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>>99101
isn't that treason?

>>99911
You drones worry me sometimes.

>>99101
No shit Republicans are Trumps only real threat. Democrats are too busy shitting their pants and claiming that Russian hackers did it.

>>98135
I volunteer Riverside, California.

Hell, hit every major city in California. I don't care, just end this existence.

>>98135
They've been saying this since 07 from what I remember.

>>98136
You should give more love to California.

>>98136
Nuclear fire is too kind a fate for Commiefornia.

Trump's administration is centered around nepotism, cronyism, lies and demagoguery. Don't expect any positive change or anything that makes sense, really

Flat-earther? Wow Libtards just can't help themselves with their own arrogance.

Oh no,we will all sink in to the sea in 50 years and Grenland will melt. Oh no....

>>91205
>does not believe in science.

nice try OP
"climate change" is NOT a science, it's pseudoscience

so Pruitt doesn't believe in pseudoscience, which is good

>What all the observed FRBs share, however, is a curious smearing-out of their frequencies that matches expectations for how clouds of electrons in deep space would alter the propagation of radio waves journeying through the cosmos. The bigger the smear, the more plasma—ionized gas—an FRB’s waves must have passed through. To date, all detected FRBs display smears greater than what could be easily produced by all the interstellar plasma in our galaxy. This hints that their light has traveled to us across billions of light-years, and that they are among the most luminous phenomena in the universe. If so, astronomers could use FRBs to study new frontiers of high-energy astrophysics and to map the uncharted realms of rarefied, magnetized plasma that suffuse intergalactic space. But denser, closer regions of plasma—like those in the outer layers of flaring stars or in shells of debris surrounding supernovae—could conceivably smear an FRB’s light, too. This leads some researchers to suspect they are actually produced by much more prosaic astrophysical processes right here in our Milky Way or other nearby galaxies, and thus much less promising as new tools for probing the universe’s large-scale structure.

>Much is at stake in this great cosmic mystery. Solving it requires pinpointing an FRB’s source to see whether it comes from a distant galaxy, a nearby star or somewhere in between. A key clue emerged in 2016 when astronomers using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico reported a repeating FRB, dubbed FRB 121102, sporadically pinging away in the constellation Auriga. That gave researchers a target to scrutinize, and indicated that at least some FRBs are caused by processes that do not result in the cataclysmic destruction of the source.
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>But whether the repeating FRB’s source was nearby or very far away remained elusive; preliminary investigations could only constrain the source to a relatively large patch of sky as seen from Earth that was one tenth the diameter of the full moon, and packed with stars and background galaxies. But now, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas, an international team of astronomers announced they have pinpointed the source, marshaling a global network of radio telescopes to trace an FRB to an enigmatic dwarf galaxy billions of light-years distant. Their findings were published January 4 in Nature and in two additional papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Collectively, these studies all but confirm a decade of speculation that most—probably all—FRBs are extremely bright and energetic events seen across vast cosmic distances.

>Led by Cornell University senior research associate, Shami Chatterjee, the team used the Arecibo telescope and the Very Large Array in New Mexico to monitor multiple bursts from FRB 121102. Next they paired with another team helmed by Benito Marcote of the Joint Institute for VLBI in the Netherlands, using the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network of radio telescopes to pinpoint the source to a region of the sky just a hundred-millionth the diameter of the full moon. In the process they also detected a weak, persistent radio emission within 100 light-years of the powerful FRB events. Finally, the two groups worked with a third team, led by Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University in Montreal, to zoom in on the source’s location in the sky using the optical Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, spying a tiny smudge of light that looked to be a dwarf galaxy more than three billion light-years away.

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>“This is the breakthrough everyone wanted,” says James Cordes, a radio astronomer at Cornell and co-author of two of the studies. “It has broken a logjam of speculation,” he says, adding that FRB 121102 “serves as a prototype for all FRBs until we are compelled to think otherwise.”

>According to Chatterjee, Cordes and their co-authors, if this particular extragalactic FRB is indeed representative of all others, it rules out all theories positing FRBs as the product of processes in or around our Milky Way. It would also eliminate all models relying on the one-off cataclysmic explosions or mergers of various types of stars, and would suggest all FRBs will repeat if monitored long enough. The result dictates an agenda for future FRB studies as ambitious as it is necessary, for the discovery of FRB 121102’s cosmic home raises as many questions as it answers. To learn the true nature of FRBs, this seemingly singular repeater would demand even greater scrutiny, and all previously observed FRBs would need to be reexamined for signs of repeats. Most importantly, new networks of high-resolution, wide-field radio telescopes would need to be built to perform all-sky FRB surveys to rapidly detect and localize the elusive eruptions as they occur across the universe. If more are found to repeat and are localized to distant dwarf galaxies, a paradigm-shifting new era of cosmological discovery may be at hand; if not, the curious behavior of FRB 121102 may become just another cosmic cold case in the annals of astronomy’s history.
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Who gives a shit what these sand niggers think they can do ?
Israel will wipe them off of the map of earth if they wish.

These shia muslim ruled countries are the worst. They can't progress and cant let anyone else progress either

Friendly reminder that Trump, his National Security Advisor, and his Chief of Staff have all publicly retweeted and made statements based on blatant fake news articles and conspiracy theories.

Our president-to-be. The guy with the nuclear football. And here is the defense minister of Pakistan falling for a fake news threat of a nuke and responding with a real threat of a nuke.

>>94505
>trolls cause WWIII
This is becoming more and more real

Yeah, shit like this happens all the time. Ground techs sending on the wrong transponder and/or time causing mutual interference whether due to poor training and communication or negligence. The ITU takes care of it. Probably nothing more to this unless you subscribe to the tinfoil hat apparell.

>>99589
Nice try, Vassily. This has never happened before to CSPAN.

>>99589
Could you provide another such event?

at first glance i though it meant US troops deplayed to shift Russian aggression specifically at Lithuania
like slapping Russia on the back of the head and pointing to Lithuanina and saying "they did it"

>NATO member deploys troops to NATO country
*yawn*

*ahem*
the proofs are where?

>>99679
>tfw Wikileaks was right about us
>tfw we are the one great evil of the world

Trump should set everything right when he fires all these clowns and replaces them with loyal, pure aryans.

>>99692
>Its another "muh superior aryans" post by /pol/ again

Go outside more, its good for you.

>>99692
>Trump should set everything right

Entire article at:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/13/obama-opens-nsas-vast-trove-of-warrantless-data-to-entire-intelligence-community-just-in-time-for-trump/
January 13 2017

Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, Just in Time for Trump

WITH ONLY DAYS until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for those agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad, Reagan-era executive order that gives the NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad. Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.

The change was in the works long before there was any expectation that someone like Trump might become president. The last-minute adoption of the procedures is one of many examplesof the Obama administration making new executive powers established by the Bush administration permanent,on the assumption that the executive branch could be trusted to police itself.

Executive Order 12333, often referred to as “twelve triple-three,” has attracted less debate than congressional wiretapping laws, but serves as authorization for the NSA’s most massive surveillance programs — far more than the NSA’s other programs combined. Under 12333, the NSA taps phone and internet backbonesthroughout the world, records the phone calls of entire countries, vacuums up traffic from Google and Yahoo’s data centers overseas, and more.

The TV show is set in 2001.

>>99667

>The trailer shows Jackson, Taylor and Brando being stopped by a fictional police officer and Jackson frolicking in a forest. ... Campaigners complained that a white actor should not play black musician Jackson.

ffs the show is called "Urban Myths" and is supposed to be a stupid "What If" comedy about the most ridiculous internet theories. If you look at the site and clip the actors have the worst makeup jobs ever -- they're caricatures, all three celebrities played in that episode.

And then you have Michael gaily frolicking in the forest, yet it's the fact that it's a white guy in face paint that you're complaining about? Not that they're implying that MJ frolicked gaily in the forest?

These aren't sjws. These are retards summoned up by spoiled fans of Paris Jackson. This is analogous to if any episode of South Park was ever pulled for making fun of a celebrity (half the time they don't have a satire defense - CC would still say "fuck you" if fucktards demanded it though).

>>99667
Fuck off Piers

Who cares

It's very likely that watching that shit all the time makes you sick. I support them, Microsoft is evil regardless.

>>The investigation, "The Lobby" , also uncovers Israel's extensive, well-financed propaganda campaign in the UK to counter negative news stories about its policies and to fund trips to Israel for young activists.

>>99185
>al jezeera
okay anon, no bias here

>>99185
>jew tricks

You missed your stop.

>>>/pol/

>>98716

What Trump can — and can’t — do to change vaccine policy

In an interview with Science, Kennedy said there would be about a dozen people on the panel, a “mix between science people and prominent Americans.”

Asked when the panel would be convened, Kennedy said: “We didn’t talk about the details but [Trump] expressed urgency about it — that he wanted it done. We talked about a one-year commitment.”

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House who has been advising the president-elect on health matters, previously blasted Kennedy for his criticism of vaccine safety in his book, “To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine.”

“Perhaps no anti-scientific argument is more dangerous today than the claim put forward by radical environmentalists, most notably Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that childhood vaccinations can cause autism,” Gingrich wrote in the 2010 book. “Numerous peer-reviewed studies have disproved this connection.”

Reached by phone on Tuesday, Gingrich backed away from his earlier criticism of Kennedy. As long as the panel is “appropriately organized” and has a realistic, scientific basis, he said, “I’m very comfortable with him taking the position.”

“I think if he is prepared to sit down with scientists, he may challenge them and they may change his mind,” Gingrich said, in which case “nobody would be more powerful” in changing the minds of anti-vaccination advocates.

cont.

>>98717

Kennedy has repeatedly questioned the safety of vaccines and advanced arguments that there is a link between the immunizations and autism. He has suggested that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, can be harmful to children, a notion that has been widely debunked.

Public health agencies did suggest manufacturers eliminate or reduce the amount of thimerosal in childhood vaccines and many have done so. But a number of studies have also discredited the idea of thimerosal is a cause of autism.

Meeting with Trum emboldens anti-vaccine activists, who see an ally in the Oval Office Scott Badesch, president of the Autism Society, a patient advocacy group, said the long debate over autism should be at an end.

“There’s been a long discussion as to whether vaccines cause autism,” he said. “Everything suggests there is no link.”

“That he [Trump] meets with people doesn’t surprise me,” said Dr. Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “That he would take this next step, which is to take a man who has no expertise about science or vaccines and make him the head of a vaccine safety … committee is truly amazing to me.”

cont.

>>98718

Other physicians reacted with disbelief on Twitter.

Boston University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Sandro Galea called the appointment “Troubling.”

Kennedy’s work on autism has created controversy over the years. In 2005 he wrote an expose, co-published by Salon and Rolling Stone, contending that scientists were hiding the link between thimerosal and autism. Years later, Salon retracted the story, noting its basic thesis was inaccurate.

But Kennedy was not finished with the subject. He edited a 2014 book called “Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury — a Known Neurotoxin — from Vaccines.” The volume makes the case that thimerosal is still causing autism and other neurological problems, and should be eliminated worldwide.

While Trump’s casual remarks on vaccines have alarmed public health advocates, they have energized the anti-vaccination movement. He met over the summer with Andrew Wakefield, a former medical doctor who wrote a well-publicized study that kicked off the movement. Wakefield’s study was later discredited and his medical license was revoked.

During the presidential campaign, Trump said he wants “smaller doses over a longer period of time.” He has previously tweeted: “Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel good and changes – AUTISM. Many such cases!”

Kennedy is the son of the former attorney general and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy.

FIN

>tfw moonlet

>>99388
I'm glad I was alone in my store when I read this

gave me a good kek

>>99388
>orbit a planet that will never notice you and only hangs around the sun
>will the moonlets ever learn

>>98496
>DailyMail
Fuck off, Piers.

>>98496

I wonder if this is the kind of crime where the punishment has to be the central deterrent? Because you're using the justice system against someone else, and then it's basically an arms race to try to outwit the authorities which only gets more elaborate as technology and expertise gets better -- deterrence seems to be the first defense.

In which case I'd say that this would not be justice if this woman didn't get 20 years minimum. Life would be a better deterrent though -- I mean, contempt of court punishments are arbitrary anyway.

>>98503
Hello Sputnik.

>>98526
Did China transfer that SLCM technology to the Paki's? Something I could see them doing. Those slant-eyed fuckers are pretty lukzy with India.