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Host - Simon Whistler
"The Cascadia and San Andreas faults both connect…"
Host - Simon Whistler
…But early in this era mortals learn to kindle and maintain fire, and with the increase of inventive imagination and the improvement in tools, evolving man soon vanquishes the larger and more unwieldy animals. The early races also make extensive use of the larger flying animals. These enormous birds are able to carry one or two average-sized men for a nonstop flight of over five hundred miles. On some planets these birds are of great service since they possess a high order of intelligence, often being able to speak many words of the languages of the realm. These birds are most intelligent, very obedient, and unbelievably affectionate. Such passenger birds have been long extinct on Urantia, but your early ancestors enjoyed their services.…
Mentioned five times in the Urantia Papers.
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The Last Fandor
Our flying fellows' final fate.
Mindful Webworks UB Comix page from 1996.
Millions of years ago giant birds of prey ruled the Americas - the Teratorns. But our understanding of these animals has changed greatly in the last few decades.
The nearly complete skeleton of a female hominid known as ‘ Little Foot’ discovered in a South African cave more than 20 years ago was finally freed from her stone casing, and researchers have announced that she is “3.67-million-year-old” and belonged to a species of her own.…
…hundreds already confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake sent a tsunami barreling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday. …official death toll at 384 by Saturday afternoon, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the toll was likely to rise. …many bodies still lay on the ground near the shore, the day after tsunami waves of 1.5 meters, or five feet, hit the shore. …tsunami was triggered by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that sent buildings crumbling…
…Drinking Champagne out of anything other than a glass flute will severely — we repeat, severely — diminish the experience.
That’s according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin on the acoustics of Champagne bubbles (because, apparently, that’s a real thing that people study).…
A rogue planet has been discovered outside of our solar system… skirting the boundaries of our solar system — just 20 light years from Earth… roughly 200 million years old and around 12 times the size of Jupiter… independent of a sun… The surface… is roughly 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (816 Celsius), sitting “right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star…’”
…The earliest dog remains found in North America were buried nearly 10,000 years ago in what is now Illinois. By 7,000 years ago, other bones show that “we have lots of dogs all over the place…” But then, sometime after the 15th century, these ancient dogs disappeared.…
…“ultralow surface temperatures” in East Antarctica that surpass the coldest temperatures ever recorded on the earth’s surface. some 100 different locations on the East Antarctic Plateau reached temperatures of -98° C (-144° F) during the Antarctic polar night between 2004–2016.…
…At an estimated 85 feet in length, the newly discovered ichthyosaur might just be the biggest prehistoric creature ever recorded.… 25 percent larger than the largest ichthyosaur jaw ever discovered…
Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand – has died at age 76…
Headline: 'National Geographic' delves into its past: 'For decades our coverage was racist'…
All society was far more racist in the past than now. We progress. (National Geographic apparently missed that.) In fact, now, NatGeog can show white gals' bare boobs. Progress!
"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." —L. P. Hartley
A new swarm of earthquakes has cropped up at the Yellowstone supervolcano, with more than 200 small temblors detected in the last 10 days alone. …But for now, scientists say there’s no reason to worry.…
Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala… Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications. … thought to have been home to millions more people than other research had previously suggested.…
…If the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now.
…PREHISTORIC, DINOSAUR-ERA SHARK WITH INSANE TEETH FOUND SWIMMING OFF COAST OF PORTUGAL…
…“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” Christian Smorra, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is. What is the source of the symmetry break?”
Good luck with that.…
Neoneocon citing NY Post article
…Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency… probe… detected a 31 mile (50 kilometers) “lava tube” that runs deep beneath the moon’s “Marius Hills.” … could be crucial to the goal of creating… large-scale lunar bases…
The first earthquake, measuring 5.4, hit central northern Italy at 7.10pm local time
The second devastating quake - measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale - followed two hours later
The epicentre was in countryside 80 miles from Rome and historic buildings were felt shaking in the capital…
…On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.…
…Most of the laws of physics …are symmetric with respect to time… except one. The Second Law of Thermodynamics… is the reason why you can mix stuff but you can't unmix it…
…Now scientists analyzing more than 150 galaxies find that dark matter might not explain their new observations, which they say hints that dark matter might not exist and that a new law of nature might be needed to solve all these mysteries.…
…In 2011, Cynthia was unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico and at initial stages of its life it was absorbing oil slicks with a breathtaking speed. In January, 2011 the Register reported that that scientists were particularly impressed by the speed with which the bacteria was eating up its “meal”.
But then this bacteria mutated and soon it was feeding on organic lifeforms. Strange reports started coming from the US, like five thousand birds falling victims of an “unknown disease” in Arkansas, or more that a hundred thousand of dead fish found off the coast of North Louisiana. It was also reported that a total of 128 British Petroleum employees that participated in the liquidation of the oil slick were struck by some mysterious illness. According to various sources they were forbidden to seek relief in public hospitals, to prevent them from talking to anyone about what has happened to them……
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the largest, most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. It pinpoints the 3D positions of 1.1 billion stars, almost 400 million of which were previously unknown to science.… suggests that the Milky Way is slightly bigger than previously estimated…
…The earthquake centered in northeast Oklahoma on Saturday was upgraded to magnitude 5.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday, making it the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the state.…
A powerful controlled explosion designed to demolish a giant limestone boulder blocking the path of the road exposed the entrance to a giant limestone cave which had been sealed for over 200,000 years.… "Qesem Cave…"
"It's a very special cave," he said. "It reflects an unknown stage in the history of humanity. We don’t know which type of human lived here. We know that they acted differently than everyone else who lived in this area before them. They seem like a different type of human. They didn't just behave differently, but they also looked differently. If we aren't mistaken, they were more similar to us ( humans today), and not their forefathers the Homo erectus.…"
"This site is approximately 400,000 years old. If you look at what (the early humans) did here, on their hunting strategies, the way they made their tools and how they prepared their food, it points to one of the most important changes in the history of mankind.…
OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Oklahoma -
Residents across the state were rocked awake Saturday morning after an earthquake struck in Central Oklahoma.
Around 7:00 a.m., a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook and several residents and along with our staff began going to social media in response.…
At least 159 dead, 368 others hurt as strong earthquake rocks central Italy… hundreds of others were injured… destroyed a cluster of small mountain villages…
…The country its currently updating its very longitude and latitude to correct a divergence with global satellite navigation systems. Geoscience Australia, a part of the Australian government, is behind the project of getting the Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's national coordinate system, up to code and bring it in line with international data.…
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