Something that no doubt has been a burning issue for many late at night while looking at the ceiling and wondering ( OK maybe not)....... however for those few who might want to know they have figured out for two species of dinosaurs how long it took for their eggs to hatch. I find the method used to make the determination as amazing as the discovery itself not to mention the size of the eggs studied... The article kinda explains why some egg layers made it through the extinction event while others did not.. Interesting

Quote:We now know how long dinosaurs took to emerge from their eggs.
Scientists from Florida State University (FSU) suggest, in a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the answer is from 3 to 6 months, depending on the type of dinosaur.
Beyond the wow factor of the information on its own, the finding has implications for our understanding of how dinosaurs lived and why they went extinct, according to the FSU researchers.
Study lead Gregory Erickson explained in a press release that we know "virtually nothing" about dinosaurs' embryonic lives.
"Did their eggs incubate slowly like their reptilian cousins – crocodilians and lizards? Or rapidly like living dinosaurs – the birds?" he said.
Thanks to some rare embryo fossils and some high-tech equipment, Erickson and his team appear to have answered those questions.
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First the scientists gathered embryo fossils from two dinosaurs: Protoceratops, whose tiny eggs weighted just 194 grams (7 ounces), and the enormous, duck-billed Hypacrosaurus, with 4 kilo (9 pound) eggs.
Then the team put the embryonic jaw of each through a CT scanner, to visualize the forming teeth, and extracted a number of individual teeth for study beneath a high-powered microscope.
Under microscopic view, Erickson and his team found growth lines on the teeth that helped the researchers establish a timeline for embryonic development.
"These are the lines that are laid down when any animal's teeth develop," Erickson said. "They're kind of like tree rings, but they're put down daily. We could literally count them to see how long each dinosaur had been developing."
In the end, the team determined that the tiny eggs from the sheep-sized dinosaur Protoceratops took about three months to hatch, while Hypacrosaurus took about 6 months.




Researchers examined a fossilized embryo of the dinosaur Hypacrosaurus. Credit: Darla Zelinitsky

The FSU team noted some of the key points their find implies.
First, answering Erickson's earlier questions, the discovery suggests dinosaur egg development more closely resembled that of primitive reptiles than birds. That contradicts previous theories that dinosaur incubation was bird-like in its speed, with eggs hatching in 11 days to just under two months.
Second, the team says its findings throw into doubt theories about some dinosaur migration patterns. Animals once theorized to summer in the Arctic and winter in lower Canada, for example, might not have had the time for such journeys, given the time required for long periods of egg development, maturation, and then migration.
Third, and most important of all, say the FSU researchers, is what their find has to say about the extinction of dinosaurs. With slow egg-hatching times coupled with more than a year of maturation outside the egg, the creatures would have been at a disadvantage compared to other animals that survived the great dinosaur extinction event.
"We suspect our findings have implications for understanding why dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, whereas amphibians, birds, mammals and other reptiles made it through and prospered," Erickson said.

Below are some of the most incredible discoveries of 2016.  There are more, of course, but these rate at the top of the list:

Quote:In March, Norwegian scientists discovered a number of naturally formed craters in the seabed of the Barents Sea which were prone to emitting sudden and highly combustible bursts of methane. The scientists warned that the sporadic explosions from these craters could cause ships to effectively disappear and could make the surrounding air highly turbulent, so much so that it could cause a plane to fall from the sky. Naturally, this discovery led to speculation about similar craters potentially existing in the mysterious and volatile patch of sea known as the Bermuda Triangle.

Quote:Later in March, an enormous stone sphere was discovered in Bosnia which left experts about stumped. The stone sphere, which was discovered in a forest in Podubravlje and weighs over 30 tons. Scientists still have no idea where the sphere came from and whether it was created by human beings or by natural forces.

Quote:Various historical discoveries were made in 2016, one of which could completely blow apart the academic consensus about the discovery of the New World by European travelers. What appears to be the remains of a Roman sword was discovered on the east coast of Canada which has been dated to around the 2nd century. This would mean that there was a Roman presence approximately 800 years before Viking explorers made their first landing in North America.

Quote:In addition to this extraordinary discovery, further scientific testing on the infamous elongated skulls of Paracus in Peru which have previously been described as having “mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far” have been discovered to have European and Middle Eastern origin. This astonishing discovery has cast further doubt on the populating of the Americas by explorers from elsewhere in the world. These skulls were not the only elongated skulls causing a stir in the historical community this year.

In July, archaeologists based in Mexico unearthed a 1600 year old skeleton in the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan. The female skeleton had an elongated skull, stone-encrusted teeth and was buried with an astonishing nineteen jars of offerings. Her skull had been elongated in an extreme manner, which was fairly common about the Mayan regions of southern Mexico and Central America. However, archaeologists and experts on ancient history were at a loss to explain why her teeth had been encrusted with stones.




In addition to the discovery of two new scrolls which are believed to be fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past month, analysis of older samples have also turned up some highly unusual findings. For instance, one of the fragments dating back more than two thousand years seems to depict Noah’s Ark as a kind of pyramid.

Quote:But perhaps the most astonishing find of the year was made using a newly developed telescope using a concave lens. Using this telescope, an astronomer named Dr Santilli has found the first known evidence of the apparent existence of antimatter galaxies, antimatter asteroids, and antimatter cosmic rays in addition to two different varieties of Invisible Terrestrial Entities (ITEs) which appear to be moving ‘intelligently’. What these incredible discoveries might mean for human understanding of the universe is certain is still unknown.

There are so many good interviews that Kerry Cassidy has done years ago that I haven't watched... yet.  Last night I came across ONE of those.
Even though this interview took place years ago, the information it contains is still very relevant today, and I feel it needs to be brought back to the surface.

Bill Wood was a Navy Seal during the years 1992-2000, and he had an "Above Top Secret" clearance.  He shares some very important information about some of the training missions they had to carry out that led to his understanding of what really happened during 9-11.  He wishes to make this information known to the public so they can "wake up" to how the U.S. government is manipulating the people.

But, this interview is about a lot more than 9-11.  He discusses Area 51, mind control, psychic training, Project Looking Glass, The Yellow Book, and more.  It's really very interesting and important that people watch and hear his message.

Quote:Uploaded on Jan 17, 2012
An interview with an self-proclaimed ex-Navy Seal who during the years 1992-2000 was sent on top secret bombing missions in the Middle East, predominantly in Iraq. Years after the first Gulf War when we were supposedly not at war with Iraq yet he and Seal Team 9 were targeting Tomahawk Missiles on a monthly basis taking out targets that were increasingly "soft"... involving deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians. Find out how this highly trained young man and his team were coerced by the military into purposely destroying villages and creating future terrorists as part of a plan that would ultimately serve their dark purpose, the war on terror and 911.

And if that weren't enough, hear how he was trained in Area 51 as a specially gifted group of highly classified psi spies to see beyond the famous Looking Glass technology into the future involving 2012 and beyond.

Groundbreaking in every way.

Book explaining gender diversity to primary school children sparks furore.

'CJ Atkinson, author of Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity?, calls fury over book
from Mail on Sunday and Tory grandees a ‘trans-panic’



“My name is Kit and I’m 12 years old. I live in a house with my mum and dad, and our
dog, Pickle. When I was born, the doctors told my mum and dad that they had
a baby girl, and so for the first few years of my life that’s how my parents raised me.

This is called being assigned female at birth. I wasn’t ever very happy that way.”

These are the opening lines of a controversial new book called Can I Tell You About
Gender Diversity? which is being introduced into some primary schools as a resource
for children, parents and teachers, and claims to be the first book to explain “medical
transitioning” to children as young as seven.

It is not published until later this month, but the slim volume has already prompted fury
from the Mail on Sunday, former Tory party chairman Lord Tebbit and one-time
Conservative Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe, as well as Mail columnist
Sarah Vine who complained that the target audience was children not even ready to
choose their A-levels, “let alone challenge their own biology”.

The book is written by LGBT activist CJ Atkinson. Speaking to the Guardian in their first
ever interview, Atkinson condemned the media coverage as misleading, inaccurate
and potentially harmful for young people who identify as transgender...'
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Are you freakin' kidding me...?!! Is it really a simple fact that a child is born and 'assigned'
a gender? As nature screwed up in not identifying what is a male and female?!

I'll have to send Boy In A Dress around to visit Ms. Atkinson!

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Oldham hit-and-run crash: Five men arrested.

'Five men have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving
after a girl aged 12 was killed in an apparent hit-and-run in Oldham.



Helina Kotlarova was killed on New Year's Eve. Her cousin Zaneta Krokova, 11,
was said to be critically ill in hospital after the crash.
The men - aged 59, 48, 38, 23 and 18 - remain in police custody.

The girls had left a shop near their homes when they were hit by a car in Ashton
Road at about 19:15 GMT.
Greater Manchester Police said the driver of the car did not stop....'
BBC:
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Second girl dies after Oldham 'hit-and-run'

'A second girl has died after an apparent hit-and-run in Oldham on New Year's Eve
that killed her cousin.

Zaneta Krokova, 11, died in hospital earlier from the injuries she suffered in the collision.
Her cousin Helina Kotlarova, 12, died at the scene on Ashton Road at about 19:15 GMT
on Saturday.

Four men aged 59, 48, 38 and 18 remain in custody after being arrested on suspicion
of causing death by dangerous driving.

A fifth man, aged 23, who was initially arrested for the same offence has been de-arrested
and is assisting police with enquiries, said a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman.

Sgt Lee Westhead, from GMP's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said:
"This is a heart-breaking incident which has now taken the lives of two young girls and all
of our thoughts remain with their families, who are understandably devastated...'
BBC:
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It'll be interesting to see if the MSM mention the original nationality of the suspects.

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'Forty-five million Americans were on food stamps — also known as the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — at some point in 2015.

That's equal to one in seven Americans. It's a big number, although not an all-time high.
The all-time high was reached back in 2013 when more than 47 million Americans
enrolled in the program. The total budget in 2015 was $73.9 billion, or approximately
12 percent the size of all defense and veterans programs.

In spite of falling unemployment rates — which are really driven by declining work
force participation — food stamp use remains near record highs and is up by
78 percent over the past ten years:



And, the picture doesn't improve if we adjust for population growth.
(Obviously, the US population has not increased 78 percent over the last ten years.)
If we take the numbers on a per capita basis over time, the curve looks essentially
the same:



So can we just blame food stamp growth on the currently lackluster economy?
Only partially. It stands to reason that the post-2008 surge in food stamp participatio
 has indeed been driven by a weak economy in part.

But, as we can see in the graphs, food stamp use increased during the non-recessionary
Bush years between 2001 and 2008. In fact, during that period, food stamp participation
increased 62 percent...'
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Out with the old and in with the new ? Ideology ? Other cultures have burned and destroyed their history books because they felt the important  history would begin with them and their new regime ... China and d Pol Pot's Cambodia comes to mind along with vast libraries destroyed by invading dumb*ss hordes... But now we have others who want to destroy everything they believe their skyfairy might find offensive.. I am really sick of these animals and hope they are wiped from the face of the earth to the last fighter.  

Quote:NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- The chilly December wind whipped rain across the strewn wreckage of a city that, nearly 3,000 years ago, ruled almost the entire Middle East. Rivulets of water ran through the dirt, washing away chunks of ancient stone.
The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group's fervor to erase history. The remains of its palaces and temples, once lined in brilliant reliefs of gods and kings, have been blown up. The statues of winged bulls that once guarded the site are hacked to bits. Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, has been bulldozed.
The militants' fanaticism devastated one of the Middle East's most important archaeological sites. But more than a month after the militants were driven out, Nimrud is still being ravaged, its treasures disappearing, imperiling any chance of eventually rebuilding it, an Associated Press team found after multiple visits in the past month.

'Sixteen foreign nationals are among the dead after an attacker opens fire on
600 revellers at a nightclub in Istanbul.

A manhunt is under way for a gunman believed to have been dressed as Santa
who killed at least 39 people in a New Year nightclub attack in Istanbul.



Another 69 people were wounded in the armed rampage, which Istanbul's governor
described as a "terrorist attack". At least 16 foreign nationals were among the dead
at the club which was popular with tourists, the Turkish interior ministry said.

The gunman killed a policeman and civilian outside the Reina nightclub before
opening fire at random inside the building, packed with 600 people celebrating the
New Year.

The gunman, reportedly wearing a Father Christmas outfit, remains at large.
"The search for the terrorist continues... I hope (the assailant) will be captured quickly,
God willing," said interior minister Suleyman Soylu.

He added: "This was a massacre, a truly inhuman savagery."

One reveller told how she had to lift dead bodies off her to escape the building after
the attack at 1.45am local time on Sunday...'
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Obligatory new years message ...... new year ..... same shit ..... and now back to my drinking and firing off several 3.5 mortar rounds to usher in the new year ..... *fires up cigar.... grabs whisky ..... *

This is a little deep for me   -----   but some of you will be able to adapt the concept and achieve your own inner peace....
 
 
 It starts with the realization that whatever it is... is not your friggen problem unless it effects you or yours and you accept the circumstance !

Auhhhhh peace, tranquility, and happiness.... if I did not play golf I would be tranquil and probably happy almost all the time...Peace is kinda over rated though for there are those who seem to make it their life's work to cause drama, drama, drama, for everyone they associate with. Psychic vampires is a good name for them.. People to avoid or give little or no credence to.

Why did I write this.....hell if I know.. Other than I played like crap yesterday and lost some money... Today I am out the door to make up for the lost... got to get the right frame of mind going and dredge up my true competitor killer instinct... Amazing how a big win can bring inner happiness...