Non-IT News Thread
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@mlnews how was that not in Florida?
But OMG MD gets trashy, too.
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The remains of a man missing for 22 years have been found — thanks to Google Earth
For over two decades, William Moldt’s family was left with unanswered questions about his disappearance.
Now they can have closure — all because of a startling discovery made while browsing Google Earth. Moldt, who was 40 at the time, seemingly vanished from Palm Beach County, Florida, on November 7, 1997. That evening, he called his girlfriend from a bar to tell her he would be home soon, according to CNN affiliate WPTV. Shortly afterward, he was seen leaving the bar, alone and getting in his vehicle. He reportedly did not appear intoxicated, according to WPTV. That night 22 years ago was the last time anyone would see him alive. A previous resident of a neighborhood in Wellington, Florida, was searching around on Google Earth when they noticed something in the water, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. In the images from Google Earth, you can see what appears to be a car in a retention pond that is flanked by homes. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
you can see what appears to be a car in a retention pond that is flanked by homes.
And no one has noticed a car in this pond for 22 years?! It's not so far in the water that it isn't plainly visible..
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
And no one has noticed a car in this pond for 22 years?! It's not so far in the water that it isn't plainly visible..
In the article it mentions the water "shifting" or something making the car appear now.
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Look at the angle... not surprisingly that would not be visible from the sidewalk there. It's barely visible from satellite. You have to look through a lot more water to see it from the oblique angle of a standing person.
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BBC News - Magpie attack: Australian cyclist dies while fleeing swooping bird
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Magpie attack: Australian cyclist dies while fleeing swooping bird
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49711147Magpies can be agro bastards. I had to rescue a small child from one having a go at him. Jumping/swooping, getting in his face.
PSA via meme. (No disrespect to the poor bloke in the article)
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BBC News - Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, dies aged 75
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Designs revealed for incredible new space hotel
It's 50 years since man first stepped on the moon, and we're still harboring dreams of escaping life on Earth for the mysteries of space.
If a career as an astronaut isn't for you, perhaps the promise of a sojourn in a space hotel might be appealing. Californian company The Gateway Foundation has released plans for the Von Braun Station, a cruise ship-style hotel floating among the stars. The aim is to get the hotel off the ground by 2025 and make it fully operational for travel by 2027. The Von Braun station is just one such space-based tourism option in development. Also planning to propel people into space are Virgin Galactic, Elon Musk's SpaceX company and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company, not to mention the International Space Station -- which recently announced the possibility of commercial collaborations. -
@mlnews Read about that last week. Solid standard design that humans worked out ages ago.
Problem is implementation.
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Pokemon: 'Ash Ketchum failing for 22 years taught me being a loser is OK'
We're told to never give up on our dreams - but grafting for 22 years? That might be pushing things for most of us.
Not for Ash Ketchum though, who this weekend became a Pokemon Master in a new episode of the Pokemon anime. Yes, obviously Ash is a cartoon character and Pokemon aren't real, but for many fans of the franchise it's a big moment. He's been plugging away at being the very best ("like no one ever was") since 1997. In the latest episode, he won the Alola Pokemon league, despite the fact that throughout much of his adventures, he's been quite bad at training Pokemon - losing every other championship he's ever entered. -
The title is pretty Clickbait, but the actual content of the article is well done. I am sure most people are going to just lock on oh my God a retweet is an endorsement in the Twitter verse is going to go to hell over it.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190917/p2a/00m/0na/017000c
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@JaredBusch That was an interesting article and it made some good points
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Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet
Anyone can take a peek.
Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the Internet and available to anyone with basic computer expertise. The records cover more than 5 million patients in the United States and millions more around the world. In some cases, a snoop could use free software programs—or just a typical Web browser—to view the images and private data, an investigation by ProPublica and the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk found. -
Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years
Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies.
The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US and Canada today compared to 1970 - a loss of 29% of North America's birds. The second outlines a tipping point in "the Asian songbird crisis": on the island of Java, Indonesia, more birds may now live in cages than in the wild. Scientists hope the findings will serve as a wake-up call. The two studies are published in the journals Science and Biological Conservation. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years
Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies.
The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US and Canada today compared to 1970 - a loss of 29% of North America's birds. The second outlines a tipping point in "the Asian songbird crisis": on the island of Java, Indonesia, more birds may now live in cages than in the wild. Scientists hope the findings will serve as a wake-up call. The two studies are published in the journals Science and Biological Conservation.Wow - that's kinda scary...
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years
Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies.
The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US and Canada today compared to 1970 - a loss of 29% of North America's birds. The second outlines a tipping point in "the Asian songbird crisis": on the island of Java, Indonesia, more birds may now live in cages than in the wild. Scientists hope the findings will serve as a wake-up call. The two studies are published in the journals Science and Biological Conservation.Heard about that on WSB this morning.
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SLS: Nasa's giant 'Moon rocket' takes shape
Nasa has finished assembling the main structural components for its largest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V.
Engineers at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans connected the last of five sections that make up the core of the Space Launch System (SLS). The rocket will be used to send an uncrewed Orion craft to the Moon, in a flight expected to launch in 2021. This will pave the way for crewed missions, with a landing in 2024. The last piece of the SLS' 64m (212ft) -tall core stage was the complicated engine section. This will serve as the attachment point for the four powerful RS-25 engines, which are capable of producing two million pounds of thrust (9 meganewtons). The RS-25 engines, built by Sacramento, California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne, are the same ones that powered the now-retired space shuttle orbiter. -
BBC News - Why Greeks question this role model's credentials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49753214
