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The End Is Nigh

The End of The Universe Could Come 'Much Sooner' Than We Thought

A new calculation of the end of the Universe suggests that the end of all things will come a lot sooner than our previous calculations indicated.
Once the Hawking-like radiation emitted by everything in the Universe is taken into account, the functional end of the Universe is a mere 1078 years hence. Okay, so humanity will well and truly be dead by then, sure – but it's a lot less than the 101,100 years we thought the Universe had.

"So the ultimate end of the Universe comes much sooner than expected," says astrophysicist Heino Falcke of Radboud University in the Netherlands, "but fortunately it still takes a very long time."

The work is a direct follow-up on a 2023 paper, in which Falcke and his colleagues, Michael Wondrak and Walter van Suijlekom, found that black holes are not the only things in the Universe that emit Hawking radiation. Rather, less dense objects could also undergo a gradual evaporation in the form of Hawking radiation, or something like it.

Only 10^78 years? Better get on that honeydo list.

Woodchipper Needed

Married Russian ‘dream teacher’ forced student, 11, to touch her, send her X-rated pics — then blamed the boy for the abuse

The story itself isn't really what I wanted to talk about. Look, I think anyone who molests kids should be tossed in a woodchipper, but when it's a male teacher and a 14, 15 year old girl I can at least intellectually understand. It makes my skin crawl, but I get that there's a limbic brain imperative to reproduce, and a young, healthy mate is more likely to survive childbirth and bear a healthy child. What I don't understand is what a healthy, adult woman “gets” from a very young male. If you look at the article, she's gorgeous, she'd have no trouble getting sex from adult men anytime she wanted, what on earth does a young boy offer to a mature woman? Unfortunately, in this case, the Russians went with jail, not a woodchipper.

This Is What I Voted For

Trump in Riyadh: A Rejection of the Globalist Gospel

Donald Trump represents the antithesis of that establishment. It would take a very long post, or, indeed, a book, to detail all the ways that Trump is the antithesis of the Washington consensus on . . . well, on just about everything. I have long been a supporter of Donald Trump, though not always. When he first ran, in 2016, I thought the idea of a Trump presidency was a sort of joke and said so.

Two things changed my mind. First, when it became clear that his opponent would be Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most corrupt serious contender for the presidency in U.S. history (granted, she may have been outdone by Joe Biden), I decided to cast my lot in with Donald Trump faute de mieux.

But it was not long into Trump’s first term that I realized that I could zip the faute de mieux stuff. Although he did a poor job with many key appointments early on, he was himself a transformational president. He did things that other presidents only talked about. He was bold, innovative, and creative—and yes, he was wholly committed to making America great again.

Trump's move yesterday in bringing the South African delegation and the press into the same room and showing videos and presenting evidence of what's going on down there was brilliant, and there's not a single other person who ran for president who would have had the chutzpah to do it.

Musical Intrlude

Canadian Logic
Regina's Wes Stevens heads to world shooting championships without a gun

Stevens is one of four Canadians to qualify for the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) event slated for May 19-24 in Znojmo, Czechia, where a recent Canadian government policy prohibiting possession of their guns has forced the Canucks to rent pistol-calibre carbines from an American manufacturer.

“It was kind of a kick in the teeth,” said Stevens, 36. “When last fall rolled around I ordered a brand-new gun because I was representing Team Canada. So I was gonna go all out and build one with everything I wanted.

“I needed a backup anyway, so I bought a base gun and wanted this hand guard, this trigger, these grips, this optic. Everything was in the mail and then the government put in all these restrictions.”

Let's not go to Canada. It is a silly place.

The Compassionate President

Let me meet my grandpa: Joe Biden's secret grandchild makes heartfelt plea

Five-year-old Navy Joan Roberts grins as she charges out of her bedroom while proudly cradling a postcard of Joe Biden.

When she visited Washington DC last month, her mother told her she could choose anything she wanted from the White House gift shop.

But rather than picking out a board game, puzzle or soft toy of the president's dog, Navy chose a headshot of the smiling US president to keep in a birdhouse in her bedroom.

It might seem an unusual choice, but Mr Biden, 81, is more to this little blue-eyed girl with soft blonde curls from rural Arkansas than just the head of state - he is her grandfather.

The president is a relative Navy "wholeheartedly yearns" to meet, according to her mother.

Pond scum has more class than Joe Biden.

This Is What I Voted For

White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.

When Trump took office in January, 2.4 million people worked for the federal government, making it America’s largest employer. In four months, Trump and a chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk have hacked off chunks of government in the name of efficiency, with tactics rarely seen in public or private industry. The cuts so far represent just 6 percent of the federal workforce, but they have effectively wiped out entire departments and agencies, such as AmeriCorps and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was slashed 85 percent; the Education Department was cut in half.

Some have found themselves fired, rehired, then let go again. Many have been ridiculed as “lazy” and “corrupt.” They’ve been locked out of offices by police, fired for political “disloyalty,” and told to check their email to see if they still draw a paycheck.
In interviews, more than 30 former and current federal workers told The Washington Post that the chaos and mass firings had left them feeling devalued, demoralized and scared for themselves and the country. Many described problems they’d never experienced before: insomnia, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts. Others with a history of mental struggles said they’d found themselves pushed into terrifying territory.

Learn to code.

You Are The Last Dragon

We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising New Study

Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada. An extraordinary experiment on mice and leaves from two different plant species has uncovered direct physical evidence of an eerie 'biophoton' phenomenon ceasing on death, suggesting all living things – including humans – could literally glow with health, until we don't.

The findings might seem a little fringe at first glance. It's hard not to associate scientific investigations into biological electromagnetic emissions with debunked and paranormal claims of auras and discharges surrounding living organisms.

What's more, even in theory, visible wavelengths of light emitted by biological processes ought to be so faint that it's easily swamped by the intense shine of ambient electromagnetic waves in the environment and radiant heat generated by our metabolism, making it a challenge to accurately track across an entire body.

Still, University of Calgary physicist Vahid Salari and his team have claimed to observe just that – an ultraweak photon emission (UPE) produced by several living animals in strong contrast with their non-living bodies, as well as in a handful of plant leaves.

Anyone get the reference from the section title? It's pretty obscure.

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