This is super interesting to me. My former career was caring for Alzheimer’s patients. And none that I worked with, had a history of obesity.

It’s one of the more horrible diseases, and I hope they find a cure for it.

Thank you! THAT’S why I reached out, because I thought maybe you were in the field and had some good sources. You ended up not being in the field, but I didn’t know until I reached out. Thank you!

Then apparently I’m assuming because I’m too lazy to actually check the mod log. You removed my comment where I screenshotted your first DM to me because I guess you realized how stupid it looked

Oh, I was happy to restore your image of my dm so anyone can see what made you so annoyed. It’s back up. :)

OR it can be like me handing out chicken in the mall, you not liking it, and me asking, hey why didn’t you like it? Is there something I missed or something wrong with it? Which is not that unusual. You’ve never ever been asked why you didn’t like something?!

And no, I deleted the dm shot because all you did was show an image of me asking you why you downvoted the article. We’ve already established that I wondered why you didn’t like the article.

I thought maybe there was something scientific in it that was wrong and was interested in your thoughts. But your only thoughts were that it’s a fluff piece.

So you answered, gave your opinion, and now we’re done.

Well I didn’t write the article, so I guess all the people who are publishing it, disagree with you as well. You know, you seem soooo friendly, I would never have guessed computer science. Imagine that!

I think it had good information for people who aren’t in the field. Not a fluff Piece at all.

Journal Reference: Brian Villmoare, Lucas K. Delezene, Amy L. Rector, Erin N. DiMaggio, Christopher J. Campisano, David A. Feary, Baro’o Mohammed Ali, Daniel Chupik, Alan L. Deino, Dominique I. Garello, Mohammed Ahmeddin Hayidara, Ellis M. Locke, Omar Abdulla Omar, Joshua R. Robinson, Eric Scott, Irene E. Smail, Kebede Geleta Terefe, Lars Werdelin, William H. Kimbel, J. Ramón Arrowsmith, Kaye E. Reed. New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. Nature, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09390-4

Read the actual article, which has more parts of the news conference, including where they actually mention the Mars finding. It’s the entire point of the news conference.

No worries. Glad ya got it figure out!

Meh, it’s me. It’s not like anyone visits or takes this comm seriously!

The very fact that my name is attached to it means it lost credibility, regardless of content. I could put peer-reviewed articles created by the best minds in science, and it’d still get downvoted. LMAO

I’m perfectly fine with that :)

I don’t think there is anything made up:

Lead author Professor Abel Mendez, of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, told Daily Mail: ‘We can’t rule out an extraterrestrial communication signal explanation for the Wow! Signal yet, but the evidence points to a natural origin.’

I think it’s an accurate article.

Dr Hector Socas-Navarro says: ‘The paper basically rewrites the basic stats of the Wow! signal.’

In addition to showing that the signal had been stronger than previously thought, the researchers have been able to characterise the burst much more accurately.

They narrowed the part of the sky that the signal came from to two small regions, each of which produced a different component of the signal.

The researchers were also able to determine this location with two-thirds greater statistical certainty.

Additionally, this new data slightly revises the signal’s frequency – putting it at 1420.726 MHz rather than 1420.4556 MHz.

That keeps the signal solidly within the hydrogen line, but that small change suggests that whatever produced the signal must have been spinning a lot faster than previously thought.

This means the source must be moving at about 46 miles per second (74 km/s), over double the previous estimate of 18 miles per second (30 km/s/).

Importantly, this research also rules out some natural phenomena that had been suggested as possible explanations.

It had been proposed that a man-made signal could have bounced off the moon and been mistakenly picked up by the observatory.

However, this new analysis clearly shows that the moon would have been on the wrong side of the planet at this time, so nothing could have bounced off it.

Likewise, the sun was not active enough during the year 1977 to produce anything close to the Wow! signal’s intensity.

That means the Wow! signal really must have come from somewhere outside our solar system.

However, there are still many questions remaining about the origins of this mysterious radio beam.

Meh, it’s science-y enough for me. They didn’t say anything factually wrong in the article. And when they say stuff like, “Scientist says object may be extraterrestrial…” or shit like that. The scientist does say that, as in they haven’t ruled it out. The article mentions that it’s probably just natural radio-noise from celestial events.

Clickbait headlines on articles is way different than saying that they actually make up everything.

I get what you’re saying, but I read it every day. I don’t see a lot of stuff just made up. It’s not like the good ole national enquirer days.

Most stuff is actually stolen from other news orgs, so not made up.

Now, unethical, yep! They are totally unethical! lolol They post suicide notes from mass shooters, manifestos and stuff, but I Iike them for that. I like seeing all the juicy stuff.

But they don’t make up nearly as much shit as people think they do

a fluid relationship with reality at the best of times.

Which is what makes it fun to read. But I don’t think they invent things nearly as much as people assume.

I don’t trust any news organization to be one hundred percent accurate. Everything posted online should be approached with healthy skepticism.

Believing something entirely because it comes from a news source, or rejecting it entirely for the same reason, are both mistakes.

me too!

Be the change you wanna be, guy

You should write to the publisher and let them know how angry you are about it.

A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists’ understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in scorching, chemically reduced conditions and never before seen in Ryugu-like meteorites—inside a sample returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. Its presence suggests either Ryugu once experienced unexpectedly high temperatures or that exotic materials from other parts of the solar system somehow made their way into its formation. Like discovering a palm tree fossil in Arctic ice, this rare find challenges everything we thought we knew about primitive asteroids and the early mixing of planetary ingredients.

Oh, I’ll always be here. Forever. Can’t get rid of me. Ever. :)

But then imbeciles like you have never been good at listening to anything that doesn’t tell you exactly what you already want to hear

Again with the name calling. And what exactly do I “want to hear” in an article about autism?

Wow, more insults. Do you have a problem with reading social clues and getting along with people? Did you read the article? Because it may be of particular interest to you. That’s not an insult, but in our exchange, you are being very rude and it seems to me like you are misunderstanding my replies.