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Kliff Kingsbury makeshift "war room".

Internet governance body RIPE opposes Chinese proposal to change core internet protocols

The giant red nebula, NGC 2014, and its smaller blue neighbor, NGC 2020, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the Milky Way, about 163,000 light years away - latest image Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)

My 55 megapixel image of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex (click on image for more detail, first comment for complete image details and link to full version)

Solar flare

TIL New York City paid more for Central Park than America paid for Alaska.

TIL- The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt, regularly staged boxing matches in the White House and took on anyone he could- including professional boxers.

Fauci's absence from recent coronavirus briefings draws notice

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to connect a network of sensors through quantum entanglement. The experiment opens a door to unprecedented levels of sensitivity in GPS navigation, medical imaging and astronomy.

My image of the sombrero galaxy taken with a small telescope vs. hubble

This comet is currently breaking up as it approaches the Sun. I was able to get a last good look at it with my backyard telescope. [OC]

TIL Alan Turing, father of theoretical computer science & artificial intelligence, was convicted of homosexuality and given a choice between prison or freedom with ongoing injections of female hormones. The injections sent him into depression. He died age 41 by eating an apple he laced with cyanide.

TIL of Ken Banks, a Queensland man who set up a "retirement home" for birds who outlive their owners, at one count housing at least 1,600 birds including a cockatoo in its 90s. He prefers not to sell birds but rather swap with breeders or give birds to people after teaching how to care for them.

Virgo Supremis

CIA really hired the best there is

AI models illustrate the importance of continued social distancing

Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator

Antibodies could prevent COVID-19 reinfection and spread suggesting immunity, new studies show

ESA's Mars rover launch delayed untill 2022

NYC Poison Control Calls for Bleach, Lysol Double After Trump Disinfectant Comment

The greatest case of karma

TIL Warren Buffet bet $2,222,278 that, over a ten-year period, the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses. He won.

LPT: complimenting people on their looks can backfire. Compliment them on their choice of clothes, jewelry, etc.: then you compliment their taste instead of their physical attributes and is less objectifying.

LPT: Submit Resumes and Other Important Documents as PDFs

Today NASA is celebrating NASA Hubble's 30 years of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling this stunning new portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy, located 163K light-years away. This is amazing a 3D visualization.

Tumor cells use a mechanism that involves the protein cathepsin S to take advantage of and avoid detection from the immune system. Targeting this mechanism offers a new therapeutic strategy for cancers like Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Anderson Cooper Dumbfounded by Trump’s ‘Sarcasm’ Excuse: Does He Think We’re ‘Morons’

The Onion predicted Trump’s suggestion that disinfectants might kill coronavirus

LPT: “You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” (Edwin Louis Cole). Learn to recognize what habits put you down and keep you down so that you can change them one by one.

TIL A band called The Warlocks were set to play a benefit concert in San Francisco in December 1965, but the problem was that there was already a band called The Warlocks...so they changed their name to The Grateful Dead.

Where are they now? Montreal Canadian Hockey player JC Trombley now a movie usher

UFC returns May 9 with first of 3 cards in Florida

LPT: If someone close to you tells you "I don't feel like drinking tonight", it is likely for another backround reason like medication, mental illness or something else. Don't try to push people into drinking when they have made it clear they don't want to.

Massive Windows 10 fail: New update is crashing PCs and deleting files

Terry Bradshaw - Quarantine Crazy

The Hubble Space Telescopes celebrates 30 years of science today! Nearly half the people alive now have never known a world without the iconic telescope.

Damn it i wanted some zombies

Google searches for “wash hands” predicts a country’s outbreak of COVID-19, study finds

FDA issues warnings on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after ‘serious poisoning and death’ reported

Newly revealed financial records show Trump owes millions to state-owned bank in China: report | Trump claims China would "own" the U.S. if Biden wins, but he's on the hook for millions — and the due date is 2022

TIL that the Vatican is accused by Serbs, Jews and Roma of laundering millions of dollars of stolen gold and jewelry, plundered from concentration camp prisoners in Croatia, immediately after WW2. It is also alleged that they helped several notorious Nazi leaders hide and escape

TIL that shortly after the death of Harambe the gorilla, his sperm was extracted from his corpse in order to preserve genetic diversity and prevent his bloodline from dying out

Err... Should we tell him?

Doggo Belichick

'A Power Grab': Postal Union Slams Trump for Holding USPS Funds Hostage to Force 'Draconian Cuts' | "This administration is committed to fulfilling the decades-long pursuit by some to sacrifice our public Postal Service at the altar of private profit."

Citing 'Utter Inability to Discharge Duties of His Office,' MoveOn Demands Trump Removal Under 25th Amendment

I hope nobody made this

He has spoken!

LPT: When looking for a new place to live (house hunting, apartment hunting, etc) remember to check your phone for signal strength when you’re inside the potential new place. Few things will sting more than buying a house only to discover that you have bad cell service.

CES might have helped spread COVID-19 throughout the US