What was the most interesting item(s) in your newsfeeds today?

[Friday]

As a short aside? I physically CANNOT get “Cubs” to lowercase. Stupid autocorrect must be a Chicago fan. I could get behind the Blackhawks <woot!> being capitalized, but FFS. c-u-b-s. Wolf c-u-b-s. Tigre c-u-b-s. Lion c-u-b-s. Grrrrrr.

 

[Friday]

Technically the most interesting was the city council trying to do a hostile takeover of the firefighting district (& their budget, since the city council is broke... sure... let’s give THEM a budget in the black to strip and force into the red. Roll. Eyes.) and cut firefighting salaries -in the middle of a pandemic- by 12%. Morons.

BUT

The most amaaaaaaazing awesome coolest thing happening in my world today?

This.

Okay. Archeology ain’t my world, anymore, but I can still thrill reading about it!

'Lost golden city of Luxor' discovered by archaeologists in Egypt — National Geographic

The 3,400-year-old royal city was built by Amenhotep III, abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten, and contains stunningly preserved remains.

apple.news

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Scientists Translated Spiderwebs Into Music, And It's Beyond Stunning

Spiders rely quite significantly on touch to sense the world around them.

www.sciencealert.com

""By hearing it and seeing it at the same time, you can really start to understand the environment the spider lives in."

This VR environment, with realistic web physics, allows researchers to understand what happens when they mess with parts of the web, too. Stretch a strand, and its tone changes. Break one, and see how that affects the other strands around it. This, too, can help us understand the architecture of a spider's web, and why they are built the way they are.

And, perhaps most fascinatingly, the work enabled the team to develop an algorithm to identify the types of vibrations of a spider's web, translating them into "trapped prey", or "web under construction", or "another spider has arrived with amorous intent". This, the team said, is groundwork for the development of learning to speak spider - at least, tropical tent-web spider."

 

[Friday]

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

Mohammed Aisha had been living on a ship marooned off Egypt's Red Sea coast for four years.

www.bbc.com

Hmmmm... As a career isolator I think his bosses didn’t try hard enough to find a replacement for him. Post that “job” on Craigslist and watch people queue up. Not actually joking.

But on the more serious side of things? 250 active cases of crew abandonment worldwide??? What the everloving f*ck.

 

[Friday]

I SAW THESE... in 1997. Stationed at New River. Out for a music festival.

The synchronous fireflies were more a local curiosity than a tourist sensation when entomologist Becky Nichols began working at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1997. But with the rise of social media, word got out. These days, there are about a thousand people out on the trail

it’s weird to think of the Internet intruding, somehow... or like the whole world didn’t already know. Like the Northern/Southern Lights. Even if you’ve never seen them, yourself? You still know it happens. But apparently not.

See fireflies magically light up this national park

Thousands of synchronous fireflies dazzle travelers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with their unique flash pattern. Here’s what you need to know.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[Friday]

SpaceX launches first astronauts on a reused rocket

The four astronauts on SpaceX's Crew-2 mission are headed for the ISS after becoming the first people to launch on a rocket that has already flown to space.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Jimmy Neutron does it, again.

((TheKiddo has decided Elon Musk is Jimmy Neutron. I have to agree. Rather strongly.))

 

[Friday]

Wicked!!! Jet Suits Are Now REAL. How f*cking awesome is this??? Lucky bastards

VIDEO: British Royal Marines explore possibility of storming a ship at sea with jet packs

Gravity Industries personnel working with the Royal Marines demonstrated how this technology could be used for maritime boarding operations.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Friday]

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry in coming hours- tracking centres

Remnants of China's largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere in the coming hours, European and U.S. tracking centres said on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

Mothers Day Massacre -or- Oops! Well...no harm done? ? ? -or- the beginning of Orbital Decay Warfare?

Blows my mind that some news agencies are actually predicting “the” place it will crash, when the experts have a +/- 1 to 4 hour window. That’s a GIANT piece of real estate, at those speeds, from that height. Pretty much a giant band across the planet. IE no way to know until it gets locked into an exact time.

 

[Friday]

As I sit here in the pandemic...

Israel-Gaza violence: death toll rises as UN envoy warns over escalation

Further airstrikes and rocket fire reported in worst violence since 2014 war between Israel and Hamas

www.theguardian.com

Gaza faces threat of Israeli ground offensive as strikes continue

Death toll in Gaza rises to 113, health authorities say, as Israel boosts troops and tanks near the besieged enclave.

www.aljazeera.com

Israel continues massive bombardments against Hamas targets | The Jerusalem Post

Over 750 Hamas targets have been hit since the beginning of Operation Guardians of the Walls

m.jpost.com

 

[Friday]

ICE to close Georgia detention center where immigrant women alleged medical abuse

Biden administration tells ICE to end contracts with immigration detention centers in Georgia and Massachusetts that are under federal investigation.

www.latimes.com

I’m so furious, outraged, appalled, and ashamed I have no words.

 

[internal]

don't smite me but i thought that the ceasefire was a step in the right direction. i am hopeful that it will be honored by both parties.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

As of July 1st, we're allowed to grow 4 plants per household in our state (even though it's still not legal federally - grrrr...). I wish we could grow much more than that. I'd be a frequent flyer of juicing the leaves, for sure. Next on my list would be having folks teach me how they make their edibles. One of these days, perhaps...

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