What does Intifada mean?

 

What does the globalized Intifada mean? It means killing Jews all over the world just as it happened in Australia.

Spiders on Jupiter? Scientists uncover secret origins of arachnid-like 'demon' lurking on gas giant's moon.

 

NASA's Galileo spacecraft first photographed a bizarre spider-like structure lurking within a large crater on Europa during a close flyby of the moon on March 29, 1998. Image courtesy of ASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Joel Kontinen

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the frozen world.

In March 1998, NASA's Galileo spacecraft — which studied Jupiter and its major moons between 1995 and 2003 — made a close flyby of Europa, a frozen ocean moon often considered one of the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to exist in the solar system. During this flyby, the probe mapped out a roughly 13.7-mile-wide (22 kilometers) impact structure, dubbed Manannán Crater, on the moon's icsy surface, and found something strange lurking within it.

Some other experts say that it was created by eruptions from hydrothermal vents on the floor of Europa's subsurface ocean.

According to new study, in The Planetary Science Journal, researchers proposed an alternative explanation: that the Jovian spider formed in a similar way to how dark dendritic patterns on Earth, known as "lake stars," typically do.

With this in mind, the researchers used a similar technique to partially recreate the Manannán Crater's mysterious shape in the lab.

"Lake stars are really beautiful, and they are pretty common on snow or slush-covered frozen lakes and ponds," study lead-author Laura Mc Keown, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, said in a statement. "It is wonderful to think that they may give us a glimpse into processes occurring on Europa and maybe even other icy ocean worlds in our solar system."

However, rather than water rising through tiny holes, as happens when lake stars form on Earth, Damhán Alla was likely birthed by an asteroid impact — which created a small crack in Europa's icy shell that enabled salty water to seep upward and paint the spider-like pattern on the surface. (This asteroid impact likely happened after the Manannán Crater was already formed.)

The researchers also noted similarities between Damhán Alla and the infamous "spiders on Mars," which are dusty deposits on the Martian surface that look like swarming spiders when viewed from above. These fake arachnids, known as araneiform terrain, form when submerged carbon dioxide ice sublimates, or turns directly into a gas. Mc Keown's team has previously recreated these features on Earth too.

The similarities in shape between Damhán Alla and the spiders on Mars are due to how "fluid flows through porous surfaces," Mc Keown said. In theory, similar spider features could also form on other frozen ocean worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's other moon Ganymede and the dwarf planet Ceres, which resides in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

So, this means that some extraterrestrial life may abound on the moon, but life only comes when a creator give life to them.

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Harry Baker 2025 Spiders on Jupiter? Scientists uncover secret origins of arachnid-like 'demon' lurking on gas giant's moon. | Live Science 17 December

Sydney massacre

 The resent massacre of Jews in Sidney, Australia has caused chaos all over the world.

Is Christian Zionism Biblical or Heretical?

 

Some say that Zionism is a heresy, but Bible say that it isn't.  It says that God gave the promises to Abraham.

Muslim hero disarms terrorist during Bondi Beach shooting attack

Joel Kontinen

The attack happened on the first day of Hanukkah, when to terrorists killed 16 people and wounded 40.

 Ahmed Al Ahmed has been identified as the brave civilian who rushed one of the terrorists head-on and tore the weapon from his hands, forcing the attacker to retreat and potentially saving dozens of lives.

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World Israel News 2025 WATCH: Muslim hero disarms terrorist during Bondi Beach shooting attack | World Israel News December 14, 

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

 

The Gale crater on Mars. Image courtesy of ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

 Joel Kontinen

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas.

A bigger moon for Mars. that is the result of water that supposedly sprang from it as the smaller moons that encircle they could not produce so much water.  

This is the result of believing in millions of years as it may given time for the moon to be formed.

A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough to create tides. Neither of the two moons it currently possesses are big enought for the job.

Suniti Karunatillake at Louisiana State University and his colleagues have found that traces of tidal activity seem to be preserved in thin layers within sedimentary rocks in Gale crater

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Bas den Hond 2025 Mars may once have had a much larger moon | New Scientist 12 December 

The 'hobbits' may have died out when drought forced them to compete with modern humans, new research suggests

 

Image courtesy of Lanmas via Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Darwinian  evolution and climate change seem to be the standard for how the hobbits died out,  but the only solution to this dilemma was that these humans suffered from a disease that made their heads grow small.

We might not forget that the all are the descendants of  Adam and Eve.

Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the "hobbit" — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago because declining rainfall levels reduced the prey available for hunting. This may have forced them to migrate to areas where they competed with modern humans, new research suggests.

The rainfall shortage would not have been the only reason why they went extinct, the team noted. A volcanic eruption that occurred around 50,000 years ago may also have been a significant factor in their extinction.

So far, fossils of the hobbit have been found in only one cave, known as Liang Bua, on Flores island in Indonesia. Since the discovery of H. floresiensis was first reported publicly in 2004, scientists have been trying to determine how the diminutive species lived and why it went extinct.

Now, in a paper published Monday (Dec. 8) in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, scientists report that rainfall on the island appears to have declined considerably before 50,000 years ago. They also found that the population of Stegodon, a genus of a now-extinct elephant relative that the hobbits hunted, also diminished before vanishing from Flores around 50,000 years ago.

to determine how rainfall on the island changed, the team studied a stalagmite from Liang Luar, a cave on Flores that is close to Liang Bua. Stalagmites grow when water evaporates and forms calcium carbonate. The new growth also has small amounts of other minerals, such as magnesium. Stalagmites don't grow as fast during times of water shortage, and the growth that does occur tends to have less calcium carbonate and more magnesium, the researchers noted in their paper. This means that by measuring the ratio of magnesium to calcium carbonate, the team can determine when rainfall decreased or increased, and by how much.

The researchers found that average annual rainfall declined from 61.4 inches (1,560 millimetres) 76,000 years ago to 40 inches (990 mm) 61,000 years ago. The island continued to have this reduced rainfall level through 50,000 years ago. At that point, there was an eruption at a nearby volcano, and a layer of ejected rock covered the island.

When the team analyzed the remains of Stegodon teeth, they found that the number of these animals decreased on the island between 61,000 and 50,000 years ago, before vanishing after the eruption. The researchers think the reduction in rainfall led to a decrease in Stegodon populations, making life more difficult for the hobbits as they formed a major part of their diet.

As rainfall declined, Stegodon populations may have migrated to the coasts of the island, with the hobbits following them.

"We suspect that if the Stegodon population were declining due to reduced river flow then they would have migrated away to a more consistent water source," Nick Scroxton, a research scientist of hydrology, paleoclimate and paleoenvironments at University College Dublin and co-author of the paper, told Live Science in an email. "So it makes sense for the hobbits to have followed."

It's possible that moving to the coast could have brought the hobbits into contact with Homo sapiens groups who were expanding throughout the region. This contact could have resulted in competition for resources and even intergroup conflict, Scroxton suggested. Additionally, the volcanic eruption around 50,000 years ago would have made things even worse for the hobbits.

"This looks like a very impressive study," said Julien Luoys, a palaeontologist at Griffith University in Australia who has conducted extensive research on hominins but was not involved in the new research, told Live Science in an email. A reduction in rainfall can have a major impact on an island as small as Flores, he noted.

"There's only a limited amount of space on an island, and only so many types of environments that can be harboured," Luoys said. "When things get drier, an animal can't simply move off the island, and any potential refugia they could use are going to either disappear or become very crowded, very quickly."

Debbie Argue, an honorary lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, who was not involved in the work, also praised the research. "The paper gives us an excellent insight into a changing climatic environment in the region and is a most welcome contribution to knowledge about past conditions on Flores," Argue said.

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Owen Jarus 2025 The 'hobbits' may have died out when drought forced them to compete with modern humans, new research suggests | Live Science 8. December

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

 

Image courtesy of International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (Intl Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin of life. Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is belching out carbon-rich chemical compounds at higher rates than almost any other comet in our solar system. One of these compounds is methanol, a key ingredient in prebiotic chemistry that hasn’t been seen in other interstellar objects.

3I/ATLAS, which is only the third visitor to our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy, appears to be quite unlike any comet from our own galactic neighbourhood. As it travelled towards the sun, an envelope of water vapour and gas rapidly grew around it, which also contained much greater amounts of carbon dioxide than we see in typical solar system comets. The comet light also appeared to be much redder than is typical, surface chemistry, and it began releasing its gases while relatively far away from the sun, an indication that it might not have passed close to another star for hundreds of millions of years, or since it left its home star system.

Millions of years and evolution are tied together in this study. Both cannot be believed. Live needs a designer, that evolution is not.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life | New Scientist 5 December

Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

 

A cave near a site of ancient human occupation in the Arabian desert. Image courtesy of Huw S. Groucutt, et al

Joel Kontinen

Ancient humans used to live in the Arabian desert.  Evolutionists say that in the beginning it took place around 100,000 years ago but the dates of this is very doubtful.

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too.

“This paper provides the first outline of the archaeological record of inland north-east Arabia – a vast region that has been unstudied,” says Monika Markowska at Northumbria University, UK, who wasn’t involved in the work.

The research focuses on a mostly underexplored region of the Arabian peninsula between Qatar and Kuwait. Records of a prehistoric human presence in this area are non-existent, yet scientists know it once received enough rain to support a thriving ecosystem.

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Taylor Mitchell Brown 2025 Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert | New Scientist 2 December 

San of Hamas tells about Hamas

 

The Son of Hamas tells about Hamas, which has been designated terrorist organization in the West and in many Muslim countries.