OT: The Because Science Thread (Now With Aliens!)
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zeke
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Scientists discover a completely new life form wreaking havoc on deep-sea sharks
A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.
MindzEye
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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.
www.extremetech.com
They should change their name to enuendotech.James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.
Cal Gal
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A Secret Soviet Plan to Nuke America From the South Pole Was Working. Until UFO Hunters Looked Up.
A Secret Soviet Plan to Nuke America From the South Pole Was Working. Until UFO Hunters Looked Up.
When a glowing crescent appeared over Moscow in 1967, alien enthusiasts panicked—unaware they were tracking a 3-megaton weapon meant to bypass American radar.
MindzEye
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They should change their name to enuendotech.
I don't know what you're talking about....
I don't think I ever fully believed the Monty Hall Paradox...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhSjcF-qjXs
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhSjcF-qjXs
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axlsalinger
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zeke
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Cal Gal
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axlsalinger
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I think somebody just made up Makemake and Gonggong and slipped them in there because they were making this graphic and also high as fuck
Cal Gal
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I lean coyote, probably bc I spent time around a bunch of them way out in the country and foothills, but I do love the wolf, too. 
View: https://youtu.be/jZsx_cMzWbk?si=Q_-h3JAPOfZf9u4i
www.biographic.com
View: https://youtu.be/jZsx_cMzWbk?si=Q_-h3JAPOfZf9u4i
How to Count a Wolf - bioGraphic
The first step in managing a rare and controversial predator—particularly in a state where it's been absent for decades—is knowing how many you have. That’s easier said than done with a species as elusive as this one.
www.biographic.com
Cal Gal
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I'm so very grateful for artists, writers, poets, scientists, mathematicians, and others who teach and inform us. One poet I especially appreciate: Sonoma gal Ada Limon. One of her poems is on its way to Europa flybys. 
Ada Limón
Limón was appointed 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in 2022 and reappointed for a second, two-year term in 2023.[15]
As part of her laureateship, she wrote an original poem, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” dedicated to NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which debuted on June 1, 2023.[16] The poem is engraved in her own handwriting on a metal plate affixed to the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The Europa Clipper launched on October 14, 2024, and is expected to arrive in the Jupiter system in 2030, where it will perform flybys of Jupiter's Galilean moon, Europa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Limón
Arching under the night sky inky
with black expansiveness, we point
to the planets we know, we
pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
we read the sky as if it is an unerring book
of the universe, expert and evident.
Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
the whale song, the songbird singing
its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant awe,
curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
And it is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,
each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
O second moon, we, too, are made
of water, of vast and beckoning seas.
We, too, are made of wonders, of great
and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
of a need to call out through the dark.
Ada Limón
Limón was appointed 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in 2022 and reappointed for a second, two-year term in 2023.[15]
As part of her laureateship, she wrote an original poem, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” dedicated to NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which debuted on June 1, 2023.[16] The poem is engraved in her own handwriting on a metal plate affixed to the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The Europa Clipper launched on October 14, 2024, and is expected to arrive in the Jupiter system in 2030, where it will perform flybys of Jupiter's Galilean moon, Europa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Limón
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
Arching under the night sky inky
with black expansiveness, we point
to the planets we know, we
pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
we read the sky as if it is an unerring book
of the universe, expert and evident.
Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
the whale song, the songbird singing
its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant awe,
curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
And it is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,
each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
O second moon, we, too, are made
of water, of vast and beckoning seas.
We, too, are made of wonders, of great
and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
of a need to call out through the dark.
Cal Gal
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High School Student, 18, Invents Water Filter That Eliminate 95.5% of Microplastics
High School Student, 18, Invents Water Filter That Eliminate 95.5% of Microplastics
Mia Heller of Virginia said she got the idea after learning that government agencies were not funding filtration programs