“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?

 

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. “

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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.