A real-life &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; has finally happened.
No, not the biblical last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment. The Hollywood version from the movie &#8220;Armageddon.&#8221;
NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday swooped down to the asteroid Bennu, named the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. It is the first time any nation has landed a spacecraft on an asteroid.
The spacecraft dodged boulders the size of buildings and hovered to collect samples from the surface for several seconds before safely backing away Tuesday evening, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8860973/NASAs-OSIRIS-REx-spacecraft-steadily-descends-asteroid-Bennu.html">reported</a>.
&#8220;The meticulous descent took 4.5 hours and by 6:12 p.m. the spacecraft made touchdown where its 11-foot robotic arm acted like a pogo stick and bounced on the asteroid&#8217;s surface to collect dirt and dust before the craft launched back into space. The crucial minutes in the mission started around 5:38 p.m. when the spacecraft extended its arm and cameras toward the asteroid&#8217;s surface. By 6 p.m. OSIRIS-REx made matchpoint burn, the spacecraft&#8217;s key final maneuver performed by firing its thrusters to match Bennu’s spin to center itself exactly over the landing spot.&#8221;
The asteroid, officially known as 101955 Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth between 2175 and 2199. Bennu, which has a diameter of 1,610 feet, was discovered in 1999 and has since been observed extensively with the Arecibo Observatory planetary radar and the Goldstone Deep Space Network. &#8220;It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table with the second-highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard <a href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/">Scale</a>,&#8221; Wikipedia writes.
&#8220;Transcendental. I mean, I can’t believe we actually pulled this off,&#8221; Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of the mission, said after the landing was complete.
&#8220;After over a decade of planning, the team is overjoyed at the success of today&#8217;s sampling attempt,&#8221; Lauretta said in a statement. &#8220;Even though we have some work ahead of us to determine the outcome of the event &#8212; the successful contact, the TAGSAM gas firing, and back-away from Bennu are major accomplishments for the team. I look forward to analyzing the data to determine the mass of sample collected.&#8221;
The asteroid, which is hurtling through space at 63,000 miles per hour, &#8220;contains material from the early solar system and could provide insight into the origin of life on Earth,&#8221; the Mail wrote.
&#8220;The asteroid has undergone very little alteration since the birth of the solar system and so we can have an idea of what the conditions were like 4.5 billion years ago and how it produced the eight planets we know today,&#8221; Dr. Ben Rozitis from the U.K. Open University <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54624653">told</a> the BBC.
NASA’s science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen, likened Bennu to the Rosetta Stone, saying it is &#8220;something that’s out there and tells the history of our entire Earth, of the solar system, during the last billions of years.&#8221;
With samples collected, the van-sized spacecraft will now return to earth and will be back in 2023.
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A new documentary about the alleged government cover-up of Unidentified Flying Objects interviews several major political figures, including former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and John Podesta, former White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and an advisor to President Barack Obama.
In the documentary, Reid insists the U.S. government has evidence of UFOs that it refuses to release, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/13/harry-reid-claims-us-has-been-covering-up-ufo-evidence-for-years/">reported</a>. He even alleges these UFOs have interfered with American weapons.
“There’s more than one up there,” Reid says in the documentary, titled “The Phenomenon.”
Reid at one point is asked if he would say “there’s some evidence that still hasn’t seen the light of day.” Reid responded: “I’m saying most of it hasn’t seen the light of day.”
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<blockquote>“We have it — it’s there,” continued the former Nevada senator, who instigated secret UFO programs in the Pentagon.
“They did everything they could to stop the program from going forward … they wanted nothing to do with this,” Reid said of the government’s resistance to his program trying to expose the truth.
“Nobody has to agree why it’s there. But shouldn’t we at least be spending some money to study all these phenomenon? Shouldn’t we study this stuff? The answer is yes. That’s all this was about.
“And why the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it. I think it’s very, very bad for our country,” Reid said.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufos-pentagon-officially-releases-video-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-spotted-by-navy-pilots">reported</a>, in April the Pentagon officially released video of “unidentified aerial phenomena” as seen by Navy pilots.
“The videos, which leaked to media outlets back in 2007 and again in 2017, are in black and white and appear grainy, so it is difficult to discern the specific ‘UAPs,’ but, the Pentagon said, it felt compelled to substantiate the videos’ authenticity since they were already in the public domain,” The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti wrote.
In a statement released at the time, the Pentagon said that after a “thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems.”
“DOD [Department of Defense] is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,&#8217;” the Pentagon continued.
In August, DOD announced it would form a task force to investigated UFOs, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/department-of-defense-announces-task-force-to-investigate-ufos">reported</a> at the time.
“The Department of Defense established the UAPTF [Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force] to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security,” the DOD said in a statement at the time. “As DOD has stated previously, the safety of our personnel and the security of our operations are of paramount concern. The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”
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Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic presidential nominee and former VP Joe Biden, posted a tweet Tuesday imploring Americans to &#8220;vote for science&#8221; &#8212; a confusing ask, considering Mr. Biden&#8217;s anti-science positions surrounding gender and the unborn, for starters.
The internet noticed the disconnect and pummeled Mrs. Biden with questions pertaining to science and the Democrats and her husband&#8217;s platform.
&#8220;Cool!&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti responded. &#8220;What’s your definition of when life begins.&#8221;
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Cool! What’s your definition of when life begins. <a href="https://t.co/UORhfTR1uU">https://t.co/UORhfTR1uU</a>
&mdash; Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) <a href="https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1305927750788829187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha similarly asked, &#8220;So when does life begin?&#8221;
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So when does life begin? <a href="https://t.co/H3HW2wRqzj">https://t.co/H3HW2wRqzj</a> <a href="https://t.co/bbuNrt78LI">pic.twitter.com/bbuNrt78LI</a>
&mdash; Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) <a href="https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1305970832645259270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Are PreBorn children living?,&#8221; questioned Kevin McCullough.
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Are PreBorn children living? <a href="https://t.co/nGGnzvB4qy">https://t.co/nGGnzvB4qy</a>
&mdash; Kevin McCullough (@KMCRadio) <a href="https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1305928907451965445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Back in June, the former VP, once a self-described pro-life Democrat, staked out a far-left position on abortion, stating that he supports abortion “under any circumstance.&#8221;
“Women’s health care rights have been under attack as states across the country have passed extreme laws restricting women’s constitutional right to choice under any circumstance,” Biden said in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-endorses-abortion-under-any-circumstance-in-statement-after-scotus-ruling">statement</a>, lauding the Supreme Court for its decision in June Medical Services v. Russo. “Today the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that states cannot put in place laws that unduly burden a women’s right to make her own health care decision with her doctor.”
The science-related hounding continued against Mrs. Biden.
&#8220;Embryology and biology or&#8230;?&#8221; asked podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey.
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Embryology and biology or&#8230;? <a href="https://t.co/w3iKhF61hx">https://t.co/w3iKhF61hx</a>
&mdash; Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1305931445161074690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Can a man be a woman?&#8221; McCullough posted.
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Can a man be a woman? <a href="https://t.co/nGGnzvB4qy">https://t.co/nGGnzvB4qy</a>
&mdash; Kevin McCullough (@KMCRadio) <a href="https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1305929146720231425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Author and Daily Wire podcast host Ben Shapiro wrote, &#8220;Can men be women?&#8221;
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Can men be women? <a href="https://t.co/plsJT6KhIi">https://t.co/plsJT6KhIi</a>
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&#8220;How many genders are there?,&#8221; commented conservative writer Jim Treacher.
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How many genders are there? <a href="https://t.co/4Y1CSGth2J">https://t.co/4Y1CSGth2J</a>
&mdash; I did not and will not vote for him. Calm down. (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1305927475428495360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Weird flex considering Democrats hate President Trump so much they&#8217;re peddling a bizarre, baseless conspiracy theory about a coronavirus vaccine rather than listening to the *scientists* who say a vaccine will be safe and effective,&#8221; said Jake Schneider, deputy director of Rapid Response for the Trump campaign.
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Weird flex considering Democrats hate President Trump so much they&#39;re peddling a bizarre, baseless conspiracy theory about a coronavirus vaccine rather than listening to the *scientists* who say a vaccine will be safe and effective. <a href="https://t.co/kQOUKnk0m0">https://t.co/kQOUKnk0m0</a>
&mdash; Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1305927703086936069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this month, Biden&#8217;s running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) &#8220;promoted what is being called a &#8216;dangerous conspiracy theory&#8217; about a potential coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, suggesting that the vaccine may not be safe due to it being rushed for political reasons ahead of the November elections,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kamala-harris-promotes-dangerous-conspiracy-theory-about-coronavirus-vaccine">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Asked by CNN if Harris will get a COVID vaccine if one comes before the election, the senator responded: “Well, I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us. I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. I will not take his word for it.”
The former Second Lady posted her tweet about science on the same day Scientific American publicly backed her husband.
&#8220;On Tuesday, the venerable magazine Scientific American <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/">announced</a> it was endorsing a presidential candidate for the first time in its 175-year history, choosing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying they were &#8216;compelled to do so,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientific-american-endorses-biden-attacks-trump-pence-for-not-wearing-masks-in-public">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
The Daily Wire continued: &#8220;The editors of Scientific American wrote that President Trump &#8216;has badly damaged the U.S. and its people — because he rejects evidence and science,&#8217; citing his &#8216;dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic” and snapping, “He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges.'&#8221;
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Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now. 
The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President.<a href="https://t.co/8TlH7shjFn">https://t.co/8TlH7shjFn</a>
&mdash; Scientific American (@sciam) <a href="https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1305854127721910275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic presidential nominee and former VP Joe Biden, posted a tweet Tuesday imploring Americans to &quot;vote for science&quot; --

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More than two years ago, I wrote a column titled &#8220;Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.&#8221; I listed eight examples:
— The universities.
— The arts: music, art and architecture.
— Sports.
— Mainstream Judaism, Protestantism and Catholicism.
— Race relations.
— Women&#8217;s happiness.
— Children&#8217;s innocence.
— And, perhaps most disturbingly, America&#8217;s commitment to free speech.
One should now add the sciences.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the Left’s ruining of science. This had already begun with the Left’s attacks on &#8220;objectivity,&#8221; the most essential value in science — the very thing that makes science possible. The Left declares objectivity, which it now puts in quotation marks, a characteristic of white supremacy.
One example is that science departments in universities throughout America have declared their intention to hire physicists, biologists and other scientists based on gender and race, not scientific expertise. A few years ago, all five candidates on the shortlist of applicants to the physics department of the University of California at San Diego were females, &#8220;leading one male candidate with a specialty in extragalactic physics,&#8221; reported Heather Mac Donald, &#8220;to wonder why the school had even solicited applications from Asian and white men.&#8221;
Mac Donald updated her findings in a piece published this week: &#8220;The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, pronounced himself &#8216;absolutely dedicated&#8217; to turning the engineering school into an &#8216;anti-racist organization.'&#8221;
A recent example was the declaration by more than 1,000 doctors and other health care providers that despite all their previous warnings against public gatherings as health risks: &#8220;As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings (mass protests against racism) as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health.&#8221;
Yet another example of leftism overwhelming medical science is the medical profession&#8217;s denial of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early days of a COVID-19 infection. That physicians, including the Food and Drug Administration, would label a drug dangerous that has been used safely for more than half a century, and by many thousands (such as those with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus) every day for decades, is a medical and moral scandal. The medical profession has placed politics not only ahead of science but also ahead of saving lives. The medical profession, the FDA and the CDC have lost the faith of half of the American people and, over time, will lose the faith of the majority of Americans. It is difficult to envision the medical profession regaining its credibility in this generation.
One of the world&#8217;s most prestigious medical and scientific journals, The Lancet in the U.K., withdrew an article it had published that dismissed the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients. The article contained made-up data. As The New York Times reported, Dr. Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, called the paper retracted by his journal a &#8220;fabrication&#8221; and &#8220;a monumental fraud.&#8221;
The journal published the fraudulent study about the alleged dangers of hydroxychloroquine because of pressure from pharmaceutical companies, which have nothing to gain financially from widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap, generic drug, and because the journal loathes President Donald Trump, who, when the first reports of successful treatment with hydroxychloroquine surfaced, had announced use of the drug could save lives. Horton had labelled Trump&#8217;s withdrawal of U.S. funding of the World Health Organization &#8220;a crime against humanity&#8221; after the WHO&#8217;s politicization of the coronavirus, including behaving as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party when it condemned Trump&#8217;s Jan. 31 ban on travel from China.
The number of Americans killed by the medical boards, the pharmaceutical boards, the FDA and the CDC for not allowing doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine in the early days following a patient&#8217;s diagnosis with COVID-19 and outside of a hospital setting, and the number killed by the doctors who could but would not prescribe hydroxychloroquine, is likely in the tens of thousands. On my radio show, Yale University epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch said, &#8220;Because we were blocked from using it (hydroxychloroquine) in the United States to the present point, probably at least 100,000 people have died.&#8221;
Based on the retracted study in The Lancet, The Washington Post headlined &#8220;Hydroxychloroquine Drug Promoted by Trump as Coronavirus &#8216;Game-Changer&#8217; Increasingly Linked to Deaths.&#8221; And social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter immediately remove any citation of a scientist who promotes hydroxychloroquine.
A fourth example is the American Psychological Association, or the APA, choosing leftism over psychology in declaring, &#8220;40 years of research (show that) traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.&#8221;
The one good thing to come out of the APA&#8217;s pathologizing masculinity is that people searching for a competent psychotherapist for themselves or their child now have an easy method by which to identify the incompetent: Simply ask the prospective therapist if he or she agrees with the APA statement. If they do, or if they merely hesitate to distance themselves from it, you know you want another therapist.
Forthcoming columns will deal with more areas of life ruined by the Left, including, most troubling of all, America itself.
As seen in their treatment of the statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the Left can tear down, but it cannot build.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on Sept. 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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A Twitter joke about worms turned into a multi-day social justice education session, according to the Daily Beast, as woke members of &#8220;science Twitter&#8221; accused a flatworm detractor of perpetuating racism, sexism, and oppression in the scientific community.
Late last month, the host of the popular zoology podcast, &#8220;Just The Zoo of Us,&#8221; asked scientists who work with living organisms to name the &#8220;most overhyped&#8221; animal. &#8220;The post made the rounds of the loose community of researchers, zookeepers, and wilderness enthusiasts that makes up Science Twitter, a community whose passion often manifests as friendly smack-talk,&#8221; the Daily Beast reported. &#8220;Answers flowed in: blue whales, lions, penguins. A grand time was had by all.&#8221;
That is until the next day when Dr. Michael Eisen, the editor of <a href="https://elifesciences.org/">eLife</a>, a research communications platform, and online scientific journal, dared to attack roundworms, a &#8220;model species&#8221; that is the subject of frequent scientific experiment &#8212;  experiment that has yielded some considerable breakthroughs. Although other species were fair game, blasting the roundworm, it seems, was a bridge too far.
&#8220;C. elegans,&#8221; the editor noted on  Twitter, making the case for the roundworm as the &#8220;most overrated animal.&#8221; &#8220;They wiggle forward. They wiggle backwards. And occasionally they f*** themselves. That’s it.&#8221;
Initially, the post attracted just a few responses &#8212; a few people were critical of Dr. Eisen&#8217;s use of profanity, and others tried to educate Dr. Eisen on the roundworm&#8217;s contributions to science. But after just 24 hours, things escalated markedly, as the &#8220;worm community&#8221; chimed in, accusing Dr. Eisen of not just normalizing anti-worm sentiments, but of perpetuating the oppression of all marginalized peoples.
&#8221; As mystified observers raised the question over whether C. elegans researchers were taking the whole thing a bit seriously, a small handful of researchers responded by arguing that jokes about worms were in some way equivalent to jokes about women and people of color,&#8221; the Daily Beast notes.
One particularly researcher, &#8220;Dr. Skop—who did not respond to a request for comment by The Daily Beast—argued extensively that making jokes about worms was merely the tip of the iceberg when it came to making jokes about marginalized identities, or an example of a ‘bystander effect’, a psychological theory arguing that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in a crowd.&#8221;
Scientists of color tried to point out that the two situations were in no way similar &#8212; that marginalized ethnic groups have suffered far more than the roundworm &#8212; but it was to no avail. Worm Twitter had spun out of control.
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I just want to remind everyone that the original joke was eisen calling worms boring bc they just wiggle around &amp; fuck themselves, which itself is a response to a twitter prompt asking for the most overrated animal on a site where scis freq make fun of each other&#39;s study animals <a href="https://t.co/9sZM6mxokF">pic.twitter.com/9sZM6mxokF</a>
&mdash; Dr Maureen Berg #InverteFest 21-23 Aug (@MaureenBug) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaureenBug/status/1285615959672262656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For a solid three days, the worm discourse dominated Science Twitter, between arguments, meta jokes about the arguments, and people plaintively wondering why everyone was talking about something called ‘C. elegans’ and when it was going to stop.&#8221;
Fortunately, the ruckus seems to have faded &#8212; at least until the next time someone insults the humble roundworm.
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A Twitter joke about worms turned into a multi-day social justice education session, according to the Daily Beast, as woke members of &quot;science Twitter&quot;

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Virgin Galactic, a British company seeking to commercialize spaceflight, revealed on Tuesday the finished cabin design for its spaceship that will eventually carry customers into space.
Virgin Galactic is one part of the Virgin Group, founded by Richard Branson, that also operates lines of commercial jet travel, hotels, gyms, and other ventures. Branson along with top directors at Galactic premiered the finished cabin design via video.
“Although the event may be virtual, its significance to starting to open space to everyone is very real,” Branson said. “It is a cabin which has been designed specifically to allow thousands of people to achieve their dreams of space flight safely and to maximize every aspect of that fabulous journey.”
The design team mapped out the cabin with meticulous planning from color-coordinating seats to customers’ spacesuits to the 17 circular windows fitted across the cabin to give customers the most open view possible from space. James Brown, Galactic’s design director, walked through the various aspects of the cabin on the video.
Regarding seats, Brown said:
<blockquote>We’ve used the highest grade aluminium and carbon fiber manufacturing techniques, and we’ve cantilevered the structure from the cabin sidewalls. Your seat is also dynamic and enhances comfort during each stage of your flight. When you leave your seat in space, it reclines to maximize cabin space for you to enjoy weightlessness, and it remains reclined for you during reentry so we direct and optimize g-forces without detracting from the thrill of the ride. We’ve provided each astronaut with their own personal digital display within the seat backs. The display gives us the opportunity to share live flight data with you so speed, [g-forces], the boost time that’s remaining of your flight, all helping provide more memorable touches to your experience.</blockquote>
On the walls of the cabin, Brown said:
<blockquote>The cabin is lined with an extremely lightweight and soft engineered foam with a honeycomb structure. Functionally, we were able to improve thermal and acoustic qualities of the cabin, but the lining also provides a soft touch as you explore the cabin during weightlessness. Your view is the focus of your time in zero-g and to guide you toward experiencing this incredible moment, we’ve got 17 windows, each bordered by a soft, circular halo which helps focus and frame your view. We’ve designed the halo edges to help you move around the cabin and to perfectly position yourself to view Earth below. In zero-g, the cabin effectively becomes a 360-degree climbing frame.</blockquote>
The cabin is also equipped with lighting, cameras, and a large circular mirror at the back of the plane. The lighting changes along with the phase of the flight and shuts off while the ship is in space so as not to pollute customers’ view of open space and the Earth. Cameras record the trip and videos are made available for each customer after the flight is over. The mirror is for customers to get the full experience of seeing themselves in zero-g in open space.
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Is an African grey parrot smarter than a Harvard University student? Probably not, but it does appear to be better at the classic Shell Game.
Griffin, a 22-year-old grey parrot (they can live more than 50 years) outperformed 21 Harvard students in the classic memory game where a ball (in this case, a colorful pom-pom) is hidden under a plastic cup, the cups are shuffled, and one has to guess which cup contains the ball. Griffin reportedly did as well as or bested the Harvard students in 12 out of 14 trials, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/science/this-parrot-beat-21-harvard-students-in-a-classic-memory-game">reported</a>.
The results were published in May, but only recently reported. The Harvard Gazette <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/african-grey-parrot-outperforms-children-and-college-students/">reported</a> the findings earlier this month. In addition to the Harvard students, Griffin’s results were also compared to 21 6- to 8-year-old kids. The test, according to the Gazette, was a little more complicated than the classic Shell Game.
“The participants were tested on tracking two, three, and four different-colored pom-poms. The position of the cups were swapped zero to four times for each of those combinations. Griffin and the students did 120 trials; the children did 36,” the outlet reported.
Griffin “outperformed the 6- to 8-year-olds across all levels on average, and he performed either as well as or slightly better than the 21 Harvard undergraduates on 12 of the 14 of trial types,” the Gazette reported.
&#8220;Think about it: Grey parrot outperforms Harvard undergrads. That&#8217;s pretty freaking awesome,&#8221; lead study author and postdoctoral Harvard fellow Hrag Pailian told the Gazette. &#8220;We had students concentrating in engineering, pre-meds, this, that, seniors, and he just kicked their butts.&#8221;
Fox reported that “Griffin is not your average parrot.” The study’s authors wrote that the parrot “has been the subject of cognitive and communicative studies … since his acquisition from a breeder at 7.5 weeks of age.&#8221;
The Gazette added that “Harvard students did manage to keep (some) of their Crimson pride intact.”
“On the final two tests, which involved the most items and the most movement, the adults had the clear edge. Griffin’s average dipped toward the children’s performance — though never below it. The researchers were unable to determine the precise reason for this drop, but they believe it has something to do with the way human intelligence works (arguably making the Harvard students’ victory a matter of performance enhancement of the genetic variety),” the outlet reported.
The memory game experiment was part of a larger study published in Scientific Reports and sought to investigate limitations in the brain’s “ability to process and update mental representations,” the Gazette reported.
More from Fox:
<blockquote>What does this bird-brain study tell us about the power of cognition? According to the researchers, both the parrot and the human participants were using a feature of their working memories called &#8220;manipulation&#8221; to succeed in these tasks. Not only were they able to remember which pom-poms were under which cups once they were out of view, but they were then able to manipulate that information as the cups were shuffled around. The fact that a parrot performed on-par with 42 human competitors suggests that manipulation is an evolutionarily ancient capability, which may have existed in a common ancestor millions of years ago.</blockquote>
In case you were wondering, Griffin received some raw cashew crackers for participating in the experiment.
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Once upon a time, there was a plane that could fly twice the speed of sound, 1,354 mph.
But that plane, the Concorde, has been decommissioned for nearly two decades. Since then, no aircraft builder has built a supersonic jet to take its place.
But a new plane called Boom Overture &#8212; which can fly even faster: Mach 2.2, or 1,688 mph &#8212; is moving through phases of development and a test version known as Baby Boom XB-1 will soon take its debut flight.
Boom Technology last week announced that Overture&#8217;s demonstrator, the XB-1, will be rolled out in October and then be tested in flight at California&#8217;s Mojave Air and Space Port in 2021. The tests will hopefully ready Overture for flights by the mid-2020s. XB-1, using carbon-fiber construction, will be one-third scale of Overture and will be powered by triple GE Aviation J85-15 engines.
The XB-1 won&#8217;t carry passengers. In fact, it only has room for one pilot. But if successful, the company will move forward with the development of Boom Overture, a passenger jet that can carry 55 to 75 passengers.
“Join us here on October 7, 2020, to witness the historic rollout of Boom’s XB-1. As the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, XB-1 is paving the way for the return of supersonic travel,&#8221; <a href="https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1">Boom Technology</a> said in a statement.
&#8220;Welcome supersonic technology back to the world. Combining advanced aerodynamic design, carbon composite material, and high-efficiency propulsion, XB-1 demonstrates the key technologies for safe, efficient, and sustainable supersonic flight. The completion of XB-1’s assembly marks a turning point in commercial viability for supersonic travel. XB-1 leads the way for Overture development, by providing continual learnings for the program.&#8221;
The company said, &#8220;We’ve learned that the demand for supersonic has grown even faster than we anticipated.”
The passenger planes, which will cost $200 million apiece (and a whopping $5,000 per seat for passengers, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1308388/concorde-supersonic-jet-1700mph-top-speed-xb1-prototype">Express</a> reports), are reportedly set to use alternative fuels.
But passenger flights could be a ways off. The first supersonic plane, the Concorde, took its initial flight in March 1969, but the plane didn&#8217;t carry passengers until January 1976. With its famous &#8220;droop nose,&#8221; the plane was iconic, the benchmark for luxury, and could fly 100 passengers from New York to London in less than three hours. (Fun facts: The Concorde flew so high &#8212; 60,000 feet &#8212; that passengers could see the curvature of the earth, and the plane stretched 6-10 inches during flight).
But in July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed in Gonesse, France, after departing from Paris&#8217;s Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board as well as four people on the ground. It was the only fatal accident involving Concorde, and before then, the plane was considered the safest in the sky.
According to the official investigation, the crash was caused by a metallic strip that had fallen from a Continental Airlines DC-10 that had taken off minutes earlier from the de Gaulle airport.
The Concorde planes were retired in October 2003.
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President Trump sat down for a lighthearted Father&#8217;s Day-themed video interview with his son Donald Trump Jr., who promptly &#8220;went there.&#8221;
&#8220;Before you leave office, will you let us know if there are aliens? Because this is the only thing I really want to know. I want to know what&#8217;s going on. Would you ever open up Roswell and let us know what&#8217;s going on there?&#8221; Trump Jr. asked in the video produced by Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign.
&#8220;So many people ask me that question,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;There are millions and millions of people that want to go there, that want to see it. I won&#8217;t talk to you about what I know about it but it&#8217;s very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
When Trump Jr. pushed his father on whether he will ever declassify information about Roswell, the president said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll have to think about that one.&#8221;
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Roswell, New Mexico, is the site of an alleged 1947 crash that spurred conspiracy theories about an alien spacecraft.  Residents claim they saw a &#8220;flying disc,&#8221; but the U.S. military claimed that it was merely a conventional weather balloon &#8212; at least at the time. In the 1990s, the military said the crashed object was a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul, a top-secret project by the U.S. Army Air Forces in which microphones flown on high-altitude balloons to try to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.
Reports of UFOs have circulated for years. Earlier this year, the Pentagon declassified footage showing &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena&#8221; of military encounters with other aircraft that behaved in a way that one pilot told the New York Times was &#8220;like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-interesting-details-on-roswell-as-son-grills-him-about-aliens">Fox News</a> reported.
<blockquote>&#8220;After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,&#8221; a Pentagon spokeswoman said about the footage&#8217;s release.
&#8220;DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” she added. “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”</blockquote>
In the father-son interview, Trump Jr. also asked the president if he is considering a pardon for &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, AKA Joe Exotic. Trump was noncommittal, but did say he had seen some episodes of the show and he called Exotic &#8220;quite a character&#8221; and said, &#8220;that&#8217;s a whole strange deal.&#8221;
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Several top scientific journals have published editorials in the past week accusing their own fields of systemically oppressing black people.
The editorial boards of the journals <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30740-6">Cell</a> and <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693">New England Journal of Medicine</a> (NEJM) and the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/08/science.abd1896?rss=1">Science Magazine</a> criticized the lack of diversity in their own publications and fields, blaming the “systemic racism” of the United States. All published articles suggesting reforms to make their areas more equitable and pledging to be more cognizant of their own implicit biases.
“We are the editors of a science journal, committed to publishing and disseminating exciting work across the biological sciences. We are 13 scientists. Not one of us is Black,” the editorial team of Cell began.
All three articles pointed to the lack of black representation in science and medical fields as evidence that systemic boundaries are keeping black people from entering and excelling.
“It is easy to divert blame, to point out that the journal is a reflection of the scientific establishment, to quote statistics. But it is this epidemic of denial of the integral role that each and every member of our society plays in supporting the status quo by failing to actively fight it that has allowed overt and systemic racism to flourish, crippling the lives and livelihoods of Black Americans, including Black scientists,” Cell continued. “Science has a racism problem.”
Science Magazine Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp invoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” pointing to one of the chief problems with 1960s systemic racism that King identified as the “white moderate,” or people who value an ordered society over a just one. Thorp said the “white moderate” mindset of the 1960s is still prevalent today.
“The reckoning Dr. King calls for has not happened in the intervening 57 years. The failure of the white moderates to heed the call of the Birmingham Jail is just as integral to today’s systemic racism as the racist actions of some law enforcement. It’s not just abusive police that need to be reminded that Black Lives Matter,” Thorp wrote.
The board of NEJM asserted that the United States’ problems with structural racism could be traced back to 1619, referring to the date of the first European slave ship arriving in the U.S. The date has been popularized by The New York Times’ “1619 Project” which contends that the United States’ true founding was coterminous with the beginning of slavery.
“Slavery has produced a legacy of racism, injustice, and brutality that runs from 1619 to the present, and that legacy infects medicine as it does all social institutions,” NEJM writes.
The NEJM board contends that “structural racism” has kept black doctors out of the practice of medicine, directly impacting the health care of the black community in the U.S. The board cites a study suggesting that black patients are more likely to seek preventative care from black doctors.
“Structural racism in medicine and medical education continue to compromise our ability to deliver the best culturally competent care. Black patients, who are already affected by health inequities and impaired health care access, have a much lower chance than white or Asian-American patients of finding a racially concordant physician,” NEJM writes.
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What if there&#8217;s a parallel universe, with a parallel Earth, where everything is exactly the same except people eat corn on the cob vertically instead of horizontally?
It just might be out there, NASA scientists say.
&#8220;NASA scientists have detected evidence of a parallel universe, right next to ours, where all the rules of physics seem to be operating in reverse,&#8221; the UK&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/nasa-scientists-detect-parallel-universe-21996849">Daily Star</a> writes.
That includes time.
Scientists at the National Aeronautic Space Administration have conducted a series of cosmic ray detection experiments, which have found particles that could be from outside our universe.
<blockquote>NASA ’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) uses a giant balloon to haul delicate electronic antennas high into the cold dry air above Antarctica – where there is little or no radio noise to distort its findings.
There is a constant “wind’ of high energy particles coming from outer space – some of which are a million times more powerful than anything we can generate ourselves. Low energy particles – neutrinos – can pass completely through the Earth, barely interacting with the substance of our planet at all. But higher energy objects are stopped by the reassuringly solid matter of the Earth.
That means that high energy particles can only be detected coming “down” from outer space. To detect a heavier particle – a tau neutrino – coming “up” out of the Earth would imply that these particles are actually travelling backwards in time. And that is exactly what the ANITA scientists have seen.</blockquote>
The findings suggest evidence of a parallel universe, The Star reported. The initial experiments were conducted in 2016, but researchers have been combing over the data and recently detected what they think are particles moving upward from Earth.
Principal ANITA investigator Peter Gorham, an experimental particle physicist at the University of Hawaii and lead author on a Cornell University paper describing the odd phenomenon, said the simplest explanation is that at the instant of the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, there were two universes formed — the one we know and another one that, from our position, appears to be going in reverse, with time going backward.
&#8220;[A]ll sorts of suggestions rooted in known physics have been put forward to account for the perplexing signal, and all have been ruled out,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/#ixzz6MvApkrs3">New Scientist</a> reported. &#8220;What’s left is shocking in its implications. Explaining this signal requires the existence of a topsy-turvy universe created in the same big bang as our own and existing in parallel with it. In this mirror world, positive is negative, left is right and time runs backwards. It is perhaps the most mind-melting idea ever to have emerged from the Antarctic ice ­­– but it might just be true.&#8221;
Then again, the scientists say there&#8217;s a possibility that the odd results came from an error the ANITA made.
&#8220;We&#8217;re left with the most exciting or most boring possibilities,&#8221; said Ibrahim Safa, who also works on the experiment.
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On Monday, the Pentagon officially declassified three videos featuring what it calls &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena&#8221; spotted by Navy pilots off the west coast.
The videos, which leaked to media outlets back in 2007 and again in 2017, are in black and white and appear grainy, so it is difficult to discern the specific &#8220;UAPs,&#8221; but, the Pentagon said, it felt compelled to substantiate the videos&#8217; authenticity since they were already in the public domain.
After a &#8220;thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement.
&#8220;DOD [Department of Defense] is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as &#8216;unidentified,'&#8221; the Pentagon continued.
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&#8220;According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean,&#8221; the BBC reported Monday. &#8220;Two other videos filmed in 2015 show objects moving through the air, one of which is spinning. In one, a pilot is heard saying: &#8216;Look at that thing, dude! It&#8217;s rotating!'&#8221;
&#8220;My gosh, they&#8217;re all going against the wind! The wind&#8217;s 120 knots out of the west!&#8221; the voice, assumed to be the pilot of one of the Navy planes, exclaims.
The Pentagon is hesitant to label the items featured in the video as &#8220;unidentified flying objects,&#8221; likely since the term is closely related to the study of extraterrestrial life (and associated conspiracy theories), and, instead, refers to the objects as &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena,&#8221; and notes that they could be foreign planes or robotic devices.
In 2017, The New York Times reported extensively about the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to collect and analyze video, largely taken by military pilots, of these &#8220;unexplained aerial phenomena.&#8221; Established and supported by then-Senator Harry Reid, the classified Pentagon program was considered the clearinghouse for suspected &#8220;alien&#8221; encounters, but it shuttered in 2012, shortly before Reid retired.
After The New York Times report, the Navy and Air Force established a uniform procedure for reporting UFOs.
In 2018, a group called To The Stars Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences, founded by Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who has dedicated his life to the study of UFOs after leaving the band (which now tours with a different lead singer), requested the Pentagon declassify the videos, which had gone viral.
One of the pilots, who witnessed the 2004 incident, spoke to media in 2017 about the encounter: &#8220;As I got close to it &#8230; it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2020-04-28T16%3A00%3A05">he said</a>. &#8220;This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way.&#8221;
<a href="https://disrn.com/news/pentagon-releases-3-videos-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena?fbclid=IwAR2ZNjBSy2voCO-gYyDP2MBbdiMDlUn1REtS2ZJiD6wHryP93VRq-aj-iac">DISRN.com also notes</a> that the two pilots involved in that encounter were sent up to intercept the object which a Navy vessel had been tracking &#8220;for weeks.&#8221; The object was &#8220;roughly 40 feet long hovering roughly 50 feet above the water that quickly descended when approached.&#8221;
The Pentagon has not said whether it plans to declassify any further videos.
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When “The Lost City Of Z” director James Gray announced his latest film “Ad Astra” at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, he made the bold declaration that it would be &#8220;the most realistic depiction of space travel that&#8217;s been put in a movie and to basically say, &#8216;Space is awfully hostile to us.'&#8221; While it is unclear if he succeeded in that regard, the feature is lined with an all-star cast and stunning visuals. The movie, on paper, seems idyllic. Its science fiction story does its best to depict a realistic version of space and space travel with incredible technical skill and stunning effects, but it fails to make an emotional connection.
In the “near future,” Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) works for the United States Space Command. After a series of electric surges begin threatening Earth’s solar system, he is called to a meeting with the brass. There he learns that his thought-dead father, famous astronaut Commander H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) may be alive. It is thought the “Project Lima” mission he vanished on sixteen years ago may have something to do with the surges since they are originating from Neptune, where his father’s team vanished in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials.  
Roy is being sent to Mars with his father’s old friend Colonel Thomas Pruitt (Donald Sutherland), who had a falling-out with his dad before the Project Lima mission. They travel first to the moon where they are attacked by space pirates. Surviving the attack, Roy parts ways with Pruitt, who was injured during the assault. However, he gives Roy a message revealing a dark secret about his father and their mission. Roy boards another rocket to Mars as the surges increase in size and frequency. With the danger growing, his only hope is to contact his father before time runs out.
From a technical perspective, the movie is incredible. Everything was done with excellent detail. As Roy makes his journey into deep space, farther than most have gone before, you feel every tense moment of the lack of gravity, confinement, and the claustrophobic nature of the space vessels. There is a moment early on in the film when the character takes a high fall and you watch every moment with anticipation at the realism on screen. In addition, the musical score by Max Richter, who also worked on “Hostiles,” perfectly complemented the plot as it unfolded before you. 
However, while this movie is impressive when it comes to the technical aspects, it ultimately fails to give the viewer a way to connect with it on a personal and emotional level. 
Though brilliantly acted by Pitt, Roy’s character is a cold, distant protagonist who fails at evoking empathy. He follows the career path of his father, becoming an astronaut. This proves to be a detriment in his life, shown when his wife, Eve (played briefly by Liv Tyler) leaves him. His coldhearted nature pushes her away, but instead of feeling a connection with him over the collapse of his marriage, you almost feel relieved she got out when she did. 
Likewise, the tone of the film is incredibly nihilistic. Religion is portrayed as an obsession to “let go” rather than a personal matter of faith to hold tight. Relationships are shown to be nothing more than a mere bumping into each other rather than emotional connections that guide our life. In the end, only the “duty” of fulfilling the mission is shown to give any sense of peace. Give your life to the state, the mission, because even if they deceive you, they are still better than those old fashioned beliefs or relationships. This left the movie with no substance. 
While impressive in its visuals, composition, and even performances, the story of “Ad Astra” gets lost in its emptiness, both metaphorically in its depiction of space and literally in the weightlessness of its plot. 
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‘Ad Astra’ Review- Technical Prowess, But Little Else

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A man in England claimed he discovered a fossil while out walking his two dogs.
The man, 54-year-old Jon Gopsill, said his dogs sniffed out the fossil on a beach in Somerset, which is in South West England. The fossil is five-and-a-half feet long and is believed to have been unearthed by recent storms, The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/16/dog-walker-discovers-65-million-year-old-fossil-pets-sniff/">reported</a>. Gopsill, the outlet reported, fancies himself an amateur archaeologist and said he believes the fossil is 65 million-years-old and may be that of an ichthyosaur.
Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, but ancient marine vertebrates, which resembled modern-day porpoise. They first appeared during the Triassic period, <a href="https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ichthyosauria.html">according to</a> former University of California-Berkeley post-doctoral researcher Ryosuke Motani. They reached their highest population during the Jurassic period and began to decline afterward, disappearing during the Cretaceous period, which occurred several million years before the dinosaurs were wiped out.
Some rare fossils have shown that ichthyosaurs gave birth to live young and never left the water. There’s no indication that they had gills, making them similar to modern-day whales.
Gopsill said he had previously found other fossils – mostly ammonites, and the Telegraph reported that “West Somerset’s northern bays are known for their fossil finds,” including rocks from the Jurassic and Triassic eras. The outlet reported that just last year, “part of the lower jaw of a 85-foot ichthyosaur was found in the Somerset village of Lilstock, thought to be 235 to 200 million years old.”
Gopsill told the outlet he reported the fossil he discovered to the Somerset Heritage and the Natural History Museum.
&#8220;I often go to the beach walking with my dogs and when the tide goes out we go out to the rocks because they like playing there,&#8221; Gopsill told the Telegraph. &#8220;I have always been a bit of an amateur fossil hunter and I have found a good supply of ammonites, so I always keep my eyes open.”
&#8220;We were at the beach when I saw this thing and thought &#8216;what&#8217;s that?&#8217; so I went a bit closer and thought &#8216;wow,&#8217;” he continued. &#8220;I thought it was obviously a fossilised sea creature, possibly an ichthyosaur. It doesn&#8217;t have a head, I have look[ed] around but I can&#8217;t find it. It has been there for at least 65 million years.”
&#8220;I realised straight that it was amazing, museum quality stuff, as soon as I saw it I knew I found something special. I was just blown away to see it there. It really is incredible that is has survived for such a long time and is now just there for everyone to see,” Gopsill concluded.
Dr. Mike Day, who curates the Earth Sciences department at the Natural History Museum, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7796945/Dog-walker-stumbles-five-half-foot-long-Jurassic-fossil-Somerset-beach.html">confirmed to The Daily Mail</a> that the fossil found by Gopsill was likely that of an ichthyosaur.
“Looking at this specimen, based on the number of bones in the pectoral paddle, the apparent absence of a pelvic girdle, as well as the distinctive ‘hunch’ of the back, this is likely to be the remains of an ichthyosaur,” Day told the outlet. “It is not possible to identify the exact type of ichthyosaur from these images alone however.”

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A Dog Walker In The U.K. Just Found A 65 Million-Year-Old Fossil Thanks To Two Very Good Doggos

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The absolute worst case of professional incompetence and dishonesty is in the area of climate science. Tony Heller has exposed some of the egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in a video he&#8217;s titled &#8220;My Gift To Climate Alarmists.&#8221; Environmentalists and their political allies attribute the recent increase in deadly forest fires to global warming. However, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Forest Service, forest fires reached their peak in the 1930s and have declined by 80% since then. Environmentalists hide the earlier data and make their case for the effects of global warming by showing the public and policymakers data from 1980 that shows an increase in forest fires.
Climate scientists claim that rising sea levels are caused by man-made global warming. Historical data from the tide gauge in Lower Manhattan shows that sea levels have been rising from about the time when Abraham Lincoln was president to now. Heller says that sea levels have been rising for about 20,000 years. He points out that anthropologists believe that when the sea level was very low people were able to walk from Siberia to North America.
Hot weather is often claimed to be a result of man-made climate change. Heller presents data showing the number of days in Waverly, Ohio, above 90 degrees. In 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees. If climatologists hide data from earlier years and started at 1955, they show an increase in the number of above 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40. Thus, to deceive us into thinking the climate is getting hotter, environmentalists have selected a starting date that fits their agenda.
You might ask: &#8220;Who is Tony Heller? Does he work for big oil?&#8221; It turns out that he is a scientist and claims to be a lifelong environmentalist. From what I can tell, he has no vested interests. In that respect, he is different from those who lead the environmental movement, who often either work for or are funded by governments.
Once in a while environmentalists reveal their true agenda. Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCC&#8217;s fourth summary report released in 2007, speaking in 2010 advised: &#8220;One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world&#8217;s wealth.&#8221; U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said that the true aim of the U.N.&#8217;s 2014 Paris climate conference was &#8220;to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.&#8221; Christine Stewart, Canada&#8217;s former Minister of the Environment said: &#8220;No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits. &#8230; Climate change (provides) the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.&#8221; Tim Wirth, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and the person most responsible for setting up the Kyoto Protocol said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.&#8221;
Not all scientists are dishonest and not all news reporters are leftists with an agenda. But one wonders at the deafening silence where there&#8217;s clear, unambiguous evidence. For example, if ocean levels have been rising for some 20,000 years, why do scientists allow environmentalists to get away with the claim that it&#8217;s a result of man-made global warming? Why aren&#8217;t there any reporters to highlight leftist statements such as those by Edenhofer, Stewart and others who want to ride global warming as a means to defeat capitalism and usher in socialism and communism? I would prefer to think that the silence of so many scientists represent their fears as opposed to their going along with the environmental extremist agenda.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Scientists: Dishonest or Afraid?

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On the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas Thursday, bestselling author and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro explained why the Left, which portrays itself as the great promoter and defender of science, frequently rejects it, discarding scientific evidence whenever it conflicts with progressive ideology.
&#8220;Tonight I&#8217;m talking about why the Left hates science,&#8221; Shapiro began (video below). &#8220;Now to a lot of folks on the Left, this sounds ridiculous. After all, it&#8217;s right-wingers who are &#8216;climate deniers,&#8217; &#8216;science deniers,&#8217; and they believe in that book, the Bible, and they&#8217;re all wild and crazy – they don&#8217;t believe in anything like the scientific method. But the truth is, right now many of the attacks on science are coming from the political Left.&#8221;
Shapiro first zeroed in on the significant difference in the Left and Right’s diverging views of human nature, the former pushing the idea of &#8220;infinite human malleability,&#8221; which posits that human beings can be altered &#8220;from anything to anything,&#8221; particularly by government coercion – thus providing &#8220;the impetus for top-down governmental control.&#8221;
&#8220;If you can remove the remediating institutions of society, human beings can be remade from the top down,&#8221; Shapiro explained in summary of the Left&#8217;s view of an &#8220;infinitely malleable&#8221; human nature. The problem, Shapiro argued, is that this view is undermined by reality. &#8220;Infinite engineering of humankind, unfortunately, tends to be undermined by the facts of human nature,&#8221; he stated.
Conservatives view human beings in a more scientific way, Shapiro suggested, believing that we operate in part by a &#8220;fixed human nature&#8221; and accept the premise that “human beings are happiest when they exercise reason in accordance with that nature.&#8221;
While the Left &#8220;likes to pretend that it loves science,&#8221; Shapiro argued, &#8220;much of what it terms science is not in fact science.&#8221; As examples, Shapiro pointed to the Left&#8217;s embrace of political science and the social sciences, which &#8220;often do not meet the rigorous standards of science.&#8221;
What the Left actually means by &#8220;science,&#8221; Shapiro underscored, is &#8220;anything that is not religion.&#8221;
“That’s because people on the secular Left see religion as an obstacle to progress – all progress,” the bestselling author explained. “They’re not merely concerned with Galileo – who, by the way, was an ardent believer in the Divine. They’re concerned that religion acts as a retrograde check on their ambitions to rewrite society, including the rewriting of fundamental societal truths, like distinctions between the sexes and the value of the family unit.”
This “animus for religion,” said Shapiro, “is why so many on the Left will routinely characterize science-based conservative positions as religious in nature.”
As an example, he pointed to the Left’s criticism of pro-lifers, which focuses mainly on the fact that many pro-lifers’ believe in the Bible as a definitive authoritative source. While it may be true that pro-lifers are often people of faith, that point is simply &#8220;a convenient strawman&#8221; for the political Left, said Shapiro.
The distinction the Left attempts to impose between religion and science, Shapiro maintained, is ultimately &#8220;false,&#8221; resting on &#8220;an utter misunderstanding of both science and religion.&#8221;
Watch Shapiro’s speech below:
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Shapiro&#8217;s speech at Baylor is part of the Young America’s Foundation&#8217;s Fred Allen Lecture Series. Last week, Shapiro visited the campus of Boston University to address the Left&#8217;s Claim that &#8220;America was built on slavery,&#8221; a view Shapiro argued is based on reductive presuppositions that result in a grim and flawed vision of what defines the country.  (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/livestream-ben-shapiro-america-wasnt-built-on-slavery">Watch the speech here</a>.)
A week earlier, Shapiro spoke at Stanford University, focusing on the “dangerous game” being played by the Alt-Right, whose leaders he condemned as espousing racist and anti-Semitic views diametrically opposed to conservatism, and their counterparts on the radical Left, who attempt to brand conservatives as &#8220;Alt-Right&#8221; despite their glaringly diverging views. (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-shapiro-dismantles-the-alt-right-and-radical-lefts-dangerous-game">Watch the speech here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-alt-right-hecklers-attempt-to-trap-ben-shapiro-fail-miserably">WATCH: Hecklers Attempt To Trap Ben Shapiro, Fail Miserably</a>

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WATCH: Ben Shapiro: How The Left Pretends To Love Science But Actually Hates It

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Two individuals, a married couple in China, have been diagnosed with &#8220;pneumonic plague,&#8221; according to <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/two-counts-of-pneumonic-plague-diagnosed-in-china-authorities-attempting-to-prevent-outbreak">international reports</a> &#8212; a strain of the plague &#8220;more infectious than the strain that ravaged Europe in the Dark Ages.&#8221;
According to Chinese state-run media, per Canada&#8217;s National Post, &#8220;doctors in Beijing confirmed that the patients, from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, were infected with pneumonic plague.&#8221; The two individuals who contracted the disease are receiving treatment at Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing.
The pair contracted the disease near their home in Inner Mongolia, making them the second such couple to have contracted the plague in that general region since May, when a Mongolian couple died from eating raw organ meat from an infected marmot, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/health/china-plague-intl-hnk-scn-scli/index.html">CNN reports</a>. The husband contracted the disease first and was nursed by the wife until she also fell ill.
&#8220;Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs,&#8221; CNN continues. &#8220;Pneumonic &#8212; the kind the Chinese patients have &#8212; is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).&#8221;
Most victims of the bubonic plague catch the disease from infected parasites, typically fleas or body lice. The &#8220;pneumonic plague,&#8221; which can be an advanced form of the bubonic plague, is transmitted from person to person, according to the WHO, and has a 24 hour incubation period, during which it targets a person&#8217;s lungs and respiratory system.
There are typically several incidents of the plague each year in China &#8212; and even a couple in the United States &#8212; and most do not result in outbreaks like the one that killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The disease, the WHO says, lives on in low levels in rodent populations, and circulates among animals that live alongside humans, including cats and dogs, so its difficult to eradicate completely.
&#8220;From 2010 to 2015, more than 3,248 cases were reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, according to the WHO. The three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru,&#8221; CNN reports.
While researchers are developing a vaccine, there is currently no blanket preventative measure for the disease, aside from using DEET-based insect repellents.
In this case, though, such numbers do little to quash concerns that China could be dealing with an actual outbreak, particularly given that Chinese state-run media wouldn&#8217;t acknowledge an out-of-hand situation. The mere fact that the Chinese government is acknowledging two incidents of the pneumonic plague seemed to set off alarm bells on social media, particularly among watchdogs of Chinese current events.
UPI notes that &#8220;Chinese authorities have previously reported cases of the bubonic plague. In 2009, there were 12 confirmed cases of the plague; three people died. The following year, China claimed seven confirmed cases of the plague and two deaths. In 2014, there were three confirmed cases of the plague, and three people dead from the fatal disease, according to Chinese government statistics.&#8221;
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Two individuals, a married couple in China, have been diagnosed with &quot;pneumonic plague,&quot; according to international reports -- a strain of the plague

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Imagine being pulled over on suspicion of driving drunk even though you hadn’t had a drop of alcohol. Now imagine a blood alcohol test showing you were at twice the legal limit – again, even though you hadn’t drunk any alcohol.
Such was the case of a North Carolina man, who insisted he hadn’t drunk despite his blood alcohol level being 0.2%, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08%. He was pulled over but refused to take a breathalyzer, so he was taken to a hospital, where his BAC was determined.
He continued to say he hadn’t touched alcohol but, naturally, no one believed him.
It wasn’t until he was studied by researchers at the Richmond University Medical Center in New York that he found out what was causing his alleged drunkenness – a medical condition.
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/25/health/beer-stomach-autobrewery-syndrome-trnd/index.html">reported</a> the man was discovered to have a rare condition known as auto-brewery system (ABS) or gut fermentation syndrome. The condition causes his body to convert carbohydrates into alcohol.
The doctors that studied him published a study in BMJ Open Gastroenterology about his condition and what they did to treat him. The study’s lead author, Fahad Malik, chief internal medicine resident at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, told CNN what happens to a person with the condition.
“These patients have the exact same implications of alcoholism: the smell, the breath, drowsiness, gait changes,&#8221; Malik told the outlet. &#8220;They will present as someone who&#8217;s intoxicated by alcohol, but the only difference here is that these patients can be treated by antifungal medications.&#8221;
The man didn’t have the condition his entire life. It wasn’t like he was falling down “drunk” in grade school. The condition developed after he took antibiotics to treat an injury to his thumb.
“His personality started to change, researchers wrote in the study, and he experienced episodes of depression, &#8216;brain fog,&#8217; memory loss and aggressive behavior that was out of character for him,” CNN reported.
Three years after his drunk driving arrest, doctors in Ohio found two strains of yeast and told him to cut carbs out of his diet and take supplements. He seemed fine at first, but a few weeks later he began acting drunk again.
Nothing seemed to help the condition, and at some point the man fell down due to his blood alcohol level, leading to brain bleeding. Eventually, after finding an online support group, the man was directed to the Richmond University Medical Center. The researchers there found that, possibly due to the antibiotics he had taken for his thumb, his “gut microbiome” had been altered, leading to ABS.
The man was given probiotics and treated with antifungal therapies, which helped his condition. After a year and a half – except for one time when he ate pizza and beer – he appears to be nearly cured.
“Approximately 1.5 years later, he remains asymptomatic and has resumed his previous lifestyle, including eating a normal diet while still checking his breath alcohol levels sporadically,&#8221; the study’s authors wrote, as reported by CNN.
This man is not the only one with this condition. It has been studied since the early part of the century, and researchers hope their method of treating the North Carolina man can help others with the condition.

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Police Thought He Was Drunk. It Turns Out He Had A Rare Medical Condition That Made His Body A Brewery.

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Recently, The Atlantic Monthly published <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/?fbclid=IwAR2jRgvcsnILYqgaMph5gxz9K-5hNu4mCcRJ9vLrXHVFzM1cD3vhD0iP5oc">an article</a> entitled “A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked.” The article details the latest discoveries in neuroscience regarding the age-old debate between <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#DoWeHaveFreeWill">free will and determinism</a>. According to the piece, the available science now suggests that we may, in fact, have free will contrary to the biological determinism impressed upon us by the scientific community for almost a century. And so the debate rages on for yet another millennia, if not till kingdom come.
More importantly, the article illustrates a vital point for those of us who maintain faith as a central aspect of our lives. It’s imperative as people of faith that we do not attempt to corroborate our beliefs with scientific facts or endeavors. Not only is it a fool’s errand, it’s also a detriment to faith itself.
While it may seem intriguing or even somewhat reasonable to buttress our religious beliefs with scientific evidence, it very much runs the risk of delegitimizing the very beliefs we are attempting to prove as empirically true. Nevermind that it can be a <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-red-seas-parting-180953553/">theological wild goose chase</a>, scientific theories are disproven all the time. If we seek scientific corroboration for our deeply held religious beliefs those very beliefs run the risk of being disproven as well.
<blockquote>“But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis</blockquote>
An inherent aspect of science is that it remains in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_theories_in_science">constant state of flux</a> wherein in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity">new discoveries</a> supplant long-held theories in an instant. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry">craniometry</a> was considered a perfectly valid method to scientifically measure human intelligence in the nineteenth century. We know now that it’s bunk and the methods and paradigms employed to reach such conclusions were specious at best.
Regardless, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that some piece of scripture in the Abrahamic traditions seemingly supported the antiquated idea that head size was indicative of intelligence. The instant the scientific theory is rendered obsolete, the scripture is as well. One is, essentially, building exegetical constructs on quicksand.
That doesn’t mean that science cannot provide us with a continued sense of wonderment toward all that God has created nor does it mean that we dismiss scientific truths for the sake of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46432/cases-measles-us-climbs-highest-level-25-years-ashe-schow">rote, blind dogma</a>. Not at all. What it does entail is that religious truths cannot reside in the lower, earthly strata of the scientific worldview. Simply put, religious truths must supersede them.
<blockquote>“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet, William Shakespeare</blockquote>
It also has to be vehemently stated that though we may not find tenable support in science for our religious beliefs, this does not mean, in any way, that we abandon our critical faculties when studying our respective traditions. Faith must be an active pursuit if it’s to maintain its necessary vitality and strength and not be reduced to some dust-covered ornament on a shelf. God gave us both a head and a heart for a reason.
That said, we need to also consider just how hopelessly dogmatic the scientific community continues to be as the defining paradigm for well over a century. In Why Religion Matters, renowned religious scholar Huston Smith drives home this point compellingly:
<blockquote>Among scientists themselves, debates over Darwin rage furiously, fueled by comments such as Fred Hoyle&#8217;s now-famous assertion that the chance of natural selection&#8217;s producing even an enzyme is on order of a tornado&#8217;s roaring through a junkyard and coming up with a Boeing 747. But when religion enters the picture, scientists close ranks in supporting Darwinism&#8230;Michael Ruse of the University of Guelph — a self-confessed bulldog for Darwinism — puts this colonization of theology by biology when he charges his fellow Darwinists with behaving as if Darwinism were a religion. (Why Religion Matters, p. 77)</blockquote>
While religious traditions continue to be maligned as antiquated and dogmatic pursuits, particularly by younger generations, they are completely unaware of just how dogmatically suspect many of their <a href="https://youtu.be/GlZtEjtlirc?t=203">own current conclusions</a> can be.
Smith continues:
<blockquote>Rustum Roy, a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State, goes further. Half seriously, he has threatened to sue the National Science Foundation for violating the separation of church and state in funding branches of science that turned themselves into religions&#8230;we have the curious spectacle of [Darwinism] colonizing not only theology but biology as well. (Why Religion Matters, p. 77)</blockquote>
While it may be intriguing to find parallels between our religious beliefs and all that science offers and continues to discover, it’s an unwise pursuit outside of some mild curiosity. Science is limited and reductive in scope and simply cannot grasp the awe, grandeur, and transcendence faith and God encompass beyond measure.

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KHAN: Why Seeking Scientific Proof For Religious Realities Is A Fool’s Errand

Recently, The Atlantic Monthly published an article entitled “A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked.” The article details the latest

KHAN: Why Seeking Scientific Proof For Religious Realities Is A Fool’s Errand | The Daily Wire

https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-why-seeking-scientific-proof-for-religious-realities-is-a-fools-errand/

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