Earth has seven continents — any third grader can tell you that. But that won’t be the case forever. Africa is on track to split into two continents, but there’s no need to freak out. Yet, anyway.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/africa-is-physically-splitting-into-two-continents-curiosity
When we were kids, we were amazed that Superman could travel faster than a speeding bullet. We could even picture him, chasing down a projectile fired from a weapon, his right arm outstretched, his cape rippling behind him. If he traveled at half the bullet’s speed, the rate at which the bullet moved away from him would halve. If he did indeed travel faster than the bullet, he would overtake it and lead the way. Go, Superman! In other words, Superman’s aerial antics obeyed Newton’s views of space and time: that the positions and motions of objects in space should all be measurable relative to an absolute, nonmoving frame of reference.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/what-would-happen-if-you-traveled-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-curiosity
New gene-editing technology could revive everything from the passenger pigeon to the woolly mammoth. But should scientists be playing God?
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-scientists-bringing-extinct-species-back-from-the-dead-1539093600
Not such a good idea, too unnatural for me. JohnBarleycorn
A long time ago, in galaxies far, far away … your atoms were born. In a first-of-its-kind analysis, astrophysicists have found that half of the Milky Way’s matter — you included — came from galaxies beyond our own. Cue the identity crisis.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/half-of-your-bodys-atoms-come-from-across-the-universe-curiosity
Very interesting
There are eight common blood types. Keyword there? Common. If what you know about blood stops right around there, then this is all going to escalate very quickly. There are literally millions of varieties of blood types, and the rarest one is shared by fewer than 45 people on Earth. Talk about exclusive.
There is a town named HELL in Michigan. It has actually frozen over. There were more than 3,600 flight cancellations and more than 14,867 delays. This extreme cold weather coupled with the shutdown will mean that the 1st quarter numbers in the US economy will also turn down sharply. Temperatures dropped into the mid 40s here in Tampa and I went to the movies to see a feature and there were at best 8 people and nobody on the road even down here. Power companies have been asking even General Motors to suspend production due to extreme temperatures. While Hell freezes over, the GDP of the US economy will decline and that is very bad news for the rest of the world that depends on selling things to American consumers – especially cars. I suppose we failed to drive our cars enough to warm things up or it must be a new secret weapon of Russia that the Democrats can investigate and somehow link to Trump.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/hell-has-actually-frozen-over/
Lithium-ion batteries — the power behind your phone, laptop, and basically any rechargeable device you own — may be on their last legs. A series of bad events, from high-profile battery fires to environmental concerns to the rising cost of its namesake material, has experts scrambling to find a safer, more efficient, less expensive substance to power our gadgets.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/4-up-and-coming-batteries-that-could-overtake-lithium-ion-curiosity
QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, I just encountered this video.: Can you explain why Pi is showing up there? Thanks and kind regards, M ANSWER: No. I have come to believe that Pi is strangely the key to all knowledge upon which the entire universe was constructed. The sun’s light takes about 8.6 minutes to reach the Earth after it has been emitted from the sun’s surface. This is a derivative of Pi. Does that mean that life will evolve on a planet that conforms to Pi? It is assumed that it takes our galaxy approximately about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! I suspect it is really 224 million years and that would comport with Pi. On a basic level, Pi seems very simple for it is the ratio of a circle’s circumference divided by its diameter. This ratio is always the same no matter how large the circle (orbit) – 3.14 or so. Obviously, anytime you find yourself working with circles, arcs, pendulums, etc. you find Pi popping up. Therefore, you will be confronted with Pi when looking at gears, spherical helium balloons, and pendulum clocks. However, as this illustration exposes, you also find Pi in many unexpected places for reasons that seem to have nothing at all to do with circles at all. Pi even shows up in the gravity. (see Wired). I have discovered that Pi shows up in economics as well as nature. I can only explain that it exists on all planes within this universe. It appears to be the cornerstone upon which everything in the universe was constructed.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/understanding-cycles/the-mystery-of-pi/
Scientists at the University of Central Florida and Honeybee Robotics developed a prototype steam-powered spaceship, dubbed WINE, to explore asteroids and more.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/steam-powered-spaceship-could-cruise-cosmos-indefinitely-without-running-out-ncna958486
Almost every point of light you see in the night sky is a star — a huge, broiling sun smashing atoms together to produce electromagnetic energy many light-years away. If we’re going to understand more about what makes those stars form, shine, and die, we need to start by measuring them. Recently, scientists from Clemson University made one particularly awe-inspiring measurement: they figured out how much starlight has ever been produced in the universe. And it’s a very, very big number.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/scientists-measured-all-the-light-ever-produced-in-the-universe-curiosity
Very cool
John Barleycorn 
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