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The Great Pyramid's Latitude

Spend long enough on the Internet and you will likely be met with a post informing you that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, and the latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 29.9792458°N, before inviting you to assess whether this is a coincidence or not.

But is it true, and if so, is it a coincidence?

The answer to the first question is yes. Light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum, the absolute speed limit of the universe. The latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza is indeed 29.9792458 N – but so are a whole bunch of other places at the same latitude.  READ MORE...

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> CRISPR gene editing demonstrated in kissing bugs, a step toward combating the spread of Chagas disease; the potentially fatal illness affects roughly 8 million people, largely in rural Latin America (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.9%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +1.1%) as shares rebound and investors look ahead to major corporate earnings results this week (More)

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> US Supreme Court agrees to hear case over whether the Biden administration can regulate "ghost guns," privately made firearms without serial numbers; regulations are in effect as litigation plays out, with high court to take up case in the fall (More)

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America Changes

I have always been amazed at people who say they don't earn enough money or that they cannot pay all their bills and yet, have enough money for BOOZE and CIGARETTES.

I am also amazed at people, especially those who are retired, that take out loans where the payback period extends beyond their life expectancy.  In other words, they have no intention of paying that loan back.

I worked with a gentleman who was earning his PhD online and the student loans that were mounting up, he boasted that he would not live long enough to pay them back.  That did not seem to bother him at all.

We are creating a group of citizens that are so self-serving that they have no idea their philosophy of life is destroying this country.  And if they were aware of what they were doing, would still not care.

America has changed and is continuing to change and it is the changing culture and society that will turn the USA into a country that is the least respected country in the world.

For those of you who memorized your way through high school and college, the USA is HATED by most countries in the world, especially the Arab nations, along with Russia, China, India, and South America.  We have not yet pushed our lifestyle on the Africans, so they are still willing to fight each other for territory instead of the USA.

Have you heard of BRICS?

A group of nations that have joined together in an effort to DESTROY the American dollar by not using the American dollar to trade goods and services like they have done in the past.

Members of the Islamic Faith (Arabs) have migrated throughout Europe, Great Britain, Scandanavia, Canada, and the USA with the sole purpose of growing their numbers in these countries to influence their governments and decisions made.

Obviously, the ethnic group with the largest population will likely be the ones that get elected to public office.

In the USA for instance, whites are 60% of the population but Hispanics, Asians, and Muslim are growing in numbers every year.  The black population in the USA is hardly growing at all...

What does that tell you about CRT and WOKE and BLM....  etc.?   It will eventually die out as other ethnic populations grow...  These growing ethnic groups will also change the USA...

If you are not planning 20-30 years into the future, you learned NOTHING IN COLLEGE.

 

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Superfast Drone

The drone, which resembled a rocket, flew 10 miles (16 km) at Mach 0.9 — over 680 miles per hour — using 80% of the engine's available thrust. This image is purely illustrative. (Image credit: Alexyz3d/Getty Images)




Venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its "rotating detonation rocket engine" (RDRE) — accelerating it to just under the speed of sound. The company wants to one day build superfast commercial jets using this new type of engine.


In the test flight, conducted Feb. 24, the company flew the drone, which is 8 feet (2.4 meters) long and weighs 300 pounds (136 kilograms) to an altitude of 12,000 ft (3658 m) by an Aero L-29 Delfín plane, before it was deployed and the RDRE was activated, company representatives said in a statement.


The drone flew 10 miles (16 km) at Mach 0.9 — over 680 miles per hour — using 80% of the RDRE’s available thrust. The successful flight proved the viability of RDRE and the associated onboard flight systems. Three weeks earlier, Venus Aerospace demonstrated the viability of its RDRE technology with a long-duration test burn — during which engineers showed their engine worked for the duration of this test flight.  READ MORE...

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BRICS is Expanding Against USA

The origins of BRICS — a bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and, as of 2024, new members Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates — can be traced back to a 2001 publication by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill titled ‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs’. O’Neill argued that Brazil, Russia, India and China were poised to play an increasingly significant role in the global economy.

His prediction was that by 2050, these countries would collectively account for 40 per cent of the world’s economic output. In reality, from 2012 to 2022 China alone has accounted for around a quarter of global GDP growth, and the BRICS countries together contributed over 45 per cent.

BRIC was officially launched in 2009 and was renamed BRICS in 2010 when South Africa joined the group. Since then, trade relations have clearly grown, but in a very unbalanced manner.

Most of the growth in trade has been China-centric, with the contribution from the rest of BRICS remaining quite flat until recently. The recent increase is mostly explained by India, which has experienced an acceleration in economic growth. BRICS members are increasingly intertwined with China as far as trade is concerned, but the remaining members have very few ties among themselves. Bilateral trade between BRICS members other than China remains extremely low.  READ MORE...

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> Scientists identify brain circuit governing foraging behavior in animals; decision making combined history of reward and whether waiting longer increased the amount of food available at different locations (More)


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> Tesla cuts Full Self-Driving software cost in the US by one-third ($12K to $8K) as CEO Elon Musk scraps plans on releasing low-cost electric vehicle to prioritize proliferation of self-driving technology (More)

> Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant vote to unionize Friday, part of United Auto Workers broader push to unionize workers at 10 foreign carmakers with plants in the US; vote at Mercedes plant in Alabama to take place next month (More)


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> House passes $95B aid package to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan Saturday, sending bills to Senate; House bill would also ban TikTok in the US unless China-based parent company ByteDance divests (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Fourteen people killed in Israeli military raid in the West Bank (More) | The US expected to sanction Israeli military unit Netzah Yehuda as soon as today for actions in the West Bank prior to Oct. 7 Hamas attacks (More) | See war updates (More)

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SOURCE:  1440 News

It Seems Clear to Me

 

It seems clear to me that everything the Dems accuse the other side of doing, they are actually guilty of doing themselves.

It is also seems clear to me that the only way the Dems know that they can beat Trump in 2024 is to weigh him down in legal battles some of which might but him in jail because of a biased Judge, Prosecutor, and Jury.

It also seems clear to me that the DOJ and the FBI have been weaponized by the Dems to go after anyone that opposes their beliefs.

It also seems clear to me that mainstream media favors the Dem points of view and will support and promote damn near any agenda that the Dems want.

It also seems clear to me that the REPUBLICANS in Congress, both in the House and the Senate, DO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES to govern the United States of America.

It seems clear to me that our colleges and universities are brainwashing students into believing that the USA is evil and should be destroyed or replaced by another form of government that may be controlled by a foreign government.

It seems clear to me that the USA is DYING in the sense that it is NO LONGER the Democratic Republic that it was intended to be.

It seems clear to me that the Dems are trying to create a situation in this country where the Republican Party will NEVER AGAIN gain control of the House or Senate or Presidency -  thus creating a one party government.

It seems clear to me that all branches of our military are in dire need of refurbishment and that Congress has no desire to improve the situation.

It seem clear to me that the ELITES and the WEALTHY control this country and have no desire to protect the middle class.

What seems clear to me will make itself known by 2030 or earlier, depending upon who wins the presidential election in 2024.

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Rocketstar Creates Nuclear Fusion

RocketStar has announced the first successful demonstration of their nuclear fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma FireStar™ Drive. They have enhanced electric drive space propulsion.

Electric propulsion drives create small amounts of thrust but are significantly more fuel-efficient than conventional chemical rockets. Electric propulsion are ion and hall effect drives. They are like the tortoise to the chemical rocket hare. The electric drives keep thrusting for months or years while the chemical rockets have the fuel for a few minutes.

This type of fuel-to-thrust ratio is particularly important for vehicles that are intended to remain in orbit for long periods of time while also retaining the ability to maneuver when needed. Electric propulsion drives are also ideally suited for missions to the outer reaches of the solar system since they can combine the power collected from the sun with a small amount of propellant to travel vast distances.  READ MORE...

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New Material Goldene

Researchers have managed to create “goldene”, an incredibly thin version of gold.

The work follows the successful production of graphene, which is made out of a single layer graphite atoms. That has been hailed as a miracle material: it is astonishingly strong, and much better at conducting heat and electricity than copper.

Goldene is built on the same principle, with researchers spreading out gold so it is just one atom layer thick. And, similar to graphene, scientists say that the process gives it a variety of new properties that could lead to major breakthroughs.    READ MORE...

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