a true professional

 

A surreal feeling': 15-year-old named TIME's 2024 Kid of the Year after new invention​

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CNN’s Lynda Kinkade speaks with 15-year-old Heman Bekele, named TIME's 2024 Kid of the Year for his innovative bar of soap that could one day treat skin cancer.

 

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/entertai...iews-cirque-du-soleils-kooza-in-portland.html
A 4.5-year-old reviews Cirque Du Soleil’s ‘Kooza’ in Portland

 

 

"So long & thanks for all the fish!"

 

Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

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Paleontologists have found more than 260 dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Period in Brazil and Cameroon, now more than 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) apart on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

 

 

Dashcam captures moment lightning strikes the road ahead, just missing the vehicle in front, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2024 Aug 03.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/new...ng-close-call-with-lightning-bolt/vi-AA1pGxYI

 

I like the way lightning - after it strikes - seems to have a lingering dissipating energy. Don't know how to describe it but you can watch the lightning disintegrate.

 

I am going to assume that what is seen after the lightning is the cooling down of the atmospheric molecules, N2, NO, NO2, O2, CO2, CO, HC, and H2O and all other combustion elements.

What is also common is a reverse flow as current reverses direction. This is not seen in this video.

 

For Astronomy buffs:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-spacecraft-collision-may-have-created-a-meteor-shower-that-will-last-for-100-years/ar-AA1pLqKf

 

https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/portland-corn-maze-celebrating-75th-anniversary-of-peanuts/

 

Now THAT's cool!

 

 

 

 

This is astonishing. Just last year, a 650 foot wave that no one witnessed!

 

Radical New Super-Tough Transistor Could Revolutionize Electronics

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The transistor is made from a recently invented ultrathin ferroelectric material (with positive and negative charges on different levels) based on boron nitride. Two layers of the material are used, which shift slightly when electricity is applied, changing the configuration of the boron and nitrogen atoms.

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...paration-for-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has decommissioned its Alpine storage system, a 250-petabyte storage system that held data for the Summit supercomputer and its other support systems. The Summit supercomputer, currently the world's ninth-fastest supercomputer, will be retired on November 1st, but its aging Alpine storage didn't survive that long.

As ORNL prepares for the Discovery system—a computer set to be the world's fastest with an estimated 8.5 exaFLOPS of performance—the time has come to decommission its predecessor, Summit. Summit was initially set to be shut down in 2023, but its high productivity rates led the Department of Energy to keep it in operation for another year. Unfortunately, its storage could not last so long.


Alpine was part of ORNL's storage solution for Summit and its peripheral systems, holding scratch data from the supercomputer and its external nodes, which pre- and post-process Summit's calculations. The Alpine storage system held 250 petabytes of capacity inside 32,494 10TB NL-SAS drives. Made up of 77 IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) nodes, the system could have 2.2 TB/s random read and write speeds at its peak. Still, in recent years, drive failure rates have hit unacceptable levels, necessitating installing a stopgap replacement storage system, Alpine2.