Discovery Bit | India Blount | Activity https://www.discoverybit.com/members/indiadal40197/activity/ Activity feed for India Blount. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:27:46 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a059dfaa7af711a644190ce9e556d59c India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: 3I/ATLAS, Discovered In July 2025, Is The 3rd Confirmed […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44830/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:18:14 -0600 3I/ATLAS, Discovered In July 2025, Is The 3rd Confirmed Interstellar Comet (IC) After ‘Oumuamua & Borisov. In 2026, NASA‘s Swift Detected OH Gas (Sign Of Water) Outgassing At ~40 Kg/Sec While It Was Unusually Far, ~3.5 AU, From The Sun. It’s The First Direct Water Detection From An IC, Showing Other Star Systems Host Water-Rich Icy Bodies.

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]]> 0 e97e375a4e48323744dd4cf672230875 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Astronomers Discovered The Most Distant Supernova Ever […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44719/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:43:26 -0600 Astronomers Discovered The Most Distant Supernova Ever Observed, Exploding When The Universe Was Only ~730 Myrs Old (Z≈7.3). First Detected Via A Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 250314A By The SVOM Satellite On 3/14/25, It Was Later Confirmed By JWST, Shedding Light On How Early Massive Stars Formed And Died. Findings Were Announced In December 2025.

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]]> 0 8fbc5c9fd407f14913fa0f3c388f1398 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Comet 3I/ATLAS, Spotted By ATLAS In Chile, Is The Fastest […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44458/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:56:39 -0600 Comet 3I/ATLAS, Spotted By ATLAS In Chile, Is The Fastest Comet Ever At 130k Mph. Likely From A Distant Solar System, Its Speed Comes From Billions Of Years Of Gravitational Slingshots. Hubble Showed Its 1k Ft To 3.5-Mile-Wide Icy Core & Dust Tail. Nearing The Sun By 10/25, It May Disintegrate Or Survive/Speed Up; Its Fate Will Be Clear By 12/25.

]]> 0 bc6cec8e4db18a4be849b69edde65253 India Blount posted an update in the group Other: NWA-16788, The Largest Mars Meteorite Found On Earth, Weighs […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44365/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:30:38 -0600 NWA-16788, The Largest Mars Meteorite Found On Earth, Weighs 24.67 Kg—70% More Than 2021’s Taoudenni 002 (14.51 Kg, Mali). Discovered In Niger’s Sahara In Nov 2023 & Confirmed By The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, It Shows Little Weathering & Contains Maskelynite, Pyroxene, And Olivine. Sotheby’s Will Auction It On 7/16/25, With Bids Up To $4M.

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]]> 0 c58f29399d76820a80e5436a1b537eeb India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: JWST, For The First Time, Detected Water Ice In The […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44313/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:19:19 -0600 JWST, For The First Time, Detected Water Ice In The Planet-Forming Disk Of A Young (23-Myr-Old) Sun-Like Star, HD 181327, 155 Ly Away. Ice Was Found Concentrated In The Outer Disk, Like In Our Kuiper Belt. This Finding Supports Theories That Comets & Asteroids Brought Water To Inner Planets, As In Earth‘s Late Heavy Bombardment 4 Byrs Ago.

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]]> 0 4d21da6a9097d9de434f6d31855fc565 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: New Simulations Show The Milky Way And Andromeda Collision Is […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44299/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:12:05 -0600 New Simulations Show The Milky Way And Andromeda Collision Is Unlikely Soon—Only A 2% Chance In 5B Yrs. Despite Moving At 62 mi/s, A Full Merger May Take 8–10B Yrs. Close Passes Are More Likely. Added Variables Like The Large Magellanic Cloud Altered Earlier Predictions. But The Earth May Be Gone By The Time Of Merger, Consumed By The Sun.

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]]> 0 5dbf7c7c881997bb2a934efc64d32ce2 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: UMa3/U1, 20 Ly Wide With ~60 Stars And 16 Solar Masses, May […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44258/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:50:42 -0600 UMa3/U1, 20 Ly Wide With ~60 Stars And 16 Solar Masses, May Be The Smallest Dark-Matter Galaxy Or An 11B-Yr-Old Star Cluster; Dynamics Suggest The Latter, Pending Future Data. Meanwhile, Andromeda XXXV, 3M Ly From Earth, & A Satellite Of Andromeda Galaxy, Is Confirmed As The Smallest Known Dwarf Galaxy, Defying Early-Universe Destruction.

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]]> 0 39001eb8ab977f13056aeab26544ffb7 India Blount posted an update in the group Other: Mt. Chimborazo In Ecuador, Standing At 20,548 Ft Above MSL, […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44084/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:06:00 -0600 Mt. Chimborazo In Ecuador, Standing At 20,548 Ft Above MSL, Is The Closest Point On Earth To The Stars, Being 6,800 Ft Farther From Earth’s Center Than Mt. Everest. Chimborazo’s Unique Location, 1.5 Deg South Of The Equator Where The Earth Bulges, Makes It Taller From Earth’s Core. Unlike Everest’s ~2-Month Climb, Chimborazo Takes ~2 Days.

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]]> 0 baf9813fec4e591b63bba4e28f41c38c India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: New Research Suggests That Carbon & Oxygen, Vital For Life, […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44066/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:30:55 -0600 New Research Suggests That Carbon & Oxygen, Vital For Life, Traveled Outside Our Galaxy Before Forming Us. Dispersed By Supernovae, These Elements Move Via Cosmic Currents Called The ‘circumgalactic Medium,’ Circulating In And Out Of Galaxies, Aiding New Star And Planet Formation. This Implies Our Bodies Are Made Of Intergalactic Travelers.

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]]> 0 5de1c2a5da149607bc22efa6e156fbb1 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists Discovered A Huge Water Reservoir, 3x Earth's […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/43758/ Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:09:18 -0600 Scientists Discovered A Huge Water Reservoir, 3x Earth’s Oceans, 700 Km Deep Within The Mantle In The Rock Ringwoodite. This Find Challenges Theories On Earth’s Water Origin, Suggesting Possibly Internal Rather Than From Comets. Seismic Data Reveals This Underground Ocean, Potentially Reshaping Our Understanding Of The Planet’s Water Cycle.

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]]> 0 e1f8e5b6e6a39ba14fb25fc4893484a0 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: A Recent Study Suggests Earth's Core May Be Enveloped By An […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/43425/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:01:22 -0600 A Recent Study Suggests Earth’s Core May Be Enveloped By An Ancient Ocean Floor Hosting Mountains, 5x Taller Than Mt. Everest. This Find Comes From The Most Detailed Geological Map Of The Southern Hemisphere, Showing A Vast Ultra-Low Velocity Zone, Likely Containing Subducted Oceanic Materials, Influencing Heat Flow & Geological Activities.

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]]> 0 e88af0e0abad7c36ed3322e9ca1e3c35 India Blount posted an update in the group Other: Scientists Made A Breakthrough In A 60-Year Quest To Explore […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/43226/ Sat, 10 Jun 2023 19:11:53 -0600 Scientists Made A Breakthrough In A 60-Year Quest To Explore Earth’s Depths By Recovering Pieces Of Rocky Mantle From Atlantis Massif In The North Atlantic. Though They Didn’t Reach The Mantle, They Obtained The Deepest Mantle Rock Ever Collected, 4157ft, Providing Valuable Data For, E.g., Understanding Earth’s Composition, & Life’s Origin.

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]]> 0 4675ca2912bd08ca3d527434a05d8fec India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: The Antarctic Desert, Categorized As A Cold Desert, Is The […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/43179/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:44:24 -0600 The Antarctic Desert, Categorized As A Cold Desert, Is The World’s Largest Desert Spanning ~ 5.48 Million Square Miles. The Arctic Desert, Also A Cold Desert, Is The Second Largest At ~ 5.37 Million Square Miles. The Sahara Desert, Classified As A Hot And Dry Desert, Is The Largest Non-Polar Desert, Covering ~3.55 Million Square Miles.

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]]> 0 684427c78fc22c856167fd1c0a757a1e India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/42608/ Tue, 03 May 2022 21:43:54 -0600 Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA Nucleobases In Meteorites That Fell To Earth In The Last 100 Yrs, Using A DNA Extraction Method That’s 100X More Sensitive Than Methods Used Since The 1960s. And The Nucleobases– Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, And Uracil, May Indicate That The Ingredient For Life Came From Space.

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]]> 0 6ef2b476e3bb37db81591573dceeaa1e India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: The Earth's Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/42479/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:12:38 -0600 The Earth’s Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously Thought. A New Study Estimates A 1.5X Higher Bulk Thermal Conductivity At Core-Mantle Boundary Than The Conventional Value, Which Could Imply A Faster Earth Cooling Process That Could Make The Earth Unhabitable And Tectonically Inactive Millions Or Billions Of Years From Now.

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]]> 0 29558aa76be292c30336f8fa91d50f1b India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/42379/ Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:46:45 -0600 Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.…

]]> 0 eaba88fd606fa58389738fc949306cdc India Blount posted an update in the group Product: Scientists Briefly Created A Rare Diamond To Test Its […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/39077/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:42:12 -0600 Scientists Briefly Created A Rare Diamond To Test Its Hardness. The Stiffness Of The Artificial Hexagonal Diamond, Lonsdaleite, Suggest It Is 58% Stronger Than Diamond, Setting A New Record For The Hardest Known Material. Advances Are Needed To Stabilize The Production Of Lonsdaleite, Also Found In Meteorite Crater Rocks, For Its Uses.

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]]> 0 44097384f412887887d9a2f2a6187e1b India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Researchers May Have Discovered A Meteorite Derived From A […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/38332/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:24:17 -0600 Researchers May Have Discovered A Meteorite Derived From A Planet At Its Early Stage Of Formation. The Meteorite, Named Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), Said To Be Older Than Earth, Was Found In The Sahara Desert. EC 002 Is The “Oldest Known Extra-Terrestrial Lava” On Earth And May Offer Glimpse Of Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System.

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]]> 0 b4d297b1112da68917fd020912867db3 India Blount posted an update in the group Product: Natural Diamond Form From Carbon, ~150 km Deep In The Earth, […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36602/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 03:42:55 -0600 Natural Diamond Form From Carbon, ~150 km Deep In The Earth, Under High Temperature And Pressure. And They Take Billion Of Years To Form. And Yes, Synthetic Diamond Have Been Created In Labs Since The 1940s. But Researchers In Australia, In What May Be A First, Were Able To Create Diamond In Minutes Under Room Temperature. Cool!

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]]> 0 5471f4bdec26083d3dd3a40d66c5af6b India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists Believe That The Ingredients For Life Was Brought […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36191/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:16:50 -0600 Scientists Believe That The Ingredients For Life Was Brought To Earth Via Meteorites. Could This Discovery Of The First Protein From Outerspace, Which Scientists Claim To Have Found In Two Meteorite Samples, The Allende Meteorite (Found In Mexico In 1969) And The Acfer 086 Meteorites (Found In Algeria In 1990), Support The Claim?…

]]> 0 ea76d0f350a50a8c9c6789247fca8da3 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: The Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Discovered. The […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36122/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:21:43 -0600 The Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Discovered. The Material, Dust Grains, Found In A Meteorite That Fell In Australia In 1969, Is Said To Be As Much As 7.5 Billion Years Old. The Dust Grains Are Flung Into Space, When Stars That Predated Our Solar System Die, To Be Incorporated Into New Stars, Planets, Moons, And Meteorites.

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]]> 0 3b8fb851ed43a16ddf7cc7026e375070 India Blount posted an update in the group Dating: Popular Harvard Geneticist, George Church is Conceptualizing […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36076/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:49:13 -0600 Popular Harvard Geneticist, George Church is Conceptualizing A Dating App, Which He Hopes To Use In Creating A Healthier Society. Hopefully, By People Placing Emphasis On Their DNA Compatibility, For Partner Selection, To Help Eliminate Hereditary Diseases. But Again, There’s That Thing Called “Love,” And Sequencing Of Everyone’s Genome.

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]]> 0 9185451f105640552380de31a8b867b7 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists Have Discovered A Meteorite Containing A New […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/35923/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:52:53 -0600 Scientists Have Discovered A Meteorite Containing A New Mineral That Has Never Being Found In Nature. The Meteorite Was Found By The Road Side In Australia. The New Mineral, Called Edscottite, Is Said To Come From A Rock Formed In The Core Of Another Planet, Which Was Destroyed In An Ancient Collision.

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]]> 0 f8b75e7302654535eb9002fd100748a4 India Blount posted an update in the group Dating: So Many Dating Apps Abound Every Where. And Some of These […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/35561/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:11:54 -0600 So Many Dating Apps Abound Every Where. And Some of These Dating Apps Match Folks Based On Some Criteria, Like What They Hate. A New App, ” Called Digs,” Is Being Launched In Maimi That Will Match People Who Love Dogs. This Is Not Fair Because I Can Sense The Cats Being Left Out.

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]]> 0 c45f990052a27dc031aef45e07d63c78 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: The Amount Of Water Subducted Along Plate Boundary, According […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/35136/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 04:54:29 -0600 The Amount Of Water Subducted Along Plate Boundary, According To Scientists, Using Seismic Waves From Earthquakes In the Mariana Trench, Has Been Determined To Be 3 Times The Amount Initially Thought. But The Baffling Part Of This Find Is That All The Subducted Water Cannot Be Accounted For As What Goes Down Should Come Up?

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]]> 0 49fa8c8727a8fd1224ef6eb60d7bdcd9 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists Have Discovered Quadrillion Tons Of Diamond, […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/30835/ Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:43:52 -0600 Scientists Have Discovered Quadrillion Tons Of Diamond, 90-150 Miles, Below The Earth Surface In An Inverted Mountain Structure Called Craton. So, Good Luck Getting It! The Discovery Was Made When The Velocity Of Sound Through The Craton, During A Seismic Activity, Was Identical To The Experimented Velocity Of Sound Through Diamond Rock.

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]]> 0 9b83392f1caeb58d967063769a444cf3 India Blount posted an update in the group Discovery: A New Form Of Water Ice, Ice-VII, Was Discovered In Diamonds […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/17056/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:46:07 -0600 A New Form Of Water Ice, Ice-VII, Was Discovered In Diamonds That Formed 400 Miles Beneath The Earth Surface, In The Mantle. The Scientists Were Interested In Looking For Evidence Of Water Trapped Deep In The Earth When They Made The Discovery Using X-Ray. Ice-VII, With Cubic Shaped Atoms, Has Now Been Recognized As A New Mineral

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]]> 0 84975f0b2cd9c1006113d4367b61f536 India Blount posted an update in the group Health: The Controversy Surrounding Whether Anti-depressant Drugs […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/16929/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 03:47:37 -0600 The Controversy Surrounding Whether Anti-depressant Drugs Work Has Been Put To Rest. Recent Study Has Indicated That Common Anti-depressant Drugs Are Effective At Lifting Moods And Helping People With Depression. Hopefully, This Resolves Any Doubt Regarding Depressant Medications.

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