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Astronomers have seen live the awakening of a giant black hole. They had never detected something so violent

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Good morning, Ansky. SDSS1335+0728 was a black hole so boring that it didn’t even have a nickname. Located 300 million light years, in the constellation of Virgo, he had been asleep from our point of view. But go aroused. The supermassive black hole has aroused in such a violent way that it has left fascinated and somewhat baffled astronomers. Now it is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) dodged affectionately “Ansky”. Years of study. The galaxy where Ansky is began to shine unexpectedly in visible light at the end of 2019. Chilean astronomer Paula Sánchez Sáez, of the Southern European Observatory (ESO), leads the first team that detected activation. “When we saw Ansky illuminate in optical images, we activate monitoring observations with the NASA X -ray space telescope and review archived data of the erosite German telescope,” Paula says in a statement. “But at that time we did not see evidence of X -ray emissions.” The surprise arrived in February 2024. A second team led by Lorena Hernández-García, from the University of Valparaíso (in Chile), saw how Ansky began to emit gusts of incredibly energy and regular X-ray. “It is the first time we observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking up,” Lorena explains. Out of the ordinary. He XMM-Newton telescope From the European Space Agency it has allowed to measure the faint x -ray light that comes to us from the explosions, which has been key to measuring how much energy releases Ansky in each “flash”. Known as “quasiperiódicas eruptions” (QPES), X -ray emissions turned out to be ten times longer and ten times luminous than other supermassive black holes. Each eruption of Ansky releases a hundred times more energy than the Qpes observed so far. In addition, it had never seen a time between eruptions so wide, with a cadence of four and a half days. Ansky takes astronomical models to the limit and challenges our current ideas on how these flashes are generated. What causes these explosions? The most accepted theory about the QPES is that they are caused by the interaction of an object (such as a smaller star or hole) with the accretion disc (the hot and bright material that revolves around the black hole before being engulf). They usually occur when the Black hole is eaten a starbut it does not seem to be the case of Ansky. This has led the international astronomer team to consider other possibilities. Perhaps the accretion disk will be formed from gas captured from the galactic environment, and the flares are the result of highly energetic shock waves caused by a smaller object that orbit and disturbed repeatedly the disc. Gravitational waves. Notice Real Time Awakening It is an unprecedented opportunity to check if their energy eruptions could be related to gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein’s relativity and detected for the first time a few years ago. The smooth mission of ESA and NASA will try to observe these disturbances in the space-time fabric from point L1 of Lagrange after its launch in an Ariane 6 rocket planned for 2035. Image | THAT In Xataka | We knew that the supermassive black holes were huge. Thanks to James Webb, now we know we were short

Eight years later, Spain is still hooked to see Simón Pérez and Silvia Charro shattered life live

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Simón Pérez and Silvia Charro They became famous In 2017 thanks to An unusual recorded video for digital journalist but rapidly disseminated by social networks and media in which they talked about the convenience of investing in fixed -term mortgages (A good advice at that time, by the way). That was about the role, because his gestures and looks out of his own, as well as his broken breaths, suggested something else: in a business meal that had left a mother. Rarely before someone so openly intoxicated had been in front of the camera. A long polythoxicomaniac tradition. Simón and Silvia were the last link in a long tradition of the times of the first private televisions, when they offered an alternative content to traditional TV, and also of YouTube times prior to social networks. Programs like ‘streets’ They issued several deliveries in which highly intoxicated young people launched almost born slogans with a primal meme in places that were repeated again and again: arkings of discos, breathalyzer controls, peripheral neighborhoods … In fixed term. When characters like The Chuky de Cieza either Eclipse gunmen They had passed to the collective imaginary, Simón and Silvia appeared. The scandal with the video left them without work. A financial advisory company directed by Simón broke in one day. They tried to take advantage Fame Trying to take advantage of the knowledge about economy that, in effect, had (Simon taught at the International School of Administration and Finance and had studied Business Management, and Silvia was specialized in real estate investments) which distanced them from the Techno-Kids Levantines populated street. First challenges. For a while, installed in Galicia and prisoners of all kinds of addictions, as they told the magazine Hempthey lived to make Viral challenges that their YouTube followers asked for. A first step towards the situation in which they are now: tattoo the Forocoches logo, bathe in public sources, attend parties with strangers … They tried to dignify their situation trying to set up a financial advice company, Neotecalia, but that was not the most ambitious business in which they embarked. One million euros. A short time later, in 2024, apparently renovated and after passing through detoxification clinics, they founded Green Capital, a company that produced cannabis derivatives dedicated to the medicinal industry in Macedonia del Norte. They came to travel several times to the country to supervise plantations and make decisions that betrayed their wood as entrepreneurs. They added ninety partners and raised more than one million euros, with which he intended to transfer the cultivation operations to Spain. Not only was there no luck, but they contracted very strong debts with those who supported them. Many denounced them. Others add a sinister background to history. The drug show of drugs. The current situation of Simón and Silvia is chilling: through direct on Twitch (his channel has been closed several times due to the extreme of its content) they resume the dynamics of carrying out the challenges asked for their followers. Simon consumes live drugs (especially inhaling base paste), he goes out to shout extremist slogans disguised as Pikachu, Tira printers on the balcony, Destroza appliances And, above all, bet without brake, adding a more addiction to the many with which it loads. Meme addicts. Converted into Memberships At the orders of their more than 30,000 followers, Simón and Silvia have already carried out some calls for help between lines. A few days ago They let some friends enter the directthat were left in shock when they saw the conditions in which they live. Simon has asked for one of his followers “in case he needed it”, which suggests a state of drug -induced paranoia or a real target debt with poorly recommended lenders. Bad news in the medium term, in any case. Of the phenomenon, absolutely unusual in the Spanish internautic sphere, we can stay with how eight years later, they continue to generate an interest that they can only maintain starring in increasingly extreme and dangerous content. The limit does not seem to see, but the consequences are clear. In Xataka | An inexhaustible reef for Telecinco: Montoya is now translated into Japanese or German thanks to AI

why women usually live more than men

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Rare is the country or society where the life expectancy of men is greater than that of women. To explain this phenomenon we can pull intuition that perhaps tells us that men have a greater affinity for the activities that put them at risk, from tobacco consumption to recklessness at the wheel. Although there is something really in this explanation, this is only part of the story. Genetics. Now, a team of researchers He has discovered A genetic mechanism that could be protecting women from cognitive deterioration associated with age. A mechanism that could also partly explain the greatest longevity of these in front of men. Chromosomes turned off. The human being (As a general rule) It has 23 pairs of chromosomes, of which one is linked to our sex. In cases where a person inherits an X chromosome and a chromosome and, the second predominates and the first is latent, the sex that develops is the masculine. In cases where two X chromosomes are inherited, one of them remains active and the other “sleep”, sex would be in this case the female. This is still a model and nature is capricious, sometimes it surprises us. The last surprise has been starred in some genes on this sleeping X chromosome: it turns out that the “dream” of these genes was not so deep. In the hippocampus. In EK new study, the responsible team detected that about twenty genes on the silent X chromosome were reactivated In hippocampus cells of the mice in which the study was conducted. This activation was given in the subsequent stages of life and, to occur in the hippocampus and by the genes involved, it could imply a greater capacity to maintain cognitive abilities in old age. “In typical aging, women have a brain that seems younger, with less cognitive deficits compared to men,” pointed in a press release Dena Dubal, co -author of the study. “These results show that the silent x females are later reactivated later in life, probably helping to slow down cognitive deterioration.” The team indicates that, among the 22 genes that “escaped” silence, one stood out: PLP1 (Proteolipid Protein 1). This gene contributes to the creation of Myelina protective substance that surrounds neuronal connections and whose deterioration is linked to the appearance of diseases such as sclerosis. Animal models. The team conducted its study in laboratory mice, combining two differentiated lineages from these to clearly differentiate the two X chromosomes and the two genes in each animal. By measuring gene expression in the animals hippocampus, they observed a reactivation that occurred in females at 20 months of life, something that would be equivalent to the 65 years of life in humans. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Science Advances. And in humans? Now, the team investigates whether this late activation is also given in older women. As explainedThere are reasons to think that it is the case. In some brain samples studied, it has been found that women had high levels of the PLP1 protein in the same regions as the study mice. In Xataka | The secret of longevity is not in genes but in environmental factors. The good news: change some of them is in our hand Image | Aris sfakianakis / Gadek et al. (2025)

I have changed the Apple calendar for Notion Calendar. Now my data and my time live under the same roof

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Notion introduced its calendar application, Notion Calendar, at the beginning of 2024. I was interested, and much, but limit to Google calendars left me out: most of my events occur in ICloud calendars. Ten days ago they finally announced the integration with ICloud, and there I was, as a user of Notion For years to see how this proposal was and if it is worth making the leap from Apple’s native application. They are not the functions, but the unification My first impression was surprisingly positive. The application is fast, very fast. In me MacBook Pro M1 Proalmost four years ago, the speed with which it opens and the fluidity when navigating between days, weeks or months is impressive. It contrasts remarkably with Apple’s calendar that, without being slow, does not have this feeling of lightness and agility. The monthly view interface throughout its glory. Image: Xataka. The interface is minimalist without feeling empty. It maintains that characteristic air of notion with its soft and white gray tones, but retains its own personality. Visually it is much more pleasant than other calendars such as Google Calendarwhich prioritizes functionality over aesthetics. If you are one di noi And you are looking to optimize every second in front of the screen, the Calendar Notion keyboard shortcuts are a gift. “S” to share availability. “C” to create an event. “T” to go to the current day. “W” to activate the weekly view. “M” for the monthly. It is an approach that is clearly designed for users who prefer not to take off the hands of the keyboard. As Things A function that has conquered me is Availability management. Before, when someone wanted to meet with me, I had to manually send my free holes or use tools such as Calendly That, for some reason, they always made me feel a little impostor. With Notion Calendar, I select the available time blocks, generate a link to the moment and voila. One of those little friction of the day to day that disappear. The availability function. The white holes (not gray with stripes) are the ones that we establish as available. With sharing the link that appears to the right we can facilitate another person our gaps available for a meeting. As an integrated calendly already demands. Image: Xataka. The management of time areas is also remarkable. For those of us who work with people in different parts of the world or when we are organizing a trip, we can see our calendar with multiple schedules at the same time is canonical. And here, Notion does it much more intuitively than Apple’s calendar. Nevertheless, where notion calendar takes muscle is in its integration with notion, in its way of unifying information and time. It is an independent calendar for those who do not use notion, but that integration is the key to this proposal: generate ecosystem, not independent islands. The strategy behind the calendar What we are seeing with Notion Calendar is not just a new calendar application. It is one more piece on a board where Notion is building a complete productivity ecosystem. First was the main application for notes and databases, now the calendar, and not long ago also arrived with Notion mailat the moment on the waiting list. What was previously a product, Notion, now begins to be the center of an ecosystem that continues to grow. Image: Notion, Xataka. Instead of putting everything in a single application that could be overwhelming, Notion is creating independent but totally interconnected applications. It is an intelligent strategy that allows them to compete in each category without sacrificing the user experience. True magic occurs when you link notion databases with dated fields to the calendar. Suddenly, all these elements appear directly on my calendar with my normal events. For example, I have a database with all scripts in notion of the podcastand each one has its publication date. Now I can see those dates directly on my calendar, mixed with my meetings and personal events. The database with the infinite loop scripts that I prepare every day. By including a publication date they have everything you need to appear, if I want, in Notion Calendar. Image: Xataka. This unified vision is not only practical, it is a paradigm shift. It allows to see the events and tasks in a temporary context that previously required several tools. And not only that: you can attach notion pages directly to calendar events. For a meeting I can link the agenda, previous notes or related documents, everything without leaving notion. Towards a more mature experience The iOS version is also very well achieved. Unlike many applications that simply reduce their desktop version, Notion schedule for iOS (It is also For Android) is really adapted to mobile experience. You can choose if you want to see 1, 2 or 3 days when opening the app, something much more flexible than the native calendar. Again: more than the intention of launching a calendar is intuited here. A strategy is intuited that fuses information management with time management. When I saw the initial announcement of Notion Calendar, my first reaction was a mixture of interest and skepticism. Do we really need another calendar application? The answer is in the objective: Notion is not simply building a calendaris building that bridge between information management and time management. It is as if Notion were saying: “You already have all your information organized with us, why not also your time?” And it makes sense. If you spend much of your day in Notion, having your integrated calendar right there makes everything more consistent. Is it worth who does not use Notion? Surprisingly, I think so. Even without taking advantage of integrations, it is a solid calendar application, well designed and with functions that exceed the Apple or Google calendar in several aspects. For me, in fact, he has already replaced Apple’s. And the most interesting thing is to see how Notion is evolving from … Read more

Follow live the conferences and panels of the great event on generative

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As planned today, the event begins in Madrid AI2023an event of which Xataka is half partner and that revolves around the use and application of generative artificial intelligence in the professional environment. During today’s day, different talks, presentations and panels will take place with renowned experts from the sector that, how could it be otherwise, You can continue live and direct. The day will begin Today, March 19, at 10:00 Spanish peninsular time and You can follow it live Through YouTube. If you already have your face -to -face entry, we will be there, so do not hesitate to go on to say Hello and to chat about how AI is not going to change the world, but how it is doing it already. Follow the AI2030 live What to expect from Ai2030 In AI2030 we will discover, by the hand of authentic leaders of the sector, How generative artificial intelligence is being implemented in the business world. We will know practical and real cases and see how the future is drawn, but we will also put our feet on the ground to address the challenges posed by its implementation. During this day we will have the opportunity to listen to personalities such as Ana Castrillo (Head of Marketing from Google), Javier Jiménez (founder and CEO of Dreamshot), Sofia Benjumea (Head of Google for Startups – Emea) and Xabier Iglesias (founder of Mementum Tech), among many others. And attention, because at 13:25 the presentation of our partner Angela Blanco will take place, in which he will address what is to come in 2025. We remind you that The event will begin at 10:00 And it will last until eating, so I sign it on your agenda and see you in AI2030. More information | AI2030

500 people already live at the airport between travelers and coexistence problems

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From 11 at night, security personnel begin to verify documents and to evict those who do not have valid shipments (…) The airport design is simple but there are few private corners or remote spaces. If you need to go to bed on the floor, it brings an extra layer because the floor is mostly cold and hard tile You can read the description in Sleeping in the Airportsa web space where all tips and small tricks or recommendations to take into account are offered if what you want is to sleep in an airport. The description above speaks of Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport. It is just one of many. In it you can read details that make a difference if you need to spend the night at the airport. And the aid is so useful if you have passed security control or not. “The McDonald’s seats are padded” But also that “readers inform us that there are sources next to the bathrooms” or that “in the T4, next to the VIP room of Iberia, there is a small more private corner.” This web space is a reference but it is not the only one you will find on the Internet. Reddit is full of threads in which advice is requested to spend the best way in these spaces. In Quora It is also easy to find them. Here, a user explains his bad experience at the Shanghai airport for not being informed that he was committing a foul. In recent years, there are more those who sleep at airports. Well because their flight leaves too early or, on the contrary, they have arrived late enough to not be able to use public transport to the city and expect the dawn of the next day. Or, simply, because they have nowhere to go and the airport offers them a safe and hot place. Where to sleep if you have nowhere to sleep The latter is what has been happening at the Madrid airport. ASAE union (union alternative AENA ENAIRE) calculates that, every day, about 500 people sleep distributed by the four airport terminals. A number that has multiplied in a decade. They estimate that then there were no more than 40 people who took refuge in this space. The union denounces that workers are afraid to go to their jobs. They explain to The country that there are homeless people who sleep every night because they have no other place to go but those who drug themselves in the bathrooms or those who steal from tourists are also common. “Aena is all facade, an apparent good image, but in reality is contributing to this lack of control. Before it was a problem, now it is a problem. We need to press the Government to modify current legislation, ”explains one of the workers to the newspaper. The Madrid case is not unique in Spain. Last year the Generalitat, Aena and the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona gathered to find a solution to the same problem. There, it is estimated that every night a hundred homeless sleeps. “It is a serious social problem, and it is inadmissible for no one to take over,” he said then a National Police agent to the medium. Two years before, the problem had stayed in a forgotten corner. In The avant -garde They collected in 2022 that Several people lived in one of the abandoned parking lots after the last reform of the airport despite being within its facilities. Although in Spain we have put the focus on homeless people, outside our borders, airports are also common where more people sleep or, at least, try. There are no conclusive data that meet the problem but it is easy to find the articles in which the theme is addressed from different angles. From positions that speak of their own experience, such as this article of The Washington Post to Tips for facing long delays that leave us alone before the night without a place to sleep. Of the man who was 14 years living in a Chinese airport at Unipersonal Cabinas that are distributed by their facilities to put a head or sleeping spaces more than $ 100 a night at Dubai airport. Aware of the problems they can represent, the airport managers themselves have been putting obstacles to prevent people from sleeping in their facilities. From a greater police presence to seat benches with armrests Each or two seats that prevent a person from lying in them. The other side of the currency is represented by airports where facilities are put to the rest of the passengers, with sun loungers even in common spaces. If you go to sleep at a European airport, you know that Sleeping in Airports I recommend doing it in Helsinki’s. Photo | Ray Sangga Kusuma In Xataka | The great challenge of the successor of the Concorde will be to dominate the sonic patterning: there are those who believe that we are close to getting it

Human beings are evolving live and direct on the Tibetan plateau. And understand what happens there will be fundamental in space

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It is not easy to breathe on the roof of the world. A few days ago, Kilian Jornet told in the revolt that, while he went down from Everest, He began to suffer hallucinations And convinced that he was dreaming he was about to jump into the void. And it makes sense because, thousands of meters above sea level, there is simply less oxygen in each breath of air. It is, we could say, pure physics. However, for more than 10,000 years, Tibetans have not only survived these dementeial conditions of that environment: they have prospered. But how? It is a question that has intrigued anthropologists for years. And if we think a little, he has his crumb. For decades, it has been said that evolution is slow and that, in general terms, human beings are more or less the same as we were in the Paleolithic. How could it be that Tibetans (who would not cease to be people like us) have prospered all this time If that is so? The answer is very simple: not being. A few months ago, anthropologist Cynthia Beall, from Case Western Reserve University, published PNAS investigation which clarifies all this and reveals “how the physiological features of Tibetan women improve their ability to reproduce in an environment with such a shortage of oxygen.” It is live and live evolution. What did they do? Beall and his team They studied 417 Tibetan women between 46 and 86 years old who lived around 4,000 meters above sea level in Alto Mustang, Nepal; that is, at the southern end of the Tibetan plateau. They collected many data: from their reproductive history to physiological measurements, DNA samples or a wide set of social factors. Its intention was precisely to understand how the characteristics of oxygen supply in high altitude hypoxia conditions influenced the number of living births. Because? Because it is a key measure of the evolutionary aptitude of these women. And so it was. Because what they discovered is that women who had more living children had a “unique set of blood and cardiac characteristics” that helped their bodies to distribute oxygen. Specifically, They discovered That although these women had middle levels of hemoglobin, it was more saturated. It was a fantastic solution because it allowed an efficient distribution without increasing the viscosity of the blood (and, therefore, without forcing the heart more than necessary). What does all this mean? Something really interesting. Because work Not only does it underline “the remarkable resilience of Tibetan women”but they also offer valuable information about the ways in which human beings can adapt to extreme environments. After all, “it is a case of natural selection in progress. Tibetan women have evolved in a way that balances the oxygen needs of the body without overloading the heart,” Beall explained. And, understanding how populations like these are adapted, “it gives us a better understanding of human evolution processes.” Something that, on the other hand, we need. Because in the end, it turns out that the unity of the human species is only sustained by the similar environmental conditions in which we move. But what will happen when we become an “interplanetary species”? And the answer is simple: that We can never go home. The unity of the species will be detrimental to our adaptive success. Image | Will Pagel In Xataka | To what extent are Elon Musk’s plans to settle on Mars? A planetary scientist explains it to us

Openai brings to the EU the ‘Live Camera’ mode to see the world in real time

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“I see that you wear a hoodie.” This is a fragment of conversation that Chatgpt And an OpenAI employee maintained just over eight months ago. The company of artificial intelligence (AI) led by Sam Altman presented his new model GPT-4O And he showed us how he could help improve his famous chatbot. At some point, Chatgpt could use the camera of our device to see the surrounding environment and, consequently, offer us a deeper experience. Something like what we saw in the movie ‘Her’, saving the distances. This mode landed first in the United Statesand now it is deploying in the European Union. Hello, chatgpt. What do you see? The novelty, known as’Live Camera‘It is a complement to the advanced voice of Chatgpt, a very promising combination of technologies. In another of the demonstrations shared by the company We have seen the chatbot knowing a puppy named Bowser or helping to learn Spanish to some users. We are facing a tool that can also be very useful for people living with some blindness or visual disability. Since the way of vision You can identify objectsyou can describe in natural language what is in front of the camera. The underlying technology, GPT-4O, also promotes the app Be My eyes. Chatgpt’s real -time vision vision It should be noted that the novelty that is being deployed today allows us to share with chatgpt what is on our screen. So the model could help us solve, for example, mathematical problemsas we have seen In other videos shared by OpenAI last year during the initial announcement of the tool. The activation icon and the welcome screen of the Live Camera mode Well, now that we know everything we could do with the latest of Chatgpt the question is how we can start using it. In the first place, we will have to keep in mind that it is a payment feature, that is, it is available for Chatgpt Plus users ($ 20 per month) and Chatgpt Pro (200 dollars per month). Theodore falls in love with Samantha in ‘Her’, a movie released in 2014 If we meet this requirement, we will only have to make sure to have the updated application. We open the application and click on the lower right corner button to activate the advanced voice mode. We will meet the camera button Below the left, an element that we must press to begin the action. Chatgpt will remind us that it is an option that is in the beta phase and the system will possibly ask us permission to access the camera. If we agree, we accept and begin to interact with this most advanced version of the chatbot. To share the screen in real time, click on the three points and then the corresponding option. It is important to keep in mind that paying for Chatgpt Plus does not provide unlimited access to these functions. So we will have to adapt to whats Use limits newspapers established by OpenAI or, in case our budget allows it, pay $ 200 per month for Chatgpt Pro to use these models without limitations. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Deepseek, in the spotlight of European regulators: Italy and Ireland act against privacy concerns

China is raising an unprecedented dam where millions of people live. The problem is seismic activity

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Before finishing 2024 we advanced what was known about China’s last megonstruction. Actually, we could not talk about “another” as if it were something else in a long list, because it is possibly one of the most ambitious projects that are reminded of the nation: a super prey so monumental that would leave The three throats relegated to the background, producing three times more energy than the spectacular structure of more than two kilometers long. Of course, there is some problem. The superpress. It is a reality: China advances with the construction of the Motuo Superpress in Tibetan unprecedented infrastructure project that, if completed, will become the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world taking advantage of an abrupt slope of 2,800 meters, exceeding the capacity of the three throats dam (currently the biggest in the world). Located in The Grand Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpoon the border with India, the dam has aroused environmental, geopolitical and humanitarian concerns, especially due to the lack of transparency of Beijing about its development. Experts warn that the project represents a “water pump” for millions of people in India and Bangladesh. Seismic risks. The Tibet is One of the most seismically active regions on the planetit has been known for a long time because it is located in the collision of the Indian plaque and the Euroasy Plate. In fact, a recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Shigatse It caused damage to five hydroelectric dams and the death of 134 people, demonstrating how vulnerable infrastructure in the region is. Although Motuo’s work can be designed to withstand earthquakes, landslides and mud alluds could serve as a fuse and unleash, representing a direct threat to nearby populations. We speak, again, millions of people. This risk is aggravated by the phenomenon of Seismicity induced by reservoirs (RTS)where the weight of accumulated water in large dams can trigger earthquakes. An example is the zipingpu damwhose construction was followed by Sichuan’s devastating earthquake in 2008 which charged 87,000 lives. In addition, sediment retention by the dam could reduce the fertility of the soil downstream, causing erosion in the rivers and coasts of India and Bangladesh. Gran_Cañón Yarlung Tsangpo Environmental impact. The dam too would alter the water and climatic patterns Crucial for agriculture in the region. The Tibet, where Brahmaputra is born, is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world and a key regulator of Asian climate. The construction of the superpress could, for example, alter the monsoon rainfallwith devastating effects for agriculture in India and Bangladesh. In addition, the ecological impact of Chinese megaemblses is already evident in other international rivers, Like the Mekong, where the dams have caused droughts recurring and the intrusion of salt water in agricultural deltas. Impact between the premises and (des) information. It is another leg that must tie the project. The Tibet is under a strong control of the Chinese Communist Party, so the magnitude of the displacement of Tibetans that will require the work is not known. In this regard, Beijing has not revealed details about costs (It is estimated that total investment will exceed 130,000 million euros), The companies involved or the number of people who will be relocated. And if we are guided by other cases in Chinese provinces, protests against hydroelectric projects have been repressedit is suggested that any opposition in the Tibet will be silenced. Geopolitics of a superpress. He Brahmaputrawhich flows to India and Bangladesh, is a vital artery for millions of people. Again, that lack of Chinese transparency has generated distrust in New Delhi and Daca, whose scientists have demanded access to hydrological data to evaluate the risks of the work. India, meanwhile, Fears China use river control as a geopolitical weaponrestricting or diverting the flow in case of conflicts. Thus, and in the face of uncertainty, some Indian officials have proposed an alternative: Build a dam in a Brahmaputra tributary to counteract possible flow reductionsalthough this solution does not seem ideal and could also harm the ecology of the region. Imminent risk. Nikei had this week That the possibility of a catastrophic collapse is not a simple speculation. China has suffered hundreds of dam failures throughout its historyincluding the worst disaster ever registered: The collapse in cascade of the Banqiao dam And another 61 dams in 1975, an event that caused 85,000 direct deaths and displaced 11 million people. Even The three throats dam was on the verge of collapse in 2020endangering 400 million people. Therefore, if a strong earthquake hit the region and cause the rupture of the superpress, Millions of people in the Brahmaputra Valley in India and Bangladesh could be affected by catastrophic floods, aggravating. In addition, geopolitical and humanitarian tensions in the region. If you want also, it is feasible to think that with this mega -Obra, China would not only reinforce its control over the water resources of Asia, but also converting Brahmaputra into a geopolitical weaponincreasing their pressure capacity over their neighbors. Image | Harvey BarrisonNASA In Xataka | China prepares the most expensive megaestructure on the planet: a hydroelectric power plant on the most controversial place possible In Xataka | The three throats dam is so huge that it has caused something unexpected: extending the days of the earth

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