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    Random Photos

    Spring is springing:
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    Random Photos

    A result of the Glacial Lake Missula's several sudden outlet floods.
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    Random Photos

    AKA dendritic pattern. Its a river delta.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    High School ASASSN-15lh (aka SN 2015L), a superluminal supernova, or hypernova?

    Wow. I wish my wife would do stuff like that.
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    And They Names it Evo — an AI trained on trillions of bases

    Death will come for each of us, with or without bacteria or other pathogens.
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    What causes the asymmetry in a symmetrically developing organism?

    Zebrafish stripes are not random. They are formed as variations within a genetically defined pattern. Mutations within the zebrafish species can effect the stripe pattern. The pattern can evolve a lot. Other species in the genus containing zebrafish have horizontal and/or vertical stripes...
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    Chestnut Trees Coming Back?

    The American Chestnut tree used to be common in certain eastern US areas. A blight (fungal in nature) that came in to the US on an imported Chinese Chestnut. The fungus reeked havoc on the native American version. The big forests of chestnut trees are gone but some more isolated trees survived...
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    Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?

    The possibility i would be worried about would be some AI lacking human oversight being put in chanrge of some nukes. This seems completely within the realm of possibility. (Mentor removed political adder)
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Seems to be a real name:
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    History Çakmaktepe, older than Göbeklitepe

    Some of @Evo's posts got me interested in this a few years ago. There have been some threads on here about Göbeklitepe (in Turkey), one of the oldest known archeological sites. Çakmaktepe, one of several sites near and somewhat similar to Göbeklitepe that have been recently described, however...
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    There Be Monsters by Dave Collins

    Congratulations, quite the accomplishment.
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    New cases of Nipah virus

    Not with the current set of clowns running things!