Cygnia Posted December 23, 2023 Report Share Posted December 23, 2023 Colombia Looks To Recover Billions In Treasure From 1708 Shipwreck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 23, 2023 Report Share Posted December 23, 2023 (edited) If they can get there before the freebooting plunderers. Good luck with that. Edited December 23, 2023 by Cancer Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 Shakira statue unveiled in her home town https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-67826941 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Shakira statue unveiled in her home town https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-67826941 In the distant future, assuming humanity gets a distant future, archeologists will simply assume that is a sculpture of a goddess. assault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 Damn Tom Smothers, Comedian, Musician and Scourge of CBS Censors, Dies at 86 Rich McGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 GSK terminating production of most common asthma medication in four days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted December 29, 2023 Report Share Posted December 29, 2023 An ancient constellation map that includes a star that's no longer visible? Plug that into your "Stargate: SG-1" campaign. Or maybe your "Call of Cthulhu" campaign, as there could be far more sinister explanations for a missing star than it going supernova. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1222056316/an-ancient-celestial-map-recently-found-in-italy-includes-an-unknown-star Dean Shomshak Old Man and Tom Cowan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) British New Years honours https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67834723 Eighty years since village abandoned on Sailsbury Plain. This is where the army does training https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67750589 Edited December 30, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75. He was the lawyer killed in Michael Clayton and the bad guy in Rush Hour. He was also the crime boss in Batman Begins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65823240 Old Man, rravenwood, Ternaugh and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75. He was the lawyer killed in Michael Clayton and the bad guy in Rush Hour. He was also the crime boss in Batman Begins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65823240 Oh, that's saddening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) On 12/29/2023 at 9:41 AM, DShomshak said: An ancient constellation map that includes a star that's no longer visible? Plug that into your "Stargate: SG-1" campaign. Or maybe your "Call of Cthulhu" campaign, as there could be far more sinister explanations for a missing star than it going supernova. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1222056316/an-ancient-celestial-map-recently-found-in-italy-includes-an-unknown-star Dean Shomshak AND THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT WHERE IN THE SKY IT WAS??? Belongs in the Fail thread. Edited December 30, 2023 by Cancer Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 Even NPR doesn't always get it right. I wonder if the location of the missing star is listed in the source material the NPR article came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 30, 2023 Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 I would have liked a reference to a source closer to the original publication or announcement. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 1 Report Share Posted January 1 (edited) On 12/30/2023 at 12:36 PM, Cancer said: AND THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT WHERE IN THE SKY IT WAS??? Belongs in the Fail thread. No, it does not. I think you're asking too much from a one-minute story in a nionspecialist medium, intended for lay people. What do you expect, right ascension and declination? But for everyone who wants more information, here's a somewhat more detailed story, and probably the basis for NPR's: Ancient celestial map found at Castelliere di Rupinpiccolo in Italy | Archaeology News Online Magazine (archaeologymag.com) It wasn't hard to find. And here's the original article, with statistical analysis of the chisel marks. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220108 The final section discusses the extraneous(?) chisel mark. It might represent a known but dim star in the Orion or Scorpio regions of the sky, though one might wonder why it was chosen. (And I'm wondering why the person who made the map did those famously opposing asterisms on the same map.) But since the mystery star might be in the same region as the hot, fast-burning stars of Orion, a supernova is an intriguing possibility that might be confirmed through a telescopic search for such a remnant. That also explains why NPR actually *could not* say where in the sky it was, because it is not yet certain which asterism it is meant to be near. Which is, in turn, more detail than was likely possible given the time budgeted for the story. Fortunately, I have no such limit. We aim to please. Dean Shomshak Edited January 1 by DShomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Turns out the paper is also Open Access at Astronomische Nachrichten, which ends up pointing at the same Wiley Online link you have. Being an Old Fart, I generally think of the old journal names rather than the publishers. Hm. Sco-Sgr is a rather busy part of the sky. The north Orion region is much tamer in that regard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Five dead after two airplanes collide at Japanese airport https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67862011 What is remarkable is that everyone on the commercial passenger jet survived. 379 people passengers and crew. Evacuated safely. That is remarkable given the fire taking hold of it. Apparently the goal is to evacuate a plane in about 90 seconds with only half the exits working. Well this worked. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 24 minutes ago, death tribble said: Five dead after two airplanes collide at Japanese airport https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67862011 What is remarkable is that everyone on the commercial passenger jet survived. 379 people passengers and crew. Evacuated safely. That is remarkable given the fire taking hold of it. Apparently the goal is to evacuate a plane in about 90 seconds with only half the exits working. Well this worked. I'm sure one of the air disaster channels I follow on YT will be doing this case once more info is out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Holy blindside blitz, Batman! Home insurance renewal notice just arrived. 50% (!!!!) premium increase. Several factors cited...construction costs, inflation. The big one, I suspect, $140 billion paid out by the industry due to natural disasters. Ouch. More bad news? Forecast is for a year that'll probably be *hotter* than last year, as El Nino raises sea surface temps...which'll impact everything. Which also suggests another year with more, and more severe, storms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 I'm surprised the earthquake in Japan hasn't been covered here yet. Here's drone footage of the destruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 35 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Holy blindside blitz, Batman! Home insurance renewal notice just arrived. 50% (!!!!) premium increase. Several factors cited...construction costs, inflation. The big one, I suspect, $140 billion paid out by the industry due to natural disasters. Ouch. More bad news? Forecast is for a year that'll probably be *hotter* than last year, as El Nino raises sea surface temps...which'll impact everything. Which also suggests another year with more, and more severe, storms. The surest guarantee that the climate crisis is for real is insurance rates. Or just a total lack of available insurance, such as in Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Mind you, financial firms have historically led the charge to pad balance sheets so as to increase executive compensation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperion Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 13 hours ago, unclevlad said: Holy blindside blitz, Batman! Home insurance renewal notice just arrived. 50% (!!!!) premium increase. Several factors cited...construction costs, inflation. The big one, I suspect, $140 billion paid out by the industry due to natural disasters. Ouch. More bad news? Forecast is for a year that'll probably be *hotter* than last year, as El Nino raises sea surface temps...which'll impact everything. Which also suggests another year with more, and more severe, storms. Be glad it was so small. Many places have seen increases greater than 80%. When people ask why, they are met with only silence. Then when they can't pay those higher rates, they loose coverage, homes, vehicles, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2024/01/04/dog-eats-4000-cash-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Doggonne it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 The largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous spider has been found in Australia Quote SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, Can you imagine how much that would hurt? Quote the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance. Meaning the spider failed its stealth roll. Quote Sydney funnel-web spiders usually range in length from one to five centimeters Speaking of stealth rolls. I'm not sure I feel better about the 1cm version at all. Quote “With having a male funnel-web this size in our collection, his venom output could be enormous Greeeeeat. Quote Since the inception of the program in 1981, there has not been a fatality in Australia from a funnel-web spider bite. Two funnel-web spider bites, though. Through your fingernail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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