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[Regnum] A weak G1 magnetic storm began on Earth on October 30. This was reported by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
This is the fourth and, according to experts, the last magnetic storm in October. Scientists began expecting an increase in geomagnetic disturbances after Earth entered the zone of a coronal hole.
"Most of the storms that occurred earlier this month were also associated with coronal holes, except for the very first, three-day storm, which was recorded against the backdrop of a strong increase in flare activity in late September and early October," the laboratory noted.
The storm was expected to be moderate, and so far this forecast is coming true.
“The storm was registered at a low G1 level with the potential to grow to no more than G2 (there are five gradations on the scale),” the scientists noted.
Despite the moderate nature of the magnetic storm, its activity was sufficient to expand the auroral zone: within an hour, it descended to the latitudes of Moscow. The northern lights were not visible in the capital due to daylight. However, the laboratory reported that the polar oval remains likely to remain intense until nightfall.
Previously, magnetic storms were observed during the first three days of October, as well as on October 12 and 18-19. Scientists noted that the number of magnetic storms has been high for the second month in a row. Five storms were recorded in September, while there was a decline at the end of summer.
[Natalie Winters] When President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t just retaliate with trade measures. It launched an information war, using American insiders to spread its narrative that tariffs were reckless and self-defeating.
One of the most prominent voices in that campaign is Rick Waters, a former senior U.S. diplomat who once directed the State Department’s China House.
Since leaving government, Waters has become a reliable messenger for Beijing’s preferred positions, appearing with CCP-linked influence groups and using Western media outlets to promote pro-China talking points that undermine Trump’s trade strategy.
FROM STATE DEPARTMENT INSIDER TO BEIJING’S TRUSTED VOICE
In late 2024, Waters participated in an official interview for China—US Focus, a platform run by the China—United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). In the interview, he called for "restraint" and "dialogue," insisting that "both sides must avoid confrontation." The phrasing matched Beijing’s diplomatic line word for word.
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[Regnum] New York State authorities have declared a state of emergency to fund food stamps following the federal government shutdown. Governor Kathy Hochul announced this on Thursday, October 30.
"I want to use every tool at our disposal to ensure New Yorkers don't go hungry," Hochul said at a press conference.
The decision was prompted by the government shutdown, which will stop Americans from receiving food stamps on November 1. Around 42 million people in the country use the food assistance program.
The governor also announced an additional $65 million in emergency food assistance, which, according to her website, equates to 40 million meals. More than 3 million people in New York State receive food stamps.
Earlier, on October 30, Reuters reported that the FBI's shutdown left it without funds to pay informants or purchase drugs and weapons undercover. Furthermore, there is no money for travel for agency operatives.
The shutdown began on October 1. It was triggered by the failure to approve the budget for the new fiscal year, which in the United States begins three months earlier than the calendar year. The budget is unable to be passed due to the standoff between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. As a result of the funding suspension, approximately 800,000 government employees, or almost 40% of the total federal workforce, are at risk of temporary layoffs.
[IsraelTimes] Admissions, which were over 100,000 under Biden, will primarily be allocated to Afrikaners and ‘other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands’.
[GEO.TV] A feudal lord allegedly amputated a cow's leg for wandering into his field in Mohaal village of the district Jehlum, police said on Thursday.
The police said that when the cow entered the field, the landlord turned aggressive and mutilated its leg after trapping it.
The first information report (FIR) registered on the complaint of the cow owner alleged the landlord had struck the cow with an axe, leaving it severely injured.
The cow was transported to a veterinary clinic for treatment.
The law enforcers said the suspects have not been arrested so far, as they fled after the complaint, but raids were being carried out to arrest them.
The incident of treating animals with cruelty was not new in Pakistain.
In September, a feudal lord in the Saleh Pat area of Sukkur, Sindh, savagely tortured a young female camel after it wandered into his farmland to drink water and damaged his crop.
The landlord allegedly tied the camel to a tractor and dragged it across the ground, beat it with sticks, broke one of its legs, and maimed the animal in the face.
In June 2024, two camels were deprived of their legs in separate incidents, reported from Sanghar and Kunri tehsil of Sindh.
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Just buy a cow instead. That way you can enjoy guilt free BarBQ...
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[RIA] Once upon a time, Earth was completely different, including in its chemical composition. But after a cosmic catastrophe, nothing remained—or so it was believed until recently. New discoveries are shedding light on the planet's history and the mystery of life's origin. However, not all scientists agree with the research findings. "IT'S AMAZING."
Billions of years ago, the early Solar System was a rotating disk of gas and dust. From this chaos, the most ancient meteorites formed. Merging, they formed the proto-Earth and its neighboring planets.
It is believed that the early Earth was a rocky sphere covered in oceans of molten lava. But about four and a half billion years ago, it collided with another celestial body the size of Mars—this hypothetical planet is known as Theia. The mega-impact led to the formation of the Moon and completely remolded the interior of our world, changing its chemical composition.
It was believed that fragments of the primordial Earth were lost forever. However, a new discovery disproves this. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with colleagues from other research centers, have found traces of material from the "proto-Earth." The article was published in the journal Nature Geosciences."
The key to the discovery was a rare chemical "fingerprint"—a tiny but significant imbalance in the amount of potassium isotopes in very ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii. They were found to have an unusual "deficiency" of the isotope potassium-40. This anomaly is unlike the composition of most modern terrestrial rocks and meteorites, indicating their different, more ancient origin.
Researchers believe the rocks discovered are surviving fragments of the primordial Earth, which somehow miraculously escaped complete mixing and remelting during a giant impact. Computer modeling has confirmed that if the proto-Earth initially consisted of such potassium-40-deficient material, then subsequent meteorite impacts and geological processes led to the formation of the composition we see everywhere today.
The chemical composition of these ancient rocks doesn't exactly match any known type of meteorite. This means that Earth's "building blocks" were unique, and scientists have yet to find their exact counterparts in space.
"This may be the first direct evidence that we've preserved materials from prehistoric Earth. It's astonishing," says Nicole Ni, an associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at MIT.
Russian scientists highly value the quality of the work. "It was initially clear that some remnants of the 'original' Earth would be preserved in mantle rocks. However, quantitative estimates of a specific isotopic anomaly (K40), which allow us to estimate the material of the proto-Earth, have been obtained for the first time," explains Sergei Voropaev, PhD in Physics and Mathematics and a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Carbon Geochemistry at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.
LIFE PROVIDER
Another recent study notes that without a collision with another planet, life would never have emerged. Scientists from Imperial College London suggest that Theia formed farther from the Sun. Low temperatures led to the condensation of volatiles such as hydrogen and carbon—essential elements for the formation of organic matter. On the hot early Earth, these elements would have evaporated. Thus, Theia became a cosmic "supplier of the ingredients necessary for the origin of life," explains study author Pascal Kruttach.
To prove this theory, specialists studied manganese and chromium isotopes in terrestrial rocks and meteorites. The radioactive decay of these elements acts like a precise clock, allowing us to peer into the first 15 million years of Earth's history. The analysis revealed that the volatiles on our planet are alien in origin and were delivered by a massive body from the outer solar system. The research paper was published in the journal Science Advances.
The work echoes other studies. For example, another simulation showed that Theia could have delivered a huge amount of water to Earth, which is still preserved in the deep mantle. This water did not have time to rise to the surface and form oceans, remaining sealed within the planet's interior since its formation.
WAS THERE A THEIA?
Although the Earth-Theia collision theory is the dominant theory in science, not all scientists share this idea. For example, an alternative view was proposed by Erik Galimov (1936-2020), former director of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI RAS). He also has followers among his colleagues.
"I believe that the embryos of the Earth and the Moon formed from a common, rarefied condensation and then grew due to the fall of bodies much smaller than Mars," says Sergei Ipatov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and leading researcher at the Laboratory of Thermodynamics and Mathematical Modeling of Natural Processes at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geochemical Institute.
Commenting on the MIT study, he notes that the discovery of rock samples with an unusual potassium isotope composition can be explained without the mega-impact theory.
"In my calculations, the Earth's growth initially occurred due to matter formed near the Earth's current orbit. Then, bodies from various regions of the Solar System began to fall onto the growing nucleus. That is, even without a mega-impact, the Earth grew over time due to matter formed at different distances from the Sun. And the elements that formed the Earth's initial nucleus could have been different from those that appeared later," the scientist explains.
Moreover, Ipatov does not share the idea that life could not have originated without a collision with another planet.
"During the mega-impact, a significant amount of matter evaporated, which would not have been conducive to the emergence of life," he points out. "Water and volatiles could have been brought in by bodies coming from beyond the orbit of Mars."
Sergei Voropaev, in turn, adds that life appeared when suitable conditions arose.
"The magma ocean cooled, and the primordial crust formed and cooled sufficiently," the scientist explains. "The atmosphere poured down in a gigantic rain—water condensed, and oceans and seas formed. The proto-Earth played little role in this process; the basic elements—the building blocks of future life—were present in abundance in all variations. It was a combination of natural processes and phenomena, driven by the planet's distance from the Sun, energy flow, cyclicity, and other unique features."
Thus, the question of the fate of the early Earth, as well as the emergence of life on it, remains open. This means researchers still have much work to do.
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[Regnum] The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, traveling through the Solar System, is traveling along an anomalous trajectory with non-gravitational acceleration, which may indicate it may be an alien probe. This was announced on October 29 by Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
According to the scientist, if the comet is an alien spacecraft, the object could use the Sun's gravity to slow down before approaching Earth. While hiding behind the star, it could launch miniature reconnaissance probes.
Loeb noted that perihelion (the closest point to the Sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body in the solar system) will be a crucial test for 3I/ATLAS.
"If this is a natural comet, heating at 770 watts per square meter could destroy it. However, if 3I/ATLAS was manufactured, as indicated by its high nickel content relative to iron, it could initiate maneuvers or launch mini-probes. Other signs of artificial origin could include artificial glow or excess heat from its engine," he wrote in a blog post on Medium.
The astrophysicist asserted that the interstellar object exhibits a number of surprising features that are unlike typical cometary behavior. 3I/ATLAS has an antitail—a stream of particles directed toward, rather than away from, the Sun. The comet also has a plume ejecting nickel at a rate of four grams per second.
Furthermore, according to Loeb, the object is moving with non-gravitational acceleration along an anomalous trajectory, leading to suspicious encounters with Jupiter, Venus, and Mars. All these factors, the scientist believes, suggest that 3I/ATLAS is an alien probe heading toward Earth.
Earlier, on October 25, Loeb also suggested that the space object in question could be an extraterrestrial reconnaissance object. He claimed that 3I/ATLAS, moving through the solar system, could be an extraterrestrial Trojan horse, whose presence would have serious consequences for all of humanity.
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fwiw, the comet reached periheliom on 29 October, so it is now on its way out of the solar system but on the way out, it's closest approach to the earth will be mid December
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Also, as near as I can determine, Loeb has not proposed a testable hypothesis for determining whether 3I/Atlas is not a natural phenomenon.
For some reason, 3I/Atlas seems to have lots of nickel but no iron. But no one can see how that points to a non natural phenomenon unless a civilization is getting rid of its 5 cent coinage
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Too bad NASA can't put an 'explorer' instrument package on this free ride.
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But seriously, if we can't bug it, can't we at least nuke it? For The Science? Or how about colonizing it with a state of the art AI-bot8c "ant farm" mandated to phone home (or not)? With hidden nuclear self-destruct, natch.
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Why not? Pathetic Atlasians. Hurling their bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out there. If they had known anything about the true nature of Earth, anything at all, they would have hid from it in terror.
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when they have the closest approach to Earth, they're rolling up their windows and locking the doors.
In certain parts of Detroit, it is common for truck drivers to not stop at red lights after dark. You will notice the (alleged) aliens show no signs of stopping.
PSA from the Interstellar Safety Council Danger:Humans
Just to see what does and doesn't happen, both out there and down here? Politics, logistics, maybe even physics. Dry run for when our descendants have to do it for real. Or just for fun. Who doesn't like fireworks?
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It should be noted that NASA is refusing to release any photos, radar and scans it has.
-leans in-
Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness... If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory...and for our mutual pleasure...I destroy it utterly.
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#9 Between now and December, when they have the closest approach to Earth, they're rolling up their windows and locking the doors.
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[Natalie Winters] When President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t just retaliate with trade measures. It launched an information war, using American insiders to spread its narrative that tariffs were reckless and self-defeating.
