Up At The Ranch And Beyond

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Smoke-hazed Sunset by Peter Lowenstein – Mutare, Zimbabwe


www.spaceweather.com

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Auroras by Chad Blakley – Abisko National Park, Sweden



Aurora by Thomas McCarty – Fairbanks, Alaska

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The STEVE Show by Alan Dyer – Alberta, Canada










https://amazingsky.net

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Star Trails and Lightning over the Pyrenees by Marc Sellés Llimós


https://apod.nasa.gov

The beauty in this image comes in layers. On the bottom layer is the picturesque village of Manlleu in Barcelona, Spain. The six-minute exposure makes car lights into streaks. The next layer is a mountain -- Serra de Bellmunt -- of Europe's famous Pyrenees. Next up is a tremendous lightning storm emanating from a classically-shaped anvil cloud. The long exposure allowed for the capture of many intricate lightning bolts. Finally, at the top and furthest in the distance are stars. Here, the multi-minute exposure made stars into trails. The trailing effect is caused by the rotation of the Earth, and the curvature of the trails indicates their distance from the north spin pole of the Earth above. Taken after sunset in early June, the lightning storm soon moved off. The stars, though, will continue to circle the pole for as long as the Earth spins -- surely billions of years into the future.

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UFOs Circle the Globe



Captan OVNI en varios puntos de Jalisco | ¿O satélites Starlink?

Cientos de Jaliscienses avistaron el misterioso objeto volador desde 10 municipios diferentes.

Hundreds of Jaliscienses spotted the mysterious flying object from 10 different municipalities.

Published 9th September 2022 (1:39)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sz3YWLJkTcU

Four Strange Bright Moving UFO Lights Sighted over Marseille in France

This footage was captured on July 1, 2022 over Marseille in France around 10:30 PM local time. We can see that there are four bright lights in a distance, which I believe to be attached to one solid object.

Published 22nd August 2022 (3:35)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=umyPOSqnTB4

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Funny Unexpected Compilation - Didn't See That Coming!

Pulled Porsche sandwich?

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rcwG6y53Qyg

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American Hobo - One Minute History

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QlpoRoHqgOI

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Somewhere in the Skies | Reggie Watts: Presidents, Lifeforms, and UFOs

Reggie Watts! Watts is band leader for The Late Late Show with James Corden, and is a highly accomplished comedian, actor, and musician. He is also one of the only people to ask two former U.S. presidents about UFOs on national television. We break down his viral interviews with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, then dive super deep into what UFOs could be, why the term "alien" should be replaced by "lifeform", and what role consciousness may play in the grand scheme of things.

Published 18th September 2022 (1:20:06)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kd3wtyaCBQ0

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Jack Parsons Rocket Scientist





He was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons in 1914 and named after his father — but when Marvel Sr. left the family, his mother took to calling him John. Then, after an out of body experience well into his occult days, he was called Belarion Armiluss Al Dajjal, Antichrist, and finally just Jack. Although Parsons came from a wealthy family, he himself seemed to have little regard for money. At various times in his life he was fabulously wealthy, living next door to beer baron August Busch in a huge mansion, and at others illegally making and selling nitroglycerin in his garage to pay the rent.

When he was 14 years old, Parsons started experimenting with fuel that could be used to propel rockets. He didn’t graduate from college but opted to work for Hercules Powder and then Halifax Explosives which was in the Mojave Desert.



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Parsons and his best friend Edward S. Forman got their kicks from experimenting with rockets and explosives in the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. They made connections at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Parsons, Foreman, and Caltech grad student Frank Malina (later of NASA) were dubbed the "Suicide Squad" by students after nearly killing themselves in the desert several times. In 1944, GALCIT became the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Parsons is credited with being one of the founders. Later, when Parsons' extracurricular activities became more well known, Caltech kicked him out.








Jack Parsons Labs


In 1939, Parsons was introduced to the works of Aleister Crowley, an occultist writer, practitioner of black magic and founder of the religion of Thelema. and he joined the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), an international secret society led by Crowley. Parsons joined the OTO’s local group called the Agape Lodge, which was based in Pasadena and led by Wilfred Smith.

In 1942 he, Forman, Malina and Theodore von Karman founded Aerojet Corporation whose first product was the Jet Assist Take Off (JATO) rocket motors, used extensively during WWII. The company did well.

With the money he was getting from Aerojet, Parsons could support his spiritual activities. He got a huge house on South Orange Grove Blvd. in Pasadena and relocated the Agape Lodge to the downstairs. He and adventurous wife Helen lived in the largest room upstairs and turned it into a temple. The other rooms were used by Smith and an unconventional and revolving group of occultists, eccentrics, artists, dope fiends, and engineers.

With so many people living in such close quarters, it didn’t take long for Smith and Helen to have an affair and a son. Parsons divorced Helen and immediately took up with her teenage sister, Sara Elizabeth Northrup, known as Betty.

About that time a man named L Ron Hubbard came on the scene, after receiving a medical discharge from the Navy at the Pasadena Area Station Hospital. Hubbard and Parsons met through a common interest in science fiction and the occult. Hubbard was looking for a place to land and moved into the house despite having a wife and two kids in Washington State, and it didn’t take the charismatic future Scientology founder long to integrate himself into the life and practices of the group.





Parsons and Hubbard engaged in an 11-day, multi-stage, ceremonial ritual called Babalon Working to manifest the “Scarlet Woman,” fulfilling a prophecy of Aleister Crowley, who had been in close contact with Parsons. Their success or failure has been debated ever since. Crowley, for his part, called them "fools".

There's a whole season of soap operas between the Rocket Scientist and the Founder.

Parsons needed income, so he and Hubbard and Betty started a new business venture called Allied Enterprises. They were planning to buy sail boats on the East Coast and bring them to California for resale. Hubbard contributed about $1,100 to the company against Parsons nearly $21,000. In April 1946, Hubbard and Betty left town with the majority of Allied’s money and were found living on a boat in Miami with no intention of returning to California. Parsons went to Florida and discovered that Hubbard had actually bought three boats. Parsons sued Hubbard who was ordered to give Parsons two of the boats and repay the money he absconded with, which he never did. Then Hubbard married Betty. Then Parsons married Elizabeth Cameron, whom he believed had been conjured by himself and Hubbard during the Babalon Working ritual.

In order to make ends meet later in his life, Parsons found work at North American Aviation Company and later Hughes Aircraft. While at Hughes Aircraft, Parsons was working with Israel to design and build a plant to develop explosives and armaments. He used his security clearance, necessary to work with governments and rockets, to take home confidential documents. He claimed they were old ones he was using to add to his resume, but the FBI started investigating him for spying. This got him fired from Hughes.

Parsons never stopped experimenting with new ideas on his own, and on June 17, 1952, there was an explosion which neighbors a mile away heard. Parsons blew himself up, and died shortly after arriving at the hospital. He was 37 years old. His mother lived nearby, and they had always maintained a very close relationship. She was distraught about the death of her son, and immediately overdosed on sleeping pills and died in her chair.







Parsons legacy included many patents for liquid and solid fuel for rockets. A specimen of one of his solid fuel motors is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In 1972 he was honored by having a crater on the moon name after him. The crater is simply called "Parsons" and it is located, appropriately, on the dark side of the Moon.



Jack Parsons' birth chart


Sources
https://www.bustle.com/p/12-facts-ab...g-life-9377799
https://forgottennewsmakers.com/2010...ist-occultist/
Canter, John – Sex and Rockets, The Occult World of Jack Parsons





Jack Parsons 100

Includes interviews with since deceased friends and associates.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8gQ8G5PdMWA

Jack Parsons 60th Anniversary.mov

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wA2TrzLhhf4

On June 17, 1952, rocket scientist Jack Parsons, a founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and inventor of the solid fuel that would put man on the moon, died in an explosion of still mysterious origins at his home laboratory in a Pasadena garage.

His widow, Marjorie Cameron Parsons (1922-1995), known personally and professionally as Cameron, fled to Mexico after the fatal blast, but returned to California. A talented painter, she became part of the Los Angeles avant-garde art scene, and made a daring appearance in Kenneth Anger's underground film "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome." Her work has been celebrated in major exhibitions in NY, LA, and abroad.



Cameron "Self Portrait - The Black Egg"

Songs for the Witch Woman – Tour of Cameron Artwork

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KCDRbwZxr70

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A Greenland shark, one of the longest-living animals on Earth, was caught near Belize





Researchers tagging tiger sharks off the southern coast of Belize couldn't believe their eyes when they recently reeled in a different kind of fish. It turned out to be a Greenland shark, which is typically found in the Arctic and can live to be over 500 years old.

The team of scientists thought the shark was dead when they finally hauled it to the surface. Unlike the tiger sharks they were after, this particular shark had black, worn-looking skin and pale blue eyes. Devanshi Kasana, a Ph.D. candidate at the Florida International University Predator Ecology and Conservation lab, said the shark looked "really, really old."

"It was just very surprising and confusing," she said. "As soon as it entered our field of vision, we saw a black figure that was getting bigger and bigger. When it came to the surface, none of the crew with all of their combined fishing experience had seen anything like that."

Kasana said the discovery is especially exciting because it suggests that these sharks, which were thought to mainly exist in the Arctic, can be found in the tropics as well.

Published 31st July 2022 by Justin Jones – NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/11148...ught-in-belize

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Packing For Mars

The Movie that Blew the Lid Off The Secret Space Program

You are watching a preview of the original movie titled 'Packing for Mars' (2015). The movie sets out to reveal the truth behind one of the most startling secrets of all time: An elite group is secretly building an exclusive off-world survival colony on Mars. Credible individuals have begun to emerge claiming to have been actual recruits. This movie blows the lid off the secret space program and the reality of Alternative Three. Features Bill Ryan & Kerry Cassidy. Courtesy of and in partnership with Ickonic.

Published 10th September 2022 (23:22)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ba4H4UQabo

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Inside The World’s First Undersea Roundabout

Published 27th July 2022 (9:34)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kVD0hG-_5gQ

Related:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=73WTnRa0d6M

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Space to Ground: Flying Turtles: 09/23/2022





S2G: A new crew arrives, flying turtles, and a harvest of space-grown vittles aboard the International Space Station.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4g8Cq01XbE

ISS veteran Vic Glover sits down with his daughter to talk about an astronaut's unique family life.

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https://twitter.com/Space_Station/st...55823436963841

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Scutum the Shield



With the Moon rising later and later, there’s a great dark-sky window this evening to explore the small constellation Scutum in the south. It’s located just southwest of 3rd-magnitude Lambda Aquilae, which marks Aquila’s tail. Its not a particularly bright constellation, making it a fun target for enthusiasts.

Zooming in, the main “figure” of the Shield is made of four stars: Alpha (α), Beta (β), Zeta (ζ), and Gamma (γ) Scuti. Scutum contains several deep-sky objects, including two Messier targets: M26 and M11, both open clusters. M26 is about 2.7° east-southeast of Alpha Scuti; this 8th-magnitude grouping of stars spans about 15' and mostly looks like a small overdensity of stars. Much more impressive is M11, also called the Wild Duck Cluster.

A scutum was a type of shield used by the soldiers of ancient Rome, superior weaponry at the time.

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Real-Life Video Game



NASA Gears Up To Deflect Asteroid: Key Test Of Planetary Defense

NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target, which it will strike at roughly 14,000 miles per hour (23,000 kph).

To be sure, neither the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, nor the big brother it orbits, called Didymos, pose any threat as the pair loop the Sun, passing some seven million miles from Earth at nearest approach. But the experiment is one NASA has deemed important to carry out before an actual need is discovered.

"This is an exciting time, not only for the agency, but in space history and in the history of humankind quite frankly," Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA told reporters in a briefing Thursday.

If all goes to plan, impact between the car-sized spacecraft, and the 530-foot (160 meters, or two Statues of Liberty) asteroid should take place on September 26 at 7:14pm Eastern Time (2314 GMT), and can be followed on a NASA livestream (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public).

Published 23rd September 2022 by Issam Ahmed – Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-nasa-g...eroid-key.html





Related: Gamers Worldwide Paying Close Attention

Fortnite Collision Asteroid Mini Game Gameplay

As the countdown to the Collision event ticks down in Fortnite we get to warm up the robots cockpits by shooting down some Asteroids with various weapons including a minigun, laser, and also homing missiles. What will happen in the Collision Event, lets find out soon!

Published 4th June 2022 (3:39)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjFPuosfCFo

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U.S. Astronaut + Two Russian Cosmonauts Set to Blast Off to the International Space Station



Rubio, Prokopyev, Petelin


NASA's Francisco "Frank" Rubio and Russia's Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Rubio will become the first U.S. astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on Feb. 24. In response, Western capitals including Washington have hit Moscow with unprecedented sanctions and bilateral ties have sunk to new lows.

However, space has managed to remain an outlier of cooperation between the two countries.

Following Rubio's flight, Russia's only active female cosmonaut Anna Kikina is expected to travel to the orbital station in early October aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon. She will become only the fifth professional woman cosmonaut from Russia or the Soviet Union to fly to space, and the first Russian to fly aboard a spacecraft of SpaceX, the company of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk.

With both flights set to go ahead, Russian cosmonauts and Western astronauts have sought to steer clear of the conflict back on Earth, especially when in orbit together.

Cosmonauts Prokopyev and Petelin plan to play football with NASA astronaut Rubio and others aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Prokopyev said during an online news conference at TASS on Tuesday.

"It just so happened that our crew - all the three of us - are playing football," Prokopyev said. "I think we will have a chance to repeat something of this kind aboard the ISS. I have already played football at the station in 2018, with my colleagues Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Gerst. I think we will be able to find some sort of a ball there."

"Anyway, we have already played tennis, badminton and other sports that are favorite and traditional for our cosmonauts. So, one can certainly do sport in space with pleasure," the cosmonaut added.

Published 21st September 2022 by AFP – Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/...ukraine-a78849


Russia “Highly Likely” To Continue Working At ISS Until 2028 - Roscosmos CEO

BAIKONUR /Kazakhstan/, September 21. /TASS/. The cooperation on the ISS project will depend on the International Space Station’s technical condition, and will highly likely continue until 2028, Roscosmos CEO Yuri Borisov said Wednesday.



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"We plan [to work at the station] through 2024, and then we will continue depending on the ISS’ condition. Highly likely, until 2028," Borisov said during a press conference after the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft’s docking.

According to the Roscosmos CEO, Russia always fulfills its international obligations, and on Wednesday, negotiations with NASA representatives took place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

On July 28, Borisov said during the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the decision on Russia’s withdrawal from the ISS project after 2024 has been made, adding that all obligations before the partners will be fulfilled. On July 29, Borisov explained on Russian TV that the exact date of Russia’s withdrawal from the ISS program will depend on the station’s condition.

Published 21st September 2022 by Tass.com
https://tass.com/science/1511437

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Cat and Custard Pudding

Let's make some pudding in honor of Bururu.

Published 12th August 2022 (8:02)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNvI23qerUo

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Our Star

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https://twitter.com/drkstrong/status...32574257348608

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Random Acts of Kindness

We typically think of superheroes as wearing cool costumes and at least being able to fly. But actually, superheroes are around us every day.

Published 24th June 2022 (12:42)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9SZAg19nR8

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Coda

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQi15xOaNF4