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Fact of the Day - BEAVER DAM Did you know... While there are a few human-made objects visible from space, there’s only one known example constructed by beavers: the world’s largest beaver dam, located in the Peace-Athabasca Delta of Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park. You can’t see it from space with the naked eye, but the dam was discovered on October 2, 2007, using satellite imagery provided by Google Earth. It appears to have been built during the last five decades, as photographs taken of the same location in 1975 show limited beaver activity. Estimates put the length of the dam at more than 2,600 feet, and based on satellite imagery, it’s been measured to cover an approximate surface area of roughly 750,000 square feet. The pond created by the dam is estimated to hold nearly 2.5 million cubic feet of water. To use an analogy Canadians would surely approve of, that’s roughly the same amount of water needed to fill 1,600 standard ice hockey rinks. Given its remote location miles from any paved road or trail, accessing the dam requires a multiday trek through wetlands and forest. That inaccessibility poses such a challenge that only one known individual has ever visited the dam itself. In July 2014, adventurer Rob Mark completed the perilous trek, snapping a celebratory selfie with the beaver lodge behind him. Upon his arrival, he noted how difficult it is to grasp the dam’s enormity from up close, and how its sheer size is better appreciated with the photographs taken from space. China’s Three Gorges Dam slowed the Earth’s rotation. Depending on their enormity, it’s possible for massive infrastructure projects to impact the Earth’s rotation. One such example is China’s Three Gorges Dam, which measures 600 feet tall and 7,500 feet long and spans the Yangtze River. When filled, the dam’s reservoir is able to hold 10 trillion gallons of water. In 2005, NASA scientist Benjamin Fong Chao calculated that a completely filled reservoir would slow the Earth’s spin, increasing the length of each day by 0.06 microseconds (or 60 billionths of a second). This is caused by the redistribution of mass away from the center of Earth’s rotation, which makes the planet twirl less fluidly. As water is raised higher above sea level, it impacts the Earth’s moment of inertia and causes the planet’s rotation to slow. Source: The world’s largest beaver dam is visible from space via satellite imagery.

What's the Word: DOCTRINE pronunciation: [DAHK-trən] Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, 14th century Meaning: 1. A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group. 2. A stated principle of government policy, mainly in foreign or military affairs. Examples: "Some old-fashioned doctrines need to be updated for modern times." "Presidents are often remembered for notable policies or actions, which can be called their doctrine." About Doctrine Today you go to the doctor for medical concerns, but in the original Latin, "doctor" meant "teacher." Drawing from that, "doctrina" meant "teaching." As the word moved from Old French into Middle English, "doctrine" turned into a set of beliefs stated by a church or political party. Did you Know? The Monroe Doctrine, announced by President Monroe during his 1823 address to Congress, was a cornerstone of American foreign policy for many decades. The basic premise of it was that the United States would not interfere with European affairs, nor accept European intervention in the Americas.

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So, anyone ever check this game out? I decided to check this game out a couple or few days ago, per @Zemekis's suggestion, really to get me off of The First Descendant. I don't think my journey in the game has properly started, and it might be a while, because just as I finished up a side-quest, I discovered some "Memory Bubbles" and it looks like there's a lot in the ship. I don't even know if I can go back to this location later on, so I'm making sure I got everything. Anyway, Honkai: Star Rail is an interesting game, in the sense that it's a free-to-play turned-based RPG. Pretty much the only complaints I have with this game is that it's a live-service type of game, and most especially, it's by the ChiComs. Concerning the former issue, this game doesn't really prod you into spending IRL money for things....not that I will, which brings me to the latter issue of how this is a ChiCom game, although that itself is complicated. I don't like how China's taking over the videogame industry, but on the other hand, they're smart, and they know what gamers want, and they're not obligated by some Western neo-puritanical values, by force if necessary. In essence, China can do whatever they want. But, I fear I'm just going off from here. So, I guess my question remains....has anyone ever checked this game out? If so, how are you liking it? Me? I'm liking it, even though I've still not boarded the train.

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Fact of the Day - NOSELESS Did you know.... Many old statues from past civilizations have been disfigured in a remarkably similar way. Many statues that have survived for thousands of years—including Greek, Egyptian, and Roman works—have not always made it to the modern era completely intact: A fair number are actually missing their noses. (Various museums and cultural institutions have such specimens in their collections, including a statue in the possession of the Acropolis Museum in Athens.) But where have all these old statues’ noses gone? There are several reasons that could explain the disfigurement. Bad Reputation One of the reasons stems from a common belief in antiquity that to damage the image of a person was also to damage that person themselves. This became a practice in Ancient Rome, where the defilement and destruction of statues was connected to the reputations of the people embodied in those artifacts. The removal of noses has also been linked with the real-life penalty of facial mutilation that also existed during these ages and continued through the time of the Byzantine Empire. Stopping the Supernatural There is another reason for the iconoclasm of noses that goes beyond attitudes toward people in the physical world: The belief in the connection between the physical form of a statue and who it represented extended past human beings and into the realm of statues of the gods. Some past civilizations, including Ancient Egypt, believed souls could inhabit statues and that it was therefore possible to communicate with the gods via effigies of their forms. The disfigurement of a statue could thus sometimes be a superstitious act, one designed to halt or thwart the presence of a deity or a supernatural being. People specifically targeted the nose because of how crucial the appendage was to the process of living; noses do, after all, play a significant part in how people breathe. To remove the nose was therefore seen as a way to kill the spirit the statue was believed to represent. Got Your (Plaster) Nose There was a period during the 19th century when some museums attempted to repair the missing noses by adding replacements to these statues—the Glyptotek in Copenhagen contains a cabinet of more than 100 of such plaster appendages that were once used to perform these artistic nose jobs. The cosmetic repairs were partly done because the financial value of a statue during this period increased the more complete it was. As such, people had some additional motivation to add fake noses to any less-than-whole faces. By the 20th century, however, cultural preference had shifted back to displaying these sculptures in the condition in which they were left in antiquity. Today, it’s more likely you’ll see a statue missing its nose than one sporting a fake schnoz. Source: Why Are So Many Old Statues Missing Their Noses?

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Millennium Actress The film makes use of some very cool storytelling devices – definitely worth the watch. As far as Satoshi Kon films go, I preferred it to Paprika and don't know exactly where I'd put it in relation to Perfect Blue. There seems to be a good amount of similarities between his works like common themes of blurring reality and fiction, tying in to the movie industry, and the presence of female leads.