Your daily 'thing to be afraid of'
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Guess this can go here,
Health officials use Tinder and Grindr to find people exposed to sexually transmitted diseases ...from the people they met on Tinder and Grindr.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2019/07/28/tinder-grindr-sexually-transmitted-diseases-gonorrhea-chlamydia-hiv-public-iowa-health-officials/1756673001/
Health officials use Tinder and Grindr to find people exposed to sexually transmitted diseases ...from the people they met on Tinder and Grindr.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2019/07/28/tinder-grindr-sexually-transmitted-diseases-gonorrhea-chlamydia-hiv-public-iowa-health-officials/1756673001/
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You're afraid of the wrong things: What evolution made you scared of versus what actually might kill you
Why are we more afraid of snakes than of cars? Of back-alley murder than diabetes? It's evolution. Evolution shapes bodies. It sharpens teeth and reflexes, produces natural camouflage and intimidating plumage. It also shapes minds. Just as the tick is naturally attracted to the smell of mammalian sweat, humans are born with a set of emotional orientations formed over millions of years to help us pass on our genes.
https://www.cbc.ca/life/culture/you-re-afraid-of-the-wrong-things-what-evolution-made-you-scared-of-versus-what-actually-might-kill-you-1.5086576
Why are we more afraid of snakes than of cars? Of back-alley murder than diabetes? It's evolution. Evolution shapes bodies. It sharpens teeth and reflexes, produces natural camouflage and intimidating plumage. It also shapes minds. Just as the tick is naturally attracted to the smell of mammalian sweat, humans are born with a set of emotional orientations formed over millions of years to help us pass on our genes.
https://www.cbc.ca/life/culture/you-re-afraid-of-the-wrong-things-what-evolution-made-you-scared-of-versus-what-actually-might-kill-you-1.5086576
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Daily thing? Secretary of the Navy if Donald Trump is your President.
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Thank you China... at least you can spice up this thread with something really wolrd class, good old days, B Movie scary...
Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth
A hulking, out-of-control Chinese rocket core is currently pinwheeling around the globe once every 90 minutes, and there’s no telling exactly when — or where — it will come crashing down to Earth in a potentially dangerous re-entry.
The object is a 30-metre tall, 21-tonne leftover from China’s Long March 5B rocket, which carried a piece of its new Tianhe space station into orbit on Apr. 29. The rocket launched its cargo into space before its core tumbled into a chaotic temporary orbit around Earth, where it’s been rapidly circling the planet while slowly falling ever since, SpaceNews reports.
The core, dubbed CZ-5B, was initially expected to make a harmless reentry, but observers say it appears to be falling out of control, making it hard to predict exactly where it will come down. Its path takes it over much of the globe, but projections suggest it could fall as far south as Chile or New Zealand, and as far north as New York State or Ontario.
The booster was travelling at roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour while circling 300 kilometres above the Earth on Tuesday, according to tracking data. At 21 tonnes, experts say it’s large enough to avoid burning up in the atmosphere when it eventually does come down.
“It’s potentially not good,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told The Guardian. He says it will likely fall into the ocean but it could leave a swath of destruction if it falls over land, in what would be the “equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles.”
Space agencies typically have plans for disposing of such large pieces of junk, including built-in burners that can knock a core out of orbit when necessary, but that’s not the case with this rocket core. Chinese officials are essentially crossing their fingers and watching, while hoping that it lands in the ocean and not over land.
“What’s bad is that it’s really negligent on China’s part,” McDowell said. “Things more than 10 tonnes, we don’t let them fall out of the sky uncontrolled deliberately.”
Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth
Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth
A hulking, out-of-control Chinese rocket core is currently pinwheeling around the globe once every 90 minutes, and there’s no telling exactly when — or where — it will come crashing down to Earth in a potentially dangerous re-entry.
The object is a 30-metre tall, 21-tonne leftover from China’s Long March 5B rocket, which carried a piece of its new Tianhe space station into orbit on Apr. 29. The rocket launched its cargo into space before its core tumbled into a chaotic temporary orbit around Earth, where it’s been rapidly circling the planet while slowly falling ever since, SpaceNews reports.
The core, dubbed CZ-5B, was initially expected to make a harmless reentry, but observers say it appears to be falling out of control, making it hard to predict exactly where it will come down. Its path takes it over much of the globe, but projections suggest it could fall as far south as Chile or New Zealand, and as far north as New York State or Ontario.
The booster was travelling at roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour while circling 300 kilometres above the Earth on Tuesday, according to tracking data. At 21 tonnes, experts say it’s large enough to avoid burning up in the atmosphere when it eventually does come down.
“It’s potentially not good,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told The Guardian. He says it will likely fall into the ocean but it could leave a swath of destruction if it falls over land, in what would be the “equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles.”
Space agencies typically have plans for disposing of such large pieces of junk, including built-in burners that can knock a core out of orbit when necessary, but that’s not the case with this rocket core. Chinese officials are essentially crossing their fingers and watching, while hoping that it lands in the ocean and not over land.
“What’s bad is that it’s really negligent on China’s part,” McDowell said. “Things more than 10 tonnes, we don’t let them fall out of the sky uncontrolled deliberately.”
Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth
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If it lands on Canada I suppose our astronaut-turned-Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau will be assigned to apologize to the Chinese for breaking their rocket with our nation.
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But it's not their rocket - it originated in nature.
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I am sure someone will be along shortly to point out that it is racist to refer to it as a Chinese Rocket...But it's not their rocket - it originated in nature.
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What shall we call it??
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Wasn’t directed at you, Moe. Just having a little fun with people who take themselves too seriously.Ha ha, very funny.
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Yeah, like who gave authority to the Dutch to claim the oven. Pffft.
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I know, right?
And the Italians have never been called to account over stealing pasta from China.
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I see what you did there...
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And don't even get me started on ENGLISH muffins!
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You just did!
