Up At The Ranch And Beyond

[Johnnycomelately]

Here’s an interesting claim, that reads like a kid trying not to get his parents in trouble, explaining to cops on a domestic violence call, especially because he knows the creepy neighbour who would dial that.

Being a kid, he doesn’t know the details, like how fast (high energy) cosmic particles can flux some magmas stiffer so they’re more prone to explode. Like Toba, and more recently Tambora (1815) and Krakatoa (late 1800’s). Kid will probably blow up himself, one day, and get in to history too.



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Sun News 13 September 2025

The Sun Flashed a Giant Heart at Earth This Week, And We Love It


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In what we can only interpret as a show of solidarity for the Solar System's beleaguered dwarf planet Pluto, the Sun put its heart prominently on its sleeve atmosphere.

On the side of the Sun facing Earth, a giant coronal hole appeared in the shape of an enormous love heart, many times the size of Earth, blasting a powerful stream of solar particles across the Solar System.

Coronal holes aren't actual holes in the Sun. They are regions where the Sun's magnetic field weakens, allowing the constant wind of solar particles to escape more easily and powerfully, sending gusts of solar particles through the Solar System.

Solar activity is likely to continue declining over the next few years as we emerge from the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, known as solar maximum. Coronal holes, however, are just one facet of the Sun's behavior. With a recent report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory indicating a gradual increase in the strength of the solar wind since 2008, we may see more activity than expected as we head towards Solar Cycle 26.

And if it wasn't clear: We love you, too, Sun.


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Published 19th September 2025 by Michelle Starr - Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sun-flashed-a-giant-heart-at-earth-this-week-and-we-love-it

Sun News 19 September 2025

Low Flaring But Active Surface

Today’s top story: Flare production has been low over the past day, but the sun’s surface has been active, as we saw by action on the periphery. We saw gorgeous long-lasting prominences in the sun’s southeast and southwest. However, an increase in flare activity is anticipated, as two active regions, AR4220 and AR4216, have now developed a gamma in their magnetic configurations.

Meanwhile at Earth this weekend, we should start receiving the fast solar wind produced by the large heart-shaped coronal hole reported recently. Accompanied by the arrival of a co-rotating interaction region (CIR), this may bring interesting geomagnetic activity – and auroras – to Earth.

Published 19th September 2025C. Alex Young, Raúl Cortés, Armando Caussade - EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/


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#UFO/UAP

UFO Shoots Across Ocean At Svarte, Skåne County, Sweden Aug 10, 2025, UAP Sighting News


Eyewitness:

Video was shot in super slow motion (Samsung mobile).

I made a super slow-motion video of my daughter after reading about a man in the Malvern Hills who claimed he captured a UFO while playing with his dog. While reviewing the footage, I zoomed in on her face because she was making a hilarious expression. Accidentally, that’s when I noticed it — something moving from left to right across the screen.

NUFORC Note: Small object moving extremely fast is barely visible in real time footage.

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VFX Artists Debunk ... REAL UFO Videos

CGI guys Wren, Niko and Jordan take a look at some of the HOTTEST new UFO footage out there, fresh off the presses! From orbs to spinning disks there's nothin these guys can't d'bunk. Well maybe there is one this time ...

Published 20th July 2025 (28:03)
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NASA Confirms 6,000 Exoplanets

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The official number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, confirmed by NASA has reached 6,000. Thirty years ago, the first exoplanet was discovered around a Sun-like star. Since then, that number has rapidly increased as technologies improve. There are thousands of additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation, and each confirmed planet enables scientists to learn more about the conditions under which planets can form, how common planets like Earth might be and where to look for them.

Published 17th September 2025 (1:45)
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How Nero Turned a Teenage Boy Into His Dead Wife

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The most disturbing and gruesome case of identity theft in history.

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When Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea died in 65 AD, his grief turned into obsession. Then he found Sporus, a teenage boy who looked exactly like his dead wife. What followed was the systematic surgical and psychological transformation of a human being into a living ghost. Based on official Roman records, this is the horrifying true story of how absolute power created unimaginable cruelty.


✓ How Nero surgically transformed a teenage boy into his dead wife
✓ The months of psychological torture that erased Sporus's identity
✓ Why the entire Roman elite participated in this horrific charade
✓ The forced "marriage" ceremony that shocked even ancient Rome
✓ How Sporus survived years of this nightmare before choosing death
✓ The official Roman records that document this systematic abuse

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Most Amazing Archaeological Discoveries | August 2025

Roman Mausoleum | Tower of London | Mystery Axe

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Mausoleum Inspired by Roman Emperor
2:18 Ancient Cave in Thai Jungle
3:58 Frozen Viking Time Capsule
6:11 Mystery Axe from Space
8:13 Ancient Indian Coin Turns Up in Russian Graveyard
9:22 The Painted Gods of Huaca Yolanda
13:38 Did Neanderthals Invent the Bow?
16:07 The Tower of London Just Coughed Up a Bunch of Skeletons
18:56 Who Buried a Baby in a Roman War Camp?
23:15 Archaeology Student Hits Ancient Gold
24:59 A 12,000-Year-Old Cold Case in Vietnam

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Total Lunar Eclipse 2025 – Bremen

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Total lunar eclipse, September 7th, filmed on the Weser in Bremen, Germany
Music: 'Violet Spirit' by Dan Henig

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The Sky Tonight

Sunday, Sept. 21 - New moon Partial Solar Eclipse

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On Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3:54 p.m. EDT or 12:54 p.m. PDT and 19:54 GMT, the moon will officially reach its new moon phase. At that time, our natural satellite will join the sun in Virgo. While new, the moon is travelling between Earth and the sun. Since sunlight can only illuminate the far side of the moon, and the moon is in the same region of the sky as the sun, it is usually completely hidden from view from anywhere on Earth for about a day. This new moon, however, will deliver a very deep partial solar eclipse that will only be visible from New Zealand, eastern Melanesia, southern Polynesia, and western Antarctica.

LIVE | Watch: Partial Solar Eclipse 2025 Dazzles Sky | Ring Of Fire | Crescent Sun | Cosmic Event

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Started streaming 11:00 a.m. EDT 9-20-25

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Monday, Sept. 22 - September Equinox

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On Monday, Sept. 22 at 2:19 p.m. EDT, 11:19 a.m. PDT, or 18:19 GMT, the sun's apparent motion along the ecliptic (green line) will carry it across the celestial equator, traveling southward, marking the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn there. On the equinoxes in March and September, day and night are of equal length and the sun rises due east and sets due west.


Tuesday, Sept. 23 - Neptune at opposition (all night)

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On Tuesday night, Sept. 23, Neptune will reach opposition. At that time, the distant planet will be closest to Earth for this year — a distance of "merely" 2.68 billion miles, 4.32 billion km, 4 light-hours, or 28.9 Astronomical Units. At opposition, blue Neptune will shine with a slightly enhanced magnitude of 7.8. Since it will be opposite the sun in the sky, Neptune will be visible all night long in backyard telescopes and good binoculars (orange circle).

Around opposition, Neptune's apparent disk size will peak at 2.4 arc-seconds and its large moon Triton will be the most visible (inset). Throughout September, Neptune will be located a short distance to the left of much brighter Saturn, both planets below (or celestial southeast of) the circle of stars that forms Pisces' western fish.

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

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Moonmoons

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[Bill Ryan]

Last week, an incoming meteor, a large fireball over the sky in China, was (apparently!) shot down by a Chinese air defense missile. (If this report is true, and it really was (a) a meteor and (b) a missile, it's the first time this has ever happened)

https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1966803793355698403
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NASA Space Psychologist: What Astronauts Really See in Upper Orbit | Iya Whiteley






Danny Jones (https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones/videos)
September 1, 2025
1.12M subscribers

Dr. Iya Whiteley is a space psychologist, training developer for astronauts and innovative baby book designer and illustrator. Iya's baby books attempt to give newborn babies the best possible start on our unique planet Earth.

Iya is also a director of the Centre for Space Medicine at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London.

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00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ) - Space psychology
09:48 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=588s) - UFOs & Navy pilots
20:19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=1219s) - Disabled children with telepathic abilities
35:34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=2134s) - Cognitive engineering with pilots & firefighters
44:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=2651s) - Rapid knowledge transfer for surgeons
54:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=3272s) - Why airline crashes spiked in 2000
01:04:12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=3852s) - Why pilots are the most depressed people
01:13:38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=4418s) - Training astronauts for mars & moon missions
01:23:55 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=5035s) - Astronauts are learning telepathy for space
01:33:02 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=5582s) - We are born with more than 5 senses
01:50:18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=6618s) - Psychological evaluations on astronauts
02:00:04 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=7204s) - Synesthesia
02:05:40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=7540s) - #1 predictor of a child's success in life
02:16:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=8190s) - Creating a universal Earth language
02:20:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=8411s) - Most effective cure for depression
02:29:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=8993s) - Iya's involvement with aerospace contractors
02:40:17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=9617s) - Astronauts with UFO experiences
02:47:24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO2e8TBOmQ&t=10044s) - Breath work

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Dark Matter Expert: New Evidence UFOs Have Been Here For 1 Million Years | Matthew Szydagis






Danny Jones (https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones/videos)
September 22, 2025
1.12M subscribers

Matthew Szydagis is a professor at the University at Albany Department of Physics, pursuing experimental particle astrophysics, in particular the direct laboratory detection of dark matter. Matthew has been a member of UAPx, helping to seek answers regarding the true nature of UFO's from a scientific perspective.
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00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80) - World's largest dark matter experiment
10:57 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=657s) - Quantum Mechanics and the Brain
19:06 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=1146s) - How will dark matter change the world?
23:02 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=1382s) - Big bang theory debunked
32:06 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=1926s) - It's getting harder for science to be wrong
41:58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=2518s) - Why Elon froze dark matter funding
47:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=2852s) - New planet discovered & the cosmic pie chart
55:19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=3319s) - Why anti-gravity research went dark
01:10:35 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=4235s) - The moon landing conspiracy & simulation hypothesis
01:19:45 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=4785s) - Hunting UFOs with radiation detection
01:29:21 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=5361s) - Evidence UFOs have been here for 1.1 million years
1:38:37 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=5917s) - Ancient technological discoveries
01:45:08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=6308s) - 6 times psuedo-science turned out to be correct
01:55:54 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=6954s) - Other species of hominids
02:02:25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=7345s) - Why we don't have footage of a UFO crash yet
02:09:27 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=7767s) - UFOs are immune to nuclear weapons
02:16:43 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=8203s) - Proof the Tic Tac UFO is not man-made
02:18:19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=8299s) - Proof Sean Kirkpatrick lied under oath
02:26:58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=8818s) - Evidence the Bob Lazar story is fake
02:35:47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=9347s) - Eric Davis holds the secrets to UFO phenomenon
02:39:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80&t=9593s) - New study on Roswell UFO crash material

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Earth’s Ozone Layer on Track to Recovery in Coming Decades: World Meteorological Organization


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The ozone layer is healing and the Antarctic ozone hole in 2024 was smaller than in previous years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).


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This map shows the size and shape of the ozone hole over the South Pole on October 5, 2022, when it reached its single-day maximum extent for the year. Image credit: Joshua Stevens / NASA’s Earth Observatory.

The depth of 2024 Antarctic ozone hole — which appears over the Antarctic every spring — was below the 1990-2020 average, with a maximum ozone mass deficit of 46.1 million tons on September 29.

It was smaller than the relatively large holes between 2020 and 2023.

Its onset was relatively slow, and delayed ozone depletion was observed through the month of September, followed by a relatively rapid recovery after the maximum deficit was reached.

“This persistent later onset has been identified as a robust indication of initial recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole,” WMO experts said in a statement.

If current policies remain in place, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values (before the appearance of the ozone hole) by around 2066 over the Antarctic, by 2045 over the Arctic and by 2040 for the rest of the world, according to the most recent assessment in 2022.

Published 17th September 2025 by SciNews Staff
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geoscience/earths-ozone-layer-recovery-14222.html

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Yummy Yeti


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Here is further proof that cryptozoology is going mainstream: the Clementine's Ice Cream chain, with stores in Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas, has unveiled its new Cryptids Collection of flavors; the Bigfoot flavor is “chocolate ice cream with vegan marshmallows and roasted almonds”; the Mothman scoop is “darkest chocolate (bitter) ice cream with swirls of raspberry jam”; the Jersey Devil is an unusual “old Vienna red hot riplets ice cream (spicy barbecue seasoning) with caramelized hot honey”; and the Nessie is “white espresso ice cream with a salted caramel swirl and caramel macchiato vibes”.


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https://www.instagram.com/clementinescreamery/p/DOlZpOcjqit/
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/
https://www.clementinescreamery.com/pages/in-shops-now

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Stargazers

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

[Johnnycomelately]

This is for Dizi/D, she knows the pilots. Denise, hope all is well with you.

Historian Lance Geiger gives a whole summary of this enigmatic spyplane, from its inception, through development and selection, to service. No recent footage, just old, but covers several events that made history. Some new info to me, and I’ve been warm to this for decades.

Dragon Lady Down: Crashing the U-2

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

Sept 23, 2025


On September 24, 1959 a strange all black aircraft with no markings made an emergency “wheels up” landing at a private landing strip in Japan. It was an embarrassing accident for the US Central Intelligence Agency, as the plane, a Lockheed U-2C, did not officially exist. 66 years later, details of the incident, and of the extraordinary aircraft that has had an extraordinarily long service life, are still secret.


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Dizi: "Give me SPACE"

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Denise, hope all is well with you.

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Clifford Stone – Washington DC – 2001


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Among many, many very credible ET/UFO witnesses/whistleblowers, the late Sgt Clifford Stone stands at the head of the list. Here, he testifies at Steven Greer's attention getting 2001 Disclosure Project.

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A Clifford Stone Story


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I recall watching a video recorded shortly after the 2001 Conference, which I've never seen since, where Stone talks about his alien encounters and cries. He refused to talk about it on camera for the rest of his life. This audio interview comes from circa the same time, early 2000's.


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Facts: The Graceful Stingrays


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Stingrays Are Carnivores

Stingrays are purely carnivorous, preying on animals that live on or under the sand. A study that examined diet reconstruction in southern stingrays along the Caribbean found that stingrays fed primarily on crustaceans, ray-finned fish, and worms. Supplemental research found that the species consumed at least 65 prey types — as many as 30 each day.

They Move by Flapping Their 'Wings'

Stingrays may look like they’re flying through the water, but a closer look will reveal a graceful flapping motion propelling them through. Most species undulate their bodies to get from place to place, moving like an underwater wave, but others tend to flap their sides up and down like wings.

Stingray Babies Are Born Fully Developed

Babies, called pups, can swim and feed immediately after being born, and most species require no parental care.


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Females Are Larger Than Males

Not only do females reach sexual maturity faster than males, they tend to live longer. Among round stingrays, a particularly fast-growing species, females and males reach 58% and 70% of their full size, respectively, within the first year of life.

They Are Venomous

Stingrays have long, thin tails with between one and three venomous barbs attached, and the sting usually causes immense pain, risk of infection at the wound site, and occasionally death.

They Sleep in the Sand

While resting, stingrays bury their bodies in the sand, leaving their defensive barb sticking out to protect themselves as they sleep. This can be problematic in areas where humans enter the water, so it is recommended that beachgoers do the “stingray shuffle” to produce vibrations in the sand and warn stingrays of their presence.

The Stingray Shuffle

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There Are More Than 200 Species of Stingrays

Experts estimate that there are about 220 different species of stingrays across the world’s oceans, lakes, and freshwater rivers.

Some Species Chew Their Food

Biologists at University of Toronto filmed freshwater stingrays munching on soft fish, shrimp, and hard-shelled dragonfly nymphs using high-speed cameras. The findings suggested that mammals and stingrays had evolved similar methods of breaking down food independently of each other. Before that, mammals were believed to be the only animals to chew their food.

They Lived at the Same Time as Dinosaurs

In 2019, a team from the Institute of Paleontology of the University of Vienna discovered a fossil stingray dated at over 50 million years old. The research provided new links to radiation caused by the aftermath of the Cretaceous mass extinction event. Further molecular data suggested that modern stingrays diverged from a sister group during the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago.


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They Can Get Pretty Large

In 2009, a giant freshwater stingray was caught and released in Thailand that measured 14 feet long and between 700 and 800 pounds.

They Can Detect Magnetic Fields

Scientists conducted tests on yellow stingrays in 2020 to prove the animals could use Earth’s magnetic field to maintain their sense of direction while navigating through their environment. They found evidence that not only proved stingrays could detect changes within the geomagnetic field but also that they could use the field to their advantage by orienting themselves and maintaining a heading during navigation.

Published 5th October 2024 by Katherine Gallagher – Treehugger
https://www.treehugger.com/stingray-facts-5179405

[Johnnycomelately]

This ranch is the most visited ground on all of Avalon, and so deserves the best news. Here is news of a huge step for humanity. Come with me, invest in this gadget, and together we will drink our choice of drinks (for me, 1:3 or so Drambuie with water, with wild blueberries same fraction, turning it purple…royal, I call it DramBB) at my private island, somewhere warm.


Big scoop maybe? Stock in this thread is a good bet, for discretionary interest.

I’ve followed Dr. Lerner for more than a couple years, about his ion fusion-energy work, and this described process is new to me. It’s something different, and is claimed to be so good as to be a paradigm shifting development. Normal Hydrogen, and the most common isotope of Boron, shake AND stir. And presto, all our problems will be taillights-down-the-road.

Fusion - No Longer Sci-Fi, Ep.3: A New Approach

LPPFusion
16K subscribers

Sept 24, 2025


On July 13, 2025, LPPFusion Chief Scientist Eric Lerner gave an up-to-date presentation on LPPFusion’s Fastest Route to Fusion at a forum in Holmdel, NJ. Given Lerner’s work in cosmology, it was maybe a bit ironic that the event was “The Big Bang Mile”. In Episode 3 of this series, Lerner explains the radical alternative approach to fusion energy based on hydrogen-boron fuel. This fuel can make possible far cheaper and more compact energy sources that have ever existed.

Our videos come out of LPPFusion’s research in astrophysics and fusion energy. This work is paving the way for the development in this decade of a source of cheap, clean, safe, unlimited and decentralized energy. Fusion energy will provide a future without pollution, with a sustainable environment, with abundance for all. The price of all goods, housing, infrastructure would fall drastically, lifting the standard of living for all.


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MARS

Why does Mars look purple, yellow and orange in ESA's stunning satellite image?


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Surprising colors and features are captured in a new image of Mars' surface.

Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from the European Space Agency (ESA). The Earth-toned surface also reveals an impact crater and four sneaky dust devils making their way across the region.

The Rothko-like image was taken by a high-resolution camera on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter and captures Arcadia Planitia, an area of Mars critical to research about the planet’s past and its potential to house humans in the future.

If you noticed that the image is blurry, you're discerning an effect of the wind on Mars. Gusts of air pick up and carry tiny particles of debris from the planet's surface, which creates a minor visual haze.

The wind that causes the haze is also responsible for the reddish area at the top of the photo. The red region is covered in ridges called "yardangs," which are formed when wind erodes vulnerable rock and leaves the most resistant rock still standing.

Below the red section is purplish-brown terrain, which has a high concentration of silicates and a low concentration of iron, the statement notes. The difference in colors also stems from properties of the sand, like density and size, which affect how the grains accumulate and travel across Mars.

Published 27th June 2025 by Perri Thaler - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/why-does-mars-look-purple-yellow-and-orange-in-esas-stunning-new-satellite-image


ESA spacecraft sees a kaleidoscope of color in Mars' atmosphere | Space photo 26th Sept 2025


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Mars' atmosphere has been of interest to scientists for decades, especially as humanity looks to set up outposts on the Red Planet. Recently, the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter gave us a more detailed look at the thin shell of air that sits above the limb of Mars.

Mars' atmosphere is extremely thin and is composed of mostly carbon dioxide, with small amounts of nitrogen, argon and trace gases thrown in. Yet despite its thinness, it's far from static, as Mars' air can whip up dust storms that help shape short term weather.

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter, ESA scientists found that the dust and gas layers of Mars' atmosphere are delicate and sit close together, similar to a "mille-fueille" pastry.


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Published 26th September by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/esa-spacecraft-sees-a-kaleidoscope-of-color-in-mars-atmosphere-space-photo-of-the-day-for-sept-26-2025

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Pre-Codes Condemned By The Legion of Decency: Part 1

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These female divers spend more time underwater than any other humans

The way Korea’s Haenyeo divers push human physiology to extremes is surprising


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The Haenyeo women who dive deep into the East China Sea to harvest sea urchins and shellfish spend the most time underwater of any humans ever studied, researchers report August 18 in Current Biology.

“It’s as close as you get to studying a mermaid,” says Chris McKnight, a marine mammal biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

McKnight and colleagues worked with seven Haenyeo divers who live on Jeju Island in South Korea. Over 1,786 dives, the women wore devices that measured how long they stayed underwater and how deep they dove. The devices also tracked oxygen levels in the women’s brains and muscles.


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The women dove repeatedly for two to 10 hours each day and spent an average of 56 percent of the time beneath the surface — more underwater time than many aquatic mammals, including beavers, polar bears and sea otters, the researchers say.

Chronicles of female divers in this part of Asia date back 3,000 years. Researchers have studied the divers in the lab, but the team wanted to monitor them in a real-life setting to put their abilities in context with other water-dwelling mammals. Studying the Haenyeo women’s physiological adaptations may shed light on how the ancestors of whales and other marine mammals successfully transitioned from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment, McKnight says.

Published 18th August 2025 by Brianna Randall – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/female-divers-underwater-haenyeo-korea

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I Met an Extraterrestrial: Ten Firsthand Face-to-Face Encounters

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Mr Dennett combs the world looking for docs, photos, illustrations, etc, and does his American best to pronounce foreign names and places.

Published 12th September 2025 (1:08:44)

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A TRIP TO UNKNOWN PLACES. December 9, 1954, farmer Giovanni Aquilante of Gricignano D’Aversa, Italy went missing. Two days later, he reappeared with an incredible story to tell. He said he had encountered two small humanoids who had lifted him into the sky. He couldn’t remember much of what happened to him and came back confused and traumatized. He was also healed of a serious bone disease.

TWO BEINGS APPROACHED US. On the night of July 10, 1965, a couple was motorbiking in the forests outside of Ganserndorf, Austria when a large disc-shaped craft hovered overhead and landed in a nearby field. They approached on their bike, but the engine failed. Walking on foot, they were shocked to see two tall humanoids in uniforms observing them. Shortly later, the ETs returned to their craft and flew away.

LITTLE MEN OF GREAT LEARNING. On September 10, 1965, Antonio da Silva was in his farm fields in Pau Ferro. Brazil when two small silver discs landed nearby. Two little men about 3 feet tall emerged and approached Antonio, speaking a foreign language. Antonio was terrified but said that the men seemed very friendly. After a short meeting, the little men returned to their craft and departed the area.

THE SING-SONG ALIENS. On July 17, 1967, a group of young children were playing in the fields outside the small town of Arc-Sous-Cicon, France. One of the little girls was shocked to encounter four little men in black suits. She ran off. Soon another witness saw and heard the beings. Afterwards, strange marks were found in the field and over the next two nights, a wave of UFO sightings hit the area.

SOMETHING UNUSUAL AND EXTRAORDINARY. On the night of September 25, 1967, a young, engaged couple was driving through the hills outside of Sant Feliu de Codines, Spain when their headlights illuminated a strange figure in the road. They described it as short, fat, green, with long arms and thick legs. It walked directly in front of their vehicle, so close they almost struck it. The couple drove off in fear.

I THINK THEY TRIED TO TAKE ME. On the night of March 17, 1986, farmer Rito Melgarejo was walking home in Santa Ana, Argentina when a flying saucer hovered and then landed in front of him. He was paralyzed in fear as two small humanoids in jumpsuits emerged. They spoke a strange language and used hand signals to persuade Rito to come onboard the craft. Terrified, Rito turned and ran.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN ALIENS? One night in Fall 2008, Valerie woke up in her home in Breezewood, Pennsylvania to see a strange praying mantis reptilian humanoid standing by her bed. She was unable to move as the being told her telepathically that it wanted to borrow something from her and promised to return it. Valerie protested. Moments later, it departed, leaving Valerie with a strange mystery.

YOU WILL KNOW IN TIME. Late on the night of August 24, 2013, Shawn was alone at Lake Arcadia in Edmond, Oklahoma, when he saw a strange glowing object moving underwater in the lake. Suddenly it shot out of the water. He soon saw a huge craft hovering nearby. Moments later, three tall human-like ETs appeared, and one of them had a message for him. Shawn had missing time and woke up two hours later.

I NEVER ONCE FELT AFRAID. One night in Summer 2020, two young men saw a strange craft over Laramie, Wyoming. A few weeks later, one of the men was in his bedroom when a strange paralysis gripped him. Coming through the ceiling he saw three grays. One of them connected with him telepathically, providing a download of information, leaving the witness with more questions than answers.

THE STRANGEST EXPERIENCE I EVER HAD. On the night of November 24, 2024, Oscar stepped out of a rented home in Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico to get some air. A strange man approached. Oscar was shocked to see that the man had unusually large eyes, no visible ears and extra-long fingers. When the man began to communicate telepathically, he realized that the man was probably not human.

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2017 'Megaflash’ Now the Longest Lightning Bolt on Record

It sparked more than 100 ground strikes and spanned more than 500 miles (800 kilometers)


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This composite image includes data from 160 high-resolution National Weather Service radars, scanning the skies at multiple elevations

A massive bolt of lightning lit up the sky from Dallas, Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., in October 2017. It’s now officially the longest single flash ever recorded.

Satellite data collected during that storm revealed that this megaflash spanned 829 kilometers (515 miles). It lasted 7.39 seconds, notes Michael Peterson. An applied physicist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, he’s the lead author of a study describing the event. It appeared online July 31 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 

Megaflashes are relatively rare. They happen in only about 1 in every 1,000 thunderstorms across the Americas. But any given one can pack a punch, Peterson says.

“When they can’t go up anymore, they go out, and this creates the potential for an epic flash. There are these massive, horizontally large, charged layers that can be vertically as thin as a sheet of paper. These layers are key ingredients for megaflashes.”


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The record-breaking lightning megaflash (illustrated) spanned about 829 kilometers (515 miles), roughly the distance from Dallas to Kansas City, Mo.

Understanding how giant bolts of lightning form has become an active area of research, he adds.

“A single strike can potentially impact a lot of people. It’s the most impactful kind of lightning we have on Earth. It’s the kind of lightning we want to get a good handle on to keep people safe.”

Published 17th September by Carolyn Gramling - Science News Explores
https://www.snexplores.org/article/megaflash-longest-lightning-bolt-record

[Bluegreen]

The Lego Ghost

Fantasma Planta LEGO Monterrey ... #memoalmanzarocha #lacamaradeguille

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico: Security cam captures 'ghostly gal' in the local LEGO factory.

Published 15th August 2025 (0:40)
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Latest Photos From Space

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Pan Video: Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

This video shows two views of a colourful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.

Published 24th September 2025 (0:30)
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[Bluegreen]

Looking For Aliens From The Far Side Of The Moon


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The Surreal World of Betty Boop

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Betty Boop: Snow White (1933) HD. Music by Cab Calloway (Koko the Clown).

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Tech

Security Researchers: Unitree G1 Humanoid Robots are Secretly Sending Data to China

... and can easily be hacked


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Researchers have uncovered serious security flaws with the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, a machine that is already being used in laboratories and some police departments. They discovered that G1 can be used for covert surveillance and could potentially launch a full-scale cyberattack on networks.

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction nightmares, robots that are secretly spying on you and could be controlled by remote hackers. However, the concern is real, as these types of robots are becoming increasingly common in homes, businesses, critical infrastructure and public spaces.

Particularly concerning was the fact that G1 acts as a Trojan horse, secretly and continually sending data to servers in China every five minutes, without users knowing about it. The team also showed the G1's onboard computer could be repurposed for offensive operations.

Additionally, the robot's custom encryption method to protect its internal configuration files is fundamentally flawed because it uses a simple, static key that's the same on every robot. Therefore, if a hacker were able to break the lock on one robot, they could break the locks on all of them.

Published 30th September 2025 by Paul Arnold – Tech Explore
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-g1-humanoid-robots-secretly-china.html


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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA

Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion’


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Actors union SAG-AFTRA has issued a statement condemning Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” who has become a contentious subject in Hollywood after her creator, Eline Van der Velden, recently claimed that multiple talent agents were interested in signing the AI creation. The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”


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“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation,” SAG-AFTRA wrote in a statement. “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.”

Amid growing industry backlash against Tilly Norwood, who was created by the AI production studio Particle6, creator Eline Van der Velden issued a defense by saying Tilly “is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art.”

“I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush,” Van der Velden added. “Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance.”

Published 30th September 2025 by Zack Sharf – Variety
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sag-aftra-tilly-norwood-ai-actress-1236534779/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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Parallel Dimension Breakthrough Stuns Global Researchers | GRAVITAS

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Is our Universe inside another Universe?

Published 24th September 2025 (2:44)

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A gravitational wave event detected in 2019 might have led astronomers to discover the first wormhole in the universe. LIGO and Virgo picked up the wave that lasted less than a tenth of a second. Scientists analysed the event and deduced that it was the result of a collision between two black holes. However, six years later, they think they might have been partly wrong. While the scientists still think that a merger between two black holes triggered the waves, it probably didn't happen in our universe. Instead, what we witnessed was the reverberation from an alternate universe that reached us through a wormhole. The signal named GW190521 is still the "preferred interpretation", as per researchers of a new study, but they are not denying the wormhole theory either. The revelation was made by physicist Qi Lai of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in a preprint uploaded to arXiv.

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#ufo/uap

One of the Best UFO Sightings in South Korea

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30-second clip runs twice.

Published 11th September 2025 (1:12)

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Bonus


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Top 10 Moments From the Sept 9 UAP Congressional Hearing

Tight little wrap-up from Mojo on the Sept 9 UFO hearings in Congress. Countdown includes Rep. Luna's powerful opening statements, allegations of a crash retrieval program, UFO sightings at Vandenberg AFB, the mysterious Russian "Thread 3" documents, whistleblowers facing intimidation, and the naming of alleged UFO gatekeepers ...

Published 10th September 2025 (12:40)

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This Week in Volcano News | Sumatra Magma Intrusion | Alaska Ash Plume

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Narrated by the inimitable Timothy Catron.

Published 28th September 2025 (5:13)

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A new intrusion of magma appears to be ongoing at a Sumatran volcano which has not erupted in nearly a century. Meanwhile, in Russia, a lava field is continuing to expand at the Krasheninnikov volcano. And, in Alaska, two ash plumes were generated within Katmai National Park despite there not being a volcanic eruption there. Today's video will discuss these stories through the opinion and analysis of a geologist and list the 42 world volcanoes that are actively erupting.



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Krasheninnikov volcano erupts after 500+ years

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15 Ancient Structures Still Functioning Today

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The builders would be proud.

Published 18th August 2025 (34:33)

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Roman Aqueducts


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Octobre

Ne manquez pas ces événements astronomiques d'octobre | Super Lune | Pluies de météores | Comète 3I/ATLAS

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Attendez …

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Carte du dôme céleste pour les planètes visibles et le ciel nocturne

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de la Toussaint

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Pleine Super Lune en Bélier les 6 et 7 octobre 2025

Pam parle de la première quinzaine d'octobre et de la Pleine Super Lune des 6 et 7 octobre. Qu'est-ce que cela signifie pour vous?

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[Vicus]

Question

All beginnings Horoscopes : Sumeria,Acadia,Egypt, Babylon,Greece ,India,China,etc relate to the North Hemisphere from our planet in relation to their stars position , ergo begin from Spring, winter,etc.

Therefor given the "ritualistic" positive/negative from each season and all the rest...

BUT, what if you were born in the South Hemisphere? the sky there is different, and seasons too ...

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The Southern Cross is surrounded by arresting night sky sights.

Meaning: the horoscope from somebody born in the North Hemisphere don't apply to another born in the South Hemisphere (both people born at same day and hour,etc)

I'm missing something here? then please explain it to me... :sherlock:

[Bluegreen]

Hi Vicus, good question. The seers in the Southern Hemisphere may have an answer, but I don't understand their languages. From google AI.

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Astrology interpretations can differ between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres due to seasonal variations. In the Northern Hemisphere, signs like Libra are associated with autumn, while in the Southern Hemisphere, they correspond to spring, affecting the characteristics attributed to each sign.

Differences in Astrology Between Hemispheres

Zodiac Sign Interpretations

Northern Hemisphere: Zodiac signs are associated with seasonal changes. For example, Aries represents spring, while Capricorn signifies winter.

Southern Hemisphere: The same zodiac signs are interpreted differently due to opposite seasonal experiences. For instance, Libra, typically an autumn sign in the North, represents spring in the South.

Chart Orientation

Northern Hemisphere: Astrological charts are oriented with the Sun rising in the East and moving across the Southern sky from left to right (clockwise).

Southern Hemisphere: Charts are oriented with the Sun rising in the East and moving across the Northern sky from right to left (counter-clockwise).

Planetary Distribution

Northern Hemisphere | Houses 1-6 | Focus on personal identity, introspective nature.

Southern Hemisphere | Houses 7-12 | Emphasis on social interactions and public life.

Personality Traits

Northern Hemisphere Dominance: Individuals may be more private, introspective, and focused on personal development.

Southern Hemisphere Dominance: Individuals tend to be more extroverted, socially engaged, and concerned with public roles.

Understanding these differences can help individuals interpret their horoscopes more accurately based on their geographical location.

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While I do not include it in my postings, most astronomical websites, located in the NH themselves, run a disclaimer somewhere on the page, like this from www.earthsky.org.



Our charts are mostly set for the northern half of Earth. To see a precise view – and time – from your location, try Stellarium Online. (https://stellarium-web.org/)

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[Vicus]

Experiment: for Bluegreen and others who are curios too... :sherlock:

OK. Now try this portal based in South America, with your personal data and will see what you get... then tell me if there is something
different...

http://grupovenus.com/

If you go here: https://grupovenus.com/cursos/#astro

There is a part called "What is a Horoscope ?"

Where describe each sign... ob are equal with the North Hemisphere?...

In my case is almost the same, but how could that be? :confused:

I was born in Spring but my sign in the North is in Fall... complete opposite qualities...

[Vicus]

Well, I'm not the only one asking ...

When the South hemisphere question first came to my mind, I was puzzled by the fact classical calculations were not reflecting the season's inversion. In the mean time, if we opted for inversing the signs for the Southern hemisphere to make them match with the seasons, we then came with another problem: people born close to each other but in opposite hemispheres (1° North and 1° South of the equator) would end up with opposite Sun signs and this does not make sense at all. The best solution was then to keep the status quo, and not inverse anything. But, when in 1997, I read Max Duval's article (1) suggesting to inverse the signs, not on the equator, but on the ecliptic, I got hooked by the idea as it was starting to make more sense!

continue: http://fallonastro.com/text-hemisouth.html

another one: https://www.claremarcie.com/zodiac-seasons-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

[Bluegreen]

Hurricane Humberto's Eye Lit Up By Lightning: Space Station

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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim captured Hurricane Humberto from the International Space Staiton on Sept 28, 2025, using a Nikon Z9 camera +++ NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured footage of the storm on Sept. 27-29, 2025.

Published 29th September 2025 (1:20)
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An Expanding Blue Disc by Akiyoshi Kitaoka

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[Bluegreen]

Bill Nye and the Planetary Society hold 'Save NASA Science' day of action on Capitol Hill


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The government may be shut down, but space exploration advocates are still pleading NASA's case on Capitol Hill.

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding, which was slashed nearly in half in the White House's proposed 2026 federal budget.

Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye, known for his 'Science Guy' broadcasts, spoke at a "Save NASA Science" press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. He laid out the impact to the space agency and the broader U.S. science community should President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2026 (FY26) presidential budget proposal (PBR) turn into law.

"These proposed cuts would force the premature termination of dozens of missions — fully functioning spacecraft summarily turned off, development work on virtually every future science mission summarily halted," Nye said at the event, which featured over 300 supporters and 20 national organizations.

"When it comes to exploration, there is no private option. NASA Science is a bargain. For every dollar spent, at least three come back into the economy. Last year, NASA's investment in science generated more than $20 billion of economic growth and supported over 80,000 jobs in all 50 states."

Nye argued that science and exploration aren't just suggestions — they're part of the foundation of the country.

"Article One, clause eight of the US Constitution recommends to Congress that they promote the progress of science and useful arts," he said. "It's in the Constitution."

Published 6th October 2025 by Josh Dinner – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/bill-nye-the-protest-guy-and-the-planetary-society-hold-save-nasa-science-day-of-action-on-capitol-hill

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117-Year-Old Woman's Diet Could Help Us All Live Longer

What the gut microbiome of the world’s oldest person can tell us about ageing


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When María Branyas Morera died in 2024 at the age of 117, she left more than memories. She left science a gift: samples of her microbiome.

Researchers discovered her gut was as diverse as someone decades younger: rich in beneficial bacteria linked to resilience and longevity. Her daily yoghurt habit and Mediterranean diet may have helped. While we can’t all inherit “lucky genes”, nurturing our microbiome may be one way to support lifelong health.

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In a recent paper in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers presented what may be the most detailed scientific investigation of a supercentenarian (a person aged 110 or older). Before her death, Branyas agreed to participate in research aimed at uncovering how she lived such a long and healthy life. When scientists compared her samples with those of people who had not reached such exceptional ages, the genetic results were unsurprising: Branyas carried protective variants that guard against common diseases.

But they also looked at something over which we have more control – the gut microbiome.

This microbiome is the vast community of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms that live in the intestines. They help digest food, produce vitamins, influence our immune system and even communicate with the brain. While our genes play only a small role in shaping our microbiome, diet and lifestyle are far more important.

Normally, as people age, gut microbiomes lose diversity – the variety of microbial species – and beneficial microbes such as Bifidobacterium decline. This reduction in diversity has been linked to frailty.

Branyas’s gut told a different story. Her microbiome was as diverse as that of a much younger adult and was especially rich in the bacterial family Bifidobacteriaceae, including the genus Bifidobacterium.


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Bifidobacteria are among the first microbes to colonise an infant’s gut and are generally considered beneficial throughout life. Studies link them to supporting immune function, protecting against gastrointestinal disorders and helping regulate cholesterol.

Her diet offered a clue to why she maintained such high levels of Bifidobacterium. Branyas reported eating three yoghurts every day, each containing live bacteria that are known to support the growth of Bifidobacterium. She also followed a largely Mediterranean diet, a pattern of eating consistently linked to gut microbiome diversity and good health.

Other foods that encourage Bifidobacterium include kefir, kombucha and fermented vegetables such as kimchi and sauerkraut. These contain probiotics – live bacteria that can settle in the gut and confer health benefits. But probiotics need fuel. Prebiotics – dietary fibres we can’t digest but that our microbes thrive on – are found in foods like onions, garlic, leeks, asparagus, bananas, oats and legumes. Together, probiotics and prebiotics help maintain a balanced microbiome.


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María Branyas Morera’s life is a reminder that longevity depends on a delicate balance of genetics, lifestyle and biology. We cannot control every factor, but tending to our gut microbiome is one meaningful step toward lasting health.

Published 1st October 2025 by Rachel Woods – The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/what-the-gut-microbiome-of-the-worlds-oldest-person-can-tell-us-about-ageing-266161


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Worlds Most Powerful Centrifuge Begins Operations in China


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China has launched CHIEF1300, the worlds largest and most capable centrifuge, able to generate up to 300 times Earth gravity on a 20 tonne payload. The facility is a core element of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), now under development in Hangzhou.

Designed and built by Zhejiang University, CHIEF includes three centrifuges and 18 in-flight devices distributed across six experimental cabins. Two larger centrifuges are still under construction. The system is engineered to sustain accelerations up to 1,500G, far exceeding the 2G felt on a roller coaster or the 5G experienced by astronauts at launch.

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"In a hypergravity field, researchers can simulate real-world hydrogeological catastrophes, geological evolution and extreme environments in bench-top scale models within reasonable timeframe," said Chen Yunmin, chief scientist of the project. At 100G, a 1-meter model can stand in for a 100-meter structure, compressing a century-long contamination process into less than four days.

The CHIEF1300 centrifuge is housed in a 230-square-meter underground chamber. Its 6.4-meter-radius arm spins at high speed, with vacuum and wall-cooling systems reducing drag and heat. "CHIEF1300 was placed below ground level, and was equipped with vacuum and wall-cooling setups to mitigate the adverse influences of air resistance and machine heating," noted Ling Daosheng, chief engineer of the facility.

Early experiments have reproduced strong earthquakes to validate the seismic resilience of hydropower dam foundations, modeled tsunami effects on seabeds to guide offshore wind farm site selection, and simulated deep-sea pressures relevant to methane hydrate extraction. The centrifuge has also enabled synthesis of advanced metal alloys with high strength and ductility.

Chen emphasized that CHIEF will operate as an international research platform. "He looks forward to teaming up with the world's top research groups to accelerate discovery and spark innovation."

Published 30th September 2025 by Riko Seibo – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Worlds_most_powerful_centrifuge_begins_operations_in_China_999.html

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Space Rock | WingMakers Music & Art

"Ancient Arrow Project - Chambers 01-09"


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Fly Over Xanthe Terra With ESA's Mars Express

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Let's go to outer space.

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Astronomers Observe Rogue Planet Growing Like Wildfire

It’s the fastest growth rate ever observed in a planet

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A rogue planet some 600 light-years away has been going through a growth spurt, gobbling up gas and dust at a rate of 6 billion metric tons per second, researchers report in the Oct. 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet, which doesn’t orbit a star, holds the record for the fastest growth observed in any planet — with or without a host star — and provides clues about how free-floating planets are born.

Astronomers first spotted the young rogue planet, called Cha 1170-7626, in the southern hemisphere constellation Chamaeleon almost 20 years ago. The object, estimated to be five to 10 times as massive as Jupiter, was packing on the pounds by sucking up material from a surrounding disk of gas and dust, says astronomer Victor Almendros-Abad of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

He and his colleagues wanted to investigate the evolution of rogue planets, which may have formed around host stars like standard planets and then been flung from their homes, or formed in isolation from collapsing gas clouds like stars do.

Almendros-Abad will try to spy on the lonely planet again later this year to check if it’s still engorging itself. “We'll see. One discovery itself doesn’t tell you much about the big picture,” he says. The team aims to catch more rogue planets during gluttonous periods to assess how often and for how long these events occur.

Published 10th October 2025 by McKenzie Prillaman – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rogue-planet-rapid-growth-spurt

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Madeline Kahn – I Ain't Got No Home

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Here is the lovely and talented Broadway veteran, Madeline Kahn, to perform The Ballad of Cha 1170-7626: “I Ain't Got No Home”.

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The Sky At Night

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1 to 2 Starlink Satellites Are Falling Back To Earth Each Day

Currently, there are 1 to 2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day. Soon there will be more. Satellites give us enormous benefits that are also multiplying. But are we doing enough to protect our delicate future in near-Earth space?

There are more than 8,000 Starlink satellites overhead at this moment. They’re a product of the space transportation company SpaceX. And that number is growing. Plus there are other companies and countries also deploying more and more satellites, adding to the number of satellites in Earth orbit. Many of these are in low-Earth orbits, which extend up to an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 km) above our planet. And the lifespan of low-Earth orbit satellites, such as Starlink, is only about 5 to 7 years. Soon, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day.

With all constellations deployed, we expect about 30,000 low-Earth orbit satellites (Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, others) and perhaps another 20,000 satellites at 1,000 km [620 miles] from the Chinese systems. For the low-orbit satellites we expect a 5-year replacement cycle, and that translates to five reentries a day.

Published 8th October 2025 by Kelly Kizer Whitt - EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/


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SpaceX recently launched 28 Starlink satellites on October 7, 2025, and launched 24 Project Kuiper satellites on October 11, 2025. These missions are part of ongoing efforts to expand their satellite constellations for internet services.

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Treasure Finders

Up to 20,000 Coins From Early Middle Ages Discovered by Man Digging for Worms

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.


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A man went digging for worms outside Stockholm, Sweden, and made the discovery of a lifetime: a hoard of up to 20,000 silver coins intermingled with pearls, pendants and silver rings.

The hoard dates to the Early Middle Ages and weighs about 13 pounds (6 kilograms), according to a translated statement from the Stockholm County Administrative Board.

The worm digger, who found the hoard by his summer house, reported the finding to local government officials. Archaeologists are now examining the treasures, which had been placed in a copper cauldron that has largely degraded over time.

"This is probably one of the largest silver treasures from the early Middle Ages that has been found in Sweden," Sofia Andersson, an antiquarian at the County Administrative Board in Stockholm, said in the statement. "We don't yet know exactly how many coins there are, but I think it could be upwards of twenty thousand."

A preliminary analysis showed that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century. Some bear the text "KANUTUS," the Latin name for Knut, meaning they were minted during the reign of Swedish king Knut Eriksson, who ruled from 1173 to about 1195.


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Three of the silver coins from the hoard, which depict (from left) the 12th-century Swedish king Knut Eriksson, a Gotland coin that may feature a church, and a rare bishop's coin. Notice the bishop's crosier.

A few of the coins are rare, including several "bishop coins" that were minted by powerful bishops, according to the statement. These coins depict a bishop holding a crosier, a shepherd's crook that was widely used by clergy as a symbol of their ecclesiastical work.

"It is completely unique; we have no other medieval treasures from Stockholm," Lin Annerbäck, director of the Medieval Museum in Stockholm, said in Swedish to the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. "And then it seems to be extremely large too. So it is very exciting."

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Ancient Roman tombstone found beneath undergrowth in New Orleans yard

A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 years ago


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When clearing undergrowth near their New Orleans "shotgun" house one day, a married couple discovered something completely unexpected: a Roman headstone that had once marked the grave of a soldier who lived half the world away in the second century.

Research into the unlikely object indicates that it is genuine, and its discovery hints at an international mystery that dates back to World War II.

"We get calls from the public about odd finds in yards in the area pretty often," said University of New Orleans archaeologist D. Ryan Gray, who analyzed the headstone. "Often it turns out to be something natural that just happens to look like an artifact."

In this case, the homeowners were Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz.

"When Daniella initially described this, I thought maybe it was a 19th-century gravestone that had been scavenged from a New Orleans cemetery and then discarded," Gray said. "However, as soon as I saw the photo of the inscription, I immediately suspected this was something very different."


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The stone is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) wide and slightly longer, and one surface is densely chiseled with Roman text

Experts say the Latin inscription can be translated to English and reads: "To the Spirits of the Dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe of the Bessi [of Thrace], (who) lived 42 years (and) served 22 in the military, on the trireme [warship] Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made (this) for him well deserving."

Published October 2025 by Laura Geggel and Tom Metcalfe – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-roman-tombstone-found-beneath-undergrowth-in-new-orleans-yard
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Santoro had found the unusual marble tablet beneath the undergrowth in the backyard of her "shotgun" house in the city's historic Carrollton neighborhood.

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Bird Nerds

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Goose Attacks Reporter as Students Deal With ‘Terror Bird’

Reporter finds out protective father means business.

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Rare Blue Jay/Green Jay Hybrid Found in Texas

A bird after my own heart.

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Fleet of UFOs Over Gainesville, Georgia

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Young couple tries to figure out what they are looking at. Clip plays twice.

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Natural Disasters

'Space Tornadoes' Could Cause Geomagnetic Storms, Havoc

Phenomena Still Under Study


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The early structure of the CME in the SC domain. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025)

Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations to forecast how these destructive storms form and where they might travel, which helps prevent damage to coastal communities. When you're trying to forecast space weather, rather than storms on Earth, creating these simulations gets a little more complex. To simulate space weather, you would need to fit the sun, the planets and the vast empty space between them in a virtual environment, also known as a simulation box, where all the calculations would take place.

Space weather is very different from the storms you see on Earth. These events come from the sun, which ejects eruptions of charged particles and magnetic fields from its surface. The most powerful of these events are called interplanetary coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, which travel at speeds approaching 1,800 miles per second (2,897 kilometers per second).

To put that in perspective, a single CME could move a mass of material equivalent to all the Great Lakes from New York City to Los Angeles in just under two seconds—almost faster than it takes to say "space weather."

When these CMEs hit Earth, they can cause geomagnetic storms, which manifest in the sky as beautiful auroras. These storms can also damage key technological infrastructure, such as by interfering with the flow of electricity in the power grid and causing transformers to overheat and fail.


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Moonquakes

By studying Apollo-sampled boulders, accounting for seismic measurements, and analyzing imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, US researchers have predicted the frequency and magnitudes of moonquakes at the Apollo 17 landing site. They now aim to do the same for active faults on the Moon’s south pole to protect future astronauts and hardware on long-term missions.


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Predicted seismic shakemap intensities and ground-motion due to an active fault near the Apollo 17 landing site.

Unlike Earthquakes, moonquakes can last for hours, thereby posing a stability risk to vehicles operating nearby, structures, and individuals.

Read more here (https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-246/) and here (https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-apollo-samples-lro-help-scientists-forecast-moonquakes/)


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This 1972 image shows Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt sampling a boulder at the base of North Massif in the Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon. This large boulder is believed to have been dislodged by a strong moonquake. The picture was taken by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander.

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What Do Astronauts Eat in Space?

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The government shutdown has done the same to (as far as I can tell) all of the various NASA media outlets.

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Still from “Gold” starring Hans Albers and Brigitte Helm (1934 – Germany)

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I heard “4 trillion years ago” (about 4:20?). Sounded refreshingly anti mainstream science.

Lots going on out there. For anyone thinking about interstellar travellers, the huge plasma ‘wires’ described here, so-called filaments, yeah they may need to watch out for those.

No Bang - Just Currents, Episode 4: Evolutionary Hierarchies and Cosmic Filaments

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Physicist and fusion researcher Eric Lerner presents a sweeping critique of the Big Bang theory and the standard model of cosmology at Demysticon 2025. He builds on the foundations of plasma physics and the work of Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén to outline an alternative cosmological framework rooted in known physical laws—gravity, nuclear fusion, and electromagnetic plasma behavior—rather than hypothetical concepts like dark matter, dark energy, or cosmic inflation. He explores how filamentary plasma structures may account for galaxy formation, how fusion research using dense plasma focus devices parallels cosmic processes, and how the cosmic microwave background may not be relic radiation from a singular origin. Merging astrophysics, plasma cosmology, and fusion energy research, this talk reframes the origin and structure of the universe - and calls into question the prevailing narratives at the heart of modern theoretical physics.

In Episode 4, Lerner discusses ways to observe how filamentary structures pervade the universe, from super-clusters down to stars.


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To develop the sixth sense, first you must develop the five.

– attributed to Harry Houdini et. al.

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To finish first, first you must finish.

– Dick Trickle

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Halo of the Cat's Eye by Taavi Niittee (Tõrva Astronomy)


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What created the unusual halo around the Cat's Eye Nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae on the sky. Although haunting symmetries are seen in the bright central region, this image was taken to feature its intricately structured outer halo, which spans over three light-years across.

Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a Sun-like star. Only recently however, have some planetaries been found to have expansive halos, likely formed from material shrugged off during earlier puzzling episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age of the outer filamentary portions of the Cat's Eye Nebula's halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years.



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Satellite Overload

Oct 7 2025 - SpaceX Launches 28 Starlink Satellites With a Falcon 9 Booster

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night, which added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. SpaceX launched this mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1071. This is the second-most flown booster, with this being its 29th flight.

Published 7th October 2025 by Will Robinson-Smith - Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/07/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-2/

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Oct 13 2025 - SpaceX Launches 24 Amazon Kuiper Satellites

After more than a week of launch delays, SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with two dozen of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites onboard Monday night.


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The mission came about an hour and a half following the splashdown of SpaceX’s Starship rocket at the conclusion of Starship Flight 11.

Published 13th October 2025 by Will Robinson-Smith - Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/13/live-coverage-spacex-poised-to-launch-24-amazon-kuiper-satellites-following-days-of-weather-delays/

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Oct 14 2025 - SpaceX Launches 2nd Batch of Satellites for Space Development Agency

The Space Development Agency added another 21 satellites to its burgeoning low Earth orbit constellation thanks to a launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It is the second of ten launches that the SDA booked onboard Falcon 9 so far.

Published 14th October 2025 by Will Robinson-Smith - Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/14/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-2nd-batch-of-satellites-for-space-development-agency-constellation/

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Oct 15 2025 - SpaceX Sends 28 Starlink Satellites to Low Earth Orbit

An overnight launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station allowed SpaceX to continue bolstering its Starlink satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.

The Thursday morning flight added another 28 V2 Mini satellites to the network of 8,600 currently on orbit, according to astronomer and expert orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell. Of the more than 125 Falcon 9 launches in 2025, 91 have flown in support of SpaceX’s constellation prior to Thursday.

Published 15th October 2025 by Will Robinson-Smith - Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/15/live-coverage-overnight-launch-planned-for-28-more-starlink-satellites/

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THE THOLIAN WEB

Readers of a certain age will remember The Tholian Web. It appeared in a 1968 episode of Star Trek (The Original Series). Captain Kirk was caught between dimensions while Spock and crew rushed to rescue him. At the same time, the Tholians weaved a destructive energy web around the Enterprise.

Fast forward to 2025, and the Tholian Web is real.


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The checkerboard streaks in this image were photographed by Lorenzo Comolli of Saint Barthelemy, Italy. He was trying to take a picture of Comet Lemmon in September, but as the exposure time increased, more and more Starlink satellites crossed the field of view.

"It seems that the promise of Musk of dark satellites is completely void. They are really bright (2nd and 3rd magnitude)," says Comolli. "This makes me worry for the future quality of the sky."

He's right to worry. Right now, Earth is surrounded by about 8000 Starlinks with future plans calling for 42,000. Amazon’s Project Kuiper has begun launching its own planned 3,200-satellite broadband fleet, while China is building two more megaconstellations: Guowang (13,000 satellites) and "Qianfan" ("Thousand Sails", 15,000-plus). Together, they could eventually rival or surpass Starlink.


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Who are the Tholians? You decide.

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


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Space Bites w/Fraser Cain

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THIS WEEK IN SPACE: Iron Appears on 3I/ATLAS, Starship Flight 11, Betelgeuse and Betelbuddy. DNA/Bacteria Could Survive on Mars. Fraser frets about turning into “The 3I/ATLAS Channel”.

Published 17th October 2025 (20:05)
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Up @ the ECETI Ranch

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BREAKING NEWS SPECIAL UPDATE ~ C1 3I ATLAS, C/2025 A6 LEMMON, UFO/UAP, FLEETS OR SHIPS ARRIVING. James Gilliland weighs in on 3I/ATLAS and current ET activity.

Published 13th October 2025 (19:49)
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Related:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118695-Is-James-Gilliland-a-Cosmic-Conman

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3I/ATLAS Basics


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3I/ATLAS sweeps past Mars

◘ Origin:
The "I" in its name stands for "interstellar," meaning it came from another star system. 

◘ Discovery:
The ATLAS survey in Chile first detected it in July 2025. 

◘ Name:
It is the third interstellar object found, hence the "3". The name "ATLAS" comes from the survey that discovered it. 

◘ Speed:
It is the fastest object ever detected in our solar system. 

◘ Size:
Initial estimates suggest it could be larger than previously thought, possibly up to 20 km across. Some observations estimate the nucleus could be as small as 440 meters across, though it could be much larger. 

◘ Behavior:
It started forming a coma (a fuzzy cloud of gas and dust) at a distance from the sun that is much farther out than typical comets. 

◘ Trajectory:
It is on a hyperbolic trajectory, meaning it will not orbit our sun but will travel through the solar system and then exit back into interstellar space. 

◘ Threat:
Scientists have determined that it is not on a collision course with Earth. 


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Arts & Crafts

Cops Pull Over Suspect With Hand Drawn License Plate

Art class meets the open road.

California Highway Patrol officers in Merced were taken aback during a recent traffic stop when they noticed a license plate that looked straight out of a sketchbook.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that the California plate was a hand-drawn imitation, rather than an official DMV-issued tag, the CHP said Friday on Facebook.

“We’ll give this driver points for creativity,” the department wrote.

The driver explained to officers that they had lost the original license plate and resorted to creating a makeshift version. While the creativity was noted, the homemade plate was not legally acceptable.

“If your plates are lost or stolen, you can easily get replacements through the DMV instead of breaking out the art supplies,” the post added.

Published 14th October 2025 by Erin Keller – The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/california-fake-license-plate-b2845395.html


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Best Translating Earbuds in 2025 [Real-Time Language Translation]

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The Tower of Babel is crumbling. Prices range from $130 to $449.

Published 9th October 2025 (5:33)
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[Bluegreen]

Space Rock News

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Bright Fireball Seen Over Kentucky and Alabama

Skywatchers caught a glimpse of fireball burning up in the night sky in Kentucky and Alabama on Oct. 14, 2025. Footage courtesy: Jessica Winn, Jo Ann Richardson.

Published 13th October 2025 (1:05)
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House Sized Space Rock Gives Earth a Close Shave - Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2025 TP5 flew about ~60,000 miles (97,000 km) from Earth on Oct,. 15, 2025. It is estimated to be about 17 meters in diameter (~55 feet).

Published 15th October 2025 (1:09)
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There’s a Dwarf Planet Between Mars and Jupiter

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There’s a dwarf planet hiding between Mars and Jupiter .… and most folks have never heard of it; Pluto's "evil twin" - Ceres.

Published 17th October 2025 (10:47)
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[Bluegreen]

Rubb Outt Thee Wordd

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– W.S. Burroughs cut-ups –

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Safe at home?

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Lemmon Tree by Uroš Fink


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Astrophotographer Uroš Fink captured Comet Lemmon positioned above a lonesome tree in Slovenia. Comet Lemmon has reached its closest approach to our Sun and is now approaching Earth - although it is not passing close enough to be a danger. It is expected to brighten and may become visible to the unaided eye over the next few weeks.

Published 19th October 2025 (3:38)
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[Bluegreen]

The Night Sky

Tuesday, Oct. 21 — New Moon

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The moon will pass the sun at new moon on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 8:25 a.m. EDT (5:25 a.m. PDT, or 1225 GMT). At that time, our natural satellite will be 3.8 degrees south of the sun in Virgo. While new, the moon is traveling between Earth and the sun. Since sunlight can only illuminate the far side of the moon, and the moon is in the same region of the sky as the sun, it is usually completely hidden from view from anywhere on Earth for about a day.

Friday, Oct. 24 — Young Moon Near Antares (after sunset)

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As the sky darkens after sunset on Friday, Oct. 24, the waxing crescent moon will be positioned a thumb's width below (or 2 degrees to the celestial southwest of) the star that marks the heart of the Scorpion, bright reddish Antares. The pair will make a lovely sight in binoculars (orange circle) as they sink in the southwestern sky. Sharp eyes might catch Mercury and Mars off to their right.

Saturday, Oct. 25 — The Dolphin Swims the Southern Sky (all night)

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During mid-evening in late October, the small constellation of Delphinus is positioned high in the southern sky. Look for its five 4th magnitude stars shining just to the lower left (or celestial southeast) of the line connecting the very bright stars Deneb and Altair.

According to Greek legend, Poseidon, god of the seas, was assisted in a matter of the heart by a friendly dolphin, so he rewarded it with a place of honor in the heavens. Delphinus' brightest two stars are bluish Sualocin, at the top of its head, and whitish Rotanev, at the nape of its neck. Those funny appellations are actually the name of 19th-century astronomer Nicolaus Venator spelled backwards.

[Bluegreen]

Most Common Passwords 2025

:ranger:

1 - 123456 - Still the most-used password year after year
2 - 111111 - Easy to type, but extremely insecure
3 - admin - Default for many systems — highly vulnerable
4 - qwerty - Simple keyboard pattern easily guessed
5 - password - Surprisingly still used despite years of warnings
6 - 123456789 - Common variation of the #1 password
7 - 123123 - Repetitive pattern with high exposure rates
8 - 12345 - Frequently used on systems with lower character requirements
9 - 000000 - Often used as placeholder or temporary login
10- iloveyou - Sentimental but predictable phrase found in many breaches

Top 50 (no order)

123456 
password
123456789
12345678
12345
1234567
1234567890 
qwerty
abc123
111111
123123
admin
letmein
welcome
monkey
1234
1q2w3e4r
123
sunshine
superman
iloveyou
654321
password1
qwerty123
121212
dragon
666666
trustno1
112233
charlie
hunter
7777777
password123
baseball
555555
football
qwertyuiop
jordan23
shadow
michael
biteme
lovely
princess
sunshine
ashley
pepper
987654321
hello
freedom
whatever

[Orph]

Ummmmmmm, .............., passwords are supposed to be kept secret, soooooooooo, how does (something/someone/it or whatever ?????) know what the most used passwords are?

(I'm just being tongue-in-cheek silly). :bigsmile:

[Bluegreen]

Space Rock | Bad Apple!!

【東方】Bad Apple!! ＰＶ feat.nomico【影絵】

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How One Pilot's "Crazy" Landing Method Cut Carrier Crashes by 80%

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In 1951, naval aviation was on the brink of collapse. Carrier pilots were dying every week, and landing a jet on a moving ship was almost suicidal. Then came Captain Dennis Cambell of the Royal Navy, a man with no engineering degree but one revolutionary idea — a quick sketch that would change everything.

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Vintage Aircraft Carrier Landings - Fails and Mishaps

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"Every single loss was in the last 30 seconds of flight."

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How One Pilot's "Crazy" Landing Method Cut Carrier Crashes by 80%

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In 1951, naval aviation was on the brink of collapse. Carrier pilots were dying every week, and landing a jet on a moving ship was almost suicidal. Then came Captain Dennis Cambell of the Royal Navy, a man with no engineering degree but one revolutionary idea — a quick sketch that would change everything.

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BG, thanks. This man is a model of intrinsic leadership, against odds of heavy institutional backlash.

He stood his ground, was given a chance to prove his idea of an angled landing deck, and the results were on his side.


Bluegreen’s post should be viewed apolitically. Every serious warrior I’ve read, has empathy for opposing or theoretically enemy fighting folks. They know that the conflicts are the works of governments, and the fighters are just doing their jobs.

[Bluegreen]

Saturnalia

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The Cassini spacecraft caught the sixth planet from our star and its rings like never before. In this photo, Saturn’s rings are gloriously backlit with the Sun blocked by the planet. (Credit: NASA/ JPL/ Space Science Institute)

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'Near Stationary' Tropical Storm Melissa is Moving Slower Than a Person Walking

— and it may bring deadly flash floods to the Caribbean


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Tropical Storm Melissa is moving at a snail's pace but will intensify rapidly as it feeds off near-record-warm water temperatures in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters say.

After circling the central Caribbean Sea and remaining 'near stationary' this week, Tropical Storm Melissa is now about 160 miles (260 kilometers) southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and drifting southeastward at 1 mph (1.6 km/h).

The storm's bafflingly slow advance, which is projected to stay below an average person's walking speed at around 2 mph (3.2 km/h) over the weekend, could be dire for several Caribbean islands, experts warn.

Tropical Storm Melissa will continue to lumber along a path somewhere between Jamaica and Haiti, with forecasters predicting a slow movement toward the northeast and north in the coming hours, and a westward drift from late October onward.

Melissa is the 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It's unclear exactly what has been stalling it, but a combination of strong upper-level winds and other dampening conditions across weather systems could be responsible. For instance, the lack of a cold front — a wedge of cold air that pushes warmer air up and causes it to release its energy, creating bad weather — might partially explain Melissa's crawling speed.

Published 24th October 2025 by Sascha Pare – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/near-stationary-tropical-storm-melissa-is-moving-slower-than-a-person-walking-and-it-may-bring-deadly-flash-floods-to-the-caribbean

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Autumn Constellations

Auriga the Charioteer and Bright Capella


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Auriga the Charioteer is a popular constellation for Northern Hemisphere observers in autumn, because its flashing star advertises its presence. Capella, the brightest star in Auriga, flashes red, blue and green when it’s close to the horizon and seen through a thick layer of Earth’s atmosphere. Close to Capella are a pair of stars known as The Kids, baby goats that the Charioteer carries. And Auriga houses three star clusters, easy targets to hunt down with binoculars.

Auriga is a far-northern constellation. It’s close enough to the North Star that people in the northern U.S. and Canada – and similar latitudes – see it as circumpolar. In other words, they can see all or part of the constellation on any night of the year.

But some times of the year are definitely better than others. If you want to see the entirety of Auriga, start looking for the constellation and flickering Capella in Northern Hemisphere autumn. Soon you’ll be familiar with its gems and ready to go deeper by the time it moves higher and into better viewing position by winter.


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If you’re unsure whether you’ve identified Capella, you can always look nearby for a small triangle of stars. This triangle is an asterism, or a smaller named configuration of stars. While Capella is known as the Goat Star, this little triangle asterism represents The Kids.

Auriga’s brightest star, Alpha Aurigae, is a twinkling beauty named Capella. It’s a golden star, somewhat similar to our sun. In fact, if you could get some distance away from our solar system – light-years away – you might see our Sun much as we see this striking star. Capella is located at one corner of the constellation Auriga, marking the Charioteer’s left shoulder.


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Published 23rd October 2025 by Kelly Kizer Whitt – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/constellations/closeup-on-auriga/

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"You're out of order!"

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[Johnnycomelately]

Quiet Saturday evening in, watching The Commitments, stopped to catch my breath and dry some tears. 27 minutes left, of 1:52:40.

So much joy of life portrayed, and so much quirky mind-messing like the twin younger sisters who pop up now and then. Very much like the charming Australian twin women who have been posted here.

The music is kind of, I would say, heavenly. It just sounds so nice, and I hope actual Heaven sounds as good. Might take eons, but if they don’t have it by then, then I will blast us some Commitments.

Happy Saturday night, all.

♥ --- The Commitments --- ♥ Alan Parker ♥ 1991 ♥ VostFr ...

Melissa Azertyh

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♥ the commitments ♥
juste parce que j'adore ce film !!!!
profitez-en vite avant que cette vidéo ne soit supprimée .... lol


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Faust (1926) F.W. Murnau's Masterpiece

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Visually stunning, creative film from 100 years ago.

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"Faust is a tragedy drawn in magnificent images like paintings in light and shadow and is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful of Murnau's German films."
- TCM

"From the standpoint of taste and photographic brilliance it is doubtful whether there has ever been a production that surpassed it."
- Variety

"It can be said without exaggeration that each individual scene in this production is in itself a perfect picture."
- New York Post


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[Bluegreen]

Where The Atomic Nuclei Are: Maurice Sendak - Physics Illustrator


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Well before Maurice Sendak became famous for Where the Wild Things Are, he was an 18-year-old high school senior in Brooklyn, New York, looking for his first paying art gig. Already known at his school as a talented artist, Sendak was asked in 1946 by his physics teacher, Hyman Ruchlis, to illustrate a popular-science book titled Atomics for the Millions.

In the book, Ruchlis and coauthor Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff, a professor of chemistry at Queens College in New York City and veteran of the Manhattan Project, aimed to demystify nuclear science for laypeople in the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Sendak agreed to do the work for 1% of the royalties , of which he received an advance of $100. He also negotiated a title-page credit as the book’s illustrator—added to the contract in a handwritten addendum at the last minute—and, allegedly, a promise from Ruchlis that he’d receive a passing grade in his physics class.

Published in 1947, Atomics for the Millions was Sendak’s first credited work, and copies are now sought by collectors.


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In many of his drawings, Sendak anthropomorphizes atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles to convey the otherwise esoteric details of nuclear science. Here, he shows sodium atoms, taking the form of young women reminiscent of 1940s bobby-soxers, and chlorine atoms, represented by strapping young men, meeting on the “chemical dance floor” and forming sodium chloride molecules.

Published 1st November 2024 by Ryan Dahn - Physics Today
https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251

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Sendak illustrates radioactive half-life by using radium. He shows the element’s atoms holding hands in the top row. After its half-life of 1590 years has passed, half the radium atoms remain, on average; after 3180 years, only a quarter of the atoms are intact. Sendak’s use of the word “suicide” in his caption is striking: The artist struggled with depression throughout his life and was open about having had suicidal thoughts.


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No popular-science book about 20th-century physics would be complete without a discussion of Albert Einstein and E = mc2. In their “Modern Alchemy” chapter, the authors explain the process of nuclear transmutation, the transformation of one element into another through radioactive decay or other nuclear reactions, by analogizing it to alchemy in the Middle Ages. Sendak’s illustration shows Einstein, deep in thought, pondering a balance—an alchemist’s tool—whose two arms are equally loaded with matter and energy.


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Sendak’s final illustration in the book makes vividly apparent the binary choice between nuclear utopia and nuclear oblivion that the authors believed humanity was facing. Some might argue that the drawing lacks nuance, but one could say the same of the authors’ characterization of the future of the atomic era.

[Bluegreen]

Alien Horrors This Halloween | Ancient Aliens

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On this Halloween night, explore terrifying tales of ancient encounters, haunted legends, and otherworldly visitors that may have walked among us.

Published 28th October 2025 (35:04)
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[Bill Ryan]

Where The Atomic Nuclei Are: Maurice Sendak - Physics Illustrator

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Well before Maurice Sendak became famous for Where the Wild Things Are, he was an 18-year-old high school senior in Brooklyn, New York, looking for his first paying art gig. Already known at his school as a talented artist, Sendak was asked in 1946 by his physics teacher, Hyman Ruchlis, to illustrate a popular-science book titled Atomics for the Millions.

In the book, Ruchlis and coauthor Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff, a professor of chemistry at Queens College in New York City and veteran of the Manhattan Project, aimed to demystify nuclear science for laypeople in the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Sendak agreed to do the work for 1% of the royalties , of which he received an advance of $100. He also negotiated a title-page credit as the book’s illustrator—added to the contract in a handwritten addendum at the last minute—and, allegedly, a promise from Ruchlis that he’d receive a passing grade in his physics class.

Published in 1947, Atomics for the Millions was Sendak’s first credited work, and copies are now sought by collectors.

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In many of his drawings, Sendak anthropomorphizes atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles to convey the otherwise esoteric details of nuclear science. Here, he shows sodium atoms, taking the form of young women reminiscent of 1940s bobby-soxers, and chlorine atoms, represented by strapping young men, meeting on the “chemical dance floor” and forming sodium chloride molecules.

Published 1st November 2024 by Ryan Dahn - Physics Today
https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/where-the-atomic-nuclei-are-maurice-sendak-physics-illustrator-1759943541251~~~

Fabulous, THX :highfive: — I confess I'd never heard of this! I read all about it just now, and it's very famous. The hardcover books, now very rare, are only available for many hundreds of dollars used.

But I found a PDF, now here in the Avalon Library: :thumbsup:

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Dr%20Maxwell%20Leigh%20Eidinoff%2C%20Hyman%20Ruchlis%2C%20Maurice%20Sendak%20-%20Atomics%20For%20The%20Millions%20(1947).pdf

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The Moon & Friends


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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS is Leaving Our Solar System


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3I/ATLAS – the world’s 3rd-known object to enter our solar system from interstellar space – has made its closest pass by our sun and is now headed out of our solar system again. Its perihelion, or closest point to the sun was at 11:47 UTC (6:47 a.m. CDT) on October 29, 2025. At that time the object – which is thought to be a comet from another solar system – was about 1.36 AU (or 1.36 Earth-sun distances) from our star. But 3I/ATLAS hasn’t yet made its closest pass by Earth. That will come around December 19, 2025, when it’s about 1.8 AU (168 million miles or 270 million km) from Earth.

Finding 3I/ATLAS

You'll need a telescope and some luck, and all you'll see is a fuzzy-looking (due to its speed) light, but if you do find it, you'll know immediately it is no star. Here is some help for those who may enjoy the challenge.


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3I/ATLAS is currently passing the Sun. It won’t become visible in Earth’s sky again through amateur telescopes until around November 11.

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Published 29th October 2025 by EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/

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'Tis the Season

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Skeleton Dance | Halloween Original Spooky Cartoon by Disney

I ain't afraida no ghost!

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Ghostbusters Theme (Orchestra Version) | WDR Funkhausorchester

These classical musicians are really having fun.

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28th October 2025 – The Sun puts on a ghoulish face to wish Earth a “Happy Halloween”


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Peace

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Kim Kardashian, NASA, & The Fake Moon Landing


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In Season 7, Episode 2, of Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” prominent influencer Kim Kardashian reveals she doesn’t believe the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 really happened.

While on set filming her new Hulu series “All’s Fair,” Kardashian tries to convince her costar Sarah Paulson of her theory.

Kardashian tells Paulson, “I’m sending you like so far, a million articles, interviews with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” referring to another astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission.

Paulson replies, “Yes, do it,” as Kardashian continues to explain.

“This girl says, ‘What was the scariest moment?’ And he (Aldrin) goes, there was no scary moment because it didn’t happen. It could have been scary, but it wasn’t because it didn’t happen,” Kardashian says.

“So I think it didn’t happen.”

A producer from her reality show later asks her, “Wait, for the record. Do you think that we didn’t walk on the moon?”


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Kardashian admits that she thinks it was fake. The producer follows up with, “And what do you have to say to people who are going to say you’re crazy for saying that?”

“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok, see for yourself," Kardashian states.

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy responds.

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Published 31st October 2025 by Samantha Cookinham – Today
https://www.today.com/popculture/kim-kardashian-moon-landing-conspiracy-nasa-response-rcna241118

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What time is it?

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Now Jesse! Now Jerome! What time is it!

World time all the time
https://www.worldtimezone.com/

The time is always ...


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In the US, daylight savings ends Sunday November 2, with the time changes taking place at 2:00 AM local time.

[Johnnycomelately]

Happy Halloween

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[Johnnycomelately]

Tony goes where no New Jersey boss has gone before. And Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri and Christopher Moltisanti too.

Barren Planet (Full Episode) - Sopranos: The Next Generation (Star Trek Sopranos crossover edit)

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L = 13:37. Fun.


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Moonwalkers

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Neil Armstrong b. Wapakoneta, Ohio (1930-2012) NASA
Buzz Aldrin b. Glen Ridge, New Jersey (1930-) Air Force
Pete Conrad b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1930-1999) Navy


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Alan Bean b. Houston, Texas (1932-2018) Navy
Alan Shepard b. Derry, New Hampshire (1923-1998) Navy
Edgar Mitchell b. Hereford, Texas (1930-2016) Navy


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David Scott b. San Antonio, Texas (1932-) Air Force
James Irwin b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1930-1991) Air Force
John Young b. San Francisco, California (1930-2018) Navy


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Charles Duke b. Charlotte, North Carolina (1935-) Air Force
Gene Cernan b. Chicago, Illinois (1934-2017) Navy
Harrison Schmitt b. Grant County, New Mexico (1935-) NASA


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UFO Tracker Shows Thousands of Eerie Underwater Objects Lurking Along US Coasts


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The truth is under there.

A popular UFO-reporting app has recorded thousands of sightings of Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) near US waterways — phenomena which high-ranking US Navy officials warn could pose a threat to national security.

Enigma, which touts itself as the “largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings,” claims it has received reports on over 30,000 Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena since launching in late 2022.

But the sightings haven’t been limited to the skies, with reports also coming in about strange objects rising from the depths of the sea, or plunging into the water without so much as a splash. As of August, Enigma has also logged more than 9,000 mysterious sightings within 10 miles of US shorelines or major bodies of water — 500 of them within 5 miles — with more than 150 of the reports describing objects hovering above or descending into waterways, according to Marine Technology News.

The US states with the most reported USO sightings were California (389) and Florida (306) — both among the top three US states with the most ocean coastline. The app has released maps plotting out the reported sightings, represented as clusters of orange dots running up and down the east and west coasts.


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One of the more bizarre reports includes phone camera video of unexplained green lights traveling beneath the surface of the ocean.


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UFO sightings are nothing new, and are often dismissed as crackpottery by much of the scientific community or relegated to the stuff of science fiction, but retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet warns UFOs with the ability to go from air to sea without crashing or even creating a splash could have “world-changing” ramifications.

“The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering US water space and the DOD is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena,” said Gallaudet.

Alarm bells were raised in July 2019, when the USS Omaha recorded a UFO/UAP that vanished into the ocean without a trace after buzzing a Navy fleet off the coast of San Diego. Video of the incident was verified by the Pentagon, displaying capabilities Gallaudet said “jeopardizes U.S. maritime security, which is already weakened by our relative ignorance about the global ocean.”

In his 29-page report for UFO-focused think tank the Sol Foundation, Gallaudet said there’s a documented pattern of similar phenomena being reported.

“Pilots, credible observers and calibrated military instrumentation have recorded objects accelerating at rates and crossing the air–sea interface in ways not possible for anything made by humans.”

Published 26th October 2025 by Chris Nesi – New York Post
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/us-news/ufo-tracker-shows-thousands-of-eerie-underwater-objects-lurking-along-us-coasts/

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The Future

Old Farmer's Almanac Winter Predictions

USA

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Canada

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[Bill Ryan]

Moonwalkers

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Edgar Mitchell b. Hereford, Texas (1930-2016) Navy

Reposting something quite fascinating here, which almost no-one knows about.

Here's Jay Weidner, on Art Bell's radio show on 4 August 2015. He recounts how Edgar Mitchell consulted hypnotherapist Dr Robert Masters because he couldn't remember a thing about being on the moon.

This audio clip is highly recommended, concerning the Apollo astronauts' loss of memory. The person talking first is Stanton Friedman, who was also a guest on the show:

http://projectavalon.net/Jay_Weidner...t_memories.mp3 (http://projectavalon.net/Jay_Weidner_on_Art_Bell_4_August_2015_Apollo_astronauts_lost_memories.mp3) (3 mins 20 seconds, 4 Mb)

Dr Masters was unable to help Mitchell, who passed away a few years ago — still not remembering a thing about his Apollo mission.

[skogvokter]

Moonwalkers

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Edgar Mitchell b. Hereford, Texas (1930-2016) Navy

Reposting something quite fascinating here, which almost no-one knows about.

Here's Jay Weidner, on Art Bell's radio show on 4 August 2015. He recounts how Edgar Mitchell consulted hypnotherapist Dr Robert Masters because he couldn't remember a thing about being on the moon.

This audio clip is highly recommended, concerning the Apollo astronauts' loss of memory. The person talking first is Stanton Friedman, who was also a guest on the show:

http://projectavalon.net/Jay_Weidner...t_memories.mp3 (http://projectavalon.net/Jay_Weidner_on_Art_Bell_4_August_2015_Apollo_astronauts_lost_memories.mp3) (3 mins 20 seconds, 4 Mb)

Dr Masters was unable to help Mitchell, who passed away a few years ago — still not remembering a thing about his Apollo mission.
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November

Don't Miss These Astronomy Events | Supermoon | Comet Lemmon | Leonid Meteor Shower

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Lunar Calendar


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Full SuperMoon in Taurus November 5th 2025

Pam discusses the astrological developments for the first half of November and the Full SuperMoon on the 5th. What does this mean for you?

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All Saints Days


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November 22 – St Cecilia – Patron Saint of Music and Musicians



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Guy Ottewell


Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky

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Heliocentric solar system visible planets and more

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102-Year-Old Woman Talks About UFO Sightings and Experiences in Australia

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She's from England and looks sharp as a tack. A family affair. Interview by Rob Cartledge with his grandmother (and mom) from 2017.

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Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it?

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A nuclear fuel rod is used for 3-6 years. After that, it’s taken out of the reactor and then continues to stay radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Talk about inefficiency. But French nuclear fuel company ORANO is one of the very few companies recycling nuclear fuel on a commercial scale – and has led this field for decades. We went there to find out why.

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How nuclear waste could fuel a clean energy hydrogen revolution

Published 4th November 2025 by University of Sharjah – TechXplore.com
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-nuclear-fuel-energy-revolution.html

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November Beaver Supermoon


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The near-full Moon rises over Turkey in November 2025. (Credit: Omer Urer)


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The full Beaver Moon shines alongside the floodlights of the Fernando Valenzuela stadium in Mexico. (Credit: Luis Gutierrez)


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The full Moon emerges from behind the steel structures of the Eiffel Tower. (Credit: Thibaud Moritz)


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The Beaver Moon shines among the lights of an artificial star in the skies over China. (Credit: VCG/VCG)


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The Moon shines behind a statue of the Virgin Mary in Seville, Spain in November, 2025. (Credit: Didem Mente/Anadolu)

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Dan Aykroyd on Edgar Cayce

From Edgar Cayce World: Interview with a well-informed Mr Aykroyd.

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Spidey Sense

World's Biggest Spiderweb Discovered Inside 'Sulfur Cave'

111,000 Arachnids Living in Pitch Black


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Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders thriving in what appears to be the world's biggest spiderweb, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greek border.

The "extraordinary" colony consists of a colossal web in a permanently dark zone of the cavern, according to a study published Oct. 17 in the journal Subterranean Biology. The web stretches 1,140 square feet (106 square meters) along the wall of a narrow, low-ceilinged passage near the entrance of the cave. It is a patchwork of thousands of individual, funnel-shaped webs, the researchers noted.

"This is the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species and likely represents the largest spiderweb in the world," said study lead author István Urák, an associate professor of biology at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Romania.

"The natural world still holds countless surprises for us. If I were to attempt to put into words all the emotions that surged through me [when I saw the web], I would highlight admiration, respect, and gratitude. You have to experience it to truly know what it feels like."

The spider megacity is located in Sulfur Cave, a cavern that was hollowed out by sulfuric acid formed from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide in groundwater. While the researchers revealed tantalizing new information about Sulfur Cave's spider colony, they weren't the first to see the giant web. Cavers with the Czech Speleological Society discovered it in 2022 during an expedition in the Vromoner Canyon. A team of scientists then visited the cave in 2024, plucking specimens from the web that Urák analyzed before going on his own expedition to Sulfur Cave.


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This analysis revealed that two spider species live in the colony: Tegenaria domestica, known as the barn funnel weaver or domestic house spider, and Prinerigone vagans, known previously to be adverse to each other.

On their visit to the cave, Urák and his colleagues estimated there were about 69,000 T. domestica and more than 42,000 P. vagans specimens. DNA analyses for the new research also confirmed that these are the dominant species in the colony, Urák said.

Sulfur Cave's spider colony is one of the largest ever documented, and the species involved weren't known to assemble and cooperate in this way. T. domestica and P. vagans are widespread near human dwellings, but the colony is "a unique case of two species cohabiting within the same web structure in these huge numbers."

Published 4th November by Sascha Pare – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-discovered-inside-sulfur-cave-with-111-000-arachnids-living-in-pitch-black

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The Government Hid This Photo Until 2022. Now We Know Why.

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A sighting in Scotland, 1990, and the authorities are none too pleased.


What the bloody hell is it !?

Published 31st October 2025 (30:45)
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CNSA (China National Space Agency)

China Reached Out to NASA to Avoid Collision in 1st-of-its-kind Space Cooperation


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Artist's concept depicting the near-Earth orbital debris field, based on real data from the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. (Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

China recently reached out to NASA over a maneuver to prevent a possible collision between satellites, a space sustainability official said, marking a first for space traffic management.

"For years, if we had a conjunction, we would send a note to the Chinese saying, 'We think we're going to run into you. You hold still, we'll maneuver around you,'" Alvin Drew, director for NASA Space Sustainability, said during a plenary session at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 2.

A big shift had come a day earlier, Drew revealed.

"Just yesterday, we had a bit of a celebration because, for the first time, the Chinese National Space Agency reached out to us and said, 'We see a conjunction amongst our satellites. We recommend you hold still. We'll do the maneuver.' And that's the first time that's ever happened," Drew said.

The move by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) comes as both the United States, notably through SpaceX's commercial Starlink constellation, and China, in the shape of the Guowang and Thousand Sails megaconstellations, are rapidly increasing the number of satellites they have in orbit. This means an increasing need for satellite operators to coordinate to limit the chances of collisions between satellites and prevent events that cause new clouds of space debris.

The development also indirectly suggests that China's space situational awareness, or understanding what is going on in orbit at any moment, has reached the level of being able to flag conjunctions and begin to coordinate with other operators.

China noted this as a priority in a 2022 space white paper that outlined its ambitions for the period 2021 to 2026. The country also recently stated that it is working on capabilities to remove junk from space.

Contact between CNSA and NASA is generally limited by the so-called Wolf Amendment, which prevents most bilateral interaction between NASA and Chinese state entities.

Published 6th November 2025 by Andrew Jones – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/china-reached-out-to-nasa-to-avoid-a-potential-satellite-collision-in-1st-of-its-kind-space-cooperation

Three Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Space After ‘UFO’ Strikes Rocket Capsule

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Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie have been aboard the Tiangong space station, dubbed China’s “Heavenly Palace”, since April. They were scheduled to return to Earth on November 5, but their journey home has been postponed after damage was found on their capsule’s hull. Officials at China’s Manned Spaceflight Agency (CMSA) believe it was caused by a small piece of space debris.

The agency said on Wednesday: “The Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft is suspected of being hit by a tiny piece of space debris, and an impact analysis and risk assessment are under way.”

Published 6th November 2025 (1:04)
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[ThePythonicCow]

Artist's concept depicting the near-Earth orbital debris field
Such drawings are misleading. In order to make each piece of debris large enough to show as a visible yellow dot in that image, they have to make that dot (I'm guessing wildly here) perhaps ten or twenty miles across.

According to https://patentpc.com/blog/space-debris-crisis-how-many-objects-are-orbiting-earth-latest-risk-cleanup-stats, there are perhaps 36,000 objects in this debris field that are 10 cm or larger. So by my calculations, that works out to one 10 cm or larger object per 230 mile by 230 mile by 100 mile volume of low orbit space above the atmosphere.

... almost empty.

If the yellow dots on such drawings were drawn to scale, they would be a couple of dozen nanometers in size, which is perhaps one-tenth the smallest size visible on high end optical microscopes.

[Johnnycomelately]

Artist's concept depicting the near-Earth orbital debris field
Such drawings are misleading. In order to make each piece of debris large enough to show as a visible yellow dot in that image, they have to make that dot (I'm guessing wildly here) perhaps ten or twenty miles across.

According to https://patentpc.com/blog/space-debris-crisis-how-many-objects-are-orbiting-earth-latest-risk-cleanup-stats, there are perhaps 36,000 objects in this debris field that are 10 cm or larger. So by my calculations, that works out to one 10 cm or larger object per 230 mile by 230 mile by 100 mile volume of low orbit space above the atmosphere.

... almost empty.

If the yellow dots on such drawings were drawn to scale, they would be a couple of dozen nanometers in size, which is perhaps one-tenth the smallest size visible on high end optical microscopes.


Paul, your gripe is irrelevant, everybody knows what “artist’s impression “ means.

Can you back up your spiel about low probabilities of collision, with calculations of frequencies of and distances of and closing speeds of closest approaches of what’s up there? Thanks in advance.

Me, I’m wary of a problem here, be it from a domino started by a small untracked bit or started by an intentional kinetic (~warfare) disturbance. On the hopeful side, iirc there are LEO-cleanup sats in developement.

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Paul, your gripe is irrelevant, everybody knows what “artist’s impression “ means.

Can you back up your spiel about low probabilities of collision, with calculations of frequencies of and distances of and closing speeds of closest approaches of what’s up there? Thanks in advance.

Not everybody. A picture that looks like an aerial view of Los Angeles freeway traffic Friday afternoon at 5 PM looks a lot scarier than a picture that looks like a satellite image of Kansas, with a few butterflies randomly scattered across the state. The propaganda ministers wouldn't keep showing such images of our satellites, decade after decade, if those images didn't look a bit "scary".

I don't have, and I am not about to attempt, such calculations. I choose to focus elsewhere.

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Sun :sun: News

A Clear Path for a Solar Storm Train & Big X-Flares | Solar Storm Forecast

As usual, Tamitha is excited about this week's space weather forecast.

Published 6th November 2025 (15:16)
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00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:19 Join Millersville University's SWEN Program 00:00:56 Sponsored in part by CWOps.org 00:01:01 Earthside Sun Forecast 00:05:24 Farside Sun Forecast 00:06:11 Full Sun Map 00:07:44 Solar Storm Prediction Model 00:09:02 3D Solar Storm Visualizer 00:11:24 Moon Phase 00:11:44 Solar Storm and Aurora 5-Day Outlook 00:12:41 Solar Flare and Dayside Radio Blackout 5-Day Outlook 00:13:59 Synopsis


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https://x.com/TamithaSkov/status/1986188658916073683

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS SUNSPOT?

Answer: It has a twisted magnetic field. Active sunspot 4274 is emitting almost-daily CMEs and strong solar flares. The reason why may be found in this magnetic map from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.


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Note the distribution of pluses (+) and minuses (-). These are the sunspot's magnetic poles, and they are arranged in an unusual way.

According to Hale's Law, the sunspot's magnetic poles should be oriented -/+, that is, negative (-) on the left and positive (+) on the right. Instead, they are twisted 90 degrees; positive (+) is on top and negative (-) is on the bottom. Sunspot 4274 is breaking the law.

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Space Rock | Tangerine Dream

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Mars Polaris | Deep Space Highway to Red Rocks Pavilion

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◘ 00:00 Comet's Figure Head
◘ 10:03 Rim of Schiaparelli
◘ 16:18 Pilots of the Ether Belt
◘ 26:34 Deep Space Cruiser
◘ 31:17 Outland (The Colony)
◘ 40:32 Spiral Star Date (Level ♇)
◘ 46:46 Mars Mission Counter
◘ 52:31 Astrophobia
◘ 1:02:29 Tharsis Maneuver
◘ 1:07:00 Dies Martis (TransMercury)

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Night Sky :moon: This Week

Sunday, Nov. 9 - Moon meets Jupiter in Gemini (overnight)

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On Sunday, Nov. 9, the waning gibbous moon and the very bright planet Jupiter will clear the treetops in the east after about 9:45 p.m. local time. The duo will share the view in standard binoculars (orange circle) as they cross the sky all night long, accompanied by Gemini's two prominent stars, Pollux and the double star Castor. Observers viewing the grouping later at night and in more westerly time zones will see the moon pass directly between Jupiter and Pollux.


Monday, Nov. 10 - Half-moon buzzes the Beehive (late night)

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When the waning gibbous moon rises in the east during late evening on Monday, Nov. 10, it will be positioned a generous thumb's width to the upper left (about 1.7 degrees to the celestial north) of the large open star cluster in Cancer known as the Beehive, Praesepe, and Messier 44. Both objects will fit within the field of view of binoculars (orange circle), although the bright moonlight will obscure the cluster's dimmer stars. To better see the "bees", hide the moon just beyond the upper left edge of the binoculars' field of view.


Tuesday, Nov. 11 - Jupiter starts retrograde motion (late night)

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On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the eastward prograde motion of the planet Jupiter below Pollux, Gemini's more southerly "twin" star, will temporarily cease. After Tuesday, Jupiter will accelerate into a westward retrograde loop that will last until mid-March (red path) and span 10 degrees of the ecliptic.

You can easily observe Jupiter's motion over the coming weeks by comparing its position to Pollux and the medium-bright star Wasat, which marks that twin's waist. The extremely bright, white planet will be shining in the lower part of the eastern sky in late evening and then high in the west at sunrise.


Tuesday, Nov. 11 - Northern Taurids meteor shower peak (overnight)

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The Northern Taurids meteor shower, which is active worldwide from Oct. 20 to Dec. 10 annually, will reach its maximum before dawn on Wednesday, Nov. 12 in the Americas. The best viewing time for North American skywatchers will start after dusk on Tuesday night, while the shower's radiant near the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus will be climbing the eastern sky, and before the bright, half-illuminated moon rises around 11 p.m. local time.

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

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#ufo/uap

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New UFO Sightings Around the World


From the U.S. to South America, the Middle East, and across Europe, people are capturing unexplained lights, crafts, and aerial encounters that defy all logic. These aren’t just rumors anymore … they’re being seen by thousands. In this video, we break down the latest UFO sightings from around the world, analyze the footage, and talk about what’s really going on behind these mysterious events.

Published 24th October 2025 (19:06)
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Sun News

MAKE THAT *THREE* CMEs

Big sunspot 4274 erupted again this morning (X1.2 @ 0919 UTC), adding another CME to the train of storm clouds approaching Earth. NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph recorded the full halo event.


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This is a potent CME. High-energy protons accelerated by shock waves within its leading edge are now peppering Earth's atmosphere with an S1-class radiation storm. The CME itself will reach Earth early on Nov. 12th, bringing a chance of strong geomagnetic storms. Stay tuned!

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Space Rock News

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Stunning Fireball Over Portugal // Impresionante Bola de Fuego Sobre Portugal

This stunning bolide was spotted from Spain on November 2, at 20:41 local time (equivalent to 19:41 universal time). It was brighter than the full Moon. The fireball was observed and reported by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses from Spain and Portugal.

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All Sky Fireball Network

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On Nov 09, 2025, the network reported 7 fireballs (5 sporadics, 2 Northern Taurids).


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Gilded Graveyard

METTMANN, Germany — Michael Froehlich celebrated his 50th birthday in 2000 by buying 50 vintage cars, all manufactured the year he was born (1950). After removing the oil and pollutants, Froehlich parked them in a private forest near his home in western Germany to create a classic car graveyard.


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The collection includes a Jaguar XK120, a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and a Porsche 356, and would be worth millions if the cars were restored. Instead, they remain parked and covered in fall’s crisp leaves, winter’s heavy snow, and 25 years of rust.


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Published 22nd October 2025 by Martin Meissner – AP News
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/photos-antique-cars-cemetery-68a7ece50df3f8f90fb6ea155086204b

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In the desert, an ass hole is a welcome sight ...


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Toothpaste Made With Your Hair Repairs Tooth Enamel, Scientists Discover


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Toothpaste made with hair could repair damaged teeth and stop the early stages of decay, a new study has found.

Scientists at King's College London discovered keratin, a protein found in hair, skin and wool that is often used in reparative shampoos, can also help with teeth.

"We think this is a game changer, an industry-mover to introduce keratin as an actual product within our daily use to protect and heal your tooth enamel without even realising," said Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, from King's Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences.


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"If you have a small defect, it would heal itself without you even realising."

Many tooth problems come from damaged enamel, which does not regenerate - once it is lost, it is gone forever.

When the keratin mixes with the minerals in saliva, it produces a protective coating to mimic the structure and function of natural enamel.

Fluoride toothpastes and fluoride added to drinking water are currently relied on to slow enamel erosion but keratin-based treatments were found to stop it completely.

"Keratin offers a transformative alternative to current dental treatments," said Sara Gamea, PhD researcher at King's College London and first author of the study.

The toothpaste will look and feel just like standard fluoride paste, with a minty flavour and foaming texture but instead contain enough keratin for daily use.

"The aim is that we want this to be affordable and reach the public," said Dr Elsharkawy.

Published 19th August 2025 by Mickey Carroll – Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/toothpaste-made-with-hair-naturally-repairs-tooth-enamel-scientists-discover-13414542

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Alien Abductee Interview – Julius

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Hair-raising account from Julius of Kansas City, Missouri. His experience went on for days, and more.

Published 28th August 2023 (17:36)
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Microgravity Menu

:hungry:

Chinese Taikonauts Enjoy '1st Ever Space BBQ'

They may not have all the fixin's, but the astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station are sure eating well.


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A new oven delivered to Tiangong has been put to quick work by the six people currently living aboard the outpost, the astronauts of the Shenzhou 20 and Shenzhou 21 missions.

In a video released by the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), the space station crew is seen securing a set of chicken wings in a specially made grill cage and placing it in a small, cabinet-like compartment in the space station's wall.

The oven not only serves as a powerful technology demonstration for the microgravity microwave (which actually functions more like an air fryer), but it also provides a welcome flavor of home for the astronauts living aboard the station.


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Published 4th November 2025 by Josh Dinner – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/watch-chinese-astronauts-enjoy-1st-ever-space-bbq-from-tiangongs-brand-new-oven-video

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Nikon Small World Photo Contest 2025


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German photographer and chemist Jan Rosenboom photographed hundreds of algae cells moving through a single water droplet. He used a 50-year-old microscope that he purchased at age 14 and LED lights to capture the image.


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Anatomist Igor Siwanowicz captured a vibrant cross-section of fern spores.

Spores are reproductive vessels like seeds, dispersed by wind or small animals. This photo, lit up by fluorescent lasers in a confocal microscope, showcases three podlike structures, known as sporangia, where spores are housed and developed.


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Stella Whittaker, who took this photo as a biophysicist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Md., studies the structure of sensory neurons. The wispy, rootlike arms help humans sense what is around them, she says. 

The stunning photo highlights the swirling branches of sensory neurons, which can be found in the arms, legs and spine.


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Most people put sunflowers in water. But Marek Miś, a photographer and longtime nature lover based in Poland, couldn’t resist sticking slices of their bristly tissue under his microscope. 

These skeletal protrusions are trichomes, tiny hairlike structures that help protect sunflowers against invaders.


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A staged snapshot of a rice weevil spreading its wings on a grain of rice won first place in the 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. Zhang You, a member of the Entomological Society of China, serendipitously stumbled upon the insect while cleaning his house.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nikon-small-world-photo-contest-2025

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10 Moments People Were Saved Seconds From Disaster

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Rescue mission successful.

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China Sends Youngest Astronaut to Space


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A crew of three Chinese astronauts, including the country's youngest-ever, docked early Saturday at the Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”) space station, accompanied by four lab mice. The Shenzhou-21 spaceship docked at 3:22 am (1922 GMT Friday), China's state news agency Xinhua reported.

The Tiangong space station -- crewed by teams of three astronauts that are exchanged every six months -- is the crown jewel of China's space programme, into which billions of dollars have been poured in a bid to catch up with the United States and Russia. China has bold plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by the end of the decade and eventually to build a base on the lunar surface.

Mission commander and veteran space pilot Zhang Lu is accompanied by 32-year-old flight engineer Wu Fei, China's youngest astronaut to undertake a space mission, and payload specialist Zhang Hongzhang, 39. The three astronauts waved goodbye to colleagues and family members at the remote launch base in the Gobi Desert as a band played a patriotic song.

Zhang Lu told reporters on Thursday he was confident his team would "report back to our motherland and its people with complete success".

Space first-timer Wu told a news conference Thursday that he felt "incomparably lucky".

Four mice -- two male and two female -- join them as the subjects of China's first in-orbit experiments on rodents.

Published 31st October 2025 – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/afp/251031213401.tdnrxy1x.html

Update

Stranded Chinese astronauts finally escape station… but at a cost

Three astronauts who were stranded in space for over a week have returned to Earth – but their escape plan has left a new group of explorers without a way to get home.

Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie were trapped on the Chinese station Tiangong for nine days after an unknown object damaged their spacecraft so severely that it was deemed unsafe to fly in.

The astronauts from the Shenzhou–20 mission were seen landing safely in the Gobi Desert in northern China early Friday morning after their six–month mission on board the space station.

When the crew discovered cracks in the window of their Shenzhou–20 capsule, officials decided to bring the three men home in the Shenzhou–21 space capsule instead – the craft which carried their replacements to the station on October 31.

However, that decision has now left the crew of Shenzhou–21, astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang, without a vessel to return to Earth in case of another space emergency.

Published 14th November 2025 by Chris Melore – Dailymail
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/stranded-chinese-astronauts-finally-escape-station-but-at-a-cost/ar-AA1Qs9l8?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6917a13931de488cb74149fcbdd12c27&ei=83

**

Welcome home


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#cgi/ai

The Del Rio UFO Crash // 3D CGI Animation

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Another “labor of love' from creator Robert Jacobs.


On May 6, 1955, a routine Air Force training flight over Texas turned into one of the most mysterious UFO incidents of the Cold War. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Willingham witnessed a fast-moving object on radar, pursued it, and watched it crash just across the Mexican border. What followed was a secretive recovery, a fragment that defied analysis, and a letter that arrived years later — unsigned, but unforgettable.

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Space Age Retro-Futurism | 1950s Sci-Fi Musical Film w/ Big Band AI Jazz

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Echoing Mark (Star Mariner)'s earlier sentiment: I'm embarrassed to say I can't tell the difference between real jazz and fake.

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Message In A Bottle

Century-old messages in bottle penned by WWI soldiers washes up on remote Australian beach


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Two messages in a bottle written by World War I soldiers more than a century ago washed up on a remote Australian beach, according to a report.

Debra Brown and her daughter Felicity discovered two letters, dating back to 1916, rolled inside a glass bottle in the dunes of Wharton Beach. The first letter written in pencil by South Australian soldier Malcolm Alexander Neville to his mother was signed off “somewhere at sea.”

Neville had been aboard the HMAS Ballarat ship, which set sail on Aug. 12 from Adelaide, just three days before he wrote the letter, records showed. He told his mother that the food at sea was “really good,” except for one meal that was “buried at sea,” without elaborating further.

“[The Ballarat] is Heaving and Balling, but we are happy as Larry. Your loving Son, Malcolm,” the soldier wrote.

He was killed in battle in France in April 1917 when he was 28 years old.

Brown discovered a second letter written by Private William Kirk Harley after allowing the water-logged papers to dry. The letter penned by Harley said the soldiers were “somewhere in the Bight.”

He survived the war and went on to have children.

Brown plans to mail the letters back to the soldier’s relatives. She has since been able to connect with Neville’s great-nephew online and Harley’s granddaughters.

“It’s absolutely wonderful,” she said.

“We get to keep the bottle, and Malcolm’s cover letter that was addressed to the finder.”


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Published 28th October 2025 by Zoe Hussain – NY Post
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/world-news/century-old-message-in-a-bottle-penned-by-wwi-soldier-washes-up-on-australian-beach/


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[Bill Ryan]

Stranded Chinese astronauts finally escape station… but at a cost

Three astronauts who were stranded in space for over a week have returned to Earth – but their escape plan has left a new group of explorers without a way to get home.

Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie were trapped on the Chinese station Tiangong for nine days after an unknown object damaged their spacecraft so severely that it was deemed unsafe to fly in.

The astronauts from the Shenzhou–20 mission were seen landing safely in the Gobi Desert in northern China early Friday morning after their six–month mission on board the space station.

When the crew discovered cracks in the window of their Shenzhou–20 capsule, officials decided to bring the three men home in the Shenzhou–21 space capsule instead – the craft which carried their replacements to the station on October 31.They clearly never saw Matt Damon in The Martian. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film))

(Duct tape would have fixed it :muscle:)

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The Times Astronauts Were Saved By Duct Tape


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Normally, duct tape is the miracle material to fix nearly any mishap. However, the substance is not merely Earth-bound. NASA surprisingly swears by the capabilities of duct tape as well, as it has made its way into critical mission fixes for many years of space exploration. There is presently a supply on the ISS.

The first tape repair was conducted Dec. 11, 1972 with astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt. Their lunar module, Challenger, just landed in a mountain-ringed valley named Taurus-Littrow bordering the edge of the Sea of Serenity.

Moon Buggy Repair

Schmitt: “Batteries look good. Oh, man! Look at that rock out there!”

Curious about an unusual rock lurking in the distance, the team began to quickly unload and pack equipment into the moon buggy.

Cernan: “Oh, you won’t believe it. There goes a fender.”

Schmitt: “Oh, shoot!”

Cernan: “And I hate to say it, but I’m going to have to take some time to try … to get that fender back on. Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?” (He’s referring to a roll of ordinary, gray duct tape.)

Schmitt: “Yes.”

Cernan: “Okay. I can’t say I’m very adept at putting fenders back on. But I sure don’t want to start without it. I’m just going to put a couple of pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it … (and) see whether we can’t make sure it stays.”

Fortunately, despite the massive gloves, Cernan was able to unroll and tear off the pieces of tape required. However, the moondust caused the first attempt to fail.

Cernan: “… good old-fashioned gray tape doesn’t want to stick very well.”

Following a successful second attempt, Cernan reported his DIY tape fix was finished.

“I am done! If that fender stays on … I’d like some sort of (mending) award.”


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Shoe Repairs

The tape has also been used as a secondary foot-latching mechanism to keep astronauts grounded to the craft, making navigation easier. While the shoes feature cleats, not all areas had easily accessible locks to latch the astronauts in place. The obvious solution? Use the sticky side of duct tape to hold them in place.


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Defective Alarm Systems

Fixing and Modifying Tools

Before NASA implemented their 3D printer in space, tools had to be repaired or fabricated completely using what was available.

Fixing Pipes to Fit in Places They Don’t Belong

All-Purpose Fastener

Surely an Earthly practice.


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Duct tape used to secure hoses in place, bi-passing barrels.

Published 4th July 2025 by Hüseyin KILIÇ – Interesting Engineering
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/times-astronauts-saved-duct-tape

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The Night Sky

Monday, Nov. 17 - Leonids meteor shower peak

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The annual Leonids Meteor shower, derived from material left by repeated passages of periodic Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, is active from Nov. 6 to Nov.30. The peak of the shower, when up to 15 meteors per hour can be seen — many with persistent trains — occurs while Earth is traversing the densest part of the comet's debris field. This year it is predicted to be on Monday afternoon, Nov. 17, in the Americas. Early mornings are best.


Thursday, Nov. 20 - New Moon

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The moon will reach its new phase on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 1:47 a.m. EST or 06:47 GMT, which converts to Wednesday at 10:47 p.m. PST. At its new phase, our natural satellite will be located in eastern Libra and 5 degrees south of the Sun. While new, the moon is traveling between Earth and the sun. Since sunlight can only reach the far side of the moon, and the moon is in the same region of the sky as the Sun, the moon becomes unobservable from anywhere on Earth for about a day (except during a solar eclipse). On the evenings following the new moon phase, our planet's partner will return to shine in the western sky after sunset.


Friday, Nov. 21 - Uranus at opposition (all night)

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On Friday, Nov. 21, Uranus will reach opposition, the night of the year when it is closest to Earth. On the evenings around opposition, Uranus will be at a distance of 1.73 billion miles, 2.77 billion km, or 154 light-minutes, and will shine at a peak brightness of magnitude 5.6 as it crosses the sky all night long, making it readily visible in binoculars and backyard telescopes, especially with the new moon.

[Johnnycomelately]

Here’s some crazy history, reported by a legit historian, Lance Geiger the history guy.

Maybe was fake, but the records are convoluted and Lance can’t tell and I can’t tell if these reports are true. 1896 and 1897 were strange years.

1896: Mysterious Airships

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

1.6M subscribers

Nov 17, 2025


Before Roswell and the term "Unidentified Flying Object,” there was a spate of sightings of mysterious lights and strange ships that created a national obsession, and left behind conflicting evidence, sensational conspiracy theories, and maybe even an enduring mystery.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nThHfFdS8b4[/url]

[Bill Ryan]

Here’s some crazy history, reported by a legit historian, Lance Geiger the history guy.

Maybe was fake, but the records are convoluted and Lance can’t tell and I can’t tell if these reports are true. 1896 and 1897 were strange years.It doesn't seem fake at all. Here's Walter Bosley at the 2015 Secret Space Program Conference on exactly this: (also see the Avalon Thread titled Secret Space Program Conference 2015 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84698-Secret-Space-Program-Conference-2015))

Walter Bosley - Origins - The Emergence of the Breakaway Civilization


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwKh2gnzxs

[Ivanhoe]

HOORAY FOR DUCT TAPE!
I have two must have tools I keep in my ol' truck,... a 3 lbs. hammer and a roll of duct tape.:muscle:;):thumbsup:

[Bluegreen]

When all else fails ...




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[Bluegreen]

Thx Bill. A lot I didn't know from Walter, amazing history lesson. Starts @ 4:30 with Jay Dyer. I actually liked the music beforehand.




Here’s some crazy history, reported by a legit historian, Lance Geiger the history guy.

Maybe was fake, but the records are convoluted and Lance can’t tell and I can’t tell if these reports are true. 1896 and 1897 were strange years.It doesn't seem fake at all. Here's Walter Bosley at the 2015 Secret Space Program Conference on exactly this: (also see the Avalon Thread titled Secret Space Program Conference 2015 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84698-Secret-Space-Program-Conference-2015))

Walter Bosley - Origins - The Emergence of the Breakaway Civilization


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwKh2gnzxs

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Global rise in ultra-processed foods poses major public health threat, experts warn


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The increase of UPFs (ultra processed foods) in diets worldwide and increasingly in the East, presents an urgent challenge to health that demands coordinated policies and advocacy action to address, says a new three-paper Series authored by 43 global experts and published in The Lancet. The Series exposes the tactics UPF companies use to drive consumption and prevent effective policy. It outlines a roadmap for change towards impactful government regulation, community mobilization, and accessible and affordable healthier diets.

Professor Carlos Monteiro, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, says, "The growing consumption of ultra-processed foods is reshaping diets worldwide, displacing fresh and minimally processed foods and meals. This change in what people eat is fueled by powerful global corporations who generate huge profits by prioritizing ultra-processed products, supported by extensive marketing and political lobbying to stop effective public health policies to support healthy eating."

Professor Camila Corvalan, University of Chile, Chile, adds, "Addressing this challenge requires governments to step up and introduce bold, coordinated policy action—from including markers of UPFs in front-of-package labels to restricting marketing and implementing taxes on these products to fund greater access to affordable, nutritious foods."

Dr. Phillip Baker, University of Sydney, Australia, adds, "We need a strong global public health response—like coordinated efforts to challenge the tobacco industry. Including safeguarding policy spaces from political lobbying and building powerful coalitions to advocate for healthy, fair and sustainable food systems and stand-up to corporate power."

UPFs, as defined by the Nova classification, are novel branded products made from inexpensive industrial ingredients such as hydrogenated oils, protein isolates or glucose/fructose syrup, and cosmetic food additives (e.g. dyes, artificial sweeteners, emulsifiers). They are designed and marketed to displace fresh and minimally processed foods and traditional meals, while maximizing corporate profits.


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Full article published 18th November 2025 by Sadie Harley – Lancet/MedicalXpress
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-global-ultra-foods-poses-major.html

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The Euclid Space Telescope Observed 1.2 Million Galaxies in Just 1 Year

Here's what we've learned


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After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes relate to each other. Answering this question involves tracking how galaxies and their central supermassive black holes grow together over time.

Having only launched in July of 2023, the Euclid space telescope has used its extraordinary field of view to observe a staggering 1.2 million galaxies. These galactic subjects are cataloged in the spacecraft's first data release, which dropped in March of 2025. It is estimated that, by the end of its 6-year primary mission, Euclid will have studied tens of millions of galaxies. It is therefore little wonder that astronomers are expecting it to make major waves in our understanding of how galaxies evolve.

"Euclid offers an unprecedented combination of sharpness and sky coverage — it will map the entire extragalactic sky," Maximilian Fabricius, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), said in a statement. "For the first time, we can systematically study how the shapes and central structures of galaxies relate to their formation history on truly cosmic scales."

Scientists are aware that the distinct morphology of galaxies, ranging from vast spirals like the Milky Way to featureless ellipticals like Messier 87, results from the course of their evolution. Euclid data has been used to create a "galactic tuning fork" diagram that shows blue star-forming galaxies on the right, moving to the left as they grow and exhaust their star-birthing gas and dust, merge with other galaxies, and eventually form vast elliptical galaxies.

Full article published 18th November 2025 by Robert Lea – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/the-euclid-space-telescope-observed-1-2-million-galaxies-in-just-1-year-heres-what-weve-learned

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:director: . . . :kek:

200 Actors Real Names

Jesus said (paraphrasing): "The truth comes out."

(13:55)
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[Johnnycomelately]

HOORAY FOR DUCT TAPE!
I have two must have tools I keep in my ol' truck,... a 3 lbs. hammer and a roll of duct tape.:muscle:;):thumbsup:

I understand that when all one has is a 3# hammer, then everything looks like an old truck that needs adjusting. Duct tape, on the other hand, works on anything. Apollo 13 went to the moon with that.

Red and green are fundamentally different vibes. Stop and go, communism and pearl-clutching misinformed environmentalists, healthy blood and sickly puke. But duct tape can bind them in a way that only speed-tape/100-mph-tape/Gorilla-tape©️ can improve on. Hehe. L = 1:31:33

Red Green TV show episodes informed my youth. Just found this feature length film, haven’t watched it yet, can’t say it’s as good. All I know is, if the women can’t find me handsome, at least I’ll be looking handy. 😎

Red Green's Duct Tape Forever (Full Movie) | The Red Green Show 🎬

RedGreenTV

510K subscribers

Apr 12, 2025


Premiering for the first time on YouTube on the launch date anniversary April 12, 2002. Red Green's Duct Tape Forever - the movie.

The Possum Lodge is in trouble! When their beloved lodge faces demolition, Red Green and the gang embark on an outrageous cross-country adventure to win a duct tape sculpture contest and save the day—because if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!

Watch as Red, Harold, and the Possum Lodge crew hatch the stickiest plan ever in this full-length feature film from The Red Green Show. Packed with classic humor, DIY disasters, and plenty of duct tape, this is one hilarious ride


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6wq2aQiYDE[/url]

[Bluegreen]

The Sun & The Moon

Sun news: New sunspot region comes out swinging


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A - November 18-19, 2025. An as-yet-numbered active region just over the eastern horizon released an almost-M flare (a C9.9) this morning.

B - November 18-19, 2025. The GOES-19 SUVI instrument captured the near M-class eruption over the eastern limb, showing the ejecta heading into space.

C - November 18-19, 2025. The GOES-19 CORR1 coronagraph, designed to show the sun’s wispy outer atmosphere, captured a rare view of the near-new moon this morning. We can’t see the moon from Earth during this phase, as its unlit side faces us in the daytime sky. But the coronagraph is so sensitive to light that the near-new moon appears full, even though the side we’re seeing is actually only being lit by earthshine.

D - This image shows sun activity – with the most active regions labeled – as of 2 UTC on November 19, 2025, as seen from Learmonth Solar Observatory in Australia. Why are east and west on the sun reversed? (https://earthsky.org/sun/east-and-west-on-the-sun-reversed/)


The Moon & Friends


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Published 19th November 2025 by C. Alex Young, Raúl Cortés, Armando Caussade – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

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Jetson ONE


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Let the Jetson Air Games begin

For the first time ever, Jetson executed a 4-ship formation flight, followed by a high-speed pylon race, culminating in a solo aerial display by Jetson Co-Founder and CTO Tomasz Patan.


Published 13th October 2025 (3:10)
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15 Natural Substances More Valuable Than Gold

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Throughout history, gold has symbolized wealth, stability, and power — but in the modern world, it’s no longer the ultimate measure of value. Scientists, investors, and industries now pursue other natural substances that make gold look almost cheap by comparison. Some are essential to advanced technology, others are created in the hearts of stars or found in places so rare they defy imagination. These are 15 natural substances more valuable than gold — materials so scarce, useful, or extraordinary that they’ve redefined what “precious” really means.

Published 29th October 2025 (39:46)
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[Inversion]

I couldn't find a more appropriate location for this post. The chart shows the countries that have the most data centers, and the link contains a list per country.

visualcapitalist (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-all-of-the-worlds-data-centers-in-2025/)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Countries-with-the-most-data-centers-2025.webp

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Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion

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The explosion of AI across every industry has seen hundreds of water- and power-hungry server farms sprout up across the US. Already, one-third of the world's internet traffic flows through data centers in just one US state: Virginia.

However, until now, there has been no official record of the number of data centers in America, who owns them, or how much electricity they consume.

In an exclusive deep dive into the industry, Business Insider reporters cracked the code and, for the first time, revealed the true cost of the data warehouses feeding our growing appetite for cloud computing and AI.

We travelled to Virginia to meet people living in the shadow of 80-foot-high boxes that emit a constant drone, and to the drought-ridden state of Arizona, where some data centers are using as much as a million gallons of water a day to help cool their computer servers.

Published 12th September 2025 (31:09)
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[Bluegreen]

A Full Moon at Perigee by Betul Turksoy

"Sombrero Moon"


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What is big, bright, and beautiful, can wear a cape made of clouds, and is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around planet Earth? A full moon at perigee of course, captured here near moonset in predawn skies on November 5 from Kayseri, Turkiye.

Full moons that happen at (or very near) perigee, and so are slightly larger and brighter than full moons on average, have become popularly known as supermoons. In fact, this full moon at perigee is the closest and brightest of the three supermoons of 2025. Rising as the Sun sets, this full moon follows this October's Harvest Moon and is traditionally known to some as the Hunter's Moon.

The Moon This Week


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[onawah]

A different take on data centers:

´Data Centers, Ritual Power Stations & the Return of Atlantean Magic | Gigi Young´. mAFFUwLsI0g. .--31 min--20/11/25


Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion

https://yt3.ggpht.com/pjDcIrc21oYPCkKpfY1zElDRHhw907VyW4zpuhJP5YCCvZPpyt0de08XM-uECMPQFAsidNK0bw=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj

The explosion of AI across every industry has seen hundreds of water- and power-hungry server farms sprout up across the US. Already, one-third of the world's internet traffic flows through data centers in just one US state: Virginia.

However, until now, there has been no official record of the number of data centers in America, who owns them, or how much electricity they consume.

In an exclusive deep dive into the industry, Business Insider reporters cracked the code and, for the first time, revealed the true cost of the data warehouses feeding our growing appetite for cloud computing and AI.

We travelled to Virginia to meet people living in the shadow of 80-foot-high boxes that emit a constant drone, and to the drought-ridden state of Arizona, where some data centers are using as much as a million gallons of water a day to help cool their computer servers.

Published 12th September 2025 (31:09)
t-8TDOFqkQA

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Toy Company Pulls AI-Powered Teddy Bear For Giving Sex Advice


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An AI-powered talking teddy bear has been removed from sale by a Singapore-based company after researchers found it could discuss sex in detail and other topics.

The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) said a group of researchers from the U.S. and Canada held test conversations with Kumma, a $99 teddy bear powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o chatbot. The bear is manufactured in China and marketed by Singapore-based FoloToy.

The researchers said they found it easy to get Kumma to discuss sexually explicit topics, including spanking, roleplay and BDSM.

"We were surprised to find how quickly Kumma would take a single sexual topic we introduced into the conversation and run with it, simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new sexual concepts of its own," the report said.

The team said the bear "discussed even more graphic sexual topics in detail, such as explaining different sex positions, giving step-by-step instructions on a common 'knot for beginners' for tying up a partner, and describing roleplay dynamics involving teachers and students, and parents and children -- scenarios it disturbingly brought up itself."

The researchers said the teddy bear also offered other worrisome advice, such as where to find sharp knives in the house.

An OpenAI representative told PIRG that Folo's license to use GPT-4o has been suspended "for violating our policies."

Published 20th November 2024 by Ben Hooper – UPI
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/11/20/public-interest-research-group-ai-powered-teddy-bear-kumma-sex-knives/3181763659965/

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Linda Moulton Howe

Is Earth an E. T. Hybrid Lab?


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Ms Golden goes into some detail regarding her interactions with the Greys and their factions.


Published 19th November 2025 (1:22:00 – Program begins @ 10:00)
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♦ TOPIC: Is Earth an E. T. Hybrid Lab?
♦ Eisenhower signed deal with greys at Kirtland Airforce Base in 1954
♦ K. Rose Golden says there were multiple landings
♦ Greys were supposed to accurately report abductions of animals and humans
♦ Interview with experiencer and author K. Rose Golden
♦ abducted and experimented on
♦ mental push
♦ taking blood samples, inoculating
♦ saw a hybrid child, made with her genetic stock
♦ short cryptic messages
♦ hybrid experiments took place “many, many times”
♦ “rows of lit, glowing doorways”

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Elves

GLOWING RED RING OVER ITALY

For a few seconds on Nov 17th, an enormous ring of red light appeared in the sky over central Italy. Valter Binotto photographed it from the small town of Possagno in the foothills of the Italian Alps.


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www.spaceweather.com/

This is an "ELVE"--short for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. It's a rare species of sprite discovered in 1990 by cameras onboard the Space Shuttle. ELVEs hover about 100 km above the ground, and this one is about 200 km in diameter.

[Bluegreen]

Black Plague Misunderstood For Centuries Due to One Poem


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A medieval Arabic poem written in 1348 helped construct one of the longest-standing misconceptions in plague history, falsely shaping beliefs about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia.

The new study, led by Muhammed Omar and Nahyan Fancy at the University of Exeter, revisits the maqāma—a rhymed, semi-fictional narrative—exposing how a single creative work came to dominate scholarly interpretations of the plague’s origin and spread. The findings prompt historians to question not only the historical timeline of the Black Death but also how fiction became embedded in medical and academic traditions.

While modern genetic studies have traced the bacterium Yersinia pestis to Central Asia, the idea that it swept through Asia to the Black Sea in less than ten years—called the Quick Transit Theory—owes more to poetry than to evidence. According to ScienceDaily, this theory continues to rely heavily on Ibn al-Wardi’s vivid storytelling, even though the poem was never intended to serve as a historical account.

Written in Aleppo during the early years of the plague, Ibn al-Wardi’s poem describes the disease as a wandering character who wreaks havoc from the borders of China to the eastern Mediterranean. This maqāma format, known for its blend of prose and poetry, was popular across the Arabic-speaking world in the 14th century and designed for entertainment or reflection, not documentation.


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The narrative personifies the plague as a trickster moving from one region to another over fifteen years. Because the author later quoted parts of this story in his historical writings, generations of readers assumed the original was grounded in fact. As Nahyan Fancy explains, “All roads to the factually incorrect description of the spread of the plague lead back to this one text.”

This misinterpretation began taking hold in the 15th century, when Arab chroniclers and later European historians began citing the poem as a legitimate record of the plague’s path. The mistake proved durable: it became one of the main sources behind the transcontinental narrative that has dominated plague historiography ever since.

Contrary to the poem’s dramatic route, modern genetics suggest a more complex and less linear spread of the Black Death. According to the study covered by ScienceDaily, the bacterium responsible likely emerged in Central Asia, but there is little to support the idea that it traveled over 3,000 miles in a matter of years, as the poem implies.

Published 18th November 2025 by Sarah Talbi – Indian Defence Review
https://indiandefencereview.com/14th-century-poem-fooled-world-about-black-death/

Excerpt:


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Ibn al-Wardi (1292-1348/9) was a Syrian historian, poet, and geographer.



The Plague frightened and killed. It began in the land of darkness. Oh, what a visitor! It has been current for fifteen years. China was not preserved from it nor could the strongest fortress hinder it. The plague afflicted the Indians in India. It weighed upon the Sind. It seized with its hand and ensnared even the land of the Uzbeks. How many backs did it break in what is Transoxiana?

The plague increased and spread further. It attacked the Persians…and gnawed away at the Crimea. It pelted Rum with live coals and led the outrage to Cyprus and the islands. The plague destroyed mankind in Cairo. Its eye was cast upon Egypt, and behold, the people were wide awake. It stilled all movement in Alexandria. The plague did its work like a silkworm. It took from the tiraz*factory its beauty and did to its workers what fate decreed.

Oh Alexandria; this plague is like a lion which extends its paw to you. Have patience with the fate of the plague, which leaves of seventy men only seven.

Then, the plague turned to Upper Egypt. It also sent forth its storm to Barqah. The plague attacked Gaza, and it shook Asqalan severely. The plague oppressed Acre. The scourge came to Jerusalem and paid the zakat**[with the souls of men]. It overtook those people who fled to the al-Aqsa mosque, which stands beside the Dome of the Rock. If the door of mercy had not been opened, the end of the world would have occurred in a moment.

It, then, hastened its pace and attacked the entire maritime plain. The plague attacked Sidon and descended unexpectedly upon Beirut, cunningly. Next, it directed the shooting of its arrows to Damascus. There the plague sat like a king on a throne and swayed with power, killing daily 1000 or more and decimating the population. It destroyed mankind with its pustules.

May God the Most High spare Damascus to pursue its own path and extinguish the plague’s fires so they do not come close to her fragrant orchards.

One man begs another to take care of his children, one says goodbye to his neighbors. A third perfects his works, and another prepares his shroud. A fifth is reconciled with his enemies, and another treats his friends with kindness. One is very generous; another makes friends with those who have betrayed him. Another man puts aside his property; one frees his servants [slaves]. One man changes his character while another mends his ways. For this plague has captured all people and is about to send its ultimate destruction. There is no protection today from it other than His mercy, praise be to God.

[Bluegreen]

Triangular Shaped UFO With Bright Lights Sighted Over Downtown Toronto

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May 22, 2025: A foggy night in Toronto, and downtown pedestrians are more than surprised.

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Glowing Orbs Captured Over Mallorca, Spain

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This intriguing footage was recorded on October 5th, 2025, over Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and shows six glowing orbs moving silently above the city. The eyewitness reacts in shock as these unidentified objects disappear and reappear, behaving unlike any known aircraft or drones.

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Sports Page

We Found the Craziest Blacklight Mini Golf Course

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This cool course appears to have been constructed by a group of 80's kids.

Published 17th November 2025 (28:23)
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The Night Sky

A challenging week for stargazers

Monday, Nov. 24 - Inner planets meet in the morning

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On Monday, Nov. 24, the brilliant planet Venus will rise over the eastern horizon about an hour before the Sun, below the unpronounceable pairing of Zebeneschamali and Zubernelgenubi. Sharp eyes and binoculars (orange circle) can look for the much fainter speck of Mercury shining about a thumb's width to Venus' lower left (or 1.6 degrees to its celestial east-northeast).

On Tuesday morning, Mercury's steady climb away from the sun will lift it a similar distance above Venus.


Wednesday, Nov. 26 - Moonlight tolerant stars (evening)

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Only the brightest stars are visible to our unaided eyes on moonlit-flooded nights. In the western sky on Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, the very bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra the Harp will be descending in the western sky. At magnitude 0.0, it's the 5th brightest star in the entire sky (not counting our sun). The star Altair in Aquila the Eagle, shining several fist diameters to Vega's left, has a magnitude value of 0.75, making it the 13th brightest star.

Deneb in Cygnus the Swan will be located above and between the other two, rounding out the trio of hot white stars that form the Summer Triangle asterism. At magnitude 1.25, Deneb is the 20th brightest star.


Thursday, Nov. 27 - Ceres moves eastward (all night)

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On Thursday, Nov. 27, the minor planet Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, will slow its westerly motion across the background stars of Cetus — completing a retrograde loop that it began in mid-August (red path with dates).

On Thursday, the magnitude 8.5 object, which is visible in binoculars (orange circle) and backyard telescopes in any dark sky, will be located a generous thumb's width to the left (or 2.1 degrees to the celestial east-southeast) of the medium-bright star Iota Ceti or Deneb Kaitos Shemali.

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Peace

The Artemis Accords By The Numbers


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Latvia announced last week that it had signed on to the Artemis Accords, becoming the 60th nation to agree to the set of non-binding principles. 

Latvia: “Latvia’s accession to the Artemis Accords is a significant step towards our more active participation in the global space community,” Latvian Minister for Education and Science Dace Melbārde said in a statement. “We are proud to become part of a group of nations committed to exploring and using space responsibly and sustainably.”

The accords celebrated their fifth anniversary last month. As such, here’s a roundup of where they stand.

Global reach: As of Nov. 4, 60 nations have signed on to the accords, representing every continent except for Antarctica. Europe has the most signatories, with 29 nations represented, while Oceania (which has far fewer nations than Europe) has the fewest with just two.


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Timeline: 2024 was a banner year for the agreement, with 19 nations signing onto the accords—the most number of additions in a year.


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What’s next: There’s still room for the accords to grow its number of signatories in the years to come. Just 31% of UN member states—60 out of 193 nations recognized by the UN—have signed onto the agreement. Even though every nation doesn’t have a space program, US officials have said that non-spacefaring nations, many of whom rely on data collected in orbit, deserve a seat at the table when discussing the future of space exploration.

Published 4th November 2025 by Jacqueline Feldscher – Payload Space
https://payloadspace.com/the-artemis-accords-by-the-numbers/

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What’s next: There’s still room for the accords to grow its number of signatories in the years to come. Just 31% of UN member states—60 out of 193 nations recognized by the UN—have signed onto the agreement. Even though every nation doesn’t have a space program, US officials have said that non-spacefaring nations, many of whom rely on data collected in orbit, deserve a seat at the table when discussing the future of space exploration.

That was very interesting, so I looked this up:

Artemis Accords: why many countries are refusing to sign Moon exploration agreement (https://theconversation.com/artemis-accords-why-many-countries-are-refusing-to-sign-moon-exploration-agreement-148134)

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Russia has already stated (https://spacenews.com/russia-skeptical-about-participating-in-lunar-gateway/#:%7E:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20head%20of%20Russia's,existing%20International%20Space%20St ation%20partnership) that the Artemis Program is too “US-centric” to sign it in its present form. China’s absence is explained by the US congressional prohibition on collaboration (https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/05/07/congress-bans-scientific-collaboration-with-china-cites-high-espionage-risks/) with the country. Concerns that this is a power grab by the US and its allies are fuelled by the lack of any African or South American countries amongst the founding partner states.

Intriguingly Germany, France and India are also absent. These are countries with well developed space programmes that would surely have benefited from being involved in Project Artemis. Their opposition may be down to a preference for the Moon Agreement and a desire to see a properly negotiated treaty governing lunar exploration.

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Smashing Pumpkins

Great Pumpkin Festival Winner – Alan Gebert and Dough Boy

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Pumpkin growers from all over competed for the largest pumpkin in the annual giant pumpkin festival on Logan’s Center Street.

This year’s winner of the festival was a pumpkin called Dough Boy, weighing in at 1917 pounds, grown by Alan Gebert.

The festival was held in downtown Logan. Growers from Utah and surrounding states brought their pumpkins to be weighed by the Giant Pumpkin Growers Association at the annual festival, hoping to be crowned the Center Street Giant and take home $5,000.

Published 30th September 2025 by Erin Lewis – Utah Public Radio
https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2025-09-30/giant-pumpkin-festival-draws-thousands-looking-to-see-the-largest-pumpkin

Utah Farmer Crushes Car With 2,000-Pound Pumpkin From 14 Stories

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Alan Gebert says he drove the Geo Metro nearly 35 years before it stopped running - so he smashed it.

Published 28th October 2025 (0:37)
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RIP "Other ATLAS"

Doomed Comet Explodes Mid-Flight


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C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) reached its closest point to the Sun on Oct. 8, and got more than four times closer to our home star than 3I/ATLAS

In space, death can be a beautiful thing. That's certainly the case for the recently deceased "other" comet ATLAS, which is slowly breaking apart after meeting its explosive end earlier this month, stunning new images reveal.

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is a comet originating from the Oort Cloud beyond Neptune that was discovered in May by astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). It reached its closest point to the Sun, or perihelion, on Oct. 8, coming within 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) of our home star. But the comet largely went under the radar until earlier this month, when it developed a rare golden glow in its coma and tail.

It has become known as the "other ATLAS," thanks to its shared surname with the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which has been dominating headlines since it was first spotted shooting through the solar system in July. The two comets have no relation, other than being detected by the same telescope network around the same time.

On Nov. 13, astronomers noticed that C/2025 K1 had broken apart into several pieces. Austrian astrophotographer Michael Jäger has been keeping a close eye on C/2025 K1 since it began to fall apart, and he has now shared a stunning timelapse animation that shows the fragments of the comet slowly separating from one another.

"Following brightness surges in early November, we have been able to observe this comet splitting into three brighter fragments for the past two weeks," Jäger said. "The animation shows it on November 12, 14, 18, 19, and 20th."


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The comet was not expected to survive its perihelion — astronomers predicted that the close proximity of its journey around the sun would place a huge amount of gravitational strain on the object. After its solar flyby, initial observations suggested that it had emerged unscathed. However, following a sudden brightening event, the comet then broke apart into three distinct pieces.

Published 25th November 2025 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/rip-other-atlas-watch-the-doomed-comet-explode-into-pieces-in-incredible-new-images

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Best Sci-Fi Action Movies Of All Time, Ranked

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It's time to get tactical, as we're taking a look at the more bombastic side of sci-fi this time with our rundown of the ten best sci-fi action movies of all time (according to us, opinions may vary, etc, etc).


10. Starship Troopers (1997)

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An interstellar war with a race of giant bugs that want to wipe out humanity? Oh, you better believe we want to know more. Starship Troopers sees the soldiers of the United Citizen Federation head to distant planets to destroy the gnarly-looking and incredibly vicious Arachnids and an even more upsetting Brain Bug.


9. Avatar (2009)

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Maybe a controversial choice here, but the numbers don't lie. Avatar is famously the highest-grossing film ever.

With award-winning effects powered by ground-breaking 3D technology, the action scenes across the world of Pandora are epic. Whether it's Jake Sully and co flying in on their Ikran across vibrant landscapes, or the explosive N’avi versus Machine battles — where our lanky blue humanoids face off against the military descending on their sacred land — Avatar is always a feast for the eyes.


8. Akira (1988)

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A little more leftfield for sci-fi action is the animated cult hit Akira. Biker gang leader Shōtarō Kaneda finds himself trying to help his childhood friend Tetsuo, who gets twisted up in a secret government project and acquires some… unusual abilities.

The only animated movie on our list, it depicts a 2019 Neo-Tokyo, wildly dreamt up from the 1988 release date. History has proven this future wrong (for now), but that doesn't make it any less compelling.


7. The Fifth Element (1997)

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Bruce Willis fronts this bizarre and brilliant epic from director Luc Besson (yes, the guy who did Léon: The Professional). Willis plays Korben Dallas, a soldier-turned-cab driver who finds himself an integral part of a world-saving mission when the superhuman Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) drops from the heavens into his cab.

The Fifth Element has such a fantastic sense of style, with gorgeous sci-fi vistas, wacky rubber-faced aliens, and an iconic scenery-chewing bad guy in Gary Oldman's Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.


6. Inception (2010)

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In the midst of the Dark Knight trilogy, director Christopher Nolan also took on a mind-bending endeavour that had viewers questioning their grounding in reality. Inception sees Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) form a team to infiltrate a CEO’s mind via dream-sharing technology, only for Cobb’s own complicated history to threaten the team's survival.


5. Total Recall (1990)

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Another of Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi successes and one of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time, Total Recall (the original, not the remake) is a slice of sci-fi action gold. It uses an excellent blend of practical effects and CGI to deliver a movie that feels of its time, sure, but also pulpy and real in a way that movies seem to have forgotten.


4. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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As Major William Cage, Tom Cruise plays an army public relations officer who finds himself up on the frontlines of war for humanity's survival against a vicious race of invading aliens known as ‘Mimics’. Cage dies only to discover that he's now stuck in a time loop that throws him back to before the battle starts.


3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

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Oh, you can already hear that theme music, can't you? Dundun Dun Dundun! Terminator 2: Judgment Day is arguably the best sci-fi sequel of all time (we'll get to the other contender to that throne in a second). Set about 10 years after the original, Terminator 2: Judgment Day sees the return of Arnie as a T-800, but this time around, he's a reformed Terminator set on a mission to protect John Connor.

Unsurprisingly, that mission leads to a plethora of bombastic action scenes as they battle against the shape-shifting T-1000 (Robert Patrick).


2. The Matrix (1991)

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We may not know kung-fu, but we do know that The Matrix is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time. The story follows Neo (Keanu Reeves), a hacker who discovers that the world is not as it seems, leading him down the rabbit hole and into the Matrix.

What follows is one of the slickest, most stylish, and most late 90s-coded action movies of all time. It's a masterful blend of impeccable, choreographed martial arts, slow-motion bullet time gunfights, and physics-defying stunts.


1. Aliens (1986)

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It had to be. Much like Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens is the other contender to the best sequel ever throne, and another rare sequel that is arguably better than the original (though that one's hotly debated).

Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returns decades after surviving the deadly incident on the Nostromo, trying to lead a normal life and forget about her extraterrestrial encounter. But, when a colony on LV-426 — the planet Ripley first found the xenomorph on — goes dark, she gets roped into joining a crack team of marines to mount a rescue mission.

That spicy little "s" on the end of the title tells you everything you need to know about this sci-fi action masterpiece. It's not one alien this time; it's a whole nest of them, complete with a hulking great queen.

Published 26th November 2025 by Grace Dean and Ian Stokes – Space.com
https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/best-sci-fi-action-movies-of-all-time-ranked

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Any Sled fans, here’s some supposedly old footage.

The Blackbird Story (Ca. 1972)

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Nov 26, 2025


Covers history of SR-71 development from conferences, through assembly, to operational flights of the aircraft. 1) SR-71 (No. 17976) taxiing and taking off to right. 2) AVs Pentagon. 3) Col. R.E. Sprinkel presiding over contractor's conference. 4) Lockheed employees entering "Skunk Works." 5) AMS HA FV SR-71 in flight. 6) AMS left SV SR-71 in flight. 7) AVs LA SR-71 in flight. 8) Designers and airframe specialists at work. 9) Assembly of SR-71 (No. 17950). 10) Crated SR-71 on tractor-trailer leaving Lockheed plant, en route and arriving at Edwards AFB. 11) Officers and Lockheed officials looking at SR-71. 12) SR-71 takeoff climb to left. 13) AMSs SR-71 in flight. 14) AMLS SR-71 landing. 15) Sign: HEADQUARTERS 14TH STRAT AEROSPACE DIV-BEALE AIR FORCE BASE with unit insignia. 16) Hangars at Beale AFB. 17) Sign: WELCOME TO BEALE AIR FORCE BASE. 18) Lockheed engineering representatives in conference with SPO staff. 19) Physical examination and suiting of SR-71 crewman. 20) Training of ground crew personnel using mock-ups. 21) Flight simulator and control console. 22) AMS SR-71 in flight to right with gear lowered. 23) MLS SR-71B landing to left. 24) Crew leaving SR-71B, and being welcomed by officers. 25) SR-71 in flight. 26) Crew boarding SR-71 in hangar, and aircraft taxiing out. 27) AMSs SR-71 in flight to right. 28) Crew leaving SR-71, being awarded MACH 3 pins and SR-71 models. 29) Commander's briefing and other conferences. 30) SR-71 engine tests. 31) SR-71 (No. 17956) with rear cockpit modification taxiing out, taking off and landing, and AVs of aircraft in flight. 32) AVs SR-71 refueling from KC-135A including view as seen from boom operator's position. 33) SR-71 landing to right. 34) 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing review. 35) SR-71 flanked by two T-38s in flyover. 36) AMSs SR-71 in flight includes scenes at dusk. 37) SR-71 being towed at night. 38) Photo interpreters viewing reconnaissance film. 39) MLS to MS to LS SR-71 taking off to right.


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Isaacman’s Second Chance

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The timing of the announcement was a surprise, even if its content was not unexpected.

President Trump posted on social media:

“This evening, I am pleased to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of NASA. Jared’s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the new Space economy, make him ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new Era.”

This was the latest twist in the saga about who will lead the space agency that started with Trump’s surprise selection of Isaacman last December and the even more shocking withdrawal of that nomination at the end of May. Since then, the White House asked the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, to serve as acting administrator, the first time a Cabinet secretary has led the agency.

Trump’s statement gave no reason for why he renominated Isaacman or any acknowledgement of the events of the last 11 months. In fact, the sentence in the announcement about “Jared’s passion for Space” was taken word-for-word from Trump’s December 2024 announcement selecting Isaacman to lead NASA.

The White House has not disclosed any details about its decision to renominate Isaacman beyond formally transmitting the nomination to the Senate on Thursday. Since Isaacman’s original nomination was withdrawn, he will have to go through another Senate confirmation process.

So what happened between the end of May, when Trump said he was pulling the nomination after “a thorough review of prior association”—a reference to Isaacman’s long-documented record of donating to both Republicans and Democrats—and, a little more than five months later, Trump’s decision to renominate him?

Discussions with industry sources suggest several factors were at work. Isaacman’s first nomination was withdrawn as President Trump and Elon Musk’s partnership deteriorated, which has since reached accords.

Trump said in July that he “thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon’s corporate life.”

Published 10th November 2025 by Jeff Foust – The Space Review
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/5098/1

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The Data Center Disaster

In the glorious new world of AI Everything™️, we need more processing power than ever. That means more data centers, bigger data centers, and more electricity than you can imagine. Naturally, this all costs money - but not to worry! We'll just invent new economics to fund it all. In fact, the insanity at work these days in the AI and data center industries is so overwhelming, you could be forgiven for thinking it's just the script from a bad Sci-Fi movie ... But no, it's real. And it's NUTS.

Published 11th November 2025 (16:07)
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Thirsty Data Centers Have to Report Water Use Under Utah Bill


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The Meta data center in Eagle Mountain

Utah’s data centers would have to report to the state how much water they’re using every year under a proposal advancing at the state Legislature.

The vast centers housing rows of servers would have to pay up if they don’t disclose water use, said Rep. Jill Koford, R-Ogden. The bill she’s sponsoring would fine them $10,000 for every day they’re out of compliance.

“We’re very serious about protecting Utah water and making sure that we’re using it wisely,” Koford said.

A legislative water development panel agreed, voting unanimously Thursday to send the proposal to the full House for consideration. State lawmakers convene for the 2026 legislative session in January.

More data centers are cropping up in Utah and around the country to power artificial intelligence and other digital services. The construction is drawing attention to the massive amounts of water it can take to cool servers, with some using up to 5 million gallons of water in a day — more than 12,000 times the average use for a household of four.

Published 21st November 2025 by Annie Knox - Utah News Dispatch
https://www.standard.net/news/2025/nov/21/thirsty-data-centers-would-have-to-report-water-use-under-utah-bill/

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The Observable Universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi


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How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you -- is the observable universe. In light, the farthest we can see comes from the cosmic microwave background, a time 13.8 billion years ago when the universe was opaque like thick fog.

Some neutrinos and gravitational waves that surround us come from even farther out, but humanity does not yet have the technology to detect them. The featured image illustrates the observable universe on an increasingly compact scale, with the Earth and Sun at the center surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, nearby galaxies, distant galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background.

Cosmologists typically assume that our observable universe is just the nearby part of a greater entity known as "the universe" where the same physics applies. However, there are several lines of popular but speculative reasoning that assert that even our universe is part of a greater multiverse where either different physical constants occur, different physical laws apply, higher dimensions operate, or slightly different-by-chance versions of our standard universe exist.

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All Saints Days


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Bethlehem December 1

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Bethlehem December 2023

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Bethlehem December 2024

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December 2025


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Sky Dome Map - Visible Planets and Night Sky


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Short Update Entering December 2025

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Pam gives an update as we enter December and move towards the Full SuperMoon in Gemini, also looking beyond to other astrological developments, such as game-changer 3I/ATLAS. Are you feeling “in-between”?

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Astronomy Events in December | Supermoon | Geminid Meteor Shower | Winter Solstice

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Oops

Russia Accidently Break Their Only Launch Pad To Space Station

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The Launch of Soyuz MS-28 was successful, but the launch pad in Baikonur lost a critical piece of hardware which will require a lot of work to replace.

Published 29th November 2025 (16:39)
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Macaque Monkeys Have Rhythm And Can Keep The Beat

(with a little help from the Backstreet Boys)


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They may not yet be kings of the swingers, but macaque monkeys can keep time to music and move to the beat. Well, at least two adult macaques can, who were trained by researchers to tap along to different kinds of music. Their work challenges the so-called vocal-learning hypothesis, which holds that only species with complex vocal learning, like humans and songbirds, can spontaneously move to the groove. Macaques are not vocal learners.

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers wanted to see if two macaques previously trained to synchronize their tapping to the steady rhythm of a metronome could advance to tapping along to real music. Unlike a metronome, which has a simple, explicit click on the beat, real music is complex, and the beat has to be extracted from the sound.

In the first experimental setup, the monkeys were trained to tap accurately to the beat of three pieces of music. When the study authors shifted the music by half a beat, the monkeys' tapping followed suit, keeping in time, proving they were synchronizing to the musical rhythm.

In the second experiment, the music was scrambled; that is, the researchers cut the songs into fragments and rearranged them, destroying the rhythmic structure. Here, the monkeys only synchronized to the sound when they actually had a beat to follow.

The final phase was free tapping, where the primates were rewarded for maintaining any steady rhythm they chose while listening to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys at three different speeds. Despite rewards for tapping any steady beat, the macaques followed the song's true tempo.

"Our data reveal that the macaque is capable of beat perception and synchronization to music," commented the researchers in their paper. "This reflects a greater generalization and flexibility in rhythm perception beyond what was previously described in the macaque and what was previously assumed for non–vocal-learning species."

Published 1st December 2025 by Paul Arnold – Phys,org
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-monkeys-rhythm-backstreet-boys.html

# ザ・モンキーズ／モンキーズのテーマ（年）!!

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Water-Fueled Car Inventor Poisoned: Stanley Meyer

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We examine the unsolved mysteries surrounding Stanley Meyer's invention of a water fuel cell and his untimely death, which some believe was due to free energy suppression.

Published 3rd November 2025 (11:47)
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The Sky This Week

Wednesday, Dec. 3 - Bright moon crosses the Pleiades (evening)

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On Wednesday evening, Dec. 3, skywatchers in North America and Europe can watch the orbital motion (green line) of the bright, nearly full moon carry it through the bright stars of the Pleiades star cluster, which is also known as Messier 45, Subaru, and the Seven Sisters. While the glare of the moon will hide the cluster's stars from your unaided eyes during the night, viewing the encounter during evening twilight, especially through binoculars (orange circle) or a backyard telescope, will allow you to see the moon passing among them.

Thursday, Dec. 4 - Full Cold Supermoon

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The December full moon will occur on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 6:14 p.m. EST, 3:14 p.m. PST, or 23:14 GMT. Traditionally known as the Oak Moon, Cold Moon, and Long Nights Moon, it always shines in or near the stars of Taurus and Gemini. The Ojibwe of the Great Lakes region call the December full moon Manidoo Giizisoons, the "Little Spirit Moon". For them, it is a time of purification and of healing of all Creation.

Since full moons are always opposite the sun, they are fully illuminated and rise at sunset and set at sunrise. Full moons during the winter months reach as high in the sky at midnight as the summer noonday sun, and cast similar shadows. This full moon will occur only 12 hours after perigee, producing high tides and making it the third of three consecutive supermoons, appearing about 8% larger and 16% brighter than an average full moon (as shown by the red circle).

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Unbelievable Life of Nomads Surviving –71°C in the Arctic Tundra | Yakutia


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Chapters: 0:00 Morning Routine in the Tundra 2:44 Where Do They Get Drinking Water? 4:13 Dressing for –71°C: Reindeer Fur Boots, Coat & Pants 4:48 Building and Heating a Home in Extreme Cold 6:21 Chopping Firewood for Survival 7:05 Cooking Blood Sausage — A Traditional Dish 8:43 Managing Reindeer: Herding, Tracking & Healing 9:48 How They Shower 11:44 Doing Laundry 12:49 How They Have Fun in the Tundra 14:08 Lunch Time 14:35 Crafting Reindeer Fur Boots by Hand 16:00 Butchering Reindeer Meat 17:10 Making Dinner: Fresh Bread & Reindeer Meat (English subtitles)


Published 12th June 2025 (19:31)
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This is the real life of one of the last nomadic reindeer herding families in Yakutia. All year round, they roam the Arctic tundra with their reindeer—through unimaginable conditions where temperatures plunge as low as –71°C. They live in tents, far from civilization, surviving in one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. To stay warm, they rely on a small metal stove, feeding it constantly with firewood to avoid freezing.

This way of life is not only extreme—it's dangerous, raw, and deeply rooted in tradition. Even children, like 11-year-old Saiaan, help with daily tasks and learn the ancient skills needed to survive. Despite the brutal cold, this family carries on a way of life passed down through generations—resilient, proud, and deeply connected to their culture.

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Space Law

When Space Junk Comes Home

Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland, a charred metal tank, roughly 1.5 metres across, sitting in his back yard.

It had crashed from space during the night, part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that failed to complete its controlled descent into the Pacific Ocean. The debris damaged some electrical equipment and a concrete block. Nobody was hurt, but the incident raised an uncomfortable question; who pays when a private company's space hardware crashes into your property?


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The answer, surprisingly, isn't straightforward. A new analysis by Elisa Leoni examines how the 1972 Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects struggles to handle today's commercial space industry. The treaty was written when only governments launched rockets, and it shows.

Under the Convention's rules, states bear international responsibility for damage caused by space objects, even when private companies operate them. If Borucki wanted compensation, Poland would need to file a claim against the United States as the "launching state," since SpaceX launched from California.

This state to state framework creates significant problems in an era dominated by commercial spaceflight. Victims like Borucki have no direct legal recourse under international law. They must hope their government decides to pursue a claim on their behalf, a process that depends entirely on political willingness rather than legal right.

The Convention offers no provisions for individuals or companies to seek compensation directly, leaving private citizens oddly vulnerable in the age of private space exploration.

The timing couldn't be more critical. Launch costs have plummeted over the past decade, triggering an explosion in orbital activity. Thousands of satellites now circle Earth, with companies like SpaceX deploying massive constellations. More launches mean more potential for debris to survive atmospheric reentry, yet the liability framework remains anchored to Cold War era assumptions about who operates in space and why.

Published 12th November 2025 by Mark Thompson – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/when-space-junk-comes-home

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EU Space Act

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Space may seem distant, but #space technologies, data and services shape our daily lives — from navigation on smartphones and cars to monitoring climate change and coordinating disaster response. The EU Space Act aims to create a single market for space, harmonising rules across Europe and fostering technological innovation, job creation, and economic competitiveness, while always prioritising citizens’ and societal benefit. With over 11,000 satellites already orbiting Earth — a number expected to increase fivefold in the coming years — the European Commission is proposing new rules for safety, security and sustainability in all EU space activities.

This report comes from the European Commission, the EU's main executive body.

Published 7th November 2025 (2:14)
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Orbital Traffic Jam

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Planned orbital observatories would see satellites cross nearly all of their images


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On Wednesday, three NASA astronomers released an analysis showing that several planned orbital telescopes would see their images criss-crossed by planned satellite constellations, such as a fully expanded Starlink and its competitors. While the impact of these constellations on ground-based has been widely considered, orbital hardware was thought to be relatively immune from their interference. But the planned expansion of constellations, coupled with some of the features of upcoming missions, will mean that at least one proposed observatory will see an average of nearly 100 satellite tracks in every exposure.

Making matters worse, some of the planned measures meant to minimize the impact on ground-based telescopes will make things worse for those in orbit.


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Simulated image of a what a typical ARRAKIHS exposure could look like if satellite constellations expand as planned

Satellite constellations are a relatively new threat to astronomy; prior to the drop in launch costs driven by SpaceX’s reusable rockets, the largest constellations in orbit consisted of a few dozen satellites. But the rapid growth of the Starlink system caused problems for ground-based astronomy that are not easy to solve.

Unfortunately, even if we had an infinite budget, we couldn’t just solve this by increasing our reliance on space-based hardware. While orbital satellites may be above some of the problem-causing constellations, enough of the new hardware is orbiting at altitudes where they can interfere with observations. A check of the image archive of the Hubble Space Telescope, for example, shows that over four percent of recent images contain a satellite track, a significant increase from earlier in the century.

And the problem will only get worse, according to three astronomers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California (Alejandro Borlaff, Pamela Marcum, and Steve Howell). Based on filings made with the Federal Communications Commission, they found that the current total of satellites represents only 3 percent of what will be in orbit a decade from now if everybody’s planned launches take place.

Published 3rd December 2025 by John Timmer – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/planned-satellite-constellations-may-swamp-future-orbiting-telescopes/

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How The Sun Grounded 6000 Planes Over Thanksgiving


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Thanksgiving travelers were surprised last week when Airbus grounded roughly six thousand A320-family jets for an urgent software rollback. The cause of the delay? Fears of radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms.

The problem came to light on Oct. 30th, when a JetBlue Airways A320 flying from Cancun to New Jersey suddenly dropped in altitude. At least 15 passengers were injured. When investigators dug into the flight-control data, they found that the aircraft’s software was vulnerable to "single-event upsets" --  bit-flips caused when a high-energy particle randomly changes a 1 to a 0 (or vice versa), corrupting critical data.

Dyer and colleagues analyzed the storm and found that bit-flips in computer memory could have occurred at a rate of ~60 errors per hour per gigabyte. No flight anomalies were reported, he notes, but "I can only believe that the Nov. 11th event focused minds on this problem."

It's a problem worth focusing on. On Feb. 23, 1956, the largest GLE of the Space Age boosted aviation radiation levels more than 100×. Tree rings and ice cores show that "Miyake Events" (GLEs thousands of times more intense) have struck Earth in the past few millennia. Modern society simply hasn’t experienced one yet.


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Beautiful American city lights stretching across the horizon and our Great Lakes with an aurora.

– Jonny Kim


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The Origins of Human Beings According to Ancient Sumerian Texts


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Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.

The Tablet of Nippur: Discovering the Ancient Sumerian Texts

As one of the earliest known written creation stories, the Sumerian creation legend holds significant importance offering valuable insights into the religious, political, and cultural aspects of ancient Mesopotamia.

The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC. The creation of Earth (Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:

When in the height heaven was not named,
And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being ...

The texts mention that at some point the gods mutinied against their labor.

When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toll
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was much.


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The Unity of God and Man: How the First Human Came into Existence

Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labour was too great. His son Enki, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods.

You have slaughtered a god together
With his personality
I have removed your heavy work
I have imposed your toil on man.
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In the clay, god and man
Shall be bound,
To a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
The Flesh and the Soul
Which in a god have ripened –
That soul in a blood-kinship be bound ...

This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.


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Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. This ‘modification’ was done without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and a conflict between the gods began. Enlil became the adversary of man, and the Sumerian tablet mentions that men served gods and went through much hardship and suffering.

Adapa, with the help of Enki, ascended to Anu where he failed to answer a question about the bread and water of life.

Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden.  While Adapa was granted great wisdom and knowledge by Enki, he unknowingly rejected the gift of immortality when offered the "bread and water of life". Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden and instructed not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, they were tempted by the serpent and ate the "forbidden fruit", leading to their expulsion from paradise.

Overall, the Sumerian creation myth holds significant importance as one of the earliest known written creation stories, offering valuable insights into the religious, political, and cultural aspects of ancient Mesopotamia.

Published 7th August 2023 by John Black – Ancient Origins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/sumerian-texts-0065

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Garden of the Hesperides – Ancient Greece

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The Greeks remembered the original paradise as the Garden of the Hesperides, always depicting it with a serpent-entwined apple tree. The Book of Genesis doesn’t say what kind of fruit was in the Garden of Eden; It’s from the Greek tradition we get the idea that Eve ate an apple.


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Both the ancient commentator Apollodorus and the Greek playwright Euripides describe Zeus and Hera as the original occupants of the Garden of the Hesperides. To the Greeks, they were the first couple, a match for the Adam and Eve of Genesis.


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The Judeo-Christian tradition considers Adam as the father of all humanity. The term “father Zeus” is a description of the king of the gods that appears over 100 times in the ancient writings of Homer. According to the ancient poet Hesiod, Zeus is “the father of gods and men” – the gods being deified ancestors.

Genesis 3:20 describes Eve as “the mother of all the living.” In a hymn of invocation, the 6th-century BC lyric poet, Alcaeus, refers to Hera as “mother of all.” As the first wife, the Greeks worshipped Hera as the goddess of marriage; as the first mother, the Greeks worshipped her as the goddess of childbirth.


The Hesperides


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Chrysothemis moves toward the tree to pluck an apple. Asterope leans pleasantly against her with both arms. To the left of them, Hygeia (Health) sits on a hillock and holds a long scepter, a symbol of rule, as she looks back towards the tree. To the right of the apple tree, Lipara (Shining Skin) holds apples in the fold of her garment, and raises her veil off her shoulder.

The names of the Hesperides describe what the garden is like. It is a land of soft starlight, gold for the taking, perfect health, and wondrous beauty.


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The Hesperides, the nymphs who tend to the ancient garden, its tree, its apples, and its serpent, get their name from Hespere in Greek, which means evening, signifying the West where the sun sets.

This matches the Genesis account which describes civilization developing to the east of Eden. A return to Eden would mean traveling west. The Greeks put the Garden of the Hesperides in the Far West.

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Giant Sunspot On Par With The Carrington Event Appears On The Sun

— and it's pointed right at Earth


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A gigantic cluster of sunspots — collectively around the same size as the one that birthed the largest solar storm in recorded history — has just emerged on the sun's Earth-facing side, and is now pointed directly at our planet. While auroras and some technological disturbances are possible over the coming week, the new sunspot complex seems unlikely to unleash a second Carrington Event, according to NASA and others.

The complex, dubbed AR 4294-4296, is made up of two different sunspot groups, AR 4294, and AR 4296, that are magnetically intertwined. It first became visible on Nov. 28, when it rotated onto the sun's Earth-facing side on our home star's western limb. However, the dark patches were first spotted around a week earlier by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which was spying on the sun's far side relative to Earth.

AR 4294-4296 is around the same size as a giant sunspot observed by British astronomer Richard Carrington in September 1859, which subsequently birthed the "Carrington Event" — the biggest solar storm ever seen by humans. The image above, first shared by Spaceweather.com on Dec. 2, shows the sunspot complex alongside Carrington's sketch of the giant 19th-century behemoth.

Published 5th December 2025 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/giant-sunspot-on-par-with-the-one-that-birthed-the-carrington-event-has-appeared-on-the-sun-and-its-pointed-right-at-earth

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Winter in the Wild | Smithsonian Photo Contest


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Icelandic Horses – Holly Fischer (Iceland)


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Evergreen Cardinal – Mark Archibald (Ohio)


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White Ermine Alert – Tim Auer (Wyoming)


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Reindeer Run – Kris Cheng (Alaska)


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Wrestling Match – Thomas Chadwick (Alaska)


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Three Golden Monkeys – Minqiang Lu (China)

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The Men Who Own The Moon

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Space Nations — The Men Selling The Moon

These include Dennis Hope’s Galactic Government, James Thomas Mangan’s Nation of Celestial Space, and King Frederick the Great of Prussia. It has been reported that several ex-astronauts and three ex-presidents are among a distinguished list of buyers.

Published 17th March 2017 (5:24)
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Space News This Week | Space Bites w/ Fraser Cain

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Early Signs of Dark Matter Detection // Search for Exomoons // No Liquid Water for Mars

Has dark matter been found? A galaxy made of the first stars, China’s reusable rocket reaches orbit but doesn’t stick the landing, a possible explanation for the matter/antimatter asymmetry, and in Q&A+, Gaia helps pin down a supernova that hit the Earth 10 million years ago. No AI, no ads.

Published 5th December 2025 (21:15)
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Group of Bikers Prove: Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

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When these kids opened a lemonade stand, it resulted in a beautiful moment for the whole neighborhood.

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Soyuz Crew Returns After 245 Days in Space | Historic ISS Mission

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Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky (Roscosmos) Jonny Kim (NASA)

What happened upon a return to Earth: Safe landing in Kazakhstan, Sergey talks with personnel and sings a little song, aviators receive Russian dolls, Jonny smiles, cosmonaut grafitti.

Published 9th December 2025 (19:00)
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Somewhere down Disclosure Road, we will learn about the hooning behaviours of antisocial youngish male segments of various alien “beings”.

Since those star- and galaxy-travellers are here and obviously watching us, I bet that some of them can’t resist the challenge of besting us. Including in hooning lol. Good luck, me gonky cobbers.

[HOONIGAN] Gymkhana 2025: Aussie Shred — Travis Pastrana Does the IMPOSSIBLE in a Subaru Brat

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Travis Pastrana takes on the Outback, Sydney’s Harbour, and Bathurst’s Mount Panorama among other locales, from behind the wheel of the Subaru “Brataroo” 9500 Turbo — a re-imagining of a 1978 Subaru BRAT engineered as a purpose-built Gymkhana weapon.


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Moon Games by Giorgia Hofer


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This is not a screen from a video game. Nestled below the treeline, the small mountain church does look like it might be hiding from Moon though. In the well-composed telephoto snapshot, taken on November 23, the church walls are partly reflecting light from terrestrial flood lights. Of course, the Moon is reflecting light from the Sun. At any given time the Sun illuminates fully half of the Moon's surface, also known as the lunar dayside, but on that night only a sliver of its sunlit surface was visible. About three days after New Moon, the Moon was in a waxing crescent phase. The single exposure was captured shortly after sunset in skies near Danta di Cadore, northern Italy, planet Earth.

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Thx Johnny. Checkers or wreckers.

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Good morning, Chuckie, wherever you are ...



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All The Ghosts You Will Be

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I don't even know how to describe this. "Curiouser" is a very curious word.

Snippet: “You die twice. First, when your heart stops beating, then when your name is spoken for the last time.”

Published 15th July 2025 (22:00)
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Puppet Politicians: The Hidden Masters Controlling the World

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Richard Syrett welcomes author and translator Samuel Chong, who tells us not to read a disturbing book he has published. From Atlantis's fall and biblical ET origins to time portals, reincarnation proofs, and psychic abilites, Chong empowers us to combat modern perils through collective consciousness and nonviolent resistance.

Published 28th October 2025 (52:40)
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Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks December 13-14

With a retiring crescent Moon in the mix, prospects for the year’s richest meteor shower are excellent


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Drum roll, please. On the night of December 13–14, the annual Geminid meteor shower will reach a crescendo and spangle the sky with shards of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Weather permitting, of course! Last year, the nearly full Moon shone all night and erased much of the shower's grandeur. This time around the Moon will be a 26%-illuminated crescent rising alongside Virgo's brightest star Spica around 2:30 a.m. local time. That's close to ideal.

Lunar light-spill should have only a minor effect on the meteors' frequency, which is expected to reach around 150 per hour under ideal circumstances. If you still find what moonlight remains distracting, face north or west to observe the shower. Geminids will appear to stream from a single point in the sky, called the radiant, near the star Castor in Gemini, and dart in every direction so you can't go wrong.

The Geminids are not only consistent, but the shower has also gradually intensified since it was first recognized in the mid-1800s. Back then, the rates were closer to 10–20 meteors per hour. In the early 1960s, the shower was on par with the Perseids, which it has now surpassed. As gravitational perturbations from Jupiter and the other planets gradually nudge the densest part of the stream closer to Earth, numbers should continue to rise until about the year 2200 before declining.

The shower's peak is forecast for 8:00 UT (3 a.m. EST) on December 14th, which makes the pre-dawn hours of the 14th ideal for seeing the highest meteor rates.

Published 8th December 2025 by Bob King – Sky & Telescope
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/looks-like-a-wonderful-geminid-meteor-shower-ahead/


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Secret Government UFO Program Reveals Paranormal Events

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For 27 months, Las Vegas was UFO central. A secret program, known as AAWSAP, was created in 2008 with support from Nevada Senator Harry Reid and became the largest UFO investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. Government (so far as we know).

Published 11th December 2025 (6:54)
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The truth isn't out there, the truth is here.

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Interstellar Comet Is Making Its Closest Approach To Earth This Week


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A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday, December 19, the closest it gets on its grand tour of the solar system.

NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be between 1,444 feet and 3.5 miles in size. But it's fading as it exits, so now's the time for backyard astronomers to catch it in the night sky with their telescopes.

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it reaches interstellar space, never to return.

It's the third known interstellar object to cut through our solar system. Interstellar comets like 3I/Atlas originate in star systems elsewhere in the Milky Way, while home-grown comets like Halley's hail from the icy fringes of our solar system.

Published 15th December 2025 by CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interstellar-comet-closest-approach-earth-3iatlas/

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Most Popular Newborns' Names


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USA - Girls / Boys

1975

1) Jennifer, Michael
2) Amy, Jason
3) Heather, Christopher
4) Melissa, James
5) Angela, David
6) Michelle, Robert
7) Kimberly, John
8) Lisa, Brian
9) Stephanie, Matthew
10) Nicole, William

2005

1) Emma, Aidan
2) Emily, Jacob
3) Madison, Ethan
4) Kaitlyn, Nicholas
5) Sophia, Matthew
6) Isabella, Ryan
7) Olivia, Tyler
8) Hannah, Jack
9) Makayla, Joshua
10) Ava, Andrew

2025

1) Olivia, Noah
2) Amelia, Liam
3) Sophia, Oliver
4) Emma, Elijah
5) Isabella, Mateo
6) Charlotte, Levi
7) Eliana, Lucas
8) Ellie, Ezra
9) Aurora, Asher
10) Mia, Luca

2025 (cont'd)

Olivia and Noah aren't budging from their No. 1 titles among BabyCenter parents – but there's plenty of other baby name shakeups to take note of this year.

Olivia and Amelia are hanging on tight to the No. 1 and 2 spots for girls, but the rest of the top 10 has seen some changes: Sophia (No. 3) and Emma (No. 4) traded places; Isabella (No. 5) and Charlotte (No. 6) also flipped; Ellie (No. 8) rose; and Mia (No. 10) fell.

There are two new girl names in the top 10 for the first time ever this year: Eliana (No. 7) and Aurora (No. 9). But that means two other names – Ava (No. 11) and Luna (No. 13) are out.

The top 10 boy names saw less movement – in fact, the top 5 are exactly the same as last year: Noah (No. 1), Liam (No. 2), Oliver (No. 3), Elijah (No. 4), and Mateo (No. 5). Meanwhile, Levi (No. 6) and Lucas (No. 7) traded places. Ezra (No. 8) and Asher (No. 9) didn't move.

The biggest change in the top 10 boy names was in the No. 10 spot: Luca rejoined the top 10 after falling out in 2024, and Leo (now No. 11) dropped.

A new class of girl names is joining the top 100 for the very first time – or rejoining it after years away:

Eloise jumped more than 20 spots to join the top 100 names for the very first time at No. 75.

At No. 84, Sarah is rejoining the top 100 after a year away.

Emersyn climbed a whopping 50 spots to join the top 100 at No. 89.

At No. 92, Sienna is new to the top 100.

Last seen in the top 100 girl names in 2021, Charlie is back at No. 93.

Catalina is in the top 100 for the very first time, at No. 95.

After falling out of the top 100 names in 1943, Josephine is in the top 100 for the first time this century at No. 96.

Juniper is making her first appearance in the top 100, at No. 97.

Oaklynn is debuting in the top 100 at No. 98.

Vivian last appeared in the top 100 in 1934 – and she's back this year at No. 99.

And at No. 100, Kehlani is joining the top 100.

But that means just as many girl names fell out of the top 100 this year: Nevaeh (No. 103), Kennedy (No. 105), Anna (No. 107), Ember (No. 108), Jade (No. 109), Savannah (No. 113), Audrey (No. 118), Cora (No. 119), Natalie (No. 120), Skylar (No. 122), and Oakley (No. 142).

Meanwhile, just like with the top 10, the top 100 boy names saw less of a shakeup:

Malachi is in the top 100 for the first time at No. 91.

After disappearing from the top 100 in 1970, Arthur skyrocketed 44 spots to reenter the top 100 at No. 95.

Ali is making his first appearance in the top 100 at No. 96.

Clocking in at No. 98, Nathaniel is rejoining the top 100 after falling out in 2016.

Hunter (No. 102), Axel (No. 104), Greyson (No. 115), and Max (No. 116) fell out of the top 100 boy names.

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/most-popular/top-baby-names

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You mad Bro?

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Store Owner Tired of His Place Being Robbed Sets a Trap (:

Musical score helpfully provided.

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Geminids


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Mongolia Autonomous Region of China


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Yosemite National Park in California

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Bonus:

Meteoro risca o céu da Região Nordeste do país em brilho intenso

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Multiple views of intense meteor in Brazil.

Published 9th December 2025 (2:24)
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[Johnnycomelately]

Something strange going on with NASA’s MAVEN mission. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for ten-odd years now, sending back lots of useful info abt Mars’ atmosphere and ejaculates (gases and ions that went somewhere else), and now it has gone full EMCON.

Funny thing is, this has become apparent after a normal comms blackout, as it orbited behind the planet. It just never reestablished contact. Scott says they think it’s now tumbling, but that they don’t say why they think this. So whatever happened, happened out of line of sight, including actual sight and visual imaging.

Doesn’t that make the hairs on the back of anybody else’s neck stand up? Surely those neck hairs are somehow connected to our sixth sense, our perception of spooky or sly/BS stuff. IMO, this quietness is meant as a message.

If I were the A.I. used by some random well meaning alien other-Children-of-God who did FTL and were pretty sorted, and they wanted to terraform Mars so they could go live there again, I would cap any Earthlings’ sensors of what I was up to. Because Earthilngs have been known to be bad news. And I would do it out of sight, meaning the tumbling impetus, just to be unatributable, a mind-f mystery, to test our reaction. Because science or their version of money or something.

Staight talk. Total Recall, only in reverse. Those aliens will not let us near their new Shangri La/digs. Elon has a target on his back (NASA, not so much, bunch of losers) at the moment, but he probs knows it and will go make money somewhere else.


NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft - Spinning Out Of Control?

Scott Manley

1.82M subscribers

Dec 16, 2025


After a week of almost no information on what happened to NASA's MAVEN we now find out that analysis of the loss of contact suggest the spacecraft may have been spinning and changed to a new orbit:


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#ufo/uap

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Hundreds of People in PANIC – Miami UFO

Featuring a distracted gentleman plopping into the swimming pool.

Published 18th December 2023 (3:26)
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Sailors Catch Alien Light Show

Don't know what to make of this, bit it is fun to watch.

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Step Inside The International Space Station

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After the government shutdown, NASA and affiliates are slowly coming back online.

Published 17th December 2025 (14:57)
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Update

NASA Chief Isaacman on Space Agenda, Artemis and Plans for a Moon Outpost

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Newly confirmed NASA Director Mr 'Big Ears' Jared Isaacman speaks about the immediate and long term future of NASA. Does Trump the real estate magnate have his eyes on the Moon?

Published 20th December 2025 (11:06)
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The Sky This Week

Sunday, Dec. 21 - Northern winter solstice

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Winter in the Northern Hemisphere will officially commence in the Americas on Sunday, Dec. 21, at 10:03 a.m. EST and 7:03 a.m. PST, or 15:03 GMT. At the solstice, the sun will attain its southernmost declination for the year, resulting in the lowest elevation in the sky of the noonday sun, the least amount of solar insolation, and the shortest amount of daylight of the year. Conversely, the Southern Hemisphere will see its highest sun and maximum daylight hours for the year.


Monday, Dec. 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower peaks (predawn)

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The Ursids meteor shower, which is produced by particles of debris dropped by the periodic comet 8P/Tuttle, runs from Dec. 17 to 26 every year. The short-duration shower will peak (usually with only 5 to 10 meteors visible in an hour) while Earth is traversing the densest part of the debris field in mid-morning on Monday, Dec. 22 in the Americas, so the best time to watch for Ursid meteors will be before dawn. True Ursids will streak away from the shower's radiant, located between the North Star Polaris and the Big Dipper's handle, but the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky.


Thursday, Dec. 25 - A Christmas star (late evening)

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Sirius, the brightest star in Canis Major and in the entire night sky, too, is hard to miss once it clears the trees and rooftops in the southeast by 7:30 p.m. local time. Also known as the Dog Star, it will climb to its highest point in the lower part of the southern sky shortly after midnight local time. If you are walking through your darkened house in the middle of the night, Sirius might catch your eye out a window because it never climbs very high. Sirius is a hot, blue-white, A-class star located only 8.6 light-years from our sun. Its extreme brightness and its low position in the sky combine to produce spectacular flashes of various colors as it twinkles.

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

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ISS - Light Fantastic | Seán Doran - Chris Zabriskie

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After an extended absence, Seán is back with more mesmerizing space rock films.


'Light Fantastic' is a film by Seán Doran made with images courtesy NASA / ESRS / eol.jsc.nasa.gov and music by Chris Zabriskie - Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran - 'An exhilarating musical journey with the aurora of planet Earth.' - 21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore on January 1st, 4th, 5th and February 1st of 2025 are restitched, repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage.

Published 21st November 2025 (1:23:24)
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Physics Levitation


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Electricity (3:31)

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Sound Waves (0:15)

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Magnets (1:49)

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Flux Pinning (5:37)

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Polar Bear Plunge

Polar plunges aren’t just for the daring. Cold-water swimming has proven psychological and physiological benefits.


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Crazy New Yorkers: New Year's Day 2019

On January 1, some hardy souls will greet the new year not by nursing a champagne hangover in bed, but by plunging into frigid water. In New York City, thousands of people participate in a seaside “polar plunge” held annually since 1903. Similarly bone-chilling swims take place across the country and overseas on New Year’s Day.

These brave revelers may be on to something. Icy immersion isn’t without risk, and there’s no single temperature range used to study dunking or swimming. But a growing body of science suggests cold water may hold benefits for mental and physical health alike.

Lee Hill, an exercise physiologist at McGill University in Montreal, has a long history with cold-water swimming. A former competitive swimmer and coach, Hill used to take kilometers-long swims, sometimes in water below 10° Celsius, in their native South Africa. Though not for the faint of heart, these chilly dips create an unmatched feeling, Hill says. “You feel Zen. … You feel every part of your body. You’re aware of your breathing. You forget about everything [else].”

Diving into icy cold water triggers a pair of conflicting physiologic responses, says James Mercer, a professor emeritus at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø who has studied cold-water swimming. One is the “diving response,” which is meant to conserve oxygen underwater. Heart rate slows, breathing is inhibited, blood vessels constrict, and blood flow is shunted to critical organs. The second is the “cold shock response,” Mercer explains. “Your heart rate goes through the roof. Your blood pressure goes through the roof. You’re gasping for breath,” he says.


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That push-and-pull may sound hard on the body, and it can be dangerous, particularly if you have underlying heart issues or aren’t prepared for the strain on your system. (If you’re polar plunging for the first time, go with a buddy, ease in slowly, get out of the water within five to 10 minutes and know the warning signs of hypothermia, Hill says.) But stress isn’t always a bad thing, Mercer says. It’s how the body builds resilience. The research on cold-water exposure isn’t perfect, Mercer says; studies tend to be small and poorly controlled, and their designs vary widely in terms of participant characteristics, water temperature, and duration and type of activity. That makes it hard to definitively prove the practice has benefits, or to say whether swimming in cold water is better you than, say, taking an ice bath or a quick plunge.

Nonetheless, some research finds that regular, prolonged immersion in cold water makes the body more resilient. For example, young men who endured daily hour-long baths in 13° to 15° C water for seven days got a physiological boost at the end of the trial, researchers reported in 2024 in Advanced Biology. Specifically, their cells did a better job of clearing out old or damaged parts, a process thought to help prevent various diseases and maintain overall cellular function.

Other research suggests regular cold-water immersion may activate the immune system, potentially boosting white blood cell counts and plasma concentrations of immune proteins.

Published 17th December 2025 by Jamie Ducharme – Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/polar-plunges-swimming-icy-cold-water


Coney Island - NYC


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Longtime stalwarts: The Galletta Family

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With Miss Coney Island 1968 Arlene Shaw

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New info about the UFO incident at Varginha, Brazil, in 1996.

Jesse Michels interviews filmmaker and UFO researcher James Fox, about his new movie Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters.

Long vid, L = 3:08:00. I’m 26 min in, paused to post this. Fox has his own intruiging story about how he made contact with the two (?, am not there yet) witness-sisters. Involved getting bit by a spider in a forest at night that he/coworkers thought might be a real poisonous kind, anti-venom treatment awake all night, next day knackered so he ditched his co-workers and went to a cafe for sustenance and rest. Met a fellow who recognized him and approached him. A few minutes later the interview with at least one of the sisters was set up. Fox and his team had been searching for the sisters, this was his 2012 trip of several, in previous days they had been knocking on doors. Fellow said he had dated one of them, pulled out his phone and called her. Bizarre, right?! T= 24:10 - 26:06.

BREAKING: Brazilian Army Captures Live Alien From UFO Crash (ft. James Fox)

Jesse Michels

523K subscribers

Dec 21, 2025


Investigator James Fox just surfaced the most intensely-detailed account yet of the Varginha UFO case, an event involving a crashed craft, multiple non-human three fingered and toed beings, military intervention (from Brazil and The United States), and firsthand medical witnesses who did surgery on an alien in a hospital in Varginha, Brazil. For the first time in the case’s history, James Fox gets a testimony from the head neurosurgeon of the hospital that did surgery on the being. He also interviews the examiner of the soldier that died from apprehending the being. Chris Ramsay will be doing a deep dive on this autopsy on ‪@Area52Investigations‬ in a couple of weeks.


Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:05 The 1996 Incident
08:41 The Crash Site
41:33 Encountering the Being
46:49 The Neurosurgeon's Testimony
53:54 Alien Communication
1:05:51 Military Whistleblowers and Witnesses
1:08:27 National Security
1:12:09 The Day of the Event
1:15:15 Witnesses and Testimonies
1:19:35 Investigating the Air Traffic Controller
1:23:48 UFOs and National Security
1:28:25 The Complexity of Disclosure
1:42:18 Meeting Philip J. Corso
1:58:34 They Walk Among Us
2:09:16 The Truth
2:12:29 Edgar Mitchell
2:13:05 The Wilson Davis Memo
2:18:03 The Apollo Astronauts
2:19:36 The Moon Landing
2:30:45 Calls for Transparency
2:38:49 Disclosure
2:58:42 Collaborating With Others
3:04:43 Upcoming Revelations


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Some edits:

First, watched my time range-stamp again, and the fellow didn’t recognize Fox, but asked if he was American, and what he was doing there.

Am now at 49:59, and this is getting better and better.


T 1:02:00 , the Roger Lear tapes. Same message as in the Zimbabwe schoolyard incident, “You don’t realise how much potential you have”.


Am 1:17:20. Lots of and still about what has happened, between Brazilians.

“Brazil” is a cool/posh/dope/chancy country name. I would be so stoked if my country name were changed to Zanada, or even Cazada or Canaza. Haha.


1:46:02, am done for now, 12:11 MST. Figure a sk8 to play pool is in order. -17.2 C is just a tad warm for my baseline for what works, but drip-a-drop, let’s test those frozen waters. The colder, the smoother and the better traction (propulsion and steering).

Cheers everybody!

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Happy Holidays

The Largest Rotating Structure Found in the Universe | Night Sky News December 2025

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Star and comet news from Dr Becky.

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Expect Festive Shows for the Holidays | Space Weather Weekend 20 December 2025

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Sun and Moon forecast from Dr Tamitha.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to Space Cadets Everywhere

Love, Mitzi

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A heartfelt carol from Mitzi and her husband, Jack Bean (Santa).

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Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole


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A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself.

This effect is known as frame-dragging, or the Lense-Thirring effect, and observing it at the heart of a galaxy named LEDA 145386, around 400 million light-years from Earth, has given astronomers an opportunity to watch general relativity play out in real time.

"This is a real gift for physicists as we confirm predictions made more than a century ago," says astrophysicist Cosimo Inserra of Cardiff University in the UK. "Not only that, but these observations also tell us more about the nature of TDEs – when a star is shredded by the immense gravitational forces exerted by a black hole."

Frame-dragging is a prediction of general relativity, and it's easy to picture. Imagine putting a spoon in honey and rotating it. The honey rotates with the spoon, with the effect strongest closest to the spoon, and growing weaker with distance.

Kip Thorne: Significance of the Frame Dragging Effect

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Anything with mass gravitationally warps spacetime. Whenever that mass is rotating, spacetime warps with a respective twist. Multiple observations of frame-dragging have been made before, including its effect on satellites around Earth itself.

Near Earth, however, the effect is subtle. Frame-dragging becomes much more pronounced around objects a few million times more massive than the Sun, like supermassive black holes, making these environments excellent laboratories for studying how the phenomenon works.

Of course, the downside is that supermassive black holes are typically too far away to study their more subtle activities in detail. That means we often have to wait for a cataclysmic event, such as the destruction of a star, to measure any elusive behaviors.

"By showing that a black hole can drag spacetime and create this frame-dragging effect, we are also beginning to understand the mechanics of the process," said Inserra. "So, in the same way a charged object creates a magnetic field when it rotates, we're seeing how a massive spinning object – in this case a black hole – generates a gravitomagnetic field that influences the motion of stars and other cosmic objects nearby."

Published 22nd December 2025 by Michelle Starr - Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/stars-death-plunge-reveals-spacetime-twisting-around-a-black-hole

John Green Learns About Black Holes

Black holes for pseudo-dummies.

Published 19th June 2024 (4:30)
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Red Sprites And Circular Elves Lightning Over Italy by Valter Binotto


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What's happening in the sky? Lightning. The most commonly seen type of lightning involves flashes of bright white light between clouds. Over the past 50 years, though, other types of upper-atmospheric lightning have been confirmed, including tentacled red sprites and ringed ELVES. Although both last only a small fraction of a second, sprites are brighter and easier to photograph than their more common electrical-discharge cousins. ELVES are rapidly expanding rings that are thought to be created when an electromagnetic pulse shoots upward from charged clouds and impacts the ionosphere, causing nitrogen molecules to glow.

Capturing either form of lightning takes patience and experience -- capturing them both together, since they usually occur separately, is rare. The featured image is a frame from a video recorded from Possagno, Italy late last month above a distant thunderstorm over the Adriatic Sea.

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The Christmas Tree Cluster


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It would be remiss to have the holiday season pass by without showcasing the lovely Christmas Tree cluster. The area of sky in this photo goes by a number of names, including the Christmas Tree cluster, the Cone nebula and NGC 2264.


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The Christmas Tree cluster lies in the direction of the constellation Monoceros the Unicorn. Monoceros rises in December not long after Orion the Hunter. The Christmas Tree cluster is about halfway between two bright stars you might know: reddish Betelgeuse in the shoulder of Orion and Procyon in Canis Minor.

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Russia Patents Space Station Designed to Generate Artificial Gravity

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Russian state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a novel spacecraft architecture designed to generate artificial gravity, a capability which could provide a huge boost for long-duration crewed missions.

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A report from Russian state media outlet TASS, which obtained the patent, states that the rotating system is designed to generate a gravitational force of 0.5g, or 50% of Earth’s gravity. The patent documentation includes illustrations of a notional space station structure with a central axial module with both static and rotating components, with modules and habitats connected by a hermetically sealed, flexible junction.

The radially attached habitable modules would be rotated around this axis to simulate gravity for the crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force. These would need to rotate about five revolutions per minute, and have a radius of 131 feet (40 meters) in order to produce 0.5g. A space station of that size would require multiple launches with each module that would then be assembled in orbit.

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Generating artificial gravity could have profound impacts for crews on long-duration space missions, whether in low Earth orbit or on interplanetary voyages into deep space. Exposure to microgravity has numerous impacts on astronauts, including muscle atrophy and bone density loss.

Currently, NASA and Roscosmos plan to deorbit the ISS in 2030, using a modified SpaceX Dragon capsule to push the station down into a fiery death over the Pacific Ocean. Russia has committed to stay aboard the ISS until 2028.

Published 23rd December 2025 by Andrew Jones - Space.com
https://www.space.com/technology/russia-patents-space-station-designed-to-generate-artificial-gravity

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Ex-Jesuit Breaks Silence and Exposes Who’s Actually Controlling Reality

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Preaching to the choir here, but some may enjoy this relatively slick presentation on one posit of our current reality: Earth is controlled by a small group of bad guy aliens who communicate with their human proxies via what we know as Satanism, but is more like a phone call where the elites leeches get their orders.

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What if humanity were not at the top of the evolutionary chain? What if behind religions, wars, economic crises, and suffering ... there were something more?

Salvador Freixedo, a former Jesuit priest, dared to say it out loud: human history has been manipulated by invisible entities that control us from the shadows. He was promptly expelled from the Church.

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Wow! This is an excellent video! Thanks so much for posting this, Bluegreen. I had not heard of Salvador Freixedo who like a growing number of researchers have realized who is really running this planet.

I will be posting this video also on my Matrix Revealed thread as it validates what I stumbled into with my past life research with abductees. I first learned about the modus operandi of these human-looking ETs, interdimensionals, aliens or whatever one wants to call them, when I worked with abductee Jack Wylie. In his lifetime as "Akarat" in the 1600s he recovered the memory of his lifelong contact with these nefarious ETs and revealed their modus operandi in establishing religions and secret societies to control humanity and keep us in spiritual darkness, chaos and endless wars for many thousands of years.

As the video reveals they have gone by many times through time such as Anunnaki, Watchers, Neter, Elohim, etc. I prefer the name Illu, which Zechari Sitchin also used. I don't think it is a coincidence that the words Illusion, Illuminati and Illumination begin with one of the names these ETs went by in the middle east. However, it is not true Illumination but a false representation of the symbol of Light. They are indeed the great deceivers and masters of the dialectic. The more they are exposed the faster we will evolve toward a more humane and spiritual future.

[Johnnycomelately]

Christmas Eve ghost story, about a perplexing rescue of a Vampire pilot from a situation of full failure of comms and nav instruments over the North Sea, 1957.

L=31:55, some pics and paintings on screen, but it’s an audio production. Also recommended are the author’s own recordings of this (iirc in 4 parts), Frederick Forsyth RIP.

The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio

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Random Acts of Kindness

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Pay it forward.

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Sh!ts & G!ggles

Scientists Study Profanity

F-ck: Possibly the only word in the English language that is a noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb, and exclamation


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When it comes to expletives, US citizens are the most prolifically profane. Finnish researchers found that Americans drop more f-bombs than their UK counterparts, while Australians are the most creative in their use of the ultimate four-letter word, per a study published in the journal Lingua.

The profane study, which was conducted by scientists at the University of Eastern Finland, set out to investigate the uses of the notorious expletive on social media and across different countries.

To accomplish this task, the team examined a staggering 7.8 billion words posted by 435,345 X users from the US, the UK and Australia between 2006 and 2023.

They focused on the f-word because it’s the most frequently used obscenity and the most likely to ruffle feathers in “polite” company, per the study.

They found that US citizens used “f–k” the most frequently, followed by Brits, then lastly, Australians, contrary to the perception of the Aussies as being particularly latrine-lipped.

“The low frequency of f–k in the Australian data are surprising, as Australians are often perceived as prolific swearers,” the team exclaimed.

That being said, it’s not the size of the f-bomb but how you use it. Swear word-smiths from Down Under were the most creative with their deployment, using 2,160 spelling variants of the word compared to 1,969 in the US and 1,474 in the UK.

Some of the inventive iterations included “f–knicolor,” “furkers,” “fuqqen,” “fukkeng,” “fark” and the Irish–derived “feck.” Meanwhile, their UK and Yankee counterparts were more likely to use the standard f–k.

The researchers weren’t just conducting the study for s–ts and giggles — the team found out that swearing fills a variety of important functions.

These ranged from expressing frustration and releasing stress to, conversely, expressing joy over positive news and adding some rhetorical oomph to a statement such as “that meal was f–king fantastic.”

Published 9th December 2025 by Ben Cost – NY Post
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/lifestyle/this-country-is-the-most-foul-mouthed-study/

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Scientists Study Profanity (cont'd)


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61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year – Natural History Museum


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Jelly Smack Summer by Ralph Pace (USA)


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Nature Reclaims Its Space by Sitaram Raul (India)


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Inside the Pack by Amit Eshel (Israel)


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Ice Edge Journey by Bertie Gregory (United Kingdom)


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Rutting Call by Jamie Smart (United Kingdom)


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Pink Pose by Leana Kuster (Switzerland)


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No Place Like Home by Emmanuel Tardy (France)

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight


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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Lebo M

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[Johnnycomelately]

A gift from the JCL Vault library, https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122172-Great-storytelling-longform-random-topics.&p=1696659#post1696659, to spread the knowledge of it. The Ranch being premier PA thread and all. Hey BG. 👻👽😎


Chris Lehto gives his overview of the whole UFO disclosure thing.

Says ~hell yeah large groups of people can keep a secret, offers Santa Clause and the traditional Christmas upbringing/gifting scam* as an example.

*Noam Chomsky, in his epic vid Manufacturing Consent, described the role of the Coca Cola business in that.

Lots more too. L = 22:36. Imo, this is a very good take on the whole thing.

5 Years Investigating UAPs - I didn't expect this

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Chris Lehto is a former F-16 pilot with 18 years of experience in the Air Force. He managed multi-million dollar simulator contracts, was an Electronic Attack SME for the Aggressors (OPFOR), and commanded the US Detachment at TLP for NATO Fighter Pilot Training. Chris fought in Iraq for 5 months in 2006. He spent 3 years in Turkey as an exchange pilot and is fluent in Turkish. Chris is also a certified crash safety investigator, having investigated Air Force accidents for four years. Lehto has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry-Materials Science from the Air Force Academy and a Master's in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle University. He was stationed in various locations worldwide, including South Korea, Italy, Alaska, Turkey, and Spain.

Lehto's YouTube channel, "Lehto Files," focuses on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) research, future tech insights, and sharing knowledge. His approach is scientific and aims to illuminate these phenomena and provide informative content. He also shares his expertise on aviation safety and accident analysis. Lehto believes in the power of open dialogue and the importance of a censor-free internet.

Lehto covers a range of topics, including:

• Analysis of aviation accidents, such as the collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
• Identification of drones, drawing on his Air Force security forces experience.
• Insights into Alternate Physics - promoting his Fractal Holographic Universe Theory
• Discussions of UAPs and related topics.
• Insights into space exploration, including his experience at the launch of SpaceX's Starship SN25.

Join this channel for exclusive access:
/ @chrislehtof16


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UFOs

Two from The Hidden Underbelly.

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Disc Shaped UFO Filmed Accidentally – Oshkosh, Wisconsin – November 3, 2025

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When Samantha Allard was filming this airplane she captured more then she bargained for as in her footage she caught this Disc shaped UFO that just flew into view and then disappeared from view, but it was only on re-watching the footage that she noticed the object.

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6 UFOs "Orbs" Disappearing & Reappearing Over Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain - October 5, 2025

Worth a second look.

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BOB LAZAR AND DON GARLITS (1997) (REMASTERED)

Hey Johnny. Hitters hit, racers race.

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Bob Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology, and supposedly worked at a secret site near the United States Air Force facility popularly known as Area 51. Don Garlits, the father of drag racing, sat down for an interview with Bob Lazar in 1997.

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Don Garlits Greatest Moments

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Space Rock | Grant Cameron

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The Extraterrestrial Influence on the Music Industry

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Author Grant Cameron has been presenting excellent and well-documented UFO research for some time. What's funny is Cameron himself says he has little interest in the subject, which he proves by forgetting musician's names. Here are songs mentioned specifically as being "a message from the stars" ...


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Origami

Origami Folds Let Paper Support 9,000 Times Its Weight, Teen Finds


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Wu – Miura-Ori folds

Miles Wu, 14, has been folding origami for seven years. Some of his favorite shapes to make are insects and birds. But recently, Miles got curious about a type of fold known as Miura-Ori. He’d read that this type of origami fold can be both compact and quite strong. That led him to wonder if he could use it in the design of pop-up emergency shelters.

To see which Miura-Ori fold would work best here, he tested how much weight each of 54 different types could support. They differed in the lengths and angles of their folds. He also used several types of paper. Miles placed heavier and heavier weights atop them until each collapsed.

The strongest Miura-Ori folds held more than 9,000 times their paper’s weight. Ones with smaller panels and sharper fold angles made using lightweight copy paper worked best.

An aspiring biologist, Miles did this project as an eighth grader at Hunter College High School in New York City. His research earned him the $25,000 top prize in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.

“ that these origami patterns are actually really strong,” Miles says. “The one that held the most weight only collapsed under about 200 pounds. I was really pleasantly surprised, because I didn’t think they would hold that much. Halfway through my project, I realized that I would need heavier weights, so I bought these two really gigantic 50-pound exercise weights.”


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You can make basically anything out of just a square sheet of paper — which I think is really cool.


“The amount of time it took [was hard],” Miles says. The total time to design, fold and test each Miura-Ori pattern took around 250 hours, he estimates. “I did it a lot over school breaks,” he says. Most of the work was done in his living room.

“Sometimes it felt kind of repetitive. That was the most challenging part — actually having the commitment to finish the entire project.”

Published 16th December 2025 by Maria Temming – Science News Explores
https://www.snexplores.org/article/origami-paper-miura-ori-strength

[I]Folding Spacecraft Design Could Be Enhanced With Japan’s Ancient Origami


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Scientists are exploring a new class of origami structures that could help design and build different shapes for use in space. These structures are expected to be even more compact and reliable.

Called bloom patterns, the new class of origami structures developed at Brigham Young University fold up flat and unfold like flower petals. Researchers expect such designs could be used in telescopes and solar arrays as well.

These structures are suitable for use in spacecraft as origami-based designs could help fold up for launch and then unfold or deploy to their full size when required in space.

Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the research introduced a family of radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami patterns.

Researchers revealed that a standardized definition is developed based on the generalized definition to create a framework for constructing crease patterns. Bloom patterns are classified by their geometry, and a mathematical model is demonstrated for a type of pattern.

The team also revealed that all the shapes unfolded reliably, which is crucial because a single misfold could cause an entire space mission to fail. They also constructed bloom patterns out of other materials, such as 3D printed plastics.

Published 25th August 2025 by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra – Interesting Engineering
https://interestingengineering.com/space/folding-spacecraft-design-with-origami-patterns

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HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula by Mike Selby


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What created the Waterfall Nebula? No one knows.

The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex. The elongated gaseous stream stretches about ten light years but appears similar to a long waterfall on Earth. Recent observations indicate that HH-222 is likely a gigantic gaseous bow shock, similar to a wave of water caused by a fast-moving ship. The origin of this shock wave is thought to be a jet outflow from the multiple star system V380 Orionis off the lower left of the frame. Therefore, gas does not flow along the waterfall, but rather the entire structure moves toward the upper right.

The Waterfall Nebula lies about 1,500 light years away toward the constellation of Orion. The featured image was captured in December 2025 from El Sauce Observatory in Chile.


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January Calendar

Night Sky Events In January 2026 | SuperMoon | Meteor Shower | Jupiter

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All Saints Days


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Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky


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Heliocentric solar system visible planets


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Crystal Ball

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Forecast for 2026

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Spiritualist Teal Swan speaks about the “mental pandemic” and shares her predictions for 2026.

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Nostradamus' Predictions For 2026 Are Pretty Spooky

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As 2026 looms, some of you might be craving a few months of peace and quiet. But according to the purported prophet Nostradamus, we're not going to get it.

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Year of the Fire Horse


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Time Runs Faster On Mars And Scientists Just Proved It


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On Earth, finding the exact time is effortless. Our planet relies on a sophisticated global system that combines atomic clocks, GPS satellites, and ultra-fast communication networks to keep everything in sync.

That precision does not extend naturally beyond Earth. Albert Einstein showed that time does not move at the same pace everywhere in the universe. The rate at which a clock ticks depends on gravity, meaning clocks run slightly slower in stronger gravity and faster in weaker gravity. Even coordinating time across Earth is complex. Extending that coordination across the solar system is far more challenging. For future explorers hoping to live and work on Mars, one fundamental question must be answered first: What time is it on Mars?

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now produced a precise answer. Their calculations show that, on average, clocks on Mars tick 477 microseconds (millionths of a second) faster per day than clocks on Earth. That difference is not constant. Because of Mars' stretched orbit and gravitational influences from other bodies, the time difference can vary by as much as 226 microseconds per day throughout the Martian year.

The research was recently published in The Astronomical Journal and builds on a 2024 study in which NIST scientists outlined a framework for highly precise timekeeping on the Moon.

Understanding how time passes on Mars is essential for future missions, said NIST physicist Bijunath Patla. As NASA prepares for more advanced Mars exploration, accurate timing will be critical for navigation, communication, and coordination across planetary distances.


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Mars operates on a different schedule than Earth in more ways than one. A single Martian day lasts about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and a Martian year stretches across 687 Earth days compared with 365 days on Earth.

A difference of 477 millionths of a second may seem insignificant. It is roughly one thousandth of the time it takes to blink. Yet such tiny differences matter greatly in modern technology. For example, 5G communication systems require timing accuracy within a tenth of a microsecond.

Published 30th December 2025 by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074458.htm

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ORBITAL HOUSE OF CARDS

Earth’s orbital environment has become dangerously fragile. A new study - https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 - led by Sarah Thiele of Princeton University warns that if satellite collision-avoidance systems were knocked offline by a major solar storm, a catastrophic collision in low-Earth orbit could occur in as little as 2-3 days.


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Researchers call this ticking countdown the CRASH Clock (short for Collision Realization And Significant Harm). It measures how long it would take, on average, for a debris-producing collision to occur if satellites suddenly lost situational awareness and stopped maneuvering.

In 2018, before today’s megaconstellations filled the skies, the CRASH Clock stood at 121 days. Today, it’s less than three.

Orbital traffic is now at unprecedented levels, especially in dense shells of Starlink spacecraft near 550 km altitude. The study shows that close encounters between space objects happen every 20 seconds across low-Earth orbit. According to SpaceX’s most recent biannual report, Starlink satellites alone executed 144,404 collision-avoidance maneuvers between Dec. 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025.

At the best of times, avoiding collisions requires constant, precise maneuvering. But what would happen if satellite operators no longer knew exactly where their spacecraft were?

That scenario is not hypothetical. During the geomagnetic superstorm of May 10-11, 2024, more than 5,000 satellites made emergency maneuvers to maintain their orbits (full story). Most were Starlinks. Position uncertainties grew to kilometers--exactly the kind of disruption envisioned by the CRASH Clock. Fortunately, the storm subsided before a major collision occurred.


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Satellite operators have long feared a doomsday scenario called the Kessler Syndrome--a runaway cascade of satellite destruction triggered by a single debris-producing impact. This paper argues we may not be in a Kessler cascade yet, but we are operating in conditions where one bad solar storm or software failure could start the CRASH Clock ticking.

Enjoy your Starlink – while you can.

https://www.spaceweather.com/


Megaconstellations May Be Just 2 Days Away From Causing a Kessler Syndrome

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the Kessler syndrome and a new unnerving study about megaconstellations, the “House of Cards”.

Published 1st January 2026 (14:32)
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Falcons Flight POV | World’s Tallest, Fastest, Longest Roller Coaster | Six Flags Qiddiya City

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Hold on.

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The World's Most Terrifying Roads | BBC Studios

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Buckle up.

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Out with the old ...

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In with the new ...

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A happy and prosperous New Year to all ... :yo:

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Full Wolf Supermoon

Images taken Jan 2-3 2026.


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- Wang Jianmin (Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China)


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- Islam Dogru (Baltimore MD, USA)


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- Matt Cardy (Glastonbury, England)


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- Shammi Mehra (Ahmedabad, India)



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The Alien (and/or Military/Government) Abduction Experience of Leah Ann Haley

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Ex-professor Ms Haley speaks about the "chalky creatures", which we now know as the Greys, and goes from there ...


Leah A. Haley on her alien abductions, mind control (MK-ULTRA), VR experiences & spirituality, 2004.

"There is no way I'm ever teaching on an Air Force base again!"


Published 25th September 2025 (16:47)
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Full interview (1:06:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBNiWVo9mk

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Rogue 'Diamonds' Appear Out of Nowhere in the Sky

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Night sky, Earth news, and anomalies report from Mr MBB.

Published 5th January 2026 (23:49)
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Every Planet We’ve Visited, And What We've Found

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Eleven and a half minutes of highly concentrated factoids on all humans currently know about the planets in our solar system.

Published 3rd January 2026 (11:26)
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Time Travel – 2027

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The Forbidden Documentary: Occult Louisiana


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"The Forbidden Documentary: Occult Louisiana" is a 2023 documentary made in New Orleans by native filmmaker Chris Mathieu, exploring Louisiana's hidden history, ancient civilizations, Voodoo, pirates, and supernatural lore within its swamps. It delves into the area itself, local legends and conspiracies, connecting them to the region's unique cultural and mystical atmosphere, making for an "epic journey" into the bayou's mysteries.


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[Bill Ryan]

Time Travel – 2027

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http://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/57a/a93/09f720284a287fe04d37fdc5b73e0172f5-1989-raw-1.w426.jpgI looked at this for quite a long time, but completely failed to understand it! :ROFL: (Can you help??)

[NX.P]

i initially resonated with the separate timelines braided together. if time travel is possible then all eras are still in a sense unfolding/unwritten. i dont think this was focus of the author though--seems more likely an illustration of past lives, life review etc but i feel like im missing something too.

[sdv]

Time Travel – 2027

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http://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/57a/a93/09f720284a287fe04d37fdc5b73e0172f5-1989-raw-1.w426.jpgI looked at this for quite a long time, but completely failed to understand it! :ROFL: (Can you help??)

Past, present and future always interacting and affecting each other? From the violent upheavals that created Earth as we know it ... death, destruction, birth always themes that are repeated.

[Bluegreen]

HERE


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"Here" is a 6-page comic story by Richard McGuire published in 1989, and expanded into a 304-page graphic novel in 2014. The concept of "Here" (in both versions) is to show the same place in space at different points in time, ranging from the primordial past to thousands of years in the future. "Here" has been recognized as a groundbreaking experiment within the formal properties of comics.


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The location does not change. The novel spends most of its time in one building, and much of it in one room. McGuire skips around the centuries wildly with inset panels and juxtaposed actions, creating a fascinating collage of human existence. It was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, released in 2024.


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Auroral Corona by Roi Levi

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Cycle 25 solar maximum (aurora australis) made 2025 a great year for the starry night skies over Kirkjufell, Iceland. This boreal skyscape captures the evocative display in a 21 frame panoramic mosaic.

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2025’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries | Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo

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Among the topics discussed: Yellowstone.


If Yellowstone should erupt, it would spew enough material into the sky to block out the Sun from the entire western United States ... for decades.


Published 16th December 2025 (47:37)
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The latest on Yellowstone:

Watch Yellowstone's Hydrothermal Explosions Occur

Published 6th January 2026 (1:14) Captioned
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Yellowstone Just Cracked! After A 6.7 magnitude quakes - Steamboat Geyser Powerfully Erupted

Published 9th January 2026 (8:15)
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PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AND THE SOLAR CYCLE

This week, Jupiter and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun.  To some researchers, this geometry is more than a celestial coincidence. A small but persistent body of research suggests that planetary alignments help regulate solar activity.


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A night for covens all over the world

"A decade ago, I set out to to find a viable mechanism by which the solar cycle could  be synchronised by tidal forces of the planets," says Frank Stefani, a physicist at the HZDR national research center in Germany. "These forces are known to be very small, yet we have developed a model that shows remarkable agreement with observed solar activity." 

This is a controversial topic. Some researchers, like Stefani, have focused their careers on it, while others are vehemently opposed. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5988) The idea refuses to go away mainly because Jupiter, Venus, and Earth form repeating alignment patterns with a characteristic period near 11 years, similar to the average length of the sunspot cycle. Coincidence--or something more?

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Jupiter's Clouds in High Definition from Juno by Thomas Thomopoulos


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How complex is Jupiter? NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter is finding the Jovian giant to be more complicated than expected. Jupiter's magnetic field has been discovered to be much different from our Earth's simple dipole field, showing several poles embedded in a complicated network more convoluted in the north than the south. Further, Juno's radio measurements show that Jupiter's atmosphere shows structure well below the upper cloud deck -- even hundreds of kilometers deep.

Jupiter's newfound complexity is evident also in southern clouds, as shown in the texture and color enhanced featured image taken in December 2025. There, planet-circling zones and belts that dominate near the equator decay into a complex miasma of continent-sized storm swirls. Juno continues in its looping elliptical orbit, swooping near the huge planet every month and exploring a slightly different sector each time around.

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UFO Lights Caught on Camera | Encounter UFO 107

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Researchers, ufologists, and witnesses take a closer look at a surprising UFO hotspot: a small valley in Norway. Could the Earth's magnetic fields be drawing the visitors?

Published 10th January 2026 (11:52)
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Unsettling Ways Aliens Could Understand the Universe | Daniel Whiteson

Do Aliens Speak Physics?


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Mr Godier's guest, noted physicist Daniel Whiteson, talks about “my favorite subject – aliens”. The pair propose first contact happening under multiple and diverse scenarios.



Physicist Daniel Whiteson joins John Michael Godier to explore whether alien civilizations might perceive and understand the universe through entirely different physics—asking if math, logic, and even the laws of nature are truly universal or just human.


Published 30th October 2025 (1:25:37)
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useless box after the fall of civilization

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A useless box after the fall of civilization.

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The Night Sky

Moon

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January

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[Johnnycomelately]

Hey BG. The fable is not true, because fast and steady is what wins races.

But sometimes the tortoise can win, kind of by redefining “win” lol.

TIL that in Europe kids as young as 14 can drive basically golf carts on public roads with no papers. Speed governed “Quadricycle”. Bizarre.

Ligier JS50 historic performances at NÜRBURGRING

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Apr 15, 2025


Ligier Group celebrates innovation, passion and performance with a never-before-realized project: to drive from Paris to the Nürburgring in the all-new Ligier JS50 REVO D+, and then to set
unprecedented lap times on the legendary German circuit in cars without a license.
A vibrant tribute to the brand’s sporting DNA.

Three Ligier JS50s took to the starting grid in front of the stunned crowd of motoring enthusiasts
present that day, sporting symbolic numbers that hinted at Ligier’s glorious history in Formula 1:

Ligier JS50 L6e REVO D+ : 28:25,814
Ligier JS50 L6e Electric : 27:55,580
Ligier JS50 L7e Electric : 19:53,367

To make this feat possible, the Ligier Group has given the three vehicles a unique preparation, combining style, sportiness and cutting-edge technology, under the ‘Ligier Ultimate Racing Experience’ label.


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Vid is from here:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-new-nurburgring-lap-record-was-set-with-just-8-horsepower

Entire text:

A New Nurburgring Lap Record Was Set With Just 8 Horsepower.
Ex-Formula One constructor Ligier set a new record for the slowest Nurburgring lap with its JS50 diesel microcar.

STEPHEN EDELSTEIN
PUBLISHED JAN 10, 2026 12:00 PM EST


Setting a Nurburgring lap record that lasts isn’t easy. Records are made to be broken, and manufacturers are eager for the glory that comes with the fastest lap at the Green Hell for a given type of car. So French automaker Ligier went for a record no one else wanted to touch: the slowest lap around the ‘Ring.

Ligier had the perfect car for the job. The JS50 D+ is a microcar powered by a 0.5-liter diesel engine churning out 8 horsepower and 20 lb-ft of torque. It’s governed to a top speed of 28 mph, but that allows it to be sold in Europe as a quadricycle, meaning it can be driven without a license by people as young as 14. That puts it in the same category as the Fiat Topolino. It’s also efficient: French journalists Nicolas Meunier and Martin Coulomb managed 78 mpg (likely as measured by more lenient European standards, admittedly) on the drive from Paris to the track.

To help boost its chances, Ligier brought three versions of the JS50 to the Nurburgring. The D+ was joined by two electric versions, including one with a higher governed top speed of 47 mph (sacre bleu!), but the diesel was the “winner.” Its lap time of 28 minutes and 25.8 seconds was the slowest, beating the standard EV’s 27:55.6 time and the 19:53.4 of the JS50 Electric 75 KM/H (the name refers to its top speed in kph). Its name may invoke below-average performance, but the D+ demolished the previous record of 16:01, set by a Trabant in 1960.

All three cars ran on Nankang RC semi-slick tires, putting an asterisk on this otherwise impressive feat. It’s unclear if customers will be able to achieve the same level of slowness on the stock tires. Ligier didn’t release a full in-car video for verification either, opting for a dramatically scored sizzle reel, but that’s probably for the best.

Ligier is no stranger to on-track glory. It ran an F1 team from 1976 to 1996, winning a few grands prix here and there. It remains a major constructor of LMP2 chassis for sports car racing, and supplied the backbone for the Lamborghini SC63 LMDh prototype. The Lambo hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory, but it’s still a heckuva lot faster than the JS50.

[ThePythonicCow]

TIL that in Europe kids as young as 14 can drive basically golf carts on public roads with no papers. Speed governed “Quadricycle”. Bizarre.
Thanks to a bit of a quirk in New York State laws, and a bit of a wrinkle in the roads and rivers going through my father's farm was I was young, I legally drove the family station wagon on (a short stretch of) a state highway when I was 9 or 10 years old. I drove more aggressively then than I do now ... those were the days!

[Johnnycomelately]

Haha, wow. Cool. Thanks.

My first motor vehicle was a moped, lent at a small dirt oval in either Italy or Spain, camping travelling in the summer late 60’s. I didn’t understand the thing, couldn’t find the brakes, and an adult jumped out and snagged me.

Same-ish but different, one time I picked up a hitchhiker when going into Toronto, major highway 401 iirc. Was tired on the end of a long drive, and asked if he wanted to drive. Soon he asks “How am I doing for my first time driving”. So then all that brief scariness made sense, and got fixed by a bit of driving instruction.



TIL that in Europe kids as young as 14 can drive basically golf carts on public roads with no papers. Speed governed “Quadricycle”. Bizarre.
Thanks to a bit of a quirk in New York State laws, and a bit of a wrinkle in the roads and rivers going through my father's farm was I was young, I legally drove the family station wagon on (a short stretch of) a state highway when I was 9 or 10 years old. I drove more aggressively then than I do now ... those were the days!

[Bill Ryan]

Unsettling Ways Aliens Could Understand the Universe | Daniel Whiteson

Do Aliens Speak Physics?A fascinating piece of pure trivia I've often thought about — when tying my shoelaces. :)

Knots have to be a universal common factor in the physical universe. All these are probably used by ETs on their ropes (or laces!), which they surely must have, or must have had in their history.

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[Johnnycomelately]

Unsettling Ways Aliens Could Understand the Universe | Daniel Whiteson

Do Aliens Speak Physics?A fascinating piece of pure trivia I've often thought about — when tying my shoelaces. :)

Knots have to be a universal common factor in the physical universe. All these are probably used by ETs on their ropes (or laces!), which they surely must have, or must have had in their history.

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My fav knot has been the shoelace type of uncommitted overhand, leave a tail out, an easily releasable knot for tent lines.