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Think or blink!!!

Before the presidential election in USA many youngsters admitted to wishing that they would rather have

a comet destroy the earth than face the election results - whatever that may be!
Are they getting their wish fulfilled now??? :decision:

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NASA scientist warns Earth is due for an 'extinction-level event'

In news certain to take the bounce out of your step, a NASA scientist says Earth is due for an "extinction-level" event that we basically would have no way of stopping. Dr. Joseph Nuth of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center rang the alarm Monday in San Francisco, New York Magazine reports. The comet that spelled disaster for the dinosaurs hit 65 million years ago, and Nuth said the massive asteroids and comets that could wipe out civilization usually strike "50 to 60 million years apart," making such an event overdue. In 2014, scientists first spotted a large comet barreling towards Mars just 22 months before it came perilously close to hitting the planet. That wasn't enough time to do anything,
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Do we live among aliens or do they live among humans???



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[h=3]Huge mysterious UFO disc-shaped object captured crossing moon's surface was alien spaceship, say ET hunters[/h]Alien hunters are convinced this huge apparently disc-shaped UFO crossing the moon is yet more proof of extraterrestrial life. Mystery surrounds the object which appeared from out of the blue as the Miami Observatory in Florida streamed a feed of the lunar surface on December 3. The dark circle-shaped shadow is captured above the moon, sparking theories from a well-known UFO enthusiast that it is a craft created by an intelligent species. Scott C. Waring, from UFOsightingsdaily.com, said: "It's not a man-made object, because there are not solar panel wings on it to gather energy. "There are no antennas on it for transmitting, also the surface is not completely round, but has a rough edge to it.
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I won't call 5' 5' and 100 lbs as majestic! :nono:

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[h=3]Ancient Human Ancestor Was One Tall Dude, His Footprints Say[/h]He stood a majestic 5-foot-5, weighed around 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That's what scientists figure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million year ago. He's evidently the tallest known member of the prehuman species best known for the fossil skeleton nicknamed "Lucy," reaching a stature no other member of our family tree matched for another 1.5 million years, the researchers say. The 13 footprints are impressions left in volcanic ash that later hardened into rock, excavated last year in northern Tanzania in Africa. Their comparatively large size, averaging a bit over 10 inches long (26 centimeters), suggest they were made by a male member of the species known as Australopithecus
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Oldest hominin footprints reveal females likely shared common 'husband'
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These ancient human footprints suggest early humans mated like gorillas
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World Record for the height of the wave!!! :first:

WorldWipeout! Huge 19 meter high wave sets new record

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Wipeout! Huge 19 meter high wave sets new record

Experts at the World Meteorological Organization say they have established a new world record for wave height measured by a buoy. An automated buoy recorded the wave in a part of the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the U.K. on 4 February 2013. "This is the first time we have ever measured a wave of 19 meters," Wenjian Zhang, the WMO's assistant secretary-general, said on Tuesday.
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Tallest wave ever recorded could have swamped the White House
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Huge wave higher than 6-storey building spotted in Atlantic between UK and Iceland
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Each generation stands on the shoulder of the previous one to reach a greater height.

It also manages to topple and roll many well established persons while doing so!




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    [h=3]Scientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken[/h]Darwinian theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the world's most distinguished and historic scientific organization, which went mostly unreported by the media. The three-day conference at the Royal Society in London was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design (ID), a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years. ID proponents point to a chasm that divides how evolution and its evidence are presented to the public, and how scientists themselves discuss it behind closed doors and in technical publications. This chasm has been well hidden from laypeople, yet it was clear to anyone
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Wisdom is not riding on two mares at the same time!!! :moony:


VISALIA, Calif. - A Central California man who was married to two women at the same time has been arrested on suspicion of killing one of them, and his other wife has been arrested in the case, authorities said Tuesday. Francisco Valdivia, 37, and wife Rosalina Lopez, 39, both of the Visalia area, were arrested in the June 9 disappearance of Cecilia Bravo, 30, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office announced. Bravo was last seen at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore and is believed to be a victim of homicide. Her body has not been found, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told the Sacramento Bee. Valdivia married Lopez in Mexico in 2007 and later married Bravo, who was born in Bakersfield, in
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Have you heard this adage...A fox may grow grey but never good!

[h=3]A fox may grow gray, but never good. - Chinese translation - Bab.la[/h]en.bab.la › bab.la Dictionary › English-Chinese



Translation for 'A fox may grow gray, but never good.' in the free Chinese dictionary. More Chinese translations for: a, but, to fox, fox, good.

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[h=3]Police: Notorious 86-year-old jewel thief strikes again[/h]An 86-year-old jewel thief who has kept jewelry sellers on their toes since the 1970s has struck again, police say - this time by slipping a $2,000 diamond necklace into her pocket. Doris Payne, who has been the subject of a documentary and casually said during an Associated Press interview earlier this year that "I was a thief," was arrested Tuesday at a Von Maur department store outside Atlanta. Payne was arrested after she put the necklace in her back pocket and tried to leave the store, Dunwoody police spokesman Mark Stevens said in an email.
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Visalakshi Ramani said:
Have you heard this adage...A fox may grow grey but never good!

A fox may grow gray, but never good. - Chinese translation - Bab.la

en.bab.la › bab.la Dictionary › English-Chinese


Translation for 'A fox may grow gray, but never good.' in the free Chinese dictionary. More Chinese translations for: a, but, to fox, fox, good.

U.S.
Police: Notorious 86-year-old jewel thief strikes again

An 86-year-old jewel thief who has kept jewelry sellers on their toes since the 1970s has struck again, police say - this time by slipping a $2,000 diamond necklace into her pocket. Doris Payne, who has been the subject of a documentary and casually said during an Associated Press interview earlier this year that "I was a thief," was arrested Tuesday at a Von Maur department store outside Atlanta. Payne was arrested after she put the necklace in her back pocket and tried to leave the store, Dunwoody police spokesman Mark Stevens said in an email.
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A Fox would grow like Fox only.... it is ridiculous to expect it to grow good!!
 
When a child is very young... it loves ONLY itself!

When it grows to a young thing it loves its partner in addition to itself.

When it becomes a parent it learn to love its children in addition to itself and its spouse.

When it becomes grand parent, it learn to love all children as its own grand children.

This is the normally expected evolution of mankind but I bet there are several exception to this rule also!

To put it in a nutshell ... as we age our hearts and minds enlarge and evolve!
 
DOES it really matter whether it a Bounce or a Bang or a Boom???



For a few physicists, the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of the universe. Rather, they say, the universe existed before that point, stretching forever into the past as well as the future. While the universe is expanding today, it was contracting in the time before the Big Bang. In this picture, the Big Bang isn’t so much a bang but a bounce, a moment when a shrinking universe reversed course and began to grow. And according to their theory, the universe could bounce again. Today’s expansion could be followed by collapse in the far future, followed by another bounce. Some physicists have suggested this bouncing could be infinite, reviving a cyclic cosmology first proposed in the 1930s. This is,


 
When miseries strike... they do so in a series!!! :bump2:

Following the financial storm...the real storm!!! :scared:



A huge storm slammed into southern India this week, destroying trees, cars and buildings. It also damaged an underwater Internet cable, leaving many struggling to get online. The impact of tropical cyclone Vardah disrupted Internet access across India. Thousands of outages were reported in the 48 hours after Vardah made landfall in Chennai on Monday. While most of the problems appeared to be in Chennai and India's nearby tech hub of Bangalore, several other cities such as Mumbai and New Delhi were also affected. "The cyclone in Chennai has impacted one of our undersea network cables which may affect Internet speeds," top telecoms firm Airtel said in a text alert to customers. "Our engineers are
 
So India VS China not just in the population explosion but also the extent of pollution!!!




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Delhi, where China's pollution seems like nothing

Having grown up in perennially polluted New Delhi, smoggy skies were so unremarkable to me that I didn’t even notice anything was awry in Beijing for years after moving there. Till a spring morning in 2006. It was an ordinary start to the day in most respects. I ate a quick breakfast of jian bing, crispy dough and egg pancakes brushed with a spicy sauce, and then made my way to my study. It was only when I looked out of the window above my desk that I realised this was anything but an ordinary morning. I blinked hard, gasping in wonder at the apparition: a cerulean blue sky, punctuated by the sweep of rolling hills. For the 10 months I had lived in this apartment, the view from my study had only
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Stop! Look!! Proceed!!!

Sounds like the surface of lake freezing from the top surface and proceeding downwards, during a severe winter!!!

In a lake this strange phenomenon due to anomalous expansion of water between 4 degree and zero degree centigrade

helps the aquatic animals to live on despite the lake water getting frozen more and more.

But the lack of heat from the Sun due to the differential rotation will cause the reverse effect on earth! :smow:





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    Einstein's Theory Just Put the Brakes on the Sun's Spin

    Twenty years ago, solar astronomers realized that the uppermost layer of the sun rotates slower than the rest of the sun's interior. It is well known the sun rotates faster at its equator than at its poles - a phenomenon known as "differential rotation" that drives the sun's 11-year solar cycle - but the fact that the sun has a sluggish upper layer has been hard to understand. Now, researchers from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Brazil, and Stanford University may have stumbled on an answer and it could all be down to fundamental physics. "The sun won't stop spinning anytime soon, but we've discovered that the same solar radiation that heats the Earth is 'braking' the sun because of Einstein's Special Relativity, causing it to gradually slow down, starting from its surface," said Jeff Kuhn, of IfA Maui, in a statement.
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Unforeseen good consequence or foreseen good consequence??? :decision:

"These days, they don't frequently see transportation of children by traffickers" MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Business has been slow at the Thakkar Bappa Colony shoe manufacturing hub in eastern Mumbai since the Indian government withdrew high-value bank notes last month in an attempt to curb tax evasion and counterfeit currency. Orders to the numerous shoemakers lining the slum's narrow streets have almost dried up due to a dearth of bank notes in circulation, say the businesses which mainly rely on cash transactions. Yet while factory owners complain of a slump in profits and a dip in productivity, child rights activists say India's "demonetisation" drive has a silver-lining:
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Rushi moolam, Nadhi moolam, sweets moolam paarkkaathe!!! :nono:


If you look at the ingredients on a package of gummy bears - even organic ones - you'll see expected things like corn or brown rice syrup and sugar. But you'll also see something called gelatin. Seems innocent enough, but its source might surprise you. Gelatin is a yellowish, odorless, and nearly tasteless substance that is made by prolonged boiling of skin, cartilage, and bones from animals. It's made primarily from the stuff meat industries have left over - we're talking about pork skins, horns, and cattle bones. Ugh. I guess if you're into the philosophy of using the whole animal, you'll be psyched about this. Plus gelatin contains 18 amino acids, so it does offer some nutritional benefits.


 
So what / who was it this time in the cargo???




U.S.
[h=3]Strange noises from cargo hold prompt jetliner to make U-turn[/h]HOUSTON -- A United Airlines flight returned to Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday evening after crew members heard strange noises coming from the cargo hold, reports CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV. The United Airlines flight to Equador departed from Houston at 5:39 p.m. and was in the air about an hour before landing without incident back in Houston. The airline said the crew members on United Flight 1035, with 163 passengers on board, heard unusual noises in the cargo hold after takeoff. Some crew members thought the noises sounded like they were being made by a person, the airline said. United said no one was found in the cargo area, and described the noises as resulting from
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Ring is the right word since a circle has neither a beginning nor an end! :(



World
[h=3]India: Baby trafficking ring busted as police warn more children at risk[/h]He said police are still investigating the gang, as they believe more people may be involved. Child trafficking Last month, police in West Bengal rescued 10 babies, all girls ranging from one to 10 months old, during a raid in Kolkata on a suspected international child trafficking ring, according to CNN News 18. The bodies of two infants were also discovered at the old age home the traffickers were using as a base. "An initial probe revealed that at least 50 infants have been sold from the home and the number could be more," police told CNN News 18 at the time. More than 73,000 children were reported missing in 2014, according to the most recent official statistics. Last year, the National Crime
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