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Bluegreen

21st May 2024, 21:16

Outer Space

Most Massive Stellar Black Hole in Our Galaxy Found

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Scientists just found the most massive stellar black hole ever found in our galaxy, Gaia BH3, 33 times more massive than our Sun.

Published 21st April 2024 (5:46)

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NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink

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This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation. The destination is a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun, equivalent to the monster located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. To simplify the complex calculations, the black hole is not rotating. Captioned w/ music, no dialogue.

Published 10th May 2024 (4:19)

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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits

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New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — are being released from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades.

Published 13th April 2024 (0:46)

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Full video (3:48):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdmM351cZM

Bluegreen

21st May 2024, 22:01

The UFO Landing at Holloman Air Force Base | 3D CGI Animation Movie

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In 1974, Robert Emenegger released a documentary titled UFOs: Past, Present, and Future. It was claimed that Emenegger was offered to use actual footage of a UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964 in his documentary. In this video, I have created an animation based on the original description of the Holloman UFO incident, and I explore the mystery behind the missing footage.

This labor of love is based on the 1974 documentary UFOs: Past, Present, and Future (which was later renamed UFOs: It Has Begun for television release in 1976 and 1979), as well as additional research.

Published 22nd December 2023 (15:52)

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Bluegreen

22nd May 2024, 23:48

Plants Signal NASA Satellites With 'Glow' Warning of Flash Drought

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Glowing plants?

Though that might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, it's actually a natural process (photosynthesis) giving scientists clues of impending flash droughts.

Flash droughts are just what they sound like; they happen quickly and without much warning. An example of this occurred during the summer of 2012 when a large section of the U.S. experienced the most substantial flash drought it had seen since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which lasted for years.

Typically, it takes seasons for a standard drought to develop — with a flash drought, however, expedited drying arises in just weeks. Thus, it's quite difficult to prepare for them. However, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California may have a solution. At the end of April, they released a study about their discovery of a way to recognize signs months in advance of a flash drought event.

Signs from space, that is. You just have to look for the glow — or, well, lack thereof. It would appear that, in anticipation of a flash drought, the "glow" of a plant begins to dim, and it's possible to capture such dimming with spacecraft orbiting our planet.

Though this research may not be able to stop flash droughts from happening, it does offer forecasters a little more of a heads up so they can provide critical information to those who would be impacted by an upcoming drought.

Full story published 21st May 2024 by Meredith Garofalo – Space.com
https://www.space.com/nasa-satellites-plant-glow-flash-drought

Bluegreen

23rd May 2024, 00:26

Full Flower Moon in May

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The Flower Moon is named after the flowers that begin to bloom during this month, which serve as a reminder that everything is part of the cycle of life and death. This cycle also occurs within us, which allows us to discard the things that impede personal growth, and this allows for ample space for inner rebirth, in which planting seeds allows our spirit to fully flourish.

This celestial event is characterized by the fact that the Earth's natural satellite will be at its closest orbit to the planet, therefore, you will be able to enjoy a larger and brighter moon than usual. It also coincides with the time of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when nature awakens and plants and trees bloom in all their glory.

Published 21st May – Marca.com
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2024/05/21/664cff5322601d54598b461a.html

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Full Moon: May Full Flower Moon

This edition of The Farmer's Almanac about the Full Flower Moon is for those who fish.

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Bluegreen

24th May 2024, 00:10

The Surreal World of Moon Prod

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Ghibli-inspired Cosmic Horror - Creatures of Crepuscule

Directed by Christian Szczerba.

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Bluegreen

24th May 2024, 00:15

The Surreal World of BG

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Transmission feat Tygr (December mix)

Music video.

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Bluegreen

24th May 2024, 00:31

The Surreal World of Jack Webb

Dragnet | The Big Betty (1953)

Its a crazy, mixed-up, backwards world. Thanks to goodness that beacon of law and order, Joe Friday, is here to show these grifting no-goodniks the difference between right and wrong, godamit.

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Bluegreen

25th May 2024, 01:20

Giant Structure in Space Challenges Understanding of the Universe

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About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers. The discovery might upend current cosmological theories.

What they’ve found is a 1.3-billion-light-year-across, almost perfect ring of galaxies. No such structure has been seen before. And it doesn’t match any known formation mechanism. It has been dubbed the “Big Ring.” The discovery was presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

It is the second giant structure found by teams led by Alexia Lopez, an astronomer at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. The first, a giant arc of galaxies, was unveiled in 2022. That structure is 3.3 billion light-years across and appears in the same region of sky at the same distance from Earth as the Big Ring.

“Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe,” Lopez says. “And their ultra-large sizes, distinctive shapes, and cosmological proximity must surely be telling us something important – but what exactly?”

The structures challenge the so-called “Cosmological Principle.”

“The Cosmological Principle assumes that the part of the universe we can see is viewed as a ‘fair sample’ of what we expect the rest of the universe to be like,” Lopez explains. “We expect matter to be evenly distributed everywhere in space when we view the universe on a large scale, so there should be no noticeable irregularities above a certain size.”

“Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger,” Lopez adds. “From current cosmological theories we didn’t think structures on this scale were possible. We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable universe. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbours, which is extraordinarily fascinating.”

Published 13th May 2024 by Evrim Yazgin – Cosmos Magazine
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/giant-structure-space-universe/

Bluegreen

25th May 2024, 01:43

Deep Space Updates

Starship in 'Two Weeks' | Starliner When? | More Boeing Delays

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Catching up with a lot of news. China launches a new Long March rocket, Blue Origin's New Shepard starts flying humans again. Boeing once again fail to do something with Starliner on time. SpaceX launch a lot of satellites and get ready for Starship flight number 4. And, Rocket Factory Augsburg test a rocket stage in Scotland at Saxa Vord spaceport!

Published 23rd May 2024 (25:30)

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Sun News for May 24, 2024: 5 M Flares Raise Activity to High

Sun activity has risen to high after 5 M flares were produced over the past day. Two of these came from AR3679, this week’s most active sunspot region, which is now starting to rotate out of view on the southwest limb (edge). It still bears a beta-gamma-delta magnetic complexity, meaning it has potential for more Ms and even an X flare. Will it produce an X flare before departing from the Earth-viewed solar disk? We’ll see. Meanwhile on the opposite horizon, a new sunspot region has arrived: AR3690.

Photographed 21st May by Alexander Krivenyshev in New York City

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https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

Bluegreen

26th May 2024, 01:14

Sunstorm (cont'd)

Another Week Of Powerful Coronal Mass Ejections

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Solar Max Is Coming Soon

Solar news and the blues from nemesis maturity.

Published 25th May 2024 (4:03)

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ROCKS AND SOIL ELECTRIFIED BY THE SUPERSTORM

Across the USA on May 10th and 11th, sky watchers marveled at bright displays of aurora borealis during the biggest geomagnetic storm in decades. Little did they know, something was also happening underfoot.

Strong electrical currents were surging through rocks and soil. The biggest voltages along the US eastern seaboard and in the Midwest were as much as 10,000 times normal. A map from NOAA and the US Geological Survey shows some of the 'hot spots' during the early hours of May 11th.

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Back in March 1989, voltages only a little stronger than the ones shown above brought down the entire Hydro-Québec power system. The resulting Great Québec Blackout plunged millions of Canadians into darkness. This time, however, power grids stayed up. "We haven't heard of any serious problems so far," reports Christopher Balch of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

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A power blackout (left) and transformer damage (right) during the March 1989 storm.

Bluegreen

26th May 2024, 01:32

From Space to Jail: NASA's Craziest Story | Tales From the Bottle

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A space-age love triangle gone bad.

Published 9th February 2024 (14:34)

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Bluegreen

26th May 2024, 01:52

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UFO filmed over Scottsdale, AZ - 28 March 2024

Witness #1: “What in the flying ****.”
Witness #2: “What in the **** is that!?”

Shot on an iPhone 13 Pro.

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Bluegreen

26th May 2024, 02:35

Fish are Adapting to Weightlessness On The Chinese Space Station

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Four zebrafish are alive and well (so far) after nearly a month in space aboard China’s Tiangong space station. As part of an experiment testing the development of vertebrates in microgravity, the fish live and swim within a small habitat aboard the station.

While the zebrafish have thus far survived, they are showing some signs of disorientation. The taikonauts aboard Tiangong – Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu – have reported instances of swimming upside down, backward, and in circular motions, suggesting that microgravity is having an effect on their spatial awareness.

The zebrafish were launched aboard Shenzhou-18, which carried them, as well as a batch of hornwort, to orbit on April 25, 2024. The aim of the project is to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, studying the effects of both microgravity and radiation on the development and growth of these species.

As a test subject, zebrafish have several advantages. Their short reproductive and development cycle, and transparent eggs, allow scientists to study their growth quickly and effectively, and their genetic makeup shares similarities with humans, potentially offering insights that are relevant to human health.

The zebrafish genome has been fully sequenced, and for these reasons zebrafish are commonly used in scientific experiments on Earth. Seeing how these well-studied creatures behave in such an extreme environment may have a lot to tell us about the life and development of vertebrates across species while exposed to microgravity.

The taikonauts aboard Tiangong perform feeding and water sampling at regular intervals, and cameras allow scientists on the ground to monitor the aquarium.

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Scott Alan Johnston – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/167115/fish-are-adapting-to-weightlessness-on-the-chinese-space-station/#more-167115

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Zebrafish aboard the Tiangong Space Station

Bluegreen

27th May 2024, 01:06

Pam Gregory

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New Moon in Gemini June 6th 2024

Pam feels that we shifted into another timeline in April. Here, she talks about the astrological developments for the first half of June and the New Moon in Gemini on the 6th.

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Bluegreen

27th May 2024, 04:39

Space Rock | David Bowie

"Warszawa"

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Bluegreen

28th May 2024, 01:19

Space Rock News

AMS Event: 2529-2024, Report (2529h-2024) Northford, Connecticut, USA

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Published 21st May 2024 (0:03)

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All Sky Fireball Network

Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics.

On May 27, 2024, the network reported 3 fireballs. (3 sporadics)

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Car-size Asteroid 2024 JN16 Gives Earth a Close Shave

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Asteroid 2024 JN16 made a close approach to Earth on May 14, 2024.

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Bluegreen

28th May 2024, 01:40

Good Guys

Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe

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you can do great

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Bluegreen

30th May 2024, 02:15

Spica of Virgo

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Spica, the Bright Beacon of Virgo, is Two Stars

The star Spica – aka Alpha Virginis – is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden. From a distance of about 250 light-years, Spica appears to us on Earth as a lone bluish-white star in a quiet region of the sky. But Spica consists of two stars and maybe more. Both stars are larger and hotter than our Sun.

We say that Earth is 1 astronomical unit (aka 1 AU) from our sun. Spica’s two stars are only .12 AU from each other, a small fraction of the Earth-sun distance.

Spica’s two stars are so close, and they orbit so quickly around each other, that their mutual gravity distorts each star into an egg shape. It’s thought that the pointed ends of these egg-shaped stars face each other as they whirl around.

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The pair of stars are both dwarfs, brightening near the end of their lifetimes.

Spica is one of the hottest 1st-magnitude stars. The hottest of the pair is 22,400 Kelvin (about 40,000 F or 22,000 C). That’s blistering in contrast to the Sun’s 5,800 Kelvin (about 10,000 F or 5,500 C). This star may someday explode as a supernova.

The light from Spica’s two stars, taken together, is on average more than 12,100 times brighter than our sun’s light. Their estimated diameters are 7.8 and 4 times our sun’s diameter.

How to find Spica

First, look for the Big Dipper in the northern sky. It’s highest in the evening sky in the northern spring and summer. Notice that the Big Dipper has a bowl and a long, curved handle. Follow the arc of the Dipper’s handle outward, away from the Dipper’s bowl. The first bright star you come to is orange Arcturus. Then "drive a spike" (or "speed on") along this curving path. And the next bright star you come to is Spica.

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http://earthsky.org/upl/2015/07/2015-july-big-dipper-arcturus-spica.jpg

Published 19th May 2024 by Deborah Byrd and Larry Sessions
https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/speed-on-to-spica-the-15th-brightest-star/

My wonderful astronomy professor would say "Spy to Spica". She also pronounced the planet "You-ran-us". :stars:

Bluegreen

30th May 2024, 02:35

The Underground Clocks of Paris

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Late 19th century engineers and astronomers team up in this fascinating page of Parisian history.

Published 25th February 2024 (8:30)

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Bluegreen

30th May 2024, 02:53

Star Trek #500

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Since 2007, San Diego-based IDW Publishing has been nurturing a galaxy of "Star Trek" comics and graphic novels spanning decades and touching upon nearly generation and iteration of creator Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise.

Now, the milestone 500th "Star Trek" issue will be in time for Star Trek Day 2024. This all-star collector's edition is injected with characters not only from vintage offerings like "The Original Series" and "The Next Generation," but also new digital age fare experienced on streaming platforms. Cover artwork has been pre-released.

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Bluegreen

30th May 2024, 03:00

UFO Fleet Filmed Circling over Hawaii Mountains - April 2011

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Five orbs hovering above the Makua Military Reservation, outside of Honolulu, O’ahu, Hawaii. An astonishing UFO clip.

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Bluegreen

30th May 2024, 05:19

Jerusalem UFO - 2011

An astonishing UFO clip. This first one, courtesy folks from Mississippi, I had not seen before.

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Bluegreen

31st May 2024, 02:04

Suspected SpaceX Space Debris Found in North Carolina Mountains

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I'm glad it didn't fall through the roof of my house.

Published 30th May 2024 (1:06)

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Man Stumbles Upon Heavy, Mysterious Object Possibly From Outer Space

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News report from May 24th features amazed locals.

Published 24th May 2024 (2:20)

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Bluegreen

31st May 2024, 02:39

Bluegreen

31st May 2024, 03:11

Secret Islands of the Pacific (Slow TV) | discovery + Immersions

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Embark on a visual journey accompanied by the sounds of nature through the Pacific Islands. Photographer and filmmaker Ian Shive experiences remote and protected coral atolls and shores, the birthplace of millions of turtles, seabirds, sharks, manta rays and fish.

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Johnnycomelately

31st May 2024, 07:45

Dyson Spheres? Two Studies Find Dozens of Stars With Bizarre Emissions

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Anton weighs in on the “Dyson Spheres” controversy.

0:00 Dyson spheres
0:39 What is it though?
2:05 How we could detect these
2:40 Tabby's star example
3:35 New studies and how they were done
4:15 What was discovered
5:30 Dyson spheres or what?
7:05 Conclusions

Published 15th May 2024 (10:28)

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Related:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1614039&viewfull=1#post1614039

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I find the idea of Dyson Spheres about as convincing as the ideas of Dark Matter and the Sun being a purely gaseous thing. Earthbound mechanistic thinking, too smart by half. IMO, the ‘liens come here for entertainment, as much as for concern about nukes. If we — humanity, the little people — ever get to interview them, we should ask about that.

Bluegreen

1st June 2024, 00:30

Breakthroughs in Science: Hypersonic Travel

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Aerospace engineers at the University of Central Florida are drawing global attention for their successful experiments in hypersonic propulsion. Tampa to Los Angeles in 15 minutes …?

Published 24th May 2024 (5:24)

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Bluegreen

1st June 2024, 00:47

Here kitty kitty

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Kefir, owned by Yuliya Minina, from Stary Oskol in Russia

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Kryztian

1st June 2024, 00:57

... But it is not clear if the food is better or even worse in the parallel universe or not.

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Bluegreen

2nd June 2024, 20:48

Night Sky | June 2024 | Celestial Events

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♦ June 1: Planet Parade
♦ June 3: Conjunction of Moon and Mars
♦ June 4: Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury
♦ June 6: New Moon
♦ June 14: Moon at apogee
♦ June 20: Lunar Occultation of Antares
♦ June 20: Summer Solstice
♦ June 21: Strawberry Moon
♦ June 27: Moon at perigee
♦ June 27-28: Conjunction of Moon and Saturn
♦ June 28: Lunar Occultation of Neptune
♦ June 29: Saturn enters retrograde motion

Tonight's Sky | June | Constellations

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Though the nights are shorter in June, they are filled with fine sights. Look for the Hercules constellation, which will lead you to a globular star cluster with hundreds of thousands of densely packed stars. You can also spot Draco the dragon, which will point you to the Cat’s Eye Nebula. Keep watching for space-based views of globular star clusters and the nebula.

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Bluegreen

2nd June 2024, 21:03

All Saints Days | June

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St John the Baptist

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Inversion

3rd June 2024, 02:55

This is another excellent presentation from Vox. It's about drug overdose deaths in the United States and the countermeasures.

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The case for why we should all be carrying naloxone.

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The fatal overdose epidemic in the US, which began in the 90s with increased overdoses on prescription opioids, finally looked like it was starting to take a turn in 2018. But then the covid pandemic hit, and amid increased isolation during lockdowns, fatal drug overdoses in the US skyrocketed, crossing 100,000 fatalities in a single year for the first time in 2021.

The main drivers of fatal overdoses over the last ten years are synthetic opioids, like fentanyl. Fentanyl is a highly potent narcotic that often gets mixed into the American drug supply to make drugs – ranging from heroin, to cocaine, to adderall – stronger and more addictive. The result is that huge numbers of people unknowingly consume a lethal dose of fentanyl laced into other drugs.

America’s “War on Drugs” and punitive approach to curbing drug use hasn’t solved this. So now American communities are turning to methods that emphasize “harm reduction” – creating environments for people with substance use disorder to find support, rather than punishment.

A big part of that is the distribution of the drug naloxone, also known as Narcan. Naloxone is an opioid-antagonist, and can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose as it’s happening. It does this by blocking opioid receptors in the brain.

Naloxone has been credited with saving tens of thousands of lives so far according to the CDC, and is a tool for fighting the ongoing overdose epidemic that some medical experts are now urging all Americans to have on hand.

Bluegreen

3rd June 2024, 04:39

The Business Of Heroin (1964) CBS Reports

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CBS Reports: The Business Of Heroin

Illegal heroin labs were first discovered near Marseille, France, in 1937 ("The French Connection"). These labs were run by Corsican gang leader Paul Carbone. For years, the Corsican underworld had been involved in the manufacturing and trafficking of heroin, primarily to the United States.

The Corsican Gang was protected by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the SDECE after World War II in exchange for working to prevent French Communists from bringing the Old Port of Marseille under their control.

Bluegreen

4th June 2024, 01:51

Sky Dome Map | Visible Planets and Night Sky

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Heliocentric Solar System | Visible Planets and More

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Bluegreen

4th June 2024, 02:08

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China Probe Successfully Lands on Far Side of Moon

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China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully landed Sunday, June 2, on the far side of the Moon to collect samples, state media reported -- the latest leap for Beijing's decades-old space programme.

The Chang'e-6 set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the China National Space Administration. It marks the first time that samples will be collected from the rarely explored area of the Moon.

The Chang'e-6 is on a technically complex 53-day mission that began on May 3.

On Sunday, it descended from its orbit about 200 kilometres (124 miles) above the Moon to scour the surface for a landing site, Huang Wu, an official at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, told state broadcaster CCTV.

"The (descent to a lower) orbit carried a few risks, so we needed precise control procedures to put (the probe) onto its preset trajectory," Huang said.

After that, "we had to rapidly reduce the probe's relative speed to the Moon ... to zero within 15 minutes, requiring a huge amount of propellant, basically half the probe's entire weight," he said.

Now that the probe has landed, it will attempt to scoop up lunar soil and rocks and carry out other experiments in the landing zone.

Published 2nd June 2024 by AFP Staff Writers Beijing – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_probe_successfully_lands_on_far_side_of_Moon_999.html

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4th June 2024, 04:16

ThePythonicCow

4th June 2024, 06:15

There are no stars in the sky and if it was the dark side they and the galactic arms wouldn't be very bright.
The "far side" of the moon is NOT the "dark side" of the moon.

The "far side" faces away from earth. The "dark side" faces away from the sun. As the moon orbits around earth, all sides of the moon get to be lit by the sun.

Bluegreen

6th June 2024, 00:51

A Lunar Corona Over Paris by Valter Binotto

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Why does a cloudy moon sometimes appear colorful? The effect, called a lunar corona, is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. Since light of different colors has different wavelengths, each color diffracts differently. Lunar coronae are one of the few quantum mechanical color effects that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. Solar coronae are also sometimes evident. The featured image was taken last month from Paris, France. The blue beacon emanating from the Eiffel Tower did not affect the colorful lunar corona.

Bluegreen

6th June 2024, 01:15

One-eyed Wolf in Yellowstone Defies Odds by Having 10th Litter in 11 Years

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The alpha female of a Yellowstone gray-wolf pack has defied the odds by having a 10th litter of pups at the age of 11.

The one-eyed wolf elder, named Wolf 907F, gave birth to her latest litter last month, the Cowboy State Daily reported. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) have an average life span of three to four years, so it's rare for them to reach 11, let alone have pups at that age.

Wolf 907F has given birth to pups every year for a decade straight since she became sexually mature, which Kira Cassidy, a research associate at the Yellowstone Wolf Project, said is likely a record for the wolves of Yellowstone National Park.

What makes 907F even more impressive is that she does all of this with only one functioning eye. Researchers aren't sure what happened, but her left eye has been small and sunken since before she turned 4. "You would never know [when] watching her," Cassidy said.

Like other elders, 907F takes a back seat in hunts now that she's older, and spends most of her day hanging around with the pack's pups. Cassidy and her colleagues have counted three pups in her current litter, which is smaller than the average litter size of four to five but not surprising. A 2012 study of Yellowstone wolves published in the Journal of Animal Ecology found that litter size declines with age.

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"Her litter being small is expected given that she is so old, but the fact that 907 is still having pups is amazing," Cassidy said.

Published 3rd June 2024 by Patrick Pester – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/animals/she-is-so-old-one-eyed-wolf-in-yellowstone-defies-odds-by-having-10th-litter-of-pups-in-11-years

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Bluegreen

6th June 2024, 01:22

Russian Cosmonaut Sets New Space Record

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Russian сosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for spending the most time on the International Space Station (ISS), after reaching a cumulative one thousand days in orbit, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has announced.

The record was set at 00:00:20 Moscow time on Wednesday. Kononenko, who is currently on his fifth space mission, will tally 1,110 days in orbit by September 23, when the current crew of the station is scheduled to return to Earth.

The 59-year-old had already become a world record holder in February, when his non-stop stay in orbit reached a total of 878 days and 12 hours, or nearly two and a half years. Back then, Kononenko broke the record set by fellow cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who accumulated a total of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds.

Members of the international crew celebrated the milestone by lining up for a photo in the shape of three zeros behind Kononenko to make the number 1,000.

Published 5th June 2024 by RT.com
https://www.rt.com/russia/598786-kononenko-space-record-thousand-days/

Bluegreen

6th June 2024, 01:39

Preston Dennett

Meeting the Aliens: Five Onboard UFO Encounters

Mr Dennett digs deep for this muster of documented UFO cases.

• THE CASE OF WARABE AMANAKA
• THE CASE OF NICHOLAS HENRY EDWARDS
• THE CASE OF KLAUS-DIETER KAUFMANN
• THE CASE OF GILBERTO GREGORIO COCCIOLI
• THE CASE OF ISTVAN BALOGH

Published 24th May 2024 (57:34)

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Bluegreen

6th June 2024, 02:11

China Spacecraft Chang'e-6 First to Collect Samples From Far Side of the Moon - BBC News

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China says its lunar probe has successfully taken off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the first samples ever collected from the region. On Sunday, the robot landed in a giant crater close to the moon's south pole in a world-first feat celebrated by the international science community. China is the only country to have landed on the far side of the moon, having also done so before in 2019.

Published 4th June 2024 (7:20)

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See China's Chang'e-6 Land on Far Side of the Moon in Imagery Time-lapse

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Bluegreen

7th June 2024, 00:20

“KING OF CONEY ISLAND"

1953 NEW YORK CITY DOCUMENTARY FILM - CONEY ISLAND AMUSEMENT PARK MD10044

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Never mind the corruption, here's Coney Island.

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Coney Island NYC 1976

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Time travel, gritty and greasy.

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Bluegreen

7th June 2024, 00:56

This Week in Volcano News: Damaging Iceland Eruption, Krakatau Could Erupt

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Narrated by the inimitable Timothy Catron.

This week, a damaging eruption in Iceland began at the Reykjanes volcano. While no structures were damaged, more than 10 kilometers worth of roads were wiped out. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, it appears that the Krakatau volcano is gearing up for its next eruption. On Halmahera, the Ibu volcano produced its largest eruption on record. And, on Sumatra, the Dempo volcano produced a new eruption this week. This video will discuss these stories and list the 47 volcanoes which are currently erupting around the planet. Includes paid promotion.

Published 2nd June 2024 (8:27)

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Bluegreen

7th June 2024, 01:05

Meteor Ducks

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Bluegreen

7th June 2024, 02:28

Ancient World's Most Attractive Men Brought to Life

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Antinous

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Professor Carrie Vout (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge) discusses the cast of Antinous in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge.

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 00:51

Fighter Planes Chase Tic Tac UFO Off Atlantic Coast

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This footage was captured on June 20, 2022 over Mount Desert Island in Maine.

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 00:58

Around the World

Funniest Fails | US vs UK

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Battle of the Geniuses.

Published 28th February 2024 (17:46)

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 01:14

Around the World

“SAAAAAAAAFE!!!”

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Japanese Race Broadcasters Should Announce Every Sport

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 01:46

Around the World

Haben Sie Noch Alle Tassen Im Schrank?

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Was tun, wenn die Person am anderen Ende der Telefonleitung eine hundertprozentige Vollmeise hat?

Half German half English silly filthy absurdities. Is that Rachel Maddow?

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Do You Still Have All Your Cups In The Cupboard?

What do you do when the person on the other end of the phone line has a 100% complete tit?

Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 02:11

Space to Ground: Calypso Arrives @ the ISS

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The latest goings-on with those brave and talented men and women far, far from home.

Published 7th June 2024 (3:19)

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 21:10

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JPL and the Space Age: The Hunt for Space Rocks

Every day, the Earth receives visitors from outer space: tons of space debris that mostly goes unnoticed. Some of these “shooting stars,” however, do survive the fiery descent through the atmosphere. That’s what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago when a massive asteroid – or comet – struck Earth. But as the saying goes: "The dinosaurs didn't have a space agency. Fortunately, we do."

“The Hunt for Space Rocks” chronicles JPL's pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from cosmic marauders. An in depth history and review for the science-minded.

Published 15th June 2023 (1:52:15)

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 21:24

Maxx Crosby Claims He, Raiders Teammates Saw UFO Over Miami

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The existence of aliens has always been a topic of discussion, as many have claimed they have either seen an alien or a UFO. That seems to be the case for NFL star Maxx Crosby, as he claims he and the Las Vegas Raiders saw a UFO one night on a flight leaving Miami.

Crosby is one of the best pass rushers in the league, as he's the face of the Raiders defense. He had a career year last season, finishing with 90 total tackles (career high), 14.5 sacks (career high), two forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery.

Crosby shared his story during a guest appearance on The Jim Rome Show. Rome asked the Raiders star point-blank if he believed in aliens. Maxx Crosby then opened up and revealed what he and his teammates, and the pilots for that matter, about what they potentially saw.

“It's real. Like we were literally on a flight back from Miami, and we've seen a UFO with our own eyes. And that sounds crazy, but you can ask the pilots, anybody that was there. It was wild. And I seen it, and they had no idea what it was. There was nothing on the radar, nothing. And it was like a big shining light going in and out.”

Published 8th June 2024 by Benedetto Vitale – Clutch Points
https://clutchpoints.com/raiders-news-maxx-crosby-teammates-saw-ufo-on-flight-leaving-miami

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 21:49

Why the FBI Spies On Celebrities

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Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we know of the wide variety of subjects the FBI keeps files on. You'd be surprised. Or maybe not.

Published 31st March 2024 (11:41)

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The FBI kept a close surveillance on the Kingsmen, a group of youngsters from Oregon who had a hit with what is quite possibly the seminal rock & roll record of all time, “Louie Louie”. Convinced this CYO band out of Portland were Communists sent to poison the minds of young Americans with dirty words hidden within their near-unintelligible lyrics, J Edgar Hoover sent a team of agents after them. After compiling a 138-page dossier on the band, they concluded there was no profanity on the recording. Except there was. And is. Hear it?

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Bluegreen

8th June 2024, 22:04

"They're Out There, Man!" UFO Guy Remixed

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Apparently confusing Area 51 with Air Force 1, a man in a Chicago airport details his plans to visit aliens in Arizona and beyond. A melodysheep music mix.

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Bluegreen

10th June 2024, 00:21

The Walking Tree

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The “Walking Tree”, a northern rātā (Metrosideros robusta), has just been crowned New Zealand's Tree of the Year after strolling past the rest of the competition.

The tree stands alone in the middle of a large paddock next to a cemetery near Karamea on the west coast of South Island. It is around 105 feet (32 meters) tall — about the same height as a seven-story building.

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Bluegreen

10th June 2024, 00:36

Sunset on a Golden Sea by Pete Lawrence

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On April 17, the sky was clear and the Sun's colour was spectacular as night approached. This striking telescopic view captures the Sun's swollen and distorted shape from the southern coast of the UK. Reflecting a bright column of sunlight, the sea also appears golden, with the horizon marked by the city of Portsmouth.

Were the colours made more intense by volcanic dust? Maybe not. Normally, sunset (and sunrise) colours can still be very dramatic, especially when the atmosphere is clear and the Sun is viewed very near the horizon, as in this scene. But large dust particles, like those in the airline-thwarting ash clouds from the erupting Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, tend to create diffuse and subdued sunset colours.

Sunrise Across America (Slow TV) | discovery+ Immersions

Follow the sights and sounds of the sunrise in a breathtaking, three-hour journey, from Florida's dewy everglades to the glaciers of Alaska.

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Inversion

14th June 2024, 00:53

I watched this MonsterQuest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonsterQuest) episode last night and thought it was interesting. People have spotted Tetradactyl type creatures in Papua New Guinea.

04/28/21 (45:13)

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If there is one place on earth that could be home to a prehistoric flying monster, it is Papua New Guinea. These islands to the north of Australia are the closest thing to a real "lost world". Find out more in Season 3, Episode 15, "Flying Monsters."

Bluegreen

15th June 2024, 00:57

The Night Sky

■ As we count down the last few days to summer, astronomically defined (the solstice is June 20th), the Summer Triangle has climbed to stand high and proud in the east after dark.

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Its top star is bright Vega. Deneb is the brightest star to Vega's lower left, by 2 or 3 fists at arm's length. Look for Altair farther to Vega's lower right. Altair is midway in brightness between Vega and Deneb.

By summer's end, the Triangle will be overhead right after dark.

SATURDAY - SUNDAY, JUNE 15 - 16

■ When the stars come out for North America tonight, you'll find the Moon shining nearly midway between Spica to its lower left and fainter Gamma Virginis (Porrima) to its upper right. Gamma Vir is a lovely, equal-brightness double star for telescopes, separation 3.4 arcseconds this year; they're slowly widening. The pair is oriented almost north-south.

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TUESDAY - THURSDAY, JUNE 18 - 20

■ The waxing gibbous Moon tonight shines among the stars of upper Scorpius. Orange Antares is about 3° or 4° to the Moon's left or lower left, and Delta Scorpii, the next brightest star in the area, is a somewhat similar distance above the Moon or to its upper right. Delta is the middle star of the upper row of three in the graphic. Cover the bright Moon with your finger to get a better look at the stars around it.

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Bluegreen

15th June 2024, 01:19

Chandra X-ray Telescope Captures Closest Super Star Cluster to Earth

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Westerlund 1 is located around 13,000 light-years away from Earth — meaning it's very close, relatively speaking — and the 3 million to 5 million-year-old star cluster is around 7 light-years wide. By comparison, our middle-aged solar system is about 4.6 billion years old.

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Bluegreen

15th June 2024, 01:33

Donald Trump's UFO Admission Raises Eyebrows

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In a recent interview, former President Donald Trump addressed the topic of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), confirming that he is often asked about the topic.

Trump, known for his unconventional approach and candid remarks, touched on the subject during a sit-down with Logan Paul for his Impaulsive podcast where he was asked about his knowledge of UFOs and the government's handling of related information.

“I want to talk to you about aliens, UFOs, UAPs . The disclosure we've seen in Congress recently, it's confusing and upsetting for a lot of Americans," said Paul on the podcast.

"I have met with pilots ... they are not conspiratorial, they are not crazy, and they tell me stories that they've seen things that you wouldn't believe," stated Trump. "Am I a believer? No, I can't say I am. But I have met with people, serious people, that say there are some really strange things flying around out there."

Trump then digressed onto other "aliens", eliciting the podcast host's laughter.

"I know there are illegal aliens out there but those are the ones that come through the border. We have plenty of them. Those are the ones ... when you say aliens, I say are they illegal aliens? These might be illegal but we don't want to test them, because if they can go four times faster we're not gonna test them."

When asked if there was a chance that information about aliens was being hidden from him, Trump said: "I guess so. You have the deep state.”

Trump then acknowledged the possibility of otherworldly life forms, even though he'd said he doesn't believe they exist.

"It's very possible there is something. And why wouldn't there be? You look at the universe and you see all of the different planets and you see ... look, here we are, one relatively small planet. Why wouldn't there be, on a planet that's 400 times the size? Why wouldn't there be something, somebody?"

During his presidency, Trump signed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill in December 2020, which included a directive for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to provide a report on UFOs within 180 days. This resulted in the release of a much-anticipated report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in June 2021, which reviewed 144 incidents of UFO sightings by military personnel.

[U]Published 14th June 2024 by Emma Mardsen – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-ufo-admission-raises-eyebrows-1913016

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Same story, worded to insult Trump
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/14/says-pilots-like-beautiful-tom-cruise-but-taller-told-him-ufos-exist/

Bluegreen

15th June 2024, 02:04

The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip

The reversal could have a beneficial effect on Earth

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The Sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal.

This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years and marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in polarity indicates the halfway point of solar maximum, the height of solar activity, and the beginning of the shift toward solar minimum.

The last time the Sun's magnetic field flipped was toward the end of 2013. But what causes this switch in polarity, and is it dangerous?

To understand the magnetic field's reversal, first, it's important to be familiar with the solar cycle. This approximately 11-year cycle of solar activity is driven by the sun's magnetic field and is indicated by the frequency and intensity of sunspots visible on the surface. The height of solar activity during a given solar cycle is known as solar maximum, and current estimates predict it will occur between late 2024 and early 2026.

But there is another very important, albeit lesser-known, cycle that encapsulates two 11-year solar cycles. Known as the Hale cycle, this magnetic cycle lasts approximately 22 years, through which the Sun's magnetic field reverses and then reverts to its original state.

What causes the switch in polarity?

The reversal is driven by sunspots, magnetically complex regions of the Sun's surface that can spawn significant solar events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — large blasts of plasma and magnetic field.

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As sunspots emerge close to the equator, they will have an orientation matching the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the incoming magnetic orientation. This is called Hale's law.

"The magnetic field from active regions makes its way toward the poles and eventually causes the reversal," said solar physicist Todd Hoeksema, director of the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University.

But the exact underlying cause of such a flip in polarity remains mysterious.

"That gets into the whole [solar] cycle, and wondering what that is," Stanford University solar physicist Phil Scherrer commented. "We still don't have a really self-consistent mathematical description of what's happening. And until you can model it, you don't really understand it — it's hard to really understand it."

Full article published 13th June 2024 by Daisy Dobrijevic – Space.com
https://www.space.com/sun-magnetic-field-flip-solar-maximum-2024

07 Jun - 13 Jun : Solar Timelapse (Earth Facing Solar Activity)

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This week's activity. No sound.

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Bluegreen

15th June 2024, 04:02

UFO - Peter Maxwell Slattery

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Published 4th May 2024 (0:24)

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onawah

15th June 2024, 14:31

Amazon Tribe Recognises GREY ALIEN Photo "That Is Mankunawabu"
Project Unity
43.3K subscribers
Jun 15, 2024

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Bluegreen

16th June 2024, 23:35

GOP/DEM Chaos at Party Conventions w/ Aziz Brown

http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/pi/mp/10160405/prod_9629108632?src=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F41FeL3P8TxL.jpg&d=50849c461bf4a1b97d300374d3143d3ade9e2c88&hei=250&wid=250

Farsight Institute

This new remote-viewing session by Aziz Brown describes what will happen at the upcoming Democratic and Republican presidential conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee, respectively.

Published 3rd June 2024 (23:20)

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Bluegreen

17th June 2024, 03:25

UFO :nerd:History

The Unexplained: Giant Swedish Archive Logs Paranormal Phenomena

Two and a Half Miles of Underground Shelves (!)

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The Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) claims to be the world's biggest library of paranormal phenomena, with 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) of shelves running underground.

Clas Svahn, 65, and Anders Liljegren, 73, who run the archive located in the southeastern town of Norrkoping, say they are neither superstitious nor believers, but rather "curious investigators of the unknown".

The AFU — the name of both the library and the association that has collected documentation for more than 50 years — is mainly comprised of books, but also more original documents, such as first-hand accounts of paranormal activity recorded on tape and photos of ghosts.

"What we are building here at AFU is depository knowledge," explains Svahn, showing AFP journalists around the 700-square-metre (7,535-square-foot) library. "We're trying to get as much as we can on... every kind of unsolved scientific mystery that we can find... to make this available for the world."

The library receives around 300 visits each year, by appointment only. The archives are in the process of being digitalised and many of the documents can already by consulted on a server.

All that is needed is an access code, which the pair are more than happy to share. https://www.afushop.se/en/about-afu-19116940

Published 22nd March 2024 – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-unexplained-giant-swedish-archive-paranormal.html

From the Archives For the Unexplained -(AFU) – Sweden

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Along the marathon underground trek

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https://www.afu.se/

Inversion

17th June 2024, 16:03

At the opening of this video, it shows a beam of light presumably from a space-based platform over Japan. The rest are UFO sightings around the world.

helenastales.weebly (https://helenastales.weebly.com/blogue/mysterious-sighting-of-an-unknown-ray-of-light-in-japan#google_vignette)

06/17/24 (9:24)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksAwwOZaxpQ&t=519s

Bluegreen

19th June 2024, 00:33

Millions at Risk as Heat Dome Over US Soon to Send Temperatures Soaring

More than 260 million people are expected to cope with challenging temperatures over the coming days as the first significant heatwave of summer is set to already break records across northeastern US.

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Moderate risk (orange), Major risk (red) Extreme risk (purple)

"The duration of this heat wave is notable and potentially the longest experienced in decades for some locations," the National Weather Service (NWS) warns.

The heat dome is predicted to move east from the Great Lakes towards New England, bringing with it scorching temperatures of up to 41 °C (105 °F). Temperatures overnight will provide little respite, as they're expected to remain in the mid 20s °C (70s °F).

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Heat domes form when high pressure atmospheric systems hover over one area for extended periods trapping warm air beneath them. The heat trap predicted by the NWS in coming days is unusually early and may linger long enough to cause droughts in some regions.

"Generally, people who are experiencing heat exhaustion aren't going to recognize it as heat exhaustion because they get tunnel vision," Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association safety director Greg Brooks told The Associated Press.

Look out for signs of heat stress such as lethargy in the people around you and check in on any loved ones who might be at greater risk. And never leave vulnerable people or pets in a car. Despite being preventable, the leading weather-related deaths in the US are caused by heat.

Published 18th June 2024 by Tessa Koumoundouros – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/millions-at-risk-as-heat-dome-over-the-us-soon-to-send-temperatures-soaring

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Bluegreen

19th June 2024, 00:49

Celestial Events

Thursday, June 20 - Northern Summer Solstice

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On Thursday, June 20 at 4:51 p.m. EDT (1:51 p.m. PDT and 20:51 GMT), the sun will reach its northernmost declination for the year, delivering the maximum daylight hours of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and the minimum daylight hours of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. The June solstice marks the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

Friday, June 21 - Full Strawberry Moon

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The moon will officially reach its full phase on Friday, June 21 at 9:08 p.m. EDT (6:08 p.m. PDT, which converts to 01:08 GMT on Saturday, June 22). The June full moon (colloquially known as the Strawberry Moon, Mead Moon, Rose Moon, Birthing Moon, or Hot Moon) always shines in or near the stars of Sagittarius, the Archer.

The indigenous Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region call this moon Ode'miin Giizis, the Strawberry Moon. For the Cree Nation, it's Opiniyawiwipisim, the Egg Laying Moon (referring to the activities of wild water-fowl). The Mohawks call it Ohiarí:Ha, the Fruits are Small Moon. The Cherokee call it Tihaluhiyi, the Green Corn Moon, when crops are growing.

Planting Strawberries in Containers: Step-by-Step Guide

Is it Summer yet? Who cares! It's always a good time to plant some bare root strawberries.

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Today, we'll walk through every step of how to successfully plant strawberries into containers for years of delicious berry harvests from your own backyard. You'll learn everything from selecting the perfect container to filling it with strawberry-approved soil to proper placement in your garden for the happiest plants.

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Bluegreen

19th June 2024, 01:32

The Only Official Roswell Crash Site Photo

Have you seen this photo before? I have not.

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https://x.com/JChurchRadio/status/1232918567638589440

Bluegreen

19th June 2024, 01:51

Danse Macabre | Silent Horror Films

'Danse Macabre' by Camille Saint-Saëns. Pastiche by Lindsay Holiday.

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• Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) by Benjamin Christensen
• Legend of a Ghost (1908) by Segundo de Chomon
• Escamotage dune dame chez Robet-Houdin (1896) by George Melies
• The Haunted Castle (1896) by George Melies

Johnnycomelately

19th June 2024, 04:14

The Only Official Roswell Crash Site Photo

Have you seen this photo before? I have not.

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https://x.com/JChurchRadio/status/1232918567638589440

I thought that the photo looked like crash debris of an SR-71, or its very similar predecessor A-12. Viewing aspect/angle would be from the rear, over the top of the fuselage, from where the back end of the plane would be. Lay in the foreground near the right engine nacelle appears to be part of a turbojet or turbofan engine.

An image search confirmed that it was indeed an A-12, that crashed in 1963.

“ January 1963 crash of an A-12 spy plane. Ken Collins was the pilot. He left the Air Force to join the CIA, then later re-join the Air Force and flew the SR 71. The picture is of the debris of the A-12 and of a sanitation truck from Area 51 that came in to clean up the wreckage. Ken Collins and his family were my neighbors at Beale Air Force Base. Ken survived the crash and as far as I know, he’s alive today.
Ken was not allowed to tell his wife Jane anything about the program so after this crash the CIA injected him with sodium pentothal to quiz him about all the details of the crash. Then they dropped him off at his house Ken had to walk in and give his wife no explanation for where he’s been and the condition that he was in...he appeared to be drunk.He wasn’t..He had a very understanding wife😀 update Ken Collins, unfortunately did pass away last summer. I did find out that his wife Jan had received a phone call from a friend telling her that her husband had been in a crash, but survived that friend was very kind to call her the CIA would not have. So she wasn’t that shocked when he walked in under the influence of the truth serum. ~Linda Sheffield”

I don’t know how to embed Twitter/X posts, but here is the URL: https://x.com/Habubrats71/status/1668647331934224384

I love your work, BG, but I have to call out errors when I see them. 👻😎♥️

Bluegreen

19th June 2024, 15:04

Thx Johnny. I was skeptical myself; guess I'll have to learn image search. I'm shifting the blame to the discernless Jimmy Church. :)

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https://x.com/Habubrats71/status/1668647331934224384

Bluegreen

21st June 2024, 00:05

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Bluegreen

21st June 2024, 00:34

Citizens :moon: of the Night

How Indonesia’s Only Firefly Conservation Lab Aims to Repopulate Bali's Jungle

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Decades ago, fireflies were a common sight across South-East Asia. But now they are rapidly disappearing. For the people of Bali in Indonesia, members of this fascinating family of bioluminescent beetles are a beloved sight, as the insects are believed to contain spiritual energy and be a guiding light for lost souls. They are also relied on as bioindicators, a key sign of a healthy natural ecosystem, because of their sensitivity to pollution.

Major threats contributing to their decline include the degradation and loss of habitats necessary to sustain their entire life cycle, pesticide exposure and light pollution that disrupts their courtship communication. For Wayan Wardika, fond memories of dancing with fireflies as a child propelled him to create Bring Back the Light, Indonesia’s only firefly conservation lab focused on their breeding.

Published 17th June 2024 (8:36)

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Deep Sea Creatures That Defy Darkness

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Some deep sea creatures never see light of the day. The deep sea is home to a large number of species that have adapted to survive in complete darkness. These creatures have developed special tools such as bioluminescence, camouflage, and unique hunting habits to survive in the extreme pressure and darkness of the deep black sea.

Published 26th January 2024 (3:17)

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Mark (Star Mariner)

21st June 2024, 11:38

The Only Official Roswell Crash Site Photo

Have you seen this photo before? I have not.

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https://x.com/JChurchRadio/status/1232918567638589440

Definitely not Roswell, or any other crashed 'disc'. There's a jet engine in the scene for one thing, and you can see riveted panels on the fuselage.

The planform strongly resembles an SR-71 Blackbird, or as the comments point out, an original A-12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12) (one crashed in '63).

Bluegreen

23rd June 2024, 00:38

This Is Why You Can’t Go To Antarctica

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Antarctica is the last truly untamed land on the planet. It is a bizarre, otherworldly place buried under miles of ice, with a lot of mysteries and secrets that have come to the surface over the years. Today we’re going to talk about all the strange and unusual stories that swirl around the land of the South Pole.

Published 17th June 2024 (29:29)

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Inversion

23rd June 2024, 03:42

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That video showed a clip of Blood Falls in Antarctica. It's twice as salty as ocean water.

wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Falls)

Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

06/22/24 (10:00)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085vQpDGZdw

Five stories high and emerging from the Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, Blood Falls seeps into an ice-covered body of water called Lake Bonney. It’s one of the continent’s most enigmatic natural features and has fascinated scientists for decades. What makes it red? Does it always flow? And can anything actually survive near it? To find out—and see just how bizarre Blood Falls is with their own eyes—Caitlin and Arlo travel to the Dry Valleys, about 60 miles from McMurdo Station. There, they meet with microbiologist Jill Mikucki and hydrogeologist Peter Doran to investigate why this glacier looks the way it does, what lives there (spoiler: CHARISMATIC MICROBES!), and what clues it holds for finding and understanding life on other planets and moons in our solar system, like Mars, Jupiter’s Europa, and Saturn’s Enceladus. Answering these questions, it turns out, requires lots of probes, cameras, and even a massive sensor hanging from a helicopter.

Bluegreen

29th June 2024, 20:55

Space Rock News

Earth Lucks Out Again

2024MK passed Earth Saturday 180,000 miles away

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In a rare stroke of celestial coincidence, two lumpy asteroids – one that could destroy a city, the other big enough to wipe out the planet – have zoomed by Earth, close enough to excite observers but posing no risk of hitting us. Asteroids in our neighborhood always ignite interest, but these two are special because of their timing, size and orbits.

Their separate-path visits came 42 hours apart and, in yet another fluke, just ahead of this year’s Asteroid Day. That’s the annual observance of the Russian Tunguska meteor event in 1908, the largest asteroid impact in modern history.

One of them has already come and gone: Asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21, a chunk of rock the size of Mount Everest, passed closest to Earth without incident on Thursday (6-27-24).

The second, asteroid 2024 MK, arrived Saturday morning (6-29-24). Though it’s much smaller than its companion, at 400 to 850 feet long, 2024 MK came much closer to Earth. It passed between us and the moon at a distance of about 180,200 miles. (The moon is 238,900 miles from Earth).

UL21 passed Thursday 4.1M miles away

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Published 29th June 2024 by George Petras and Stephen J Beard – USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/06/29/asteroids-pass-close-to-earth/74239421007/

Bluegreen

29th June 2024, 21:13

ISS

NASA Pays Musk's SpaceX $843 Million to Destroy International Space Station

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ISS countries agree to end an era in 2030. Wonder how much that $843M will be then.

Published 28th June 2024 (3:58)

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Space to Ground: Laying the Groundwork

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NASA's S2G is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the ISS.

Published 28th June 2024 (3:29)

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Bluegreen

29th June 2024, 21:29

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Peanut Butter and Jelly in Space

Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough demonstrates on-orbit preparation of one of America’s most popular foods: the humble peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

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“Close Shave" for Astronaut Chris Cassidy

Using a hair trimmer and a vacuum aboard the International Space Station, Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy gives himself a serious haircut in preparation for the arrival of fellow Expedition 36 crewmate Luca Parmitano, who is noted for his bald head.

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Bluegreen

29th June 2024, 22:11

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Bluegreen

30th June 2024, 16:35

Traffic Report

This thread turned 6 million hits June 22, 2023

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And shot past 7 million last night, averaging about 2,680 hits a day

A heartfelt THANK YOU to members, mods, guests, and visitors

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Bluegreen

30th June 2024, 16:40

A Solstice Moon by Tunc Tezel

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Rising opposite the setting Sun, June's Full Moon occurred within about 28 hours of the solstice. The Moon stays close to the Sun's path along the ecliptic plane, and so while the solstice Sun climbed high in daytime skies, June's Full Moon remained low that night as seen from northern latitudes. In fact, the Full Moon hugs the horizon in this June 21 rooftop night sky view from Bursa, Turkey, constructed from exposures made every 10 minutes between moonrise and moonset.

In 2024 the Moon also reached a major lunar standstill, an extreme in the monthly north-south range of moonrise and moonset caused by the precession of the Moon's orbit over an 18.6 year cycle. As a result, this June solstice Full Moon was at its southernmost moonrise and moonset along the horizon.

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Bluegreen

1st July 2024, 00:22

Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2024

Not a good idea

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Cattle egret and male buffalo (Photographer: Anton Pretorius)

Three's A Crowd

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Chinstrap penguins (Deena Sveinsson)

Slowhand

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Three-toed sloth (Eric Claptonus) (Harry Collins)

Did You Hear the One About .... ?

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Polar bears (Wendy Kaveney)

Lol

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Seal (Ingo Hamann)

https://www.livescience.com/animals/zany-polar-bears-and-a-3-headed-giraffe-star-in-nikon-comedy-wildlife-awards

Bluegreen

1st July 2024, 00:52

UFO Compilation

https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_melFlFzLENmPPyp_5E3Hk_FF-ixLMxECt4EWwz7E2Hvg=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj

Many unusual clips.

Published 13th June 2024 (13:09)

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Bluegreen

2nd July 2024, 00:06

The Night Sky

Top Astronomy Events | July 2024

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◘ July 3: Celestial Necklace
◘ July 5: New Moon
◘ July 5: Earth at Aphelion
◘ July 12: Mercury at its highest in the evening sky
◘ July 12: Moon at apogee
◘ July 13: Lunar Occultation of Spica
◘ July 15: Conjunction of Mars and Uranus
◘ July 17: Lunar Occultation of Antares
◘ July 18: Mercury Dichotomy
◘ July 21: Buck Moon
◘ July 23: Pluto at opposition
◘ July 24: Moon at perigee
◘ July 24: Lunar Occultation of Saturn
◘ July 30: Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower
◘ July 30-31: Celestial Clustering

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Tonight's Sky | July | Constellations

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Bluegreen

2nd July 2024, 00:19

All Saints Days

http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/calmese2.php?anno=2024&mese=7

St Thomas

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Called to be one of the twelve Apostles, Thomas is known for doubting a post-Resurrection appearance until he himself saw the risen Lord. For this, history has called him “doubting Thomas.” Four apocryphal writings are attributed to Thomas, and he was known to have evangelized in Syria, Persia and India. He is considered the founder of the Malabar Christians. In the year 72 A.D., Thomas was martyred in Chennai, India. He is the patron saint of India, architects, and builders.

Related: The Gospel of St Thomas
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?107981-St-Thomas

Bluegreen

6th July 2024, 23:27

Our Star July 5-6

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Last 24 hours: Sun activity during the past day was at a low level, with only C flares. Between 11 UTC yesterday and 11 UTC today, the sun produced 18 C flares.

Next 48 hours: The chance for C flares is 99%. The chance for M flares is 35%. The chance for X flares is 5%.

https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

Bluegreen

6th July 2024, 23:32

The Sky Tonight

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Sunday, July 7 - Slim moon above Mercury (after sunset)

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As the sky is darkening after sunset on Sunday, July 7, the very pretty waxing crescent moon will pose low in the west-northwestern sky with the dot of Mercury positioned a generous thumb's width below (or 2.5 degrees to the celestial southwest) of the moon — easily close enough for them to share the view in binoculars (orange circle).

Monday, July 8 - Earthshine and inner planets (after sunset)

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https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html

For several evenings surrounding Monday, July 8, the young crescent moon will shine in the western sky after sunset. Watch for Earthshine, also known as the Ashen Glow and "the old moon in the new moon's arms". That's sunlight reflected off Earth and back toward the moon, slightly brightening the dark portion of the moon's Earth-facing hemisphere. The phenomenon appears for several days after each new moon.

Bluegreen

6th July 2024, 23:40

Paranormal Research YouTube Compilation #2

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Mid-year UFO compilation from Paranormal Research, who have thankfully ditched their former music makers, Demented Pokemon.

Published 1st July 2024 (4:15)

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Bluegreen

7th July 2024, 00:11

Chinese Astronauts Install Space Junk Shielding on Tiangong Space Station

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Li Cong works on the Tiangong space station 7-3-24 (Image: CCTV)

Ye Guangfu and Li Cong, two members of the three-person Shenzhou 18 mission, spent about 6.5 hours working outside Tiangong on Wednesday (July 3). Li Guangsu assisted the expedition from inside Tiangong, operating the station's robotic arm.

The main task was installing space debris protection outside the orbiting laboratory. After this, Li Cong mounted the robotic arm and conducted an extravehicular inspection of the space station's facilities through his helmet camera. The pair returned to Tiangong via the extravehicular activity (EVA) hatch of the Wentian science module.

"The main purpose of the spacewalk this time is to install protection devices for extravehicular equipment, mainly cables and pipelines, so as to improve the space station's ability to operate safely and steadily over the long term," Liu Ming, an engineer with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, told state broadcaster CCTV.

Published 5th July 2024 by Andrew Jones – Space.com
https://www.space.com/shenzhou-18-second-spacewalk-tiangong-space-debris-shield

Space Junk Breakthrough

Japan Captures 1st Image of Space Debris From Orbit

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A private Japanese company has taken the world's first close-up photo of an individual piece of space debris, by parking another satellite next to it in orbit. This orbital photo op is the first step in an ongoing mission to capture and destroy potentially hazardous pieces of space junk that are clogging up our sky.

It's easy to imagine space as a vast, empty frontier. But since the first satellite launched in 1957, the space surrounding our planet has gotten more and more crowded. Human-made space junk — including used rocket stages, decommissioned satellites, frozen fuel and flecks of paint — has been steadily accumulating in Earth's orbit over the past seven or so decades. Now, the space industry is trying to find ways to remove it.

There is currently more than 9,900 tons (9,000 metric tons) of space junk hanging out in Earth's orbit. That debris is a veritable minefield for newly launched satellites and spacecraft; even a tiny piece of debris can tear a hole through a spacecraft with enough momentum. It can even pose a threat to people on the ground when it falls from orbit. And the longer that space debris stays in orbit, the more it multiplies. Collisions between defunct satellites or parts of rockets can break larger debris into smaller pieces, making the resulting fragments harder to track and increasing their chances of hitting an active satellite.

Understandably, space agencies around the world are interested in cleaning up some of that floating garbage before it damages functioning spacecraft.

In mid-April, a spacecraft launched by private space company Astroscale successfully identified, approached and photographed a large piece of orbital debris — the upper stage of a Japanese H-IIA rocket that has been circling Earth since 2009. The demonstration was meant to test the craft's ability to maneuver close enough to a piece of space junk to capture it, without crashing into it. By all accounts, the mission was a success, setting the stage for future removal missions.

Published 7th May 2024 by Joanna Thompson – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/japan-captures-1st-image-of-space-debris-from-orbit-and-its-spookily-stunning
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Bluegreen

7th July 2024, 00:41

Testing My Speech Jammer In Public

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I offered people $100 if they could read a paragraph from a book out loud. Things got a little crazy.

Published 17th December 2023 (11:25)

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Bluegreen

8th July 2024, 00:52

Man-on-the-street (cont'd)

Do People Understand The Scale Of The Universe?

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Passers-by try science quiz.

Published 1st January 2024 (15:10)

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Bluegreen

8th July 2024, 01:18

POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983)

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Possibly in Michigan is a musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal named Arthur. He follows them home, where the victims become the aggressors.

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https://www.ceceliacondit.com/

Bluegreen

10th July 2024, 01:40

Pam Gregory

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Full Moon in Capricorn July 21st 2024

Pam talks about the Full Moon in Capricorn on the 21st, as well as upcoming worldwide political events.

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Bluegreen

10th July 2024, 23:41

Experts Reveal What Really Happened (Full Episode) | Area 51: The CIA's Secret

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MSM “experts” reveal what really happened with Area 51. Good production and historically informative.

Published 23rd June 2024 (44:24)

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Bluegreen

11th July 2024, 00:18

Exoplanet Zoo: Other Stars by Martin Vargic

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"I am super excited to tell you about today's subject! Exoplanets! In this image, we see some of the over 5500 exoplanets that have been confirmed to exist! We find all sorts of planets, including planets of intermediate size which do not exist in our solar system! The SuperEarths and MiniNeptunes!

Featured here is an illustrated guess as to what some of these exoplanets might look like! Neptune-type planets occupy the middle and are colored blue because of blue-scattering atmospheric methane they might contain! On the sides of the illustration, Jupiter-type planets are shown, colored tan and red from the scatterings of atmospheric gases that likely include small amounts of carbon! Interspersed are many Earth-type rocky planets of many colors!

As more exoplanets are discovered and investigated, humanity is developing a better understanding of how common Earth-like planets are, and how common life might be in the universe! Have a great day, everyone, and I'll see you in class!"

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Bluegreen

11th July 2024, 00:38

Is This Really Noah's Ark? | Biblical Mystery at Mount Ararat, Turkey

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Megalithomania takes a closer look at what has somewhat surprisingly come up in recent headlines: Noah's Ark.

Published 9th July 2024 (9:48)

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Near Mount Ararat on the Turkish border are the remains of what some believe to be the ruined shell of Noah's Ark from Biblical tradition. Geologists say the Durupinar site is a geological basalt formation, whilst researchers like Ron Wyatt believe it could be the remains of Noah's Ark. Petrified wood, metal objects and other evidence has been discovered, and the size of it matches the descriptions in the Bible. In this video we explore the site and the on-site museum to find out more. Includes exclusive aerial footage.

Bluegreen

13th July 2024, 02:18

Disastrous

Shocking STORM Moments Caught on Camera

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Published 26th June 2024 (17:52)

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Natural Disasters To Watch Out For In The Future

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Did you know America's Yellowstone is a supervolcano?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano

Published 1st July 2024 (10:14)

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Picture this: giant rocks tumbling down a volcano, making their way into the ocean, creating a massive wave taller than anything we've ever seen. This might happen if the Helina Slump on the Hawaiian Big Island collapses into the water. The Kilauea volcano nearby is not sleeping at all; it's erupted in 2018 and before, usually bringing earthquakes with it ...

Bluegreen

13th July 2024, 02:48

The Head of NASA Science Spent a Whole Weekend Building a LEGO Rocket

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Early on a recent Monday morning, Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the head of NASA’s science division, shared to social media a triumphant photograph of a massive LEGO rocket. The kit includes 3,601 pieces and stands more than two feet tall when fully constructed. In comparison, the real rocket stands more than 300 feet tall. That rocket saw its first launch in 2022, when it flew Artemis I, an uncrewed test mission around the moon and the first step in the agency’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade.

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https://x.com/SolarGirl2018/status/1792482821824479320

Ms Fox talks about her LEGO hobby, the recent spate of high solar activity, and upcoming NASA science she is excited about.

Published 9th July 2024 – Interview by Meghan Bartels – Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-head-of-nasa-science-spent-a-whole-weekend-building-a-lego-rocket/

Bluegreen

13th July 2024, 03:07

Predicting the Future: The Jetsons

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Online Doctor Chat Available 24/7
https://yourdoctors.online/

Bluegreen

14th July 2024, 01:39

'I Saw US Army Images of Aliens at Roswell UFO Crash Site and Can't Take Secret to Grave'

In a bombshell report, a new witness claims he would take a lie detector test over the claims

An elderly witness, who claims to have seen official US Government photos showing alien bodies at the Roswell "UFO crash site" in New Mexico, has come forward, to allegedly avoid taking the secret to their grave. The witness claims to be willing to undergo hypnosis or take a lie detector test.

The Roswell mystery has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert near to the New Mexico town of the same name. However, the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

A photograph was released showing Major Jesse Marcel holding foil debris from the "crash site".

The unnamed witness said, "I prefer not to [reveal names] at this point. I will continue to see if I can locate him, I tried recently but not sure of the results. The main thing about reporting this is because I think I should tell someone.

Published 5th July 2024 by Jon Austin – Express UK
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1919216/aliens-roswell-ufo-crash-images-witness

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Filed 15th June 2024

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181883

Occurred: 1986-10-15 16:03 Local
Reported: 2024-06-15 12:28 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Roswell, NM, USA
Location details: Official government photos from Roswell New Mexico crash site

Shape: Disk
Color: metallic
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45

"I was randomly shown 2 photos unexpectedly one day of the actual Roswell crash site. The photo was face down with a hand cut strip of paper cut out with scissors and a piece of brownish aged scotch tape on the ends of the strip, the strip had typed on it 1947, Roswell New Mexico,-Two Air force officers inspecting alien body in front of wreckage (as best as I remember).

The other photo had no strip of paper on the back. I have been afraid to share this because of the sensitive nature and fear of reprisal from the government, but I am 70 now and I do not feel right just going to my grave whenever that might be with it. The guy wanted to share them but again, fear of reprisal. So, I have deep experience in photography and in certifying documents, zero doubt these were real.

Basically it looked like a graphflex 4x5 inch negative camera with a flash photo taken at night. The photographer was standing and the photo was angled down to where the alien body was on the ground, mostly laying on it's front with the head turned slightly, about 3-4 feet from the camera, then the body, then the two officers squatting/kneeling beside it. One was holding someething that kind of looked like an ink pen and had held it against the arm or back of the suit on the alien and was lifting it. It looked like melted striations running down from the pen or whatever was he was holding.

There was some space between the two officers and a little space on each side of them and you could clearly see the crashed ufo and the skin of the ship ripped and smashed open, not scattered pieces but like a wrecked car that was still together. I could see what some of the construction looked like, some bent metal tubes mostly and small like straight pieces bent up from the crash.

The ship was actually smashed up against a rock and you could clearly see that. I think one of them was Marcel, but at the time, sure I had heard of Roswell but with no internet I didn't really know his look to recognize him, I do now. But I kind of remember him and the other officer being similar in age, body build, both were in like khaki pants and shirts like officers no, ties. Seems like there were name plates on them but I just focused on the alien body. I had them in my hand for about 20 minutes and never saw them again, 1st touch with the person now for 45? years.

I do not mind anything to prove my story, who knows, a lie detector, hypnosis may bring out the names on the name plates but this is all I have. I prefer not to tell his name at this point, I will continue to see if I can locate him, I tried recently but not sure of the results.

The main thing about reporting this is because I think I should tell someone. The official position I looked the other day is still is the radar balloons for detecting soviet nuclear tests and there was no ufo or alien bodies there. The complete opposite is true. There is no way, shape or form that there was not an alien body and a crashed disc saucer smashed there out at the site.

I have gone in with Google Maps looking to find the outcrop of rock it hit, I think I found it. I have never seen anything remotely close to what I have seen,..... until a day or two ago when I was looking again before seeking to get this out. For the first time I saw something similar, part of it was at least, someone did a painting for some ufo museum or something out there and it showed a saucer crashed up against a rock and the part right against the rock was pretty much the same kind of thing like I saw but painted, not photoreal, I am a painter and it was a good representation with an alien who looked injured and I guess staggered from the crash 20 feet and was sitting on a rock.

The rest of the ship shown in the painting is not like what I saw. What I want to know is how did that painter know exactly what the crashed front end of the ship against the rock looked like? I am sure you can find the painting easily enough. I exchanged this info with Stanton Friedman several years before he died. At some point I am suppose to meet with a woman in Ohio the ex president of MUFON I think and share all of this and a little more.

This is what I am sharing with you, as far as I can tell this account of these photos (2) has never been shared or told before never told before. I am not doing this for money, or prestige or anything.... I do not care who believes what, this happened. And what am I suppose to do? Not tell anyone? Ever, and just go to my grave with it? If you are paying attention and you realize, everyone has opinions they are real, I actually know they are. I think once you process this and accept what I am saying, the world changes. In some ways, I wish I never would have seen these, if you can understand that. Best to all. A private citizen."

https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=181883

Bluegreen

14th July 2024, 02:16

Fish the Size of a Human Fingernail Is as Loud as a Jet Engine

Danionella cerebrum, a translucent fish only 12mm in size can produce sounds exceeding 140 dB, comparable to the sound perceived by a person standing 100 m from a passenger jet during take-off.

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Characterized by translucent skin

Danionella cerebrum fish were originally identified in the 1980s, but the species was officially recognized in 2021 after scientists discovered subtle physical differences between it and Danionella translucida. The two species are so small – about the size of a human fingernail – and so similar that the differences between them could only be identified under a microscope. Recently, a team of researchers also discovered another fascinating characteristic of Danionella cerebrum, one that not only sets it apart from its genus sibling but also puts it very high up on the list of the loudest animals in the world. The tiny translucent fish uses a combination of sonic muscles and drumming cartilage to produce sounds as loud as a lion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danionella_cerebrum

Bluegreen

15th July 2024, 01:36

Stargazing

ALL WEEK, JULY 15-21 — MARS AND JUPITER VISIT TAURUS (PRE-DAWN)

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Today — and all this week — Mars and Jupiter will be visible before dawn among the stars and star clusters of the constellation Taurus, "the bull." Look east, and you'll see bright Jupiter, shining to the left of Aldebaran, a bright supergiant star about 65 light-years, known as the "eye of the bull" in Taurus.

You can trace Taurus's sideways "V" shape of stars, with Aldebaran marking the top of one side and Jupiter on the other. Above the pair will be Mars, which is getting brighter as it waxes towards its once-every 26-month opposition in January 2025. This morning, Mars will be very close to Uranus—about the width of the full moon will separate them — but you'll not see the blue-green planet unless you have binoculars.

MONDAY, JULY 15 — PERSEID METEOR SHOWER BEGINS (EVENING)

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Today sees the start of the annual Perseid meteor shower, the most prolific and popular of the year in the northern hemisphere. It runs from today and throughout the month of August, as Earth moves through a stream of meteors left in the inner solar system by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.

TUESDAY, JULY 16 — AN 'AFTERNOON MOON' (DAYTIME)

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https://www.space.com/naked-eye-night-sky-july-15-21-2024

This weekend sees the rise of a full moon, which the week prior before is perfect for seeing a waxing gibbous moon in the afternoon. It's a consequence of the moon's west-to-east orbit of the Earth (anticlockwise from the north pole).

Today, the moon will appear above the east-southeast in the late afternoon, while about 78% of the moon is illuminated, making it very easy to see in a clear sky. It will rise about 50 minutes later each day until Saturday when it will rise as a full moon close to sunset. The pre-full moon always stuns during twilight.

Bluegreen

15th July 2024, 01:59

Space Weather News

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE

Sunspot AR3738 erupted on July 14th (0235 UT), producing an X1.2-class solar flare.

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Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout over Australia, southeast Asia and Japan. Mariners and ham radio operators in the area may have noticed a loss of signal at all frequencies below 25 MHz.

More explosions are in the offing. AR3738 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field' that harbors energy for additional X-class solar flares.

All Sky Fireball Network

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On Jul 13, 2024, the network reported 9 fireballs (8 sporadics, 1 alpha Capricornid).

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https://www.spaceweather.com/

Bluegreen

15th July 2024, 02:16

Michael Clarage: Solar Filaments and You | Thunderbolts

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There are filaments originating from the Sun that connect matter, energy, and information out and back to every planet in the solar system. These coronal filaments have been known for decades, but only recently it was discovered that they encompass our entire solar system.

Everything in the solar system lives inside the Body of the Sun—including you. If you traveled to that bright Orb in the sky, you would arrive at the Heart, or the Brain, or the Nucleus of the Sun. The Body of the Sun stretches to the Heliopause—but may even stretch further.

Every year new data shows more connection between the stars, so if someone says the science is settled how stars are aligned in the galaxy, do not feel obliged to believe them.

Published 19th May 2024 (13:19)

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Bluegreen

15th July 2024, 02:46

Space Rock | Seán Doran et al

"Heaven"

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Bluegreen

15th July 2024, 15:47

Presidential candidate Donald Trump will be staying at the haunted Pfister Hotel for the duration of the RNC ...

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Major League Baseball Players Hate Staying At This Hotel

There is a hotel in Milwaukee that MLB players hate staying at so much they will pay out of pocket to stay somewhere else. Hear what they have to say ...

Published 24th November 2023 (12:15)

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I've stayed at this hotel. It was only for one night, but around 3:00 am of that night, I woke up because the room was unusually cold, probably 50 degrees fahrenheit. I looked down towards the foot of my bed, and there was a silhouette sitting on the end. I stared at it for a good 5 seconds before it just vanished. I had heard about the rumors about the hotel before I stayed there, and was very dismissive of them. Sufficed to say, I packed my things and left several hours before I'd planned to.

RatRodRob...RRR

15th July 2024, 22:01

Bluegreen

16th July 2024, 00:00

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Bluegreen

17th July 2024, 00:40

Anthony Mackie Asks NASA About Ocean Science

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Informative NASA promo about their lesser-known work with the world's oceans.

Published 20th June 2024 (3:16)
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Bluegreen

17th July 2024, 01:14

Ep. 2018 Paola Harris: UFO/ET Updates

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If you're not a longtime follower of the UFO phenomenon, you might not know what these two are talking about. Interview @ 8:00.

Published 11th July 2024 (2:02:36)

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Jimmy Church | FADE to BLACK

Paola Harris will discuss the intricate world of UFOs, covering topics such as time travel, the paranormal, advanced science, and spirituality. She will also talk about her recent trip to Japan as well as give an update with new findings on the 1945 crash documented by herself and Dr. Jacques Vallée in TRINITY.

Paola Leopizzi Harris is an Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter specializing in extraterrestrial phenomena. With a Master’s degree in Education, Paola has been immersed in this field since 1979, conducting in-depth interviews with military personnel, astronauts, and leading researchers. A prolific freelance writer, she has authored seven books, sharing her extensive knowledge and unique insights into the mysteries of extraterrestrial encounters.

Bluegreen

18th July 2024, 01:00

Space Rock News

$200 Meteorite-Infused Vodka Promises Out-of-This-World Taste

French distillery Pegasus decided to celebrate its debut on the US spirits market with a unique product – an ultra-premium vodka infused with a real meteorite.

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The aptly named Shooting Star Vodka starts off as organic, locally sourced wheat and botanicals from France. The mixture is then slowly reduced over a month-long period using pure spring water from a well dug 150 meters below the Pegasus Distillery in Burgundy. What sets Shooting Star vodka apart from other premium spirits is the aging process: aged in small batches for at least one year using large terracotta jars with pieces of meteorite suspended in the middle. As the space rock partially dissolves into the vodka, its said to give the spirit a "particular" taste.

Bluegreen

18th July 2024, 01:19

Is This Real? Sharpest UFO Footage Ever!

Low Flying Tehran 2024 UAP Analysed

Skeptical view and analysis of the admittedly stevenspielbergish UFO filmed from multiple angles over Tehran recently.

Published 4th June 2024 (9:48)

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Bluegreen

20th July 2024, 01:35

Washington DC, Milwaukee Among US Cities Most Vulnerable to Space Weather: UK Study

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Several cities in the United States—including the nation's capital—have power grids particularly vulnerable to the threat of space weather—but experts are still trying to understand why.

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Researchers at the British Geological Survey (BGS) found that certain regions of the US are more at risk from geomagnetic storms, which occur when the sun spits out solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

They can cause geomagnetic storms that have the potential to damage infrastructure both in Earth's orbit and on its surface, ranging from satellites to underground pipelines.

Two of the cities with power grids found to be most vulnerable to the effects of such space weather are Washington DC and Milwaukee, according to Dr. Lauren Orr of the BGS, who is presenting her findings at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull.

"We have identified certain regions of the US (Washington DC area and Milwaukee) which are repeatedly appearing as 'highly connected' in our network, and hence, are possibly regions particularly vulnerable to the effects of space weather and may benefit from further monitoring," she said.

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2017 solar storm

Dr. Orr added that there were "many reasons" the cities may be more at risk to the impact of geomagnetic storms, including "electrical conductivity of the ground, the physical construction of the power grid in those areas, or the location of the auroral currents in the sky."

The work has been carried out in collaboration with Professor Sandra Chapman, of the University of Warwick, and Dr Ryan McGranaghan, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Published 18th June 2024 by Royal Astronomical Society
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/washington-dc-among-us-cities-most-vulnerable-space-weather-scientists-say

Bluegreen

21st July 2024, 01:44

Sky | Earth | Water

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=51729&d=1693964169

Bluegreen

23rd July 2024, 02:26

King of Wings Hoodoo Under the Milky Way by Wayne Pinkston

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https://apod.nasa.gov

This rock structure is not only surreal -- it's real. Perhaps the reason it's not more famous is that it is smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is a fascinating example of an unusual type of rock structure called a hoodoo.

Hoodoos may form when a layer of hard rock overlays a layer of eroding softer rock. Figuring out the details of incorporating this hoodoo into a night-sky photoshoot took over a year. After much planning and waiting, the final shot, featured here, was taken in May 2016. Mimicking the horizontal bar, the background sky features the band of our Milky Way Galaxy stretching overhead.

Bluegreen

23rd July 2024, 02:35

The Sky Tonite

July 24 and 25 mornings: Moon visits Saturn

In the early morning hours of July 24 and 25, 2024, the waning gibbous moon will hang close to Saturn. The bright star Fomalhaut will shine nearby. Also, sky watchers in locations including Asia and Africa will see the moon pass in front of – or occult – Saturn around 21 UTC on July 24.

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Late July through early August: Delta Aquariid meteor shower

The Delta Aquariid meteor shower doesn’t have a noticeable peak. It rambles along steadily from late July through early August, joining forces with the August Perseids. The radiant – the point where the meteors seem to originate – is highest in the sky at 2 a.m.

July 29 to 31 evenings: Mercury and Venus

Venus will hang low in the west about 30 minutes after sunset on the last few evenings of July. Tiny Mercury will lie near Venus as well. Look for them in the bright evening twilight. Venus sets about 50 minutes after the sun.

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July 29 and 30 mornings: Moon near Mars, Jupiter and Pleiades

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https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/

Bluegreen

23rd July 2024, 02:55

Space Rock | Weird Al

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"Yoda"

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Bluegreen

23rd July 2024, 03:12

3rd February 1972: The Deadliest Recorded Blizzard Hits Iran

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Iran was in the grip for years of drought when, in January 1972, the country was hit by several snowstorms that began to dump snow on the country. However, at the start of February an unprecedented natural disaster unfolded amidst an extratropical cyclone that passed into Iran on February 3. The blizzard’s onset was gradual but relentless. For almost a week the storm hit vast areas of Iran, burying the worst affected areas in up to 8 metres (26 feet) of snow, which covered two story buildings completely.

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Bluegreen

23rd July 2024, 03:40

Crew of NASA's Earthbound Simulated Mars Habitat Emerge After a Year

The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth

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The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien environment Saturday around 5 p.m.

Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones entered the 3D-printed habitat on June 25, 2023, as the maiden crew of the space agency's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog project.

Haston, the mission commander, began with a simple, "Hello."

"It's actually just so wonderful to be able to say 'hello' to you all," she said.

Jones, a physician and the mission medical officer, said their 378 days in confinement "went by quickly."

The quartet lived and worked inside the space of 17,000 square feet (1,579 square meters) to simulate a mission to the red planet, the fourth from the sun and a frequent focus of discussion among scientists and sci-fi fans alike concerning a possible voyage taking humans beyond our moon.

The first CHAPEA crew focused on establishing possible conditions for future Mars operations through simulated spacewalks, dubbed "Marswalks," as well as growing and harvesting vegetables to supplement their provisions and maintaining the habitat and their equipment.

They also worked through challenges a real Mars crew would be expected to experience including limited resources, isolation and delays in communication of up to 22 minutes with their home planet on the other side of the habitat's walls. Two additional CHAPEA missions are planned and crews will continue conducting simulated spacewalks and gathering data on factors related to physical and behavioral health and performance.

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Science officer Anca Selariu said she had been asked many times why there is a fixation on Mars.

"Why go to Mars? Because it's possible," she said. "Because space can unite and bring out the best in us. Because it's one defining step that 'Earthlings' will take to light the way into the next centuries."

Published 7th July 2024 by Brian P. D. Hannon – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-crew-nasa-earthbound-simulated-mars.html

Bluegreen

24th July 2024, 00:23

Beautiful Jupiter

Jupiter's Rings, Moons and Auroras

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near captured imagery of Jupiter and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea on July 27, 2022. Also visible in the false color Near Infrared Camara (NIRCam) images are the gas giant planet's rings and auroras. Music: "Jupiter Aurora" by David Celeste.

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Full story published 16th July 2024 – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/167786/new-images-from-webb-reveal-jupiters-complex-atmosphere/#more-167786

Latest images of Jupiter

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May 2024 (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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May 2024 (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Bluegreen

25th July 2024, 00:09

Beautiful Earth

INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL Places on Earth

These destinations captivate with their unique landscapes, vibrant colors, and serene environments, offering unforgettable experiences for all who visit. Join us, as we countdown 15 incredibly beautiful places on Earth.

Published 21st July 2024 (20:47)

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Bluegreen

25th July 2024, 00:31

Sweet :heart2: (E)motion

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/

Inversion

25th July 2024, 12:15

A woman found the oldest message in a bottle dating to 1876 on the Jersey shore.

dailymail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13669531/woman-discovers-worlds-oldest-message-bottle-jersey-shore.html)

A greetings card designer stumbled upon what is believed to be the world's oldest message in a bottle while walking along the Jersey Shore.

Amy Smyth Murphy, 49, was strolling along a beach at Corson’s State Inlet in Ocean City when she spotted an unusual looking bottle at the water's edge.

'I just thought, "This is so peculiar. What is this?''' Smyth Murphy told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

After some research, she managed to determine that the message in a bottle likely dates back as far as 1876 - which would make it the oldest artefact of its kind.

Most intriguing was a barely legible, handwritten note found inside the bottle which reads: 'Yacht Neptune off Atlantic City, New Jersey. Aug. 6 - 76.'

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edina

25th July 2024, 17:33

Your Brain: Perception Deception | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS (https://youtu.be/HU6LfXNeQM4?si=ZnDEtu4Rj8fSFJeu)
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Bluegreen

27th July 2024, 01:03

DANGERS OF THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

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Disappearances, mystery, and trouble along the Trail.

... the most dangerous hiking trail in the world.

Published 23rd April 2023 (29:10)

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Mountain Witches of Appalachia

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If English is not your native language, you may have difficulties understanding this southern gentleman. Actually, even if it is, you might.

Published 20th January 2022 (13:49)

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Bluegreen

27th July 2024, 01:10

Lost In Space 2.0

From 8 Days To 50: Boeing Starliner Astronauts Still Stuck in Space

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What's going on with our stranded astronauts?

Published 25th July 2024 (1:27)

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Bluegreen

28th July 2024, 02:41

Infamous UFO Above Jerusalem Debunked

Why All 4 Angles Were a Hoax

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The Jerusalem UFO is a series of 4 videos allegedly showing the same object, hovering over an Islamic shrine known as the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. All clips were filmed and uploaded to youtube in late January 2011 and till this day many believe that it’s an authentic UAP incident ...

Published 12th July 2024 (11:50)

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Related:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1615667&viewfull=1#post1615667

Bluegreen

29th July 2024, 23:18

Why Recent Unusual Activities in the San Andreas Fault Could Trigger a Major Earthquake

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In the heart of California, a geological time bomb is ticking. The San Andreas Fault, which spans 1200 km across California, serves as the state's tectonic backbone. For more than a century, this fault has silently accumulated energy, waiting for the right moment to unleash its fury. The scary truth is that this disaster is not a distant threat; it is an impending reality that will occur during our lives.

Published 24th July 2024 (14:15)

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4.9 Earthquake Strikes Near Barstow, Felt Throughout Southern California
Published 29th July 2024 – Orange County Register
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/07/29/4-9-earthquake-strikes-near-barstow-felt-throughout-southern-california/

Confirmation from Inversion
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113363-BREAKING-NEWS-Continuously-Updated&p=1625902&viewfull=1#post1625902

Bluegreen

29th July 2024, 23:54

How 2 Make a Military Strength Tin Foil Hat

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You want to be ready when the Illuminati turn on their particle beam weapons from the Moon.

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Bluegreen

30th July 2024, 00:13

MSM UFOs

What US Presidents Know About UFOs | Strange & Suspicious

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The TMZ crew ditch their usual celebrity gossip for a serious discussion. Who knew what? And when?

Published 1st July 2024 (5:14)

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Bluegreen

31st July 2024, 00:57

Space Weather News

ANATOMY OF A CANNIBAL CME

Over the weekend (July 27-28), the sun hurled multiple CMEs directly toward Earth. Individually, none of the CMEs was particularly impressive, but together they joined forces to form a potentially-potent "Cannibal CME." This NOAA model shows the process in action.

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The model shows as many as four CMEs mashing together to form a single storm front. It begins on July 27th when two closely-spaced CMEs left the sun and immediately merged. Thus "cannibalized," they traveled toward Earth, snowplowing the solar wind in front of them. A third CME followed on July 28th. It raced through the void created by the first two, easily catching them. A fourth CME on July 29th will combine with the others after they pass Earth.

The combined effect of these CMEs (a triple-cannibal followed by one or two stragglers) could spark strong G3-class geomagnetic storms on July 30-August 1. If such a storm materializes, auroras could be visible at mid-latitudes across Europe and the USA.

All Sky Fireball Network

https://www.spaceweather.com/site_images/fireballs_tablebg.jpg

On Jul 30, 2024, the network reported 37 fireballs. (21 sporadics, 4 alpha Capricornids, 4 Perseids, 4 southern Delta Aquariids)

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2024/30jul24/orbital_strip.jpg
https://www.spaceweather.com/

Bluegreen

31st July 2024, 01:29

Man in Space News

French photographer Jerome Brouillet knew he had the chance of capturing something special when Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina caught one of the day's biggest waves.

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But what Brouillet found when he checked his camera was beyond his wildest dreams.

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/czrjz1zy3k1o

Bluegreen

31st July 2024, 01:42

NASA Launches Real UFO In Jerusalem

I have been unable to corroborate this story, however, it is an interesting video.

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In a world where there are several unresolved conspiracy theories regarding the existence of UFO’s, Elon Musk has sparked the curiosity of all nations across the globe as he reveals his latest development, which is far from a social media app. This new development, a real UFO, has aroused curiosity and the questions being asked are: Did Elon Musk really defy the US government? What are the features of this newly developed UFO?

Published 17th July 2024 (19:33)

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Bluegreen

31st July 2024, 02:16

Space Girl

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 01:11

Be sure to check previous pages for missed items and hidden nuggets

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 01:18

John Collins: The Paper Airplane Guy

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Inside every adult: an inner child.

In 2012, John Collins created a paper airplane that allowed him to fly his way in the Guinness Book of World Records. In this video John talks about his love for math and science and how staying curious helps him develop his award-winning paper airplanes..

Published 9th July 2024 (3:48)

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 02:15

Is Super Mario Brothers A Surrealist Masterpiece?

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Published 20th July 2017 (12:58)

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 02:37

NASA Just Transmitted a Hip Hop Song by Missy Elliot to Venus

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https://x.com/MissyElliott/status/1812951003144007843

Hip-hop has officially been transmitted into deep space. Earlier this week, the popular 1997 song, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", by rapper Missy Elliot was transmitted from the DSN’s Goldstone complex to Venus, about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away.

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The lyrics from Elliott’s hip-hop song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were beamed to the second planet from the Sun via NASA’s Deep Space Network in a transmission sent by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 10:05 a.m. PDT on Friday, July 12.

So why is NASA broadcasting hip-hop into space? In recent years, the space agency has integrated pop culture and space exploration to attract the masses and make space digestible and reachable for everyone. Space exploration, in other words, is not just for astronauts and people who enjoy nerding out over planets and distant star systems; it’s for all of us. Branching out and reaching a larger audience showcases the diversity of our planet, which parallels the diversity of the universe and the many cosmic mysteries it holds.

“Supa Dupa Fly” went supa dupa far, traveling 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) from Earth to Venus.

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“Both space exploration and Missy Elliott’s art have been about pushing boundaries,” said Brittany Brown, director of the Digital and Technology Division, Office of Communications at NASA Headquarters in Washington, who initially pitched ideas to Missy’s team to collaborate with the agency. “Missy has a track record of infusing space-centric storytelling and futuristic visuals in her music videos, so the opportunity to collaborate on something out of this world is truly fitting.”

The DSN has transmitted only one other song into space, The Beatles “Across the Universe” in 2008. The recent transmission of Elliott’s song marks another groundbreaking moment.

Published 18th July 2024 by Chrissy Newton – The Debrief
https://thedebrief.org/nasa-just-transmitted-a-hip-hop-song-by-missy-elliot-to-venus/

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 03:56

Space Rock | Marconi Union

“Weightless”

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Bluegreen

2nd August 2024, 04:07

The Most Convincing UFO Videos of 2024

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In today’s technological age, it is often difficult to separate the real from the fake; the truth from the lies. In this video we will present a collection of clips and leave it to you – the viewer – to make your own mind up as to whether you believe them or not. The fact that such discussions and investigations on the subject of UFO’s is at an all-time high, proves that the truth is ‘somewhere’ out there.

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Iraq UFO
01:45 Seneca Lake Anomaly
02:47 Florida Orbs
03:56 Ukrainian Troops Spot Something
04:45 Blink, and You’ll Miss It
05:17 Potomac River Sighting
06:51 Cornish UFO
08:33 The Jellyfish UFO

Published 20th June 2024 (9:36)

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Bluegreen

4th August 2024, 00:33

August

Don't Miss These Sky Events in August 2024

Supermoon | Perseid Meteor Shower | Dance of Mars and Jupiter

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All Saints Days

http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/calmese2.php?anno=2024&mese=8

Bluegreen

4th August 2024, 00:58

'Spice Hater' Takes on World's Hottest Chilli and Regrets It

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Fifty quid. Worth it?

A 'skint' customer took on a Premier off licence's challenge of eating two of the 'world's hottest chillies' for a crate of Carling.

Published 31st July 2024 (2:17)

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Bluegreen

5th August 2024, 01:28

This Man Went Missing After Creating a Device to See 'Interdimensional Beings'

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First part concerns scientist Dr Daniel Nemes, and may be of interest to Casey Claar and others. Second part examines the interdimensional/multiverse theory.

Published 23rd July 2024 (13:48)

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Dr Daniel Nemes – Infinity Explorers
https://www.infinityexplorers.com/energy-vision-daniel-nemes-dimensional/
Beautiful Beings – Casey Claar
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119718-Beautiful-Beings

Bluegreen

5th August 2024, 01:42

Space Weather News

On Aug 04, 2024, NASA's All-Sky Network reported 42 fireballs (25 sporadics, 16 Perseids, 1 southern Delta Aquariid).

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A CONVERSATION BETWEEN SUNSPOTS

Sunspots do like to talk to one another. On Aug. 3rd, sunspot AR3775 produced a strong M7.3-class solar flare. An unnamed sunspot just behind the sun's eastern limb quickly responded with its own M5.4-class explosion.

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These are called "sympathetic solar flares"--that is, pairs of explosions that occur almost simultaneously in widely-spaced active regions. Long ago, researchers assumed the eruptions were just coincidence, but a 2002 study proved otherwise. Some sunspots are linked by nearly-invisible magnetic loops in the sun's corona. Instabilities can rapidly travel from one to another, creating a chain reaction of explosions.

If AR3775 is indeed linked to the unseen sunspot, more twin flares may be in the offing as both turn toward Earth in the days ahead.

Bluegreen

5th August 2024, 02:08

Once-in-a-lifetime Nova Explosion From T Coronae Borealis Will Create a 'New Star'

Astronomers and stargazers are eagerly awaiting the appearance of a "new" star, which will burst into view in the skies any night now.

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The star, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the "Blaze Star," is a nova that appears above our heads roughly every 80 years and will be visible with the naked eye, according to NASA.

Situated roughly 3,000 light-years away in the Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation, the nova is actually a pair of stars — an ancient red giant and an Earth-size white dwarf that is slowly stripping hydrogen from its companion.

Once enough hydrogen accumulates on the white dwarf, the growing pressure and heat triggers a thermonuclear blast that is visible from Earth. Besides being a spectacular astronomical event, the explosion helps astronomers to glean insights into how stars behave.

Two previous eruptions from T CrB, in 1866 and 1946, are well-documented, and evidence suggests the nova may have also been observed in 1787 and 1217.

In 1217 Abbot Burchard, a German monk and leader of Ursberg Abbey, recorded a rare sight appearing in the Northern Crown in his chronicle of the year. "A wonderful sign was seen," Burchard wrote, which "shone with great light" over "many days."

In 1866 and 1946, observations of the star showed that it grew in brightness for around 10 years, dimmed slightly in a "pre-eruption dip" and then became visible from Earth for about a week.

The exact date and time of the star's eruption isn't known, but given the punctual schedule of its past explosions and the fact that it's already had its pre-eruption dip, astronomers expect it to appear before September.

Published 2nd August 2024 by Ben Turner – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/once-in-a-lifetime-nova-explosion-from-t-coronae-borealis-will-create-a-new-star-in-the-sky

Bluegreen

5th August 2024, 02:44

Three UFO Videos

Ukrainian Soldiers Film UFO 'Bigger Than The Empire State Building'

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Ukrainian soldiers who filmed UFO 'bigger than the Empire State Building' over warzone in Donetsk tells Daily Mail it sat deathly still against winds and was 'hotter than anything I've ever seen'.

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Ukrainian Soldiers Film UFO – Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13142223/ukrainian-soldier-ufo-donetsk-sighting.html

Swarm of UFOs Filmed in Florida

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Satellites?

Published 20th July 2024 (2:50)

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Couple Spot UFO Hovering Above River Like 'Sci-Fi Movie'

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A stunned dad felt like 'he was in a sci-fi movie' after capturing footage of UFOs 'as bright as the sun' silently hovering in the night sky. Justin Stevenson was driving through Fort Alexander, Canada, with wife Danielle Daniels-Stevenson last month [May 14] when they spotted bright lights above the Winnipeg River. The 49-year-old pulled over at a clearing where Danielle, 32, filmed two 'sun-like' balls of light floating above the treeline without making a sound.

Published 21st June 2024 (2:57)

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Johnnycomelately

5th August 2024, 07:00

Hi, you 52 guests. And BG too!

Here’s a short concert to ease yas into the week. Good motivating tunes.

The Bad Brains objected to being labeled Punk, they were their own thing. One show at CBGB’s in NYC, they mopped the floor with the band they were opening for, forget which right now, and were banned from playing there ever again. - according iirc to Legs McNiel, in an interview for Juice Magazine (“Pools, Pipes, and Punk Rock”).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-wgzqTKFiE

Richter

5th August 2024, 07:19

What On Earth Is Surrounding Our Planet? (20:26)
I know, it's ThirdPhaseOfMoon - not the most reliable source of UFO info in the past - but I think they've tried to better their life/output.
More at: https://www.youtube.com/c/thirdphaseofmoon/videos

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Bluegreen

8th August 2024, 01:02

'A King Will Die': 4,000-year-old Lunar Eclipse Omen Tablets Deciphered

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Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.

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Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction and pestilence.

The four clay tablets "represent the oldest examples of compendia of lunar-eclipse omens yet discovered" Andrew George, an emeritus professor of Babylonian at the University of London, and Junko Taniguchi, an independent researcher, wrote in a paper published recently in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies. (Lunar eclipses occur when the moon falls into Earth's shadow.)

The authors of the tablets used the time of night, movement of shadows and the date and duration of eclipses to predict omens.

It's possible that ancient astrologers used past experiences to help determine what omens the eclipses portended. In Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia, there was a strong belief that celestial events could predict the future.

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People believed that "events in the sky were coded signs placed there by the gods as warnings about the future prospects of those on earth," George and Taniguchi wrote in the article. "Those who advised the king kept watch on the night sky and would match their observations with the academic corpus of celestial-omen texts."

Kings in ancient Mesopotamia didn't rely on those eclipse omens alone to predict what was coming.

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"If the prediction associated with a given omen was threatening, for example, 'a king will die,' then an oracular enquiry by extispicy was conducted to determine whether the king was in real danger," George and Taniguchi wrote.

If the animal entrails suggested that there was danger, people believed they could perform certain rituals that could annul the bad omen, thereby countering the forces of evil that lay behind it. So even if the omens were bad, people still believed that the forecasted future could be avoided.

[I]Published 6th August 2024 by Owen Janus – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/a-king-will-die-4-000-year-old-lunar-eclipse-omen-tablets-finally-deciphered

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Bluegreen

8th August 2024, 01:19

Full SuperMoon in Aquarius August 19th 2024

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Pam talks about the month of August and the Full SuperMoon in Aquarius on the 19th. What does this mean for you?

Published 1st August 2024 (45:12)

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Johnnycomelately

9th August 2024, 10:13

Here’s a good talk, IMO a good standard of quality communication. Stays on often nuanced facts, mostly abt history of and of counter strategies, to NorCal wildfires.

Zeke Lunder, in the wildfire-data/mapping business “since ‘98”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH1blhf1Tm0

Bluegreen

10th August 2024, 00:26

NASA Says Internal Disagreements Over Stranded Boeing Starliner

Return Date: 2025

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Are they grounded? Or maybe that's the wrong term?

Published 7th August 2024 (1:51)

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Bluegreen

10th August 2024, 00:50

Avalon Space

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Inversion

10th August 2024, 02:43

edina

10th August 2024, 18:31

I found this video about manmade erosion protection interesting. They show a newer version which has an X shape.

Tetrapods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(structure))

04/07/23 (15:04)

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What came to mind to as I watched this and what stood out to me as something to remember, is the infrastructure of the whole process. It’s a modern story. The technology of our times that in this case I have never considered. I’ve not even known enough to give it consideration. The actual tetrapod pieces are just one specific piece of an infrastructure discussed in this video; however, everything all around them is also a complex of infrastructure.

At the beginning of his novel, Ascension, Martin MacInnes (https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/in-ascension) spent a good deal of time (writing space) describing the infrastructure of keeping the ocean at bay in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. This video reminded me of that.

The infrastructure all around us is almost invisible to our conscious awareness. It’s not so much that we take it for granted, it’s more like it’s a part of the background we don’t even see enough to appreciate, or not appreciate. I don’t know, … watching the video left me wondering … it’s almost magical how it has all come together and how it works. And by magical I mean, maybe more miraculous.

It’s been a natural progression of events, inventions, generations of humans envisioning solutions, designing them, building them, in response to problems they faced in varying degrees.

It’s not like one mind sat on top and directed all of this, it’s more that it emerged. It’s the emergent quality of it as viewed across time and space on a scale that hasn’t been available to view, until recently, that gives it that magical feel.

Perhaps a better word would be “awe”. Appreciation.

Bluegreen

10th August 2024, 22:45

Space Rock News

If you're only going to look for one meteor shower this year, the current and ongoing Perseids would be it. As this chart demonstrates, the odds are good.

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The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most prolific showers of the year, producing rich, bright streaks. The Perseids are active from mid-July until late August and will peak on the night of Aug. 11, before dawn on Aug. 12, 2024, but expect good viewing conditions for the week on either side of the peak, too.

Viewers can start observing around 11 p.m. local time when the rates of shooting stars increase and can watch the sky until dawn.

The Perseid meteor shower radiant is in the constellation Perseus. This strong shower is produced by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, an icy body that takes 133 Earth years to orbit once around the sun.

If there's a clear sky, the Perseids can have a meteor rate of about 100 visible "shooting stars" per hour.

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Perseids 2023 Qinghai Province, China

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Perseids 2023 Corum, Turkey

More from Isserley:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?48540-Perseid-Meteor-Shower-can-be-seen-across-the-Globe&p=1628005&viewfull=1#post1628005

Bluegreen

11th August 2024, 22:29

Constellation Perseus

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Perseus holds the decapitated head of Medusa the Gorgon

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The Perseids meteor shower emanate each year from the Perseus constellation.

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◘ 0:00 - Introduction to Perseus
◘ 2:51 - Star Pattern of Perseus
◘ 3:56 - Practice finding Perseus
◘ 6:46 - Using Cassiopeia to find Perseus
◘ 7:57 - Mythologies of Perseus (Babylonian Star Catalogs, Fixed Book of Stars, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Cetus)
◘ 10:56 - Review of Perseus
◘ 12:24 - Photo Attributes

Bluegreen

11th August 2024, 22:47

China's Space Junk // Graphene on the Moon // Best Meteor Shower Is Here

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Mr Cain waxes poetic on the Perseids before going over this week's happenings in outer space.

Published 9th August 2024 (20:00)

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Bluegreen

12th August 2024, 23:31

Went out for the meteors last night, but it got too cloudy, and I only saw one. That's OK. I caught a falling star.

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Bluegreen

12th August 2024, 23:37

Mars Study Suggests an Ocean May be Hiding Beneath the Red Surface

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Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.

The findings released Monday are based on seismic measurements from NASA’s Mars InSight lander, which detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.

This water — believed to be seven miles to 12 miles (11.5 kilometers to 20 kilometers) down in the Martian crust — most likely would have seeped from the surface billions of years ago when Mars harbored rivers, lakes and possibly oceans, according to the lead scientist, Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Just because water still may be sloshing around inside Mars does not mean it holds life, Wright said.

“Instead, our findings mean that there are environments that could possibly be habitable.”

Although the InSight lander is no longer working, scientists continue to analyze the data collected from 2018 through 2022, in search of more information about Mars’ interior.

Wet almost all over more than 3 billion years ago, Mars is thought to have lost its surface water as its atmosphere thinned, turning the planet into the dry, dusty world known today. Scientists theorize much of this ancient water escaped out into space or remained buried below.

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Published 12th August 2024 by Associated Press
https://apnews.com/article/mars-water-insight-nasa-marsquakes-c50281cac5b27d6662eab97140d10c7d

Bluegreen

13th August 2024, 00:00

Milky Way's Black Hole 'Exhaust Vent' Discovered in Eerie X-ray Observations

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Engineers of all fields are paying attention to the Milky Way Black Hole, due to recent studies and discoveries. A gargantuan "exhaust vent" may be channeling hot gas away from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole at millions of miles per hour — and filling up two enormous bubbles that tower over the galaxy.

The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is unleashing huge, gassy explosions — and now, astronomers think they've pinpointed the exact spot where that superheated gas is spilling into the Milky Way.

Acting like a gargantuan exhaust vent, the newly discovered feature is a bright region of X-ray energy that's nearly 700 light-years from the galaxy's supermassive black hole but linked to it by a long "chimney" of superhot gas.

According to new research accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, this spray of X-rays results from hot, black-hole-driven gas traveling up the chimney and colliding with cooler gas in the surrounding environment at more than 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h), sending enormous shock waves rippling through the galaxy.

Published 27th June 2024 by Brandon Specktor – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/milky-ways-black-hole-exhaust-vent-discovered-in-eerie-x-ray-observations

Bluegreen

13th August 2024, 00:18

Dog Perfume

Proof positive our society is going to the dogs.

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Italian fashion label Dolce & Gabbana is taking the canine perfume world by storm with Fefé, an “olfactory masterpiece” created by a master perfumer that will leave your pooch smelling like a million dollars.

Priced at a jaw-drooling €99 ($108) per 100 ml, Fefé comes in a “sleek green lacquered glass bottle, adorned with a vibrant red metal cap and a precious 24-carat gold-plated paw.” Smell-wise, it features “the cocooning and warm notes of Ylang, the clean and enveloping touch of Musk, and the woody creamy undertones of Sandalwood.”

Bluegreen

13th August 2024, 23:52

Perseids Over Stonehenge

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Bluegreen

13th August 2024, 23:57

Ancient Aliens: Dark Secrets of Alien-Human Genetics

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She woke up one day and had a tail. Explore the chilling and dramatic secrets of human-alien DNA fusion in this Ancient Aliens compilation.

Published 9th August 2024 (17:14)

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Bluegreen

14th August 2024, 00:22

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Earth Hit by 'Severe' Solar Storm

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The Earth was hit Monday by an intense solar storm that could bring the northern lights to night skies further south than normal, a US agency announced.

Conditions of a level-four geomagnetic storm -- on a scale of five -- were observed Monday from 1500 GMT, according to a specialized center at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). These conditions may persist for several hours, but were not expected to increase further in intensity.

"A severe geomagnetic storm includes the potential for aurora to be seen faintly as far south as Alabama and northern California," NOAA said in a statement, referring to US states.

The new solar storm is caused by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are explosions of particles leaving the Sun. When these particles arrive on Earth, they disrupt its magnetic field.

Published 12th August 2024 by AFP Staff Writers – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Earth_hit_by_severe_solar_storm_999.html

MSM takes note ...

Could Recent Solar Flares Impact Technology on Earth?

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is keeping a close eye on the sun after intense flares that began over the weekend. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY on how this could impact technology on Earth.

Published 13th August 2024 (2:27)

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Bluegreen

14th August 2024, 00:48

The Pillars of Creation and the Interplay of Stars and Dust

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This scientific visualization explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula and the various ways that stars and dust are intertwined in the process of star formation. In developing the contextual story and the three-dimensional model, the video uses data from science papers, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Webb Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The extraordinary video enters a journey into the three-dimensional structure of the pillars. Based on scientific results, astronomers and artists modeled this striking formation in three dimensions and created a sequence that flies past and amongst the pillars. What can look like 3 connected pillars in a two-dimensional image separates into four dust clouds with ionized gas streaming away from each.

Published 26th June (4:37)

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Bluegreen

14th August 2024, 23:10

Flying Saucers: Myth or Menace? by Lawrence Elliott

November 1952 Coronet Magazine

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Bluegreen

14th August 2024, 23:23

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Bluegreen

14th August 2024, 23:42

The First UFO Documentary: "The Flying Saucer Mystery"

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The 1950 original version and the 1952 revised edition. Film reproduction can be spotty on occasion, but a fascinating document from a different time.

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Nick Mariana UFO Footage - 1950 - Great Falls, Montana

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This is from the extremely rare 1956 film U.F.O., with segments of the film relating to Nick Mariana's UFO footage filmed in 16mm on August 15th, 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. Included is a rehearsed but accurate interview with Nick Mariana regarding the filming as well as some breakdown analysis of the footage.

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Bluegreen

16th August 2024, 02:00

Beer in Space :beer: - Researchers study microgravity's effect on fermentation

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A recent study by University of Florida researchers provides insight into how beer yeast might behave when fermented in outer space. The research is published in the journal Beverages.

While the concept may initially sound trivial, it has far-reaching applications, according to the study, a collaboration between researchers from the UF/IFAS food science and human nutrition department and the horticultural sciences department.

Fermentation is an essential process in the creation of food products including bread, yogurt and kombucha. Biofuels and many pharmaceuticals are also generated through fermentation. But the researchers chose to analyze beer yeast fermentation because humans have brewed beer for thousands of years, and there is an established foundation of knowledge about it.

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"We are absolutely going to be conducting fermentations under microgravity in the future, as we continue space exploration, and there are going to be outcomes that will be very difficult for us to predict," said study author Andrew MacIntosh, a UF/IFAS associate professor of food science.

"It's essential that we look at what some of those outcomes may be, now, so we can decide which processes are going to be the first ones we perform under microgravity, how we adapt them and how we can take advantage of the changes we see."

MacIntosh said the team's research marks only the beginning of understanding how microgravity can be leveraged to improve products used every day.

"This study is definitely the first piece in the puzzle, and I'm excited to do more," he said.

Published 15th August 2024 by Megan Winslow, University of Florida – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-beer-space-microgravity-effect-fermentation.html

Bluegreen

16th August 2024, 02:03

Astronauts Regularly Smuggle Alcohol Into Space

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Published 14th April 2023 (7:14)

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Bluegreen

16th August 2024, 02:24

The Dead & Dying Speedways of the South | Abandoned (Full Episode)

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The original tracks that built NASCAR into Big Business are getting left in the dust.

Published 1st June 2023 (43:45)

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Bluegreen

16th August 2024, 02:51

Very Fast Mysterious Flying Object Knocks Man Out Cold

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This is the bizarre moment a strange object flew into a home and sent a man flying out the entrance.

The surveillance video, shot in Columbia on July 21, showed the individual walking up the steps and entering the residence. About 14 seconds elapsed when the object appeared out of nowhere in the camera and slammed into the door frame. The force of the impact knocked the man backwards and sent him crashing to the ground. He lay motionless until two individuals walked over to check on his well-being.

Published 30th July 2024 (0:26)

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Bluegreen

18th August 2024, 01:17

The Surreal World of David Lynch

Dream #7

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Ghost of Love

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Kryztian

19th August 2024, 16:53

A Russian retablo.

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Translation: "I thank my Angel because on the night of January 12, 2014, my niece Natasha Demidova and I saw an UFO in the sky over Krasnodar. Objects were flying in the northwest direction. I was dreaming to see an UFO all my life!"

Kryztian

19th August 2024, 16:56

NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Unidentified Speeding Object Racing Through Space at 1 Million MPH
Tim McMillan·August 19, 2024
https://thedebrief.org/nasa-citizen-scientists-spot-unidentified-speeding-object-racing-through-space-at-1-million-mph/

A group of citizen scientists participating in NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have discovered a mysterious object zipping through space at a staggering 1 million miles per hour.

“I can’t describe the level of excitement,” Kabatnik, a citizen scientist from Nuremberg, Germany, said in a NASA press release. “When I first saw how fast it was moving, I was convinced it must have been reported already.”

The discovery has left astronomers baffled but excited, as they are now working to determine the identity of this rapid traveler. The breakthrough also underscores the invaluable contributions of citizen scientists to modern space exploration.

The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a NASA-funded science initiative that invites volunteers worldwide to assist professional astronomers in scanning vast amounts of astronomical data for signs of new celestial objects.

These volunteers, often called “citizen scientists,” play a crucial role in the discovery process by analyzing images taken by telescopes and satellites, looking for anything unusual that automated systems might have missed.

The initiative was launched in 2017 to enlist the public’s help in scanning the Solar System for smaller, faint celestial objects, including potentially locating an elusive hypothesized ninth planet of our Solar System, often called “Planet Nine.”

While Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’s main goal is to locate a potential ninth planet in the distant reaches of our Solar System, the project has also led to the discovery of other significant objects, such as brown dwarfs, planetary bodies, and high-velocity stars.

Accessible through the popular citizen-science research portal, the Zooniverse, participants in the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project are given access to a vast archive of data, including infrared images captured by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope.

These images span several years, allowing volunteers to search for moving objects—indications of previously undiscovered celestial bodies. By comparing images taken at different times, volunteers can spot objects that shift position, suggesting they are closer to Earth than distant stars or galaxies.

The recently discovered object, dubbed “CWISE J1249,” was identified by volunteers sifting through NASA data in search of new planetary bodies or other celestial phenomena.

One of the most remarkable features of CWISE J1249 is its astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour. For comparison, the fastest man-made object in space is the Parker Solar Probe, which, at its closest approach to the Sun, reaches speeds of 430,000 mph.

At its current velocity, CWISE J1249 surpasses most known objects in our Solar System and is fast enough to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull, propelling it into intergalactic space.

In addition to its hypervelocity, CWISE J1249 possesses several unique features that make it difficult for NASA scientists to adequately classify it as a celestial object. Namely, it appears to be a low-mass object, somewhere in the class of a brown dwarf or between the mass of a gas giant and a low-mass star.

However, additional data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii, shows that CWISE J1249 contains much less iron and other metals than other stars or brown dwarfs.

“This unusual composition suggests that CWISE J1249 is quite old, likely from one of the first generations of stars in our galaxy,” NASA notes.

While the exact nature of CWISE J1249 remains unknown, several possibilities are being considered.

One possibility is that the object is a rogue planet—an exoplanet that has been ejected from its original solar system and is now wandering through space unbound to any star. Rogue planets are difficult to detect due to their lack of a nearby star to illuminate them, making this a significant find if confirmed.

Another possibility is that the object could be a brown dwarf, a celestial body larger than a planet but not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion in its core like a true star.

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called “failed stars.” They occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars. Given the object’s high velocity, it could be a rare example of a high-velocity brown dwarf, providing valuable insights into the dynamics of such objects in our galaxy.

There is also speculation that CWISE J1249 could be a hypervelocity star. Hypervelocity stars are rare stars that travel at unusually high speeds, often due to being ejected from a binary star system after a supernova explosion or interaction with the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

“When a star encounters a black hole binary, the complex dynamics of this three-body interaction can toss that star right out of the globular cluster,” Dr. Kyle Kremer, a professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, explained.

Considering the various controversial theories surrounding the 2017 detection of “Oumuamua,” the first interstellar object observed passing through our Solar System, it’s worth noting that there is no evidence to suggest CWISE J1249 is a massive extraterrestrial spacecraft.

NASA says that the object’s composition and characteristics are now under close examination by professional scientists looking to definitively identify what type of celestial body it is.

This is not the first time citizen scientists involved in the Backyard Worlds project have made a significant discovery.

In 2018, participants in the project found the “oldest and coldest known white dwarf – an Earth-sized remnant of a Sun-like star that has died – ringed by dust and debris.” The find represented the first known evidence of a white dwarf with multiple dust rings.

More recently, citizen scientists identified another high-velocity object, CWISE J1249+3621, which was later determined to be a very low-mass star or brown dwarf moving at an unusually high speed.

“CWISE J1249+3621 is the first hypervelocity very low mass star or brown dwarf to be found, and the nearest of all such systems,” researchers wrote in a study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. “It may represent a broader population of very high velocity, low-mass objects that have undergone extreme accelerations.”

In all, NASA says that Backyard Worlds citizen scientists are responsible for the discovery of more than 4,000 new brown dwarfs. However, unlike this recent mystery object, none of those were on their way out of the Solar System.

Ultimately, the success of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project underscores the growing importance of citizen science in the field of astronomy. As technology advances and the amount of data generated by telescopes and space missions continues to increase, the role of citizen scientists becomes ever more critical.

These volunteers provide a valuable resource, offering fresh eyes on data and sometimes spotting things that automated systems or even professional astronomers might miss.

NASA and other space agencies increasingly rely on the global community of amateur astronomers to help with data analysis, particularly in large-scale projects where human intuition and pattern recognition can complement computers’ capabilities. Collaboration between professional scientists and citizen volunteers is becoming a vital part of space exploration, opening up new possibilities for discovery.

As for the mysterious object CWISE J1249, moving at 1 million miles per hour, the coming months will likely bring more detailed observations and analysis, which could help unlock its secrets.

Whether it’s a rogue planet, a brown dwarf, or something entirely unexpected, the discovery reminds us how much there is still to learn about our universe and how anyone, regardless of their formal training, can contribute to that journey of discovery.

Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 00:24

Full Blue Supermoon 19th August 2024

Seville, Spain

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Qingyang County, Anhui, China

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Toronto, Canada

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Arlington, Virginia, USA

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Istanbul, Turkey

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Stockholm, Sweden

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Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 00:58

Mossad: How the Most Elite Spy Agency Operates

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One perspective, historical and recent, on the Israeli bureau of espionage.

Published 19th July 2024 (22:41)

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○ 0:00 Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
○ 0:35 Origins and Founding of Mossad
○ 1:20 Israel’s Intelligence Triad
○ 1:44 Recruitment and Operations of Mossad
○ 2:13 High-Profile Operations: Adolf Eichman
○ 2:45 Sabotaging Egypt’s Missile Program
○ 4:06 Operation Diamond and the MiG-21
○ 4:40 The Six-Day War and Its Consequences
○ 5:35 The Rise of the PLO and Fatah
○ 6:22 Munich Olympic Games and Black September
○ 7:20 Mossad’s Retaliation Campaign
○ 8:04 Operation Entebbe: A Daring Rescue
○ 9:32 Intelligence Failures: The Yom Kippur War
○ 10:45 The Camp David Accords
○ 12:00 Iran: From Ally to Adversary
○ 13:09 Mossad’s Role in Lebanon
○ 14:31 Rescue Operations: Ethiopian Jews
○ 15:20 The First Intifada and Oslo Accords
○ 16:21 Targeting Hamas Leadership
○ 18:02 Countering Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
○ 20:11 Recent Challenges: The 2023 Hamas Attack
○ 20:51 Sponsor & personal reflection

Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 01:08

Related?

Omnivision OV6948 – World's Smallest Camera

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More: "OMNIVISION’s CameraCubeChip® integrates image sensors, processor and lenses in a miniature wafer-level camera module."

https://www.ovt.com/technologies/cameracubechip/

Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 01:53

'Banana Apocalypse' Could Be Averted Thanks to Genetic Breakthrough

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Fusarium wilt is threatening the global supply of bananas, but researchers are making progress

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the race to save the world's bananas from a devastating disease that could wipe them out, according to a new study.

The bananas we eat, called Cavendish bananas, are threatened by a plant-killing disease called fusarium wilt. This disease has already wiped out other banana varieties, and it devastated banana production in the 1950s.

But in the new study, researchers found that the disease strain threatening bananas today didn't evolve from the strain that caused so much damage in the 20th century and that there may be a way to control its spread.

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"The kind of banana we eat today is not the same as the one your grandparents ate," study senior author Li-Jun Ma, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said in the statement. "Those old ones, the Gros Michel bananas, are functionally extinct, victims of the first Fusarium outbreak in the 1950s."

Cavendish bananas were bred to resist the strain of fusarium wilt that wiped out Gros Michel bananas. However, a second outbreak of fusarium wilt that did affect the Cavendish variety emerged in the 1990s, and the Cavendish has been under threat ever since. Like bananas, fusarium wilt has many varieties, and each affects a different plant host.

When researchers compared 36 Fusarium strains from around the world, they found that the one causing the current outbreak uses genes that produce fungal nitric oxide to attack hosts, according to the study. The team doesn't know how these genes lead the disease to infect Cavendish bananas. However, they found that the disease's virulence — its capacity to damage a host — was reduced when the genes were eliminated, so reducing the nitric oxide could be key to controlling the disease.

Although the new study could help save our favorite bananas, Ma noted that monocropping — growing the same crop every year — is the underlying problem facing bananas, and they will be vulnerable to disease as long as we continue to rely on a single variety.

Published 19th August 2024 by Patrick Pester – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/food-diet/banana-apocalypse-could-be-averted-thanks-to-genetic-breakthrough

Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 02:18

Superheroes in Real Life

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Ordinary superheroes to the rescue.

Published 2nd May 2024 (8:34)

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Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 23:34

Is Immortality in Our Reach? Unveiling Sea Anemone Secrets

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Discovering the Fountain of Youth in Sea Anemones

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The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is potentially immortal. Using molecular genetic methods, developmental biologists led by Ulrich Technau from the University of Vienna have now identified possible candidates for multipotent stem cells in the sea anemone for the first time.

These stem cells are regulated by evolutionary highly conserved genes, which in humans are usually only active in the formation of egg and sperm cells, but give ancient animal phyla such as cnidarians a high degree of regenerative capacity to even escape aging. The results are currently being published in Science Advances and could also provide insights into the human aging process in the future.

“We live as long as our stem cells” is a somewhat bold but essentially accurate statement. Stem cells contribute to the constant renewal of various cells and tissues in humans, e.g. blood cells, skin, or hair. If stem cells lose this ability or their number decreases in the course of life, the body ages or develops diseases. Stem cells are therefore of great interest for biomedical research.

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Laser scanning microscope picture of stem cells in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

While humans and most vertebrates can only regenerate parts of certain organs or limbs, other animal groups have far stronger regeneration mechanisms. This ability is made possible by pluripotent or multipotent stem cells, which can form (differentiate) almost all cell types of the body.

The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is also highly regenerative: it can reproduce asexually by budding and also shows no signs of aging, which makes it an interesting subject for stem cell research.

Published 21st August 21 2024 by University of Vienna – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/is-immortality-in-our-reach-unveiling-sea-anemone-secrets/

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Peer reviewed – Science Advances
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado0424

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Bluegreen

21st August 2024, 23:51

Russia's Progress Cargo Spacecraft Docks With Space Station In Amazing Time-Lapse

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Helping out with the stranded astronauts, the Russian Progress MS-28 freighter docked with the International Space Station on Aug. 17, 2024. It is carrying nearly three tons of food, scientific equipment and other supplies.

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Bluegreen

22nd August 2024, 00:22

BEWILDERED: TEN HUMANOID ENCOUNTERS

Looks like Preston Dennett got a new art director. However, his trademark: exhaustive documentation on the UFO cases investigated, remains the same.

Published 9th August 2024 (1:07:08)

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A close encounter with a UFO, and especially humanoids, challenges a person on multiple levels: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Almost without exception witnesses are left stunned, surprised, bewildered. The ten cases presented in this video come from across the world, involve a wide variety of humanoids, and contain a wide variety of evidence. And each case shows how the witnesses are deeply and profoundly affected to a degree that their lives are never the same.

BLACK HOLE ALIENS. On August 26,1974, Jean Marie Bigorne stepped outside his home in Feignies, France and saw a black hole in the gray night sky. As it started to descend, he rushed inside, got his wife, and together they watched it split into two half-circles. The right side disappeared, but the left side suddenly revealed two robotic-looking humanoids. The witnesses became entranced and watched it for 45 minutes until going inside. They never saw it leave.

ALIENS IN THE ANDES. On the evening of February 17, 1981, cattleman Jose Fermin Albornoz was sleeping after protecting a herd of sheep in the Manzano-Amargo area of the Argentinian Andes. A brilliant light and buzzing noise woke him up and he saw a saucer land next to his campsite. As the animals scattered, two strange humanoids appeared and spoke to him in a strange language. Jose fainted in fear.

HUMANOIDS AT THE CAMPGROUND. On evening in 1981, a group of people were camping at Laguna Sofia National Park in Puerto Natales, Chile. One of the campers stepped outside her tent and saw a strange craft drop from the sky and land nearby. As she approached, a door opened and three tall humanoids exited and began taking soil samples. She fled and woke everyone up in time to watch the craft dart away.

THE LIGHT-HEADED ALIEN. On the night of October 9, 1984, doorman Isidoro Ferri was woken up in his bedroom at the Villa La Radicchia in Polcanto, Italy by a brilliant light streaming in through the window. Paralyzed, he saw that the light was coming from the head of a humanoid standing outside. Shortly later, he saw a craft. The light flashed and fluctuated, causing alarming physiological effects. Afterwards, landing traces were found, and researchers found many other witnesses.

THE ALIENS AT SCHOOL. One day in June 1986, “Leif” was parked next to a school in Ytteroya, Norway when he noticed a three-foot-tall figure with a bald head and huge dark eyes approach. It wore a shiny blue jumpsuit. Fifteen feet behind it was a landed UFO. Leif hid behind the truck as the being turned around and re-entered the craft. Two of the figures turned and stared at Leif as the craft rose into the sky and departed.

THE HUNTERS AND THE ALIENS. On the night of June 26, 1987, three men were hunting in the countryside near Badajoz, Spain when a brilliant light appeared in the sky. It zoomed towards them and landed, disgorging two tall, strong-looking figures. The two humanoids approached the hunters, who panicked and fled the scene. Moments later, they saw the craft depart. Later, landing traces were found.

KT & THE GRAYS. One day in May 1992, wildlife researcher K.T. Frankovich was walking her dogs through a lime grove next to her apartment in Miami-Dade, Florida. Suddenly a gray alien appeared. K.T. watched it for several minutes, receiving several telepathic messages before fleeing the scene. A few nights later, two grays appeared outside her apartment with another profound message.

HAVANA HUMANOID. On the morning of November 27, 1995, security guard Samuel Rodolfo Barreras was shocked to see a flying saucer approach and land next to the buildings he was guarding outside of Havana City, Cuba. A door in the craft opened and out stepped a robotic-looking humanoid who approached Samuel (who was now paralyzed.) The being scanned the area for 15 minutes before returning to the craft, which promptly departed.

THE HUMANOID IN THE BATHROOM. Late on the night of June 24, 2001, Mr. G.H. a university professor from Patras, Greece, walked into his kitchen and was confronted by a tall faceless humanoid wearing a shiny blue coverall. It ran into his bathroom and disappeared. For the next few minutes, he chased it around the house, back into the bathroom twice more until it was gone, leaving the witnesses utterly bewildered.

IT APPEARED THREE TIMES. One night in December 2001, a young man was watching TV alone in his family’s home in Tampa, Florida. Hearing an odd crinkling sound outside, he looked and saw a gray ET standing in his backyard. It quickly disappeared. Later, the witness heard the same sound again and saw that the ET had returned to his backyard. Then the gray-skinned humanoid returned a third time.

Bluegreen

23rd August 2024, 02:03

UFO Attacks Nuclear Missile Warhead - The Big Sur UAP Incident // 3D Animation

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Gamer Robert Jacobs continues his “Labor of Love” series with another well-researched and re-presented account of the little known 1964 Big Sur nuclear UFO incident, as well as very recent developments.

Published 24th June 2024 (19:12)

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In 1964, Big Sur in California became the epicenter of a remarkable UFO incident. Witnesses reported sightings of a strange, disc-shaped object that attacked an intercontinental ballistic missile, causing it to malfunction. The witnesses were Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze J. Mansmann Jr., who captured the incident on film. My video reconstructs this incident, bringing the events of the Big Sur UFO incident to life through 3D CGI animation. It provides a visual representation of the events as they unfolded, based on the accounts of those who witnessed them.

Bluegreen

23rd August 2024, 02:14

Hundreds of Asteroid Moons Discovered: Gaia Unveils Solar System’s Hidden Companions

In a significant breakthrough, the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, renowned for mapping stars in the Milky Way, has identified hundreds of previously unknown asteroid moons in our solar system.

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These findings, revealed in Gaia’s third data release, nearly double the known count of binary asteroids—asteroids that have small moons orbiting them. This discovery is shedding new light on the complexity and dynamics of our solar system, challenging prior assumptions about how common such systems might be.

The Gaia mission, which has primarily focused on charting the positions and movements of stars, has proven to be an unexpectedly powerful tool for asteroid detection. Using its precise astrometric capabilities, Gaia has been able to observe subtle shifts in the positions of more than 150,000 asteroids, which indicated the gravitational presence of small moons orbiting some of these asteroids. Through these observations, Gaia has identified 352 new binary asteroids, adding to the 500 previously known systems.

The findings from Gaia’s latest data release mark a major milestone in our understanding of the solar system, but they also raise new questions that scientists are eager to explore. The next steps in this research will involve using Gaia’s data to investigate the origins of these binary systems. There are several theories about how asteroid moons form, including the possibility that they are remnants of a larger body that broke apart, or that they formed through gravitational capture during close encounters between asteroids.

Published 12th August 2024 by Lydia Amazouz – Daily Galaxy
https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/08/asteroid-moons-discovered-gaia-mission/

Bluegreen

23rd August 2024, 02:40

Why Juice is Coming Back to Earth

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon and then Earth itself, ‘braking’ the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on it's way to Jupiter.

Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter is on average ‘just’ 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice's journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.

Published 19th August 2024 (9:23)

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Delight

23rd August 2024, 02:48

The Psychology of UFOs - Carl Jung

Strange sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history. After the Second World War, however, the appearance of UFOs became prominent in culture. Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung studied the UFO phenomenon for more than a decade until his death in 1961. He wrote a book entitled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, where he saw UFOs as a living myth for modern man, stating that we have the golden opportunity of seeing how a legend is formed, and how in a difficult and dark time for humanity a miraculous tale grows up of an attempted intervention by superior or “heavenly” beings.

Jung’s field of interest is the human reaction to the phenomena, an effort to understand the complex working of our interior life, as this is revealed through the UFO phenomenon. UFOs are visionary rumours whose basis is an emotional tension having its cause in a situation of collective distress or in a vital psychic need – shedding light on the psychic compensation of the collective fear weighing on our hearts.

UFOs have become a saviour myth, as we have projected on them a hope, an expectation. They express the symbol of totality represented by the mandala, the archetype of the Self, whose chief role is in uniting apparently irreconcilable opposites and is therefore best suited to compensate the split-mindedness of our age, bringing order and regulation to chaotic states.

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Bluegreen

25th August 2024, 01:19

Linda Moulton Howe - August 21, 2024 - Are UFO Glowing Orbs NOT Benevolent?

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TOPICS:

• Are UFO glowing orbs NOT benevolent?
• Feedback from Earthfiles viewer on interview with 2 commercial airline pilots’ encounter with UFO lights in the sky
• Luis Elizondo’s new book: “Imminent: inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs”
- He writes about personal encounters with “green-glowing orbs about the size of a basketball that invaded his home on and off for seven years”
- “They did not appear to be benevolent
- “We know we are not alone”
• Interview with abductee and author K. Rose Golden - Author of “Into the Grey’s Abyss”
• Linda reveals for the FIRST TIME her experience with an glowing orb

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Bluegreen

25th August 2024, 01:41

Space to Ground: The Scientist: Aug. 23, 2024

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Never A Straight Answer's 'Space to Ground' is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

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Bluegreen

25th August 2024, 02:01

A special thank you to Star Tsar

Seán Doran

Earthbound

Published 3rd May 2020

'Earthbound' is a real time video reconstruction of time-lapse photography taken from the International Space Station.

00:00:00 Red Light Green light
00:05:44 (Silence)
00:16:42 Losing You
00:22:53 Lament
00:28:12 Plateau
00:33:48 Tokoi
00:37:39 Whistling In The Dark
00:43:19 Ten
00:47:55 A Different Time
00:51:03 So Far Away
00:57:02 Relics
01:03:35 Neon melt
01:08:53 Ochre
01:14:21 Earthbound
01:20:04 Chasing Saturn
01:25:02 Edge of Darkness

Music by Phaeleh is available here: https://phaeleh.bandcamp.com/
Data source: eol.jsc.nasa.gov

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Bluegreen

26th August 2024, 01:38

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Boeing's Rescue by Rival SpaceX "Ill-Timed and Embarrassing"

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SpaceX is coming to Boeing's rescue.

The legacy company needing aid from an upstart rival is hardly welcome news to the aerospace giant.

Because of problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, two astronauts who rode on it to the International Space Station in June will finally return to Earth on a vessel built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. NASA's announcement Saturday of that plan represents a blow -- even a humiliation -- for Boeing, a historic partner of the American space agency.

It couldn't come at a worse time for Boeing. The sterling reputation its airplanes have long enjoyed has been seriously eroded by a series of malfunctions and two fatal crashes in recent years.

"It's not a good time for Boeing," said Erik Seedhouse, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

For Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts who flew to the ISS on Starliner, to have to return on a SpaceX craft is "very embarrassing," he added.

"It is an image problem," agreed Cai von Rumohr, an aeronautics analyst with TD Cowen, adding that it "could endanger future contracts with NASA."

But Boeing's status and mammoth size give it considerable capacity to bounce back.

"I don't think Boeing is going anywhere," said Glenn Lightsey, a professor at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech University.

Boeing has engendered cost overruns of some $1.6 billion in developing Starliner, hit by repeated delays in development and price hikes linked to supply chain problems.

But to put that in context, Boeing's Defense, Space & Security division had turnover of $24.93 billion in 2023 -- while the overall company had revenues of $77.79 billion.

"Yes, they can recover, because they're a juggernaut," said Seedhouse.

Published 24th August 2024 by Lucie Aubourg – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Boeings_rescue_by_rival_SpaceX_embarrassing_and_ill-timed_999.html

Bluegreen

26th August 2024, 01:53

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Bluegreen

26th August 2024, 17:23

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Sumptuous Marble Floor of Sunken Roman Villa Discovered Underwater in Italy

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An underwater discovery has emerged from the depths of the Submerged Archaeological Park of Baiae in Bacoli, Italy. Archaeologists have uncovered an exquisite marble floor belonging to an ancient Roman villa. This discovery, part of an ongoing restoration project, showcases ancient Rome's artistic and architectural sophistication.

The project, spearheaded by CSR Restauro Beni Culturali and Naumacos Underwater Archaeology and Technology, has faced numerous challenges due to the extreme fragmentation and extensive area of the remains. The floor, constructed towards the end of the Roman Empire, covers approximately 250 square meters (2,700 square feet) and showcases intricate geometric patterns formed by precisely cut pieces of marble.

Unlike traditional mosaics, which use small, uniformly sized pieces known as tesserae, the opus sectile technique involves larger, meticulously shaped pieces that fit together like a puzzle. This method allowed for uniquely detailed and elaborate designs, often incorporating a variety of colors and materials to achieve a stunning visual effect. Such floors were typically found in high-status buildings like villas, palaces, and public baths.

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Bacoli's mayor, Josi Gerardo Della Ragione, described the marble floor as "the magic of Baia Sommersa." He highlighted the floor's elaborate geometric motifs and extraordinary craftsmanship, noting that it offers a fascinating window into the life and art of ancient Rome.

"This discovery allows visitors to immerse themselves in history, exploring the hidden wonders beneath the surface of the sea."

Published 20th July 2024 by Dario Radley – Archaeology Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2024/07/marble-floor-of-sunken-roman-villa-discovered-in-italy/

Bluegreen

27th August 2024, 01:17

The Sky This Week

Tuesday, Aug. 27 - Crescent Moon Above Mars and Jupiter (pre-dawn)

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From the wee hours until dawn on Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, the pretty, waning crescent moon will shine above the planets Jupiter and Mars in the eastern sky, setting up a nice wide field photo opportunity. Brilliant Jupiter will be unmistakable — almost close enough to the moon for them to share the view in binoculars.

The reddish, medium-bright dot of Mars will be positioned a palm's width to the lower left (or 6 degrees to the celestial east) of Jupiter. Watch for the bright, reddish star Aldebaran, the angry eye star of Taurus, the Bull, sparkling off to the right of the group.

Mars and Jupiter Align: A Rare Planetary Dance Unfolds

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Thursday, Aug. 29 - Watch Algol Brighten

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The star Algol (or Beta Persei) in the constellation of Perseus is among the most easy-to-monitor variable stars. During a ten-hour period that repeats every 2 days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes, Algol dims noticeably and then re-brightens when a companion star with an orbit nearly edge-on to Earth crosses behind the much brighter main star, reducing the total light output we perceive.

Friday, Aug. 30 - Crescent Moon Aligns with Gemini's Twins (pre-dawn)

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On Friday morning, Aug. 30, early risers can see the waning crescent Moon forming a line below Gemini's two brightest stars in the eastern sky. Pollux, the lower star is brighter and more yellowish in color than its "twin", the double star Castor, above it. Even as the sky begins to brighten ahead of sunrise, the bright stars of winter will sparkle off to the right of Gemini and the Moon.

Bluegreen

27th August 2024, 01:34

The Hidden Message in Synchronicities | 5 Different Types of Synchronicity

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Synchronicities are the symbolic language through which the universe or our true essence communicates with us. If we know how to see and interpret them, they have the power to guide us through life and align us with the universe. But what exactly are these synchronicities? How do they manifest and what do they mean? Is there a deeper hidden truth behind these puzzling events? In this video, we will discuss 5 typical synchronicities that we can experience and how to learn to interpret them.

Synchronicity explained by Carl Gustav Jung.
What you seek is seeking you.

Published 1st March 2024 (15:55)

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Bluegreen

27th August 2024, 02:03

Bible Accurate Angels Are Creepy

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Handsome, human-like angels who float around on clouds and play the harp all day are few and far between in the Bible. Instead of those beautiful, angelic humanoids, the actual text depicts frightening animal/human hybrids, fiery winged beasts, and wheels made of eyes.

Published 31st July 2020 (8:51)

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Biblical Texts:
MESSENGERS -Exodus 11:4–5 -2 Samuel 24:16–17 2 -Kings 19:35
CHERUBIM -Genesis 3:24 -Exodus 25:18–22, -Psalm 99:1 -Ezekiel 1:1-14 -Ezekiel 10
SERAPHIM -Isaiah 6:1-8
OPHANIM -Ezekiel 1:15-21

Bluegreen

27th August 2024, 02:28

UFO Footage That Hasn't Been Seen For 21 Years + Eyewitness Account

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Although only recently posted (on Wayne's World Unlimited), this astounding incident was captured nearly 21 years ago at the now abandoned Plymouth City Airport in Plymouth, England. In this video, the footage is shown, analyzed, then Wayne himself sits down for an exclusive interview.

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Wayne's World video channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUE5Y6h9i9N5VF_zAyi_13A

Bluegreen

28th August 2024, 01:06

Ghost of Motorhead's Lemmy 'Found’ Riding a Horse and Eating Pizza at Music Festival

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A séance was held at the world’s largest metal festival to connect with Lemmy from Motorhead's ghost - that ‘found' him riding a horse and eating pizza.

Spooky singer Brocarde, who married and divorced the ghost of a Victorian soldier, was invited by Wacken Open Air Festival, the largest heavy metal festival in the world, to try and communicate with the spirit of the world-famous rockstar.

The family agreed, and the Motorhead bassist’s ashes were scattered last year at the festival site, an area they call The Holy Ground. There is a memorial on site in his memory.

She channelled Lemmy’s spirit, who she says was riding a black stallion horse and holding a slice of pizza.

Brocarde said: “I wondered why he was holding a slice of pizza, because it’s not the norm when riding a horse.”

She added: “I tried to reach him using dowsing rods, but he didn’t want to play by those rules, that was totally Lemmy, and the first time my rods have failed to show any movement at all during a seance.

“Then, I felt my body completely consumed, like I was taken somewhere else, tears were welling in my eyes, he told me that he was still alive. He said the purpose of life is not to die, and he wanted to be alive in death."

“I felt like those words will be a comfort to many who want to keep his memory alive. His energy is obviously something that hasn’t died, and that’s why he’s still with us today at Wacken.”

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The altar that she created also played homage to Lemmy, with an ace of spades playing card, the only card that matters, and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, which Brocarde used to raise a toast to the late Motorhead frontman.

Published 13th August 2024 by Dominik Lemanski – Daily Star UK
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/lemmy-motorheads-ghost-found-riding-33434039

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The Séance

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Inversion

28th August 2024, 02:54

Here's a fun video by Mark Rober (https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober) where he engineers contraptions to defeat arcade games.

09/17/22 (20:30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsxao9ptdmI

Delight

28th August 2024, 02:57

I am sharing FYI

Art Bell - "Red Elk" - Lizard People & the Underworld Part 1

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Art Bell - "Red Elk" - Lizard People & the Underworld Part 2

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Inversion

28th August 2024, 06:02

I am sharing FYI

Art Bell - "Red Elk" - Lizard People & the Underworld Part 1

Art Bell - "Red Elk" - Lizard People & the Underworld Part 2

I listened to the first video, and it brought back memories. I'll go through the second one tomorrow. His people call the holes around the world the mother's nostrils. Art was told that anything below 10,000 is classified. It looks like that show (https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/elk-red-5687/) aired on 09/18/08. Red Elk passed (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-conversation-4-exploration-87679643/episode/red-elk-speaks-prophecy-and-109528109/) on 06/26/15.

Bluegreen

29th August 2024, 00:15

Your Space & Weather News

OK, Some of This Stuff is Getting SERIOUSLY Hard to Explain!

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Power outages, majestic rainbow, Sun, Schumann, Yellowstone, viewers' send-ins, more.

Published 28th August 2024 (9:29)

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Bluegreen

29th August 2024, 00:24

Moon Eclipses Saturn

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What if Saturn disappeared? Sometimes, it does. It doesn't really go away, though, it just disappears from view when our Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible along a long swath of Earth -- from Peru, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Italy -- only a few days ago. The featured color image is a digital fusion of the clearest images captured during the event and rebalanced for color and relative brightness between the relatively dim Saturn and the comparatively bright Moon. Saturn and the comparative bright Moon. The exposures were all taken from Breda, Catalonia, Spain, just before occultation. Eclipses of Saturn by our Moon will occur each month for the rest of this year. Each time, though, the fleeting event will be visible only to those with clear skies -- and the right location on Earth.

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RunningDeer

29th August 2024, 10:18

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Kryztian

29th August 2024, 16:36

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Translation: On a carriage filled with fish, two peasants Manuel Ruelas and Martin Luk were coming from the port and saw an UFO which hanged upon them and illuminated them with bright light. They prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe and went fast from there. But the UFO kept chasing them. Then the peasant left the cottage and ran far into the woods. They offer this retablo as gratitude.

Los Mochis, Sinaloa
May 17, 1968

Artist: Adan Pacheco

Johnnycomelately

30th August 2024, 09:45

If I ever meet up with a nasty off-worlder or a raging crypto-critter, I hope I will have a good slingshot handy and a pocketfull of ammo. Best ammo would be some equivalent to that love-angel’s arrows that just inflicted love.

Please be my judge!

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3.06M subsribers

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Bluegreen

30th August 2024, 22:21

Twisted Tongue Topography

Lake kłlilx’w in Osoyoos BC – The Spotted Lake

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Lake kłlilx’w or 'Spotted Lake' is a small lake rich in a variety of minerals, including calcium, sodium sulphates and magnesium sulphate. During the hot summer months, much of the water in the lake evaporates, leaving concentrations of these minerals that form the spots visible in the lake.

Throughout the summer, the spots shift in size and colour as the minerals within each change with further evaporation. Colours ranging from blue to green to yellow appear, depending on the mineral makeup of each individual spot.

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Spotted Lake is known to the First Nations People of the Osoyoos area as kłlilx’w, and it is a sacred site that has been considered a revered place of healing for centuries. The belief is that each of the different circles holds its own unique medicinal and healing properties.

The land surrounding the lake was privately owned for 40 years, but in 2001 the federal government acquired it for the benefit and uses of the Okanagan Nation. This ensures that this historically important land can be protected from development, so that future generations of the Okanagan Nation will continue to benefit.

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https://www.destinationosoyoos.com/listing/spotted-lake/

Bluegreen

30th August 2024, 22:28

The Day Stephen Hawking Hosted a Party for Time Travelers

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I'm definitely going.

Published 9th July 2024 (2:53)

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Bluegreen

30th August 2024, 22:50

The fifth season of Marbula 1 has begun. Once again, Greg Woods, the Voice of Marble Racing, is set to provide commentary, and fans are pumped for an exciting series.

Pre-season report - Green Ducks

As in past years, the Green Ducks will run Mallard and Billy. The more experienced Mallard has been a consistent competitor, regularly qualifying and finishing in the top 10 or 12. However, Billy “The Kid” has been feast or famine, and will often finish first or last, usually the latter. (Billy has 3 podiums, all wins, and 7 top tens. Mallard has never won, but has racked up 7 podiums and 17 top tens.) Coach Bombay may decide to substitute the up-and-coming Ducky at some point, particularly if Billy continues with his erratic ways. It may be a tough decision because, unlike Ducky, both team racers call their coach “Dad”.

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Updated 2nd Nov 2024:

Marbula One S5 GP10 | Midnight Bay | RACE

The 10th and final marble race of the 5th season will be held at Midnight Bay, home track of the Midnight Wisps. Can Mallard pull a rabbit out of a hat for the Green Ducks, or will the hated Crazy Cat's Eyes prevail?

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Bluegreen

1st September 2024, 05:16

September

What's in the Night Sky, September 2024

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Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal what's in the night sky this month, including the planets improving, a partial lunar eclipse on 18 September, and Saturn and Jupiter Moon events.

00:00 Introduction
00:08 Inner planets
02:55 Outer planets
09:28 Saturn Titan event
11:38 Ganymede transits Jupiter
12:46 18 September partial lunar eclipse
14:19 Autumn equinox
14:43 Saturn's moons
18:08 Stars and constellations

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All Saints Days

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Bluegreen

1st September 2024, 05:40

The Crazy Engineering of Venice

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Have you ever wondered how Venice, a city built on water, became one of the most powerful and wealthy cities in history? In this video, we uncover the extraordinary story of Venice, from its humble beginnings as a refuge for Roman citizens fleeing the Huns, to its rise as a medieval engineering marvel. Discover how the Venetians transformed a muddy lagoon into a thriving metropolis with no roads, no land, and no fresh water.

Published 30th July 2024 (9:27)

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Venice 2024

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Bluegreen

2nd September 2024, 00:30

Stunning Astronomical Observatory Unearthed in Ancient Egypt

A ruined building in Kafr El Sheikh was where ancient Egyptians once stood, observing and cataloging the stars above.

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More than 2,500 years ago, the building constituted the largest astronomical observatory known in Egypt in the 6th century BCE, part of what we now call the Temple of the Pharaohs in the town of Buto.

There, early astronomers assiduously tracked the movements of the Sun and the stars, a vital service in the lives of the ancient Egyptians.

The Egyptians were among the most adept astronomers in ancient history, and their legacy echoes to this day. It was in ancient Egypt that the 365-day calendar was born, and the 24-hour day. They completely mapped the night sky, and had their own constellations and zodiac, some signs of which are still recognized today.

Within the structure, archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found artifacts and paraphernalia associated with the study of the skies.

Artifacts in the observatory included bronze statues of Osiris and Nemes, a terracotta statue of the god Bes, and a granite statue dating back to the 26th Dynasty, under the rule of pharaoh Wahibre Psamtik I.

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Of particular note was a large sloping shadow clock, of a design devised by the ancient Egyptians to keep track of the time. These clocks were a type of sundial, using the movement of a shadow as the Sun moves across the sky to track the time of day from dawn till dusk.

Astronomy was deeply important to the ancient Egyptians. They used their complex calendar to mark the passage of time, and determine the dates of religious and political rituals, such as festivals and coronations. It was also important for tracking the annual flooding of the Nile, agriculture, and navigation.

Today, we take our calendar for granted – it's just part of our way of life, around the world.

Yet we have, at least partly, the hard work and ingenuity of the ancient Egyptian astronomers to thank for it – and their solid engineering, that such temples as this still stand so we can study their work, thousands of years after their own lives disappeared into the sand.

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Published 26th August 2024 by Michelle Starr – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-astronomical-observatory-unearthed-in-ancient-egypt

Bluegreen

2nd September 2024, 00:54

Saturn Brightest at Opposition September 8

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Earth will fly between the Sun and Saturn on September 8, 2024.

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Saturn at Opposition

When and where to watch in 2024: Around its September 8 opposition, Saturn is rising in the east at sunset and is visible all night. Afterward, for the rest of 2024, Saturn will remain visible in the evening sky. It’ll finally disappear in the sunset glare in February 2025.

Date and time of opposition: 5 UTC on September 8, 2024 (12 a.m. CDT).

Brightness at opposition: At opposition, the ringed planet shines at its brightest for 2024 at magnitude 0.6.

Distance from Earth at opposition: Around opposition, Saturn is at its shortest distance from Earth for 2024, at 72 light-minutes (about 8.66 astronomical units).

Constellation at opposition: Aquarius the Water Bearer.

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A comparison of the apparent size of Saturn at opposition (September 8, 2024) and when it was most distant from the Earth at solar conjunction (February 28, 2024).

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Contrasting the size of Saturn and its rings with our planet Earth.

Published 1st September 2024 by EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/saturn-at-opposition-closest-brightest-best/

PSST! Wanna See Saturn Lose Its Rings?

Streamed live 2nd September 2024 (36:40)

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edina

5th September 2024, 19:18

I stumbled across this video the other day and it continues to stay with me. :heart2:
This thread seemed like a good place to share this here on Avalon.

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Making Purple Gold, Nile Red
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A few years ago I stumbled onto something called purple gold and I really wanted to buy a pure purple gold ring. However, I was devastated when I found out that it didn't exist...so I decided to try and make one myself.

This is a chemistry channel and it was fascinating watching how he used chemistry to convert gold into a powder. This guy's lab is cool, too.

If you have time, check out some of the comments below the video on YT. This one was interesting, and few others shared a few more insights.

One month on, Singaporean here and I just happened to stopped by Lee Hwa for some jewllery shopping. Asked the staff about purple gold and would you know it, the staff informed that this video was shared all over the company internally. Staff shared that Lee Hwa actually experienced a spike in international sales right after this video dropped, so they have Nile to thank for!

Bluegreen

8th September 2024, 05:00

Sun News September 7: Prominence and Filament Fun

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https://earthsky.org/upl/2024/09/Sep-6-24-Sun-activity-departing-AR3807-ezgif.com-video-to-webp-converter.webp

Solar excitement over the past 24 hours focused on filament and prominence activity captured in the 304 angstroms wavelength. The solar limb (edge) was covered with solar prominences, most of which were stable and dancing around. A filament in the southeast erupted in a southward direction around 17:05 UTC.

Around 7:30 UTC, we observed loops expanding out from behind the southern solar limb (edge). The very last available SOHO LASCO C2 image shows the beginnings of a coronal mass ejection headed southward. We await more data to learn the details of the event.

The flaring activity remains moderate, but just barely, with an isolated small M flare from AR3813. We are very curious about this region or regions on the solar backside. One or more interesting regions could soon rotate into view. Stay tuned!

Published by C. Alex Young, Raúl Cortés, Armando Caussade – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

Sun News of the Week: Was August the Peak of Solar Cycle 25?

“The largest in 23 years.”

Published 6th September 2024 (23:20)

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Bluegreen

8th September 2024, 05:06

Aviation Moments You Won't Believe If Not Caught On Camera

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Unbelievable situations happen to airplanes for various reasons: a powerful storm, human error, or simply the stupidity of others. In this video we will show you unbelievable aviation moments caught on camera , and you’ll see many of them through the sailors’ eyes. Full speed ahead, let’s go!

Published 17th August 2024 (27:42)

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Bluegreen

8th September 2024, 05:23

Space Rock | Majed Salih

ISS Timelapse - Aurora & Argentine Moonset (11/13 Aug 2024)

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"The Juxtabox"

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Bluegreen

8th September 2024, 05:49

#ufo/uap

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 28, 2024

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Graceful.

Published 29th April 2024 (1:46)

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UFO, France

Unusual movement. (no sound)

Published 16th August 2024 (0:48)

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Bluegreen

9th September 2024, 01:27

Aliens In Antarctica | Full Documentary

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Educational doc with a paranormal bent on the still-mysterious Antarctica. Hollow Earth, Tibetan legends, the Unknown Continent, data from a defunct satellite, Byrd and Operation Highjump, recent developments.

Published 5th September 2024 (30:49)

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Bluegreen

9th September 2024, 01:49

Shiziguan Floating Road Bridge – An Engineering Marvel

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The Shiziguan Floating Bridge, also known as the Bridge of Dreams, is an innovative 400-meter bridge that allows cars up to 2.8 tonnes to drive across the surface of the Qingjiang River in China.

Nestled between the forest-covered mountains of Enshi Prefecture, in Hubei Province, the Shiziguan scenic spot is one of China’s most breathtaking natural attractions. However, what really separates it from other impressive sights is the experience of taking in the beautiful scenery while driving along a bridge made of floats and placed directly on the water. Built using German technology to prevent rollovers, the Shiziguan Floating Bridge has been operational since 2016 for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The bridge is made from high-density polyethylene floats filled with water for extra stability, so if the drivers respect the imposed speed limit of 20 km/h, they only feel the gentle sway of the river beneath.

Bluegreen

9th September 2024, 02:05

First Image Humans Have Seen of the Ringed Planet Neptune

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The ringed ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The dim and distant world is the farthest planet from the Sun, about 30 times farther away than planet Earth. But in the stunning Webb view, the planet's dark and ghostly appearance is due to atmospheric methane that absorbs infrared light. High altitude clouds that reach above most of Neptune's absorbing methane easily stand out in the image.

Coated with frozen nitrogen, Neptune's largest moon Triton is brighter than Neptune in reflected sunlight, seen at the upper left sporting the Webb telescope's characteristic diffraction spikes. Including Triton, seven of Neptune's 14 known moons can be identified in the field of view. Neptune's faint rings are striking in this space-based planetary portrait. Details of the complex ring system are seen here for the first time since Neptune was visited by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in August 1989.

Bluegreen

9th September 2024, 02:17

Flying Trampoline Delivered To Driveway || Newsflare

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Its a bird! Its a plane! Its the Flying Trampoline!

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Johnnycomelately

10th September 2024, 09:24

Polaris Dawn has successfully launched, with four crew members.

From Wikipedia: “Polaris Dawn is a private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman and is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program. Launched 10 September 2024 as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — are on a trajectory toward a highly elliptical orbit that will take them up to 1,400 kilometers (870 mi) away from Earth, the farthest anyone has been since NASA's Apollo program so that they pass through parts of the Van Allen radiation belt to study the health effects of space radiation and spaceflight on the human body. Later in the mission, Isaacman and Gillis are expected to attempt the first commercial spacewalk.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn

Tim Dodd, of YouTube chan Everyday Astronaut, adds commentary to the SpaceX (then-) live feed.

Vid length is 3:02:09

2:38:53 - T-10/Lift off
2:40:15 - Max-Q (maximum dynamic pressure)
2:41:43 - Meco/Stage Separation (meco is main engine cut off)
2:46:45 - Entry Burn (of the reusable Falcon 9 booster)
2:48:05 - Seco (second stage engine cutoff)
2:48:14 - Landing Burn (and successful landing of the booster)
2:51:18 - Dragon/Capsule Separation
2:54:56 - Nose Cone Opening/Separation

Watch SpaceX launch the FIRST commercial spacewalk, Polaris Dawn!!!
Fundraiser

Everyday Astronaut

“The Polaris Dawn mission, is launching on Spacex's Falcon 9 NET September 10th, 2024 at 3:38 a.m. Eastern [7:38 UTC], from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A. It aims to achieve several firsts, including the highest altitude reached by humans since the Apollo missions, conducting the first private spacewalk, and testing new technologies like intersatellite laser communications with Starlink. This mission, led by Jared Isaacman, not only pushes the boundaries of space exploration but also includes significant scientific research, focusing on health impacts in space, all while raising funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOYQ5Dto7c

Richter

11th September 2024, 23:56

UFO Crash Google Maps (23:12)
& other strange phenomena / UAPs
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Bluegreen

12th September 2024, 02:11

Police Chiefs Issue UFO Manual to Major US Cities

Police across US given new UFO handbook as they warn craft 'pose significant safety risks'

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Police chiefs of America's largest cities have published the first guide about UAPs, which details chilling encounters and how officers can report such incidents.

The 11-page document warned that unidentified flying objects 'pose significant safety risks to law enforcement air support units,' urging teams to be vigilant when in helicopters.

The police executives created the reference because 'it's in the interest of law enforcement to be aware of trends and reporting on UAP due to the unknown threat they may pose.'

The organization, called the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA), includes nearly 80 executives from major US cities who work together to advance public safety through a range of initiatives, including community outreach, research and policy development and now, UFO investigations.

Published 7th September 2024 by Rob Waugh - Dailymail.Com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13742439/Police-given-new-UFO-handbook-warn-craft-pose-significant-safety-risks.html

Bluegreen

12th September 2024, 02:19

Asteroid 2024 RW1 Just Hit Earth. That’s a Good Thing.

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The asteroid that exploded over Luzon was not a threat—but it was a victory for our planetary defense systems

In the very early hours of Sept. 4, Jacqueline Fazekas, a researcher at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, spotted something moving in a suspicious arc across the sky. She quickly submitted her observations to the Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts.

The database, available to the public and constantly updated, keeps track of, among other objects, the solar system’s known asteroids and comets. Within moments of the observations posting, other astronomers were also pointing their telescopes at the fuzzy dot.

What happened as the day unspooled was a small but important victory for science and the planet.

That fuzzy dot Fazekas spotted was an Earthbound asteroid. It was a veritable pipsqueak, just three to five feet long. There was almost zero possibility of it causing even minor damage. It was, in effect, an overgrown shooting star. Dubbed 2024 RW1, the rocky projectile burned up at 16:39 UTC in the skies above Luzon Island, in the Philippines, as a beautiful, blue-green fiery streak.

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Our planet is in the path of a never-ending firing line of minuscule rocky asteroids and cometary fragments. Like 2024 RW1, most pose no harm. But RW1’s impact was different in an important way: Unlike the other examples, various space agencies knew this lithic missile was going to hit the planet ahead of time. And because of that, everyone on Earth is a little bit safer.

Shortly after Fazekas’s observations were fed into the Minor Planet Center database, NASA’s Scout program did some extremely quick calculations. Scout is an automated program that tirelessly peruses the database and tries to work out if a newfound moving object has a chance of impacting Earth within the next 30 days. The European Space Agency, or ESA, has a similar autonomous program named Meerkat, which also began tracking and assessing the object.

That’s why 2024 RW1 represents an important milestone in the history of planetary defense: It was spotted prior to impact which, for such a puny asteroid, is very impressive. Historically, most smaller asteroids are not detected until they hit. In fact, 2024 RW1 is only the ninth Earthbound asteroid identified prior to impact. (The first one was in 2008.)

Planetary defense has, broadly speaking, two prongs. There’s the offense: missions to deflect or destroy Earthbound asteroids. In 2022, for example, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, managed to change a (harmless) asteroid’s orbit by smashing into it with an uncrewed spacecraft. It was a successful test of a technique known as a kinetic impactor, which could be used to knock an incoming and dangerous asteroid away from Earth.

But the other prong of planetary defense is all about detection: spying those hazardous Earthbound asteroids as early as possible to prevent a disaster from ever taking place. NASA and ESA are focused more on finding the somewhat larger “city killers”—asteroids 460 feet or larger—hanging about in near-Earth space; as the name suggests, these asteroids, should they hit a city, would annihilate it and kill millions. But the smaller, even baseball-sized space rocks, also need finding.

In other words, 2024 RW1 wasn’t a threat, but it was a successful trial run for saving a city. Maybe yours.

Published 5th September 2024 by Robin George Andrews – Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/luzon-asteroid-2024-rw1

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As expected, small asteroid 2024 RW1, discovered on September 4th, 2024 morning, entered the atmosphere at 20.8 km/s above Northern Philippines islands the same day, at 16h 39min UT.

Bluegreen

12th September 2024, 02:36

Falling Stars

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Bluegreen

12th September 2024, 03:07

Blast Into The Future With ...

Planet Patrol

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Bluegreen

13th September 2024, 02:19

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Strange Balloon Floats Across the Denver Metro Sky

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The National Aeronautics & Strangeness Administration

Published 6th September 2024 (1:00)

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15 STRANGEST Cars Ever Designed

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It takes a certain personality to drive one of these beauties.

Published 17th June 2022 (21:11)

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Bluegreen

13th September 2024, 03:29

Penguin Baywatch - Antarctica | Wildlife Documentary

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Do not fall from the cliff when you leave in the morning and always be certain to catch the right wave on your return home before sunset. Watch out your “friends” who are always ready to push you off the iceberg. On rocky outcrops, always keep your distances with your neighbour, at least 2 feet. Meet your partner this evening, as it is your turn to take care of your fat feathered kids for the next 15 days. Most important of all: if you want to see your family again, avoid all welcoming committees of Fur Seals and departure festivities of Leopard Seals.

Published 6th March 2023 (51:14)

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Johnnycomelately

13th September 2024, 07:33

Thanks for this vid, BG. So cool.

Edit: the quote here, my post, is from the animals-be-magical thread, #1855. For sure it belongs there.

Copying this penguin doco from Bluegreen today, post #36737 at his Ranch thread, because penguins are magical.

It’s about Antarctica penguins, remembering that some types live on/off southern South America or southern Africa. They cover iirc five types. 4 of the types live and act fairly similarly, with a few notable (magical) differences. But the Emperor type is off-the-charts different. Emperor segment starts at about 10 mins from the end, vid length is 51:14.

Seals are shown and described as the penguins’ main predator. Leopards, Furs, and one I can’t remember. Also covered is a seal that eats fish, but occasionally ‘plays’ with a penguin. Funnest thing (not “funniest”), is that the seals don’t predate on land, only in the water. So the birds shuffle near them with no worries lol.

Standout factoid about these seals imo, and I presume all seals, comes from the underwater-cam footage of them swimming (30:35, as one example). I had no idea how seals use their feet, but here see that they use them like twin fish-like tails, oriented vertically and with side force. A later clip clearly shows one propelling with an inward stroke only, right web foot pushes left and then vice versa.

Only thing about the vid that I question, is that they showed daylight clips when talking about the southern winter for the Emperors.

All the types but the Emperors go out and live in the ocean for winter, and all the seals too. Right now here in Edmonton, ~53 degrees North latitude, summer is nearing end. So all those critters that somehow live and sleep in the ocean, are likely still doing that. And the Emperors are still hunkering down amongst their neighbours, conserving heat.

Penguin Baywatch - Antarctica | Wildlife Documentary

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Do not fall from the cliff when you leave in the morning and always be certain to catch the right wave on your return home before sunset. Watch out your “friends” who are always ready to push you off the iceberg. On rocky outcrops, always keep your distances with your neighbour, at least 2 feet. Meet your partner this evening, as it is your turn to take care of your fat feathered kids for the next 15 days. Most important of all: if you want to see your family again, avoid all welcoming committees of Fur Seals and departure festivities of Leopard Seals.

Published 6th March 2023 (51:14)

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Bluegreen

14th September 2024, 00:43

SPEED COMPARISON 3D | Animals

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► Music: 1- Savfk - The Invention Rooms ‪| 2-Song of the Wanderers by Savfk ‪| 3-Ice Land (Dark Winter Music) - Myuu ‪| 4-The Dark Side Of The Sun by Savfk ‪| 5-The Eye in the Sky by Savfk ‪| 6-Sound effects by Red Side, Ambient, birds, wind etc..

Published 12th April 2024 (12:40)

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Johnnycomelately

14th September 2024, 05:34

Building this post via edits, as things fall apart when I go back for another clipboard. [last edit: OK done now]

Lesser fame UFO+ tuber Chris Lehto presents here Carl Andraesen, an experiencer, speaking at a conference, amongst other speakers there and some field trip material. Carl talks 48:50 to 59:20, of TL 1:02:42.

Time stamp for he and OP Chris’s Skinwatcher Ranch visit story is 54:30.

Tick, tick, tick...

UFO Field Trip: Exploring Mysterious Lights in Norway (Part 1)

Chris Lehto
108K subscribers

2,559 views, Sept 13, 2024

“In this episode, I take you to the heart of one of the world's most intriguing UFO hotspots - Hessdalen, Norway. I'm attending a field trip weekend with researchers and enthusiasts from 11 different countries, all gathered to study the famous Hessdalen lights. I share highlights from presentations on cutting-edge detection systems, including AI-powered cameras and multi-sensor arrays. You'll hear from experts like Marvin Baral and Magnus Holm about their work, and I introduce you to Carl Crusher, who bridges the gap between UFO sightings and personal paranormal experiences. Join me as we set up camp in the stunning Norwegian valley, hoping to witness these mysterious lights firsthand while discussing the broader implications of the phenomenon”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhZHpe9-I_c

Bluegreen

20th September 2024, 00:10

Purple Is The New Green

Alien Life May Not Be the Color We Expect

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If you were asked to imagine an alien planet, it would be reasonable to imagine a green earth-like rock orbiting somewhere in a distant solar system. But according to new research from Cornell University, we might be getting this color palette all wrong.

On Earth, plants get their green color from chlorophyll pigments in their leaves. Chlorophyll absorbs light to power the process of photosynthesis, which is how plants make their own food. But chlorophyll only absorbs light at the red and blue ends of the color spectrum, meaning green light gets reflected from the leaves and makes them appear green.

On Earth there are many species of bacteria that are able to absorb energy in the form of invisible infrared radiation. Many of these bacteria contain purple pigments to help them absorb this energy, which reflect blue and red light to create a purple hue.

"Purple bacteria can thrive under a wide range of conditions, making it one of the primary contenders for life that could dominate a variety of worlds," Lígia Fonseca Coelho, a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute and first author of the study, said. "They already thrive here in certain niches. Just imagine if they were not competing with green plants, algae and bacteria: a red sun could give them the most favorable conditions for photosynthesis."

But why is it important to know what colors extraterrestrial life might be, beyond being able to more accurately depict aliens in Hollywood?

"We need to create a database for signs of life to make sure our telescopes don't miss life if it happens not to look exactly like what we encounter around us every day," Coelho said.

"Purple bacteria can survive and thrive under such a variety of conditions that it is easy to imagine that on many different worlds, purple may just be the new green," co-author Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute and associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University, agreed. "We are just opening our eyes to these fascinating worlds around us."

Published 17th April 2024 by Pandora Dewan - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/alien-life-color-space-1891412

Bluegreen

20th September 2024, 00:35

British Men With One Name In Particular Are 'More Likely To Believe Conspiracy Theories'

Researchers have found that blokes are more likely to believe in strange conspiracy theories than women, and men with one particular name are more likely than the rest

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Despite scientists proving the world is round countless times, there are still conspiracy theorists who believe it's flat. And it’s not just this fact they don’t subscribe to. According to new research, over one in ten Brits (12%) are convinced the famous Apollo 13 moon landing was faked.

The study, based on TikTok post data and a poll of 2,000 people, discovered just how deep into the world of wacky conspiracies the nation has fallen. Nearly half of Brits (48%) admitted to believing in at least one weird plot — the most popular being that the November 1969 moon landing was filmed in a television studio.

And strangely enough, men with the name Andy (72%) were the most hellbent on believing a wild theory. Overall, men are more likely to be conspiracists than women (52% vs. 48%). Of the top ten names to believe in conspiracies in the UK, just two are typically given to women.

Names most likely to believe in conspiracy theories are Andy (72%), Craig (67%), Fred (60%), Thomas (60%), Sophie (59%), James (58%), Steven (58%), Brian (57%), Lorraine (56%), and Dean (54%).

One in 10 people in the UK (10%) believe humans have already made contact with extra-terrestrial life, and that this is being kept from the public – not to mention 7% believe Area 51 in the US houses multiple forms of alien life.

An additional 5% also think that famous musicians across the world deliver subliminal messages to the population through their lyrics, to control us. And another popular topic is the theory that the Illuminati control pretty much everything across the world, which one in 20 Brits (5%) believe.

Published 3rd September 2024 by Eve Wagstaff – Daily Star
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/men-one-name-particular-more-33589628

Bluegreen

20th September 2024, 00:56

Bluegreen

20th September 2024, 01:21

Great Square of Pegasus

Great Square of Pegasus Gallops Into the Autumn Sky

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Look east just after dark for the Great Square of Pegasus around the time of the September equinox (in 2024, it will be on September 22). Throughout late September and October evenings, the Great Square will be ascending in the eastern evening sky. The Great Square consists of four stars of nearly equal brightness. Specifically, they are Scheat, Alpheratz, Markab and Algenib. Incidentally, the constellation Pegasus represents a Flying Horse. But the Great Square – a prominent asterism within Pegasus – is a landmark of the Northern Hemisphere’s autumn sky.

To Find the Great Square

First, to find the Great Square, use the Big Dipper to star-hop to Polaris, the North Star. Then draw an imaginary line from Polaris until you land an outer star on the W or M-shaped constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. Finally, a line from Cassiopeia faithfully escorts you to the Great Square of Pegasus.

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Mythology of the Great Square of Pegasus

You might recall that Pegasus was a winged horse in Greek mythology. The constellation Pegasus is one of seven constellations in the autumn sky that explain why it’s never a good idea to claim a mortal’s beauty is greater than that of the gods. You’ll find this story plastered all over the autumn night sky, and Pegasus figures into it prominently.

The story goes that Cassiopeia the Queen bragged that she (or her daughter Andromeda the Princess) was more beautiful than the immortal Nereids, or sea nymphs. This angered the gods, who asked the sea-god Poseidon to take revenge. The punishment was that Cepheus the King and Cassiopeia had to sacrifice Andromeda to Cetus the Whale (sometimes called a sea monster). Andromeda was chained to a rock at sea. She was about to be gobbled up by Cetus, when she saw Perseus the Hero – riding Pegasus the Flying Horse – swooping toward her.

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Perseus had a trick up his sleeve. He faced Cetus, holding up the head of the Gorgon Medusa. It’s said the sight of the Medusa turned Cetus to stone. Then Perseus whacked the chains that bound Andromeda and freed her. And then, they rode off on Pegasus the Flying Horse and lived happily ever after. Later, Zeus placed all of them in the sky as stars, along with Delphinus the Dolphin, who’d provided comfort to Andromeda.

Published 10th September 2024 by Deborah Byrd – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/great-square-of-pegasus-wings-in-sept-equinox/

Bluegreen

20th September 2024, 03:18

The Jetsons - 1950s Super Panavision 70

Published 14th September 2024 (1:11)

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Johnnycomelately

20th September 2024, 10:17

Not Sonny & Cher

Sunni & Butch

Stranded NASA astronauts hold press conference from International Space Station | BBC News

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Excerpt from the astronauts interview with reporters 13th September 2024.

Published 14th September 2024 (12:44)

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Extended interview (3:53:11): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSPaCSHKo0

Hi BG, and thanks. Vid (12+ min excerpt from 3:++:++) is cool.

Who were the parents that named this son Butch, and are/were they magically successful in other things too? Astronaut for a kid, that’s pretty good.

I wonder, if he has any brothers or sisters, what names they got lol.

Mark (Star Mariner)

20th September 2024, 12:04

Bluegreen

22nd September 2024, 00:20

Second Generation Starlinks are 32 Times Brighter in Radio Wavelengths

Global internet access does seem like a worthy enterprise yet with the rise of satellite megaconstellations there is a danger of the night sky becoming ruined. Astronomers the world over are keeping an eye on the impact these satellites are having on the night sky.

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Until recently the concerns have been relating to the reflection of visible light against the sky hindering night time observations. A recent study shows that the second-generation Starlink satellites leak 32 times the radio signal than the previous models. Are their presence putting at risk the radio sky now too?

The starlink satellites are the brainchild of SpaceX to provide high-speed broadband internet to every corner of the planet. The constellation of satellites consists of thousands of small satellites measuring just 2.8 metre in length. They form a network that can transmit data quickly around the planet offering high speed internet which is far more reliable than traditional satellite systems. The goal is to provide high speed connectivity to places where fibre or traditional infrastructure is difficult or too costly. As it expands though there will be more and more satellites in orbit.

It’s not just SpaceX that is causing the problem though. Since 2019 other companies have been getting in on the act with organisations like OneWeb too having launched hundreds of thousands of satellites. The plan is for organisations like these to launch in excess of 100,000 satellites. If the rise in megaconstellations like these rise then the emissions (visible, radio or otherwise) could very easily make astronomical observations from the surface of Earth difficult if not impossible.

During the last year, observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) revealed that the Starlink satellites were emitting radio waves. Astronomers were concerned that the unintentional waves could have a negative impact on radio observations. As SpaceX expand their network with a second generation of satellites, their ‘V2-mini’ modules, the risks seem to be increasing. New LOFAR observations have shown that the new satellites are producing up to 32 times more radio emissions than the earlier satellites. Anyone observing the universe in radio waves at the time of their passing is likely to receive a blinding radio signal that would ruin any observations.

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The LOFAR ‘superterp’, part of the core of the extended telescope located in the Netherlands

Putting the radio emissions into context, the new satellites are emitting radio waves 10 million times brighter than that detected by the faintest astronomical object detected by LOFAR so far. The discovery highlights the need for control and regulations around satellites and their emissions, intended or otherwise. Left unchecked, the future of astronomical observations may very well be highly compromised.

Published 20th September 2024 by Mark Thompson – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/168658/second-generation-starlinks-are-32-times-brighter-in-radio-wavelengths/#more-168658

Bluegreen

22nd September 2024, 00:45

Rainbow Swamp

The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter

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Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.

Virginia's "rainbow swamp" is a flooded forest whose waters take on a mystical, multicolored sheen in the winter months. Under certain lighting conditions, the swamp turns into a giant, luminous rainbow broken up by the shadows of bald cypress trees (Taxodium distichum) and cypress knees — cone-shaped humps that grow vertically above the trees' roots.

The rainbow swamp is one of many along the Bald Cypress Trail at First Landing State Park, which is located where English colonists first landed in 1607, according to the park's website. Most days of the year, the swamp looks like any other forested wetland — rather murky and opaque. But occasionally, in late fall and winter, the stagnant pool puts on a dazzling light show.

“The rainbow effect results from leaf decay in the swamp during fall and winter,” park representatives said. "The trees drop their needlelike leaves in the fall that decompose in the swamp and the resulting matter, when hit at just the right angle by sunlight, gives off this prismatic appearance.”

Bald cypress leaves contain natural oils that ooze into the swamp as the leaves break down. The oils then separate from the water and form a film on the surface that reflects light much like a puddle of gasoline would. Biological processes in the soil, resulting from bacteria breaking down iron, can also contribute to the rainbow effect.

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Published 20th September 2024 by Sascha Pare – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/rainbow-swamp-the-flooded-forest-in-virginia-that-puts-on-a-magical-light-show-every-winter

Bluegreen

22nd September 2024, 01:09

'Spiders on Mars' Fully Awakened on Earth

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Researchers created this crack within a simulated Martian substrate using a specialized laboratory chamber to mimic conditions on the Red Planet. The end result is nearly identical to the famous "spiders on Mars."

Rarely do we get the opportunity to hum a classic David Bowie song while thumbing through the latest science news, but this week we saw the return of spiders on Mars. No, they're not real arachnids scurrying across the Red Planet's surface — instead they're part of a geological feature known as araneiform terrain. These dark, crack-like structures form when carbon dioxide seasonally erupts from the planet's surface and resemble spiders scurrying across the terrain when viewed from a great height. And now, for the first time they have been recreated on Earth.

"Spiders on Mars" is the name given to a geological feature, known as araneiform terrain, that is visible in multiple locations on the Red Planet. In these places, hundreds of dark crack-like structures appear on the planet's surface, each with potentially hundreds of individual lines, or "legs." When viewed from above, these tightly grouped deformations, which can be more than 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) wide, look like a hoard of spiders scurrying across the Martian landscape.

In a new study, published Sept. 11 in The Planetary Science Journal, NASA researchers mimicked this process on a smaller scale using a specialized laboratory chamber to create a near-perfect miniature version of the spiders, giving scientists a new platform for research into the Red Planet.

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From space, araneiform terrain looks like hundreds of spiders running across the Red Planet's surface. In these images, we see the "spiders on Mars" from orbit(left) and magnified to higher detail (right).

Published 20th September 2024 – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/spiders-on-mars-fully-awakened-on-earth-for-1st-time-and-scientists-are-shrieking-with-joy
https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/science-news-this-week-spiders-on-mars-and-an-ancient-egyptian-sword