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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 2nd September 2020 | Galactic Sheet, Ocean Mystery, Carrington In the South

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PBLwtMb7oiw

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ParallaxNick

Everyone, It Seems, Hates Proxima b. Even Proxima c

Published 30th August 2020

There's a reason I have waited so long to return to my favourite exoplanet. The news has been all-but utterly bleak. Still, I hold on to rays of hope, however physically impossible that metaphor may be.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6SebXjywI

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History Of The Earth

What Would The Earth Have Been Like Without Life?

Published 2nd September 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbJGum0sWYE

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EarthSky.org

A Breakthrough In The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Published 2nd September 2020



Astronomers at the University of Manchester in the UK said today (September 2, 2020) that they’ve made an analytical breakthrough in the ability to seek and perhaps someday find intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Milky Way galaxy. They said this breakthrough is a “milestone” that could “significantly improve” our chances of finding extraterrestrial intelligence by dramatically expanding the number of stars available for searching. They said that, with their new analytical technique, they’ve increased the number of stars that can be analyzed by more than 200 times and have placed the best limits ever on the prevalence of artificial radio transmitters, dubbed techno-signatures, in the Milky Way.

Source Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09756.pdf

Read all about it here: https://earthsky.org/space/analytica...arch-200-times

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Podcast UFO



Tom Warner | 51st Anniversary Of The Berkshire UFO Encounter

Streamed & Published 1st September 2020

If you watched NETFLIX Unsolved Mysteries, Episode 5 Berkshires UFO, then you saw our guest, Tom Warner and heard him tell part of his unheard of encounter. Tom tells what happened 51 years ago that night, September 1, 1969, in great detail, and how it effected his life, the aftermath and more.

BIO: Tom Warner was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and raised at the historic 1835 Warner Homestead, which is included in the Historic Homes and Institutions of Berkshire County Massachusetts. He is a historian, artist, poet and the Author ‘Beyond The Stars’ which is an autobiography of Tom Warner

Tom is a self-taught watercolor artist and was named to the
American Gallery Greatest American Painters, winner of James Weldon Johnson Literary Foundation Legacy Award for stellar contributions to Literature and the Arts. His works are in the James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, Fisk University and the Roswell UFO Museum.

Tom was inducted in the Great Barrington Historical Society Museum Berkshire UFO and recently featured in NETFLIX, Unsolved Mysteries, Ep. 5, ‘Berkshires UFO’

www.tomwarnerwatercolors.com

www.tomwarnerbeyondthestars.com

Show notes: https://podcastufo.com/show-notes/-tom-warner/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Tzt9D5DvRU

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Destination Declassified

School Children's Eerie Reports & Drawings of UFOs | The Unearthly Broadhaven Triangle Incident

Published 28th August 2020





This is the story or stories of what happened in Pembrokeshire in 1977 and how it did nothing but further fuel the UFO craze...

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

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Preston Dennett

Alien Zoos

Published 5th September 2020



ETs have been studying our planet for a very long time. They seem to be interested in all things Earth. They have taken humans onboard their craft. They have collected a wide variety of plants. And they are also taking animals. In fact, there are several cases on record in which experiencers have seen collections of live animals onboard UFOs. This video is not about animal mutilations; it's about something much more bizarre. As strange as it sounds, some abductees report being taken to visit alien zoos, containing animals from Earth, and also animals from other planets. Some UFOs, it seems, are very much like "Noah's Ark," preserving a wide variety of species.

Some of these cases have a very high level of strangeness, including chimera-like creatures from ancient mythology, or even in a few cases, dinosaur-like creatures.

The ETs' interest in animals is also betrayed by the many cases in which UFOs and extraterrestrials have been caught taking animals of all kinds. Farm animals seem to be a primary target, but a wide variety of animals have been abducted into UFOs.

In a few cases, ETs seem to be particularly interested in our closest animal companions, dogs and cats. One case contains a shocking revelation explaining why they have such a strong interest in our pets.

Alien zoos may sound strange, but there are too many cases to ignore. Something very strange is happening here.

If you'd like to learn more about Alien Zoos, please check out the book, "Not from Here: Volume One," now available here

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u19vMBjTAK8

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Isaac Arthur

Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Published 3rd September 2020

Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee peril. What would such cultures be like?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q4b7VZs6Uo

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The San Diego Sphere

Published 5th September 2020

On September 10th, 2014, Rick Ybarra pulled into his driveway near San Diego, CA around 6:45pm when he noticed a sphere in the sky. A retired Department of Defense therapist who worked at Naval Base San Diego and Submarine Base Point Loma, we recently spoke to him about the sighting.

The sphere had four meaningful observables, which were photographed in detail and captured on video:

*Stop/start movement
*Failure to move with the wind
*Metallic appearance
*Seemingly independent moving antennae-like appendages

It was 4-6 feet in size and 400 feet above the ground — Ybarra states he first thought it was a balloon, but slowly moved away from the hypothesis when it failed to move with the wind, and had a distinct metallic shell reflecting the twilight to the west. Ybarra showed the footage to colleagues in his chain of command — they had no explanation.

We sifted through historical archives and found a nearly identical craft in Brazilian Air Force files from 1968.

Days after his 2014 sighting, Ybarra says he felt an "urge" to go outside early in the morning when he noticed a fast-moving, spherical object on the horizon.

0:00 Intro
2:04 The photos
2:30 The wind
3:30 The antennae
4:35 The video
5:00 The neighbor
5:44 Resume
7:01 Brazilian sphere
8:57 Conclusion

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5bUSxQwt4x0

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 3rd - 6th September 2020

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Veritas TV



Ben Davidson Of Suspicious 0bservers : Space Weather News, The Carrington Event & The Coming Ice Age

Published 4th September 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dcfv1Cjx1Uc

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Space Weather Woman Tamitha Skov



Space Weather News | Two Snake-Like Filaments & A Solar Storm

Published 2nd September 2020

This week our Sun shows more signs of the new solar cycle. Two big filaments have rotated into Earth-view and one has erupted as a solar storm! That we are seeing filaments on the Sun again is a welcome reminder that activity is ramping up. Even though the first filament launched to the East of Earth, we are watching the second filament closely because it is passing through the Earth-strike zone now and if it launches over the next couple of days, it could be an Earth-directed solar storm. Meanwhile, we are currently feeling the effects of some fast solar wind that has bumped us to storm levels multiple times and brought aurora down to mid-latitudes sporadically. Expect these conditions to continue over the next day or so before things return to quiet conditions. Learn the details of the ongoing solar storm as well as the filaments on the Sun, see how they could affect you, and find out what else our Sun has in store this week.

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

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Geoengineering Watch



Global Alert News | Episode 264



Published 29th August 2020

Hurricane Laura was manipulated and steered, the geoengineers are deciding who is impacted by weather cataclysms, and who isn’t. Droughts, fires, floods, all are being heavily influenced by the ongoing climate engineering operations. Populations all over the globe are now facing changes and challenges that were formerly unimaginable to most. What agendas and objectives are being carried out by those who control the levers of power from behind the curtain? Will rapidly deteriorating societal circumstances finally compel populations to objectively investigate frontline facts?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...t-29-2020-264/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=auWX0jXyQaI

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Global Alert News | Episode 265



Published 5th September 2020

From 90 degrees to snow in less than a day is predicted for Denver, Colorado. What’s the forecast in your area?
While all eyes are focused on the consequences of the pandemic, the geoengineers are pushing the climate system to extremes that are far past the breaking point. Denver Colorado is scheduled to be 90 plus degrees on Monday with snow coming on Tuesday. The coming scenario in Denver will not be from the processes of nature, it will be the result of massive climate engineering operations. The US West will continue to be baked in record high temperatures with unprecedented wildfires, while the weather makers orchestrate winter in other parts of the country. How are the actions of the geoengineers connected to the CV-19 scenario?

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...er-5-2020-265/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5nHE3qR9OrI

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Phys.org

Has Earth's Oxygen Rusted The Moon For Billions Of Years?

Published 4th September 2020



To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study published today in Science Advances led by Shuai Li, assistant researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

Iron is highly reactive with oxygen—forming reddish rust commonly seen on Earth. The lunar surface and interior, however, are virtually devoid of oxygen, so pristine metallic iron is prevalent on the Moon and highly oxidized iron has not been confirmed in samples returned from the Apollo missions. In addition, hydrogen in solar wind blasts the lunar surface, which acts in opposition to oxidation. So, the presence of highly oxidized iron-bearing minerals, such as hematite, on the Moon is an unexpected discovery.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-earth-...-billions.html

Source Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eaba1940

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Geologic Age Of Finsen Crater On Far Side Of The Moon Found To Be 3.5 Billion Years

Published 2nd September 2020



The absolute model age (AMA), or geologic age of Finsen crater on the moon's far side is determined to be about 3.5 billion years (Ga) based on crater counting method, according to a study published in Icarus.

The study was conducted by a research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Based on this model age, the regolith growth rate at the Chang'e-4 landing site and the crater degradation rate within Finsen crater have also been estimated.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-geolog...ater-side.html

Source Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...000?via%3Dihub

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Insane Curiosity

Titan: Saturn's Largest Moon

Published 5th September 2020

As with many objects in outer space, it's important to not just understand what it is, but how it was discovered from here on Earth.

Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was the one to find TItan in 1655. Huygens was inspired by after Galileo found the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610. While also being impressed with how much Galileo improved telescopes as a whole. So thus with the help of his brother he built his own telescopes, and eventually found TItan as a result. It was the sixth moon ever discovered, after Earth's Moon and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. So quite an achievement in its own right, and again, one that was found via homemade telescope.

That's a very special story if you think about it. Because this is a tale of astronomers being inspired by others that came before them (in this case Galileo) and wanting to mimic the success of those that inspired them...and succeeding. And they did it with telescopes that pale in comparison to the ones that we have now, and yet they did it. Inspiring indeed.

Now, as for the naming of the moon, it was first called Saturni Luna, which if you can't tell was basically "Saturn's Moon" in Latin. While the name was technically official for a while, even being put into a book of names about the objects in the sky, things got a bit convoluted as more moons got found around Saturn. Why? Because instead of names, they did numbers, with each moon being named "Saturn 1" and so on and so forth. Which on one hand makes sense because it seems easier to number things than name then. But eventually that had a bit of a problem because Saturn's moons started to get discovered in greater numbers. In fact, more moons of Saturn have been discovered within the last few years bringing its total to 82, and thus numbering them would've been hard for a whole host of reasons. So, names were brought back into the equations...so to speak.

The name Titan, and the names of all seven satellites of Saturn then known, came from John Herschel. He suggested the names of the mythological Titans, the brothers and sisters of Cronus, the Greek name of Saturn. In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were then dethroned by Zeus after prophecy foretold of Zeus kil*ing Cronus. They remained in the world, and many other stories from video games to Disney movies have shown them in a feud with the gods.
Thus, the name stuck, and the rest is history. Not surprisingly, the solar system as a whole has names dedicated to not just the Greek and Roman pantheons, but to others as well. Which if we're being honest, paints a much more interesting picture than just giving them numbers.

Titan’s internal structure isn’t entirely known, which isn't too much of a stretch when you think about our attempts to study it, but one model based on data from the Cassini-Huygens mission suggests Titan has five primary layers. The innermost layer is a core of rock about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) in diameter. Around that core is a shell of water ice—a special type called ice-VI that is only found at extremely high-pressures. Around that is a layer of salty liquid water, on top of which sits an outer crust of water ice. As for the surface layer, well that is coated with organic molecules that have rained or otherwise settled out of the atmosphere in the form of sands and liquids.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GaKefKW-5lk

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Io: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon

Published 6th September 2020

In many ways, Io is one of the more popular moons of Jupiter. It's been referenced many a time as we'll note later. But how did we learn about this very special moon?
The first reported observation of Io was made by Galileo Galilei on 7 January 1610 using a 20x-power, refracting telescope at the University of Padua. However, in that observation, Galileo could not separate Io and Europa due to the low power of his telescope, so the two were recorded as a single point of light. Io and Europa were seen for the first time as separate bodies during Galileo's observations of the Jovian system the following day, January 8th, 1610 ( this is used as the discovery date for Io by the IAU).

The discovery of Io and the other Galilean satellites of Jupiter was published in Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610. In his Mundus Jovialis, published in 1614, Simon Marius claimed to have discovered Io and the other moons of Jupiter in 1609, one week before Galileo's discovery. Galileo doubted this claim and dismissed the work of Marius as plagiarism. Regardless, Marius's first recorded observation came from 29 December 1609 in the Julian calendar, which equates to January 8th, 1610 in the Gregorian calendar, which Galileo used. Given that Galileo published his work before Marius, Galileo is credited with the discovery.
But the end of the "discovery" did not end there. Because for basically 250 years various astronomers tried to learn more about Io. But because of its place in space all they could usually see was a ball of light. It would take a while for them to start to parse out the details of the moon.

Improved telescope technology in the late 19th and 20th centuries allowed astronomers to resolve (that is, see as distinct objects) large-scale surface features on Io. In the 1890s, Edward E. Barnard was the first to observe variations in Io's brightness between its equatorial and polar regions, correctly determining that this was due to differences in color and albedo between the two regions and not due to Io being egg-shaped, as proposed at the time by fellow astronomer William Pickering, or two separate objects, as initially proposed by Barnard. Later telescopic observations confirmed Io's distinct reddish-brown polar regions and yellow-white equatorial band.

Telescopic observations in the mid-20th century began to hint at Io's unusual nature. Spectroscopic observations suggested that Io's surface was devoid of water ice (a substance found to be plentiful on the other Galilean satellites).
So as you can see, this wasn't just a discovery of trying to find the moon, but to try and understand what it was and what it was like in regards to its very nature. Which would be further expanded upon in the future via attempts to explore the moon with probes and satellites.

In the late 1960s, a concept known as the Planetary Grand Tour was developed in the United States by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It would allow a single spacecraft to travel past the asteroid belt and onto each of the outer planets, including Jupiter, if the mission was launched in 1976 or 1977. However, there was uncertainty over whether a spacecraft could survive passage through the asteroid belt, where micrometeoroids could cause it physical damage, or the intense Jovian magnetosphere, where charged particles could harm sensitive electronics.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V6wfZX0GUAs

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SEA

Moons Beyond Our Solar System

Published 6th September 2020

Most of the planets in the Solar System have moons. We have discovered almost 200 in our Solar System alone, and so we expect that the Milky Way is teeming with moons- perhaps more moons than planets and stars. With this many, it greatly increases the number of worlds in the galaxy which could support life- and so we are keen to find them. However, they are so distant and dark that detecting extrasolar moons, or "exomoons", is a tremendous challenge.

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

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Scott Manley

How High Do You Have To Be To See The Curvature of The Earth?

Published 6th September 2020

It's well understood that from the surface of the Earth the curvature of the planet is not readily visible, but, as you travel higher the shape of the world becomes apparent to a casual glance. So I wanted to actually quantify this in an visual form using Youtube's 360 Video feature, it's obviously best experienced through a VR headset, or a 'Cardboard' style viewer, but you can also use the web browser if you just want to appreciate the visuals.

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

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SOTT Media

August 2020: Earth Changes Summary

Published 4th September 2020

Last month, more than 1.5 million acres burned in 9 days in California, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people. The fires were caused by unusual intense 'dry-lightning storms', which focused on the San Francisco Bay area in a short time period - an event comprising around 11 percent of the average annual lightning activity for the entire state...

No, it's not 'man-made global warming', as the media claims, nor is it 'elite-made weather', as alternative media claims. The climate globally is 'going wonky' in part because the planet's very atmosphere is changing.

Extreme weather has only worsened the exodus of people from California over the last decade. About five million Californians have left the state for a net population loss of more than one million people. Colorado was also hit last month by the largest wildfire in the state's history. The Pine Gulch fire has burned 139,006 acres and left ranchers with little-to-no grazing for cattle and worried about long-term impacts.

In Algeria, over 1,200 fires have devoured almost 9,000 hectares of forests. The North African country has experienced more frequent forest fires in recent years but the causes remain unclear. Negligence? Coal-traffickers? Increased lightning strikes? Who knows, but the fact is something unusual is going on there too.

Sheets of rain, typically resulting heavy flooding, landslides and huge hailstones continued destroying houses, basic infrastructure and crops around the world in August, impacting the lives of dozens of millions of people. In South Asia alone, an estimated 17.5 million people suffered the consequences of record-breaking monsoon floods. Nearly 700 died and thousands have been displaced. China, Bangladesh and India continue to be the most affected.

South Korea has suffered from unusually heavy downpours for over 2 months now, marking the country's longest and worst-ever monsoon season. Now, the strongest typhoon of the year is on its way to the Korean peninsula, so the deluge is unlikely to abate anytime soon.

Snow in Australia, southern Brazil and South Africa is normal this time of year - it's still winter there (barely), but what are we to make of August snowfalls in Yunnan, China; Dagestan, Russia; the Alps and Pyrenees in Europe? A foretaste perhaps of a cold northern winter to come.

Given the amount of water falling out of the sky the world over, if the unprecedented slowdown in the North Atlantic Gulf Stream holds, we may soon be entering an extended winter.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1VEEk7lV1i4

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Lowell Observatory



What's In The Sky 1st -14th September 2020?

Published 5th September 2020

Highlights for September 1-14 include Jupiter and Saturn in the sky most of the night, with Mars rising late in the evening, and Venus in the wee hours of the morning. We also look at the globular star cluster M15 in Pegasus and the large galaxy M33 in Triangulum.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VuGJvZS6vVo

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Sagas In The Sky | Perseus & Andromeda

Published 5th September 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the first part of the story of Andromeda and Perseus.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RQSudO90F2Y

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Caltech Astronomy



Michael Zhang | Astronomical Discoveries Of The Ancient Greeks

Published 5th September 2020

Far surpassing all other ancient civilizations, the Greeks used the scientific method to discover Earth's shape, measure its circumference, calculate the size and distance of the Moon, and debate whether Earth orbits the Sun. Timestamps, links and Q&A panel questions are included below.

Welcome & Announcements: 00:00
What's up in the sky right now?: 04:05
Lecture: 10:21
Q&A Panel Introductions: 44:01
Why were the ancient Greeks so intelligent? 51:00
What about discoveries by ancient Indian astronomers? 55:07
Were there any noteworthy ancient Roman astronomers? 58:55
Which came first: supermassive black holes or galaxies? 1:01:02
How massive is the accretion disk around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole? 1:05:25
When two black holes merge, is there energy given off in electromagnetic waves? 1:08:00
What are the different formation mechanisms for black holes? 1:12:27
Why do researchers look for helium in the atmospheres of exoplanets? 1:22:36
How does the gas around a galaxy affect its evolution? 1:28:34
Is the total energy of the universe constant or variable? 1:32:52
Did ancient Sumerians make significant astronomical discoveries? 1:39:01
What do we know about our Milky Way's supermassive black hole? 1:42:42
What x-ray telescopes are there? 1:45:48
Why are there x-ray telescopes at all? 1:48:55
What inspired you to study astronomy? 1:53:10
Closing remarks: 2:08:08

Title: The Exceptional Astronomical Discoveries of the Ancient Greeks
Abstract: In 800 BC, the Greeks were eking out an existence in impoverished city states and infertile fields, the illiterate remnants of an apocalypse that destroyed their civilization 400 years prior. They could not have imagined that they would rise from the ashes to become the premier civilization of the Mediterranean, spreading their new culture from Spain to India. Greek innovations in politics, philosophy, and art would form the foundation of Western civilization. Perhaps the most impactful Greek contributions were in science. Far surpassing all other ancient civilizations, the Greeks used the scientific method to discover Earth's shape, measure its circumference, calculate the size and distance of the Moon, and debate whether Earth orbits the Sun. I will tell the story of this remarkable civilization, discuss how they learned about the cosmos, and summarize the pivotal role their achievements played in kickstarting the Scientific Revolution and ushering in modernity.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMVQX2gH5Gs

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 7th September 2020 | Sun, Weather, Quakes, Harvard Nova Battle - Round 2

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pIbzYB8J06U