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Inverse.com

When We Find Aliens, They May Breathe Hydrogen - Not Oxygen

Published 9th May 2020



The first time we find evidence of life on a planet orbiting another star (an exoplanet), it is probably going to be by analyzing the gases in its atmosphere. With the number of known Earth-like planets growing, we could soon discover gases in an exoplanet’s atmosphere that are associated with life on Earth.

But what if alien life uses somewhat different chemistry to ours? A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, argues that our best chances of using atmospheres to find evidence of life are to broaden our search from focusing on planets like our own to include those with a hydrogen atmosphere.

Read all about it here: https://www.inverse.com/science/hydr...eathing-aliens

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The Air Force Said This Object Was The Moon. Was It?

Published 10th May 2020

Before Project Blue Book came Project Grudge, an Air Force project its director later admitted was to debunk the UFO phenomenon. One file buried in the Grudge data concerns a cylindrical object photographed above Manhattan in 1950 — by one of New York City's most prestigious photographers (now featured in the Library of Congress).

The photographer, Irving Underhill, was adamant what was in the photo was an object, that wasn't there before or after it was shot.

The Air Force, though, had other ideas. They believed he misidentified the Moon, and forgot he was taking a time-lapse image.

In this video, we'll explore that hypothesis, and show its many issues, including the USAF's statement that the photo happened during sunset (the only time the Moon was in that part of the sky). Underhill's photo, taken at night, was used for a postcard titled "Night Lights from Queensboro Bridge."

In isolation, this may not be a big deal.

But the early 1950s were full of cylindrical UFO sightings, including several made by trained observers noting cylinders traveling — strangely — through the air in an upright position or at an angle.

December 1950 Grudge file (Underhill correspondence): https://ia801301.us.archive.org/view...614319-N-Y.pdf

Underhill photos of object: https://ia801301.us.archive.org/view...ty-NewYork.pdf

Teaticket, MA 1950 cylinder: https://ia601301.us.archive.org/view...icket-Mass.pdf

1967 Newburgh, NY top/cigar: https://ia801301.us.archive.org/view...gh-NewYork.pdf

Other individual two New Mexico and one Delaware cylinder sighting reports unavailable to link — are uploaded in Discord.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R6cNIb9n1Dk

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Glenn Beck's Blaze TV

Episode 22 | Luis Elizondo & Christopher Mellon

Published 10th May 2020

Glenn Beck interviews Chris Mellon and Luis Elizondo of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.

Interview can be viewed here: https://dai.ly/x7tsvdi


Source: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tsvdi

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UFO Classified

Nick Redfern | The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy

Published 10th May 2020



In the final days of December 1980, strange encounters and bizarre incidents occurred in the heart of Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. Based upon their personal encounters, many of the military personnel who were present at the time believed that something extraterrestrial came down in those dark woods. What if, however, there was another explanation for what happened four decades ago?

What if that explanation, if revealed, proved to be even more controversial than the theory that aliens arrived from a faraway world? The ramifications for the field of Ufology would be immense. In his new, sensational book, Nick Redfern reveals that one of the most famous UFO cases of all time was really a series of top secret experiments using holograms, mind-control programs, deception, disinformation, conspiracies and cover-ups. The shocking truth of a forty-year-old mystery is now revealed. And That is what Nick joins Erica to discuss...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NOO4e4v8eeI

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ECETI Skywatch

Published 10th May 2020

From James Gilliland's ECETI Ranch at the Base of Mt. Adams, Located in Beautiful Trout Lake Washington.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pjzz8GQMG0E

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Paul Stonehill Paranormal Research

Russian Military Pilots & Pentagon's UFOs

Published 10th May 2020

In late April of 2020, The Pentagon released unclassified footage showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" captured by Navy aircraft that had circulated in the public for years...Now let’s look at the opinions of Russia’s military pilots about the videos; some of the pilots have held very high ranks in the USSR and modern Russia. I will add my comments, too. I intentionally did no want to present opinions of reporters, journalists, Russian politicians, and other busybodies.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qultwKdl80A

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Mick West

Tim McMillan: The Challenges Of UFO Investigations

Published 10th May 2019

Investigating UFOs presents a number of challenges, many of which are not immediately obvious, but swiftly rear up to impede progress. There are straightforward issues, like military secrecy and people being afraid to talk because of ridicule. But there's also the issue of "UFOs" being things that are so far outside our common experiences that it's difficult to establish a shared baseline for conversations, leading often contentious and frustrating outcomes. Especially on Twitter.

Mick talks to investigative Journalist Tim McMillan about these challenges, and in particular how they apply to the recent Navy UFO cases: FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST.

Notes:

- I talk about the 1910 form listing UAPs at drones, balloons, or aircraft. The actual verbiage is "UAV, Balloons, and other UAS". UAV (Unmanned aerial Vehicle) would be military style drones (planes). UAS probably refers to "Unmanned Aerial Systems" - encompassing civilian style drones (quadcopters)
- I said US Navy Spokesman said something similar, and was talking about airspace incursions. I was probably remembering the quote from NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-them-n1056201

Gradisher said in emails that the larger issue about the three videos is what he called an increase “in the number of military training range incursions by unidentified aerial [phenomena],” and he said all such sightings are investigated.

"Any incursion into our training ranges by any aircraft or phenomena, identified or not identified, is problematic from both a safety and security concern," he said.

While the objects in the three videos in question are designated as unknown, Gradisher said that as inexpensive unmanned aerial systems — commonly called drones — become more prevalent, "sightings of this nature have increased in frequency."

While popular culture may refer to unexplained objects as UFOs, the phrase “unidentified aerial phenomena” was borrowed from the United Kingdom and describes “any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified," Gradisher said.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ncppqq41XRI

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David Whitehead

Richard Dolan The Pentagon Release: Psyop? Or Has E.T. Disclosure Begun?

Published 3rd May 2019

Richard joins David to discuss the pentagon release...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MvSDTXE32Sw

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 11th May 2020 | More Pole Shift News, World-Ships, Weather Alert

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1k8VlWnmqOQ

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Sean Carroll

Lina Necib Ph.D | What & Where The Dark Matter Is

Published 11th May 2020

The past few centuries of scientific progress have displaced humanity from the center of it all: the Earth is not at the middle of the Solar System, the Sun is but one star in a large galaxy, there are trillions of galaxies, and so on. Now we know that we’re not even made of the same stuff as most of the universe; for every amount of ordinary atoms and other known particles, there is five times as much dark matter, some kind of stuff we haven’t identified in laboratory experiments. But we do know a great deal about the behavior of dark matter. I talk with Lina Necib about why we think there’s dark matter, what it might be, and how it’s distributed in the galaxy. The latter question has seen enormous recent progress, especially from high-precision measurements of the distribution of stars in the Milky Way.

Lina Necib received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics at Caltech, and will be an Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT starting in the fall. Her research spans issues in particle physics and astrophysics, especially concerning the nature and distribution of dark matter, as well as techniques for detecting it and constraining its properties.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uou3dsNt12U

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Chandra X-Ray Observatory

A Bending The Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters

Published 11th May 2020

Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters in Abell 2384 collided and then passed through each other.

Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity, and they contain huge amounts of heated gas that glows in X-rays.

The powerful collision in Abell 2384 released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.

This bridge is now being pummeled by particles driven away from a supermassive black hole in one of the clusters.

A new composite image contains X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton, radio data from a telescope in India and optical data from the DSS.

Astronomers consider objects like Abell 2384 to be important for understanding the growth of galaxy clusters.

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

Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. They contain hundreds or thousands of galaxies, vast amounts of multi-million-degree gas that glow in X-rays, and enormous reservoirs of unseen dark matter.

A new image containing different kinds of light reveals the giant structures that can result when two galaxy clusters collide. This view of Abell 2384 has X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, as well as radio data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India and optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey. This new view reveals the effects of a jet shooting away from a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy in one of the clusters. The jet is so powerful that it is bending the shape of the gas bridge, which extends for over 3 million light years and has the mass of about 6 trillion Suns.

Over its more than two decades in space, Chandra has often observed cavities in hot gas created by jets in the centers of galaxy clusters, such as the Perseus cluster, MS 0735 and the Ophiuchus Cluster. However, Abell 2384 offers a rare case of such an interaction occurring in the outer region of a cluster. It is also unusual that the supermassive black hole driving the jet is not in the largest galaxy located in the center of the cluster. Astronomers consider objects like Abell 2384 to be important for understanding the growth of galaxy clusters.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0X0ivHmHFaA

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Fraser Cain

Dancing, Flaring Supermassive Black Holes Prove Stephen Hawking's Theory

Published 11th May 2020

The Moon orbits around the Earth. The Earth orbits around the Sun. And out in the distant Universe, astronomers have found a system that takes this logical progression to its most extreme. There’s a system where a supermassive black hole with millions of times the mass of the Sun orbits another black hole with billions of times the mass of the Sun.

How astronomers discovered this incredible interaction took careful observations, imagination, and the hard work of the Spitzer Space Telescope, taken during its final years of operation.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=El4StwNM8E0

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 12th May 2020 | Red Dwarf Superflare, Plasma Kink, US Climate Report

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kiGImJ8M5ic

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Volcano Time-Lapse

Meteor | Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico

Recorded & Published 11th May 2020



@ the Tianguismanalco camera, a meteor was observed at 21:47 CDT.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zELC0Y68Adk

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News.MIT.edu

To Catch An Interstellar Visitor, Use A Solar-Powered Space Slingshot

Published 6th May 2020



In 2017, a telescope in Hawaii detected our first celestial visitor from another solar system — a big deal, since we haven’t quite figured out how to visit them ourselves yet. ‘Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped interstellar object (ISO) whose name roughly translates to “first distant messenger” in Hawaiian, will certainly not be the last visitor to pass through. If the story of our universe is written in the stars, even a tiny fragment traveling a long way for a short visit provides a tremendous opportunity for scientific discovery. But in order to get close enough to read the next piece of the story that wanders onto our doorstep, we will have to catch it first.

To closely observe an ISO hurtling through space, time is of the essence. Richard Linares, an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) at MIT, developed a concept for a “dynamic orbital slingshot for rendezvous with interstellar objects.” He outlined his idea in a research proposal that was recently selected as a Phase 1 study in the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which “funds innovative aerospace concepts that could enable and transform future missions.”

Read all about it here: https://news.mit.edu/2020/catch-inte...slingshot-0506

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Phys.org

New Evidence Shows Giant Meteorite Impacts Formed Parts Of The Moon's Crust

Published11th May 2020



New research published today in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction may have also contributed to the formation of the Moon's surface.

A group of international scientists led by the Royal Ontario Museum has discovered that the formation of ancient rocks on the Moon may be directly linked to large-scale meteorite impacts.

The scientists conducted new research of a unique rock collected by NASA astronauts during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. They found it contains mineralogical evidence that it formed at incredibly high temperatures (in excess of 2300 °C/ 4300 °F) that can only be achieved by the melting of the outer layer of a planet in a large impact event.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-eviden...acts-moon.html

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Newly Reprocessed Images Of Europa Make The Icy Moon Even More Interesting

Published 12th May 2020



Jupiter's moon Europa is the smoothest object in the Solar System. There are no mountains, very few craters, and no valleys. It's tallest features are isolated massifs up to 500 meters (1640 ft) tall.

But its surface is still of great interest, both visually and from a science perspective. And with a future mission to Europa in the works—possibly with a lander—a detailed knowledge of the surface is essential. It may have surface features called penitentes, that could be up to 15 meters (49 t) tall, posing a serious hazard for any lander.

Our best images of Europa are from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which visited Jupiter and its moons from December 1995 to September 2003. Now NASA scientists are revisiting some of those image, and reprocessing them to build a better picture of the moon's surface.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-newly-...uropa-icy.html

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A Multilayered Haze System On Saturn's Hexagon

Published 11th May 2020



A rich variety of meteorological phenomena takes place in the extensive hydrogen atmosphere of Saturn, a world about 10 times the size of the Earth. They help us to better understand similar features in the Earth's atmosphere. Among Saturn's atmospheric phenomena is the well-known "hexagon," an amazing wave structure that surrounds the planet's polar region.

Discovered in 1980 by NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, it has been observed without interruption since then, despite the planet's long, strong cycle of seasons. A fast, narrow jet stream flows inside this gigantic planetary wave where winds reach maximum speeds of about 400 km/h. Yet, strangely enough, the wave itself remains almost static; in other words, it barely shifts with respect to the planet's rotation. All these properties mean that the "hexagon" is a highly attractive phenomenon for meteorologists and planet atmosphere researchers.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-multil...n-hexagon.html

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Nemesis Maturity

Jupiter/Pluto Conjunction

Published 12th May 2020

This year’s Jupiter-Pluto alignment may be the best for centuries to come.
2020 is exceptional for Jupiter and Pluto. These two worlds are having a triple conjunction. They’ll come together, move apart, and come together again three times in 2020. The first conjunction took place on April 5. The second one will come on June 30, and the final one on November 12.

Jupiter-Pluto and Mythology: Heaven Meets Hell?
In Roman mythology, Jupiter (Zeus to the ancient Greeks), is the god of all gods—the ruler of the sky and thunder. In mythology, Pluto (or Hades, to the Greeks) was the god of the underworld. During a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction (meetup), heaven and hell essentially come together.

Plagues, Pandemics & Jupiter-Pluto Conjunctions in History
While not every meetup is quite this eventful, some of history’s most devastating plagues indeed correlated with Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions.

The Jupiter/Pluto conjunctions of 2020 are just beginning. A Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is coming in late December 2020. This meet up of Jupiter and Saturn will be their closest conjunction since 1623.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FdKVRG74Xbk

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Galileo's Telescope

Measuring The Size Of The Earth : Eratosthenes

Published 3rd May 2020

First known measurement of the circumference of the earth. By Eratosthenes.

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

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Measuring The Size Of The Earth : Al-Biruni

Published 12th May 2020

Derivation of Al-Biruni's method for measuring the radius of the earth.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5pGUHzEGg

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PBS SpaceTime

How Luminiferous Aether Led To Relativity

Published 11th May 2020

As the 19th century came to a close, physicists were feeling pretty satisfied with the state of their science. The great edifice of physical theory seemed complete. A few minor experiments remained to verify everything. Little did those physicists know that one of those experiments would bring the entire structure crashing down paving the way for the physics revolution of the 20th century.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M3GQM7tuq2w

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NASA Goddard

NASA’s NICER Reveals First Ever Pulsar Surface Map

Published 12th May 2020



Scientists have reached a new frontier in our understanding of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to observations from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Data from this X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station has produced the first precise and dependable measurements of both a pulsar’s size and its mass.

The pulsar in question, J0030+0451 (J0030 for short), is a solitary pulsar that lies 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While measuring the pulsar's heft and proportions, NICER revealed that the shapes and locations of million-degree hot spots on the pulsar’s surface are much stranger than generally thought.

Using NICER observations from July 2017 to December 2018, two groups of scientists mapped J0030’s hot spots using independent methods and converged on nearly identical results for its mass and size. One team, led by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, determined the pulsar is around 1.3 times the Sun’s mass, 15.8 miles (25.4 kilometers) across and has two hot spots — one small and circular, the other long and crescent-shaped. A second team found J0030 is about 1.4 times the Sun’s mass, about 16.2 miles (26 kilometers) wide and has two or three oval-shaped hot spots. All spots in all models are in the pulsar’s southern hemisphere — unlike textbook images where the spots lie on opposite sides other at each magnetic poles.

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...st-surface-map

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