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I finally watched this white hole video ... 1000% crap. Not a typo, that's one thousand percent crap. It's ten turds.

First of all, there's no information about any "discovery". Not a single name of a scientist or institution. Not a single photograph or other piece of discovered evidence. The title of the video is a straight-up lie.

Second, the information presented is at a level appropriate for children or other beginners. If you need to be told what a black hole is or how they're formed, you're just not ready for white holes. Most notably, the video never discusses why most physicists don't believe in white holes. (It has to do with the kind of paradoxes that rule out time travel.)

If a white hole were ever truly found, it would be world-shaking news, on the same level as if we found a new and better theory of gravity and ditched General Relativity. Until one can find this story with a URL that doesn't contain "blog", don't believe the clickbait.
 
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Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought after NASA probe finds 'contact binary' (photo)

"We never suspected anything so bizarre!"
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'A City on Mars' is a reality check for anyone dreaming about life on the Red Planet

It wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing — and we wrote for four years — that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon.
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Book excerpt: 'A City on Mars'

"When you just talk about technical things like the size of rockets, or whether Mars has water and carbon, the picture can look pretty solid. When you get into the more squishy details of human existence, things start to look, well, squishy."
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TheMercenary said:
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Caffeine in Your Blood Might Affect Body Fat And Diabetes Risk, Study Finds

The levels of caffeine in your blood could affect the amount of body fat you carry, a factor that in turn could determine your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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People make a big deal about Marihuana, Cocaine, Heroin, alcohol and tobacco as horrible addictive substances that kill you. Only recently have people realized how dangerous sugar is, but to this day nobody addresses the fact that the most abused "drug" on earth is caffeine. It is so normalized to drink coffee or tea, especially to "wake up." Coffee also stains your teeth like cigarettes do. That being said, I love coffee, but I only have one cup a day in the mornings.
 
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The Moon Is Slowly Shrinking, And That Could Be a Problem

It's hard to spot from Earth, but the Moon is shrinking in size as it continues to cool down.
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TheMercenary said:
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The Tectonic Plate Under The Pacific Ocean Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists Reveal

While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics, which describes how large portions of Earth's crust slide, grind, rise and sink ever so slowly across its sludgy mantle.
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While reading those headlines by @TheMercenary I felt like, holy moly, The End is Near! :eek:
 
TheMercenary said:
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Science Reveals Whether It's Safer to Be Wet or Dry in a Lightning Storm

We have good news for those of you who have an unholy terror of getting struck by lightning: dousing your head in rainwater may increase your chance of survival by up to 90 percent.
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It's safest to just avoid those all together :D

I remember watching something on TV (can't recall the channel) about a guy that had been struck by lightning multiple times in his life and survived. Two of said occasions were when he was INSIDE HIS HOUSE. Once while he was under his car working on it, the lightning strike basically made its way though the garage roof, through his car and got him. The second one while he was in the shower. So... whether dry or wet, dude got struck. The most infuriating part of this is I can't seem to find the story and now I feel like I might have imagined the whole thing.
 
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New Data Storage in 3D Using Light Could Hold a Million Movies On a Single Disc

Our rapidly increasing need for data storage capacity isn't going to change anytime soon (thanks, AI!).
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Saw this, the "super DVD" that can hold a petabyte or something like that. Could be the savior of physical media TBH. No more excuses for digital only games if you can actually have a 300GB game on a single disc plus all it's DLC. Same with movies and music.
 
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