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Johnnycomelately
22nd December 2024, 12:40
Sky gives us air to breathe, wind for what wind is good for, rain and snow and sunsets and beautiful mornings, but sometimes it thrashes us.
Storm chaser Hank is gentle and strong. Cares for critters and talks to chasers from all over, drives into dangerous zones. Does a good vid too, with pleasing sound.
TORNADOES OF 2024 - The Incredible Twisters!
Pecos Hank
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcpLmOOsME
Artemesia
22nd December 2024, 14:17
Sky gives us air to breathe, wind for what wind is good for, rain and snow and sunsets and beautiful mornings, but sometimes it thrashes us.
John Denver sang the most wonderful song about wind with his breath here on Earth. When I need peace and want to remember the wind, I listen to these words of his:
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Bluegreen
23rd December 2024, 01:00
The Sky This Week
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Andromeda Galaxy via Cassiopeia
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If you can withstand the weather (wherever you are), there is a large galaxy up in December that one can spot with the unaided eye under dark skies. Binoculars are better; amateur telescopes can get spectacular views. It’s the closest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way, located in the direction to the constellation Andromeda. Use the star Schedar in Cassiopeia to find the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Schedar is Cassiopeia’s brightest star, and it points to another galaxy.
RunningDeer
23rd December 2024, 13:59
I bought a wildlife homestead two years ago with the goal of managing the land to attract as many animals as possible. This is what happened in year two on The Wildlife Homestead.
I BOUGHT A WILDLIFE HOMESTEAD! (Year 2)
568K subscribers
The Wildlife Homestead (https://www.youtube.com/@TheWildlifeHomestead/videos)
Clips of The Wildlife Homestead (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-zdr3jj_vyTUSeheluDLYK3O64hNu2G)
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Bluegreen, Ranchers & Guests.
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Bluegreen
24th December 2024, 00:14
The Making of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"
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In Space-Blazing Color!
In 1964, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was unleashed upon the world, and bad movies were never the same. The movie is widely considered to be one of the worst ever made. That raises the question, how and why did this movie get made? That's what we'll be looking into as we dive into the development and legacy of this holiday classic.
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This movie is in the public domain. Quite entertaining.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Christmas Movie (1:20:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4SZyeUGSM4
Bluegreen
24th December 2024, 00:38
Christmas Tree Aurora by Jingyi Zhang
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https://apod.nasa.gov
It was December and the sky lit up like a Christmas tree. Shimmering, the vivid green, blue, and purple auroral colors that formed the tree-like apparition were caused by high atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen reacting to a burst of incoming electrons. Collisions caused the orbital electrons of atoms and molecules to jump into excited energy states and emit visible light when returning to their normal state.
The featured image was captured in Djúpivogur, Iceland during the last month of 2023. Our Sun is currently in its most energetic phase of its 11-year cycle, with its high number of active regions and sunspots likely to last into next year. Of course, the Sun has been near solar maximum during this entire year, with its outbursts sometimes resulting in spectacular Earthly auroras.
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Johnnycomelately
25th December 2024, 09:31
Christmas ghost story, from 1957.
The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_bLEqmBi0
ThePythonicCow
25th December 2024, 16:12
Christmas ghost story, from 1957.
The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio
'Tis a fine story, of a miraculous flight across the Channel, one Christmas Eve long ago.
Don't start listening unless you've got the half hour it will take to hear it all.
edina
25th December 2024, 20:00
It's probably kinda silly, but this is a Christmas tradition for me, to watch "The River of Stars", Episode 12 from a 90's short-lived sci-fi series that I liked, Space, Above and Beyond. This version has the quality of the imagery remastered via AI enhancement. It's much better than the 480 version I've been watching for years.
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Sharing my tradition ...
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Happy Holidays in the Spirit of the Season
(Added: As a side note: watching this, puts a whole new spin on the BB saying, May the Stars Keep You Safe" (https://realburningbush.com/bb-1) if there's anything to that...)
Bluegreen
25th December 2024, 23:32
Christmas tradition
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O Holy Night
Bluegreen
27th December 2024, 01:25
Do Aliens Exist? Professor Brian Cox Answers Your Questions | Honesty Box
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In this episode of Honesty Box, we’re joined by the well known Professor Brian Cox to tackle your biggest questions about the universe. From the best evidence for alien life, to whether you should put your chocolate Mars bar in the fridge or not, Brian unpacks some of science’s greatest mysteries.
Published 11h December 024 (32:08)
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Bluegreen
27th December 2024, 01:46
The Widow Cameron: Cinderella of the Wastelands
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After the death of her husband, rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, Cameron became an icon of the Beat scene in Los Angeles. Kenneth Anger cast her as The Scarlet Woman in his underground masterpiece "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome." Many thought her a witch or sorceress. Here is a sampling of her art featuring commentary by her friends, sculptor George Herms as well as directors Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington ("The Wormwood Star").
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The Wormwood Star
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Bluegreen
27th December 2024, 02:13
Vice: Year in Photography
Heads up
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The Contract
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Credit: HENRY CRAWLEY
Bento
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Credit: TÔN TÔN BO
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vice-magazine-photo-issue-2024/
Bluegreen
29th December 2024, 01:52
#ufo/uap
American Airlines Flight 2292 UFO, February 21, 2021, ATC Audio and Radar Data
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The following is a clip from a slightly longer video. There are a lot more ATC recordings released by the FAA to The Black Vault on our website [https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/] after a FOIA appeal. The information was originally denied.
Published 18th December 2024 (0:48)
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Two UFOs Over Missouri Dec 8, 2024 | Iran Drones Over New Jersey | UFO Sighting News
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1st segment: Missouri sighting. 2nd segment: Drone updates.
Published 13th December 2024 (10:56)
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Bluegreen
29th December 2024, 02:07
10 Freakiest Things People Found In Their Home
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You liked the place, looked around, had an inspection done, bought it, and moved in ...
Published 16th September 2024 (9:30)
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Bluegreen
29th December 2024, 02:40
Be Kind – Bukowski
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We are always asked to understand the
other person's
Viewpoint no matter how outdated foolish
or obnoxious
One is asked to view their
total error their life waste with
kindness especially if they are
aged but AGE is the total of our
doing
they have aged badly because they
have lived out of focus They have
refused to see
Not their
fault whose fault
mine I'm asked to hide my viewpoint from
them for fear of Their
Fear age is no
crime but the shame of a deliberately
wasted life among so many deliberately
wasted
lives
is
Bluegreen
29th December 2024, 03:11
Black Project Implants From NSA & NATO?!
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Published 20th December 2024 (12:11)
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Full interview: Is IBM Putting NEURAL CHIPS In Prisoners?! (1:08:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAxCLZ2fjyE
Vangelo
29th December 2024, 16:40
That Was A Lot Harder Than it Should Have Been!
Farmer Tyler Ranch
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Bluegreen
30th December 2024, 02:10
Popeye, Tintin and More Will Enter the Public Domain in the New Year
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Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain, along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.
The copyrights of thousands of films, songs and books expire in 2025, making them instantly available for people to use, share and adapt. The list includes classics like Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own, the Fats Waller song Ain't Misbehavin, and the Marx Brothers' first feature film, The Cocoanuts.
The main thing they have in common is their age — under U.S. copyright law, their terms all expire after 95 years. All of the works entering the public domain next year are from 1929, except for sound recordings, which (because they are covered by a different law) come from 1924.
"Copyright's awesome … but the fact that rights eventually expire, that's a good thing, too, because that's the wellspring for creativity," says Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
Once in the public domain, these works become fodder for remakes, spinoffs and other adaptations.
But these artifacts don't only become material for Hollywood directors and authors — they're available for anyone who wants to use them, from artists to high school orchestra directors. In other words, the impact of public domain works extends far beyond the box office and Billboard charts.
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Songs include: Arthur Freed's Singin' in the Rain, George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Maurice Ravel's Bolero, Jack Yellen's Happy Days Are Here Again (the campaign song for FDR), Cole Porter's What Is This Thing Called Love? and Tiptoe Through the Tulips (the original 1929 version, not the 1968 Tiny Tim one).
"But if you felt like singing like Tiny Tim for some reason, and you could, you can record your own version of Tiptoe Through the Tulips next year because that song's going to be public domain," says Jenkins.
Full article published 26th December 2024 by Rachel Treisman – NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/26/nx-s1-5231543/copyright-public-domain-2025-cartoon-popeye-tintin-faulkner-hemingway
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BMJ
30th December 2024, 13:25
Christmas ghost story, from 1957.
The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_bLEqmBi0
Or you could watch this short movie.
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Bluegreen
31st December 2024, 02:20
* Enter the vortex *
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Check previous pages for missed items and hidden nuggets
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Bluegreen
31st December 2024, 02:34
NASA Studied Dolphins to Understand Aliens
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After an absence for prenuptials, our friend Amy Teitel is back with a most unusual story.
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The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins: Preview - BBC
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Bluegreen
31st December 2024, 02:58
The Unequaled Eloquence of Yogi Berra
New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra's way with words was unique unto himself. His accomplishments as a player and manager are legendary in MLB history, yet his lasting legacy may be for all he contributed to the American language.
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• When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
• You can observe a lot by just watching.
• It’s like déjà vu all over again.
• No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.
• Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
• A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
• Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
• We made too many wrong mistakes.
• I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
• You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
• Never answer an anonymous letter.
• The future ain’t what it used to be.
• It gets late early out here.
• If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
• We have deep depth.
• Pair up in threes.
• Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
• You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
• Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
• He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
• If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
• We were overwhelming underdogs.
• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
• If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
• I never said most of the things I said.
"
And, of course, Mr Berra's ticket to linguistic immortality:
"It ain’t over 'til it’s over."
Bluegreen
31st December 2024, 03:29
Methane Bubbles Frozen in Lake Baikal by Kristina Makeeva
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What are these bubbles frozen into Lake Baikal? Methane. Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Russia, is the world's largest (by volume), oldest, and deepest lake, containing over 20% of the world's fresh water. The lake is also a vast storehouse of methane, a greenhouse gas that, if released, could potentially increase the amount of infrared light absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, and so increase the average temperature of the entire planet.
Currently, the amount of methane bubbling out is not climatologically important. It is not clear what would happen, though, were temperatures to significantly increase in the region, or if the water level in Lake Baikal were to drop.
Pictured, bubbles of rising methane froze during winter into the exceptionally clear ice covering the lake.
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Bluegreen
1st January 2025, 00:43
Solar Storms Hit for New Years with X-Flare Fireworks | Space Weather Spotlight
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The sun is crackling with solar flares. In the last 48 hours alone (Dec 30/31) it has produced an X-flare, a double X-flare, and more than a dozen M-class solar flares. More flares are in the offing. There are currently five sunspots on the solar disk with mixed-polarity magnetic fields capable of producing M-to-X-class solar flares. Auroras predicted to be visible in northern America. Dr Tamitha Skov brings your space weather forecast.
Published 31st December 2024 (11:13)
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Bluegreen
1st January 2025, 01:08
January 2025: A Stargazer’s Guide to This Month’s Best Astronomy Events
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January Calendar – All Saints Days
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St. Agnes
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Patron saint of young girls and rape victims.
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Bluegreen
1st January 2025, 01:24
NGC 2566 – JWST
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The galaxy filling the frame in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Puppis. The image combines observations from two of Webb’s instruments, the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), to show off NGC 2566’s well-defined spiral arms, long central bar and delicate tracery of gas, dust and stars.
At 76 million light-years away, NGC 2566 is considered a nearby galaxy, making it an excellent target for studying fine details like star clusters and gas clouds. The new Webb images of NGC 2566 were collected as part of an observing programme (#3707) dedicated to understanding the connections between stars, gas and dust in nearby star-forming galaxies. NGC 2566 is just one of the 55 galaxies in the local Universe examined by Webb for this programme.
Vangelo
1st January 2025, 20:37
Having Fun at the Last Farmers Market of the Year (Rutabaga Curl!)
Just a Few Acres Farm
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Bluegreen
2nd January 2025, 23:23
Wheel In The Sky
Massive Mysterious Metal Ring Crashes Into Kenyan Village
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A metallic object, likely space junk, crashed in Kenya's Mukuku village. The massive ring, weighing approximately 1100 lbs and about 8 feet in diameter, is believed to be from a rocket launch vehicle. The Kenya Space Agency is investigating its origin and impact.
Published 2nd January 2025 (1:36)
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Bluegreen
3rd January 2025, 00:03
Archaeology: Year's Top Discoveries
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Massive Lost City in Ecuador | Stonehenge Mystery | Ancient Carpal Tunnel + Preserved Brains
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Stonehenge’s Scottish centerpiece
The mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge likely came from Scotland. Previously thought to share the Welsh origins of other Stonehenge blocks, the stone closely matches the mineral makeup of the Orcadian Basin, a Scottish rock formation.
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Egyptian ergonomics
Hunching over scrolls took a toll on ancient Egyptian scribes. The skeletons of 30 scribes buried at the Abusir pyramid complex show signs of arthritis, carpal tunnel, and other damage from poor posture.
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The high dignitary Nefer (depicted with his wife in statues) was a scribe in ancient Abusir, Egypt. His skeleton and those of others show signs of occupational wear
Ancient arts and crafts
The oldest rock art in the Americas may be a set of cave paintings in Argentina that date back some 8,200 years. That’s several thousand years older than other rock art in the region. The nearly 900 paintings in a cave called Cueva Huenul 1 — which include geometric shapes plus figures of humans and animals — may have helped preserve cultural knowledge across generations of hunter-gatherers.
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Hunter-gatherers in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina painted nearly 900 designs (some shown) in a cave over 130 generations, probably to transmit cultural knowledge
Bygone brains
Discovering a human brain at an archaeological site is more common than you might think. A new archive catalogs some 4,400 ancient brains that have been found dried out, frozen or otherwise preserved. Brains may owe such surprising sturdiness to their chemical makeup.
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This 1,000-year-old naturally preserved human brain of an individual excavated from a Belgian churchyard is still soft and wet
Pompeii’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Pompeii’s infamous apocalypse was worse than thought. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, it didn’t just coat nearby cities with lethally hot gas, ash and rock — it also triggered deadly earthquakes, a study of collapsed buildings and crushed skeletons found.
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This skeleton’s fractures suggest that the person was crushed by the house he sheltered in due to an earthquake when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79
A lost city no more
Laser scans unveiled the earliest and largest known urban complex in the Amazon. Beneath the trees in Ecuador’s Upano Valley lie thousands of mounds that were once homes and community spaces, along with remnants of roads and farms. Inhabited from roughly 500 B.C. to A.D. 1500, the city shows how sophisticated Amazonian civilizations were long before European conquest.
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Laser scans at several ancient sites (one shown) in the Upano Valley in Ecuador revealed the remains of buildings arranged around plazas and distributed along wide streets
Maya sacrifices unmasked
Child sacrifices in a Maya burial chamber on the Yucatán Peninsula were all young boys, DNA shows, upending a theory that women were sacrificed there in fertility rituals. The boys, sacrificed between A.D. 500 and 900, may have been killed to appease a rain god. Twin brothers and other related young boys were ritually sacrificed in Chichén Itzá.
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Published 17th December 2024 by Maria Temming – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/archaeology-discovery-brains-lost-city
onawah
3rd January 2025, 07:59
But not all were aimed at Earth, thankfully...
Solar Storms Hit for New Years with X-Flare Fireworks | Space Weather Spotlight
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The sun is crackling with solar flares. In the last 48 hours alone (Dec 30/31) it has produced an X-flare, a double X-flare, and more than a dozen M-class solar flares. More flares are in the offing. There are currently five sunspots on the solar disk with mixed-polarity magnetic fields capable of producing M-to-X-class solar flares. Auroras predicted to be visible in northern America. Dr Tamitha Skov brings your space weather forecast.
Published 31st December 2024 (11:13)
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Bluegreen
4th January 2025, 02:56
Deep Beneath Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Enigma, Something Has Been Hiding Under 14 Meters of Ice—Until Now
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Scientists report the discovery of a thriving ecosystem of living organisms, previously unknown and unsuspected, in one of Earth’s most extreme environments: beneath 14 meters of ice covering Antarctica’s appropriately named Lake Enigma.
A permanently frozen body of water in the Northern Foothills of Antarctica’s Victoria Land, the lake is one of the least likely locations on Earth that scientists would have expected to be home to life. Previously thought to be entirely frozen from top to bottom, now an international team of scientists have discovered an enormous body of unfrozen water hidden several meters below the lake’s icy exterior, in which a once-secret microbial ecosystem resides.
The discovery, part of the ENIGMA project funded by the National Antarctic Research Program, upends past findings about Lake Enigma, and offers unique insights into one of Earth’s most inhospitable environments.
First discovered in 1989, Lake Enigma was originally thought to be entirely frozen. However, in November 2019 and January 2020, researchers conducted radar surveys that confirmed an abundance of stratified oligotrophic liquid water existing beneath the surface ice covering the lake. The discovery prompted researchers to drill into the frozen exterior of the lake and deploy underwater cameras, allowing them to capture highly detailed visuals of the lake’s hidden ecosystem.
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Ultimately, the new findings could have profound implications in the study of not only extremeophiles here on Earth, but also the kinds of environments that may be able to host life beyond Earth.
Scientists have long hypothesized that similar subsurface oceans on Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus could host microbial life, and the team’s recent findings at Lake Enigma lend further weight to that possibility.
Published 3rd January 2025 by Micah Hanks – The Debrief
https://thedebrief.org/deep-beneath-antarcticas-frozen-lake-enigma-something-has-been-hiding-under-14-meters-of-ice-until-now/
Bluegreen
4th January 2025, 03:19
The Night Sky | January
Every Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn … then Mars
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This month, you’ll find these 4 planets in the evening sky. Look along the path the Sun travels in daytime (green line on chart). Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are up at sunset. Mars rises around the time the sky turns fully dark.
Sky Dome Map
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Here is the sky dome view for January 2025. It shows what is above the horizon at mid-evening for mid-northern latitudes. A broad arrow on the celestial equator shows how far the sky will rotate in the next hour, carrying stars up from the eastern and down to the western horizon. The view may vary depending on your location.
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/
Bluegreen
5th January 2025, 01:09
Map Shows Visibility of Northern Lights Due To Appear
In the wake of a "severe" geomagnetic storm on New Years Day that sparked the northern lights across the U.S., more aurora may be visible in the coming days.
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NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has forecast G1 geomagnetic storms on Saturday and Sunday, which could make the northern lights visible as far south as northern Maine and Michigan. A SWPC map reveals that the northern lights could be visible on the northern horizon across Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
The auroras are most visible during the late evening and early morning hours when the skies are darkest, however, activity can occur at any time during the night, so staying outside for an extended period increases your chances.
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"One factor aiding in the potential to see the lights is that we are currently in a New Moon phase, allowing the night sky to be very dark," said Brandon Buckingham, a meteorologist at AccuWeather.
Published 3rd January 2025 by Jess Thomson – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/northern-lights-visibility-map-aurora-geomagnetic-storm-g1-2009091
Bluegreen
5th January 2025, 01:32
St. Petersburg, Florida Times - 2 Feb 49
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Saucers Again
That high-speed bugaboo of the airways, the flying saucer, has now scared the bejabbers out of two town visitors . . . the newest cycle started yesterday after The Times reported that up-country people had seen the saucers . . . yesterday Mrs. J.D. Bonner and Mrs. Mary Jackson, Dayton, O., visitors staying at 14712 Gulf Boulevard, were frightened by the same thing . . . contrary to early reports they claimed the disk was about the size of a waste paper basket, seemed to be traveling very low right past the windows . . .
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. . . and then it shot up into the air over the Gulf . . . the ladies said it was bright green in color and "shot fire" . . . both said they saw it while in the sunroom of their beach residence . . . where it will all end, knows no one . . .
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Inquirer - 15 Feb 49
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. . . The new Northrop flying wing B-49, largest and fastest jet bomber in the world (which can fly from London to Moscow in three hours, plus a 30,000-lb. bomb load), wouldn't be the result of those Flying Saucers, would it? . . .
Bluegreen
6th January 2025, 02:26
Buddhists of Wat Svay (Slow TV)
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Bluegreen
8th January 2025, 00:13
Shai-Hulud Eats a Pack of Gum (Blender Animation)
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On Arrakis, only one thing can save you from the heat.
Btw it's not sponsored, we had some gum lying around so we decided to make a fake commercial inspired by Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies.
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Bluegreen
9th January 2025, 01:57
This Week in Space w/Fraser Cain
Dark Energy Illusion // Great Meteor Shower // Mars Chopper
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Get used to the song
Everything we thought we knew is wrong
You'll be hearing it more as we go along
Published 3rd January 2025 (20:55)
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00:00 Intro 00:15 Mars Chopper https://www.universetoday.com/170222/
02:07 Dark Energy Illusion https://www.universetoday.com/170261/
07:19 One Direction Particle https://www.universetoday.com/170271/
09:45 Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun https://www.universetoday.com/170215/
11:35 Vote results
12:38 Covering an asteroid with balls https://www.universetoday.com/170225/
14:37 Meteor shower https://www.universetoday.com/170227/
16:02 Cool Images https://www.universetoday.com/170267/... https://www.universetoday.com/170216/
18:07 Guide to Space https://universetoday.com/newsletter
18:40 Goal for 2025
Bluegreen
9th January 2025, 02:09
SCTV SPORTS - Battle of the PBS Network Stars! (Dick Cavett & Howard Cosell)
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BATTLE OF THE PBS NETWORK STARS: Howard Cosell & Dick Cavett present SCTV’s Battle of the PBS Network stars! WITNESS the Fight of the Century! Will Julia Child make mincemeat out of Mr Rogers in the ring? Or will Mr Rogers turn the bout into child's play? WATCH as William F. Buckley’s and Carl Sagan’s teams battle it out in this epic display of physical prowess and strength!
MAIN CAST: John Candy, Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, Martin Short, Dave Thomas.
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Bluegreen
10th January 2025, 02:48
This Year in UFOs w/Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp
THE "YOUNG GUNS" OF UFOLOGY | 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW | WEAPONIZED | #64
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Published 31st December 2024 (1:50:28)
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In the final WEAPONIZED episode of 2024, Jeremy and George are joined by three well-known citizen journalists to review the stories, successes, and failures of UFO-related developments of the past twelve months. The "Young Guns" of Ufology include Joe Murgia (UFO Joe), Ryan Robbins (aka UFO Jesus), and Danny Silva (Silva Record), each of who shared comments and opinions about the ongoing incursions by mystery drones, dismissive disinformation by AARO and its former leader, the lack of transparency from DOD, threats to potential whistleblowers and witnesses, and highly curious skullduggery behind the November Congressional hearing. In this free-wheeling conversation, panelists mention their favorite moments, deepest disappointments, best books, and what they look forward to seeing in 2025.
Bluegreen
11th January 2025, 03:44
Colliding Spiral Galaxies from Webb and Hubble
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Stare deeply into these eyes. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness.
It’s fortunate that looks can be deceiving.
These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller spiral on the left, catalogued as IC 2163, ever so slowly “creeping” behind NGC 2207, the spiral galaxy on the right, millions of years ago.
The pair’s macabre colours represent a combination of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible and ultraviolet light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars.
Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the right, will eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the left. In the most recent encounter that about peaked 40 million years ago, the smaller galaxy is swinging around counter-clockwise and is now slightly behind the larger galaxy. The space between stars is so vast that when galaxies collide, the stars in them usually do not collide.
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Hubble
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https://astronomynow.com/2024/10/31/blood-soaked-eyes-webb-and-hubble-examine-galaxy-pair/
https://apod.nasa.gov/
Bluegreen
11th January 2025, 04:02
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those affected, worldwide, by the alarming void in leadership our planet has experienced recently.
Bluegreen
11th January 2025, 04:08
Helicopter Live Broadcast Captures UFO Whilst Filming the Palisades Wildfires
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Three segments. Second segment: searchlights? Third segment: beautiful, but skip.
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Bizarre Objects Seen Flying Through The California Wildfires
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Six videos from various locations around the US are examined by the incredulous-if-you-can't-believe-it host.
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Bluegreen
11th January 2025, 04:30
The Most Extreme Winter Storms of the Last Decade
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Icy roads, blizzard whiteouts, and jaw-dropping scenes of Nature's power over the Earth. ❄️
Largely silent. Suggestion: play simultaneously with below.
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Artemesia
12th January 2025, 02:57
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those affected, worldwide, by the alarming void in leadership our planet has experienced recently.
I find ‘the void’ to be inexhaustibly fertile. The what-counts-as-official-leadership here on Earth seems more like a black hole of infinite gravity and no consciousness within. But I concur. The real leadership? Its us. On an individual level. Whatever resources you have on hand, seat of your pants solutions with wing and a prayer deployment tactics. What could possibly go wrong?! :blackwidow:
Bluegreen
12th January 2025, 03:17
The Sun
X-class Solar Flares Hit a New Record in 2024 and Could Spike Further
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There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year since records have been kept
The arrival of solar maximum was a key reason for the spike, but other factors may have been at play.
The number of X-class solar flares — the most powerful and potentially dangerous class of solar eruption — hit a new record high in 2024. The spike highlights that we are currently experiencing a surprisingly active solar maximum, which could continue to intensify this year.
There were a total of 54 X-class flares in 2024, according to www.SpaceWeatherLive.com, which maintains the oldest and most accurate publicly available dataset on solar flares. That is the highest total since at least 1996, when this dataset began. NASA has been tracking solar flare activity since the mid-1970s, but earlier data has not been made publicly available as it is less reliable.
The previous record number of X-class flares in the dataset was 34, recorded in 2001, and only on four other occasions — in 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2014 — has the annual total risen above 20. So last year's total represents a surprisingly sharp spike in X-class flare frequency.
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"I think we have all been surprised [about the number of flares]," said Hugh Hudson, a solar physicist at the University of Glasgow in the U.K.
Some researchers like Hudson believe that the increase in X-class flares can be solely attributed to the increased activity during solar maximum. However, others think that although the Sun's peak has undoubtedly played a key part in the spike, it is not the only reason. These researchers argue that the record number of observed X-class flares is also down to the fact we have gotten a lot better at spotting them, which is slightly throwing off the grading curve.
Published 10th January 2025 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/x-class-solar-flares-hit-a-new-record-in-2024-and-could-spike-further-this-year-but-the-sun-isnt-entirely-to-blame-experts-say
Bluegreen
12th January 2025, 03:35
The Stars
Sunday, Jan. 12 - Wolf Moon in the Winter Football (evening)
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Sunday night, Jan. 12, the nearly full moon will shine inside the Winter Football asterism, also known as the Winter Hexagon and Winter Circle. The asterism is composed of the brightest stars in the constellations of Canis Major, Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, and Canis Minor — specifically Sirius, Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Castor & Pollux, and Procyon.
Once Sirius has risen above the rooftops in the southeast around 7 p.m. local time, the huge pattern will straddle nearly 70 degrees of the southeastern sky. In late evening, the asterism will stand upright in the southern sky, with the Milky Way ascending vertically through it. The hexagon is visible during the evening from mid-November to spring every year.
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Monday, Jan. 13 - Full Moon Occults Mars
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The January full moon, which always shines in or near the stars of Gemini or Cancer, will occur on Monday, Jan. 13 at 5:27 p.m. EST, 2:27 a.m. PST, or 22:27 GMT. At that time, the bright red planet Mars will be shining just to the moon's lower left (or celestial east). This full moon is known as the Wolf Moon, Old Moon, and Moon after Yule.
The Indigenous Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region call it Gichi-manidoo Giizis, the "Great Spirit Moon", a time to honor the silence, and recognize one's place within all of Great Mystery's creatures. (You might recall that name from hearing or singing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'The Song of Hiawatha'.) The Cree of North America call the January full moon Opawahcikanasis, the "Frost Exploding Moon", when trees crackle from the extreme cold temperatures.
On this night, observers across the continental USA, northern Mexico, south and eastern Canada, and northwestern Africa will be treated to the full moon passing in front of, or occulting, Mars. The event can be observed with unaided eyes, binoculars, and any backyard telescope.
Bluegreen
12th January 2025, 04:06
The Planets
Planet Parade – All Month
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In January, Saturn and Venus will shine bright in the southwestern sky just after sunset and for the first hours of nighttime. Jupiter, meanwhile, will shine bright in high in the overhead sky all night long. The red-shaded Mars will rise in the eastern sky during the night.
Narrated by an actual human.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 The Quadrantid Meteor Shower and Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation
03:53 Mars at Opposition and Earth at Perihelion
05:15 The Six-Planet Alignment and New Moon Observations
07:02 Outro
07:41 Enjoy
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Bluegreen
13th January 2025, 02:36
Whitley Strieber: The Telepathy Tapes with Producer Ky Dickens
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LISTEN AND WATCH TILL JANUARY 17
Whitley Strieber lives in Palisades and, as per Jimmy Church (also in SoCal), has evacuated safely. Published just days ago, I found this interesting having dealt with autism personally and professionally for many years. Despite the title and screenshot, this is an audio/visual presentation.
This show is held over because Whitley had to evacuate due to the Pacific Palisades fire. But it is a GREAT show, so DON'T MISS THIS ONE! The Telepathy Tapes has stormed to the top of the podcasts charts around the world because it makes an overwhelming case that telepathy is real, and in this show producer Ky Dickens tells us just why that is true.
Published 3rd January 2025 (1:40:40)
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Related:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=1650538&viewfull=1#post1650538
Bluegreen
13th January 2025, 03:03
The Ancestor Paradox
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There are several ways to think about ancestry, and all of them suggest you have fewer unique ancestors than you might think.
Published 27th December 2024 (4:13)
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Bluegreen
13th January 2025, 03:21
Mr Moonlight
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Bluegreen
14th January 2025, 01:40
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Map reveals UK’s five ‘UFO hotspots’ as investigator lifts lid on wildest ‘alien’ encounters
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For over two decades, Nick Pope worked as a civilian employee at the Ministry of Defence, with his most prominent role beginning in the early 1990s, where he ran the department's UFO program.
Nick was at the helm of the project, an initiative that monitored and investigated reports of unidentified flying objects to assess their potential impact on national security and aviation safety.
Although the program was never formally named, it was often referred to as the “UFO desk” or “UFO program” by a number of media outlets.
When looking at the distribution of these sightings across the UK, Nick and his team discovered that the hotspots were not necessarily the rural or remote locations that many assumed.
“It’s interesting because when we mapped out the UFO sightings, they didn’t necessarily occur in remote, rural areas. The hotspots were often London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow – all the major cities and urban areas. The reason for this is simple - the more people there are in an area, the more likely someone is to spot something unusual in the sky.”
Nick also notes that other areas, like Warminster have been known for their frequent UFO sightings.
“People used to go up Cradle Hill and Flea Hill in Warminster, and even some 1960s pop songs referenced the place."
Bonnybridge, in Scotland, saw a huge surge in UFO sightings in the 1990s, to the extent that local councillor Billy Buchanan lobbied the government for an inquiry.
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Full Britain-centric article published 4th January 2025 by Ethan Singh – The Sun UK
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13216761/map-reveals-uks-five-ufo-hotspots-expert-wildest-encounters/
Bluegreen
14th January 2025, 01:56
It’s Payday! Selling Calves in 2025
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Up at the Tyler Ranch it's time to make money.
Published 9th January 2025 (17:04)
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Johnnycomelately
14th January 2025, 09:46
This belongs here, but posted on the Sheldrake thread first because protocol.
I wonder if Rupert’s honeys had a nice short form for that awkward given name. Rupey? Pert?
I like old Rupert’s ideas and talk, about morphic resonance. I’ve liked them since he was a spry less-old guy. And his mind is still spry enough to best the very smart host Curt Jaimungal at some contentious points.
Biology's Most Controversial Theory of Morphic Fields
Curt Jaimungal
421K subscribers
3k+ views, 1.13, 2025
“Main episode with Rupert Sheldrake: • The UK’s Most Controversial Scientist : ... ” (link available in original description)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0yuGG6WpHU
Matthew
14th January 2025, 10:51
It’s Payday! Selling Calves in 2025
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Up at the Tyler Ranch it's time to make money.
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God bless the USA and its farmers in Jesus' name
Bluegreen
18th January 2025, 00:23
Lewis Hamilton: Future Astronaut?
A Conversation About Space With A Sports Icon
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Formula 1 superstar, 7 time world champion, and self-admitted space cadet Lewis Hamilton while he was doing some fighter jet training with IWC and The Polaris Program’s Ghost Squadron jets.
Published 8th November 2024 (20:36)
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Bluegreen
18th January 2025, 00:42
The Surreal World of David Lynch – Doubleheader
“Lady Blue Shanghai" - (2010)
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Rest in peace, Mr Lynch (1946-2025).
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Rabbits (2002) A Short Film by David Lynch
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In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery. An unusual film whose reviews ranged from “endlessly fascinating” to “utterly boring”.
Written and Directed by David Lynch
Composer - Angelo Badalamenti
Cast - Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio
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Bluegreen
21st January 2025, 02:16
We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.
President Trump Outlines Bold Plans For Space Exploration
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"Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts."
After taking the oath of office to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president on Monday (Dec. 20), Trump laid out his vision for the next four years in an inauguration speech that called for a return to American expansionism and exploration.
"My message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history's greatest civilization," Trump said during his speech inside the Capitol rotunda. "The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars."
"There's no nation like our nation," Trump said. "Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls."
During his first administration from 2017 to 2021, Trump gave substantial support to U.S. space security and exploration. He founded the U.S. Space Force as a new branch of the military to safeguard U.S. interests in space.
Trump also resurrected the National Space Council, led by then-Vice President Mike Pence, to push NASA and other U.S. space projects forward. The Biden adminstration continued the National Space Council under the leadership of then Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended NASA's first attempt to launch its first Space Launch System megarocket to the moon during the Artemis 1 mission in August 2022.
Trump's current Vice President J.D. Vance, who was also sworn in on Sunday, is now expected to lead the National Space Council.
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The Space Boys approve
Trump has tapped Jared Isaacman, who has flown to space twice on SpaceX rockets on missions he personally bankrolled, as his nomination for the next NASA Administration. The agency's current chief Bill Nelson, a former Florida senator, announced his retirement Monday.
"Thank you to the NASA family, who embodies the can-do spirit that makes our country exceptional. It has been the honor of my life to stand and serve with you," Nelson wrote in a statement on X. "As I leave public office today after 53 years, thank you for the great privilege of a lifetime of serving the people of our country. I am humbled and grateful."
Published 20th January 2025 by Tariq Malik – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/we-will-pursue-our-manifest-destiny-into-the-stars-president-trump-wants-astronauts-to-raise-the-american-flag-on-mars
Bluegreen
21st January 2025, 02:37
Close Encounter On A Winter Road (Sweden)
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While many of the most well-known cases come from the United States, they are far from the only ones. In this video, we will look at a dramatic UFO sighting that occurred right here in Sweden.
Published 2nd September 2024 (22:42)
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Bluegreen
22nd January 2025, 01:19
Houston Fun Texas Style
Houston Winter Storm
Sledders, skiers and snowboarders take advantage of the snow day
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Houstonians are delighted with their unusual weather. The reporters are almost yelling into their mics.
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Houstonians Having Fun in the Snow
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Reporter loses it, literally.
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Johnnycomelately
22nd January 2025, 13:15
Hazarding this post here, and am hoping other folks love an old man telling about history too. Don’t know his name, but he’s in Western Australia, posts from Jandakot often.
1930’s, rich lady supported the Supermarine fast-airplane development, which led to the Spitfire.
Lady Poppy Houston: The socialite who saved Britain
Old Fliers
15.1K subscribers
7 views (no typo), Jan 22, 2025
“Born in humble circumstances, this former chorus girl eloped with a married man who died young and left her a fortune. Two further marriages to wealthy men who also died, left her a very rich widow. How then did she save Britain?”
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Bluegreen
23rd January 2025, 03:02
The Footprint of Hedy Lamarr: From Wartime to Wi-Fi
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Hedy Lamarr was the type of woman judgmental people love to underestimate. With her hazy green eyes, jet black hair, full lips, and coy smile, she was once known as the most beautiful woman in the world. Her looks were so captivating that she captured the attention of Hollywood producers in the 1930s and 1940s. However, as Lamarr once said, “The brains of people are more interesting than the looks . . .”
This especially rang true with her. Although she became typecast as the exotic, seductive femme fatale, she was one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century, embodying the phrase “women in tech” before the concept even existed.
People tend to recognize true genius after a person is long gone—just ask Galileo, Thoreau, Van Gogh, and Tesla. Despite the fame that she experienced as a glamorous actress, Lamarr was no exception to the rule. She died as a hermit with little money to her name, although she invented the technology that powers so much of our world today.
If you’re reading this article on a smartphone or computer hooked up to WiFi, you can thank the patent owner, Hedy Kiesler Markey.
Full article published 30th August 2022 by Hannah L Miller – Leaders
https://leaders.com/articles/leaders-stories/hedy-lamarr-inventions/
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Hedy Lamarr
Frequency Hopping Communication System
U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387
Inducted in 2014
Born Nov. 9, 1914 - Died Jan. 19, 2000
Actress Hedy Lamarr was best known for her work in Hollywood during its Golden Age, starring in films such as "Ziegfeld Girl" and "Samson and Delilah". But Lamarr also worked with Hollywood composer George Antheil to invent a frequency hopping technique that today is referenced as an important development in the field of wireless communications.
Born in Austria, Lamarr had at one time been married to a munitions manufacturer, giving her the foundation for her knowledge of weapons systems, including torpedo control systems. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency hopping reduced the risk of detection or jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes. Multiple radio frequencies were used to broadcast a radio signal, switching frequencies at split-second intervals in a seemingly random manner that would sound like mere noise to anyone listening. But if both the sender and receiver of the signal hopped frequencies at the same time, the signal was clear.
Although Lamarr and Antheil never profited from their invention during their lifetime, it was acknowledged by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997 as an important development in wireless communications. When the patent was issued in 1942, it listed her maiden and married name at the time, Hedy Kiesler Markey.
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Compact, admiring bio.
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Bluegreen
23rd January 2025, 03:17
Space News w/Fraser Cain
Gaia Is Dead // Two MegaRockets in One Day // JWST’s Biggest Mystery Solved
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Published 17th January 2025 (20:26)
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00:00 Intro
00:18 Gaia is over
02:51 SpaceX Starship IFT-7
04:53 Blue Origin New Glenn NG-1
06:54 Double Moon Launch
08:16 Flares from Sgr A*
09:58 Vote results / @frasercain
10:37 Explanation for the Little Red Dots
14:15 Origin of Earth's latest quasimoon
15:39 Observing the changing Universe
17:24 NIAC 2025
18:17 Guide to Space newsletter
18:57 Ask your questions
Bluegreen
24th January 2025, 01:28
Flying Cars Could Soon Become a Reality
The technology to make these vehicles already exists
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The year is 2015. “Mad scientist” Doc Brown has just brought wide-eyed teenager Marty McFly to the future in style: aboard a flying DeLorean. Although the time travelers are out of place, their mode of transportation is not. Cars zip by in the sky.
We’re now 10 years past the future envisioned in Back to the Future Part II, and still no flying cars.
But aerial automobiles, a mainstay of sci-fi and fantasy stories since the early 1900s, may soon be reality. The technology to make flying cars already exists, says Xiaosong Du, an aerospace engineer at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla.
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A real-world flying car would most likely be a cross between an airplane and a helicopter. Airplanes need runways, so it would be more practical for a flying car to take off vertically like a helicopter. Rotating blades would generate lift to bring the vehicle off the ground.
“Once it’s completed takeoff,” Du says, “you can fly like a normal airplane. Airplane wings would rotate out from the body of the craft, allowing for flight with less air resistance than a helicopter experience."
Another option is to attach propellers to a flying car’s wings. At first, the wings would be tilted upward, so that the propellers could lift the vehicle. Once the car takes off, the wings would tilt to lay flat, like those on an airplane, says aerospace engineer Pat Anderson, former director of the Eagle Flight Research Center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. “It’s like a Transformer.”
Vehicles with rotating blades and propellers don’t sound much like the flying cars of science fiction. They don’t even sound much like cars. Instead, these vehicles would resemble winged military choppers like those in the Avatar movies, Anderson says. Or real-world winged choppers like the U.S. military’s V-22 Osprey.
Some companies have already flown prototypes.
One issue is regulation. Air crashes are likely to be fatal. Another of the biggest barriers to people commuting in flying cars is expense. The U.S. company Alef Aeronautics, for instance, plans to sell personal cars that can drive on roads and take off into the skies. These cars look and function similarly to those in many sci-fi movies but come with a steep price tag. When they go into production sometime this year, the cars are expected to cost about $300,000 each.
For people with more modest bank accounts, a rideshare service for flying cars — something like Uber or Lyft for the skies — may be more likely. "Flying Ubers may become common in 10 or so years," Anderson predicts.
Published 13th January 2025 by Helen Bradshaw – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flying-car-reality-technology
Bluegreen
24th January 2025, 01:44
Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun by Rolando Ligustri
Why does Comet ATLAS have such colorful tails? Last week Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passed its closest to the Sun -- well inside the orbit of Mercury -- and brightened dramatically. Unfortunately, the comet was then so angularly near the Sun that it was very hard for humans to see. But NASA's SOHO spacecraft saw it.
Pictured is a SOHO (LASCO C3) image of Comet ATLAS that is a composite of several different color filters. Of the several tails visible, the central white tails are likely made of dust and just reflecting back sunlight. The red, blue, and green tails are likely ion tails with their colors dominated by light emitted by specific gases that were ejected from the comet and energized by the Sun.
Currently, Comet ATLAS is showing long tails in southern skies but fading as it moves out of the inner Solar System.
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Comet ATLAS Over Brasília by Frederico Danin
What's that in the sky? Above the city, above most clouds, far in the distance: it's a comet.
Pictured, the impressive tail of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was imaged from Brasília, Brazil four days ago. The evolving comet rounded the Sun well inside the orbit of planet Mercury, going so close there was early concern that it might break up -- and recent evidence that it really did.
At one point near perihelion, Comet ATLAS was so bright that sightings were even reported during the day -- over the bright sky near the Sun -- by careful observers. Over the past few days, Comet ATLAS has developed a long tail that has been partly visible with unaided eyes after sunset, most notably in Earth's southern hemisphere.
http://apod.nasa.gov/
Bluegreen
24th January 2025, 02:05
Amazement Central
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Prepare to be grokked.
Published 19th January 2025 (30:09)
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Inversion
26th January 2025, 02:14
The Planets
Planet Parade – All Month
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In January, Saturn and Venus will shine bright in the southwestern sky just after sunset and for the first hours of nighttime. Jupiter, meanwhile, will shine bright in high in the overhead sky all night long. The red-shaded Mars will rise in the eastern sky during the night.
Narrated by an actual human.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 The Quadrantid Meteor Shower and Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation
03:53 Mars at Opposition and Earth at Perihelion
05:15 The Six-Planet Alignment and New Moon Observations
07:02 Outro
07:41 Enjoy
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Starting at 0:31 MrMBB333 shows the planetary phenomenon.
01/25/25 (12:55)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjeaH2_ed6E
Bluegreen
26th January 2025, 02:15
Real Leaked Radio Control of Fredrick Valentich - Missing Since UFO Encounter - 1978
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We at Queensland UFO Sightings & Research are shocked and excited to bring you the real audio of Frederick Valentich from the night of his mysterious disappearance. This is the first time the audio has been shared.
Velentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before finally reporting: "It's not an aircraft." He then disappeared and has not been seen since.
Published 19th November 2024 (3:04)
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Bluegreen
26th January 2025, 02:41
Astrology or Astronomy? What is the Zodiac?
You might associate the word zodiac with astrology, but it has an honored place in astronomy, too. The zodiac is composed of the 12 constellations that lie along the annual path of the sun across the sky.
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As the Earth orbits the sun, the sun appears to move against the background stars (red line). The constellations (green) through which the sun passes define the zodiac.
The zodiac, the 12 signs listed in a horoscope, is closely tied to how the Earth moves through the sky. We derive these signs from the constellations that mark out the path that the sun appears to take through the year. You might think that dates in a horoscope correspond to when the sun passes through each constellation. But they don’t, much of the time, because astrology and astronomy are different systems. Plus, a closer examination of the motion of the Earth, the sun, and the stars, shows the zodiac to be more intricate than you might imagine.
As Earth orbits the sun, the sun appears to pass in front of different constellations. Much like the moon appears in a slightly different place in the sky each night, the location of the sun relative to distant background stars drifts in an easterly direction from day to day. It’s not that the sun is actually moving. Its motion is entirely an illusion, caused by Earth’s own motion around our star.
Over the course of a year, the sun appears to be in front of, or “in”, different constellations. One month, the sun appears in Gemini; the next month, in Cancer. The dates listed in the newspaper’s horoscope identify when the sun appears in a particular astrological sign. For example, the time between March 21 and April 19, is set aside for the sign Aries. But your astrological sign doesn’t necessarily tell you what constellation the sun was in on the day you were born.
Time is a fiendishly difficult thing to define, especially if we insist on using the sun and stars as a reference. Our calendar is, for better or worse, tied to the seasons. June 21 – the approximate date of summer solstice north of the equator and the winter solstice to the south – marks the day the sun appears at its most northerly point in the sky. At the June solstice, the North Pole is most tilted towards the sun. Additionally, the Earth doesn't rotate exactly; it wobbles.
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Tidal forces from the sun cause Earth’s axis to wobble over a 26,000-year period. The wobble changes where in Earth’s orbit the solstices and equinoxes occur.
Since we tie our calendar (and astrologers tie the signs) to the solstices and equinoxes, the Earth doesn’t actually complete an entire orbit in one year. The seasonal or tropical year is actually a hair less time than one full orbit (sidereal year). This means that, each year, the sun’s location relative to the stars on any given day – June 21, for example – drifts a very tiny amount.
But wait about 2,000 years, and the sun will sit in an entirely different constellation.
On the June solstice 2,000 years ago, the sun sat almost halfway between Gemini and Cancer. Fifteen years ago, on the June solstice, the sun was sitting between Gemini and Taurus. In the year 4609, the June solstice point will pass out of the constellation Taurus and into the constellation Aries.
The signs aligned, more or less, with their corresponding constellations when people defined the modern Western zodiac about 2,000 years ago. But in the intervening centuries, the slow wobble of the Earth’s axis has caused the solstice and equinox points to shift roughly 30 degrees westward relative to the constellations. At present, signs and constellations are about one calendar month off. In another two thousand years or so, they’ll be about two months off.
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The wobbling of Earth’s axis causes the location of the equinoxes to occur earlier every year. Here, the location of the sun at the vernal equinox (March 21) is shown to drift over a 6,000 year period.
Published 24th January 2025 by Christopher Crockett – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-zodiac/
Bluegreen
27th January 2025, 01:30
Once You Know This, Every PSYOP Becomes Obvious
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From fear tactics and emotional scripts to the overuse of authority and timing tricks, we break down these strategies and how you can spot them in real-time. Using the F.A.T.E. Model, we’ll show you actionable steps to resist manipulation, think critically, and stay in control of your perspective.
Published 15th January 2025 (18:09)
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Bluegreen
27th January 2025, 01:41
Man with 200 IQ Explains the Secrets of Reality (Excerpt)
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Q. Will I go to heaven or hell?
A. You will persist. Where you go, depends on who (you) are. And you would know that better than anybody.
Published 10th December 2024 (19:41)
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Full interview (1:58:43)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miVG2xT5jY&t=2021s
Bluegreen
29th January 2025, 04:52
A Potato For The End Of The World - Short film
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A lonely man goes on a quest to dig up potatoes and sculpt them into friends. Directed by Christian Szczerba and Josef Bozinoski.
Published 3rd November 2024 (7:45)
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Johnnycomelately
29th January 2025, 10:25
Not sure how to announce this vid. Rupert was born in June 1942, which would mean that I was 13 when he turned 30. I recall that back then we all believed “Don’t trust anyone over 30”. So now, five decades on, I still find that that belief troubles me. Is this guy legit, a sage I should respect, or is he still an untrustworthy old guy?
Evolution, From Natural Selection to Omega Point: Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue 93
Rupert Sheldrake
101K subscribers
1374 views, Jan 28, 2025
“Darwinian evolution shapes modern biology, but the notion of evolution has a wider history, too. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon explore linear and cyclical conceptions of human and cosmic evolution and ask what they can mean in the modern world, where innovation and evolution appear to be escalating. They consider the significance of two main principles within evolution, that of diversity and creativity, and how these elements can be embraced. They also ask about the difficulty of talking about evolution today, given the presence of intelligent design and creationism. An inability to discuss evolution in a wider context is a loss because evolutionary theory itself is sophisticated and interestingly contested, both in the realm of biology but spirituality: the so-called evolution of consciousness. The discussion includes the ideas of Pierre Tielhard de Chardin and Owen Barfield, Karl Popper and Henri Bergson.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ywyQIFMtQE
Bluegreen
30th January 2025, 04:03
The First Monster Black Hole Ever Imaged Is Changing Before Our Eyes
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In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by releasing the first-ever image of a black hole—M87*, located at the center of the galaxy M87. This groundbreaking image was based on data collected in 2017. Now, the EHT team has analyzed additional data from their 2018 observations, revealing new findings.
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Six years after capturing the first-ever image of a black hole, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released a new analysis of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. This latest study combines data from observations made in 2017 and 2018, offering fresh insights into the structure and movement of plasma near the black hole’s event horizon.
The findings mark a major step forward in understanding the extreme conditions surrounding black holes and their environments. They provide valuable theoretical insights into some of the most intriguing mysteries of the universe.
“The black hole accretion environment is turbulent and dynamic. Since we can treat the 2017 and 2018 observations as independent measurements, we can constrain the black hole’s surroundings with a new perspective,” explains Hung-Yi Pu, assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University. “This work highlights the transformative potential of observing the black hole environment evolving in time.”
Said Luciano Rezzolla, chair of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, “ To use an equivalent that may help, we do not expect to see a difference in the structure of the rock when comparing two photos of Mount Everest taken with a separation of one year. However, we do expect to see differences in the clouds near the peak and we can use them to deduce, for instance, the direction of dominant winds or the three-dimensional properties of the rock that we cannot deduce from a simple two-dimensional photo.”
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Left: EHT images of M87* from the 2018 and 2017 observation campaigns. Middle: Example images from a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation at two different times. Right: Same simulation snapshots, blurred to match the EHT’s observational resolution.
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Reference: “The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87 – II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations” by Kazunori Akiyama, Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruíz, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Juan Carlos Algaba, Richard Anantua, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Uwe Bach, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, John Barrett, Michi Bauböck, Bradford A. Benson, Dan Bintley, Lindy Blackburn, Raymond Blundell, Katherine L. Bouman, Geoffrey C. Bower, Michael Bremer, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Avery E. Broderick, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Sandra Bustamante, John E. Carlstrom, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Dominic O. Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Shami Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Xiaopeng Cheng, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, Nicholas S. Conroy, John E. Conway, Thomas M. Crawford, Geoffrey B. Crew, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yuzhu Cui, Brandon Curd, Rohan Dahale, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Jason Dexter, Vedant Dhruv, Indu K. Dihingia, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Sergio A. Dzib, Ralph P. Eatough, Razieh Emami, Heino Falcke, Joseph Farah, Vincent L. Fish, Edward Fomalont, H. Alyson Ford, Marianna Foschi, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, William T. Freeman, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Antonio Fuentes, Peter Galison, Charles F. Gammie, Roberto García, Olivier Gentaz, Boris Georgiev, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, José L. Gómez, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Kazuhiro Hada, Daryl Haggard, Ronald Hesper, Dirk Heumann, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Shiro Ikeda, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Makoto Inoue, Sara Issaoun, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Michael D. Johnson, Svetlana Jorstad, Adam C. Jones, Abhishek V. Joshi, Taehyun Jung, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Dong-Jin Kim, Jae-Young Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Junhan Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Prashant Kocherlakota, Yutaro Kofuji, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Carsten Kramer, Joana A. Kramer, Michael Kramer, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Noemi La Bella, Sang-Sung Lee, Aviad Levis, Zhiyuan Li, Rocco Lico, Greg Lindahl, Michael Lindqvist, Mikhail Lisakov, Jun Liu, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Laurent Loinard, Colin J. Lonsdale, Amy E. Lowitz, Ru-Sen Lu, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsu****a, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Izumi Mizuno, Yosuke Mizuno, Joshua Montgomery, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Wanga Mulaudzi, Cornelia Müller, Hendrik Müller, Alejandro Mus, Gibwa Musoke, Ioannis Myserlis, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Dhanya G. Nair, Masanori Nakamura, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Antonios Nathanail, Santiago Navarro Fuentes, Joey Neilsen, Chunchong Ni, Michael A. Nowak, Junghwan Oh, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Raúl Olivares Sánchez, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Georgios Filippos Paraschos, Jongho Park, Harriet Parsons, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Dominic W. Pesce, Vincent Piétu, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Ben Prather, Giacomo Principe, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Luciano Rezzolla, Angelo Ricarte, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Cristina Romero-Cañizales, Eduardo Ros, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Ignacio Ruiz, Chet Ruszczyk, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Miguel Sánchez-Portal, Mahito Sasada, Kaushik Satapathy, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Jonathan Schonfeld, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, León D. S. Salas, Kamal Souccar, Joshua S. Stanway, He Sun, Fumie Tazaki, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Teresa Toscano, Efthalia Traianou, Tyler Trent, Sascha Trippe, Matthew Turk, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jesse Vos, Jan Wagner, Derek Ward-Thompson, John Wardle, Jasmin E. Washington, Jonathan Weintroub, Robert Wharton, Maciek Wielgus, Kaj Wiik, Gunther Witzel, Michael F. Wondrak, George N. Wong, Qingwen Wu, Nitika Yadlapalli, Paul Yamaguchi, Aristomenis Yfantis, Doosoo Yoon, André Young, Ziri Younsi, Wei Yu, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Shuo Zhang, Guang-Yao Zhao and Shan-Shan Zhao, 22 January 2025, Astronomy & Astrophysics.
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51296-24/aa51296-24.html
Published 26th January 2025 by Goethe University Frankfurt – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/the-first-monster-black-hole-ever-imaged-is-changing-before-our-eyes/
Bluegreen
1st February 2025, 03:39
UFO Spotted Over New York
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Airplane passenger footage.
Published 2nd January 2025 (1:15)
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Bluegreen
1st February 2025, 03:45
Weigh In Day for the Big Boys!
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Up at the Tyler Ranch.
Published 25th January 2025 (13:55)
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Bluegreen
1st February 2025, 04:03
Matt Finn: The Smell of Space | Thunderbolts
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Welcome to odor space.
Published 12th January 2025 (13:40)
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. .:moony:
"Bad Bg! Bad!"
Bluegreen
1st February 2025, 04:39
Space Rock | Christian Löffler
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Bluegreen
2nd February 2025, 02:48
Governments Announce Aliens Are Real – What Happens Next?
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Have you ever wondered how people would react if governments around the world suddenly announced they were in contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization? We did, so we asked 50 British citizens this very question. Their answers may surprise you.
Published 22nd September 2023 (21:49)
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Bluegreen
2nd February 2025, 03:35
Moon Level Luxury • TV • Hi-Fi • Babysitters • The Space Age Lodge
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Bluegreen
3rd February 2025, 01:46
February 2025 Mega-Post
:moon:
Night Sky Events in February 2025
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Planet Parade / Meteor Shower / Jupiter / ...
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Moon Phases
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All Saints Days
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Full Moon in Leo February 12th 2025
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Published 30th January 2025 (33:52)
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Heliocentric solar system visible planets and more
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Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky
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Sky dome maps by Guy Ottewell
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/
Bluegreen
3rd February 2025, 01:57
Nacreous Clouds over Sweden by Vojan Höfer
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https://apod.nasa.gov/
Vivid and lustrous, wafting iridescent waves of color wash across this skyscape from northern Sweden. Known as nacreous clouds or mother-of-pearl clouds, they are rare. But their unforgettable appearance was captured in this snapshot on January 12 with the Sun just below the local horizon.
A type of polar stratospheric cloud, they form when unusually cold temperatures in the usually cloudless lower stratosphere form ice crystals. Still sunlit at altitudes of around 15 to 25 kilometers, the clouds diffract the sunlight even when the Sun itself is hidden from direct view.
Bluegreen
3rd February 2025, 02:09
No Use Crying
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DFaxEBsx0Ke/
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Florida said drivers on a stretch of interstate faced a slippery and potentially foul-smelling mess when a truck spilled approximately 4,160 gallons of milk.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said on social media that the crash occurred just after midnight Wednesday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 and caused a Borden truck to lose its load -- hundreds of crates of milk.
Bluegreen
3rd February 2025, 02:47
Do Bloodless, Animal Mutilations Provide Grey ET's food? With Whitley Strieber
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Experiencer Whitley Strieber reveals intriguing details about how the Greys operate ...
TOPICS:
• Drone info from viewers
• Interview with Whitley Strieber, podcaster and author of “Communion”
• Greys are “biomechanical robots”
• "Their brains have four quadrants…they function differently”
• “High protein, high sugar content and high copper content”
• “Cattle…and they are doing their slaughter out in the field”
• Another cattle mutilation in Ritter, Oregon
• “No spilled blood…no tracks…no scavengers”
Published 22nd January 2025 (58:30)
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Bluegreen
4th February 2025, 03:01
Our Unknown Planet
Earth's Underworld Is Full of Life, And Goes Deeper Than We Ever Knew
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Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine
The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it unique among the cosmos. But we may have underestimated how deep beneath our feet Earth's creatures can thrive.
In an ambitious 8-year census, an international team of scientists has found an astonishing diversity of microbes living beneath our planet's surface, deeper than anything we've discovered prior.
Led by microbial ecologist Emil Ruff from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US and bioinformatician Isabella Hrabe de Angelis from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, the study has turned up lifeforms as deep as 491 meters (1610 feet) below the ocean floor, and even further below land: up to 4,375 meters (2.7 miles) deep.
The team analyzed samples from more than 50 locations across the globe, collected from above and below Earth's surface, as well as sites like caves and deep-sea hydrothermal vents that form the surface threshold.
Surface samples were collected from soils, sediments, or water columns, while subsurface samples were retrieved from boreholes, mines, aquifers, or the fluid from fracking. The diversity of life forms discovered follow an unexpected pattern.
"It's commonly assumed that the deeper you go below the Earth's surface, the less energy is available, and the lower is the number of cells that can survive," Ruff says. "But we show that in some subsurface environments, the diversity can easily rival, if not exceed, diversity at the surface."
This was particularly true for microbes in marine environments, and for microbes from the taxonomic category known as the archaea domain, which became more genetically rich, with diversity more evenly spread, the deeper researchers looked. Bacterial diversity in the marine subsurface was unexpectedly high compared to surface ecosystems.
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A mud volcano at the seafloor where methane rich fluids from the subsurface are emitted to the water column
Life in these underworlds runs on a very different timeline to Earth's bustling surface. With no sunlight, energy is sparse and must be harvested from the surrounding materials and their chemical reactions: hydrogen, methane, sulfur, serpentinization, the dead (or living) bodies of neighboring microbes, and even radioactivity.
"It makes sense to be evolutionarily adapted to absolutely minimize your power and energy requirements and optimize every single part of your metabolism to be as energy efficient as possible," Ruff says.
Published 2nd February 2025 by Jess Cockerill – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-underworld-is-full-of-life-and-it-goes-deeper-than-we-ever-knew
Johnnycomelately
4th February 2025, 13:39
This creepiness seems real to me. I don’t think AI vids were a thing 4-5 years ago, and the comments don’t doubt it.
Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub
Viral Reddit
43.7K subscribers
287k views as of today, uploaded 4 to 5 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6KWNB5NEo
Bluegreen
6th February 2025, 02:05
The Oldest Goth Club in the World: Slimelight
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In 1987, Dette and Mayuan Mak found a derelict warehouse and turned it into a venue. More than 35 years later, goths still congregate at London's Slimes aka Slimelight.
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If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't know it was there.
Bluegreen
6th February 2025, 02:14
You Are A Ghost
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https://x.com/blackvaultcom/status/1845815003024089469
Bluegreen
6th February 2025, 02:27
The Phoenix Lights UFO Incident // Full CGI Animation UAP Movie
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Right up there with Roswell, the Phoenix Lights UFO incident is among America's most well known. Gamer Robert Jacobs continues his “Labor of Love” series with another well-researched and carefully recreated account. One witness among thousands: Phoenix resident Alice Cooper:
“I saw it. Everybody saw it.”
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Johnnycomelately
6th February 2025, 08:13
This is the story of the most peacefull arrest ever, and what led up to that great result. It is a fictional story, but it should make you happy. Watch any irl cop-action vid, and by comparison this will stand out as both nice and civilized. Think of it as a training film, help your criminal life go smoother. And funner lol.
For a little while there, I was hoping the cop was a confident and daredevil bass player. That should be a director’s cut.
Puscifer - "Conditions of My Parole" (Official Video - Director's Cut)
pusciferdotcom
245K subscribers
5m views, posted 13 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-_J5WWkoc
Bluegreen
7th February 2025, 04:17
Tigers in India See Remarkable Population Recovery
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Tigers once roamed widely across Asia. However, by the early 2000s, they were only present in 10% of their historic range. On January 30, 2025, scientists said tiger numbers in India have increased two-fold since 2010. This is despite India being the world’s most populous country with just 18% of global tiger habitat. Researchers said there are now over 3,600 tigers in India; that’s 75% of the world’s tiger population.
The researchers published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Science in January (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4827).
There has been a precipitous decline in tiger populations worldwide due to habitat loss, reduced prey, conflict with humans and poaching. For decades, India has been working to rebuild their tiger population through a multifaceted approach. They established and increased tiger reserves, created habitat corridors to help them disperse, introduced community programs for coexisting with tigers and implemented strict anti-poaching measures.
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Mom and brood
A lot of tiger territory is shared with about 60 million people in India. There, communities have learned to live alongside these creatures and take advantage of financial incentives such as tiger tourism and compensation for losses such as livestock attacks. Areas where tigers and humans coexist tend to be prosperous and peaceful. On the other hand, tigers are largely absent in poorer areas with conflicts, extensive land use changes and poaching.
Published 6th February 2025 by Shireen Gonzaga – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/earth/tigers-in-india-increased-population-2025/
Bluegreen
7th February 2025, 04:35
Anticrepuscular Rays: A Rainbow Fan Over Spain by Julene Eiguren
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2502/RainbowFan_Eiguren_1080.jpg
Late in the day, the Sun set as usual toward the west. However, on this day, the more interesting display was 180 degrees around -- toward the east. There, not only was a rainbow visible, but an impressive display of anticrepuscular rays from the rainbow's center.
In the featured image from Lekeitio in northern Spain, the Sun is behind the camera. The rainbow resulted from sunlight reflecting back from falling rain. Anticrepuscular rays result from sunlight, blocked by some clouds, going all the way around the sky, overhead, and appearing to converge on the opposite horizon -- an optical illusion.
Rainbows by themselves can be exciting to see, and anticrepuscular rays a rare treat, but capturing them both together is even more unusual.
What are Crepuscular Rays?
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Bluegreen
8th February 2025, 01:34
If you'd been smoking ...
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Bluegreen
8th February 2025, 01:46
Roscosmos
Putin Axes Yuri Borisov, Head of Russia's Space Agency
Russia has a new space chief.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, The Moscow Times reported on February 6th.
His replacement is 39-year-old Dmitry Bakanov, who most recently served as Russia's deputy transport minister and led the state-backed Gonets satellite communications system from 2011 to 2019.
Out with the old
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In with the new
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Borisov, 68, took Roscosmos' reins from the blustery Dmitry Rogozin in July 2022, five months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Many of Russia's former space partners cut or reduced their ties with the nation in the wake of that ongoing invasion, complicating Russia's launch business and exploration plans.
Borisov's relatively brief tenure was marked by turbulence and disappointment, including the August 2023 failure of Luna 25, the first moon mission in modern Russian history. (The most recent moon effort had been Luna 24, launched by the Soviet Union in 1976.) Still, Russian officials framed Borisov's ouster as part of a "planned rotation."
"The corporation needs dynamic development, which is why these personnel changes are taking place," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Published 6th February 2025 by Mike Wall – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/putin-axes-yuri-borisov-head-of-russias-space-agency
Bluegreen
8th February 2025, 02:06
Above and Below the Blue by Max Blakesberg
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https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/above-and-below-the-blue/
Bluegreen
9th February 2025, 01:00
Space to Ground: Hailing Frequencies
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International Space Station will see an international class of newbies, hailing frequencies, more ...
Published 7th February 2025 (4:03)
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Bluegreen
9th February 2025, 01:12
The Afterlife Tierlist
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No answers here. Duncan Clarke ranks the possible scenarios after we die in a tierlist.
Published 2nd March 2024 (36:30)
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Bluegreen
9th February 2025, 01:36
All
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The World's
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A Stage
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Bluegreen
11th February 2025, 04:12
Super Bowl LIX Reaches Orbit: NASA Streams the Big Game to the ISS
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Forget the stadium snacks and crowded sports bars. This year, Super Bowl LIX took the concept of “worldwide broadcast” to a whole new level. NASA beamed the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles showdown straight to the International Space Station (ISS). So, while millions of fans on Earth gathered for Super Bowl LIX, a select group of spectators had a truly out-of-this-world viewing experience.
Cooking hot wings in space before Super Bowl 2025
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NASA ensured that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had the chance to watch the game live, offering a rare slice of home while orbiting 250 miles above the planet. As you can see below, they had quite the view.
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https://x.com/Space_Station/status/1888723164709921202
The Super Bowl is a cultural giant, drawing millions of viewers across the U.S. and beyond. Even in space, NASA recognizes the importance of keeping astronauts connected to events back home. (Some of) the crew tuned in thanks to a live uplink, though they had to stay up late to do it.
The ISS operates on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which does not align neatly with prime-time broadcasts in the U.S. For the astronauts, kickoff happened at 11:30 p.m. UTC, long past their usual work hours.
While their daily routine includes breathtaking views of Earth and groundbreaking scientific research, the option to unwind with one of America’s biggest sporting events brought a small sense of normalcy to life in orbit.
Published 10th February 2025 by Matthew Gover – Orbital Today
https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/02/10/super-bowl-lix-reaches-orbit-nasa-streams-the-big-game-to-the-iss/
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Bluegreen
11th February 2025, 04:27
UFO Sightings Daily
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https://www.tiktok.com/@scottcwaring/video/7466697643566157062
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https://www.tiktok.com/@scottcwaring/video/7465392134422580485
Bluegreen
12th February 2025, 02:57
NASA’S Perseverance Rover’s First 360 View of Mars (Official) 2021
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This video shows the first 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, as captured by the rover’s color Navigation Cameras, or Navcams. The Navcams are on the remote sensing mast (or “head”) of the rover. Perseverance possesses the most cameras of any Mars rover to date, with 19 on the rover.
Perseverance landed on Mars’ Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. These are the sixty seconds of images obtained by beyond elated NASA engineers gathered around their screens on February 20, 2021, and released to the public on February 22, 2021.
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Bluegreen
12th February 2025, 03:03
Past Predictions of the Future Every Decade | 1905 -2025
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Quick note: my apologies for the few audio pops in the video. I held the microphone in the wrong positions and only realised in post. Always learning.
Published 8th September 2020 (10:01)
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Bluegreen
12th February 2025, 03:13
How Navy Submarine Cooks Feed 150 Sailors At Sea | Boot Camp
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Chef: “If our morale is low, their morale is low. You can easily taste it in the food.”
United States Navy submariners deploy for months at a time, spending weeks submerged at sea with no internet and minimal contact with the outside world. Aboard the Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine USS South Dakota, culinary specialists work tirelessly in incredibly tight quarters to prepare meals for up to 150 crew members.
Published 2nd February 2025 (15:13)
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Bluegreen
12th February 2025, 03:45
Milky Way over Australian Pinnacles by Michael Goh
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What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in Nambung National Park in Western Australia. Made of ancient sea shells (limestone), how these human-sized picturesque spires formed remains unknown. In the background, just past the end of the central Pinnacle, is a bright crescent Moon.
The eerie glow around the Moon is mostly zodiacal light, sunlight reflected by dust grains orbiting between the planets in the Solar System. Arching across the top is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Many famous stars and nebulas are also visible in the background night sky.
The featured 29-panel panorama was taken and composed in 2015 September after detailed planning that involved the Moon, the rock spires, and their corresponding shadows. Even so, the strong zodiacal light was a pleasant surprise.
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Friday, Feb. 14 - Evening Zodiacal Light (after dusk)
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If you live in a location where the sky is free of light pollution, you might be able to spot the Zodiacal Light during the two weeks that precede the new moon on February 27.
Starting on Friday, February 14, after the evening twilight has faded, you'll have about half an hour to check the western sky for a broad wedge of faint light extending upwards from the horizon and centered on the ecliptic below the planet Venus. That glow is the zodiacal light - sunlight scattered from countless small particles of material that populate the plane of our solar system.
Bluegreen
17th February 2025, 04:13
Space Rock | Jim Sullivan
One of the strangest stories in music lore is the mystery of Jim Sullivan. A singer/songwriter from California by way of Oklahoma, Sullivan played in the clubs and coffeehouses around Malibu in the mid to late 60's. The times were right for his style of music, and he gained a devoted following. Club owners were glad to book the singer, as they knew he would draw a crowd.
Friends like Peter Fonda (who cast him as an extra in Easy Rider), Mama Cass Elliot, and others felt so strongly about his talent, they helped finance the recording of an album in LA, even hiring the loose collective of top-notch session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew to back him up. The album, UFO, was released on a small label in 1969, and though it was re-released the following year on a larger label, it failed to garner commercial success. He recorded a second album in 1972 for Playboy Records, but it too went largely unnoticed.
Sullivan decided to go to Nashville and try his luck in the Music City, where his sister, an established session musician with connections, arranged for his arrival.
He left LA on the afternoon of March 4, 1975, promising his wife and son that they would join him later. Police in Santa Rosa, New Mexico pulled him over for erratic driving. They were satisfied that he was not under the influence, and Sullivan agreed to check into the local La Mesa Motel.
Police reports indicate the bed was never slept in, and the key was found locked in the room. Although authorities later found his car 25 miles away near a desert ranch, he was never seen or heard from again.
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Bluegreen
20th February 2025, 04:32
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Lander Closes in on Moon Landing
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After lifting off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15, 2025, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is making its way towards landing on the Moon. This is Firefly's first attempt at landing on the Moon's surface and the third robotic lander to carry NASA payloads as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Blue Ghost has 10 science and technology payloads onboard and is targeting a touchdown on March 2, 2025, at 3:45 a.m. EST (0845 UTC).
Published 15th February 2025 (12:13)
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Captures Amazing Moon View
Published 18th February 2025 (1:02)
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Bluegreen
20th February 2025, 04:49
Square?
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite captured a photo of a mysterious square-shaped structure on the surface of the Red Planet that has planetary experts and the public baffled; the photo was taken in 2001 and rediscovered recently by an interested party perusing the files.
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Bluegreen
20th February 2025, 05:54
A Strange Experience Left Jacques Vallee Completely Shaken
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Published 13th February 2025 (4:08)
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Jacques Vallee: Implications of UFO Phenomena (excerpt)
From the bygone public TV show 'Thinking Allowed' w/ Jeffrey Mishlove
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Johnnycomelately
20th February 2025, 14:36
Square?
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite captured a photo of a mysterious square-shaped structure on the surface of the Red Planet that has planetary experts and the public baffled; the photo was taken in 2001 and rediscovered recently by an interested party perusing the files.
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Here is a paper or article about it. Dunno if the author or the journal are legit. Found the link searching MOC e1000462, from the tweet pic.
Fascinating.
https://www.gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Essays-Astrophysics/Download/8873
Evidence Of Alien Activity On Mars
Steven Maxwell Beresford
beresfordmax@yahoo.com
Abstract
Inspection of the Mars Orbiter Camera image E1000462 reveals what
appears to be an artifact in the form of an almost perfect square with
sides about 3 km long. The author has enhanced E1000462 by means
of contrast modification, revealing new details.
Background Of The Discovery
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November of 1996 and
orbited the planet from 1997 to 2006. Equipped with a high resolution
camera known as the Mars Orbiter Camera, its mission was to map the
Martian surface and identify potential landing sites for rovers.
The Mars Orbiter Camera consisted of a narrow angle camera that
obtained high resolution grayscale images, and two low resolution
multicolor wide angle cameras. It operated for 4.8 years between
September 1997 and November 2006. During that period it took
97,097 high resolution grayscale images of the Martian surface.
Image E1000462 is extraordinarily significant because it shows what
appears to be a massive artifact in the shape of an almost perfect
square that is partially buried by sand. The sides of the square are
about 3 km long. Two of the corners are well-defined right-angles.
The square appears to be the ruins of an ancient walled settlement
built by intelligent beings ~ aliens ~ perhaps millions of years ago.
The square contains smaller features that also appear to be ruins.
The link to the original image is given by Googling: MOC E1000462.
The square is located at the top of the grayscale strip. The proposed
name of the formation is Alien Square.
Can’t seem to copy the other text blocks (2 short descriptions of images, and a more lengthy Discussion section).
ThePythonicCow
21st February 2025, 11:00
Can’t seem to copy the other text blocks (2 short descriptions of images, and a more lengthy Discussion section).
Text copy happened to work for me. Here's the more lengthy discussion from "The General Science Journal" article Evidence Of Alien Activity On Mars (https://www.gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Essays-Astrophysics/Download/8873) that you provided:
Discussion
It is inconceivable that the formation is of natural origin. Terrestrial
geological forces do not spontaneously produce massive walled squares.
Similar geological forces presumably occur on Mars. It seems obvious
that the formation is an artifact created by intelligent beings, aliens,
who inhabited Mars and possibly other planets in the distant past.
The question is whether the aliens evolved on Mars or were space
travellers who arrived from other star systems and colonized Mars.
If they colonized Mars, they may have done so when it was warmer
and wetter than it is now. This raises the possibility that the square
is millions of years old.
Another question is whether the aliens also colonized Earth and
if their descendents are here today in some form, or in a hidden
location, or whether they are connected to recent UFO sightings.
These are important questions. Recent advances in astronomy have
shown that there are billions of stars in our galaxy and that almost
all stars are surrounded by planets, many of which have liquid water.
It therefore seems likely that our galaxy contains other sentient beings.
The Mars Orbital Camera generated 97,097 high resolution grayscale
images. The vast majority have never been closely examined. It is
predicted that close examination of the remaining images will reveal
massive artifacts similar to E1000462 on other parts of the planet.
This is a project that could easily be undertaken by members of the
public and amateur astronomers.
NASA is currently using its rovers to look for signs of microbial life.
Although this is commendable, it is well within NASA’s capabilities to
land a rover directly into the square. If this is done, it is predicted that
exploration of the square will reveal other artifacts indicative of the size
and lifestyle of the aliens.
Johnnycomelately
21st February 2025, 12:03
Can’t seem to copy the other text blocks (2 short descriptions of images, and a more lengthy Discussion section).
Text copy happened to work for me. Here's the more lengthy discussion from "The General Science Journal" article
Hi Paul. Mystery to me, how tiny electrics can go astray. Found out today, that a week ago one of my credit cards was false charged for near Cdn$650., called it in and had the card cancelled. That was strange.
This article is whimsical, in a nice way. If we could but prove to ourselves that more capable races preceded us, maybe we would become more humble, and go easier on our fellow Earthlings …naw, forget that.
Bluegreen
5th March 2025, 00:42
Blue Ghost
Sunrise on the Moon
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Blue Ghost aced its lunar landing attempt on Sunday (March 2), setting down close to Mons Latreille, a solitary lunar peak in the vast basin Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") in the northeastern region of the moon's near side. Here is the Ghost lander's spectacular shot of sunrise on the moon as it begins its workday on the lunar surface.
Bluegreen
5th March 2025, 00:55
Study Finds Humans Age Faster at 2 Sharp Peaks – Here's When
The progress of a human being through life might be thought of as a mostly gradual succession of changes from the ovum to the grave.
But if you wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and wonder when you suddenly grew so much older, you may not be imagining things.
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According to recent research into the molecular changes associated with aging, humans experience two drastic lurches forward, one at the average age of 44 and the other at the average age of 60.
"We're not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes," geneticist Michael Snyder of Stanford University explained in August 2024 when the study was published.
"It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s. And that's true no matter what class of molecules you look at."
To this end, they have been tracking a group of 108 adults, who have been donating biological samples every few months over several years.
Using the samples from their cohort, the researchers have been tracking different kinds of biomolecules. The different molecules studied include RNA, proteins, lipids, and gut, skin, nasal, and oral microbiome taxa, for a total of 135,239 biological features. Each participant submitted an average of 47 samples over 626 days, with the longest-serving participant submitting 367 samples. This wealth of data resulted in more than 246 billion data points, which the researchers then processed, looking for patterns in the changes.
Around 81 percent of all the molecules they studied showed changes during one or both of these stages. Changes peaked in the mid-40s, and again in the early 60s, with slightly different profiles.
The mid-40s peak showed changes in molecules related to the metabolism of lipids, caffeine, and alcohol, as well as cardiovascular disease, and dysfunctions in skin and muscle.
The early 60s peak was associated with carbohydrate and caffeine metabolism, cardiovascular disease, skin and muscle, immune regulation, and kidney function.
Published 28th February 2025 by Michelle Starr – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-humans-age-faster-at-2-sharp-peaks-heres-when
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Bluegreen
5th March 2025, 01:10
Do you ever think about how you think?
David Drew: Our Divided Brain | Thunderbolts
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Most of the great discoveries in science were made intuitively through pattern recognition—through seeing Gestalt. They weren't necessarily made by following a linear sequence. The right brain sees no conflict between science, intuition, imagination, and reason. — Iain McGilchrist
Published 8th February 2025 (38:04)
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Bluegreen
5th March 2025, 01:22
Coming Soon
Total Lunar Eclipse – Blood Moon
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The first total lunar eclipse since 2022 is set to grace the night sky on March 13-14, 2025 — but only for those on Earth's night side. During this celestial event, the moon will slip into Earth's shadow for 65 minutes, taking on a deep reddish hue in what’s often called a "blood moon."
While the eclipse will be visible worldwide at the same universal time, the best views will be in North and South America. Observers in parts of Europe may catch a glimpse at moonset, while those in East Asia will see it as the moon rises. The point of greatest eclipse falls over the Pacific Ocean, making it an unforgettable sight for skywatchers across the Americas.
◘ North America: All phases of the eclipse will be visible across all 50 U.S. states (including Alaska and Hawaii), Canada and Mexico. South America: Most of the continent will witness the entire event, with totality visible from Brazil, Argentina and Chile starting after midnight on March 14.
◘ Europe: Western Europe — including Spain, France and the U.K. — will see totality as the moon sets early on the morning of March 14.
◘ Africa: Extreme Western Africa — including Cape Verde, Morocco and Senegal — will see totality as the moon sets early on the morning of March 14.
◘ Oceania: New Zealanders will see the eclipse in its later stages, with the moon already in partial shadow as it rises on March 14.
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Unlike during a solar eclipse, it is safe to look at the moon during the entire lunar eclipse. They're not only completely safe but also leisurely, lasting many hours. This one occurs between 11:57 p.m. and 6 a.m. EDT (03:57 and 10:00 UTC) — a total of six hours — though arguably the most interesting part, totality, happens between 2:26 and 03:31 a.m. EDT (06:26 and 07:31 UTC).
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Bluegreen
5th March 2025, 01:56
LIFE AS WE DON'T kNoW IT
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Some Aliens May Need Sulfuric Acid Like We Need Water
For decades and today, some of the world's most brilliant scientists have been combing the cosmos, looking for water in their search for extraterrestrial life. But they may be barking up the wrong tree.
Life as we know it needs water, but life as we don't know it may run on something else entirely. Something like ... concentrated sulfuric acid.
The chemistry of human life wouldn't work in a place like the huge Saturn moon Titan, where it's so cold that ice behaves more like rock, or in the acidic clouds of Venus. But a different chemistry, which built all the requisite pieces out of different materials, might have a shot. Imagine cells that use methane, sulfuric acid, or even molten rock the way your cells use water.
According to a 2021 study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) molecular biologist William Bains and his colleagues, it turns out that, if we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.
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At the most basic level, life is just a series of chemical reactions. Those reactions need a medium in which to occur, which chemists call a solvent: something fluid enough that molecules can float around and mingle, and there needs to be a lot of it in one place. But not just any liquid will do; a solvent also needs to help break down and transport the chemicals that cells need to live — without also dissolving important molecules like lipids and amino acids.
Here on Earth, water fits the bill perfectly, but it may not be the only liquid in the universe capable of supporting the chemistry of life. In a new study, Bains and his colleagues rated several possible solvents based on how they interact with the chemical building blocks of life and how common they should be on rocky planets.
Candidates ranged from the liquid forms of methane and ethane, ammonia and carbon dioxide to even stranger possibilities like pitch and molten rock. The surprising champion is a chemical we Earthlings think of as painfully hostile to life: concentrated sulfuric acid.
Based on physics models of how solar systems form, sulfuric acid should be fairly common on rocky planets like Venus, and it's definitely good at dissolving things. But surprisingly, some of the most important building blocks for life — things like amino acids and lipids — can float around and do chemistry in pure sulfuric acid just as easily as they can in water.
Somewhere in the universe, sulfuric acid lakes could be teeming with life forms whose basic chemistry is only a little different from ours.
Published 20th February 2025 by Kiona N. Smith – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/life-as-we-dont-know-it-some-aliens-may-need-sulfuric-acid-like-we-need-water
Bluegreen
6th March 2025, 02:29
New Mexico / Old Mexico
Scientists Find Vehicles Further Back in Time Than Thought Before in USA
Uncannily preserved in the sands of New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a vehicle used by humans: drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground that have been dated to 22,000 years ago.
As detailed in a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances, these marks were left behind by a type of sledge known as a travois. Think of it as a wheelbarrow without the wheels.
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Typically comprising two wooden poles held in each hand at the front, and intersecting at the back in a V or X-shape, a travois would have been pulled across the ground, carrying meat, game or other supplies. Their usage is well-known to scientists — but this is by far the oldest example, predating the invention of the wheeled vehicle in Mesopotamia by some 17,000 years, according to researchers.
"There's nothing this old," study author Matthew Bennett at the University of Bournemouth told reporters.
The ancient runnels, as the authors describe them, were discovered in the dried mud of a bygone lake in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, hidden by sediment for untold ages, and finally exhumed by a chance mix of natural erosion and careful excavation by researchers.
Rarely were they found in isolation, with the researchers discovering other tracks of footprints nearby all heading in the same direction. In many cases, based on their size, the prints were left behind by children.
But perhaps the discovery's most staggering implication is that humans may have crossed into the Americas much earlier than commonly believed, with dominant theories — which are being increasingly challenged — holding that nobody made the trek until around 15,000 years ago.
"The peopling of the Americas debate is a very controversial one, but we're fairly confident about the dates," Bennett said. "The traditional story is that the ice sheets parted and they came, but you can come through before the door closes, too."
Published 2nd March 2025 by Frank Landymore – Futurism.com
https://futurism.com/evidence-vehicles-tens-thousands-years-old
Bluegreen
6th March 2025, 02:55
Elvis Has Left the Building
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Elvis Has Left the House
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Bluegreen
7th March 2025, 02:44
Intuitive Machines lands near lunar South Pole, but fate of private Athena probe unclear
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Intuitive Machines is on the moon again — and again there is some drama.
The Houston-based company's second lunar lander, named Athena, touched down at the Mons Mouton region of the moon's south pole on schedule today (March 6) at 12:31 p.m. EST (1731 GMT). It wasn't a picture-perfect landing, however. While Athena continued sending data home to Earth and began generating power on the lunar surface, the mission team could not immediately determine if it landed fully upright as planned.
"We can confirm Athena is on the surface of the moon," Josh Marshall, Intuitive Machines' communications director, said during the landing webcast today. "The team is going through the process of powering down systems that are not required. We are working to figure out the orientation of the vehicle, which is important because that will determine how much signal we're going to have."
It was a déjà vu moment for Intuitive Machines, which pulled off the first-ever private moon landing last year with its Odysseus spacecraft.
Odysseus came in a bit too fast during its February 2024 descent, breaking one of its legs and tipping partway over onto its side, a configuration that hampered its ability to communicate with Earth.
Published 6th March 2025 by Mike Wall – Space.com
https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/intuitive-machines-lands-private-athena-lander-near-moon-south-pole-historic-touchdown
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Bluegreen
7th March 2025, 03:09
I Couldn't Talk About It: Ten Incredible Humanoid Encounters
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As usual, historically documented by Mr Dennett using photographs, locations, clippings, etc.
Published 7th February 2025 (1:16:04)
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0:00. PRESTON INTRO
3:05. THE UFO NEXT DOOR. May 5, 1952. Prospect Park, Illinois.
10:41. A FEELING OF BEING WATCHED. December 9, 1960. Carignan, France.
16:13. THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. March 20, 1967. Butler, Pennsylvania.
29:28. THE MAN ON THE FLYING BOX. November 1974. Case di Mordano, Italy.
35:04. A ROBOTIC BEING. Mid-September 1977. Gondomar, Portugal.
39:34. THE DAY THE ETS CAME TO VISIT. November 2, 1977. Joaquin Murtinho, Brazil.
49:31. THE ALIEN AND THE FISHERMEN. February 4, 1978. Lake La Florida, San Luis, Argentina.
57:34. THE SINGING EXTRATERRESTRIALS. February 1982. Borok, Russia.
1:03:16. IT WAS STRANGE. August 1983. Opole, Poland.
1:10:49. “HUMANS DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE.” March 26, 2002. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain.
Bluegreen
8th March 2025, 01:16
LEDA 1313424: The Bullseye Galaxy
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The giant galaxy cataloged as LEDA 1313424 is about two and a half times the size of our own Milky Way. Its remarkable appearance in this recently released Hubble Space Telescope image strongly suggests its nickname "The Bullseye Galaxy". Known as a collisional ring galaxy it has nine rings confirmed by telescopic observations, rippling from its center like waves from a pebble dropped into a pond. Of course, the pebble dropped into the Bullseye galaxy was a galaxy itself. Telescopic observations identify the blue dwarf galaxy at center-left as the likely collider, passing through the giant galaxy's center and forming concentric rings in the wake of their gravitational interaction. The Bullseye Galaxy lies some 567 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. At that distance, this stunning Hubble image would span about 530,000 light-years.
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Bluegreen
8th March 2025, 01:21
MSM UFO | Woody Harrelson - Stephen Colbert
"Just ... SHOOT!"
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGexL4BRIjY/
Bluegreen
8th March 2025, 01:30
MSM UFO | Jeremy Corbell – Chris Cuomo
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Trump’s Broken Promises
Published 18th February 2025 (47:16)
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Bluegreen
8th March 2025, 01:42
Weekend Update
Saturday, March 8 - Moon joins Mars in Gemini (all night)
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Once the sky darkens on Saturday evening, March 8, bright reddish Mars and Gemini's two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, will appear around the bright gibbous moon. Mars and the moon will be close enough together to share the view in a backyard telescope or binoculars (orange circle). The "twin" stars will shine off to their left (or celestial northeast).
Sunday, March 9 - Daylight Saving Time Begins
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For jurisdictions that adopt Daylight Saving Time (DST), clocks should be set forward by one hour at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 9. For stargazers, the time change and the fact that sunsets occur 1 minute later each day near the March equinox will mean that dark-sky observing cannot commence until much later in the evening — possibly after the bedtime of junior astronomers.
https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html
Bluegreen
9th March 2025, 01:04
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Starship Scrubs! Peter Beck Tames Neutron! Katy Perry in Space??
In the last few weeks we had a successful moon landing from Firefly's Blue Ghost, Varda's capsule returned to Earth in Australia, Katy Perry got in line for a spaceflight, and John McFall was approved to fly to the ISS, which is pretty interesting since he's missing a leg.
Published 5th March 2025 (23:07)
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*Update!*
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/science/starship-launch-test-flight-8/index.html
Bluegreen
9th March 2025, 01:15
UFO Spotted Tonight on Oklahoma News
UFO does not escape meteorologist's attention. Time: 9:01 PM, Friday, February 14, 2025, Location: Oklahoma City.
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Bluegreen
9th March 2025, 01:24
Rolling Tube and Picking Up Our USDA Beef!
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What's for dinner?
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Published 8th March 2025 (17:30)
Bluegreen
9th March 2025, 01:30
Action! Adventure!
AIR-SUB 'DX' (1939)
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Bluegreen
9th March 2025, 23:46
Stranded Astronaut Confirms Musk Could've Rescued Them Earlier
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Robby Soave and Lynda Tran discuss the latest development with Butch and Sunni, the NASA astronauts stuck in space. Did Biden refuse?
Published 6th March 2025 (4:52)
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Bluegreen
10th March 2025, 00:00
Mars Mystery (cont'd)
Huge 'Reflective Disk' Discovered on Mars
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A recent analysis of a photograph captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed two intriguing anomalies on the Martian surface.
The first image, labeled F02_036488_2211_XI_41N335W, was taken on May 9, 2014, and depicts a monitoring site in North Arabia Terra, a region east of Deuteronilus Colles. The anomaly was discovered by imaging specialist Jean Ward.
The object, described as a massive reflective disc, measures approximately 240 meters (787 feet) in diameter — comparable to two or three football fields.
The second anomaly, located nearby, resembles a large ring measuring roughly 120 meters in diameter.
While the nature of these objects remains unknown, theories range from natural formations, such as pools of frozen water ice, to more speculative possibilities like artificial structures or spacecraft.
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Published 2nd March 2025 by Jake Carter – anomalien.com
https://anomalien.com/huge-reflective-disk-discovered-on-mars/
Huge "Reflective Disc" and Weird Ring Photographed East of Deuteronilus Colles on Mars
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Here is Mr Ward himself with details.
Published 23rd February 2025 (5:38)
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The photograph analyzed here (F02_036488_2211_XI_41N335W) was acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 2014-05-09T16:37:29.117 and is described as 'North Arabia Terra monitoring site.' Here are featured two anomalies I discovered in this photograph located at a site East of Deuteronilus Colles in a region of Mars called Arabia Terra. The first anomaly looks like a reflective disc that is embedded in the Martian surface, it measure approximately 240 metres in diameter (could it be a pool of frozen water ice, hatch or craft?). The second anomaly resembles a large ring measuring approximately 120 metres in diameter. As always, until we get to see these anomalies up close and personal, I can only speculate as to what these objects might be.
Mars Mystery - Square?
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1656921&viewfull=1#post1656921
Bluegreen
11th March 2025, 00:36
Sex in Space: Dr. Esmé Louise James w/ Dr. Chris Agnew
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Under weightless conditions, the forward 'thrust' of a male orgasm would propel a male astronaut backward at a speed of about two meters per hour.
Bluegreen
11th March 2025, 01:12
Columbus the Deceiver: Total Lunar Eclipse
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On his fourth and final voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his men were, for a time, marooned and hungry on the north coast of Jamaica. The Indigenous Arawak people were becoming tired of their demands.
But The Almanach Perpetuum, written by Abraham Ben Samuel Zacuto, came to Columbus' aid, predicting a lunar eclipse for Thursday, Feb. 29, 1504. Knowing this, three days earlier, Columbus warned the Indigenous people that he would take the moon away if they did not cooperate with his expedition.
He wrote:
“It began before sunset, so I could observe only the end of it, when the moon had just begun to return, and it must have been two and a half hours after sunset.”
When the Indigenous people implored him to bring back the moon, Columbus drew aside and pretended to pray. As the moon began to emerge from the Earth's shadow, they cheered and hurried away to bring food for the ill and starved men, thus saving admiral, crew, and expedition.
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Total Lunar Eclipse March 13-14 2025:
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The total lunar eclipse will occur overnight on Thursday, March 13, and Friday, March 14, 2025. The event is global, occurring at the same time for everyone on the night side of Earth. Here are the key times for North American viewers:
• Eastern Time (EST): Totality from 2:26 a.m. to 3:31 a.m. on Friday, March 14.
• Central Time (CST): Totality from 1:26 a.m. to 2:31 a.m. on Friday, March 14.
• Mountain Time (MST): Totality from 12:26 a.m. to 1:31 a.m. on Friday, March 14.
• Pacific Time (PST): Totality from 11:26 p.m. on Thursday, March 13, to 12:31 a.m. on Friday, March 14.
• Alaska Time (AKST): Totality from 10:26 p.m. to 11:31 p.m. on Thursday, March 13.
• Hawaii Time (HST): Totality from 8:26 p.m. to 9:31 p.m. on Thursday, March 13.
Bluegreen
11th March 2025, 22:00
A Wiccan Eclipse
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What to do during a Blood Moon?
Some consider a lunar eclipse to be the time when the doorway between worlds becomes momentarily opened, which is great for divinations and spiritual communications.
This lunar event is an opportunity to experiment with intuitive magic and enhance our psychic abilities.
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Ancestor incense blends: Incense carries our wishes to the deities and spirits through the sweet, airborne smoke. Some of the best herbs to burn for communication with ancestors and other spirits are: Dragon’s blood, Rosemary, Valerian, and Mugwort.
Shadow work: Engage in meditations, and rituals that force you to confront the darker, hidden parts of yourself. Journaling, Tarot exercises and self-reflection are encouraged.
Charge your crystals: Leave your crystals under the moonlight.
Clean your spaces: Putting your living spaces in order will clear any negative energy and make room for what will manifest soon. Declutter your altar, open the windows to allow fresh air to enter, perform cleansing rituals, clean all surfaces and water your plants.
Write a letter and burn it: Write down your deepest thoughts and then release all that wasted energy as you watch the sheet burn. Don’t forget to do it safely.
Release an intention: Consider what you want to manifest. Set a monthly intention or a wish for the season that begins. One common way to elevate that intent into the Universe is by writing it down and then burning it in a bay leaf.
Give thanks: Acknowledging what we have has a huge effect on our self-care. Gratitude can be amplified during a Full Moon and this develops positive effects that help us express our emotions.
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Bluegreen
11th March 2025, 22:28
New in Quantum Physics
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Scientists Freeze Light: Breakthrough Challenges Fundamental Laws Of Nature, Opens Many Doors
Scientists have successfully frozen light for the first time, achieving a groundbreaking 'quantum leap' in science. This almost supernatural discovery challenges fundamental laws of nature and opens new possibilities in quantum physics and technology.
Published 11th March 2025 (2:38)
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Bluegreen
11th March 2025, 22:48
New in Quantum Physics
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Quantum Immortality: We Never Die
One of the leading interpretations of quantum theory is that every probabilistic event leads to a branching of reality, where all possibilities occur. This "many worlds" interpretation has been growing in prominence, but it implies a bizarre consequence. It might mean that you can never die, and will continue to survive not only life threatening events but even old age. Join us today as we explore the extraordinary idea of quantum immortality. Written & presented by Prof. David Kipping.
Published 3rd March 2025 (36:26)
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Johnnycomelately
12th March 2025, 07:58
Fun story about flying beer and spirits from England to troops in France in WWII.
Lots of cool clips of représentative aircraft, period b&w vid, and actual pics of the OP.
WWII’s Most Refreshing Mission: The Normandy Beer Blitz Runs
Aviation Deep Dive
25K subscribers
Posted March 11, 2025
Cheers to 25k subs! Celebrate with a boozy WWII tale of the Royal Ale Force—RAF pilots turned beer runners.
From Spitfires hauling 'beer bombs' to Normandy, to Typhoons dodging friendly fire, discover how British ingenuity kept morale high with a pint in hand. All hail to the ale!
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00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Royal Ale Force: The Birth of the Flying Pub
03:38 - Royal Ale Force: First Round
06:05 - Royal Ale Force: The ‘Beer Bombs’
10:21 - Royal Ale Force: Lobsters and the Inland Robbery
12:43 - Royal Ale Force: The American Response and the Legacy
13:42 - Royal Ale Force: After the War
SOURCES
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembr...
https://time.com/archive/6789525/worl...
Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II. Dunn, W.R.
Wing Leader. Johnson, J.E. (1956) p.214-6.
Original footage and recreated scenes may not be 100% accurate to the event being described but has been used for dramatic effect.
This is because there may not have been original footage of a particular event available, or copyright prevents us from showing it.
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Bluegreen
15th March 2025, 01:57
Travelogue
Fukushima, Japan - UFO Fureai-kan
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UFO fans have been increasingly active in Japan where lawmakers have called for official investigations on the phenomena, and UFO events in various cities have attracted many visitors.
Parliamentary members launched a nonpartisan group to study UAPs from the perspective of national security in June last year. The founding members of the group include Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
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Some Japanese municipalities are hoping to leverage on a return of the UFO boom for regional revitalization.
In 2021, a UFO research institute was established in the town of Iino in the city of Fukushima, where a UFO-themed facility called UFO Fureai-kan opened in 1992 following numerous reported sightings there.
City officials held the third UFO festival in November, which attracted some 4,000 enthusiastic visitors, many in alien costumes.
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In a 12-month period of time between 2023 and 2024, there were 452 reported sightings in the tiny town, which has a population of 5,000. Locals claim the area has a unique magnetic force which attracts the otherworldly.
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Bluegreen
16th March 2025, 00:02
Space Rock News
World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History
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Published 11th March 2025 (1:57)
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Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped.
The team from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) investigated rock layers in the North Pole Dome — an area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia — and found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion years ago.
Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history.
"Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," said Johnson.
This would have been a major planetary event, resulting in a crater more than 100km wide that would have sent debris flying across the globe.
Professor Johnson said, "We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the Moon. Until now, the absence of any truly ancient craters means they are largely ignored by geologists.”
Published 6th March 2025 by Samuel Jeremic et al - Curtin University
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57558-3
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Bluegreen
16th March 2025, 01:02
Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse 2025
Oh darn. I fell asleep before the lunar eclipse. Luckily, others around the world did not.
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The lunar eclipse is seen above the fronds of a palm tree in Palm Springs, California. (Image credit: Patrick T Fallon)
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Lunar eclipse above the "Forever Marilyn" statue. Palm Springs, California. (Image credit: Patrick T Fallon )
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Sequence of the total lunar eclipse over Castle Stalker, Appin, Scotland. (Image credit: Josh Dury)
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"Blood Worm Moon", Saltillo, Mexico. (Image credit: Antonio Ojeda)
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Photographer Juan Barreto captured this lovely image of skywatchers enjoying the view of the total lunar eclipse from Caracas, Venezuela.
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Magic time.
Bluegreen
17th March 2025, 00:50
SCTV | The Sammy Maudlin Show
Bobby Bittman – upstaged! – Next week: Lola Heatherton!
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Bluegreen
18th March 2025, 01:34
The Sky This Week – Spring
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Thursday, March 20 - March Equinox
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On Thursday, March 20, at 4:01 a.m. EDT or 1:01 a.m. PDT and 09:01 GMT, the sun will cross the celestial equator traveling north, marking the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of northern spring. Days and nights will be of equal length on that day, and the sun will rise due east and set due west. At mid-northern latitudes on the March equinox, the amount of daylight added to each day peaks at 3 minutes.
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In the southern sky on Thursday morning, March 20, early-morning sky-watchers can see the bright, waning gibbous moon shining several finger-widths to the right of Antares, the bright, reddish star that marks the heart of the Scorpion. The duo will be cozy enough to share the view in binoculars (orange circle). Observers located in most of Australia, southern New Zealand, and westernmost Antarctica can watch the moon occult Antares with unaided eyes.
Bluegreen
18th March 2025, 01:53
Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole
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"What is this? No, it's not a pizza! It's Jupiter's north pole! Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched! NASA's robotic Juno mission orbiting Jupiter took data in 2018 that was used to construct this stunning view of the curious cyclones at Jupiter's north pole! Measuring the thermal emission from Jovian cloud tops, the infrared observations are not restricted to the hemisphere illuminated by sunlight! They reveal eight cyclonic features that surround a cyclone about 4,000 kilometers in diameter, just offset from the giant planet's geographic north pole! Similar data show a cyclone at the Jovian south pole with five circumpolar cyclones! The south pole cyclones are slightly larger than their northern cousins! Oddly, data from the once Saturn-orbiting Cassini mission has shown that Saturn's north and south poles each have only a single cyclonic storm system! Have a great day everyone, and I'll see you in class!"
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Bluegreen
18th March 2025, 02:20
Noah's Ark & Interstellar Connections | Ancient Aliens
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The story of Noah, as found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and nowhere else. What if it's true?
Published 16th March 2025 (18:44)
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Bluegreen
18th March 2025, 02:32
Milky Way Galaxy
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Saturn Now Has 274 Moons
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A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 274. The International Astronomical Union recognized the discovery on March 11, 2025.
Dr. Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sincia, and his colleagues used the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to repeatedly monitor the sky around Saturn between 2019 to 2021 in minute detail, combining multiple images to strengthen an astronomical object’s signal.
This initial run yielded 62 moons — and an even larger number of other objects that, at that time, couldn’t be designated.
“With the knowledge that these were probably moons, and that there were likely even more waiting to be discovered, we revisited the same sky fields for three consecutive months in 2023,” Dr. Ashton said.
“Sure enough, we found 128 new moons. Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up.”
Published 13th March 2025 – Sci News
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/saturn-moons-13748.html
ThePythonicCow
18th March 2025, 11:21
"What is this? No, it's not a pizza! It's Jupiter's north pole! Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter?
I suspect they are the intersection of Birkeland currents with the surface of Jupiter.
(I don't recall whether to credit the Electric Universe people, or Ben Davidson, for this insight.)
edina
18th March 2025, 13:23
"What is this? No, it's not a pizza! It's Jupiter's north pole! Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter?
I suspect they are the intersection of Birkeland currents with the surface of Jupiter.
(I don't recall whether to credit the Electric Universe people, or Ben Davidson, for this insight.)
I first saw this with the Electric Universe people, and it may have been the impetus for Ben to start talking with them more, was that about a decade ago, or more?
Ha... time flies... :)
Bluegreen
19th March 2025, 00:39
Stuart Talbott: Electric Jupiter Baffles Astronomers
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Published 15th October 2022 (11:11)
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Another baffling surprise has been revealed by NASA’s Juno space probe since it entered Jupiter’s orbit in 2016. It's the discovery of multiple cyclones which appear fixed and unmoving at each of Jupiter’s poles. Nothing in the standard theoretical toolkits of atmospheric and planetary science predicted nor can explain this phenomena.
As noted in a Phys.org report, “….an ‘anticyclonic' ring of winds move in the opposite direction of the cyclones, which is what keeps them in place. The team was unable to find signatures of convection, which would help explain how heat was being used to fuel the cyclones. They acknowledge that much more work will need to be done to fully explain the behavior of Jupiter's cyclones.”
Independent researcher, Stuart Talbott, points out the irony of this hypothesis and describes how the observed effect of counter rotational wind movements associated with Jupiter’s cyclones are actually caused by incoming Birkeland currents. This dramatic phenomena is testimony to the electrical circuitry that pervades our solar system, and indeed our entire Electric Universe.
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Thornhill's POV: The Simple Electric Universe | Thunderbolts
A recent upload 'primer' on Electric Universe.
A reading of the article “The Simple Electric Universe” by the late Wal Thornhill. Narrated by David Harrison, proprietor of Stickman On Stone.
“More and more the professions will cross over into the entertainment field. Those of us who are not employed directly in industry will come to realize that what we are really in is ‘show biz.’”—Astronomer Fred Hoyle from his 1964 book, Of Men and Galaxies.
Published 23rd February 2025 (19:49)
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Bluegreen
19th March 2025, 01:07
Oklahoma UFO
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UFO does a ballroom dance.
An Oklahoma City man captured mystifying footage and photos of a bizarre UFO that he likened to a jellybean filled with plasma. According to a local media report, the odd sighting occurred on January 25th as Chris Frederick and his wife were about to head out for dinner. Their Saturday evening excursion came to a sudden stop when they reached their driveway and received a call from a concerned neighbor who had spotted something unusual in the sky. A buzz soon swept through the neighborhood, recounted Frederick, "before long, we were all standing out in the street and had our phones out."
Published 18th February 2025 (0:59)
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Bluegreen
21st March 2025, 01:44
Ma-ma-ma-Mad Movies
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Star Trek Moments 1
This video was made by a geeked-out fan, who overdubbed comical and nonsensical dialogue.
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Bluegreen
21st March 2025, 01:57
Welcome home!
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Bluegreen
21st March 2025, 02:19
New Beginnings in Space As Astronauts Step Into Their Zero-Gravity Home
Four Expedition 72 astronauts are settling into life aboard the International Space Station after arriving on Saturday, just days after the departure of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Tuesday.
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NASA Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers spent Wednesday unpacking cargo from the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft. Later, they transferred emergency hardware from the station into Dragon and reconfigured the spacecraft for its docked operations. After a midday break, they continued familiarizing themselves with space station systems and adjusting to life in orbit.
Their SpaceX Crew-10 teammates, Takuya Onishi from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos), also took part in cargo transfers and station orientation. Onishi assisted with unpacking, reviewed upcoming science tasks, and exercised on the advanced resistive device.
Meanwhile, Peskov tested video reception for the European robotic arm and worked on life support systems, as all continued adapting to microgravity.
Published 20th March 2025 by NASA - SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/new-beginnings-in-space-as-astronauts-step-into-their-zero-gravity-home/
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Experiencing Zero Gravity on Earth
In Bordeaux, France, our ESA astronauts train for microgravity using parabolic flights. These special flights create brief periods of zero gravity, mimicking the conditions of space. Join us as we follow Rosemary Coogan, John McFall (both from the UK), and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland), on their parabolic flight training.
Published 9th March 2025 (6:09)
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Johnnycomelately
22nd March 2025, 06:37
Cross posting here, on the fly. Belongs here too.
Skateboarding vids are generally pretty dreamy. Successful makes of usually-increasingly difficult tricks, for the length of one or two well tailored-to 3-minute songs.
Skaters and fans know that most tricks are not first try, in any proper skateboard vid. Sometimes the battle takes several days, returning to the spot, and can be brutal.
This is a story of a young Japanese pro, Aimu Yamazuki, what it took to make the tricks in his opening part in his brand Primative’s recent vid Wildfire.
I am so inspired by his footwork and awareness in bailing out his many fails. Kicks the board away, places landing feet off beside the falling board. His falls look mostly graceful and harmless too.
Article is forthwith, then the vid of Aimu’s battles, which L= 25:32.
Last is the vid Wildfire, L= 22:13, his part is first. More tricks shown here, than in the ‘makings-of’ vid. Other skaters ensue. There is a girl team mate skating though 7:-+.
TransWorld Skateboarding
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Aimu Yamazuki Primitive Wildfire
Watch: Primitive Skateboards Just Dropped Aimu Yamazuki's Raw Clips From 'Wildfire' and They're Heavy
Aimu’s raw ‘Wildfire’ clips give us a taste of his relentlessness and determination on and off the board. He's a real one!
[Brian Blakely Mar 17, 2025
https://www.skateboarding.com/trending-news/primitive-skateboards-aimu-yamazuki-raw-wildfire-clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xoLrSZqp0
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Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 01:55
This missive from the Hollyweird guy ...
The Sammy Maudlin Show: Drugs & Hollywood | SCTV
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Lola Heatherton performs "New York, New York", then discusses her problems with the press and her latest law suit. Bobby Bittman drops by with out-takes from a Congressional hearing on drugs in Hollywood. William B brings up Sammy's drug problem, and he's documented Sammy's drug years in a new book.
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Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Flaherty
Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 02:21
Will the Blaze Star Explode on March 27, 2025?
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The Blaze Star isn’t one star but two. It’s a binary system with a white dwarf and red giant. The Blaze Star’s white dwarf builds up material on its surface, siphoned off from the red giant star. Periodically, it “can’t take no more” and explodes, about every 80 years.
Have you ever heard of the Blaze Star? It’s a star in the constellation Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, that was supposed to go nova last year. Well, we’re still waiting. But when it finally does erupt, it’ll be a once-in-a-lifetime show in our night sky.
The eagerly awaited Blaze Star nova is a real opportunity for keen night sky observers to witness a “new star” in the sky … but only for a few days before it fades away again.
A new estimate for the Blaze Star’s eruption
Might the Blaze Star finally explode on March 27, 2025? Or maybe November 10, 2025? Or perhaps after that … ?
Those are the predictions of Jean Schneider (https://luth7.obspm.fr/) of the Paris Observatory, published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (October 2024).
Schneider came to his possible dates using a combination of the previous eruption dates and the orbital ephemeris of the binary system. While Schneider admits in his paper that no one can exactly predict the eruption, he is trying to predict eruption dates with a precision of a week or two. Will his predictions hold up? The only way to know for sure is to go out and observe Corona Borealis to see if a “new” star appears!
Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, with its brightest star Alphecca
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Published 21st March 2025 by Chris Harvey – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/space/blaze-star-nova-corona-borealis-how-to-see-it/
Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 02:36
Space Rock | Alexander Jean - Casey Abrams
"We Three Kings"
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Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 23:04
Jack the Ripper: Positive ID?
The infamous killer who terrorized London women has largely been referred to as simply “Jack the Ripper” -- until now.
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Jack the Ripper has lived in infamy and lore for more than a century after he committed the murders of at least five women in Whitechapel between August and November of 1888. Police never found Jack the Ripper, who was also referred to as the “Whitechapel Murderer” and the “Leather Apron.” He was infamous for slitting the throat of his victims before removing the internal organs of at least three people.
Historian Russell Edwards, who has been on the project over ten years, says he has identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski through a DNA match of a shawl found at the scene of one of his murders.
Kosminski was a Polish immigrant who came to Whitechapel, England, in 1881 alongside his brother. He became a barber once in the British capitol.
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Edwards told the “Today Show Australia” that he came to purchase the shawl in 2007 after it was purported to be at the scene of the murder of Catherine Eddowes.
Kosminski, who was aged 23 at the time of the murders, has long been considered a suspect. He had schizophrenia and was in a mental asylum at the time of his death in 1919.
Thanks to Kosminski’s oldest brother’s great-great-granddaughter, the revelation was made after they provided a DNA sample.
According to the Daily Mail, Edwards has hired a legal team to help gain an inquest after he found a 100% DNA match. Descendants of both Eddowes and Kosminski have backed this move.
As he told “Today,” Edwards and his team have sent a letter to the attorney general requesting permission to go to Britain’s High Court for a further inquest. The hope is that Kosminski can be legally tied to the murder.
“The name Jack the Ripper has become sensationalized. It has gone down in history as this famous character,” Karen Miller, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Eddowes said.
“What about the real name of the person who did this? Having the real person legally named in a court, which can consider all the evidence, would be a form of justice for the victims. We have got the proof. Now, we need this inquest to legally name the killer.”
Published 15th February 2025 by Patrick Djordjevic - News Nation
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/jack-the-ripper-identity-revealed-dna/
Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 23:24
Drake Passage: The 'most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe'
Waves reach up to 80 feet (25 meters) high
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The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans.
The stretch is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula. Named after the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake, it is notorious for whipping up wild storms and monster waves up to 80 feet (25 meters) tall.
The passage is "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe," Alfred Lansing wrote in his 1959 book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic.
At around 600 miles (965 kilometers) wide, the channel is relatively narrow compared with the ocean around it, meaning currents speed up as they are forced through the passage. The same goes for southern winds, which blow unimpeded from west to east around Antarctica before they reach the Drake Passage.
As winds funnel through the passage, they whisk up huge waves, some of which can be dangerous — and even deadly — for passengers on boats making the 48-hour-long crossing. In the best case, the waves make for a bumpy ride, known as the "Drake shake."
"It's always interesting when you go to dinner and they put sticky mats on all the tables to make sure your plates and things don't slide around," Karen Heywood, a professor of physical oceanography at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. who sailed through the Drake Passage in 2024, told National Geographic.
Published 21st March 2025 by Sascha Pare - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/drake-passage-the-most-dreaded-bit-of-ocean-on-the-globe-where-waves-reach-up-to-80-feet
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Bluegreen
23rd March 2025, 23:52
Antarctica
"I sunk your battleship!"
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https://www.tiktok.com/@blackapplegallery369/video/7381530524793179434
Bluegreen
25th March 2025, 01:00
MSM UFO | Howie Mandel - Joe Rogan
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Howie recounts an amazing experience he and his wife had in Canada.
We were driving down a country road. I thought ‘Oh my God there is a giant accident way up ahead’. Because I saw this line, half a mile wide, of all these flashing lights. I thought it was a lineup of ambulances or first responders or whatever. As I got closer and closer, that whole line of lights, quicker than I can fathom, just shot into the sky and disappeared.
We have never seen anything since. This is way before the internet. We called the airport, we called the military. We did not see anything on the news. But we both saw it.
Published 29th April 2023 (7:52)
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A more recent sighting by Mr Mandel, flying over Texas ...
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Bluegreen
26th March 2025, 04:16
"I was born a Roman Catholic, and I'll die a Roman Catholic. But it's not about religion. It's about spirituality."
– Clifford Stone
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Bluegreen
27th March 2025, 01:00
Previous pages may include missed items and hidden nuggets ...
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Bluegreen
27th March 2025, 01:08
Space Rock | New Edition
“Earth Angel”
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Bluegreen
27th March 2025, 01:12
Space Rock News
Meteor Spotted in Karachi, Pakistan March 17 2025 2:43 AM
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Bluegreen
28th March 2025, 00:04
Some may find this information to be of interest …
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What 23andMe’s Bankruptcy Means For Your Genetic Data
“We have still not figured out policies that are protective for people”
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A genetic data giant is falling, and it’s unclear what will happen to millions of people’s most intimate personal information in the aftermath.
On March 23, DNA testing company 23andMe announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a move intended to facilitate its sale — along with the genetic data of over 15 million customers worldwide. A bankruptcy court hearing began March 26.
The San Francisco–based company has been reeling since a 2023 data breach exposed ancestry information — and, in some cases, health data — of about 7 million users. Bankruptcy documents made public by 404 Media show that more than 50 class-action lawsuits followed.
The situation reignites long-standing concerns about genetic privacy. The 2018 arrest of the Golden State Killer, identified through a public ancestry database, first raised alarms about the safety of genetic data. With a patchwork of state-level legislation and no clear federal oversight beyond a rule prohibiting genetic discrimination by employers and health insurance companies — but not life insurance or other entities — genetic testing companies have been free to create their own rules, says sociologist of science Alondra Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
“We have gotten 20 years into this industry, and we are about to have a major exchange of 15 million sets of people’s data, and we have still not figured out policies that are protective for people,” Nelson says.
23andMe has assured customers that bankruptcy “does not change how we store, manage, or protect customer data.” Any future buyer, the company says, will adhere to those data standards. But California Attorney General Rob Bonta has urged Californians to instruct 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any biological samples stored at the company. Other attorney generals across the country are echoing that call and making residents aware of their rights.
Published 26th March 2025 by Tina Hesman Saey – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/23andme-bankruptcy-genetic-data-delete
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California Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers
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To Delete Genetic Data from 23andMe:
1. Consumers can delete their account and personal information by taking the following steps:
2. Log into your 23andMe account on their website.
3. Go to the “Settings” section of your profile.
4. Scroll to a section labeled “23andMe Data” at the bottom of the page.
5. Click “View” next to “23andMe Data”
6. Download your data: If you want a copy of your genetic data for personal storage, choose the option to download it to your device before proceeding.
7. Scroll to the “Delete Data” section.
8. Click “Permanently Delete Data.”
9. Confirm your request: You’ll receive an email from 23andMe; follow the link in the email to confirm your deletion request.
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Bluegreen
28th March 2025, 00:35
The Star Above
Supermoon Will Coincide With Rare 'Devil Horns' Solar Eclipse
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On Saturday, March 29, two weeks after a total lunar eclipse was visible to all of North America, skywatchers will be treated to a spectacular event that has not been seen from anywhere since last October: a solar eclipse.
During this eclipse, which is expected to be one of the best skywatching events in 2025, observers in eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S. will be able to witness a partially eclipsed sunrise. It will be the first solar eclipse in North America since the "Great American Eclipse" on April 8, 2024.
This event will be a deep partial solar eclipse; about 93% of the sun's disk will be blocked by the new moon. As such, it will be a near — but not quite — total solar eclipse. The event will be visible at sunrise and shortly after from parts of North America, and then from Greenland, Iceland, Europe and northwest Africa, where it will be a smaller eclipse as the sun climbs higher in the sky throughout the morning. People in northwestern Russia can watch the eclipse late in the day, with a partially eclipsed sunset occurring over remote areas of Siberia.
Note: Because the eclipse is partial, you must wear certified solar eclipse glasses at all times, or else use a telescope or pair of binoculars with a solar filter. Failure to do so could result in serious eye damage.
Published 17th March 2025 by Jamie Carter – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/march-29-solar-eclipse-where-and-when-to-see-the-rare-sunrise-solar-eclipse-from-north-america
Partial Solar Eclipse LIVE | 29 March 2025 @ 5:00 AM
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The Stars Above
Fresh from the eclipse, on the evenings of March 30 and 31, 2025, a slender waxing crescent moon will float in the western evening sky. Watch for a lovely glow of earthshine on the unlit portion of the moon.
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On the evening of April 1, 2025, the waxing crescent moon will lie near the bright planet Jupiter. It’ll also float close to the pretty Pleiades star cluster. Nearby is the Hyades star cluster and the red star Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus the Bull. Another rare chance to see earthshine.
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On the evening of April 2, 2025, the waxing crescent moon will hang in the west next to bright Jupiter. It’s also centered among the bright stars Capella, Aldebaran and Betelgeuse. Plus the Pleiades star cluster is nearby. Golden Capella is the brightest star in Auriga the Charioteer. Aldebaran is the fiery eye of Taurus the Bull. Betelgeuse is in the constellation of Orion the Hunter. The Pleiades – or M45 – is a delicate open star cluster that resembles a tiny dipper.
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Bluegreen
28th March 2025, 01:21
Integrated Information Theory: The Universe is Alive
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The universe is so similar to our brain that it could be conscious. In this video, we talk about quantum entanglement; how we might be just tiny echoes of a larger cosmic mind. Does the rock in the road know you're there?
Published 23rd March 2025 (10:00)
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Peer-reviewed: “Integrated Theory of Consciousness” by Francis Fallon
https://iep.utm.edu/integrated-information-theory-of-consciousness/
Bluegreen
28th March 2025, 02:04
UFOs 2024
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Ten eye-opening UFOs from around the world 2024.
From metallic spheres that zoom across the skies of Brazil and the USA to shape-shifting UFOs seen in Russia and China, this video unveils incredible sightings that challenge our understanding of physics and propulsion.
Published 24th March 2025 (17:51)
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Bluegreen
29th March 2025, 00:00
UFOs and Rock & Roll
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Right up my alley.
Whitley Strieber: The Mysterious Connection Between UFOs and Music
Published 21st March 2025 (1:04:28)
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There is a deep and mysterious relationship between UFOs, the close encounter experience and music. You see it most clearly in the many rock bands, among them Fleetwood Mac, the Ramones, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Radiohead, and many others who have recorded songs based on UFO themes. In addition, performers like Elton John "I Have Seen the Saucers" and John Lennon have had sightings; David Bowie recorded "Starman”, and reported seeing UFOs “every night”. So, the question has to be asked: WHY?
Bluegreen
30th March 2025, 00:25
Midnight Sun of Svalbard | discovery+ | Immersions (Slow TV)
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On the island of Svalbard in the North Pole, the sun rises in April and doesn't set for four months. The constant light is an accelerant for animals, including Northern fulmar birds and Svalbard reindeer.
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Johnnycomelately
31st March 2025, 09:15
Here’s a treat for people who aren’t necessarily smart, like me, but who enjoy hearing smart people talk.
I have some training in physics, helps a bit here but not much. This stuff is wild, in a civilized sit-down way. lol, enjoy!
F4: for fans of physics. Modern physics that is. Hilbert Spaces, stochiometric swamps, and the quest for a holy grail.
Quantum Gravity is imagined as a wedding band, between two truthinesses which don’t like to talk to each other: Einstein’s large-scale warped spacetime, and Schrődinger’s (and others’) spooky wave functions for all the really tiny stuff.
If I understand correctly, the “massive problem” seems to be choice of appropriate theoretical tools, which are like mathematical frameworks, to be able to define reality. Until now, Jacob says, modelling of (any) average value is erroneously conflated with actual averages as they occur in nature. Representation of spacetime is key to getting at/to everything else.
I’ve only watched once through, am posting it here to keep it close for if I want more looks.
This is a 15:40 section of a 2+ hr interview by Curt Jaimungal of Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes. The complete is embedded at bottom.
A Massive Problem All of Physics Completely Missed
Curt Jaimungal
440K subscribers
posted Mar 30, 2025
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-d7CDvcok
Here is the full vid, posted 1 month ago, which I have not yet seen. L=2:48:41.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUvtqr4wOs&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlMhlVNkx2c8_6CKqiimjgvy&index=2
Bluegreen
1st April 2025, 01:27
Astronomical Events | April 2025
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Sky & Telescope’s Sky Tour Podcast — Meteor Shower, Planetary Alignment & More
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In April’s episode, we’ll watch bright planets come and go, track down some celestial carnivores, and enjoy a splash of mid-spring meteors. So grab your curiosity, and come along on this month’s Sky Tour.
Published 31st March 2025 (13:14)
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Bluegreen
1st April 2025, 02:09
UFOs and Rock & Roll (cont'd)
John Lennon
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From the bard's mouth to your ears.
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Bluegreen
1st April 2025, 02:19
Space Bach
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Johan Sebastian Bach Under The Stars: Air on the G String BWV 1068 Voices of Music
Every effort has been made to recreate the original ensemble that performed this piece. This includes using the original violins, viola, cello, baroque organ with German style pipes and wind chest, as well as the strings and baroque bows. A characteristic pitch of 415.3 Hz was chosen which is lower than the modern Concert pitch of 440Hz. This pitch favors the colors of the baroque strings and Continuo. Bowing patterns, articulation, trills and ornamentation are all based on German baroque performance practice.
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Universe Video with J.S.Bach
For hardcore fans.
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Bluegreen
1st April 2025, 02:43
Partial Solar Eclipse Over Stonehenge by Josh Dury
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Partial Solar Eclipse Over Iceland by Wioleta Gorecka
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Bluegreen
2nd April 2025, 00:42
"They Are Not Who They Look Like" | The Rick Aiello Encounter | Paranormal Stories
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Danny and Rick Aiello
In this video, we look at a bizarre case from the mid-1990s, in which a Hollywood actor claims that he encountered some very strange people while waiting in line at a store. Were they men in black? Time travelers? Ghosts ...?
Published 28th September 2024 (18:37)
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Bluegreen
2nd April 2025, 01:26
All Saints Days
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The Story of Saint George, the Dragon Slayer
Like Mohammed, St George was a renowned military leader. He is the patron saint of England.
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Bluegreen
4th April 2025, 00:04
Mister Kubrick, Will You Please Direct Our Fake Moon Landing :music: Eight Foot Manchild
This song imagines a conference in an office somewhere between Stanley Kubrick and the Planet Controllers.
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https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89645-Space-Rock&p=1588739&viewfull=1#post1588739
Bluegreen
4th April 2025, 00:24
A CIR (Co-rotating Interaction Regions) Expected To Hit Earth's Magnetic Field
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Published 3rd April 2025 (3:13)
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Bluegreen
5th April 2025, 22:52
Rock Used as a Doorstop For Decades Found to Be Worth Over €1M
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The 3.5-kilogram amber nugget is the biggest piece of rumanite ever found (Buzău County Museum)
They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by pretty much anybody's standard.
The 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone was found in a stream bed in southeast Romania by an elderly woman, who brought it home and put it to use.
Her discovery turned out to be one of the biggest intact chunks of amber in the world, according to a report by El Pais. Its value? Somewhere in the region of €1 million – around $US1.1 million.
Amber is tree resin from millions of years in the past. Over time, the highly viscous substance fossilizes into a hard, warm-hued material widely recognized as a gemstone.
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Ant preserved inside Baltic amber
In Romania, pieces of amber can be found around the village of Colti in sandstone from the banks of the River Buzau, where it has been mined since the 1920s. Known as rumanite, this amber is famed and prized for its wide array of deep, reddish hues.
The elderly woman who found this particular rumanite nugget lived in Colti, where it remained performing a function so humble that it was missed even by jewel thieves who once targeted the home, reports say.
After the woman died in 1991, the relative who inherited her home suspected the doorstop might be more than meets the eye. On learning what he had, he sold the amber to the Romanian state, which had it appraised by experts at the Museum of History in Krakow in Poland.
Published 1st April 2025 by Michelle Starr – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/rock-used-as-a-doorstop-for-decades-found-to-be-worth-over-1-million
Related:
A Man Thought a Rock Was Gold. It Was Far More Valuable.
Story from the Melbourne Museum, Australia.
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Published 28th November 2024 (0:55)
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Bluegreen
5th April 2025, 23:21
'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say
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A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.
The migration could trigger colder-than-average temperatures in parts of the continent and across the eastern U.S. over the coming week, climate scientists say.
The polar vortex started wandering off course March 9, when its high winds suddenly switched from blowing west to east to blowing in the opposite direction. This switch normally happens each year, but it tends to occur in mid-April — meaning this year's reversal struck unusually early, according to a blog post published April 3 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
"For much of this winter season, the polar vortex has been strong," NOAA officials wrote in the blog post. "But like a true atmospheric diva, the polar vortex had one last trick up its sleeve, breaking down in a spectacular fashion and bringing some cold air with it."
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The stratospheric polar vortex in the first three weeks of March 2025. The darkest blues represent the coldest, most isolated air. Following a sudden stratospheric warming event on March 9, the coldest air was pushed off the pole toward Northern Europe.
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The Arctic polar vortex is a circle of strong, cold winds that picks up every winter over the North Pole. The vortex is always present, but it strengthens in the winter due to a redistribution of heat from the tropics.
During the winter, the winds that make up the polar vortex blow from west to east. In spring, as Earth's tilt changes and the North Pole receives more sunlight, the direction of the winds changes to blow from east to west. The winds also become weaker as a result of less heat wafting from the tropics to the pole.
These winds are located in the stratosphere — a layer of the atmosphere that extends between around 6 and 31 miles (10 to 50 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
Last year, a sudden stratospheric warming event hit the polar vortex and reversed its winds in early March, but the vortex recovered. This time, "the vortex does not seem likely to gain a foothold again," NOAA officials wrote.
Published 4th April 2025 by Sascha Pare – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/major-disruption-has-caused-arctic-polar-vortex-to-slide-off-north-pole-scientists-say
Johnnycomelately
6th April 2025, 08:44
So along has come an announcement of a new type of robot, a kind of mechanical horse. CGI visuals with a slick sales pitch.
Sure, this story might fit in on a thread about robotics or AI or shiny objects, even marketing, but I think it belongs here. Because horse.
It’s from Kawasaki, which I owned a great motorcycle from, and which has been an industrial giant since at least the 1930s. They got game, so this might be real some day ~soon.
2025 NEW KAWASAKI CORLEO UNVEILED!!
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Posted Apr 5, 2025
“CORLEO is no ordinary vehicle. It’s a four-legged robotic machine, closely resembling creatures from fantasy films. The user rides it like a horse, but its movement is far more dynamic and lifelike. Observers at the exhibition noted that it moved with the agility of a panther or a dog, a clear indication that Kawasaki aims to merge robotic engineering with natural motion in a way that's never been done before.
According to Kawasaki, CORLEO is designed to conquer all types of terrain, making it a versatile option for future mobility. It is even being described as a replacement for horses, with the ability to leap and adapt to rugged landscapes. This signals a significant departure from traditional off-road vehicles, suggesting a potential shift in how we view transportation in difficult environments.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=445K716GYCk
The comments have lots of pessimistic takes, and I found this optimistic one too:
@qa1e2r4
9 hours ago
“Something similar in fire fighters' support will make miracles. Just hauling gear or as a find and extract ahead of the burn front. Same for any rescue and salvage operations.
Prospectors forest/park guards. Definitely will find customers if their hydrogen actually works.“
Bluegreen
6th April 2025, 21:48
Earth
North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists discover
Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent
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A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab
An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say.
The slab's pull has created giant "drips" that hang from the underside of the continent down to about 400 miles (640 kilometers) deep inside the mantle, according to a new study. These drips are located beneath an area spanning from Michigan to Nebraska and Alabama, but their presence appears to be impacting the entire continent.
The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled toward it horizontally before getting sucked down. As a result, large parts of North America are losing material from the underside of their crust, the researchers said.
Cratonic thinning refers to the wearing away of cratons, which are regions of Earth's continental crust and upper mantle that have mostly remained intact for billions of years. Despite their stability, cratons can undergo changes, but this has never been observed in action due to the huge geologic time scales involved, according to the study.
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A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a high seismic velocity (dark blue) compared to its surroundings
Now, for the first time, researchers have documented cratonic thinning as it occurs. The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." This technique uses different types of seismic waves to extract all the available information about physical parameters underground.
Dripping beneath the Midwest won't lead to changes at the surface anytime soon, the researchers said, adding that it may even stop as the Farallon slab sinks deeper into the lower mantle and its influence over the craton wanes.
The findings could help researchers piece together the enormous puzzle of how Earth came to look the way it does today.
"It helps us understand how do you make continents, how do you break them, and how do you recycle them."
Published 6th April 2025 by Sascha Pare – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/north-america-is-dripping-down-into-earths-mantle-scientists-discover
Scientists scramble as Africa is splitting in two at record speed with a new ocean emerging
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Geologists are closely monitoring the eastern coast of Africa where all of the continent’s tectonic activity is taking place. For the past few decades, the region has been the most active in Africa due to seismic-related events and the gradual shifting of the three tectonic plates which is creating deep fissures and ravines in the Ethiopian desert. Both are related.
The East African Rift (EAR) system, the largest active continental rift on Earth, is a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of Ethiopia. This plate fragmentation has been ongoing for billions of years and its effects are now clearly visible with deep 10-meter fissures appearing as landmasses separate.
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The EAR consists of numerous sedimentary basins, two large plateaux (Ethiopian and East African), and many volcanic formations.
The Nubian Plate makes up most of mainland Africa, while the smaller plate that is pulling away has been named the Somalian Plate. These two plates are moving away from each other and also away from the Arabian plate above the Red Sea to the north.
If the two tectonic plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens further, eventually a large basin will form. Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin would flood which ultimately could lead to the birth of a new ocean.
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https://x.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1828840852757590470
Published 5th April 2025 by Andy Hall – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/scientists-scramble-as-africa-is-splitting-in-two-at-record-speed-with-a-new-ocean-emerging-n/
Bluegreen
6th April 2025, 22:02
Mars
Largest Organics Yet Discovered on Mars
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Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been ingesting samples of Martian rock, soil, and air to better understand the past and present habitability of the Red Planet. Of particular interest to its search are organic molecules: the building blocks of life. Now, Curiosity’s onboard chemistry lab has detected long-chain hydrocarbons in a mudstone called “Cumberland,” the largest organics yet discovered on Mars.
Published 24th March 2025 (1:30)
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The night sky after sunset on April 5, 2025. In the coming nights, Jupiter, Mars and the Moon will appear lower and in the Northern sky.
Bluegreen
6th April 2025, 22:17
Rocket to the Moon (1953) . :moon: . Moon Mullican
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Boogie with Moon.
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Rocket to the Moon
Rock it
Mr Moon
Bluegreen
6th April 2025, 23:00
Implants | Barry Littleton
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Published 14th February 2025 (10:12)
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Discussing some interesting detailed information regarding both Extraterrestrial & Human produced implants. New things I've learned involving Targeted Individuals spurred the making of this video. There is a new "Multi-Spectrum Analyzing Technology" that is capable of identifying & locating these implants within the human body.
Bluegreen
8th April 2025, 00:14
Unidentified Flying Objects
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UFOs Over Long Beach, California
Observers' comments as entertaining as the lights in the sky.
Published 11th August 2024 (2:32)
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Mystery Orb
Observer's comments as entertaining as the lights in the sky.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scienceteh/article-14530855/glowing-orbs-florida-coast-fears-drone-invasion.html
Bluegreen
9th April 2025, 02:58
Unacknowledged | Full Documentary
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Not much new for regular visitors, but a well-produced, informative MSM historical doc, beginning with Steven Greer's 2001 Disclosure Project in Washington DC and winding its way to the Vatican. With Greer, Paul Hellyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Danny Sheehan, John Podesta, others.
Published 19th October 2024 (1:43:25)
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Bluegreen
9th April 2025, 22:52
The astronaut and the fashion designer melon
Black Holes | Short Film (Sundance 2017)
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Animation award winner “Black Holes” by Meat Dept. (David Nicolas, Laurent Nicolas, Kevos Van Der Meiren) w/ noted character actor William Fichtner. Very unique art style and story.
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Bluegreen
9th April 2025, 23:02
The Night Sky – Weekend
Friday, April 11 - Venus gleams above Mercury and Saturn (before sunrise)
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During early April, the planets Venus, Mercury, Neptune, and Saturn will all be gathered above the eastern horizon before sunrise. Neptune is far too faint to compete against the morning twilight, but the other three planets will be visible, especially from tropical latitudes where the ecliptic (green line) will be closer to vertical.
On the mornings surrounding Friday, April 11, find brilliant Venus and then search a bit more than a binoculars' field of view below it (orange circle) for the side-by-side pair of Mercury and Saturn. Mercury will be the slightly brighter planet to Saturn's left.
Saturday, April 12 - Mini Full Pink Moon occults Spica
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The moon will officially reach its full phase on Saturday, April 12 at 8:22 p.m. EDT or 5:22 p.m. PDT, which converts to 00:22 GMT April 13. Around that time, the full moon will also pass in front of the bright star Spica for observers within a zone from Panama southeast across northern South America, and ending near the southern tip of Africa. Surrounding regions will see Spica near the moon.
April's full moon, commonly called the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, or Fish Moon, always shines in or near the stars of Virgo or Libra. The moon won't look pink, though — the name arises from the forest wildflowers blooming in April. The indigenous Ojibwe groups of the Great Lakes region call the April full moon Iskigamizige-giizis "the Maple Sap Boiling Moon" or Namebine-giizis, "the Sucker Moon". For them, it signifies a time to learn cleansing and healing ways. The Cree of North America call it Niskipisim, "the Goose Moon" — the time when the geese return with spring. For the Mi'kmaw people of Eastern Canada, this is Penatmuiku's, "the Birds Laying Eggs Time Moon". The Cherokee call it Kawonuhi, "the Flower Moon", when the plants bloom.
This full moon will occur less than 23 hours before its monthly apogee, making it the smallest full moon in 2025. It's also the Paschal Moon that controls the timing of Easter and Passover.
https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html
Bluegreen
11th April 2025, 23:13
Blue Origin’s All-Female Spaceflight Urges Women to Shoot for the Stars
— But Astronaut Memoirs Reveal the Cost of Being Exceptional - Opinion by Jasleen Chana
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight crew, which includes pop star Katy Perry, is set to take off this spring.
Jeff Bezos’ crew is assembled from successful and well-known women, also including television presenter Gayle King, producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and journalist Lauren Sanchez. Promotional material for the flight claims that Perry “hopes her journey encourages her daughter and others to reach for the stars, literally and figuratively.”
The glamorous optics of this spaceflight are supposedly designed to encourage women to strive for their dreams. The glossy narrative tells others that they can be just like these extraordinary women. Yet, behind this aspirational ideal, there is a more problematic story regarding successful women in science and their roles in public.
The Crew Will Blast Off To Space On Blue Origin Rocket | World News | GRAVITAS
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My PhD research examines memoirs written by women astronauts. They construct appealing depictions of women who are successful and exceptional. But in practice, their success stories are nigh on impossible for ordinary women to emulate.
This is epitomized in astronaut Catherine Coleman’s reaction to wearing a spacesuit designed for men. In her 2024 memoir, she wrote: "Most of the time, I took the approach that if the suit didn’t fit, I would simply wear it anyway — and wear it well. Wear it better than anyone expected."
As this quote shows, women who have travelled to space tend to construct themselves as having worked exceptionally hard to deny the norms of what is expected of them and to offset systemic biases.
From the outset of her memoir, Coleman emphasizes that she’s always had to be an "exception" from the rest of humanity, which feels alienating. But she also consistently suggests that her life was destined to be this way. "Space felt like home to me," she says, tacitly acknowledging that she was always meant to be there.
Mae Jemison, who was the first African American woman in space, also expresses this sense of destiny in her 2001 memoir. “I perched quietly, looking out of the windows on the flight deck,” she writes. “Strange, but I always knew I’d be here. Looking down and all around me, seeing the Earth, the moon, and the stars, I just felt like I belonged.”
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The crew set to board the Blue Origin flight want to be storytellers in the same way that women astronauts are in their memoirs. But the well-known members of its crew are a reminder that hard work is only part of this particular story — fortune and privilege also play a part.
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Published 3rd April 2025 by Jasleen Chana - The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/blue-origins-all-female-space-flight-urges-women-to-shoot-for-the-stars-but-astronaut-memoirs-reveal-the-cost-of-being-exceptional-251880
Bluegreen
11th April 2025, 23:49
5 Facts About Valentina Tereshkova
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1. She came from nothing
For decades, Valentina Tereshkova represented to Russia a version of the Soviet dream: born in poverty, raised during the decade that forged a national identity, and ascendant to the stars, figuratively and literally. Tereshkova was born on a collective farm about 160 miles northeast of Moscow in 1937, at the height of Joseph Stalin’s brutal purges. Her father, a tractor operator, died two years later in Russia’s brief war with Finland. Her widowed mother scraped by with work in a textile mile. Tereshkova left school at 16 to work in a tire factory and then the mill, where she grew fascinated by the machinery.
2. Parachuting took her to space
When she was 22, Tereshkova learned of a parachuting school in the region. “I didn’t believe in my abilities very much – it looked like this sport required courage,” she wrote in her memoir, Stars Are Calling. In 1959, Tereshkova made her first jump – before her instructor had told her to do so, and the first of more than 160. She recalled that before a later jump, her mother warned her: “If you crash, don’t come home!” She eventually made more than 200 jumps onto land and into the Volga river.
3. She spent three days up in space
Given the call signal Seagull (“Chaika”), 26-year-old Tereshkova was sent to space on a paired mission with Valery Bykovsky, call signal Hawk (“Yastreb”), each in their own spacecraft. Tereshkova blasted off on the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, later writing in her memoirs that the rocket was “shivering” with the force of liftoff, “shaking like a thin tree under the wind” and with a roar like thunder.
In space, Tereshkova was asked to perform experiments and manual orientation, to make sure that the spacecraft’s automatic systems kept it on track. Little was known about space flight, and she suffered nausea and headaches in her first orbits. She persevered, managed the orientation the third day, spoke with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, and clocked 48 orbits and over 70 hours.
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4. Tereshkova’s shadow loomed large in the US and Russia
After Tereshkova’s accomplishment, American officials – nearly all men – lost interest in matching the Russian milestone. American aviator Jerrie Cobb, an enthusiastic NASA trainee (she ranked in the top 2 percent of all candidates) campaigned hard in the 1950s for the US to beat the Soviets to sending a woman into space. But NASA officials rejected her pleas, with one telling her the agency did not engage in “propaganda stunts.”
5. Tereshkova never escaped her own legend
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A celebrity overnight, Tereshkova was wed to another cosmonaut, Andrian Nikolaev, mere months after her landing from orbit in a match likely arranged by the government – premier Nikita Khrushchev was in attendance in Moscow and led the toast. Tereshkova remained a member of the national space program as a pilot and trainer; she and Nikolaev had the first child born to parents who had been in space. Tereshkova’s face was stamped on postage, stained glass, plaques, statuary, and other propaganda for decades.
https://massivesci.com/articles/tereshkova-first-woman-in-space/
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The Receivers, traditional folk musicians from Wisconsin, honor the pioneering Russian cosmonaut with the ballad of “Valentina”
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Bluegreen
12th April 2025, 00:17
Amazement Central
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Amazing explosive cute funny sometimes jaw dropping.
Published 6th April 2025 (30:26)
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Bluegreen
12th April 2025, 00:38
This Week @ The International Space Station
Space to Ground: Changing Space: April 11, 2025
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Bluegreen
12th April 2025, 00:46
"Practice makes perfect"
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Bluegreen
13th April 2025, 01:44
Stargazers
New Comet SWAN Could Put On a Show at Dawn
In a predicable clockwork Universe, nothing grabs a skywatcher’s attention like a potential new comet. If predictions hold true, Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN could make a decent binocular dawn apparition through mid-April, before it vanishes from view.
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The dawn path of Comet F2 SWAN from April 13th through 20th
Discussion about a potential new comet started last week (yes, right around April Fool’s Day) on the Comets-ml messaging board. Alert experts made note of an +11th magnitude object seen moving through the field of view of the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument. SWAN is part of the joint NASA/ESA Solar Heliospheric Observatory’s (SOHO) suite of instruments. Like the LASCO C2/C3 instruments aboard the spacecraft, SWAN sees sungrazing comets cross its view from time to time.
Close observers noted the motion of the object in SWAN’s view from March 22 to the 28th.
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Comet F2 SWAN from April 8th
The discussion really picked up in the first week of April, however, as the comet seemed to have experienced an outburst and jumped up in brightness to +9th magnitude right around April 5th. Clearly, this is an active one worth paying attention to, and observers rushed to recover the comet low at dawn.
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The orbit for Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN
The comet crept up on us undetected, approaching the inner solar system and the Earth from a general sunward direction. On a 1.4 million year orbit (as per tentative estimates), the comet reaches perihelion 0.33 Astronomical Units (AU) or 31 million miles/50 million kilometers from the Sun on May 1st, just exterior to the orbit of Mercury. The comet originally had the informal name ‘SWAN25f’ in message board discussions, and has now received the official designation C/2025 F2 SWAN. This is the 15th comet discovery for SWAN.
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Comet F2 SWAN from April 6th
Published 9th April 2025 by David Dickinson - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-comet-swan-could-put-on-a-brief-show-at-dawn
Bluegreen
13th April 2025, 02:05
Is this an arcade game from the 80's? No, this is the suspect object that would become Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN as it crosses the SWAN instrument's field of view. (Credit: NASA/ESA/SWAN/Michael Mattiazzo)
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Bluegreen
13th April 2025, 02:34
The Spooky Possibility that the Universe is a Rotating Black Hole
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The James Webb Space Telescope has been throwing wrenches into every corner of so-called 'known' cosmology. Here is another mindbender.
Published 22nd March 2025 (13:26)
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Bluegreen
14th April 2025, 00:38
Group Of Plasma Orb UFOs Sighted – Queens, New York – December 13, 2024
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Eyewitness:
"Last night, around 12am I was in bed.. I have a big window in front of me and suddenly saw a bunch of white bright translucent round orbs, darting UP in the sky. They looked like plasma, is the best way to describe them- like moon shaped plasma, and moved super fast upwards. I caught the tail end which is the video you’re seeing now. There were around 10-20ish darting up in a cluster before I managed to take this video. A few min later I saw one more fly up."
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Thx to Gigi
https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1hdelbg/dec_13_24_around_12am_in_astoria_queens_i_saw/?rdt=55632
Bluegreen
14th April 2025, 01:24
Moon Visits Sister Stars by Cayetana Saiz
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Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades. Technically, this means that the orbit of our Moon takes it directly in front of the famous Pleiades star cluster, which is far in the distance. The technical term for the event is an occultation, and the Moon is famous for its rare occultations of all planets and several well-known bright stars. The Moon's tilted and precessing orbit makes its occultations of the Seven Sisters star cluster bunchy, with the current epoch starting in 2023 continuing monthly until 2029. After that, though, the next occultation won't occur until 2042. Taken from Cantabria, Spain on April 1, 2025.
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Dreamtime and the Seven Sisters - The World's Oldest Story
Jon White from Crecganford recounts the winding and mystical history of what is perhaps the oldest story on the planet; the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters. The story is known on every continent and most every culture in the world.
Published 12th November 2022 (27:56)
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Bluegreen
16th April 2025, 01:20
Our Star
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Rare Double Blast - Two Coronal Mass Ejections are Headed Towards Earth
No dialogue.
Published 14th April 2025 (2:38)
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THE CME HAS ARRIVED; G2 STORM IN PROGRESS
Arriving hours earlier than expected, a CME struck Earth's magnetic field on April 15th (~1730 UTC), and a moderately-strong G2-class geomagnetic storm is underway as a result of the impact. It's too soon to say whether this is just the first of two expected CMEs -- or perhaps a cannibal combination. NOAA forecasters say the storm could intensify to category G3 (Strong) on April 16th if another CME arrives.
Data from NOAA's DSCOVR satellite show how the CME's arrival altered Earth's solar wind environment.
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The density of solar wind plasma abruptly jumped by a factor of almost ten. This means the CME delivered a relatively heavy blow to Earth's magnetosphere. Stay tuned for updates as Earth's moves deeper into the CME's wake.
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A Triple Threat Heads to Earth & A New Flaring Region Appears | Solar Storm Forecast
In depth with Dr Tamitha Skov.
"Activity on our Sun has picked up in a big way. Not only do we have this "triple threat" of storms arriving over the next couple of days, but we also have a big coronal hole that should begin sending us some fast wind next week. Whoosh!"
Published 15th April 2025 (16:46)
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Bluegreen
17th April 2025, 00:00
Luxurious Retro-Future 1950's AI Sci-Fi Jazz Escape
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(1:17:45)
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Bluegreen
17th April 2025, 00:24
NASA's Perseverance Rover Hits the Mars Rock Gold Mine
'It has been all we had hoped for and more'
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One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover’s coring drill collecting the "Main River" rock sample on "Witch Hazel Hill" on March 10, 2025, the 1,441st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover is reveling in a scientific bonanza on Mars after finding a diverse array of rocks that are providing eager scientists a glimpse into the planet's ancient history.
The Perseverance rover is currently exploring Mars hills, boulders and rocky outcrops along the rim of Jezero Crater, a dry, bowl-shaped depression north of the Martian equator that likely held a lake billions of years ago. Since reaching the crater's western rim in December of last year, the rover has focused its attention on the layered terrain of a tall slope called Witch Hazel Hill, which could hold clues to a period when Mars had a vastly different climate.
In the past few months alone, the car-sized Perseverance has collected samples of five rocks, performed detailed analysis on seven others, and zapped an additional 83 with its laser for remote study — the robotic explorer's fastest pace of scientific data collection since it landed on the Red Planet four years ago, NASA says.
"During previous science campaigns in Jezero, it could take several months to find a rock that was significantly different from the last rock we sampled and scientifically unique enough for sampling," Katie Morgan, who is the Perseverance's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said.
"But up here on the crater rim, there are new and intriguing rocks everywhere the rover turns. It has been all we had hoped for and more. The last four months have been a whirlwind for the science team, and we still feel that Witch Hazel Hill has more to tell us."
Published 16th April 2025 by Sharmila Kuthunur – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/mars-rovers/nasas-perseverance-rover-hits-the-mars-rock-gold-mine-it-has-been-all-we-had-hoped-for-and-more
Bluegreen
17th April 2025, 01:09
Blue Origin Flight BACKLASH: Amy Schumer, Olivia Munn & More Speak Out
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The all-female space crew on the Blue Origin trip is facing backlash. As celebrities like Amy Schumer, Emily Ratajkowski and Olivia Munn call out the flight, the women are defending their mission. Access Hollywood breaks down what stars have shared on both sides of the conversation.
Published 15th April 2025 (2:31)
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism
Opinion by Moira Donegan
There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose – the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you’d think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company, which on Monday launched a phallically shaped pod full of women – including the pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’s partner, Lauren Sánchez – on a brief trip into space.
The flight, which was promoted for months in advance, was touted as a triumph of feminism, a win for science and an embrace of the kind of expansive, curious human spirit of striving and possibility that once animated both. Instead, the flight served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scientific advancement and feminist progress – a spectacle that mocked these aspirations by appropriating them for such an indulgent and morally hollow purpose.
Blue Origin itself is a product of state abandonment of space exploration. Founded in 2000 to fill the void left by the federal government’s effort to privatize the work of agencies like Nasa, Blue Origin has long been a pet project of Bezos, who was almost the sole funder of the company in its early years. Focused on tourism, rather than scientific inquiry, the company is best known for its slow technological development in comparison with its main competitor, SpaceX (another company involved in space tourism, launched by the Trump adviser and mega-donor Elon Musk); for the giggle-inducing obscene look of its rockets; and for its periodic publicity stunt flights featuring celebrities (William Shatner has also taken the ride).
Bezos’s Amazon donated $1m to Trump’s most recent inauguration, and he intervened during the 2024 election to stop the Washington Post, the newspaper he owns, from endorsing Kamala Harris; the Trump administration, for its part, just awarded Blue Origin a contract worth more than $2bn.
Once, Nasa was the pride of the American experiment: a testament to how a society dedicated to legal equality and passionate hard work could expand the horizons of human possibility. Now, Blue Origin is a testament to the corruption and circumscribed possibilities of the profit motive run amok. Space used to be a frontier for human exploration, a fount of innovation, and a symbol of a bright, uncertain and expansive future. Now, it is a backdrop for the Instagram selfies of the rich and narcissistic.
The Blue Origin flight does not make me feel like humanity will reach new heights of achievement. It makes me feel like everything that is coming is grimly predictable, tailored to the impulses of the richest, least responsible and least morally intelligent people on Earth.
Published 15th April – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/blue-origin-flight-american-feminism
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Op-Ed (cont'd)
Watch the Absurd Space "Training" Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Friends Did Before Their Space Trip
Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi, hosts of "America This Week," to discuss the all-female Blue Origin space flight.
Published 14th April 2025(8:26)
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Bluegreen
17th April 2025, 01:30
Birth Month Birds – Bird Nerd
Throughout history, different cultures have assigned symbolic meanings to various bird species. In recent times, the concept of birth month birds has gained popularity, associating each month with a specific bird and its unique symbolism. These feathered friends offer insights into personality traits and aspirations, linked to zodiac signs and astrological influences.
Which birth month bird is yours?
January: Owl
People born in January are thought to have a thoughtful, wise, and quiet nature, as symbolized by the owl. Owls were once associated with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and prophecy.
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February: Chickadee
The chickadee, a charming little bird, is the perfect bird of the month for February because it thrives in winter. These birds don’t flee to warmer places. Chickadees keep busy searching for food and holding down their home turf, reminding us that life keeps going even when the weather outside isn’t that inviting.
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March: Robin
Just as the daffodil announces the coming of spring, seeing a robin is a sign that warmer weather is coming. These mid-sized singing birds, with their bright red chest and yellow beak, are not only a common sight but also the bird that represents March. The color “robin’s egg blue” is well-known, and its happy song, which sounds like “cheerily, cheer-up, cheerio,” tells us that a new season is starting.
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April: Duck
Ducks hold a sacred status in both Christian and Hindu cultures, symbolizing purity and good luck. These sociable and playful birds, with their ability to adapt and persevere, align perfectly with the traits of those born in April.
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May: Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are a cherished sight in any bird lover’s yard, symbolizing hope, peace, and good fortune. These agile and graceful creatures embody joy, love, and the ability to navigate life swiftly and effortlessly, making them particularly meaningful for those born in May. The name “hummingbird” originates from the humming sound created by their wings. Some species beat their wings as much as 80 times per second.
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June: Dove
The dove is the universal symbol of peace and harmony. As such, the dove is the ideal bird month for people born in June who are known to have a peaceful, sociable demeanor. Beyond peace, the dove’s soft and gentle presence epitomizes love. For centuries they have carried a strong historical connection with the divine realm and intuition.
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July: Eagle
The eagle, a soaring emblem of strength, courage, and freedom, perfectly embodies the spirit of those born in July. Like the eagle, they possess quiet confidence, take flight with majesty, and inspire those around them.
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August: Woodpecker
The confident woodpecker lets their presence be known, epitomizing the essence of those born in August. Like the woodpecker, those born in August are open-minded and aren’t afraid to look beneath the surface to see what life has to offer.
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September: Hawk
The hawk, soaring high above the treetops symbolizes the powerful, majestic spirit of those born in September. Like those born in September, they “flap to the beat of their own drum,” are diligent, and dependable. Hawks represent strength, adaptability, protection, and perseverance. Like those born in September, the hawk is known to rise above obstacles.
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October: Vulture
The patient vulture symbolizes resourcefulness, embodying those born in October. Vultures are adaptable and use all of their senses to get what they need in life. Vultures survive in feast or famine, being able to go long periods of time without food. Their brilliant adaptations has ensured their survival, and have continued to help clean up the environment for humans.
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November: Turkey
The hardworking, adaptable, and headstrong turkey epitomizes those born in the month of November. Like those born in November, turkeys are highly adaptable and gregarious. Preferring to live in flocks and “rafter” to look after each other, they rely on each other for safety.
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December: Cardinal
Cardinals, with their vibrant red plumage, are often associated with the winter months, making them a fitting symbolic birth month bird for December. Their bold color stands out against the winter landscape, symbolizing warmth, passion, and vitality. Additionally, cardinals are known for their strong family bonds and loyal, monogamous nature associated with December birthdays. If you see Mr Cardinal, look for Mrs Cardinal, who will be somewhere nearby.
Published 1st April m2025 by Melissa Mayntz and Natalie LaVolpe - Farmer's Almanac
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/birth-month-birds-find-yours
Bill Ryan
17th April 2025, 16:43
Blue Origin Flight BACKLASH: Amy Schumer, Olivia Munn & More Speak Out
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The all-female space crew on the Blue Origin trip is facing backlash. As celebrities like Amy Schumer, Emily Ratajkowski and Olivia Munn call out the flight, the women are defending their mission. Access Hollywood breaks down what stars have shared on both sides of the conversation.
Published 15th April 2025 (2:31)
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism
Opinion by Moira Donegan
There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose – the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you’d think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company, which on Monday launched a phallically shaped pod full of women – including the pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’s partner, Lauren Sánchez – on a brief trip into space.
The flight, which was promoted for months in advance, was touted as a triumph of feminism, a win for science and an embrace of the kind of expansive, curious human spirit of striving and possibility that once animated both. Instead, the flight served as a kind of perverse funeral for the America that once enabled both scientific advancement and feminist progress – a spectacle that mocked these aspirations by appropriating them for such an indulgent and morally hollow purpose.
Blue Origin itself is a product of state abandonment of space exploration. Founded in 2000 to fill the void left by the federal government’s effort to privatize the work of agencies like Nasa, Blue Origin has long been a pet project of Bezos, who was almost the sole funder of the company in its early years. Focused on tourism, rather than scientific inquiry, the company is best known for its slow technological development in comparison with its main competitor, SpaceX (another company involved in space tourism, launched by the Trump adviser and mega-donor Elon Musk); for the giggle-inducing obscene look of its rockets; and for its periodic publicity stunt flights featuring celebrities (William Shatner has also taken the ride).
Bezos’s Amazon donated $1m to Trump’s most recent inauguration, and he intervened during the 2024 election to stop the Washington Post, the newspaper he owns, from endorsing Kamala Harris; the Trump administration, for its part, just awarded Blue Origin a contract worth more than $2bn.
Once, Nasa was the pride of the American experiment: a testament to how a society dedicated to legal equality and passionate hard work could expand the horizons of human possibility. Now, Blue Origin is a testament to the corruption and circumscribed possibilities of the profit motive run amok. Space used to be a frontier for human exploration, a fount of innovation, and a symbol of a bright, uncertain and expansive future. Now, it is a backdrop for the Instagram selfies of the rich and narcissistic.
The Blue Origin flight does not make me feel like humanity will reach new heights of achievement. It makes me feel like everything that is coming is grimly predictable, tailored to the impulses of the richest, least responsible and least morally intelligent people on Earth.
Published 15th April – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/blue-origin-flight-american-feminism
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Op-Ed (cont'd)
Watch the Absurd Space "Training" Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Friends Did Before Their Space Trip
Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi, hosts of "America This Week," to discuss the all-female Blue Origin space flight.
Published 14th April 2025(8:26)
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This is Katy Perry in space, for 4 very brief minutes in 2025, holding up a daisy for the camera with her long manicured fingernails, saying she was an 'astronaut'.
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This is Valentina Tereshkova, who orbited the earth in a small capsule all on her own 48 times over a period of nearly 3 whole days way back in 1963 — 62 years ago.
That's an astronaut. I'd bet quite a lot that Katy Perry doesn't even know her name :)
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Bluegreen
18th April 2025, 00:55
Light Pillar Over Erupting Etna by Davide Caliò
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Can a lava flow extend into the sky? No, but light from the lava flow can. One effect is something quite unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward above a rising or setting Sun. Alternatively, other light pillars -- some quite colorful -- have been recorded above street and house lights.
This light pillar, though, was illuminated by the red light emitted by the glowing magma of an erupting volcano. The volcano is the crossworders' favorite, Italy's Mount Etna, and the featured image was captured with a single shot during an early morning in mid-February.
Freezing temperatures above the volcano's lava flow created ice-crystals either in the air above the volcano or in condensed water vapor expelled by Mount Etna. These ice crystals -- mostly flat toward the ground but fluttering -- then reflected away light from the volcano's caldera.
Bluegreen
19th April 2025, 00:52
BACKLASH: Blue Origin (cont'd)
Haters!
Yes, it's 2025, and a burger chain has issued a statement addressing their one-sided beef with a pop star's trip to outer space. On Thursday, just a few days after Wendy's suggested that Katy Perry should be sent back to space after her trip with Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin, the fast-food chain is now claiming to have respect for the pop icon.
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"We always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy's has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world talent," Wendy's told People. Absent from the statement were the words "we're sorry" or "we apologize."
The fast-food chain's post even seemed to prompt Perry's fellow pop star and former friend Kesha to support the recommendation by posting a photo of herself smirking while sipping from a Wendy's cup.
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https://x.com/KeshaRose/status/1911980566959792469
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wendys-katy-perry-twitter-statement-1235320268/
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What the Very Top of Mount Stupid Looks Like
Blue Origin’s “Astronauts” with Katy Perry
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Q. Why did the ladies scale Mt Stupid?
A. Because it was there.
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bojancan
19th April 2025, 17:18
To be honest... I found it to be a joke.... this Blue Origin space flight... a billionaire paid for a bunch of rich women... to go on the flight, that was completely pointless...
There was no mission behind it... only to put his girlfriend and a few other high profile friends up there.... all I can think about it... is how the US is in such a volatile state...
People are losing their jobs... 401k... can’t afford foods... doctors.... and Bezos has all the money in the world and is doing this in his free time....
If they wanted to help make the world a better place... they could do so much... but they don’t… really it was "cringe" inducing... rich famous people playing astronaut while the world burns isn’t inspiring.....
I am adding here very interesting analyze by dr.Todd Grande regarding Blue women traveling in space...
Dr. Todd Grande
1.59M subscribers
Did 'Astronauts' on 'Historic Mission' Contribute Anything to Society? | Blue Origin NS-31 Analysis
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Bill Ryan
19th April 2025, 19:38
BACKLASH: Blue Origin (cont'd)
Haters!
Yes, it's 2025, and a burger chain has issued a statement addressing their one-sided beef with a pop star's trip to outer space. On Thursday, just a few days after Wendy's suggested that Katy Perry should be sent back to space after her trip with Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin, the fast-food chain is now claiming to have respect for the pop icon.
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I won't dilute the quality of this thread by posting any more of the 100+ (or 200+!) videos all about this feminist PR catastrophe. :)
Just Google ["Katy Perry space"], pick any half dozen videos at random, don't bother to watch any of them, and read the thousands of comments. All of them, on every video, are hilarious and lack any mercy whatsoever.
:ROFL: :focus:
Bill Ryan
19th April 2025, 23:03
I won't dilute the quality of this thread by posting any more of the 100+ (or 200+!) videos all about this feminist PR catastrophe.But I hope readers might forgive me for posting this one. :ROFL:
It's just a minute long, a clip from an interview 7 years ago in which Katy Perry (now a self-proclaimed 'astronaut', OMG), asks Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Is math related to science?
She really did say that. Listen with your own ears. To Tyson's immense credit, he never skipped a beat. (Respect! :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUoaBJd2sA
Bluegreen
20th April 2025, 00:01
Space News w/ Fraser Cain
Cancelling Roman Telescope // Big Biosignatures Update // Spinning Universe
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Published 18th April 2025 (26:14)
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00:00 Intro
00:25 NASA budget cuts proposal
03:21 Potential biosignatures on K2-18b
08:07 Jupiter's atmosphere is wild
11:07 Is the Universe spinning?
14:01 Vote results
14:40 Global warming vs satellites
16:45 Missing infrared light of the Universe
18:35 A magnetar on the move
20:08 Cool images
22:10 Guide to space
23:17 Bonus story
25:03 My new telescope
Bluegreen
20th April 2025, 00:20
Space News (cont'd)
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Discovered: Weirdest Planetary System Ever | ESO News
A planet in a perpendicular orbit around two brown dwarfs. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found an exoplanet orbiting a pair of peculiar stars at an angle of 90 degrees.
There have previously been hints that these so-called polar planets around two stars could exist, but we now have clear evidence that this is the case. This video summarises the discovery, explaining the nature of these peculiar stars and the method astronomers used to find this odd planet. No dialogue.
Published 16th April 2025 (1:30)
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NGC 1514
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date. A binary star lies at the nebula’s center, and the new observations show how one of the central stars dominated the nebula’s creation.
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Bluegreen
20th April 2025, 00:49
Bluegreen News
Scientists Claim to Have Discovered New Colour
Scientists claim they have discovered a new colour. A team at the University of California, in Berkeley, had laser pulses fired into their eyes, enabling them to experience a colour no one had seen before.
The five people who have seen the colour described it as “blue-green”, but said that did not capture the full richness of the experience.
Researchers shared an image of a turquoise square they said best matched the new colour, which they named Olo, but added that the colour could only be experienced through laser manipulation.
Ren Ng, an electrical engineer at the university, described the colour as “jaw-dropping” and “incredibly saturated”.
He told The Guardian: “We predicted from the beginning that it would look like an unprecedented colour signal, but we didn’t know what the brain would do with it.”
But some scientists have disputed the find. “It is not a new colour,” John Barbur, a vision scientist at City University told the newspaper, adding that the scientists’ work had “limited value. It’s a more saturated green that can only be produced in a subject with normal red-green chromatic mechanism when the only input comes from M cones.”
The researchers themselves argued that the colour was all about the “experience” and that there was no way to explain it in terms of something we already see.
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This colour provided by the team to the press was described as “close, but really, not even close."
Mr Ng described the colour as “basic science”, adding: “We’re not going to see Olo on any smartphone displays or any TVs any time soon. And this is very, very far beyond VR headset technology.”
Natural light is a blend of multiple wavelengths, which stimulate different areas of the retina to varying extents, but there is one part of the retina known as the M cone which is never excited by natural light.
The new colour stimulates the M cone by firing a tiny pulse of light to stimulate the cell, a state which natural light cannot achieve. The result is a patch of colour in the field of vision that is about twice the size of the Moon.
The name Olo comes from the binary 010, in which the M cone represents the 1, and is the only cone switched on.
Story by Natasha Leake – The Guardian/MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-new-colour/ar-AA1Dei2K?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=64d6fd94b3c6475fecdc1b5b6036efbf&ei=62
onawah
20th April 2025, 04:22
Katy is obviously not going to make it as a candidate for the "Great Women in History" thread...:sad:
BACKLASH: Blue Origin (cont'd)
Haters!
Yes, it's 2025, and a burger chain has issued a statement addressing their one-sided beef with a pop star's trip to outer space. On Thursday, just a few days after Wendy's suggested that Katy Perry should be sent back to space after her trip with Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin, the fast-food chain is now claiming to have respect for the pop icon.
~~~
I won't dilute the quality of this thread by posting any more of the 100+ (or 200+!) videos all about this feminist PR catastrophe. :)
Just Google ["Katy Perry space"], pick any half dozen videos at random, don't bother to watch any of them, and read the thousands of comments. All of them, on every video, are hilarious and lack any mercy whatsoever.
:ROFL: :focus:
Bluegreen
20th April 2025, 23:18
Painting With Jupiter
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In digital brush strokes, Jupiter's signature atmospheric bands and vortices were used to form this interplanetary post-impressionist work of art. The creative image from citizen scientist Rick Lundh uses data from the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam.
This image data was captured during perijove 10. That was Juno's December 16, 2017 close encounter with the solar system's ruling gas giant. At the time the spacecraft was cruising about 13,000 kilometers above northern Jovian cloud tops. Now in an extended mission, Juno has explored Jupiter and its moons since entering orbit around Jupiter in July of 2016.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod
Bluegreen
20th April 2025, 23:51
Van Gogh’s Painting 'The Starry Night' Is Scientifically Accurate: New Study
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Van Gogh Painting Found to Align With Atmospheric Principles
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Published 22nd October 2024 (1:42)
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Study author Dr. Huang Yongxiang:
“It reveals a deep and intuitive understanding of natural phenomena. Van Gogh’s precise representation of turbulence might be from studying the movement of clouds and the atmosphere or an innate sense of how to capture the dynamism of the sky.”
Read: "Van Gogh's Painting Starry Night is Scientifically Accurate" - Published 18th Sept 2024 by Andy Corbley - Good News Network
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/van-goghs-painting-starry-night-is-scientifically-accurate-says-new-study/
Bluegreen
21st April 2025, 23:29
What's the Oldest Known Recipe?
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Cooking how-to videos, recipe blogs and mass-produced cookbooks may be relatively recent inventions, but our ancestors liked to cook, too. Archaeologists have found remnants of food resembling our own all over the world, from traces of burnt porridge on Stone Age pots to "beer loaves" of bread in ancient Egypt. Yet, for much of history, cooking was an art passed down orally and not often documented in writing.
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So what's the oldest known recipe?
The answer hails back to one of the oldest civilizations, although their recipes look a little different from the ones we see today.
While it may seem obvious with modern-day recipes, figuring out if an ancient document is a recipe actually poses big challenges for archaeologists. According to Farrell Monaco, an honorary visiting fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Leicester who specializes in ancient Roman breads, "recipes" as we know them are a modern invention.
Ancient instructions for making food often didn't have weights and measures the way today's cookbooks do; precisely measured recipes became common only within the past few hundred years.
In fact, what we now know as the "oldest recipes" weren't identified as such for a long time. When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an iPad mini, hailed back to about 1730 B.C., and were written in what is now southern Iraq.
In 1945, scholar Mary Hussey suggested that the tablets were recipes, but colleagues in the field scoffed at her, believing they must be medicinal mixtures or alchemical concoctions.
In the 1980s, archaeologist Jean Bottéro confirmed the Babylonian tablets were actually cooking instructions, but it wasn't until recently that any of the recipes were revisited.
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They found that the tablets contained instructions for broths, a pie stuffed with songbird, green wheat, 25 types of vegetarian and meat-based stews, and some sort of small, cooked mammal. In many ways, the recipes resembled modern-day food from Iraq, with ingredients such as lamb and cilantro. But they also included some ingredients that might offend some palates, such as blood and cooked rodents.
Although one tablet contained more detailed instructions with measurements, many of the Babylonian recipes bore little resemblance to the detailed ones we're accustomed to today. One read, "Meat is used. You prepare water. You add fine-grained salt, dried barley cakes, onion, Persian shallot, and milk. You crush and add leek and garlic."
These tablets are the oldest known recipes, and there are also no known recipes that come after them for a long time.
"They kind of represent this funny little island of knowledge about culinary traditions from one specific place at one specific time," said Gojko Barjamovic, lecturer and senior research scholar in Assyriology at Yale.
Published 19th April 2025 by Marilyn Perkins – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/whats-the-oldest-known-recipe
The Oldest Recipe in the World : A 4000 Year Old Stew
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Let's eat.
Published 3rd December 2024 (8:03)
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:hungry:
Bluegreen
22nd April 2025, 00:00
'Fireball’ Over Mexico City Lights Up The Night Skies
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Published 17th April 2025 (0:50)
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RatRodRob...RRR
22nd April 2025, 02:07
To be honest... I found it to be a joke.... this Blue Origin space flight... a billionaire paid for a bunch of rich women... to go on the flight, that was completely pointless...
There was no mission behind it... only to put his girlfriend and a few other high profile friends up there.... all I can think about it... is how the US is in such a volatile state...
People are losing their jobs... 401k... can’t afford foods... doctors.... and Bezos has all the money in the world and is doing this in his free time....
If they wanted to help make the world a better place... they could do so much... but they don’t… really it was "cringe" inducing... rich famous people playing astronaut while the world burns isn’t inspiring.....
I am adding here very interesting analyze by dr.Todd Grande regarding Blue women traveling in space...
Dr. Todd Grande
1.59M subscribers
Did 'Astronauts' on 'Historic Mission' Contribute Anything to Society? | Blue Origin NS-31 Analysis
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They aren't Astronauts or crew, they were passengers on a ride, the worst part is that these muppets received an enormous amount of media coverage compared to the Real Astronauts that were rescued from being stuck in space by other real astronauts, just beyond me.........................................RRR
Bill Ryan
22nd April 2025, 10:34
To be honest... I found it to be a joke.... this Blue Origin space flight... a billionaire paid for a bunch of rich women... to go on the flight, that was completely pointless...
There was no mission behind it... only to put his girlfriend and a few other high profile friends up there.... all I can think about it... is how the US is in such a volatile state...
People are losing their jobs... 401k... can’t afford foods... doctors.... and Bezos has all the money in the world and is doing this in his free time....
If they wanted to help make the world a better place... they could do so much... but they don’t… really it was "cringe" inducing... rich famous people playing astronaut while the world burns isn’t inspiring.....
I am adding here very interesting analyze by dr.Todd Grande regarding Blue women traveling in space...
Dr. Todd Grande
1.59M subscribers
Did 'Astronauts' on 'Historic Mission' Contribute Anything to Society? | Blue Origin NS-31 Analysis
oFIYISvpn2M
They aren't Astronauts or crew, they were passengers on a ride, the worst part is that these muppets received an enormous amount of media coverage compared to the Real Astronauts that were rescued from being stuck in space by other real astronauts, just beyond me.........................................RRR
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This is genuinely interesting, about the successful pioneering space flight mission of Ham the Chimpanzee way back in 1961.
The title is accurate: Ham trained hard for 2 years, performed flawlessly on his flight (testing cognitive function in zero gravity conditions), and on his return endured 15 Gs when his capsule overshot its planned trajectory, also suffering a partial depressurization. Ham was a little stressed and dehydrated, and had a slightly bruised nose, but was happy to accept an apple as soon as the rescue crew reached him, discovering he was 100% alive and well.
Ham lived for another 19 years, and in 1983 was buried at the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where visitors traditionally leave bananas at his gravestone.
:heart:
In 1961, a Chimp trained harder than Katy Perry for Space
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Inversion
22nd April 2025, 19:45
The video covers celestial events in 2025.
04/21/25 (10:11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Br8qqAAEw
Are you ready to witness the most breathtaking astronomical events of 2025? From dazzling meteor showers to rare planetary alignments and mesmerizing eclipses, this year is packed with unmissable celestial wonders! Get ready for highlights like the Moon-Venus-Saturn conjunction, the Perseid and Geminid meteor showers, and the year’s biggest super moon. Plus, don’t miss the spectacular Jupiter-Venus conjunction and a stunning blood moon eclipse. Whether you're an amateur stargazer or a seasoned astronomer, these events are sure to ignite your curiosity about space, NASA discoveries, and beyond.
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 01:46
Afterglow of a Cannibal CME
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A Cannibal CME hit Earth on April 15th. Three days later, the magnetosphere was still glowing. Guy Kimola photographed the display from Fraser Lake, B.C., Canada.
"I didn't actually see anything," he says. "I set the camera to take 40 shots for a startrails picture and went to bed. This is what I found in the morning."
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 01:51
Lyrid Meteor Shower 2025
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I filmed the Lyrid meteor shower on the night of April 21st and 22nd, which peaks around April 22nd. Then, under optimal conditions, 15-20 meteors can be observed per hour. The pictures were taken in Lower Saxony in the Oldenburg district. In the early hours of the morning I was lucky with the weather and it cleared up for a few hours.
Published 22nd April 2025 (1:29)
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Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 02:02
Zheng Yi Sao: The Pirate Queen
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☠️ Learn about her rise from humble beginnings to becoming the most successful pirate lord of her time.
☠️ Discover the unique and just pirate code of conduct she established, making her feared and respected among more than just her crew.
☠️ Dive into the strategic brilliance that allowed her to outsmart global powers, including the Qing Dynasty, British Royal Navy, and Portuguese Navy.
☠️ Be amazed by Zheng Shi's innovative naval tactics and her ability to adapt to formidable adversaries.
☠️ Find out how she defied the odds, retired peacefully, and left a lasting legacy.
Published 19th December 2023 (7:20)
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Pirate Queen – Art by Livia Giorgina Carpineto
Ms Carpineto's illustrative series Pirate Queen was commissioned by Royal Museums Greenwich as part of a project to showcase less well represented stories of piracy.
Pirate Queen is a series of illustrations that offer a glimpse into the story of Zheng Yi Sao.
The pirate chief operated a vast fleet in the South China Sea during the early 19th century and is hailed as one of the most successful pirates of all time.
"My illustrations depict three scenes on a boat at different times of day. The illustrations show the coastline of Guangdong in southeast China – where Sao was based. The first image, set at dawn, references Sao’s past: trading secrets in the brothel where she grew up."
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"This is followed by a second image, occurring later in the day, which portrays a pirate drowning during a typhoon. I took inspiration from the following quote, attributed to Ch’ang P’aou, lieutenant to the pirate queen: "We are but smoke in the wind, mere swells of the sea in a typhoon, like broken bamboo canes flowing thither and sinking, up and down, with no thought of rest."
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"I feel that this quote captures the instability and fleeting nature of piracy and life at sea. It’s also more broadly symbolic of the ephemerality of unrecorded histories and identities that are destined to fade with memory and time.
The final image is set at night-time, and features Zheng Yi Sao duelling a rival male pirate. It's based on one of her few known portraits, in which she's shown defeating an opponent. I wanted my image to feel more intimate and focus on the tension between her and her rival."
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About the artist
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Livia Giorgina Carpineto is an illustrator from Rome, based in London. Her work ranges from editorial commissions for publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg and Rolling Stone, to projects with Royal Museums Greenwich, the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the South London Gallery.
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 21:32
The Night Sky
Friday, April 25 - Crescent moon meets planets (before sunrise)
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After 24 hours of additional eastward orbital motion, the very slim crescent of the old moon will shine within a triangle composed of three planets before sunrise on Friday morning, April 25. Locate brilliant Venus and then look for the moon about a binoculars' field of view (orange circle) to its lower left. Less bright Saturn will appear below Venus and to the right of the moon, while Mercury will be positioned about a fist's diameter to the lower left of the two planets.
Sunday, April 27 - Venus at greatest illuminated extent (pre-dawn)
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On Sunday, April 27, Venus will reach its greatest illuminated extent for the current morning apparition. In a telescope (inset), the planet will show a surprisingly slender, 26%-illuminated, waxing crescent phase on a large apparent disk size of 39 arc-seconds. Even with a less than fully-illuminated disk, Venus' distance from Earth of only 0.432 Astronomical Units (40.12 million miles or 64.57 million km) will boost its brightness to a brilliant magnitude -4.75.
https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/04/Venus-at-greatest-brilliancy.jpeg
https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 21:43
William S. Burroughs on U.F.O.s & E.T.s
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(3:18)
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C. 1980 Kansas USA.
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 22:10
Veteran Chinese Taikonaut to Lead Fresh Crew to Space Station
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China announced on Wednesday that a veteran astronaut will lead two crew members on their first flight to the Tiangong space station, the latest milestone in its race to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2030.
The Shenzhou-20 mission is scheduled to blast off at 5:17 pm on Thursday (0917 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), told a news conference.
At the helm will be Chen Dong, a 46-year-old former fighter pilot and experienced space explorer who, in 2022, became the first Chinese astronaut to spend more than 200 cumulative days in orbit.
Speaking about Thursday's Shenzhou mission -- which will be his third -- Chen said he was "still very excited".
"Every space journey is very unique, so I look forward to bringing in more experience and breakthroughs in the flight," the mission commander said.
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Taikonaut Chen Dong
Joining Chen will be two other male astronauts, Chen Zhongrui, a 40-year-old former air force pilot, and Wang Jie, a 35-year-old former space technology engineer. Both will be embarking on their first space flight, Lin said.
"Today, I am on the point of realising my dream of flying in space," Chen Zhongrui told a news conference on Wednesday.
"To be honest, when we first started training together, we were still a little nervous," he said of himself and Wang.
"Now (the three crew members) are integrated like a single person."
Published 23rd April 2025 – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/afp/250423085731.ntct0ld0.html
Bluegreen
23rd April 2025, 22:46
Space Rock News – Trojan Asteroids
NASA's Lucy Probe Captures First Close-up Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson
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"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery."
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently headed toward Jupiter on an asteroid-hopping mission, has captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the space rock 52246 Donaldjohanson.
Lucy launched in 2021, embarking on a 12-year journey toward Jupiter's orbit to study an unexplored swarm of asteroids called Jupiter's Trojans. These asteroids are remnants of our early solar system that share the giant planet's orbit around the sun. Along the way, the spacecraft is also squeezing in time for a few dress rehearsals for its Trojan targets down the road — and on Sunday (April 20), it swooped within 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) of the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson who co-discovered the Lucy hominid fossil in northern Ethiopia in 1974.
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Asteroid Donaldjohanson: "Peanut-shaped"
Images of the asteroid Lucy took as it approached the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid showed wide swings in brightness, suggesting it was either a slowly-rotating rock, appearing brighter when its longer sides faced the spacecraft, or an elongated object. Indeed, close-up images of the asteroid sent home by Lucy on Sunday confirmed both: The asteroid was once two smaller pieces that have conjoined into a larger whole, with a distinct narrow neck between the two lobes.
Published 22nd April 2025 by Sharmila Kuthunur – Space.com
https://www.space.com/the-universe/asteroids/nasas-lucy-probe-captures-1st-close-up-images-of-asteroid-donaldjohanson-revealing-strikingly-complicated-geology
Bluegreen
24th April 2025, 17:00
Citizens of Earth
Sea Turtle Revival
Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in more than half the world: survey
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Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday.
“Many of the turtle populations have come back, though some haven’t,” said Duke ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved with the research. “Overall, the sea turtle story is one of the real conservation success stories.”
The study looked at 48 populations of sea turtles around the world. Scientists measured the impacts of threats such as hunting, pollution, coastal development and climate change to the marine animals. In more than half of the areas studied, threats are declining overall, the study found.
But there are some exceptions. Sea turtle populations in the Atlantic Ocean are more likely to be recovering than those in Pacific waters. And leatherback turtles are not faring as well as other species.
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A leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Trinidad
Globally, leatherbacks are considered vulnerable to extinction, but many groups are critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Leatherback turtles are famous for making the longest known marine migrations of any animal — with some individuals swimming as many as 3,700 miles (5,955 kilometers) each way. That feat moves them through a wide swath of regions and may expose them to unique risks, he said.
Meanwhile, green turtles are still considered endangered globally, but their populations show signs of recovery in many regions of the world, researchers found.
“By ending commercial harvests and allowing them time to rebound, their populations are now doing really well” in coastal waters off many regions of Mexico and the U.S., said co-author Michelle María, a Stanford University researcher who has conducted fieldwork in both countries.
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A green sea turtle in the Sargasso Sea
Sea turtles were protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973, and Mexico banned all captures of sea turtles in 1990. But it took a few decades for the results of these actions — alongside efforts to protect nesting beaches and reduce accidental bycatch in fishing — to show up in population trends, she said.
Published 17th April 2025 by Associated Press
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/endangered-sea-turtle-populations-show-signs-recovery-half-world-surve-rcna201788
Bluegreen
26th April 2025, 00:22
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Rock N' Roll Ghost Stories - Johnny Cash, Sid Vicious & Jim Morrison
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Johnny Cash's Jamaican residence, Chelsea Hotel haunted by Sid and Nancy, story from the 2000's about Jim Morrison.
Published 31st October 2021 (13:03)
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Bluegreen
26th April 2025, 01:16
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Headbanging Spectres
Notorious Kray twins back from the dead as they haunt halls of UK prison
A singer has claimed the Kray twins are not only back from the dead but also possess a love of heavy metal, after she spotted them 'headbanging' to her new tune.
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The Kray twins are back from the dead and haunting the hallways of UK prisons.
Ghosts of the notorious brothers have been spotted head-banging the walls of one of Britain’s most haunted locations, Gloucester Prison. Spooky singer Brocarde was shooting a music video at the location when she says she was interrupted by the gangsters who once called the prison home.
She said the pair interrupted a scene and started head banging to her new metal anthem ‘Identity Theft’. She added: “The prison is fascinating in many ways as it’s built over the site of a castle, it’s also seen its fair share of deaths via execution, so I knew I was going to encounter something paranormal within the walls, but I certainly wasn’t expecting such notorious criminals to be head banging along to my music.
The singer, who made headlines for marrying a ghost herself, was filming around midnight in the pitch black prison when the brothers decided to make their presence known.
“The energy after dark really shifted, it was as if the walls filled with life,” she said. “I was filming a scene where I had to head bang and really go crazy in multiple locations inside the prison cell block. As the lyrics 'March, march, march' filled the air, so did the ghostly apparitions of multiple prisoners.
I carried on filming the music video and it wasn’t until I was back home and lying in bed. I suddenly woke up at 3am and realised that the familiar faces resembled The Kray Twins. I did a little research in the dead of night, and I found out that The Kray Twins had been former inmates at the prison."
“I had an eerie feeling of dread as they are not the kind of spirits that you want to get on the wrong side of, the fact that they were enjoying my music puts me at ease slightly.”
Published 17th April 2025 by Sian Hewitt – Daily Star
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/uk-news/notorious-kray-twins-back-dead-35085399
Brocarde. She's haunted.
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Bluegreen
26th April 2025, 01:36
:sun: Saturday Morning Cartoons
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Johnnycomelately
26th April 2025, 14:23
Moon Hoax hobbiests, have fun. This might be propaganda, but it’s a great story.
The Moon Hoax Revisited, Part 6.1. Apollo–Soyuz Test Project | A.Popov
moonfakery
4.74K subscribers
Posted Apr 26, 2025
“This video is a continuation of a series of meetings with prominent researcher of the NASA moon hoax, Alexander Popov. It explores the famous Apollo–Soyuz Test Project from an unusual perspective, specifically how this program is connected to the Moon hoax and how it helped reinforce the myth of the supposedly real moon landings during the first decade of the space age.
Russian original: • Финал лунной аферы | Лунная Афера Аме... (embedded below)”
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And here is the original without translation:
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Johnnycomelately
26th April 2025, 18:04
Glorious pizza! I think this guy must have learned this from aliens.
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Pizza Dough Ingredients
500 grams All Purpose Flour
350 grams Warm Water
7 grams Instant Yeast
13 grams Kosher Salt
Pizza Sauce Ingredients
14 oz Crushed Tomatoes
1 TBSP Dried Basil
1 TBSP Dried Oregano
1 tsp Kosher Salt
2 tsp Crushed Garlic
Pistachio Pesto Ingredients
½ cup Roasted Salted Pistachios
2 cups Fresh Basil Leaves
½ cup Finely Grated Parmesan Cheese
¼ tsp Kosher salt
¼ tsp Ground Black Pepper
¼ to ½ cup Olive Oil
Bluegreen
26th April 2025, 22:32
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JIMI HENDRIX - AUGUST 1969 - WOODSTOCK (EPISODE 37)
Investigative mini-documentary centering on the time in and around Hendrix's Woodstock performance.
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00:00. TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:32. BRIGITTE BARDOT 01:16. JIMI’S MOROCCAN ESCAPE 02:18. THE OMINOUS PROPHECY 04:10. THURSDAY 7 AUG 04:34. REHEARSING FOR WOODSTOCK 05:23. ACCORDING TO MITCH 07:34. THREE PERCUSSIONISTS 08:37. TINKER STREET CINEMA 09:41. AUGUST 11 – 17 10:01. ARRIVING WOODSTOCK 10:34. BACKGROUND TO THE FESTIVAL 13:04. JIMI AT WOODSTOCK 14:34. MITCH TELLS 15:29. JIMI TAKES THE STAGE 20:53. TRANSFORMATIVE PERFORMANCE 22:29. FRANK MORIARTY WROTE 23:20. CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY SAID 23:47. SHARON LAWRENCE RECALLED 24:45. AFTERWARDS 25:37. TIRED, COLD AND EXHAUSTED 26:20. SAID MITCH 27:44. END OF THE MONTH 28:29. NEXT EPISODE 28:50. BONUS PICS 35:04. THE END
Bluegreen
26th April 2025, 23:10
Space Rock | Jimi Hendrix
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy …
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Bluegreen
28th April 2025, 01:10
China Shares Rare Moon Rocks With US Despite Trade War
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China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon - a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war.
Two NASA-funded US institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by the Chang'e-5 mission in 2020, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday.
CNSA chief Shan Zhongde said that the samples were "a shared treasure for all humanity."
The US has not allowed Chinese scientists access to NASA's lunar samples since 2011. Under restrictions imposed by US lawmakers, NASA is banned from collaboration with China or any Chinese-owned companies unless specifically authorised by Congress.
But John Logsdon, the former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told BBC Newshour that the latest exchange of Moon rocks have "very little to do with politics." While there are controls on space technology, the examination of lunar samples had "nothing of military significance", he said.
"It's international cooperation in science which is the norm."
Washington has imposed tariffs Chinese goods that go up to 245%, while Beijing has hit back with 125% tariffs on US goods.
US President Donald Trump previously hinted at a de-escalation in the trade war, but Beijing has denied that there were negotiations between the two sides.
In 2023, the CNSA put out a call for applications to study its Chang'e-5 moon samples.
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What's special about the Chang'e-5 Moon samples is that they "seem to be a billion years younger" than those collected from Apollo missions, Dr Logsdon said. "So it suggests that volcanic activity went on in the moon more recently than people had thought".
Space officials from the US and China had reportedly tried to negotiate an exchange of moon samples last year - but it appears the deal did not materialise.
The Chinese space agency named Brown University and State University of New York at Stonybrook as two of seven institutions that have permission to borrow the moon rocks collected by China. Others include Osaka University in Japan, the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics, the University of Cologne in Germany, the British Open University and Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission.
Shan, from the CNSA, said the agency will "maintain an increasingly active and open stance" in international space exchange and cooperation, including along the space information corridor under the Belt and Road Initiative.
"I believe China's circle of friends in space will continue to grow," he said. "We look forward to scientists worldwide making more scientific discoveries, jointly expanding human knowledge and benefiting all of humanity."
Published 24th April 2025 by Koh Ewe – BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8v691qmg5o
Bluegreen
28th April 2025, 02:30
The Katy Perry Show
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Bluegreen
29th April 2025, 01:00
At Home Astronomy: How You Can Observe the Night Sky
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No matter where you live, there are things to observe in the night sky. Stars, the Moon, planets, and rare events like meteor showers, eclipses, and conjunctions await you. In this episode learn how anybody can become a night sky observer. You will also learn about orbital motion (rotate and revolve) with Darnell "Speedy" Artis, and Julian "Zeus" McClurkin, members of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters.
Published 2nd September 2021 (29:15)
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Johnnycomelately
29th April 2025, 19:10
L=1:06:49. Richard Feynman going off, sitting in a chair, riffing on a set of ideas that he found fun to imagine. RIP big Rick.
The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
Christopher Sykes
49.6K subscribers
Posted Nov 1, 2018
“You can find an HD upload at • HD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (...
All six original 'Fun to Imagine' episodes and stories in one video - total 66 minutes. Recorded on 16mm film at Feynman's home in Altadena, California, in 1983 and first broadcast on BBC2. Feynman was a theoretical physicist and lover of life who, along with his many other accomplishments, won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.”
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Bluegreen
1st May 2025, 01:57
Olo
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Bluegreen
1st May 2025, 02:23
A "HIGH INTEREST" REENTRY
In 1972, the Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 spacecraft was supposed to land on Venus. More than 50 years later, it's returning to Earth instead. Touchdown is expected on May 10th, give or take a few days.
"This will not be your standard reentry," says satellite analyst Marco Langbroek, who has been tracking the object for years. "The Kosmos 482 Descent Craft was designed to survive the dense atmosphere of Venus. It will therefore likely survive reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere intact and make a crash landing. This will therefore be a high-interest reentry."
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www.spaceweather.com
Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's successful Venera program to explore Venus. Between 1961 and 1984, thirteen Soviet probes successfully entered Venus's atmosphere, with ten landing on the planet's surface. Kosmos 482, however, never fully escaped Earth. After it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 31, 1972, the upper stage of its Molniya rocket shut down prematurely, leaving it in a 206 x 9802 kilometer orbit that has been decaying ever since.
"With an orbital inclination of 52 degrees, the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft could come down anywhere between 52 degrees north and 52 degrees south latitude," says Langbroek. "This includes much of south and mid-latitude Europe and Asia, as well as the Americas, Africa and Australia." Statistically, an ocean landing is the most likely outcome.
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A picture of Venus from Kosmos 482's sister craft Venera 13
The probe was designed to parachute to the surface of Venus. However, it is very unlikely that the parachute system will work after more than 50 years in space, so this will be a crash landing. How bad will it be? Many details of the descent craft have been lost to history. Langbroek believes it is about 1 meter in diameter with a mass of ~495 kg. It won't do major damage, but you wouldn't want to be standing where it lands. The spacecraft is estimated to hit at a staggering speed of 17,000 mph as it hurtles down towards the ground.
Kosmos 482: questions around a failed Venera lander from 1972 still orbiting Earth (but not for long) by Marco Langbroek - May 16, 2022
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4384/1
Bluegreen
1st May 2025, 02:43
The Night Sky
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Bluegreen
2nd May 2025, 00:00
7 UFO's
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◘ Backyard UFO, Michigan
◘ Ft Worth Texas Twins
◘ High Speed UFO, China
◘ Mass Confusion Downtown London
◘ Jellyfish UFO, Skywatchers
◘ Portal in the Sky
◘ The Black Orb
Published 9th April 2025 (9:58)
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Bluegreen
2nd May 2025, 00:14
David Attenborough
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Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers | Nature Documentary
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Bluegreen
2nd May 2025, 00:31
Did a Rare Atmospheric Event Cause Spain/Portugal Blackout? Here's What We Know
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the Spain/Portugal blackout of 2025 and whether it was the so-called "induced atmospheric vibration".
Published 30th April 2025 (12:13)
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0:00 Power outage in Spain/Portugal
1:30 Misinformation and what we know
2:40 Did renewables cause this?
3:25 Weather is responsible for most blackouts
4:05 European grid is too complex
5:10 Cyberattack?
5:35 Fire?
5:50 Atmospheric phenomenon and natural vibrations
8:00 So could this be the cause?
8:45 Solutions and conclusions
Bluegreen
2nd May 2025, 00:57
May Calendar
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Bill Ryan
2nd May 2025, 16:16
Published just 10 minutes ago, here's Megyn Kelly's merciless lampoon of the uber-feminist Blue Origin flight a couple of weeks ago.
:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:
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Bluegreen
3rd May 2025, 23:00
How Are We Made of Star Stuff? We Asked a NASA Expert
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Published 23rd April 2025 (1:34)
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"We're All Made Of Stars"
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Bluegreen
3rd May 2025, 23:28
It’s hard to name a species — and even harder to rename one
A beetle named after Hitler is just one of many names that haven’t aged well. Here’s how the species-naming process works.
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The A. hitleri population has dwindled because Nazi fanatics like to collect them.
How does a blind cave beetle end up being named after a Nazi dictator? Or a fossil after a famous British broadcaster?
There is no one answer because the process of naming species — for both scientific and common names — is complex and inconsistent and sometimes produces names that, over time, become offensive.
Why do species have both scientific and common names?
Many species, like the Slovenian blind cave beetle, have multiple common names across different languages and countries. The problem with multiple common names, however, is they can be very confusing, especially for researchers who need to understand exactly which species is being discussed in a scientific paper.
In 1753, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus came up with a solution: a Latin-based naming system that could be universally applied. Linnaeus tried to classify all living things (and rocks, too) into groups. From the broadest to the most specific, his classifications were kingdom, class, order, genera and species.
Today, parts of Linnaeus’ system have been modified or junked, but most species are still formally referred to with a binomial scientific name: its genus followed by its specific name.
For the Slovenian blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri, the genus name is Anopthalmus (which applies to many ground beetles native to Europe) and the specific name is hitleri, named in 1933 by an Austrian collector who admired Adolf Hitler (the dictator later sent him a thank-you note).
Scientific names serve as universal anchors so researchers anywhere in the world can communicate with one another about a certain species without having to worry about confusing one species for another.
“Standardization is an essential thing for anything, especially in cases where you need to communicate things clearly over time,” explains Douglas Yanega, assistant editor of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, a publication of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, or ICZN. “The stability of the name is extremely important because science is not just what we do today; it links tremendously to things that have happened in the past, and the only solid link that we have is the name of the thing.”
What’s the ICZN and what does it do?
It’s the international scientific group that since 1895 has been responsible for assigning scientific names to animal species — but not plants, fungi, bacteria or viruses, which are covered by separate codes of nomenclature.
The ICZN has elaborate rules to govern the process. The three principal steps, Yanega says, are determining whether something is a unique species, making sure the species has not been previously named, and then preparing and publishing its formal description, including its new name.
Those steps may sound simple, but in practice, each has its own challenges. To decide whether something is a unique species, for instance, specialists in taxonomy rely on multiple lines of evidence, including both physical characteristics (for example, dolphins are mammals instead of a fish) and DNA, which is scrutinized for genetic similarities.
Then comes the trickiest part: to determine whether a species deemed as new really is new. Often, it’s not. “It could be very embarrassing to get this wrong, and people do get this wrong all the time,” notes Yanega.
Where do species names come from?
All sorts of places. Some of the most common sources of names are geographical references (such as Alces americanus for moose) and tributes to people — also known as eponyms.
There’s a barnacle named after Darwin (Regioscalpellum darwini), a fossil named after UK’s most famous broadcaster (Attenborosaurus conybeari) and even a small amphibian, a blind and burrowing worm-like creature named after Donald Trump (Dermophis donaldtrumpi). No political favoritism there we're sure.
Some taxonomists now argue that species shouldn’t be named after people at all because it suggests humans are superior to other living things.
“It’s a species that has been evolving for hundreds of years without human intervention, and we should consider it sacred,” says Richard J. Ladle of the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, adding that the underlying principle for species naming should be to “respect nature.”
Published 12th March 12 2025 by Miriam Bahagijo • Scienceline.org
https://scienceline.org/2025/03/its-hard-to-name-a-species-and-even-harder-to-rename-one/
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