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A post shared on social media purports that Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the election of President Barack Obama was the “Downfall of America.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Other 98% (@other98) Verdict: False The post stems from a parody account. Fact Check: Greene has called Vice […]

A post shared on social media purportedly shows Sean “Diddy” Combs dancing and singing after he was recently released on bail. Bro gone stand in da jail fs#seancombs #Diddy #DiddyArrested #DiddyCombs #diddyparty #khabrotube pic.twitter.com/IpklYFtL4L — KHA H (@khabrotube) September 22, 2024 Verdict: False The video is from 2022. Fact Check: Singer Usher claimed on Sunday that his […]

Obsession, a powerful and often overwhelming emotion, can manifest in many ways—from the innocent allure of a simple crush to the darker, more intense infatuations that border on stalker-level fixation. It’s a theme explored extensively in music, particularly within rock and pop genres, where artists have long captured the complex feelings of desire, longing, and unrequited love. These songs often depict relationships that never materialize or are destined for heartbreak, creating a connection with listeners who recognize the rawness of obsession in their own lives. Our list of the 10 Best Rock and Pop Songs About Obsession covers a broad The post 10 Underrated Rock And Pop Songs About Obsession appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Read the original post "Easy Vegetable Soup" on A Modern Homestead. Whether you grow your own produce or not, this Easy Homemade Vegetable Soup is packed with all the best hearty vegetables like potatoes, corn, carrots, and more. You can also add shredded chicken or beef chunks for an even heartier soup! Throughout the year we grow and can many different types of vegetables. The first... Read More The post "Easy Vegetable Soup" appeared first on A Modern Homestead.

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If there really are advanced alien civilizations out there, you’d think they’d be easy to find. A truly powerful alien race would stride like gods among the cosmos, creating star-sized or galaxy-sized feats of engineering. So rather than analyzing exoplanet spectra or listening for faint radio messages, why not look for the remnants of celestial builds, something too large and unusual to occur naturally? The most common idea is that aliens might build something akin to a Dyson sphere. In their need for more powerful energy sources, an advanced civilization might harness the entire output of a star. They wrap a star within a sphere to capture every last photon of stellar energy. Such an object would have a strange infrared or radio spectrum. An alien glow that is faint and unique. So astronomers have searched for Dyson spheres in the Milky Way, and have found some interesting candidates. One major search was known as Project Hephaistos, which used data from Gaia, 2MASS, and WISE to look at five million candidate objects. From this they found seven unusual objects. A Type II civilization is one that can directly harvest the energy of its star using a Dyson Sphere or something similar. They appear to be M-type red dwarfs at first glance, but have spectra that don’t resemble simple stars. This kind of star-like infrared object is exactly what you’d expect from a Dyson sphere. But of course extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that’s where things get fuzzy. Almost immediately after the paper was published, other astronomers noted that the seven objects could also be hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies, or hotDOGs. These are quasars, so they appear star-like, but are obscured by such a tremendous amount of dust that they mostly emit in the infrared. And their spectra can be quite different from a M-type star. So the challenge is to distinguish between a hotDOG and a Dyson sphere. Which is where a new paper on the arXiv comes in. Rather than trying to specifically distinguish between the two, the authors instead look at the distribution of known hotDOGS. They found that statistically about 1 in 3,000 quasars are of the hotDOG type, so that a broad search for Dyson spheres would likely include some dusty quasars. The authors go on to note that any civilization powerful enough to build star-scale structures would also have the ability to obscure their infrared signal. We can’t simply assume that aliens would build a Dyson sphere in such an obvious way. Overall, the authors argue, the seven candidate superstructures can be accounted for by hotDOGs and other phenomena, thus there is currently no clear evidence for alien superstructures. Source: www.universetoday.com The post Those 7 Mysterious Objects Aren’t Dyson Spheres, They’re HotDOGs appeared first on Anomalien.com.