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Colonel Nell is just one more believer on the basis of existing UAP reports. Interest seems to have waned and Tim Burchett is unusually quiet. I was interested to see several Google entries dated within the last few days but they all seem to be repeats from last year. I thought there would, at least, be a UAP hearing scheduled for the House Oversight Committee this year but there doesn't seem to be anything planned. The most interesting comments he made, at 10:55, were comparing present day civilisation with the Bronze Age civilisations which collapsed in 1177 BC because of stressors which they could not collectively address.

I see only traffic cones. Where are the fire extinguishers?

I was shocked when Tyson said at 11:04 "just take a look at their shape. The World War II class aircraft carriers ........ had two angles you could land on."

Here is a list of fertility rates for all countries and regions. I think the highest fertility rates are offset to some extent by higher mortality rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

But the whole point of this topic is that the population is starting to decline already and in the most peaceful way possible. More and more women are choosing not to have babies and it seems that direct financial incentives are not changing their minds.

According to the article, it's not that India is surging, it's that it is declining at a slower rate: "India surpassed China as the most populous country last year, yet its fertility is now below replacement."

Sort of: We would like to stress that although our candidates display properties consistent with partial Dyson spheres, it is definitely premature to presume that the mid-infrared presented in these sources originated from them. The MIR data quality for these objects is typically quite low, and additional data is required to determine their nature.

The paper referenced in the video does support the idea of quantum effects in the microtubule bundles in the brain, doesn't it? Our work highlights essential features of tryptophan chromophore networks in large aggregates of proteins forming biomolecular super-architectures such as the centriole (Figs. 1c, 2b, S5), axoneme (Fig. S4), and microtubule bundles in neurons. Combined with experimental measurements of fluorescence QY in tubulin architectures, our simulations presented in this work demonstrate that collective and cooperative UV excitations in Trp mega-networks support robust quantum states in proteins with observable consequences even under thermal equilibrium conditions. And Hossenfelder's conclusion is correct, isn't it? there seems to be a big logical gap between “there are quantum effects in human brains” and “quantum effects create consciousness”.

While we are waiting for four to six months for the latest results from K2-18 b, here is a timely report on finding DMS on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Scientists have discovered dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a molecule thought to have only living sources, on a cold, lifeless comet. The finding calls into question the molecule’s usefulness as a biosignature and the significance of an earlier hint of it in the atmosphere of an alien planet. “This is the first sign of an abiotic source,” says Nora Hänni, a chemist at the University of Bern who presented the discovery last week at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. https://www.science.org/content/article/what-presumed-sign-life-doing-dead-comet#:~:text=Scientists have discovered dimethyl sulfide,atmosphere of an alien planet.

It is interesting to note that, six months ago, Professor Madhusudhan said: “So we have also found a very tentative hint of the dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere. Now, we call it tentative because we are not very confident about it and it is possible that with future observations that signal might go away or there could be some other molecule that we may not have considered.” and now he is saying, in answer to the question "What do you put the chances of having found life at this stage?": "I would say 50/50. Purely going by what the data has been telling us in the past and what we know from theory, it would be 50/50." I wonder if he is seeing something in the raw data he is now receiving, which is giving him that level of confidence.

If the presence of dimethyl sulphide is confirmed, the next step would be to prove that it really can't be produced abiotically. However, there does seem to be such a process, which requires high temperatures and pressures, so I wonder if a hydrothermal vent could create the right conditions and supply the right starting chemicals. Maybe all we can say is it can't be produced abiotically on our planet. Still, confirming the presence of this unique chemical on another world would be quite exciting.

Forward camera view.

This is kind of interesting,