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What’s your high temperature today? Eastern NC (not the coast) hit 99. That’s with humidity. I don’t how anyone works in heat like this. It takes your breath & we don’t have breathing problems. Not complaining, I’ll take this over cold, snow and ice any day.
Interior Sec. Burgum posted neat drone display of the American Flag & TR from the Theodore Roosevelt library opening celebration https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/2073042919015973347
Imagine that! So China is not the only country that can do cool drone displays, contrary to what we have been told, kek!
kek! 🇺🇸 and freedom to more people of the world in coming years!
Condolences Bubbles. Too bad your Team can't kick goal kicks..
u/#q187
u/#q199
World's Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out.
by Tyler Durden Thursday, Jul 02, 2026
I wonder what’s the real agenda behind the data centers. We went to none to every little community is fighting against them. Is it surveillance, robots, something worse?
u/#ridetofreedom
I know the Way. He's my power steering.
Have a good laugh.
https://x.com/spackardwork/status/2072774312025878886
There is also a part there that looks like a spanker, positioned right at the point where it can give a good spanking 🤣
LOL. I was thinking the same.
I’m proud to be an American, Where at least I have A/C. And I won’t forgive the carbon scam, That tried to take that right from me. I’ll gladly sit down in my room, And enjoy that sweet cool air, ‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this chill, God bless my Frigidaire!
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Sometimes, when we least expect it, genius appears and renews our faith in genius... so it was, so it is here...
Three hands clapping.
62.29 spot silver.
Nice little increase the past few days.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Mind-Blowing Marine Ammonite in Tree Resin BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D.
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2019
https://www.icr.org/article/ammonite-in-tree-resin/
Can a single fossil showcase the immense power of the global Flood? One such revelatory fossil may have been found recently in Myanmar encased in beautiful, golden Cretaceous amber.1 And secular scientists are scrambling to come up with an adequate explanation for its existence.
Tingting Yu, from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in China, and colleagues published their baffling discovery in the journal PNAS.1
Ammonites are common fossils in marine rocks, especially in the Cretaceous layers. But this particular specimen was found in the famous amber (fossil-tree resin) mines of Myanmar (formerly Burma) that has yielded many spectacular land fossils such as countless insects, a juvenile bird,2 bird wings,3 and even complete reptiles.4
How could an ocean-dwelling mollusk get trapped in tree resin and become a fossil? Even more surprising is that it was found mixed with a host of land animals and other marine critters.1 This environmental mixing is just what one would expect in a global Flood, with tsunami-like waves carrying sea creatures far inland, mixing and burying them with land creatures, and resulting in rocks filled with animals from diverse locations.5
“Amber—ancient resins from trees—commonly traps only some terrestrial [land] insects, plants, or animals,” said coauthor Bo Wang, also from the Nanjing Institute. “It’s very rare to find some sea animals in amber.”6
There are 40 other individual fossils found in the amber specimens along with the ammonite, and many are terrestrial, such as mites, spider, wasps, and even cockroachs.1
“This extraordinary assemblage, a true and beautiful snapshot of a beach in the Cretaceous, is just mind-blowing,” said Jann Vendetti, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.6 Adding, “Oh my gosh—I probably would say that I don’t know how that would happen, because amber is from trees. How is that going to get into a marine environment to entomb a living, moving cephalopod [ammonite]? But I don’t know!”6
This specimen is truly extraordinary and mind-blowing. The ammonite fossil was tentatively identified as a juvenile Puzosia (Bhimaites), a subspecies of ammonite found in Cretaceous marine sediments across multiple continents.1
Yu and colleagues offer three different scenarios to explain this remarkable discovery.
“The shells may record an exceptionally high, perhaps storm-generated tide, or even a tsunami or other high-energy event. Alternatively, and even more likely, the resin fell to the beach from coastal trees, picking up terrestrial arthropods and beach shells and, exceptionally, surviving the high-energy beach environment to be preserved as amber.”1
Why they preferred the latter and least probable explanation is a testament to their uniformitarian worldview—they appear to be unable to think outside of it. The more likely explanations, involving large storms and tsunamis seem far more probable. And this is what we expect a global Flood would have accomplished to create the ammonite fossil in amber.
Only the power and high-energy of a global event could explain these fossils and the extraordinary and mind-blowing ammonite in amber. Tweet: Only the power and high-energy of a global event could explain these fossils and the extraordinary and mind-blowing ammonite in amber.</p>
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Michael Greshko reports “Finding an ammonite shell in a land-formed fossil is therefore as eyebrow-raising as finding dinosaur remains on the bottom of an ancient seafloor.”6
And yet, that has already been found too.7 And even more compelling than that, a Plateosaurus dinosaur bone has been found washed out over 70 miles to sea and buried about a mile and a half deep in the North Sea.8
The unimaginable and massive tsunami-like waves of the Flood washed marine animals hundreds of miles inland9 and also washed many land animals way out to the sea. Only the power and high-energy of a global event could explain these fossils and the “extraordinary” and “mind-blowing” ammonite in amber.
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I think they know but are just afraid to say it out loud. The Bible answered the question. The book of Genesis should be required course study for Geology and Palaeontology.
Fascinating article though.
It the old "African or European swallow" question. There's really no difference between a coconut and a mollusk.
Off topic, weathered coconuts have been washing up on Cape Lookout National Seashore in NC. That’s a long way from the tropics. I guess they could be coming from ships. I read about twenty years ago bags of Doritos washed up for several weeks.
Maybe dolphins instead of swallows?