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Pogba reminds me of Dimitar Berbatov when he first arrived at United from Spurs, he was a class act but he was so hot & cold it frustrated a lot of United fans and me included. he would play 3/4 great matches on the trot with some brilliant goals and then just disappear in the next five games, it did my head in and I often wonder why Fergie got rid of him in the end, Pogba should pack his bags and try somewhere else, he keeps saying he would love to play for Real Madrid someday well now is the time to just shunt him out of the door for Real Madrid. At least we got a few good years out of Ronaldo when he was with us, he gave it all for the club and he was a class act from day one until he left for his boyhood team in Real but he always said when he first arrived that one day he would leave for Real which he did but he left United with 3 EPL Titles, 1 FA Cup, 2 Football League Cup, 1 UEFA Champions League Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup medals and you can throw in 1 Charity Shield medal too, Pogba is no Ronaldo and will never be.

The wee man shites all over Pogba as a mid-fielder and deserved a wage better than Pogs in my opinion and the same as Mata, just hope he is not next.

And another one bites the dust, shame really as I liked this wee man and gave it all but he wanted more money according to the media so it's goodbye Herrera Ander Herrera to leave Man Utd at end of season Ander Herrera will leave Manchester United when his contract expires at the end of the season. The news was confirmed on social media on Saturday after widespread speculation about his future. The 29-year-old Spain midfielder, who joined the club under Louis van Gaal from Athletic Bilbao in 2014, is understood to have agreed terms with Paris St-Germain. United did attempt to keep Herrera but there was no agreement over terms. Irritated at the time it took the Old Trafford club to make an offer, Herrera then asked for a wage in line with the club's highest earners. United felt it was too much, so Herrera will bring to an end his five-year stay at the club this weekend. It is not known whether Herrera will play any part in Sunday's final Premier League game against Cardiff at Old Trafford. He scored 20 goals in 189 appearances and won the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. In an emotional video, Herrera, who won the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award in 2017, voted for by United fans, said: "there is red in my heart". He added: "Playing for the greatest club in England has been a true honour. Every time I represented this club, in every game, in wins and losses, even when I couldn't help from the grass, I understood what this clubs means." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48237568

How do you learn to drive on Mars? VIDEO Time is of the essence. It's now little more than a year until the Rosalind Franklin rover is sent to Mars. Engineers across Europe and Russia are busy assembling this scientific vehicle, and the hardware that will both carry it to the Red Planet and put it down safely on the surface. In parallel to all this are the ongoing rehearsals. These are needed to ensure controllers can easily and efficiently operate the robot from back here on Earth. The videos on this page show the latest locomotion verification tests that have been conducted at the RUAG company in Switzerland. How will the rover stand up on its landing platform and roll down the ramps that take it on to the dusty, rocky terrain of Mars? How will it negotiate any boulders at the targeted equatorial touchdown location of Oxia Planum? And how will Rosalind Franklin cope with steep slopes? These questions have to be answered now, before the rover’s rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in July/August next year. The robot is a joint project of the European and Russian space agencies. It will roam an ancient terrain, looking for evidence of past – perhaps even present – life. Key to this search will be a drill that will pull up rocky samples from up to 2m below the surface. It's underground – away from radiation - that we think life might have a chance on Mars. VIDEO Those samples will be delivered to a sophisticated suite of instruments that live inside a sterile box known as the Analytical Laboratory Drawer. The ALD has just gone through its own test programme in Turin, Italy, and is now sitting in a cleanroom at Airbus in Stevenage, UK, waiting to be bolted on to Rosalind Franklin. Integration of the ALD will likely take place next week. Engineers at Stevenage have a deadline of July/August to assemble all the robot's components and get the finished vehicle out the door. Significant outstanding items sill to be attached include the bogey system (the locomotion chassis and wheels) and the British camera system (PanCam) that will survey Oxia Planum. This equipment will sit atop a mast. From southern England, the completed rover will travel to southwest France, to Toulouse, where it will be "shaked and baked" at another of Airbus's facilities. This “environmental testing” will demonstrate the robot can handle the vibrational and temperature extremes it will experience on the flight to Mars. From Toulouse, Rosalind Franklin will travel across France to Cannes. It's on the Côte d'Azur that the Franco-Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space will do the all-important final fit-check, bringing together the rover, its Russian "Kazachok" landing system (built by NPO Lavochkin), and its German cruise vehicle (from OHB-System) which will manage the journey from Earth to Mars. Assuming all that goes off without a hitch, everything heads to Baikonur and launch preparations. Fourteen months really is no time at all In 1952, Rosalind Franklin was at King's College London (KCL) investigating the atomic arrangement of DNA, using her skills as an X-ray crystallographer to create images for analysis. One of her team's pictures, known as Photo 51, provided the essential insights for Crick and Watson to build the first three-dimensional model of the two-stranded macromolecule. It was one of the supreme achievements of 20th Century science, enabling researchers to finally understand how DNA stored, copied and transmitted the genetic "code of life". Crick, Watson, and KCL colleague Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize for the breakthrough. Franklin's untimely death meant she could not be considered for the award (Nobels are not awarded posthumously). However, many argue that her contribution has never really been given the attention it deserves and has even been underplayed. VIDEO https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48230277

May 10, 2019 Hubble Peers at an Ancient Galaxy Cluster Dotted across the sky in the constellation of Pictor (the Painter’s Easel) is the galaxy cluster highlighted here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: SPT-CL J0615-5746, or SPT0615 for short. SPT0615, first discovered by the South Pole Telescope less than a decade ago, is a massive cluster of galaxies, one of the farthest observed to cause gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing occurs when light from a background object is deflected around mass between the object and the observer. Among the identified background objects, there is SPT0615-JD, a galaxy that is thought to have emerged just 500 million years after the big bang. This puts it among the very earliest structures to form in the universe. It is also the farthest galaxy ever imaged by means of gravitational lensing. Just as ancient paintings can tell us about the period of history in which they were painted, so too can ancient galaxies tell us about the era of the universe in which they existed. To learn about cosmological history, astronomers explore the most distant reaches of the universe, probing ever further out into the cosmos. The light from distant objects travels to us from so far away that it takes an immensely long time to reach us, meaning that it carries information from the past — information about the time at which it was emitted. By studying such distant objects, astronomers are continuing to fill the gaps in our picture of what the very early universe looked like, and uncover more about how it evolved into its current state. Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency) Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev et al., F. High et al. Last Updated: May 10, 2019 Editor: Rob Garner

A bird that went extinct 136,000 years ago comes ‘back from the dead’ after evolving again Andrew Griffin © Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited A bird that previously went extinct rose from the dead after it evolved all over again, scientists have found. The last surviving flightless species of bird in the Indian Ocean, a type of rail, has actually been around before, the research found. It came back through a process called "iterative evolution", which saw it emerge twice over, the researchers found. It means that on two separate occasions – tens of thousands of years apart – a species of rail was able to colonise an atoll called Aldabra. In both cases it eventually became flightless, and those birds from the latter time can still be found on the island now. Iterative evolution happens when the same or similar structures evolve out of the same common ancestor, but at different times – meaning that the animal actually comes about twice over, completely separately. This is the first time it has been seen in rails, and one of the most significant ever seen in a bird of any kind. White-throated rails are roughly the size of a chicken. They come from Madagascar, but repeatedly colonise other isolated islands, growing in number and then heading out of the island where they began. Many of those that left to go north or south either died or were eaten. But some of the ones that headed eastwards went to live on the other ocean islands in the area, which includes Aldabra. Aldabra does not have predators, and so the rails gradually lost the ability to fly. But then the island completely disappeared when it was covered by the sea, and the rail was wiped out, along with everything else on the island. But after that event, some 100,000 years ago, the sea levels fell again and the atoll was once again taken over by flightless rails. By comparing the bones of those after and the ones before, researchers found that the evolution happened twice over a few thousand years ago. "These unique fossils provide irrefutable evidence that a member of the rail family colonised the atoll, most likely from Madagascar, and became flightless independently on each occasion," said lead researcher Dr Julian Hume, avian palaeontologist and Research Associate at the Natural History Museum. "Fossil evidence presented here is unique for rails, and epitomises the ability of these birds to successfully colonise isolated islands and evolve flightlessness on multiple occasions." There is no better evidence of such a process happening to a bird, the researchers said. "We know of no other example in rails, or of birds in general, that demonstrates this phenomenon so evidently. Only on Aldabra, which has the oldest palaeontological record of any oceanic island within the Indian Ocean region, is fossil evidence available that demonstrates the effects of changing sea levels on extinction and recolonisation events," said co-author Professor David Martill, from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth. "Conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/environment/bird-that-went-extinct-136000-years-ago-comes-back-from-the-dead-after-evolving-again/ar-AABbnvo?li=BBoPWjQ

Sea eagle seizes lamb and carries it away © Other The sea eagle is believed to have swiped the lamb from a nearby field. Pic: Deadline News Astonishing pictures have emerged featuring the unlikely sight of a lamb being carried through the air by a sea eagle. In photos snapped by Douglas Currie, from Loanhead, Midlothian, the farm animal is seen being dangled precariously above the ground as the bird grips it with its talons. Mr Currie, 74, an amateur photographer, captured the moment while on holiday with his wife on the Isle Of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. "We saw this big shape through the sky and my wife thought it was a fish," he said. "We then realised it was a lamb - and I rattled off a load of shots. The bird was struggling. It is the most extraordinary sight have had so far." The sea eagle is an impressive specimen, boasting a wingspan of up to eight feet and a beak capable of doing serious damage to its prey. Following their decline during the Industrial Revolution, the birds were reintroduced in Scotland in the 1970s and their population has grown ever since, with 130 breeding pairs set to soar to 700 by 2040. © Getty Sea eagles have wingspans of up to eight feet. File pic Their increased numbers have riled farmers who are concerned by the targeting of livestock, with lambs having been reported missing and bloodied corpses found miles away from flocks. Phil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association, said the pictures from the Isle Of Mull were proof that recently approved plans to home 30 breeding pairs on the Isle Of Wight were unsuitable. He said: "It's all about eco-tourism - attracting more people to the island. But what happens if it all goes wrong? You'll have these giant predators all over the south of England and it'll be too late to do anything about it. "This is a highly urbanised setting - they simply shouldn't be here. I would think there is also a danger to people's pets - cats and dogs and so on. It really is ridiculous." The application to breed the birds on the Isle Of Wight was approved by Natural England, which said it will be closely monitored using satellite tracking devices. Breeding is also not expected to start until at least 2024. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/sea-eagle-seizes-lamb-and-carries-it-away/ar-AABbv4f?ocid=chromentp

They showed a photo of him on the ITV News and it looked nothing like the old Freddie Starr, very fat and his face bloated, grey hair, it's a shame really because I did enjoy his shows years ago especially when he appeared on the Des O'Connor show he would have me and the wife in stitches laughing our socks off, I think all these sex allegations he had against him took its toll.

That was his wife let loose by mistake hubby went and zapped her and told her to fuck off.

Manchester United appoint Mike Phelan as assistant manager The 56-year-old returned to United in December as part of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's backroom team. Phelan, who was sacked as Hull City manager in 2017, had most recently held the role of sporting director at Australian side Central Coast Mariners. He served as Sir Alex Ferguson's assistant from 2008 to 2013, having been a first-team coach since 2001. "Manchester United has been a huge part of my life since I joined as a player in 1989 and I am delighted to be able to continue that relationship in this key role," said Phelan. Solskjaer said Phelan had been "invaluable" to him, adding: "I've been a player under him, his knowledge, experience, demeanour, everyone in the club enjoys speaking to him, talking to him, discussing football with him, players really respect him, they know what he can do and he's worked with the best. "I'm very pleased they've finally agreed. When Ed (Woodward) rang me [in December], he [Phelan] was my first port of call to assist me and we're here now for a few years together." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48226047

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I will report you to the Insect RSPCA you wicked bastard

Then Happy Birthday José also

Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet. The initiative is the first of its kind in the world and could lead to dramatic reductions in carbon emissions. The initiative is coordinated by the government's former chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir David King. "What we do over the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. There is no major centre in the world that would be focused on this one big issue," he told BBC News. Some of the approaches described by Sir David are often known collectively as geoengineering. What we do over the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. Prof Sir David King, Ex-Government Chief Scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist at Cambridge University, said the new centre's mission would be to "solve the climate problem". "It has to be. And we can't fail on it," she said. The Centre for Climate Repair is part of the university's Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative, led by Dr Shuckburgh. It will bring together scientists and engineers with social scientists. "This really is one of the most important challenges of our time, and we know we need to be responding to it with all our efforts," Dr Shuckburgh told BBC News. Refreezing the poles One of the most promising ideas for refreezing the poles is to "brighten" the clouds above them. The idea is to pump seawater up to tall masts on uncrewed ships through very fine nozzles. This produces tiny particles of salt which are injected into the clouds, which makes them more widespread and reflective, and so cool the areas below them. Recycling CO2 Another new approach is a variant of an idea called carbon capture and storage (CCS). CCS involves collecting carbon dioxide emissions from coal or gas-fired power stations or steel plants and storing it underground. Prof Peter Styring, of the University of Sheffield, is developing a carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) pilot scheme with Tata Steel in Port Talbot in South Wales which effectively recycles CO2. The scheme involves setting up a plant on-site which converts the firm's carbon emissions into fuel using the plant's waste heat, according to Prof Styring. "We have a source of hydrogen, we have a source of carbon dioxide, we have a source of heat and we have a source of renewable electricity from the plant," he told BBC News. "We're going to harness all those and we're going to make synthetic fuels." Ocean greening Other ideas the centre would explore include greening the oceans so they can take up more CO2. Such schemes involve fertilising the sea with iron salts which promote the growth of plankton. Previous experiments have shown that they don't take up sufficient CO2 to make the scheme worthwhile and might disrupt the ecosystem. But according to Prof Callum Roberts of York University, approaches that are currently thought beyond the pale now have to be considered and, if possible, made to work. This is because the alternative of damaging and potentially irreversible climate change is considered beyond the pale. "Early in my career, people threw their hands up in horror at suggestions of more interventionist solutions to fix coral reefs," Prof Roberts said. "Now they are looking in desperation at an ecosystem that will be gone at the end of the century and now all options are on the table". The options include genetically engineering heat-resistant coral or dumping chemicals into the sea to make the sea less acidic. "At the moment, I happen to think that harnessing nature to mitigate climate change is a better way to go. But I do see the legitimacy of exploring [more radical] options as a means of steering us towards a better future," Prof Roberts said. Thinking the unthinkable Such ideas have many potential downsides and may prove to be unfeasible. But Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, said that they should be properly assessed to see if the downsides can be overcome because he believes that reduction of CO2 emissions on its own won't be enough. What is in the Paris climate agreement? "If we reduce our emissions all we are doing is making the global climate warmer a bit more slowly. That is no good because it's already too warm and we have already got too much CO2 in the atmosphere," Prof Wadhams said. "So climate repair can actually take it out of the atmosphere. We can get the level down below what it is now and actually cool the climate bringing it back to what it was before global warming," he added. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48069663

Grizzly said it's your Birthday sooooooo... Desperate @Dan

That's the scummy Sun that printed that but it backfired really because of the headlines he became more famous, R.I.P. Freddie.

Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old 'Sphinx Room' hidden in Emperor Nero's Golden Palace Adam Forrest © Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited Archaeologists attempting to restore Emperor Nero’s palace in Rome have accidentally discovered a secret underground room decorated with colourful animal frescoes. The walls of the chamber in the bowels of Domus Aurea – the Golden House – was found adorned with depictions of panthers, centaurs and a sphinx. Experts stumbled upon the space quite by chance while mounting scaffolding late last year, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Alfonsina Russo, the head of the Colosseum archaeological park in which the Golden House resides, said it was “an exceptional and thrilling find”. © Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited One of the centaur frescoes in the newly-discovered chamber (EPA) He said the restoration team had decided to call the chamber the “Sphinx Room” after one of the most striking frescoes, although the walls also feature aquatic creatures, exotic birds and the god Pan. Mr Russo described the moment of discovery after he and his colleagues spotted an opening in the corner of an adjoining chamber. “Lit up by the artificial light, there suddenly appeared the entire barrel vault of a completely frescoed adjacent room,” he said. Nero’s immense palace was built almost 2,000 years ago when the emperor ordered its construction following the fire of 64AD. The devastating blaze destroyed large parts of Rome, including the aristocratic villas on Palatine Hill. Following the discovery of the Sphinx Room, Mr Russo’s archaeologists began basic salvage and restoration work at the start of 2019. Yet much of the room is still buried by tonnes of earth, and the team fears it will remain so because any further work could jeopardise the stability of the whole palace. Alongside the Sphinx and the centaurs, the frescoes also feature garlands of flowers, leaves and fruit in line with architectural motifs of the time. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-sphinx-room-hidden-in-emperor-neros-golden-palace/ar-AAB9l18?li=BBoPWjQ

Dog That Shoplifted a Book on ‘Abandonment’ is Given the Love It Was Asking For By McKinley Corbley May 9, 2019 Instead of being disciplined for his misdeeds, this unlikely shoplifter is being given more love and attention than ever before. Last year, a stray dog was caught on camera sneaking into the Feevale University bookshop in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil. After managing to get past the front desk, the pup can be seen grabbing a book in its mouth and trotting out of the store. But it wasn’t just any book – it was a book entitled “The Days of Abandonment”; a pretty relatable topic for stray animals. Before the dog had a chance to read the pages, however, one of the campus students retrieved the book and gave it to the astonished cashier who was working at the front desk. The bookshop staff was so tickled by the sneaky dog, they posted a video of the heist to Facebook where it later went viral. As fate would have it, a group of local animal rescuers saw the video, stopped by the bookshop, and checked the dog into their care. The dog was given a bath, vaccinations, and a foster home following its rescue. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dog-shoplifts-book-on-abandonment/

Bizarre form of hot ice seen on Earth Adam Mann Watch: Neptune 101 (National Geographic) From the seas of Antarctica to the depths of your freezer, most ice on Earth is relatively tame stuff. But throughout the solar system and beyond, extreme temperatures and pressures can crush the frozen substance into increasingly odd varieties. Now, researchers have snapped x-ray images of what might be the newest entrant to ice’s diversity: a highly electrically conductive material known as superionic ice. As the team reports today in the journal Nature, this ice exists at pressures between one and four million times that at sea level and temperatures half as hot as the surface of the sun. © Illustration by Millot, Coppari, Hamel, Krauss (LLNL) From left to right in this artistic rendering, high-power lasers focus on the surface of a diamond, generating a sequence of shock waves that propagate through a sample of water, simultaneously compressing and heating the initially liquid sample and forcing it to freeze into superionic ice. “Yes, we’re talking about ice,” says study leader Marius Millot, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. “But the sample is at several thousand degrees.” While normally unachievable on Earth, such conditions should be present deep inside the watery giants Uranus and Neptune, potentially helping to explain how these distant planets work, including the origins of their unusual magnetic fields. Beyond Vonnegut Scientists already know of 17 varieties of crystalline ice (fans of Kurt Vonnegut might be relieved to know that Ice IX is quite innocuous compared to its fictional counterpart). And more than 30 years ago, physicists predicted that crushing pressure should squeeze water into superionic forms. Superionic materials are dual beasts, part solid and part liquid, that on a microscopic level consist of a crystal lattice permeated by free-floating atomic nuclei that can carry an electrical charge. In water—aka H2O—the oxygen atoms would crunch into a solidified crystal while the hydrogen’s protons would zip around like a liquid. (Recently, another team of scientists working with potassium confirmed the existence of a state of matter that is solid and liquid at the same time.) “It’s quite an exotic state of matter,” says coauthor Federica Coppari, also of the Livermore lab. Last year, Millot, Coppari, and their colleagues found the first evidence for superionic ice, using diamond anvils and laser-induced shock waves to compress liquid water so much that it turned to solid ice for a few billionths of a second. The team’s measurements showed that the water ice briefly became hundreds of times more electrically conductive than it had previously been, a strong hint that it had gone supersonic. © Photograph by Millot, Coppari, Kowaluk (LLNL) In this time-integrated photograph of an x-ray diffraction experiment, giant lasers focus on the water sample, which is sitting on the front plate of the diagnostic tool used to record diffraction patterns. Additional laser beams generate an x-ray flash off an iron foil, which allows the researchers to take a snapshot of the compressed and heated water layer. In their latest tests, the researchers used six giant laser beams to generate a sequence of shockwaves that crunched a thin layer of liquid water into solidified ice at millions of times Earth’s surface pressure and between 3,000 and 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Precisely timed x-ray flashes probed the configuration, which again only lasted for a few billionths of a second, and revealed that the oxygen atoms had indeed taken on a crystalline form. The oxygen was seen to be tightly packed into face-centred cubes—little boxes with an atom at each corner and one in the middle of each side. This is the first time that water ice has been seen taking on such an arrangement, Coppari says. The team has proposed calling this new formation Ice XVIII. While there was some overlap in conditions between the team’s two experiments, more investigations will be necessary to definitively prove that the ice is superionic, says Roberto Car, a Princeton University physicist who was not involved in the work. Nevertheless, he considers the study to be an important illustration of water’s variableness. “The fact that matter can arrange itself in such a large variety of forms is quite astonishing,” he says. Magnetic mysteries The team’s results are already informing models of Uranus and Neptune. Often known as ice giants, these enormous worlds are around 65 per cent water, plus some ammonia and methane, which forms layers much like the rocky-metallic surface, mantle, and core of Earth. The new experiments indicate that Uranus and Neptune should have a superionic ice layer that acts like our planet’s mantle, which is made of solid rock that still flows on extremely long geological timescales. And that could help explain why they have unusual magnetic fields. The magnetic fields of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn are all thought to be created by internal dynamos near their cores. These planets’ fields are aligned fairly closely with their axes as if they are coming from bar magnets sticking through the planets’ centres. (Here’s what happened when scientists had to update our best map of Earth’s magnetic field.) Neptune’s magnetic field, by contrast, seems to come from an internal bar magnet that has drifted down to one side, with its ends emerging from spots halfway to the equator. Uranus’ is even more outlandish, like a bar magnet that has flipped upside-down, meaning its magnetic south juts out from the planet’s northern hemisphere. Both ice giants’ magnetic fields are suspected of being unstable. Millot has suggested that there could be a liquid layer at the top edge of Uranus and Neptune’s superionic ice layer, but that it is also a highly electrically conductive phase of water. The planets’ magnetic fields might originate here, far closer to the surface than the magnetic fields of other worlds, potentially explaining their wonky characteristics. And since astronomers have discovered many Neptune and Uranus-sized exoplanets, the findings could be applicable to far-flung parts of the cosmos. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/bizarre-form-of-hot-ice-seen-on-earth/ar-AAB7Hoe?ocid=chromentp

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We lived in this neck of the woods and drank in the pub years ago and near where the tomb was found, I could have been walking over a grave of a Pharaoh and didn't bloody know!! Inside ‘British version of Tutankhamun’s tomb’ discovered between a pub and an Aldi Archaeologists have recreated in painstaking detail what they called the UK’s answer to Tutankhamun’s tomb – a royal burial site dating back to Anglo-Saxon times discovered by the side of a road in Essex. They believe the burial chamber, unearthed near a pub and an Aldi supermarket, may have held the remains of Seaxa, brother of King Saebert. Scientists have spent 15 years excavating the site in Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea. They have pieced together artefacts, some of which are 1,400 years old, to build a new picture of how the chamber looked when it was first created. Newly analysed objects suggest the tomb is older than previously thought, ruling out a previous hypothesis that it housed the deceased king himself. © Press Association Handout photo dated 20/02/19 issued by MOLA of archaeologists excavating the burial chamber in Prittlewell, Essex, believed to be that of Seaxa, brother of King Saebert Researchers at the Museum of London Archaeology (Mola) estimated the structure took 113 working days to build, representing “a huge investment in skilled labour, as well as materials”. The site was the earliest Christian Anglo-Saxon princely burial found in the UK, said research director, Sophie Jackson. She added: “I think it’s our equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Getting an intact version of this and seeing how everything is positioned and what he’s got with him. I think the thing that’s so strange about it is that it was such an unpromising-looking site. It’s between a bit of railway and a bit of road, essentially a verge. It’s not where you’d expect to find it.”

Solar Wind at Martian Moon Could Impact Future Missions Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Both are small, airless bodies with irregular shapes. Because they lack protective atmospheres and magnetospheres, Phobos and Deimos are directly exposed to the solar wind for part of their orbits. Now, a study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center suggests that the solar wind creates a complex electrical environment around Phobos, giving its night side and shadowed craters a static electric charge. This could impact plans for future robotic and human explorers to study the moons of Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/videos

NASA's Fermi Satellite Clocks a 'Cannonball' Pulsar Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour -- so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. Pulsars are super dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes. This one, dubbed PSR J0002+6216 (J0002 for short), sports a radio-emitting tail pointing directly toward the expanding debris from a recent supernova explosion. Thanks to its narrow dart-like tail and a fortuitous viewing angle, astronomers can trace this pulsar straight back to its birthplace. Further study of J0002 will help us better understand how these explosions are able to 'kick' neutron stars to such high speed. The pulsar is located about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered in 2017 by a citizen-science project called Einstein@Home , which uses downtime on the computers of volunteers to process Fermi gamma-ray data and has identified 23 gamma-ray pulsars to date. J0002 spins 8.7 times a second, producing a pulse of gamma rays with each rotation, and has about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun. The pulsar lies about 53 light-years from the centre of a supernova remnant called CTB 1. Its rapid motion through interstellar gas results in shock waves that produce the tail of magnetic energy and accelerated particles detected at radio wavelengths using the VLA. The tail extends 13 light-years and clearly points back to the centre of CTB 1. Using Fermi data and a technique called pulsar timing, the team was able to measure how quickly and in what direction the pulsar was moving across our line of sight thanks to Fermi's 10-year data covering the entire sky. J0002 is speeding through space five times faster than the average pulsar and faster than 99 per cent of those with measured speeds. It will eventually escape our galaxy. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/videos/index.html