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Old 10-24-2019, 10:21 PM   #3421
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This is an amazing discovery regarding life after the asteroid hit Earth.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/world...scn/index.html
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Old 10-26-2019, 12:01 AM   #3422
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This is an amazing discovery regarding life after the asteroid hit Earth.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/world...scn/index.html
Awesome, I hope they'll awaken a sleepy timeline
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Old 10-30-2019, 07:05 AM   #3423
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Interesting article


Scientists may have finally pinpointed humanity's ancestral hometown


Even today, humans find it hard to leave the places we call home, and so it was back then for hundreds of thousands of years. But around 130,000 years ago, two specific climate shifts opened what this team refers to as “green corridors.” These corridors acted as pathways that our ancestors followed out of the homeland.
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Old 10-30-2019, 08:30 AM   #3424
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And we are the scatterlings of Africa
Both you and I
We are on the road to Phelamanga
Beneath a copper sky

And we are the scatterlings of Africa
On a journey to the stars
Far below, we leave forever
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This is an amazing discovery regarding life after the asteroid hit Earth.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/world...scn/index.html
The NOVA documentary was entertaining. I’m a sucker for science documentaries
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Old 11-01-2019, 10:07 AM   #3427
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New study on Measles


https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measl...mory-1.5342762


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The measles virus has not only made a devastating resurgence worldwide, but it may also cripple the immune system's ability to fight off other infections in the long term, two new studies suggest.


The highly contagious measles virus causes coughing, rashes and fever and can lead to serious complications. Last month, the World Health Organization said reported cases rose 300 per cent globally in the first three months of this year compared with same period in 2018 .


A two-dose vaccine has helped to slash measles cases since 2000, saving an estimated 21.1 million lives between 2000 and 2017, WHO said.


But the rise of anti-vaccination campaigns, non-vaccinating religious communities and other factors have led to outbreaks causing tens of thousands infections in Congo, Madagascar, the Philippines, Sudan, Thailand and Ukraine, among other countries, according to WHO.


Now researchers say measles vaccination not only controls measles, but it also protects the immune system from losing its ability to suppress other infections.

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Stephen Elledge, a geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a co-author of one of the papers presenting evidence that the measles virus destroys part of the immune system, compared the damage to a head injury.
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Old 01-13-2020, 09:41 AM   #3428
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Stumbled upon this yesterday:



I would not recommend watching his time travel video on before going to sleep.
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Clinical trial of a HIV vaccine ended as it wasn't effective. I had high hopes for this.


https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/hiv-va...ment-1.4795220
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Amazing. I can't wait to get in fights with local Trvia hosts!
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Old 03-02-2020, 10:16 AM   #3431
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Game over man, nothing matters,



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Old 03-02-2020, 10:46 AM   #3432
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T-4 Billion years. That puts us at about halfway through Earth's complete life cycle if the projections are correct (Earth was created about 4.5 billion years ago).

And it should be said that there is no point in putting Andromeda into our long-term plans either
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Old 03-02-2020, 10:54 AM   #3433
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I thought I'd read something that space is so ridiculously huge that even when the galaxy's "collide," the actual odds of any celestial objects hitting each other is astronomical.
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I thought I'd read something that space is so ridiculously huge that even when the galaxy's "collide," the actual odds of any celestial objects hitting each other is astronomical.
I've read something similar.

Although I'm not sure if that applies just to the spiral arms of each of the galaxies, or the entirety of each galaxy.
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Old 03-02-2020, 11:25 AM   #3435
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Astronomical- indeed
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I thought I'd read something that space is so ridiculously huge that even when the galaxy's "collide," the actual odds of any celestial objects hitting each other is astronomical.
We wouldn't need a collision to wipe out all of life on Earth. Merely having our orbit affected would result in us being either frozen or fried.
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I thought I'd read something that space is so ridiculously huge that even when the galaxy's "collide," the actual odds of any celestial objects hitting each other is astronomical.
This is correct, they do think there could be gravitational problems and our solar system could get flung around so much that we get bombarded with comets and asteroids from the ort cloud. In the end it’s all moot as our sun will be ending it’s stable life anyway.
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And in 4 billion years humanity will have either gone extinct, mastered FTL travel and colonized the universe, or evolved in to some kind of sentient non-corporeal being.
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And in 4 billion years humanity will have either gone extinct, mastered FTL travel and colonized the universe, or evolved in to some kind of sentient non-corporeal being.
I'm giving large odds on extinction
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https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2020...d-11-apr-2020/

Comet that was promising to be visible to the naked eye breaks apart
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