SSLOI 2020/01/16

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SETI@home

[18 Jan 2020, 18:51:01 UTC] Result table problems / For the next few days (until at least next tuesday's maintenance outage) work units will be hard to come by (but not zero). Details at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85093&postid=2028359 ..

2019/12/30 14-Days long Fundraiser to help modernize SETI@home's aging storage infrastructure. Details at  https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85017&postid=2025584 .... GOAL REACHED WITHIN 48 HRS - THANKS !

 Check out Stars in Their Eyes?, a research paper from the University of Geneva about why people run SETI@home (16 Jan 2020, 3:49:24 UTC_) ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/tancoigne_paper.pdf ... https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85079 ...

2019/12/02 Work Units Limits changed: New maximum of 200 (from 100) work units for each CPU and 300 (possibly 400 - from 100) work units for each GPU https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3387 ...UPDATE 2020/1/16 It looks like the limits have been set to 150 per CPU and 250 per GPU.

20 Dec 2019 - News: "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice.  https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84968&postid=2023883#2023883 ...FIXED BY JAN 15TH... MOSTLY

PSA: don’t use your AMD RX 5700 XT to search for aliens | PCGamesN https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-5700-xt-seti-home-aliens ... https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/ ...
FIXED saw this, which fixes a problem or two with AMD GPUs :
> v. 8.24 is now available on main for AMD GPUs: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php


kotd88 comments on PSA: "I don't get it, how does [SETI@home] work[s]? Is it like mining ?" https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eblv26/psa_please_remove_your_amd_rx5700xt_from_setihome/fb70b63/ ...

Posting about a problem often fixes it immediately (betreger) [which, curiously, corresponds to the  frequency of] server stats page updates - about every 15 minutes (Rob Smith)

SETI

Universe Today podcasts with Fraser Cain -   https://www.universetoday.com/10406/universe-today-podcasts/  ... Episode 611: Are Aliens Watching Us And How Could We Hide? With Dr. David Kipping - Jan 14, 2020  https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/c/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4/c261dbe8-8e36-46da-b338-e859e7b6bdc4.mp3 ... Episode 609: Why Haven't Aliens Settled Every Star In The Milky Way? With Adam Frank - Jan 12, 2020 https://media.fireside.fm/file/fireside-audio/podcasts/audio/9/94f97fb6-b72c-4d98-a80a-1e141b67e50c/episodes/f/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165/fed193e0-c4f7-4296-903c-1ff35ccc8165.mp3 ...

Life in the Universe : Where is it; Will it be intelligent; Can we Communicate; Can we meet? – Stargazing https://exoworld.org/exoplanets/life-in-the-universe-where-is-it-will-it-be-intelligent-can-we-communicate-can-we-meet/ ... 

Will We Ever Find Alien Life? (Video and Comment) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJ9lJPt09k&lc=UgzYiiXdsWCLIP1CeqN4AaABAg ...

Why we imagine aliens the way we do - Vox - Mars 2018 https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/3/15/17126340/science-fiction-aliens-vfx-seti ...


Astronomer Jill Tarter Answers Alien Questions From Twitter and Swears She’d Tell Us If She’d Seen an Alien | Tech Support | WIRED - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL4IlCXDsM ... 

ASTROBIOLOGY

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/looking-for-exoplanet-life-in-all-the-right-spectra/ ...

Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-06 ...

How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Search for Oxygen on Alien Worlds | Space https://www.space.com/webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-oxygen-detection.html ...

How the solar system got its 'Great Divide,' and why it matters for life on Earth - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/how-the-solar-system-got-its-great-divide-and-why-it-matters-for-life-on-earth/ ..

 Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus https://phys.org/news/2019-12-life-emerged-lakes-high-phosphorus.html ...

EXOPLANETS

What is Cheops? - ESA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7LFbJYEUE ...

Inside The 24/7 Search For Another Habitable Planet Within 100 Light Years Of Earth https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/11/25/inside-the-247-search-for-another-habitable-planet-within-100-light-years-of-earth/#7e4fe96f3442 ...

Moon FARSIDE: Lunar Astronomy Proposal Takes Aim at Cosmic Dark Ages and Exoplanets | Space https://www.space.com/farside-moon-radio-astronomy-mission-concept.html ...

NASA Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in the 'Habitable Zone' | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-first-earth-size-habitable-exoplanet-toi-700d.html ...

An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world. | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html

SPACE

First national US observatory to be named after a woman! | Legacy Survey of Space and Time https://www.lsst.org/news/vro-press-release ... ''Named after an astronomer who provided important evidence of the existence of dark matter, the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory seems destined to make science history with its extraordinary capabilities that will come to bear in the next few years,” said France Córdova, director of NSF. “Congress has helped make this inspiring commemoration a reality. The Rubin Observatory is expected to significantly advance what we know about dark matter and dark energy, so the Rubin name will have yet another way to inspire women and men eager to investigate.”

 Astronomers Find A Galaxy Of Unusual Size (G.O.U.S.), And Discover Why It Exists https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/07/astronomers-find-a-galaxy-of-unusual-size-g-o-u-s-and-discover-why-it-exists/#4c1cf9dd1d5c ...

What's the Point of the James Webb Space Telescope? | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-worth-wait.html ...

 Review of 2010s in Space and Astronomy | The Astroholic http://theastroholic.co.uk/2020/01/13/review-of-2010s-in-space-astronomy/ ...

Astronomers Have Found the Secret Ingredient to the Universe’s Brightest Explosions https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-have-found-the-secret-ingredient-to-the-universes-brightest-explosions/ ...

Bad Astronomy | Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-spectacular-view-of-ugc-2885-is-this-the-biggest-spiral-galaxy-in-the-universe ...

 Missing link in planet evolution found in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt  - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/missing-link-in-planet-evolution-found/ ...

 Meet NASA's New Tool for 'Weighing' Unseen Planets, the NEID [Video] https://scitechdaily.com/meet-nasas-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets-video/ ....

Japanese billionaire signs on for dating game with moon trip as prize – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2020/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-signs-reality-tv-dating-game-moon-trip-prize/ ...


SpaceX becomes operator of world’s largest commercial satellite constellation with Starlink launch - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/spacex-becomes-operator-of-worlds-largest-commercial-satellite-constellation-with-starlink-launch/ ...

A Repeating Fast Radio Burst from a Spiral Galaxy | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2020/1 ...

20 Dec 2019 - Who Owns the Moon? | The New Yorker Video | CNE https://video.newyorker.com/watch/who-owns-the-moon ...

The best space images of 2019 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50765663 ...


Hubblecast 126: From Ultraviolet to Infrared: Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIfQ7rpQaU ....

Physicists Calculate (In a Yet Unpeer-Reviewed Publication) How Long It'll Take Us to Explore The Galaxy (Without Some Kind of Warp Drive Technology), And It's Brutal https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-calculate-how-long-it-ll-take-to-explore-the-galaxy-and-it-s-depressing ...

- SCIENCE -

Breakthrough of the Year 2019 https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/finalists/ ...

2019 was the second hottest year on record, NASA says | Space https://www.space.com/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record.html ..

Climate Change Made Recent Hurricanes Wetter. And They May Get Worse. | Space https://www.space.com/42464-wetter-storms-climate-change.html ..

Huge eruption of Philippines volcano seen from space | Space https://www.space.com/taal-volcano-eruption-seen-from-space.html ..



First 'living robots' designed on supercomputer – video | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2020/jan/13/first-living-robots-xenobots-designed-on-supercomputer-video ...

Perpetual Emotion Machine: Compassionate computers and irrational human behavior | Big Picture Science http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/perpetual-emotion-machine ... 

Almost 800,000 Years Ago, an Enormous Meteorite Struck Earth. Now We Know Where. - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/144568/almost-800000-years-ago-an-enormous-meteorite-struck-earth-now-we-know-where/ ...

Artificial Intelligence Examines Over 200,000 Galaxies to Confirm Galaxy Mergers Ignite Starbursts https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-examines-over-200000-galaxies-to-confirm-galaxy-mergers-ignite-starbursts/ ...

Bad Astronomy | Your world, unmoored https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/your-world-unmoored ... Font's Point - Stabilized Sky Timelapse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg ...

LIGO - Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision - 6 Jan 2020 https://www.ligo.org/news/index.php#GW190425 ... LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4XzLDM3Py8 ... 

Here Are the Most Beautiful Science GIFs We Discovered in 2019 - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/here-are-the-most-beautiful-science-gifs-we-discovered-in-2019/ ...

Watch Out for These Science Events in 2020  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-for-these-science-events-in-2020/ ...


What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-climate-change-tells-us-about-being-human/ ...

A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2019/12/a-decade-in-cybersecurity-fails-top-breaches-threats-of-2010s/ ...

[NPR - Science] CDC Confirms A THC Contaminant, Vitamin E Acetate, The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat ...

- HUMOR -

XKCD Comic on Twitter: "Group Chat Rules https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1200485802406367232 ...

- OTHERS -

The truth is out there… but you're still not allowed to see it. Top-secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says | Space https://www.space.com/navy-confirms-secret-ufo-video.html .. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe54z/the-navy-has-secret-classified-video-of-an-infamous-ufo-incident ,,






2019 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50650415 ...

Isaac Asimov, Scientist and Science Fiction Writer, Would Have Turned 100 This Year | Inside Science https://www.insidescience.org/news/isaac-asimov-scientist-and-science-fiction-writer-would-have-turned-100-year ...

MUSIC

https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/seti ... https://soundcloud.com/fpoole/winter-wavefront  by https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8118078 ...


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SSLOI 2019/12/20

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SETI@home

20 Dec 2019 - News: "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice.This problem may be affecting the rate at which the main project can handle results, so the validation and assimilation queues are getting large, which may affect the rate of work generation." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84968&postid=2023883#2023883 ...

27 Nov 2019 - SETI Perspectives: "Is ET in Our Solar System?" by Dr Richard Lawn https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84888#2020712 Discuss https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84889

26 Nov 2019 - SETI@home has started its annual year-end fundraising. If you didn't get an email you can read the same letter on-line at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor_letter_nov19.php

PowerPoint Presentation - 06-werthimer_karastari_seti_future_june2017e.pdf  https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2017/Labyrinth/presentations/06-werthimer_karastari_seti_future_june2017e.pdf

SETI

SETI Institute Activity Report: 3rd Quarter 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-activity-report-3rd-quarter-2019 ...

Alien Hunters Need Radio Silence on the Moon. Future Lunar Missions Could Wreck It. | Space https://www.space.com/moon-farside-radio-astronomy-protection.html ...

Weird ‘Vanishing Stars’ Could Potentially Be Aliens, Study Claims  https://gizmodo.com/weird-vanishing-stars-could-potentially-be-aliens-st-1840486666 The Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations Project. I. USNO Objects Missing in Modern Sky Surveys and Follow-up Observations of a "Missing Star" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab570f  More Space-related news on Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/c/space

[4 Dec 2019] Improved Analysis of Clarke Exobelt Detectability https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10061 https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84918&postid=2021712 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/15/enter-the-clarke-exobelt/

What Has the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Taught Us So Far? After a century of looking for signs of intelligent life, humanity is still searching. But have we come close to finding something? https://interestingengineering.com/what-has-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-taught-us-so-far

Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out | Space https://www.space.com/before-finding-extraterrestrial-life-humanity-questions.html ...

This Is Why 'Multi-Messenger Astronomy' (MMA) Is The Future Of Astrophysics https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/15/this-is-why-multi-messenger-astronomy-is-the-future-of-astrophysics/#6a50d2cc2cc6

Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials - Is there a more rational way to scan the heavens for alien life? | Jason Wright,The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/intelligent-ways-to-search-for-extraterrestrials

 - Related : Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 https://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/astro2020/

“If the [Decadal Survey] tells NASA ‘This is something you should fund’, then NASA has to fund it. “If you don’t have federal money to support students, you don’t formalize the knowledge. You don’t have a curriculum. Right now, “everyone that works on [SETI] is a hobbyist.” - Jason Wright

WSS S4E7: Are we alone? Examining the recipe for intelligent life in the universe - Science at Western | Dr. Jan Cami joins the podcast to discuss the origins of life on Earth, the process of finding other Earth-like planets, and the likelihood that we will ever find company out in the Universe. https://soundcloud.com/science-at-western/wss-s4e7

Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out | Space https://www.space.com/before-finding-extraterrestrial-life-humanity-questions.html ...

China's Huge, Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope Is Finishing Its Testing Phase | Space https://www.space.com/china-fast-radio-telescope-finishing-alien-search-tests.html  ...

SETI Institute in the news October 31 - November 6, 2019 | Smart Gloves May Give Space Explorers a Helping Hand - Singing Across the Stars -Microbes on the Moon? -Is Meeting our Cosmic Neighbors a Bad Idea?   https://seti.org/seti-institute-news-october-31-november-6-2019

What Alien Life Could Live in Europa’s Mega-Ocean? Some of our cosmic cousins may live just next door beneath a crust of ice… https://medium.com/predict/what-alien-life-could-live-in-europas-mega-ocean-1a115d7cd52d ...

ASTROBIOLOGY

Water common -- yet scarce -- in exoplanets -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191211082656.htm ...

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog ...

Will 2020 Be the Year We Find Intelligent Alien Life? | Space https://www.space.com/will-alien-life-be-found-2020.html ...

How NASA's Next Mars Rover Will Hunt for Alien Life | Space https://www.space.com/mars-2020-rover-alien-life-hunt.html ...

CHEOPS launch set for 17 Dec. 2019 — NCCR PlanetS http://nccr-planets.ch/blog/2019/12/05/cheops-launch-set-for-17-december-2019/  https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops https://cheops.unibe.ch/ ... 
 
Meet Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bJ2YcPDUg ... 

Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-detect-water-vapor-around-jupiters-moon-europa/ ...

Water common -- yet scarce -- in exoplanets -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191211082656.htm ...

With Mars methane mystery unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a new one: Oxygen | EurekAlert! Science News https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/nsfc-wmm111219.php

NASA probes oxygen mystery on Mars - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50419917

US meteorite adds to origins mystery - Although tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade. "This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission," says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. "In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50419924

  - related: Asteroids@home http://asteroidsathome.net

SPACE

 'A Lot of Things Went Right,' NASA Chief Says After Starliner Anomaly Which Prevented It From Continuing Its Mission To The International Space Station | https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-reacts-boeing-starliner-anomaly.html ...

These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2019/12/top-20-scientific-discoveries-of-decade-2010s ...

 A Radio Telescope, the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE), is Now Scanning Deep Space From the Moon’s Far Side https://gizmodo.com/a-radio-telescope-is-now-scanning-deep-space-from-the-m-1840146460 ...

Why is NASA Going Back to the Moon? | Unveiled - video dailymotion https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7opoyy ...

June 15, 2019 — Should we have humans in space? Astronaut Chris Hadfield headlines our panel looking at the future of space exploration | A Quirks & Quarks public debate | CBC Radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/june-15-2019-should-we-have-humans-in-space-a-quirks-quarks-public-debate-1.5174690

Who Owns the Moon? Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, the field of outer-space law is growing.  Watch Who Owns the Moon? | The New Yorker Video | CNE https://video.newyorker.com/watch/who-owns-the-moon ...

We May Finally Understand the Moments Before the Big Bang | Space https://www.space.com/physicists-model-reheating-universe.html ...

Researcher Finally Explains Why Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has 'Tiger Stripes' - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/11/16/192240/researcher-finally-explains-why-saturns-moon-enceladus-has-tiger-stripes ...

Something Very Strange Seems to Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies https://futurism.com/the-byte/something-strange-synchronizing-distant-galaxies

The Distribution Of Space Debris Orbiting The Earth GIF by sirtsix | Gfycat https://gfycat.com/welldocumentedappropriatecrane-rsciences-space

The Next Two Astronauts on the Moon Could Both Be Women, NASA Administrator Says | Space https://www.space.com/artemis-next-astronauts-moon-both-women.html

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/11/apollo_4/

Link post: "A Timelapse of The Sun's Rotation Complete with a Sunspot the Size of the Earth" posted in /r/space by Omega109. http://redd.it/dxhrux

Link post: "Mercury Transiting at Sunrise Over Wasatch Mountains" posted in /r/space by controlzee. http://redd.it/dxhddy

 "NASA's 1st SLS Megarocket Core Stage for the Moon Has Its Engines (Photos)" posted in /r/space by -CoAlpha-. http://redd.it/dxf3nx

"Mercury Transits the Sun - John Chumack (11.11.2019)" posted in /r/space by inkexit. http://redd.it/dxgbq0

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY

[NPR - Science] CDC Confirms A THC Contaminant, Vitamin E Acetate, The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat ...

New Evidence for the Strange Idea that the Universe Is a Hologram https://getpocket.com/explore/item/new-evidence-for-the-strange-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-hologram ...

Want to live to 1,000? Be careful what you wish for - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/thompson-want-to-live-to-1000-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/6860396

[Scientific American] Brain Circuit Involved in Compulsive Drinking Identified in Mice http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/_sbdiUXdAwQ/ 2019-11-21T19:00:00

Core Concept: What are the chances of a hazardous solar superflare? | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/47/23368

Neanderthal footprints found in France offer snapshot of their lives | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/10/neanderthal-footprints-found-in-france-offer-snapshot-of-their-lives

What’s behind a phobia of holes? | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/19/whats-behind-a-phobia-of-holes

Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Wurdi Touang site would make it the oldest astronomical observatory in the world. - BBC Reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07vfplf/were-aboriginal-australians-the-world-s-first-astronomers- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurdi_Youang

Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defects - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50125843

SpaceX Starship prototype blows its top - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50500980 ...

Humans put into suspended animation for first time | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time

Social, demographic, and economic correlates of food and chemical consumption measured by wastewater-based epidemiology | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/43/21864

Predicting evolution: Not just 'survival of the fittest': What survives, thrives and dominates over a thousand generations? The answer might be even more complex than previously thought  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191113153037.htm

Is China gaining an edge in artificial intelligence? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50255191

How do you fight extreme wildfires? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50410481?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science_and_environment&link_location=live-reporting-story

 Preparing for age of smart glasses and deepfakes - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50388894/adobe-readies-for-the-age-of-smart-glasses-and-deepfakes

DEBUNKINGS 

Mars 3 2019 - The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-50634120 ...

AND THE REST (BOOKS / MUSIC / HUMOR / QUIRKY / WOW / MUSIC)

Space invaders: the best books about interstellar arrivals | Books by Alastair Reynolds ( https://old.reddit.com/e7c5r0 ) [ www.theguardian.com - https://is.gd/88Qk4t ]

APOD: 2019 December 4 - Electric Night https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191204.html

Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Caps Lock Key?  https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/13/0148233/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-the-caps-lock-key?sdsrc=popbyskid

Q: Why are E.T's eyes so big?
A: He just got his phone bill....

[Scientific American] What Makes a Song? It's the Same Recipe in Every Culture http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/0VIDNG1KukU/ 2019-11-21T20:15:00

Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/health/china-plague-intl-hnk-scn-scli/index.html (CNN)Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday.It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.

NASA Reverses Course After Giving Asteroid Nazi Name https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-reverses-giving-asteroid-nazi-name

-=o=- -=o=- -=o=-   'o//  Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter | Space https://www.space.com/navy-witnesses-nimitz-encounter.html

Chilean protesters take down a police drone with lasers! : nextfuckinglevel https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/dvlvwr/chilean_protesters_take_down_a_police_drone_with/?sort=confidence

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50418317

Bloodhound land speed racer blasts to 628mph - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50438614 Bloodhound diary: Racing at over 500mph - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50374942

Preparing for age of smart glasses and deepfakes - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50388894/adobe-readies-for-the-age-of-smart-glasses-and-deepfakes

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Original Mix) (1990) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ecdn5SGT1E&list=PLZDIwCDGuTGKThOLdHrLKmqdJOQzXcFEJ&index=256 ...

Paint the Sky Red - Not All Who Wonder Are Lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHC7P400C6w

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