hanging pillar

The Veerabhadra Swamy Temple is calm, serene and has preserved its sanctity. The outer portion has a massive Dance Hall with numerous pillars supporting the roof. One corner pillar is the famous ‘hanging pillar‘ that does not touch the temple floor at all. Passing a cloth beneath the pillar is said to bring one prosperity in life 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHzxWJuuFSw

sonic boom cloud

A plane at hyper speed  compresses most air in front which then expands aft. The vaporization of the condensed moisture is a bit behind in time which during decompression of the air forms a cloud  temporarily.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9A2oq1N38

hogs underground

jpr: There be at least three, (3) of'em ground hogs in my back field. They like to dig in a rise with good water drainage.  Entrance is always a base of old tree or thicket with lots of roots to stabilize their dig. There be several emergency plunge holes  scattered about. One be under my shed. Young'ens learn to use 'em right off. Lots of fun watching them critters when the field be quiet like.

Old wooden drilling pads

The wooden beams used are quite large.. 20-40'  and  8" x 20" approximately. They are being repurposed into modern log style homes....woods free for the taking when the drilling is ended..

Flowers in outer space

Zinnia was grown on space station, the first flower to grow and bloom in space.

Cassini's work

This spectacular view, photographed by the space ship  Cassini, shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016. The spacecraft will complete its mission just after the northern summer solstice, having observed long-term changes in the planet's winds, temperatures, clouds, and chemistry.

1918 Spanish flu survivors

civid-19. Ur groceries

Joseph Hersher

Totally amazing stuff

Fr Augustine Wetta Benedictine monk

After 18 years of playing Rugby he suffers from Parkinson's 

Recently he had electrodes implanted in his brain....works 

Coronavirus from china to U S west coast by air

This includes ash as well as particulate such as crematoria????

nuclear radiation on Earth and Mars

nuclear pollution spreading across the Pacific

Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan (above).

             

About 180 millions years ago million megaton atomic detonation(s) is supposed to have scattered radioactive dust all over the planet. The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and this pattern radiates from a hot spot. This nuclear disaster was centered in Mare Acidalium (below).

Portion of the Mare Acidalium quadrangle on Mars

jpr: its a bit much to assume the Mars explosion(s) as a natural event only. Perhaps?

High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS)

Used in breath analysis of marijuana.

Fire rainbow

you may notice a cloud in the sky that looks just like a rainbow. These so-called “fire rainbows” are actually known as circumhorizontal arcs and can occur when the sun has risen higher than 58° in the sky.

Aside from the position of the sun, the other ingredient to forming circumhorizontal arcs is cirrus clouds. Cirrus clouds are the thin, wispy clouds that occur at higher altitudes. Because the temperature is so low where these clouds exist, they are made of ice crystals. After the sun is higher than 58°, the light refracts through the plate-like crystals, which act like prisms and create the rainbow.

Jpr: Saw me one ...took pic with my iPhone. Not the best camera for this but the only one I had...see previous post

Rainbow in high stratus clouds

Never saw the like...later afternoon bright sun only vaporous clouds in upper atmosphere.

Pic through my polarized sun glasses

fetal microchimerism

Having a child changes a woman. It turns her into a mother … 
but also into a kind of chimera.

This transformation doesn't result in a part-lion, part-goat
fire-breathing monster (chimera) of Greek mythology.
But it does result in another type of chimera —
one defined by the presence of cells in the body
originating from two organisms. A mother may live
the rest of her life with cells in her body that are not her
own, but her baby's.

During pregnancy, some of the fetus's cells leave the
womb, traveling through the placenta and into the
mother's bloodstream, where they end up in various
parts of her body.

Pluto and its moons

Looks like a big boy planet to me!

Can u see me now?

Famous who believed in God

Newton and Gauss....arguably the preminant scientists of all of time (both Catholic) openly  professed their faith in God.

Denisovans

When our ancestors first migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, they were not alone. At least two of our hominid cousins had made the same journey—Neanderthals and Denisovans. Neanderthals, the better known of the two species, left Africa about 300,000 years ago and settled in Europe and parts of western Asia. The Denisovans are a much more recent addition to the human family tree. In 2008, paleoanthropologists digging in a cave in southern Siberia unearthed a 40,000-year-old adult tooth and an exquisitely preserved fossilized pinkie bone that had belonged to a young girl who was between five and seven years old when she died.

Recently, scientists successfully extracted nuclear DNA from the pinkie bone and conducted comparison studies with the genomes of modern humans and Neanderthals. Studies show the girl was closely related to Neanderthals, yet distinct enough to merit classification as a new species of archaic humans, which scientists named “Denisovan” after the cave where the pinkie bone was found. The Denisovan genome also suggests the young girl had brown hair, eyes, and skin.