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The toll of a ‘missing scientists’ conspiracy theory on the families left behind
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/...e_code=1.nVA.yMRB.AiV6rYexVlzL&smi...

This sounds incredible, 98 years old.
A nonagenarian has become the oldest person to perform a wing walk, Guinness World Records said.
Harry Heasman, 98, completed his nine-minute wing walk at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire on Saturday. Click to expand...

Please opine about black holes---which may be older than their galaxies.

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Oh, and do you think that wormholes exist?

I've been working on **LTF-B4-17** (LOGOS Transformation Format, Base-4, N=17), a
new fixed-width Unicode encoding I've submitted as a formal UTC proposal.

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## What is LTF-B4-17?

A 34-bit encoding that extends UTF-32 while keeping 100% backward compatibility:

| Encoding | Bits/char | Capacity | Efficiency |
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https://phys.org/news/2026-05-dark-energy-equation-mathematicians-standard.html
Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe:​
Mathemat...