steve09ru Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Couldn’t find the picture thread anywhere so posting here. A quick storm that bypassed us to the north, temps dropped quickly but no rain 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Owen just piloted his Wills Wing T3 154 222.22 miles without stopping, high over the Owens Valley in California, setting a new world record in the sport with Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world governing body for air sports, including hang gliding. There is an insanely gorgeous 3D video replay you can watch here. It'll blow your mind to watch him soar and soar, spiraling to catch updrafts that would then send him forward, onward, for hours on end. 3D Animated Video of Own Morse's Record Breaking Flight Click on the link for more 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Less "cool" than inspiring...but inspriring can be cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Comet Neowise seen from the international Space Station. https://twitter.com/_TheSeaning/status/1280579766094094336?s=20 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 New for 2020 - Sharks on Cocaine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Game changer https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nintendo-entertainment-system-71374 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Cool idea, fantastic execution: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isifhan Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 On 7/4/2020 at 2:09 PM, China said: Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Owen just piloted his Wills Wing T3 154 222.22 miles without stopping, high over the Owens Valley in California, setting a new world record in the sport with Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world governing body for air sports, including hang gliding. There is an insanely gorgeous 3D video replay you can watch here. It'll blow your mind to watch him soar and soar, spiraling to catch updrafts that would then send him forward, onward, for hours on end. 3D Animated Video of Own Morse's Record Breaking Flight Click on the link for more Just seeing this now. So Owen is a client of mine - his day job is part of the comedic juggling duo The Passing Zone https://passingzone.com/ He's a great guy and I knew he was into hang gliding but had no idea he set a world record for this he didn't mention it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GibbsGreen11 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) This fox would hang out at our jobsite. Pleasanton, Ca. Edited September 11, 2020 by GibbsGreen11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Female python, 62, at St. Louis Zoo lays 7 eggs, seemingly without male A St. Louis Zoo female python has laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. The 62-year-old ball python, which has no name, laid the eggs on July 23, three of which remain in an incubator, two of which were used for genetic sampling and two of which did not survive. The surviving eggs will need about a month to hatch. A 62-year-old ball python curled up around her eggs on July 23, 2020. Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. (Chawna Schuette/Saint Louis Zoo via AP) Click on the link for the full article So is she parthenogenic or spermthecal? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 AI-driven robot Mayflower recreates historic voyage A crewless ship aiming to recreate the Atlantic crossing of the Mayflower, 400 years ago this month, has set sail from Plymouth harbour. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship will collect data on the ocean and marine life, including sampling for plastics. Captained by a robot trained by IBM-designed artificial intelligence, using a million nautical images, it will complete six months of sea trials before its two-week Atlantic crossing. The 1620 crossing took over two months. The original Mayflower, a 100ft (30m) triple-masted wooden vessel with canvas sails and a maximum speed of three knots (6km/h), carried 102 passengers and a crew of about 30 from Plymouth to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. "Able to scan the horizon for possible hazards, make informed decisions and change its course based on a fusion of live data, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship has more in common with a modern bank than its 17th-Century namesake," IBM chief technology officer Andy Stanford-Clark said. For anyone wanting to track its progress, the MAS400 website shows the ship's current location and status, the course of its voyage and samples from its research pods. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Egypt tomb: Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara A total of 27 sarcophagi buried more than 2,500 years ago have been unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Egyptian necropolis. They were found inside a newly-discovered well at a sacred site in Saqqara, south of the capital, Cairo. Thirteen coffins were discovered earlier this month, but a further 14 have followed, officials say. The discovery is now said by experts to be one of the largest of its kind. Images released show colourfully painted well-preserved wooden coffins and other smaller artefacts. Saqqara was an active burial ground for more than 3,000 years and is a designated Unesco World Heritage Site. Click on the link for the full article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 They have now upped the number of sarcophagi from 27 to more than 100: Egypt finds treasure trove of over 100 sarcophagi Egypt announced Saturday the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, dating back more than 2,500 years ago, the largest such find this year. The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid fanfare, belonged to top officials of the Late Period and the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt. They were found in three burial shafts at depths of 12 metres (40 feet) in the sweeping Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Apparently they're going to be installing one of these in California soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skinsmarydu Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 "Ageless wonder Jaromir Jagr returns for 33rd pro season" https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/ageless-wonder-jaromir-jagr-returns-for-33rd-professional-season-204120678.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 50 Times People Found The Most Unexpected Things (New Pics) #1 Found Photos Of My Grandmother's Cousin Hanging With His Buddy While Cleaning Out A Storage Locker #2 Wife Found This At A Local Estate Sale; Suspect Emma Wasn't Happy #7 Friend Of Mine Just Moved Into A New House. Took Off All The Heating Vents To Paint Them, And This Was Behind One Of Them Click on the link for more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On 11/15/2020 at 12:20 PM, China said: They have now upped the number of sarcophagi from 27 to more than 100: Egypt finds treasure trove of over 100 sarcophagi Click on the link for the full article Archaeologists Unearth Egyptian Queen’s Tomb, 13-Foot ‘Book of the Dead’ Scroll Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a cache of treasures—including more than 50 wooden sarcophagi, a funerary temple dedicated to an Old Kingdom queen and a 13-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll—at the Saqqara necropolis, a vast burial ground south of Cairo, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiques. As first reported by Al-Ahram, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and his colleagues discovered the coffins, which appear to date back to the New Kingdom era (1570–1069 B.C.), in 52 burial shafts measuring 33 to 40 feet deep. Paintings of ancient gods and excerpts from the Book of the Dead, which was thought to help the deceased navigate the afterlife, adorn the sarcophagi. Hawass tells CBS News’ Ahmed Shawkat that researchers first started excavating the site, which stands next to the pyramid of King Teti, first of the Sixth Dynasty rulers of the Old Kingdom (2680–2180 B.C.), in 2010. “[B]ut we didn’t find a name inside the pyramid to tell us who the pyramid belonged to,” he adds. Now, reports Agence France-Presse, experts have finally identified the complex—which boasts a stone temple and three mud-brick warehouses that housed offerings and tools—as the tomb of Teti’s wife, Queen Naert. Around a month ago, the team found Naert’s name etched onto a wall in the temple and written on a felled obelisk near the entrance of the burial, per CBS News. “I’d never heard of this queen before,” Hawass says to CBS News. “Therefore, we add an important piece to Egyptian history, about this queen.” Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 'Find of the century': medieval hoard of treasures unearthed in Cambridge An early medieval graveyard unearthed beneath student accommodation at Cambridge University has been described as “one of the most exciting finds of Anglo-Saxon archaeology since the 19th century”. King’s College discovered the “extensive” cemetery, containing more than 60 graves, after demolishing a group of 1930s buildings which had recently housed graduates and staff in the west of the city, to make way for more modern halls. Around 200 items in the graves, including bronze brooches, bead necklaces, swords, short blades, pottery and glass flasks, have been systematically uncovered. Most date from the early Anglo-Saxon period (c400-650 CE), although evidence of iron age structures and Roman earthworks has also been found. Dr Caroline Goodson, who teaches early medieval history at King’s, said the human remains they found were remarkably “well preserved”. “The alkaline soil, which is typical around here, hasn’t decomposed the bones.” This is significant, because it will enable archaeologists to apply very modern scientific techniques to reveal the diet and DNA of the dead, permitting analysis of migration and family relationships. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/30/europe/fortune-french-village-nazi-intl/index.html Austrian man leaves fortune to French village that saved his family from Nazis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Prostate cancer treatment leaves men disease-free after blasting tumors with sound waves Most people have probably heard or seen examples of sound waves so powerful they can break glass. Now, a new cancer treatment is using sound to destroy tumors and cure men dealing with the disease. The new, noninvasive technique for prostate cancer focuses sound waves on the tumor area, heating the cancer calls until they are blasted out of existence. “The results so far have been very good,” says the University of Toronto’s Dr. Sangeet Ghai in a media release by the Radiological Society of North America. “We treated a smaller area using this device, yet still had very good results. At the same time the patients preserved their erectile and urinary function.” Researchers say the focused treatment is more effective than surgery or radiotherapy, especially for patients whose cancer is still confined to the prostate. Click on the link for the full article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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