Eart had a mini-moon for two months

There may be more moon-born asteroids near Earth than we thought

Image courtesy of ESA/P.Carril

Joel Kontinen

What do we say about a mini moon for some two months that followed Earth for  about 2 months? Some scientist say that it appears to have originated from the moon.

This is just Darwinian storytelling.  

“The asteroid, called 2024 PT5, is about 10 metres wide. Spotted in August, it was later snared by Earth’s gravitational pull, becoming a second moon of our planet, referred to as a mini-moon. It was visible between September and November.”

Source:

Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024 Earth had a temporary mini-moon that was a chunk of the real moon | New Scientist 17 December 

 

Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted "270 million years" ago

 Image courtesy of Henry Sutherland Sharpe

Joel Kontinen

The oldest known sabre-toothed animal hunted large prey 270 million years ago – and its newly discovered remains could help us unravel how early mammal relatives became warm-blooded.

The first laned-based predators typically hunted relatively small prey. But things changed about 273 million years ago, when an event known as Olson’s Extinction shook up ecosystems around the world. Afterwards, much larger tgerrestrial herbivores began appearing – and predators needed new weapons to dispatch such large prey, says Josep Fortuny at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain.

This might help explain why the fossilised partial skeleton of an ancient predator – which Fortuny and his colleagues have just discovered on the Spanish island of Mallorca – had sabre teeth. These fangs are better at injuring large prey, as opposed to grasping and holding smaller animals. “It was the first opportunity to have this type of tool to prey on herbivores,” says Fortuny.

Evolution  relies on the concept of  millions of years, without it evolution would not be possible as it needs time to do  its story.

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 Colin Barras 2024 Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago | New Scientist17 December 

Magic mushrooms found in Africa are a species new to science

 

Image courtesy of Cathy Sharp

Joel Kontinen

A fungus named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is the closest relative of a widely cultivated psychedelic mushroom, giving clues to their evolutionary origins.

Can evolution bring up new species? However, the scientist have discovered a new species in Africa.  

Psychedelic mushrooms growing in southern Africa have been identified as a new species that is the closest relative of Psilocybe cubensis, the most well-known magic mushroom species. The discovery brings scientists a step closer to understanding the evolutionary origins of these psychoactive fungi.

But they were not brought about by evolution.

Alex Bradshaw at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his colleagues have named the newly described species Psilocybe ochraceocentrata, because of the ochre colour in the centre of the cap. It was collected from multiple sites across Zimbabwe and South Africa between 2013.

Source:

James Woodford 2024 Magic mushrooms found in Africa are a species new to science | New Scientist 12 December 

Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

 

Illustration of modern humans who lived in Europe about 45,000 years ago

Image courtesy of Tom Btörklund

Joel Kontinen

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have shown that they interbred with the Neanderthals.

For those who believe in progressive creationism, this comes as a shock. They believe that Neandertals were not human. But now science has proved that they are.

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins hybridised in unprecedented detail.

“The vast majority of the Neanderthal gene flow… occurred in a single, shared, extended period,” says Priya Moorjani at the University of California, Berkeley.

The studies confirm that modern humans acquired important gene variants by mixing with Neanderthals.

 Source: 

Michael Marshall 2024 Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred | New Scientist 12 December

Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Hubble NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge.

Joel Kontinen

Rather than getting its water from impacts, our planet may have drawn in water vapour after the sun boiled it off early icy asteroids.

The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroids.

ESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge.

Where did Earth get its water? According to the Darwinian way, it got it from asteroids.  There is no proof of this, so it is just evolutionary speculation.

”A vast cloud of vapour expelled from boiled asteroids may have lingered in the solar system for millions of years before raining down on Earth, according to a new idea for how our planet got its water.

The origin of Earth’s water has long puzzled scientists. It is hard to argue that our planet has always had the water we see today, because the young sun would have been got its water from asteroids.”

But Genesis paints a different story, the Earth has always had water.

Source:

Alex Wilkins 2024 Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour | New Scientist 11 December

PLO official thanks Pope Francis for his “unwavering support for the Palestinian cause.”

Joel Kontinen

A Nativity scene featuring baby Jesus in a keffiyeh-wrapped cradle was unveiled by the Vatican in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

The display, which was created by two artists from Bethlehem, Johnny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, depicted Jesus laying on top of the checkered black and white scarf that is a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

The scene erased the historical fact that Jesus was born to two Jewish parents in the then-Roman district of Judea.

Speaking at the scene, Pope Francis said that the Nativity exhibit is a reminder for the world to “remember the brothers and sisters, who, right there [in Bethlehem] and in other parts of the world, are suffering from the tragedy of war.”

He then slammed the international arms trade and added, “enough war, enough violence!”

On Sunday, Pope Francis hosted PLO executive committee member Ramzi Khouri at the Vatican.

Khouri is a close confidant of Holocaust-denying and terror-funding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

During their meeting, Khouri expressed “deep gratitude for the Pope’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and his tireless efforts to end the war on Gaza and promote justice.”

In November, Pope Francis supported the allegation that Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group constitues a genocide.

“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” he wrote.

“It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”

In a letter to Middle Eastern Catholics released on the first anniversary of the October 7th terror onslaught, Pope Francis did not mention Jesus n the Hamas terror group or condemn their atrocities for the outbreak of the war.

Rather, Pope Francis addressed the “people of Gaza, long embattled and in dire straits. You are in my thoughts and prayers daily.”

He did not acknowledge the Israelis displaced from their homes or suffering near-daily bombing by the Hezbollah terror group.

But the Pope did not rely on what the Bible teaches. that Jesus was a Jew, born of Jewish parents

Source: 

World Israel News Staff 2024  Vatican Nativity scene features 'Palestinian,' keffiyeh-clad Jesus | World Israel News December 9

 

Flying robot leaps upwards and then takes to the air like a bird

 

Joel Kontinen

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an abFlying robot leaps upwards and then takes to the air like a birdility that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere

Humans have recently made that can jump into the air like a bird this would eliminate the need for runways for small fixed winged drones.

“Birds use the powerful explosive force generated by their legs to leap into the air and start flying, but building a robot that can withstand the strong acceleration and forces involved in doing that has proved difficult. ”

This is a case for intelligent design. It relies also on biomimicry. Biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

Now, Won Dong Shin at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) and his colleagues have built a flying propellered robot called RAVEN that can walk, hop and jump into the air to start flying, with legs that work like a bird’s.

“Fixed-wing vehicles, like airplanes, always require a runway or a launcher, which is not found everywhere. It really requires designated infrastructure to make an  airplane take off,” says Shin. “But if you see a bird, they just walk around, jump and take off. For them, it’s quite easy. They don’t need any external assistance.”

Unlike real birds’ legs, which have joints at the hip, knee and ankle, RAVEN’s legs have just two joints, at the hip and knee, that are powered by motors. There is also a spring in each foot that can store and release elastic energy. Using fewer components meant that Shin and his team could keep RAVEN to a weight of around 600 grams, similar to that of a crow.

Source: 

Alex Wilkins 2024 Flying robot leaps upwards and then takes to the air like a bird | New Scientist4 December

 

James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed

 Image courtesy  of Esa/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner.

 Joel Kontinen

A new surview has just announced that the James Webb Space Telescope  “has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang”.

According to evolutionists, the “13.6 billion light-years away and just 200 million years after the Big Bang, are five galaxy candidates are the earliest ever detected”.

There is a problem with dating methods, since according to evolution, space events  are always counted in millions of years.  

Source:

Ben Turner 2024 James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed | Live Science 3 December

Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis

 

Image courtesy of Johann Klages

Joel Kontinen

A study that has probably evolution and millions of years together has been published In Science. It deals with the millions of years before our time.

The study says that the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) [~1.25 to 0.85 million years ago marks a shift  in long to the character of glacial-interglacial climate.

The researchers say that  there were  millions of years before our time and a changed climate for some time. They say that this change was due to a change in deep ocean circulation.

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Sophia K. V. Hines, Christopher D. Charles et al. 2024 Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis | Science 7 November

Woman finds old fossil in the alps

 

Image courtesy of Fabio Manucci

Joel Kontinen

Scientists say that a woman in Italy found a lost world of reptilian footprints and even the imprints of raindrops in the Italian alps.

Scientists say that the rock she discovered and found had footprints belonging to a prehistoric reptile.  Prehistoric is the Darwinian way of saying that it did not belong to the present world. It belonged to the Permian period some 299 million to 252 million years ago.

Experts say that the find is some 280 million years old. But the dating method used for this discovery does not show the correct time.

Source:

Sascha Pare 2024  Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps | Live Science  19 November

Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side

 

Image courtesy of Neil T. Roach

Joel Kontinen

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.5 million years ago.

Evolutionist believe that ancient man did  not come from a single species but was we came from ape like creatures and that different species of humans walked side by side.  

Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other. It is one of the most dramatic demonstrations ever found that the world was once home to multiple hominin species living side by side.

“It’s really exceptional that we find this evidence for two different species walking across that surface,” says Kevin Hatala at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The footprints were found in 2021 in Koobi Fora, Kenya, near the eastern shore of  Lake Turkana. They were first spotted by team member Richard Loki at the Turkana Basin Institute, says Hatala: “It was a team of Kenyans who were working there originally.”

Preserved in a dried-out layer of sand and silt, the team found a trackway consisting of 12 footprints, evidently left by one individual walking in a straight line. There were also three isolated prints near the main group, seemingly made by three different individuals. The lack of signs of mud cracking or overprinting of tracks with others indicate that the prints were all made at about the same time. “These sites probably capture a window of time anywhere from minutes to a few days or so,” says Hatala.

This study gives the Darwinian version of things, separed from the book of Genesis.

Source:

Michael Marshall 2024 Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side | New Scientist 28 November 

 

Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars

 

A Martian meteorite nicknamed Black Beauty

Image courtesy of Carl B. Agee (University of New Mexico)

Joel Kontinen

 ”Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed "4.45 billion years" ago.

The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space by an impact on the surface of Mars before ultimately crashing into the Sahara Desert Morocco in 2011 and is formally known as Northwest Africa 7034.

Aaron Cavosie at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and his colleagues have spent years studying a tiny fragment of it that includes a zircon crystal measuring 50 micrometres across.

Cavosie describes Black Beauty as a “garbage can” rock because it was formed from hundreds of fragments smashed together. “It’s a wonderful buffet of Martian history, a mixture of very old and very young rocks,” he says. “But many of the fragments in it are among the oldest pieces of rock from Mars.”

The evolutionists believe that the solar system was formed 4,5 billion years ago, but the dating methods are full of danger.

Source:

 James Woodford 2024 Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars | New Scientist 22 November 

 

 

 

 

Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space

 

Image courtesy of Matthew J. Genge et al. 2024

Joel Kontinen

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid show how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples. It was brought back on a sample from the Ryugu asteroid.

So the bacteria was probably produced on Earth, which speaks of contamination. As only God can create living things.

A rock from the asteroid Ryugu that was brought back to Earth appears to be festooned with microbial life. But these microbes almost certainly came from Earth rather than outer space, say researchers. This contamination serves as a cautionary tale in the search for extraterrestrial life in future sample return missions, such as from NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars.

In 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft returned to Earth with 5.4 grams of rock from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu. After the sample capsule landed in Australia, it was transported to a custom-built facility in Sagamihara, Japan. There, the capsule was first opened inside a vacuum room, itself located within a clean room, before moving to a pressurised nitrogen-filled room for longer-term storage. From there, parts of the sample could be put inside nitrogen-filled containers and sent out for researchers to study.

One of these samples was sent to the UK to be studied by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London and his colleagues. Genge and his team initially scanned the sample using X-rays, which showed no evidence of bacteria.

The millions of years is not based on science.

Source: 

Alex Wilkins 2024 Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space | New Scientist22 November

Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionist, this will sketch how our solar system was formed,  but ice covered planets far away say this is a farce.

”A world seen orbiting a 3-million-year-old star about 520 light years from Earth is one of the youngest known planets, offering a window into early planet formation.

The star is an early-dwarf star, one much dimmer and less massive than our sun. Its age has been estimated by comparing the intensity and wavelengths of the light it emits with other stars.

Madyson Barber at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her colleagues studied the star using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). They found a planet about a third of the mass of Jupiter and 10 times the diameter of Earth by noticing the dip in the star’s light as the planet passed in front.

The world’s mass and size suggest it is either a large rocky planet, known as a super-Earth, or a small gas giant, called a sub-Neptune, in the process of formation.

We think Earth took between 10 million and 20 million years to form, about 4.5 billion years ago, says Barber. “So it was kind of surprising to see anything at 3 million years.”

This is what the evolutionist say. In their view, millions of years and evolution stick together, but many items in our solar system points that it is not so.

Source:

Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024 Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found | New Scientist 20 November 

Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

 

Image courtesy of Dakota McCoy

Joel Kontinen

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables.

This is a case for intelligent design, the molluscs item may be used for better fibre-optic cables. 

It relies also on biomimicry. Biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

“A heart-shaped mollusc has evolved tiny windows that work like fibre-optic cables, the first known example in nature.”

The word evolved is an oxymoron. The species does not evolve, it develops it.

!Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a bit like clams that have a symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic algae that live inside them. The algae have a safe home, get light to photosynthesise and provide nutrients for their hosts.

Unlike other bivalves, heart cockles don’t open their shells up wide, yet they somehow funnel light to their interior even while staying shut.

Now, Dakota McCoy at the University of Chicago and her colleagues have found that there are transparent calcium carbonate crystal structures in the heart cockle shells that function like fibre-optic bundles, letting light inside to bathe the algae. “If you don’t have to open and can just have a transparent window, that’s a very safe way to irradiate your algae,” says McCoy.”

Source:

 Alex Wilkins 2024 Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics | New Scientist 19 November 

 

“35,000-year-old” saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia

 Image courtesy of Lopatin et al. Scientific Reports, 2024

Joel Kontinen

A saber-tooted cat was found in Siberia.  Evolution believing scientist say that the cat is at least 35,000 years old. But what is fascinated in the find  the kitten still has its whiskers and claws attached.

According to evolutionists, ”saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Homotherium lived across the globe during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago),” but many scientists, as they say that dating methods give a false sense of the earth’s age.

Source:

 Sascha Pare 2024 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia | Live Science 15 November

Greta Thunberg Gets Trolled by ‘Anti-Israel’ Sign During Rally

Joel Kontinen

GretaThunberg has met with same difficulties recently.

Faux climate activist Greta Thunberg has drawn criticism for her recent anti-Israel stance, which has intensified since October 7th.

Thunberg has attended multiple pro-Palestinian rallies and has even been arrested at some events. However, one particular rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, took an unexpected turn.

A participant managed to take a photo with Thunberg and filmed himself rallying behind her with a seemingly anti-Israel sign. In reality, the sign read, ‘Palestine never existed. Israel is a country of heroes.’

Yes, that is what the sign says.

Source:

United with Israel 2024. WATCH: Greta Thunberg Gets Trolled by ‘Anti-Israel’ Sign During Rally | United with Israel  13. November.

‘Miracle’ – Hezbollah drone hits kindergarten, no children hurt

Image courtesy of  Flash90

Joel Kontinen

“The drone hit exactly where we had been,” says kindergarten teacher.

A miracle occurred in Haifa. The Hezbollah drone wanted to harm people, even children. Hezbollah’s aim is to kill every Jew but sometimes, a miracle occur.

An explosive drone launched by the Hezbollah terror group struck a Haifa-area kindergarten on Tuesday morning, causing damage to the property but no injuries to children or staff.

Footage from the scene circulating on social media showed damage to the facility’s outdoor play area, the building itself, and that the kindergarten’s windows had been shattered by the blast.

“We had a miracle of miracles,” Sarah Yasour, a teacher at the preschool, told Hebrew-language news outlets.

Yasour said that she had been in the outdoor play area with the children shortly before the explosive drone impacted.

She noted that no alarms had sounded in Nesher, a community on the outskirts of Haifa where the kindergarten is located.

But, Yasour noted, she and other staffers heard sirens coming from nearby areas and decided to move the children into the facility’s bomb shelter as a precaution.

“We heard a very distant siren… and said ‘alright let’s go inside,’” Yasour recounted.

Just a few seconds after all the children were in the shelter, “we suddenly heard a huge noise and understood it must be close,” she said.

“Only when we got out did we realize the scale of the miracle. [The drone] hit exactly where we had been.”

While Israel’s Iron Dome intercepts the vast majority of projectiles fired from Lebanon, explosive drones have proved to be a challenge for air defense system.

Because drones fly at a low altitude – literally under the radar – they aren’t always detected by Israel’s air defenses.

Source:

World Israel News Staff Hezbollah drone hits kindergarten near Haifa; kids unharmed in bomb shelter | The Times of Israel 12 November. 

How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano

 

The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) brings unexpected ecosystem benefits

Image courtesy of All Canada Photos/Alamy.

Joel Kontinen

 Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens.

In 1980, the volcano mount St Helens erupted, which was a catastrophe, It also was a testimony to the effects of Noah’s Flood, as it showed that  sediments could grow up fast.

Two years after Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, a team of researchers helicoptered in a gopher to the ash-covered landscape. Decades later, the activity of that single gopher burrowing for a single day may have helped the decimated ecosystem regrow by boosting the diversity of soil fungi.

“There’s something to be said about learning lessons from the gophers,” says Mia Maltz at the University of Connecticut, who has used the eruption to understand how forests might recover from other stresses – including wildfires.

Source:

James Dinneen 2024 How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano | New Scientist11 November.

Why hairy animals shake themselves dry?

 

Image courtesy of 4 PM production/Shutterstock.

Joel Kontinen

Why do hairy animals shake themselves dry? They don’t want to stay wet.

”The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with pressure than temperature

If you have ever been close to a dog after it has gone for a swim, you have probably been sprayed with water flinging from its fur. We now know the brain pathway that causes animals to rapidly wiggle themselves dry – a phenomenon known as the wet dog shake.”

It has to do with intelligent design that keeps dogs dry, unlike ducks.

“At least 12 different types of nerve cells help hairy mammals like mice and dogs feel physical sensations, such as temperature changes or touch. “

Source:

Grace Wade 2024 Why hairy animals shake themselves dry | New Scientist 7.11.

Bats are using an inspiration that could be used in robotics and autonomies vehicles, says researchers at Tel Aviv University.

 

Image courtesy of PD-USGov ,public domain.

Joel Kontinen

It is a technology based on echolocation, It relies on intelligent design and biomimicry.

Biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

“While it’s well-known that bats use a natural sonar system to navigate by emitting sound waves and interpreting the returning echoes, previous research indicated that bats also rely on vision during flight,” researchers from Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv’s Steinhardt Museum of Natural History said.

Echolocation is a biological sonar system used by certain animals, including bats, dolphins, and some birds, to navigate and locate objects in their environment by producing sound waves.

The study provides the first empirical evidence that bats construct such detailed acoustic maps in natural settings, which enhances our understanding of their complex sensory and cognitive abilities.

Source:

Pesach Benson, 2024  » Researchers Uncover Bat Navigation Secret That Could Transform Autonomous Vehicles 6 November.