But is their theory correct?

Mt Everest's fast growth partly caused by rivers merging 89,000 years ago.

Towering at over 8.8 kilometres tall, Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level. But it's not done yet.

The Himalayan peak is currently undergoing a growth spurt — about 2 millimetres per year, according to GPS measurements. This is double the 1mm that historic rock data suggests the mountain should be growing each year.

A study published today in Nature Geoscience suggested a reason for part of this accelerated growth: that when two rivers below joined up around 90,000 years ago, they set in motion large-scale geological changes that raised Mt Everest an extra 15–50 metres.......

Cheers.

Seems plausible. See continuing land uplift in Scandinavia following the post glacial melting of the ice cap.

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A cabinet with more compartments than you can poke a stick at as well as being a piece of art.

Hannah Cabinet to be restored and returned to Lismore art gallery after devastating 2022 flood.

Geoff Hannah always intended his magnum opus to stand tall in the heart of Lismore — and it did until devastating floods ravaged the city in 2022.

The 92-compartment cabinet, which took six and a half years to construct in his workshop over looking the town, was made from 34 types of timber, four rare types of shell, 17 varieties of precious and semi-precious stones.

Simply known as the Hannah Cabinet, it is said to bring first-time viewers to tears......

Cheers.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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That one reminds me so much of where i work.

A few times we were there when the previous shift in another section was still running. It was amazing at how quickly they would clear the floor once "Time" was called.
Apparently it would take five minutes (or more) before everyone would be back from lunch or a smoko break, but when time was called, that was it. Even if it would only take a few seconds to finish off what they were doing at the time they'd just drop it and walk away. The floor would be cleared in 15 seconds or less (the only bottleneck to clearing the building was the queue at the time clock).

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Grant
Darwin NT

You really have to love & appreciate quality workmanship.
Retired couple's miniature building hobby grows too big for house.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It seems that we maybe going back to the future here.

Airship network Flying Whales signs up Mount Isa as first base to revolutionise freight transport.

A 200-metre-long piloted airship transporting freight could be flying over Australian skies as soon as 2028, beginning in North West Queensland.

French-Canadian aeronautical group Flying Whales has been working since 2012 to develop a net-zero transport alternative for heavy freight across the globe.

The consortium of more than 50 partners, including the French and Canadian governments, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Mount Isa City Council to establish the first of six Australian bases.

Flying Whales CEO Sébastien Bougon said the technology could help solve some of the problems around transporting large infrastructure including cost, carbon emissions, and logistics.

"Very much like in Europe and North America, Australia has the same type of problems when wanting to transport large cargo, like wind farm blades or high-voltage towers for transmission lines," he said.

Mr Bougon said the outback city of Mount Isa was ideal for the first base as it would allow the airship to service projects from Queensland's south-east into the Northern Territory, creating 100 permanent local jobs once fully operational........

Cheers.

The things that people are digging up in our outback.

Paleontologists May Have Discovered Earth's Oldest Moving Animal.

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile.

Dubbed Quaestio simpsonorum, the long-extinct species was discovered in the Australian outback by Florida State University geologist professor Scott Evans and his colleagues.

Quaestio lived some 555 million years ago in the so-called Ediacaran Period, a key time in the history of life when complex, multicellular life first evolved.

"The animal is a little smaller than the size of your palm and has a question-mark shape in the middle of its body that distinguishes between the left and the right side," Evans said in a statement.

Quaestio is thus the earliest known animal to have a "left–right asymmetry", an important evolutionary development.

"There aren't other fossils from this time that have shown this type of organization so definitively," Evans said.

Understanding how such forms first arose—from a genetic perspective—can provide a new window into the mechanisms that drove the origins of complex life, Evans explained........

Cheers.

How embarrassing.

Blaze destroys multimillion-euro German fire station that had no alarms

A state-of-the-art fire station in western Germany that was completed last year at a cost of tens of millions of euros has burned to the ground because it had not been equipped with a fire alarm.

The town of Stadtallendorf had proudly unveiled the new structure less than a year ago, but early on Wednesday emergency services were alerted to a fire that had started in a vehicle before quickly spreading to the whole building.

Oops. Who would have thought they would have needed a fire alarm at a fire station.

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Oops. Who would have thought they would have needed a fire alarm at a fire station.

It is actually rather common. Dinner cooking and out on a call. Get back and no firehouse.

Even worse - no dinner :-(

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Even worse - no dinner :-(

... and a destroyed, blackened pan and a stench in the kitchen for weeks.

For those of a certain age seeing this, well just watch David and Romany Gilmour - Between two Points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qdvkx9E3o

Haunting for so many reasons

Your thought on this one...
New Zealand Airport introduces ‘inhumane’ time limit on hugs for travelers saying goodbye to loved ones

This is one change passengers aren’t embracing.

A New Zealand airport has sparked global outrage after implementing a three-minute limit on hugs in its drop-off zone, advising travelers with a sour new sign: “For fonder farewells please use the car park.”

Photos of the sign showcasing the Dunedin Airport’s newest rule to combat congestion in the terminal took off online, with some Facebook users slamming the “inhumane” limit on travelers’ allotted time to say goodbye to loved ones.

“You can’t put a time limit on hugs! that’s inhumane,” one person wrote.

Yankees v Dodgers. The world has reached balance again.

Your thought on this one...
New Zealand Airport introduces ‘inhumane’ time limit on hugs for travelers saying goodbye to loved ones

This is one change passengers aren’t embracing.

A New Zealand airport has sparked global outrage after implementing a three-minute limit on hugs in its drop-off zone, advising travelers with a sour new sign: “For fonder farewells please use the car park.”

Photos of the sign showcasing the Dunedin Airport’s newest rule to combat congestion in the terminal took off online, with some Facebook users slamming the “inhumane” limit on travelers’ allotted time to say goodbye to loved ones.

“You can’t put a time limit on hugs! that’s inhumane,” one person wrote.

Even 3 minutes is way too long.
It's a drop off area, to drop people off. Time enough to say goodbye & a quick kiss & a hug and all done in well under 2min even if there are 5 people in the car.

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Grant
Darwin NT