Up At The Ranch And Beyond

[Bluegreen]

Capricorn Solstice December 21st 2024





Pam talks about the Capricorn Solstice and its importance in setting up the zeitgeist for the next three months, and makes interesting connections with the December 2020 (vaccine rollout) solstice and the one upcoming.

Published 10th December 2024 (29:21)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7jppvGhTY8M

[Bluegreen]

Pre-Egyptian Underground Hydraulic Technology at the Osireion





I found these interviews with Knights Templar Grand Master Timothy Hogan posted by RD and norman to be most interesting, and am looking into some of the issues discussed.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1645879
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1646308

The Osirion, a monumental ancient structure in Abydos, approximately 350 miles south of the Great Pyramid of Giza, remains a subject of profound mystery and debate. Its architectural sophistication and unique characteristics have led some to speculate that it might be the product of a much older, advanced ancient civilization possessing technology far beyond what is traditionally attributed to the Egyptians of the Pharaonic era.

The entire structure is closed to visitors, but you can look down on it from the nearby Seti's temple.

Published 24th June 2024 (11:03)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLwsCDqZ7Hc

[Bluegreen]

All I want for Christmas is ... help getting this song out of my head

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=e6LQz0irkpk

The holidays are upon us. 'Tis the season for chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose — and getting songs like Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" hopelessly stuck in our heads.

But don't worry. Help is at hand.

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track designed specifically to squash earworms — a song on repeat circling around and around in your brain that can't easily be shaken off. Around 90% of people report this problem at least once a week, according to a 2011 study in the journal Psychology of Music.

"One really effective way of blocking out earworms is to listen to something else," said Kelly Jakubowski, an associate professor of music psychology at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

But if the replacement tune is equally memorable, it might just bring on another pesky earworm. That's why the Earworm Eraser sounds like someone who can't make up their mind what to listen to: Every few seconds, it switches between fast and slow tempi, while also changing time signatures and musical styles, which range from electronica to classical.

The Earworm Eraser has gotten more than 100,000 hits on YouTube since it launched last year. But the tool isn't foolproof. Some people in the YouTube comments section say it doesn't work for them.

However, most say it does the trick.

Published 29th November 2024 by Chloe Veltman – NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/27/nx-s1...hristmas-songs

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Said to be the most viewed video on youtube.

Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs

15.3B views

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

So annoying! How to get rid of it.




The Earworm Eraser

It’s impossible to get catchy songs out of your head. That’s why we brought together music psychologist Dr. Kelly Jakubowski and audio engineers to create the Earworm Eraser – a scientifically-engineered track designed to get rid of earworms for good.The Earworm Eraser audio track works by incorporating scientific principles of music and the brain to disrupt the neural patterns that keep a catchy tune stuck in one's head. The track features a series of audio patterns and rhythmic structures that are carefully designed to break the loop of the song in the listener's mind.

(0:42)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvDl3kL42uU

[Bluegreen]

UFOs – Audio

Aircraft radio traffic reporting UFOs over Oregon coast

Audio recordings of radio traffic between multiple aircraft pilots who reported UFOs over the Oregon coast.

The pilot of a Pilatus PC12 reported they had an object on TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, an airborne system that helps prevent mid-air collisions between aircraft). Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZSE ARTCC) located in Seattle advised the crew to maneuver as necessary. Recorded on December 8, 2024 at 0400z-0500z or 8pm-9pm PST over the skies of Oregon.

Published 11th December 2024 (14:21)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N_E6oA8MTWo

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
UFOs – Audio

Aircraft radio traffic reporting UFOs over Oregon coast

Audio recordings of radio traffic between multiple aircraft pilots who reported UFOs over the Oregon coast.

The pilot of a Pilatus PC12 reported they had an object on TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, an airborne system that helps prevent mid-air collisions between aircraft). Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZSE ARTCC) located in Seattle advised the crew to maneuver as necessary. Recorded on December 8, 2024 at 0400z-0500z or 8pm-9pm PST over the skies of Oregon.

Published 11th December 2024 (14:21)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N_E6oA8MTWo

Hi BG. This is really interesting, and all those voices sound credible.

Special mention, the man talking from Alaska Airlines flight 1100 takes the cake for his cool and almost dismissive tone. And built-in brevity. When reading back controller’s final instructions to contact Portland Approach Control on frequency 118.3, confidence makes me think he’s a high time Pilot in Command, and might get in the radio for something special even if he was Pilot-Flying for this flight/leg. “Eighteen point one, uh, hope we all figure that out, Alaska eleven hundred.”

The Medevac pilot said he’d send vid caught by his medical crew in the cabin, to the controller who requested. I haven’t looked at the links in the description, but intend to do so or also check YouTube videos.

My “really interesting” assessment is partly about what the heck were the show-offs thinking? I guess that they can parse human radio comms and knew they had his (Medevac pilot’s) attention, but what’s up with those wacky maneuvers? All I can think of, is these are just kids having fun at our expense. Super-advanced, for sure, but I think that kids are a universal thing. Even clones must start out as kids, right? Hmm, unless complex biology, or whatever they’re made of, can be 3-D printed or whatever. Oof.

Edit to add, same audio, still up at another channel:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=e9ppdVOoNqk

[Johnnycomelately]

‘Tis the Season, the season for year’s reviews. Here’s a half hour compilation of clips from this chan’s 2-3 minute usual near-daily comps of fun and funny stuff from 2024.

Best Of The Internet (2024)

Daily Dose Of Internet
19.6m subscribers

Near 900k views Dec 14, 2024

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lC9emrW0F2o

[Bluegreen]

Geminid Meteor Shower





Astrophotographers around the world stayed up late for the Dec 2024 Geminids.

https://x.com/dfuji1/status/1867703775886184464


(0:03)

https://x.com/dfuji1/status/1867610582926659962


(1:12)

https://x.com/EricTheSpaceCat/status...75238764572904

[Bluegreen]

The Sky To-Nite

Monday, Dec. 16 - Bright Moon between the Twins (all night)


www.space.com

Look low in the eastern sky after dusk on Monday, Dec. 16 to see the bright, waning gibbous moon gleaming just to the right (or celestial southwest) of Gemini’s brightest stars. Golden Pollux and the brighter, whiter double star Castor above it should still be visible against the moon’s glare.


Tuesday, Dec. 17 - Moon Moves toward Mars (all night)



On Tuesday evening, Dec. 17, the bright, 90%-illuminated moon will shine a short distance above (or celestial WNW of) the prominent reddish dot of Mars. The moon and the reddish planet will be close enough to share the view in binoculars (orange circle), which will also show the widely scattered stars of the Beehive Cluster below Mars.


Wednesday, Dec. 18 - Watch Algol Brighten (starting at 6:47 pm EST)



The star Algol in the constellation of Perseus represents the glowing eye of Medusa from Greek mythology. Also designated Beta Persei, it is among the most accessible variable stars for skywatchers. During a ten-hour period that repeats like clockwork every 2 days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes, Algol dims noticeably and re-brightens by about a third.

[Bluegreen]

Space to Ground: A Wooden Satellite



NASA's S2G is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Published 13th December 2024 (3:58)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L2IlCYLcsAI

Views Of Starship Flight 6 From The International Space Station

While orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth, external cameras aboard the International Space Station captured the sixth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship after liftoff at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Nov. 19. For Artemis III, the first crewed return to the Moon in over 50 years, NASA is working with SpaceX to develop Starship as a lunar lander.

Published 3rd December 2024 (2:55 - No sound)

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

[Bluegreen]

Space Rock | Nina Hagen

German singer Nina Hagen ("The Godmother of Punk") filed a report with UFOINFO.com of a sighting she had in Malibu Beach, California.

In 1981, I was four and a half months pregnant with my first child. After dinner with my mom and three friends, everybody went to bed in their own bedrooms. The next thing I remember: I wake up! I go straight toward the window and open the curtain, I don't know why. And there "it" was. A most amazing lightship hovering right in front and about four or five meters above me.

I felt extreme bliss. I had one thought: God, am I happy! I stared into the light of the round shaped craft. The light showed itself in different spectrum-colors. I saw yellow and felt a very intelligent, caring love. Then came green: same delight, but with another kind of loving energy. Then came all the other colors, blue, turquoise, orange, red ... in the end came WHITE.

After that, I could look inside. It looked like a modern office, like a cool little recording studio. There were three people in it. One was a female (don't ask me how or why I knew) and the other two were males. To me, they looked human. They never looked at me, they were busy doing/talking amongst themselves. A most outstanding experience was that the different spectrum-colors all had a different loving energy, beyond words or description.

She wrote a song about it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M22fE0WEjXM

She did it her way.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YP3Uu9Rt6Gc

[Bluegreen]

Study Uncovers Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disk





A new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, has revealed new insights into the sophisticated techniques used to craft the Nebra Sky Disk.

The Nebra Sky Disk is a 3,600-year-old artefact first discovered in 1999 on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in Germany. The discovery was made by Henry Westphal and Mario Renner while they were treasure-hunting illegally with a metal detector.

At the time, the pair found the disc alongside two bronze swords, axes, a chisel, and fragments of spiral armbands, which they sold onto a private dealer. The disc was finally recovered during a police-led sting operation, which is now on display in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

In February 2003 CE, they tried selling the disk to an antiquities collector in Switzerland for $400,000. However, the 'collector' was actually working for the Swiss police as part of a 'sting' operation to trap the group, which played out in the basement bar of the Hilton hotel in Basel. The group were subsequently arrested and the disk was recovered..."

The disc features a blue-green patina, adorned with gold inlays representing what is believed to be the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, including the Sun or a full moon, a crescent moon, and star clusters.

Many researchers believe it is the oldest known realistic representation of the cosmos yet found, perhaps a kind of astronomical calculational tool to determine planting and harvest times, or used as an advanced astronomical clock.

Archaeologists have associated the disc with the Únětice culture, which emerged at the start of the Central European Bronze Age around 2300 to 1600 BC.

According to a new metallographic study by the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, working in collaboration with OVGU and DeltaSigma Analytics GmbH, the disc was crafted through an intricate process that required ten cycles of heating in a forge to 700°C, forging and then annealing to relax the metal structure.

This was determined using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, electron backscatter diffraction, and microstructural analysis under light microscopy. These studies were accompanied by parallel experimental tests, in which the experienced coppersmith Herbert Bauer, Halle (Saale), made a replica from a cast blank.

"That the investigations continue to produce such fundamental new findings more than 20 years after the Sky Disc was secured not only once again demonstrates the extraordinary character of this find of the century, but also how highly developed the art of metal processing was already in the Early Bronze Age," says State archaeologist Prof. Dr. Harald Meller.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/1...ky-disk/154009
https://www.worldhistory.org/article...-of-the-stars/

[Bluegreen]

TV Time





UFOS AND THE AMERICAN SITCOM

Remember when Lucy and Ethel tried that UFO hoax? Or when the ET's landed in Darren and Samantha's backyard? Preston does, and more.

(1:17:03)

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

UAP PRIME Directive vs. EARTH's Mythology - Star Trek

Am I an alien? Alien to what, exactly?

(2:45)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tVxVw1qhqiQ

[Bluegreen]

Most Expensive Paintings (Currently)

Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci - $450M




Interchange by Willem de Kooning - $350M




The Card Players by Paul Cézanne - $250M




Nafea Faa Ipoipo by Paul Gauguin - $210M




Number 17A by Jackson Pollock - $200M




The Standard-Bearer by Rembrandt - $198M




Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol - $195M




No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) by Mark Rothko - $186M




Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit by Rembrandt van Rijn - $180M




Water Serpents II by Gustav Klimt - $170M

[Bluegreen]

#drones

Drone Test Flights Are Being Tested for Flights on Alien Worlds





We’ve already seen the success of the Ingenuity probe on Mars (above). The first aircraft to fly on another world set off on its maiden voyage in April 2021 and has now completed 72 flights.

Now a team of engineers are taking the idea one step further and investigating ways that drones can be released from satellites in orbit and explore the atmosphere without having to land. The results are positive and suggest this could be a cost effective way to explore alien atmospheres.

NASA engineers are very aware of the benefits of drone technology, and so a team of engineers and researchers from the Armstrong Flight Research Center in California have been taking the idea of small drones one step further. The research was part of the Center Innovation Fund award from 2023 and began as the team developed three atmospheric probe models. The models were all the same, measuring 71 cm from top to bottom, one for visual demonstration, the other two for research and technology readiness. 

Their first launch on 1 August didn’t go to plan with a failure in the release mechanism. The team reviewed everything from the lifting aircraft, the release mechanism and even the probe design itself to identify improvements. They were finally able to conduct flights with their new atmospheric probe after it was released from a quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft on 22 October 2024.





The flights were conducted above the Rogers Dry Lake near in California with designs informed by previous NASA instrumentation designed for lifting and transportation. The test flights were aiming to prove the shape of the probe worked. The team now want to release the probe from a higher altitude, ultimately hoping to be able to release it from a satellite in orbit around a planet.

Published 18th December 2024
https://www.universetoday.com/170143...oogle_vignette
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-fac...n-test-flight/

[Bluegreen]

#drones

EAST COAST #DRONES

Everyone has an opinion, and Psychic X Buddy takes less than a minute to weigh in.

"I think its a magical time to be alive."

(0:59)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kXM9vndJ1Tg

[Vangelo]

Just a Few Acres Farm

Farmall Muscle Tractor Paradise! Restoration Tractor Sales Auction

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

[Bluegreen]

History

Ancient Aliens: Extraterrestrial Sightings in India





Published 24th November 2024 (18:34)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0C0d-2CWtjw

[Bluegreen]

Gemini 6 To Earth | First Song From Space

We do have a slight uptick twice a year in the summer and around the holidays. There are a few reasons why people might be paying more attention: they might be off work, they're doing family activities and things they don't normally do, so there are more possibilities for people to encounter things. Then, of course, there's always Santa Claus and the reindeer.

- Ron James (Mutual UFO Network)

Transmission transcription (from NASA):

Wally Schirra Jr.:

"We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit. Very low. Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon [...] You just might let me pick up that thing."


Thomas Stafford:

"I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit."

(1:22)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RmsOmqf7Hso

This rendition gave the song an enormous jolt in popularity, and it has been ubiquitous in December ever since.

[Bluegreen]

Solar Eye-Candy & Massive Far Side Eruptions | Space Weather Spotlight



The ever animated Tamitha Skov brings your space weather forecast.

"The eruptions are active, and this means we should expect big flares, big radio blackouts, and increased radio noise on Earth's dayside over the coming week as these regions rotate back into view."

Published 19th December 2024 (10:14)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wClI7PKn3K0

[Bluegreen]

Deaf People Hearing Sound For The First Time



Sometimes, its good to cry.

Published 11th August 2023 (9:04)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bb_hc_RBX0Q