blind man riding on the back of a blind tiger“. 5. Trust yourself. When he first had the idea of starting Alibaba, he gathered 17 of his friends in his apartment and spoke for hours about the vision that he had. When he finished speaking, all but one of his friends present told him it was a stupid idea. Jack thought about his idea for that entire night and the next day, he decided to start his company. 6. Make no enemies. His main philosophy when it comes to dealing with his competitors is that, he doesn’t see them as enemies but people that he can learn from. “A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, then sky’s the limit”. 7. Take responsibility. In order to start an e-commerce website with a payment system in China at the time, Jack Ma needed a license from the Chinese government. Obtaining a license proved difficult and doing so without one would be illegal. After listening to a leadership panel, he phoned his staff back at his apartment and told them: “Do it, now, immediately. If something’s wrong and the government isn’t happy about that (Alibaba), if one body has to go to prison, Jack Ma goes to prison”.

Proxima b orbits the closest star to our sun – a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, which lies 4.2 light years away. It's a rocky, terrestrial planet with a surface -- unlike a gas giant, such as Jupiter -- that is 1.3 times the size of Earth and orbits its star every 11.2 days. It is in a close orbit of Proxima Centauri: only 5% of the distance between the Earth and the sun. They are even closer together than Mercury and the sun. But because its star is much cooler and fainter than our sun, Proxima b has a temperature that is suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface without evaporating. Researchers estimate that if the planet has an atmosphere, which could be assumed but isn't known, it may be between 86 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (31 to 40 degrees Celsius) on the surface. Without an atmosphere, it could be -22 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 to -40 degrees Celsius). To put that in perspective, Earth would be -4 degrees (-20 degrees Celsius) if it didn't have an atmosphere, Reiners said. Given the proximity to its star, Proxima b is also subject to less pleasant factors like ultraviolet and X-ray flares that are 100 times the intensity of what Earth receives from the sun. In the paper, researchers estimated it to be 400 times the intensity, but recent research has caused them to create a new estimate, they said. If there is life on the planet, it would be affected by this radiation, but it is pure speculation as to what kind of effect. We don’t even know for sure that Proxima b is a rocky planet, although researchers think this is likely, judging by other planets orbiting small stars. What we do know is that it is within the so-called “habitable zone”, meaning that if water is present on the planet, it could be in liquid form. But many important questions are as yet unanswered. We don’t know if the planet has water, or an atmosphere, or a magnetic field to shield it from the high-energy radiation emitted by its star. What is likely is that the newly discovered planet is “tidally locked” to its star, meaning that only one side receives sunlight. Proxima b might be within the habitable zone, but whether it could host life is quite a different matter. How many other similar planets could be out there? Thousands of exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – have been found to date. The first confirmed discoveries were in 1992, when astronomers found planets orbiting a type of neutron star known as a pulsar. The first planet orbiting a sun-like star was discovered in 1995. Since then, missions such as the Kepler space observatory, as well as ground-based observations, have found many more, including a number of Earth-sized worlds within the habitable zone of their stars. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Based on Kepler’s results, astronomers have suggested there could be as many as 40bn habitable, Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, travelling around red dwarfs or stars similar to our sun (yellow dwarfs). But with Proxima Centauri our nearest stellar neighbour, none of these planets would be as close as Proxima b. Will anyone from Earth ever get near it? That’s unlikely, to say the least. Using current technology, it would take around 70,000 years for a probe to reach the planet, although emerging technology could halve that. Further, ambitious projects, such as Yuri Milner’s $100m Breakthrough Starshot initiative, plan to create miniature space probes that would be propelled by light beams and travel at speeds of up to 100m mph, meaning that it could reach Proxima Centauri within a matter of decades. Is the newly discovered planet part of a solar system like ours, with a group of other planets? We don’t yet know. Scientists say they have also spotted a second, weaker signal, but it is too early to say whether that could be another orbiting body. Do astrophysicists think there is life elsewhere in the universe? Most seem sanguine – but whether or not there is, has been, or ever will be life on Proxima b remains a mystery, for now at least. Music: Dream Walking (Emerald Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2Mgr7pg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wolf-and-the-river http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

British entrepreneur Richard Browning has created a real-life Iron Man suit, by attaching miniature jet engines to his limbs. He has just founded Gravity, a tech start-up who have built and filed patents for the human propulsion technology that could re-imagine manned flight. Browning, a former Royal Marine reservist, has released a YouTube video showing him testing the 'Daedalus', the company’s mark 1 jet-engine suit, in fields, factories and empty car parks. The footage shows Browning travelling just a few meters wearing the Daedalus, while Gravity has ambitious plans to successfully complete the world’s first human propulsion flight in the next 12 months. “Our vision is to build an entirely new generation of human flight systems for commercial, military and entertainment applications,” the Gravity team explains. “Our mission is to build an inspirational technology company by re-imagining the future of human flight and pioneering aeronautical innovation.” Browning says his suit has already been compared to Tony Stark's fictional superhero Iron Man. “We’ve already had a few comparisons to Tony Stark, but this is real-world aeronautical innovation,” he said. “We are serious about building a world-changing technology business. We stand at the very beginning of what human propulsion systems will do.” He told Red Bull, who he has partnered with: “It's like riding a bike in three dimensions. “The suit can fly in most locations,” he adds. “Despite being capable of flying at several hundred miles per hour, and at thousands of feet, normal operation sees the wearer flying at no more than a couple of meters.” Music: Spirit Must Train by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

SkyDrive Inc, a Japanese urban mobility company has announced that they have successfully completed manned test flights for their SD-03 Flying Car. The company held the first public demonstration of their 'flying car' project on the 25th of August 2020 in Japan. The successful manned flights were held over the 2.5-acre (10,000 sq. metre) Toyota Test Fields in Japan. The single-seater flying car took-off several feet off ground and circled the entire field for a time period of about four minutes. The test flight was handled by a pilot on board, although computer-assisted controls ensured safety and flight stability. There were also technical staff members at the field monitoring the conditions and aircraft performance throughout the test. As per SkyDrive, the SD-03 flying car comes powered by eight electric motors, two at each corner. The two rotors power the four drive rotors, which rotate individually in opposite directions. The use of eight electric motors is to ensure safety even in emergency conditions while also complying with all necessary standards. The SkyDrive SD-03 flying car is said to be the world's smallest electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) model. The company considers this to be the mode of transportation in the near future. In terms of dimensions, the flying car is said to be four-metres long, four-metres wide and two-metres high. In terms of design, the SkyDrive SD-03 flying car is said to feature a sleek and aerodynamic styling. The vehicle will come with two white lights at the front while a red light will also be present at the bottom. This red light is said to help observers from the ground determine which way the flying car is headed in the sky. SkyDrive is said to now be working on expanding the conditions under which testing of these flying cars take place. This should help them further improve the technology while also gain full compliance under all the safety measures and regulations of the country's Civil Aeronautics Act. The company is also looking at obtaining approvals for testing the flying car outside the limits of their facility by end-2020. Tomohiro Fukizawa, CEO, SkyDrive Inc., stated, "We are extremely excited to have achieved Japan's first-ever manned flight of a flying car in the two years since we founded SkyDrive in 2018 with the goal of commercializing such aircraft. We aim to take our social experiment to the next level in 2023 and to that end we will be accelerating our technological development and our business development." Music: Spirit Must Train by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #jetsons #future #technology

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The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command. As of 2017, the LGM-30G Minuteman III version is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States. Development of the Minuteman began in the mid-1950s as the outgrowth of basic research into solid fuel rocket motors which indicated an ICBM based on solids was possible. Such a missile could stand ready for extended periods of time with little maintenance, and then launch on command. In comparison, existing U.S. missile designs using liquid fuels required a lengthy fueling process immediately before launch, which left them open to the possibility of surprise attack. This potential for immediate launch gave the missile its name; like the Revolutionary War's Minutemen, the Minuteman was designed to be launched on a moment's notice. Minuteman entered service in 1962 as a weapon tasked primarily with the deterrence role, threatening Soviet cities with a counterattack if the U.S. was attacked. However, with the development of the U.S. Navy's Polaris which addressed the same role, the Air Force began to modify Minuteman into a weapon with much greater accuracy with the specific intent of allowing it to attack hardened military targets, including Soviet missile silos. The Minuteman-II entered service in 1965 with a host of upgrades to improve its accuracy and survivability in the face of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system the Soviets were known to be developing. Minuteman-III followed in 1970, using three smaller warheads instead of one large one, which made it very difficult to attack by an anti-ballistic missile system which would have to hit all three widely separated warheads to be effective. Minuteman-III was the first multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) ICBM to be deployed. Each missile can carry up to three warheads, which have a yield in the range of 300 to 500 kilotons. Peaking at 1,000 missiles in the 1970s, the current U.S. force consists of 450 Minuteman-III missiles in missile silos around Malmstrom AFB, Montana; Minot AFB, North Dakota; and F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. By February 2018 this will be reduced to 400 armed missiles, with 50 unarmed missiles in reserve, and four non-deployed test launchers to comply with the New START treaty. The Air Force plans to keep the missile in service until at least 2030. Music: Overblue by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3eyYxeD https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/king-neptunes-travelling-merchants-and-their-adventures-in-and-beyond-the-sea http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

"We think of Titan as a real-life laboratory where we can see similar chemistry to that of ancient Earth when life was taking hold here," Melissa Trainer, an astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement. Trainer wasn't involved in either of the new papers, but she is the deputy principal investigator of NASA's Dragonfly mission that will launch to Titan in 2027 and arrive in 2034. Scientists' fascination with the chemistry of Titan is what makes the new findings so intriguing. Researchers turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile toward the moon and spotted the chemical signature of cyclopropenylidene, an awkward triangular compound made of three carbon atoms and two hydrogen atoms. "Titan is unique in our solar system," Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at Goddard, said in the same statement. "It has proved to be a treasure trove of new molecules." Cyclopropenylidene is only the newest of them. But finding it is surprising, the researchers say, because the little-known chemical is pretty friendly: if other compounds are near it, they tend to react, eliminating the cyclopropenylidene signature. So while scientists have found the compound in the universe, it's usually out in the vast, cold, near-empty areas between star systems — hardly an environment like that of Titan, although the chemical was only found in the moon's thinner upper atmosphere. The newly spotted compound is also interesting because it is the second chemical found at Titan in which the carbon atoms lock in on each other to build a ring-like backbone. Other chemicals with that type of structure are crucial for the molecules that make up the information-containing part of DNA. Music: Jujitsu Flow by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #space #universe #explore

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Gator Popsicles come alive after they thaw out. These North Carolina alligators have adapted to survive in a frozen pond. In response to the cold, they are using a survival technique called brumation. Alligators brumate by slowing down their metabolism and becoming lethargic. Brumating allows alligators to regulate their body temperature and survive all kinds of weather. During extremely cold years, they can stay still for much of the season. As the season ends, the alligators will go through thermoregulation and their bodies will return to normal temperatures. #survival #reptile #evolution. Music: Land of Giants by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #survival #reptile #evolution

Human skill meets advanced technology. Mech technology represents a departure from conventional, human scale Exo-Bionic™ technology, integrating off-road racing components with industrial motion control to produce an entirely new breed of human piloted machine. These are sports machines, operated by athletes and built to race off-road. Furrion Exo-Bionics™ puts the pilot first. The act of learning to pilot a massive mech is a testament to the innate human drive to push boundaries and achieve excellence through practice and physical conditioning. The future of racing begins here. Mech racing will be a high-powered, zero-emissions sport unlike anything we've seen before. The X1-Mech Racing League will pit world class athletes against one another, strapped in to giant mech suits with hundreds of horsepower under their control. At Furrion Exo-Bionics™ we are striving to make that future a reality sooner than anyone had dreamed possible. 15 feet tall. 18 feet wide. 8,000 pounds. Prosthesis is the first of its kind. Durable and agile, with a frame made from chromoly steel, it can tackle any rugged terrain. In coming generations, advances in technology will improve speed, agility and endurance well beyond that of our first prototype. The significance of scale. Unrivaled in size and power, our exo-bionic mechs serve as a unique platform for the development of multiple branches of technology. In addition to large scale human-in-the-loop motion controls, they are also an evolutionary leap towards a future powered by mobile electric power systems. Mech research and development. Our mech R&D headquarters are based in Vancouver, Canada where world class engineering talent meets rugged terrain to create the ultimate mech development environment while our ICIT campus in Indiana, USA serves as an ideal off-road training ground for the X1 future sports pilots. Clean Power- Electric mobility. Utilizing Furrion’s ePod™ lithium energy cell, mech racing will be a closed-loop, zero-emissions sport unlike anything ever seen before. #transformers #mech #bionic Music: The Walwrath (Escape From Hell Mix) by Dhruva Aliman - Amazon- https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 - https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes - http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ - Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

Too Many Birds - Police Catch Bird Scooter Catcher - Venice Beach- Bird is a scooter-sharing company that launched in 2017 and has been dubbed the “Uber of scooters.” Its goal is to alleviate congestion and allow people an easy way to travel quickly for short distances of just a few miles. Riders can locate and unlock scooters using the company’s smartphone app, and after paying the $1 unlocking fee are charged 15 cents per minute during use. Birds are available in a growing number of American cities including Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Scottsdale, Arizona; Washington D.C.; and Atlanta. The scooters are all battery-powered and dockless, so they can be picked up or dropped off anywhere. But when night falls, what most riders don’t realize is that the scooters themselves are charged by a contract workforce. These people are known as “Bird hunters” or “chargers,” and they’re growing exponentially in number. Registering to become a charger isn’t hard. Unlike Uber or most ride-sharing services, Bird doesn’t require a background check or any kind of complicated registration procedure. It takes a few simple steps including registering your address and providing personal information, tax information, and bank-account information so you can get paid via direct deposit. If your application is approved, within a matter of days Bird will mail you three charging packs to get started. Charging a Bird doesn’t require a ton of electricity, so minus the labor cost, charging a few scooters overnight is essentially free—especially if you live in a large apartment building and can do so in your bike room. As Birds and comparable scooter-sharing services continue to expand, charging has become a popular way for high-schoolers, college students, and young professionals to earn easy money. “Charging scooters for Bird is like Pokémon Go, but when you get paid for finding Pokémon,” says Nick Abouzeid, a 21-year-old charger in San Francisco. Several nights a week after work, he and his girlfriend go on walks around the city, collecting scooters and bringing them back to his apartment building to charge in the basement. “It’s really fun to grab a few scooters, charge them, and in the end it pays for a fancy dinner,” Abouzeid says. “It’s like a game and I would do it even if the prices were halved, which they probably will be.” Like Pokémon Go, when you enter “charger mode” the Bird app displays a real-time map of Birds across your area that require charging. The reward for capturing and charging these Birds can range from $5 to $20 depending on how difficult the Bird is to locate—and some can be really hard to find. Bird chargers have described finding Birds in and under trash cans, down the side of a canyon, hidden in bushes, or tossed sideways on the side of the street. “Finding the really hard ones is so awesome,” says Lucas, a young teenage Bird charger in L.A. who didn’t want his last name or his age listed since he technically hunts under his parents’ account. “It’s become a big trend at my high school. People are like, ‘Oh are you gonna charge tonight?’ I have friends send me Snapchats like, ‘I just got 18 in one night!’ or, ‘Look where I found this one.’ There’s definitely a sense of achievement in picking a lot of them up.” “I think so many teens are doing it because it’s a really easy way to make a lot of money on the side,” says Brandon. “Everyone loves Bird so when you tell people you’re a Bird charger they’re like, ‘Whoa! That’s cool, how do I do that?’ No one thinks it’s lame. My friends and I are pretty much in the tech crew [at school], so we found out sooner. But now popular kids are asking how they can sign up and get Birds.” Lucas says he goes out with friends nearly every night, and even when they don’t find tons of Birds, it’s still a fun, social activity. “It’s like a whole-city scavenger hunt,” he says. He even jokes that it would make a great date. But while Bird hunting is fun and games for some, other chargers take the job much more seriously. Charging in some cities, like San Diego, has become a cutthroat competition between workers where every last dollar counts. Hoarding in particular has become a problem in these crowded markets. Bird and other companies will pay a $20 reward for missing scooters, so some chargers simply keep the scooters in their garage until they’re reported missing by riders or the bounty goes up to $20, then claim the finder’s fees. Bird theoretically polices this behavior, and Brandon says he’s gotten a warning call from the company for hoarding, but the bad behavior has become commonplace and punishment is unevenly enforced. In saturated markets, the race to quickly grab as many scooters as possible is fierce. “One time I pulled up to pick up a scooter, I got there maybe 10 seconds before the other guy did,” said one charger in San Diego. “He started yelling at me. He picked up a Bird scooter and started beating my car. I got the hell out of there.”

From waterstudio.nl "ARKUP World’s First Solar-Powered Livable Yacht EVER – Floating House... Meet the next generation floating house.Equipped with electric propulsion and four hydraulic spuds, ARKUP future-proof houseboat can lift itself out of the water and is completely stable at anchor. Our 4,350 sqft mobile floating mansion is fully solar powered and harvest rainwater in order to provide the ultimate off-the-grid water-based living experience.”You can cruise silently in the bay the find the perfect spot to anchor for the week-end: totally off-the-grid.When elevated on its hydraulic pilings, the vessel is as stable as a house, and protected from the action of the waves. The Arkup livable yacht was conceived to be sustainable and “future-proof”, from its ability to withstand or avoid extreme weather events, to its self-contained systems that allow fully off-the-grid living. The Arkup features glass walls, multiple levels subdivided into interconnected rooms, and instant access to the water. Solar power generates enough juice not just for lights and air-conditioning, but also power for its electric engines to cruise 20 miles on a single charge. The home is propelled by a pair of 100 kW (134 hp) electric azimuth thrusters, allowing it to reach 7 knots.With solar panel technology, rain water harvesting and retractable hydraulic legs, the ARKUP is designed for off-the-grid living." Music: Jujitsu Flow by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #sustainable #home #tech

Five HIV patients left 'virus-free' with no need for daily drugs in early vaccine trials. Researchers combined two new HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer. A new vaccine-based treatment for HIV has succeeded in suppressing the virus in five patients, raising hopes further research could help prevent Aids without the need for daily drugs. Researchers combined two innovative HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer in the trial, conducted over three years at the IrsiCaixa Aids Research Institute in Barcelona. After receiving the treatment, the virus was undetectable in five out of 24 participants and its spread was stopped by their immune systems, reported the New Scientist. One of them has been drug-free for seven months. Lead scientist Beatriz Mothe said her team was “on the right path” to developing a treatment which could offer an alternative to daily antiretroviral medication (ART). Around 18 million people – half of all those living with HIV around the world – take ART to slow the progression of the infection, according to the UN. But these drugs are expensive and can cause unpleasant side effects. Patients have to remember to take them every day, sometimes over their entire lives. Mitchell Warren, executive director of the Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (Avac), said the study had been carried out on a small scale but its findings were “interesting and important”. “Long-term systems that don’t require daily pill taking could really help accelerate getting 37 million people with HIV undetectable and not infectious – that would be a great opportunity to turn the tide on the epidemic,” he told The Independent. Mr Warren said this was an example of a therapeutic vaccine, for people already infected with the disease, as opposed to preventative immunization for diseases such as polio or mumps and measles. “The idea of a therapeutic vaccine that could provide ongoing control of the virus without having to take a pill every day would be a huge advance,” he said. Dr. Mothe and her team gave the patients, all recently diagnosed with HIV, two vaccines designed to stimulate the production of white blood cells which can recognize and destroy cells that have been infected by the virus. The trial participants continued to take ART for three years, while the researchers monitored their immune responses. Then 15 of the participants received a booster dose of one of the vaccines and a cancer drug called romidepsin, which has been shown to ‘flush out’ the HIV virus from tissues where it can lie dormant. The virus quickly returned and began to spread again in 10 of these patients, who resumed taking ART, but five of them have maintained suppression of viral load to below the limit of detection for the test, meaning they have not had to take daily drugs for a number of weeks, and in one case for seven months. In 2015, providing ART to patients in low to middle-income countries cost $19 billion (£15 billion), according to the New Scientist, meaning huge savings could be possible if further research is successful. More than 100,000 people are living with HIV in the UK, according to the Terrence Higgins Trust. Music: Return Of The Inventor (Original Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2Mgr7pg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wolf-and-the-river http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #medicine #cure #progress

Art by Jason Decaires Taylor - http://www.underwatersculpture.com/ Song: Bottom of the Sea by Dhruva Aliman - Amazon- https://amzn.to/3dgKA52 - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 - https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along - http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ - Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet ...... In November 2009 Jason deCaires Taylor started a monumental project off the coast of Cancún in Mexico. He created and placed hundreds of statues that look like forgotten ancient relics in shallow waters in the Cancún National Marine Park, which had been previously damaged by storms. He has made more than 500 of the life-sized permanent sculptures and they are all made with specialised pH-neutral marine concrete used to promote viral life. The project has been named "The Silent Evolution" and is classed as an underwater museum that is called MUSA. Snorkelers, scuba divers, and tourists in glass-bottom boats can go to visit this strange museum and the installation is intended to eventually cover more than 4,520 square feet, which would make it one of the largest underwater attractions in the world. Jason deCaires Taylor planned for the sculptures to become artificial reefs and some have coral planted on or near them. The statues will become covered with coral over time, due to the natural propagation of corals already present in the vicinity. Each year 750,000 tourists visit the reef at Cancun and this puts stress on the natural reef due to Maurine pollution, warming waters and fishing. By creating these artistic sculptures the marine life will be able to grow and flourish in the shallow waters and the natural reefs can recover. Another amazing underwater modern sculpture is called the Christ of the Abyss. A submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ, located in the Mediterranean Sea off San Fruttuoso and was placed in the waters on the 22nd august 1954. It depicts Christ offering a benediction of peace, with his head and hands raised skyward. Also the famous moai statues of Easter Island have a sunken head, in 1994 a Hollywood production sunk a moai head for the purpose of a movie. Another impressive sculptor is located about three miles off the key Biscayne in Miami. Named the Neptune Society Memorial Reef and inspired by the lost city of Atlantis it's purpose was originally a cemetery for cremated remains. The memorial site has statues, domes, arches, benches, gates, roads and 44 columns that make up this underwater city. Most of these sculptures are created for artistic purposes, but they also serve as artificial reefs that help nature thrive. So what at first may look like eerie but beautiful man made statues, actually turn out to be tools for the birth of marine organisms. Inertia underwater - Jason deCaires Taylor 400 life-size figures. Depth 9m Cancun / Isla Mujeres - Jason deCaires Taylor The Gardener underwater - Jason deCaires Taylor. Silent Evolution underwater sculpture - Jason deCaires Taylor. Vicissitudes underwater sculpture -Jason deCaires Taylor. Coral encrusted underwater sculptures - Jason deCaires Taylor. The Silent Evolution underwater sculpture - Jason deCaires Taylor. DUnderwater sculpture at Manchones Reef - Jason deCaires Taylor. Key Largo in Conch Reef - Serge Melki The gates of Neptune Memorial Reef - Elkman Underwater life of Klein Bonaire - Michal Strzelecki Iolanda reef in Ras Muhammad nature park (Sinai, Egypt) - Mikhail Rogov #art #environment #electronica

With the help of satellites and AI, researchers spotted a trove of new 'geoglyphs' - earth drawings - depicting animals, people, and objects. Japanese researchers have used machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify 143 new Nazca Lines, also called geoglyphs, in Peru. Among the numerous new glyphs was one that was discovered entirely by AI, the first time to happen in the world. The New York Times reports that the team of researchers used satellite photography, 3D imaging, and AI to find the ancient geoglyphs that were impressed into the ground in a desert plain around 100 B.C. by Nazcas. A press release from Yamagata University explains that the team used IBM’s Power Systems servers “in an aim to understand Nazca Lines as a whole.” Researchers also utilized AI tech from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York to test whether or not AI could find new Nazca Lines. And it worked. The team configured a machine learning program with an AI model which found a new glyph depicting a 16-foot tall “humanoid figure standing on two feet." In their effort to examine whether or not the AI could discover new Nazca Lines, the research team shares that they “introduced the capability to process large volumes of data with AI,” which included hi-res aerial images “at high speeds.” The Nazca people lived near Peru's southern coast over 2,000 years ago. While the creation of the Nazca Lines has been this the Nazca's claim to fame, this pre-Inca culture was also known for its pottery and textiles. The Nazca lines themselves have caused speculation about what exactly they are and what purpose they serve. While some fictional works suggest that Nazca Lines might have been landing strips for alien aircraft, archaeologists suggest that they were ritual sites, a form of irrigation, or some form of ancient cosmic maps. In 1994, the Nazca Lines were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site, but that hasn't stopped people from defacing them. In 2014, Greenpeace activists left their footprints near the hummingbird glyph as they unveiled a sign calling for the use of renewable resources. Then, in 2018, a trucker intentionally drove his rig off-road and over some of the lines leaving behind three damaged "straight-line geoglyphs." Masato Sakai, a professor of cultural anthropology who led the research effort, is concerned with the preservation of the Lines and hopes that these new discoveries will help protect them. “The most important point is not the discovery itself...If [the lines] become clearly visible, they will be protected as important cultural heritages” says Sakai. The University says it will work with UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture in Peru to help preserve these newly discovered sites. Music: Svadhisthana (Original Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ex2DEb https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/neptunes-overtone http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #nazca #ancientaliens #ai