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Overnight News Digest March 27th 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-27
x Hi, humans. It’s God. Shit is going crazy. The USA and Canada are fighting? What the fuck is going on down there?!? — God (@godpod.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T02:43:34.157Z
Scientists alarmed by 'new normal' observed on slopes of Mount Everest: 'This is a wake-up call'
Warmer and drier climate conditions are raising the Himalayas' snow line, leading to more frequent wildfires and concerning water shortages. Satellite images reveal that the elevation at which snow accumulates on the Himalayan mountains is rising at abnormal rates. According to NASA's Earth Observatory, the higher snow lines have concerned scientists since early 2021. Between Dec. 11, 2024, and Jan. 28 of this year, the snow line rose nearly 500 feet, demonstrating how quickly it is changing. According to Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College, "The only year recently when January snow lines were near typical levels was 2022." He referred to the high snow lines in January 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 as potentially the "new normal." Furthermore, it's suspected that much of the snow's disappearance is due to sublimation, not melting. This means more snow evaporates into the air, instead of turning to water and running down the mountains. As Earth Observatory described, the snow is almost "vanishing into thin air."
x ❗️For the first time, 🇸🇪Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighters arrived in 🇵🇱Poland to patrol and protect airspace pic.twitter.com/xp76AtlTKI — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) March 27, 2025
x “Thank you for defunding Medicaid and social security… those grandmothers don’t need all that money…” @waltermasterson and others disrupt an @repmikelawler fundraiser — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T00:53:28.171Z
At least 100 million at risk for severe weather from Saturday to Monday
As a complex storm setup unfolds, AccuWeather meteorologists warn that daily rounds of severe weather, including the risk of tornadoes, will first develop over the Mississippi Valley this weekend then shift toward the Atlantic coast by early next week. While the situation is not quite as volatile as some prior severe weather outbreaks this month, where there have been more than 1,900 preliminary incidents of severe weather, including more than 220 tornadoes, the daily events can escalate to put a number of lives in danger and pose a significant risk to property. Ahead of the main areas of severe weather this weekend, a couple of pockets of heavy thunderstorms on Thursday can become severe at the local level.
NATO's newest ally is sending its Gripen jets made for war with Russia out to patrol alliance borders for the first time NATO's newest member is deploying a fighter jet that is designed for a fight with Russia to protect alliance borders for the first time. Sweden's armed forces said that six of its Jas 39 Gripen fighter aircraft landed at an air base in Malbork, Poland, on Wednesday to join an alliance airspace surveillance mission. NATO said this is the first time Sweden's combat aircraft have participated in the alliance's "enhanced Air Policing mission" from within another ally's airspace since it joined in March 2024. It previously had only taken part in NATO air policing missions over its own territory, as only a partner nation.
A Star May Explode This Week in a Once-in-a-Lifetime Event—Here's How to See It
A star system located 3,000 light-years away from Earth may become visible to the naked eye this week—a phenomenon that only happens about once every 80 years. T Coronae Borealis is a binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis. Per the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), its magnitude is normally +10, which is too dim to see with the unaided eye. Per NASA, when the star explodes—an event known as a nova outburst—its magnitude will jump to +2, making it as bright as the North Star. The last time this happened was in 1946. According to NASA, the star system consists of a white dwarf and red giant. The stars are close enough that, as the red giant becomes unstable and begins ejecting its outer layers, the white dwarf collects that matter onto its surface. The atmosphere of the white dwarf heats enough to cause a reaction that produces the nova we see from Earth.
Scientists mystified by alarming changes to lakes at the 'roof of the world' — and they're racing to understand the consequences
An interesting phenomenon is unfolding at the top of the world. Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau — sitting at more than 14,700 feet above sea level — are refilling, bucking lake-drying trends elsewhere on the planet, according to the Daily Galaxy. Satellite images are showing rising water levels on the plateau, commonly called the "roof of the world." The images span decades and demonstrate that thousands of lakes have been added — plus, their sizes are growing. As of 2023, 6,159 lakes are "covering an area nearly the size of Lake Michigan," per the Daily Galaxy. The article cited research published by the journal Nature, as well as other scientific reports, on the matter.
x A little boy squeezed through the fence on the north lawn of the White House. The US Secret Service scooped him up and brought him back to his parents. — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T23:13:23.124Z
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America
White Sands National Park has some of the most archaeologically rich sand in North America, and it is within this New Mexico landscape that the oldest footprints ever found on the continent were discovered. Recent research now dates those footprints to roughly 23,000 years old—about 10,000 years before it was previously believed humans existed in North America. “The site in New Mexico has rewritten history books as we’ve discovered wonderful examples of human activity, the way that humans interacted with one another, with the landscape, and with the animal life there,” Sally Reynolds, principal academic in paleoecology at Bournemouth University, said in a statement. “These footprints provide a valuable window into the lives our ancestors lived and how much they were like us.” Previously believed to be about 13,000 years old, a study in 2021 by U.S. Geological Survey researchers instead dated the footprints to about 23,000 years ago using radiocarbon dating methods. The team wanted to confirm those findings, though, and published another study in the journal Science in late 2023 that confirmed the newly “calibrated” aging of the footprints with the dating of fossilized pine pollen.
Pilot and 2 young daughters survive the night on airplane wing after crashing into icy Alaska lake
A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake, then were rescued after being spotted by a good Samaritan. Terry Godes said he saw a Facebook post Sunday night calling for people to help search for the missing plane, which did not have a locator beacon. On Monday morning about a dozen pilots including Godes headed out to scour the rugged terrain. Godes headed toward Tustumena Lake near the toe of a glacier and spotted what he thought was wreckage. “It kind of broke my heart to see that, but as I got closer down and lower, I could see that there's three people on top of the wing,” he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
8 new Corvettes go missing from Kentucky car plant, but the conspicuous muscle cars are all found
Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said. The cars were taken from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant in southern Kentucky, the home of the Chevrolet Corvette since the early 1980s. The eight cars were valued at $1.2 million, police said. Police said the thieves cut a fence at the plant to get the cars out. A man later arrested and charged with the theft of three cars said while being booked into jail that if he “would have made it back to Michigan, I would have been paid big,” according to a police report.
x ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before." — Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T22:02:57.821Z
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Babysitter Checking for 'Monster' in Child’s Room Finds Man Hiding Under the Bed: Police
The woman was attempting "to show the child there was nothing under the bed" when she "came face-to-face" with the man, officers in Kansas said A babysitter in Kansas made a shocking discovery while attempting to prove to one of the children she was looking after that there wasn't a "monster" hiding underneath the bed. On Monday, March 24, at around 10:30 p.m. local time, authorities responded to "a reported disturbance call" at the 2000 block of Patton Road, which is just outside the city of Great Bend, the Barton County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a Facebook post on March 26.
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I had to do most of this post Wednesday. I had Cataract Surgery around 8:00 am this morning. My right eye needs a slit correction to be able to read with it, that won’t happen till next week.
Got home about 9:30 am.I can use the desktop, phone is very hard. haven’t tried much on the tablet
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