"Scientists Issue 'Giant Mercury Bomb' Warning" - Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 16AUG2024
>The melting of permafrost in the Arctic could result in toxic mercury leaching into the waters of Alaskan rivers, putting millions of people at risk.
>This "giant mercury bomb" lurks within the soils of permafrost in Alaska, which is slowly melting and being washed away by rivers such as the Yukon River, according to a new paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
>This leaking of toxic metals into rivers may endanger many of the 5 million people who live within the Arctic Circle worldwide, especially the 3 million who live in areas where permafrost is predicted to totally vanish by the year 2050.
>Permafrost is melting (or thawing) primarily because of climate change and global warming.
>Previous research sampled mercury levels in permafrost by taking core samples from the upper 10 feet of the soil, but these studies found huge variation and didn't sample across all depths.
https://archive.ph/QEfmC
>The melting of permafrost in the Arctic could result in toxic mercury leaching into the waters of Alaskan rivers, putting millions of people at risk.
>This "giant mercury bomb" lurks within the soils of permafrost in Alaska, which is slowly melting and being washed away by rivers such as the Yukon River, according to a new paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
>This leaking of toxic metals into rivers may endanger many of the 5 million people who live within the Arctic Circle worldwide, especially the 3 million who live in areas where permafrost is predicted to totally vanish by the year 2050.
>Permafrost is melting (or thawing) primarily because of climate change and global warming.
>Previous research sampled mercury levels in permafrost by taking core samples from the upper 10 feet of the soil, but these studies found huge variation and didn't sample across all depths.
https://archive.ph/QEfmC
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"Elon Musk's Embrace of Trump Is Hurting Tesla in Europe" - Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 09AUG2024
>As Fortune reports, Rossman, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, cited the mercurial CEO's support for the former president and climate change denier — who has repeatedly flip-flopped on his stance on electric vehicles — as the reason for suspending Tesla vehicle purchases "with immediate effect."
>Rossmann's decision may not have a sizable impact on Tesla's sales in the EU alone — only 34 of the German chain's 800 vehicles are Teslas. But its decision could send a strong signal nonetheless.
>In short, it shouldn't come as a surprise that companies aren't willing to do business with Tesla. Besides, particularly outside of the US, the carmaker's competition continues to grow considerably, giving its commercial customers plenty of alternatives.
https://archive.ph/gvDho
(Climate?)
>As Fortune reports, Rossman, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, cited the mercurial CEO's support for the former president and climate change denier — who has repeatedly flip-flopped on his stance on electric vehicles — as the reason for suspending Tesla vehicle purchases "with immediate effect."
>Rossmann's decision may not have a sizable impact on Tesla's sales in the EU alone — only 34 of the German chain's 800 vehicles are Teslas. But its decision could send a strong signal nonetheless.
>In short, it shouldn't come as a surprise that companies aren't willing to do business with Tesla. Besides, particularly outside of the US, the carmaker's competition continues to grow considerably, giving its commercial customers plenty of alternatives.
https://archive.ph/gvDho
(Climate?)
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"NASA Inspector Slams Boeing for Shoddy Work on Moon Rocket" - Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 09AUG2024
>Boeing was contracted to develop a powerful new upper stage for NASA's Space Launch System, the gigantic rocket the agency is using to get to the Moon. The configuration, known as Block 1B, is meant to make its debut during NASA's Artemis IV mission, the second planned lunar landing, which is tentatively scheduled for 2028.
>...quality control issues plaguing Boeing's operations at its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans specifically are "largely due to the lack of a sufficient number of trained and experienced aerospace workers at Boeing," the inspector general found.
>Worse yet, as Ars Technica points out, NASA's Space Launch System has long proven to be an extremely expensive option to launch its Orion spacecraft to the Moon. While SpaceX has yet to launch a crew on its Starship spacecraft, the company is making considerable progress.
https://archive.ph/RySoQ
(Dark Age of Technology)
>Boeing was contracted to develop a powerful new upper stage for NASA's Space Launch System, the gigantic rocket the agency is using to get to the Moon. The configuration, known as Block 1B, is meant to make its debut during NASA's Artemis IV mission, the second planned lunar landing, which is tentatively scheduled for 2028.
>...quality control issues plaguing Boeing's operations at its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans specifically are "largely due to the lack of a sufficient number of trained and experienced aerospace workers at Boeing," the inspector general found.
>Worse yet, as Ars Technica points out, NASA's Space Launch System has long proven to be an extremely expensive option to launch its Orion spacecraft to the Moon. While SpaceX has yet to launch a crew on its Starship spacecraft, the company is making considerable progress.
https://archive.ph/RySoQ
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"Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI" - Richard Waters, Ars Technica, 19FEB2023
>Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters.
>Kellin Pelrine, an American player one level below top amateur ranking, beat machine by taking advantage of a previously unknown flaw that was identified by another computer. The head-to-head confrontation in which he won 14 of 15 games was undertaken without computer support.
>“It was surprisingly easy for us to exploit this system,” said Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR AI, Californian research firm that designed the program. Software played million games against KataGo, top Go-playing systems, to find “blind spot” a human could take advantage of.
>Pelrine slowly stringed together a “loop” of stones to encircle one of his opponent’s own groups, while distracting AI with moves in other corners of board. The bot didn't notice its vulnerability, even when the encirclement was nearly complete.
https://archive.ph/4r2qn
(Tech L)
>Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters.
>Kellin Pelrine, an American player one level below top amateur ranking, beat machine by taking advantage of a previously unknown flaw that was identified by another computer. The head-to-head confrontation in which he won 14 of 15 games was undertaken without computer support.
>“It was surprisingly easy for us to exploit this system,” said Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR AI, Californian research firm that designed the program. Software played million games against KataGo, top Go-playing systems, to find “blind spot” a human could take advantage of.
>Pelrine slowly stringed together a “loop” of stones to encircle one of his opponent’s own groups, while distracting AI with moves in other corners of board. The bot didn't notice its vulnerability, even when the encirclement was nearly complete.
https://archive.ph/4r2qn
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Science Cringe
"US whistleblowers reveal UFO ‘disabled nuclear missile using laser beams’" - Katherine Fiddler, Metro, 13FEB2024 >A ‘disc-shaped UFO’ disabled a US nuclear missile over the Pacific during a routine test, according to multiple military whistleblowers. >The…
"Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda" - Hannah Grossman, FOX, 21AUG2024
>Sneha Nair of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate nuclear weapons – arguing that advancing "queer theory" was essential to that agenda as well as important to America's national security.
>Nair believes that without a DEI agenda, the workforce of a nuclear security facility is at risk for becoming "insider threats," Nair said in an article from April 2023.
>Nair's DEI agenda envisions expanding America's deep secrets to people with foreign connections, claiming those individuals were discouraged from applying as an issue of race bias.
>Regarding race bias, Nair believes that White staff at nuclear facilities don't have the ability to properly evaluate threats from people of the same racial group, notably radical White supremacists.
https://archive.ph/KKCUk
(Science Weapons)
>Sneha Nair of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate nuclear weapons – arguing that advancing "queer theory" was essential to that agenda as well as important to America's national security.
>Nair believes that without a DEI agenda, the workforce of a nuclear security facility is at risk for becoming "insider threats," Nair said in an article from April 2023.
>Nair's DEI agenda envisions expanding America's deep secrets to people with foreign connections, claiming those individuals were discouraged from applying as an issue of race bias.
>Regarding race bias, Nair believes that White staff at nuclear facilities don't have the ability to properly evaluate threats from people of the same racial group, notably radical White supremacists.
https://archive.ph/KKCUk
(Science Weapons)
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"Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why" - James Dinneen, NewScientist,19AUG2024
>“the global mean ocean temperatures are going down a bit,” - Pedro DiNezio, UC Boulder. NOAA: global sea surface temperatures this past July were slightly cooler than in July 2023 – ending 15-month streak of record-high average ocean temperatures.
>Though it has a much smaller influence on the climate, the equatorial Atlantic Ocean also fluctuates between warm “Niños” and cold “Niñas” every few years. Like ENSO, this oscillation is also often associated with the strength of trade winds.
>The cycles could also influence each other directly. Exactly how is challenging to predict, but there is reason to think the Atlantic La Niña could delay the development of La Niña in the Pacific, slowing its cooling effects across the global climate, says McPhaden. “There could be tug of war between the Pacific trying to cool itself and the Atlantic trying to warm it.”
https://archive.ph/GrsD7
(garbage science)
>“the global mean ocean temperatures are going down a bit,” - Pedro DiNezio, UC Boulder. NOAA: global sea surface temperatures this past July were slightly cooler than in July 2023 – ending 15-month streak of record-high average ocean temperatures.
>Though it has a much smaller influence on the climate, the equatorial Atlantic Ocean also fluctuates between warm “Niños” and cold “Niñas” every few years. Like ENSO, this oscillation is also often associated with the strength of trade winds.
>The cycles could also influence each other directly. Exactly how is challenging to predict, but there is reason to think the Atlantic La Niña could delay the development of La Niña in the Pacific, slowing its cooling effects across the global climate, says McPhaden. “There could be tug of war between the Pacific trying to cool itself and the Atlantic trying to warm it.”
https://archive.ph/GrsD7
(garbage science)
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Science Cringe
"Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda" - Hannah Grossman, FOX, 21AUG2024 >Sneha Nair of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate…
"The Hafnium Bomb, Nuclear Grenade & the Pentagon’s Imaginary Weapons" -
Tim Ventura, Predict (Medium), 25JAN2024
>The book talks about some of the more controversial areas of science that have attracted military interest, including remote viewing (psychics), cold fusion and antimatter weapons. I do not list these areas with the idea of lumping them together as bad science, but rather, to point out how each of these subjects tends to attract support from the (science) underworld.
>In 1998, a group led by Carl Collins of the University of Texas at Dallas reported. having successfully initiated such a trigger. Signal-to-noise ratios were small in those first experiments, and to date no other group has been able to duplicate these results. Peter Zimmerman described claims of weaponization potential as having been based on "very bad science".
https://archive.ph/7ny5T
https://archive.ph/MAPyh
Tim Ventura, Predict (Medium), 25JAN2024
>The book talks about some of the more controversial areas of science that have attracted military interest, including remote viewing (psychics), cold fusion and antimatter weapons. I do not list these areas with the idea of lumping them together as bad science, but rather, to point out how each of these subjects tends to attract support from the (science) underworld.
>In 1998, a group led by Carl Collins of the University of Texas at Dallas reported. having successfully initiated such a trigger. Signal-to-noise ratios were small in those first experiments, and to date no other group has been able to duplicate these results. Peter Zimmerman described claims of weaponization potential as having been based on "very bad science".
https://archive.ph/7ny5T
https://archive.ph/MAPyh
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"If You Pay Attention to Tesla's FSD Map on the Dashboard, Crucial Problems Quickly Appear" - Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 20AUG2024
>For many years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised that his EV maker's so-called "Full Self-Driving" software would one day make cars safer by taking flaws human drivers out of the equation.
>The software has also come under intense scrutiny by regulators, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigating hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths linked to the software. Earlier this year, the regulator concluded that drivers using FSD were lulled into a false sense of security and "were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task."
>Despite its misleading name, Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" software still requires drivers to be ready to take over at any point. That's despite the company's mercurial CEO promising that self-driving cars will be a thing by "next year" for a full decade.
https://archive.ph/QUO5W
(GAI)
>For many years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised that his EV maker's so-called "Full Self-Driving" software would one day make cars safer by taking flaws human drivers out of the equation.
>The software has also come under intense scrutiny by regulators, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigating hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths linked to the software. Earlier this year, the regulator concluded that drivers using FSD were lulled into a false sense of security and "were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task."
>Despite its misleading name, Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" software still requires drivers to be ready to take over at any point. That's despite the company's mercurial CEO promising that self-driving cars will be a thing by "next year" for a full decade.
https://archive.ph/QUO5W
(GAI)
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"The Banks That Financed Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter Are Now Absolutely Screwed" - Frank Landymore, Futurism, 22AUG2024
>Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has proved so disastrous that it's resulted in the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008 to 2009 financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports.
>Typically, banks that lend money for takeovers try to quickly sell the debt to other investors so they can get it off their balance sheets.
>But things haven't worked out that way for Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, and the four other large banks that collectively lent Musk $13 billion for his buyout of Twitter — now renamed X — in October 2022.
>That's because Twitter's financials have performed so poorly that they haven't been able to find anyone willing to buy the debt, leaving them with some of the worst "hung" loans — meaning they can't be offloaded — of all time.
https://archive.ph/HDACm
(Tech L)
>Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has proved so disastrous that it's resulted in the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008 to 2009 financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports.
>Typically, banks that lend money for takeovers try to quickly sell the debt to other investors so they can get it off their balance sheets.
>But things haven't worked out that way for Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, and the four other large banks that collectively lent Musk $13 billion for his buyout of Twitter — now renamed X — in October 2022.
>That's because Twitter's financials have performed so poorly that they haven't been able to find anyone willing to buy the debt, leaving them with some of the worst "hung" loans — meaning they can't be offloaded — of all time.
https://archive.ph/HDACm
(Tech L)
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"The staggering death toll of scientific lies" - Kelsey Piper, Vox, 23AUG2024
>You probably haven’t heard of cardiologist Don Poldermans, but experts who study scientific misconduct believe that thousands of people may be dead because of him.
>One crucial question he studied: Should you give patients a beta blocker, which lowers blood pressure, before certain heart surgeries? Poldermans’s research said yes.
>Poldermans’s data was reportedly fake. 2012 inquiry by Erasmus Medical School, his employer, into allegations of misconduct found that he “used patient data without written permission, used fictitious data and… submitted to conferences [reports] which included knowingly unreliable data.” Poldermans admitted the allegations and apologized, while stressing that the use of fictitious data was accidental.
>New meta-analysis was published in 2014, found that a course of beta blockers made it 27 percent more likely that someone would die within 30 days of their heart surgery.
https://archive.ph/Tr0hm
>You probably haven’t heard of cardiologist Don Poldermans, but experts who study scientific misconduct believe that thousands of people may be dead because of him.
>One crucial question he studied: Should you give patients a beta blocker, which lowers blood pressure, before certain heart surgeries? Poldermans’s research said yes.
>Poldermans’s data was reportedly fake. 2012 inquiry by Erasmus Medical School, his employer, into allegations of misconduct found that he “used patient data without written permission, used fictitious data and… submitted to conferences [reports] which included knowingly unreliable data.” Poldermans admitted the allegations and apologized, while stressing that the use of fictitious data was accidental.
>New meta-analysis was published in 2014, found that a course of beta blockers made it 27 percent more likely that someone would die within 30 days of their heart surgery.
https://archive.ph/Tr0hm
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"Want to Avoid a Hit to Your Smart Bassinet’s I.Q.? Better Pay Up." - Sandra Garcia, NYT, 16AUG2024
>last month, Happiest Baby, the company that makes Snoo, began charging for access to some premium features that used to be available at no extra cost. Now, access to app needed to lock in the bassinet’s rocking level, to track the baby’s sleep and to use the weaning mode, will cost $20 a month.
>“Nothing is changing for anyone who bought their Snoo directly from Happiest Baby or any kind of partner before July 15,” Lexi Montée Busch, the head of marketing at Happiest Baby, said. “Those people are grandfathered in.”
>Ajay Patel, a father and physician in a suburb of Atlanta, said that he woke up one morning to his 1-month-old daughter crying and found the Snoo, which he bought for $600, wasn’t activating as it normally would.
>“It updated overnight, and it changed the settings as our daughter was sleeping, which is a little scary, that a company can do that.”
https://archive.ph/nsMQk
(Tech L)
>last month, Happiest Baby, the company that makes Snoo, began charging for access to some premium features that used to be available at no extra cost. Now, access to app needed to lock in the bassinet’s rocking level, to track the baby’s sleep and to use the weaning mode, will cost $20 a month.
>“Nothing is changing for anyone who bought their Snoo directly from Happiest Baby or any kind of partner before July 15,” Lexi Montée Busch, the head of marketing at Happiest Baby, said. “Those people are grandfathered in.”
>Ajay Patel, a father and physician in a suburb of Atlanta, said that he woke up one morning to his 1-month-old daughter crying and found the Snoo, which he bought for $600, wasn’t activating as it normally would.
>“It updated overnight, and it changed the settings as our daughter was sleeping, which is a little scary, that a company can do that.”
https://archive.ph/nsMQk
(Tech L)
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Attached is a video (hidden with spoiler) of a Russian bleeding edge high tech weapon striking a Bushmaster MRAP. The drone is flying impossibly low to the ground without losing signal. This type of hit likely fills the crew compartment with chunks of engine. Included are photos of its construction.
Unlike the West, Russians have never claimed to be in possession of a high tech science weapon equipped army (nukes excluded.) Yet, they have this new weapon, and the science-based West is far from producing a working copy.
This drone is operated via a 10.813km spool of fiber optic cable, with the wire guided control module, and fishing reel. While this design has a few significant drawbacks, it is completely immune to any form of jamming, or loss of signal caused by terrain obstruction.
The bleeding edge science weapon is a fishing reel equipped, wire guided, commercially-available quadcopter armed with a field-taped RPG carrot.
(science weapon)
Unlike the West, Russians have never claimed to be in possession of a high tech science weapon equipped army (nukes excluded.) Yet, they have this new weapon, and the science-based West is far from producing a working copy.
This drone is operated via a 10.813km spool of fiber optic cable, with the wire guided control module, and fishing reel. While this design has a few significant drawbacks, it is completely immune to any form of jamming, or loss of signal caused by terrain obstruction.
The bleeding edge science weapon is a fishing reel equipped, wire guided, commercially-available quadcopter armed with a field-taped RPG carrot.
(science weapon)
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Science Cringe
Attached is a video (hidden with spoiler) of a Russian bleeding edge high tech weapon striking a Bushmaster MRAP. The drone is flying impossibly low to the ground without losing signal. This type of hit likely fills the crew compartment with chunks of engine.…
This is a screenshot and photo of a Russian Tu-95 prop powered nuclear bomber that generated controversy in 2020 by flying close to Alaska. Next to it is a high-tech F-22 jet.
Who would win?
https://archive.ph/eH9k4
(science weapons)
Who would win?
https://archive.ph/eH9k4
(science weapons)
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"Smoking, estradiol metabolism and hormone replacement therapy" - Alfred O Mueck, Harald Seeger, Arzneimittelforschung, 2003
>smoking can reduce or completely cancel the efficacy of orally administered estrogens
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12608008/
https://www.libgen.is/scimag/10.1055%2Fs-0031-1297063
(actual science)
>smoking can reduce or completely cancel the efficacy of orally administered estrogens
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12608008/
https://www.libgen.is/scimag/10.1055%2Fs-0031-1297063
(actual science)
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"Saturn’s majestic rings will vanish in just six months from now" - Eric Ralls, earthcom, 03SEP24
https://archive.ph/oP1px
Republish of Smithsonian article from 2023
https://archive.ph/6i8ei
https://archive.ph/oP1px
Republish of Smithsonian article from 2023
https://archive.ph/6i8ei
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