“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

9 hours ago, XPerceniol said:

feel dizzy.

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

It really does take balls to win a women's beauty pageant these days...

Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for January 16, 2023...

Strange Sounds

15 hr ago

Here: https://strangesounds.substack.com/p/it-really-does-take-balls-to-win

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

Amy Moreno Retweeted

Monitoring Bias @monitoringbias

A higher percentage of children live in single-parent homes in America than in any other country in the world.

Amy Moreno @VivaLaAmes11: https://twitter.com/VivaLaAmes11

Edited January 21, 2023 by msfntor

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

Amy Moreno Retweeted

Jason Howerton @jason_howerton

A cancer patient and her hairdresser. Legitimately one of the most beautiful videos on the internet.

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

Latest in space @latestinspace

Jan 15

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flying over mountains on Pluto

- A must see, incredible!

and Pluto Mountains Photo:

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JULY 17, 2017

Video: Flyover of Pluto's majestic mountains and icy plains

by Bill Keeter, NASA

In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.

Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself.

This dramatic Pluto flyover begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra—which exhibits deep and wide pits—before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere.

The equally exciting flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. The view moves north, passing over Dorothy Gale crater and the dark polar hood of Mordor Macula. The flight then turns south, covering the northern terrain of Oz Terra before ending over the relatively flat equatorial plains of Vulcan Planum and the "moated mountains" of Clarke Montes.

New Horizons Pluto flyover. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Paul Schenk and John Blackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute

The topographic relief is exaggerated by a factor of two to three times in these movies to emphasize topography; the surface colors of Pluto and Charon also have been enhanced to bring out detail.

Digital mapping and rendering were performed by Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. All feature names in the Pluto system are informal.

Provided by NASA.

Here: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-video-flyover-pluto-majestic-mountains.html

Edited January 17, 2023 by msfntor

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

This painting of Pluto by the British artist David Hardy shows a world of almost unimaginable loneliness. The Sun at the bottom of the picture is shrunk to a bright star, and the giant moon Charon rides over a rocky desert of frozen methane.

MORE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/nightsky/10922277/The-night-sky-in-July-2014-countdown-to-New-Horizons-Pluto-flypast.html

**msfntor** · January 17, 2023

New Horizons

Jan 14, 2016

Possible Ice Volcano on Pluto Has the ‘Wright Stuff’

Wright Mons in Color. This composite image of a possible ice volcano on Pluto includes pictures taken by the New Horizons spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015, from a range of about 30,000 miles (48,000 kilometers), showing features as small as 1,500 feet (450 meters) across. Sprinkled across the LORRI mosaic is enhanced color data from the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), from a range of 21,000 miles (34,000 kilometers) and at a resolution of about 2,100 feet (650 meters) per pixel. The entire scene is 140 miles (230 kilometers) across.

Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.

This feature, known as Wright Mons, was informally named by the New Horizons team in honor of the Wright brothers. At about 90 miles (150 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) high, this feature is enormous. If it is in fact a volcano, as suspected, it would be the largest such feature discovered in the outer solar system.

Mission scientists are intrigued by the sparse distribution of red material in the image and wonder why it is not more widespread. Also perplexing is that there is only one identified impact crater on Wright Mons itself, telling scientists that the surface (as well as some of the crust underneath) was created relatively recently. This is turn may indicate that Wright Mons was volcanically active late in Pluto’s history.

Here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/possible-ice-volcano-on-pluto-has-the-wright-stuff

**msfntor** · January 18, 2023

French scientists divert lightning strikes using a weather-controlling super laser

Jan 17, 2023

The laser is so powerful it can divert lightning (Picture: SWNS)

Scientists in France have created a way to divert lightning strikes using a weather-controlling super laser.

Researchers with the Polytechnic Institute of Paris guided the strikes from thunderclouds to places where they don’t cause damage. The team says the new technique could save power stations, airports, launchpads, and other buildings from disaster.

The system creates a virtual lightning rod, metal conductors that intercept flashes and guide their currents into the ground.

“The findings extend the current understanding of laser physics in the atmosphere and may aid in the development of novel lightning protection strategies,” says corresponding author Dr. Aurelien Houard, according to a statement from SWNS.

The five-ton device is about the size of a large car and fires up to a thousand pulses per second. The scientists installed it near a telecommunications tower in the Swiss Alps – which is struck by lightning around 100 times a year.

MORE: https://strangesounds.org/2023/01/french-scientists-divert-lightning-strikes-using-a-weather-controlling-super-laser.html

**msfntor** · January 18, 2023

A mysterious brain network may underlie many psychiatric disorders

By Nicoletta Lanese

published 4 days ago

Researchers discovered that six psychiatric disorders seemed linked to the same underlying brain wiring.

Scientists uncovered a previously unknown brain circuit that seems linked to multiple psychiatric disorders.(Image credit: John M Lund Photography Inc via Getty Images)

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious network of brain connections that is linked to several psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

This shared brain circuitry could help reveal why many patients who are diagnosed with one psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second.

"Half of the people we treat meet criteria for more than one disorder," Dr. Joseph Taylor, clinical director of transcranial magnetic stimulation at the Brigham and Women's Hospital's Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics in Boston and first author of a study describing the discovery, told Live Science. The study, published Thursday (Jan. 12) in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, supports the idea that disorders that often occur together may stem from the same neurobiological roots.

In total, the study identified six disorders — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, OCD and anxiety — that share this underlying circuitry, and "we suspect that other psychiatric disorders may also be linked to the same network," said Taylor, who is also an associate psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

The newfound circuit is not one that's previously been identified or named by scientists, such as the so-called default mode network and salience network. Some "nodes" in the circuit have been linked to psychiatric disorders in the past, while others have not and are instead linked to key aspects of cognitive function, like selective attention and sensory processing, Taylor said. Unraveling how the circuit works could clarify how deficits in these functions might factor into various psychiatric illnesses and potentially make them likely to occur together. ...

MORE: https://www.livescience.com/shared-brain-circuit-psychiatry

Edited January 18, 2023 by msfntor
smart highlightings

**msfntor** · January 18, 2023

Amazing Fata Morgana at Mount Scott In Oklahoma

Jan 17, 2023

Now that’s cool! This was from Sky 5 five days ago... KOCO Sky 5 Pilot Chase Rutledge and KOCO First Alert Storm Chaser Mark Fryklund were flying in Sky 5 and noticed something strange as they looked toward Mt. Scott. This is an optical illusion called Fata Morgana. Sailors often see these mirages, but sometimes you can see them over land too. They occur when layers of hot and cold temperatures are stacked on top of one another (we call them inversions) and an atmospheric duct forms that bend the sunlight creating this optical illusion.

**msfntor** · January 18, 2023

Lunar crown over the peak of Mount Whistler (Canada, January 2023).

Photo by David McColm… https://www.davidmccolm.com/photo-portfolio

**XPerceniol** · January 18, 2023

15 minutes ago, msfntor said:

A mysterious brain network may underlie many psychiatric disorders

By Nicoletta Lanese

published 4 days ago

Researchers discovered that six psychiatric disorders seemed linked to the same underlying brain wiring.

Scientists uncovered a previously unknown brain circuit that seems linked to multiple psychiatric disorders.(Image credit: John M Lund Photography Inc via Getty Images)

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious network of brain connections that is linked to several psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

This shared brain circuitry could help reveal why many patients who are diagnosed with one psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second.

"Half of the people we treat meet criteria for more than one disorder," Dr. Joseph Taylor(opens in new tab), clinical director of transcranial magnetic stimulation at the Brigham and Women's Hospital's Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics in Boston and first author of a study describing the discovery, told Live Science. The study, published Thursday (Jan. 12) in the journal Nature Human Behaviour(opens in new tab), supports the idea that disorders that often occur together may stem from the same neurobiological roots.

In total, the study identified six disorders — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, OCD and anxiety — that share this underlying circuitry, and "we suspect that other psychiatric disorders may also be linked to the same network," said Taylor, who is also an associate psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

The newfound circuit is not one that's previously been identified or named by scientists, such as the so-called default mode network and salience network. Some "nodes" in the circuit have been linked to psychiatric disorders in the past, while others have not and are instead linked to key aspects of cognitive function, like selective attention and sensory processing, Taylor said. Unraveling how the circuit works could clarify how deficits in these functions might factor into various psychiatric illnesses and potentially make them likely to occur together. ...

MORE: https://www.livescience.com/shared-brain-circuit-psychiatry

There has to be something that could tie schizophrenia and bipolar together ... then OCD and anxiety would be hard to pinpoint.

**msfntor** · January 21, 2023

On 1/19/2023 at 12:15 AM, XPerceniol said:

There has to be something that could tie schizophrenia and bipolar together ... then OCD and anxiety would be hard to pinpoint.

GAMES maybe? Use sparingly. Better not to use at all.