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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
Hurricane Milton
1. People across Florida are evacuating the state ahead of Hurricane Milton making landfall, including many Irish-Americans.
The Category 5 storm, due to hit the south east of the United States in the coming hours, is set to be one of the strongest storms to hit the country in decades.
Israeli invasion
2. Hezbollah has said its fighters repelled two Israeli army attempted icursions into southern Lebanon, as Israel intensifies its ground invasion of its northern neighbour.
Taoiseach to meet Biden
3. Taoiseach Simon Harris will meet US President Joe Biden in the White House this afternoon.
Harris is in Washington DC to mark 100 years of Irish-US diplomatic relations.
Google monopoly
4. The US Department of Justice has said it will demand that Google make profound changes to how it does business and even consider the possibility of a breakup, after the tech juggernaut was found to be running an illegal monopoly.
X back in Brazil
5. The Supreme Court in Brazil has said it will lift a ban on Elon Musk’s social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation.
Appeal for blood donations
6. The Irish blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 2,000 blood donations over the next four weeks to support the national blood supply as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.
Junior Cycle results
7. Junior Cycle students are receiving their exam results today.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has congratulated all students receiving their Junior Cycle results today while also pointing to challenges in the education system.
Kamala Harris media blitz
8. Kamala Harris has shared a beer with late night TV host Stephen Colbert as part of a media blitz in the 30 days before the US presidential election.
While Donald Trump and Joe Biden are teetotal, Harris told Colbert last night that she enjoys the occasional brew.
Nobel Peace Prize
9. The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday, in a dark year for world peace, with the International Court of Justice, UNRWA and UN chief Antonio Guterres seen as favourites.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus?
Typos lads. Typos.
@Accord Moan Eye: not a typo, Venus orbits the sun quicker than it spins on its axis, so a day is longer than a year
@Accord Moan Eye: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
@Accord Moan Eye: A full rotation of Venus on its axis, a day, takes longer than it does for it to orbit the sun, a year.
@Accord Moan Eye: Its not a typo.
@Accord Moan Eye: not a typo. The planet rotates on it’s axis so slowly that it has orbited the sun before it has rotated once.
@Accord Moan Eye: take you face and rest it on the palm of your hand
@Accord Moan Eye: I’d say you feel like a right pleb now!
@Accord Moan Eye: A day on Venus is indeed longer than a year. In fact, Venus rotates in a retrograde fashion – clockwise as you look ‘down’ on its north pole, as opposed to anti-clockwise for every other planet in the solar system!
They make great Razors up there, that’s all I know.
@Kevin O’Brien: yes Kevin women’s razors…
A day on Venus is longer than a day on earth. Debatable.
@Stephen Gaffney: Venus day is 116.75 earth days
@Greg Ward: Yeah but talking to you a day on earth would seem longer. Understand?
@Stephen Gaffney: Straight in with the insult I see. You are quite the colourful raconteur.
@Greg Ward: well you kinda took the bait lol
@Greg Ward: You just backed up my claim.
@Stephen Gaffney: Enjoy your night, mate.
@Greg Ward: You too Father Stone
@Greg Ward: it’s 243 Earth days
@Stephen Gaffney: it actually is. It actually rotates so slowly on its axis.
The only planet I know is the one I live on
@James Fox: Do you really?
Meh
Does Bananarama count lol
Anyone play Wolfenstein: The new collossus?
@Paul Cunningham: no but the original was brilliant. Oh would it be a wolf or Hitler behind that door
Star trek: there was a woman from venus, whose body was shaped like a …
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