Saturday, October 12
EIGHT-Billion-Year-Old Space Signal
Recently, astronomers made an astonishing discovery — a mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years. Dubbed FRB 20220610A, it is one of the most distant and energetic radio signals ever observed.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs), including this particular one, are extremely intense flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds, yet their origins remain a source of great intrigue and perplexity. We still don’t know what, or who, sends these energy bursts.
The nature of these signals challenges our understanding of the universe, as they can originate from regions far beyond our Milky Way galaxy, hinting at processes and events that we are only beginning to comprehend.
Dr. Stuart Ryder, an esteemed astronomer at Macquarie University in Australia, is among the dedicated team of scientists working diligently to unravel the mysteries surrounding this cosmic enigma.
Through advanced technologies and collaborative efforts, they aim to decode the origins and implications of these fast radio bursts, potentially unlocking new insights into the fundamental workings of our universe and the forces that shape it. READ MORE...
Friday, October 11
Discovery
It all started in 1972, when I was discharged from the US Navy early to return to college and finish my last two years. Before class, I would stop by either Hardees of McDonalds for a cup of coffee to prepare for my morning classes - refills were free.
In 1980, I discovered, quite by accident, that a small Hardees cup held as much liquid as a large McDonalds cup. Since a small cup at Hardees was cheaper than a large cup at McDonalds, I began getting my coffee at Hardees, even though the refills were still free.
Several years later, I began teaching Total Quality Management classes to industry and their employees mainly through team-oriented problem-solving classes (TOP) and used the two cups as examples as to how companies attempt to deceive the public to make money.
Today, 2024, forty-four years later, companies are still using this technique to charge higher prices. The Styrofoam cups that they are using are not just angled differently but are thinner. While most of America's coffee is not being purchased at convenience stations where fresh coffee is being perked with each cup, these companies are still using the cup technique to make a few extra pennies on each cup sold.
The two companies that I checked out recently were FASTOP and Weigle's. Twenty ounces is twenty ounces no matter how it is weighed, assuming the scales are accurate. However, if the cup size is different with its thickness and angles, it APPEARS that one is getting more with the taller cup.
It is that appearance concept on which these companies are counting.
It's All Relative
RELATIVE - considered in relation or in proportion to something else.
EAST TENNESSEE has been my home for the last 34 years, after moving over here from NC in 1990. I lived in NC from 1966-1989 (23 years) after moving down from VA.
The reason for my move in 1990 was that in NC my skills were a dime a dozen and in East TN, there was only one other person with my skills. This gave me the advantage and a marketable edge for the next twenty years. My second wife and I retired FIVE years later after spending my last three years teaching business classes at a local university.
In East TN, one can live very comfortable on $3.000 to $3.500/ month providing that one has NO DEBT. As it turns out, in 2015 when we retired, my wife and I had been debt free since 2000.
Our monthly expenses would be almost twice that amount in NC where I used to live and more than that, the farther north one lived. However, the salaries and wages are higher there too.
Our $300,000 home would be twice that amount in certain places up north and more than twice that amount in certain places out west.
From what I read and hear, crime and violence is higher up north and even in larger cities down south like Charlotte, NC and Nashville, TN... so, it is difficult to escape that entirely... other than, less crime happens in the country rather than the city.
What sells me on this place in East TN is the available land and homes are not built so close together that there is barely enough room for a riding lawn mower to pass.
East TN has several lakes, parks and recreation areas made available to the public by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that actually started during the Great Depression to put people to work. This area is IDEAL for campers, hikers, boaters, and people who like to fish.
While there are lakes and recreational facilities up north, the area is more densely populated and the temperatures prevent most of these facilities from being used after September, whereas, East TN temps are mild, most of the time, through Christmas.
As mentioned in the beginning... IT'S ALL RELATIVE... but there are hundreds of people that are now moving down south to get away from the:
- COLD
- HIGHER TAXES
- TRAFFICE & PEOPLE
- CRIME & VIOLENCE
- ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2024 WNBA Finals kick off tonight (8 pm ET, ESPN) with the New York Liberty taking on the Minnesota Lynx in a best-of-five series (More)
> Vogue reveals theme for 2025 Met Gala, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," and names co-chairs: Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams (More)
> Seattle Kraken's Jessica Campbell becomes NHL's first full-time female assistant coach (More) | 2024 MLB Division Series ongoing; see latest playoff bracket and schedule (More)
Science & Technology
> Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to trio of researchers for developing AI applications, including Google's DeepMind, to predict protein structure and folding (More) | Literature prize announced at 7 am ET this morning; see selection (More)
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk to unveil company's new driverless robotaxi during live event tonight at 10 pm ET; deployment timeline for the "cybercab" not yet revealed (More)
> Consuming fewer calories linked to increased life span in mice, large-scale study finds; results suggest the benefits of dietary restriction extend to improved immune health, genetics factors, and more (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq +0.6%); S&P 500 and Dow notch fresh records as tech stocks—led by Super Micro Computer—continue to rally (More)
> Mining giant Rio Tinto announces it will acquire lithium miner Arcadium Lithium for $6.7B; Arcadium shares close up 31% on the news (More)
> Ratan Tata, former chair of India's oldest conglomerate, Tata Sons, dies at age 86; Tata Sons is the holding company for Tata Group, which oversees nearly 100 companies and acquired British Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.3B from Ford in 2008 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Joe Biden holds call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid expectations for Israeli response to Iranian missiles last week (More) | See updates on war (More)
> North Korea announces it will cut off all roads and rail lines to South Korea and "permanently" block the border; announcement comes after months of missile tests, trash balloons (More)
> The Tropicana, Las Vegas' third-oldest hotel-casino, demolished in controlled implosion to make space for $1.5B Major League Baseball stadium (More, w/video) | See previous write-up (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
DIVIDED WE FALL
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There are MILLIONS of people who want Donald Trump to lose the November 2024 election and there are Millions of people who want him to win.
The USA is DIVIDED...
Some say Trump will create a strong economy and build America back up again while some say Trump will destroy America and its democracy.
While no one really knows what will happen, there are those of us out there who will accept whatever happens to our country.
Here's what I know:
ONE
The Democrats want a large federal government and want to give the American people more than what they currently have.
That COSTS money.
Social programs RAISE TAXES.
TWO
The Democrats want more and more ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to enter the USA and while that may or may not help them politically, illegal immigration will change the CULTURE of America and will alter the QUALITY and COST of living.
THREE
The Democrats want go green energy and do away with gasoline, and while some people will lose their jobs, others will gain employment... so, it is a wash out.
However:
- eliminating gasoline will hurt the economy
- eliminating gasoline will strain our current power grid
- eliminating gasoline is not supported by the building of EV charging stations
- eliminating gasoline is not what the rest of the world is going to do because it is expensive
FOUR
The Democrats believe in a small military, I guess so they can divert money to social programs but my concern is that our enemies will take advantage of our weaknesses, and we will not be able to properly defend ourselves.
Our Enemies are:
- Russia
- China
- Iran
- North Korea
- The Middle East
- India
FIVE
The Democrats are not that concerned with our NATIONAL DEBT and rather than try to pay down the debt, they want to spend more money and increase the national debt. At some point this is going to work to our disadvantage.
This may happen:
- one year from now
- five years from now
- seven or more years from now
However,
the national debt is not going away so at some point in time, it will happen.
New Memorial
For nearly 100 years, Robert E. Lee's 10,000-pound monument rode high over the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, it's been melted into bronze slabs and another memorial in town has risen to national prominence.
It's on the University of Virginia campus, titled the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. It stands as the antithesis to the Confederacy, honoring the slaves forced to work at the university in the 1800s as carpenters, blacksmiths, roofers, stone carvers and other back-breaking trades.
"All these men, women, and children lived with dignity, resisted oppression, and aspired for freedom. For more than four decades, the entire University was a site of enslavement," according to the UVA President's Commission on Slavery. "Now, we’re confronting our past, uncovering new knowledge, and using that knowledge to teach, heal, and shape the future." READ MORE...
Thursday, October 10
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