What's in the news today?

[alp]

@roadrunner I had read about this and I thought that was a small pin, turned out to be stadium sized?! Whoa! Will read in detail later. I was saying to myself - why the fuss about this tiny pin? LOL!

 

[alp]

A very sad story

• Heroic mother gazelle and giant eagle become locked in a stand off after the bird of prey attacked her baby
• She then charges at eagle and they trade blows during tense scene in Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya
• But menacing bird stands its ground, fends off mother and manages to keep baby gazelle trapped in its talons

Another bitter sweet story

'There are babies everywhere': Octavius the lone octopus aquarium workers thought was male gives birth to thousands of babies

• Aquarium curator found tank holding 'Octavius' the octopus was full of 'confetti'
• After taking a closer look he realized there were thousands of baby octopuses
• However, female octopuses die after giving birth
  
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  And this biggest skate escapes the claw of consumerism
  

A real thrill to see the record! Source

The greatest skate! Angler catches largest of the rays ever landed at 8ft 3in long, weighing 300lb, and with a seven foot wingspan… that took more than an hour to reel in

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  • Hamish Currie, 59, caught the biggest skate ever landed off Portrush, Northern Ireland, in June this year
  • The 8ft 3in long fish was tagged for conservation purposes and put back into the ocean within minutes
  • With a 7ft wingspan, it is almost 100lb heavier than the previous world record for a giant common skate

 

[DirtMechanic]

UK earthquakes before and after fracking resumes

 

[alp]

@DirtMechanic Can't see the video and I have tried several times.

 

[DirtMechanic]

@DirtMechanic Can't see the video and I have tried several times.

Probably just delete the android references at the end of the search string that take you to the mobileweb version. Without those characters it should be a normal search string. @Becky?@Ian?@zigs? Help! I am drowning in technology!

 

[alp]

Fracking is still going ahead despite such concerns. The country is so small and so built up.

 

[Becky]

Probably just delete the android references at the end of the search string that take you to the mobileweb version. Without those characters it should be a normal search string. @Becky?@Ian?@zigs? Help! I am drowning in technology!

Sorry, without the spaces between our names the tags didn't work!

@alp does this link work for you? https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...rthquakes_before_and_after_the_resumption_of/

 

[alp]

Love this so called news

Who needs Tinder? Hilarious 1950s dating guide reveals the best ways to find a man - including not working with women, getting lost at football matches and being nice ALL the time

• Several pages from an unknown 1950s dating book have been circulating on social media - and include some dating gems
• The section entitled 129 ways to get a husband includes tips such as 'start a whispering campaign about how 'sought-after' you are
• Other nuggets include avoiding companies that employ large numbers of women and pretending to get lost at football matches
  
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  LOL!

 

[DirtMechanic]

Love this so called news

Who needs Tinder? Hilarious 1950s dating guide reveals the best ways to find a man - including not working with women, getting lost at football matches and being nice ALL the time

• Several pages from an unknown 1950s dating book have been circulating on social media - and include some dating gems
• The section entitled 129 ways to get a husband includes tips such as 'start a whispering campaign about how 'sought-after' you are
• Other nuggets include avoiding companies that employ large numbers of women and pretending to get lost at football matches
  
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  LOL!

Check the linky link. Its going back to GF

 

[alp]

Thank you, @DirtMechanic ! it should work now.

How about this one

Well he did ask for a window seat! Moaning passenger left stunned by flight attendant's cheeky response to his demand for a view

• Passenger had requested a window seat but ended up sat next to a blank wall
• He asked the flight attendant if he could be moved to be given a window seat
• But she responded by drawing a picture of a window and stuck it next to him
  
  
  

 

[alp]

Lovely news this morning

'Dad was told - this is your wheelchair, get used to it': Paralysed Superman star Christopher Reeve's son opens up as actor's legacy sees patients finally walk again thanks to pioneering treatment.

Matthew explains: ‘For now we will continue to fund electrical stimulation, as the results are truly astonishing and leading to a lot of thinking about how the spinal cord works.’

Last month another group of researchers, based in Switzerland, published a paper in the journal Nature revealing that the same technology had allowed patients to walk about half a mile when the implant was turned on.

They also found something unexpected: the treatment was helping damaged nerves in the spine to regrow.

‘We’re learning that the spinal cord is not just a simple “telephone wire” that carries signals from the brain to the body but is smart and capable of learning — or relearning,’ says Matthew.

Great man whose memories live on!

 

[alp]

Scientist who discovered giant interstellar comet 'Oumuamua hits out at 'wild speculation' it is an alien spacecraft sent to study us

• Two researchers at Harvard University say cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens using a giant solar sail
• Mysterious object Oumuamua arrived in our solar system in October 2017
• Robert Weryk discovered strange object in 2017 at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy - and says the Harvard paper is 'wild speculation'

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[alp]

Never worry about losing the remote again: Samsung developing TV controlled by your BRAIN

• System would let users flick channels and adjust the volume with their brains
• Prototype uses a headset covered with 64 sensors and an eye-motion tracker
• It could allow people with severe disabilities to interact with their TV sets
  
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  I wish someone would invent a gadget tracking my glasses and keys ... I have spent half of my life looking for them. Even now, I don't know where my bunch of keys is!

 

[alp]

Google is hit by 'worst ever' internet hijack: Users' search, cloud and business services intercepted by Nigeria, China and Russia in 'wargame experiment'

• An internet traffic diversion disrupted Google services and re-routed its data
• Interruptions lasted for nearly 1.5 hours until 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST)
• Russian, Chinese and Nigerian internet service providers were involved
• Google said it had no reason to believe the traffic hijacking was malicious
• Network intelligence experts disagree and believe it may have been a wargame

Source

 

[Gail_68]

Google is hit by 'worst ever' internet hijack: Users' search, cloud and business services intercepted by Nigeria, China and Russia in 'wargame experiment'

• An internet traffic diversion disrupted Google services and re-routed its data
• Interruptions lasted for nearly 1.5 hours until 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST)
• Russian, Chinese and Nigerian internet service providers were involved
• Google said it had no reason to believe the traffic hijacking was malicious
• Network intelligence experts disagree and believe it may have been a wargame

Source

It's when you sign in when it become more of a problem on tracking your stuff...that's one thing I never do and history etc is cleared daily.