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Oct 26, 2018
Hidden ‘underworld’ chambers found beneath ancient pyramid
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Secret chambers dedicated to a mysterious underworld have been uncovered in an ancient pyramid.
Researchers have revealed that they discovered a new tunnel and a cavity hidden below an archaeological site near Mexico City.
Details of the stunning discoveries were released in a statement from the investigators of the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
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Oct 26, 2018
Watch Researchers Animate Static Images Using Mesmerizing Machine Learning
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Oct 26, 2018
Astronomers May Have Spotted One of Earth’s Ghostly Dust Moons
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
A ghostly dust satellite or two might be orbiting the Earth, according to new research building on a 60-year-old idea.
Massive objects attract one another through the force of gravity. But when you have multiple huge objects with just the right masses, their mutual gravitational field can introduce some anomalies—like gravitational points that can hold things stable. Scientists have found objects orbiting in these “Lagrange points” created by the combined gravity of the Sun and Mars, the Sun and Neptune, and the Sun and Jupiter. Researchers are now reporting evidence of dust clouds, called Kordylewski dust clouds, in the Lagrange points created by the Earth and the Moon.
Oct 26, 2018
‘We have a duty to act’: hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: climatology, government
Oct 26, 2018
There’s a Strange Cloud on Mars Right… — Planetary Landscapes
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
There’s a Strange Cloud on Mars Right Now, and It’s Just Hanging Around — For more than a month now, a European orbiter circling Mars has been watching a long, plume-like cloud on the Red Planet. The cloud has remained in place over a mountain called Arsia Mons near the Martian equator since Sept. 13, according to a statement released by the European Space Agency (ESA). But that location is just a coincidence, the agency adds. No volcanic process is producing the cloud — the volcano hasn’t been active in about 50 million years…at: https://www.space.com/42257-strange-mars-cloud-on-mars-phot…
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
Illustration by Chiara Zarmati/Salzman Art
Oct 26, 2018
Supermassive Black Holes Suggest We May Be Very Wrong About How Our Universe Formed
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
Oct 26, 2018
Uranus Will Be Visible To Everyone In Britain This Evening
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: habitats, space
Oct 26, 2018
Emerging From the Trance
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
It seems that opposition against anti-aging medicine may be slowly starting to crumble. For example, Lifespan.io’s current crowdfunding campaign is going extremely well, and journalists begin to talk about senolytics in positive terms, without any predictions of doom and gloom resulting from these upcoming drugs. Make no mistake—the pro-aging trance is still alive and well; for each journalist who puts time and effort into actually understanding senolytics and the health benefits that they are expected to bring to older people, there’s probably five who show little to no knowledge of the subject and rage against unspecified “immortality” technology and related impending catastrophes. This should tell us something about the kind of understanding they have of what they criticize—or how badly they need a clickbait piece to bring in visitors.
Today, the pro-aging trance is something that only rejuvenation advocates are aware of and battle against, but maybe, fifty years from now, it will be an interesting phenomenon of the past for psychologists to figure out. Maybe, on the YouTube of 2068, there will be videos making fun of it in pretty much the same way that some people today make fun of the old belief that hysteria was caused by stray uteruses wandering around women’s bodies.
The pro-aging trance is rather interesting indeed, as people who are subject to it tend to commit fallacies that they would never commit in other contexts. A very good example of this is the objection to inequality of access: this reasoning assumes that rejuvenation would not be available to everyone who needs it, for economical, political, or whatever reasons; understandably, this is perceived as a profound injustice, which pushes a fair number of people to make a leap and conclude that the best way to avoid this injustice is to never develop rejuvenation to begin with.
