Thursday Things: Pluto Day Edition
18 February 2021. Vol 3 No 7 By Dan McGirt. #80
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Happy Pluto Day! On this day in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory discovered Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system.
The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney, an eleven schoolgirl in Oxford, England, after a survey was conducted, and the name Pluto won by votes. The name was announced on May 1, 1930. The then little girl received a modern equivalent of 450 USD. The final choice of a name was helped in part by the fact that the first letters of Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell.
Despite the efforts of Pluto-hating revisionists to reclassify and demote Pluto, we know the truth — Pluto is still a planet! Pluto will always be a planet! Pluto Forever!
Learn many fascinating Pluto Facts at The Nine Planets.
How to Escape the Confines of Time and Space According to the CIA
The intrigue revolves around a classified 1983 CIA report on a technique called the Gateway Experience, which is a training system designed to focus brainwave output to alter consciousness and ultimately escape the restrictions of time and space.
This seems like a fine use of the CIA’s time and money.
These Scientists Just Completed a 3D ‘Google Earth’ for the Brain This might be good to have when you’re escaping the confines to time and space.
Enter a new kind of map: the Julich-Brain, a probabilistic map of human brains that accounts for individual differences using a computational framework. Rather than generating a static PDF of a brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is also dynamic, in that it continuously changes to incorporate more recent brain mapping results. So far, the map has data from over 24,000 thinly sliced sections from 23 postmortem brains covering most years of adulthood at the cellular level. But the atlas can also continuously adapt to progress in mapping technologies to aid brain modeling and simulation, and link to other atlases and alternatives.
It seems like this should be a bigger story. Pentagon admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may ‘change our lives forever,’ expert says
In the response, shared with The Sun, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious "memory" metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.
Bragalia said it was a "stunning admission" from the US government and the documents reveal that some of the retrieved debris possesses "extraordinary capabilities" including the potential to make things invisible or even slow down the speed of light.
He told The Sun: "The Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing anomalous debris from UFOs.
Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica. It might be best to leave them there. Has no one seen this movie?
The waters below Antarctica are amongst the most inhospitable environments on our planet - or so we thought.
It's pitch dark, and temperatures are subzero; yet, when scientists drilled through an Antarctic ice shelf far from light or warmth, they found a seafloor boulder that's home to several species we may have never seen before.
A few of the organisms have been seen in similar locations, but this discovery marks the first time stationary creatures that live their lives attached to one place, such as sponges, have been found in this hostile environment.
"This discovery is one of those fortunate accidents that pushes ideas in a different direction and shows us that Antarctic marine life is incredibly special and amazingly adapted to a frozen world," said biogeographer Huw Griffiths of the British Antarctic Survey.
Yeah, that’s what they always say in the movie right before everything goes horribly, horribly wrong because you woke up something you should have left frozen in the ice. Don’t say you weren’t warned, Antarctic scientist!
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