Interstellar invader Comet is packed with water ice that could be older than Earth

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Can the comet 3I/ATLAS be older than earth? It is packed with water that could be older than Earth some scientists say. The comet about 7 billion years old, which would make it older than the solar system itself.

"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and preserved throughout its interstellar journey.

Some scientists estimate there could be as many as 1 million interstellar visitors in the solar system at any one time. It's thought that many of these could lurk in the Oort cloud, a shell of comets located at the very edge of the solar system. The study of 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar interlopers could reveal what conditions are like in other planetary systems.”

The timing of the solar system is false.

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Robert Lea 2025 Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is packed with water ice that could be older than Earth | Space  23 July

Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands

 

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Joel Kontinen

Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the diminutive reptiles have re-emerged after a campaign to eliminate invasive rats.

Can geckos grow small? Researchers have found a gecko that is only 8 centimetres long on the Galapagos islands, They though that rats have eaten them.

Tiny gecko has been rediscovered on Rábida Island in the Galápagos, where it was believed to have been wiped out by invasive rats.

The leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi), whose adults are just 8 centimetres long, was previously only known to have existed on Rábida from 5000-year-old fossil records. But teams collected live specimens during expeditions in 2019 and 2021, which have now been officially confirmed as this species.

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Graeme Green 2025 Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands | New Scientist 22 July

Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter

 

At the centre of the Milky Way, stars look younger than they should. Image courtesy of NASA, Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech)

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionists say that immortal stars eat up dark matter to go on living forever, but dark matter is never found. 'Impossible' particle that hit Earth according to some evolutionists may have been dark matter.

“Stars close to the centre of our galaxy may be nearly immortal because they gobble up dark matter for energy.

More than two decades ago, astronomers noticed something odd about the stars near the centre of the Milky Way. First, the light they emit suggests they are younger than expected based on their mass, a problem dubbed the “paradox of youth”. Second, older stars are unusually scarce in this region, an issue called the “conundrum of old age”.”

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan  2025 Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter | New Scientist 21 July 

 

Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours

 

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Joel Kontinen

Instead of the Big Bang, some physicists have suggested tha t our universe may have come from a big bounce following another universe contracting – but quantum theory could rule this out.

Did our solar system had a beginning that was before  God created it at the beginning, Some evolutionists think so, but others are not so sure.

Could our universe be expanding and shrinking back into a tiny point, reliving a kind of big bang over and over again? Probably not, according to a mathematical analysis that argues that the laws of physic forbid such a cyclic universe.

A key moment in the life of a cyclic universe is the big bounce, an alternative to the big bang as the beginning of the known universe. The big bang starts with a singularity – matter and energy packed into a point so dense that gravity becomes strong enough to elude the laws of physics as we understand them – followed by an endless outwards expansion. But if the universe began with a big bounce, we could look beyond what we think of as the beginning and see another universe contracting to form an incredibly dense point, but not necessarily a singularity, before bouncing back out into the expanding universe we live in today.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2025 Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours | New Scientist 18 July   

Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture

 

An illustration of a Neanderthals, they group preparing food Image courtesy of Luis Montanya/Marta Montanya/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct ways of butchering animals

What did Neanderthals eat? They were not to only called species that cooked their food, long before Homo Sapiens were active, they cooked their food using spices.

Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of preparing food that were particular to each group. Discoveries from two caves in what is now northern Israel suggest that the residents there butchered the same kinds of prey in their own distinctive ways.

Modern humans, or Homo sapiens, weren’t the first hominins to prepare and cook food. There is evidence that Neanderthals, for example, which inhabited Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago, used flint knives to butcher what they caught, cooked a wide range of animals and spiced up their menu with wild herbs.

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By Chris Simms 2025 Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture | New Scientist 17 July 

 

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be the oldest comet ever seen — and could grow a spectacular tail later this year

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, one of the comets is now in our system. It could grow a spectacular tail soon. It is 3 billions years older than the solar system. 3I/ATLAS is one of the distant comets seen by man.

“The object was already exciting to astronomers as only the third space object seen entering the solar system from beyond its limits, the other two being Oumuamua seen in 2017 and 2I/Borisov detected in 2019.

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially believed. 3I/ATLAS could be around 3 billion years older than our 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and thus any comet ever before observed.”

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Harry Baker 2025 3I/ATLAS: Everything you need to know about the new 'interstellar visitor' shooting through the solar system | Live Science July 10

 

Water might be even more important for alien life than we thought

 

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Joel Kontinen

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures to a level beyond what is survivable for all known life

Is water important for life on exoplanets? According to Genesis, it is important also in space in which God created the planets.

Alien worlds found in the “habitable zone” of their star may still not be right for life

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The number of planets capable of hosting alien life may be smaller than we thought, thanks to a new understanding of how water levels drive a planet’s climate. Below a certain level, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can grow too much and make a planet unbearably hot, which could also explain why Venus is as inhospitable as it appears today.

All life that we know of needs liquid water, which is why astronomers are keen to find planets in the “habitable zone” around their star region where temperatures are conducive for liquid water to exist. But now Haskelle White-Gianella at the University of Washington and her colleagues have found that source;

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Water might be even more important for alien life than we thought | New Scientist 15 July