>, appoint a foreigner (whose foreign citizenship is known) to lead the state's highest court?
Person is probably a dual citizen and probably not from a hostile state.
And, given that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing we have, the person probably is a law abiding citizen and has probably demonstrated sufficient jurisprudence in upholding the law, that nobody finds issue with it.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-chemists-blockchain-simulate-billion-chemical.html
JANUARY 24, 2024
Chemists use blockchain to simulate more than 4 billion chemical reactions essential to origins of life
by Cell Press
Cryptocurrency is usually "mined" through the blockchain by asking a computer to perform a complicated mathematical problem in exchange for tokens of cryptocurrency. But in research appearing in the journal Chem a team of chemists has repurposed this process, asking computers to instead generate the largest network ever created of chemical reactions which may have given rise to prebiotic molecules on early Earth.
This work indicates that at least some primitive forms of metabolism might have emerged without the involvement of enzymes, and it shows the potential to use blockchain to solve problems outside the financial sector that would otherwise require the use of expensive, hard to access supercomputers.
"At this point we can say we exhaustively looked for every possible combination of chemical reactivity that scientists believe to had been operative on primitive Earth," says senior author Bartosz A. Grzybowski of the Korea Institute for Basic Science and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
To generate this network, the researchers chose a set of starting molecules likely present on early Earth, including water, methane, and ammonia, and set rules about which reactions could occur between different types of molecules. They then translated this information into a language understandable by computers and used the blockchain to calculate which reactions would occur over multiple expansions of a giant reaction network.
"The computer takes the primordial molecules and the accepted prebiotic chemistries. We coded it into the machine, and then we released it onto the world," says Grzybowski.
Grzybowski's team worked with chemists and computer-specialists at Allchemy, a company that uses AI for chemical synthesis planning, to generate the network using Golem, a platform that orchestrates portions of the calculations over hundreds of computers across the world, which receive cryptocurrency in exchange for computing time.
The resulting network, termed NOEL for the Network of Early Life, started off with more than 11 billion reactions, which the team narrowed down to 4.9 billion plausible reactions. NOEL contains parts of well-known metabolic pathways like glycolysis, close mimics of the Krebs cycle, which organisms use to generate energy, and syntheses of 128 simple biotic molecules like sugars and amino acids.
Curiously, of the 4.9 billion reactions generated, only hundreds of reaction cycles could be called "self-replicating," which means that the molecules produce additional copies of themselves. Self-replication has been postulated to be central to the emergence of life, but the vast majority of its known manifestations require complex macromolecules like enzymes.
"Our results mean that with only small molecules present, self-amplification is a rare event. I don't think that this type of self-replication was operative on primitive Earth, before larger molecular structures were somehow formed," says Grzybowski. "We see emergence of primitive metabolism, but we don't see self-replication, so maybe self-replication appeared later in evolution."
"If you asked me two years ago, I'd be thinking we'd need years for this type of work," says Grzybowski. "But for a fraction of the cost, in two or three months, we finished a task of 10 billion reactions, 100k times bigger than we did previously."
This work not only advances what we know about early prebiotic chemistry, but it also demonstrates how science can be made more accessible to researchers at smaller universities and institutions.
"Our system of education is based on elite universities mostly in the western world. It's very hard for the developing world to even compete with these universities because they don't have access to supercomputers," says Grzybowski. "But if you can distribute computing in this way for a fraction of the cost, you can give other people opportunities to play."
While the network generated in this work was performed on hundreds of computers around the world, Grzybowski suggests that this method can be used at institutions without having to pay out cryptocurrency tokens to the computers performing the calculations.
"With a platform like Golem you can connect your institution's network and harness the entire idle power of its computers to perform calculations," says Grzybowski. "You could create this computing infrastructure without any capital expenditure."
''Grzybowski hopes that repurposing the blockchain in this way can revolutionize the way we perform large scale calculations across the world and change how we see the value of cryptocurrency.''
"I hope people in computer science can figure out how can we tokenize cryptocurrencies in some way that can benefit global science," says Grzybowski. "Maybe society could be happier about using cryptocurrencies, if you could tell people that in the process we could discover new laws of biology or some new cancer drug," says Grzybowski.
More information: Emergence of metabolic-like cycles in blockchain-orchestrated reaction networks., Chem (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.12.009. www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(23)00611-3
>My question is why would Tucker even think they could get him out of Russia safely?
Because he was a guest of Putin's. Period.
Nobody on their side would touch a guest of Putin's without a direct order to do so.
Putin would look like an absolute psychopath for inviting someone to interview him and then arresting him (he doesn't want that - even if he has global domination intentions). It would be met with swift actual problems for Russia (i.e. I don't subscribe to the idea "Joe" is POTUS).
And if someone in Russia thought they were going to fck with a guest of Putin, his wife, daughter, father, mother quickly put that sht to rest.
Finally, Vlad knew the interview would piss off the "deep-staters", so what better way to rile them up and put out his case for Ukraine invasion.
It was a sharp chess move.
>>20405987
I have no patience for your baby photos.
Let's assume the best in you, and that you post them b/c you don't realize exactly how much child pron is directed to this site to discredit and have it taken down.
Go visit the other boards, they get cleaned up a lot less often b/c of scant resources to do so….go see for yourself.
>>20406006
>Would you like an education today?
Thank you, no.
Please just keep the baby photos out of the mosh pit.
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Was it called The Breath of Life Act?
>>20406309
>>20406355
*Personally, I'm up for the purchase.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/02/13/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-turning-green/72508699007/
Greenland is turning green again for the first time since medieval times. Why it matters.
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
An excursion to the Russell glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, leads past several lakes. New research published Tuesday says that because of global warming, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast – and being replaced by vegetation.
We may need to rethink that old expression "Greenland is ice, Iceland is green."
New research published Tuesday says that because of global warming, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast – and being replaced by vegetation.
Parts of Greenland are becoming green again for the first time since the Vikings visited nearly 1,000 years ago, according to study co-author Jonathan Carrivick, an Earth scientist at the University of Leeds in the U.K.
And where there was once snow and ice just a few decades ago, there are now areas of shrub, along with barren rock and wetlands, the study reports.
How much ice has melted?
An estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, the study reports.
Overall, the total area of ice loss in the past 30 years is slightly greater than the size of Massachusetts and represents about 1.6% of Greenland’s total ice and glacier cover.
“Warmer temperatures are linked to the land cover changes that we are seeing on Greenland," Carrivick said in a statement. "By analyzing high-resolution satellite images, we have been able to produce a detailed record of the land cover changes that are taking place.”
Melting ice on a small Greenland tundra pond.
Vikings' records suggest vegetation was 'more extensive then'
The last time Greenland was this green was "possibly during the Medieval Warm Period," (roughly 900 to 1,300 A.D.), Carrivick told USA TODAY. "The ice sheet was less extensive then than today, and it is likely vegetation was more extensive then, too, as the Viking records suggest."
Why does ice on Greenland matter?
Why should we care about what happens in Greenland? In addition to its local impacts on people, flora and fauna, "the loss of ice mass in Greenland is a substantial contributor to global sea level rise, a trend that poses significant challenges both now and in the future," said study lead author Michael Grimes, also of the University of Leeds.
If all the ice on Greenland melted, global seas would rise by about 23 feet, according to NASA,
In addition, freshwater intrusion into the ocean could also affect underwater currents that impact climate and weather in the U.S. and around the world.
More:Greenland was once actually green, study says. That's an ominous climate change scenario.
Will Greenland continue to get greener?
Yes, says Carrivick, who told USA TODAY that "ice is projected to diminish further, and at a faster rate (than recent decades), and in time that will promote greening via vegetation expansion, which this study shows is already well underway."
The study was published in the peer-reviewed British journal Scientific Reports.
https://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1757418248243433802
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/new-study-finds-co2-increasing-rate-which-globe-greening-even-under
New study finds that CO2 is increasing the rate by which the globe is greening, even under drought
The study found that increased plant growth, called "greening," accelerated in 55.15% of the globe, while browning, which is where plants are decreasing in greening, occurred in only 7.28%.
By Kevin Killough
Published: February 12, 2024 11:00pm
A new study finds that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are driving increased plant growth that’s greening the Earth, even in areas experiencing drought.
The peer-reviewed study, which was published in the scientific journal Global Ecology and Conservation, finds that the phenomenon known as “global greening” is an indisputable fact. The rate of global greening has increased slightly, and drought has only slowed, but not stopped, the process.
The study, which was done by Chinese and Australian researchers, attributes the greening to carbon dioxide fertilization as well as land management, such as irrigation. The opposite of greening is referred to as browning. ''The study found that greening acceleration occurred in 55.15% of the globe, while browning occurred in only 7.28%.''
“Combined with meteorological variables, we found that CO2 change dominated the LAI [greening] trend,” the authors wrote.
The fact carbon dioxide emissions are stimulating plant growth is not a new finding. In 2016, a study in Nature Climate Change using NASA satellite data found that 25% to 50% of the Earth’s vegetated lands showed significant greening over the previous 35 years from when the study was done.
Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, told Just The News that ''global greening is among benefits of global warming that are ignored and dismissed because it doesn’t fit a narrative that climate change is causing a crisis.''
“There’s a lot of people who make a lot of money on the backs of the false notion of a pending climate crisis,” Wrightstone said.
The CO2 Coalition, whose membership includes scientists with a variety of academic backgrounds — including Dr. John Clauser who won the Nobel Prize in 2022 — argues that climate change is not a crisis and can produce net positive benefits.
The group’s views of climate change have not been welcomed in mainstream circles. In March 2022, the group had purchased a booth at the National Science Teaching Association’s annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Though the booth had been approved, the group was ejected after attendees complained about their literature.
In 2018, a New York Times article argued that global greening, in the long run, is “terrible.” The reporter interviewed scientists who said that plants that take in more carbon dioxide may also release more of the gas at night in a process known as respiration. Plants stimulated with carbon dioxide, which some growers deliberately pump into their greenhouses to increase plant growth, may also be less nutritious.
The Times article speculates this could lead to widespread diseases from nutrient deficiencies. Since 1970, however, undernourishment in developing countries has steadily declined.
Jeff Reynolds, senior investigative researcher with Restoration of America, recently published a two-part investigative report on the entire climate debate, He told Just The News that benefits of increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and global warming are often denied.
“I understand the benefit of carbon dioxide, because I took eighth grade science,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds said that the benefits of anything can come with costs and tradeoffs, ''but on balance, greening of the Earth is a positive outcome of carbon dioxide emissions.''