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One of Link’s oldest enemies returns in new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ad
The horror of child abuse at one of Scotland’s oldest schools – £37,00-a-year Loretto
NASA’s AIM spacecraft goes silent after a 15-year run studying the Earth’s oldest clouds
After 15 years in space, NASA’s AIM mission is ending. In a brief blog post spotted by Gizmodo, the agency said Thursday it was ending operational support for the spacecraft due to a battery power failure. NASA first noticed issues with AIM’s battery in 2019, but the probe was still sending a “significant amount of data” back to Earth. Following another recent decline in battery power, NASA says AIM has become unresponsive. The AIM team will monitor the spacecraft for another two weeks in case it reboots, but judging from the tone of NASA’s post, the agency isn’t holding its breath.
NASA launched the AIM – Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere – mission in 2007 to study noctilucent or night-shining clouds, which are sometimes known as fossilized clouds due to the fact they can last hundreds of years in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. From its vantage point 370 miles above the planet’s surface, the spacecraft proved invaluable to scientists, with data collected by AIM appearing in 379 peer-reviewed papers, including a recent 2018 study that found methane emissions from human-driven climate change are causing night-shining clouds to form more frequently. Pretty good for a mission NASA initially expected to operate for only two years. AIM’s demise follows that of another long-serving NASA spacecraft. At the start of the year, the agency deorbited the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite following a nearly four-decade run collecting ozone and atmospheric measurements.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/nasas-aim-spacecraft-goes-silent-after-a-15-year-run-studying-the-earths-oldest-clouds-162853411.html?src=rss
I’m the world’s oldest female bodybuilder but I gave up on fitness when tragedy hit – here’s how I turned my life around
A BODYBUILDING grandma has told how she bravely turned her life around after the tragic death of her beloved sister.
Ernestine Shepherd – the world’s oldest female competitive bodybuilder – is in the best shape of her life at the ripe old age of 86.
Ernestine Shepherd bravely turned her life around after the death of her sister[/caption]
Ernestine, 86, is the world’s oldest female competitive bodybuilder[/caption]
The grandma can easily outlift the majority of gymgoers after guzzling ten egg whites and a handful of walnuts each morning.
She credits the protein-rich concoction for fuelling her body to run 80 miles each week and getting up for her 4am workouts.
But the fitness fanatic, from Baltimore, only ventured into her health journey after hitting her 50s.
Ernestine was “prissy” when it came to exercise in her teen years and had never worked out a day in her life – until the age of 56.
She had been shopping for swimwear with her beloved sister Velvet, 57, when the pair vowed they would get into better shape.
The sisters, encouraged by the support of their local church, hit the gym and soon began to notice a huge difference in their physiques.
After getting into lifting weights, the sisters dreamed that one day they would make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
But tragedy struck when Velvet suddenly passed away after suffering a brain aneurysm – sending Ernestine into a spiral of depression and anxiety.
“I went to pieces; I didn’t want to do anything… It was an awful way to live,” she said.
But after the gran’s pals rallied around her and her late sister came to her in a dream, she was inspired to restart her fitness journey and turn her life around.
Motivated by her love for Sylvester Stallone in the acclaimed Rocky films, Ernestine set out to achieve health and happiness.
Determined to bag a world record in honour of Velvet, she began sculpting her body into the perfect form for bodybuilding.
She got in touch with former Mr Universe, Yohnnie Shambourger, who offered his expertise to help her achieve world glory.
Ernestine switched up her diet and upped her weightlifting to create her enviably toned bod, before entering her first contest just seven months later, aged 71.
She won first place – seeing The Guinness Book of World Records contact her to crown her as the world’s oldest performing female bodybuilder in 2010.
The elderly marvel confessed she scattered some of her sister’s ashes while accepting the title on an Italian TV show.
“I’ll never forget standing on that stage as I collected my medal and certificate,” she gushed. “‘I’ve done what you wanted, Velvet’, I remember saying as tears filled my eyes.”
Ernestine’s triumph sparked a flood of interest in her lifestyle, seeing her earn a spot in Ripley’s Believe it or Not! book in 2011.
But she remained focused on her fitness, performing in several more bodybuilding competitions and completing nine marathons.
The 86-year-old claims chat show host Oprah Winfrey even Skyped her once to get workout tips.
Ernestine’s strength has continued to build, seeing her bench-press 115lb weights at the age of 86 to keep her muscles defined.
She now offers her knowledge to other seniors keen to get fit by running exercise classes as well as working as a personal trainer.
But she is still down with the kids and dons tight-fitting gym sets – and sometimes even heels – when burning some calories.
As well as being a role model for her husband, son and grandson, Ernestine has even “adopted” a group of youngsters at the gym who refer to her as “mum”.
Her incredible transformation even caught the eye of global superstar Beyonce – who gave her a cameo in her 2020 visual album Black is King.
Flexing her muscles and donning a bright orange t-shirt, the gran gave the music icon just as good as she got.
Ernestine gushed: “It was a wonderful, wonderful experience. Beyonce made me feel like a queen. I felt so honoured.
“I felt like I had the power to smile again. Beyonce has no idea what she’s done for me.”
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Gigantic meteorite with oldest material in the solar system discovered in Antarctica
Bones from Britain’s ‘oldest northerner’ — dating back 11,000 years — dug up in a cave
BONES from Britain’s “oldest northerner” — dating back 11,000 years — have been dug up in a cave.
The male remains are about 1,000 years older than previous finds and the first evidence of human activity in the region after the Ice Age.
The male remains are about 1,000 years older than previous finds[/caption]
They were found along with a periwinkle shell bead by archaeologist Martin Stables — who said it was “clear evidence” of ancient burials.
He has been searching Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Urswick in Cumbria since 2016.
Martin has previously found human and animal bones, along with stone tools and pottery.
But he said: “I never expected anything like the Early Mesolithic connection in my wildest dreams.
“I can’t wait to hear all the final results. It’s staggering — difficult to imagine what it would have been like around here over 11,000 years ago.”
Earlier human remains have been found in southern England and Wales. But the destructive effect of the Ice Age means such finds are rare in the North.
Dr Rick Peterson, of the University of Central Lancashire, said: “These are some of the earliest dates for human activity in Britain.”
YouTube says it’s fixing the bug that let someone fake a new oldest video
YouTube is setting the record straight: “Me at the zoo” is still the oldest YouTube video.
“Me at the zoo,” uploaded on April 23rd, 2005 and featuring YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo, is an important piece of internet history, as it marks the oldest video on one of the most influential video services on the planet. But earlier on Thursday, a video started circulating that, somehow, had an even earlier upload date: April 5th, 2005.
Titled “Welcome to YouTube!!!”, the 48-second video definitely looks like something that could have been used to test out a mid-aughts video website. The video has just one image: a low-res graphic with a YouTube logo with the text “Welcome to YouTube!!!!”…
America’s Oldest Dictionary Company Buys Word Game App ‘Quordle’
Word game Quordle has found a home appropriate to its theme—Merriam-Webster, publisher of Webster’s Dictionary. The Wordle clone now features a Merriam-Webster logo at the top of its web interface, and its website now redirects to the merriam-webster.com domain.