Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare

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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.

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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.

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

 

 

Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub

 

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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.

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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

 

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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.

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

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.

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

4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24)

 

A diagram of the orbit of the asteroid 2002 NV16 around the sun

Joel Kontinen

Four reasonably large asteroids hurtleds past Earth yesterday, The ”potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 30 metres (100 feet) or 207 metres (580 feet) across.  They will all make their closest they were found within less than 12  hours ago.

Two of them were only discovered earlier this month. The first asteroid is  the  2015 HM1 which will hurtled past us at  5.5 kilometres or 3.4 miles from us, at its closest. The next asteroid will zoom after the first one.

The final two asteroids — 2002 V16 and 2024 TR6 — will zoom us by make the closest approaches  just four minutes of each other. 2002 NV16, is around 177 metres across, making it the largest of the four, will zoom us by reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km from us) at around us. It will be quickly followed by the 46 metres steroid (150-foot-wide) 2024 TR6, which will come within 3.5 million miles (5.6 million km) of Earth.

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Harry Baker, 2024. 4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24) | Live Science 23. October.

Did dinosaurs fly?

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Joel Kontinen

This story us back 129 million  years ago when a dinosaurs had wings flight that it may have taken flight. But the  proof is Darwinian storytelling, that cannot be held as true.

”Tiny tracks in South Korea symbolise a moment 120 million years ago when a dinosaur took advantage of its wings to cover ground in large leaps – the oldest track evidence of wing-assisted movement in these extinct animals.

Whether the creature, which was a raptor and not part of the lineage that led to birds, took full flight is uncertain. But the tracks support previous ideas that aerodynamics evolved multiple times across prehistoric lines, says Alexander Dececchi at Dakota State University in South Dakota.

“It’s pretty rare to find these kinds of [pre-flight] tracks, and then to find them in an animal that’s not even a bird – that’s pretty special,” he says.

Velociraptors and other raptors (dromaeosaurids) are the ancestors of modern birds, but their lineage split into avian and non-avian, or “paravian”, lines about 170 million years ago. Despite having feathers and wings, paravian dinosaurs generally seemed to lack the wingspan needed to offset their body weight, says team member Michael Pittman at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

But Pittman, Dececchi and their colleagues suspected that some paravian dinosaurs could fly, or at least glide, before full flight evolved in birds, based on muscles in their upper bodies. That suspicion grew stronger as they investigated more than 2600 rows of dinosaur tracks around the world.”

Yes, evolutionists are still uncertain if the animals flew.

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Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2024. Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run | New Scientist 21.October.