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A new study has provided compelling evidence that Earth, shortly after its formation, was initially dry and lifeless, lacking the essential building blocks for life, such as water and organic compounds. Using precise measurements of the radioactive decay of manganese-53 into chromium-53 in meteorites and terrestrial rocks, the researchers...

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✅Explanation of Meaning (by parts): 1. “During the inception of our Universe, fortuitously arose a small possibility” : The author begins by noting that at the Universe’s origin, a slight chance emerged for the potential development of intelligence, framing this as a fortunate but improbable event inherent to cosmic conditions. 2. “that under certain circumstances there might come into existence at least a single primitive intelligent being” : This possibility hinged on specific conditions allowing for the emergence of even one basic intelligent entity, emphasizing the delicate and rare circumstances required for intelligence to arise. 3. “The planet upon which this would occur remained a mystery” : The author highlights that the specific location for this emergence was unknown, suggesting that no particular planet, including Earth, was predestined to host intelligence, reinforcing the randomness of the event. 4. “and the emergence of intelligence on Earth is not miraculous” : The development of intelligent life on Earth is presented as non-miraculous, a natural outcome of cosmic processes rather than a divine or extraordinary occurrence, grounded in chance. 5. “This could have materialized on another celestial body” : The author notes that intelligence could have arisen elsewhere in the Universe, on another planet or moon, underscoring the non-exclusive nature of Earth’s role in hosting intelligent life. 6. “and a thinking being similar to us would likewise ponder: why us, why here?” : If intelligence emerged elsewhere, those beings would ask the same existential questions as humans, reflecting on their own existence and location, highlighting a universal curiosity among intelligent life. 7. “It’s a matter of chance, you’re simply fortunate, your planet won the cosmic lottery” : The author concludes that the emergence of intelligence is purely a matter of luck, with Earth’s success likened to winning a cosmic lottery, emphasizing the role of random chance in our existence. 🗝️Main Idea (refined version): The author posits that the Universe’s inception held a faint chance for intelligence to emerge under rare conditions, with Earth’s hosting of intelligent life being a non-miraculous outcome of cosmic chance. This could have occurred elsewhere, and any intelligent beings would question their existence, as we do. Our presence is a fortunate accident, Earth having won the cosmic lottery, prompting humility and curiosity about our place in a random, vast Universe. This perspective challenges us to embrace the improbability of our existence, fostering a sense of awe and responsibility to explore and understand the cosmos.
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✅Explanation of Meaning (by parts): 1. “During the inception of our Universe, fortuitously arose a small possibility” : The author begins by noting that at the Universe’s origin, a slight chance emerged for the potential development of intelligence, framing this as a fortunate but improbable event inherent to cosmic conditions. 2. “that under certain circumstances there might come into existence at least a single primitive intelligent being” : This possibility hinged on specific conditions allowing for the emergence of even one basic intelligent entity, emphasizing the delicate and rare circumstances required for intelligence to arise. 3. “The planet upon which this would occur remained a mystery” : The author highlights that the specific location for this emergence was unknown, suggesting that no particular planet, including Earth, was predestined to host intelligence, reinforcing the randomness of the event. 4. “and the emergence of intelligence on Earth is not miraculous” : The development of intelligent life on Earth is presented as non-miraculous, a natural outcome of cosmic processes rather than a divine or extraordinary occurrence, grounded in chance. 5. “This could have materialized on another celestial body” : The author notes that intelligence could have arisen elsewhere in the Universe, on another planet or moon, underscoring the non-exclusive nature of Earth’s role in hosting intelligent life. 6. “and a thinking being similar to us would likewise ponder: why us, why here?” : If intelligence emerged elsewhere, those beings would ask the same existential questions as humans, reflecting on their own existence and location, highlighting a universal curiosity among intelligent life. 7. “It’s a matter of chance, you’re simply fortunate, your planet won the cosmic lottery” : The author concludes that the emergence of intelligence is purely a matter of luck, with Earth’s success likened to winning a cosmic lottery, emphasizing the role of random chance in our existence. 🗝️Main Idea (refined version): The author posits that the Universe’s inception held a faint chance for intelligence to emerge under rare conditions, with Earth’s hosting of intelligent life being a non-miraculous outcome of cosmic chance. This could have occurred elsewhere, and any intelligent beings would question their existence, as we do. Our presence is a fortunate accident, Earth having won the cosmic lottery, prompting humility and curiosity about our place in a random, vast Universe. This perspective challenges us to embrace the improbability of our existence, fostering a sense of awe and responsibility to explore and understand the cosmos.

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The Younger Dryas was not a single event. Randall Carlson argues it was bookended by two separate catastrophes - one at its onset approximately 12,800 years ago, where the proxy evidence for a cosmic impact is now substantial, and one at its termination approximately 11,700 years ago, where the picture is less clear. For the end of the Younger Dryas, Randall finds Robert Schoch's solar event hypothesis genuinely compelling. The proxy evidence for a cosmic impact at the termination is not as strong as at the onset, which leaves room for a different mechanism. What has emerged from solar observing satellites deployed in recent decades is a more dynamic and variable sun than previously modelled - one capable of producing significant coronal mass ejections and solar storms. Critically, there appears to be a correlation between cometary material falling into the sun and reactive events in the chromosphere that translate into exactly those kinds of solar outbursts. If a fragmenting comet was responsible for the onset of the Younger Dryas, the debris trail it left behind may have continued interacting with the solar system - and potentially with the sun itself - in ways that contributed to the abrupt warming event that ended it.

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Yes, the Universe possesses a high degree of self-organization, which under certain conditions can give rise to life and, eventually, to intelligent beings. However, when we consider the history of the Solar System’s formation and the subsequent emergence and evolution of life on Earth, it is difficult to escape a sense of profound improbability in this process. This gives rise to the thought that the Universe may not be unique. We know the age of our Universe, its vast scale, and the immense number of planets it contains. And yet, it is hard to believe that such a complex and finely tuned sequence of events leading to the emergence of human beings occurred for the very first time precisely here. It seems more plausible to assume that such cosmic scenarios did not arise immediately, but became possible through a long process of repetition and selection, before eventually becoming a relatively natural outcome. All of this suggests that the Multiverse may indeed be real, and that within its framework, long before our own Universe, Earth-like planets may have already emerged — complete with the rich conditions necessary for life and intelligence. : The author observes that the Universe exhibits strong self-organization, capable under the right conditions of producing life and eventually intelligent beings. Yet when we examine the detailed history of the Solar System’s formation, Earth’s emergence, and the intricate evolutionary path to humanity, the entire sequence feels profoundly improbable. Given the known age of the Universe, its enormous scale, and the countless planets it contains, it becomes difficult to accept that such a finely tuned cascade of events leading to conscious life occurred only once, right here. The more plausible explanation is that these conditions did not appear immediately or by chance in a single attempt. Instead, they emerged through countless repetitions and variations across vast cosmic time, gradually becoming a relatively common outcome. This reasoning strongly supports the reality of a Multiverse. In its immense framework, countless universes would have preceded our own, many of them giving rise to Earth-like planets with the precise conditions required for life and intelligence long before ours. What seems miraculous in isolation becomes almost inevitable when viewed across an ensemble of possibilities. The improbability of our existence in a single universe dissolves into the natural probability of many. The Multiverse is not a retreat from explanation. It is the logical extension of the same self-organization we already observe.

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Earth Could Survive the Sun's Death: New Models Offer Hope 🟠 Our planet has a chance of surviving the Sun's transformation into a red giant and avoiding total destruction in its thermonuclear inferno. Earth's ultimate fate will be determined by a delicate balance between the gravitational pull of the swelling star and its loss of mass; as the star loses mass, its gravitational grip will weaken, allowing the planet to drift to a safer orbit. Astronomers from KU Leuven (Belgium) have revised predictions regarding the future of the Solar System. They conducted gravitational simulations that accounted for the internal structure of aging stars, and their findings were published in the journal *Astronomy & Astrophysics*. In approximately five billion years, the Sun will exhaust the hydrogen fuel in its core, causing it to expand hundreds of times in size and transform into a massive red giant. At that point, a "tug-of-war" will begin within the Solar System, the outcome of which will decide Earth's fate. On one hand, the star's massive expansion will generate powerful tidal effects that act to slow Earth down and drag it inward. On the other hand, the star will actively shed its outer layers into space via powerful stellar winds. As it loses mass, the Sun will become lighter and its gravitational grip will weaken, enabling Earth to migrate further out into the Solar System. Updated calculations indicate that the effect of the Sun's mass loss could counteract tidal drag; in this scenario, our planet would have time to shift to a more distant orbit lying just beyond the radius of the expanded star. To validate their theoretical calculations, the scientists turned to actual observations of the dying giant star L2 Puppis, located 200 light-years away. In the past, it closely resembled the Sun, but now it is rapidly losing mass and is surrounded by a dust disk in which a large planet orbits. The fact that this world survived gives scientists strong grounds to hope that Earth might also be saved. However, there is no cause for optimism regarding our own system's neighbors: computer simulations indicate that Mercury and Venus will inevitably be completely consumed by the flames of the dying star. The launch of the PLATO space telescope will help settle the debate about our planet's future once and for all. It is scheduled to enter orbit next year to search for exop всяlanets around aging stars. 🌙

Black Hole

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I think the best argument for Catholicism and Christianity in general is the fact that the world is too precise in its systems to exist out of nothing or by pure coincidence. Scientists agree that something doesn’t come from nothing and the universe clearly has a beginning. The conditions that allow life to exist are so finely balanced that even the smallest change would make everything fall apart For example, if the Earth were just a little closer to the sun, temperatures would rise to the point where life couldn’t survive. If it were slightly farther away, everything would freeze. Even gravity itself has to be incredibly precise. If the force of gravity were off by even about 1 part in 10⁴⁰ (that’s a 1 followed by 40 zeros), the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist. If it were slightly stronger, everything could collapse in on itself, if it were slightly weaker, galaxies, stars, and planets might never have formed at all On top of that, even our solar system seems uniquely set up for life. Jupiter, because of its massive size and position, acts like a kind of shield for Earth. Its gravity pulls in or deflects many comets and asteroids that would otherwise collide with us. Without Jupiter acting in that role, the rate of catastrophic impacts would be so high that complex life on Earth would likely never have had the chance to develop and survive over long periods of time. Then there’s our moon. Moon plays a crucial role in stabilizing Earth’s tilt, which is what gives us stable seasons. Without it, Earth’s axis could wobble chaotically, causing extreme and constantly changing climates that would make long-term life very difficult, if not impossible. What’s even more shocking is how the moon formed. Sscientists believe a Mars-sized body, often called Theia, collided with Earth at just the right angle and speed. If that collision had been slightly different, the moon might never have formed, and without it, Earth could be largely uninhabitable The same kind of precision shows up anywhere and everywhere, in the laws of physics, in the structure of atoms, even in the way life itself is coded and sustained. The probability of all the necessary conditions for life coming together by chance is so insanely, astronomically low sometimes cited as something like 1 in 10¹⁰⁰ or even smaller, if ONE singular variable would to change we as humans could not exist on this planet at all. Just because something is technically statistically possible it does not mean its probable. Same way you could run into a wall and all your atoms could realign to phase through it, its possible, but is it probable? To me, that level of order and balance points to intention rather than accident. It suggests that there is something behind it all something that designed or set these conditions in motion. And once you start considering that possibility seriously, it becomes harder to see reality as random, and easier to believe that there is a purpose and a source behind everything we experience Some people believe that nothing created the universe while others thing a creator, God created it, which one sounds more believable?
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I think the best argument for Catholicism and Christianity in general is the fact that the world is too precise in its systems to exist out of nothing or by pure coincidence. Scientists agree that something doesn’t come from nothing and the universe clearly has a beginning. The conditions that allow life to exist are so finely balanced that even the smallest change would make everything fall apart For example, if the Earth were just a little closer to the sun, temperatures would rise to the point where life couldn’t survive. If it were slightly farther away, everything would freeze. Even gravity itself has to be incredibly precise. If the force of gravity were off by even about 1 part in 10⁴⁰ (that’s a 1 followed by 40 zeros), the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist. If it were slightly stronger, everything could collapse in on itself, if it were slightly weaker, galaxies, stars, and planets might never have formed at all On top of that, even our solar system seems uniquely set up for life. Jupiter, because of its massive size and position, acts like a kind of shield for Earth. Its gravity pulls in or deflects many comets and asteroids that would otherwise collide with us. Without Jupiter acting in that role, the rate of catastrophic impacts would be so high that complex life on Earth would likely never have had the chance to develop and survive over long periods of time. Then there’s our moon. Moon plays a crucial role in stabilizing Earth’s tilt, which is what gives us stable seasons. Without it, Earth’s axis could wobble chaotically, causing extreme and constantly changing climates that would make long-term life very difficult, if not impossible. What’s even more shocking is how the moon formed. Sscientists believe a Mars-sized body, often called Theia, collided with Earth at just the right angle and speed. If that collision had been slightly different, the moon might never have formed, and without it, Earth could be largely uninhabitable The same kind of precision shows up anywhere and everywhere, in the laws of physics, in the structure of atoms, even in the way life itself is coded and sustained. The probability of all the necessary conditions for life coming together by chance is so insanely, astronomically low sometimes cited as something like 1 in 10¹⁰⁰ or even smaller, if ONE singular variable would to change we as humans could not exist on this planet at all. Just because something is technically statistically possible it does not mean its probable. Same way you could run into a wall and all your atoms could realign to phase through it, its possible, but is it probable? To me, that level of order and balance points to intention rather than accident. It suggests that there is something behind it all something that designed or set these conditions in motion. And once you start considering that possibility seriously, it becomes harder to see reality as random, and easier to believe that there is a purpose and a source behind everything we experience Some people believe that nothing created the universe while others thing a creator, God created it, which one sounds more believable?

Rock Solid

38,696 views • 3 months ago

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Billy Carson: "Something massive moved through our solar system & rearranged the planets - It's written about in ancient texts" He reveals the mind blowing match between ancient texts and our solar system's chaotic formation. Something huge moved through our solar system millions of years ago, capturing its own orbit around the sun. Saturn and Neptune switched locations due to gravitational forces. Uranus was flipped on its side, now orbiting north-south instead of east-west, as if it got tugged hard enough to turn sideways. This never stopped. It passed way beyond Pluto and created its own path. Modern astrophysicists and astronomers describe this exact process, and it's detailed in ancient texts about the creation of our solar system and Earth itself. It pushed Mercury closer to the sun, then Venus, placing us in the third spot. Mars was once a habitable moon of the larger planet Tiamat.

Interstellar

17,641 views • 1 month ago

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“There are ruins of an ancient civilization on Mars.” “Our solar system was inhabited by an extraterrestrial race of angelic beings.” “Ancient humans believed that the gods descended from Mars.” “And from this other planet that was destroyed.” Timothy Alberino just broke down the wild theory that there was an ancient “cosmic war” in our solar system. It left colossal ruins on Mars. It destroyed the planet “Rahab,” which we now know as the asteroid belt. And then, these beings came to Earth and lived among humanity in a “golden age” before a great cataclysm. Watch him break down this incredible theory with Jesse Michels: “The universal testimony of our antecedents is that there was an age previous to a great flood … in which the gods were dwelling on Earth among men.” “And that those beings came from somewhere.” “This is what the late researcher extraordinaire David Flynn unfolds in his book Cydonia.” “What Flynn proves, I would say definitively, is that not only did the ancients believe that the gods descended to the Earth in the antediluvian world during the golden age.” “But that they came from … a planet in our solar system.” “There’s a planet that Flynn talks about which is, in popular culture, referred to as Krypton.” “And one of these planets, Flynn believed, and I believe this as well … is actually named in the biblical text, cryptically.” “It’s called Rahab.” “There was this conflict that erupted in the cosmos long before the creation of mankind.” “Most of us are familiar with the Cydonia region of Mars, the alleged face on Mars.” “Richard Hoagland was instrumental in publicizing … the idea that on the planet Mars, there are ruins of an ancient advanced civilization.” “You have the remote viewer McMoneagle.” Michels: “He was tasked by the CIA to remote view Mars a million years ago, and described … 8 to 12 foot tall beings and pyramid structures.” “And then you allegedly have this guy John Brandenburg as well, who’s a PhD in physics who worked at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia.” “He believes that Argon 40 and Xenon 129 exist in excess of what you would ever see just based on natural decay.” “And this is proof of a nuclear cataclysm that occurred on Mars.” Alberino: “Hoagland and Flynn were talking about this back in the 90s and early 2000s.” “And then NASA released the early photographs that looked like a face on Mars.” “It looked like a pyramid.” “Then they released new higher resolution photographs, which seemed to debunk the whole thing.” “I have no proof of this … but I personally think that the images from the first mission of the surface of Mars were correct … and that NASA released those second higher resolution images to quell the firestorm that had erupted.” “I am extremely persuaded that there are ruins that dwarf anything on planet Earth.” “What’s so fascinating about this is that the ancients believed that the gods descended from Mars and from this other planet that was destroyed.” Timothy Alberino Jesse Michels American Alchemy

Holden Culotta

143,788 views • 4 months ago

The Hodge Podgecast The dinosaur extinction wasn't the worst mass extinction, it was the middle one. The Permian-Triassic event 244 million years ago wiped out 90 to 95 percent of all life on Earth, terrestrial and marine. Nearly everything died, and we're still arguing about what caused it. The leading possibility is a combination of extraterrestrial impact and extreme volcanism, but there's no definitive answer for the most catastrophic event in the history of life on this planet.
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The Hodge Podgecast The dinosaur extinction wasn't the worst mass extinction, it was the middle one. The Permian-Triassic event 244 million years ago wiped out 90 to 95 percent of all life on Earth, terrestrial and marine. Nearly everything died, and we're still arguing about what caused it. The leading possibility is a combination of extraterrestrial impact and extreme volcanism, but there's no definitive answer for the most catastrophic event in the history of life on this planet.

Randall Carlson

24,009 views • 5 months ago

MOON MYSTERY DEEPENS: IT’S TOO BIG, TOO WEIRD, TOO PERFECT Our Moon is officially the drama queen of the Solar System. For starters, it’s way too big for its place, about a quarter the size of Earth, and orbits in a perfect little circle like it’s showing off. And it just happens to look exactly the same size as the Sun from our POV. Scientists call a “cosmic coincidence,” but conspiracy fans call it “definitely suspicious.” The leading theory is that the Moon was born from a cataclysmic smash-up between early Earth and a Mars-sized body named Theia. But here’s where it gets juicy: Apollo missions once crashed spacecraft into the Moon, and it “rang” for hours. Scientists said it was like “a bell,” which sounds spooky until you realize it’s just because the Moon is bone-dry and cracked like a giant space gong, not hollow like sci-fi claims. So is the Moon an alien surveillance base? Scientists say no, but if it winks at you tonight, maybe close the curtains. Source: Filip Zieba
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MOON MYSTERY DEEPENS: IT’S TOO BIG, TOO WEIRD, TOO PERFECT Our Moon is officially the drama queen of the Solar System. For starters, it’s way too big for its place, about a quarter the size of Earth, and orbits in a perfect little circle like it’s showing off. And it just happens to look exactly the same size as the Sun from our POV. Scientists call a “cosmic coincidence,” but conspiracy fans call it “definitely suspicious.” The leading theory is that the Moon was born from a cataclysmic smash-up between early Earth and a Mars-sized body named Theia. But here’s where it gets juicy: Apollo missions once crashed spacecraft into the Moon, and it “rang” for hours. Scientists said it was like “a bell,” which sounds spooky until you realize it’s just because the Moon is bone-dry and cracked like a giant space gong, not hollow like sci-fi claims. So is the Moon an alien surveillance base? Scientists say no, but if it winks at you tonight, maybe close the curtains. Source: Filip Zieba

Mario Nawfal

118,454 views • 1 year ago

Three anomalies about the Moon sit uneasily alongside the standard impact origin hypothesis - the idea that a Mars-sized body struck the early Earth and ejected the material that became the Moon. The first is density. The Moon is significantly less dense than Earth, which is difficult to reconcile with the idea that it formed from terrestrial material. The second is age - lunar samples contain material that predates the Earth itself, which the impact hypothesis cannot cleanly account for. The third is the most striking. When the Apollo 12 lunar lander was deliberately crashed onto the surface, the Moon rang like a bell. Seismometers left by Apollo missions recorded a vibrational train lasting far longer than any equivalent impact on Earth would produce - ten times or more. The same phenomenon occurred during meteorite strikes. Rocky bodies of normal composition do not behave this way. The Moon's anomalous resonance has never been fully explained. Get your exclusive ticket in the Randall Carlson dedicated seating section at Quest for Ancient Civilizations in Sedona, May 1-3, 2026:
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Three anomalies about the Moon sit uneasily alongside the standard impact origin hypothesis - the idea that a Mars-sized body struck the early Earth and ejected the material that became the Moon. The first is density. The Moon is significantly less dense than Earth, which is difficult to reconcile with the idea that it formed from terrestrial material. The second is age - lunar samples contain material that predates the Earth itself, which the impact hypothesis cannot cleanly account for. The third is the most striking. When the Apollo 12 lunar lander was deliberately crashed onto the surface, the Moon rang like a bell. Seismometers left by Apollo missions recorded a vibrational train lasting far longer than any equivalent impact on Earth would produce - ten times or more. The same phenomenon occurred during meteorite strikes. Rocky bodies of normal composition do not behave this way. The Moon's anomalous resonance has never been fully explained. Get your exclusive ticket in the Randall Carlson dedicated seating section at Quest for Ancient Civilizations in Sedona, May 1-3, 2026:

Randall Carlson

31,999 views • 3 months ago

3i/ATLAS is a seed. Not a craft. It’s rich in Cyanide compounds that it’s delivering to Mars as we speak. Mars has very little oxygen and is the perfect blank garden for these prebiotic seeds of life. I expect the next official images of 3i to be more blue-ish…showing that it’s shedding its Cyanide prebiotic compounds. The trajectory of this object is no mistake. It’s incredibly precise. But it’s not about us. Or aliens. It’s a seed. The Larger Living System (Universe) that we exist in, is planting more life on our neighbor planet… Just in case. Just my thoughts…what are yours?
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3i/ATLAS is a seed. Not a craft. It’s rich in Cyanide compounds that it’s delivering to Mars as we speak. Mars has very little oxygen and is the perfect blank garden for these prebiotic seeds of life. I expect the next official images of 3i to be more blue-ish…showing that it’s shedding its Cyanide prebiotic compounds. The trajectory of this object is no mistake. It’s incredibly precise. But it’s not about us. Or aliens. It’s a seed. The Larger Living System (Universe) that we exist in, is planting more life on our neighbor planet… Just in case. Just my thoughts…what are yours?

Jordan Crowder

558,945 views • 10 months ago

What if I told you the most remarkable feat of engineering occurred over 4,500 years ago? The stepped pyramid of Djoser built circa ~2,600 BCE is widely recognized as the first pyramid in Ancient Egypt. But did you know it had a “moat” a dry moat they call it, that surrounded the pyramid. A study published not that long ago proved it was not remotely dry, water from a check dam was diverted from a “wadi” (a natural valley that collects rain water) directly into the moat. As luck would have it this was once excavated. And with that the publishers of the study proved something they didn’t even realize. The moat is identical to a modern water filtration system.
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What if I told you the most remarkable feat of engineering occurred over 4,500 years ago? The stepped pyramid of Djoser built circa ~2,600 BCE is widely recognized as the first pyramid in Ancient Egypt. But did you know it had a “moat” a dry moat they call it, that surrounded the pyramid. A study published not that long ago proved it was not remotely dry, water from a check dam was diverted from a “wadi” (a natural valley that collects rain water) directly into the moat. As luck would have it this was once excavated. And with that the publishers of the study proved something they didn’t even realize. The moat is identical to a modern water filtration system.

Ancient Hypotheses

25,682 views • 4 months ago

A Martian Eclipse What's that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can't be Earth's Moon, because it isn't round. It's the Martian moon Phobos. The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars in 2022 by the Perseverance rover. Phobos, at 11.5 kilometers across, is 150 times smaller than Luna (our moon) in diameter, but also 50 times closer to its parent planet. In fact, Phobos is so close to Mars that it is expected to break up and crash into Mars within the next 50 million years. In the near term, the low orbit of Phobos results in more rapid solar eclipses than seen from Earth. The featured video is shown in real time -- the transit really took about 40 seconds, as shown. The videographer -- the robotic rover Perseverance (Percy) -- continues to explore Jezero Crater on Mars, searching not only for clues to the watery history of the now dry world, but evidence of ancient microbial life. Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU MSSS, SSI
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A Martian Eclipse What's that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can't be Earth's Moon, because it isn't round. It's the Martian moon Phobos. The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars in 2022 by the Perseverance rover. Phobos, at 11.5 kilometers across, is 150 times smaller than Luna (our moon) in diameter, but also 50 times closer to its parent planet. In fact, Phobos is so close to Mars that it is expected to break up and crash into Mars within the next 50 million years. In the near term, the low orbit of Phobos results in more rapid solar eclipses than seen from Earth. The featured video is shown in real time -- the transit really took about 40 seconds, as shown. The videographer -- the robotic rover Perseverance (Percy) -- continues to explore Jezero Crater on Mars, searching not only for clues to the watery history of the now dry world, but evidence of ancient microbial life. Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU MSSS, SSI

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

23,593 views • 2 months ago

Happy #WorldOceansDay, everyone! Today is the day for us to celebrate and honor our oceans. 🌊🐋 Did you know that the ocean covers 71% of the Earth’s surface? It also holds about 96.5% of all Earth's water — that's a volume of 320 million cubic miles! Living in all of this ocean is an unknown number of eukaryotic species, but some studies estimate that a quarter of all eukaryotic life on Earth lives in the ocean. That would imply that there are ∼2.2 million eukaryotic marine species! (All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms are eukaryotes) Information provided by Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program / USGS research
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Happy #WorldOceansDay, everyone! Today is the day for us to celebrate and honor our oceans. 🌊🐋 Did you know that the ocean covers 71% of the Earth’s surface? It also holds about 96.5% of all Earth's water — that's a volume of 320 million cubic miles! Living in all of this ocean is an unknown number of eukaryotic species, but some studies estimate that a quarter of all eukaryotic life on Earth lives in the ocean. That would imply that there are ∼2.2 million eukaryotic marine species! (All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms are eukaryotes) Information provided by Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program / USGS research

Discovery

57,492 views • 3 years ago

❗️ The threat that we are currently facing comes from outer space, it is not a climate weapon! 🔸 It is a cosmic influence that occurs in our solar system every 12,000 years. And once every 24,000 years, this effect becomes even stronger and more dangerous, and currently, we are in the midst of the powerful phase of this cycle. 🔸 This cosmic influence affects the core of our planet and the cores of all other planets in the solar system. 🔸 This energy from the cosmic influence keeps increasing, leading to the heating and imbalance of the Earth's core. 🔻 The Earth's core has shifted and become unbalanced, and this has changed everything: - the magnetic field, - the Earth's crust, - the oceans, - the glaciers, - the volcanoes, - and the earthquakes. 🤯 But it will get even worse: supervolcano eruptions and mega earthquakes, floods that resemble the biblical flood. 💯 We can say this with 100% certainty because exactly the same events occurred in the previous cycles, 12 and 24 thousand years ago. ⚠️ Please, study the issue of climate: 🔴 🟢 🔵 #CreativeSociety #GlobalCrisis #Responsibility #climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #MondayMotivation #weapon #MondayMood #MondayMorning #MondayThoughts #ocean #glacier #volcano #earthquake
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❗️ The threat that we are currently facing comes from outer space, it is not a climate weapon! 🔸 It is a cosmic influence that occurs in our solar system every 12,000 years. And once every 24,000 years, this effect becomes even stronger and more dangerous, and currently, we are in the midst of the powerful phase of this cycle. 🔸 This cosmic influence affects the core of our planet and the cores of all other planets in the solar system. 🔸 This energy from the cosmic influence keeps increasing, leading to the heating and imbalance of the Earth's core. 🔻 The Earth's core has shifted and become unbalanced, and this has changed everything: - the magnetic field, - the Earth's crust, - the oceans, - the glaciers, - the volcanoes, - and the earthquakes. 🤯 But it will get even worse: supervolcano eruptions and mega earthquakes, floods that resemble the biblical flood. 💯 We can say this with 100% certainty because exactly the same events occurred in the previous cycles, 12 and 24 thousand years ago. ⚠️ Please, study the issue of climate: 🔴 🟢 🔵 #CreativeSociety #GlobalCrisis #Responsibility #climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #MondayMotivation #weapon #MondayMood #MondayMorning #MondayThoughts #ocean #glacier #volcano #earthquake

Global Crisis

16,803 views • 2 years ago

A supernova explosion in the galaxy NGC 2442 This distant explosion occurred approximately 60 million years ago, around the time the dinosaurs on Earth were going extinct. The dying star's luminosity was billions of times greater than that of our Sun and comparable to the entire center of the galaxy NGC 2442. Such supernovae are among the brightest and most powerful events in the Universe, leaving behind remnants and influencing the evolution of surrounding matter. This cosmic explosion is a reminder of the scale and dynamics of our universe, and how events millions of light-years away can coincide with important stages in the history of life on Earth.
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A supernova explosion in the galaxy NGC 2442 This distant explosion occurred approximately 60 million years ago, around the time the dinosaurs on Earth were going extinct. The dying star's luminosity was billions of times greater than that of our Sun and comparable to the entire center of the galaxy NGC 2442. Such supernovae are among the brightest and most powerful events in the Universe, leaving behind remnants and influencing the evolution of surrounding matter. This cosmic explosion is a reminder of the scale and dynamics of our universe, and how events millions of light-years away can coincide with important stages in the history of life on Earth.

Black Hole

62,116 views • 3 months ago