Humans Wearing Clothes

Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question.


As early humans evolved from ape-like ancestors, they came down from the trees, began to walk upright and lost their fur. But without fur, our ancestors would have been exposed to the elements. They would have needed clothing for protection.


So when did humans start wearing clothes?


This is a tricky question, because clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do. Instead, scientists have to get creative. The evidence used to answer this question comes from a few main sources, including bones bearing evidence of skinning, sewing needles and awls, and lice.  READ MORE...

Willie Nelson

 

Always on my Mind

 

Quantum Mechanical Particles

Electronic states that resemble molecules and are promising for use in future quantum computers have been created in superconducting circuits by physicists at RIKEN.


The most obvious advantage of superconductors—materials that offer no electrical resistance to the flow of electrons—in electronic circuits is that they don't produce any wasteful heating, which limits the energy efficiency of conventional circuitry.

But they also have another big advantage. Superconductivity arises due to quantum-mechanical interactions between electrons. These exotic effects could be harnessed in devices, providing them with a wide range of functionality not available in conventional devices.     READ MORE...

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The Rapid Growth of Humanoid Robots with AI

 China is investigating the logic of mass producing a humanoid robot with AI army.

Japan is launching a spaceship with the robot crew on a mission to outer space this summer.

Elon Musk is looking into mass producing humanoid robots with AI that will replace Global Jobs.

Iran is mass producing drones (robots with AI) and currently has more drones than any other country in the world, including the USA.

ChatGPT says that by 2030 or earlier, there will be humanoid robots with AI that think faster than humans and can problem solve quicker than humans.

How Many Jobs Will AI Replace? According to the World Economic Forum's “The Future of Jobs Report 2020,” AI is expected to replace 85 million jobs worldwide by 2025. Though that sounds scary, the report goes on to say that it will also create 97 million new jobs in that same timeframe.  SOURCE:  BuiltIn.com

Question:  Do you believe that AI will create jobs?  What jobs might it create?  Building and Repairing Robots?  Well...  guess what, that can be done by robots.  Writing algorithms and programs for AI?   Well...  guess what, that can also be done by robots.

If there are technical jobs that might be available do you think hourly workers at fast foods will be able to learn those new skills?  What about those who work in the retail industry or the entertainment industry or professional athletes?

Will ROBOTS start attending athletic competitions?  How many robots do you think will attend March Madness in the next couple of years.

What about utility workers, maintenance workers, cooks, pilots, stockbrokers, taxicab drivers, train drivers, educators, clergy, elected officials, sanitation workers, funeral home workers...  and the list goes on and on and on.

NOW - one final question:  What will we do with all the illegal immigrants that are both documented and undocumented.  What work will they do in 2025?

Otter

 

Fundamental Principle of Physics

A new study has overturned a fundamental principle of physics by demonstrating that similarly charged particles can attract each other in a solution, with the effect varying between positive and negative charges depending on the solvent. This discovery has significant implications for various scientific processes, including self-assembly and crystallization. 

The research reveals the importance of solvent structure at the interface in determining interparticle interactions, challenging long-held beliefs and indicating a need for a re-evaluation of our understanding of electromagnetic forces. Credit: Zhang Kang


“Opposites charges attract; like charges repel” is a fundamental principle of basic physics. However, a new study from Oxford University, recently published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, has demonstrated that similarly charged particles in solution can, in fact, attract each other over long distances.

Just as surprisingly, the team found that the effect is different for positively and negatively charged particles, depending on the solvent.  READ MORE...

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Device Acts Like Superconductivity Switch

In particle colliders that reveal the hidden secrets of the tiniest constituents of our universe, minute particles leave behind extremely faint electrical traces when they are generated in enormous collisions. Some detectors in these facilities use superconductivity—a phenomenon in which electricity is carried with zero resistance at low temperatures—to function.


For scientists to more accurately observe the behavior of these particles, these weak electrical signals, or currents, need to be multiplied by an instrument capable of turning a faint electrical flicker into a real jolt.     READ MORE...

Cats and Dogs

 

North America's Soap Opera

 For those of you who do not watch the news or watch the news but get a slanted perspective, then I applaud you for your tenacity and will power.

Unfortunately, there are a group of people who do watch the news from an unbiased point-of-view, however, it is damn near impossible to be 100% unbiased...  and, anyone with half a brain knows this.

I watch FOX News who leans conservatively but does the best job of presenting both sides of the story which is, in essence, is what the NEWS was designed to do in the first place.

For those of you who are not news followers, let me share with you what is going on...

First --  there are about 10 million documented illegal immigrants currently in this country and that number could possibly double if and when the undocumented are found and counted.  With them they bring: criminals, disease, fentanyl, rapists, murderers; they don't speak English and have no technical skills.

The current administration wants to call these illegals newcomers.

Second --   ex-President Donald Trump has been charged with 91 felonies that under normal circumstances, the DOJ or DA's would have never charged.  Trump is being charged because the opposition wants to destroy him - just like what would happen in countries like Russia, China, and Iran.

Trump's words and actions have hurt him substantially but that is no reason to destroy the man.

Third --  One of the trials in GA had the DA and Attorney lovers before the court trial started and both lawyers LIED about their relationship.  The judge, ruled that one had to go but the other could stay, even though both were guilty.  The judge also admonished the DA for playing the RACE CARD.

The judge is up for re-election which is why he did what he did (more then likely) but have given plenty reasons for Trump's lawyers to appeal this case to a higher court.

Fourth --  Biden keeps spending money like a drunken sailor and our national debt keeps going up and up...  but that is not the funny part, the blacks are now saying that they should not have to pay taxes in lieu of reparation because of slavery.

I don't know about you, but if that happens, a lot of White Americans will be enormously PISSED OFF.

Fifth --  Biden will not be prosecuted on removing classified documents because he is old with a bad memory...   Here's the JOKE -  Old Biden with a bad memory is in charge of our NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES.

Don't know about you but that scares the hell out of me...

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Dark Energy Achieved Using AI

A UCL-led research team has used artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to infer the influence and properties of dark energy more precisely from a map of dark and visible matter in the universe covering the last 7 billion years.


The study, submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and available on the arXiv preprint server, was carried out by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration. The researchers doubled the precision at which key characteristics of the universe, including the overall density of dark energy, could be inferred from the map.


This increased precision allows researchers to rule out models of the universe that might previously have been conceivable.  READ MORE...

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In The NEWS

At least 20 killed, 70 injured in Russian missile strikes on Odesa, Ukraine.

Officials said two missiles hit the same area in the southern Ukrainian port city, with the second missile killing some first responders who were trying to rescue people from the first attack. The attack is the third on Odesa in two weeks and came as Russians began voting in Russia's presidential election, which President Vladimir Putin is expected to win.



Special prosecutor in Georgia election interference case resigns.

Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor who was working with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the 2020 election interference case involving former President Donald Trump, resigned Friday. Wade's resignation came shortly after a judge ruled he had to step down for Willis to remain on the case. Willis was accused of hiring Wade while the pair carried on a secret romantic relationship. The judge was tasked with deciding whether to disqualify Willis from the case.



US Supreme Court clarifies when officials can block social media critics.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday public officials who use personal social media accounts to make official statements cannot block users or delete comments and laid out a two-part test for determining when an official's online statements are attributable to the government. The ruling follows conflicting lower court decisions on the issue in two separate cases, one against school board members in California and one against a city manager in Michigan.



Los Angeles Rams star Aaron Donald announces retirement at age 32.

Donald, a defensive tackle, played all 10 seasons of his NFL career with the Rams and won the Super Bowl in 2022. He was picked by the Rams in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft and won the 2014 Defensive Rookie of the Year award. He was selected as the AP Defensive Player of the Year three times, named an All-Pro eight times, and made the Pro Bowl every season. Donald will be eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in five years.



McDonald's system outage disrupts restaurants worldwide.

The system failure caused some McDonald's locations to temporarily suspend operations as customers were unable to place orders. The incident was not a result of a cybersecurity issue and has been fixed, the company said. McDonald's has roughly 40,000 restaurants globally.

SOURCE:  1440 News

Two Religious Truths

Berwyn Lewis - December 26, 2019 — 12.00am

houghts turned to a famous baby on Wednesday. He was conceived through parthenogenesis, a sort of asexual fertilisation process which avoids messy exchanges of bodily fluids and can lead to a virgin birth by a woman. It also avoids troubling questions of paternity.

History is littered with parthenogenesis or virgin births and they’re not all miraculous. Bees do it. Birds do it. Even crayfish and some sharks do it and, while researching my novel, Venice’s Virgin Mother, I discovered that humans have been laying claim to virgin births since time began with the first of the big bangs.

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Jesus wasn't the only one believed to have risen from the dead. Stories of resurrection appear in ancient cultures around the world.

But Christianity isn’t the only ancient faith to worship a deity who dies and then rises again, as the Scottish anthropologist James Frazer explained in The Golden Bough, his landmark 1922 study of world religion and mythology.

In the ancient Near East, where the Bible was written, stories of divine death and resurrection were closely tied with the agricultural cycle, and Frazer believed that early Christians likely chose a spring date for Easter to coincide with existing pagan festivals for their resurrected gods.    SOURCE:  History.com

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I share these two points with you because, these are the two basic foundations of Christianity and the main reason why we have Christians in the first place...  basically because of the crucifixion & resurrection story since Christ died for our sins and if we believe in him, we will join him in heaven...

However, no one can really tell me where HEAVEN is located, nor can they tell me where HELL is located because the Bible offers no such location...

If we assume that neither Heaven nor Hell is located here on earth, then we must assume that it is located somewhere in the universe...  and, since the universe is already larger than we can mentally imagine, the Hubble Telescope has proven that our universe is still expanding...

This expansion makes it even more difficult to pinpoint the location of Heaven and Hell.

Given that the two main stories of Christianity were most probably copied from other mythologies, we are left with a belief that may or may not be true.  So, is there any proof that our religious faith is TRUE or is our religious faith simply based upon an unsubstantiated belief to make the poor people think they had something to look forward to after death.

The one commonality found in all mythologies and religions is that god-like creatures come down to earth from the sky, and give the people technology that they did not have before...  EXAMPLE:  the building of the great pyramids in Giza, Egypt.  

In 2024, we still have no idea how the damn pyramids were constructed, and the blocks cut so precisely and fitted together to tightly....  not to mention moving the stones from the ground to the top of the structure.

Belief in religion is dwindling simply because of the LOGIC of it all.

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Robot Ships

It sounds like science fiction. Ocean-going ships with no-one on board. But this vision of the future is coming - and sooner than you might think.

You can glimpse it in a Norwegian fjord where a huge, lime-green vessel is being put through its paces. At first glance, it seems like any other ship. Look closer, though, and you suddenly see all the hi-tech kit. Cameras, microphones, radars, GPS and all manner of satellite communications.

"We've added a lot of additional equipment and designed her especially to be what we call 'robotic'," says Colin Field, the head of remote systems at US-UK company Ocean Infinity (OI).

The ship is part of OI's new "Armada" - a fleet eventually of 23 vessels - that will survey the seabed for offshore wind farm operators and check underwater infrastructure for the oil and gas industry.  READ MORE...