Ken Parth

If Life Or The Earth Still Exist In 1 To 4 Byrs From Now, Then There Is Cause For Concern Because of A Potential Catastrophic Collison Between Our Galaxy, The Milky Way , And Another Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, At About This Period. If That Doesn’t Finish The Earth/Life Off Then Andromeda Would In 6 To 8 Byrs.

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A Bird, The Madagascar Pochard, Believed To Have Been Extinct After Not Seen In 15 Years Was Rediscovered In 2016. 25 Of The Discovered Birds Are Said To Be The Rarest Birds In The World. Apparently, Conservationist Are Doing A Great Job Restoring The Species After 21 Of Them Were Recently Released At A Lake In North Madagascar.

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Talk About The Animal With The Fastest Snap Jaw On The Planet. I know, Names Like Trap-Jaw Ants And Mantis Shrimp May Come To Mind. But No, The New Kid On The Block, From Asia And Australia, Is The Mystrium Camillae, Otherwise Known As The Dracula Ant. The Ant Is Said To Snap Its Jaw At Speeds Of More Than 200 mph

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The First High Rise Hotel Has Been Built Underground, In A Quarry In China, At The Cost Of About $300 Million. Some Ground Rooms In The Hotel Are Said To Be Submerged Under The Quarry, Giving Guests The Viewing Pleasure Of The Lake Environment. The Shimao Quarry Hotel Would Set Guest Back ($489 – $546) Per Night. Cool!

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The New Star, About 13.5 Byr Old, Called 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B, Discovered In Our Galaxy, The Milky Way , Has A Couple Of Major Implications, And That Is: 1) The Milky Way Is Way Older Than The 8-10 Billion Estimated Years, And 2)That The Very First Stars Did Not Have To Be All Massive As Originally Theorized.

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At 13 Million Pounds, This is Definitely The Most Massive Organism On Earth. The Organism, Named Pando, Found In Utah, In the USA, Is Actually A One Tree Forest Comprising About 47,000 Quivering Aspen Trees, All Formed From The Same Root. Unfortunately, This Goliath Is Dwindling In Size Due To Foraging And Human Activities.

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Another Major Short Coming To The Deep Space Mission, Especially To Mars, May Have Been Unraveled By Scientists. According To The New Study, Carried Out On Mice, Deep Space Travel Could Expose Humans To Cosmic Radiations Which Could Damage The Digestive Tract, Stomach, And Colon And Could Cause Cancer.

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Instead Of Building Artificial Intelligence (AI) That Could Predict When A Patient With A Severe Heart Attack Could Die, Scientists And Innovators Should Be More Focused On Developing Devices Such As The MitraClip, Which Could Be Used To Sharply Reduce Deaths In Folks With Severe Heart Disease. Nice!

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If Artificial Intelligence Can Help Predict Heart Disease Patients That Are At The Risk Of Dying, Even Better Than The Models Created By Doctors, Then It could Definitely Be Used To Offer A More Effective Diagnoses And Treatment For Patients, Which Is Where I Think, Like Many Researchers, Should Be The Focus.

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Scientists From Harvard And Google May Have Developed The Most Accurate Artificial Intelligence That Could Predict Earthquake Aftershock. The Model, Though Still Not Ready For Release, Has shown A Lot Of Promise. Pretty Cool! But Still Wish It Were Possible To Predict The Main Earthquake Shock.

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The Earliest Galaxies In Our Universe May Have Been Discovered At The Outskirt Of Our Galaxy, The Milky Way. This Discovery Could Throw More Light On The Early State Of The Universe Hundreds Of Millions Of Years After The Big Bang. The Discovered Galaxies Are Said To Be More Than 13 BYR Old. Nice!

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The 2018 Year Ranking For The Most Liveable City In The World Goes To Vienna, Australia. The Ranking Seems To Have Used The Same Criteria For The Happiest Country In The World, Such As Security, Political And Social Stability, Education, And Access To Healthcare. War-Torn Damascus, Syria, Took The Bottom Ranking.

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A Couple Of Major Recent Upsets Happening In 2018: Italy, Through Francesco Molinari, Won The Country’s First Major Golf Championship, The British Open, Which Involved Major Players Like Tiger Woods And Rory McIlroy. In Another Shocker, An Austrian Woman, Wendy Tuck, Became The First To Win A 40,000 Mile Yacht Race Around The World.

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Spiders Were Initially Reported To Study Wind Patterns And Direction Before Ballooning. But Another Recent Study, By Scientists, Now Indicates That Spiders Need To Sense The Earth’s Electric Field To Enable Them Take Off, Via Negative Electric Silk Charge, And Travel, Even In Light Winds, For Long Distances Up To 1,000 Miles Out To Sea.

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The World’s First Energy Surplus Hotel Will Open In A Remote Part Of Norway, At The Foot Of The Svartisen Glacier, In the Year 2021. The Hotel Is Expected To Operate With 85% Less Energy Than Modern Hotels; In Other Words, The Hotel Would Produce More Clean And Renewable Energy Than What It Would Consume Throughout Its Lifespan.

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Researchers Are Of The Opinion That They Could Learn To Design New Flying Devices By Studying How Spiders Float/Fly In The Wind In A Process Called Ballooning. The Spiders, Based On A Recent Study, Are Said To Study Wind Patterns And Directions Before Launching Themselves, Using Their Nanoscale Silk Threads, Into The Wind.

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NASA\’s Checklist Update For Mars: Ground Monitoring Devices, Yes; Orbital Monitoring Devices, Yes; Low Altitude Monitoring Devices, Coming Soon In 2 Years. NASA Plans To Send A Small Helicopter To Mars In 2 Yrs To Help Study The Planet At Low Altitude, And Also Prove That It Could Fly Around The Planet\’s Thin Atmosphere.

Great News! The So-Called “Super Gonorrhea” That Infected A Uk Man While On Travel In Southeast Asia Has Been Reported To Be Successfully Treated Using The Antibiotic Ertapenem. The Gonorrhea Infection Is Said To Have Demonstrated High-Level Resistance To Commonly Used Antibiotics Azithromycin And Ceftriaxone.

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The World Health Organization (WHO), About 9 Months Ago, Issued A Statement On The Possibility Of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea. It Seems Like The Concern And The Potential Of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea To Spread Around The Globe May Become A Reality With The First Case Of A “Super Gonorrhea” Observed In A UK Man. Scary Stuff!

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Imagine Combining The Bark App, And The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System (SSARS), Which Allows Anyone To Report Any Suspicious Activity. Both Apps May Be Influential In Reducing School Shooting Threats, Suicide, Bullying, And Substance Abuse. SSARS Was Developed By Parents Whose Kids Were Victims In The Sandy Hook Massacre.

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