One bear really has it out for the Grinch this holiday season! Florida resident Shanick Suarez was initially confused when her inflatable version of the green cartoon character went missing from her porch. However, when she discovered what had happened, she couldn’t stop laughing! She got her first clue when a neighbor found the discarded decoration down the block. Shanick returned the inflatable to its rightful place with one minor change. As she explained to WBBH, this time she put it somewhere her security camera would be able to record its movements. Sure enough, she received a notification at three o’clock in the morning that something was stirring outside her home. What she saw in the footage shocked her. A bear was making off with the Grinch! Watch the hilarious security cam footage of this burgling bear! “I never expected it to be a bear!” the woman told WBBH. “I thought it was the funniest thing ever. I literally, like, text my husband. I’m like, ‘What is going on?’ We were texting back and forth, just rewatching the video, sending it to all of our family and friends at five in the morning.” Later, Shanick went outside to survey the damage. She discovered that the determined bear had chewed through the cable in order to steal the Grinch (yes, we’re aware of the irony). However, the animal hadn’t quite been able to pull off the holiday caper, instead leaving the inflatable behind. Sadly, Shanick had to throw it away as it was no longer usable. On the bright side, at least this woman was able to solve the mystery of her disappearing Christmas decoration! As for what this bear wanted with her Grinch inflatable in the first place, we’ll probably never know. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post The Grinch Gets Grinched: Security Camera Captures Festive Bear Attack appeared first on InspireMore.

Welcome to winter, also known as “Why won’t my dog come in out of the cold?” If you have a cold-weather dog, you know exactly what the owner of this Bernese mountain dog is talking about. Great Pyrenees, huskies, malamutes, and Bernese mountain dogs are all cold-weather dogs. When the snow flies, good luck getting them to return to the heated warmth of your home. @ivytheberner When it finally hits 60 degrees. It’s already starting and it’s not even winter . Imagine getting punched by a 120 lb dog. **also before anyone says anything — she and I horseplay a lot, and she knows shes allowed to play like this with me. #bernesemountaindog ♬ Carmen Habanera, classical opera(1283412) – perfectpanda Ivy didn’t even wait for the snow to arrive. When temperatures reached below 60 degrees, she refused to come in for her Dad. The argument that resulted from her stubbornness is quite typical of cold-weather breeds. Please note that Ivy’s aggressive wrestling is an acceptable play routine. Her Dad assures us they play rough and that Ivy knows her limits. When she “bites,” she does not clamp down. She is quite comfortable on the outdoor sofa, and the temperature is perfect. Image from TikTok. Ivy’s Dad keeps track of her antics on TikTok. He chronicled her “Year in 20 Seconds” and posted a short clip for each month. You can see how much Ivy enjoys the outdoors. After about a minute of trying to get Ivy inside, the dog attempted the total flop. She rolled onto her back and sprawled to remain outside. Image from TikTok. Round one of this saga ended with Ivy still on the couch. She accidentally punched her Dad’s phone while they were wrestling for superiority. Round two began with Ivy finally off the couch. However, she was clearly in the mood to play outside. She still had plenty of feistiness stored up and ready to avoid going inside. Round two involved a bit of chasing, some hide-and-seek, and exasperated sighs from Dad. Ultimately, Ivy got to stay outside. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Trying To Get My Bernese Mountain Dog Inside On The First Cool Night Of The Season” appeared first on InspireMore.

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Sam McKee: Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet has been around for decades. However, it has been seen by sceptics as a delusion at best and mere bluster at worst. Mars might seem superficially similar to Earth in a number of ways. But its atmosphere is thin and humans would need to live within pressurised habitats on the surface. Yet in an era where space tourism has become possible, the red planet has emerged as a dreamland for rich eccentrics and techno utopians. As is often the case with science communication, there’s a gulf between how close we are to this ultimate goal and where the general public understands it to be. However, I believe there is a rationale for settling Mars and that this objective is not as far off as some would believe. There are actually a few good reasons to be optimistic about humanity’s future on the red planet. First, Mars is reachable. During an optimal alignment between Earth and Mars as the two planets orbit the Sun, its possible to travel there in a spacecraft in six to eight months. Some very interesting new engine designs suggest that it could be done in two months. But based on technology that’s ready to go, it would take astronauts six months to travel to Mars and six months back to Earth. The atmosphere on Mars is thin and humans would need to live within pressurised habitats on the surface. Credit: NASA Astronauts have already stayed for this long on the International Space Station (ISS) and on the Soviet orbiting lab Mir. We can get there safely and we have already shown that we can reliably land robots on the surface. There’s no technical reason why we couldn’t do the same with humans. Second, Mars is abundant in the raw materials required for humans to “live off the land”, in other words, achieve a level of self sufficiency. The red planet has plentiful carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen which can be separated and isolated, using processes developed on Earth. Mars is interesting and useful in a multitude of ways that the moon isn’t. And we have technology on Earth to enable us to stay and settle Mars by making use of its materials. A third reason for Mars optimism is the radical new technology that we can put to use on a crewed mission to the planet. For example, Moxie (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) is an project developed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that sucks in Martian atmosphere and separates it into oxygen. Byproducts of the process – carbon monoxide, nitrogen and argon – can be vented. When scaled up, similar machines would be able to separate oxygen from hydrogen to produce breathable air, rocket fuel and water. This makes it easier to travel to the planet and live on the surface because it’s not necessary to bring these commodities from Earth – they can be made once on Mars. Generating fuel on the surface would also make any future habitat less reliant on electric or solar-powered vehicles. But how would we build the habitats for our Mars settlers? Space architect Melodie Yasher has developed ingenious plans for using robots to 3D print the habitats, landing pads and everything needed for human life on Mars. Using robots means that these could all be manufactured on Mars before humans landed. 3D printed homes have already been demonstrated on Earth. Mars has most of the raw materials humans would need to be self sufficient. Volunteers have also spent time living in simulated Mars habitats here on Earth. These are known as Mars analogues. The emergency medicine doctor Beth Healey spent a year overwintering in Antarctica (which offers many parallels with living on another planet) for the European Space Agency (Esa) and communicates her experience regularly. She is not alone, as each year sees new projects in caves, deserts and other extreme environments, where long term studies can explore the physical and psychological demands on humans living in such isolated environments. Finally, the Mars Direct plan devised by Dr Robert Zubrin has existed for more than 30 years, and has been modified to account for modern technology as the private sector has grown. The original plan was based on using a Saturn V rocket (used for the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s) to launch people. However, this can now be accomplished using the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a SpaceX Dragon capsule to carry crew members. Several uncrewed launches from Earth could ferry necessary equipment to Mars. These could include a vehicle for crew members to return on. This means that everything could be ready for the first crew once they arrived. For astronauts making the journey to Mars, radiation is the biggest problem. But using certain materials in the walls of the spacecraft or building a protective shelter inside the vehicle could shield astronauts from high energy particles. Similar ideas could apply to 3D printed habitats on the Martian surface. Alternatively, settlers could live underground or in Martian caves. On Mars, there’s a 24-minute communication delay with Earth. This means that Martians will need to be self-sustaining and less reliant on their homeworld from the beginning. While this could pose challenges, they are not insurmountable. Elon Musk’s Starship vehicle, which launches on the most powerful rocket ever built, could be a game changer. Starship is currently undergoing testing at SpaceX’s facility in southern Texas. It is hard to overstate what a reliable Starship, that has been cleared to carry humans, could do for exploration of the moon and Mars. Lower costs, higher payloads and larger crews all make for a far more efficient programme of lunar and Martian exploration. Yet even without it, everything we need to travel to Mars is currently available or in exciting late stages of development. There will not be a shortage of well-suited astronauts eager to go. Sam McKee, Associate Tutor and PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, Manchester Metropolitan University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post Human Settlement Of Mars Isn’t As Far Off As You Might Think appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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