A physical hyper-realistic model and facial reconstruction of the Turkana Boy (KNM-WT 15000), a famous Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth who lived around 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago near Lake Turkana in Kenya....
Scientists estimate he was between 8 and 11 years old when he died. Despite his youth, he was already about 1.6 meters (5 ft 3 in) tall due to rapid growth patterns. The hyper-realistic sculpture shown here was created by paleoartists Adrie and Alfons Kennis for the Neanderthal Museum in Germany. While the bone structure and facial proportions are modeled directly from his fossilized skull and skeletal dimensions, soft-tissue details like hair style, skin tone, and expression are artistic interpretations.
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In 1984, Kenyan fossil hunter Kamoya Kimeu spotted a small piece of skull on a hillside near the Nariokotome River, west of Lake Turkana.
That fragment led to one of the most important discoveries in human evolution. Over the next few years, a team led by Richard Leakey and Alan Walker recovered more than 100 bones from the same individual.
They found most of the skull, the spine, ribs, pelvis, arms and legs. Earlier finds of this species were mostly teeth, jaws and skull pieces, so this was the first real look at how Homo erectus was built from head to toe.
The results were surprising. His body was tall and slender, with long legs and narrow hips, much more like ours than earlier human relatives. He was built for walking long distances in hot, open country.
Scientists have debated his exact age. Early estimates were around 11 or 12, but studies of his teeth suggest he grew faster than modern children and was likely closer to eight or nine.
His skeleton is kept at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi.
Even as a child, Turkana Boy already stood about 5 feet 3 inches tall, taller than many adult humans who lived in later prehistoric periods.
#archaeohistories
Helen Sharp's family has released a statement following her death in the tragic plane crash in Florida.
Sharp, her husband, their two children, their nanny, their two friends, and two pilots sadly lost their lives in the crash.
"On behalf of friends and family, it is with a heavy heart that we share that our dearest Helen was taken from us too soon.
If you knew Helen, you knew how full of life she was. She simply radiated.
Helen was talented, creative, and so much fun. She loved to travel and was a gifted ceramic artist. She spent years living abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she met the love of her life, Adam, and started her PR company, Influential PR.
Together, they built a life rooted in family, adventure and love. Helen adored her family. Her happiest place was next to Adam and their two beautiful children, along with their dog Bonnie, who was always by her side (and usually in her lap).
Helen had friends from every chapter of her life: those she grew up with in Houston, her friends from the University of Arizona, and the many people she met during her years abroad and their time in Austin and Aspen.
To know Helen was to love her. The number of people grieving Helen and Adam is a testament to how many people were lucky enough to have them in their lives.
Helen embodied a life well lived. She embraced the world, made beautiful things, built lasting relationships, and loved her people fiercely.
Her light was extraordinary, and it will continue to shine through the artwork she made, the legacy she built, and the countless lives she touched."
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"I'll become — MR. VETO."
"They will send stuff up?"
"And I'll VETO IT."
"But hopefully, we don't have to worry about that!"
🚨 GREAT NEWS: Former Detroit Democrat Congressman Hansen Clarke officially endorses Republican @MikeRogersForMI for Senate over Abdul El-Sayed.
THIS IS HUGE!!! 🔥
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
❤️ Learjet 60. RIP sweet souls.
Nine victims of Sunday’s Palm Beach Learjet 60 crash have been identified by their families.
All nine people on board N722BD died when the jet nosedived into a Greenacres road after reporting ice and turbulence. The aircraft partially broke up before impact, according to the NTSB.
No cause has been determined.
The passengers:
✈️Adam Robinson, 45, Austin tech entrepreneur
✈️Helen Sharp, 40, his wife, PR professional and ceramics artist
✈️Their children Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2
✈️Anita Maria Cetina, the nanny
✈️Family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr
The crew:
✈️Captain Jeff Gregory, 55
✈️Co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, of Boca Raton. She earned her license at 17 and had over 1,300 hours. She was the voice on the mayday calls.
The jet fell from roughly 35,000 feet in about 75 seconds.
The final radio calls included “mayday,” “overspeed,” “descending 20,000 feet per minute,” and “we’re going to crash into the ground.”
Nine souls, including two toddlers, are gone. The NTSB has the wreckage and recorders. Answers are still months away.
May light perpetual shine upon the souls lost aboard the Learjet 60, forever remembered, forever missed.❤️🙏
Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz is doing an incredible job representing the wonderful people of Texas’ 15th Congressional District!
A very successful Small Businesswoman, Monica knows the AMERICA FIRST Policies necessary to Create GREAT Jobs, Unleash Innovation, and Restore American Energy DOMINANCE. Her opponent, Bobby Pulido, is a Radical Left Democrat who is opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY and, if he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated. He wants massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women’s Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children. Bobby Pulido is Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!
On the other hand, in Congress, Monica is fighting tirelessly to Grow our Economy Cut Taxes and Regulations, Keep our Border SECURE, Champion our Farmers and American Agriculture, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Protect ouralways under siege Second Amendment.
Monica De La Cruz has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MONICA — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
This is co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras taking off in the very Learjet 60 N722BD that crashed yesterday at Greenacres, Palm Beach County, Florida. The 20-year-old aviator earned her private pilot's license at just 17, before even getting her driver's license. She clearly loved aviation from a young age.
Gone far too soon. Ride with the angels, Nathalia.
The co-pilot of the Learjet that crashed into the ground in Florida has been identified as 20-year-old Nathalia Filgueiras, texted her boyfriend just 10 minutes before the crash.
Filgueiras' mother said she "always knew" a plane would "take her away from me."
The pilot was flying to the Bahamas when the plane plummeted 20,000 feet per minute into the ground.
"I wanted her to live her dream, but I knew that her dream was going to be the thing that would take her away from me," her mother told the New York Post.
"I knew that a plane was gonna take her away from me. I always knew it, but I was so proud of her. I know she was living her dream."
Just 10 minutes before the crash, Filgueiras reportedly texted her boyfriend: "I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice."
The female pilot got her pilot license in high school. Her stepfather says she had 1,300 hours of experience.
In a social media post, Filgueiras boasted about how young she was as a pilot with her boyfriend.
"How often do you see 2 pilots under 21 with a commercial, multi-engine, instrument, CFI/CFI-I," she said.
8 other people were on board the jet when it crashed. They have yet to be identified.
“Planes just don’t fall out of the sky.”
Fox anchor and former flight attendant Cheryl Casone demands to know what sent a 22-year-old Learjet into a literal nosedive at 10,000 feet per minute.
Former Army Black Hawk commander Lt. Col. Darin Gaub says ice can turn a jet into “a brick.”
Here’s his preliminary analysis on what happened:
• Supercooled air, clouds and turbulence up high let ice build up on the plane.
•Once the ice outpaced the plane’s anti-ice system, the pilots were trying to “fly a brick.”
• By the time pilots notice, “it’s often too late,” which would explain the spiral.
• Small jets don’t get the de-icing and storm rerouting that airline crafts do.
• On the question of ice over Florida, Gaub says at 35,000 feet it’s freezing everywhere. He called it “a literal perfect storm of conditions.”
• Gaub adds that air traffic control may not have moved the jet to the altitude the pilots asked for to get away from the weather.
@Endlingg@Breaking911@thenewarea51 I can see your timeline is just you losing emotional control over pointless shit let-alone imminent death like the pilot. At some point you’re gonna realise you wasted your life chatting heinous shit on the net for absolutely no gain or reward.