Omnibyte

A view of Earth from Mars.

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Lions and sharks and bears and rhinos, slithering jungle snakes, chomping alligators and crocodiles, and even jumping fanged spiders are to be avoided at all costs.

Yet thousands of people lose their lives every year to harmless-looking animals that can kill or paralyze a human in a matter of moments. These are the secret killers that strike out and steal away a person’s life when least expected.

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The FAA denies it came from a plane (blaming birds),

Huh?

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Luc Montagnier, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine in 2008 for his part in establishing that HIV causes AIDS, says he has evidence that DNA can send spooky electromagnetic imprints of itself into distant cells and fluids. If that wasn’t heretical enough, he also suggests that enzymes can mistake the ghostly imprints for real DNA, and faithfully copy them to produce the real thing. In effect this would amount to a kind of quantum teleportation of the DNA.

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A short Autobiography of Luc Montagnier
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Not really sure what to make of this?

Begin wildly conspiring: Australian ABC‘s Karen Barlow, who is traveling to Antarctica on the Aurora Australis to study glacial ice, has spotted this rectangular block of wood perched prominently atop an iceberg within the no compass region around the magnetic south pole.

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The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.

Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.

80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.

Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep…

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After reading about the translation error of that infamous statement: ” … Let them eat cake.”, it was Brioche (not cake), curiosity got the better of me and I delved into the subject.  Here’s what I came up with.

An interview which paints a picture of Marie Antoinette as: A devoted wife and loving mother and humane towards her subjects. The author is, Mary Eileen Russell (pen name: Elena Maria Vidal), the books are “Trianon and Madame Royale”. Must see.
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Something about Marie Antoinette’s mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria:

The rule of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was marked by the implementation of major reforms which effected considerable modernization in all the Habsburg territories: Empress Maria Theresa of Austria modernized:

• the administration
• reorganized the army (and established a military academy,
• eased the life of the peasants (e.g. by limiting the amount offorced labor),
• introduced compulsory school attendance,
• abolished torture and,
• reduced the influence of the Church (abolition of the Jesuits 1773).

And not to forget Marie Antoinette’s older brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (also a very interesting history), who would travel incognito and be very much a part of the people he ruled over.

Joseph’s social reform was the area which he was most influenced by Enlightenment thinkers. Before 1780, Austria had no government funded welfare agencies. Hospitals and schools were run by the Church and there was no specific provision for the old, the disabled and lunatics.

Joseph II established the most comprehensive welfare system in Europe. The system was expensive and wide ranging. Reforms went further than the radical suggestions of a writer. He financed the extensive program mostly from the dissolution of the monasteries.

• Orphanages,
• hospitals,
• maternity units,
• medical colleges,
• lunatic asylums and
• institutions for unmarried women,
• the blind,
• the deaf and
• cripples were all established in the 1780s.
• In 1785 Vienna General Hospital had 2000 beds.

Joseph’s provisions were the most effective of any state in Europe and would not be improved in any other country until a century later. In these reforms, Joseph showed his very Enlightened and strong humanitarian principles of caring and support.

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So, I say: “With a family like that, the probability that Marie Antoinette would utter such a calloused and, brain dead statement seems low or, unlikely to me.

Issik Kul is a remote deep-water lake located in the northern Tian Shan Mountains, in the Transiliysk
Ala Tau area of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia). The name means “warm water”; the lake is surrounded by snow-capped peaks but it never freezes.

According to a well-informed Ukrainian writer V. Krapiva, in the late 1930s a Russian researcher of the paranormal, Grabovsky conducted an interview with a reluctant witness. That man and his friends had explored a cave near the Issik Kul Lake, where they discovered three human skeletons, each more than three meters tall.

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Little penguins are dying in their hundreds, leading conservationists to fear they are starving as a result of the La Nina weather system.

Other seabirds are washing up dead on beaches, raising concerns that species could become extinct if climate change causes extreme weather events to become more frequent.

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