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[redskinss]

15 hours ago, China said:

Bald Eagle on Frozen Sebago Lake Gets a Fish From a Human

That's actually kind of common for us ice fisherman to do.

When we're not getting  prostitutes for our shanties of course.

[China]

 

[China]

Cleopatra's Needle, the Central Park obelisk, holds secrets we'll never know

 

The obelisk in Central Park, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, was formally dedicated on February 22nd, 1881 after a long trip involving ships, cannonballs, and the sharp corners put in place by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. At over 3,500 years old, it's the oldest man-made object in Central Park, the oldest outdoor monument in New York, and it has a story that includes ancient Egypt's Temple of the Sun, Cecil B. DeMille, the complete works of Shakespeare, and a journey for the ages.

 

It also holds not one, but two time capsules, and this week the Central Park Conservancy (CPC) confirmed with Gothamist that we'll never see what's inside of them.

But let's start at the beginning.

 

Originally created in the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis, the obelisk was one of two created for a celebration for Pharaoh Thutmose III. Both of the nearly 70-foot-tall structures were installed outside of the Temple of the Sun, and with each weighing in around 200 tons, they stayed there for quite some time — 1,500 years, to be exact. At that point, they were toppled during an invasion, and according to the Central Park Conservancy (CPC), "For more than 500 years, they remained buried in sand until Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus discovered and transported them to Alexandria."

 

Once there, they were placed outside of the Caesareum, a temple created by Cleopatra in honor of Julius Caesar.

 

Time passed, the Caesareum became a Christian church, and eventually, the Egyptian government decided to give away the two obelisks. One went to London and one to New York City. And so the journey began in Alexandria.

 

The Obelisk in Central Park,1880s

 

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[LD0506]

HV-001 3D Printed Hybrid Supercar

 

https://wordlesstech.com/hv-001-3d-printed-hybrid-supercar/?fbclid=IwAR2n3sI-TZtOxNBgWA22QFW3HmfDzCUVr5k7iXbibq0qVBMjwwdUHmIlL0I

[CobraCommander]

13 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

HV-001 3D Printed Hybrid Supercar

 

https://wordlesstech.com/hv-001-3d-printed-hybrid-supercar/?fbclid=IwAR2n3sI-TZtOxNBgWA22QFW3HmfDzCUVr5k7iXbibq0qVBMjwwdUHmIlL0I

Is it coming or going? Neat concept but just a render. 

[China]

 

[China]

 

[China]

Controversial rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

 

More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts -- giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elongated snout.

 

These extinct giants are among many animals immortalized in an 8-mile-long (13-kilometer-long) frieze of rock paintings at Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon rainforest -- art created by some of the earliest humans to live in the region, according to a new study.

 

"(The paintings) have the whole diversity of Amazonia. Turtles and fishes to jaguars, monkeys and porcupines," said study author Jose Iriarte, a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Iriate calls the frieze, which likely would have been painted over centuries, if not millennia, "the last journey," as he said it represents the arrival of humans in South America -- the last region to be colonized by Homo sapiens as they spread around the world from Africa, their place of origin. These pioneers from the north would have faced unknown animals in an unfamiliar landscape.

 

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[China]

 

[China]

Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship found in Antarctica after 107 years

 

More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.

 

The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica, south of the Falkland Islands.

The discovery was a collaboration between the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit, the content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow.

"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, director of exploration, said in a statement.

He added: "This is a milestone in polar history."

 

 

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[Larry]

MSN: German Feminist Group Design Vulva Shaped Spaceship
 

A German feminist group have designed a vulva-shaped , spaceship as an alternative to more phallic designs. The group, Wer BrauchtFeminismus? (Who Needs Feminism?) is encouraging the European Space Agency to adopt a similar design to better represent humanity in space and "restore gender equality to the cosmos". 
 

(video at link). 
 

Colbert on it:

 

(From 4:29-5:10)

 

[Bang]

Well no wonder that ship sunk. It's a mess! Nobody ever thought swab the deck or something?

 

~Bang

[Larry]

 

[MrSilverMaC]

1 hour ago, Larry said:

 

Please, sweet Jesus in heaven, let me win the lottery so I can buy one.

[The Evil Genius]

 

[Dan T.]

^ ^ ^ "I want a beer." 

 

That man is my spirit twin.

[Renegade7]

 

[China]

The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel

 

With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the world’s oldest pants. The 3,000-year-old wool trousers belonged to a man buried between 1000 and 1200 BCE in Western China. To make them, ancient weavers combined four different techniques to create a garment specially engineered for fighting on horseback, with flexibility in some places and sturdiness in others.

 

 

Most of us don’t think much about pants these days, except to lament having to put them on in the morning. But trousers were actually a technological breakthrough. Mounted herders and warriors needed their leg coverings to be flexible enough to let the wearer swing a leg across a horse without ripping the fabric or feeling constricted. At the same time, they needed some added reinforcement at crucial areas like the knees. It became, to some extent, a materials-science problem. Where do you want something elastic, and where do you want something strong? And how do you make fabric that will accomplish both?

 

For the makers of the world’s oldest pants, produced in China around 3,000 years ago, the answer was apparently to use different weaving techniques to produce fabric with specific properties in certain areas, despite weaving the whole garment out of the same spun wool fiber.

 

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[China]

These seed-firing drones are planting 40,000 trees every day to fight deforestation

 

Let’s face it. Talk about biodiversity loss at a party and you’re unlikely to make friends.

 

Talk about an army of seed-firing drones, however, and suddenly you’re the coolest person there.

 

Well believe it or not, an Australian start-up is doing exactly that. Using a fleet of highly advanced 'octocopters', AirSeed Technology is fighting deforestation by combining artificial intelligence with specially designed seed pods which can be fired into the ground from high in the sky.

 

"Each of our drones can plant over 40,000 seed pods per day and they fly autonomously," says Andrew Walker, CEO and co-founder of AirSeed Technologies.

 

"In comparison to traditional methodologies, that's 25 times faster, but also 80 per cent cheaper."

 

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[China]

Largest US cave figures, about 1,000 years old, discovered in Alabama

 

The largest cave figures in North America have been discovered in Alabama as a result of advanced photography.

 

In a study published on Tuesday in the journal Antiquity, researchers revealed that a cave in the northern Alabama countryside is home to carvings dating back about 1,000 years. Experts estimate that the carvings were made during the Woodland period.

 

The carvings, some of which extend up to 7ft long, depict various figures, including what appears to be people wearing Native American garments such as headdresses and carrying a rattle or weapon.

 

“They are either people dressed in regalia to look like spirits, or they are spirits,” archaeologist Jan Simek, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee and lead author of the study, told NBC.

 

Another carving features a curled up snake that experts largely believe is a diamond rattlesnake.

 

The carvings slowly faded into the cave’s walls over the next century as they gradually got covered by naturally occurring mud. Researchers, however, were able to discover the carvings after they used photographic photogrammetry to create photographic models of the cave’s ceiling. The technique combines digital photographs with 3D computerized models of a particular space.

 

The cave, which was discovered in the 1990s, is part of thousands of caves along the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau, stretching from southern Pennsylvania to Alabama. The precise location of the cave has not been disclosed as researchers keep it a closely guarded secret.

 

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[Dan T.]

Maybe there's hope for humanity after all...

 

 

[Riggo-toni]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/05/12/zeus-tallest-dog-guinness-records/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F36d23b3%2F627d2edb956121755a7547bb%2F5972cc04ae7e8a1cf4afaedb%2F45%2F72%2F627d2edb956121755a7547bb

World’s tallest dog is 7 feet on hind legs. He likes to sit on laps.

Zeus weighs 200 pounds and was measured with a stick designed for horses

By Cathy Free

Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Pretty cool until ya read how much Zues eats. 🤭

 

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“He’s always loved to eat, and now he’s up to 10 to 12 cups of dry food twice a day,”

 

[Renegade7]

 

[EmirOfShmo]

 

Rare 5-planet alignment comes into better view this week. Here's what to expect.

 

 

A rare parade of planets is coming into better view in the second half of June, and even the moon will join the show. 

The current early-evening sky is completely devoid of any of the five bright planets you can see with the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). You have to wait until the second half of the night to see any of them, and then they will slowly come into view, one by one, and just before sunrise, all five will be stretched out across the southern and eastern sky.  

Certainly, it is not unusual to see two or three bright planets in a single glance, but to have five in view simultaneously is something quite special. This week's alignment will be quite "tight," with the five worlds appearing to stretch across an arc only about halfway across the sky from east-northeast to almost due south roughly about a half hour before sunrise. 

 

https://www.space.com/five-planets-align-rare-skywatching-june-2022