Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare

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Joel Kontinen

The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough time, but the amount of time needed is much longer than the lifespan of the universe.

Why can’t chimps write a book, for example the works of Shakespeare?

Well, they don’t have the skills to do it, they haven’t been given the intelligent design for it, say time needed is much longer than the lifespan of the universe.

If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn’t reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even if they kept on typing until the heat death of the universe, researchers have calculated.

The so-called infinite monkey theorem states that if you had an infinite number of primates, or one primate had infinite time, they would almost certainly type out any given text an infinite number of times.

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James Woodford 2024 Infinite monkey theorem: Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare | New Scientist 31 October.

Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back "161 million years"

 

Image courtesy of Mariana Chuliver et al., Journal (2024)

Joel Kontinen

Millions of years and evolution go together but a tadpole  fossils says they haven’t changed a lot, during those years.

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science, dating back 161 million years, with an anatomy that is strikingly similar to some of today’s species.

“They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “However, after many days of digging, one team member found a stone with a particular imprint on it – a fossil tadpole.”

Chuliver and her colleagues have now identified the tadpole as belonging to the extinct frog species Notobatrachus degiustoi, deciphered from the hundreds of adult specimens found in the same fossil deposit since 1957.

Until now, scientists had never unearthed tadpole fossils from before the Cretaceous Period, which began around 145 million years ago. This specimen is also the first ever fossilised tadpole from an earlier frog lineage known as stem anurans, which predates modern species, known as crown anurans.

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 James Woodford 2024 Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years | New Scientist 30 October.

 

 

Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub

 

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Joel Kontinen

“Around 7000 years ago, long knives, bracelets and other stone goods fashioned by skilled Parisian crafters were reaching people hundreds of kilometres away, via complex trade networks that are now being mapped for the first time.

By combining archaeology with computer modelling, Solène Denis at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Nanterre and Michael Kempf at the University of Basel in Switzerland have reconstructed the lengthy and winding paths taken to supply people from what is now Normandy.”

This study does not take the effects of the Genesis Flood into consideration that occurred about 4500 years ago so there is a different in dating methods.

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Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2024. Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub | New Scientist 28 October.

NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

 

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Joel Kontinen

The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distance.

 Life on Mars?

NASA is building a helicopter to scan Mars. It is hoped that it will disclose the hidden secrets of the Red Planet and according to evolutionists, past life.

NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometres a day while carrying scientific equipment.

Several landers have safely touched down on the surface of Mars using parachutes and rockets to slow their descent. Some have even contained wheeled rovers that could explore the surface. Then came NASA’s helicopter drone Ingenuity. Although it was engineered on a shoestring budget, it managed to make a surprising 72 flights on the Red Planet.

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Matthew Sparkes 2024. NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit | New Scientist 25. October.

Kamala Harris rejects religious exemptions for abortion: ‘I don’t think we should be making concessions’

 

Joel Kontinen

You should be afraid of Kamala Harris. She  is  a strong advocate for abortion and LGBT rights.

“Harris’s doubling down on holding abortion-on-demand as inviolable comes just days after the aat a recent campaign rally as she denigrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.   

Harris, a former U.S. senator from California who was ranked the most liberal member of the Senate and had a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record, supports the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” a Democratic bill that would declare abortion throughout pregnancy a federal “right” and invalidate hundreds of state and local pro-life laws.

She is also a strong supporter of all aspects of the LGBT movement, including “gender transitions” for minors and LGBT indoctrination of childraen in schools.

Harris, furthermore, has a record of targeting Catholics. As attorney general of California, she prosecuted Catholic pro-life journalist David Daleiden after he released videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts.”,,

So Kamala rejects all things that the followers of Christ hold dear.

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Doug Mainwaring 2024. Kamala Harris rejects religious exemptions for abortion: ‘I don't think we should be making concessions’ - LifeSite 23 October

4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24)

 

A diagram of the orbit of the asteroid 2002 NV16 around the sun

Joel Kontinen

Four reasonably large asteroids hurtleds past Earth yesterday, The ”potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 30 metres (100 feet) or 207 metres (580 feet) across.  They will all make their closest they were found within less than 12  hours ago.

Two of them were only discovered earlier this month. The first asteroid is  the  2015 HM1 which will hurtled past us at  5.5 kilometres or 3.4 miles from us, at its closest. The next asteroid will zoom after the first one.

The final two asteroids — 2002 V16 and 2024 TR6 — will zoom us by make the closest approaches  just four minutes of each other. 2002 NV16, is around 177 metres across, making it the largest of the four, will zoom us by reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km from us) at around us. It will be quickly followed by the 46 metres steroid (150-foot-wide) 2024 TR6, which will come within 3.5 million miles (5.6 million km) of Earth.

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Harry Baker, 2024. 4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24) | Live Science 23. October.

Did dinosaurs fly?

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Joel Kontinen

This story us back 129 million  years ago when a dinosaurs had wings flight that it may have taken flight. But the  proof is Darwinian storytelling, that cannot be held as true.

”Tiny tracks in South Korea symbolise a moment 120 million years ago when a dinosaur took advantage of its wings to cover ground in large leaps – the oldest track evidence of wing-assisted movement in these extinct animals.

Whether the creature, which was a raptor and not part of the lineage that led to birds, took full flight is uncertain. But the tracks support previous ideas that aerodynamics evolved multiple times across prehistoric lines, says Alexander Dececchi at Dakota State University in South Dakota.

“It’s pretty rare to find these kinds of [pre-flight] tracks, and then to find them in an animal that’s not even a bird – that’s pretty special,” he says.

Velociraptors and other raptors (dromaeosaurids) are the ancestors of modern birds, but their lineage split into avian and non-avian, or “paravian”, lines about 170 million years ago. Despite having feathers and wings, paravian dinosaurs generally seemed to lack the wingspan needed to offset their body weight, says team member Michael Pittman at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

But Pittman, Dececchi and their colleagues suspected that some paravian dinosaurs could fly, or at least glide, before full flight evolved in birds, based on muscles in their upper bodies. That suspicion grew stronger as they investigated more than 2600 rows of dinosaur tracks around the world.”

Yes, evolutionists are still uncertain if the animals flew.

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Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2024. Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run | New Scientist 21.October.

The exoplanet that seems like a rotten-egg world

 

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This exoplanet smells like rotten eggs. It is too hot for life.  

The exoplanet HD 189733 b, located about 64 light-years from Earth, has a chemical composition so distinct that astronomers can practically smell it from across the galaxy. A recent James Webb Space Telescope study of the planet found that its atmosphere contains significant amount  of hydrogen sulphide — a toxic and flammable gas given off by decaying organic matter and volcanoes on Earth — which smells like rotten eggs. The smelly egg planet is far too hot for life to exist.

The mere fact that scientists can detect such distinct molecules in its atmosphere is a good sign. For evolutionists, that JWST may soon be able to detect signatures of life elsewhere in the universe.

This is just speculation formed by Darwinism.

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Brandon Specktor 2024. 32 alien planets that really exist | Live Science 2. October.

Living microbes found deep inside ”2 -billion-year-old” rock

 

Image courtesy of . Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial Ecology

Joel Kontinen

Millions of years and evolution seem to go together,  yet research says that here are faults in dating methods is significant that the Darwinist will be silent on.

For them, millions of years is almost  secret, that cannot be disproved.

New Stcitentis says:

“Microorganisms have been found living in tiny cracks within a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, making this the oldest known rock to host life. The discovery could offer new insights into the origins of life on Earth and may even guide the search for life beyond our planet.

We already knew that deep within Earth’s crust, far removed from sunlight, oxygen and food sources, billions of resilient micro-organisms survive. Living in extreme isolation, these slow-growing microbes divide at a glacial pace, sometimes taking thousands or even millions of years to complete cell division.

“So far, the oldest rocks in which microbes have been found are 100-million-year-old seafloor sediments,” says Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo. “We know it’s possible that microbes can grow using something in these ancient rocks.”

Now, Suzuki and his colleagues have pushed that record back by nearly 2 billion years. They obtained a 30-centimetre-long cylindrical rock core from 15 metres below the surface of the Bushveld Igneous Complex in north-eastern South Africa, a vast formation of volcanic rock that formed more than 2 billion years ago. When they sliced open the core, they discovered microbial cells living in the rock’s tiny fractures.”

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Chen Ly, 2024. Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock | New Scientist 10 October.

The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

 

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Joel Kontinen  

The first brown dwarf was a mystery, but it is not a single star. God can make what He did  in surprising ways.

”An odd star that has confused researchers for decades now makes sense – it turns out not to be a single star but two companions.

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fine. It just has a friend,” says Timothy Brandt at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland

Now, two research teams have used instruments at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to unravel the mystery of the first brown dwarf.

Brown dwarfs are “failed stars” in that they have too little matter and are too cool to sustain nuclear 2fusion. They become faint in the night sky, similar to planets, instead of burning bright for millennia. The first brown dwarf, called Gliese 229B, was discovered in 1995, but its mass was inexplicably large, says Jerry Xuan at the California Institute of Technology, who worked on one of the studies.”

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, 2024 The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why | New Scientist 16 October.

 

 

NASA set to launch Europa probe to search for signs of habitability

 

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Joel Kontinen

A 6000-kilogram spacecraft will embark on a six-year journey to Jupiter to explore whether its icy moon Europa has the conditions to support life.

Could NASA a find life on Europa?

According to some evolutionists, “The largest spacecraft ever created NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life.

The Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch at 12:06 pm local time aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, having been delayed by several days as a precaution because of Hurricane Milton.

Europa is the smallest of the so-called Galilean moons, which are Jupiter’s four largest moons. It is slightly smaller than our own moon and is of particular interest to scientists. Previous observations have indicated that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life could reside within it.

With its solar arrays deployed that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life could reside within it.

With its solar arrays deployed, Europa Clipper spans more than 30 metres and weighs 3241 kilograms without propellant, which will add a further 2750 kilograms.

The spacecraft will take around six years to travel 2.9 billion kilometres to its rendezvous with Jupiter in April 2030, using the gravity. of Mars and then Earth to boost its speed.”

 Some believers in evolution have supposed that Europa is teeming with life, but only God can bring it about.

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 Matthew Sparkes 2024 NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability | New Scientist 14 October.

The water world with (potentially) living oceans

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Will this exoplanet have life?

K2-18 b is a large world located about 120 light-years from the sun. It inhabits the Goldilocks zone around its star, meaning at liquid water (and potentially life) could exist there.

A recent analysis with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) supports the idea that the exoplanet may have its own liquid water ocean — and that the ocean may be home to living creatures. But probably not little green men.

In the study, JWST detected possible traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical known to be emitted only by phytoplankton on Earth, in the exoplanet's atmosphere.

But scientist have been adamant that such things happened on  Venus, which will not support life.

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Brandon Specktor 2024 32 alien planets that really exist (msn.com)  2 October.

Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

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Joel Kontinen

The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemisphere sky during October, in a rare event thought to happen only every few decades.

Can the Earth go through the iron tail of a comet?

It is a fact, but it will be comfortable with no risks.  

”Earth is about to have a close encounter with a comet, possibly passing through its ion tail – a rare occurrence. If we are lucky, it could show up as a blue streak in the northern hemisphere night sky.

Samuel Grant at University College London and Geraint Jones at the European Space Agency say there is a good chance that tonight, 10 October, our planet will intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).”

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Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024. Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet | New Scientist 10 October 

 

What is the largest exoplanet in the universe?

 

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Joel Kontinen

The giant exoplanet LS 3154b has scientists scratching their heads, because it seems far too large for its tiny star. 

This planet is too large compared to its sun.

“This planet, which is about 13 times more massive than Earth but orbits a star nine times less massive than the sun, doesn't seem like it could exist, researchers said upon its discovery in 2023. Future studies of this "impossible" world could upend the known rules of planet formation.” which is by evolutionary design.

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 Brandon Specktor 2024  32 alien planets that really exist | Live Science 2. October.

Alligator gar: The 'living fossil' that has barely evolved for "100 million years"

 

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Joel Kontinen

A living fossil has been found that can grow as large as an alligator, and it has a strong armour that it survived the death of the dinosaurs when an asteroid killed them in "66million years" ago according to evolutionary speculation.  

Its name is Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and it lives in the south of the USA, and in Mexico, it grows to about 24 metres or eight feet long and can be mistaken for a ferocious alligator but it only eats crabs and little fish,  turtles and carrion.

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Melissa Hobson 2024.  Alligator gar: The 'living fossil' that has barely evolved for 100 million years (msn.com)  6. October.

The "hell planet" where it rains lava

 

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

55 Cancri e is a rocky world about eight times the size of Earth. It is the type of exoplanet  known as a "super Earth." Despite its ample size, nothing is "super" about the living conditions here.

Often nicknamed the "hell planet," 55 Cancri e is completely covered in flowing seas of lava, and it may even rain lava there as well. The exoplanet is located 41 light-years from Earth, making it a popular target for studies.

There are no little green men on this lava covered planet.

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Brandon Specktor 2024 32 alien planets that really exist (msn.com) 2. October.

Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data

 

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Joel Kontinen

A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make space-time ripple with detectable waves.

What do you think about strange noises coming from space?

“Gravitational wave signals that seem to emanate from black hole collisions may actually come from the clashes of odd, exotic stars – which have been theorised but may or may not exist. If they do, then physicists will have to rethink their standard theories of gravity and particles.

For almost 60 years, researchers have been thinking up cosmic objects that may be possible if there is more to gravity than is suggested by Albert Einstein.”

Space is wonderful. We can not understand  why God made the universe like that. He knows where all the noises we hear are coming from.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2024 Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data | New Scientist 3 October. 

Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away

 

Artist’s impression of Barnard’s star b, a planet in orbit around Barnard’s star

ESO/M. Kornmesser

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for liquid water or life.

Life in a nearby planet?  

One of the sun’s closest neighbours, Barnard’s star, appears to have at least one planet orbiting it, as well as another three possible planets that need further confirmation.

Astronomers have been looking for planets aroud and Barnard’s star, which at 5.96 light years away is the next-closest star to us after the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, since the 1960s.

In 2018, researchers claimed to have found a planet that was at least three times larger than Earth, which they called Barnard’s star b, but a follow-up analysis showed that the signals of the apparent planet were actually caused by higher than expected stellar activity.

Now, Jonay Hernández at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics and his colleagues say they have found a new Barnard’s star b, which is around 40 per cent as massive as Earth.

The planet is much closer to its star than any planets in our solar system, completing an orbit in just over three Earth days. This also means its surface is too hot for liquid water or life, with a temperature of around 125°C (257°F).

So the scientist are are claiming that the planet is too hot for liquid water and life.  

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 Alex Wilkins 2024 Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away | New Scientist 1 October.