Tuesday 5 November 2024

'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.

Source:

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.

 

Saturday 2 November 2024

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.

Source:

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

Thursday 31 October 2024

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare


 Image courtesy of Colin Waters/Alamy

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.

Source:

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.

Source:

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

 

 



Monday 28 October 2024

Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub

 


Image courtesy of Jacques Descloitres/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

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.

Source:

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

 


Image courtesy of NASA

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.

 Source:

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


Saturday 26 October 2024

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.

Source: 

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