Scientists: “gorilla effect” can hide aliens from people’s eyes MOSCOW, 11 APR — RIA Novosti. The Terrans still have not found the aliens for the same reason why people carefully watching for some event, do not notice what is happening right under their noses, say biologists in an article published in the journal Acta Astronautica. “When we think of “brothers in mind”, we present them to ourselves as what they can draw our imagination and mind. We do not understand how much the perception of the world, unique to humans, limit our ability, and it is difficult for us to admit it. We tried to go beyond that and to imagine intelligent beings living beyond the possible,” said Gabrielle de La Torre (Gabriel de la Torre) from the University of Cadiz (Spain). Invisible screen space More than half a century ago, the American astronomer Frank Drake developed a formula for
Day: April 12, 2018
Contemporary art. Cleaners messed up the installation with garbage and threw it away
Contemporary art. Cleaners messed up the installation with garbage and threw it away And this is not the first such case. Curiosity ended art fair Art Fair Harbour in Hong Kong. An exhibit of the Swiss artist Carol Mei Unhappy Meal (simulating a cardboard box of food from McDonalds) cleaners took over the garbage and just threw it away. Later the project management and explained to them that they made a mistake and they returned the exhibit back, though in a rather unfavorable light. Actually, it’s a simple mistake. “Creation” may sound exactly like the packaging of a fast food restaurant; the difference is the painted smile on the box is inverted (hence the name of the Unhappy Meal, i.e. “Unhappy meal”). Art imitates life, but maybe too much in the case of Swiss artist Carol May’s ‘Unhappy Meal’ given that it got binned by cleaners following an art fair:https://t.co/08G6g82hFR
Medvedev spoke about the pension of his grandmother
Medvedev spoke about the pension of his grandmother MOSCOW, 11 APR — RIA Novosti. Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, responding to the deputies on the question of increasing pensions to working pensioners, recalled his grandmother, who worked as a watchman, and when working pensioners do not receive pension payments. “Yesterday I was sitting, thinking. In the Soviet period, quite a long time, until about the mid 70-ies, it does not admit the simultaneous receipt of salaries and pensions. Generally not allowed”, — he said. “Then he remembered his grandmother, was allowed within certain limits — if a small pension and a small salary. She worked as a caretaker and received a pension of 40-50 rubles and a salary of 60 rubles. Everything else to do was impossible,” — said Medvedev. The Prime Minister said that now choose to use a different system when working pensioners receive payments regardless of
More than 43 thousand people will take part in the procession on may 9 in the Urals, Siberia and the Volga region
During a rehearsal of a military parade marking the 73rd anniversary of Victory in great Patriotic war © Donat Sorokin/TASS EKATERINBURG, April 12. /TASS/. More than 43 thousand people will take part in ceremonial military events in honor of Victory Day this year, said Thursday in a press-service of the Central military district. “Three military parade and 129 solemn procession, dedicated to the 73 anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war will be held in the Central military district. The events in the Volga region, Siberia and the Urals will bring together more than 43.7 thousand people, of whom the greater part were troops of the Central military district, as well as the involved yunarmeytsy, cadets and representatives of other law enforcement agencies”, – said there.
Media: Syria’s army broke a part of aviation in Hamim because of the threat of US air strike
Media: Syria’s army broke a part of aviation in Hamim because of the threat of US air strike Syrian government troops in preparation for possible air strikes, the United States transferred part of aircraft in the Russian air base Hamim, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro, citing sources. According to them, were also evacuated to the headquarters of the Syrian army and a military base in the town of Dumayr, where based aircraft, causing strikes on Eastern ghouta. According to the publication, “apparently, the air strikes the United States and France will spare the Russian base in Tartus and Mamimi”. Le Figaro also reports that in the last days intensified cooperation between Russia, Iran and Syria. According to the newspaper, currently in Syria is Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, commander of elite division “al-Kuds”. The publication says that today in Syria there are about 2 thousand Iranian military advisers. As
The Pentagon did not comment on trump’s words on the missiles that will fly to Syria
The Pentagon did not comment on trump’s words on the missiles that will fly to Syria TASS, April 11. The Pentagon did not comment on “possible future military action” the US in Syria, after President Donald trump about the fact that Syria will fly “are nice, new and “smart” missiles. This was reported on Wednesday by Reuters. “The Ministry does not comment on possible future military action. Contact the White house the assessment of the tweet of the President”, — quotes Agency the statement of the official representative office of Eric Pachon. Earlier Wednesday, Donald trump on his page on Twitter wrote that Russia should be ready to shoot down missiles fired at Syria. In the following tweet the American President said that us-Russian relations are currently the worst in history, and has offered Russia to stop the arms race.
The Syrian opposition has declared that will go on the offensive after US attack
The Syrian opposition has declared that will go on the offensive after US attack MOSCOW, 11 APR — RIA Novosti. The Syrian opposition after a possible US attack on Syria is going to go on the offensive to recover the lost areas and build new, told RIA Novosti one of the commanders of “Free Syrian army” (FSA) Fateh Hassoun. Earlier, the President of the United States Donald trump wrote on Twitter that Russia should be ready to shoot down missiles fired at Syria, and the missiles would be “nice, new, and “smart”. “We will try to use this strike in the first place in the military, on the battlefields, as these shocks lead to dissipation of the forces of the regime (of President Bashar al-Assad — ed.) to create chaos in its ranks and retreat mode. Such circumstances will later be used against the military forces of the revolution preparatory
Syrian troops took full control of Eastern Ghouta
Street in the city of Douma, Eastern ghouta © REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh DAMASCUS, April 12. /TASS/. The Syrian army established full control over the city Duma, is under the control of the group “Jaish al-Islam”, now the government forces control the whole of Eastern ghouta. This was reported to journalists by the head of the Center for conciliation of conflicting parties, the General-the major Yury Evtushenko.
The artist turns Barbie dolls into celebrities (photos)
The artist turns Barbie dolls into celebrities (photos) Dolls so realistic that it is hard to believe that they are inanimate. Ukrainian artist Olga ‘ became famous in the Network thanks to his skill. From the usual Barbie dolls she creates incredibly realistic portraits. A special delight of doll replicas of celebrities. Publication from Olga Kamenetskaya #VogueWorld (@oli.krolik) 1 Oct 2015, 2:02 PDT During the download an error has occurred.Artist Olga’ Olga made a normal Barbie Natalia Vodianova, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Radcliffe in the role of Harry Potter, and Kevin spacey in the role of Frank underwood wife Claire from the TV series “house of cards”. To work the artist buys the regular factory of dolls in children’s stores. Then erase them with paint, modify the desired shape and draws a new realistic face. In her work Olga uses acrylic and watercolor, dry pastel, acrylic paint and even
“How about this, Elon Musk?”: in Roscosmos told, what will SpaceX
“How about this, Elon Musk?”: in Roscosmos told, what will SpaceX MOSCOW, 11 APR — RIA Novosti. Enterprise “Roscosmos” intend to return the lost positions in the market of space launch services. For this parallel designed several technical solutions, which should help domestic carriers to compete with American reusable Falcon 9 rocket and attract new customers. Developments of domestic enterprises, read the review, RIA Novosti, prepared on the eve of the cosmonautics Day. A few years ago almost every second space launch in the world was Russian. Since then, Russia’s position has seriously deteriorated. Due to a succession of accidents “Roscosmos” has lost almost all commercial orders, and the subsidizing the us government private company SpaceX has allowed her to capture unused space and occupy 60% of the market of commercial launches. Now she spends one start every two weeks and in 2017 almost bypassed Russia in the total number