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Humanity first left the solar system in 2012 when the Voyager 1 probe passed into interstellar space decades after leaving the planets behind. Now, there’s a second spacecraft beyond the limits of our solar system: Voyager 2. Luckily, Voyager 2’s instruments are in somewhat better shape than Voyager 1’s, so scientists were able to observe the transition from the heliosphere, which is dominated by the sun, to the interstellar medium (ISM). 

Both Voyager probes launched in 1977, with Voyager 2 heading into space a few weeks before Voyager 1. The two probes are physically identical, but they took different paths through the solar system. They took advantage of the “Grand Tour,” an alignment of the planets that occurs only once every 175 years. Voyager 1 visited and got gravity assists from Jupiter and Saturn before heading off toward the edge of the solar system. Voyager 2 swung past Jupter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. It made its last planetary observation of Uranus in 1989, almost a decade after Voyager 1 had started its long march toward the edge of the solar system.

When Voyager 1 reached the edge of our solar system, known as the heliopause, it no longer had a functional plasma spectrometer. As a result, there was some debate about when, exactly, the probe left our solar system. So, we missed the expected transition from warm solar plasma to the denser cold plasma of the ISM. Eventually, measurements of local electrons and magnetic field shifts confirmed it was in interstellar space. 

Voyager 2 has just sent back data proving that it has also crossed the heliopause, and it had a fully functional plasma spectrometer. The transition happened about a year ago in November 2018, and the changeover was roughly in-line with what scientists expected based on Voyager 1’s indirect readings. As Voyager 2 crossed from the heliosphere to the ISM, it detected a 20-fold increase in plasma density. 


The approximate positions of Voyager 1 and 2.

Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the heliopause at roughly the same distance from the sun, 121.6 AU and 119 AU, respectively. However, their exit points were about 150 AU apart. Scientists are studying the discrepancies in the data in hopes of gaining a better understanding of the boundary between our solar system and the wider galaxy. For example, Voyager 2 detected a continuous change in magnetic field directions as it crossed into the ISM, whereas Voyager 1 did not. Voyager 2 has also continued to see low-energy particles from the sun in the ISM, but Voyager 1 didn’t. 

It will be some time before we have more data to study. The only functional probe that has any hope of reaching the heliopause is New Horizons, which is currently flying through the Kuiper Belt. It could leave the solar system around 2040, but we don’t know if it will maintain communication with Earth that long.

The 3M22 Zircon or the SS-N-33 is a maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile developed in Russia.[i] The Zircon’s estimated range is 500 km at a low level and up to 750 km at a semi-ballistic trajectory, but the state-owned media in Russia reports the range as 1,000 km.It’s a two-stage missile that uses solid fuel in the first stage and a scramjet motor in the second stage. This missile will be incorporated into the Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov this year and the Pyotr Velikiy in 2022.

Strategic Implications
The Zircon missile is strategically valuable due primarily to its speed. In April 2017, it was reported that the Zircon had reached a speed of Mach 8 during a test.If that information is accurate, the Zircon missile would be the fastest in the world, making it nearly impossible to defend against due to its speed alone. Another valuable aspect of the missile is its plasma cloud. During flight, the missile is completely covered by a plasma cloud that absorbs any rays of radio frequencies and makes the missile invisible to radars. This allows the missile to remain undetected on its way to the target.

US President Donald Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, saying he had lost confidence in the watchdog's ability to serve.

Trump did not give a reason for his loss of confidence but said in a letter late Friday that his removal would be effective in 30 days.

Linick, who was appointed inspector general in 2013 during the Obama administration, is the latest in a series of independent government watchdogs to be ousted in recent weeks.

Democratic lawmakers heavily criticized Linick's removal, suggesting he may have been targeted for opening an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Read more: US drops criminal case against ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn

'Act of retaliation'

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel accused Trump of acting to protect "one of his most loyal supporters."

"Mr Linick's dismissal in the midst of such an investigation strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation," he said.

He did not elaborate on the details of the alleged probe, but a Democratic congressional aide cited by news agency Agence France-Presse said Linick was looking into claims that Pompeo had misused a political appointee to carry out personal tasks for himself and his wife.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Linick was being "punished for honorably performing his duty to protect the Constitution and our national security.''

She said the dismissal marked an acceleration of "a dangerous patter of retaliation" from Trump.

Monfeels:
I want to share my problem with you guys in the hopes that maybe I'll get some good advice or at least some insight into my problem.

When people first meet me their impression of me is that I'm good looking, cool and intelligent. Most girls usually assume that I have a girlfriend or a legion of side chicks that I Bleep whenever I want to.

The truth about me is that I've never been in a proper relationship with another woman before. All I've had is sexual partners that I stop talking to after I have sex with them, and girls I get intimate with just to control them and get them to fulfil my desire of having a female to own, please me and do my biding, and then I get bored of them and cease contact and move on like I never knew them.

The reason for this behavior is that I don't possess the emotional resources needed to engage in a healthy relationship with another human being. I have no empathy and I usually feel no guilt or remorse for my actions. It's impossible for me to care genuinely for another person. I don't feel people's pain or suffering and I'm not moved by the death of family members or friends. I simply do not care for any other person but myself. I've been this way for a very long time. I lack the ability to maintain relationships with people hence why I lose friends often. Relationships are usually a means to an end for me and when that end is met, I become irritated by the person I've gotten close to.

Despite the fact that I don't see the point in relationships, I still find that I get jealous of couples in healthy relationships. It's not like I want to experience what they experience, just that I am envious of the fact that they are participating in something I can't participate in.

When I find a girl that I want to get close to, I'm usually consumed with jealousy over her previous relationships, and over any current relationship she has with any member of the opposite sex, even if it's merely platonic. All I want is for her to devote all her time to me and shower me with attention and love. The problem with all this is that I don't want to reciprocate this behavior. In fact the idea of devoting attention to, and showering affection on someone else irritates me. It's all pointless, but I enjoy when it's done to me.

Another weird side to all this is that I don't just want to control the girl, I also enjoy making her feel bad, but in a way that makes her crave for me more. I enjoy poking holes in herself esteem, making her second guess the presumably good qualities she thought she possesed, making her not feel wanted by me, and making her do more to please me.

I don't love women, I only become obsessed with them. Obsessed to the point that I'm constantly tortured by thoughts of them being sexual with another guy especially when it's someone she has dated before. I want her all to myself and even if she had sex with someone before I met her or before we became close, I am filled with anger and jealousy whenever the thought crosses my mind, and I want to punish her for that. It's like I want to erase her past and replace it with me. I want to be all she's ever had. I don't want anyone else in her life and I don't want anyone else in her past.

All this must sound crazy to you guys but this is my reality and it's eating me up. I need advice.

That's because you are a Yahoo boy and you need to be arrested as soon as possible

babakb:
Stale, just check google.

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and that is because we all know it's the only way to salvation.

Join us or perish forever.

Islam is a global cancer hence it's growing very fast that's why as islam grows more problem and jihadists will grow until one-day the superpowers will unite to weed out Islam globally

Tissaia:
Good gesture
Some people will come and shout nonsense, but when the Fulani herdsmen come for revenge they will run and later disturb us on social media

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Shutup you 15th century minded bababarian.so in your small mind fulanis are strong ba listen these fulanis including yourself are just benefitting from a rotten system of government been Currently run in nigeria.can you people try this rubbish of yours in Ghana or Togo,look at you quoting Sun Tsu his country china had moved ahead and are now world economic powers but you and your people choose to wander in the bush for the rests of your lifes

Is there hope for Nigeria police?
like for hope for Nigeria police
share for no hope for Nigeria police

LordviccoDaGuru:
Buhari is working, shame on all f*cking wailers in South east

mad man spotted.....

olaalekan:
E be like say high blood pressure go kill this one because of Islam o. too much hatred. I am sure this man will sponsor and even partake in killing innocent Muslims if he had the chance. na wa o

Bro i am 100% in an armed christian crusade millitia all over the world as a containment for Muslim extremism.if a Muslim man kill I Christian or anyother person recklessly then 100 Muslims should be killed in its place.if it is don like that this Muslim people will be forced to make peace and love with people like normal humans.imagine we had an armed pro Christian millitia like the Mexican drug cartels handling assaulted weapons of dovarious kinds in our various communities do you think meyetti Allah will have the guts to support or instigate their people to kill or kill even one person.sometimes peace is gotten through war

Stanchem029:
How old are you?

You are reasoning with an IQ of a 5 year old kid.subcontiously you have the belief that money rituals will make you have money but that's a foolish African superstitious lie.even the bad white guys that harvest organs of blacks or others doesn't even use it for ritual purposes.

Eulalia:
I beg your pardon! That's not the issue on ground. Can't you see what he did? Murder a little girl in cold blood. What other way can you describe such a person? Please I'm vexed.

Most Yahoo boys do worse than this guy.its just sat devil just wan reason him mater officially.if this guy got the dough will you call him ugly assuming say Dem no catch am as him dey do the ritual.d guy no fine pass davido.girls and deception una cunning pass viper

Kokoebapluse:
Is it not the same Jesus that gave law of Deuteronomy 20:10-14 to Moses?

Did you know how many villages that law destroy?

You claim Jesus bring peace! In NT Jesus said don't think I come to bring peace but sward and turn daughter against her mother-in-law and son against his father-in-law. Jesus also claims that his follower should sell there property and use the money to buy sward. Jesus also said he come to set world on fire.

You may never see physical evil work of Christian. But always remember that those who claim to brought Christianity into Africa are thieve and criminal who stole from us and turn our fathers into slave. Most Africa problem always come from Christian country.

Christian re evil.

U are just justifying my views further.who told you Jesus gave those law to Moses u know nothing about the Bible and you want to school me about the bible.listen you Muslims are always so so bitter always I sometimes wonder why this Allah and Mohammed you guys kill yourselfs for can't even strike one of the infidels to death with thunder to prove himself that he is a real god.but look at how you people keep messing yourself up I know u will have fought me if you see me in person but listen if you people continues this way,time is coming where the world powers will unite globally against Islam officially it's has started underground in china.my advise is that you guys should just continue in your ways.

Eulalia:
Jesus Christ! What height of wickedness..
His heart is just as ugly as his face.

If the guy has ca$h now will you call him ugly

RiyadhGoddess:
Money is the creator, the genesis of all evil.

If this guy had succeeded and bought a venza then he chased you.you would have off your pants for him very fast

Untainted007:
If to say he succeeded now and he buys Benz opposite sex will be eager to date him. His girlfriend will be saying he suffered with him before he made it. Hmmmmm what money will cause ehn. This ones doesn't deserve rest in peace rather than restless in hell.

Just listen to yourself money is printed in the central bank and have numbers all recorded without working large and having a average to high networth where will the Benz comes from.how many babalawos and jujumen family members or friends have benz.you are some of the ignorant folks that pushed this crazy lad to commit murder

Russian investigators have refused to drop a murder charge against three sisters who killed their abusive father as he slept, leaving a controversial case in legal limbo.

The general prosecutor's office concluded earlier this year that the Khachaturyan sisters had been subjected to prolonged physical and sexual abuse.

The killing should therefore be seen as "necessary self-defence", it said.

That ruling had been expected to close the case.

But a lawyer for one of the women has told the BBC that Russia's investigative committee has now rejected the prosecutor's position.

What did the sisters do?
Teenagers Maria, Angelina and Krestina Khachaturyan were arrested in July 2018 for attacking their father, Mikhail, using a knife, hammer and pepper spray.

They later testified that their father had subjected them to prolonged abuse effectively holding them hostage in their home.

The two older sisters could face up to 20 years in prison if the murder charge is eventually brought to court.

Their mother, who had been forced to flee the family home for her own safety, has previously told the BBC that she and others complained to police multiple times over the years about the violence but were ignored.

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What does the investigators' decision mean?
"Formally, the investigative committee conducted an additional investigation but reached the same conclusion [as before]," lawyer Alexei Lipser explained, meaning that the original charge of premeditated murder still stands.

"It seems the order from above remains the same," he said.

However, as there is no new evidence, the lawyer believes the prosecutor's position will also remain unchanged.

"Now, either the investigators have to agree with the prosecutor and change the charge [to self-defence] or it goes on ping-ponging back and forth," the lawyer said.

How sisters' case sparked uproar
The case prompted protests and a mass petition in support of the women and increased calls for a new law against domestic violence.

In January, the prosecutor's office found that the Khachaturyan sisters suffered "beating, constant humiliation, threats and abuse, physical and sexual violence" and so developed a "defensive reaction".

It concluded that experience made them "protect themselves by any means", an argument the investigative committee has now dismissed.

The case cannot go to court unless those two parties agree on the charge. The three sisters are living separately in Moscow while awaiting trial, and are not allowed to communicate with each other.


Source:BBC News

Kokoebapluse:
Pls explain Deuteronomy 20:10-14 for me?

That was the old testament during the time of Moses since Jesus came in the New testament he emphasized on peace and love.have you every seen a Christian terrorist group claiming to kill people on behalf of jesus.islam is worse than Corona virus and the spanish flu altogether.remove Islam and 50% of the world problem will be solved.

Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when the virus would disappear.

He added that even if a vaccine is found, controlling the virus will require a "massive effort".

Almost 300,000 people worldwide are reported to have died with coronavirus, and more than 4.3m cases recorded.

The UN meanwhile warned the pandemic was causing widespread distress and mental ill health - particularly in countries where there's a lack of investment in mental healthcare.

The UN urged governments to make mental health considerations part of their overall response.

What did WHO say?
"It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," Dr Ryan told the virtual press conference from Geneva.

"HIV has not gone away - but we have come to terms with the virus."

Dr Ryan then said he doesn't believe "anyone can predict when this disease will disappear".

There are currently more than 100 potential vaccines in development - but Dr Ryan noted there are other illnesses, such as measles, that still haven't been eliminated despite there being vaccines for them.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed it was still possible to control the virus, with effort.

"The trajectory is in our hands, and it's everybody's business, and we should all contribute to stop this pandemic," he said.

WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove also told the briefing: "We need to get into the mindset that it is going to take some time to come out of this pandemic."

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Their stark remarks come as several countries began to gradually ease lockdown measures, and leaders consider the issue of how and when to reopen their economies.

Dr Tedros warned that there was no guaranteed way of easing restrictions without triggering a second wave of infections.

"Many countries would like to get out of the different measures," the WHO boss said. "But our recommendation is still the alert at any country should be at the highest level possible."

Dr Ryan added: "There is some magical thinking going on that lockdowns work perfectly and that unlocking lockdowns will go great. Both are fraught with dangers.


BBC News

Susu888:
Someone needs to slay the dragon.. else they might wipe us all out by 2030.
The dragon has been flexing military muscles for the past two months now , sent contaminated nd faulty equipments to countries nd now caught trying to steal info about vaccine?!!

China's ego nd greed should be cut down to size. I am sure if they had their way they will wipe out half the world population so that their huge number of citizens can grab lands like whts happening in the south india/china sea! Indian/chinese mountain range borders nd coasts of countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan,Vietnam nd Philippins .....

Who knows how many more deadly sh*t they got in their labs? Nd wht they are cooking for us in the future. ?

I am a general in Nigeria army 3rd battalion Delta state.i can tell you that we the great Nigerian army can defeat China in just one week of battle if we are given the command.even bejing will be captured like sitting ducks we have powerful weapons secretly that even the USA and Russia don't have

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT), was shot eight times when officers entered her apartment in Louisville on 13 March.

They were executing a search warrant as part of a drugs investigation, but no drugs were found in the property.

The lawsuit accuses the officers of wrongful death and excessive force.

It was filed by Ms Taylor's family last month and says the officers were not looking for her or her partner - but for an unrelated suspect who was already in custody and did not live in the apartment complex.

Louisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded in the incident.

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At a press conference on 13 March, the department said its officers knocked on the door several times and announced themselves as police.

But a lawyer for Ms Taylor's partner, Kenneth Walker, said he fired in self-defence because the officers did not identify themselves and he believed they were breaking in.

The lawsuit alleges that the police then fired more than 20 rounds of ammunition into the home.

The department has declined to answer questions on the case citing an ongoing investigation.

"Breonna had posed no threat to the officers and did nothing to deserve to die at their hands," the lawsuit reads.

"Shots were blindly fired by the officers all throughout Breonna's home," it added.

The family, which is seeking compensation and damages, has hired a prominent civil rights lawyer to represent them.

Ben Crump has represented the families of other high-profile black shooting victims, such as Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery.

Mr Arbery was jogging in February when he was confronted by two men and fatally shot. The men have been arrested and the justice department is considering bringing federal hate crime charges against them.

"We stand with the family of this young woman in demanding answers from the Louisville Police Department," Mr Crump said in a statement.

"Despite the tragic circumstances surrounding her death, the department has not provided any answers regarding the facts and circumstances of how this tragedy occurred, nor have they taken responsibility for her senseless killing."

Zyzxx10:
It's this one they know how to show power but they freeze at the sight of armed bandits.Only God would help this country.Whats wrong with shooting into the air?What a country.


Pls I'm very sorry for derailing this thread especially by this time but a man in pain has no choice but to cry out.Pls I beg you if you can help me with anything if you have enough.Im not going to bore you with false tales to make myself foolish but Ive tried other means and people have ignored me.I was a job hunter before the lockdown and I'm still looking for one despite the fact that people are still sacked.Lack is no respecter of person and when you have no one to reach out to it becomes worse.I can brave the odds just to feed any day curfew or no curfew.No one likes begging it's just the situation of life that makes one to.Pls If you decide to help me my account number is on my signature as I was falsely accused of being a scammer by a fellow nairalander for reasons best known to him and banned anytime I type numbers.I dont care about the insults or negative words.Thanks and God bless nairaland

Professional begger with PhD in reverse physcology

God1000:
This is unacceptable, we will no longer condone police brutality.

Audio

Cti28:
Commendable. But climbing the truck is risky. What if he falls from there?

That would have been better

Fake news

whixstan:
I wish we could all honest and stop being hypocrists
Fraud is bad
Yahoo is bad

But you make it seem as if yahoo boys are the problems this country have

With an enabling environment we can think progressively and do greater things all these boys are thinking about right now is survival

But you won't see that side

I think it's jealousy that's why you came here to create such a thread someone didn't steal from you nor did he beg you money he's just living his life and you here ranting

Your politician are busy cashing out and burning offices you didn't create a thread on it but you are here now calling yahoo boys heartless

GOD KNOWS ALL OUR HEARTS �........

Canada is one of the few countries that Africans can migrate to and work with a good pay without been highly discriminated.yet this Yahoo boys don carry bad market enter Canada and they have been complaining badly about scammers from Nigeria.canada provide free tuition for immigrants and host of other benefits.if these greedy Yahoo boys spoil naija image for there so bad now,and they started looking Nigerians there with one kine eye.no be we the legit guys wey wan migrate there go suffer am

In Nigeria, when you think u have seen it all it's then you start seeing new things.96% of Nigerian girls are golddiggers and thieves,yes they are she-barawos.how can a lady be happy dating a Yahoo boy(internet fraudster),a heartless and evilminded creature hell bent on destroying others,himself and the already battered image of Nigeria at large.its shameful women will know a guy as a Yahoo guy and still follows him like a headless chicken,that's why I don't feel pity for them. getting a good wife in Nigeria now is a very tough battle.

fastseo:
I was persuaded to invest by most of my friends then.. One of my friends was really doubling his money then and was giving me lectures and swore to his life that with MMM he will buy his dream car, build his house... Lol


At that same time I was about starting my building and one mind was like why not invest part of the money or all into it and use the proceed to be building

What held me back was the money I lost in forex trading in 2010 and some kind of HYIP (high yield investment program) i did which all failed me and ruined me financially. So each time I had a flash back.. I held my self a little.



Imagine if I had pull all funds into it and it crashed.... Maybe by now I would have been a tenant... Cos the house was finished in less than a year later on.

Why u dey advertise yourself,abi you dey find tenants or tenants no wan pak come your house

Norphiee:
Why you no tell us say your papa nah bill gates?

Lol........I've gotten over it

Karlifate:
Yes!
The only valid strategy right now that can make these Chinks become world power, is the control of resources in Africa.
It seems they're achieving that, little by little.

If they like they should take over the full Africa they just can't American,Canadian and Europe allies is as strong a iron how will china dominate these