Pigbutt worms were first discovered in 2001 after being pulled up from California's Monterey Bay and labeled "mystery blob."

 

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Joel Kontinen

This strange creature is known as Pigbutt worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus), It lives in Central California (primarily around Monterey Bay) and the Channel Islands. It eats marine snow (organic material that floats through the ocean) 

Some researchers believe these strange creatures may be in the middle of an evolutionary leap, abandoning the seafloor for the water column, This is Darwinian speculation, without proof of any kind.   

 Source:

Melissa Hobson. 2024. Pigbutt worm: The deep-sea 'mystery blob' with the rump of a pig and a ballooned belly | Live Science 27 April.

An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe.

 

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Joel Kontinen

“Scientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way.” They say that it was revealing the  conditions from a time before the sun even existed, that is  if they discount the story told in Genesis,  in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

According To evolution, the “first stars born after the Big Bang lived and died billions of years ago, so there are none left to tell the story of the early universe. But traces of these stellar ancestors were preserved in the second generation of stars that formed and still survive today.”

“The earliest stars blazed to life billions of yearsago, soon after the Big Bang. They were behemoths made from the only elements that existed in abundance at the time: about three-fourths hydrogen and one-fourth helium”. This is what evolution believing scientist say.

Source:

Jonathan Gilber, 2024 Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours | Live Science 25 April.

Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered

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 Joel Kontinen 

“The Milky Way galaxy’s heaviest known black hole has been discovered in a binary star system, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday.”

What is the nature of the black hole that was discovered by Israeli scientists ,It is called the galaxy’s heaviest known black hole, it is1,500 light-years away from Earth.  

The star, which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass..

“This is an exciting discovery of the heaviest black hole in a binary system known today in the galaxy,” said Tel Aviv University Professor Emeritus Tsevi Mazeh.

Source;

Pesach Benson, 2024.  Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered 16 April.

2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope

 

 

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Joel Kontinen

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth.

The asteroid, named 2013 NK4, is around 610 metres or 2,000 feet wide, making it about twice the size of the "god of chaos" asteroid Apophis.

It will make a trip of 3.2 million kilometres or 2 million miles from Earth.

Source:

Harry Baker, 2024, 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope (msn.com) April 16.

50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live

 

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Joel Kontinen

A Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet. The newfound snake was much longer than any living snake, including this green anaconda. 

“Scientists in India have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that may be the largest known serpent to ever live.”

The supersized serpent may have measured 15 meters or 50 feet  long — surpassing the current record-holder Titanoboa by around 2 meters or 6.5 feet, .

“The newly identified species, named Vasuki Indicus, takes its genus name from the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism, which is often depicted wrapped around the neck of one of Hinduism's main deities, Shiva.”

Scientists believe that the fossil is 47 million years old and it is a fully grown adult.

“V. indicus belongs to a group of snakes known as Madtsoiidae, which first appeared in the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.”

Source:

Jacklin Kwan, 2024, 50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live  13 April

  

Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found

 

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Joel Kontinen

Scientists say that a newly discovered ichthyosaurthat lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic period was potentially the biggest to ever live.  

It was about 25 metres or 82 feet long.  It is called Ichthyotitan severnensis and it lived during the end of the Triassic period.

the date of the death of this reptile is false. It probably died in the Flood of Noah’s time, some 4 500 years ago.

Source:

Richard Pallardy, 2024,  Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found | Live Science 18 April 

Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act

 

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Joel Kontinen

What will pro-Hamas terrorist do to get their worldview heard? In Australia, “Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism.”

At least  four people, including Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, were wounded when “a man lunged at him with a knife during a service live-streamed on Monday.”

The assailant was said to say Allah Akbar.

Such church incidents were supposed to take place in Nigeria, but now it seems they have become the norm also in Australia.  

Source:

Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson. 2024. Sydney church stabbing: Boy, 16, arrested after Bishop attacked (bbc.com) 16  April.

The Multiverse doesn't exist

 

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Joel Kontinen

A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality

The many-more-worlds interpretation enlarges the multiverse

What do we know about multiverses. Are They Real? Some say that the “Multiverse could be Infinitely bigger than we ever imagine”, This Is According to a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that describes realms upon realms of parallel universes created with every decision we make.

Those  who say that multiverses are real refer to  ‘The heart of quantum mechanics is the wave function, An Infamously abstract and fuzzy mathematical tool that is extremely good at describing the behaviour of photons, electrons and other denizens of the quantum realm. “

But What Exactly Is the wave function? After almost a century of arguments, physicists still disagree on How they come about.

So it seems that multiverses are not real. They are a figment of some progressive  thinking that is not based on fact.

Source; 

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, 2024, The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined | New Scientist 9 April

Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon

 

Orbital trajectories of Earth and asteroid 2024 GJ2. 

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Joel Kontinen

An asteroid that was discovered on Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth on April 11. It was one of the space rocks that NASA did not know about.

“Asteroid 2024 GJ2 is roughly the size of a car,. Astronomers have calculated that the space rock would graze by Earth at a mere 19.3-thousand-kilometer or 12-thousand-mile) distance — that's just three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between 2.5 and 5 meters or 8.2 and 16 fee), according to the European Space Agency (ESA).”

 

Source:

Josh Dinneer,  2024. Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon | Live Science 11April.

Left-handed monkeys refutes Darwinian story of the evolution of right-handednes

 

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Joel Kontinen

”Primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-handedness, but findings from urban langurs in India cast doubt on the idea.”

“Monkeys that adopted an urban lifestyle in India are mostly left-handed – in contrast to humans and other primates that live on the ground.

The findings clash with long-standing claims that primates that come down from the trees generally evolve a tendency to be right-handed, raising questions about what really drives this trait.”

This is based on evolution, as many people think that animals are our ancestors. But this study refutes it.

Source:  

Christa Lesté-Lasserre. 2024. Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness | New Scientist 5 April.

Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere

 

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A green comet is on its way to Earth, it is called re Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. A rare, formerly-horned comet that astronomers have dubbed the "Mother of Dragons" is now visible after dusk in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is a city wide comet, it has a nucleus measuring 17 kilometres or 10,5 miles across and orbits the sun in an elliptical shape. Recent observations of the comet have revealed a hidden spiral of light surrounding its frigid heart.

This "Halley-type" comet, officially known as, completes a single orbit around the sun once every 71 years. The last time it passed by Earth was in 1954, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Source: 

Jennifer Nalewicki, 2024, Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere (msn.com) 3. April.

Climate change can disturb the accuracy of tree's biological clocks

 

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Joel Kontinen

Scientist used to believe that a tree’s age was determined by the annual rings of the tree.

However, this might not be true.  

“The higher temperatures brought on by global warming can disrupt trees’ ability to track time, with potential consequences for their capacity to sequester carbon or even survive.

Climate change is already disturbing the timings of events in ecosystems by shuffling migrations, breeding, and food cycles that have historically been intricately coordinated. But like humans and animals, plants have a genetic ability to track time that functions independently of their ecosystems.”

 

Source:

 Christie Taylor. 2024. Climate change can disturb the accuracy of trees’ biological clocks | New Scientist 3 April.

Jesus was a Palestinian?

 

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Joel Kontinen

”On Christmas eve last year, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, a member of the far-left “Squad,” sparked controversy when she wrote a post on Instagram comparing Palestinian Arabs to Jesus – and the State of Israel to King Herod.

“Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” Ocasio-Cortes wrote in her Instagram post.

As a response, “historian and Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University Paula Fredriksen penned an opinion piece published by The comparis on and suggesting the claim is akin to classic antisemitic canard.”

Jesus was  born In Betlehem, of Jewish parents, Every Bible reader or scholar of the Bible should know this.

As the professor Fredriksen said:

“For two millennia, Jews have been blamed for Jesus’ execution by the Romans; casting him as a Palestinian just stokes the fires of hate, using Jesus against Jews once again.”

“It is, further, an act of cultural and political appropriation — and a clever rhetorical move. It rips Jesus out of his Jewish context. And it rips 1st-century Jews — and 21st-century Israeli Jews — out of their ancestral homeland, turning them into interlopers. This is polemic masquerading as history.”

Source:

World Israel News Staff 2024. 'Don't pretend Jesus was a Palestinian' - Historian blasts AOC's 'Palestinian Jesus' tweet | World Israel News  31 March.