[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A cyclist was left baffled by an optical illusion on a New York park which made it appear as though the ground was moving sideways.
Photographer Jeremy Cohen was cycling through Corona Park when he started filming himself on his bike.
As he pointed his camera to the ground, he noticed a strange effect which made it look like he was ground was moving beneath him.
He shared the clip with TikTok alongside the caption: 'Genuinely curious how this happens.'
The internet was left divided by the video, which amassed 36,000 likes, with some claiming the reason was obvious while others were equally baffled.
[BBC] In her latest book, The Quickening, the Pulitzer Prize finalist embarked on an epic odyssey to one of the most important – and least-explored – places in the world.
In 2019, 57 scientists and crew embarked on a 54-day journey to the farthest reaches of Antarctica. Their mission: Thwaites Glacier, a rapidly crumbling block of ice the size of Britain melting so fast it's known as the world's "doomsday glacier".
What kind of global effects would it have if sea levels were to rise 10ft or more?
Well, the speed with which it happens makes a tremendous difference. So, 10ft over two centuries is really different than 10ft over 40 years. The concern is really what do human beings do about it?
I'm a huge proponent of managed retreat, which is having a government entity intervene in low-lying areas and essentially purchase flood-prone homes for pre-flooding value, giving the folks who live there the opportunity to take that money and move up and in with it.
New York City has already done some managed retreat on Staten Island. The state intervened and they purchased and demolished over 500 homes on Staten Island. Eighty percent of those residents were able to take the money that they were given for their home and move elsewhere on Staten Island.
I’d wondered what happened to them after that dreadful storm. But were the people able to buy replacement houses, or was it just enough to allow them to rent a little apartment somewhere considerably less pleasant?
We sometimes think that managed retreat is like fracturing communities, and that's not necessarily how it plays out.
So, sea level rise is not catastrophic if we prepare for it – and that's a big if.
It’s also not catastrophic if there isn’t a significant rise, but that’s a different question.
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Take a look at pictures of the liberty Island (where the Status Of Liberty is located) starting in 1886 and annually at high tide through this year.
Notice how the se level is rising, oh wait, it isn't!
Sea levels has essentially remained the same for 137 years.
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OBTW: Given, roughly 2/3 to 3/4's of an iceberg is underwater and water expands by about 10% when frozen.
Doing some math:
* Using the 2/3's below, and 1/3 above the water level estimates.
7.48 Gallons to a cubic ft. Which expands 10% to about
1.10 Cubic ft when FROZEN. So when thawed, it returns to
1 cubic ft of displacement.
So wouldn't the 2/3's below the water thawing compensate for the 1/3 about the waterline, which also displacing more area frozen that when it would if melted?
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The first person to see Antarctica saw it, like, 200 years ago, and in this very short window of time, we've told a very narrow story about Antarctica – one that has a lot to do with human conquest and human beings overcoming incredible odds to do the unthinkable. Often those human beings are white men from the global north. All the stories about Antarctica sort of sound the same. I wanted to create a story about Antarctica that was much more democratic. E. Rush
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The Thwaites ice shelf is on the water. Whether it melts or not has no bearing on ocean levels. The glacier part is on land, and what they worry about is the accelerated glacier flow into the ocean if the ice shelf gives way, combined with the effects of putative overall warming on the glacier.
Of course an ice surge into the ocean might create another clogging ice shelf. On these time scales I don't think continental rebound would play a significant role. There are probably other factors I didn't think of.
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[REGNUM] The second terrorist attack under the ISIS flag in Russian prisons in the last two months confirms what observers have long warned about: the influence of radical Islamist groups, so-called prison jamaats, is growing in prisons, and “green zones” are forming. And they are becoming incubators for terrorists. Unlike the previous riot in Rostov, the current one in Volgograd's Surovikino was organized by people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan convicted not of terrorism but of drug trafficking. They attacked prison staff, killing two and taking hostages, and displayed the ISIS* flag, meaning they consciously identified themselves as terrorists.
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If you won't kill them, then lobotomize at the earliest opportunity.
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Perhaps the same title is also worthy of the settlements of the Kursk border region, where battles are currently underway with the heirs of the Nazi aggressors who have invaded our land - armed, as 81 years ago, with European (including German) equipment and in whose ranks there are many uninvited "guests" from the West - both mercenaries and ideological Nazis.
August 23 marks 81 years since the end of one of the bloodiest battles in human history – the Battle of Kursk. Continuous fighting on the two-hundred-kilometer salient of the front, in the center of which was the city of Kursk, continued for almost two months, starting on July 5. The arc, we recall, was formed by March 1943, when, after the third battle for Kharkov, which was unsuccessful for the Red Army, the enemy recaptured both Kharkov and Belgorod. Continued on Page 49
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] A year ago, under rather murky circumstances, a plane crashed with Yevgeny Prigozhin and his associates in the leadership of the Wagner PMC, which in the 2010s became the largest PMC in history, surpassing the American PMC Blackwater/Academy.
Despite the funeral of the victims, versions are still actively discussed that Prigozhin did not die and simply went into hiding, living somewhere abroad, for example, in Africa.
Prigozhin's assessments are now inseparable from the assessments of the unsuccessful rebellion of 2023, for which no one was convicted, since the criminal cases were closed for reasons of political expediency related to the prevention of risks of civil war.
There remain political assessments of what happened on the part of the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation, which have remained, including in the biography of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Regardless of whether Prigozhin actually died or cunningly went into the shadows, his deeds for the good of the country in Africa, Syria and Ukraine and the story of the failed military rebellion in the conditions of the ongoing war will remain in history. Well, and then the assessments will be based on the comparison of these deeds.
In any case, the history of Russia in the 10-20s of the 21st century can hardly be imagined without Yevgeny Prigozhin, regardless of whether he is alive or dead, he is now a historical figure.
Today marks one year since the death of Hero of Russia Yevgeny Prigozhin. On August 23, 2023, at about 18:40, a private jet, the Embraer Legacy 600, crashed over the Tver region, carrying him, the founder of the Wagner PMC Dmitry Utkin, and 8 other people.
This happened exactly two months after the start of the "March of Justice" - an attempt to establish justice in the country as he understood it, an undoubtedly controversial person with an imperfect past, who rescued his homeland in the most difficult moments, serving it as best he could. When the country called Prigozhin into the very mouth of the endless ten-year Donbass front, he followed his fighters into hell, not sitting in headquarters offices.
The Wagner PMC was perhaps the most successful Russian brand abroad, the prestige of the "musicians" was indisputable, their successes on the battlefields in different parts of the world were impeccable. And Prigozhin himself for a huge part of Russians is a synonym for the irreconcilable stubbornness that any Russian admires, even when seeing his hero off to the chopping block.
The campaign of Yermak of our days ended in failure. Prigozhin never crossed his Urals
[Bee] GLENDALE, AZ — The presidential race underwent a shakeup today, with Donald Trump adding a Kennedy to his team in hopes he will draw all the sniper fire.
Following an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July, Trump sought to take drastic steps to increase his safety for the remainder of the campaign, including bringing on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a member of a family with a reputation for being shot at.
"A brilliant move by the Trump campaign," said one political strategist. "With lingering questions about the competence of the Secret Service, Trump has decided to take matters into his own hands. Nothing will draw gunfire away from him more effectively than having a Kennedy standing next to you."
Political experts predicted Kennedy's departure from the presidential race and subsequent endorsement of Trump could be a significant boost for Trump's campaign with the added bonus of being an extra layer of protection from attempts on his life. "It's like having a rodeo clown," one analyst said. "If there are any other would-be assassins along the campaign trail, they won't be able to resist the lure of a Kennedy."
At publishing time, pundits speculated that RFK, Jr.'s endorsement was likely to be rewarded by his receiving an appointment as CIA Director in Trump's administration, which, in turn, could open the door to the ironic possibility of the CIA being killed by a Kennedy.
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Harsh.
(but funny)
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"It's like having a rodeo clown," one analyst said
Was my favorite part ;-)
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Once again, proven the theory that you can be an insane bat shit anti-VAX liberal invited on CNN and the daily show and have the best friends in Hollywood but the second you become or endorse to Republican you become unacceptable https://t.co/ttQL04V9tH
#3
Far too much intelligence capability "sharing" already. Collection Management and Dissemination are not the problem. The much deeper challenge is as Thor states at number-1.
It's what you do with the knowledge that is so important. I speak here of political meddling and control issues. Failing to mind one's own business. Partnering with global change agents is where problems begin. The situation in Ukraine might be an example.
Championing the so-called "Two State Solution" is another example.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] GLENDALE, AZ — The presidential race underwent a shakeup today, with Donald Trump adding a Kennedy to his team in hopes he will draw all the sniper fire.
