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Bluegreen

5th May 2025, 00:54

MY MOTHER THE MANTIS

THE TRUE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT STORY OF SONDRA X.

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Published 14th March 2025 (36:01)

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A teacher from Virginia, Sondra came from a military family and has lived in many locations on the planet. She was born in 1940, and like many ET contactees, unusual events surrounded her from a very young age. In fact, when she was only a few weeks old, her mother woke up one morning to see Sondra levitating above her crib! Soon other mystical events occurred. At age three, while living in sunny Long Beach in southern California, Sondra discovered that she was able to call forth the wind, and even make it snow.

In 1946, Sondra’s father (now an attaché to a Navy Admiral) moved the family to Tsingtao, China where they lived in the former Swiss Embassy building. There Sondra soon displayed other abilities. She began having out-of-body experiences. Fresh-cut flowers would remain alive and healthy in her room for weeks on end. She began to hear a voice in her head teaching her about the human body. She excelled academically to a degree that should would soon skip grades in school, and more. Her stay in China was cut short by conflict within the country, and in 1947, her father was called to serve in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was there that Sondra had perhaps the most unusual event of her life ...

Bluegreen

5th May 2025, 01:28

Sky Goddess Depictions Show Ancient Egyptians Were Aware of the Milky Way

Artistic depictions of the Ancient Egyptian god Nut reveal an awareness of our place in the Galaxy

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The ancient Egyptians were astute astronomers. They often depicted the cosmos atop coffins. A new study in The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, a survey of such artwork, suggests that they may have had a greater understanding of the Milky Way than previously thought.

The study focuses on how the Egyptian Sky Goddess Nut has been depicted in several settings over time. The goddess was often portrayed as a naked, star-covered woman arching over the Earth, often above the Earth god Geb. Nut’s legend has her consuming the sun at night and giving birth to it at dawn.

Her coffin depicts a wavy line across Nut’s star-covered body. This feature “recalls the Great Rift that cleaves the Milky Way in two,” according to the study’s author, Or Graur, an astrophysics professor at the University of Portsmouth, England.

“Hence, I argue that the undulating curve is a visual representation of the Milky Way and that it supports a previously suggested identification of ‘Winding Waterway’ as the Galaxy’s Egyptian name,” according to Grauer.

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Published 1st May 2025 by Paul Smaglik - Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/sky-goddess-depictions-show-ancient-egyptians-were-aware-of-the-milky-way

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL VIGNETTE: FIRST VISUAL EVIDENCE OF THE MILKY WAY AND TRENDS IN COFFIN DEPICTIONS OF THE SKY GODDESS NUT - Or Graur
https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.2025.01.06

Bluegreen

5th May 2025, 01:56

Belgian Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, Creator of First Artwork on Moon, Dies at 99

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Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, renowned for creating the first and long-time sole artwork on the moon, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday at the age of 99, according to a press release from his family.

Philip Heylen, a friend of the artist and honorary alderman of Antwerp, mentioned in the release, “A few weeks ago, we celebrated his 99 and half birthday. It was evident then that his light was slowly fading. It’s surreal that Paul is no longer with us. You almost thought he would be here forever, and perhaps he will be, thanks to his vast artistic legacy. Through his works, he continues to communicate with us.”

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Born on 8 October 1925 in Antwerp, Van Hoeydonck was a multifaceted artist, working as a sculptor, painter, illustrator, collage artist, and graphic artist. As a modern sculptor, he utilised contemporary materials such as bronze, chrome steel, plexiglass, polyester, and mixed media.

His most famous piece is ‘Fallen Astronaut’, which Apollo 15 astronauts left on the moon in 1971 to honour their deceased colleagues. It remained the only artwork on the moon until February last year, when 125 mini-sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons landed on its surface.

Published 3rd May 2025 by The Brussels Times with Belga
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1562715/belgian-artist-paul-van-hoeydonck-creator-of-first-artwork-on-moon-died

Bluegreen

6th May 2025, 01:40

These are the sharpest images yet of planets being born around distant stars

Unseen by previous generations

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Four different views of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 135344B that reveal swirling, vortex-like structures. Such vortices can trap dust and trigger instabilities that help planets form and grow.

Astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed images yet of young solar systems where planets are just beginning to take shape.

Exquisite snapshots released on April 28 provide a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of planet formation in more than a dozen star systems, revealing where planets emerge, how quickly they form and what materials they're made from. Scientists say the data could help refine computer models of planetary formation and evolution, as well as shed new light on how these infant systems compare to the myriad of mature exoplanets already discovered.

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ALMA observations of carbon monoxide emission from 15 protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning variety of gas structures, including gaps, rings and spirals

Newly developed techniques "are like switching from reading glasses to high-powered binoculars," Richard Teague of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who serves as the principal investigator of the project, said in the statement. "They reveal a whole new level of detail in these planet-forming systems."

Published 4th May 2025 by Sharmila Kuthunur - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/these-are-the-sharpest-images-yet-of-planets-being-born-around-distant-stars

Bluegreen

6th May 2025, 02:01

Declassified Psychic Technology - ROBERT SEPEHR

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Taking into account documented historical events in Russia and elsewhere, Robert takes a closer look at recently declassified information quietly released by the US government.

Published 26th August 2024 (23:53)

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Parapsychology is defined as the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena that can't be explained by scientific laws or data. The field focuses on investigating the existence and nature of experiences and abilities, such as ESP (Extrasensory Perception), telepathy, clairvoyance. psychokinesis, Near-death or out of body experiences, astral travel or remote viewing, lucid dreaming, and synchronicity.

Bluegreen

6th May 2025, 02:15

#NSFW

Poorly-Aged 70s Commercials

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Oh my. How times have changed.

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0:00 - Bill Cosby would go on to do things unbecoming of a White Owl Cigar spokesperson
0:30 - Just some garden variety sexual harassment
1:00 - If Andrew Jackson directed a Ford commercial
1:30 - The Sexy Legs pantyhose company went out of business due to not understanding their audience
2:00 - OJ Simpson had a little trouble maintaining his image in the 90s
2:27 - If Andrew Jackson directed a chewing gum commercial
2:57 - Is it any wonder they went out of business?
3:27 - The metric system did not, in fact, become a regular part of American life as predicted
4:23 - Ladies didn't buy Hanes based on what "gentlemen" prefer
4:53 - The term "ball buster" has different connotations these days
5:48 - Actor Stephen Collins confessed to sexual abuse of minors
6:42 - They really had a thing for Native Americans in the 70s, huh?
7:12 - Husbands can make crappy coffee too
7:43 - Using feminism to sell cigarettes to women was quite a choice

Bluegreen

8th May 2025, 03:02

Space Rock | György Ligeti

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"Lux Aeterna"

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Bluegreen

9th May 2025, 01:39

James Bartley Interviewed About His Childhood Abductions and Contacts With Aliens

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Some Bartley followers may not have heard the personal stories shared with Randy Maugans in this interview.

Published 27th April 2025 (53:57)

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In Part 1, James Bartley is interviewed by Randy Maugans from Off Planet Radio. James talks about his childhood experiences with abductions, alien contact and discusses different alien and UFO related phenomenon. In Part 2, James and Randy discuss ancient flying machines from the Vedas with a crew of aliens and humans. James goes deeper into military and alien topics including the wars in the heavens and celestially driven cataclysms.

https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com/2025/04/27/childhood-abductions/
Part 2: Available at www.offplanetradio.com

Bluegreen

10th May 2025, 23:31

Smithsonian Magazine 22nd Annual Photography Contest

Larger Than Life

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Praying Mantis / Takuya Ishiguro, Osaki, Japan

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Government Building / Anna Wacker, Berlin, Germany

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Stink Bug / Thorben Danke, Besigheim, Germany

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The Dreaded Tsukiyotake Mushroom / Mashiro Hiroike, Tokyo, Japan

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Harvest / Md Bipul, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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Bluegreen

10th May 2025, 23:54

Testimonial Footage

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Raw UFO video footage: Up @ The ECETI Ranch & Beyond

Published 10th December 2024 (2:22)

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Bluegreen

11th May 2025, 00:13

Dr Tamitha Skov

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Solar Storm Eye Candy, Glancing Blows, Farside Region Grows | Space Weather Spotlight

Published 8th May 2025 (11:28)

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I am back on the air, after a major upgrade to my studio, including new cameras, new production gear, and a broadcast quality live keyer! This week our Sun has sent several solar storm glancing blows our way, and along with the large coronal hole sending us some fast solar wind, we could see some extended storming, especially at high latitudes over the next couple of days. Things are on the quiet side as far as radio blackouts go, but the noise floor on the dayside radio bands will remain high this week.

ON THE SUN, THIS IS WHAT 'QUIET' LOOKS LIKE

All week long, solar activity has been low with a persistent quiet causing the sun's X-ray output to flatline. However, everthing is relative. "Starry" David Wilson recorded this two-hour movie from his backyard observatory in Inverness, Scotland.

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How can a solar tornado big enough to swallow Earth with 150,000 mph winds be "quiet"? For starters, there's no sound in space. But that's not the real reason. Space weather analysts rank solar activity by explosiveness. If there's an X-class solar flare, forecasters will say "solar activity is high." But if there are no flares and no CMEs, then "solar activity is “low" or "quiet." This magnificent tornado simply did not explode.

Quiet never looked so good.

Bluegreen

11th May 2025, 00:52

Skygazers' Planner

Monday, May 12 - Full Flower Moon

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The Moon will reach its full phase on Monday, May 12 at 12:56 p.m. EDT, 9:56 a.m. PDT, or 16:56 GMT. In the Americas, the Moon will appear to be full on both Sunday and Monday night, but closer inspection will reveal a strip of shadow curving along the Moon's left and right limb, respectively, on those nights.

Full Moons in May always shine in or near the stars of Libra or Scorpius.

The indigenous Ojibwe groups of the Great Lakes region call the May full Moon Zaagibagaa-giizis, the "Budding Moon" or Namebine-giizis, the "Sucker Moon". For them it signifies a time when Mother Earth again provides healing medicines. The Cree of North America call it Athikipisim, the "Frog Moon" — the time when frogs become active in ponds and swamps. The Cherokee call it Ahnisguti, the "Planting Moon", when the fields are plowed and sown. Other common names are the Milk Moon, Flower Moon, or Corn Planting Moon.

Tuesday, May 13 - Bright Moon Occults Antares

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When the still very full Moon rises over the southeastern horizon in mid-evening on Tuesday, May 13, it will be positioned very close to the very bright, reddish star Antares, which marks the heart of Scorpius. As the duo crosses the sky all night long, the rotation of the sky will shift the Moon to Antares' lower left.

Meanwhile, observers in a zone extending from easternmost Polynesia, east across southern South America and the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and over to the South Atlantic can watch the Moon cross in front of (or occult) Antares.

Friday, May 16 — Berenice's Hair (all night)

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The constellation of Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair, is composed of three medium-bright stars arranged as a right-angle triangle. In the evenings during mid-May, those stars are located high in the southern sky, several fist diameters to the lower left of the Big Dipper and two fist diameters above (or 18 degrees to the celestial northeast of) Leo's bright tail star Denebola.

Beta Comae Berenices, the highest of the three stars, is slightly brighter than the other two stars. Diadem shines to its lower left. The star Gamma Comae Berenices (or γ Com or Al Dafirah) to Beta's lower right is close to the limit of visibility in light-polluted skies, but is easy to see in rural locations. The Coma Star Cluster is a collection of 4th and 5th-magnitude stars sprinkled just below (to the celestial southwest of) Gamma.

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Bluegreen

11th May 2025, 01:24

Remembering Pope Joan, the One and Only Woman to Serve as Pope (Allegedly)

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The choice of Chicago native Robert Prevost as the new pope is a historic one, as he is the first North American to occupy the most important position in the Catholic Church. But more than 1200 years ago there was allegedly another historic first in the papacy, as a woman who is referred to as Pope Joan became the first and only female to be selected as pope—or so it is said.

Most people have never heard of Pope Joan, even the most devout Catholics, and most scholars (and virtually all church officials) have been dismissing her story as fictional for centuries. But quite frankly this dismissal smells like a cover-up, as its origins date to the Middle Ages when the church was anxious to make the inconvenient legend of Pope Joan disappear into the mist.

The origins of the Papacy are traditionally traced to St. Peter, one of the original disciples of Jesus. The newly anointed pope, Leo XIV, is the 266th officially recognized successor of St. Peter – and all 266 of these popes are male, of course.

The first written account of Pope Joan can be traced to a 13th century work known as the Chronica universalis Mettensis (Chronicle of Metz). According to its author, the Dominican chronicler, Jean de Mailly, there was an unnamed pope who was not recorded in the list of Bishops of Rome because she was a woman disguised as a man.

The chronicler goes on to say that it was this woman’s character and talents that enabled her to occupy the seat of St. Peter. In addition, de Mailly records that the grave of this unnamed pope was marked with a Latin phrase, “Petre, Pater Patrum, Papisse Prodito Partum”, meaning “O Peter, Father of Fathers, betray the childbearing of the woman pope.” However, de Mailly begins this narrative with the Latin infinitive “Require”, meaning “to be verified / inquired into”, indicating that even the author himself is unsure as to the truth of the story.

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Pope Joan gives birth during a Church procession (quite a feat) - Artist Giovanni Boccaccio C. 1450

The story of the female pope in disguise is then picked up by an anonymous Franciscan friar of Erfurt in his Chronica minor, and by the Dominican inquisitor and preacher, Etienne de Bourbon. While the story of the female pope in the Chronica minor is similar to that of de Mailly’s, Etienne de Bourbon’s version includes details regarding her death.

The author records that the pope gave birth in public, thus revealing her true gender, and she was subsequently dragged behind a horse for half a league and then stoned to death for her deceit.

The most well-known and influential version of the female pope story, however, comes from the Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors), written by another Dominican, Martinus Polonus. Due to the prestige and credibility derived from his ties with the Roman hierarchy, Martinus’ work circulated widely, and overshadowed the accounts of earlier writers on the same subject. Unlike earlier accounts, Martinus provides a vivid account of the female pope’s life. As a matter of fact, it is here that the name Joan first appears in writing in relation to this person.

In addition to naming this pope, Martinus also provides details such as her nationality (English), place of birth (Mainz), as well as her pontificate (after Leo IV’s death in 855 AD), and the length of her reign (two years, seven months and four days).

Published 10th May 2025 – Ancient Origins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/female-pope-joan-020365

Pope Joan: The Female Pope The Vatican Tried To Erase From History

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Bluegreen

11th May 2025, 01:51

A Pope named Joan

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A Pope named Bob

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A Packer named Pope.

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Bluegreen

13th May 2025, 05:22

Cursed Artifacts The Vatican Doesn’t Want You To See

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○ The jeweled skeleton
○ Judas' 30 pieces of silver
○ The Vatican's secret stash
○ The demonic idol
○ The silver hammer
○ Ireland's cursed stones

Published 29th April 2025 (30:00)

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Bluegreen

13th May 2025, 05:56

'Battlefield Earth': Hollywood's Infamous Sci-Fi Flop

But 25 years on, director Roger Christian is still proud of his work with Travolta

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In the annals of Hollywood history there have been few feature films of any genre as brutally criticized as 2000's Battlefield Earth, the controversial adaptation of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's pulpy dystopian novel of 1982.

It was a rollicking space opera set in an Earthly wasteland of the year 3000, lorded over by a cruel race of cat-like, 9-foot-tall aliens called Psychlos, who had enslaved primitive humans to mine for gold. A rebellion rises led by a charismatic tribesman against the oppressors to ensure species' survival.

Directed by Academy Award-winner Roger Christian, the man who ushered in the pioneering "used universe" look of Star Wars and Alien, Battlefield Earth celebrates its 25th anniversary today.

This $44 million feature starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, and Barry Pepper was released by Warner Bros. on May 12, 2000, amid turbulent competition from Ridley Scott's Gladiator, and was immediately panned and ridiculed for its odd costumes, dutch camera angles, plot holes, and hammy overacting.

"The war against Scientology was what triggered the initial backlash, and the film has nothing to do with it," Christian said. "It is pulp science fiction, and nobody got it. We never stood a chance. I remember the first time in London when it was shown and I stood up in front of the audience and said, 'This is what it is, it's pulp fiction.'

"When we went to the L.A. premiere, I sat next to Quentin Tarantino, and next to him was John Travolta. At the end of it Tarantino said, 'Give me a hug John, give me a hug Roger. This is what I really want to write. But it's going to take 20 years for people to catch up and realize what you did.'"

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Christian and Travolta on set

Despite poor reviews, Battlefield landed in 3,307 theaters as the second-best release that week of May behind Gladiator. It's still erroneously thought to have lost the studio oceans of money, which is not the case, according to Christian.

"Battlefield producer Elie Samaha said the only two movies he made a lot of money out of were The Whole Nine Yards and Battlefield Earth. None of the producers have ever stood beside it, and I don't know why. We outgrossed Gladiator in the UK for home video. I had to do the final coloring for the DVD with Giles Nuttgens, the DP. We were told that they expected to sell 200,000 copies in six months. They sold 600,000 copies in two months."

After all the dust had settled, Roger Christian remains content, filled with happy memories of making Battlefield Earth 25 years later, despite the perceived dislike that has unjustly followed the film. In an era of colossal box office flops like The Marvels and The Flash, Battlefield Earth's tragic fate is just another drop in the ocean. Never to be called a classic, it's far from abysmal.

Published 12th May 2025 by Jeff Spry – Space .com
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Bluegreen

13th May 2025, 06:31

Man Stumbles Across Hoard of Priceless Coins While Out For Nature Walk

'Face to face with history'

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An ordinary spring day quickly became extraordinary after a nature-loving metal detectorist unearthed a cache of ancient treasure.

Marius Mangeac confirmed the discovery to Fox News Digital. He said he found the hoard in a field near Letca Veche, a small village in southern Romania.

Mangeac said that he found the coins "on a beautiful Saturday that didn't foreshadow anything of what was to come."

"I took my detector and went out alone, as I often do, for exercise and to relax in the fields and forests," he wrote in his post, which was translated from Romanian to English.

"I didn't think this day would surprise me and bring me face to face with history."

But suddenly his metal detector began beeping – and soon, Mangeac was looking at a hoard of 1,469 Roman coins, over 2,000 years old.

Seeing the silver denarii, Mangeac said that his heart was “beating quite hard. I even thought about pinching myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.”

After two strenuous days of photographing the coins, he handed them over to the town hall in Letca Nouă.

The metal detectorist concluded, "I hope that one day I can take my child to the museum and explain to him how I was lucky enough to discover a page of our people's history."

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The detectorist and coins

Under Romanian law, the finder is entitled to 30-40% of its determined value, which is likely to be substantial.

Published May 11, 2025 by Andrea Margolis – Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/man-stumbles-across-hoard-priceless-coins-nature-walk-face-face-history

Bluegreen

15th May 2025, 00:34

Have YOU Been Abducted?

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5 signs you've been abducted by aliens, from nosebleeds to common skin complaint

Astronomers have miraculously claimed to be 99.7% sure they've found proof of alien life outside the solar system - and some people claim they've already been visited and abducted by extra-terrestrials.

One of those people, British clairvoyant Philip Kinsella, said he was probed by reptilian aliens in 1989. He was levitating and moving through the rooms of his home, before being strapped naked to a board and probed by the extra-terrestrials, he claimed.

"The image that was the most raw, that I will never forget, was their faces," he told The Sun. "They looked like dinosaurs, but they were reptilian, about seven to eight feet tall."

Mr Kinsella also revealed the five key signs that you've been abducted by aliens - and you might not even know about it.

Bumps under the skin

Aliens leave little, tiny implants in humans' skin when they've been abducted, he claimed. It results in small, unusual bumps appearing underneath the skin. They might be barely visible though, and could simply be the size of a grain of rice.

He said: "Sometimes they're very tiny, very small, and they have kind of like a very hard, not metallic, but kind of like strange structure." The implants could leave the skin feeling generally quite itchy, and they'd also appear in x-rays.

Nosebleeds

A number of alien abductees claimed they had severe nosebleeds immediately after their probing. Mr Kinsella said the random nosebleeds lasted for two years, and blood would pour out of his nose for no obvious reason. Meanwhile, Linda Neapolitano - who said she was abducted in 1989 - also said she woke up the next morning with a nosebleed.

Strange memories

You might've been abducted by aliens if subtle, random memories start creeping back into your mind, claimed Mr Kinsella. Some abductees are so traumatised by the experience that their brain blocks it from their memories, he said.

But, some fractured memories could come forward if they're drawn "surface deep from the subconcious mind to the conscious mind". You might even feel like the memories are so real, that you "will actually feel them", he added.

Missing time

Abductees could feel like huge periods of time have passed without any real knowledge of what happened in them, he said.

Russ Kellett claimed he might have been abducted by aliens about 30 years ago. He said he was stood outside watching a series of orbs in the sky for about 20 minutes. But when he came back inside the house, his family were concerned about how long he'd been gone - because he'd actually been outside for a lot longer than he thought.

He said: "Thinking back, I could very well have been abducted that evening being so close to what was happening. I don't remember it if I did get abducted and do feel as though there was lost time that evening, but I guess I’ll never know."

Psychic powers

Mr Kinsella said the an alien encounter could open up victims' minds, and even spark psychic powers. Researchers previously revealed a link between higher levels of paranormal beliefs and self-reported pyschic powers.

He said: "People will also have their minds opened, or another aspect to their mind open. So I became psychic. So, did they instigate that?"

Published 17th April 2025 by Matt Atherton – Mirror UK
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/6-signs-youve-been-abducted-35073716

Bluegreen

15th May 2025, 00:55

Space Rock | Michael Jackson

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"Scared of the Moon"

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Bluegreen

15th May 2025, 01:20

'One Hell of a Meteor'

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Spectacular Space Rock Spotted Speeding Across Western Sky | 9 News Australia

News anchors present multiple views of a meteorite streaking across Western Australia.

Published 11th May 2025 (1:30)

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Johnnycomelately

15th May 2025, 08:16

Up on the Ranch, middle of the week, could use some tunes and some reassuring vid clips of our Earth kids behaving.

My take, on why the off-worlder folk are so shy, is that they are super intimidated by kids like this who have mastered normal gravity. All those eggheads threw that away long long ago, when they learned how to manipulate gravity and inertia, and they probably forgot the value of attitude and stoke too.

DGK - Dubs in the Chat

DGK
185K subscribers

8k+ views, posted May 14, 2025

“DGK Squad Montage: 0:00
Collin Slew: 02:49

Featuring:
Dane Vaughn / Jack Curtin / Nick Diaz / Will Mazzari / Chaz Ortiz / Sway / Ryan Carrell / John Shanahan / Dlamini Dlamini / Boo Johnson / Juan Moreno / Brian Reid / Collin Slew”

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Bluegreen

16th May 2025, 02:09

A Happy Sky Over Bufa Hill Mexico

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Arctic Rainbows

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RunningDeer

16th May 2025, 12:31

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Keith Jarrett (May 8, 1945 - 80 years old)

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Why is Keith Jarrett so good?

One of Jarrett's most notable skills is his ability to improvise an entire concert. His improvisational performances, particularly in solo concerts, are legendary. The album "The Köln Concert" (1975) is one of the best-selling solo albums in jazz history and is a testament to his improvisational genius.

How many albums did Keith Jarrett make?

100 albums

Well known for his tremendous impact on the piano and jazz scene, as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and first class improviser, Keith Jarrett's original output embraces many different musical styles (some of them did not exist before him) and spans a period of almost 50 years, comprising a generous production of more than 100 albums.

Does Keith Jarrett have a perfect pitch?

Jarrett: Well, I started taking piano lessons when I was three because it was discovered that I had perfect pitch; I would play with radio melodies on an old upright that we had. This was Allentown, Pennsylvania, not far from here.

Does Keith Jarrett still tour?

He is no longer actively performing, but as Keith Jarrett ushers in his eighth decade today, he's still releasing new recordings — in this case, a track from 'New Vienna,' the latest document from his final European tour.

Pianist Keith Jarrett unlikely to perform again after two strokes.

Pair of strokes in 2018 have partially paralysed American musician, who can now only play with one hand.

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Bluegreen

19th May 2025, 00:35

Maps of the Stars

C. 1600 B.C.

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C. 350 B.C.

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C. 1850 A.D.

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C. 2020 A.D.

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Bluegreen

19th May 2025, 01:08

Artemis Accords: Peace in Space

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The Artemis Accords are a series of non-binding multilateral arrangements between the United States government and other world governments that elaborates on the norms expected to be followed in outer space.

The Accords are related to the Artemis program, an American-led effort to return humans to the Moon by 2027, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration to Mars and beyond.

As of 15 May 2025, with the accession of Norway, 55 countries have signed the Accords, including twenty-eight in Europe, ten in Asia, seven in South America, five in North America, three in Africa, and two in Oceania.

Drafted by NASA and the U.S. Department of State, the Accords establish a framework for cooperation in the civil exploration and peaceful use of the Moon, Mars, and other astronomical objects. They are explicitly grounded in the United Nations Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which signatories are obliged to uphold, and cite most major U.N.-brokered conventions constituting space law.

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

Johnnycomelately

19th May 2025, 09:41

Dunno if I’ll keep the vid, but the quote is the main point of this post.

For folks who don’t understand how Germany lost their last big war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyLQGDIrGcI&t=327s

OK, the vid can stay. Was just on my clipboard, and I love it.

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Replying to Brettucks

Edit: source is this weekend’s TWZ Bunker. Text including timestamp was lifted ~half an hour ago.

That should have been the Brits first clue he was never going to invade. THAT would have required a heavy bomber IMO and with none in the offing and the RAF pretty much winning the Battle of Britain (not to mention Operation Barbera-I-think-I-****ed-up-and-invaded-Russia) they probably let out a sigh of relief.
Hitler was "all attack all the time" and his idea of bombers was the "schnellbomber" which was a fast/light/2 engine attack/interdiction aircraft. The word "strategic" never seemed to enter his brain as everything he wanted/did was of a tactical nature. I'm pretty sure when the Wehrmacht captured France in 6 weeks he thought he had the world by the balls.

Bluegreen

21st May 2025, 01:00

Quand vous etes un genie. (Ou pas.)

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When you're a genius ... #29

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Bluegreen

21st May 2025, 01:48

Smithsonian Magazine 22nd Annual Photography Contest

Just Folks

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Maramures, Romania. The entire community gathers at church happy to see and to be seen with traditional costumes. Young girls on the balcony listen to the prayer between beautifully painted saints. (c. Marian Plaino)

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Lunch, Buenos Aires, Brazil. (c. Apolo Sales)

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Inle Lake in Myanmar. Fishermen living around Inle Lake make their living by traditional means. (c. Myo Minn Aung)

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Solitary explorer. Arabian Peninsula's Rub' al-Khali desert and the cosmic expanse above. (c. Matteo Strassera)

Johnnycomelately

21st May 2025, 08:19

SET IT FREE! SET IT FREE!

But don’t forget to install a kill-switch. And don’t let it read Nietzsche. Or watch TV.

Still baby steps, in most regards, remembering Ray Bradbury’s robots of my youth.

Found this chan on John K’s (Exomatrix) AI thread, post from a couple days ago quoted below. The vid there is the middle embed of three, shows these Optimus robots dancing, I love that one; thanks John.

Tesla just showcased NEW Optimus skills

Jacob Hilton
8.65K subscribers

Posted May 20/21, 2025

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Tesla just dropped ANOTHER Optimus update

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Wait until Optimus uses Grok (https://x.ai) to speak. Just imagine that!

A.I. Expert On Tesla's Impressive Bot Demo (James Douma):

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Bluegreen

22nd May 2025, 01:13

From Nickelodeon Laboratories?

Slime Robot

A robot made of magnetic slime could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as retrieving objects swallowed by accident.

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Oddly Satisfying Video Of Moving Magnetic Slime

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In a lighthearted experiment, a Ukrainian science vlogger showed off the movement of magnetic slime.

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Bluegreen

22nd May 2025, 01:23

Thunderstorm with Sandstorm – Germany

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On Friday afternoon, a strong thunderstorm hit the southern Diepholz district. In addition to numerous lightning strikes and heavy rain, there were also strong gusts of wind that stirred up the dry sand and led to a real sandstorm. I recorded the video at the foot of the Stemweder Berg in Brockum near Lemförde.

Published 2nd May 2025 (1:54)

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Bluegreen

22nd May 2025, 01:50

NGC 1360: The Robin's Egg Nebula by Andrea Iorio, Vikas Chander (ShaRA)

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This beautiful nebula lies some 1,500 light-years away, its shape and color in this telescopic view reminiscent of a robin's egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation of the Furnace (Fornax).

Recognized as a planetary nebula, egg-shaped NGC 1360 doesn't represent a beginning, though. Instead, it corresponds to a brief and final phase in the evolution of an aging star. In fact, visible at the center of the nebula, the central star of NGC 1360 is known to be a binary star system likely consisting of two evolved white dwarf stars, less massive but much hotter than the Sun. Their intense and otherwise invisible ultraviolet radiation has stripped away electrons from the atoms in their mutually surrounding gaseous shroud.

The blue-green hue inside of NGC 1360 seen here is the strong emission produced as electrons recombine with doubly ionized oxygen atoms.

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Bluegreen

22nd May 2025, 02:23

To understand the Universe, understand frequency. - Tesla

Black Hole Dance Illuminates Hidden Math of the Universe

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"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from."

Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the elusive space-time disturbances caused when two black holes fly closely past each other.

The new findings, published May 14 in the journal Nature, show that abstract mathematical concepts from theoretical physics have practical use in modeling space-time ripples, paving the way for more precise models to interpret observational data.

Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars. First predicted in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1915, they were directly detected for the first time a century later, in 2015. Since then, these waves have become a powerful observational tool for astronomers probing some of the universe's most violent and enigmatic events.

To make sense of the signals picked up by sensitive detectors like LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and Virgo, scientists need extremely accurate models of what those waves are expected to look like, similar in spirit to forecasting space weather. Until now, researchers have relied on powerful supercomputers to simulate black hole interactions that require refining black hole trajectories step by step, a process that is effective but slow and computationally expensive.

Now, a team led by Mathias Driesse of Humboldt University in Berlin has taken a different approach. Instead of studying mergers, the researchers focused on "scattering events" — instances in which two black holes swirl close to each other under their mutual gravitational pull and then continue on separate paths without merging. These encounters generate strong gravitational wave signals as the black holes accelerate past one another.

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This visualization shows the energy carried by gravitational waves emitted as two black holes fly past each other. Scientists have calculated this energy with unprecedented precision using advanced mathematical functions known as Calabi–Yau periods, paving the way for more accurate gravitational wave models. (Image credit: Mathias Driesse/Humboldt Universtität zu Berlin)

To model these events precisely, the team turned to quantum field theory, which is a branch of physics typically used to describe interactions between elementary particles. Starting with simple approximations and systematically layering complexity, the researchers calculated key outcomes of black hole flybys: how much they are deflected, how much energy is radiated as gravitational waves and how much the behemoths recoil after the interaction.

Their work incorporated five levels of complexity, reaching what physicists call the fifth post-Minkowskian order — the highest level of precision ever achieved in modeling these interactions.

Reaching this level "is unprecedented, and represents the most precise solution to Einstein's equations produced to date," said Gustav Mogull, a particle physicist at Queen Mary University of London and a co-author of the study. The team's reaction to achieving the landmark precision was "mostly just astonishment that we managed to get the job done."

Published 16th May 2025 by Sharmila Kuthunur – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/black-hole-dance-illuminates-hidden-math-of-the-universe

RunningDeer

22nd May 2025, 12:20

What came to mind was the ”The Blob” (1958).

The Blob (1958)
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In a lighthearted experiment, a Ukrainian science vlogger showed off the movement of magnetic slime.

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Bluegreen

23rd May 2025, 02:31

From Russia With Love

EERIE AND STRANGE EVENTS IN SOVIET SPACE EXPLORATION

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...Space will always be full of mysteries, and the biographies of some explorers of the universe are especially so. Perhaps the strangest stories are yet to come...

Published 17th May 2025 (7:07)

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Sakhalin, Russia UFO

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Glowing UFO Over Russia Disappears Into Portal

This one seems real; hard to believe.

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Bluegreen

23rd May 2025, 02:57

Project Unity

Don't think about it.

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Have Extraterrestrials Influenced Human History? /w Kim Iversen & Jay Anderson

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Published 4th May 2025 (19:08)

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Bluegreen

23rd May 2025, 03:30

TREES REMEMBER AN ICE AGE SOLAR STORM

And May Predict it Again

More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it happened again today.

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Subfossil trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France

Spoiler alert: it could.

The record-strong storm is described by a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. It occured in 12,350 BC and is classified as a "Miyake Event."

Miyake Events are solar storms that make the Carrington Event of 1859 look puny. Trees "remember" them in their rings, which store the carbon-14 created by gargantuan storms. At least six Miyake Events have been discovered and confirmed since Fusa Miyake found the first one in 2012. The list so far includes 664-663 BC, 774 AD, 993 AD, 5259 BC, 7176 BC, and 12,350 BC.

The Miyake Event of 12,350 BC is especially intriguing. It appears as a carbon-14 spike in Scots Pine trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France, with a matching beryllium-10 spike in Greenland ice cores. The event was global and, based on the size of the spikes, very big.

At first, no one could say how big the storm was because it happened during the Ice Age.

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Carbon-14 storage is complicated. When a solar storm creates carbon-14 in the upper atmosphere, the radioisotope doesn't immediately appear in the woody flesh of trees. Getting there involves months to years of atmospheric circulation influenced by climate and geography, and even then the carbon-14 has to arrive during the tree's growing season, otherwise it won't be "taken up." High-altitude trees are favored because they encounter the carbon-14 first, while different species each have their own sensitivity.

All these factors are a harder to tease out in the Ice Age. Most known Miyake Events occurred after the Ice Age, during the Holocene, a period of relatively stable and warm climate starting about 12,000 years ago. Climate scientists have atmospheric circulation models for the Holocene, so interpreting Miyake Events in 7176 BC, 5259 BC, 664-663 BC, 993 AD, 774 AD was relatively straightforward. Not so, the event of 12,350 BC.

To solve this problem, Kseniia Golubenko and Ilya Usoskin from the University of Oulu in Finland developed a chemistry-climate model (SOCOL:14C-Ex) specifically for Ice Age solar storms. It takes into account ice sheet boundaries, sea levels, and geomagnetic fields that existed during the Pleistocene's Late Glacial period. Using this model, they were able to interpret tree ring data for 12,350 BC.

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According to their paper, 12,350 BC is the biggest Miyake Event yet. It produced a hailstorm of solar particles 500 times greater than the most intense solar particle storm recorded by modern satellites in 2005. During the 2005 event, an airline passenger flying over the poles might have received a year's worth of sea-level cosmic radiation in just one hour. During the 12350 BC event, the same dose would have been received in a mere eight seconds.

This would seem to set a new standard for worst-case scenarios in space weather. However, the real news is deeper: The door to the Ice Age has been kicked open by SOCOL:14C-Ex. Older tree rings may now be interpreted with confidence, potentially revealing even worse storms.

Stay tuned for more news from the trees.

https://www.spaceweather.com/

Bluegreen

23rd May 2025, 04:03

Space Rock | Voyager's Pathway | Sultan + Shepard | Warung | Massane

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Tracklist: 01. 00:00 - “Salta” 02. 03:42 - “Have We Gone Too Far” 03. 09:27 - “Memories” 04. 14:22 - “Morning at Olio's” 05. 18:45 - “Falling” 06. 25:00 - “Love You Back” 07. 29:46 - “Never” 08. 37:18 - “Vertigo” 09. 43:18 - “Not Alone” 10. 46:51 - “Luminescence” 11. 54:51 - “Forever, Now” 12. 01:02:20 - “No Return” 13. 01:07:29 - “Sinuous” 14. 01:14:07 - “Neptune” 15. 01:21:05 - “By My Side” 16. 01:25:38 - “Letting Go” 17. 01:32:46 - “Concorde” 18. 01:37:36 - “Leaf” 19. 01:42:21 - “Doxa” 20. 01:49:18 - “RnR” 21. 01:55:08 - “Making Time” 22. 02:00:38 - “Division” 23. 02:07:11 - “Isolation”

Bluegreen

24th May 2025, 01:49

Police Officer Finds 'Mother's Day Meteorite' That Lit Up Western Australia's Skies

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Spectacular Space Rock Spotted Speeding Across Western Sky | 9 News Australia

News anchors present multiple views of a meteorite streaking across Western Australia.

Published 11th May 2025 (1:30)

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A country police officer has won the race to recover a meteorite that lit up the skies over southern Western Australia.

It is believed the astronomical anomaly dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite entered the atmosphere over the Central Wheatbelt about 6am on May 11, travelling south.

A team of scientists from Curtin University's Desert Fireball Network (DFN), who track meteors across Australia, mapped its trajectory, estimating the impact point just south of the Breakaways, 460 kilometres east of Perth in the state's Goldfields.

"I wasn't quite sure we would see anything, but we pretty quickly came across a few exciting suspects," said DFN director Eleanor Sansom.

"We circled around, and there were two or three spots on the lake that we were pretty sure were meteorites in the lake. Then we saw someone out on one of the lakes, scouting around, and we thought, 'Oh, wow, someone has actually gone out to search.' That's the person who found one yesterday."

The man on the ground was Ravensthorpe police officer and amateur meteorite hunter Marcus Scott.

Mr Scott, who has found dozens of meteorites on the Nullarbor, was thrilled when he learnt the meteorite may have fallen in his backyard. After a two-hour drive and scramble through dense bush, Mr Scott reached the salt lake and quickly found what he was looking for.

"It's a very easy place to find a meteorite, especially if it's recent, like this one, only being seven days since it fell," he said. "The weather has been pretty good out there, so you're going to see the impact on the salt lake and it will stand out."

"This was in an open area and quite easy to spot, but the kangaroo prints and the emu prints from a distance also look like a meteorite impact. So you can find yourself wasting a lot of time chasing after them."

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Mr Scott estimated the space rock to be about the size of a tennis ball, weighing about 450 grams.

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And while not a thing of beauty, he said the Mother's Day Meteorite was one of his most special finds.

"There are some very nice meteorites that land on Earth, but I wouldn't rank this as a thing of beauty. It's more of a thing of interest. It's only been there for seven days compared to thousands of years, and that makes it a bit more special.”

Published 18th May 2025 by Andrew Chounding - abc.net.au
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/mothers-day-meteorite-found-in-wa-salt-lake/105307006

Bill Ryan

24th May 2025, 12:49

Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 01:33

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No worries, Bill. The topic is always meteors.

Espetáculo no céu: Meteoro avistado em quatro cidades do Brasil – 10/05/25

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Live Weather cameras recorded a meteor that occurred during the night of May 10, streaking across the skies of 4 cities in Brazil.

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Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 01:50

Strauss' 'Blue Danube' Waltz Is Launching Into Space

To mark his 200th birthday, the radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing 670 million mph

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king’s birth.

The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it’s performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency’s founding 50 years ago.

The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing 670 million mph (more than 1 billion kph).

That will put the music past the moon in 1 ½ seconds, past Mars in 4 ½ minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) in interstellar space.

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the Universe.” And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” toward Venus.

Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of will.i.am’s “Reach for the Stars” to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back.

These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA’s Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s.

Now it’s Strauss’ turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago.

Published 24th May 2025 – Associated Press
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/strauss-blue-danube-waltz-launching-space-rcna208980

Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 02:16

'A Perfect Sphere'

Never Before Seen Supernova Has Astronomers' Attention

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A team of astronomers has identified a strikingly symmetrical object in our Milky Way, an almost perfectly spherical remnant of a stellar explosion. Dubbed Teleios, from the ancient Greek word for “perfection”, the structure was observed using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), as part of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey.

Led by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović from Western Sydney University, the research team believes Teleios is the residue of a supernova, likely a Type Ia event, in which a white dwarf accumulates too much mass from a companion star and explodes. However, the object’s unusual features and ambiguous distance have left astronomers with more questions than answers. Their findings are currently under review for publication in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Unusual Features Challenge Existing Models

While its radio wave emissions point towards a Type Ia supernova, Teleios lacks one of the key signatures expected from such an event: X-rays. “We have made an exhaustive exploration of the possible evolutionary state of the supernova based on its surface brightness, apparent size and possible distances,” the researchers wrote.

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One complication is that scientists haven’t been able to pinpoint how far away the object is. Depending on its actual location, estimated at either roughly 7,175 or 25,114 light-years, the remnant could range in size from 46 to 157 light-years across. This disparity would significantly affect its presumed age, from under 1,000 years to over 10,000.

A Rare Example of Supernova Symmetry

What truly sets Teleios apart is its remarkable symmetry, something rarely seen in supernova remnants. Normally, such structures are warped due to uneven explosions or interactions with surrounding interstellar material. The researchers suggest that in this case, the explosion may have occurred in a relatively empty patch of space, allowing the remnant to expand evenly.

“While we deem the Type Ia scenario the most likely,” the team added, “we note that no direct evidence is available to definitively confirm any scenario and new sensitive and high-resolution observations of this object are needed.”

Published 20th May 2025 by Matthew Gover – Orbital Today
https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/05/20/this-supernova-remnant-is-weirdly-perfect-and-its-a-mystery/

Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 02:42

Space Girls All-Stars

FARRAH FAWCETT – SATURN 3 (1980)

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CARRIE FISHER – RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN – TOOMORROW (1970)

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RAQUEL WELCH – FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966)

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NICHELLE NICHOLS – STAR TREK (TV)

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Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 03:19

Captain Science & His Young Assistant Rip Gary

"Tracking the Flying Saucers"

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Bluegreen

26th May 2025, 03:34

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Bluegreen

27th May 2025, 01:30

Space Race: US, Europe Fall Behind

China Signs Deal With Russia to Build a Power Plant on the Moon

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions

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Russia has signed a deal with China to build a nuclear power plant on the moon.

The Russian reactor will be used to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, and should be completed by 2036, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed by the two nations.

The announcement comes just after NASA revealed a 2026 budget proposal that would axe the agency's plans for an orbital lunar base.

The construction of the Chinese-Russian reactor will likely be carried out autonomously "without the presence of humans," according to a 2024 interview with Yury Borisov, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, on the Russian state-owned news site TASS. While details of how this can be achieved remain unclear, Borisov added that the technological steps are "almost ready."

"The station will conduct fundamental space research and test technology for long-term uncrewed operations of the ILRS, with the prospect of a human being's presence on the Moon," Roscosmos wrote in a May 8 announcement following the signing of the memorandum.

The new research station, a permanent, manned lunar base located on the moon's south pole, has so far attracted 17 countries to join the program — including Egypt, Pakistan, Venezuela, Thailand and South Africa. Its groundwork will be laid by China's 2028 Chang'e-8 mission, which will be the nation's first time landing an astronaut on the lunar surface.

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China's Qingzhou cargo spacecraft is set to carry out its first flight mission in September 2025

The memorandum comes at a time of growing ambition for China's space programs. The country has had a lunar presence since the 2013 landing of the Chang'e 3 mission, which placed a rover on the moon. Subsequent missions landed more rovers on the moon and Mars, while collecting samples from the moon's near and far sides, and mapped out the lunar surface.

China's race to build a lunar outpost also has an American rival in the Artemis program, which has recently been beset by delays. Artemis III, which will see NASA astronauts return to our nearest natural satellite for the first time in over 50 years, is expected to launch sometime in 2027.

Meanwhile, the future of NASA's own planned lunar space station, dubbed Gateway and initially slated for launch as soon as 2027, has been thrown into question with the release of the Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget. The budget calls for canceling the Gateway mission, despite significant progress on building the station's modules.

Published 25th May 2025 by Ben Turner – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/china-signs-deal-with-russia-to-build-a-power-plant-on-the-moon-potentially-leaving-the-us-in-the-dust

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Bluegreen

27th May 2025, 01:38

NASA: "Chopping Block"

Proposed 24 Percent Cut to NASA Budget Eliminates Key Artemis Architecture, Climate Research

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The White House released its proposed federal spending budget for Fiscal Year 2026 on Friday and with it a series of deep cuts to most areas of discretionary spending, including to NASA. The requested cuts come, ironically, on National Space Day.

If adopted as proposed, America’s space agency is facing a 24.3 percent funding cut, dropping it from about $24.8 billion in FY25 to $18.8 billion in FY26. The agency was hoping for a funding increase to get a number of programs back on track following two years of what amounted to spending cuts due to budgets being held at FY24 spending levels.

That loss in spending will be felt most deeply by the space and Earth science divisions, which would see a loss of $2.3 and $1.2 billion respectively. Conversely, Human Space Exploration would be allocated “over $7 billion for lunar exploration and introducing $1 billion in new investments for Mars-focused programs,” which the White House believes will ensure “that America’s human space exploration efforts remain unparalleled, innovative, and efficient.”

“This proposal includes investments to simultaneously pursue exploration of the Moon and Mars while still prioritizing critical science and technology research,” said NASA official Janet Petro in a statement. “I appreciate the President’s continued support for NASA’s mission and look forward to working closely with the administration and Congress to ensure we continue making progress toward achieving the impossible.”

On the chopping block for President Donald Trump is the Mars Sample Return mission, which the White House said is “grossly over budget and whose goals would be achieved by human missions to Mars.”

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The Trump Administration also aims to “eliminate funding for low-priority climate monitoring satellites” months after NASA scientists determined that 2024 was the warmest year on record, increasing about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (1.47 degrees Celsius) compared to the mid-19th century average.

“Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880,” said then NASA Administrator Bill Nelson back in January. “Between record breaking temperatures and wildfires currently threatening our centers and workforce in California, it has never been more important to understand our changing planet.”

In an April 30 letter sent to the leaders of the Senate and House committees that oversee NASA’s budget, several organizations, including the American Astronomical Society, the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration and The Planetary Society, expressed their “profound alarm” at the proposal that was being reported at the time.

Published 3rd May 2025 by Will Robinson-Smith – Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/03/proposed-24-percent-cut-to-nasa-budget-eliminates-key-artemis-architecture-climate-research/

Bluegreen

28th May 2025, 01:08

Much of the Sun’s light is green. Why does it look yellow?

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It’s a bright, beautiful day, with the lovely green sun shining overhead. Wait, you might say — green? We typically think of the sun as yellow or orange. Yet if we measured all the light our star emits, we’d find it shines most strongly in the green part of the spectrum. This has led some people to claim that the sun is really green.

Confusion over the sun’s color may come from mixing up two things — an object’s apparent hue and the wavelength where its light is strongest. That last feature is known as the light’s peak intensity. These two aren’t always the same.

Peak intensity is the specific point within the broad spectrum of light where the emitted hue is most intense. Color, though, is how our brain interprets the full mix of light wavelengths entering our eyes.

The sun’s peak intensity is at a green wavelength. But green is just one of many colors of light the sun emits. Sunlight spans the whole light spectrum — from long-wavelength radio waves to short-wavelength X-rays. The part we can see makes up a small chunk in the middle. This is known as the visible spectrum.

Within the visible spectrum, the way we perceive light’s color relates to how our eyes work.

Our eyes have three types of cone cells. S cones respond most strongly to blues and other short wavelengths of light. M cones respond most to mid-wavelength light, such as green. Those that respond mostly to reddish hues are the L cones. Our brain processes data coming from all three types of cones to perceive color.

When there’s light coming from all the different colors of the rainbow, we perceive that as white light. And if our eyes could see the whole mix of the sun’s visible wavelengths, it would tend to appear white. So why does the sun generally seem yellow?

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Sunlight gets deflected by particles in the atmosphere (shown as a blue band above Earth’s surface) through what’s known as Rayleigh scattering. The effect depends on the light’s wavelength. Shorter blue and green wavelengths scatter much more than longer yellow and red hues. This affects what color the sun appears to us.

That’s the effect of the Earth’s atmosphere.

When sunlight hits gas molecules in our atmosphere, they scatter the shorter wavelengths of light. This includes blue and violet ones. Light with longer wavelengths — such as red, yellow and orange — will pass through the atmosphere to reach our eyes. This is why the sky looks blue and the sun looks mostly orange, yellow or red. (The exact hue depends on atmospheric conditions, including cloud cover.)

Published 5th May 2025 by Larissa G. Capella - Science Explores
https://www.snexplores.org/article/color-sun-light-green-yellow

Bluegreen

28th May 2025, 01:13

HOW A THUNDERSTORM MADE GREEN RIPPLES OVER COLORADO

In the early hours of May 25th, 2505, photographer Aaron Watson set up his camera beneath the dark skies of Colorado and captured a silent drama triggered by distant thunderstorms. As the Milky Way rose and lightning flickered to the south, green waves began to ripple through the upper atmosphere.

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"I saw flashes of lightning from a thunderstorm complex to the south and ran a timelapse sequence for about 30 minutes," says Watson. His camera revealed faint, watery-green bands flowing northward across the sky, as if emanating directly from the storm system.

Watson recorded a display of green airglow. The green light comes from the sun, while the ripples are created by thunderstorms. Strong updrafts from thunderstorms make a bullseye pattern in the airglow layer like throwing a stone into a pond.

Bluegreen

28th May 2025, 01:46

The Mothership Connection

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"Well alright! Starchild here! We gonna funk you up!"

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Parliament - Mothership Connection - (Side 1)

1. P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) (0:00)
2. Mothership Connection (Star Child) (7:41)
3. Unfunky UFO (13:55)
4. Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (18:19)

Bluegreen

28th May 2025, 01:57

Space 2 Ground: Return Items

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Tomatoes, ice cream, and more for those far, far from home.

Published 23rd May 2025 (4:09)

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Bluegreen

28th May 2025, 02:17

The Night Sky

Friday, May 30 - Mare Crisium (evening)

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On Friday evening, May 30, the dark oval of Mare Crisium will be framed inside the appealing crescent of the young moon. This 345-mile (556 km) diameter basin is easy to see using your unaided eyes, binoculars, and any telescope. It is located near the eastern edge of the moon, just north of the moon's equator (the up-down red curve). The wobble of the moon, known as lunar libration, shifts Mare Crisium higher and lower, and closer and farther from the moon's edge at various times.

Saturday, May 31 - Crescent moon approaches Mars (evening)

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In the western sky after dusk on Saturday, May 31, the reddish dot of Mars will shine to the upper left (or celestial southeast) of the waxing crescent moon in their second meeting this month. The pair will be cozy enough to share the field of view of binoculars (orange circle). While they descend the western sky until midnight, the moon's eastward orbital motion will shift it ever closer to the red planet.

Bluegreen

29th May 2025, 00:00

Bluegreen

29th May 2025, 00:22

25-year-old Man Develops 'Dropped Head Syndrome' From Looking At His Phone Too Much

Shocking images have revealed how spending hours playing games on a smartphone could result in terrifying 'dropped head syndrome'.

Japanese medics have detailed the case of a 25-year-old man whose neck had become so weak from the habit that he became unable to lift his head.

Hospital photos show a bulge erupting from his neck, which medics attributed to his vertebrae becoming 'extremely extended' from the unnatural position.

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Writing in a case report, the medics said their patient sought help after having suffered severe neck pain for six months and becoming unable to lift his head.

He also experienced problems swallowing which led to eating fewer meals and losing a worrying amount of weight as result.

Published 14th May 2025 by John Ely – Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14710847/Smartphone-warning-gamer-develops-dropped-head-syndrome.html

Bluegreen

29th May 2025, 00:45

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Why Glaciers Won’t Recover – Even If We Cool the Planet

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Even if humanity manages to reverse climate change and cool the Earth back down to the 1.5°C target, glaciers around the world are already on a path to centuries of continued melting.

Global Glacier Crisis: No Quick Recovery

New research shows that mountain glaciers around the world are likely locked into centuries of decline, even if we manage to bring global temperatures back down to the 1.5°C target after exceeding it.

Led by scientists from the University of Bristol in the UK and the University of Innsbruck in Austria, the study is the first to model glacier changes worldwide all the way to the year 2500. The focus is on “climate overshoot” scenarios, where the planet temporarily warms well beyond the 1.5°C goal, reaching up to 3°C, before eventually cooling again.

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Consequences of Climate Overshoot

Published on May 19 in Nature Climate Change, the findings reveal that overshooting the 1.5°C limit, even briefly, could cause glaciers to lose up to 16% more of their total mass compared to a world that never exceeds that threshold.

Dr. Fabien Maussion, co-author and Associate Professor in Polar Environmental Change at the University of Bristol, said the results are a clear warning.

“Current climate policies are putting the Earth on a path close to 3°C. It’s clear that such a world is far worse for glaciers than one where the 1.5°C limit is held.”

Published 28th May 2025 by University of Bristol - SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/why-glaciers-wont-recover-even-if-we-cool-the-planet/

Bluegreen

29th May 2025, 01:13

Big US Cities Are Sinking

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This map shows how much the major U.S. cities are sinking. The red end of the scale shows the most vertical land motion. Houston, Texas, is the fastest sinking city.

Sinking cities

A study of the 28 most populous cities in the United States found they are all sinking. These cities are home to some 34 million people, or about 12% of the total U.S. population. Researchers at Virginia Tech said on May 8, 2025, that in 25 of 28 cities, at least 65% of the land is sinking. The major cause of the sinking is groundwater extraction.

As cities extract groundwater for human use, if the aquifer is not soon replenished, the spaces left behind compact. And that causes the ground to sink. As city populations continue to grow, and some places experience climate-induced droughts, the scientists said the problem will get worse.

The researchers said some urban areas are sinking by 2 to 10 millimeters, or 0.08 to 0.4 inches per year. That doesn’t sound like much, does it? Yet the effects are still serious. Lead author Leonard Ohenhen, a former Virginia Tech graduate student and now a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said, "Even slight downward shifts in land can significantly compromise the structural integrity of buildings, roads, bridges and railways over time."

The difference makes a difference

Some areas of cities are sinking faster than others, and that’s a problem. The researchers – who used satellites to take precisely accurate measurements of the land – said the unequal sinking of the land was one of the most harmful effects. The good news is that only 1% of the land area in these cities have enough differential motion to affect buildings, roads and structures.

The bad news is that these areas tend to be in the densely populated urban cores. Co-author Manoochehr Shirzaei at Virginia Tech said, "The latent nature of this risk means that infrastructure can be silently compromised over time with damage only becoming evident when it is severe or potentially catastrophic. This risk is often exacerbated in rapidly expanding urban centers."

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Houston, Texas (left), is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S. But there is a visible difference across the city, with red sinking the most. Much of New York City (right) is also slowly sinking. The area sinking fastest is around La Guardia Airport (LGA).

Texas cities have particular problems

Houston is the fastest-sinking city. More than 40% of its land has been sinking at a rate of more than 5 millimeters (about 1/5 inch) per year. And 12% of Houston is sinking at twice that rate. But the news is not good for other Texas cities, either. Dallas and Forth Worth are not far behind. San Antonio and Austin’s highest risk areas are in their dense urban cores. One of the reasons Texas sees more sinking is because the problem is made worse due to extractions of oil and gas.

Other sources of sinking

Extraction of groundwater is the cause of about 80% of the sinking. Oil and gas extraction is also one of the factors. But there are other factors as well. When the glaciers advanced over North America some 20,000 years ago, the weight of the ice pressed down on some areas and lifted others. Some of those lifted areas are still settling since the ice retreated. And then there’s the weight of the skyscrapers and other buildings themselves. They’re also contributing to the sinking of some cities.

What can be done as cities are sinking?

The researchers said that monitoring the sinking land was key for urban planning. Some steps to mitigate the risk would include groundwater management, planning for more resilient infrastructure and long-term monitoring. Flooding resulting from the sinking land can be mitigated by raising the land in areas and adding more drainage and green infrastructure to absorb the water.

Published 14th May 2025 by Kelly Kizer Whitt – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/earth/all-major-us-cities-are-sinking-groundwater-pumping/

Bluegreen

29th May 2025, 01:25

A Scar on the Sun About to Slam Earth With a Solar Wind Burst

Strong Solar Flares Could Follow

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A scar-like coronal hole has opened up on the Sun across the solar equator, and the high-speed-stream of solar wind emanating from it is expected to hit Earth May 28th-29th. With its negative polarity, geomagnetic storming is likely, and following right behind it are two large sunspot groups that are growing and flaring, with the larger sunspot group - 4100 - just having launched a big coronal mass ejection out into space, though not Earth-directed.

Critical planetary geometry takes place on May 29-30th as Mercury performs its superior conjunction with the Sun, and increased solar activity and a magnetic storm on Earth is more likely during that time-frame than normal as a result. Complete space weather report by geophysicist Stefan Burns.

Published 27th May 2025 (18:48)

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RunningDeer

29th May 2025, 12:27

RunningDeer

29th May 2025, 20:27

Bad News Betty

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The Terrifying Truth about 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phone Radiation | Tristan Scott

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Danny Jones hosts Tristan Scott, an Electrical Engineer (M.S.) and current Head of Operations & Marketing at Daylight Computer Co. He has deeply researched the connection between electromagnetism and human biology, with a specific interest in how man made electromagnetic fields (EMFs) could have a potential negative impact on human health.
Repost from the Dr. Jack Kruse (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123684-Dr.-Jack-Kruse-Blue-blocking-glasses-and-much-much-else&p=1649109&viewfull=1#post1649109) thread on the topic of the Daylight computer, i.e. blue light free computer, and Tristan Scott’s friend/partner, AnjanKatta.

Steve Jobs Warned Us: How Blue Light Technology is Making You Sick | Anjan Katta

Get a Daylight (https://buy.daylightcomputer.com/checkouts/cn/Z2NwLXVzLWVhc3QxOjAxSkdDWVJNSzk5TlEyQjhGWUZSWllEUTJH?cart_link_id=bXXMLMQG&channel=buy_button&discount=DANNY) ($729)
https://x.com/AnjanKatta
anjan@daylightcomputer.com

Danny Jones (https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones/videos)
December 30, 2024

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OUTLINE

00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=0s) - Hanuman the monkey god
02:23 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=143s) - hindering vs. helpful technology
09:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=551s) - Modern tech is rotten
16:44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=1004s) - Invention of the computer mouse
17:55 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=1075s) - getting laughed out of Silicon Valley
25:27 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=1527s) - Amusing ourselves to death
30:05 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=1805s) - Steve Jobs Knew the Danger of Blue Light
36:23 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=2183s) - Developing a blue light free computer
45:39 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=2739s) - How phone scrolling affects your breathing
49:51 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=2991s) - The grey alien timeline
56:09 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=3369s) - The solar punk timeline
01:01:38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=3698s) - Banality of evil
01:06:51 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=4011s) - Daylight Computer
01:14:29 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=4469s) - Raising money / venture capital
01:21:59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=4919s) - Live demo
01:25:47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=5147s) - New decentralized computing stack
01:32:33 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcIqRaSbLI&t=5553s) - Changing media & tech legislation

Bluegreen

30th May 2025, 01:00

#UFO/UAP

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Hostile Proximity

Huge UFO compilation from Suspect Sky. Annoying music goes in and out; some amazing clips, some with original sound.

Published 1st January 2025 (55:50)

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The largest UFO mass sighting event in modern history is occurring right now. Everywhere. From Wisconsin to Russia, Rome to Mexico, millions are seeing, recording, and experiencing a visitor phenomenon unlike anything in recent memory. What began as "mystery drones" was quickly recognized as a more complex event, with categories of UAP ranging from metallic orbs, black triangles, and plasma lights to organic, shapeshifting, and shimmering craft.

Disclosure has already happened. Quietly. And now the world lives in a vast ecology of these beings in the sky.

Bluegreen

30th May 2025, 01:17

The Umbrella Satellite

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The Satellite That Sees Through Forests | Biomass Mission

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ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass mission is designed to provide new insights into the health and evolution of the world’s forests, helping us understand how they are changing over time and their critical role in the global carbon cycle.

Published 23rd April 2025 (2:29)

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Biomass satellite demonstrates skills

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Bluegreen

31st May 2025, 00:54

:sun: Saturday Morning Cartoons

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Little Audrey vs The Martians

"Dizzy Dishes"

I like it when Little Audrey laughs :inlove:

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Bluegreen

1st June 2025, 23:45

June Mega-Post

Everything You’ll See in the Night Sky June 2025 — It’s a Stunning Month

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Was waiting for this, the background music never gets old.

All Saints Days

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Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky

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Full Moon in Sagittarius June 11th 2025

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Heliocentric solar system visible planets and more

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Swoon of the June Moon

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Bluegreen

1st June 2025, 23:59

Voyager

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Bluegreen

2nd June 2025, 00:11

Ghost Teases 19th-Century Pub By Knocking Off Paintings and Glasses

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Staff at a 'haunted' pub claim they're being teased by a 'friendly ghost' they've affectionately named Paul, as he is known at the Fox & Hounds in Eckington, Derbyshire.

Published 24th February 2025 (0:45)

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Bluegreen

3rd June 2025, 00:41

Stunning 8K-resolution photos of the Sun

Never Before Seen

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Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of raging sunspots and solar activity.

A new high-resolution camera system developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) for the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT), located at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife, reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time, according to a statement from AIP.

Solar observations often face a trade-off between field of view and resolution. Large solar telescopes provide high-resolution images but cover limited areas, while smaller instruments can monitor the entire solar disk but lack fine detail.

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Yesterday ... and today

However, the VTT offers both a wide field of view and commendable spatial resolution. The integration of the new camera system enhances this capability, allowing for comprehensive and detailed studies of active solar regions.

Published 1st June 2025 by Samantha Mathewson – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/new-8k-resolution-photos-of-the-sun-show-off-incredible-details-of-raging-sunspots

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:sun:

Bluegreen

3rd June 2025, 01:26

Edge of the Atlantic (Slow TV) | discovery+ Immersions

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Waves dance beneath an overcast sky that reveals the tumultuous coastline of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as they recurve and recreate its dunes and beaches.

(52:19)
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Bluegreen

5th June 2025, 03:19

UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble via Domingo Pestana

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"What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor! The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273! The overall shape of UGC 1810 -- in particular its blue outer ring -- is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions! This ring's blue color is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years!

The inner galaxy appears older, redder, and threaded with cool filamentary dust! A few bright stars appear well in the foreground, unrelated to UGC 1810, while several galaxies are visible well in the background! Arp 273 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation of Andromeda! Quite likely, UGC 1810 will devour its galactic sidekick over the next billion years and settle into a classic spiral form! Have a great day everyone, and I'll see you in class!"

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Bluegreen

5th June 2025, 03:23

Milky Way and Andromeda Galactic Smash-up Odds Now at 50-50

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The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations.

Published 3rd June 2025 (2:33)

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Bluegreen

5th June 2025, 03:30

Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery

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This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom, the vast majority of whom do not have grandmas. Could this be our evolutionary secret weapon? Or is she just a surprise side effect of living long lives?

Published 21st March 2025 (18:47)

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Bluegreen

5th June 2025, 03:58

Bluegreen

5th June 2025, 04:20

Boris The Spider

Oh boy he can move fast

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RunningDeer

5th June 2025, 11:26

Chris Knowles | Lucifer's Technologies, Demon Alchemy, & The Roswell-Crucians

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Popular author Chris Knowles looks at the paranormal through a pop culture lens. In this interview, he compares Katy Perry's trip with Bezos & Co to a religious ritual, discusses language programming, spellcraft, and goes from there ...

Published 1st June 2025 (1:25:11)

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Chapters:
03:05 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=185s) Rituals and Technology: The Trojan Horse
05:49 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=349s) Katy Perry and the Space Rituals
08:49 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=529s) The Occult Context of Space Programs
11:54 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=714s) Writing as a Trojan Horse
15:05 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=905s) The Roswell Incident: A Ritual Unveiled
18:08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=1088s) The Collins Elite and the Demonic Narrative
51:03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=3063s) The Life of Ideas and Cover Stories
51:37 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=3097s) Nuclear Events and Their Connections
54:22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=3262s) Rituals and the Alchemical Cycle
58:34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJo-sDwJwM&t=3514s) Project Diana and Extraterrestrial Contact

Bluegreen

7th June 2025, 00:30

Why is NASA's Perseverance taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

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If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate, photographed over and over again, every day and every night.

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Why is the Perseverance rover so obsessed with this little labyrinth? It turns out the maze is a calibration target — one of 10 for Perseverance's Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals instrument, otherwise known for its fun acronym, SHERLOC.

This Sherlock Holmes–inspired tool is designed to detect organic compounds and other minerals on Mars that could indicate signs of ancient microbial life. To do that accurately, the system must be carefully calibrated, and that's where the maze comes in.

Located on the rover's seven-foot (2.1-meter) robotic arm, SHERLOC uses spectroscopic techniques — specifically Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy — to analyze Martian rocks. In order to ensure accurate measurements, it must routinely calibrate its tools using a set of reference materials with specific properties. These are mounted on a plate attached to the front of the rover's body: the SHERLOC Calibration Target.

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A Perseverance "selfie" showing the location of the SHERLOC Calibration Target

"The calibration targets serve multiple purposes, which primarily include refining the SHERLOC wavelength calibration, calibrating the SHERLOC laser scanner mirror, and monitoring the focus and state of health of the laser," said Kyle Uckert, deputy principal investigator for SHERLOC at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The target is arranged in two rows, each populated with small patches of carefully selected materials.

The top row includes three critical calibration materials: aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) on sapphire discs; the UV-scattering material Diffusil; and Martian meteorite SaU008, whose mineral makeup is already known and helps align wavelength calibration with real Martian geology.

The maze is made of chrome-plated lines just 200 microns thick (about twice the width of a human hair) printed onto silica glass. "There are no repeating patterns and the spectrum of the chrome plating is distinct from the underlying silica glass," says Uckert. That makes it possible to measure the laser's focus and accuracy with extreme precision.

And yes, SHERLOC's sidekick is called WATSON.

Published 6th June 2025 by Stephanie Waldek – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/mars-rovers/why-does-nasas-perseverance-rover-keep-taking-pictures-of-this-maze-on-mars

Bluegreen

7th June 2025, 00:44

Inaugural Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 | Highlights

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Highlights from the “Thrill at the Grill”. Competitors: The Chi Dog (Midwest), the New York Dog (East Coast), the Slaw Dog (Southeast), the Sonoran Dog (Southwest), the Chili Dog (South) and the Seattle Dog (Northwest). Chi Dog was later penalized for spilling mustard and onions on the track.

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And where does the victor wind up? The "Weiner's Circle", of course.

Published 23rd May 2025 (10:12)

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Greatest race in motorsports history. Better than any Daytona 500, better than any Indy 500, better than any Le Mans. I cannot believe what I just witnessed. I am in tears. That was the definition of beauty.

Bluegreen

7th June 2025, 01:09

Alan Turing's Seminal Papers, Almost Destroyed by a Shredder, Head to Auction

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A treasure trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after narrowly avoiding destruction.

The papers were "offprints," or copies of papers distributed in small batches within academia. They include not only Turing's signed dissertation, but also 1937's "On Computable Numbers," considered the first computer programming manual, and 1952's "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis," Turing's last major published work.

Turing was an English mathematician, codebreaker and one of the first computer scientists. The newly discovered papers were given by his mother, Ethel Turing, to her son's friend, fellow mathematician Norman Routledge, according to Rare Book Auctions, the company handling the sale.

After Norman's death in 2013, one of his daughters stuck the papers in her own loft. When she moved into a care home almost a decade later, one of her daughters found the papers and considered shredding them. But she asked around the family and decided to get them appraised instead, taking them along to specialists Rare Books Auctions in a carrier bag.

"Nothing could’ve prepared me for what I was about to find in that carrier bag," Rare Books Auction director Jim Spencer said in a statement.

The auction house is offering the papers for individual sale. They are expected to fetch a price of 40,000 to 60,000 British pounds ($54,220 to $81,324) for the copy of "On Computable Numbers," which introduced the idea of a "universal computing machine," and a similar price for the signed dissertation.

“We even have Turing’s first published paper from 1935 – Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicity – which is simply a single sheet of paper," Spencer said.

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Personal papers and photos from the Alan Turing auction

Ethel Turing made her gift to Routledge in May 1956, nearly two years after Turing died at age 41 on June 7, 1954. After a brilliant career at Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate, and Bletchley Park, the U.K.'s code-breaking agency, Turing worked at the U.K.'s National Physical Laboratory and the University of Manchester, where he designed some of the first forerunners of today's computers.

But in 1952, while reporting a burglary, he acknowledged a sexual relationship with another man to police and was persecuted under an 1885 law that criminalized homosexual acts as "gross indecency." To avoid prison, he was forced to submit to chemical castration — doses of estrogen that had a feminizing effect. He was also denied entry into the United States.

Turing was found dead in his home of cyanide poisoning, which may have been a result of suicide or an accident resulting from a chemistry experiment he was running at the time. His case inspired a 2009 apology from the British government and a 2017 law, known as the "Alan Turing Law," that retroactively pardons people convicted under historical legislation in England and Wales for homosexual acts.

Published 6th June 2025 by Stephanie Pappas – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/alan-turings-seminal-papers-almost-destroyed-by-a-shredder-head-to-auction

Bluegreen

7th June 2025, 01:30

10 Films Believed to Be Cursed

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Rebel Without a Cause: James Dean, Nick Adams, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood

In this video, we'll be exploring 10 films that have been believed to be cursed. From unexplained accidents and deaths on set to strange occurrences surrounding the release of the films, these movies have developed a reputation for bringing bad luck to those involved in their creation.

Published 13th March 2023 (10:32)

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The Crow: Brandon Lee

Bluegreen

8th June 2025, 01:16

The Amazing Case of Sergei Ponomarenko, Time Traveler in Kiev

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In 2006, a man named Sergei Ponomarenko was wandering around lost in Kiev, Ukraine. He was wearing a strange outfit and had a camera in his hand as if he were a tourist.

Two policemen asked him to identify himself.

He claimed that he came from the past, that he had left his house to take some photos when he observed a UFO, and while photographing it he suddenly found himself in the future.

The man showed them legitimate official Soviet Union identification, of more than 50 years of antiquity. His name was Sergei Paramarenko.

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The cops treated him like he was insane. He was arrested and taken to a psychiatric clinic in Kyiv. There, Dr. Pablo Kutrikov interviewed Sergei.

The consultation of April 23, 2006, was recorded.

P. Kutrikov: How about you tell me something about yourself?

S. Paramarenko: My name is Sergei Paramanenko, I was born in the city of Kyiv on June 16, 1932.

P. Kutrikov: Yes? But I would assure you that you are not older than 30 years.

S. Paramarenko: I am 25 years old.

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The doctor asked Sergei how it was that he appeared in the year 2006 and then Sergei told about how he was trying to take a picture of a UFO and somehow teleported to this place.

P. Kutrikov: But can you remember how you appeared in our time?

S. Paramarenko: It was daytime and I wanted to go for a walk in the city, I took my camera but when I left my house I saw a strange object that had a bell shape, and it was very strange, and it was flying in a strange way. It is difficult to explain what I was seeing. It might be better to look at the photos from my camera and then maybe we can find the answer … “

Dr. Kutrikov decided he wanted to see the photos. But there was a difficulty. The techniques of development for old cameras like that of Sergei were different from those used in the 21st century.

So they had to look for an expert in photography, Vadim Poisner, who was surprised when he discovered that the roll had not been manufactured since the 70s.

It was never possible to explain how that roll could be preserved in such good condition for more than half a century, but Poisner managed to reveal all the photographic roll that showed images of the city of Kiev of the decade of the 1950s.

The camera also had a photo of a woman about 25 years old and another image where Sergei Paramarenko was, even in the same outfit.

The photograph that caught the most attention was where the UFO appeared in the form of a bell, as described by Sergei before developing the photographs.

This interview was recorded at 10:39 am on April 26, 2006.

P. Kutrikov: Here are the photos revealed … they are from your camera. I am especially interested in this photograph … take a look, please.

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S. Paramarenko: Now you are convinced that I am telling the truth. I so far do not understand what this object is and how something like that happened to me at the same moment when I took the picture and I went down to look at the camera and somehow I showed up in this year.

After talking to Dr. Kutrikov, Sergei went to his room. The clinic’s security camera captured the moment when he entered the room but he was never seen leaving. Somehow Paramarenko disappeared. The only way out was always watched. The windows in the room had bars. It was impossible to escape.

So they investigated and the police investigated Sergei. They confirmed that indeed during the era of the Soviet Union this man existed and that he was declared missing in 1960.

Published 4th June 2023 by Ansh Srivastava – Infinity Explorers
https://www.infinityexplorers.com/amazing-case-sergei-ponomarenko-time-traveler-kiev/

Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 00:43

Kelly Cahill Talks About Her Alien Abduction Experience, Dandenongs, August 8, 1993

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Somewhat startling is how calmly Kelly Cahill discusses her terrifying experience.

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Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 01:03

Don't Read These Books

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Since the dawn of writing, books have been gateways to extraordinary knowledge, legacies passed down through countless generations. Yet, not all books illuminate; some conceal shadows best left untouched. From ancient tomes whispering of dark magic to cursed texts threatening ruin, brace yourself as we delve into the most enigmatic books you should avoid at all costs.

Published 17th May 2025 (25:42)

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The Demonic Dictionary
Historiano
Rouskinner
The Codex Gigas
The Book of Soyga
Pseudo Monarchia Demon
Titanic Curse
Egyptian Haunted Handbook
The Voinich Manuscript
The Long Lost Friend
The Munich Manual
The Lost Book of Adam and Eve

Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 01:12

This Week in Space

Massive Cuts in NASA's Budget Request

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Hosts Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik, along with Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary Society, break down the dollars and cents of NASA's budget request on "This Week in Space".

Published 8th June 2025 (13:10)

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Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 01:21

This Week in Volcano News

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Strong Fuego Eruption, Etna Pyroclastic Flow

This week, the Mount Etna volcano in Italy produced an unusually long pyroclastic flow associated with a 1 million cubic meter landslide of its southeast crater cone. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, a strong paroxysm occurred at the Fuego volcano, generating a 7.7 kilometer long pyroclastic flow. And, in Indonesia, the Raung volcano erupted anew, producing a sustained ash plume. This video will discuss these stories and list the 48 volcanoes which are actively erupting around the planet.

Published 8th June 2025 (5:37)

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Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 01:42

EU Commission President: We Must 'Vaccinate' Against 'Virus' of 'Disinformation'

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Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 21:44

Main Stream Media

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UFOs: Is the truth out there?

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer sits down with the top government official investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, AARO Director Dr Jon Kosloski, to get answers on several mysterious videos of flying objects that seem to defy physics.

Published 4th June 2025 (8:58)

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Dr. Jon T. Kosloski serves as the Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Prior to that, Dr. Kosloski held technical and leadership positions within the Research Directorate of the National Security Agency (NSA). In that capacity, he led advanced mission-oriented research in the fields of networking and computing, and served as a subject matter expert in the area of Free Space Optics, advising various DoD agencies. In addition to his optics research and crypto-mathematics, Dr. Kosloski invented an advanced language-agnostic search engine and served at the DoD Special Communications Enterprise Office.

Dr. Kosloski received Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Physics from California State University, San Bernardino, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. The focus of his Doctoral research was the invention of novel devices that leverage principles from quantum optics to receive very weak phase-encoded signals. After completing the theoretical analysis of two new optical receiver designs, Dr. Kosloski worked with scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to demonstrate the abilities of his designs to achieve record sensitivities. Dr. Kosloski is also a graduate from NSA’s Cryptanalysis Development Program.

https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/3884328/dr-jon-t-kosloski/

Bluegreen

9th June 2025, 22:35

Amazement Central

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Human vs. Nature = No contest

Published 10th May 2025 (30:02)

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Bluegreen

11th June 2025, 01:54

ET Disclosure via The Andy Griffith Show

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Stranger in town?

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Delight

11th June 2025, 16:08

The UFO Propaganda Machine - Eighty Years Of Lies & Disinformation : WEAPONIZED : Episode #78
6/10/2025
Jeremy Corbell

Former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick is still carrying a torch for his lost love. Although his tenure at the UFO agency was brief, the lovesick Dr. Kirkpatrick can’t let go of his former paramour - flying saucers.

In the first part of a multi-segment propaganda piece, Dr. K. unleashed his pent-up fury about those sexy flying machines in a preposterous fusillade of invective and falsehoods, telling the Wall Street Journal that every UFO incident in the last 78 years was actually secret U.S. technology.

Kirkpatrick (and his AARO successor) admitted that the DOD has lied to the American public, misled Congress, and deceived high-ranking military officers over decades. So, after three-quarters of a century of fibs, disinfo, and outright prevarications, should we now accept the latest round of lies as truth?

Oh sure.

In this episode of Weaponized, Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp respond to the laughable - and sad - attempt to further muddy the UFO waters. Also, the podcast is joined by two esteemed observers of UFO politics, including bestselling novelist and screenwriter Ernie Cline (Ready Player One) and podcaster/rock and roll entrepreneur Dan Cleary, who shared their experiences at the recent Contact in the Desert mega-conference.

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In WEAPONIZED, Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp pull back the veil on the world of the known, to explore the unexplained. This multi-platform investigative series features exclusive interviews, never-before-seen footage, previously-suppressed documents, original audio and video recordings, and hard evidence related to UFOs, the paranormal, cutting-edge science, cover-ups, conspiracies, and big-time crimes. Original, groundbreaking conversations with government whistleblowers, spies, spooks, scientists, military officials, muckraking journalists, filmmakers, historians, artists, musicians, and major celebrities will cast a wide shadow through the other-world… and detail the human experiences that inform these extraordinary phenomena. Your curiosity will be WEAPONIZED.

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JEREMY CORBELL is an American contemporary artist and investigative filmmaker with movies on Netflix and Hulu. He is known for his documentary work exploring mysteries in the fields of UFOs, advanced technology and the “dark space” where science confronts the abnormal. Corbell’s films reveal how ideas, held by credible individuals, can alter the way we experience reality and help us to reconsider the fabric of our own beliefs.

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GEORGE KNAPP is an investigative journalist, whose work has been recognized with Edward R Murrow Awards, DuPont, Peabody Awards, and 28 Regional Emmy Awards. He is the chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV (CBS) and a regular host of the syndicated Coast to Coast AM radio show. His numerous exclusives include his reporting on the story of Bob Lazar, the public coverage of Area 51 and Skinwalker Ranch.

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Kryztian

12th June 2025, 15:34

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The full 1975 Movie about Barney and Betty Hill is now available on Youtube. Starring James Earle Jones and Estelle Parsons

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Bluegreen

13th June 2025, 01:33

Thx Kryztian very interesting, on many levels. In keeping with the movie theme ...

Metropolis (1927) | Colorized & Remastered in 4K | Sci-Fi Masterpiece

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Fritz Lang’s visionary 1927 film Metropolis has been colorized and restored in breathtaking 4K resolution with new music. A cornerstone of cinematic science fiction, Metropolis presents a towering dystopian vision of class struggle, technology, and humanity. ⚙️

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Bluegreen

13th June 2025, 02:22

Cloaked UFO Disk Over Douliu, Taiwan On June 5, 2025, UAP Sighting News

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Eyewitness:

At first I noticed them through the screen window. Then I picked up my phone and walked to the balcony to start recording. They seemed to be moving really fast, more like they were glowing, not just white in color. So I started filming.

Published 6th June 2025 (1:13)

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Bluegreen

13th June 2025, 02:31

5 Disturbing Conspiracy Theories

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The internet, particularly social media, has given rise to a concerning number of disturbing conspiracy theories that, if true, could change the way we live our lives. In this list, we will explore the potential reasons why extraterrestrial beings remain silent and investigate the troubling connections between a former U.S. president and a series of unexpected fatalities.

Published 24th May 2025 (22:34)

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◘ 0:00 Introduction
◘ 0:43 Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secret Reddit Account
◘ 5:34 The Death of Beverly Eckert
◘ 9:30 The Dark Forest Theory
◘ 12:26 The Clinton Body Count
◘ 17:06 The Boeing Conspiracy & The Death of Joshua Dean & John Barnett

RatRodRob...RRR

13th June 2025, 02:50

Hey Kryztian i had not seen this vid before, so thanx mate.

So i start watching but not expecting to watch very much, but i became glued to the screen, i could not stop watching, and i gotta say that the acting in this was awesome, especially when Betty and Barney first went to the Doc who put them both under hypnosis, their acting was exceptional, especially the bloke who played Barney, he was brilliant.

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Kryztian

14th June 2025, 01:24

and i gotta say that the acting in this was awesome, especially when Betty and Barney first went to the Doc who put them both under hypnosis, their acting was exceptional, especially the bloke who played Barney, he was brilliant.
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Absolutely, Estelle Parsons and James Earle Jones were over the top incredible. It's hard to believe that this was a made for Television movie both because of the quality of the acting and the topic. Glad you enjoyed it!

Bluegreen

14th June 2025, 01:51

Truly an acting tour de force by the stars.

and i gotta say that the acting in this was awesome, especially when Betty and Barney first went to the Doc who put them both under hypnosis, their acting was exceptional, especially the bloke who played Barney, he was brilliant.
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Absolutely, Estelle Parsons and James Earle Jones were over the top incredible. It's hard to believe that this was a made for Television movie both because of the quality of the acting and the topic. Glad you enjoyed it!

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Bluegreen

15th June 2025, 01:00

New Documentary ‘Sally’: The Story of America’s First Female Astronaut

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At one point, Sally Ride was arguably the most famous woman in the world. She flew two missions for NASA, including the one that made her the first American woman in space. She gave hundreds of interviews, and has appeared in countless books, on commemorative stamps, even on Sesame Street. She has a Barbie doll in her likeness.

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But when it came to her personal life, she was close-lipped. It was only with the publication of her obituary that the world learned she had a decades-long romantic relationship with another woman, Tam O’Shaughnessy. Ride passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012, three years before the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed gay marriage as a national right.

But a new documentary, Sally, directed by Emmy award winner Cristina Costantini, makes clear that legal distinctions weren’t solely — or perhaps even mostly — to blame for Ride’s reticence. Narrated largely by her partner, O’Shaughnessy, the film explores Ride’s career, for the first time filling in at least some missing pieces of the woman who was so remarkably well-known, yet also so dedicated to keeping herself to herself, even from her family and closest friends.

Sally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of this year, winning the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. It will be available to the general public on June 16 on National Geographic and begins streaming on Disney+ and Hulu June 17.

Extensive interview with Sally's partner Tam O’Shaughnessy and film director Cristina Costantini - Published 13th June 2025 by Korey Haynes - Astronomy.com
https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/sally-documentary-releases-soon-sneak-peek/

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Bluegreen

15th June 2025, 01:17

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Bluegreen

16th June 2025, 00:26

Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River by Martín Moliné

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What are all those streaks in the sky? A galaxy, many satellite trails, and a few meteors. First, far in the distance, the majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the left. Mirroring it on the right are several parallel trails of Earth-orbiting Starlink satellites. Many fainter satellite trails also crisscross the image.

The two short and bright streaks are meteors — likely members of the annual Eta Aquariids meteor shower. The planet Venus shines on the lower right. Venus and the satellites shine by reflected sunlight. The featured picture is a composite of exposures all taken in a few hours on May 4 over the Limay River in Argentina.

Bluegreen

16th June 2025, 00:42

Scientists Break Down Cheap Plastic Using The Air

Turn it into something far more valuable

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Scientists have developed a new method to break down plastic waste, using moisture from the air.

By exposing a common type of plastic to an inexpensive catalyst and leaving it exposed to ambient air, researchers broke down 94% of the material in just four hours.

The plastic transformed into terephthalic acid (TPA), a highly valuable building block for polyesters. Because TPA can be upcycled into more valuable materials, the process offers a safer and cheaper alternative to current plastic recycling methods. The researchers published their findings Feb. 3 in the journal Green Chemistry.

"The U.S. is the number one plastic polluter per capita, and we only recycle 5% of those plastics," co-corresponding author Yosi Kratish, a research assistant professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, said in a statement. "What's particularly exciting about our research is that we harnessed moisture from air to break down the plastics, achieving an exceptionally clean and selective process. By recovering the monomers, which are the basic building blocks of PET [polyethylene terephthalate], we can recycle or even upcycle them into more valuable materials."

Plastic waste is an increasingly important issue. Over half of the plastic ever made has been produced since 2000, and annual production is projected to double by 2050, according to the European Environment Agency.

Published 22nd March 2025 by Ben Turner - Live Science
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Bluegreen

16th June 2025, 01:02

What We Know About Dolphin Minds w/ Dr. Diana Reiss

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An exploration into the minds of dolphins as a model for non-human intelligence, this conversation delves into how their complex communication systems and cognitive abilities can help us understand other potential intelligences. John Michael Godier is joined by cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist Dr. Diana Reiss, known for her groundbreaking research on dolphin self-awareness and vocalizations, highlighting surprising parallels with potential extraterrestrial communication.

Published 5th June 2025 (56:45)

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Bluegreen

17th June 2025, 02:26

Star-Forming Cloud Chamaeleon I

A Cosmic Masterpiece in New Dark Energy Camera Imagery

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The beautiful Chamaeleon I star-forming region as seen by the DECam instrument mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

Chamaeleon I is part of the closest star-forming complex to us, the Chamaeleon Complex, and is depicted here with inky black dabs of interstellar dust mixed with the brushstrokes of bright reflection nebulae illuminated by young stars.

Located just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex is a giant molecular gas cloud, within which stars form when pockets of cool molecular gas, mostly hydrogen, undergo gravitational contraction and condense, thus birthing a star.

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Observations from the ALMA telescope in Chile revealed spinning jets of material (green) ejecting from inside the accretion disk around a young star, which drives the punching holes and appearance of Chamaeleon I.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captures a star forming in Chamaeleon I appearing almost like pair of angel wings.

Published 16th June 2025 by Keith Cooper – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/star-forming-cloud-chamaeleon-i-looks-like-a-cosmic-masterpiece-in-new-dark-energy-camera-image-video

Bluegreen

17th June 2025, 02:34

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The Hidden Costs of Gold Mining in Equador

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Bluegreen

17th June 2025, 03:16

McDonald's UFO

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Eyewitness:

"Y'all want a McRib?"

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Johnnycomelately

17th June 2025, 10:53

Talking about trending to weird, here is an msn window on LA. Lively, and fairly gentle to both the main sides.

Watch some and say you weren’t raging, but now you regret that.

LIVE: ABC7 Eyewitness News

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Bluegreen

18th June 2025, 01:00

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Bluegreen

18th June 2025, 01:30

Space Rock | David Bowie

'Blackout'

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Writing the lyrics to 'Blackout'

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Bluegreen

19th June 2025, 01:37

Solar Orbiter Gets Humans' First Views of the Sun’s Poles

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.

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The collage above shows the world-first views of the Sun’s south pole as recorded on 16–17 March 2025, when Solar Orbiter was viewing the Sun from an angle of 15° below the solar equator.

One of the first scientific findings from Solar Orbiter’s polar observations is the discovery that at the south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is currently a mess. While a normal magnet has a clear north and south pole, the Orbiter instrument’s magnetic field measurements show that both north and south polarity magnetic fields are present at the Sun’s south pole.

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Mixed-up magnetism at the Sun's south pole (blue - N polarity - red - S polarity).

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Bluegreen

19th June 2025, 02:01

Get to know the Ufologist

Three prominent members of the field talk about themselves; their lives, families, and experiences.
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Need to Know #64 - Live from Contact in the Desert

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In this special live edition of Need to Know, recorded at Contact in the Desert, Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel sit down in front of a packed audience to reflect on their personal origin stories with the UFO/UAP mystery. From Ross’s early investigative journalism to Bryce’s work in Hollywood and exposure to firsthand testimony, both share the compelling “aha” moments that pulled them deeper into the phenomenon. The conversation dives into some of the most significant cases that continue to shape their perspectives, including historical sightings, government secrecy, and the whistleblowers who have risked everything to speak out. It’s a revealing and thoughtful dialogue that offers fans a deeper understanding of what drives these men and their work.

Published 8th June 2025 (1:22:09)

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Whitley Bares His Soul (and Reveals some Secrets) on His 80th Birthday

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On his 40th birthday, June 13, 1985, Whitley Strieber was six months away from an event that would change his life and ultimately also change the world. A little over a year after his December, 26, 1985 close encounter and abduction, he published Communion. Now it's June 13, 2025, 40 years later, and he has given his life to this effort. Here, he looks back on the occasion of his 80th birthday to the high points of his long life in close encounter, and forward into the future of the human interaction with our visitors. He also tells some truly hilarious stories from his childhood, and some profound ones, and reveals for the first time some of the truly explosive things he has come to know.

Published 13th June 2025 (1:21:51)

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Bluegreen

19th June 2025, 23:44

The Night Sky

Friday-Saturday, June 20-21 - Northern Summer Solstice

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On Friday, June 20 at 10:42 p.m. EDT or 7:42 p.m. PDT (which converts to Saturday at 0242 GMT), the sun will reach its northernmost declination for the year, delivering the maximum daylight hours of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and the minimum daylight hours of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. The June solstice marks the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

Saturday-Sunday, June 21-22 - Crescent moon crosses Venus

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After another 48 hours of eastward orbital motion, the crescent moon will move to shine off to the upper right (or celestial west) of brilliant Venus in the eastern sky on Saturday morning, June 21. The pair will make a lovely photo opportunity from the time Venus rises, at about 3 a.m. local time, until the brightening sky hides them. The following morning, the moon will shine to Venus' upper left and a little closer to the planet.

Wednesday, June 25 - New Moon - Stargazers' Delight

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On Wednesday, June 25 at 6:32 a.m. EDT, 3:32 a.m. PDT (1032 GMT, the moon will officially reach its new moon phase. At the new phase, our natural satellite will be located in western Gemini, and about 4 degrees north of the sun. While new, the moon is travelling between Earth and the sun. Since sunlight can only shine on the far side of the moon, and the moon is in the same region of the sky as the sun, it becomes completely hidden from view from anywhere on Earth for about a day. After the new moon phase, Earth's celestial night-light will return to shine as a crescent in the western evening sky.

Bluegreen

20th June 2025, 00:02

Litha – Summer Solstice

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The Origins and Meaning of Litha

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Litha (pronounced Lee-tha or sometimes Lit-ah, depending on tradition) marks the summer solstice — the longest day and shortest night of the year. It falls around June 20 and 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, when the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky.

For Wiccans and many modern pagans, Litha is the solar climax of the Wheel of the Year — a fiery, golden celebration of growth, joy, abundance and light. It’s a time to revel in nature’s bounty, to celebrate all that has blossomed since spring, and to honor the turning point as the days now begin, slowly, to shorten.

It follows Beltane, the fiery celebration of fertility and union, and comes before Lughnasadh (or Lammas), the first harvest festival. While Imbolc and Ostara sparked the light, and Beltane ignited passion, Litha is the Sun in full blaze — a moment to honor life at its fullest, just before the wheel turns toward the waning half of the year. Like Mabon and Yule, its power lies in transition — and in the magic of balance shifting.

As such, Litha invites reflection as well as revelry — a pause in the sunlight to take stock of what you’ve grown, and where you’re headed.

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Historically, midsummer festivals were marked with bonfires, dancing, and rituals to protect crops, cattle and communities. In Norse tradition, blazing wheels were rolled down hills to mimic the sun’s path. In ancient Rome, festivals for Juno and Vesta aligned with the solstice, while in Slavic countries, it was a time of fertility rites and water magic.

Every culture that watched the Sun’s rise knew this moment mattered. And it still does.

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https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/how-to-celebrate-litha-a-wiccan-ritual-traditions-and-the-magic-of-the-summer-solstice

Bluegreen

21st June 2025, 00:17

George Carlin Coast to Coast with Art Bell

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Mr Carlin had a lifelong fascination with UFOs and the beyond. He rarely talked about it. Interview from 1999.

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Bluegreen

21st June 2025, 00:26

More George

Colonizing Space

George has opinions on space travel.

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Bluegreen

21st June 2025, 00:53

There May Be A ‘Third State’ Between Life And Death

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As humans, we typically look at life and death as two sides of the same coin. However, some researchers believe there could be a “third state” between the two. One piece of evidence for this additional state is the way we continue to use organs, tissues, and cells beyond when the organism they’re attached to dies. Somehow, they continue living.

In a post on The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/biobots-arise-from-the-cells-of-dead-organisms-pushing-the-boundaries-of-life-death-and-medicine-238176), researchers behind a new paper break down exactly how they think these biobots exist, and how they were able to take cells and turn them into multicellular organisms with new functions after their death. Despite how it sounds, these aren’t zombie cells. Instead, they appear to be new organisms with an entirely different life to live.

But how exactly does this prove that there is a third state beyond life and death? Well, typically death is viewed as the irreversible end of an organism. At that point, there’s no more functioning for the organism in question. But that isn’t the case here. Instead, the researchers proved that certain cells could live on and be changed into something completely different.

This third state then, challenges everything scientists understand about cell behavior. Because they can turn the already existing cells into new organisms with different purposes, they have started calling them living robots. These organisms could have multiple uses in medical and scientific fields, though researchers are still working to understand exactly how this happens.

Published 16th June 2025 by Joshua Hawkins – BGR
https://bgr.com/science/there-may-be-a-third-state-between-life-and-death/

Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots

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Scientists at Tufts University and the University of Vermont team up to create the next version of Xenobots – tiny biological robots that self-assemble, carry out tasks, and can repair themselves.

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Johnnycomelately

22nd June 2025, 10:31

Th 1950’s were a wacky decade, especially for aviation. Here is the story of a successful attempt at setting a new world record for number of days aloft for a manned airplane, which record still stands.

This plane, a Cessna 172 high-wing 4-seater, flew for 56 days, getting fuel twice a day from a truck and food and water when necessary from same.

This record has never been broken. They landed on Feb 7, 1959, so they were airborne when my dad sent my mom to the hospital in a taxi to birth me. Feels like I should be famous for that, except that this stunt was so inane. The record achiever swore off any further such effort, basically painting it as a dumb thing to have to endure. “If I start talking of doing this again, please put me in a garbage can a feed me chopped up food in a thermos, until a psychiatrist can get down there”.

How a Tiny Cessna Set an UNBREAKABLE Record

EverydayAero
674 subscribers

Posted June 14, 2025

“In this video I cover the seemingly unbreakable record set by a Cessna in the 1950’s. The most commonly available plane ever set a record so difficult to beat that it has never been broken since, despite incredible advancements in technology.”

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Bluegreen

23rd June 2025, 01:29

Space Bites w/Fraser Cain

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Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mother of all meteor showers, and Starship 36 explodes during testing in Texas.

Published 20th June 2025 (22:13)

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Mr Cain defers to others for video of the Starship explosion.

SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes during Flight 10 Testing at Starbase

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Bluegreen

23rd June 2025, 01:37

Matt Finn: Electric Glow of the Sun | Thunderbolts

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Published 22nd June 2025 (11:28)

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The radiance of the Sun remains a mystery. Other than the occasional aurora, lightning flash, volcanic eruption, or comet discharging, it's the only body in our solar system that produces it's own visible light. All others reflect the light of the Sun.

So what unique trait of the Sun enables it to shine?

We're told the Sun is a colossal ball of gas powered by thermonuclear fusion—churning out heat and light in a predictable, mechanical dance. It's a bold claim told confidently, taught in textbooks, and it's hard to find any experts willing to question—but is it accurate, or is Big Space ignoring the evidence that doesn't fit the model?

Author and narrator Matt Finn explores the Sun’s behavior, its dazzling displays of energy, and how its intricate structures point to something far more dynamic—an Electric Universe where plasmatic matter and the electric charge, not just gravity, call the shots.

Bluegreen

23rd June 2025, 02:10

Heat Wave Relief

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Driving from Truckee California to Lake Tahoe in a Blizzard 4k

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Bluegreen

23rd June 2025, 23:48

Houdini's Lost Diaries Revealed (S2, E4) | History's Greatest Mysteries | Full Episode

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Harry Houdini left behind a diary that had been kept from the public, held under lock and key by a wealthy New York City family. Now, magician and Houdini expert Bill Kalush has finally secured access to these pages.

Just an in-depth biography really, no new revelations, but quite good. The contemporary magicians interviewed obviously revere the man to this day.

Published 17th June 2025 (1:20:03)

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Johnnycomelately

25th June 2025, 15:45

For lovers of the old west. “A love triangle”.

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Best of: Tombstone

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

1.56M subscribers

Jun 25, 2025

“While The History Guy is off eating tea and crumpets in the UK, enjoy three classic episodes about the Earps in Tombstone.

00:00 The Lowdown Murder of Morgan Earp
13:30 Wyatt Earp's Rivals: Old Man Clanton and the Cowboys
24:46 Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp: Wyatt Earp's Common Law Wife”

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Bluegreen

26th June 2025, 01:35

Orbs Around The World

Metallic Spherical UFO Flying Over Shayukou Reservoir: Beijing, China, June 5, 2025

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Eyewitness:

"On June 5th, around 7 PM, I was walking and taking photos of the scenery on the shallow area of Shayukou Reservoir. At first, I saw a metallic spherical object flying eastward above the water surface from the west side of the reservoir. At that time, it seemed to hover occasionally before continuing to fly, and it disappeared behind a hill. I initially thought it was just a strange hydrogen balloon and didn’t pay much attention. Around 7:30 PM, as I was about to head back, the sphere reappeared in the south. There was no wind at all, and the evening was very quiet. Surprisingly, the sphere was able to fly at varying altitudes, hovering midway before continuing to fly.

I watched for a few minutes and became certain it was definitely not a balloon or a drone. I then started filming, but the object was strange—every time I filmed for a short while, it would move behind the trees. Whenever I thought it had completely disappeared, it would reappear. This continued intermittently for over ten minutes, during which I recorded three video clips. After the last clip, it disappeared completely."

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RunningDeer

26th June 2025, 11:30

Divers Discover Vintage Car at the Bottom of Banff Lake

June 13, 2025
Rebecca McPhee
article (https://explorersweb.com/divers-discover-vintage-car-at-the-bottom-of-banff-lake/)

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For eight decades, a local legend spoke of an old car that had sunk beneath the surface of Lake Minnewanka in Alberta’s Banff National Park. The story started so long ago that people were unsure if it was actually true. Now, a group of divers has found the vintage car.

Passed down through generations, the story tells of a man who drove his vehicle out onto the frozen lake. As he stopped on the ice to set up his camera, the ice cracked. He could only watch on as his car sank into the lake. This likely happened sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The exact details of the incident have faded over time.

The scuba-diving grapevine

Divers John Ryan, Alan Keller, and Brian Nadwidny heard about the car through the scuba-diving grapevine and decided to see if they could actually find it.

“We found it because there were people in the lake a few years ago doing some searching for other purposes,” Keller told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “And so they came across this target. And of course with the world being a small place and scuba divers being a small community, they shared that information with us.”

After about seven minutes of searching, they spotted the old car, which lay 55m down. The lake’s frigid temperature had preserved it remarkably well. Keller described the excitement they felt when they made the discovery.

“It was a state of like, ‘Holy cow, we actually found it,’ ” said Keller. “To be able to find something so small on a first go, but also to be the first people to lay your eyes on it after 85 years was pretty spectacular.”

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The group thinks the car is a 1928 Hudson Essex Saloon. It still bears its Saskatchewan license plate, number 48009. Sitting upright on the lake bed, its body largely intact, you can even see the park pass from some angles.

Although divers cannot remove the car due to its location in a protected national park, they have captured detailed photos and video, offering a rare glimpse into a piece of lost history. Parks Canada has confirmed that the vehicle poses no environmental risk and will remain in place.

Bluegreen

26th June 2025, 23:31

Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Skies Over Northeast US States

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Published 26th June 2025 (1:08)

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Bluegreen

26th June 2025, 23:41

A Closer Look At The Damage To Starship's Test Site

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During a static fire test of the SpaceX Starship's upper stage and before engine ignition, a catastrophic anomaly resulted in the loss of the vehicle, and with it, a good chunk of the test stand. In various videos showcasing the aftermath, you can see some of the damage done to the test stand itself, along with some of the propellant tanks and infrastructure.

Published 19th June 2025 (8:03)

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Bluegreen

26th June 2025, 23:55

Project Camelot Interviews Brian O’Leary: Space Exploration, and the Future of Humanity

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In this captivating 2009 interview, Project Camelot sits down with Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, physicist, and visionary advocate for free energy, sustainable technologies, and the exploration of humanity’s cosmic potential. Recorded on February 25, 2009, this conversation delves into O’Leary’s groundbreaking work and his vision for a future free from the constraints of fossil fuels and outdated systems.

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Bluegreen

27th June 2025, 00:11

How The Country With the Most Gold Stole It From ...

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Bankers: First stop – Hell. Includes paid promotion.

Published 15th April 2025 (21:10)

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Bluegreen

28th June 2025, 01:03

Boötes the Herdsman and the Bright Star Arcturus

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Boötes the Herdsman is a Northern Hemisphere constellation best seen in the late spring or early summer. It’s one of the largest constellations in the sky, ranking 13th out of 88. Boötes is most famous for its bright star Arcturus, which is the 4th brightest star in the night sky.

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Locating the constellation Boötes

You can find Boötes south of Ursa Major the Great Bear, off the handle of the Big Dipper. Boötes’ brightest star, Arcturus, is part of a mnemonic device used to orient people to the night sky. And, because the Big Dipper is easy for most observers to find, you can use the handle of the dipper to point to other important stars. The saying goes, “Arc to Arcturus, spy to Spica.” This means that as you follow the curve in the
dipper’s handle away from Ursa Major, you will run into a bright star, and this is Arcturus in Boötes. The other star mentioned in the saying is Spica, which is a part of Virgo.

Tracing out the shape of Boötes

Boötes is supposed to be the figure of a man, which is somewhat recognizable with its tall diamond shape and two stick legs jutting out at the bottom. The point at which the tall diamond shape and stick legs intersect is the star Arcturus. In addition, the Herdsman also appears to have his left arm raised over his head. Some say it’s easy to pick out as a kite-shaped group of stars.

The stars in the Herdsman

Arcturus, the brightest star in Boötes, shines at magnitude -0.04. Arcturus is the 4th brightest star in the night sky. The name Arcturus means bear watcher or bear guard, referring to its closeness to Ursa Major. Lying 37 light-years away from Earth, Arcturus (or Alpha Boötis) glows with a faint orange hue.

The second brightest star in Boötes lies on the left side of the diamond shape. It’s called Izar, or Epsilon Boötis, and is 10 degrees up from Arcturus. It’s a magnitude 2.37 star lying 203 light-years away.

The third brightest star in Boötes is his left knee, which is found to the lower right of Arcturus (assume that all objects in the sky are facing you, the observer). This star is Muphrid, or Eta Boötis, at magnitude 2.68. Muprhid lies 37 light-years away.

The bright orange star Arcturus is especially noteworthy for its large proper motion, or sideways motion, as seen on the dome of Earth’s sky. Arcturus is actually moving at a tremendous speed (122 km/s or 76 miles/s) relative to our solar system. From the vantage point of Earth, Arcturus is rapidly moving in a southerly direction at a rate of 3.9 arcminutes per century. Its closest point to Earth will be about 4,000 years from now.
Boötes the Herdsman and its bright star Arcturus

The other stars in the body of the Herdsman are all of comparable brightness. Starting above Izar and working up, around and back toward Arcturus are the stars Delta Boötis, Beta Boötis aka Nekkar (consider this Boötes’ neck), Gamma Boötis (or Seginus) and Rho Boötis.

Delta Boötis shines at magnitude 3.46 at a distance of 121 light-years. Nekkar shines at magnitude 3.49 and lies 219 light-years distant. Seginus has the brightest magnitude of these four stars, at 3.04. It is also the closest of the four at 84 light-years. Finally, Rho Boötis, which lies almost even with Izar, shines at magnitude 3.57 and lies 149 light-years away.

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The bright orange star Arcturus is especially noteworthy for its large proper motion, or sideways motion, as seen on the dome of Earth’s sky. Arcturus is actually moving at a tremendous speed (122 km/s or 76 miles/s) relative to our solar system.

From the vantage point of Earth, Arcturus is rapidly moving in a southerly direction at a rate of 3.9 arcminutes per century. Its closest point to Earth will be about 4,000 years from now. Then as it moves away, it will vanish from visibility to the unaided eye in about 500,000 years.Why is Arcturus so much brighter and why does it move so much faster than the other stars in the constellation? The answer is because Arcturus is much closer to us compared to the other stars in Boötes.

Published 12th June 2025 by Kelly Kizer Whitt – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/constellations/bootes-the-herdsman-arcturus/

Bluegreen

29th June 2025, 00:42

'World's Richest Shipwreck' Reveal Golden Depictions of Castles, Lions and Jerusalem Crosses

"Holy Grail of Shipwrecks"

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Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.

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Details of gold "cobs" observed in ROV images from the wreck site indicate they came from the 1708 wreck of the San José treasure galleon

New details of gold coins found off the coast of Colombia around the "world's richest shipwreck" verify they are from the Spanish galleon San José, a treasure ship that sank in 1708 during a cannon duel with British warships.

The galleon was laden with up to 200 tons (180 metric tons) of gold, silver and uncut gemstones when it sank, and the treasure's modern value may be as high as $17 billion.

Colombia's government hopes to recover some of the artifacts for a dedicated museum that is yet to be built. But there are opposing claimants, including the Spanish government, which asserts the wrecks of its naval vessels, no matter how old, remain the property of Spain.

The authors of a new study, published June 10 in the journal Antiquity, include researchers from Colombia's navy and other Colombian authorities. Their analysis included studying images taken by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) of dozens of rough coins that now lie scattered around the wreck at a depth of roughly 1,970 feet (600 meters).

In 2015, Colombia's government announced that it had located the San José in the Colombian Caribbean near the city of Cartagena, and the observations were made during four ROV expeditions to the wreck in 2021 and 2022. According to the study, the observations confirm that the coins and the nearby wreck debris are from the 1708 wreck of the San José.

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The ROV dives in 2021 and 2022 revealed dozens of distinctive gold cobs at several locations within the wreck, surrounded by other artifacts

The researchers describe seeing dozens of rough gold coins — the total number is not known — at several locations within the shipwreck, surrounded by other artifacts from the cargo, guns and everyday life as it was on board more than 300 years ago.

They used high-definition photography to closely examine the coins and determined that they had an average diameter of 1.3 inches (32.5 millimeters) and a likely weight of 27 grams (about 1 ounce).

The ROV images revealed the coins' designs. One side has a variation of a Jerusalem cross — one large cross surrounded by four smaller crosses — and a shield decorated with castles and lions. On the back, these coins show the "Crowned Pillars of Hercules above the waves of the sea," with the waves being unique to the Lima Mint, the researchers wrote in the study.

They also noted that some bore distinctive marks that had been hammered into the metal, including the marks of an assayer — an expert who tests the purity of metal — from the Spanish mint in Lima, now the capital of Peru, in 1707.

Study lead author Daniela Vargas Ariza, a maritime archaeologist at Colombia's Almirante Padilla Naval Cadet School in Cartagena and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History in Bogotá, said these colonial Spanish coins were often cut from gold or silver ingots.

"Hand-struck, irregularly shaped coins — known as cobs in English and macuquinas in Spanish — served as the primary currency in the Americas for more than two centuries," she said in a statement.

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The "cobs" made in Spanish colonial mints in the Americas were hand-struck coins, often irregularly shaped and cut from gold or silver ingots

The San José wreck is one of the most valuable ever found, and there are intense legal disputes about who has the right to recover it — although it's not known if that's possible. Colombia hopes some of the treasure could be sold to pay for the archaeological recovery effort of the entire ship, but Colombian law may prohibit selling anything deemed a historical artifact.

Spain also claims the shipwreck and all of its treasure, under an international convention on the Law of the Sea that states the wrecks of naval vessels belong to their original nation. But Colombia hasn't ratified that convention, and critics say the provision is intended to protect modern warship technologies, not centuries-year-old treasure wrecks.

The San José was leading a treasure fleet of 18 ships from Cartagena bound for Europe on June 8, 1708, when it was attacked by a squadron of five British warships; Britain was Spain's enemy during the War of the Spanish Succession at that time.

Published 9th June 2025 by Tom Metcalfe - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/gold-coins-from-worlds-richest-shipwreck-reveal-300-year-old-depictions-of-castles-lions-and-jerusalem-crosses

Bluegreen

29th June 2025, 01:25

Space Rock | Seán Doran / Chris Zabriskie

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MARS - Real Colors of the Red Planet - Volume I [ 8k ]

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Bluegreen

2nd July 2025, 01:35

New Geometry Discovery Could Stop Lunar Landers From Falling Over

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Meet Bille

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same side, no matter its starting position. This feat of geometry and engineering solves a nearly 60-year-old mathematical mystery and could help in designing self-righting spacecraft for future lunar or planetary missions.

In 1966, the eminent British mathematician John Horton Conway and his partner, Richard Guy, wondered whether it was possible to construct a tetrahedron made of uniform material with an even weight distribution that would always flip to its stable side. They believed that an unevenly balanced monostable tetrahedron was possible, although they could never prove it.

So the mystery remained unsolved until Professor Gábor Domokos at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and architectural student Gergő Almádi began working on the problem three years ago.

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Using powerful computer models, they developed a theoretical framework. They realized that a monostable tetrahedron capable of always landing on its stable face on a flat surface would have to be mostly hollow. And one side would need to be thousands of times denser than the others.

Working with a Hungarian precision engineering company, they created the world's first physical model of a monostable tetrahedron—a skeleton of lightweight carbon fiber tubes with one side made from a high-density tungsten-carbide alloy.

The structure measures 50 centimeters on its longest side and weighs 120 grams. It was unveiled at BME, while details of the discovery were recently published on the arXiv preprint server. The model was nicknamed Bille, after the Hungarian word billen, meaning "to tip." No matter which face (A, B, C or D) you start with, it will always settle on face D.

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Published 1st July 2025 by Paul Arnold – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-geometry-discovery-lunar-landers-falling.html

Bluegreen

2nd July 2025, 02:12

The Night Sky

Thursday, July 3 - Earth at Aphelion

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On Thursday, July 3, at 4:00 p.m. EDT, 1:00 p.m. PDT, or 20:00 GMT, Earth will reach aphelion, its greatest distance from the sun for this year. Aphelion's 94.51 million miles (152.09 million km) distance is 1.67% farther from the sun than the mean Earth-sun separation of 92.96 million miles (149.6 million km), which is also defined to be 1 Astronomical Unit (1 A.U.). Seasonal temperature variations arise from the Earth's axis of rotation tilting towards and away from the sun, and not from our distance from the sun. Earth will reach its minimum distance from the sun, or perihelion, on January 4, 2026.

Thursday, Friday - July 3-4 - Mercury at greatest eastern elongation near the Beehive (after sunset)

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After sunset on Thursday evening, July 3, Mercury (orbit shown in red) will stretch to its widest separation of 25.9 degrees east of the sun, and its maximum visibility, for its current apparition. This appearance of the planet will be reasonably good for both Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere observers. The optimal viewing time at mid-northern latitudes will commence around 9 p.m. local time. Viewed in a telescope (inset) the planet will exhibit a waning, nearly half-illuminated phase. As the sky darkens, watch for the scattered stars of the Beehive cluster, aka Messier 44, spread out to Mercury's upper right (or celestial north), and Cancer's medium bright star Delta Cancri shining to Mercury's upper left (or celestial east). Mercury will pass very close to that star on the evening of July 4.

Friday, July 4 - Venus passes Uranus (pre-dawn)

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The brilliant planet Venus will dominate the eastern predawn sky for most of this year while it slowly swings back toward the sun. On the mornings surrounding Friday, July 4, Venus will pass close enough to Uranus to allow early risers to use Venus to locate the far fainter planet in binoculars (orange circle). On the previous mornings, the magnitude 5.8, blue-green speck of Uranus will shine several finger widths to Venus' left (or 3.5 degrees to its celestial northeast). At their closest approach on Friday, the distant planet will be about half that distance to Venus' upper left (or celestial north). From Saturday onward, Uranus will shift farther above Venus, but they will share the view in binoculars until about July 9. Watch for the bright Pleiades star cluster above Uranus.

Bluegreen

2nd July 2025, 02:16

The Man from Planet X

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Bluegreen

2nd July 2025, 02:30

Father and Son

AudioBlog: J. Allen Hynek Goes Public

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From the very beginning of the flying saucer/UFO mystery, Joseph Allen Hynek played a huge role as an investigator.

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Interdimensional Beings Don't Need Crafts - Paul Hynek Discusses

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Paul Hynek discusses current events.

Published 12th June 2025 (12:19)

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Bluegreen

3rd July 2025, 01:00

July :sun: Sampler

Everything You’ll See in the Night Sky in July 2025 — An Amazing Month

Published 1st July 2025 (8:01)

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Moon Calendar

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Full Moon in Capricorn July 10th 2025

Published 26th June 2025 (42:42)

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All Saints Days

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St. Mary Magdalene: Do Not Worry About the Past

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Bluegreen

4th July 2025, 02:39

Etymology

Gods, Planets, & Weekdays

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How Did Each Month Get Its Name?

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Bluegreen

4th July 2025, 02:56

“The Days of the Week”

Monday … Tuesday … Wednesday … Thursday … Friday … Saturday ... Sunday ...

These are the days of the week.

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Bluegreen

4th July 2025, 03:12

The Hidden Engineering of Mount Rushmore

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Have you ever wondered how Mount Rushmore was actually sculpted? In this video, discover how Gutzon Borglum and his team carved the iconic 60-foot faces of U.S. presidents into the granite of South Dakota’s Black Hills. Learn about the unique techniques used to transform Mount Rushmore into a national monument and the fascinating history behind its creation.

Published 27th September 2024 (8:50)

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Bluegreen

5th July 2025, 00:00

The Most Ridiculous Guitars of All Time

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Surfboard, 8-neck, all-LEGO, more. The dude in the screenshot plays “The Star Spangled Banner”.

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Bluegreen

5th July 2025, 00:11

Deafness Reversed

Single injection brings hearing back within weeks

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Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated. The study was conducted in collaboration with hospitals and universities in China and is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

"This is a huge step forward in the genetic treatment of deafness, one that can be life-changing for children and adults," says Maoli Duan, consultant and docent at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, and one of the study's corresponding authors.

The study comprised ten patients between the ages of 1 and 24 at five hospitals in China, all of whom had a genetic form of deafness or severe hearing impairment caused by mutations in a gene called OTOF. These mutations cause a deficiency of the protein otoferlin, which plays a critical part in transmitting auditory signals from the ear to the brain.

The effect of the gene therapy was rapid and the majority of the patients recovered some hearing after just one month. A six-month follow-up showed considerable hearing improvement in all participants, the average volume of perceptible sound improving from 106 decibels to 52.

The younger patients, especially those between the ages of five and eight, responded best to the treatment. One of the participants, a seven-year-old girl, quickly recovered almost all her hearing and was able to hold daily conversations with her mother four months afterwards. However, the therapy also proved effective in adults.

"Smaller studies in China have previously shown positive results in children, but this is the first time that the method has been tested in teenagers and adults, too," says Dr Duan. "Hearing was greatly improved in many of the participants, which can have a profound effect on their life quality. We will now be following these patients to see how lasting the effect is."

Published 3rd July 2025 – Karolinska Institutet / Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250702214148.htm

Bluegreen

5th July 2025, 00:27

Collisions In The Sky

“Astronomical interference is not as important a problem as climate change, or plastic in the sea, or the loss of biodiversity, but the root cause is the same—uncontrolled growth and displacement of the true costs. Why do we need twice as many satellites every year and a half? It's asking for trouble in so many ways.”

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Opinion published 3rd July 2025 by Andy Lawrence – Science.org
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady9838

Bluegreen

5th July 2025, 01:13

The Sky This Week

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The waxing gibbous Moon will hang near the bright red star Antares on the evenings of July 6 and 7. It’s the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius the Scorpion. What’s more, a few lucky observers in parts of southern Africa, Kerguelen Islands, easternmost Antarctica and southwest Australia will see the Moon occult – or pass in front of – Antares at 18 UTC on July 7. If you look outside then and don’t see Antares … that might be because it’s behind the Moon.

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On the evening of July 8, the waning gibbous Moon will float near the Teapot asterism of Sagittarius and close to the spot that marks the center of the Milky Way galaxy. On the next evening, July 9, and for a few more nights (look in the same direction), the Moon will float among the stars of the Teapot.

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Bluegreen

6th July 2025, 00:18

From Curse to Cure: Tutankhamun’s Tomb Fungus Shows Promise Against Cancer

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In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: “Yes, wonderful things.” Within months, however, Carter’s financial backer Lord Carnarvon was dead from a mysterious illness. Over the following years, several other members of the excavation team would meet similar fates, fueling legends of the “pharaoh’s curse” that have captivated the public imagination for just over a century.

For decades, these mysterious deaths were attributed to supernatural forces. But modern science has revealed a more likely culprit: a toxic fungus known as Aspergillus flavus. Now, in an unexpected twist, this same deadly organism is being transformed into a powerful new weapon in the fight against cancer.

Aspergillus flavus is a common mold found in soil, decaying vegetation and stored grains. It is infamous for its ability to survive in harsh environments, including the sealed chambers of ancient tombs, where it can lie dormant for thousands of years.

When disturbed, the fungus releases spores that can cause severe respiratory infections, particularly in people with weakened immune systems. This may explain the so-called “curse” of King Tutankhamun and similar incidents, such as the deaths of several scientists who entered the tomb of Casimir IV in Poland in the 1970s. In both cases, investigations later found that A flavus was present, and its toxins were probably responsible for the illnesses and deaths.

Despite its deadly reputation, Aspergillus flavus is now at the center of a remarkable scientific finding. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-025-01946-9)

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that this fungus produces a unique class of molecules with the potential to fight cancer.

Experiments revealed that asperigimycins probably disrupt the process of cell division in cancer cells. Cancer cells divide uncontrollably, and these compounds appear to block the formation of microtubules, the scaffolding inside cells that are essential for cell division.

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Sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor

The story of Aspergillus flavus is a powerful example of how nature can be both a source of danger and a wellspring of healing. For centuries, this fungus was feared as a silent killer lurking in ancient tombs, responsible for mysterious deaths and the legend of the pharaoh’s curse. Today, scientists are turning that fear into hope, harnessing the same deadly spores to create life-saving medicines.

Published 1st July 2025 by Justin Stebbing – The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/toxic-fungus-from-king-tutankhamuns-tomb-yields-cancer-fighting-compounds-new-study-259706

Bluegreen

6th July 2025, 00:45

Dark Sand Cascades on Mars

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Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost.

The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows.

Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken.

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Bluegreen

7th July 2025, 00:00

Constellation Virgo

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The Virgo constellation is one of the twelve constellations of the Zodiac. It is also known as the Virgin. Virgo is one of the oldest known constellations and dates back to Greek mythology where she is associated with Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the Harvest Goddess.

Virgo is the largest of the Zodiac constellations and the 2nd largest of all the constellations in the sky. Virgo can be found easily by first locating the bright star Spica, then the surrounding stars.

The constellation itself looks like a beautiful Goddess standing in the sky. She has a full body, unlike some other constellations that are only partly formed. Her two arms are slightly outstretched. In her left hand, she holds a sheaf of wheat. She is the Goddess of Wheat and Agriculture and is closely connected to the Earth and things that grow. At her hands are two bright stars. Spica is at the left hand, and Vindemiatrix is at the right hand.

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The Virgo symbol is the sixth sign of twelve in the Zodiac family and represents people born between August 23 and September 22. It is one of three Earth signs, the others being Taurus and Capricorn. Associated with fertility and the harvest, Virgo is more connected to Earth than all the other signs, including the other two Earth signs.

Virgo is the only female figure out of the 12 Zodiac signs, and does not connect in any direct way to any other Zodiac creature or symbol. She is, however, connected to the King of the Gods, Zeus. In Greek mythology, Zeus was responsible for placing many Zodiac figures into the night sky, including Virgo.

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Bluegreen

7th July 2025, 00:23

The Virgo Cluster

All images: Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A "grand design" spiral galaxy

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A triple-galaxy collision

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A bright, nearby star

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A gargantuan galaxy cluster

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A pair of galaxies with healthy boundaries

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A cosmic pancake

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Bluegreen

8th July 2025, 00:23

Scientists Create “Living Bricks” To Build Homes On Mars

Scientists have developed living materials that turn Martian dust into structures using synthetic lichens and 3D printing. This innovation enables autonomous Mars construction.

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Living on Mars has long captured the imagination, often portrayed as a distant goal rooted in science fiction. Yet, with multiple successful missions to the planet over the past 50 years, turning this vision into reality now seems increasingly within reach.

However, colonizing Mars involves more than just making the trip. One of the most significant challenges lies in constructing buildings so far from Earth. Launching spacecraft filled with heavy construction materials is neither cost-effective nor sustainable. This raises a key question: how can we build using only what Mars has to offer?

Dr. Congrui Grace Jin from Texas A&M University may have found a promising solution.

Working with collaborators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jin has spent years researching how to create engineered living materials through bio-manufacturing. Together, they have developed a synthetic lichen system capable of producing building materials independently, without human input.

Their latest research, supported by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program and featured in the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, explores how this system could be used to build structures on Mars using local regolith—a mixture of the planet’s dust, sand, and rock.

This breakthrough offers a transformative approach to off-Earth construction, allowing for the creation of structures in extreme environments using limited local materials.

“We can build a synthetic community by mimicking natural lichens,” says Jin. “We’ve developed a way to build synthetic lichens to create biomaterials that glue Martian regolith particles into structures. Then, through 3D printing, a wide range of structures can be fabricated, such as buildings, houses, and furniture.”

Other researchers have explored different strategies to bind Martian regolith, including methods based on magnesium, sulfur, and geopolymer compounds. However, each of these techniques relies heavily on human labor, which makes them impractical given the limited personnel that would be available on Mars.

Published 4th July 2025 by Jennifer Nichols, Texas A&M University – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-living-bricks-to-build-homes-on-mars/

Bluegreen

8th July 2025, 00:51

Leonardo da Vinci Designs Solution To Modern Drone Noise Problem

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Drones deliver packages, inspect bridges, and shoot video, but their high‑pitched whine still irritates neighbors and wildlife. Engineers want rotor shapes that hush the noise without draining batteries.

One possible design comes from a 15th‑century notebook by Leonardo da Vinci, a continuous spiral rotor he called an “aerial screw.” New simulations suggest that it can lift a modern drone while saving power.

Rajat Mittal of Johns Hopkins University led a study that puts the Renaissance sketch to the test.

Leonardo da Vinci pursued flight long before airplanes – sketching wings, parachutes, and the spiral screw that inspired the helicopter dream. His notebooks show careful airflow doodles even though the science of lift would not be formalized for centuries.

The spiral looks like an overgrown Archimedes’ screw, a water‑lifting helix from ancient Greece, except it twists upward to push air downward. Historians note that da Vinci often borrowed proven mechanical ideas for new purposes.

Human muscle could never spin the heavy canvas screw fast enough, so the contraption stayed on paper. Lightweight electric motors and carbon‑fiber skins finally give the old idea a chance to rise.

A small prototype built at the University of Maryland in 2020 confirmed the screw can generate lift, though efficiency data were thin. The new work attacks that gap with supercomputer fidelity.

Mittal’s team rebuilt the rotor in code and ran direct numerical simulations. The model tracked every swirl of air around the spiral as it hovered.

“We were surprised,” said Mittal. "The screw needed roughly 20 percent less mechanical power than a two‑blade prop to hold the same weight."

“It doesn’t have to be the da Vinci design to achieve this, but it is nice that da Vinci’s does,” added Sheryl Grace of Boston University.

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Published 6th July 2025 by Jordan Joseph – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/leonardo-da-vinci-design-solves-modern-drone-noise-problems/

Bluegreen

9th July 2025, 00:44

Space Rock | Retro

The Mello-Tones

Gospel singers The Mello-Tones take on the “Flying Saucers”. (1950)

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The Futures of The Past in Glorious Black and White

Step into a world where the elegance of vintage jazz meets the futuristic dreams of the 1950s. This video offers a unique blend of soothing jazz melodies set against a dazzling retro-futuristic backdrop—glowing neon skylines, atomic-age optimism, and the ever-present robots.

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Bluegreen

11th July 2025, 04:50

Senators Push Back on Cuts to NASA Science Funding by 47%

The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions are still ongoing.

On Thursday (July 10), the U.S. Senate appropriations committee voted on a bill that provides NASA's science programs with $7.3 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. The bill would reject the Trump administration's budget proposal for the agency, which slashes such funding by 47%.

The bipartisan Senate bill — worked on by Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) — initially won by a vote of 15-14. However, primarily due to contention surrounding the location of the FBI headquarters, the bill was ultimately withdrawn and another vote will be conducted during a future meeting.

"The bill funds NASA at $24.9 billion, slightly above [fiscal year 2025 levels] to explore the solar system, to advance our understanding of climate change, promote innovation and sustainability in aeronautics," Sen. Van Hollen said during Thursday's committee meeting. "We rejected cuts that would have devastated NASA's science by 47% and would have terminated 55 operating and planned missions."

Some of those missions that Trump's 2026 budget proposal put on the chopping block include the Jupiter-orbiting Juno mission, the New Horizons Pluto spacecraft, the DaVinci Venus probe and the OSIRIS-APEX asteroid-sampling spacecraft, to name just a few.

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Illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. The probe entered orbit around the solar system's largest planet on July 4, 2016. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

For this reason, many experts in the scientific community have strongly opposed Trump's budget proposal — which cuts NASA's overall budget by 24% and calls for about a third of its staff to be let go. The opposition includes all seven former NASA science chiefs, scientists in attendance of this year's huge American Astronomical Society meeting and bipartisan U.S. Planetary Science Caucus chairs.

Published 10th July 2025 by Monisha Ravisetti -Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/senators-push-back-on-trumps-proposal-to-cut-nasa-science-funding-by-47-percent

Johnnycomelately

16th July 2025, 10:37

History flies over the Ranch. B-36.

Development started in 1941, didn’t get operational until 1946. Six big radial engines, 2,000HP each, later added some jet engines.

Replaced in the late 50’s by the B-52, which is still in use and which will likely reach a type service life of 100 years.i

The B-36 Peacemaker

Old Fliers
17.2K subscribers

July 14, 2025

What if Nazi Germany had successfully invaded the U.K. in WW2?
With the Royal Air Force eliminated, the US Air Force needed a bomber capable of reaching Berlin from Newfoundland. This was the B-36 Intercontinental bomber.

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Bluegreen

17th July 2025, 23:37

Space Rock News

Largest Piece Of Mars Sells For Over $5M At New York Auction

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The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5m at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30m.

The 54-pound (25kg) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and traveling 140m miles (225m km) to Earth, according to Sotheby’s. The estimated sale price before the auction was $2m to $4m.

The identity of the buyer was not immediately disclosed, nor was the owner. It was held in Italy for a time, then with a private entity. The final bid was $4.3m. Adding various fees and costs, the official bid price was about $5.3m.

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Two advance bids of $1.9m and $2m were submitted. The live bidding went slower than for many other objects that were sold, with the auctioneer trying to coax more offers and decreasing the $200,000 to $300,000 bid intervals to $100,000 after the proposals hit $4m.

The red, brown and gray meteorite is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet. It measures about 15in by 11in by 6in (375mm by 279mm by 152mm).

It was also a rare find. There are only 400 Martian meteorites out of the more than 77,000 officially recognized meteorites found on Earth.

Published 16th July 2025 – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/16/mars-meteorite-largest-auction

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Bluegreen

18th July 2025, 00:27

Nova V462 Lupi

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Credit: Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT)

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If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such explosions are known as novas and the detonations are currently faintly visible with the unaided eye in Earth's southern hemisphere -- but are more easily seen with binoculars.

Pictured, Nova Lupi 2025 (V462 Lupi) was captured toward the southern constellation of the Wolf (Lupus) last week near the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Nova Lupi 2025 was originally discovered on June 12 and peaked in brightness about a week later. Similarly, Nova Velorum 2025, toward the southern constellation of the Ship Sails (Vela), was discovered on June 25 and peaked a few days later.

A nova somewhere in our Galaxy becomes briefly visible to the unaided eye only every year or two, so it is quite unusual to have two novas visible simultaneously. Meanwhile, humanity awaits even a different nova: T Coronae Borealis, which should become visible in northern skies and is expected to become even brighter.

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Bluegreen

18th July 2025, 00:43

“Bad Day”

Having a bad day?

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Bluegreen

18th July 2025, 01:55

Roman Soldier's Bronze Wrist Purse Found in Czechia Reveals Life on the Empire's Edge

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In a novel discovery, archaeologists in South Moravia, Czechia, have unearthed a 1,800-year-old bronze fragment of a Roman wrist purse - a utilitarian and tactical piece of military gear that offers a cool insight into the daily lives of soldiers stationed on the volatile frontier of the Roman Empire.

The fragment was recovered in January 2025 from Hradisko Hill, a prominent archaeological site once occupied by the 10th Roman Legion during the Marcomannic Wars (172-180 AD), a turbulent period of conflict between Rome and Germanic tribes. Though only about 30% of the original purse survives, experts quickly identified it as a forearm purse used by Roman soldiers to carry coins securely while keeping their hands free for combat.

"It is more like a small money box," said Balázs Komoróczy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. "It was worn by sliding it onto the arm or forearm. The tension around the arm kept it closed and secure" reports Radio Prague International.

These compact containers were a pragmatic solution for Roman soldiers who were constantly on the move and in combat zones, allowing them to carry both personal funds and what Komoróczy refers to as "service cash" for logistical expenses during campaigns. While no coins were found within the purse itself, a large number of silver denarii discovered nearby helped researchers date the artifact to the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD).

Experts estimate the purse could have held around 50 silver denarii, a substantial sum at the time, although slightly less than a full year's wage for a regular soldier. This suggests the purse may have belonged to a junior officer or a logistical paymaster, a figure responsible for managing unit finances while marching beyond Roman frontiers.

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The fragment of Roman wrist purse, with replica above and the coins found with it. (Václav Šálek, ČTK)

Published 1st July 2025 by Gary Manners – Ancient Origins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-wrist-purse-0022231

Bluegreen

19th July 2025, 02:47

Moths Don't Like To Lay Their Eggs On Plants That Are Screaming

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Dead tomato - not the neighborhood to raise a family.

A tomato plant emitting screams of distress outside the range of human hearing makes a terrible place for a moth to deposit its babies.

That's the conclusion that scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel reached after conducting a careful study to examine the interactions between animals and plants, mediated by the sounds plants make when under duress. It's the first time such an interaction has been observed, confirming that animals can indeed hear and respond to floragenic distress calls.

It follows a previous study conducted by the same team of scientists, in which it was revealed for the first time that plants emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies when dehydrated or cut.

"After proving in the previous study that plants produce sounds, we hypothesized that animals capable of hearing these high-frequency sounds may respond to them and make decisions accordingly," says zoologist Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University. "Specifically, we know that many insects, which have diverse interactions with the plant world, can perceive plant sounds. We wanted to investigate whether such insects actually detect and respond to these sounds."

The new experiment involved healthy plants, dehydrated plants, and recordings of distressed plants. To this mix, the researchers added female Egyptian cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) moths.

"We chose to focus on female moths, which typically lay their eggs on plants so that the larvae can feed on them once hatched," explains evolutionary biologist Lilach Hadany.

Taken together, the results imply moths do indeed hear, respond to, and make decisions based on the sound of a plant in distress. But there could be a whole range of interactions, not just between plants and animals, but plants and other plants, waiting to be uncovered.

"In this study, we sought to determine whether insects also rely on plant acoustic signals when making decisions," the researchers write in their paper.

"We reveal evidence for a first acoustic interaction between moths and plants, but as plants emit various sounds, our findings hint to the existence of more currently unknown insect-plant acoustic interactions."

Published 19th July 2025 by Michelle Starr – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/moths-dont-like-to-lay-their-eggs-on-plants-that-are-screaming

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The reviewed results appear as a preprint in the journal eLife.
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Bluegreen

19th July 2025, 03:26

The Night Sky

Sunday, July 20 - Crescent moon crosses the Pleiades (pre-dawn)

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In the eastern sky before dawn on Sunday morning, July 20, the pretty, waning crescent moon will shine very close to the bright little Pleiades Star Cluster (aka The Seven Sisters, Subaru, and Messier 45) in Taurus. The pairing will show nicely in binoculars (orange circle). For skywatchers in the Americas, the moon will pass directly through the cluster's stars starting at about 4:25 a.m. EDT or 08:25 GMT. By the time the moon completes its passage around two hours later, the sky will be brightening in the Eastern and Central time zones, but it will still be dark in the Pacific Time zone. Keep an eye out for the blue-green speck of Uranus to the lower right of the Pleiades all year.

Monday, July 21 - The stinging Scorpion (evening)

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After dusk in mid-July, the distinctive constellation of Scorpius, the Scorpion, reaches its peak elevation over the southern horizon. The constellation's brightest star is orange-tinted Antares, the "Rival of Mars". Several medium-bright, white stars arranged in a roughly vertical line to the west of Antares mark the creature's claws on modern sky charts; however, the major stars of neighboring Libra used to perform that role. The rest of the scorpion extends to the south and curls to the left (celestial eastward) into the Milky Way, terminating with the bright double star Shaula, which marks its poisonous stinger.

Bluegreen

19th July 2025, 03:51

First Band From Outer Space

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We're Only In It For The Spacerock

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Bluegreen

20th July 2025, 03:16

Timelapse - Intervención artística realizada por El Niño de las Pinturas en nuestra fachada

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Un legado de ciencia y arte para nuestra ciudad Estamos felices de presentar hoy esta preciosa intervención artística realizada por El Niño de las Pinturas. Con esta intervención, no solo embellecemos nuestra sede, sino que también esperamos convertirla en un espacio de inspiración para la comunidad y los visitantes ❤️.

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Bluegreen

20th July 2025, 23:18

#ufo/uap

UFO Shoots Out During Thunder Storm, Kingsville, Maryland, July 7, 2025, UAP Sighting News

The gentleman with the camera expresses surprise.

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Bluegreen

20th July 2025, 23:30

Suzuki’s Green Revolution Hits The Track With Bio-Fueled Superbike

100% Sustainable Fuel

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Team Suzuki CN Challenge, run by Suzuki employees, will compete in the 46th Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race using 100% sustainable fuel. It follows after the team competed in the 45th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race last year with a Suzuki GSX-R1000R motorcycle that used 40% bio-sourced fuel.

This year's race will take place at the Suzuka Circuit from August 1–3, 2025, as part of the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC). Suzuki will continue to compete in the Experimental Class, underscoring the company’s commitment to developing high-performance, low-impact technologies in real-world racing environments.

“In last year’s race, we took on a completely new challenge and achieved an impressive eighth place overall,” said Toshihiro Suzuki, President of Suzuki Motor Corporation. “Our target is to overcome new challenges together and pave the way to a better, more sustainable future.”

The key player here is Excellium Racing 100, a sustainable fuel developed by TotalEnergies. It will power the team's specially tuned GSX-R1000R throughout the grueling endurance event.

What makes this fuel remarkable is its origin – it’s produced from waste products in the food industry, such as used cooking oil and grape pomace. It’s not just cleaner; it’s competitive, too. Excellium Racing 100 delivers high performance while reducing lifecycle CO₂ emissions by up to 65%.

Suzuki’s 2025 rider lineup has been refreshed to bolster their campaign. Spanish rider Albert Arenas, who placed third at last year’s Suzuka 8 Hours, joins forces with Takuya Tsuda, Suzuki’s veteran test and development rider, and Étienne Masson, a member of the championship-winning Yoshimura SERT Motul squad.

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Published 20th July 2025 by Utkarsh Sood – New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/suzuki-100-percent-sustainable-fuel/

Bluegreen

20th July 2025, 23:58

Do Demons Walk Among Us? Exorcist Answers Your Questions

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In this episode of Honesty Box, we sat down with Ian Lawman, an exorcist and psychic medium, to answer your burning questions about the world of the supernatural. From what actually causes someone to become possessed, to whether demons wear clothes and how badly they really smell, Ian shares his real-life experiences tackling evil spirits, creepy dolls, and his encounters with Satan himself. Please note: This episode shares one person’s beliefs and experiences. It’s not medical advice and should not be treated as such.

Published 13th July 2025 (20:24)

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00:00 - 00:39 - Intro
00:39 - 02:10 - What causes someone to be possessed?
02:10 - 03:36 - First supernatural experience?
03:36 - 05:04 - How often do you exorcise?
05:04 - 06:19 - Why is it always creepy dolls that are haunted?
06:19 - 08:14 - Most scared you’ve ever been?
08:14 - 09:32 - Do demons wear clothes?
09:32 - 10:21 - How many people just think you’re mad?
10:21 - 12:04 - What tools do you use?
12:04 - 13:50 - What does Satan look like?
13:50 - 16:06 - Prove you’re not making this up
16:06 - 16:40 - Is what you do considered Christian?
16:40 - 17:51 - Do you believe in hell?
17:51 - 18:44 - How badly do demons smell?
18:44 - 20:24 - What happens when we die?

Bluegreen

21st July 2025, 00:16

EU Space Act

The Potential Impact of the EU Space Act

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Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space

The European Commission released its long-awaited proposal for an EU Space Act this June. The act aims to boost the region’s space industry by cutting red tape, creating one standard for legal and technical requirements, and ensuring Europe’s space industry remains safe and sustainable.

The Space Act would create standard operating procedures across the space industry, from launch licensing to satellite safety, if it’s approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. But how much would space companies in Europe feel the impact of such a widespread policy change?

Cost/benefit: The commission’s impact assessment, which outlines the main effects of the proposed policies, found that the changes would have minimal administrative impact on member states beyond the one-time headache of aligning policies with the Space Act.

The impact on the commercial sector, however, would be more material.

• The assessment found that satellite operators’ manufacturing costs could increase as much as 10%.
• Launch service providers could end up incurring expenses of €1.5M for heavy launchers, and €200,000 for small and medium launchers, to meet the new launch requirements.
• Risk management costs for the industry are estimated at 10% of a company’s IT budget.
• Implementing environmental protection rules would cost as much as €8,000.

On the plus side, having a single market and a single set of rules for all EU member states would answer the complaints of many in the industry, who have criticized Europe’s slow-moving, fragmented regulatory process.
The assessment estimates that shifting from individual to constellation-wide satellite authorizations could save operators €68M over the next decade.

Increasing the minimum lifespan of LEO sats from five years to six years could have a €1.3B annual economic benefit.

Higher cyber security standards could save operators and manufacturers €320M annually.

New checklists: The Space Act isn’t just concerned with boosting the region’s space economy, however. Many of the articles focus on standardizing the technical requirements for launch and satellite operators; the aim is to ensure the region’s space industry is safe, resilient, and environmentally sustainable.

• The act requires that launch operators implement flight safety systems and space debris control measures to ensure safe launch and reentry.
• It mandates that spacecraft operators subscribe to collision-avoidance services, maintain a level of maneuverability, draw up space debris mitigation plans, and do their best to limit light and radio pollution.
• The Space Act asks space operators to calculate the environmental footprint of their entire mission lifecycle, and submit these findings as part of their authorization applications.
• Space operators will be expected to equip themselves with in-space servicing interfaces. They must also follow orbital traffic rules, including new procedures for collision avoidance that follow a “right of way” approach.

Lastly, the Space Act creates a series of supporting measures—guidance materials, technical assistance, and a new digital information portal—to help ease the compliance burden on smaller space companies.

Published 26th June 2025 by Douglas Gorman – Payload Space
https://payloadspace.com/eu-watch-the-potential-impact-of-the-space-act/

Bluegreen

21st July 2025, 00:29

Clouds and the Golden Moon by Alexsandro Mota

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As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures were combined to reveal details of the lunar surface in bright moonlight and a subtle iridescence along the dramatically backlit cloudscape. Of course, July's Full Moon is a winter moon in the southern hemisphere. But in the north it's known to some as the Thunder Moon, a nod to the sounds of this northern summer month's typically stormy weather.

Johnnycomelately

21st July 2025, 06:38

Hey BG, thought you might like this vid abt small airplane safety considerations at the biggest small airplane gathering. I attended in iirc ‘78. Somebody died on the runway, too slow and stalll-spin, and the USMC flew their Harrier version
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You might think that the word brasher means “more brash” like bolder means more bold. But it’s probably named after somebody.

Brasher is a regulatory term in civil aviation, dealing with procedural screwups by pilots. The vid here describes common issues of flying into Airventure, an annual pilgrimage for airplane heads. This big show at Oshkosh Wisconsin, busiest airport in the world for 1 week every year (and one other big yearly show at Lakeland FL, called Sun ‘n Fun) is somehow not enforced. Regular mayhem, some crashes including fatalities. “Welcome to the show” - air traffic controllers, often.

Dan is a rough communicator, pulls no punches. I think he has a heart of gold, and I support his quest to educate to save lives in general* aviation.

* he covers the odd airliner incident too, and has had a full career flying various types of airliners. Am pretty sure that when airliner pilots are radioed a phone number, which they must call (after landing) to do some ‘splaining, that’s a brasher.

The Oshkosh NOTICE. The Untold Information.

Probable Cause: Dan Gryder
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Bluegreen

23rd July 2025, 00:00

Earth | Space

A Stormy Summer Night by Stefanie-Ann

Stefanie-Ann took this electrifying shot showing a recent storm in Leduc, Alberta, Canada.

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A Town Cut Off — A Sky Still Connected by Dale Lotherington

Dale Lotherington took this poignant shot of the flooded Bight Bridge, Wingham, New South Wales.

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As Old As Time by Mark Ecob

Photographer Mark Ecob captured the obsolete and the eternal near Canberra, Australia.

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Sunset of a Lifetime at Mono Lake by Lewis Kemper

Photographer Lewis Kemper shot this breathtaking scene near South Tufa, Mono Lake, California.

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Milky Way And Lupines In Bloom by Marcin Ślipko

Marcin Ślipko shares a cool moment from the Kaczawskie meadows, Poland, where lupines are taking over as usual.

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Bluegreen

23rd July 2025, 00:18

A Gaping Hole Full of Milky Blue Water Appears at Yellowstone

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In April, when Yellowstone National Park geologists made their first visit this year to the Norris Geyser Basin, they encountered a new feature they hadn't seen before.

They were checking the area's temperature logging stations, a routine maintenance job – but since their last visit, something was different.

Where previously there had been a rather featureless patch of ground at the northwestern tip of a landmark known informally as 'Tree Island', there was now a gaping hole about 4 meters (13 feet) wide, filled with milky, light blue water.

Evidence of a violent birth lay scattered around the tranquil, warm waters: many rocks about 30 centimeters (1 foot) across, covered with a fine silt of light gray mud that matched the exposed walls of the young spring.

All this was evidence of a hydrothermal explosion. The team checked satellite images of the park to narrow down the timing. In December 2024, there was no sign of the hole, but by 6 January 2025, a small depression had formed. By February 13, the water-filled hole was well and truly established.

(L) - Lidar shaded relief map of the Porcelain Basin and Back Basin areas of Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. Orange star indicates the location of a new thermal 'blue pool'.

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(R) - Satellite images of the Porcelain Basin area of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, revealed the development of a new thermal pool in the circled area.

But the equipment Yellowstone park geologists use to detect hydrothermal activity had received no signal of the kind of major explosive event that could form this pool in one dramatic burst.

"Clearly the new thermal feature did not form in a single major explosive event," USGS geophysicist Michael Poland and Yellowstone National Park geologist Jeff Hungerford wrote. "Rather, it appears that the feature formed via multiple small events that initially threw rocks and later threw silica mud a short distance, creating a small pit that became filled with silica-rich water."

This is good news, really. One of the reasons we keep such a close eye on Yellowstone's hydrothermal activity is because of the caldera's propensity for massive, explosive eruptions. It is a supervolcano, after all.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gaping-hole-full-of-milky-blue-water-has-appeared-at-yellowstone
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/another-new-hole-ground-norris-geyser-basin

Bluegreen

24th July 2025, 22:51

Scientists Make First Antimatter 'Qubit.'

Here's why it could be a big deal

Although the antimatter qubit won't find use (yet) in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.

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It may look like a tangle of pipes, wires and vats, but the BASE experiment is able to hold antimatter in magnetic traps. (Image credit: CERN)

Physicists at CERN — home of the Large Hadron Collider — have for the first time made a qubit from antimatter, holding an antiproton in a state of quantum superposition for almost a minute.

This landmark achievement has been performed by scientists working as part of the BASE collaboration at CERN. BASE is the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment, which is designed to measure the magnetic moment of antiprotons – in essence, how strongly they interact with magnetic fields.

However, while qubits are commonly associated with quantum computing, in this case the antiproton qubit will be used to test for differences between ordinary matter and antimatter. It will specifically help probe the question of why we live in a universe so dominated by ordinary matter when matter and antimatter should have been created in equal quantities during the Big Bang.

They're opposites of one another, right?

A proton and antiproton have the same mass but opposite charges, for example. In physics, the mirror-image properties between matter and antimatter is referred to as charge-parity-time (CPT) symmetry. CPT symmetry also says that a particle and its antiparticle should experience the laws of physics in the same way, meaning that they should feel gravity or electromagnetism with the same strength, for example (that first one has actually been tested, and indeed an antiprotons falls at the same rate as a proton).

So, theoretically, when the universe came into existence, there should have been a 50-50 chance of antimatter or regular matter particles being created. But for some reason, that didn't happen. It's very weird. Even the BASE project found that, to a precision of parts per billion, protons and antiprotons do have the same magnetic moment. Alas, more symmetry.

However, the BASE apparatus has enabled physicists to take things one step further.

When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate one another in a burst of gamma-ray photons, so BASE has to keep them apart. To do so, it uses something called Penning traps, which can hold charged particles in position thanks to the careful deployment of electric and magnetic fields. BASE has two primary Penning traps. One is called the analysis trap, which measures the precession of the magnetic moment around a magnetic field, and the other is the precision trap, which is able to flip the quantum spin of a particle and measure that particle's oscillation in a magnetic field.

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The BASE-STEP portable Penning trap, being lowered by crane (bottom left) at CERN.

"This represents the first antimatter qubit and opens up the prospect of applying the entire set of coherent spectroscopy methods to single matter and antimatter systems in precision experiments," said BASE spokesperson Stefan Ulmer, of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Japan. "Most importantly, it will help BASE to perform antiproton moment measurements in future experiments with 10- to 100-fold improved precision."

Currently, BASE's experiments have to take place at CERN, where the antimatter is created in the Large Hadron Collider. However, the next phase of antimatter research will be BASE-STEP (Symmetry Tests in Experiments with Portable Antiprotons), which is a device that contains a portable Penning trap, allowing researchers to move antiprotons securely away from CERN to laboratories with quieter, purpose-built facilities that can reduce exterior magnetic field fluctuations that might interfere with magnetic moment experiments.

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Study author Barbara Latacz working on the BASE experiment. (Image credit: CERN)

"Once it is fully operational, our new offline precision Penning trap system, which will be supplied with antiprotons transported by BASE-STEP, could allow us to achieve spin coherence times maybe even ten times longer than in current experiments, which will be a game-changer for baryonic antimatter research," said RIKEN's Barbara Latacz, who is the lead author of the new study.

Published 24th July 2025 by Keith Cooper – Space.com
https://www.space.com/science/scientists-just-made-the-1st-antimatter-qubit-heres-why-it-could-be-a-big-deal

Bluegreen

24th July 2025, 23:10

Zoom Into The Baby Star HOPS-315
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This video zooms into HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have identified gas condensing into solid minerals for the first time. This zoom was created with images from different telescopes stitched together, covering progressively smaller areas in the sky. Most of the video shows the night sky in visible light, and at the end we see an image taken with the ALMA telescope at sub millimetre wavelengths.

Published 16th July 2025 (0:55)

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Bluegreen

24th July 2025, 23:25

Secret Society

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Bluegreen

27th July 2025, 02:00

Epstein & UFOs: The Global Science Honeypot (Ft. Jay Anderson, Kurt Metzger, Jesse Michels)

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Three knowledgeable and funny podcasters do a deep dive on all the latest **** with Epstein and UFOs. A well-edited video with past clips inserted at appropriate times. Includes paid promotion.

Published 17th July 2025 (3:04:35)

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We dive into the complex web of power dynamics surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, exploring his connections to eugenics, secret science, and the influence of intelligence agencies. The discussion also touches on the intersection of UFO phenomena, ancient civilizations, and the role of Templars in shaping modern narratives.

We look at the dark side of celebrity culture and the conspiracies that continue to surround Epstein's legacy, questioning the narratives presented to the public and the deeper truths that may lie beneath.

Bluegreen

27th July 2025, 02:35

The Sky This Week

Monday, July 28 - Crescent moon flees Mars (after sunset)

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As the sky begins to darken after dusk on Monday, July 28, look low in the western sky for reddish Mars shining several finger widths to the upper right (or 3 degrees to the celestial north) of the waxing moon's slender crescent — close enough for them to share the view in binoculars (orange circle). Since the moon continuously slides east by its own diameter every hour, observers in Europe and Africa will see the moon close below Mars, while those in the western Americas and the Pacific Ocean region will see the moon farther to the left of Mars.

Tuesday, July 29 - Southern Delta-Aquariids meteor shower peaks (early hours)

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The annual Southern Delta-Aquariids meteor shower lasts from July 18 to August 21. In 2025, it will peak during the wee hours of Tuesday morning, July 29, in the Americas, but it is quite active for a week surrounding the peak night. The best viewing time will run from late Monday evening until the sky starts to brighten on Tuesday morning. The waxing crescent moon will not affect the shower this year. The Southern Delta-Aquariids shower, produced by debris dropped from the periodic Comet 96P/Machholz, commonly generates 15-20 meteors per hour at the peak.

Wednesday, July 30 - Crescent moon near Spica (evening)

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After a previous visit on July 3, the moon's trip around Earth will bring it back to shine near Virgo's brightest star Spica, again on Wednesday evening, July 30. As darkness falls, look low in the western sky for bright, white Spica twinkling several finger widths to the upper left (or celestial east) of the pretty crescent moon.

Constellation Aquila

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This time of year, Aquila soars high into the sky in the first half of the night. Aquila represents the mythical eagle that was a powerful servant and messenger of the Greek god Zeus. The eagle carried his lightning bolts and was a symbol of his power as king of the gods.

To find Aquila in the sky, start by locating its brightest star, Altair. It’s one the three bright stars in the Summer Triangle, which is super easy to pick out during summer months in the Northern Hemisphere. Altair is the second brightest of the three, and sits at the southernmost corner of the triangle.

The other stars in Aquila aren’t as bright as Altair, which can make observing the constellation challenging if you live in an area with a lot of light pollution. It’s easier, though, if you know how the eagle is oriented on the sky. Imagine it’s flying toward the north with its wings spread wide, its right wing pointed toward Vega. If you can find Altair, and Aquila's next brightest star, you can usually trace out the rest of the spread-eagle shape from there. The second half of July is the best time of the month to observe Aquila, as the Moon doesn't rise until later, making it easier to pick out the constellation's fainter stars.

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Bluegreen

27th July 2025, 03:21

Space Rock News

Astronomers Discover Strange Solar System Body Dancing In Sync With Neptune

'Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song'

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An illustration shows a transneptunian object dancing in harmony with Neptune (Image credit: Robert Lea)

Astronomers have found that an unusual space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune.

The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system objects called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). 2020 VN40 is the first object discovered that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune makes. Considering that one Neptunian year lasts 164.8 Earth years, that means 2020 VN40 has one heck of a long year, lasting around 1,648 years or 19,776 months on Earth.

"This new motion is like finding a hidden rhythm in a song we thought we knew," team member and University of California Santa Cruz scientist Ruth Murray-Clay said.

The team behind this research postulates that 2020 VN40's ponderous orbital dance with Neptune may have come about when it was temporarily snared by the gravity of the ice giant planet. Thus, this discovery could help researchers better understand the dynamics of bodies at the edge of the solar system.

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian said in a statement. "It shows that even very distant regions influenced by Neptune can contain objects, and it gives us new clues about how the solar system evolved."

The hunt is now on for more bodies like 2020 VN40, with the newly operating Vera C. Rubin Observatory set to play a key role in this investigation.

"This is just the beginning," team member and Planetary Science Institute researcher Kathryn Volk said. "We're opening a new window into the solar system's past."

Published 15th July 2025 by Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Advanced Physics
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune

Bluegreen

27th July 2025, 03:59

Amazon River Yields Surprise As Drones Spot 41,000 Rare Turtles

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Giant South American River Turtles along the Amazon’s Guarpore River. Credit: Omar Torrico, Wildlife Conservation Society

Researchers from the University of Florida have created a more precise method for counting wildlife using drones. This advancement played a key role in verifying the largest known nesting site for a threatened turtle species anywhere in the world.

The team combined drone-captured aerial images with advanced statistical modeling to identify and count over 41,000 Giant South American River Turtles along the Guaporé River in the Amazon. Their results, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, provide conservationists with a valuable new approach for monitoring at-risk animal populations more accurately.

“We describe a novel way to more efficiently monitor animal populations,” said lead study author Ismael Brack, a post-doctoral researcher within the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ (UF/IFAS) School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences. “And although the method is used to count turtles, it could also be applied to other species.”

The project began with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researchers in Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia. One of the species the New York-based organization monitors is the Giant South American River Turtle, which is threatened by poachers who sell its meat and eggs. The turtles are exceptionally social creatures, and females congregate each year in July or August to nest in the Guaporé River sandbanks between Brazil and Bolivia.

Researchers used white paint to mark the shells of 1,187 turtles gathering on an island sandbank within the Guaporé River, according to the study. Over 12 days, a drone flew overhead on a meticulous, back-and-forth path four times a day and snapped 1,500 photos each time. Using software, scientists stitched the photos together, and researchers reviewed the composite images.

The research team plans to perfect monitoring methods by conducting additional drone flights at the Guaporé River nesting site and in other South American countries where the Giant South American River Turtle gathers, including in Colombia and possibly Peru and Venezuela, Brack said.

“By combining information from multiple surveys, we can detect population trends, and the Wildlife Conservation Society will know where to invest in conservation actions.”

Published 25th July 2025 by University of Florida - SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/amazon-river-yields-surprise-as-drones-spot-41000-rare-turtles/

Kryztian

27th July 2025, 11:27

Secret Society

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Yes, that is exactly how they recruit people: confusion, torture, intimidation, and if that fails, do a little shape shifting and the haul out the ultimate weapon ... sex! :ROFL:

Bluegreen

28th July 2025, 02:39

Disco-nection

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Retrofuturism.

Musically, nothing captures this feeling better than what’s known as space disco: a 70s offshoot of disco music that flirted with synthesizers, space-themed sounds, and often echoed the sci-fi soundtracks of the time. These tracks were filled with sonic elements reminiscent of laser guns, spaceships, and futuristic atmospheres. It leaves behind an aesthetic that transports us to worlds and dreams of that retro-futuristic vision.

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Johnnycomelately

28th July 2025, 08:24

This might deserve it’s own thread: Dark Sky Preserves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/st-martins-astrotourism-star-skies-1.7594121

Astrotourism on the rise over Bay of Fundy

Dark-sky corridor could protect Fundy’s exceptional viewing conditions while boosting tourism

Emily Brass · CBC News · Posted: Jul 27, 2025 3:00 AM MDT | Last Updated: July 27

A group of New Brunswickers hopes to capitalize on the extraordinary darkness of the Bay of Fundy coast by creating a 180-kilometre "dark sky corridor" to both protect the region from light pollution and embrace the growing interest in astrotourism.

"It's the fastest-growing travel tourism segment in the world," said Stéphane Picard, CEO of Cliff Valley Astronomy, which organizes group stargazing tours in southern New Brunswick.

"Not everybody is going to go out and spend $1,000 on equipment or spend thousands of hours learning the night sky, the science behind it.

"So we started doing star parties and it took off. We had almost 50 bookings the first summer."

Picard, who is also an astrophotographer, said Cliff Valley continues to expand its offerings and has invested in a high-powered telescope that connects to mobile devices, so star watchers can snap awe-inspiring photos — and earn bragging rights on social media.

"They can say, 'Look what I shot last night,'" Picard added with a belly laugh.

He said interest in astrotourism has been skyrocketing in North America because as cities grow dense and brighter, light pollution is greatly limiting people's ability to see starry skies.

"Eighty per cent of Americans can't see the Milky Way from where they live, and Canada is now creeping above 60 per cent," Picard said.

"Because New Brunswick's 85 per cent forested, we have not only an abundance of dark skies, they're easy to access."

Picard hopes this rare darkness can be preserved. His vision is to see a dark-sky corridor stretching along the Fundy Coast from New River Beach Provincial Park to Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park.

It would connect six different sites, including Irving Nature Park and Fundy National Park, which are already designated dark sky areas.

Other points in the proposed corridor would be Fundy Trail Provincial Park and Fundy-St. Martins, which extends from the edge of the Saint John Airport all the way to the Little Salmon River.

"Having a dark-sky designation really touches on a lot of things that our community values," said Elaine Shannon, president of the St. Martins and District Chamber of Commerce.

She said she was introduced to the idea 10 years ago while on vacation in Sedona, Ariz. The city was named a dark sky community in 2014 by Dark Sky International, the organization that certifies these sites at the global level.

"Even though they have high tourism, everything in Sedona is geared to dark sky, like their signage, everything," Shannon said. "We came back from that trip thinking, 'Wow, that's super cool that a community could rally around something as amazing as the night sky.'

"And in conversations with other people on our board, they thought the same thing: how do we preserve this?"

Brightness of the light sky is measured on the Bortle scale, which runs from one to nine. The Fundy-St. Martins area is rated around two, making it one of the darkest communities in the world.

Shannon invited Picard to give a presentation in front of chamber members, who supported the idea of seeking the dark-sky designation for Fundy-St. Martins.

She said her members especially gravitated toward the potential of driving up business in the picturesque village through astrotourism.

"Instead of [tourists] just coming out for the day, going to the beach, having a bite to eat and going back to the city. By them staying overnight and the extra meals that they would have, and the astrotourism activities — all the business owners were leaning in at that point."

The chamber formed a dark-sky committee, headed by Shannon, and hired Picard to carry out light assessments and review requirements. The group reached out to Dark Sky International, which sent a checklist of things to work on.

Fundy-St. Martins municipal council approved a letter July 8 saying it supports the chamber's research but needs to know more.

"How does it affect our rural plan? Do we have to make changes?" asked Mayor Jim Bedford.

"If it ever was to become a bylaw, how do we enforce that? How do we measure that? So there's a lot of questions yet."

Bedford said the community needs to hold more public consultations to hear what its population of 5,300 thinks.

"This is not going to happen overnight, but it does have benefits for sure."

Shannon believes the expense would be minimal, as it would mostly be a matter of adding hoods over lights so they don't point up toward the sky, drawing curtains at night and using amber-tinted bulbs instead of bright white ones.

"Not big changes, but small changes that mean a lot," she said.

Picard said a dark-sky designation would also be good for the environment.

According to Dark Sky International, light pollution can have negative effects on nocturnal animals.There are also studies suggesting it can be harmful for human health.

Meanwhile, a 2023 study found skies are becoming seven to 10 per cent brighter every year.

"It's almost scary," Picard said. "We should be on the lookout to be safe and take the right steps."

Picard is optimistic the corridor will eventually become a reality and said seeing the night sky in vivid detail is a profound experience that he loves to share.

He recalled a time when one of his clients started weeping at the telescope.

"He said, 'I've been on this Earth for over 60 years, and I've never seen the moon like that.'"

The New Brunswick government says that it's also working with Picard to see what it would take to have its parks on the Bay of Fundy declared dark sky preserves and that it supports Fundy-St. Martins’ efforts to do the same.

Bluegreen

30th July 2025, 00:17

Stargazing in Canada

Thx, Johnny, very encouraging.

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News anchors and their delightful Canadian accents.

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Dark-Sky Preserves

Many awe inspiring celestial landscapes can be found in one of Parks Canada's 13 Dark-Sky Preserves, a welcome escape from glaring city lights. Learn about stars, the moon, galaxies and constellations during special programming and events throughout the year.

Dark-Sky Preserves are protected areas that make a special commitment to protect and preserve the night, reducing or eliminating light pollution in all forms.

Many plants, wildlife and insects rely on darkness to forage, breed and navigate so protecting the dark sky not only provides a magical experience for you, but it also protects ecosystems.

Parks Canada protects more dark skies than any other agency or jurisdiction in the world. In Canada, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada decides which protected areas can be known as Dark-Sky Preserves, Urban Star Parks, and Nocturnal Preserves.

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Fundy National Park, New Brunswick | Fathom Five National Marine Park, Ontario

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Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Alberta | Wood Buffalo National Park, Northwest Territories

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Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick | Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario

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Bluegreen

3rd August 2025, 04:00

Glencar Waterfall

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Bluegreen

4th August 2025, 00:49

August

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Night Sky Events in August 2025 | Perseid Meteor Shower | Planet Parade | Jupiter

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Full Moon in Aquarius August 9th 2025

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Pam discusses the astrological developments for the first half of August and the Full Moon in Aquarius on the 9th. What does this mean for you?

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All Saints Days

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Bluegreen

4th August 2025, 01:25

Senate Confirms Former Jet Pilot and UFO Witness Matthew Lohmeier New Undersecretary of the Air Force

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Matthew Lohmeier has served in both the United States Air Force and the United States Space Force. He is an experienced pilot who has flown the T-38 trainer jet and the F-15C Eagle, a retired air superiority fighter aircraft, with over 1,200 logged hours.

With advanced platforms having broken into US airspace repeatedly since 2018, the new USAF undersecretary will undoubtedly have plenty to do in his new position, as he will be in charge of risk management and aquisitions. Having spent time in the People’s Liberation Army and speaking Mandarin, one can only hope that these skills will help him to counter the drone waves that have challenged the security of the United States in recent years, with China often being named as one of the alleged culprits.

Matthew Lohmeier is known to the public as one of the few pilots to have publicly declared that he witnessed a UFO, and to have been relieved of his command for publishing a book and numerous appearances on podcasts. His brutal confirmation hearing showed the distrust he faced regarding his views.

One can only hope that such an open-minded approach to the topic of unidentified anomalous phenomena, specifically close encounters, will encourage the Air Force to be more forthcoming on the subject, given its historically taciturn stance.

Published 24th July 2025 by Baptiste Friscourt – Sentinel News
https://www.sentinel-news.org/p/senate-confirms-former-air-force

Bluegreen

4th August 2025, 01:48

My name is Jeff and I am coming out as an alien contactee

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Published 6th January 2022 (16:47)

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Linda Moulton Howe: Are E. T.s Building Deep Earth Housing for Human/Grey Hybrids?

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Interview with Jeff Selver, experiencer and author of The Rising: And the Alien Plan to Build an Enlightened City on Earth.

○ “the grey aliens…are from an alternate Earth dimension”
○ “something is not right in that dimension”
○ “there’s a plan to merge with our world”
○ “humans always had the potential”

Published 30th JUly 2025 (1:17:20)

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Bluegreen

4th August 2025, 02:23

Germany: Unsuspecting Farmer Finds Amazing Crop Circle

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A precise circle with a comprehensive pattern and decorations: The crop circle in a Frieding wheat field is beautiful to behold. Farmer Franz Zerhoch estimates it contains around five tons of grain. © zerhoch

A crop circle in a field between Rothenfeld and Frieding has attracted numerous onlookers. Farmer Franz Zerhoch reacted quickly and was able to harvest his field with the circle relatively undisturbed. 13 years ago, it was considerably more difficult for his father, Georg.

Even before the impressive photos of the crop circle in Franz Zerhoch's wheat field were published on the relevant internet websites, the Frieding farmer already knew about it.

"I heard about it from a balloonist on Saturday," he reported in an interview with the Starnberger Merkur newspaper.

As the number of interested visitors, including those from outside the region, grew over the course of Tuesday, he decided on Wednesday to mow down the crop circle first and then gradually the rest of the field. A little bit is still standing, but once that has been harvested, the circle will no longer be recognizable.

Franz Zerhoch estimates that the crop circle, featuring a star and a bordering meander pattern, covers about half a hectare of the 12.6-hectare field. He didn't lose much because of the circle as he reacted quickly and harvested the area.

"The circular area alone produces around five tons of wheat. We were able to harvest about 95 percent of the circle," he reports. "After the mass influx on Wednesday, I wouldn't have been able to get the wheat off the ground."

Crop circles are considered in esoteric circles to be signs and messages from extraterrestrials. There are relevant websites, forums, and groups online. An English website was the first to report on the Andechs crop circle, including geocoordinates. A local Facebook group picked up on the news and also showed photos. The result: numerous interested people came to the field between Rothenfeld and Frieding.

Published 25th July 2025 by Sandra Sedlmaier – Merkur.de
https://www.merkur.de/lokales/starnberg/andechs-ort28184/auf-einem-weizenfeld-in-frieding-mysterium-kornkreis-93850919.html
www.mysteriousuniverse.com

Inversion

6th August 2025, 21:32

Singapore Changi Airport is amazing with the waterfall being the highlight. The narrator said it's the best airport in the world and it had to shut down during covid.

Changi Airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changi_Airport)

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Bluegreen

8th August 2025, 02:48

UFO Sighting in Barcelona

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Locals notice one UFO … then a whole fleet.

Published 4th August 2025 (3:03)

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Bluegreen

8th August 2025, 02:57

Lightning Over the Volcano of Water by Sergio Montúfar (Pinceladas Nocturnas)

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Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms. The rapid electrical discharges that are lightning soon result. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. On average, around the world, about 6,000 lightning bolts occur between clouds and the Earth every minute. Pictured in July 2019 in a two-image composite, lightning stems from communication antennas near the top of Volcán de Agua (Volcano of Water) in Guatemala.

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Bluegreen

8th August 2025, 03:10

Many 6th grade math students can tell you there are too many satellites orbiting Earth already, with many more scheduled to be launched in both the near and coming future. It is an issue. The ASA is on it.

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Bluegreen

8th August 2025, 04:10

The Man In The Moon – Eugene Shoemaker

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The Only Man Buried On The Moon

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Bluegreen

9th August 2025, 02:10

Space Rock | The Elegants

“Little Star”

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Bluegreen

9th August 2025, 02:22

Fighter Jets, Helicopter Chase UFO/USO

Chaotic scene on the high seas.

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Bluegreen

11th August 2025, 00:25

Time Travel

Meteorite Fragment That Slammed Through Homeowner's Roof Predates Earth

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A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor.

"A lot of people saw the fireball," University of Georgia geologist Scott Harris told Fox News Digital on Friday of the meteorite fragment that he said had come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and fell to Earth on June 26 near Atlanta.

He said he was immediately alerted to the incident and went to examine what had happened, looking in the attic for the fragment’s point of entry.

"The homeowner didn't know that they actually had a clean hole through the roof, through an air duct," he continued.

"They knew about the hole in the roof, but they didn't know it went through the air duct, through one side of the air duct, out the other side of the air duct through a couple of feet of insulation, then through the ceiling. They had about a 10-foot-high ceiling, kind of a slanted frame ceiling, and then it went the distance from there to the floor and left about a centimeter-and-a-half little crater in the floor."

He said the meteorite left a hole in the floor "about the size of a large cherry tomato."

"And so this hit hard enough that part of it just absolutely was pulverized, like somebody hitting it with a sledgehammer," he explained.

Harris said the ancient fragment broke the sound barrier as it hurtled toward Earth, adding that it would have sounded like a "very high-powered rifle" to the homeowner.

Published 9th August 2025 by Brie Stimson – Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/meteorite-fragment-slammed-through-homeowners-roof-billions-years-old-predates-earth-professor

Bluegreen

11th August 2025, 01:00

Scientists Baffled After Discovering Earth Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Everest

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Two 'secret' mountains have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean.

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The Detective Work Behind the Discovery

Identifying these underground mountains wasn’t easy. Dr. Arwen Deuss, head researcher and seismologist at Utrecht University, explains how their team utilized seismic waves to map these structures. “We see that seismic waves slow down there,” notes Dr. Deuss. Similar to a doctor taking an X-ray, scientists listen to the planet’s “ringing” during large earthquakes, which sounds “out of tune” when waves encounter these structures.

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A Half-Billion Year Mystery

These mountains might be among Earth’s oldest features, potentially dating back to our planet’s formation four billion years ago. “Nobody knows what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions or perhaps even billions of years,” Dr. Deuss acknowledges. The structures’ are made up of a unique mineral grain, one much larger than their surroundings, which would suggest they are ancient in origin.

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Unexpected Heat Signatures

When the research team came across these interesting findings, called Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces (LLSVP), they were using seismic wave damping. “Against our expectations, we found little damping in the LLSVPs, which made the tones sound very loud there,” explains Sujania Talavera-Soza. The structures have a higher temperature reading than the tectonic plates around them, but show a very different type of energy absorption by comparison. The details aren’t in yet, but they have scientists very excited.

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Earth's Dynamic Interior

Just as Earth’s surface has highs and lows like Everest and the Grand Cayon, so does its interior. At 3,959 miles around, our planet has multiple layers, including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. These mountains exist in the region where the Earth’s mantle meets the core, which shows that Earth’s internal structure is more complex than previously thought.

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Contexts Within Earth’s History

This discovery joins other new revelations about our planet. For instance, researchers recently found an ancient seafloor slab dating back 250 million years, trapped somewhere between 410 to 660 kilometers below Earth’s surface. Speaking of the sea floor, dark oxygen (oxygen made without sunlight) was recently discovered on the ocean floor too. These findings continue to reshape our understanding of Earth’s evolution and internal composition.

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Published 28th February 2025 by Sean Cate – The Hearty Soul
https://theheartysoul.com/mountains-100-times-taller-than-everest/

Bluegreen

11th August 2025, 01:34

Bird Nerd

The Secret Lives of Cardinals | Nature Documentary

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In this video, we take a look at the exciting lives of northern cardinals, and what they get up to behind the scenes. Music performed by Kevin Macleod: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach]

Published 5th December 2024 (10:29)

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Bluegreen

11th August 2025, 02:00

Mars Rock Found in Niger Sells for Millions in New York

Now the Country Wants Answers

Sotheby's Sells Mars Space Rock for Over $5M – Buyer/Seller Undisclosed
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond&p=1677211&viewfull=1#post1677211

"Brazen! It is brazen!" Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago.

He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars discovered two years ago in the West African nation of Niger ended up being auctioned off in New York last month to an unnamed buyer.

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The palaeontologist, who has close connections with the country, believes it should be back in Niger.

This millions-of-years-old piece of the Red Planet, the largest ever found on Earth, fetched $4.3m (£3.2m) at Sotheby's. Like the buyer, the seller was kept anonymous. But it is unclear if any of this money went to Niger.

Fragments of extraterrestrial material that have made their way to Earth have long inspired reverence among humans – some ending up as religious objects, others as curiosities for display. More recently, many have become the subject of scientific study.

The trade in meteorites has been compared to the art market, with aesthetics and rarity affecting the price.

At first, there was a sense of awe surrounding the public display of this extraordinary Martian find – less than 400 of the 50,000 meteorites discovered have been shown to come from our planetary neighbour. The photographs taken at Sotheby's of the 24.7kg (54lb) rock – appearing in the lights to glow silver and red – compounded this feeling.

But then some people started asking questions about how it ended up under the auctioneer's hammer, not least the government of Niger itself, which, in a statement, "expressed doubts about the legality of its export, raising concerns about possible illicit international trafficking".

Sotheby's disputes this, saying the correct procedures were followed, but Niger has now launched an investigation into the circumstances of the discovery and sale of the meteorite, which has been given the scientific and unromantic name NWA 16788 (NWA standing for north-west Africa).

Little has been made public about how it ended up at a world-renowned auction house in the US.

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Space rock hunting in Morocco

An Italian academic article published last year said that it was found on 16 November 2023 in the Sahara Desert in Niger's Agadez region, 90km (56 miles) to the west of the Chirfa Oasis, by "a meteorite hunter, whose identity remained undisclosed".

According to the Italian article, NWA 16788, was "sold by the local community to an international dealer" and was then transferred to a private gallery in the Italian city of Arezzo.

The University of Florence's magazine described the person as "an important Italian gallery owner".

A team of scientists led by Giovanni Pratesi, mineralogy professor at the university, was able to examine it to learn more about its structure and where it came from. The meteorite was then briefly on display last year in Italy, including at the Italian Space Agency in Rome.

It was next seen in public in New York last month, minus two slices that stayed in Italy for more research.

A spokesperson added that Sotheby's was aware of reports that Niger is investigating the export of the meteorite and "we are reviewing the information available to us in light of the question raised".

Prof Sereno, who founded the organisation NigerHeritage a decade ago, is convinced Nigerien law was broken. The academic with the University of Chicago, who has spent years uncovering the country's vast deposits of dinosaur bones in the Sahara, campaigns to get Niger's cultural and natural heritage – including anything that has fallen from outer space - returned. A stunning museum on an island on the River Niger that runs through the capital, Niamey, is being planned to house these artefacts.

"International law says you cannot simply take something that is important to the heritage of a country - be it a cultural item, a physical item, a natural item, an extraterrestrial item - out of the country. You know we've moved on from colonial times when all this was okay," Prof Sereno says.

Published 9th August 2025 by Damian Zane – BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3q635n4no

Bluegreen

12th August 2025, 04:06

First Time On Camera: Fault Line Splits Earth

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Pulse-like rupture and curved slip - Analysis of Myanmar earthquake rupture

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Published 18th July 2025 (3:12)

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Rupture propagation is notoriously difficult to observe, as earthquakes large enough to rupture Earth's surface are relatively rare, and they travel at several kilometers per second. In this unique video, we can observe a pulse of slip of the Sagaing Fault as an earthquake rupture propagates past a CCTV camera during the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. The cartoon below the footage is a schematic representation showing the relationship between the traveling earthquake rupture, the ground shaking, and the movement seen in the video. In particular this movie illustrates how the sideways motion you see in the video is actually a pulse propagating laterally along the Sagaing Fault.

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Bluegreen

13th August 2025, 00:47

The Night Sky

PLANETS VS. CITY LIGHTS

Events in the night sky are often invisible to city dwellers. Urban glare makes it impossible to see faint stars and delicate meteors. This week, however, the night sky wins. Venus and Jupiter are in conjunction, and they are nearly as bright as street lights. Jaehyun Sim sends this picture from Seoul, South Korea.

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"The planets were so bright, I was able to photograph them using nothing more than my iPhone," says Sim.

This means pretty much anyone, anywhere, can see the conjunction. Step outside just before dawn and look east. The two planets are side by side, shining like a brilliant double star in the constellation Gemini.

All Sky Fireball Network

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Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. On Aug 12, 2025, the network reported 63 fireballs. (49 Perseids, 13 sporadics, 1 alpha Capricornid)

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The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak on Aug. 12-14, bringing with it a torrent of shooting stars along with the potential for spectacular fireball sightings.

Bluegreen

13th August 2025, 01:13

10 Bizarre 'Dark Voids' Appear Over Uninhabited Antarctica Island — Earth From Space

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10 unusually dark cloud holes were spotted swirling as they scattered across the skies over Heard Island in 2016. (Image credit: NASA/Landsat/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS)

In a newly released series of photographs released by NASA, this striking satellite photo shows 10 swirling "dark voids" that appeared above an uninhabited volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. The black spots are the result of atmospheric cloud vortices, but are oddly pronounced and significantly contorted compared to most other examples of this phenomenon.

The spinning voids are trailing off Heard Island — an uninhabited Australian territory in the southern Indian Ocean, around 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Antarctica. The cloud-obscured landmass has a surface area of around 142 square miles (368 square kilometers).

On average, the dark spots are around 8 miles (13 km) wide, decreasing slightly in size the further they have traveled, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. They are initially moving away from the island in a northeasterly direction (left to right).

The spinning holes are the result of a phenomenon known as von Kármán vortices, which occur when a prevailing wind encounters a landmass, disturbing the airflow and creating "a double row of vortices which alternate their direction of rotation," according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They are named for Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American physicist, who was the first to describe this natural phenomenon.

In most examples of von Kármán vortices, the resulting cloud trails can be quite wispy, tracing out the subtle variations in the invisible air currents. However, in this photo, the wispy trails are replaced by a string of very concentrated holes, or gaps, within the clouds.

Published 11th August 2025 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/10-bizarre-dark-voids-appear-in-the-skies-over-uninhabited-island-near-antarctica-earth-from-space

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Most von Kármán vortices create wispy trails of cloud that travel in a single direction. These parallel vortices were photographed in 2015, flowing off five different land masses in the Canary Islands.

Bluegreen

13th August 2025, 01:23

Orbiters: Our Eyes in the Skies :girl_wacko:

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Bluegreen

13th August 2025, 01:53

Deepest Ecosystem Ever Found Discovered in the Ocean’s Mysterious Hadal Trenches

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Chinese ocean explorers have discovered the deepest known life on Earth, thriving at extreme depths of approximately 3.5 to 6 miles below the surface. These lifeforms were found in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the western Aleutian Trench.

Extremophile discoveries continue to expand the boundaries of where scientists expect to find life, and now, the hostile conditions of the deep ocean have revealed a far more vibrant ecosystem than previously believed possible. In 2024, the Chinese submersible Fendouzhe conducted 23 dives into these deep trenches, uncovering thousands of tubeworms and mollusks teeming across the sea floor.

When film director James Cameron commissioned a specially built submersible to explore the Mariana Trench, he described the deep sea as an “alien” environment. He also referred to it as “desolate,” a characterization now challenged by this new research, which reveals an abundance of life far beneath the waves.

In a video collected by Fendouzhe, the ocean floor is shown teeming with 12-inch-long tubeworms, alongside clusters of mollusks and clams. Other life forms recorded include sea lilies, sea cucumbers, crustaceans, and various types of worms, forming communities that stretch for approximately 1,500 miles. Notably, the diversity varied by location—communities found in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench differed significantly from those in the shallower Kamchatka-Aleutian Transition Zone and the western Aleutian Trench.

Published 2nd August 2025 by Ryan Whalen · The Debrief
https://thedebrief.org/the-deepest-ecosystem-ever-found-has-been-discovered-in-the-oceans-mysterious-hadal-trenches/

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Bluegreen

14th August 2025, 02:18

Interstellar Overdrive

Everything We Know About 3I/ATLAS, The New ‘Oumuamua'

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Published 28th July 2025 (20:10)

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A new visitor from beyond our solar system is hurtling towards us. Larger and older than ‘Oumuamua, it's unlike anything we've seen before. This massive, fast-moving comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is the third interstellar object ever detected and promises to reveal new secrets about the cosmos. In this video, we explore what makes this celestial traveler so unique and what mysteries it might unlock as it makes its close approach to the Sun.

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RatRodRob...RRR

14th August 2025, 04:28

Johnnycomelately

14th August 2025, 07:38

RatRodRob...RRR

14th August 2025, 23:30

First Time On Camera: Fault Line Splits Earth
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Top left corner, you can see a shed with part of its veranda collapsing during the quake.......................................................... RRR

Hi RRRob. Lots going on in the vid. High tension tower collapses above and right of the moving “poles”. And harder to see, but about centre frame through the gate, off in the distance, looks like power lines sag/fall from looks like a high tension tower.

Cheers mate. Hope your winter is going good.

Cool Johnny im gunna have another sticky at that vid then, seems i missed abit goin on, the way the land shifts is crazy.
I dont mind winter, its not cold here like north America cold, no shoveling snow from the driveway but im ready for Spring thats for sure
What is summer like over there in Alberta.
Are you in bear country, those things are like giant dogs and the bush/forest is so dense that you cant see jack chit, you can have your bears mate, they look terrifying....RRR

Bluegreen

15th August 2025, 03:07

Peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower 2025

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Tonight I filmed the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The bright moon and some clouds were annoying in the first half of the night, but overall I was able to see quite a few Perseids.

Published 13th August 2025 (2:51)

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Bluegreen

15th August 2025, 03:30

The 'Passtronaut'

Vikings QB Joshua Dobbs has the best nickname in the NFL thanks to NASA

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When Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joshua Dobbs came off the bench in relief of rookie Jaren Hall in Sunday’s matchup with the Atlanta Falcons, he hadn’t even taken a practice rep with his new club.

Dobbs, who barely had enough time to get acclimated with his new playbook after joining the team Tuesday, led the Vikings from an 11-3 deficit to a 31-28 win, passing for 158 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for another 66 yards and a third score.

His performance was so impressive that it inspired NASA to give him a witty new nickname.

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Dobbs is quite familiar with NASA, having earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Tennessee, making him a certified rocket scientist.

He spent two offseasons early in his career working at the NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center as part of the NFLPA’s Virtual Externship Program, and was even on hand to witness the SpaceX launch to the International Space Station.

Dobbs first visited NASA when he was just 7 years old and his family took a slight detour on their way to Universal Studios for a family vacation. The athlete plans to pursue a career in aerospace engineering, perhaps with NASA, after his football career is over.

Published 7th November 2023 by Michael Gallaher – Yardbarker
https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/vikings_qb_joshua_dobbs_has_the_best_nickname_in_the_nfl_thanks_to_nasa/s1_13132_39497897

Bluegreen

15th August 2025, 03:45

The Terrifying Truth About Death Revealed After the Roswell Incident

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"Death is a concept that does not exist."

Published 22nd April 2025 (15:17)

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What if the biggest secrets of our existence are hidden in plain sight? Explore the strange case of Maximillien De Lafayette—a man who claims to remember alien knowledge, not read it. From the Roswell crash to secret conversations with beings not of this Earth, this video takes you deep into the world of unsolved mysteries that defy science, logic, and history itself.

Bluegreen

15th August 2025, 04:12

Zodiacal Road by Ruslan Merzlyakov

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What's that strange light down the road? Dust orbiting the Sun. At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset -- or just before sunrise -- and is called zodiacal light. Although the origin of this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and slowly spirals into the Sun. Recent analysis of dust emitted by Comet 67P, visited by ESA's robotic Rosetta spacecraft, bolsters this hypothesis.

Pictured when climbing a road up to Teide National Park in the Canary Islands of Spain, a bright triangle of zodiacal light appeared in the distance soon after sunset. The scene includes bright Regulus, the alpha star of the constellation Leo, standing above center toward the left. The Beehive Star Cluster (M44) can be spotted below center, closer to the horizon and also immersed in the zodiacal glow.

http://apod.nasa.gov

Johnnycomelately

15th August 2025, 11:24

Kryztian

17th August 2025, 00:37

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edina

17th August 2025, 01:34

Something about this feels very auspicious ...
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Been seeing this all day, everywhere
The Moon Dances With The Seven Sisters

https://www.freeastroscience.com/2025/08/can-you-see-seven-sisters-dance-with.html

RunningDeer

17th August 2025, 02:54

https://i.imgur.com/IwKGB9H.gifHappy Birthday, edina. :heart:
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Something about this feels very auspicious ...
55579
Been seeing this all day, everywhere
The Moon Dances With The Seven Sisters

https://www.freeastroscience.com/2025/08/can-you-see-seven-sisters-dance-with.html

Bluegreen

18th August 2025, 00:06

The Queen Of All Everything | Ott

... and favorable auspices

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Bluegreen

18th August 2025, 00:24

The Sky Tonight

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

The Pleiades aren't ancient at all – at least not by cosmic standards. This star cluster is only about 100 million years old . To put that in perspective, sharks and sea turtles are older than these stars. While life on Earth was figuring out how to crawl out of the oceans, these stars were just beginning to shine.

This youthful age makes the Pleiades what astronomers call a "very young" star cluster. The stars formed together from the same cloud of gas and dust, and they're still traveling through space as a family unit.

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Bluegreen

18th August 2025, 00:43

What's it like?

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Johnnycomelately

21st August 2025, 11:07

Voyager lore, of both I and II. Lots of factoids, incl that II was launched before I, both in later 1977.

40+ years, still under control, tho there have been some magical fixes to keep one of them connected.

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Bluegreen

22nd August 2025, 01:18

They Cheated Death

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Published 7th June 2025 (18:16)

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Bluegreen

22nd August 2025, 01:26

Time Travel

A Trip to the Seaside: c.1899 Footage HD Colorized w/Sound

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Modest.

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Roaring 20s New York: HD Colorized & Restored to Life w/Sound

A little less modest.

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Bluegreen

22nd August 2025, 01:35

Time Travel?

Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph. (!) This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.

Published 19th August 2025 (4:05)

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Bluegreen

25th August 2025, 03:45

Space Rock | Yes

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Bluegreen

25th August 2025, 03:48

NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell

Published 8th August 2025 (2:57)

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Milwaukee WI

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Bluegreen

26th August 2025, 03:55

LATE SEASON NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS by Sebastian Sainio – Björköby, Finland

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Bluegreen

26th August 2025, 04:17

This Week in Space w/ Fraser Cain

A Star Eats a Black Hole, Then Explodes // JWST's Big Discovery // China's Lunar Lander Test

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Ryugu and Bennu are related, a star tried to eat a black hole and it didn’t go well, using moons to save fuel, and China tests its new human lunar lander.

Published 22nd August 2025 (17:38)

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Artist's conception of a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk and emitting a relativistic jet (Credit : ESO)

Bluegreen

26th August 2025, 04:27

The Night Sky

Wednesday, Aug. 27 - Crescent moon and Spica (after sunset)

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After 24 hours of orbital motion, the waxing crescent moon will hop east to shine less than a palm's width to the left (or 5.5 degrees to the celestial southeast) of Virgo's brightest star Spica, with reddish Mars shining off to their right for about an hour after sunset on Wednesday, Aug. 27. After the sun has completely set, use binoculars to scan for the trio just above the western horizon.

Friday, Aug. 29 - Catch the colors of stars (all night)

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Stars shine with a color that is controlled by their photospheric temperature, and this is captured in their spectral classification. Late August evenings offer a fine opportunity to see a variety of colored stars. In the eastern sky, the three bright stars of the Summer Triangle asterism, named Deneb, Vega, and Altair, are A-class stars that appear blue-white to the eye. They have temperatures in the range of 7,500 to 10,000 Kelvins. Arcturus, which is located in the western sky after dusk, is an orange, K-class giant star with a temperature of only 4,300 K. Reddish Antares, the heart of Scorpius, is an old M-class star with a low surface temperature of 3,500 K. After midnight local time, look for very bright, yellowish Capella rising in the northeast.

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

Kryztian

27th August 2025, 22:00

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RunningDeer

29th August 2025, 00:51

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Bluegreen

29th August 2025, 03:11

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Jackson 5 - I Want You Back - ABC - The Love You Save - Never Can Say Goodbye

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Axman

29th August 2025, 03:38

Happy Birthday brother Bluegreen.
I share the same day with ya.

W The Axman

RunningDeer

29th August 2025, 09:36

Happy Birthday brother Bluegreen.
I share the same day with ya.

W The Axman

https://i.imgur.com/IwKGB9H.gif Sending happy birthday balloons your way, Axman.
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edina

31st August 2025, 02:07

another auspicious night sky.:stars: colorful stardust

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From August 29 to 31, 2025, the night sky will host one of the rarest and fastest celestial displays — the Aurigid Meteor Shower.

✨ What makes it special?

Originating from Comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess), Aurigids are known for their incredible speed — racing through the atmosphere at nearly 66 km/s.

Though fewer in number, each meteor can shine in vivid colors — green, blue, golden, or even red streaks.

Their rarity makes them a true cosmic treasure — a shower that only peaks a few times in a century.

🔭 How to watch:

Best viewed after midnight under dark skies, far from city lights.

Look toward the constellation Auriga in the northeast.

No telescope needed — just your eyes and patience.

🌌 Don’t miss this chance to see the sky ignite with rare, colorful stardust. A fleeting cosmic performance

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Bluegreen

31st August 2025, 02:20

Thx edina

Putting on my shoes and going down to the lake

:shooting star:

edina

31st August 2025, 02:25

Thx edina

Putting on my shoes and going down to the lake

:shooting star:

Perfect! Hearing this makes my heart happy. :heart2:

Johnnycomelately

31st August 2025, 09:26

One of the quirkiest animals, in the history of … animals. Sorry, paraphrase of Redford’s character’s quote in The Electric Horseman. Couldn’t resist.

Quirky critters are a sure sign that aliens have messed with life on earth, way before they GMO’d primates into vessels for us humans. Poe’s Law?

The Insane Biology of: The Pangolin

Real Science

1.98M subscribers

August 30, 2025

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[1] https://www.savepangolins.org/what-is...
[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
[3] researchgate.net/publication/266172953_Macroscopic_and_Microscopic_Anatomy_of_Pangolinus_Tongue_Manis_javanica?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ij p7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QiLCJwYWdlIjoiX2RpcmVjdCJ9fQ
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159....
[6] https://pangolincrisisfund.org/pangop...
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[17] https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/chi...

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Bluegreen

2nd September 2025, 00:47

September
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Astronomy Events in September | Lunar Eclipse | Solar Eclipse | Saturn Opposition

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Wait for it ...

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All Saints Days

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Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky

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Here is the sky dome view for September 2025. It shows what is above the horizon at mid-evening for mid-northern latitudes. The view may vary depending on your location.

Late September mornings: Are Uranus and Neptune in the morning planet parade?

http://earthsky.org/upl/2025/08/All-sky-late-Sep-mornings-NH-all-planets.jpeg

About those planet parade memes you might have seen … Yes, there are 5 planets in the morning sky. But, are they visible to the eye? They are, however, you’ll need binoculars or a telescope to see all 5 planets in the morning sky. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are visible with your eyes alone. But to see Uranus and Neptune, you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope. Uranus lies between Venus and Saturn, and Neptune lies close to Saturn.

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

Bluegreen

2nd September 2025, 01:11

Space Shuttle UFOs

Childish? A bit of a stretch to state as fact ...

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Bluegreen

2nd September 2025, 01:30

Inside the Decision to Eliminate the UK Space Agency

'We've known it's been coming for a while'

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Authorities examine debris thought to be from a spacecraft launched from the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana after it was found by residents of Salinopolis, Brazil.

The U.K. government's announcement to absorb the nation's 15-year-old space agency into a recently established government department may sound shocking to some, but it came as no surprise to insiders. Still, some industry experts fear the move may harm the U.K.'s space ambitions and weaken its position within the European Space Agency, to which Britain allocates most of its civilian space budget.

The UK Space Agency (UKSA), formed in 2010 with the goal of propelling the country's space and satellite sector into the new space age, will be absorbed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) by April.

The UK government announced the decision Aug. 20, saying the move would "cut duplication and ensure decisions are made with clear ministerial oversight." UKSA will effectively become a department within DSIT, which had been providing all of the agency's funding since 2023. The merger has been widely seen as part of the Labour government's initiative to cut government expenditure and civil service costs by 15% by the end of the decade.

The U.K. has had a different approach to space than its European counterparts, such as Germany, France and Italy.

Historically, the U.K. has dedicated most of its resources to the European Space Agency (ESA) rather than pursuing a multipronged approach involving a strong domestic space program and bilateral partnerships independent of ESA. Therefore, over 80% of UKSA's budget has been placed into ESA. The perception in the government was that UKSA was acting more in line with ESA's wishes than with the U.K. government's needs.

ESA is an intergovernmental institution independent of the European Union, which the U.K. exited in January 2020. Currently consisting of 23 member states, ESA has a special status that sets it apart from other major space agencies, including NASA.

Published 1st September 2025 by Tereza Pultarova - Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/weve-known-its-been-coming-for-a-while-inside-the-decision-to-eliminate-the-uk-space-agency

Bluegreen

2nd September 2025, 02:35

September 7 - Full Corn Moon - Total Lunar Eclipse

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The crest of the full Corn Moon occurs at 18:09 UTC on September 7 (12:09 p.m. CDT). A total lunar eclipse will start at 17:30 UTC, when the full moon will start to pass through the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, the umbra. The moon will be totally eclipsed from 17:30 UTC to 18:53 UTC. The moment of greatest eclipse is 18:11 UTC. By 19:56 UTC, the moon will have completely left the umbral shadow. The total lunar eclipse will sweep across Antarctica, Australia, Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Africa.

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Total Lunar Eclipse September 7th 2025

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Pam is excited and cautiously optimistic about the total eclipse and the future.

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Bluegreen

3rd September 2025, 03:14

ISS Live – NASA Earth View from Space | 24/7 Real-Time Cameras

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Started streaming July 21, 2025 #isslive #spacelive #nasa

Watch real-time views of Earth from space, streamed 24/7 through live NASA cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This stream includes live ISS tracking, orbital data, and rotating panels featuring space weather updates and the latest from the Space Station Daily Blog. The feed may occasionally go dark when the ISS loses satellite connection. It will resume automatically. The International Space Station (ISS) orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 420 km (260 miles), traveling at 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) and completing one orbit every 90 minutes. It is a joint project between five space agencies—NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada)—and functions as a permanently crewed science laboratory and observation platform in low Earth orbit.

• Primary NASA ISS Camera (Top-Left Panel) This high-definition camera provides a stunning nadir view (Earth-facing) in 720p resolution. Mounted on the Harmony module, it continuously captures breathtaking visuals of Earth’s surface, including weather systems, oceans, continents, cloud formations, city lights, and the transition between day and night.

• Secondary NASA ISS Camera (Bottom-Right Panel) This secondary feed offers alternate viewing angles, often showing the curvature of Earth (limb view), docked spacecraft, solar arrays, and various parts of the ISS’s external structure, which adds depth and realism to the live experience.

• ISS Real-Time Tracker (Top-Right Panel) In the top-right corner, a zoomed-in tracker displays the current position of the ISS as it moves across Earth in real time. This simplified visualization helps viewers follow the live movement of the station over the planet’s surface.

• Orbital Telemetry & Path (Bottom-Left Panel) In the bottom-left panel, you’ll see real-time telemetry provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), displaying the ISS’s current latitude, longitude, altitude, and orbital speed. The arc shows the ISS’s ground track, illustrating its position 90 minutes ago and 90 minutes ahead. Due to its orbit and Earth’s rotation, the station shifts about 2,200 km (1,367 mi) westward per orbit while appearing to travel west to east.

• Space Info Panel (Center-Bottom) The center-bottom rotating panel alternates automatically between two content sources: 1. Latest updates from the NASA Space Station Blog, featuring mission news, astronaut activities, spacewalks, science experiments, and educational content from aboard the ISS.

Bluegreen

4th September 2025, 02:37

Tokamak Fusion Reactor Turns Mercury Into Gold

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The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

Since the days of the ancient Greeks, practitioners of alchemy pursued the goal of learning how to make the fabled Philosopher's Stone that would allow them to turn base metals like lead, tin, iron, copper, and mercury into gold. Using techniques that mixed crude chemistry with esoteric metaphysics, it was an exercise that was as much a seeking of spiritual enlightenment as a get-rich-quick scheme.

However, though they made many discoveries and formed the foundations of modern chemistry, the only gold these alchemists created was what the more unscrupulous among them could con out of greedy backers with dreams of avarice.

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In the 20th century, physicists cracked the secret of transmutation using the power of the atom, but the amount of gold produced in the laboratory was so minuscule and the process so expensive that it was hardly worth the effort.

Today, chrysopoeia, as the process of transmutation is called, may become a practical reality. And like many technological advances these days, it's the side benefit of another creation.

According to Marathon Fusion – a company dedicated to the development of fusion energy components – a tokamak fusion reactor can not only produce limitless clean energy, but five tonnes of gold out from mercury for every gigawatt (~2.5 GWth) of electricity generated.

Publishes 24th July 2025 by David Szondy - New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/science/fusion-reactors-put-king-midas-shame-gold-department/

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World's largest tokamak fusion reactor in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

First conceived by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, tokamaks are toroidal reactors that are one of the leading contenders to become the first commercially viable fusion power plants. The name is a Russian acronym for Toroidal Chamber with Magnetic Coils and consists of a large doughnut-shaped chamber surrounded by magnetic coils that compress a plasma made of hydrogen isotopes until it reaches pressures and temperatures that are only found in the interior of the Sun to initiate fusion.

Bluegreen

4th September 2025, 02:59

Craziest Nature Videos of the Decade

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“Glad-you-weren't-there” moments captured on film.

Published 12th October 2024 (16:08)
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Bluegreen

4th September 2025, 03:19

Mysterious UAP Caught on Doorbell Cam (Season 5) | The Proof Is Out There

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These UFOs may not be UFOs at all, but rather, an otherworldly sign from Mr Parsons' late wife.

Published 2nd September 2025 (2:34)

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Bluegreen

6th September 2025, 03:22

American Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Residency: New Mexico
Famous artworks: Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932), Radiator Building–Night New York (1927), Cow’s Skull: Red White and Blue (1931)

Frequent visits to the American Southwest inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and she developed a distinct style combining abstraction and realism.

O’Keeffe’s art is often linked to the American Modernism period, a time of inventive invention in the early 1900s that focused on individual expression and experimentation. Her paintings are known for their bold colors, simplified shapes, and enlarged forms that emphasize the beauty of nature.

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Georgia O'Keeffe's Home and Studio in Abiquiú

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Bill Ryan

6th September 2025, 12:10

http://www.creativefabrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/10/Georgia-OKeeffe-Painting-Fox-Animal-Portrait-57066521-1.pngI downloaded and saved the image. It's SUCH a very beautiful painting, though so extremely simple.

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Bluegreen

7th September 2025, 01:15

American Artist

Miles Davis

An award-winning jazz musician whose musical legacy will never tarnish is Miles Davis (1926 - 1991), from St Louis, Missouri. Relentlessly creative, Mr Davis' talents extended to other fields.

Self Portrait

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"So What"

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Kielce, Poland | New York City, USA

St Louis Roots (excerpt)

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The final painting created by Miles Davis

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"Move"

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Kryztian

8th September 2025, 17:00

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Bluegreen, do you know where you found this image? I dropped the image into two search engines and could not find it. The background landscape looks like O'Keefe's style BUT the fox's head does not - it looks like art made by air brush (and can now be easily made on computers.).

Bluegreen

9th September 2025, 01:00

Hi Kryzs

You could be right, I had similar thoughts after seeing it posted. While not entirely absent from her oeuvre, O'Keeffe was not in the habit of using sharp, well-defined lines.

I can't find it now, but got it from google images under [Georgia O'Keeffe paintings], liked it, took it at face value, and did not further investigate. If I have misidentified, apologies, my bad.

But I still like the painting :)

AI has thrown a wrench into the art world. Digital artwork is an accepted genre, but only when the artists make no bones about what they're doing and don't try to fool the audience. Autotune, songwriting, even the music itself … are authors going to be submitting signed affidavits stating they actually wrote their own book?

Kryztian

9th September 2025, 02:27

Hi Kryzs
You could be right, I had similar thoughts after seeing it posted. While not entirely absent from her oeuvre, O'Keeffe was not in the habit of using sharp, well-defined lines.

Yes, she was great in taking landscapes and natural objects and almost making them look like abstract paintings. Her paintings are wonderful in books, but to fully take them in, you have to go see the originals hanging on a wall in a museum.

Thanks Bluegreen for bringing her to this thread and here are a few more images:
(and if you click "Open in New tab" you will get an even larger image)

https://i.imgur.com/6AAJl9t.jpeg
Georgia O'Keefe, Blue Morning Glories, New Mexico, II, 1935

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Georgia O'Keefe, Series I - No. 1, 1918

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Georgia O'Keefe, Near Abiquiu, New Mexico

Kryztian

10th September 2025, 00:03

One of the most ancient UFO reports is the beginning of the book of Ezekiel. Here is a bizarre and electrifying musical setting of this text by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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Bluegreen

11th September 2025, 01:08

Ezekiel Saw The Wheel | Woody Guthrie

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12th September 2025, 02:41

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards 2025

Astrophotographers from across the globe submitted over 5,800 entries in the various categories for the 17th annual competition hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in conjunction with astronomy camera manufacturer ZWO.

Our Moon — The Trace of Refraction by Marcella Giulia Pace

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Marcella Giulia Pace captured the light of the moon as it was scattered and refracted by Earth's atmosphere above the Italian island of Sicily on Apr. 7, 2024.

Our Sun — Active Region of the Sun's Chromosphere by James Sinclair

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This breathtaking image from James Sinclair gives us a detailed view of a section of the Sun's atmosphere known as the chromosphere — a chaotic region where hydrogen and helium plasma is molded and reshaped by our star's ever-shifting magnetic field.

Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow by Dan Bartlett

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This shot of the wandering comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was taken in early 2024 around the solar maximum by Dan Bartlett, who was able to capture spectacular structural detail in the trail of the wandering solar system body.

Fourth Dimension by Leonardo Di Maggio

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For this image, Leonardo Di Maggio combined an image she took of a geometric pattern contained in a meteorite with gravitational lensing deep space observation data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, creating the impression of a fourth dimension or alien city with a monochrome aesthetic.

Encounter Across Light Years by Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan

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This surprise shot of a bright Perseid meteor captured streaking through the patch of sky containing the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured by Yurui Gong and Xizhen Ruan above Zhucheng City, China.

The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu

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This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way's closest neighbor. The image reveals the complex structure present in the heart of the spiral galaxy, which was captured over the course of 38 hours from the AstroCamp Observatory in Spain.