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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.”

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 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.

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 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

Why hairy animals shake themselves dry?

 

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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. “

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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.

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

'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds

 

 Image courtesy of ESA

Joel Kontinen

In 2029 an asteroid will fly paste Earth that might trigger tremors on the asteroid, not On Earth.

Will this be the asteroid (Wormwood) that was promised in the book of Revelation 8:10-11?

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface.

”Landslides and tremors may transform the asteroid Apophis during its 2029 brush with Earth, according to a new study.”

”Apophis is a 1,100-foot-long (340 meters), peanut-shaped asteroid. Although an impact with a space rock that size from earth annihilate our planet, it could easily destroy a city.”

IN 2029 it will fly as close as 32,000 kilometres or 20,000 miles from earth, maybe even crust into it.

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Deepa Jain 2024. https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/god-of-chaos-asteroid-may-be-transformed-by-tremors-and-landslides-during-2029-flyby-of-earth-study-finds 4 November.

 

World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms

 

 Joel Kontinen

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old.

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old.

Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 stems connected by a root system that sprawls about 43 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. It has long been thought to be among the most ancient living things on Earth.

The problem with this dating is that it does not take into the Genesis Flood into consideration. The three can’t be that old. It can’t survive one year under the water.

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James Woodford 2024. World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms | New Scientist1 November.