Tuesday 19 March 2024

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

 

 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona

Joel  Kontinen

Evolution with its millionsof years poses many problems for the universe. Some features are not as old  as the age of the solar system,

What is new about Saturn’s moon Titan? New research is claiming that ridges cover its poles.   

It is said that landforms called “yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be on Saturn’s moon Titan.”

They might be yardings or some other features, There is still much we don’t know about Saturn and its moons.

 Source:

Leah Crane, 2024, Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan | New Scientist  15 March.


Saturday 16 March 2024

Life on Europa?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Will there be life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa? That is what NASA is waiting for.

The message will be sent by the Europa Clipper spacecraft. which will start in October 2024.

“If any life is found on Europa, it is likely to be microbial, so the commemorative plate is more of a symbolic gesture than a bona fide message to extraterrestrial life forms, per se. “

The message has the names of some 2,6 million individuals:  

More than 2.6 million names have been stenciled into a "dime-size" silicon microchip by technicians at the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This microchip will be attached to a commemorative plate, which will feature a handwritten copy of the poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, among other design details.

Source:

Emily Cooke, 2024, NASA unveils cryptic message from Earth to be sent to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa | Live Science 13 March



Thursday 14 March 2024

Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

 


Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute.

Joel Kontinen

Is there life on Europa? A few weeks ago, it seemed that there was.  But now it seems that there is not.

“Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may not be as ripe for life as previously thought. Its underground ocean has long made it one of the most promising candidates in our solar system to host life, but theoretical studies of its seafloor are putting a damper on its promise.”

On Earth, much of the life in the oceans is supported by hydrothermal activity at the seafloor, where water interacts with rock. This activity is missing on Europa.“

Well, God made the Earth a space for humans and not other planets or their moons.

Source:

 Leah Crane, 2024. Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life | New Scientist 13 March.


Tuesday 12 March 2024

When did humans start wearing clothes?

 


Homo heidelbergensis. Image courtesy of  Benoît Clarys/University of Tübingen.

 Joel Kontinen

The answer varies. According of some evolutionists, early humans were in the trees, just like apes and learnt to walk on two feet, but they did not have fur, so that clothing became important,

As early humans evolved from ape-like ancestors, they came down from the trees, began to walk upright and lost their fur. But without fur, our ancestors would have been exposed to the elements. They would have needed clothing for protection.

Some evolutionist propose that some 1,2 millions years ago we lost our fur,  but lice was a problem, so they started to wear  clothes,

According to the real history in Genesis, men and women started to wear clothes after the fall in Genesis 3.

Source:

Ashley Hamer. 2024, When did humans start wearing clothes? | Live Science 10 March.

Monday 11 March 2024

When were the first stars born?

 

 Image courtesy of: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)/Ben Johnson (CfA)/Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge)/Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona)/Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has “come to light, thanks to observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The proof is located in one of the most distant galaxies known.”

The galaxy, called GN-z11, “was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015 and, prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, it was considered the most faraway galaxy known. “With a redshift of 10.6, it makes more sense to talk about how long ago it existed, rather than how far away it is.”

According to Genesis 1, they were born as the rest of creation was formed.

Source:

Keith Cooper. 2024, The James Webb Space Telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars | Space  5 March.


Saturday 9 March 2024

Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained

 

Image courtesy of Shutterstock / Belikova Oksana.

 Joel Kontinen

Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 – now simulations show how they were created and just how rare they are.

How did the ice age begin?

If we leave evolutionistic consideration aside, the real culprit might be the flood of Noah’s day, with eruptions covering the most of the Earth.

“Strange green sunsets reported after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa were probably caused by the large amount and size of sulphur aerosols the volcano injected into the stratosphere.

“How can physics or nature create green twilight colours?” says Christian von Savigny at the University of Greifswald in Germany, who became intrigued after reading descriptions of such sunsets in the months after Krakatoa’s eruption in Indonesia.”

 

Source:

 James Dinneen, 2024,  Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained | New Scientist4 March.



Thursday 7 March 2024

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

Joel Kontinen

It is a hard for evolutionists, for “Jupiter’s moon Europa may be less ripe for life than we thought. Although it has an ocean of water beneath its icy shell, the frigid moon may be short of the oxygen necessary to sustain life as we know it.”

They just taught that Europa was ripe pr life. Now they are disappointed.  

“Oxygen is produced on Europa when radiation hits its surface and splits the water ice there into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. Models of that process have suggested the rate of oxygen production could be anywhere from 5 to over 1000 kilograms per second.

Jamey Szalay at Princeton University and his colleagues used data from the Juno spacecraft, which flew just 353 kilometres above Europa’s surface in 2022, to make a new estimate. They found oxygen is only being produced at a rate of about 12 kilograms per second on the surface – right at the low end of previous estimates.

“In some sense, the shell is like a lung for Europa. It’s continuously generating oxygen,” says Szalay. “That being said, we can’t speak to what happens after the oxygen is produced on the surface – it’s still a question how much of it could get into the ocean.”

Source:

Leah Crane 2024 Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought | New Scientist 4 March