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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 23, 2018 10:10:35 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Science News
This huge plant-eater thrived in the age of dinosaurs — but wasn’t one of them
The dicynodont from the Late Triassic was surprisingly hefty, rivaling a modern-day elephant in size
By Laurel Hamers 2:00pm, November 22, 2018
A new species of hulking ancient herbivore would have overshadowed its relatives.
Fossils found in Poland belong to a new species that roamed during the Late Triassic, a period some 237 million to 201 million years ago, researchers report November 22 in Science. But unlike most of the enormous animals who lived during that time period, this new creature isn’t a dinosaur — it’s a dicynodont.
Dicynodonts are a group of ancient four-legged animals that are related to mammals’ ancestors. They’re a diverse group, but the new species is far larger than any other dicynodont found to date. The elephant-sized creature was more than 4.5 meters long and probably weighed about 9 tons, the researchers estimate. Related animals didn’t become that big again until the Eocene, 150 million years later.
“We think it’s one of the most unexpected fossil discoveries from the Triassic of Europe,” says study coauthor Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. “Who would have ever thought that there is a fossil record of such a giant, elephant-sized mammal cousin in this part of the world?” He and his team first described some of the bones in 2008; now they’ve made the new species — Lisowicia bojani — official.
The creature had upright forelimbs like today’s rhinoceroses and hippos, instead of the splayed front limbs seen on other Triassic dicynodonts, which were similar to the forelimbs of present-day lizards. That posture would have helped it support its massive bodyweight.
www.sciencenews.org/article/huge-triassic-herbivore-dicynodont?tgt=nr
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 23, 2018 10:14:59 GMT
Scott Waring
Published on Nov 21, 2018
Source, NASA Live Space station cam: www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
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comment section response:
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12 hours ago
Because the pacing is too precise, I'm wondering if the ghosted image might be a reflection on the glass through which the satellite is being viewed. Always good idea to rule out other possible explanation—right?"
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 23, 2018 18:18:37 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 24, 2018 10:25:58 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 24, 2018 10:32:42 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Nov 24, 2018 15:46:13 GMT
This video was published 8 years ago. Perhaps it's time we watched it again.....
Another school of thought
If you've ever wondered about just what immigration does in the way of “Helping" people from poor countries, then watch this clip and have your eyes opened.
What this shows is how far off the mark we are.....
This is a perfect example of the old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words.”
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=365&v=LPjzfGChGlE
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 25, 2018 10:52:22 GMT
Good morning, good morning,
Connecticut Patch
UFO Sightings Skyrocket Again In Connecticut
Here's where you're most likely to see E.T.'s shiny ride. Did you see any of these UFOs in Connecticut skies?
By Brian McCready
Nov 24, 2018 8:45 am ET
The number of recent reported UFO sightings in Connecticut this fall continue to pour in. More than 75 sightings have been reported thus far during 2018, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
Newington and Stamford have had multiple sightings recently. Towns with recent reported sightings include: Newington, Burlington, Simsbury, Simsbury, Somers, Wallingford, Sandy Hook, Bridgeport, Harwington, and Stamford.
Here are all of the Connecticut communities that have reported at least one sighting in 2018 thus far: Newington, Bristol, Eastford, Lebanon, Plainville, Norwich, Fairfield, Plantsville, Danbury, Branford, Greenwich, West Haven, Southington, East Hartford, Norwalk, Bethany, Vernon, Stratford, Pawcatuck, Trumbull, Clinton, Meriden, Berlin, Shelton, Jewett City, Hartford, Torrington, Tolland, Middletown, Ridgefield, Darien, North Haven, Waterford, Winsted, Watertown, Bridgeport, Hebron, Southbury, Newington, Somers, Simsbury, Harwington, Wallingford, Sandy Hook, Burlington, and Coventry.
So does all of this mean there is something out there? Who knows. There have been a dozen reports from the end of August through early November.
Here are some reported recent accounts of various UFO sightings in Connecticut.
"I am a stay at home mom, who has never paid much attention to UFO's. Last Friday, my kids were still asleep in bed, when I awoke at 6 am. I was in the bathroom and it was completely dark outside. All the sudden I noticed a bright light shining in through a large window. The light was travelling slowly across the bathroom floor, which has 3 large windows in it. I noticed it immediately, as we live deep in the forest, far away from neighbors. Our house is located on 8 acres of forested land, and the bathroom is on the second floor.
I walked over to the window and looked up, and to my utter shock and amazement, I saw a gigantic rectangular shape moving slowly just above the tree line. The window was open, and I heard a low humming noise coming from it. I was awestruck as I tried to make sense of what I was witnessing. The craft was as large as a 747 airplane in length, as it slowly passed by.
I couldn't see any of the sides or the top as it was so low down and close to our home, less then 50 feet from the house. I could only see the bottom, which was filled with rows of red and white lights. There were 3 rows of glowing illuminated white round lights the whole length of the craft on each side, for a total of 6 rows.
In between the white rows of lights were 2 rows of red glowing lights. The lights were dim, similar to car headlights pulling up in front of the house at night, but were clearly round shaped. It was only one single craft, and due to its size and low flight above our home, it blocked out the night sky as it hovered slowly past. I was frozen in the spot, and didn't even think to run and try to capture the image on my phone, which wasn't on me. At each of the four corners were red blinking lights.
The shape was definitely flat and rectangular, like nothing I have ever seen in my life.The craft glided by for about 60 long seconds, and slowly drifted out of my line of sight, over the trees. As it got further away, the lights turned to look bluish, and I could no longer see the detail of the round lights. I called my husband right away, as he had already left for work, and then I called to report it to the local police, who had not received any other calls and didn't know how to respond. I was very scared to witness this, and am still having a hard time coming to terms with it. I know it was much too large to be a drone of any type, and all other indications about its shape, sound, height, and movement prevent me from believing it was anything identifiable as man made," reports a Simsbury resident.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with both the wife and husband, and both of them seemed to us to be responsible, sober-minded people. We strongly suspect that the wife's account above is accurate, and a sincere account of a strange event. PD))
"Large lit object cruising at very low altitude over Rt 34 in CT at night - no airport immediately nearby. Witnessed while driving NW on RT 34 in CT between the Stevenson Dam and Great Ring Road.Object was floating at a low altitude over Route 34, it was very large, and had many white lights along the sides. Lights were steady - not flashing.
It was way too low and noiseless to be a 747 jet, and moving too slowly and silently. It looked like it was only a couple hundred feet up over the treetops. The shape was hard to describe, it looked rather rectangular when in front of us - like a big floating platform - then appeared to be more triangular as we passed underneath and looked back to try to get a better look.We turned into Great Ring Road and then tried to get a better look at it, but it was gone. There were plenty of planes in the sky at the same time - at normal altitudes though," reported in Sandy Hook.
"4 glowing circular objects in the North Western sky near Meriden CT. My wife called me to one of our back upstairs windows, yelling about 4 UFOs in the sky. I can confirm that she wasn't seeing things. She saw them appear as they were white glowing circular objects in the distance. They made formations in a V shape, They also were crossing paths, i.e. 2 of the objects would "bump" off of each other or were crossing paths - unsure.
They also changed color and glowed bright red. They flew low and high, i.e. 2 we're behind the trees in the distance, while 2 ascended and occasionally disappeared and reappeared in our sight. We don't believe these were aircraft as they weren't traveling in a particular direction and then they just disappeared. We called a local airport and left a message as no one answered the phone. My wife also heard a strange noise outside which is what got her attention to look out the window in the first place," reported in Wallingford.
The NUFORC has existed since 1974 and investigates reported sightings around the world. There have been more than 90,000 reports made globally.
You may think states like New Mexico — home of the infamous 1947 Roswell "UFO crash" (actually, the Air Force said the crash involved a weather balloon, not a flying saucer) — have the most sightings. However, a report by 24/7 Wall St., which is a financial news and opinion site, suggests you're just as likely to see E.T. in the Northeast and Northwest.
Here are the top 10 places in the country for UFO sightings per 100,000 residents.
Vermont
Oregon
Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
Montana
Idaho
The most commonly reported UFO at 13 percent appears as a light. Others include disks, spheres, cigars, flashes and even formations. (To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts from more than 100 Connecticut communities, click here. patch.com/connecticut/milford/subscribe-patch-email-newsletter-0 )
Check out all the Connecticut sightings reported to the UFORC here www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlct.html .
Patch Editor Dan Hampton contributed to this story.
patch.com/connecticut/across-ct/ufo-sightings-skyrocket-again-connecticut
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 25, 2018 11:00:23 GMT
Forbes
What To Expect For AI (Artificial Intelligence) In 2019
by Tom Taulli
Nov 24, 2018, 10:41am
AI (Artificial Intelligence) continues to be red hot. Then again, every top tech company is investing heavily in the technology, such as Amazon.com, Facebook, Microsoft and Google.
But AI is more than just about big companies. Keep in mind that the technology is getting much easier and affordable to use.
“We are seeing the democratization of AI through open source algorithms, affordable computing power and AI specialized hardware,” said Roy Raanani, who is the CEO and founder of Chorus.ai. “Google TensorFlow released open source software to allow anyone to build on Google’s own machine learning algorithms. Also the introduction of AI specialized hardware by Apple, Google, Tesla and NVIDIA is increasing AI performance by tens to hundreds, and enabling that performance in smaller form factors.”
Then what may we see next year? What are some of the emerging trends?
Here’s a look:
Video and AI will Make Voice the Last Frontier in Business Communications
Santi Subotovsky, General Partner, Emergence:
“We’ve already seen a huge rise in revenue generating applications that combine voice and AI to improve human interactions, sales, and customer service. In 2019, we’ll see new applications that, among other capabilities, will allow enterprise users to employ voice, AI and video to capture and analyze content, interpret non-verbal cues, and quickly respond to queries for data needed in discussions. The increased productivity, efficiency and insights provided by these applications will shift the center of business communications from text to face-to-face meetings, bringing voice and video full circle from the first to the last frontier.”
more after the jump:
www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2018/11/24/what-to-expect-for-ai-artificial-intelligence-in-2019/#20c4513f57b1
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2018 13:15:38 GMT
Interesting Crystal..Its well known we can get dust size nanobots to drill into the eye w/o hurting it to attack tumors..imagine IA nanodust to attack ones brain just like an amoeba does..evil dust..activated on a whim..can't say we weren't warned
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2018 17:45:55 GMT
And then there were two
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6424407/Every-person-spawned-single-pair-adults-living-200-000-years-ago-scientists-claim.htmlAll humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, scientists claim Genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals from different species were surveyed The research deduced that humans and animals sprang from single pair This happened after a catastrophic event a long time after the last ice age By Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline Published: 10:01 EST, 24 November 2018 | Updated: 17:16 EST, 24 November 2018
All modern humans descended from a solitary pair who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, scientists say. Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race. These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's not just people who came from a single pair of beings, but nine out of every 10 animal species, too Stoeckle and Thaler, the scientists who headed the study, concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago - throwing into doubt the patterns of human evolution. 'This conclusion is very surprising,' Thaler admitted, 'and I fought against it as hard as I could.' The new report from experts at the Rockefeller University along with from the University of Basel published the extraordinary findings in Human Evolution. The research was led by Senior Research Associate Mark Stoeckle and Research Associate David Thaler of the University of Basel, Switzerland. They mined 'big data' insights from the world's fast-growing genetic databases and reviewed a large literature in evolutionary theory, including Darwin. Dr Stoeckle said: 'At a time when humans place so much emphasis on individual and group differences, maybe we should spend more time on the ways in which we resemble one another and the rest of the animal kingdom.' The conclusions throw up considerable mystery as to why the need for human life to start again was needed such a relatively short time ago, especially since the last known extinction we know of was during the time of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/11/24/15/0630DCA3000007D0-6424407-image-a-38_1543071637778.jpgThis opens up the possibility of an inbuilt human evolutionary process wherein we break down and die out, leaving the need to start from scratch.
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Post by HAL on Nov 25, 2018 19:40:33 GMT
Bearing in mind the increased use of AI and automated reply systems as used by call centres etc, is there a modern equivalent of Asimov's 'Three rules' ?
If you suspect that the voice on the phone is actually not a person, is there a question you can ask that 'it' has to answer truthfully. Such as ...
Are you human or a machine ?
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Post by swamprat on Nov 25, 2018 20:33:41 GMT
Talking Saints, Psi and UFOs with Dr Diana Walsh Pasulkaby Gordon White, Rune Soup
Published on Jun 27, 2018
This week we have one of my favourite discussions of the entire year.
Joining us is Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka. Diana is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is a specialist in Catholic history with a particular emphasis on the saints. Her current research sits in that really compelling intersection between psi, UFOs, technology and religion.
We talk saintly powers, Marian apparitions, UFOs, Vatican archives, Jacques Vallée and all that top shelf stuff.
Watch video:
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=112&v=up4W8cBuDoQ
runesoup.com/2018/06/talking-saints-psi-and-ufos-with-dr-diana-walsh-pasulka/
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