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Buzz Aldrin VS Bart Sibrel: TKO
Bart talks about getting clocked by Buzz twenty years ago.
Published 26th March 2023 (4:22)
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Buzz Aldrin VS Bart Sibrel: TKO
Bart talks about getting clocked by Buzz twenty years ago.
Published 26th March 2023 (4:22)
The Night Sky
Friday July 21: Earthshine Moon Near Mars (after sunset)
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In the western sky after sunset, the pretty crescent moon will shine several finger-widths to the upper right of the small, reddish dot of Mars.
If you have an unobstructed western horizon, look for the bright planet Venus shining brightly below them, and fainter Mercury about 1.7 fist diameters to their lower right. On these evenings, watch for Earthshine on the moon, also known as the Ashen Glow and "the old moon in the new moon's arms".
Saturday, July 22: The Summer Triangle (all night)
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After dusk in mid-July, Vega, Deneb, and Altair are the first stars to appear in the darkening eastern sky. Those three bright, white stars form the Summer Triangle asterism — an annual feature of the summer sky that remains visible until the end of December!
The highest and most easterly of the trio is Vega, in Lyra. At magnitude 0.03, Vega is the brightest star in the summer sky, mainly due to its relative proximity. It's only 25 light-years away from the sun. Magnitude 0.75 Altair, in Aquila, occupies the southern corner of the triangle. Altair is 17 light-years from the sun. By contrast, Deneb, which shines somewhat less brightly at magnitude 1.25, is a staggering 2,600 light-years away from us; but it shines so brightly because of its greater intrinsic luminosity. The Milky Way passes between Vega and Altair and through Deneb.
Monday, July 24: Half-moon and Spica (evening)
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In the southwestern sky in the evening on Monday, July 24, the waxing, the nearly-half-illuminated moon will shine several finger-widths to the upper right (or celestial northwest) of Virgo's brightest star, Spica.
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Behind The Massive Cover Up of the Phoenix Lights | UFO Witness
Ben Hansen meets up with Dr Lynne Kitei, one of the thousands of witnesses to the Phoenix Lights. He discovers that the US Air Force may have covered up this UFO sighting. Actor Kurt Russell's testimony is included. Musician Alice Cooper's is not.
Published 7th July 2023 (9:57)
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The World Through the Eyes of Animals
Pigeons actually have better vision than humans. Cows can’t see the color red because they don’t have the necessary receptors in their retinas for that. Horses have a blind spot right in front of their faces because of their eye placement. Fish eyes have ultraviolet receptors and an almost 360 degree view.
Published 14th May 2023 (4:21)
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UFO Over the Statue of Liberty – Tokyo 12th December 2022
Whoa.
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Raccoon Activates Security Cam + Catches 9 Lights Flying Over
I don't know what to make of this.
Published 1st July 2023 (2:32)Quote:
Witness (Anne Vickers) description:
"My trail cam was activated by a raccoon which resulted in the trail cam recording 9 lights flying over the raccoon which did not react to this. It looks like the lights were on the ground and rose up and then flew over the raccoon. This property has no houses nearby, or any roads, and it's not a flight path for airplanes. There were 50ft trees behind the lights, there is no way it could have flown through them."
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Imagery and the Alphabet with Leonard Shlain, MD (1937 – 2009)
Did humans change God's sex? Or was it done “for” us?
In ancient times, says Leonard Shlain, human societies universally worshipped the image of a goddess. Sometime about 5,000 years ago a massive shift occurred in which the gender of the diety changed. He presents his hypothesis that this change is related to the introduction of the alphabet and its effects upon the human brain. He notes that in the west, witchhunts and other effects of male-dominant society occurred at a time of rising literacy. He also suggests that the rise of feminism in the twentieth century is correlated with increased use of imagery as a result of film and television. The late Leonard Shlain, MD, was an associate professor at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He is author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess.
Original airing c. 1998 (26:19)
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How Congress Gets Rich from Insider Trading
US senators and members of Congress are using insider knowledge on major policy decisions and looming crises to game the stock market. And they think it’s totally okay.
Published 31st may 2023 (29:30)
When ET Calls, Can We Be Sure We're Not Being Spoofed?
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Scientists have devised a new technique for finding and vetting possible radio signals from other civilizations in our galaxy—a major advance in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) that will significantly boost confidence in any future detection of alien life.
Most of today's SETI searches are conducted by Earth-based radio telescopes, which means that any ground or satellite radio interference—ranging from Starlink satellites to cellphones, microwaves and even car engines—can produce a radio blip that mimics a technosignature of a civilization outside our solar system. Such false alarms have raised and then dashed hopes since the first dedicated SETI program began in 1960.
Currently, researchers vet these signals by pointing the telescope in a different place in the sky, then return a few times to the spot where the signal was originally detected to confirm it wasn't a one-off. Even then, the signal could be something fairly innocuous produced on Earth.
The new technique, developed by researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project at the University of California, Berkeley, checks for evidence that the signal has actually passed through interstellar space, eliminating the possibility that the signal is mere radio interference from Earth.
Breakthrough Listen, the most comprehensive SETI search anywhere, monitors the northern and southern skies with radio telescopes in search of technosignatures. It also targets thousands of individual stars in the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, which is the likely direction a civilization would beam a signal, with a particular focus on the center of the galaxy.
Published 17th July by Robert Sanders, University of California – Berkeley – Phys.org
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Your Space & Weather News
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WTF? Earth Hits 152 Heat Index! Sun Unleashes Godzilla Solar Storm! Hurricane Watch End of July!
Thor is back from vacation and ready to get into the flow.
Published 17th July 2023 (12:02)
Rockets Just Keep Exploding During Tests - Deep Space Updates
A round up of the last couple of weeks of space news, including 3 different test failures - Vega-C, BE-4 and Epsilon-S. Europe's Ariane 5 makes its last flight leaving Europe with only the Vega rocket ready to go. But of course all that isn't that bad compared to the budget that Joe Biden's NASA is likely to get ....
Published 17th July 2023 (19:07)
International
India Signs the Artemis Accords
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As part of an unprecedented set of broad-sweeping agreements between the US and India centered around collaborative science & technology advancements, India signed the Artemis Accords on June 21. Notably, India is one of the few nations with independent and frequent access to space joining to shape this US-led lunar governance framework, which aims to peacefully manage increasing global activity at the Moon.
Published 15th July 2023 by Jatan Mehta - Jatan's Space
https://blog.jatan.space/p/indian-space-issue-06
China to Land Astronauts on the Moon
China intends to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. The "preliminary plan" is explained by Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) deputy chief designer Zhang Hailian.
Published 13th July 2023 (1:17)
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1 in 1,000,000 Moments
These are one in a million moments caught on camera.
Published 4th May 2023 (9:00)
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Woman Wakes Up After 20-Year Coma | The Real Sleeping Beauty | Only Human
In 1984, 18-year-old Sarah Scantlin was run over by a drunk driver. The severe brain injuries left her in a coma for twenty years. Doctors had to remove the part of her brain that governs speech to save her life. The prognosis was that she would be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life, with feeding tubes to keep her alive. The prognosis proved incorrect.
Published 3rd November 2017 (46:19)
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Texas National Weather Service Bakes Cookies in Hot Car
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July 20 (UPI) -- National Weather Service personnel in Texas put the record heat wave to good use by baking a batch of cookies on the dashboard of a hot car.
The NWS' office in Midland said in a Facebook post it was about 105 degrees F outside and 190 degrees inside the car when the cookie dough was placed on the dashboard. The cookies were left to cook for about 4 1/2 hours.
The NWS said the cookies weren't quite "golden brown," but they were fully cooked.
"Can confirm they are done and delicious," one NWS employee wrote, adding a caution to local car-parkers.
Published 20th July 2023 by Ben Hooper
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Newly Discovered Species of Palm Tree Flowers Bears Fruit Underground
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Pinanga subterranea, a new species of palm discovered by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, is one of only two known plants that exclusively fruit and flower underground.
There are more than 2,500 species of palm known to science, but Pinanga subterranea, a new species discovered on the tropical island of Borneo, is the only one that flowers and fruits only underground. The plant and its sweet fruits are well-known to the island’s indigenous population, but it has somehow been overlooked by scientists until now. Dr Paul Chai, a Malaysian botanist and namesake of the palm species Pinanga chaiana was the first to spot the underground-flowering palm, and in 2018, Kew scientists Benedikt Kuhnhäuser, Peter Petoe and William Baker took some samples for research purposes and discovered the plant’s amazing abilities.
Japanese Farmers Develop Sweet and Sour ‘Lemon Melon’
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The Lemon Melon is a newly-developed type of melon that combines the sweetness and aroma of the melon with a slight sourness reminiscent of a lemon.
Japanese horticulture company Suntory Flowers reportedly spent five years developing the lemon melon, breeding it from a type of melon originally imported from overseas. The process involved a lot of trial and error and took about five years. During the development period, horticulturists experimented extensively with a number of factors, including cultivation methods and harvest times. The final product, which is blended with actual lemons, is juicy and sweet like a melon but slightly sour like a lemon.
Strange Two-faced Dying Star 'Janus' Baffles Scientists in Cosmic Oddity
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While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal. After running a few more tests, they were stunned.
One of their observed stellar corpses, a white dwarf star more than 1,000 light-years from Earth that spins once every 15 minutes, had a peculiar appearance. Its orb-like surface possessed two different elements on either of its sides, weirdly divided like a basketball sliced down the middle. On one face, the researchers identified traces of hydrogen — on the other, helium. Though the split may not be exactly 50-50, the breakup the researchers saw was apparent enough to leave them scratching their heads.
"This was a completely serendipitous discovery," said astrophysicist Ilaria Caiazzo, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and member of the discovery team. "I was completely blown away by what I saw, and so is any astronomer to whom I show the data."
Published 19th July 2023 by Monisha Ravisetti – Space.com
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Meteor and Milky Way Over the Alps by Nicholas Roemmelt
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Now this was a view with a thrill. From Mount Tschirgant in the Alps, you can see not only nearby towns and distant Tyrolean peaks, but also, weather permitting, stars, nebulas, and the band of the Milky Way Galaxy. What made the arduous climb worthwhile this night, though, was another peak -- the peak of the 2018 Perseids Meteor Shower. As hoped, dispersing clouds allowed a picturesque sky-gazing session that included many faint meteors, all while a carefully positioned camera took a series of exposures. Suddenly, a thrilling meteor -- bright and colorful -- slashed down right next to the nearly vertical band of the Milky Way. As luck would have it, the camera caught it too.
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ISS Crew Plays 'Space Dart' Game With Ping Pong Ball + Hoops
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Published 21st July 2023 (2:05)
Andy Kaufman – Surrealist
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One of the Greatest Feuds in Wrestling: Kaufman vs Lawler | I Was There
The most publicized wrestling rivalry of all time, Andy Kaufman vs Jerry “The King” Lawler, left many wondering where the line between reality and fantasy blurred. Wrestling historian & personality Jim Cornette takes us through it all, from Kaufman demanding that women get “back in the kitchen”, Kaufman's public demise at the hands of Foxy, Lawler’s illegal piledriver move that sends Kaufman to the hospital, and coffee thrown across the desk of David Letterman.
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OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Trailer
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, is returning to Earth.
Published 20th July 2023 (0:37)