Friday, 29 March 2024

Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time

 

Image courstecy of Daiju Azuma ,  CC BY-SA 2.5



 Joel Kontinen

The giant water bugs have originally come from Cyprus.  “The bugs, also called "toe biters," belong to the Lethocerus genus, which includes bird-eating species that can grow to around centimetres or 4.7 inches long.”

They  can  bite unsuspecting humans between the toes and thus they are called  toe biters.  They cannot harm humans in other ways.  

The bugs  probably got their venom after the fall of man, as recorded in Genesis 3. 

Source:

Patrick Pester, 2024. Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time | Live Science 25 March 


Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints

 


Image courtesy of Leonardo Troiano/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil.

Joel Kontinen

What do the ancient tribes of Brazil have to do with dinosaurs?

”Mysterious rock carvings found next to dinosaur tracks in Brazil suggest ancient people discovered the footprints thousands of years ago and recognised them as meaningful.

The Serrote do Letreiro site in Paraíba state features the footprints of theropod, sauropod and ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Epoch, between 145 million and 100 million years ago. Adjacent to these are numerous rock carvings, or, petroglyphs, predominantly circular with radial lines and other abstract motifs.”

But the dates supposed for the dinosaurs is in error. They can be that old.

Source:

Soumya Sagar, 2024Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints | New Scientist 26 March.

 



Monday, 25 March 2024

How do dogs understand words and what they mean?

 

Image courtesy of Gorodenkoff /, Shutterstock​. 

Joel Kontinen

When evolutionists think that great apes have the skill to understand words and their objects, science has a different story to tell.  

Now dogs can learn the names of objects. ”dogs seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.”

Dogss seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.

Marianna Boros at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and her colleagues tested 18 dogs from a wide range of breeds, including Border collies, toy poodles and Labrador retrievers.

Source:

James Woodford. 2024, Dogs really do understandthat words stand for objects, 22 March



Friday, 22 March 2024

Crock Cousin Found In Texas

 

Image courtesy of  Márcio L. Castro

Joel Kontinen

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile Cousin That Lived During The Late Triassic.

What kind of animals did the dinosaur era contain?

“Huge armored crocodile cousin with plates embedded in its skin and curved spikes along its flanks roamed our planet 215 million years ago,” evolution believing scientists reveal.

The timing of the found is spurious, It probably found its death in the flood of Noah’s day.

Source:

Patrick Pester. 2024, Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago | Live Science  20 March



Wednesday, 20 March 2024

There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria), B. Frye (University of Arizona), P. Kamieneski (Arizona State University), T. Carleton (Arizona State University), and R. Windhorst (University of Arizona.

Joel Kontinen 

“The universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists say that it is “not a measurement error.”

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look.”

This is known as the Hubble Tension, a study published on  February 6 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that there may be something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.

Yes, here is still much that we do not know of the universe, It is surrounded things we do not know about. But anyhow, the big bang view of the universe is wrong,

Source:  

Ben Turne. 2024 James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe | Live Science 14 March


 


Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

 

 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona

Joel  Kontinen

Evolution with its millionsof years poses many problems for the universe. Some features are not as old  as the age of the solar system,

What is new about Saturn’s moon Titan? New research is claiming that ridges cover its poles.   

It is said that landforms called “yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be on Saturn’s moon Titan.”

They might be yardings or some other features, There is still much we don’t know about Saturn and its moons.

 Source:

Leah Crane, 2024, Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan | New Scientist  15 March.


Saturday, 16 March 2024

Life on Europa?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Will there be life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa? That is what NASA is waiting for.

The message will be sent by the Europa Clipper spacecraft. which will start in October 2024.

“If any life is found on Europa, it is likely to be microbial, so the commemorative plate is more of a symbolic gesture than a bona fide message to extraterrestrial life forms, per se. “

The message has the names of some 2,6 million individuals:  

More than 2.6 million names have been stenciled into a "dime-size" silicon microchip by technicians at the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This microchip will be attached to a commemorative plate, which will feature a handwritten copy of the poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, among other design details.

Source:

Emily Cooke, 2024, NASA unveils cryptic message from Earth to be sent to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa | Live Science 13 March