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The Nile Delta from the ISS (www.planetary.org)
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always interesting pics

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What Happens When a Black Hole Spins Near Light Speed? (www.scientificamerican.com)
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mostly about where spin comes from.

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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests (www.space.com)
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Mars glaciers found to be over 80% pure ice, study shows (phys.org)
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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago (www.space.com)
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bet everything within a thousand miles shook that day.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/B3QFKdXQfkKXWm5q8

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US-China in a defining race for quantum supremacy - Asia Times (asiatimes.com)
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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?' (www.space.com)
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What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study (piefed.world)
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https://futurism.com/ai-coding-programmers-reality

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Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy (futurism.com)
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seems ai has them mesmerized

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Astronomers trace mysterious blast of X-rays to 'Die Hard' star that refuses to perish (video) (www.space.com)
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tldr; fast X-ray transient (FXT) blast is a "failed" burst of even higher energy radiation, a gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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First images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (www.planetary.org)
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New Chemistry Discovery Promises More Effective Cancer Drugs With Fewer Side Effects (scitechdaily.com)
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about time. Thanks Bristol

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JWST finds cosmic monster ruling tiny early galaxy: Was it forged by black holes from the Big Bang? (www.space.com)
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what's inside as black hole? look around.

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Astronomers capture incredible 1st image of a dead star that exploded twice. How did it happen? (www.space.com)
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Massive Study Flips Our Story of Addiction and the Brain (www.scientificamerican.com)
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was a drinker/smoker 30 years ago. quit everything until weed legalized. now do a few hits a day to distract from pain. don't drink/smoke. addiction is a bitch

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Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths (www.newscientist.com)
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like math but not this much. BB(6) - Busy Beaver 6, okay

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OCD's Origins Might Not Lie in The Brain Like We Thought (www.sciencealert.com)
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mind like a microbe

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ISS astronaut captures a rare phenomenon from orbit — a giant 'sprite' above a thunderstorm (www.space.com)
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Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Discovered a Huge Surprise (www.sciencealert.com)
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bait title. it's sulfur. youtube video from nasa was top ten boring. a few interesting paragraphs

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OpenAI Hits the Panic Button (gizmodo.com)
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leading AI company struggling to keep human talent. tells me AGI lacks much talent at this stage. may never be 'intelligent'. or else they'd just ask it to be intelligent. skeptical as always

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Certain species of microbe found in the human gut can absorb PFAS (phys.org)
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i'll be damned.

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Gravitation' by Richard Feynman [1080p HD Video with clear audio] (www.youtube.com)
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Feynman lecture. always liked lecture more than tests where I had to remember all the formulae.

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Satellites keep breaking up in space. Insurance won't cover them. (www.space.com)
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as usual, insurance industry is legalized gambling. house always wins. who would want to go zipping through that cloud?

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The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence (futurism.com)
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like his metaverse goggles. beginning to think too much money is a recipe for disaster. 'fool and his money go separate ways' rings true.

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Did our cosmos begin inside a black hole in another universe? New study questions Big Bang theory (www.space.com)
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makes sense to me considering Webb is finding 'old' galaxies in early universe.

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