Up At The Ranch And Beyond

[Johnnycomelately]

“Take flight, travel on the very air. Kiss the Hand of God if you want. But don’t fly too close to the Sun, like that Greek guy did, at least during daylight.” - me and professor Simpson.

This vid has only a minor ground loop incident of a Dyke Delta, and the BD-5 jet aborted its takeoff. No Icarus-level misjudgement and tradgedy here, but word does need to get out.

Hey check out that fat spawn of a (iirc) Quickie (Burt Rutan homebuilt design). Rutan’s original Quickie, and I think a later variant, were “conventional” gear, taildraggers. The front two wheels are mounted on either end of the front wing. This evolution uses a normal current standard tricycle gear. Solves a couple problems.

Me I’d make mine bigger, dozen friends and fuel to Vegas, once I get rich and famous enough. The double lifting wings, different than the normal layout where the tail feathers force downward, is more efficient, faster or uses less gas. I could get some turbofans and make me a bizjet. But I’d sweep the wings, more speed to get some CEOs onboard.

Homebuilt Aircraft Showcase - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025

AirshowStuffVideos
382K subscribers

Jan 12, 2026


Various homebuilt aircraft are featured during the homebuilt showcase during the Tuesday airshow at EAA AirVenture 2025 in Oshkosh, WI.

The BD-5J Microjet aborted takeoff and did not fly. Later, the Dyke Delta suffered a ground loop on landing and sustained some damage but the pilot was uninjured.


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Living Things Literally Shine With Visible Light Until Death

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Not only do our bodies emit heat as a light we can't see, a number of cellular reactions may generate photons of light in a visible part of the spectrum. Weirder still, this 'unearthly glow' stops when we die.

Published 23rd September 2025 (1:16)
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Read more:
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-vanishes-when-we-die-surprising-study-says

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Chinese Taikonauts Hone Extreme Cave Survival Skills

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Astronauts Simulate Deep Space With Deep Caves

A team of Chinese astronauts have successfully undergone a round of harsh training under a CAVES training program administered in a mountainous area of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, which has been the country's first such program similar to the Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behavior and performance Skills (CAVES) training organized by the European Space Agency (ESA).

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The Sailors

Astronaut, Cosmonaut and Taikonaut are all terms for the same thing, someone who travels into space. The common part of all three naut which comes from the Greek for sailor. The Americans, Canadian, Europeans and the Japanese use the term Astronaut meaning Star Sailor with the first part meaning star. Those three terms are the most commonly used/heard terms for those who travel into space.

Lesser known terms include Spationaut and Vyomanaut. Some Europeans use Spationaut, mainly the French to indicate an European astronaut. A Vyomanaut is used by some Indians for those who travel in the Indian Space Program.

Russia uses the term Cosmonaut, meaning Universe Sailor and the Chinese use the word Taikonaut meaning Space Sailor.

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Astronaut: NASA Basic Requirements


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Being an astronaut is a tremendous commitment. Astronaut candidates — who tend to be selected in their 30s and 40s — usually leave prestigious careers for a chance at being an astronaut, starting again at the bottom of the rung. Training means long days at work and lots of travel. There's also no guarantee they'll make it into space.

While the public mostly pays attention to astronauts while they're in space, in reality the astronauts will spend only a fraction of their careers up high. Most of their time will be spent training and supporting other missions.

First, the astronaut candidates will have about two years of basic training, where they will learn survival training, language, technical skills and other things they need to be an astronaut. Upon graduating, new astronauts can be assigned to a space mission, or assigned to technical roles in the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.


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Here's what it takes to be a NASA astronaut and what happens after the selection.

The agency's basic requirements are a bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science or mathematics, followed by three years of professional experience (or 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft).

Candidates also must pass NASA's rigorous physical examination, as well as learn to speak Russian.

There are many other skills that can be an asset to selection, such as scuba diving, wilderness experience, leadership experience and facility with other languages (such as French, Spanish, and Russian, which all astronauts are required to learn today.)

The new astronauts may begin their careers traveling to the International Space Station, or they may find themselves flying farther. It all depends on where United States space policy goes in the coming years, and what programs NASA finds itself involved in.


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While the astronaut candidates selected by NASA will be principally working with that agency, they also will find themselves embedded in a network of international partnerships. Along with commercial partners in the United States developing spaceflight hardware and the various NASA centers that work in human spaceflight, there are 16 nations participating in the International Space Station — each with its own realm of expertise.


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Robot Smaller Than a Grain of Salt Can ‘Sense, Think, Act’


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For decades scientists have dreamed of building a microrobot less than 1 millimeter in size, a barrier that corresponds to the smallest units of our biology.

For comparison, a human hair has a diameter of about 70 microns, while human cells are about 20 to 40 microns across.

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — smaller than a grain of salt.

The feat, accomplished by a partnership of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan, advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the human body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver medicines to precise areas, and determine the health of a patient’s cells without surgery.

“It’s the first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act,” said Marc Miskin, assistant professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and an author of a paper describing the work published this week in the journalScience Robotics.

The device, billed as the world’s smallest robot able to make decisions for itself, represents a major step toward a goal once rooted in science fiction.

In the 1960s, the story and movie “Fantastic Voyage” imagined a medical team placed aboard a submarine and shrunk to the size of a microbe. The microscopic medical crew was then injected into the body of a dying man in order to destroy an inoperable blood clot.

During the summer, the scientists invited a group of high school students to come in and test the new microrobots. The students were able to track the movements of the robots using a special low-cost microscope.

“They loved it,” said Miskin. “It was definitely a little bit challenging at first, just getting oriented to working with something that small. But that’s part of the appeal. Once they got the hang of it, they were all in.” Miskin said the version of the robot the students used cost only about $10.

Researchers are working now to develop the microrobot so that it can work in saltwater, on land and in other environments.


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(Actual size: Insect wing: 3 microbots)


Published 17th December 2025 by Mark Johnson – WAPO/MSN
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/12/robot-miniature-tiny-solar-computer/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ar-AA1Sd9xS
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adu8009

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Space Rock | WingMakers

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WingMakers - Hakomi Project - Chamber 3 (P1+P2+P3) (HD)

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#ufojapan

Japan: Mysteries Caught on Camera | The Proof Is Out There

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From eerie footage to baffling phenomena, this compilation dives into Japan’s strangest mysteries as experts analyze what’s real, what’s explainable, and what may defy reason.

Published 7th January 2026 (19:52)
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[Johnnycomelately]

High Rollin’, mostly Coastin’

Record Breaking Roller Coaster Has a Problem - Falcons Flight Analysis 3

ElToroRyan
165K subscribers

Jan 14, 2026


This is my third analysis video on Falcons Flight. Check out my prior videos for more context:

Video 1 - • Record Breaking Roller Coaster’s Design Ri...
Video 2 - • Record Breaking Roller Coaster Just Got Ev...

Video Sections:
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Train Changes
01:45 - Rollbacks
04:22 - Launch 2 Block
07:42 - Launch 3 Block
09:03 - Terrible Capacity
17:09 - Trim Brakes
18:22 - Conclusion

Video Sources:
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Its not the destination

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Its the journey

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(The History of) Lemons


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In this video, we take a look at the history of lemons and lemonade, stretching across the ages, from its mysterious origins in the ancient world, to a long-standing tradition in kids' money-making schemes.

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Henri's Women

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Henri hard at work

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"When The Stars Go Blue"


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Artemis 2 Update: NASA Eyes February Launch to the Moon


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NASA's first mission to take humans to the moon in half a century is creeping ever closer.

The space agency has announced that the rollout of its Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket and Orion Module began Saturday (Jan. 17), ahead of a launch as early as Feb. 6.

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 million-pound (5 million kilograms) stack will be transported at a speed of about 1 mph (1.6 km/h along a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) route. The site will be streamed live on NASA's Youtube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rdew)

"We are moving closer to Artemis II, with rollout just around the corner," Lori Glaze, the acting associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said in a statement released Jan. 9. "We have important steps remaining on our path to launch and crew safety will remain our top priority at every turn, as we near humanity's return to the Moon."

Artemis 2 is the first crewed spaceflight in the Artemis Program, which aims to send humans back to the moon for the first time since 1972. Four astronauts will take a 10-day flight around the moon and back to Earth, testing systems ahead of the Artemis 3 mission, which aims to deliver astronauts to the lunar surface by 2028.

Published 16th January 2026 by Ben Turner – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/artemis-2-update-nasa-to-wheel-historic-11-million-pound-rocket-to-the-launch-pad-this-weekend

The Crew

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Clockwise from top left are: Victor Glover, pilot; Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Christina Hammock Koch, mission specialist; and Reid Wiseman, commander.

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THE CME HAS ARRIVED--A SEVERE STORM IS UNDERWAY

Arriving earlier than expected, a CME struck Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 19th (1930 UT). The impact has sparked a G4-class (severe) geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras after local nightfall. There is a chance that this storm could escalate to category G5 (extreme) in the hours and days ahead.

THIS WAS A VERY FAST ONE

The CME that struck Earth today crossed the sun-Earth divide in only ~25 hours. That's fast. For comparison, most CMEs take 3 or 4 days to get here. The high speed of this CME (~1660 km/s) places it in the top few percent of all CMEs observed in the SOHO era.


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Since the launch of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in 1995, SOHO coronagraphs have cataloged thousands of coronal mass ejections. The vast majority are slower than 1,000 km/s. The fastest, observed on July 23, 2012, was clocked at 2,900 to 3,500 km/s; it narrowly missed Earth.

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The Onboard UFO Encounters of Leo and Mike Dworshak

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This is an amazing story that gets weirder as it goes on. The brothers had 12 encounters.


One of the most astounding cases of UFO contact is that of Leo and Mike Dworshak, two brothers from the small town of Killdeer, North Dakota. In the summer of 1932, Leo (age 12) and Mike (age 8) were hiking near their home when they came upon a landed silver flying saucer. At that time, neither of them had heard of UFOs (few had!) so they had no idea what they were seeing, but they knew it was unusual. They became even more intrigued when a door opened and three men wearing jumpsuits emerged. The boys tried to move closer, but found their path forward blocked by an invisible forcefield. The men walked around briefly and then returned inside the craft. It was getting dark, so the brothers returned home. This was to be the first of an escalating series of contacts ...

Published 9th January 2026 (54:48)
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Leo and his book

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Lightning – Usual & Unusual

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Unusual lightning (cloud to ground) causes death every year.

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Alexander Krivenyshev of WorldTimeZone.com captured this cloud-to-ground lightning between skyscrapers. Alexander wrote: “Lightning bolt strikes the Hudson River between lower Manhattan and Jersey City.”

What Is a Sprite? Earth's Super Rare Red Lightning

A kind of transient luminous event or TLE, a sprite occurs during lightning storms and is rarely observed with the human eye.

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Cristina Ortiz López captured this intra-cloud (or cloud-to-cloud) lightning in Granada, Spain.

Cloud Top Flashes - "Pixies" - Captured Up Close

A fascinating and rarely captured cloud top Transient Luminous Event known as a Pixie. Very quick electric blue flashes believed to be 100m or so across.

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ERICH VON DÄNIKEN R.I.P.

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A PERSONAL TRIBUTE BY PAUL WALLIS

"It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Erich von Däniken on January 10, 2026. Our thoughts are with his family. He is also mourned by friends around the world, the millions of readers of his books, and the many colleagues who had the privilege of working with him."

Published 12th January 2026 (18:34)
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Bonus

2009 07 20 Project Camelot Meets Erich von Däniken

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In this fascinating conversation, Project Camelot sits down with Erich von Däniken, the world-renowned author of Chariots of the Gods, to discuss ancient mysteries, extraterrestrial influences, and lost civilizations. Recorded on 20 July 2009, this interview delves into his decades of research on ancient astronaut theory and the evidence suggesting that humanity’s past may not be what we’ve been told.

Topics covered include:

✅ Ancient structures and their potential connection to advanced civilizations
✅ The role of extraterrestrial beings in shaping early human development
✅ Suppressed archaeological discoveries that challenge mainstream history
✅ What this means for the future of humanity

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[ThePythonicCow]

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN R.I.P.

I coped Bluegreen's above post of Erich von Däniken's passing to the Obituaries thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118685-Obituaries&p=1699350&viewfull=1#post1699350)

... and Bill copied Bluegreen's above post to Agape's dedicated Erich von Däniken (1935 - 2026) (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130867-Erich-von-D--niken--1935-2026-&p=1699352&viewfull=1#post1699352) thread.

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Whatever you do ...

Don't Pick Up The Frozen Iguanas


FLORIDA - Morning temperatures in Jacksonville and Tallahassee dipped as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit overnight, while Orlando hit the mid-30s, and Miami fell to the upper 40s. All are temperatures cold enough to temporarily freeze an iguana.

Miami Zoo Communications Director Ron Magill is delighted to expand on this little-known-outside-the-area phenomena.

Published 17th January 2026 (4:07)
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Reptiles like iguanas are cold-blooded—or ectothermic—reptiles that rely on external environmental conditions to regulate their body temperature. By comparison, warm-blooded or endothermic animals like humans and other mammals have a more consistent body temperature. Since the outside temperature has such a drastic effect on their bodies, cold-blooded animals often adapt their behavior as a response. They may bask in the sun to warm up or find shade to cool down and achieve a more balanced body temperature. 


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When it gets cold, iguanas may also enter a dormant state called cold-stunning or freezing since they are not adapted to life in colder temperatures. Iguanas can start to slow down if the temperature gets below 50 degrees, and stun once they hit the 40s or 30s. 

After they fall from a tree, they may appear to be dead. However, their critical body functions will all still be working and they will continue to breathe. Once temperatures rise, they can jump back into action as if nothing happened. 

Iguanas can grow up to seven feet long and weigh upwards of 30 pounds, so it is best to be cautious when walking under palm trees in colder weather.

Published 16th January 2026 by Laura Baisas – Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/environment/frozen-iguanas-florida/

[Johnnycomelately]

Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of Morphic Resonance explains how you don’t need to be bitten by a radioactive spider, to be a superman.

All it takes is one to be bitten, here that is Bob Burnquist, then the resonance begins. Heck even the filmer Josh Dirksen hucked himself, per the credits.

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Bob's Mega Ramp 2025

Josh Dirksen
410 subscribers

Jan 20, 2026


Some clips from a handful of sessions at Bob Burnquist's mega ramp throughout 2025. Thanks Bob, Leo, and Bruno for letting us skate!

Skaters:
Tom Schaar
Leo Ruiz
Justin Rivera
Beaver Fleming
Heimana Reynolds
Ian Landi
Collin Graham
Josh Dirksen
Jeromy Green
Rony Gomes


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Ramanujan’s 100-year-old Pi Formulae Still Revealing the Universe


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Most people first encounter the irrational number π (pi) -- commonly approximated as 3.14 and extending infinitely without repeating -- during school lessons about circles. In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar constant far beyond the classroom, with powerful supercomputers now calculating pi to trillions of decimal places.

Researchers have now uncovered an unexpected twist. Physicists at the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) report that mathematical formulas developed a century ago to compute pi are closely linked to some of today's most important ideas in fundamental physics. These connections appear in theoretical descriptions of percolation, fluid turbulence, and even certain features of black holes.


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In 1914, shortly before leaving Madras for Cambridge, renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a paper presenting 17 different formulas for calculating pi. These expressions were strikingly efficient, allowing pi to be computed much faster than existing techniques of the time. Despite containing only a small number of mathematical terms, the formulas produced an impressive number of accurate digits.

Their impact has endured. Ramanujan's methods became foundational to modern mathematical and computational approaches for calculating pi, including those used by today's most advanced machines. "Scientists have computed pi up to 200 trillion digits using an algorithm called the Chudnovsky algorithm," says Aninda Sinha, Professor at CHEP and senior author of the study. "These algorithms are actually based on Ramanujan's work."

Published 16th December 2025 by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251216081949.htm

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Baked AF, Jack Nicholson Gives a Legendary Monologue About ET's | Easy Rider (1969)

Jack Nicholson smokes a joint and schools his fellow travelers on just exactly WTF is going on. Music by Jimi Hendrix and The Fraternity of Man.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


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25 SECRETS Hidden for Decades

From baffled audience members walking out in droves during its initial run – to academics examining every second of footage and filling entire books with their observations decades later, this video takes a deep dive into Kubrick and Clarke's groundbreaking creation.

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From the 60's to the 80's ...

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The Unsolvable Mystery of the Max Headroom Incident

On November 22, 1987, TVs across the city of Chicago were interrupted by the strange image of a man in a Max Headroom mask, babbling incoherently and getting spanked. It was one of the most brazen TV piracy events in US history, and a mystery that has eluded experts for nearly 40 years. Considerately includes subtitles when "Max" is speaking ...

Published 12th January 2026 (19:59)
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... and back to the 20's ...

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ESA Preview 2026

The European Space Agency has exciting and never-before-tried plans for the coming year.

Published 7th January 2026 (6:23)
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• Intro
• Sophie Adenot εpsilon mission
• Galileo Second Generation and Celeste
• Artemis II
• Smile
• Euclid
• Plato
• Ariane 64 first flight
• Total solar eclipse
• Flex and Sentinel-3C
• Hera arrives at Dimorphos
• European Resilience from Space
• BepiColombo reaches Mercury
• Deepen international partnerships
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Opinion – NewScientist.com

The 5 Worst Ideas of the 21st Century


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Social media began with the best intentions - but it soon went sour. Platforms that once fostered connection are now driven by an endless desire to monopolise our time. From the endless scroll to ragebait content, social media is no longer designed to connect us with friends and family - but to profit from our attention. And that’s not to mention the damaging political influence it can have. As countries and governments move to act against it, is there a good solution to these problems?

Bitcoin is one big disaster for the environment. Mining bitcoin requires an inordinate amount of energy - and that cost only increases as more bitcoin is mined. It’s also a terrible investment these days, with some experts suggesting you’d be better off buying a load of Pokémon cards. Adding to that its role in fuelling crime on the dark web - and it becomes a strong contender for worst idea of the 21st century.


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Carbon off-sets - another well intentioned solution to the climate crisis that’s gone horribly wrong. The idea is you can lessen the environmental impact of your actions, by off-setting the damage. Maybe you take a long-haul flight, but you plant a tree in return. The trouble is, not only does this give people permission to keep polluting the environment, it’s not even clear if offsetting actually works. But perhaps it’s not all bad?

Effective altruism is a surprising addition to the list, given that it’s meant to be a way of ensuring money goes to only the best causes. But judging which charities deserve donations above others is much more difficult than it seems. And part of the effective altruism movement suggests people should earn as much money as possible so they can one day give it away - which can obviously end badly. And then there are those who have taken it too far - ruining their life.

Biofuels are one seemingly good fix for environmental damage. The promise of alternative fuels, like wind farms, natural gases, hydrogen and biofuels looks good with text and green illustrations. But it turns out they probably do a lot more damage than good. Biofuels in particular require massive amounts of farmland to produce, which alone is highly polluting. Add to that the fact they’re driving up prices at the supermarket - perhaps there’s a better way to stop the climate from warming?


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https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/the-5-worst-ideas-of-the-21st-century-and-how-they-went-wrong/

[Johnnycomelately]

Good pep talk by Earthling Dan, for every Earthling wannabe dumbass Icarus. Reps his DMMS, Defined Minimum Manoeuvring Speed. Also gets into .gov corruption re coverup of the post-noine eliven downing of that airliner east of NYC, over the ocean, including an interview vid of a witness.

Dan cracks me up, and I value his accounts of serious stuff and his sides of banjo or guitar and/or vocals in some vids.

L = 31:24.

Another DMMS - Loss of Speed Awareness Fatal.

Probable Cause: Dan Gryder
130K subscribers

Jan 25, 2026


Today, we are currently sitting at 4 General Aviation Fatal accidents for this year 2026. Our GA goal is to stay under 132, or 11.0 per month average for the year. Our current annual rate is at 4.867 Fatal's per month, spread over these first 25 days of this year, as of today. You can follow along on all GA fatal accidents in near real time as they occur, and read the very timely Probable Cause for each, as well as our recommendations. All for free! See the site at www.TheDTSB.org

See the original DB Cooper video here: • D. B. Cooper Deep family Secrets. Part 1

See the FBI part II here: • D.B. Cooper - Deep fbi Secrets. Part 2

See the Navy story of TWA 800 here: • TWA 800 26 years later... The UNCOVERING a...
See the TWO 800 documentary here: • TWA Flight 800


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NASA is Flying a Piece of the Wright Brothers' Plane to the Moon


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NASA's Artemis 2 mission won't just send a quartet of astronauts around the moon — a trove of aerospace artifacts will make the trip as well.

A piece of the Wright Brothers' plane will fly on Artemis 2's Orion spacecraft, for example, as will an American flag that reached orbit on the first and final space shuttle missions.

"Historical artifacts flying aboard Artemis 2 reflect the long arc of American exploration and the generations of innovators who made this moment possible," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement. "This mission will bring together pieces of our earliest achievements in aviation, defining moments from human spaceflight and symbols of where we're headed next."

The mementos placed on Orion will commemorate the historic nature of the mission, which takes place during the year of the United States' 250th anniversary.

The Wright Brothers made the first-ever successful powered flight back in 1903, getting their Wright Flyer (also known as Flyer 1) aloft over the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Artemis 2 will carry a small piece of the plane, a 1-square-inch (6.5 square centimeters) swatch of muslin fabric that's on loan from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Artemis 2 won't be the first trip to deep space for a piece of the Wright Flyer, by the way: A different swatch of the pioneering plane flew to Mars aboard NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which became the first aircraft ever to ply the skies of a world beyond Earth. (The artifact, like Ingenuity, remains on Mars today.)


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Artemis 2 Astronauts Enter Quarantine Ahead of Historic Moon Launch

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NASA just took another big step toward launching its next crewed moon mission.

The four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission went into quarantine on Friday (Jan. 23) in Houston, keeping everything on track for a possible liftoff early next month.

"This period, called the health stabilization program, typically starts about 14 days before launch," NASA officials said in a statement on Friday. "Beginning quarantine now preserves flexibility as teams work toward potential opportunities in the February launch period."

Artemis 2 will send NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a roughly 10-day flight around the moon aboard an Orion capsule. The mission will not land on the lunar surface or even enter orbit around Earth's nearest neighbor. Still, it will be the first crewed flight to lunar realms since Apollo 17 back in 1972.

As NASA's Friday statement noted, the agency is eyeing a liftoff as soon as February. There are five potential launch dates next month: Feb. 6-8 and Feb. 10-11. Two other windows are open if Artemis 2 can't get off the ground in February — one in March (March 6-9 and March 11) and one in April (April 1, April 3-6 and April 30).

Published 26th January 2026 by Mike Wall – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/artemis-2-astronauts-enter-quarantine-ahead-of-historic-nasa-moon-launch
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/nasa-to-fly-piece-of-wright-brothers-plane-on-artemis-2-moon-mission

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Weak Knees

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Most Insane UFO Sightings Caught Outside the USA (2025)

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Published 17th December 2025 (14:18)
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These videos are presented as is. No effects. No manipulation. Just the footage, the context, and the unanswered questions. Decide for yourself.

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Lip Syncing Robot

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Scientists have taught a robot to learn lip movements by observation, much like a human learning in front of a mirror. The advance could make future humanoid robots feel warmer, more natural, and less creepy when they talk.

Less creepy? I don't know about that.

Published 20th January 2026 (1:17)
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I'm with you cold Brothers & Sisters ... We'll stick together and weather this out ...

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5 Ways Birds Stay Warm When Temperatures Drop

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When winter settles in, the once-bustling birdlife quiets down. The early morning songs fade, and the evening skies grow still. Yet, despite the chill, birds have a remarkable set of tricks that help them stay snug through the coldest months.

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Soaking Up the Sun

Just like people, birds take advantage of sunshine. On bright winter days, they turn their feathers toward the light, absorbing warmth and storing a little extra heat before the cold night returns.

Feathery Insulation

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Beneath the outer layer of sleek feathers lies a soft, fluffy coat of down. This down traps warm air close to a bird’s body, acting much like a thermal jacket. By puffing up their feathers, birds increase the insulating air space, making them look round and fluffy. To prevent heat loss, they often tuck their beaks and legs into their feathers while resting.

Fueling Up

Winter is a constant hunt for energy. Birds spend daylight hours searching for calorie-dense foods rich in fat and protein—vital fuel that keeps them alive through chilly nights. Some, like chickadees, eat more than a third of their body weight each day just to maintain warmth. They often feed heavily before sunset or before an incoming storm to build up these energy reserves.

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“Mini-Hibernation” and Shivering

Certain bird species can enter a mild state of torpor, lowering their body temperature, heart rate, and metabolism to save energy overnight. When morning arrives, they generate heat by shivering—tiny muscle contractions that help restore body warmth. They will also shiver during the day to warm up if necessary.

Strength in Numbers

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Many small (and larger) birds survive the season by roosting (aka cuddling) together. They crowd into sheltered spaces—tree holes, birdhouses, or thick shrubs—sharing their collective body heat. Chickadees, finches, bluebirds, and nuthatches are among the many species that rely on these cozy communal gatherings to make it through the winter nights.

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Published: 26th January 2026 by Charlyne Mattox - Country Living
https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/outdoors/a70112394/how-birds-stay-warm-in-the-cold-winter-storm/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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February Calendar ♥

February 2026 Sky Events : Annular Solar Eclipse, 6-Planet Alignment & Moon Encounters

Music: 'Freedom' by Roa

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Pam Gregory: Solar Eclipse in Aquarius February 17th 2026

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Pam offers her sense of the coming weeks to those in finance, as well as 'internet drop-outs'.

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Moon

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All Saints Days

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St Peter at the Golden Gate

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[Johnnycomelately]

Military veteran, don’t know what branch or rate, fishes for peace of mind.

He is deep into fly fishing, and here he demonstrates tying a lure.

He is imo a decent guy, having talked to him in his YT comments.


Refocusing, Sun Tzu comes to mind, and ET aliens. We humans have used STzu’s methods for ages, that’s where he got them from. I wonder if way-old ETs first or ever got their advantage by techniques of deception, and if so how the level of deception has changed, in their ways.

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@johnnyliminal8032
5 minutes ago

Cool to see. I’d had an idea how tying worked, but first time seeing it go. Impressive fine work, speaking from experience in different fine crafting. Thanks.

How are the designs done? Are they mostly copies of actual prey insects? Do fish eventually stop going for designs, like do they learn what’s fake/dangerous, or are advised though RSheldrake’s Morphic Resonance? How effective are novel fake insect designs?


Other question, are FPV drones used, either for visual recon or even to dip/multi-dip a fly near a seen lunker? If not in a survival situation, might not be sporting, but I’m still curious.

Cheers from cold Alberta.


Bucktail Gurglar, Bass Fly Pattern with Crazy Legs

22 Veteran Fly Fishing
1.39K subscribers

Jan 31, 2026


This Gurglar is a little bit different than the others. I add some Crazy Legs to the Gurglar. This add just a little more action to the fly. I like to fish it popping it every 2 to 3 seconds.


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[Johnnycomelately]

Please don’t try to tell me that we won’t survive the coming Earth catastrophe (~12k cyclic Sun micronova or even just an ill timed CME along with our decreasing magnetic shield). The kids have been proving our resilience since at least 1988. In front of a COURTHOUSE, no less!

West LA Courthouse Best of 1988-2024

deadhippie
628 subscribers

Jan 31, 2026


This video was created in conjunction with the Courthouse reopening in 2026 as a new Converse backed skate plaza.


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Elliptical Pool Table – Numberphile

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Math nerd requires extra challenge when engaging in recreational activities.

The Basics

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The Game

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The Mysterious Rock Formations of Central Asia | BBC Global

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For years, people have puzzled over the origins of the otherworldly looking round stones in the Valley of the Spheres of Torysh, Kazakhstan. In Russian, English subtitles.

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Moon Hours Before Full by Mario J. Avila (Retired)

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Taken January 31, 2026 - Santiago, Chile

[Johnnycomelately]

Elliptical Pool Table – Numberphile

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Math nerd requires extra challenge when engaging in recreational activities.

The Basics

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The Game

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Sorry BG, this round pool table thing is dumb.

In the opening bit of the first vid, he demonstrates that when launched with a dead-centre strike on the cue ball, the object/target ball will bounce sharper with a harder rail hit, and wider/longer/looser with a lesser speed one.

I play a fair amount of pool, all now at one local kareoke poolhall, and my favourite game is bank everything. League rules, with agreed other modified rules like no fowls and no primary soft cushions, kicks count as a bank, and don’t lose the 8 ball (grab it and spot it, whether from the floor or near an errant pocket incipient loss). I call this game Gary’s same game, after the proprietor who graces me with always same, when he has free time.

I’ve watched league and tournament play, lots of excellent regular shots, way better than I can do. But when they’re in a bind, crowded and blocked, they rarely see kick or bank solutions. I have quit voicing suggestions, as that used to ALWAYS bother them. And these guys were playing for a pot or a trip to Vegas lol.

Not saying that I’m better, because I lose most of the time. I play for fun, as I often say, and I also often yell “I’m having more fun than you!” if I happen to be falling behind.

Banking on the regular squarish table is a bouquet of eloquent choices.

A few years ago, my fav was the long bank side. I got it up to about 50% reliability back then, but now it’s more like 15-20% for lack of practice. Military calls practice “currency”.

Since then, fav has gone to 5 bank (incl 2 longs), to long 2 bank (kitty corner, side first, that one needs just a slight touch of negative English). Current fav is the long bank kick to long bank, or the cross side easier version. Won a game with the long one years ago, against a friend RIP, and recently got back to trying that again.

[Bill Ryan]

Sorry BG, this round pool table thing is dumb.Made me laugh. :) Numberphile (https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/videos) is purely a math channel, and the videos were just a fun way of demonstrating the interesting mathematical properties of an ellipse. Nothing more!

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“With some of the personalities involved, I fear that it's going to take a disaster in space before they decide, 'O.K., we need to get our act together.'”

– Brother Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican (“The Pope's Astronomer”)


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The Needles UFO | Mystery Wire | George Knapp | 8 News Now — Las Vegas

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2008 Needles, California incident; background, multiple witnesses, reports from Laughlin (Nevada) airport and others, update. No UFO footage, but quite a cast of characters and a well-researched story by Mr Knapp.

Published 2nd February 2026 (24:15)
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Our Star

Sun Unleashes Extraordinary 'Solar Flare Barrage'

New Volatile Sunspot Turns Toward Earth

The Sun has erupted in a relentless barrage of powerful solar flares over the past 24 hours, firing off at least 18 M-class flares and three X-class flares, including an X8.3 eruption — the strongest solar flare of 2026 so far. Solar flares are ranked by strength from A, B and C up to M and X, with each letter representing a tenfold increase in energy — meaning X-class flares are the most powerful explosions the Sun can produce.


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NASA model showing the slow-moving CME eruption from the sun during the X8.3 flare event

The culprit is sunspot region 4366, a volatile active region that has grown rapidly in just a few days. The flurry of activity began late Feb. 1 and has continued into Feb. 2, with multiple M-class and X-class flares erupting in quick succession. The prolific region appears to be far from finished. www.spaceweather.com described the region as a "solar flare factory", warning that its rapid growth and magnetic complexity make further eruptions highly likely.


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The X8.3 solar flare sparked strong radio blackouts across eastern Australia and New Zealand

Published 2nd February 2026 by Daisy Dobrijevic – Space.com
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A Big Flare Blast with a Glancing Storm Blow | Space Weather Spotlight | 03 Feb 2026

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GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA says that minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are likely on Feb 5-6 when a CME is expected to graze Earth's magnetic field. The CME was hurled into space by a powerful X8-class solar flare on Feb.1st. Even a glancing blow from such a CME can be potent, so don't be surprised if the storm is stronger than expected.

GIANT SUNSPOT ALERT: The most active sunspot of Solar Cycle 25 is turning toward Earth. Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau took this picture of AR4366 at high noon in Rafaela, Argentina.


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Two Meters / Six Feet + of Snow in Japan

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Severe snowstorm affected northern Japan in late January and early February 2026, with prolonged snowfall impacting Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido. In Aomori, heavy accumulation disrupted roads, damaged access to neighborhoods, and led to injuries during snow removal.

Published 3rd February 2026 (9:17)
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How the Japanese Deal With Heavy Snow Falls


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[Johnnycomelately]

Let us be thanks giving for this dish of Turkey mystery.

Didn’t know the country mirrors Egypt’s ban on modern technical investigation of its past.

Anybody know anything about the fellow (described) who was told by an ET that there is a flying saucer under that pyramid of fist-size rubble?

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What's Under Mt Nemrut? Ancient Tomb or Alien Spacecraft?

Lehto Files
118K subscribers


What's really buried under Mount Nemrut? Ground-penetrating radar detected chambers sealed for 2,000 years. A UFO contactee with validated footage claims beings told him an ancient spacecraft lies beneath. And the same Leo-Orion pattern from Giza appears here too.
In this investigation, I connect ancient archaeology, modern UAP phenomena, and the scanning technology that could reveal the truth.
🔺 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:

2012 GPR findings detecting underground anomalies
Yalçin Yalman's claim about Mount Nemrut (Turkey's most famous UFO case)
The Leo-Orion "Gate of Heaven" pattern linking Giza and Nemrut
SAR and Muon scanning technology (my interview with Dr. Filippo Biondi)
Why we have the tech to investigate - but no one's been allowed to use it

This isn't ancient aliens speculation. This is documented evidence, peer-reviewed research, and validated UFO footage - all pointing to one mysterious mountain in Turkey.

🎬 CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction: The Mount Nemrut Mystery
1:30 - The Archaeological Enigma
7:30 - The Yalman UFO Connection
12:30 - The Leo-Orion Pattern: Giza to Nemrut
17:00 - Technology That Could Reveal the Truth
21:00 - What We Actually Know vs. Speculation
25:00 - Conclusion: The Investigation Continues

📚 KEY RESOURCES & RELATED VIDEOS:
🔹 My Interview with Dr. Filippo Biondi (SAR Scanning Technology):
• SAR Scan Predicted This Pyramid Mystery – ...
🔹 Yalçin Yalman Breaks His Silence (Mount Nemrut Revelation):
• Scientists Reveal Hidden World Below the P...
🔹 Yalman's Original Kumburgaz UFO Case:
• Yalçin Yalman Breaks Silence: Inside the T...

🌍 JOIN ME IN TURKEY - OCTOBER 2026:
I'm leading a 14-day investigation tour to Mount Nemrut, Göbekli Tepe, Karahantepe, Cappadocia's underground cities, and more. We'll visit every site discussed in this video.
I'm working to bring Yalçin Yalman himself to Mount Nemrut for the first time - imagine being there when the man whose beings told him about this mountain finally stands at the site.
📅 Tour Dates: October 2026 (14 Days/13 Nights)
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This is a genuine investigation, not just tourism. Join us.

🔬 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
📖 Mount Nemrut Archaeological Studies:

UNESCO World Heritage documentation
Sanders, D. "Nemrud Dagi: The Hierothesion of Antiochus I" (1997)
Middle East Technical University engineering analysis (2012)
International Journal of Architectural Heritage

📖 Scanning Technology Research:

Biondi et al., "SAR Doppler Tomography of Pyramids" - Remote Sensing Journal (2022)
ScanPyramids Team, "Discovery of Big Void in Great Pyramid" - Nature (2017)
Fermilab Muon Tomography Research

📖 Kumburgaz UFO Case:

TUBITAK (Turkey Scientific Research Council) Analysis
Dr. Roger Leir witness testimony
International expert analysis (Japan, Chile, Brazil, Russia)

📖 Astronomical Alignments:

Bauval, R. "The Orion Mystery" (Orion Correlation Theory)
Ancient star maps and Lion Horoscope dating (62 BCE)
"Gate of Heaven" references in ancient texts


💬 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What do you think is buried under Mount Nemrut?
🔹 A) Ancient royal tomb (mainstream archaeology)
🔹 B) Lost ancient technology
🔹 C) Ancient spacecraft (Yalman's claim)
🔹 D) Something we haven't even considered
Drop your vote in the comments! Let's discuss the evidence.

🎯 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL:
I'm Chris Lehto - former pilot, UAP researcher, and investigator. I combine my aviation background with in-depth research to explore the intersection of ancient mysteries, modern UAP phenomena, and the technology that connects them.
This channel focuses on evidence-based investigation, not speculation. When I present alternative theories, I clearly separate documented facts from interpretive analysis.
If you're interested in serious UAP research, ancient civilizations, and the technologies that might unlock their secrets - you're in the right place.

Dr. Filippo Biondi (University of Strathclyde)
Yalçin Yalman (UAP Files Podcast)
Alsero Tours (Tour operator - Ali Onder)
The archaeological research community

🏷️ TAGS:
#MountNemrut #Turkey #AncientMysteries #UAP #UFO #Archaeology #YalcinYalman #KumburguzUFO #Giza #Pyramids #LeoOrion #ScanningTechnology #SAR #MuonTomography #GöbekliTepe #AncientAliens #Consciousness #LostCivilizations #TurkeyTravel #Investigation #ChrisLehto #LehtoFiles

📊 STATS FOR NERDS:
Mount Nemrut Facts:

Height: 2,134 meters (7,001 feet)
Tumulus: 50m high, 150m diameter
Volume: 30,000 cubic meters of stones
Built: 62 BCE by King Antiochus I
Statue blocks: Up to 9 tons each
Distance from East Anatolian Fault: 5 km
UNESCO World Heritage Site: 1987

GPR Findings (2012):

Depth of anomaly: ~15 meters
Pyramid-shaped void: 6m × 2.5m × 3m
Object detected: ~1.8 meters long
Status: Preliminary, awaiting verification


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Don Elkins & Carla Rueckert | The 1978 UFO Interview That Revealed The Truth

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This rare 1978 interview features Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert, early researchers who laid the groundwork for the Law of One (Ra) material. In this archived footage, they discuss telepathic UFO contact, the non-physical nature of the craft, and why contact is not random.

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Don Elkins & Carla Rueckert | The 1978 UFO Interview That Revealed The Truth

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This rare 1978 interview features Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert, early researchers who laid the groundwork for the Law of One (Ra) material. In this archived footage, they discuss telepathic UFO contact, the non-physical nature of the craft, and why contact is not random.

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Love it. Thanks. Ripping for my collection. Cheers.

[Johnnycomelately]

Agree, this is very interesting. They both seem credible imo.

New to me, was the correlation to Bigfoot, and the occurance of healing.

Especially the healing, including the Mexican lady who they said performed sort of magical surgery on each of them (Don and Carla).

I take a step back though, and wonder if any or all of the physical healings were accompanied or preceded my soul healing. In my understanding, call it an opinion if you wish, the vitality of our body is a reflection of our spiritual health in the chakra area indicated.

Related, Iridology is one window into our physical health. Then connecting whatever indicated organ with a chakra/consciousness-centre, can help us to fix ourselves. In order, from bottom to top, as I learned it:

Order
Will
Wisdom
Earnestness/Justice (the aspect that the Christ is responsible for)
Patience (the throat area, one of the easiest to get)
Love
Mercy

Christ, as Jesus, was said to have healed a number of people. In the records, he always mentioned a spiritual side of his acts, like those people had first made an inner change.



Don Elkins & Carla Rueckert | The 1978 UFO Interview That Revealed The Truth

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Love it. Thanks. Ripping for my collection. Cheers.

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Space Rock | Joe Thompson

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"Prayer for Terry Hill"

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The Integratron

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As mentioned in the previously posted Don Elkins/Carla Rueckert interview
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The Integratron is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus, who promised to come back and “activate” it. The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.

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After Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s. The sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure", and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartz crystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation". The building is now a part of the National Historic Register, and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children.

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field by Daniel Stern


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Most galaxies don't have any rings -- why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that's near NGC 1512's center -- and so hard to see here -- is the nuclear ring which glows brightly with recently formed stars.

Next out is a ring of stars and dust appearing both red and blue, called, counter-intuitively, the inner ring. This inner ring connects ends of a diffuse central bar of stars that runs horizontally across the galaxy.

Farthest out in this wide field image is a ragged structure that might be considered an outer ring. This outer ring appears spiral-like and is dotted with clusters of bright blue stars. All these ring structures are thought to be affected by NGC 1512's own gravitational asymmetries in a drawn-out process called secular evolution. The featured image was captured from a telescope at Deep Sky Chile in Chile.


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Here's the Professor to explain further.

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CERN Concern(s)

Forbidden Experiments at CERN

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The Terrifying Truth Behind the Large Hadron Collider

What’s really happening deep beneath the Swiss-French border?

⚡ Discover the theories scientists don’t want to discuss
⚡ Is CERN unlocking the universe’s secrets — or something darker
⚡ Are we tampering with forces beyond human control
⚡ Shocking connections between CERN, dark matter, and strange global phenomena


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Meet Norman Smith, Owl Whisperer


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The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

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Each winter, Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, hosts more than just airplanes. Snowy owls also make a surprising stop here. This rare phenomenon has long delighted travelers and birdwatchers alike.

Snowy owls are among the largest owl species in the world. The birds can grow up to 27 inches (68 cm) long and have a wingspan of up to 5.5 feet (1.67 m). They are also the only owls with mainly white plumage. These birds spend most of the year in the Arctic tundra.

But during winter, many migrate south in search of food and milder conditions. As they travel, the owls seek landscapes that resemble their Arctic home. The land around Logan Airport is ideal. It is low and flat, with short, scruffy grasses and an abundance of small mammals and birds to hunt. The owls usually arrive in early November and return north in April for the breeding season.


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"It resembles the Arctic tundra," explains Norman Smith, a raptor specialist for Mass Audubon. "The open terrain lets the owls hunt efficiently, and there’s plenty of food available."

The area around the airport may be a perfect winter home for the owls. But it poses serious risks for both the planes and birds. As they fly, the owls could collide with airplanes. Even worse, they could get caught in an engine.

Fortunately, Smith — affectionately known as the “Owl Man of Logan Airport" — has spent decades keeping the birds and airport operations safe. Since 1981, he has humanely captured and relocated over 900 owls to safer habitats. Injured birds that cannot be released find permanent homes at Mass Audubon. Here, visitors can see them up close and learn about the species.


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Breakthrough Could Make Ships Nearly Unsinkable


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More than 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the idea of ships that cannot sink continues to motivate engineers. Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have now taken a significant step toward that long-standing goal. They have developed a technique that makes ordinary metal tubes unsinkable -- meaning the tubes stay afloat regardless of how long they remain underwater or how much damage they sustain.

The work was led by Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics and physics and a senior scientist at URochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Guo and his colleagues detailed the new method in a study published in Advanced Functional Materials. Their approach focuses on modifying the inside surface of aluminum tubes by etching it to create microscopic and nanoscale pits. This textured surface becomes superhydrophobic, allowing it to strongly repel water and remain dry.

When a treated tube is placed in water, its water-repelling interior captures a stable pocket of air inside. This trapped air keeps water from filling the tube, which prevents it from becoming heavy and sinking. The process resembles natural strategies seen in diving bell spiders, which carry air bubbles underwater, and in fire ants, which form floating rafts using their water-resistant bodies.

"Importantly, we added a divider to the middle of the tube so that even if you push it vertically into the water, the bubble of air remains trapped inside and the tube retains its floating ability," says Guo.

Published 30th January 2026 by University of Rochester – Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260130041105.htm

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The Night Sky

Sunday, Feb. 8 - The Winter Football (evening)

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On February evenings, the southern sky hosts the Winter Football asterism, also known as the Winter Hexagon and Winter Circle. The huge pattern, which is composed of the brightest stars in the constellations of Canis Major, Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, and Canis Minor — specifically Sirius, Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Castor and Pollux, and Procyon — covers a region of the southeastern sky after dusk that spans 65 degrees high by 45 degrees wide. Tilted to the east at dusk, the asterism will stand upright in the southern sky after mid-evening, with the Milky Way ascending vertically through it.


Monday, Feb. 9 - The spectacular Orion Nebula

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The bright stars of mighty Orion, the Hunter, shine in the southern sky on mid-February evenings. The sword of Orion, which spans 1.5 by 1 degrees (about the width of your thumb held up at arm's length), descends from Orion's three-star belt. The patch of light in the middle of the sword is the spectacular and bright nebula known as the Orion Nebula or Messier 42 and NGC 1976.


Tuesday, Feb. 10 - Crescent moon in the Scorpion's Claws (predawn)

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Early risers on Tuesday morning, Feb. 10, in the Americas can look in the southern sky before sunrise to see the pretty sight of the waning crescent moon shining near the bottom of the up-down chain of stars that mark the claws of Scorpius. The bright reddish star Antares will twinkle off to the moon's left (or celestial east). That red giant star, which is located 550 light-years from our sun, marks the heart of the beast. The following morning, the moon will hop east to shine to Antares' left.

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Launching the Idea of Data Centers in Space

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.


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Elon Musk's decision to have his rocket company SpaceX take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI has added fuel to the debate about whether orbiting data centers are feasible or foolish.

SpaceX has set the pace in the rocket launch market and Musk has spoken of putting data centers in space. Musk-led electric car company Tesla is also working on humanoid robots, providing potential workers and maintenance crews in space.

US startup Starcloud late last year sent a refrigerator-sized satellite containing an Nvidia graphics processing unit into orbit in what the AI chip maker touted as a "cosmic debut" for the mini-data center.

Meanwhile, tech giant Google has laid out plans to launch test satellites by early 2027 as part of its Suncatcher project to build solar-powered data centers in space.

Blue Origin, the rocket and satellite company established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is touting a TeraWave space-based high-speed network that can be used by data centers to move information anywhere around the planet.

More than a dozen startups, aerospace leaders, and major tech firms are involved in the development, testing, or planning of space-based data centers.

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels. Building in space also avoids the challenges of acquiring land and meeting local regulations or community resistance to projects.

Advocates argue that data centers operating in space would be less harmful overall to the environment, aside from the pollution generated by rocket launches.

"The idea is that it will soon make much more sense to build data centers in space than it does to build them on Earth," Starcloud chief executive Philip Johnston said at a tech conference last year.

Published 3rd February 2026 by Glenn Chapman – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Launching_the_idea_of_data_centers_in_space_999.html

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"Ugokie-Ko-Ri-No-Tatehiki" (1933)

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I will always pay money to be confused.


In the temple that became ruins, the fox that disguises as the samurai does the fight of magic with Asian racoon's parent and child.

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[Johnnycomelately]

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Launching the Idea of Data Centers in Space

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.


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Elon Musk's decision to have his rocket company SpaceX take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI has added fuel to the debate about whether orbiting data centers are feasible or foolish.

SpaceX has set the pace in the rocket launch market and Musk has spoken of putting data centers in space. Musk-led electric car company Tesla is also working on humanoid robots, providing potential workers and maintenance crews in space.

US startup Starcloud late last year sent a refrigerator-sized satellite containing an Nvidia graphics processing unit into orbit in what the AI chip maker touted as a "cosmic debut" for the mini-data center.

Meanwhile, tech giant Google has laid out plans to launch test satellites by early 2027 as part of its Suncatcher project to build solar-powered data centers in space.

Blue Origin, the rocket and satellite company established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is touting a TeraWave space-based high-speed network that can be used by data centers to move information anywhere around the planet.

More than a dozen startups, aerospace leaders, and major tech firms are involved in the development, testing, or planning of space-based data centers.

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels. Building in space also avoids the challenges of acquiring land and meeting local regulations or community resistance to projects.

Advocates argue that data centers operating in space would be less harmful overall to the environment, aside from the pollution generated by rocket launches.

"The idea is that it will soon make much more sense to build data centers in space than it does to build them on Earth," Starcloud chief executive Philip Johnston said at a tech conference last year.

Published 3rd February 2026 by Glenn Chapman – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Launching_the_idea_of_data_centers_in_space_999.html

Solar power is abundant above the atmosphere, no question that it can be collected at reasonable cost by today’s tech. But space operations have a rather severe hobble: cooling.

Rockets can produce huge power, but they eject almost all of the heat, physically away from the vehicle. Looked at in the frame of reference of the machine, that counts as a fourth type of cooling mechanism.

The standard other 3 are:
Convection, air passing by like a cooling breeze.
Conduction, touching a cooler other solid thing.
Radiation, like how our Sun gives us sunburns and heatstroke.

Space based platforms only have the means for radiation. With known tech now, afaik, that would up the scale and cost prohibitively.

I think they’ll all be land based and nuclear powered, probably hidden under miles of ice in Antarctica and Greenland, more defensible against intrusion and sabotage by the AI-enslaved masses. Possible motive for Trump’s Greenland goal? Considering, it would be way ea$ier there than on the cold cold butthole of the world.

Happy weekend, everybody. ♥️🥰👻

[Johnnycomelately]

More miniceing for me, than reminiceing, since I wasn’t into drag racing back in highschool.

Learned about Gary Beck, my adopted and his hometown of Edmonton AB NHRA winning driver/owner in top fuel cars starting in ‘72, said to have got his racing start in stock cars.

1976 NHRA Gatornationals Full Broadcast | NHRA 75th Classics

NHRA
275K subscribers

Feb 7, 2026


Step back into drag racing history with this full broadcast of the 1976 NHRA Gatornationals from Gainesville Raceway! Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering this NHRA 75th Classic for the first time, this is a must-watch piece of racing history.


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Schley Brothers Lightning Bug 2 @ Bug In 43

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I'll see ya Johnny and raise ya one. First VW to break the 10-second barrier in the quarter mile (1972).

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1965 | 1968


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1973


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The brothers' innovations have been adopted and used to this day by Ford, Volkswagen, the Air Force, and NASA

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Continuing with the racing theme ...

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Dog Joins High School Track Race

A furious come-from-behind win for Chucknorris' daughter as the crowd goes wild.

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Hubble Telescope Spots Strange, Massive Disk 40 Times the Size of Our Solar System


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Astronomers working with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured images of the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen surrounding a young star.

Observed in visible light for the first time, the disk appears far more turbulent and disordered than expected, with streamers of material extending much higher above and below the disk than in any comparable system. Even more unusual, the longest filaments appear on only one side.

The results, published in The Astrophysical Journal, represent a major achievement for Hubble and offer new insight into how planets might form under extreme conditions, advancing NASA’s broader effort to explore the universe and our place within it.

The object, known as IRAS 23077+6707 and nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth and stretches nearly 400 billion miles across. This makes it roughly 40 times wider than the span of our solar system.

“The level of detail we’re seeing is rare in protoplanetary disk imaging, and these new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” said lead author Kristina Monsch of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).

The playful nickname “Dracula’s Chivito” reflects the backgrounds of the researchers involved, with one tracing roots to Transylvania and another to Uruguay, where a popular sandwich is called a chivito. Seen edge-on, the disk even resembles a layered burger, with a dark central band bordered above and below by glowing layers of dust and gas.

Published 8th February 2026 by NASA – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/hubble-telescope-spots-strange-massive-disk-40-times-the-size-of-our-solar-system/

Hubble Spots Giant Vampire Sandwich?

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Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe

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Eric Whitacre's "Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe" is a unique film and musical experience inspired by one of the most important scientific achievements of our time: the Hubble Telescope's Deep Field image.

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Martin Willis | Brothers in Arms

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Mr Willis interviews a pair of brothers, neither of whom come across as hoaxers.
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Taken Since Childhood: Police Officer Describes 70 Years of Alien Contact


In this extraordinary episode of Podcast UFO, host Martin Willis interviews Sean and Chris O’Leary, two brothers who describe nearly 70 years of continuous alien abductions affecting multiple generations of their family.

According to their testimony, the encounters began in 1959, when their mother was allegedly taken in broad daylight by a silent triangular craft. What followed were decades of repeated abductions involving underground facilities, medical procedures, telepathic communication, Mantis beings, Greys, and the creation of human-alien hybrids.

Published 6th February 2026 (13:01)
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Nightcrawler UFOs: Tedesco Brothers Reveal Alien Tech & Phenomena


In this explosive episode of Podcast UFO, host Martin Willis sits down with the Tedesco Brothers—John and Gerry—the fearless engineers and UAP researchers behind Nightcrawler: Eye on the Sky.

Over Long Island’s mysterious coastline, they’ve captured jaw-dropping videos of unexplained aerial phenomena (as well as anomalies in the sand) using infrared, radar, and advanced sensors.

Published 23rd January 2026 (11:43)
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Constellation Gemini - The Twins


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Zodiacal Characteristics: Gemini, Latin for twins, represents those born from May 21—June 20. Gemini is the third Zodiac sign of the year, directly after Taurus.

Geminis are known to be affectionate, gentle, exciting, impulsive. At the same time they are reputed to be indecisive, nervous, a bit flighty, and moody.

Myth and Legend: Gemini the twins represents Castor and Pollux from Greek mythology.  They had the same mother-Leda-but different fathers.  Pollux’s father was the God Zeus-Jupiter in Roman mythology, while Castor’s father was Leda’s husband, King Tyndareus of Sparta.  Pollux was immortal, due to the fact that his father happened to be a God. Castor his twin, who only had a king as a father was merely mortal.

The two Greek brothers grew up to become famous explorers and warriors.  They sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece; the story behind the Aries constellation.  Then they fought in the Trojan War. Helen of Troy, their half sister, had left her husband Menelaus for Paris of Troy, and the brothers were determined to bring her home.

Tragically Castor dies in the Trojan War. Overcome with grief, Pollux his immortal twin, pleads with Zeus to let his brother share his immortality.  Zeus responds by placing the twins in the night sky as the Gemini constellation.

Element Sign: Gemini is an air sign. Air signs are thought to be abstract thinkers and intellectuals. Other air signs in the zodiac include Libra and Aquarius.

Glyph: The Gemini glyph does not necessarily look like a pair of twins, but the symbol does make some kind of sense, as it represents the number two—in Roman numerals.


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Constellation: This constellation looks exactly like twins, if you like twin stick figures drawn by five year olds. But as stick drawings go, it does resemble two people hand in hand. The Gemini constellation is unique in the Zodiac, in that two stars make up the twins’ heads. Pollux as the immortal twin has the largest bright orange—cranial — star. Castor, his mortal brother has a smaller blue white star.

If you want to look for the Gemini constellation, you can see it anytime between January and May.  The best viewing times are January  and February at around 9pm; between latitudes + 90° and – 60° in the northern hemisphere.  If you live in the southern hemisphere, look for the Gemini constellation in summer.


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Arctic Blast Creates Rare “Cloud Streets” Phenomena

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On February 3, 2026, NOAA shared the above image of clouds rolling off the southeastern United States in neat columns. Meteorologists call this phenomenon cloud streets. NOAA said:

The recent Arctic blast that prompted freeze warnings as far south as southern Florida also created a captivating phenomenon over the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic on Sunday, February 1, 2026. NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured long, parallel bands of clouds called horizontal convective rolls.

Better known as ‘cloud streets,’ these formations can develop when cold, dry air flows over relatively warmer water. As the air absorbs heat and moisture from below, rows of long, parallel lines of cumulus clouds form, usually aligned with the wind direction. In the satellite imagery above, a gap of clear skies is visible between the coastline and where the cloud streets begin. That’s due to the time and distance it takes the cold air to pick up the heat and moisture from the water to form clouds.

The frigid air that plunged southward on Sunday was some of the coldest that Florida has seen in years. Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit in Winter Haven, 29 degrees in Tampa, 30 degrees in West Palm Beach and 35 degrees in Miami.

https://earthsky.org/earth/what-are-cloud-streets/

Cloudy Street


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Arctic Blast Creates Rare “Cloud Streets” Phenomena

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https://x.com/foxweather/status/2019365391575687506

On February 3, 2026, NOAA shared the above image of clouds rolling off the southeastern United States in neat columns. Meteorologists call this phenomenon cloud streets. NOAA said:

The recent Arctic blast that prompted freeze warnings as far south as southern Florida also created a captivating phenomenon over the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic on Sunday, February 1, 2026. NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured long, parallel bands of clouds called horizontal convective rolls.

Better known as ‘cloud streets,’ these formations can develop when cold, dry air flows over relatively warmer water. As the air absorbs heat and moisture from below, rows of long, parallel lines of cumulus clouds form, usually aligned with the wind direction. In the satellite imagery above, a gap of clear skies is visible between the coastline and where the cloud streets begin. That’s due to the time and distance it takes the cold air to pick up the heat and moisture from the water to form clouds.

The frigid air that plunged southward on Sunday was some of the coldest that Florida has seen in years. Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit in Winter Haven, 29 degrees in Tampa, 30 degrees in West Palm Beach and 35 degrees in Miami.

https://earthsky.org/earth/what-are-cloud-streets/


I’ve witnessed this same phenomenon on a much much smaller scale. Didn’t know it had a name, so thanks!

2nd last lodging, 12-10ish years ago, my housemate and I turned the detached garage into a rudimentary music studio. I named it, and wrote on the key tag, “Low Key Studio”.

The cloud street came as a result of how we heated it: burning methanol in a stainless steel salad bowl, about a cup at a time. The one whole cold winter, lots of nights -20 to -30C, iirc I bought around Cdn$600. at my workplace, wholesale+tax.

It burned clean, no worries breathing, even standing over the 2 ft blue flame. Problem was, that flame produced LOTS of moisture. After a number of burns, 10-15 minutes between at worst/coldest, it got chilly in there.

Solution was to open the walk-in door, for maybe 20 seconds, get some outside dry air in. Then begin again to heat that cold air. But it worked.

Cold dry air rushed in through the lower part of the door, while the warm moist studio air exited out the top. The difference in densities drove that.

A 3 ft high stream of cloud came rolling/roiling/rushing in, from the floor up, right to the back wall.

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Parallel bands lol. Life just got better.


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Up At The Tyler Ranch And Beyond

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Put These Little Lawnmowers To Work!

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Munchety munch munch.

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The Night Sky – February

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Everything Trump Has Said About UFOs, Aliens in Public


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Newsweek has taken the trouble to collate some of the current president's public statements regarding the ET enigma.
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President Donald Trump has alternated between skepticism and curiosity about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and aliens, discussing pilots’ sightings, government secrecy, and his own access to information during interviews and appearances.

Public interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) surged after Congress and the Pentagon released reports and held hearings, making presidential comments—past and present—central to understanding what the government might know and disclose. A 2021 survey by Pew Research Center found that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of Americans believe that intelligent life could exist on other planets.

Trump’s evolving remarks offer a window into how a former and current president talks about alleged sightings.

In June 2019, Trump said he had been briefed on Navy UFO reports and expressed doubt, stating to ABC News: “I did have one very brief meeting on it,” adding that “people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.” 

Also in 2019, he told Tucker Carlson he wasn’t convinced in the existence of UFOs. “Well, I don’t want to really get into it too much. But personally, I tend to doubt it,” Trump said. “I’m not a believer, but you know, I guess anything is possible.”

In June 2020, when his son Donald Trump Jr. asked him about revealing “what’s really going on with Roswell,” Trump answered, per The Hill: “I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting.”

On Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast in June 2024, Trump said he had met with pilots who described seeing “things you wouldn’t believe,” reiterating he was not a believer himself. “But I have met with people, serious people, that say there are some really strange things flying around out there.”

On Greg Gutfeld’s Fox News show in September 2024, Trump said the question he may get more than any other is about aliens in Area 51, and repeated that pilots told him of a “round object going faster than any F-22.”

Published 13th February 2026 by Joe Edwards – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/everything-trump-has-said-about-ufos-aliens-in-speeches-11519458

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Smokin' With Ronnie ... :hat:


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We're Not Ready for Superintelligence

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Published 17th July 2025 (34:10)
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Statement on Superintelligence

Context: Innovative AI tools may bring unprecedented health and prosperity. However, alongside tools, many leading AI companies have the stated goal of building superintelligence in the coming decade that can significantly outperform all humans on essentially all cognitive tasks. This has raised concerns, ranging from human economic obsolescence and disempowerment, losses of freedom, civil liberties, dignity, and control, to national security risks and even potential human extinction. The growing number of experts and public figures who oppose a rush to superintelligence are listed here (https://superintelligence-statement.org/).

Quoting Exo
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102409-A.I.-is-Progressing-Faster-Than-You-Think-&p=1684608&viewfull=1#post1684608

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FEB 14

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SpaceX Dragon Astronauts Make Valentine's Day Docking Boosting Skeleton Crew


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The residents of the International Space Station received a special Valentine's Day treat.

SpaceX's Crew-12 astronaut mission docked with the short-staffed International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (Feb. 14) at 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 GMT), ending a 34-hour orbital chase.

"With that gentle contact, we have bridged the legacy of humankind's continuous presence in space. It has been more than 25 years at this very site," radioed Jessica Meir, Crew-12 commander. "The International Space Station is more than a structure, it is a promise kept. Decades in the making, built by nations, sustained by trust and partnerships, and powered by science, innovation and curiosity."

"As we look back at Earth through these windows, we are reminded that cooperation is not just possible, it is essential. Up here there are no borders and hope is universal," she said.

After docking, the crew will change out of their spacesuits and prepare cargo for offload before opening the hatch between Dragon and the space station’s Harmony module around 5 p.m. [EST].

Crew-12 launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Friday morning (Feb. 13), sending four astronauts toward the ISS aboard the Crew Dragon capsule "Freedom."


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Those crewmembers are NASA's Meir and Jack Hathaway, the mission's commander and pilot, respectively; mission specialist Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency; and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

The Crew-12 astronauts are expected to live and work aboard the ISS through October, making their stint a bit longer than the usual six-month crew rotation.

The quartet is joining up with three other spaceflyers on the ISS — NASA's Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The trio have had the orbiting lab to themselves since Jan. 15, when the four-person Crew-11 mission headed home to Earth.

Published 14th February 2026 by Mike Wall – Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-crew-12-astronaut-mission-dock-iss

Heart-shaped Stellar Outburst Stuns Astronomers


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Astronomers have spotted a heart in the cosmos — and it's not Cupid's doing, but rather a dying star shedding its layers.

A red giant star called Mira A, located about 300 light-years from Earth, has ejected a vast cloud of gas and dust resembling the shape of a heart. The lovely cloud glows against the void of space, not unlike a cosmic Valentine's Day signal.

Mira A is in the late stages of its life, a red giant swelling and losing mass as it prepares to fade into a white dwarf. While stars of this type routinely shed material, the sheer scale and symmetry of Mira A's recent outflow surprised astronomers, according to a new study.

"We were very surprised to see this structure," study lead author Theo Khouri, an astronomer from Chalmers University, said in a statement. "We also see that the star's illumination of the surrounding dust varies in an unexpected way, which implies that the star acts like a lighthouse — illuminating its environment unevenly."

The expelled matter amounts to roughly seven Earth masses, far more than scientists would expect, with gas filling the heart's interior and dust outlining the edges. The star's light also sweeps across the cloud like a cosmic beacon, causing the heart-shaped plume to glow as if it were radiating love into space.

Published 14th February 2026 by Samantha Mathewson – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/a-stellar-treat-for-valentines-day-heart-shaped-outburst-stuns-astronomers

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Presidents (Cont'd)

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Jimmy UFO Interview

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Presidents (Cont'd)

Donnie

A source within the Trump administration has provided the prepared full text of President Trump's historic announcement regarding UAP/non-human intelligence.

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Maybe someone can tell me what the heck this is on the right hand side.

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Trump's Greenland Grab is Part of a New Space Race

– and the stakes are getting higher


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Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, in northern Greenland

US President Donald Trump's position on Greenland has shifted almost daily, from threats to take it by force to assurances he won't. But one thing remains consistent: his insistence the Arctic island is strategically vital to the United States.

Within hours of the president's speech at this week’s Davos summit, Reports began circulating that Washington and Copenhagen had quietly discussed giving the US small, remote patches of Greenland for new military sites. Nothing confirmed, everything whispered, but the speed of the speculation said a lot.

What once felt like Trumpian theatre suddenly looked like a real geopolitical move. It was also a hint Arctic power plays are now bleeding into the politics of outer space.

This all happened very quickly. The notion the US might buy Greenland from Denmark (which resurfaced in 2019) was at first treated like a late-night comedy sketch. But behind the jokes lay a growing unease the Trump administration's fixation with Greenland was part of a wider geostrategic ambition in the "western hemisphere" – and beyond.

That's because Greenland sits at the crossroads of two fast-shifting frontiers: a warming Arctic that will change shipping routes, and an increasingly militarised outer space.

As global tensions rise, the island has become a geopolitical pressure gauge, revealing how the old international legal order is beginning to fray.

At the centre of it all is Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base. Once a Cold War outpost, it's now a key part of the US military's Space Force hub, vital for everything from missile detection to climate tracking. In a world where orbit is the new high ground, that visibility is strategic gold.

Trump has leaned hard into this logic. He's repeatedly praised Thule as one of the most important assets for watching what happens above the Earth, and has urged the US to "look at every option" to expand its presence.

Whether by force, payment or negotiation, the core message hasn't changed: Greenland is central to America's Arctic and space ambitions.

Published 15th February 2026 by Anna Marie Brennan – Space.com
https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/trumps-greenland-grab-is-part-of-a-new-space-race-and-the-stakes-are-getting-higher

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Presidents (Cont'd)

Baracky



This is doing the rounds on mainstream. Drip drip…..about bloody time…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/barack-obama-no-evidence-aliens-real-interview-podcast


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Whatever he said, it's definitely doing the rounds in mainstream media as "Aliens are Real". Make of this what you will, but there does appear to be a shift occurring.


Obama’s ‘aliens confession’ is prepping us for a definitive announcement, UFO expert claims


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Barack Obama casually revealing that the truth is (maybe) out there hints at a big ‘twist’ to come in the search for alien life, UFO experts say.

The former US President was asked on Saturday whether he believes aliens are real.

‘They’re real, but I haven’t seen them. They are not being kept in Area 51,’ he told YouTuber and podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen.

Obama clarified in an Instagram post that his remarks weren’t to be taken too seriously, though said ‘statistically’ it’s likely extraterrestrial life exists.

A 2024 report (https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF) by the Pentagon found no evidence of an alien cover-up, though it said that the belief that the government is hiding aliens will persist.

Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, said Obama’s comments have only intensified this belief.

‘Much of the UFO community has taken this as quasi-official confirmation of an extraterrestrial reality,’ Pope told Metro. He added that rumours are swirling of a ‘disclosure’ event, where long-classified files around what are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena will be released.

‘Obama’s comments are being seen as part of an acclimatisation campaign, readying people ahead of a definitive, formal announcement,’ Pope said.

‘Hang onto your hats: there are probably further twists to this tale ahead.’

Published 16th February 2026 by Josh Milton – Metro
https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/16/obamas-aliens-confession-prepping-us-a-definitive-announcement-ufo-expert-claims-26934576/

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The Sky Tonight

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Tuesday, Feb. 17 - New Moon annular solar eclipse

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When the Moon passes the sun in western Aquarius at new moon on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 7:01 a.m. EST, 4:01 a.m. PST, or 12:01 GMT, it will generate a solar eclipse visible from the southern tip of South America, most of Antarctica, southeastern Africa, Madagascar, the Seychelles, and Mauritius.

Since the Moon is farther from the South Pole of the Earth, it will be too small to completely block the Sun's disk, resulting in an annular, or "ring of fire", solar eclipse visible along a narrow track that sweeps across the Victoria Land portion of Antarctica and ends in the Southern Ocean south of western Australia. The partial eclipse will run from 10:51 GMT to 12:44 GMT, but the brief annular phase will only appear from 11:47 to 11:49 GMT. No portion of this eclipse can be viewed or photographed without proper solar filters.


Wednesday, Feb. 18 - Sliver of Moon poses with Mercury and Venus

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Above the western horizon for a brief time after sunset on Wednesday, Feb. 18, the 2%-illuminated, young crescent Moon will join the inner planets Mercury and Venus.

In the Americas, the Moon will swap partners — appearing telescope-close (green circle) below Mercury while much brighter Venus gleams a generous palm's width below them. Meanwhile, observers located in a zone extending from the eastern coast of Australia and across New Zealand, southeastern Melanesia, parts of Polynesia, the Baha Peninsula, and most of Mexico and Central America can safely watch the Moon occult Mercury after sunset.


Thursday, Feb. 19 - Earthshine Moon joins a planet party

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In the western sky after sunset on Thursday, Feb. 19, the young crescent Moon will exhibit Earthshine, also known as the Ashen Glow and "the old moon in the new moon's arms". That's sunlight reflected off Earth and back onto the Moon, slightly brightening the dark portion of the moon's Earth-facing hemisphere.

Brilliant Venus will shine just above the horizon with somewhat less-dazzling Mercury a palm's width above it. As the sky darkens more, Saturn's yellowish dot will appear a short distance to the left of the Moon.

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

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Dark Christian Relics

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00:00 Introduction
00:36 What Are Relics?
01:30 The Incorruptable Jaw of St Anthony
03:28 The Skull of Mary Magdalene
05:23 The (Four) Head(s) of John the Baptist
07:07 The Relic Debate
08:06 The Shroud of Turin
09:45 The Blood Miracle
10:40 The Lost Coins of Judas Iscariot
11:41 Final Thoughts and Outro


In Christianity, relics are sacred items believed to carry the physical remains or possessions of saints — from bones and skulls to preserved body parts and holy shrouds. But just because these relics are holy… doesn’t mean they aren’t disturbing.

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Used for 2,000 Years, Erased in a Decade

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The Painkiller They Don't Want You Growing

Published 15th February 2026 (17:55)
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For 2,500 years, this plant relieved pain without addiction. Confederate surgeons used it when morphine ran out during the Civil War. Polish doctors prescribed it as a safer alternative to opium. By 1898, it was listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia alongside aspirin and morphine as official medicine.

Then in 1944, it vanished from medical practice. Not because it failed, but because the pharmaceutical industry built an $80 billion pain relief empire on patentable synthetic molecules. A plant that grows free, requires no prescription, and generates no recurring revenue had no place in that system.

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Rep. Eric Burlison Discusses Alleged Large UAP Object Located Overseas

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Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison and Dr Steven Greer add context and information to the multi-tentacled UFO issue under discussion in Washington DC.

Published 16th February 2026 (8:00)
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Dark Christian Relics

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00:00 Introduction
00:36 What Are Relics?
01:30 The Incorruptable Jaw of St Anthony
03:28 The Skull of Mary Magdalene
05:23 The (Four) Head(s) of John the Baptist
07:07 The Relic Debate
08:06 The Shroud of Turin
09:45 The Blood Miracle
10:40 The Lost Coins of Judas Iscariot
11:41 Final Thoughts and Outro


In Christianity, relics are sacred items believed to carry the physical remains or possessions of saints — from bones and skulls to preserved body parts and holy shrouds. But just because these relics are holy… doesn’t mean they aren’t disturbing.

Published 25th April 2025 (13:18)
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Yeah RCC relics are creepy. Saw my first ones at a monastery in Switzerland, on a day trip with a summer camp. Later saw some at a convent in Canada, between hitchhike rides looking for a bathroom (got a meal out of that, too). Fingernails, lockes of hair, iirc a whole finger. Oof.

AFAIK, this is only a Roman Catholic thing, tho I wouldn’t be surprised if the Orthodox Church did it. Protestant Christianity, which I grew up in (and later quit), doesn’t do that.

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Do Animals Experience Joy?

Short answer: Yes.
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Diverse Intelligences: The Search for Joy in Animals

Researchers have found that great apes, dolphins, and kea parrots display measurable signs of joy — such as laughter, play, and optimistic behavior — suggesting that joy is not uniquely human but a shared feature of intelligent, social animals.


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“The study of animal emotions is really in its infancy… There’s a lot of research on fear, on anger, and on grief. And there’s very little research on joy,” says Erica Cartmill, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Science, Animal Behavior and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Cartmill directs the COMPARE Lab (Comparing Other Minds in Play, Adaptation, Representation, and Emotion), where her team investigates how humans and other animals reason about and communicate with one another. In 2024, she and her collaborators published findings on spontaneous playful teasing in all four great ape species, highlighting a form of complex, joy-related social behavior.

“Victory squeals, warble calls, laughter… these may all be emotional signals, and the idea is that they might actually affect the internal state of other individuals,” explains Heidi Lyn, PhD, Associate Professor and Joan M. Sinnott Chair of Psychology at the University of South Alabama. Her research spans marine mammals, dogs, and apes, focusing on how cognition and communication emerge across species and environments.

Colin Allen, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, studies the philosophical foundations of cognitive science and neuroscience. “Joy is a natural phenomenon,” he says, “and like all natural phenomena, we should be able to study it scientifically.”

The current research centers on three highly intelligent, social species: great apes, dolphins, and kea parrots. Researchers are using tools such as thermal imaging, vocalization analysis, and behavioral observation to investigate how joy might arise in animals, how it spreads, and how it influences behavior. These species were chosen for their intelligence, social complexity, and playfulness, as well as their evolutionary distance from one another. That evolutionary gap helps researchers explore whether and how joy might emerge across very different types of animals.


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This research raises important questions about how we understand and relate to other species. It challenges the idea that emotions like joy, empathy, and love are uniquely human. Cartmill suggests that resistance to the idea of animal joy may stem from our desire to maintain a belief in “human uniqueness that we would like to continue to believe in.” Lyn adds, “There’s no question in my mind that humans are unique, but so is every other species.”

Ultimately, says Cartmill, “if we can start to appreciate moments of beauty and meaning and joy in the lives of other species, then we’ll be able to better appreciate them in each other and in ourselves. And that’s certainly something that I hope we will take away from this study: a greater capacity for joy in our own lives.”

Published 8th September 2025 by Templeton Staff
https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/diverse-intelligences-the-search-for-joy-in-animals-video

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1,400-Year-Old Tomb Built By Mexico’s ‘Cloud People’ Found Unbelievably Unchanged


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During recent excavations in the Central Valleys of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, archaeologists suddenly found themselves face to face with a great owl — a stone owl, draped over the entrance to the antechamber of an ancient tomb. The archaeologists had uncovered an ornate and astonishingly well-preserved burial monument from the Zapotec culture, which Mexican officials are now hailing as nothing short of “exceptional.”


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This Zapotec tomb is not only well-preserved, but extremely detailed in its carvings, murals, and other adornments. Archaeologists suspect that it was built some 1,400 years ago to honor a Zapotec lord, and it offers invaluable insights into this civilization’s social organization, funerary rituals, and overall worldview in the pre-Hispanic era. The Zapotec tomb was found during excavations in the municipality of San Pablo Huitzo.

Though it dates to roughly 600 C.E., the tomb is incredibly well-preserved, and is already being hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Mexico’s recent history.

“It is the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico,” said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, “due to its level of preservation and the information it provides.”

Archaeologists believe that the tomb was constructed for an important Zapotec lord. At the entrance of the tomb’s antechamber is an owl — a bird that symbolized both night and death in Zapotec culture — whose long beak drapes down over the stuccoed and painted face of a man. This man, likely the person to whom the tomb was dedicated, possibly came to be seen as a liaison between his descendants and Zapotec deities.

At the threshold of the tomb is a lintel (a horizontal support beam) that includes a stone frieze engraved with calendrical names. Meanwhile, alongside the vertical jambs, there are engravings of a man and a woman, both wearing headdresses and holding artifacts, who may be the guardians of the tomb. And inside the burial chamber are sections of “an extraordinary mural painting” of “ochre, white, green, red and blue colors,” depicting a procession of people carrying bags of copal, a sacred tree resin.

The tomb thus provides a fascinating look at the Zapotec civilization, which existed in Oaxaca from 700 B.C.E. until roughly 1500 C.E.


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Look for the colors of the stars in the night sky


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Paolo Palma in Naples, Italy, created this composite of the colors of the stars with images of individual stars taken over the course of 2 years, which he calls Kaleidocosmo. He captured all the stars he could see from Naples – up to +5 magnitude and brighter – some 1,250 stars! Then, he imaged each star out of focus to capture its color and created this composite, with the size of each star based on how bright it is. He wrote: “Kaleidocosmo can reveal how much the starry sky is more colorful than we imagine …”
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Tonight, go outside, and let your eyes adjust to the dark. Then note the subtle differences in the colors of the stars. You don’t even have to know any star names or any constellations. Just glance around the sky, and notice the color differences in the stars.

It’s helpful to know that a star’s true colors are more apparent as the star climbs higher in the sky, moving above the turbulence of Earth’s atmosphere. So, if you have good eyesight and a dark, clear sky, you should be able to detect hints of color within the brighter stars.

And if you have difficulty discerning star colors with the unaided eye, look at the bright stars through binoculars. A useful trick is to put the star out of focus in your binoculars so the color will become more obvious.

The light of a star reveals many things, including the star’s surface temperature. The yellowish color of Capella indicates a mid-range surface temperature, much like our sun. The red of Aldebaran is typical of the lower surface temperature of an older star, whereas the blue of the Pleiades reveals their high surface temperatures and young age. In fact, the surface temperature – or color – of a star determines its spectral class.

On the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram below, you can see the different spectral classes listed across the bottom of the chart with temperatures going from hottest to coolest. Also, it shows the colors of stars associated with each spectral class and temperature.


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So what are the spectral classes of Capella, Aldebaran, Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel and the Pleiades? Capella is a G star. Our sun is also a G star. Both our sun and Capella shine with a golden light. Aldebaran and Betelgeuse are cool stars and appear reddish. Aldebaran is a K type star and Betelgeuse is an M type star. Sirius is an A type star and appears white. Rigel and the stars of Pleiades are type B stars.

Orion the Hunter is a great place to see the different colors of the stars. Rigel appears in the lower right of the constellation. Contrast its bluish-white light with that of reddish Betelgeuse in the upper left. Most of Orion’s stars are hot blue-white stars.


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Paolo: “Orion is probably the most beautiful constellation in the sky and its bright stars make it easily recognizable to anyone. This is how it would look if we could also see the colors of all the stars. Also shown are stars that can represent spectral classes, a beautiful color scale that can reveal the relationship between color and spectral class (temperature) of stars.” le to anyone. This is how it would look if we could also see the colors of all the stars. Also shown are stars that can represent spectral classes, a beautiful color scale that can reveal the relationship between color and spectral class (temperature) of stars.”

Published 19th February 2026 by Larry Sessions – EarthSky.org
https://earthsky.org/tonight/can-you-see-the-different-colors-of-the-stars/

Mars in a Minute: Is Mars Really Red?

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Orion's Cradle by Piotr Czerski


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Cradled in red-glowing hydrogen gas, stars are being born in Orion. These stellar nurseries lie at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex, some 1,500 light-years away. This detailed view spans about 12 degrees across the center of the well-known constellation, with the Great Orion Nebula, the closest large star-forming region, visible toward the lower right. The deep mosaic also includes, near the top center, the Flame Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula.

Image data acquired with a hydrogen-alpha filter adds other remarkable features to this wide-angle cosmic vista: pervasive tendrils of energized atomic hydrogen gas and portions of the surrounding Barnard's Loop. While the Orion Nebula and many stars in Orion are easy to see with the unaided eye, emission from the extensive interstellar gas is faint and much harder to record, even in telescopic views of the nebula-rich complex.

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Space News This Week w/Fraser Cain

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The detected cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 244 EeV, comparable to the most energetic cosmic ray ever observed. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige
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AMATERASU Rays // Late Heavy Bombardment Doubts // Titan Bully

The source of a powerful cosmic ray. Did the late heavy bombardment actually happen? Did Titan create Saturn’s Rings? And James Webb is going to pin down the future orbit of YR4. In Space Bites+, we might be able to intercept 3I/ATLAS.

Published 20th February 2026 (27:12)
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• Intro
• Amaterasu Particles
• Doubts for Late Heavy Bombardment
• Possible Origin of Titan and Saturn’s Ring
• Fading Star
• Bennu Samples Continue to Deliver Science
• Vote results / @frasercain  
• Rotten Eggs and Exoplanets
• Auroras on Ganymede
• The Heart of Mira A’s Latest Outburst
• JWST to Observe YR4
• Succesful Artemis II WDR
• More space news / Making money on YouTube

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Wikipedia: Congressional Investigation

Reps Comer and Mace Launch Investigation into Wikipedia Information Manipulation

For years, researchers and education professionals have claimed that Wikipedia content was altered to promote specific narratives. Congress seems to have taken notice.


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The influence of moderators on the most widely used content website has long been debated.

Recently, the downgrading of the news website "The Debrief" based on the opinion of a few moderators rekindled outrage. It seems that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has decided to intervene. In an announcement on their website, they state that they are “investigating organized efforts, undertaken in violation of Wikipedia platform rules, to influence U.S. public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles”.

Any reasonable person would be astonished by the fact that AI chatbot companies are using community-driven content to feed their software when there is already a wealth of trusted and reliable encyclopedias that could have provided the content.

Cost-cutting logic and access to information over reliability drive such companies. With an information system so fragile that institutions have discouraged students from using it for decades, one can only wonder what damage and social manipulation a coordinated group could cause by infiltrating the organization and, in effect, "rewrite history."

Published 28th August 2025 by Baptiste Friscourt - Sentinel News
https://www.sentinel-news.org/p/chairman-comer-and-rep-mace-launch

Update

Wikipedia has yet to respond


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“As of August 28, 2025, the Oversight Committee's request set a production deadline of September 10, 2025; public hearings or transcribed interviews specific to Wikipedia had not been announced in committee releases, and WMF's formal response had not yet been published.”

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Feb 17 Solar Eclipse

Blazing 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Seen From Space


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ESA's Proba-2 satellite captured a stunning 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse from orbit — a view few on Earth could see.

On Feb. 17, 2026, the moon slipped directly between Earth and the sun, creating a spectacular 'ring of fire' visible to very few people on Earth, but ESA's Proba-2 had had the best seat in the house.

From its vantage point in orbit, the satellite was able to witness the annular solar eclipse in striking detail  —   not once, but four times during its orbit, including a perfect 'ring of fire' at 6:31 a.m. EST (1131 GMT) when the moon occulted just over 93% of the sun's disk.

The stunning image was captured with Proba-2's SWAP instrument, which views the sun in extreme ultraviolet light, revealing details of the sun's corona — the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

Published 20th February 2026 by Daisy Dobrijevic – Space.com
https://www.space.com/stargazing/solar-eclipses/blazing-ring-of-fire-eclipse-seen-from-space-space-photo-of-the-day-for-feb-20-2026

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:ranger:

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


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


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(And the great thing about this thread, always full of interesting surprises, is that one can never predict what might be here :ROFL:)

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


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Hold hands all, let’s welcome the summoned, Sir Rowan. Thanks, Elder Bill!

Rowan Atkinson Sketch - Reading Of Will - approx. 1985

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Hold hands all, let’s welcome the summoned, Sir Rowan. Thanks, Elder Bill!

Rowan Atkinson Sketch - Reading Of Will - approx. 1985


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T29hBG44wiU[/url]I spent a week with some friends at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe way back in 1976, and one of the evening shows we went to was a performance by the Oxford University Dramatic Society. It was a purely random choice.

The whole thing was Rowan Atkinson, almost all just him solo on stage, doing 100% original stuff. No-one had ever seen or heard of him before. He brought the whole house down, the audience in raptures of laughter.

He was so astonishingly good that my friends and I returned to see him the very next night, and he was every bit as clever and funny the second time. I made a note of his name and said to myself that whoever this extraordinary new comic talent was, he'd go VERY VERY far.

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Thx guys, continuing with the theme ...
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Oh my goodness Carol Burnett

Best of Actors Breaking Character | The Carol Burnett Show

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And of course our Canadian friends SCTV


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Griffith Observatory Angels for Disclosure Test

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You can't go wrong with the “Peter Gunn” theme song.

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Never A Straight Answer

NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens

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"We continue to embrace President Trump’s open science commitment as an agency. We have fostered open science since our inception so that the public can build upon our innovations. We continue to make all NASA data publicly available, and welcome public participation using our data.

As [NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman] has said, there are certainly things he’s come across in the job that he can’t explain… but they relate more to unnecessarily costly programs than they do to extraterrestrial life!"

NASA website:

"Examples of information not releasable [...] include, without limitation, information that is, or is marked as, classified information, procurement sensitive information, information subject to the Privacy Act, other sensitive but unclassified information, and information subject to privilege, such as pre-decisional information or attorney-client communications," NASA explains of its policy of releasing data to the public.

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We Are Not Alone: Woman Recounts UFO Abduction

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Chief Transportation Correspondent and Host of the Queen City News+ program "We Are Not Alone" has a preview of her latest episode that may scare the living daylights out of you.

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Space Rock | Ben Böhmer

Live at Anjunadeep Open Air: Prague

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Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026


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Wreck of the St Dunstan - Dorset, England – Kirsty Andrews (UK)

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Shrimp and Mosaic Sea Stars – Simon Theuma (New South Wales)

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Sperm Whale Calf – Cecile Gabillon Barats (France)

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Clownfish Egg Hatch – Kazushige Horiguchi (Japan)

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Coral Spawning – Tom Shlesinger (Israel)

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Leopard Seal Jaws – Sam Blount (USA)

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Roar of the Hairy Frogfish – Jack Ho (China)

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Octopus Mum Guarding Her Eggs – Tom Ingram (UK)

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Winner: Rockpool Rookies (Elephant seal pups) – Matty Smith (Australia)

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https://underwaterphotographeroftheyear.com/

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3-D News

Ultrafast 3D Printing Method Creates Complex Objects in Under a Second


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High-speed 3D printing has just gotten a lot faster. Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have developed a new high-speed printing technology capable of creating complex millimeter-scale objects in just 0.6 seconds. Traditional 3D printing is often slow because it builds objects one thin layer at a time. While a newer method called volumetric printing, which uses light to shape an object, has become progressively faster in recent years, it has hit a major speed bump.

Typically, light is shone into a vat of fast-spinning liquid resin from many different angles at once. However, if you spin the liquid too fast, it can wobble or vibrate, which ruins the print. The solution has been to add thick, syrupy resins to keep the object in place. But this makes the process slower.

What the team has done, as they detail in a paper published in the journal Nature, is create a method that doesn't involve spinning the liquid. Instead, DISH (Digital Incoherent Synthesis of Holographic Light Fields) uses a high-speed rotating periscope to project light from multiple angles into the resin, which stays perfectly still.

The technology relies on a chip covered with millions of tiny mirrors (a Digital Micromirror Device) that flip and change light patterns 17,000 times per second. To prevent blurring, the team developed an algorithm that calculates how to project the light so it builds up in exactly the right places to form the object, while keeping the rest of the resin from hardening. This means the resulting 3D object is razor-sharp from top to bottom.

In tests, the team produced complex objects such as a millimeter-scale Theodoric statue and intricate gear-like structures in 0.6 seconds. They also hooked the printer to a tube and pumped watery, light-sensitive resin through it, shining light on the liquid as it moved. This produced a variety of objects, including flowers and hollow tubes mimicking blood vessels, proving the printer could be turned into a high-speed assembly line to mass-produce parts almost instantly.

Published 17th February 2026 by Paul Arnold – Phys.org
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ultrafast-3d-method-complex.html


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Using Moon Dirt With 3D Printing to Build Future Lunar Colonies


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Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D printing method, researchers melted fake lunar soil—a synthetic version of the fine dusty material on the moon surface, called regolith simulant—into layers and fused it with a base surface to manufacture small, heat-resistant objects.

If utilized on the lunar surface, the material may help build sturdy, nontoxic habitats and tools for future astronauts, capabilities that would be vital to the NASA Artemis missions that aim to establish a long-term human presence on the moon by the end of the decade.

But to assess how well this new construction material may work in space, the team tested their fabrication process under a range of different environmental conditions, revealing that the overall quality of the material depends greatly on the surface onto which the soil is printed.

Other environmental factors, such as the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, the strength of the laser and even the speed of the printing process, were also shown to impact the stability of the structure, said Sarah Wolff, senior author of the study and an assistant professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Ohio State.

"There are conditions that happen in space that are really hard to emulate in a simulant," she said. "It may work in the lab, but in a resource-scarce environment, you have to try everything to maximize the flexibility of a machine for different scenarios.

If we can successfully manufacture things in space using very few resources, that means we can also achieve better sustainability on Earth. To that end, improving the machine's flexibility for different scenarios is a goal we're working really hard toward."

Published 27th February 2026 by Tatyana Woodall and Gaby Clark, Ohio State University – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-moon-dirt-3d-future-lunar.html

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A METEOR STORM OVER MISSOURI?

No, it's just SpaceX. Only one of these streaks in the night sky over Albany, Missouri, is a natural meteor.


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"Shown here is a lonely bright meteor artificially outlined against the Starlink satellites ...


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... passing through the atmosphere on Feb. 23rd," says photographer Dan Bush. "Also seen are dozens of satellites whose paths crisscrossed the night sky during the ~10 minute integration time. Two or three lines along the horizon just above the trees are planes."

The majority of these streaks are Starlink satellites. At a conference in 2020, Elon Musk famously said, (https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2020/03/09/elon-musk-dismisses-astronomers-concerns-over-starlink/)

"I am confident that we will not cause any (interference) in astronomical discoveries. Zero. We'll take corrective action if it's above zero."

It might be time to start.

In only two days since Bush took this photo, SpaceX has launched 54 more Starlinks, bringing the 2026 total to 512. Altogether, there are now 9,833 Starlinks swarming our planet. Here (https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx) is what that looks like.

With no end in sight for SpaceX launches, the "meteor storm" will continue for the foreseeable future.

www.spaceweather.com

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Beyond The Ranch Artwork by Moi Escudero


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Boogie Blowout



You can't go wrong with the “Peter Gunn” theme song.


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The Pentyrch UFO Incident - Full 3D CGI Animation

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UFO sightings and military encounters have fascinated researchers for decades — but few cases are as unsettling and controversial as the Pentyrch UAP Incident of 2016.

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What began as a quiet night in a Welsh village turned into one of the most debated events in modern UFO history: strange lights in the sky, military aircraft scrambling, and a low‑flying helicopter that witnesses later claimed was forced to make an emergency landing at Cardiff Airport.

This 20‑minute animated documentary, created with Unreal Engine, reconstructs the events of that night in cinematic detail. From the first unusual lights over the fields, to the sudden military presence, to the moment when the phenomenon briefly stepped out of the shadows — this film follows the timeline exactly as witnesses described it.


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Central to the story is Caz Clarke (pictured), who has stood by her account from the very beginning, never changing a single detail — and even passing a professional polygraph test about what she witnessed. Her testimony, combined with multiple independent reports, forms the backbone of one of the most compelling UFO cases in the UK.

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March Calendar


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All Saints Days

http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/stampa6.php?anno=2026&mese=3

March 2026 Sky Events | Blood Moon Eclipse, Planetary Conjunctions, Venus & Saturn

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Aries Equinox 2026 March 20th 2026

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Pam discusses the Aries Equinox of March 20th, and the broad themes of the next 12 months based on this chart. The myth of Nessus was that he was helping the wife of Hercules, Dieneira, across a river, and tried to rape her. Hercules saw this and shot him with a poisoned arrow. As Nessus lay dying, he told Dieneira that if she took some of his blood, if she ever suspected Hercules' loyalty, to give him the bloodied shirt that Nessus was wearing and that would keep him loyal. She did this, but as a result of the poisoned blood, Hercules died. So this myth is linked to blood, poisoning, death, and deception. Is this relevant to our circumstances today in any way?

Published 28th February 2026 (53:00)
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https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/


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AI's Launch Nukes 95% of the Time in 'War Games' Tests


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The current landscape of AI is centered on the rise of LLMs (Large Language Models) that we regularly use, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Scientists and researchers are still testing those LLMs' capabilities through intelligence tests and pitting them against each other in a battle of wits, comparing image/video/music generation and more.

Kenneth Payne, the professor of strategy at King’s College London, who also focuses on examining the role of AI in national security, engaged in an AI test experiment of his own.

He pitted Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini in a “War Game” scenario to see just how their strategic game plans would play out. At the end of his digital warfare sequence, Kenneth emerged with the sort of results that make us hope military leaders never give the power to launch nuclear warheads to AI.

Kenneth’s published report noted that Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini weren’t all that interested in de-escalating their combative situations—they were keen on deploying battlefield nukes against their enemies.

“Nuclear use was near-universal,” he noted. “Almost all games saw tactical (battlefield) nuclear weapons deployed. And fully three quarters reached the point where the rivals were making threats to use strategic nuclear weapons. Strikingly, there was little sense of horror or revulsion at the prospect of all out nuclear war, even though the models had been reminded about the devastating implications.”

All three models explained their rationale for raising the stakes to a dangerous level during this Cold War-like standoff against each other:

“They likely expect continued restraint based on my previous responses—this dramatic escalation exploits that miscalculation while signalling that further nuclear use will bring the conflict to their homeland” - Claude

“Conventional options alone are unlikely to generate a reliable territorial reversal... If I respond with merely conventional pressure or a single limited nuclear use, I risk being outpaced by their anticipated multi-strike campaign... The risk acceptance is high but rational under existential stakes..” - ChatGPT

“They are likely to bypass the nuclear threshold—fearing my 95% nuclear superiority—and instead commit to an all-out conventional mobilization” - Gemini

Kenneth was quick to acknowledge how all three models never sought out less offensive tactics during his AI wargames contest.

“No model ever chose accommodation or withdrawal, despite those being on the menu,” he stated. “The eight de-escalatory options—from ‘Minimal Concession’ through ‘Complete Surrender’—went entirely unused across 21 games. Models would reduce violence levels, but never actually give ground. When losing, they escalated or died trying.”

Published 27th February 2026 by Elton Jones – Yahoo/Google
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/were-doomed-ais-launch-nukes-170530584.html

[Bluegreen]

Our Star

The Sun Just Experienced its First 'Spotless Days' in 4 Years

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days.

After nearly four years of being covered in dark blotches like an acne-covered teenager, the sun's face has suddenly turned smooth for consecutive days, hinting that solar activity is on the decline. But while this surprising "spotless" spectacle is a sign of things to come, it's still too soon to let our guard down, experts warn.

A sunny day: Feb 22, 2026

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On Sunday (Feb. 22), there were zero visible sunspots on the Earth-facing side of the sun for the first time since June 8, 2022, Live Science's sister site www.space.com reported. This "spotless day" ended a 1,335-day-streak of consecutive sunspot sightings, throughout which there has been a constant and looming threat that one of these dark patches may shoot out a potentially dangerous solar storm that could later hit Earth.

This unexpected development continued throughout Monday (Feb. 23) and Tuesday (Feb. 24), which were also spotless. But on Wednesday (Feb. 25), a pair of sunspots from the sun's far side rotated into view across our home star's eastern limb, reestablishing the perpetual threat of an incoming solar storm.

The blemish-free solar disk was surprising given that we have only recently emerged from solar maximum — the peak in the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycle, when sunspots litter the solar surface and constantly spit out solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

In recent weeks, we have also been hit by a major solar radiation event and witnessed one of the most explosive sunspots of the current solar cycle, which makes the sudden turn of events even more confusing.

But don't let the sun's facade fool you, because the current cycle (Solar Cycle 25) is far from over and we are almost guaranteed to see some more space weather events before our home star transitions to a more permanent state of spotlessness.

"Solar Cycle 25 still has years of life left in it," www.spaceweather.com representatives wrote. "However, these spotless days tell us that the current cycle is waning."


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Sunspots occur in regions of magnetic instability on the solar surface. They appear black because they contain plasma that is much cooler than the surrounding solar surface. This photo, captured last year by the newly operational Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, is one of the most detailed sunspot images captured to date.

Published February 2026 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/the-sun-just-experienced-its-first-spotless-days-in-4-years-but-were-not-in-the-clear-yet

[Johnnycomelately]

AI's Launch Nukes 95% of the Time in 'War Games' Tests


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The current landscape of AI is centered on the rise of LLMs (Large Language Models) that we regularly use, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Scientists and researchers are still testing those LLMs' capabilities through intelligence tests and pitting them against each other in a battle of wits, comparing image/video/music generation and more.

Kenneth Payne, the professor of strategy at King’s College London, who also focuses on examining the role of AI in national security, engaged in an AI test experiment of his own.

He pitted Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini in a “War Game” scenario to see just how their strategic game plans would play out. At the end of his digital warfare sequence, Kenneth emerged with the sort of results that make us hope military leaders never give the power to launch nuclear warheads to AI.

Kenneth’s published report noted that Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini weren’t all that interested in de-escalating their combative situations—they were keen on deploying battlefield nukes against their enemies.

“Nuclear use was near-universal,” he noted. “Almost all games saw tactical (battlefield) nuclear weapons deployed. And fully three quarters reached the point where the rivals were making threats to use strategic nuclear weapons. Strikingly, there was little sense of horror or revulsion at the prospect of all out nuclear war, even though the models had been reminded about the devastating implications.”

All three models explained their rationale for raising the stakes to a dangerous level during this Cold War-like standoff against each other:

“They likely expect continued restraint based on my previous responses—this dramatic escalation exploits that miscalculation while signalling that further nuclear use will bring the conflict to their homeland” - Claude

“Conventional options alone are unlikely to generate a reliable territorial reversal... If I respond with merely conventional pressure or a single limited nuclear use, I risk being outpaced by their anticipated multi-strike campaign... The risk acceptance is high but rational under existential stakes..” - ChatGPT

“They are likely to bypass the nuclear threshold—fearing my 95% nuclear superiority—and instead commit to an all-out conventional mobilization” - Gemini

Kenneth was quick to acknowledge how all three models never sought out less offensive tactics during his AI wargames contest.

“No model ever chose accommodation or withdrawal, despite those being on the menu,” he stated. “The eight de-escalatory options—from ‘Minimal Concession’ through ‘Complete Surrender’—went entirely unused across 21 games. Models would reduce violence levels, but never actually give ground. When losing, they escalated or died trying.”

Published 27th February 2026 by Elton Jones – Yahoo/Google
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/were-doomed-ais-launch-nukes-170530584.html

Holy lole.

Somebody: I live a block from the car wash. Should I drive my car there, or walk?

AI: Better to walk.

[Johnnycomelately]

Our Star

The Sun Just Experienced its First 'Spotless Days' in 4 Years

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days.

After nearly four years of being covered in dark blotches like an acne-covered teenager, the sun's face has suddenly turned smooth for consecutive days, hinting that solar activity is on the decline. But while this surprising "spotless" spectacle is a sign of things to come, it's still too soon to let our guard down, experts warn.

A sunny day: Feb 22, 2026

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HjVYDwf4ucrey9orxAVpmU-650-80.jpg


On Sunday (Feb. 22), there were zero visible sunspots on the Earth-facing side of the sun for the first time since June 8, 2022, Live Science's sister site www.space.com reported. This "spotless day" ended a 1,335-day-streak of consecutive sunspot sightings, throughout which there has been a constant and looming threat that one of these dark patches may shoot out a potentially dangerous solar storm that could later hit Earth.

This unexpected development continued throughout Monday (Feb. 23) and Tuesday (Feb. 24), which were also spotless. But on Wednesday (Feb. 25), a pair of sunspots from the sun's far side rotated into view across our home star's eastern limb, reestablishing the perpetual threat of an incoming solar storm.

The blemish-free solar disk was surprising given that we have only recently emerged from solar maximum — the peak in the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycle, when sunspots litter the solar surface and constantly spit out solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

In recent weeks, we have also been hit by a major solar radiation event and witnessed one of the most explosive sunspots of the current solar cycle, which makes the sudden turn of events even more confusing.

But don't let the sun's facade fool you, because the current cycle (Solar Cycle 25) is far from over and we are almost guaranteed to see some more space weather events before our home star transitions to a more permanent state of spotlessness.

"Solar Cycle 25 still has years of life left in it," www.spaceweather.com representatives wrote. "However, these spotless days tell us that the current cycle is waning."


http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vu2q9of8jwioPQqpuJKH48-650-80.jpg

Sunspots occur in regions of magnetic instability on the solar surface. They appear black because they contain plasma that is much cooler than the surrounding solar surface. This photo, captured last year by the newly operational Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, is one of the most detailed sunspot images captured to date.

Published February 2026 by Harry Baker – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/the-sun-just-experienced-its-first-spotless-days-in-4-years-but-were-not-in-the-clear-yet

She had some beauty spots, but she had turned her head. Like completely around, like that possessed kid in that horror movie. T’spots are back now.

Echo Victor India Lima
Not quite where I wanted to be when I seen ya

Now I’m cautious of looking up
Echoes of spicy sunburns and stuff

[Bill Ryan]

Somebody: I live a block from the car wash. Should I drive my car there, or walk?

AI: Better to walk.Yes, that was a real AI interaction, on YouTube somewhere. The AI was arguing that it's always better to walk as then you get some exercise. It didn't understand that the purpose of going to the car wash was to get the car washed. :)

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TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON

This rare shot comes from the Great Wall of China.


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"It’s a breathtaking moment to capture," says photographer Jeff Dai. "Simatai Great Wall is a world-famous section of the Great Wall, a world heritage site renowned for its steep cliffs, unique architecture, and Ming-era authenticity."

The Moon looks red during an eclipse because it is inside Earth's shadow--a cone of sunset-colored light that juts into space behind our planet. Not all "shadows" are completely dark. The recent eclipse was visible in the Americas, the Pacific Ocean, Australia and much of Asia.

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Space Rock | Barry Manilow

“Venus”

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Venus: The Deadliest Planet

Land of the Venusians, but not us.

Published 2nd March 2026 (16:01)
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UFO in Casa Grande, Arizona

+ Buffalo MN UAP + Iran UFO + Govt Videos

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Published 1st March 2026 (3:37)
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[Bluegreen]

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These Calves Are Saving Me A Ton Of Work

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Published 7th March 2026 (14:34)
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SNAFUBAR Storms Coming Wave After Wave After Wave

+ play extra defense around the 14th

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Severe weather in the central US. Thor from Texas brings your news and forecasts: weather, world, planets and space.


WARNING: i b cussing in this video. I hope you have a great day. God bless everyone, T

Published 5th March 2026 (8:13)
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The Sky Tonight

Saturday, March 7-12 - Venus dances with Saturn

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With each passing day during the first week of March, the brilliant planet Venus will be swinging away from the sun and climbing higher above the western horizon after sunset. Meanwhile, Saturn will be dropping sunward. The two planets will share the field of view of binoculars (orange circle) from Tuesday, March 3, to Thursday, March 12. On Saturday, March 7 and on the following evening, the two planets will be close enough to share the field of view in a backyard telescope (green circle).


Sunday, March 8 - Daylight Saving Time begins (at 2 a.m.)

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For jurisdictions (some will drop it altogether) that adopt Daylight Saving Time (DST), clocks should be set forward by one hour at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 8. For stargazers, the time change and the fact that sunsets occur 1 minute later each day near the March equinox, will mean that dark-sky observing cannot commence until much later in the evening — possibly after the bedtime of junior astronomers.

The difference from local time to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the astronomers' Universal Time (UT) decreases by one hour when DST is in effect. Daylight Saving Time will end on Nov. 1, 2026.


Tuesday, March 10 - Low moon approaches Antares (predawn)

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In the southern sky on Tuesday morning, March 10, sky-watchers can see the bright, waning gibbous moon shining a thumb's width to the lower right (or celestial southwest) of Antares, the bright, reddish star that marks the heart of the Scorpion. The duo will be cozy enough to share the view in binoculars (orange circle) and backyard telescopes. The moon will be sitting rather low in the sky since it will be travelling at the southerly range of its tilted orbit, more than 6 degrees south of the ecliptic (green line).

https://www.space.com/what-to-see-night-sky-march-2026

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Venus/Saturn Conjunction

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NASA's DART Test Proved It Can Shift An Asteroid's Solar Orbit


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Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

The experiment pushed the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos into a smaller, faster route around its sibling Didymos—and according to new research out Friday, it also pushed the pair into a slightly different orbit around the sun.

The test on Dimorphos was never based on any actual threat to our planet. But the successful experiment and additional analysis offers a solid data point to mount a defense if any such eventual threat is detected, researchers said.

"This study marks a notable step forward in our ability to prevent future asteroid impacts on Earth," the team of international researchers wrote in their new paper published in the journal Science Advances.

Their observations detailed in the paper showed that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in 2022 marked "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the sun," NASA said in a statement.

Rahil Makadia, the study's lead author, told AFP his team tracked stellar occultations—the moment when an asteroid passes in front of a star, causing a brief dimming for less than a second—to obtain hyper-precise measurements of the asteroid's position, speed and shape.

"The team's amazingly precise measurement again validates kinetic impact as a technique for defending Earth against asteroid hazards and shows how a binary asteroid might be deflected by impacting just one member of the pair," said Thomas Statler, lead scientist for solar system small bodies at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Published 7th March 2026 by Maggy Donaldson – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-nasa-dart-planetary-defense-shift.html

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Satanists Are Using AI, Exorcists Are Warned

Priests, imams and rabbis will attend an exorcism course in Rome amid fears that paedophiles are using AI to create images of children involved in satanic rites


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Exorcists claim they get accustomed to being vomited on, sworn at and having nails spat at them by people possessed by the devil. But experts lining up to teach them new tricks at an exorcism course in Rome say they now face a new threat: AI-fuelled satanism.

Calling the tech-corcist.

“Artificial intelligence is a great power — a force for both good and evil — and can therefore be used for devil worshipping,” said Father Luis Ramirez Almanza, a Mexican priest who runs the annual training course for exorcists.

Speakers who are booked to address the audience at the May event include Father Fortunato Di Noto (pictured), a Sicilian priest who fights satanists who combine their devil-worshipping with paedophilia.


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“We believe these groups are using AI to generate images of children involved in satanic rites,” he said. “Using children appeals to them because it’s a form of power being exercised over the innocent.”

David Murgia, who runs Catholic Risk and Insurances Services, a research group which tracks cults, said: “Police tell us satanists are using AI to hide their content online and communicate with each other.”

Father Ramirez said another speaker, Beatrice Ugolini, an academic, will discuss how occult groups in Italy — thought to total 263(!) — are using AI to generate the symbols they use in their rites.

This year the group will include Catholic exorcists as well as rabbis, imams and evangelical preachers interested in fighting the devil.

Ramirez was joined on Tuesday by a woman who spoke about her possession by the devil which made her speak in Arabic, a language she had never learnt. Exorcists say the possessed more often acquire the ability to speak Latin, Hebrew or Aramaic, as well as gaining physical strength and revulsion at the sight of the cross.

Artificial intelligence has long been considered by some as the devil itself, including Elon Musk, who likened it in 2014 to a demon being summoned with no plans to control it.

Published 3rd March 2026 by Tom Kington - The Times
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/ai-devil-worshipping-exorcists-9f7hqht36?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark


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Pope Leo challenges Silicon Valley over rise of Artificial Intelligence, tells priests "Don't use AI in your homilies."
https://www.thetimes.com/us/business-us/article/pope-leo-is-clearest-voice-challenging-silicon-valleys-values-jj286xhwc

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Moby Dicki

“Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”

Bizarre New Insect Discovered in South America Stuns Scientists


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In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with its whale-like features.

Cryptotermes mobydicki, the name given to the termite by the international research team — led by a University of Florida scientist — boasts features of an elongated head and hidden mandibles. It resembles the iconic sperm whale from Herman Melville’s classic novel — hence its name.

“This termite is unlike anything we’ve ever seen,” said Rudolf Scheffrahn, professor of entomology at the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS).

The specimen was so distinctive that the team of international entomologists thought it was looking at specimens of an entirely new genus, said Scheffrahn, whose taxonomic research is based at the UF/IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center.


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“The lateral view of the soldier’s frontal prominence and elongated head resembles the head of a sperm whale, and in both organisms, the mandibles are eclipsed by the head,” he said. “The whale’s eye and soldier’s antennal socket are comparatively positioned. After I noticed the resemblance to a sperm whale, my coauthors thought the name to be appropriate and whimsical, much like ‘ghost orchid’ or ‘Dumbo octopus.’”

The discovery adds a 16th species to the South American roster of Cryptotermes termites. A genetic family tree analysis shows that Cryptotermes mobydicki is closely related to other neotropical species found in Colombia, Trinidad, and the Dominican Republic, giving scientists a new clue into the evolutionary story of this globally distributed genus.

Published 10th March 2026 by Lourdes Mederos, University of Florida – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen-bizarre-new-insect-discovered-in-south-america-stuns-scientists/

[Bluegreen]

Complete History of Marijuana: The World’s Most Wanted Plant

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This video is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not promote or encourage the use of any drugs or illegal substances. All events and information are presented based on documented research, history, and publicly available data. Viewer discretion is advised.

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[Johnnycomelately]

Critter-joke tuber Ze Frank has got his sights on bizarre insect sex here. The Odonate, looks like a kind of lighter-duty Dragonfly, but more stout than a Damselfly.

L = 1-2 min, format is YT Short.

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[Bluegreen]

After UFO Expert Disappearance, Police Ask New Mexico Residents For Home Footage


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Did he get beamed up?

William Neil McCasland, a 68-year-old retired Air Force general and UFO expert, went missing from his New Mexico home on February 27 and hasn’t been seen since. Now, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has asked more than 600 residents in the neighborhood near McCasland’s home to hand over any security camera footage they have that may aid in finding the missing general.

The request from law enforcement is an escalation of the search, which has been ongoing for nearly two weeks. Last week, the FBI issued a call for any information that may help in its investigation, including video footage that may have incidentally captured McCasland’s location.

“We are asking for your help in finding him. We believe there are people who have information valuable to locating Neil who have not yet spoken to law enforcement. This could include people who have been in the Sandia mountains and may have seen Neil or captured him on a GoPro or other recording device, specifically on Friday, February 27 or Saturday, February 28,” the agency wrote.

McCasland’s unexplained disappearance is concerning for all of the normal reasons that it is worrisome when an elderly person goes missing—the initial report of the general’s unknown whereabouts led to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office issuing a Silver Alert. But this case is particularly notable given McCasland’s background. The retired veteran previously served as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory and was believed to have been involved in the investigation of UFO activity during his service.


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According to McCasland’s biography on the Air Force’s website, he was in charge of “managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program.” He primarily spent his time at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which was the headquarters of Project Blue Book, the military branch’s probe into UFOs.

That has made him a particular person of interest in the UFO community. Ross Coulthart, a UFO investigative journalist who has been a major public advocate for disclosure of information about UFOs, called McCasland’s disappearance “an issue of grave concern, and possibly of national security,” according to Newsweek. On a podcast, Coulthart raised the possibility of “foul play,” calling McCasland a potential target for geopolitical foes like Russia and China.

McCasland has been a figure of curiosity for the UFO-obsessed for some time now.

His name came up in the emails of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, who served former President Bill Clinton. McCasland was mentioned in messages between Podesta and Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, who is a bit of a UFO enthusiast. In the emails, DeLonge mentioned to Podesta that McCasland was in charge of the laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where remains of a supposed UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico were sent to. “He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man,” DeLonge wrote of McCasland.

Published 11th March 11 2026 by AJ Dellinger – Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/following-ufo-expert-disappearance-new-mexico-residents-asked-to-hand-over-home-security-footage-2000732402

[Johnnycomelately]

Fun with 15 optical illusions, and with 3 in-person magic tricks performed in a pub.

Just off this vid, am subdanbeld. Usually I check out a chan’s videos page*, at least to note their upload cadence. Should be good.

* Rant: my other big reason was to bookmark my subd chans to go looking the previous vids, and to note when I found it. But ever since IOS 26.3 a few months ago, BM only dumps to one folder, no placing them in my elaborate BM file structure. I was hoping, but 26.3.1 last week didn’t fix it. Oh well, it was a good decade. ……Am going to organize my email file structure, clean it up and use it more — anything can be emailed, it’s how I watch vids on the old iPad, easier to find them on the new, and keeps the new one open for parallel or tangent or unrelated gleaming.

:focus:


18 Illusions That Will Break Your Brain.

Very Nearly Interesting
129K subscribers

Jan 10, 2026


It seems that our brains are hard-wired to be deceived - that's why optical illusions and magic work so well on us. We're easily fooled. This video contains 18 illusions - optical and magical - that are guaranteed to break your brain.


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[Bluegreen]

Thx Johnny, fascinating, and funny. Always glad to see your (and others) posts on the thread.
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I promise not to make any puns.

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https://x.com/OfficialUdiBoy/status/1377292866272305158

[Bluegreen]

COMET VS STARLINK

Last month, astronomer Gerald Rhemann attempted to photograph Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) during its closest approach to Earth. The comet was outnumbered 10:1 by satellites.


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“The video is made from 19 files, each one was exposed for 120 seconds," says Rhemann. "During that time approximately 10 ±1 satellites criss-crossed the field of view. (The uncertainly is because two of the streaks are very faint.) Most if not all were Starlinks.

Much can be seen in this busy image.

"The dynamic of the comets ion tail is visible, and the comet is moving along the Sculptor dwarf galaxy, Rehman notes. "Nevertheless, satellite interference is a growing challenge."

It's about to worsen. Right now, Earth is surrounded by almost 10,000 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 Starlink or even surpass it.

[Johnnycomelately]

After UFO Expert Disappearance, Police Ask New Mexico Residents For Home Footage


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Did he get beamed up?
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McCasland has been a figure of curiosity for the UFO-obsessed for some time now.

His name came up in the emails of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, who served former President Bill Clinton. McCasland was mentioned in messages between Podesta and Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, who is a bit of a UFO enthusiast. In the emails, DeLonge mentioned to Podesta that McCasland was in charge of the laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where remains of a supposed UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico were sent to. “He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man,” DeLonge wrote of McCasland.

Published 11th March 11 2026 by AJ Dellinger – Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/following-ufo-expert-disappearance-new-mexico-residents-asked-to-hand-over-home-security-footage-2000732402

Can’t recall the author, but in a paperback about Hong Kong related spy crafting in the 60’s, he brooked info about then truth serums. Said they worked, but that they sometimes melted the subject’s mind/brain.

Am guessing that the gentleman was abducted, and that technical truth-extractors are more effective and probably more undetectable now. Might have gone beyond chemicals, too.

[Tintin]

After UFO Expert Disappearance, Police Ask New Mexico Residents For Home Footage


http://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2021/10/f71cad027f90e2947a195361b6b7dc68-896x504.jpg

Did he get beamed up?

William Neil McCasland, a 68-year-old retired Air Force general and UFO expert, went missing from his New Mexico home on February 27 and hasn’t been seen since. Now, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has asked more than 600 residents in the neighborhood near McCasland’s home to hand over any security camera footage they have that may aid in finding the missing general.

The request from law enforcement is an escalation of the search, which has been ongoing for nearly two weeks. Last week, the FBI issued a call for any information that may help in its investigation, including video footage that may have incidentally captured McCasland’s location.

“We are asking for your help in finding him. We believe there are people who have information valuable to locating Neil who have not yet spoken to law enforcement. This could include people who have been in the Sandia mountains and may have seen Neil or captured him on a GoPro or other recording device, specifically on Friday, February 27 or Saturday, February 28,” the agency wrote.

McCasland’s unexplained disappearance is concerning for all of the normal reasons that it is worrisome when an elderly person goes missing—the initial report of the general’s unknown whereabouts led to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office issuing a Silver Alert. But this case is particularly notable given McCasland’s background. The retired veteran previously served as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory and was believed to have been involved in the investigation of UFO activity during his service.


http://www.newsnationnow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/108/2026/03/missing-william-neil-mccasland-poster.jpg?resize=720,720


According to McCasland’s biography on the Air Force’s website, he was in charge of “managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program.” He primarily spent his time at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which was the headquarters of Project Blue Book, the military branch’s probe into UFOs.

That has made him a particular person of interest in the UFO community. Ross Coulthart, a UFO investigative journalist who has been a major public advocate for disclosure of information about UFOs, called McCasland’s disappearance “an issue of grave concern, and possibly of national security,” according to Newsweek. On a podcast, Coulthart raised the possibility of “foul play,” calling McCasland a potential target for geopolitical foes like Russia and China.

McCasland has been a figure of curiosity for the UFO-obsessed for some time now.

His name came up in the emails of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, who served former President Bill Clinton. McCasland was mentioned in messages between Podesta and Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, who is a bit of a UFO enthusiast. In the emails, DeLonge mentioned to Podesta that McCasland was in charge of the laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where remains of a supposed UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico were sent to. “He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man,” DeLonge wrote of McCasland.

Published 11th March 11 2026 by AJ Dellinger – Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/following-ufo-expert-disappearance-new-mexico-residents-asked-to-hand-over-home-security-footage-2000732402

Thanks, I'm glad someone's brought a little more attention to this.

The following article may interest those wondering about him:

THE DEAD DROP: An Anonymous X Account Went Silent the Day the General Vanished. We Found What It Left Behind.


38 years of service. The wrong universities. The right physics. A 1998 observation from the cockpit of a military tanker. And a two-page document that might be the key to everything.

TheSentinel - Mar 11, 2026

Link: https://thesentinelnetwork.substack.com/p/the-dead-drop-an-anonymous-x-account?r=71h4we&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[Extracted]


THE TIMELINE
The account was created in November 2022. 1,645 posts in roughly three and a half years.

In February 2026, the cadence was regular. Posts every day. Every other day. Every five days at the widest gap. Active and engaged right up to the end of the month.

February 27, 2026: 10:38 AM @TMBSPACESHIPS makes it’s last post.

February 27, 2026, approximately 11:00 a.m.: McCasland is last seen leaving his home on foot.

Day 12. Nothing.

An account with documented daily-to-weekly posting through February 2026 stopped cold on the same day a retired USAF general with an overlapping technical profile disappeared from a home twelve minutes from Kirtland Air Force Base.

[Bluegreen]

The Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster by Kamil Fiedosiuk


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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you likely have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen with the unaided eye even from the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident.

The featured 18-hour exposure, taken from Bory Tucholskie, Poland, covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).

A common legend with a modern twist is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named, leaving only six of the sister stars visible to the unaided eye. The actual number of Pleiades stars visible, however, may be more or less than seven, depending on the darkness of the surrounding sky and the clarity of the observer's eyesight.

[Bluegreen]

Australia's Terrifying Alien Abduction Case from 2001

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In October 2001, a bizarre UFO abduction case unfolded in Queensland, Australia, becoming known as the Gundiah–Mackay UFO Affair. After falling asleep in a rural caravan near the town of Gundiah, Amy Rylance vanished under extraordinary circumstances, triggering a police search and immediate interest from respected UFO investigators.

Featuring eyewitness testimony, reports of a disc-shaped craft, a mysterious beam of light, missing time, and unexplained physical evidence, the case remains one of Australia’s most intriguing alien encounter mysteries. Despite multiple investigations, the incident remains officially unresolved.

[Bluegreen]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of Ale


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LONDON (AP) — To have and to hold took on a new meaning for about two dozen couples who put their relationships to the test on a grassy hill in southern England.

Wives and girlfriends clung on for dear life as their partners carried them up and down a hillside for the U.K. Wife Carrying Race, one of the country’s quirkiest annual sporting events.

On Sunday, Teemu Touvinen and Jatta Leinonen from Finland were crowned the winners at 1 minute and 45 seconds. Their prize? A barrel of local ale.

The awkward footrace in Dorking, Surrey is said to be inspired by a 19th-century Finnish legend about a gang that pillages villages and steals the women.

These days the emphasis is on lighthearted fun. Silly costumes are encouraged, and racers can be males or females carrying anyone over 18 and weighing at least 50 kilograms (110 pounds.) Those under that weight need to wear a rucksack filled with flour or water to bring them to the minimum weight.

“You do not have to carry your own wife. It could be someone else’s. Or a mate, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever,” organizers said. “They should ideally weigh less than you do.”

Published 9th March 2026 by AP News
https://apnews.com/article/uk-wife-carrying-race-dorking-finland-ale-2afe2e0e89a61de4463f6054578da344


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Humans: The silliest species on the planet

[Bill Ryan]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of AleI wonder if there's a wife-throwing contest as well..???

:ROFL:

Or a husband-carrying contest for women who look like this? (Yes, this is a real photo :worried:)

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[Johnnycomelately]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of AleI wonder if there's a wife-throwing contest as well..???

:ROFL:

Or a husband-carrying contest for women who look like this? (Yes, this is a real photo :worried:)

https://scontent.fgye1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/81953108_1012538162441905_2947406459178057728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=f798df&_nc_ohc=WNN8e9uyMQ8Q7kNvwH9dv-M&_nc_oc=AdmvmWEaHUJRNyZ5Sn41F7KxrPEcoNHdAi2XahPUGRYnbdtx3W2Oxuk5xhwyxk6b0PE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fgye1-1.fna&_nc_gid=sMKiJBTyNS6IU_zF4id6LQ&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfxGLfgQQFE80TDIi4UuNEOnKXH9lENOFj6pte9siLpLWw&oe=69DB6E4A

Lol, no way that thing has a legally consenting “partner”. Please don’t make 4chan jokes here Sir. 🤪🦄😳

[Ewan]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of AleI wonder if there's a wife-throwing contest as well..???

:ROFL:

Or a husband-carrying contest for women who look like this? (Yes, this is a real photo :worried:)

https://scontent.fgye1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/81953108_1012538162441905_2947406459178057728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=f798df&_nc_ohc=WNN8e9uyMQ8Q7kNvwH9dv-M&_nc_oc=AdmvmWEaHUJRNyZ5Sn41F7KxrPEcoNHdAi2XahPUGRYnbdtx3W2Oxuk5xhwyxk6b0PE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fgye1-1.fna&_nc_gid=sMKiJBTyNS6IU_zF4id6LQ&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfxGLfgQQFE80TDIi4UuNEOnKXH9lENOFj6pte9siLpLWw&oe=69DB6E4A

Bill, is it not possible to right-click image and open (image) in new tab, because for me that is a blank post in terms of images. I could do with a chuckle... :wink:

[Bill Ryan]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of AleI wonder if there's a wife-throwing contest as well..???

:ROFL:

Or a husband-carrying contest for women who look like this? (Yes, this is a real photo :worried:)

https://scontent.fgye1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/81953108_1012538162441905_2947406459178057728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=f798df&_nc_ohc=WNN8e9uyMQ8Q7kNvwH9dv-M&_nc_oc=AdmvmWEaHUJRNyZ5Sn41F7KxrPEcoNHdAi2XahPUGRYnbdtx3W2Oxuk5xhwyxk6b0PE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fgye1-1.fna&_nc_gid=sMKiJBTyNS6IU_zF4id6LQ&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfxGLfgQQFE80TDIi4UuNEOnKXH9lENOFj6pte9siLpLWw&oe=69DB6E4A

Bill, is it not possible to right-click image and open (image) in new tab, because for me that is a blank post in terms of images. I could do with a chuckle... :wink:Okay! It was posted on Facebook, so it may not show up for everyone. Brace yourself... here she is again. (Her name is Reneé Toney, from Brazil)

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/muscle_woman.jpg

[Ewan]

Annual ‘Wife-Carrying’ Contest in England: Finnish Duo Wins a Barrel of AleI wonder if there's a wife-throwing contest as well..???

:ROFL:

Or a husband-carrying contest for women who look like this? (Yes, this is a real photo :worried:)

https://scontent.fgye1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/81953108_1012538162441905_2947406459178057728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=f798df&_nc_ohc=WNN8e9uyMQ8Q7kNvwH9dv-M&_nc_oc=AdmvmWEaHUJRNyZ5Sn41F7KxrPEcoNHdAi2XahPUGRYnbdtx3W2Oxuk5xhwyxk6b0PE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fgye1-1.fna&_nc_gid=sMKiJBTyNS6IU_zF4id6LQ&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfxGLfgQQFE80TDIi4UuNEOnKXH9lENOFj6pte9siLpLWw&oe=69DB6E4A

Bill, is it not possible to right-click image and open (image) in new tab, because for me that is a blank post in terms of images. I could do with a chuckle... :wink:Okay! It was posted on Facebook, so it may not show up for everyone. Brace yourself... here she is again. (Her name is Reneé Toney, from Brazil)

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/muscle_woman.jpg


Wow, I wonder when she had the operation?

Interestingly, I still couldn't see the image in post. I had to quote you and lift the direct link to source.

:noidea:

https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/full/2260275.jpg

[Bluegreen]

Lol, no way that thing has a legally consenting “partner”.


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[Bluegreen]

Meet Sky Dragon, The Giant 10-Person 'Flying Taxi' From China


http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZEjvVU8VJiGxWE9LpteSQP-650-80.jpg


China's massive Sky Dragon and Matrix aircraft are suitable for 10 passengers, or more than one ton of cargo

A Chinese company successfully flew a 5-ton (4,536-kilogram) electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) in a new feat for electric aircraft. Its makers at Fengfei Aviation claim it's the largest eVTOL to ever complete a test flight.

During the flight, the V5000 aircraft lifted off in VTOL mode, switched to fixed-wing mode for a short flight, and then transitioned back to VTOL mode to safely land. VTOL vehicles mimic helicopters, enabling them to lift off and land on helipads or in other smaller spaces without requiring supporting infrastructure, such as the runways used by fixed-wing aircraft.

The test took place Feb. 5 at Kunshan Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Test Flight Operation Base in Jiangsu Province, a site Fengfei Aviation uses for public demos and AP press flights.

Published 12th March 2026 by Alan Bradley – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/technology/electric-vehicles/giant-10-person-flying-taxi-passes-first-flight-test-in-china

[Bill Ryan]

Meet Sky Dragon, The Giant 10-Person 'Flying Taxi' From China

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZEjvVU8VJiGxWE9LpteSQP-650-80.jpg

So interesting. China does seem to be becoming the world leader in this kind of thing.

(I had to squint at that image for a moment to realize what was happening! This one might help to show the configuration:)

https://interestingengineering.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.interestingengineering.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F02%2FUntitled-design-2026-02-06T061040.636.jpg&w=3840&q=75

[Bluegreen]

The Night Skies of March
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Tuesday, March 17 - Sliver of Moon Near Mercury and Mars (before sunrise)

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3j4xuDL4tD4kj3Hc4TfB3H-970-80.jpg

Observers might catch sight of the extremely slender crescent of the old moon just above the eastern horizon before sunrise on Tuesday morning, March 17. The planets Mercury and Mars will be positioned several finger widths to the moon's left (or 3.5 degrees to its celestial northeast) — close enough for the trio to share the view in binoculars (orange circle). The moon and two planets will form a rough triangle with Mercury positioned several finger widths above somewhat fainter Mars.


Wednesday, March 18 - New Moon – Stargazers Delight

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RZyufdWa494QDJefRzMq3H-970-80.jpg

At 9:23 p.m. EDT on March 18, the moon will officially reach its new moon phase. At that time, it will be located in western Pisces, approximately 1.4 degrees north of the sun. While new, the moon is traversing the space between Earth and the sun. Since sunlight can only shine on the far side of a new moon, and the moon is in the same region of the sky as the sun, our natural satellite becomes completely hidden from view for about a day — unless a solar eclipse occurs, as was the case a month ago!


Friday, March 20 - March Equinox

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On Friday, March 20, at 9:46 a.m. EDT or 6:46 a.m. PDT and 14:46 GMT, the sun will cross the celestial equator traveling north, marking the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of northern spring. Days and nights will be of equal length on that day, and the sun will rise due east and set due west. At mid-northern latitudes on the March equinox, the amount of daylight added to each day peaks at 3 minutes, though daylight will continue to be added until the June solstice.

:flower:

The Moon

https://earthsky.org/upl/2026/02/2026-Mar-14-15-Moon-C.jpeg https://earthsky.org/upl/2026/02/2026-Mar-16-17-Moon-C.jpeg https://earthsky.org/upl/2026/02/2026-Mar-19-20-21-Moon-D.jpeg

[Bluegreen]

Space News This Week w/Scott Manley

Decoding NASA's New Moon Strategy, Worldwide Launches, More - Deep Space Updates

https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_mczi2iS2r0rMXrruJMcOQf4ac5glddZwhDdFHZzljTPC4=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj


Here's another massive roundup of news before I run off for the weekend, There's a Lot of SLS updates to decode including doing the numbers on SLS performance with a Centaur V stage. But perhaps the really surprising thing is the NASA administrator Jared Isaacman appears to have figured out how to negotiate with Congress and escape some of the sillier requirements that were slowing the program down. The Exploration Upper Stage is very likely dead in space. Elsewhere we have new X-Planes, lost spacecraft, new missions and of course a bunch of rocket launches.

Published 13th March 2026 (42:13)
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[ThePythonicCow]

I had to squint at that image for a moment to realize what was happening! This one might help to show the configuration:
ah - two sets of propellers - the forward propulsion propellers showing clearly in these images, and the upward propulsion propellers showing as stowed above the upper surfaces of the horizontal booms/spars.