r0aming-duck
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paints appeared when approximately 80% of those 200,000 years were already gone.
kingdoms started appearing when 97.5% of those 200,000 were already gone.
most of the the technological progress happened in the last 200 years only, when 99% of those 200,000 years were already gone.
modern things are so young. weird.
i learned that the oldest known Homo Sapiens is over 233,000 years old, 30,000+ years more than we thought (x)
don't lose your head!
mami - puella magi madoka magica
tried a new art style ^^
p.s. ducklord is the name I use on another site!!
sorry for the bad quality lol, the art style test kinda ruined it
btw follow @prsntyuadri , @chnsqw and @portabletoilet07
https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-roscosmos-space-launch-screw-up
it's so messed up how they put hate for ukraine on their rocket too
ok but neuralink's concept is so cool
imagine "lost in translation" not being a thing
like you think something and the other person gets it instantly with all the vibe too
“i’m finally done!!” no ur not u have 823479821378925 more assignments to do
wow /s
so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)
A View into the Past
Our Hubble Space Telescope just found the farthest individual star ever seen to date!
Nicknamed “Earendel” (“morning star” in Old English), this star existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang. Earendel is so far away from Earth that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach us, far eclipsing the previous single-star record holder whose light took 9 billion years to reach us.
Though Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright, we’d normally be unable to see it from Earth. However, the mass of a huge galaxy cluster between us and Earendel has created a powerful natural magnifying glass. Astronomers expect that the star will be highly magnified for years.
Earendel will be observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb's high sensitivity to infrared light is needed to learn more about this star, because its light is stretched to longer infrared wavelengths due to the universe's expansion.
NEW KIND OF CREATURE JUST DROPPED
Strange creature washes up on the shores of Australia
On This Day In History
March 25th, 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
made a realisation that if you have one awkward interaction no one actually cares and you don't have to like. kill yourself. do other people know about this
whoaa, thanks for educating me about that
read about it a bit and turns out that ligers, tigons, white tigers, and liligers look pretty cool but they have many problems that are reaally uncool.
here’s something from a PETA article:
“White tigers’ neonatal mortality rate reportedly exceeds 80 percent. And they are at significant risk for facial deformities, impaired depth perception, retinal degeneration, abnormal cranial structure, cataracts, cleft palates, mental impairment, kidney problems, cardiac defects, Parkinson’s disease, scoliosis, and other spinal problems.”
“Ligers (the result of breeding a female tiger with a male lion) frequently have to be delivered by cesarean section because they’re predisposed to gigantism and often don’t survive. Like all big-cat hybrids, they frequently suffer from neurological defects, sterility, cancer, arthritis, organ failure, and diminished life expectancy.“
“Tigons (the result of breeding a female lion and a male tiger) are not expected to survive infancy and—in the event that they do—have a heightened risk of suffering from a number of neurological and physical conditions, all so that exhibitors can make money selling tickets to see them.”
which is quite sad,,
The hybrid offspring of lions and tigers
Contrary to what one might think, tigers and lions are not different species (based on the strict definition, but you should know that there are like 26 or something different definitions for species) since they can reproduce together.
The offspring of male lion and female tiger is called liger. It is bigger than tigers and lions. This is because female lions mate with many males and due to that the offspring may not have the same father. It is beneficial to the male that his offspring manipulates the female to invest in it more than in the offspring of other males. It is not good to the female and that is why she has a counteradaptation to the manipulation. Tigers’ mating system is different. Because of it female tigers don’t have such an adaption, causing the offspring of her and a male lion to become huge: the hybrid offspring manipulates the mother and she doesn’t have a way to avoid it.
The offspring of male tiger and female lion is called tigon and it is smaller than tigers and lions. This is because male tigers don’t have an adaption to make their offspring to manipulate the female, but female lions have the counteradaption to avoid being manipulated. Due to the counteradaption the hybrid offspring becomes smaller then the non-hybrid offspring.
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IS THERE A PLANET NINE IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM??
Blog# 161
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Welcome back,
Caltech researchers have found mathematical evidence suggesting there may be a “Planet X” deep in the solar system. This hypothetical Neptune-sized planet orbits our Sun in a highly elongated orbit far beyond Pluto. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed “Planet Nine,” could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbit about 20 times farther from the Sun on average than Neptune. It may take between 10,000 and 20,000 Earth years to make one full orbit around the Sun.
This does not mean there is a new planet in our solar system. The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed “Planet 9” have been made. The mathematical prediction of a planet could explain the unique orbits of some smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy debris that extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune. Astronomers are now searching for the predicted planet.
In January 2015, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown announced new research that provides evidence of a giant planet tracing an unusual, elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The prediction is based on detailed mathematical modeling and computer simulations, not direct observation.
This large object could explain the unique orbits of at least five smaller objects discovered in the distant Kuiper Belt.
“The possibility of a new planet is certainly an exciting one for me as a planetary scientist and for all of us,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. “This is not, however, the detection or discovery of a new planet. It’s too early to say with certainty there’s a so-called Planet X. What we’re seeing is an early prediction based on modeling from limited observations. It’s the start of a process that could lead to an exciting result.”
The Caltech scientists believe Planet X may have has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and be similar in size to Uranus or Neptune. The predicted orbit is about 20 times farther from our Sun on average than Neptune (which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). It would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the Sun (where Neptune completes an orbit roughly every 165 Earth years).
Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have noticed some of the dwarf planets and other small, icy objects tend to follow orbits that cluster together. By analyzing these orbits, the Caltech team predicted the possibility that a large, previously undiscovered planet may be hiding far beyond Pluto.
They estimate the gravity of this potential planet might explain the unusual orbits of those Kuiper objects.
Astronomers, including Batygin and Brown, will begin using the world’s most powerful telescopes to search for the object in its predicted orbit. Any object that far away from the Sun will be very faint and hard to detect, but astronomers calculate that it should be possible to see it using existing telescopes.
“I would love to find it,” says Brown. “But I’d also be perfectly happy if someone else found it. That is why we’re publishing this paper. We hope that other people are going to get inspired and start searching.”
“Anytime we have an interesting idea like this, we always apply Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking, which include independent confirmation of the facts, looking for alternate explanations, and encouraging scientific debate,” said Green. “If Planet X is out there, we’ll find it together. Or we’ll determine an alternate explanation for the data that we’ve received so far.
"Now let’s go explore.”
Originally published on solarsystem.nasa.gov
COMING UP!!
(Saturday January 29th, 2022)
“HOW IS A PLANETESIMAL FORMED??”
Baby stars shrouded by dust in Orion
Jupiter is so pretty
The planet Jupiter
if anti-matter exists, then maybe, just maybe, in some way, space travel could be possible. colliding anti-matter and matter together would release an IMMENSE amount of energy (180 petajoules, according to wikipedia. 1 petajoule is 277,777,777,777.78 wH). this makes me think that space travel being hard may not be the solution for fermi paradox.
if we successfully and safely transition to getting artificial super intelligence, i’m pretty sure that space travel will become possible. and if it would be possible for us, what says that it won’t be possible for extra-terrestrial life?
but then again, we haven’t really seen any aliens till now..
Makes me think how vulnerable we really are,,, considering how we still haven't observed any aliens yet and how they might as well not exist, life is really precious, but it can be destroyed at any moment,,
The site of impact from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is called Chicxulub Crater
The center of the crater is located near the Mexican town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. The crater is larger than 180 km in diameter; this feature makes it one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth. The meteorite that formed the crater was at least 10 km in diameter.
The age of the rocks shows that this impact structure dates back to the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago.
The impact associated with the crater is implicated in the extinction of dinosaurs, as suggested by the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K-Pg boundary), the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, although some critics argue that the impact was not the only reason, others debate whether there was a single impact or whether the Chicxulub impact was one of several that could have hit the Earth at about the same time.
Recent data suggest that the impact may have been created by a piece of a much larger asteroid, which fragmented into a distant space collision more than 160 million years ago.
The car that hit the Earth had an estimated diameter of 10 km, and emitted an estimated equivalent of 96 teratons of TNT. By contrast, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated by man, the Tsar's Bomb, had a yield of only 50 megatons of TNT so the impact of Chicxulub is 2 million times higher and stronger.
They never listen
introduction or something 🐥
- ku
- he / they
- i write + art
- student who’s dying under work so don’t expect me to post original posts that often
- psychology / astronomy / technology / basically anything related to science which is cool
- MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE (use ask for that)
- what else
Imagine how cool it would've looked irl
The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.