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    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 29/06/2025

    Scientists discover orcas using tools to groom each other in stunning first | CNN
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    Thanks to drone footage, a small length of kelp is visible between the two whales that are “allokelping.”
    Center for Whale Research

    Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth and noticed an unusual behavior: Some orcas were rubbing against each other for up to 15 minutes at a time.

    At first, Weiss didn’t think much of it “because whales do weird things,” he said. But more observations yielded similar sights on his drone camera. “I zoom in, and sure enough, there’s clear as day this piece of kelp that they’re using to rub on each other.”

    Over the course of just two weeks in 2024, Weiss and his team documented 30 examples of these curious interactions. They found that the southern resident orcas — a distinct population of killer whales — were detaching strands of bull kelp from the seafloor to roll between their bodies in a behavior the scientists dubbed “allokelping.” Allokelping could be a form of grooming for skin hygiene, as well as a way to socially bond with other members of the pod, the researchers reported in a new paper published Monday in the journal Current Biology.

    The discovery marks the first time cetaceans — marine mammals including whales, dolphins and porpoises — have been observed using an object as a tool to groom.

    Across the animal kingdom, using tools is rare, according to behavioral ecologists. But when it does happen, it’s often for finding food or attracting mates. “This is a quite different way of using an object,” said Weiss, the study’s lead author and research director of the Center for Whale Research in Washington state.

    Allokelping theories
    There are two possible reasons behind the allokelping behavior, Weiss and his team hypothesize.

    Hygiene, such as treating or removing dead skin, could be one explanation. Cetaceans often shed dead skin, which helps keep their bodies smooth and aerodynamic. Skin lesions, particularly gray patches, are becoming more prevalent in southern resident orcas, Weiss added, so allokelping might be a way to treat those lesions.

    The other hypothesis, Weiss explained, is that allokelping is a way to strengthen social bonds, as the whale pairs seen exhibiting this behavior were usually close relatives or similar in age.

    “These guys are incredibly socially bonded,” said Deborah Giles, an orca scientist at the SeaDoc Society who was not involved with the research. This behavior is fascinating but not entirely surprising, she added.

    Orcas are curious and tactile, with brains that are large compared with their body size, Giles explained, adding that some parts of the killer whale brain are more developed than what’s seen in humans. Each orca population even has its own dialect.

    Cetaceans also have sensitive skin, explained Janet Mann, a behavioral ecologist at Georgetown University who has studied marine mammals for 37 years. Orcas are known to rub on other objects such as smooth-pebble beaches in Canada, or on algal mats. But it’s unusual to see two individual killer whales using a tool to seemingly exfoliate each other, she said.

    “What (the study) shows is that we know very little about cetacean behavior in the wild,” Mann said.

    Allokelping likely wouldn’t have been discovered without advances in drone and camera technology, which have opened up “a whole new world” for scientists to better understand cetaceans’ complex lifestyles, Mann said. Historically, whales are observed from shore or from boats, offering a limited perspective of what’s happening in the water. But drones offer a bird’s-eye view of what marine animals are doing just below the surface. It’s likely this population has been allokelping for a while, she said — only now we can see it.

    Cultural phenomenon
    Orca scientists with drone footage are probably going to be on the lookout for this sort of behavior now, Giles said.

    Killer whales aren’t the only cetaceans known to use tools, though. Some bottlenose dolphins have been observed carefully removing and using sponges to scare up prey on the seabed, a sophisticated behavior that only a small fraction of the population exhibits, said Mann, who has studied the dolphins in Australia’s Shark Bay.

    Some other bottlenose dolphins use their tails to slap the ground in a circle, creating mud-ring plumes that trap fish. And humpback whales have long used bubble nets to catch prey.

    Whether these examples constitute “using tools” is a topic of debate in the scientific community, but regardless, they are all behaviors related to foraging for food. What makes allokelping unique is its potential benefits for skin health and relationships — in other words, it appears to be a cultural practice.

    “This idea of allogrooming (with tools) is largely limited to primates, which is what makes it remarkable,” said Philippa Brakes, a behavioral ecologist with the nonprofit Whale and Dolphin Conservation who was not involved with the research. “This kind of feels like a moment in time for cetaceans, because it does prove that you don’t necessarily need a thumb to be able to manipulate a tool.”

    Brakes, who studies social learning and culture in cetaceans, added that this new research “tells us quite a lot about how important culture is for these species.” Each population — in this case, southern resident orcas — has a distinct dialect for communication, specific foraging strategies and now a unique type of tool use.

    In a rapidly changing environment, Brakes said, “culture provides a phenomenal way for animals to be able to adapt,” as it has for humans.

    “It’s more reason to ensure that we protect their habitat as well as their behavior,” she noted.

    A ‘completely novel’ find
    Indeed, southern resident killer whales are critically endangered and federally protected both in the United States and Canada, with a total population of just 74 whales. And as bull kelp is in decline due to human activities that disrupt the seabed and more frequent heat waves caused by climate change, the overall ecosystem is degrading.

    Kelp forests are also critical nursery habitat for juvenile chinook salmon — a key part of killer whales’ diet, Giles said. Southern residents have been spending less and less time in the Salish Sea over the years, possibly because of dwindling prey, said Monika Wieland Shields, cofounder and director of the nonprofit Orca Behavior Institute.

    “This study makes me wonder if one of the reasons the Southern Residents continue to visit the Salish Sea periodically even during times of low salmon abundance is to engage in allokelping,” Shields wrote in an email to CNN.

    The research is now leading to new areas of study.

    “This cetacean data point is a really important one because it’s completely novel,” said Dora Biro, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Rochester who was not involved with the study.

    Biro, who has mostly studied tool use in wild chimpanzees, added that examples of terrestrial tool use are much more widespread than in aquatic environments. She is now working on a grant proposal with Weiss’ team to better understand the purpose of the behavior.

    But for Brakes, there doesn’t necessarily need to be a purpose: “The objective may just be social bonding, and that would still make it a tool.”

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      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 29/06/2025

      Kelp — Wikipédia
      ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Giantkelp2_300.jpg/1200px-Giantkelp2_300.jpg

      Kelp est un mot anglais désignant, au sens strict, les laminaires. Par extension, il peut être utilisé dans le langage courant pour désigner des espèces de grandes macroalgues brunes appartenant à d’autres ordres.

      En français, on tend à réserver le mot kelp pour désigner les algues géantes des côtes nord-américaines du Pacifique, néo-zélandaises ou sub-antarctiques qui forment de véritables forêts sous-marines, depuis le fond de la mer jusqu’à la surface, généralement dominées par les espèces Macrocystis pyrifera ou Nereocystis luetkeana. Le mot « kelp » peut alors désigner en français, soit l’algue elle-même, soit le milieu naturel particulier formé par les peuplements d’algues géantes. Certaines espèces peuvent mesurer jusqu’à 30 mètres de longueur.

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    vide @touti 23/06/2025
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    Sana Yousaf: Teenage influencer’s murder leaves Pakistani women questioning whether any safe spaces exist
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/asia/pakistan-teen-murder-gender-violence-hnk-intl
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    #féminicide #assassinat

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  • @gao_tumbuktu
    GAO TUMBUKTU @gao_tumbuktu 30/05/2025

    Analysis: China thought it had a truce with the US. Then Trump dropped two bombshells | CNN
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    GAO TUMBUKTU @gao_tumbuktu 4/04/2025
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    Stellantis layoffs hit five US auto plants that supply factories in Canada and Mexico | CNN Business
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/business/tariff-related-layoffs-hit-five-us-auto-plants/index.html
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    GAO TUMBUKTU @gao_tumbuktu 30/03/2025

    How Trump’s car tariffs will impact Americans, in 3 charts | CNN Business
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    GAO TUMBUKTU @gao_tumbuktu 19/02/2025

    30 million-year-old skull reveals previously unknown species of apex carnivore | CNN
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/science/hyaenodonta-fossil-discovery-bastetodon-skull/index.html
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  • @hlc
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 27/01/2025
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    Navajo Nation : Navajo citizens are reporting being questioned and detained in immigration raids | CNN
    ▻https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump/index.html
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    Arrêter des Navajos en les considérant comme des migrants... le véritable visage du racisme (couleur de peau, n’est-ce pas) et du négationnisme (refus de reconnaître les premiers habitants).
    Quel beau pays, qui vient de voter pour un beau projet

    CNN —

    At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

    #Etats-Unis #Navajos #Racisme #Migrants

    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY
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      colporteur @colporteur CC BY-NC-SA 27/01/2025

      Les terres de leur réserve totalisent plus de 60 000 km27 en Arizona et au Nouveau-Mexique, ainsi qu’une petite partie en Utah et au Colorado, ce qui en fait la plus vaste des États-Unis8. Les Navajos ont aussi le revenu le plus élevé de tous les peuples amérindiens aux États-Unis. Il est estimé à environ 50 millions de dollars provenant des contrats d’exploitation du pétrole et du gaz aussi bien que des ressources minérales et forestières.

      Le gouvernement des États-Unis, qui est en litige depuis les années 1960 avec la nation Navajo concernant l’exploitation de ces ressources, paye en 2014 une somme de 554 millions de dollars pour clore celui-ci9.

      ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajos

      cette fois, c’est de la déchéance de nationalité de fait et par morceaux (combien y en aura-t-il ?) en veux-tu en voilà.
      #sprémacisme_blanc

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    Monolecte 😷🤬 @monolecte CC BY-NC-SA 1/01/2025
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    After a long lull, Covid-19 levels are surging in the US | CNN
    ▻https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/31/health/covid-holiday-surge-us/index.html
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    Hoerger runs a Covid-19 forecasting model that pulls heavily from the CDC wastewater surveillance data, and his estimates suggest that without any testing or isolation policies in place, there was a 1 in 8 chance of Covid-19 exposure at a gathering of 10 people on Christmas Day. On a plane of more than 100 people, there was a 3 in 4 chance of exposure.

    Ah ouais, quand même.

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    • @olaf
      Olaf @olaf 2/01/2025

      Personne a vu passer une modélisation similaire pour la fRance, basée sur les données SUM’Eau ?

      A l’époque d’Obépine y avait un modèle prédictif qui marchait plutôt bien, iirc.

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    Philippine vice president says she would have Marcos assassinated if she is killed | CNN
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    23.11.2024 - Philippine vice president says she would have Marcos assassinated if she is killed
    Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, left, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. are engaged in a deepening rift on a number of issues, including foreign policy.

    Manila, Philippines Reuters — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting Marcos’ office to vow “immediate proper action.”

    In a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the two most powerful political families in the Southeast Asian nation, Duterte told an early morning press conference that she had spoken to an assassin and instructed him to kill Marcos, his wife and the speaker of the Philippine House if she were to be killed.

    “I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM (Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta, and (Speaker) Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,” Duterte said in the profanity-laden briefing. “I said, do not stop until you kill them and then he said yes.”

    She was responding to an online commenter urging her to stay safe, saying she was in enemy territory as she was at the lower chamber of Congress overnight with her chief of staff. Duterte did not cite any alleged threat against herself.

    “This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn’t know how to be a president and who is a liar,” she said in the briefing.

    On Sunday, a top official said the Philippines’ security council will verify the alleged assassination threat by Duterte, describing it as a “matter of national security.”

    National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano said the government considers all threats to the president as “serious,” vowing to closely work with law enforcement and intelligence communities to investigate the threat and possible perpetrators.

    “Any and all threats against the life of the president shall be validated and considered a matter of national security,” Ano said in a statement.

    In response to Duterte’s threat, Marcos’ presidential security command said it had tightened its protocols in guarding the Philippine leader and the national police chief had ordered an investigation.
    Growing feud

    Duterte and Marcos were once political partners who won an overwhelming mandate to lead the nation’s top two offices in 2022. The alliance crumbled this year over policy differences, including foreign policy and former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs.

    Duterte, the daughter of Marcos’ predecessor, resigned from the cabinet in June while remaining vice president, signaling the collapse of a formidable political alliance that helped her and Marcos, son and namesake of the late authoritarian leader, secure their 2022 electoral victories by wide margins.

    Speaker Romualdez, a cousin of Marcos, has slashed the vice presidential office’s budget by nearly two-thirds.

    Duterte’s outburst is the latest in a series of startling signs of the feud at the top of Philippine politics. In October, she accused Marcos of incompetence and said she had imagined cutting the president’s head off.

    Marcos’ congressional allies are separately investigating the elder Duterte’s war against drugs that led to more than 6,000 killed in anti-drug operations and alleged corruption over the younger Duterte’s use of public funds during her tenure as education secretary. Both have denied wrongdoing.

    In the Philippines, the vice president is elected separately from the president and has no official duties. Many vice presidents have pursued social development activities, while some have been appointed to cabinet posts.

    The nation is gearing up for mid-term elections in May, seen as a litmus test of Marcos’ popularity and a chance for him to consolidate power and groom a successor before his single six-year term ends in 2028.

    Past political violence in the Philippines has included the assassination of Benigno Aquino, a senator who staunchly opposed the rule the elder Marcos, as he exited his plane upon arrival home from political exile in 1983.

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    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 28/06/2024

    Oklahoma state superintendent announces all schools must incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in curriculums | CNN
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    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 17/04/2024
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    Dubai weather: A year’s worth of rain plunges city underwater | CNN
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/weather/dubai-rain-flooding-climate/index.html
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    A year’s worth of rain unleashed immense flash flooding in Dubai Tuesday as roads turned into rivers and rushing water inundated homes and businesses.

    Shocking video showed the tarmac of Dubai International Airport – recently crowned the second-busiest airport in the world – underwater as massive aircraft attempt to navigate floodwaters. Large jets looked more like boats moving through the flooded airport as water sprayed in their wake and waves rippled through the deep water.

    The airport ceased operations for nearly a half hour on Tuesday. “Operations continue to be significantly disrupted,” the airport confirmed in an advisory. “There is major flooding on access roads around Dubai leading to the airport.”

    ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYC2FG4V9E

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    • @colporteur
      colporteur @colporteur CC BY-NC-SA 17/04/2024

      let us stand united against the forces of nature

      Unbelievable, voir des avions chercher le point haut (?) des tarmacs ou Chanel et le festival permanent du shopping coulés. Quant à la masse de migrants locaux, on verra plus tard, ou pas.

      #catastrophe_naturelle_mon_cul

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 29/03/2024

    ‘#Repugnant beyond imagining’: Lawmaker reacts to Kushner’s comments about Gaza | CNN Politics
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/03/22/gerry-connelly-jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-max-vpx.cnn
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    CNN’s Jim Sciutto speaks with Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-VA) about former Trump White House adviser Jared Kushner calling waterfront property in Gaza “very valuable.”

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 31/01/2024

    Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across #Gaza | CNN
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/famine-looms-in-gaza-israel-war-intl/index.html
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    As Gaza spirals toward full-scale famine, displaced civilians and health workers told CNN they go hungry so their children can eat what little is available. If Palestinians find water, it is likely undrinkable. When relief trucks trickle into the strip, people clamber over each other to grab aid. Children living on the streets, after being forced from their homes by Israel’s bombardment, cry and fight over stale bread. Others reportedly walk for hours in the cold searching for food, risking exposure to Israeli strikes.

    Even before the war, two out of three people in Gaza relied on food support, Arif Husain, the chief economist at the World Food Programme (WFP), told CNN. Palestinians have lived through 17 years of partial blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt.

    #génocide #famine ##communauté_internationale #sionisme #genocide_joe

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    Loutre @loutre 14/12/2023
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    Exclusive: Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds
    By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN | Wed December 13, 2023

    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/13/politics/intelligence-assessment-dumb-bombs-israel-gaza/index.html
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    Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment.

    The assessment, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and described to CNN by three sources who have seen it, says that about 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions Israel has used have been unguided. The rest have been precision-guided munitions, the assessment says.

    Unguided munitions are typically less precise and can pose a greater threat to civilians, especially in such a densely populated area like Gaza. The rate at which Israel is using the dumb bombs may be contributing to the soaring civilian death toll.

    On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said Israel has been engaged in “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.

    Asked for comment on the assessment, IDF spokesperson Nir Dinar told CNN, “We do not address the type of munitions used.”

    Major Keren Hajioff, an Israeli spokesperson, said on Wednesday that “as a military committed to international law and a moral code of conduct, we are devoting vast resources to minimizing harm to the civilians that Hamas has forced into the role of human shields. Our war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza.”

    But experts told CNN that if Israel is using unguided munitions at the rate the US believes they are, that undercuts the Israeli claim that they are trying to minimize civilian casualties.

    “I’m extremely surprised and concerned,” said Brian Castner, a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officer who now serves as Amnesty International’s senior crisis adviser on arms and military operations.

    “It’s bad enough to be using the weapons when they are precisely hitting their targets. It is a massive civilian harm problem if they do not have that accuracy, and if you can’t even give a benefit of the doubt that that the weapon is actually landing where the Israeli forces intended to,” Castner added. (...)

    Loutre @loutre
    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 14/12/2023

      US intelligence assessment finds

      Gros soupir

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    • @olaf
      Olaf @olaf 14/12/2023

      c’est leur IA qui a dû leur conseiller l’imprécision et ils ont exécuté ; les ’dumb bombs’ c’est elle !

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  • @simplicissimus
    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023
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    Un avion de chasse russe abat un drone américain au-dessus de la mer Noire - Numerama
    ▻https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/1303888-un-avion-de-chasse-russe-abat-un-drone-americain-au-dessus-de-la-m

    https://www.numerama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1-1.jpg

    Un avion de chasse russe a déversé du carburant sur un drone de combat américain, endommageant l’appareil au-dessus de la mer Noire. L’engin a fini dans les eaux internationales.
    […]
    L’armée de l’air américaine a publié une déclaration accusant l’avion russe d’avoir agi « de manière imprudente, non respectueuse de l’environnement et non professionnelle », selon le général James B. Hecker, commandant des forces aériennes américaines en Europe et en Afrique.

    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @arno
      ARNO* @arno ART LIBRE 16/03/2023

      Le « non respectueuse de l’environnement » m’avait échappé.

      US Military Pollution : The World’s Biggest Climate Change Enabler | Earth.Org
      ▻https://earth.org/us-military-pollution

      https://u4d2z7k9.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1024px-U.S._Military_rehearses_for_Kuwaits_50-20_Parade_Image_1_of_5.jpg

      US military pollution is a significant contributor to climate change. If it were a nation state, it would be the 47th largest emitter in the world. Their negligence, nuclear testing and disregard for human life has come at a huge environmental cost, and reform needs to be taken into consideration to protect our planet.

      ARNO* @arno ART LIBRE
    • @sombre
      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      Depuis le début de ce merdier, je me demande quel est le bilan carbone d’une bombe qui explose. C’est drôle, parce qu’au ministère des petits gestes, on n’en parle jamais. Mais, bon, ça doit être mon côté « radical » ...

      Sinon le graphique dans l’article de earth.org est assez, comment dire ... Surprenant ?

      https://u4d2z7k9.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20190613_Military_CO2.jpg

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    • @biggrizzly
      BigGrizzly @biggrizzly CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      La purge des Nord Stream, question effets sur le climat, ça rentre direct dans la compétition au plus haut niveau. Les responsables de cette « fuite » ne pourront plus prendre l’avion pendant quelques siècles, s’il leur venait à l’idée de tenter de compenser...

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    • @sombre
      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      Ceci dit, je m’attends à ce qu’on nous dise bientôt : « Le nucléaire n’émet pas de CO2. »

      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA
    • @olaf
      Olaf @olaf 16/03/2023

      Un avion de chasse russe a déversé du carburant sur un drone de combat américain

      Littéralement, il lui a pissé dessus, c’est ça ? :-)

      Humour militaire Russe, j’imagine.

      Olaf @olaf
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      Un drone américain percuté par un avion russe - Michel Goya - C à Vous - 15/03/2023 - YouTube
      ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDP3OnrdtWY

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @biggrizzly
      BigGrizzly @biggrizzly CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      Qui est-ce qui a à perdre ? Là, ça vient de coûter quelques millions de dollars aux contribuables américains.

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    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      Princertitude sur Twitter
      ▻https://twitter.com/princertitude/status/1636313532793757696

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrVaOoqXsAEOABd.jpg:large#.jpg

      Les US parlaient de 19 passages et 4 fuel dumps sur la fin, on voit ici les 3 qui ont précédé celui de la collision

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrVbAJUX0AEgZJ_.jpg:large#.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrVbjdWWYAE79Dl?format=jpg&name=large#.jpg

      Le Reaper était en virage lors des fuel dumps. On aperçoit la côte ici. Le Nord indiqué sur le réticule est par rapport à l’orientation de la camera.

      ▻https://twitter.com/princertitude/status/1636320049035132928

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrVgXJDXoAECObh?format=jpg&name=medium#.jpg

      Proposition de geoloc

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrVkzBcWwAEOaHe?format=jpg&name=medium#.jpg

      Si c’est juste je dirais 30km-40km de la côte.

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      Le Pentagone publie les images du drone américain abattu par un avion russe - Numerama
      ▻https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/1306642-le-pentagone-publie-les-images-du-drone-americain-abattu-par-un-av

      https://www.numerama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sans-titre-2023-03-16t122725828.jpg

      L’armée américaine diffuse la dernière vidéo filmée par leur drone intercepté par un avion de chasse russe, au-dessus de la mer Noire. L’aéronef a déversé du carburant pour faire chuter l’appareil téléguidé.
      […]
      Moscou a clairement indiqué qu’elle tenterait de récupérer l’épave du drone. Des navires seraient déjà sur lieu du crash. Néanmoins, les recherches seront difficiles, car il s’agit de l’un des endroits les plus profonds de la mer Noire.

      Deux responsables américains ont déclaré à CNN que les opérateurs ont effacé à distance les logiciels sensibles du drone pendant sa chute, réduisant ainsi le risque que des informations secrètes ne tombent entre les mains de l’ennemi. Les MQ-9 Reaper sont dotés de capteurs et de capacités de collecte de renseignements. L’appareil qui a disparu coute plusieurs dizaines de millions d’euros.

      Moscou et Washington sont restés en contact par des voies militaires et diplomatiques après l’incident.

      Bloomberg :

      Ukraine Latest : US Releases Video of Russian Jet Clipping Drone
      ▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-16/ukraine-latest-kyiv-urges-four-month-extension-of-grain-deal

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @arno
      ARNO* @arno ART LIBRE 16/03/2023

      Est-ce que c’est une technique connue, de relâcher du fuel (fuel dumps) sur un aéronef militaire pour le faire tomber ? J’aurais tendance à penser que les russes font ça avec dans l’idée qu’ils pourraient ainsi récupérer un drone américain en relativement bon état, alors qu’en tirant dessus ils ne récupèrent pas grand chose.

      ARNO* @arno ART LIBRE
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      à noter, si la localisation se confirme, c’est à une dizaine de kilomètres, mais dans les eaux internationales, du lieu de l’incident (naval) de février 1988
      ►https://seenthis.net/messages/171417

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      non, ce n’est apparemment pas une procédure classique ; difficile, en tous cas, de trouver d’autres occurrences de la technique.

      à noter, cet épisode, en janvier 2020, où un avion de Delta Airlines, contraint à un atterrissage d’urgence après avoir décollé de l’aéroport de Los Angeles s’était délesté de 50 000 litres de carburant au-dessus de la ville, arrosant au passage plusieurs écoles

      Plane dumped jet fuel over Los Angeles and 60 people were treated | CNN
      ▻https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/us/jet-fuel-dump-elementary-school-trnd/index.html

      ▻https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/200114164217-jet-fuel-kids-school.jpg

      https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/01/14/20200114_jet_fuel_dump_map_03_desktop.png

      … je n’ai pas trouvé de décision de justice sur les suites des plaintes ; elles sont toujours en cours, puisqu’il y a tout juste un mois, un juge vient d’autoriser la constitution d’une action de groupe dans l’affaire
      LA Homeowners Get Class Cert. In Delta Jet Fuel Dump Suit - Law360
      ▻https://www.law360.com/articles/1574408/la-homeowners-get-class-cert-in-delta-jet-fuel-dump-suit

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @colporteur
      colporteur @colporteur CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrWGK0taMAAlNkR?format=png&name=900x900#.jpeg

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    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 16/03/2023

      mouais, j’ai vu passer ce montage assez grossier sur le compte de ma source Twitter ci-dessus…
      le Beriev-200 est un bombardier d’eau

      Le Beriev Be-200 remotorisé pourrait à nouveau intéresser la Sécurité civile - Aerobuzz : Aerobuzz (mai 2018)
      ▻https://www.aerobuzz.fr/industrie/le-beriev-be-200-remotorise-pourrait-a-nouveau-interesser-la-securite-civil

      https://i0.wp.com/www.aerobuzz.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Be-200_largage-e1607844473256.jpg

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @sombre
      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA 16/03/2023

      Les images de synthèse transmises par ...
      Mesdames, mesdemoiselles, messieurs : le drone REAPER !

      ▻https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j5hbi

      ▻https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/international/video/chute-du-drone-americain-reaper-des-images-impressionnantes-publiees-

      Les dessous chics (du drone) et les images chocs

      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 19/03/2023

      CHASSEUR RUSSE QUI PERCUTE ET DETRUIT UN DRONE US : ANALYSE DE LA VIDEO - YouTube
      ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh525PS01sI

      Cette semaine a été marquée par la perte et la destruction d’un drone Reaper américain au large de la Crimée.

      Les images ont été publiées par l’armée américaine - on y voit un chasseur russe tenté de gêner et d’incapaciter le drone avec du carburant, puis tirer très fort en le masquant.
      Cette technique - incompréhensible sur le plan aéronautique - mérite d’être débriefée.

      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 20/03/2023

      analyse plus poussée, telle qu’annoncée dans la vidéo faite à chaud, avec réflexion (nettement) plus générale

      SU-27 CONTRE DRONE REAPER. FAUT-IL ARMER LES DRONES ? - YouTube
      ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs-hi1jnZA

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  • @fsoulabaille
    François Isabel @fsoulabaille CC BY-NC-ND 13/02/2023

    Chichen Itza: New area discovered at Mexican historic site | CNN
    ▻https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chichen-itza-chichen-viejo-discovery/index.html

    Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD.

    Archaeologist Francisco Perez Ruiz said there were no known residential groups in Chichen Itza, meaning the housing complex would represent “the first residential group where a ruler lived with his entire family.”

    The area, known as Chichen Viejo, is expected to be integrated in the near future into the visitor area of the Chichen Itza archaeological site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    The newly discovered complex includes the entrance arch, the House of the Snails, the House of the Moon, and the so-called Palace of the Phalluses.

    Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) hope that this area and those yet to be uncovered can provide information on what life was like for the people who inhabited the city.

    “There must be more residential groups that have not been explored yet. The study of these peripheral groups, around the central part, could tell us about other families, other groups that made up this great city,” said archaeologist Jose Osorio Leon.

    The area has been under exploration since 1998. In 2018, a second pyramid was discovered hidden deep within the famous Kukulkan pyramid.

    Around 2 million people visit Chichen Itza site in southeast Mexico each year, according to official data.

    It was founded as a Mayan pilgrimage center by the Itza, or “water sorcerers.”

    Top: Casa de la Luna at Chichen Viejo. Photo by Reuters.

    ▻https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230213103122-casa-de-la-luna.jpg

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 6/12/2022

    Antony Blinken says Biden administration supports zero-Covid protesters in China | CNN Politics
    ▻https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/politics/antony-blinken-china-zero-covid-protests/index.html
    ▻https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/221204095555-antony-blinken-1129.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill

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