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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Mystery solved
    8·
    1 month ago

    I don’t want to access the Sun, what’s the TLDR?

    The TLDR is that the article doesn’t explain that the reason it is circular (not to mention “invincible”) is because that is the defined boundary of a national park:

    A LONELY volcano surrounded by a dark green forest dubbed the “goblin forest” has left explorers baffled by its perfectly circular appearance.

    here is a copy+paste of firefox's reader view of the article

    thesun.co.uk Mystery of perfectly circular invincible ‘Goblin Forest’ surrounding a sacred volcano in the land of Hob… Vera Demertzis 4–6 minutes

    The lonely, almost perfect conical volcano sits in an eerily circular forest

    Published: 18:54, 19 Nov 2024
Updated: 1:26, 20 Nov 2024

    A LONELY volcano surrounded by a dark green forest dubbed the “goblin forest” has left explorers baffled by its perfectly circular appearance.

    Sitting at 8,261ft tall, with a six mile radius , Mount Taranaki is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.

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    The perfectly circular Goblin Forest surrounds the Mount Taranaki volcano

    6 The perfectly circular Goblin Forest surrounds the Mount Taranaki volcanoCredit: NASA/Landsat 8

    The Goblin Forest is overgrown with twisted and deformed trees

    6 The Goblin Forest is overgrown with twisted and deformed treesCredit: Getty Images - Getty

    The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount Doom in a panoramic shot

    6 The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount Doom in a panoramic shotCredit: Getty

    The iconic Mount Taranaki volcano in New Zealand’s North Island is so striking, that it once doubled as Mount Doom in the “Lord of the Rings” and Mt Fuji in “The Last Samurai”.

    The lonely, almost perfect conical volcano sits in an eerily circular forest containing thousands of warped and ancient kamahi trees fighting for space.

    The trees are extremely twisted and deformed as a result of having to grow over and around the fossilised remains of trees that were destroyed in past eruptions.

    The trees are also covered in hanging mosses and liverworts, adding to its creepy appearance. Read more world news

    In 2017, the mountain attained a new level of protection when it was granted the same legal rights as a person.

    The status is an acknowledgment of the Indigenous Māori people’s relationship.

    Despite its perfectly circular appearance from above, the volcano has a history of dramatic change.

    The mountain side has collapsed and rebuilt 16 times, with each cycle sending large debris avalanches down its flanks from past eruptions since it first formed around 135,000 years ago.

    Steep slopes, loose sediments, high rainfall rates, and buried faults all contribute to its tendency to collapse.

    The iconic volcano last erupted 200 years ago, but is still considered active and occasionally spits out mudflows.

    Researchers believe that there’s a 30-50 per cent chance of another major eruption in the next 50 years, potentially effecting more than 100,000 people.

    Recently, a hiker was rescued from the clutches of the mysterious mountain.

    The hiker had called for help after he realised he was going into hypothermia.

    He had been on a day trail run when he was caught out by weather in very cold temperatures, local police said.

    A police spokesperson added: "Unprepared for the local conditions, the solo traveller was running out of food, water, and phone battery, and was 1400 metres up the mountain when he phoned for an ambulance.

    “Taranaki Police Search and Rescue, the Taranaki Rescue Helicopter and alpine cliff rescue members were scrambled in an effort to get the man off the mountain as quickly as possible.”

    Mount Taranaki isn’t the only perfectly circular mystery.

    A mysterious spinning island shaped like a perfect circle has left explorers baffled for years.

    Known as “The Eye” the uninhabited patch of overgrown vegetation floats around a crystal clear lake in Argentina slowly moving each day.

    The bizarre natural phenomenon sits in the swampy river of Parana Delta in Buenos Aires and it has left many experts stumped over why or how it moves so freely.

    Those lucky enough to have travelled to the island say it is almost a perfect circle due to the movement of the land mass.

    Overtime the corners of the lake have managed to rub against the island as it moves and eroded itself into 360 degree smooth outlines.

    Incredible aerial footage shows the 387ft spherical island, known locally as El Ojo, surrounded by a crescent of water.

    The leading reason as to why the island floats is due to a natural process that sees water currents slowly shape and rotate the island in strong currents.

    A few other shocking theories suggest it may have belonged to an ancient civilisation. READ MORE SUN STORIES

    Or a more bizarre theory that claims the incomprehensible perfection and isolated location may be linked to extraterrestrial life.

    Some say El Ojo could be a hidden UFO base but so far no evidence has backed this up.

    Hanging moss and liverwort give the trees a creepy appearance

    6 Hanging moss and liverwort give the trees a creepy appearanceCredit: Getty Images - Getty

    A hiker was recently rescued from the mountainside

    6 A hiker was recently rescued from the mountainsideCredit: Getty Images - Getty

    The active volcano occasionally spews mudflow but hasn’t erupted in more than 200 years

    6 The active volcano occasionally spews mudflow but hasn’t erupted in more than 200 yearsCredit: Getty

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•carrot.pyEnglish
    541·
    2 months ago

    only hobbyists and artisans still use the standalone carrot.py that depends on peeler.

    in enterprise environments everyone uses the pymixedveggies package (created using pip freeze of course) which helpfully vendors the latest peeled carrot along with many other things. just unpack it into a clean container and go on your way.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computerEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    The headline should mention that they’re breaking 22-bit RSA, but then it would get a lot less clicks.

    A different group of Chinese researchers set what I think is the current record when they factored a 48-bit number with a quantum computer two years ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372

    I guess the news here is that now they’ve reached 22 bits using the quantum annealing technique which works on D-Wave’s commercially-available quantum computers? That approach was previously able to factor an 18-bit number in 2018.

    🥂 to the researchers, but 👎 to the clickbait headline writers. This is still nowhere near being a CRQC (cryptanalytically-relevant quantum computer).

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to MauritiusEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    So, they’re going to be “sovereign” over the whole archipelago, but only as long as they don’t exercise their sovereignty over the largest island in it which constitutes more than half of its total land area (30 km2 of 56.13 km2).

    From today’s Joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia:

    Today’s political agreement is subject to the finalisation of a treaty and supporting legal instruments, which both sides have committed to complete as quickly as possible. Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. At the same time, both our countries are committed to the need, and will agree in the treaty, to ensure the long-term, secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia which plays a vital role in regional and global security. For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom will be authorised to exercise with respect to Diego Garcia the sovereign rights and authorities of Mauritius required to ensure the continued operation of the base well into the next century.

    The treaty will address wrongs of the past and demonstrate the commitment of both parties to support the welfare of Chagossians. Mauritius will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other than Diego Garcia, and the UK will capitalise a new trust fund, as well as separately provide other support, for the benefit of Chagossians.

    It will also herald a new era of economic, security and environmental partnership between our two nations. To enable this partnership the UK will provide a package of financial support to Mauritius. This will include an indexed annual payment for the duration of the agreement and the establishment of a transformational infrastructure partnership, underpinned by UK grant funding, to deliver strategic projects generating meaningful change for ordinary Mauritians and boosting economic development across the country. More broadly, the UK and Mauritius will cooperate on environmental protection, maritime security, combating illegal fishing, irregular migration and drug and people trafficking within the Chagos Archipelago, with the shared objective of securing and protecting one of the world’s most important marine environments. This will include the establishment of a Mauritian Marine Protected Area.

    Nice touch making a new “Marine Protected Area” in the process; the current “Chagos Marine Protected Area” was created entirely to, well… lets let this 2009 US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks explain:

    1. (C/NF) Summary. HMG would like to establish a “marine park” or “reserve” providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official informed Polcouns on May 12. The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park – the world’s largest – would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes. He agreed that the UK and U.S. should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that U.S. interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld. He said that the BIOT’s former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve. End Summary.

    I wonder how the “treaty will address wrongs of the past”; somehow I doubt it will involve any mention of the CIA torture site there.

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