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· 2026-10-10T10:17:54+00:00and the sad part is finding out mathematicians cared more about their egos than actual progress
· 2026-10-10T21:55:48+00:00Breaking News | The geomagnetic storm caused by the solar flare hit our world like this. Here's that moment... Northern lights descended as far as Europe. It can even be seen here, we're keeping an eye on it.
· 2026-10-09T23:05:11+00:00From extreme heat to coastal flooding. As Southern California's heat wave begins to break, Huntington Beach is now dealing with flooding as high surf and unusually high tides push ocean water onto streets. And more unsettled weather could be on the way. Rain is possible this
· 2026-10-10T21:31:20+00:00#BREAKING | The geomagnetic storm formed on the Sun has struck Earth. In the coming hours, the Northern Lights may be visible from Turkey. It is reported that it has been seen in some countries in Europe.
AI visual note: A breathtaking display of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in vibrant green and purple hues dances across the starry night sky above a mountainous coastline with a glowing bridge, illustrating the rare geomagnetic storm referenced in the breaking news about the aurora potentially being visible from Turkey and parts of Europe.
· 2026-10-10T21:58:29+00:00Elon Musk in new interview on Starship: “That (flight 14) engine glitch doesn’t seem to be too much of an issue. The heat shield was robust. Flight 15 hopefully in 4-6 weeks. The big milestone coming up, which is hopefully flight 15, is to catch the ship, making it the first
AI visual note: Elon Musk appears on a large screen during what looks like a panel discussion or Q&A event, with two seated hosts in cowboy hats below him. The interview relates to SpaceX's Starship program, with Musk discussing the upcoming Flight 15 test, which aims to achieve the historic milestone of catching the booster with the launch tower.
· 2026-10-10T21:55:59+00:00Tornado Warning including Aiken County, SC, Lexington County, SC until 6:30 PM EDT
AI visual note: A Tornado Warning graphic from NWS Columbia shows a radar-indicated tornado threat valid until 6:30 PM EDT Saturday, October 10, 2026, affecting a population of 3,074 in parts of South Carolina (Aiken and Lexington Counties) with no hail expected. The red-shaded warning area overlaps Interstates 20 and 26, confirming the locations mentioned in the accompanying post.
· 2026-10-10T21:49:28+00:00All plausible science fiction will be realized within our lifetime. If you’re reading this, you’re one of the luckiest humans to have ever been born (if we play our cards right.)
· 2026-10-10T21:55:35+00:00Researchers found an island that has a higher population of giant tortoises than people There are more giant tortoises living on Aldabra Atoll than there are people in the entire country of Seychelles. A new survey estimates that nearly 183,000 tortoises call the atoll home,
AI visual note: Two giant tortoises walk side by side on a tiled outdoor surface, illustrating the subject of the accompanying post about Aldabra Atoll's thriving tortoise population in the Seychelles. The image directly represents the species central to the article's claim about the atoll housing approximately 183,000 giant tortoises.
· 2026-10-10T22:05:20+00:00Tornado Warning continues for Bulloch County, GA, Screven County, GA until 6:30 PM EDT
AI visual note: A Tornado Warning graphic from NWS Charleston SC displays a radar-indicated tornado threat valid until 6:30 PM EDT on Saturday, October 10, 2026, covering an area including Dover, Newington, and Oliver in Bulloch and Screven Counties, GA, with a potential exposure of 1,084 residents and no schools or hospitals in the warning zone. The red polygon on the map visually marks the affected region consistent with the posted warning.
· 2026-10-10T21:52:00+00:00A Millisecond Flash from the Young Universe Finally Reached Earth More than 10 billion years ago, when the cosmos was only about 3 billion years old and neither the Sun nor Earth existed yet, something in a distant galaxy unleashed an immense burst of radio energy. The pulse
AI visual note: This artist's illustration depicts a magnetar within a metal-poor star-forming galaxy emitting a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) of millisecond duration as concentric radio waves at GHz frequencies, with the James Webb Space Telescope shown observing the event from the right side. The image visually represents the article's concept of an ancient cosmic phenomenon—a powerful radio burst from a distant galaxy that traveled over 10 billion years to reach Earth, with JWST depicted as the modern instrument helping to study these early-universe signals.
· 2026-10-10T20:12:40.248000+00:00What kind of rock or is it a fossil?
· 2026-10-10T21:39:02+00:00#SONDAKİKA Güneş'te oluşan jeomanyetik fırtına dünyaya çarptı. • İlerleyen saatlerde Türkiye'den kuzey ışıkları görülebilir. • GPS ve diğer uydu navigasyon sistemlerinde geçici hassasiyet kaybı yaşanabilir. • Uydu haberleşmesi ve yüksek frekanslı radyo iletişiminde
AI visual note: A vibrant aurora borealis displays green and purple lights in the night sky above snow-covered mountains, with lights from a coastal settlement reflecting in the water below.
· 2026-10-10T21:43:03+00:00Hurricane Simon has reached category 4 and keeps the coasts of the Mexican Pacific on alert. Follow the minute-by-minute updates on its trajectory, evolution, and possible impacts this October 10.
· 2026-10-10T20:23:15+00:00THE SEA SPILLED OUT ONTO THE STREETS IN MANZANILLO Stunning images show how the powerful waves caused by Hurricane Simon reached the streets of #Manzanillo, #Colima, while the category 4 cyclone continues to approach the coasts of the #Pacíficomexicano. In response to the risk,
· 2026-10-10T20:15:23+00:00Hurricane #Isaías damage Pensacola Beach Florida
· 2026-10-10T19:58:04+00:00A striking scene from Huntington Beach in the American state of California, where seawater surged forcefully toward the streets and flooded them, in a scene that embodies the violence of the waves and the rise in water levels, reminding us of the greatness of the Creator and the
· 2026-10-10T21:35:34+00:00Sometimes to get the matching charge you want, you just trace it in the most unconventional way. But it works.
AI visual note: A workstation setup featuring a monitor displaying 3D modeling software with a blue sky and sun scene, an illuminated gaming keyboard, and a digital caliper positioned next to a black plastic object on the desk.
· 2026-10-10T20:50:08+00:00I have never seen a Jabiluka 3D Model, so I am trying to build one myself with AI tools. Not engineering stuff, mostly geologically conceptual, to better understand the genesis of this amazing orebody...
AI visual note: A technical diagram showing closed conceptual volumes for an inverted placement study of the JablkoLuka.2 and JablkoLuka.1 artworks, featuring color-coded legend items like 'tomasula', 'Mixed sequence base contours', and 'uncomfortable' along with '360° ORBIT' indicator.
· 2026-10-10T21:24:37+00:00canva.link/yffiafnj8ek83gu لعبة تفاعلية لتفعيل يوم الفضاء
· 2026-10-10T21:18:00+00:00El tiburón ballena, uno de los animales más fascinantes de nuestros océanos
· 2026-10-10T20:33:46+00:00Hurricane Isaias (2026) is a post-tropical cyclone over Alabama as of October 10, after making landfall the previous evening as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin on the Florida Panhandle. California won’t be affected by Isaias.
· 2026-10-10T20:36:45+00:00Giant Hammerhead was spotted in the shallow surf of Panama City Beach, Florida, where it hunted and preyed on a spotted eagle ray just yards from the shoreline
· 2026-10-10T21:19:07+00:00Finally, after 9 years and 3 billion miles, we have a breathtaking look at pluto's frozen mountain
· 2026-10-10T21:26:36+00:00friction model
· 2026-10-10T21:01:02+00:00exploded off another powerful solar flare (6.5 M-class) today October 10th 2026. In addition to a much stronger than expected (by most) solar storm hit with a G3 strong geomagnetic storm, with the potential for G4 severe levels in the hours ahead...going for more next 4 weeks
AI visual note: An image of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 10, 2026, showing detailed solar activity and coronal loops in orange hues, with text '500/AIA - 193 - 2026-10-10 08:35:16' and 'aia.lmsal.com' visible.
· 2026-10-10T20:26:16+00:00Parameter sweeps hit a limit when you need entirely new antenna shapes. In her IEEE AP-S talk, Vesna Somero shows how to run non-parametric optimisation: bit.ly/4i5Ggcw#AntennaDesign #EMSimulation #6GFlagship #UniOulu
AI visual note: A woman is giving a presentation, gesturing with her hand, with slides displaying technical graphs, an electromagnetic field simulation, and text mentioning 'Optimization', 'CST + Optimizer', and 'after Processor'.
· 2026-10-10T21:36:25+00:00A timelapse I captured as the dust storm approached my location near 35th Avenue and the 101. It brought very strong winds and was followed by heavy rain. #azwx
· 2026-10-10T21:46:59+00:00I’ve been recording PB flooding near Briarfield Drive It’s a historic inlet - runoff from upstream enters the bay at this point But there’s no place for streams to disperse into the bay due to sea level rise. High tides + rain will flood these areas near the Catamaran hotel
AI visual note: A street scene at dusk or dawn shows significant flooding on Briarfield Drive, as indicated by the caption text at the bottom, with palm trees and waterfront homes reflected in the standing water.
· 2026-10-10T08:45:00+00:00A giant waterlily was hiding in plain sight in Colombia — and its leaves are so large they can be spotted in satellite images. An Instagram photograph helped lead scientists to Victoria colombiana, a newly described species with floating leaves up to two metres wide. Working
· 2026-10-10T07:06:00+00:00There’s a 660-tonne golden steel ball hanging inside one of the world’s most famous skyscrapers. And it’s not there for decoration. Inside Taiwan’s Taipei 101, this enormous sphere acts as a tuned mass damper. When strong winds make the tower sway, the suspended mass moves
· 2026-10-10T07:01:00+00:00A tsunami can travel across the ocean at over 800 km/h—and a ship might barely notice it passing underneath. So why does that same wave become so dangerous near land? As a tsunami enters shallower water, it slows down, its wavelength shortens, and its height can increase
· 2026-10-10T09:57:00+00:00This isn’t smoke. It isn’t a storm cloud. It’s hundreds of thousands of birds. Every spring and autumn, enormous flocks of starlings gather above Denmark’s marshlands, creating spectacular moving shapes across the sunset. The phenomenon is called Sort Sol — the Black Sun.
· 2026-10-10T09:33:00+00:00There’s a glacier in Antarctica that looks like it’s bleeding. It’s called Blood Falls, and the explanation is even stranger than the appearance. Beneath Taylor Glacier, extremely salty, iron-rich water can remain liquid despite the freezing conditions. When that brine reaches
· 2026-10-10T22:00:36+00:00TIL that even @terrence_tao does not have General Intelligence there are a ton of drugs out there where the mechanism of action is unknown or undefined, yet they work and are in common use. this argument is terrible
AI visual note: A presentation slide titled 'A thought experiment on alignment and understanding' by Terence Tao, posing a scenario about an AI finding a cancer treatment without human comprehension of its mechanism.
· 2026-10-10T09:33:31+00:00A lost Wonder of the Ancient World has reappeared — engraved on a tiny bronze ring. Archaeologists exploring Alexandria’s submerged royal harbour have uncovered a rare signet ring depicting the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria. The lighthouse once guided ships into one of the
· 2026-10-10T15:12:17+00:00Deep inside Vietnam’s Sơn Đoòng cave, there’s an actual forest growing underground. An enormous section of the limestone roof collapsed long ago, allowing sunlight to reach trees more than 200 metres below. Some trees grow 40–50 metres tall in this hidden landscape, known as
