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A Flip of Earth’s Magnetic Poles 42,000 Years Ago May Have Led to Mass Extinctions

A new study is revealing that a reversal in the Earth’s magnetic poles 42,000 to 41,000 years ago may have led to environmental crises that resulted in mass extinctions. The period is called the Laschamps excursion and the research used precise carbon dating obtained from ancient tree fossils to study its effects.

The team details how they created a precise radiocarbon record around the time of the “Laschamps geomagnetic reversal about 41,000 years ago from the rings of New Zealand swamp kauri trees.”

“This record reveals a substantial increase in the carbon-14 content of the atmosphere culminating during the period of weakening magnetic field strength preceding the polarity switch.” The team concluded that the “geomagnetic field minimum caused substantial changes in atmospheric ozone concentration that drove synchronous global climate and environmental” with their model investigating the consequences of this event.

Humanity Will Need to Survive About 400,000 Years if We Want any Chance of Hearing From an Alien Civilization

Can humanity last another 400,000 years? We might have to if we want to talk to another technological civilization.

If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven’t we heard from them? Those are the simple questions at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. In a new paper, a pair of researchers ask the next obvious question: how long will we have to survive to hear from another alien civilization?

Their answer? 400,000 years.

Russia’s Attack on Ukraine is Making Everything on this Planet Worse

James McCall SpringerHmmm… So quantum computing systems aren’t close to being perfected BUT they’re being used for ransomware attacks?

Is “bleepingcomouter” a bs sensationalist media producer like Futurism?

Len Rosen shared a link.

The “special operation” as Russia calls it has come with a threat of nuclear war, and consequences for food and energy security for many.

Chapter Seven — 2021 Dr. Burzynski — Artificial Intelligence & the Extinction of 99% of Oncologists

A series of interviews recorded in August of 2021 with Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski.
Watch 2016 Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7LZ8GLerI
Full Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLiRbQrj-gBow6VdLajWxaw.
https://www.burzynskimovie.com/
Notes from Dr. Burzynski:

1. Cancer is the disease of information processing which I described in the article in.
1986.

2. This “computer software ” consists of the network of mutated genes and in most.
patients these genes are not inherited as mutated. The mutations occur during.
patient’s life. The ” software” instructs the body to make billions of malignant cells.

3. This software should be removed from patient’s body. As long as it stays in the.
body the cancer will come back.

4. This is the reason why standard of care can’t cure advanced cancer with surgery.
radiation and chemotherapy, while they decrease tumor size they can’t remove mutated genes.

5. Antineoplastons have a chance to do it because based on laboratory studies they.

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When did the dinosaurs go extinct?

The end, when it came, came suddenly. An asteroid or comet 10 kilometres across slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, gouging a 180-kilometre crater and unleashing firestorms, eruptions and mega-tsunamis across the globe. The debris blocked out the Sun for years. The dinosaurs – and the other 75 per cent of life that went down with them – didn’t stand a chance.

The story of the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is well known. But that of their origin is less so. Dinosaurs were the dominant animals on land for at least 135 million years, the longest reign of any group. Had the impact not happened, they might still be in control. Where did these magnificent beasts come from?

The art of Aphantasia: How ‘mind blind’ artists create without being able to visualise

Josh SeehermanI don’t think he’s wrong.

Walter Lynsdale” agreeing with a Twitter user who said the “Woke mind virus is the biggest threat to civilization,”

… not nuclear war, or fossil fuel dependence? 😕

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Quinn Sena shared a link.

Circa 2021

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Massive Geomagnetic Storm: Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun Could Knock Out the Power Grid and Internet

On September 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as Colombia. Typically, these lights are only visible at higher latitudes, in northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia.

What the world experienced that day, now known as the Carrington Event, was a massive geomagnetic storm. These storms occur when a large bubble of superheated gas called plasma is ejected from the surface of the sun and hits the Earth. This bubble is known as a coronal mass ejection.

The plasma of a coronal mass ejection consists of a cloud of protons and electrons, which are electrically charged particles. When these particles reach the Earth, they interact with the magnetic field that surrounds the planet. This interaction causes the magnetic field to distort and weaken, which in turn leads to the strange behavior of the aurora borealis and other natural phenomena. As an electrical engineer who specializes in the power grid, I study how geomagnetic storms also threaten to cause power and internet outages and how to protect against that.

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