Up At The Ranch And Beyond

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Olo

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A "HIGH INTEREST" REENTRY

In 1972, the Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 spacecraft was supposed to land on Venus. More than 50 years later, it's returning to Earth instead. Touchdown is expected on May 10th, give or take a few days.

"This will not be your standard reentry," says satellite analyst Marco Langbroek, who has been tracking the object for years. "The Kosmos 482 Descent Craft was designed to survive the dense atmosphere of Venus. It will therefore likely survive reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere intact and make a crash landing. This will therefore be a high-interest reentry."



www.spaceweather.com

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's successful Venera program to explore Venus. Between 1961 and 1984, thirteen Soviet probes successfully entered Venus's atmosphere, with ten landing on the planet's surface. Kosmos 482, however, never fully escaped Earth. After it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 31, 1972, the upper stage of its Molniya rocket shut down prematurely, leaving it in a 206 x 9802 kilometer orbit that has been decaying ever since.

"With an orbital inclination of 52 degrees, the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft could come down anywhere between 52 degrees north and 52 degrees south latitude," says Langbroek. "This includes much of south and mid-latitude Europe and Asia, as well as the Americas, Africa and Australia." Statistically, an ocean landing is the most likely outcome.




A picture of Venus from Kosmos 482's sister craft Venera 13

The probe was designed to parachute to the surface of Venus. However, it is very unlikely that the parachute system will work after more than 50 years in space, so this will be a crash landing. How bad will it be? Many details of the descent craft have been lost to history. Langbroek believes it is about 1 meter in diameter with a mass of ~495 kg. It won't do major damage, but you wouldn't want to be standing where it lands. The spacecraft is estimated to hit at a staggering speed of 17,000 mph as it hurtles down towards the ground.

Kosmos 482: questions around a failed Venera lander from 1972 still orbiting Earth (but not for long) by Marco Langbroek - May 16, 2022
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4384/1

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The Night Sky







www.earthsky.org

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7 UFO's



◘ Backyard UFO, Michigan
◘ Ft Worth Texas Twins
◘ High Speed UFO, China
◘ Mass Confusion Downtown London
◘ Jellyfish UFO, Skywatchers
◘ Portal in the Sky
◘ The Black Orb

Published 9th April 2025 (9:58)

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

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David Attenborough





Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers | Nature Documentary

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yc8oRjt7jpk

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Did a Rare Atmospheric Event Cause Spain/Portugal Blackout? Here's What We Know



Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the Spain/Portugal blackout of 2025 and whether it was the so-called "induced atmospheric vibration".

Published 30th April 2025 (12:13)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3nVanTk3YBw

0:00 Power outage in Spain/Portugal
1:30 Misinformation and what we know
2:40 Did renewables cause this?
3:25 Weather is responsible for most blackouts
4:05 European grid is too complex
5:10 Cyberattack?
5:35 Fire?
5:50 Atmospheric phenomenon and natural vibrations
8:00 So could this be the cause?
8:45 Solutions and conclusions

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May Calendar




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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VsAa5FxPl8k

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Published just 10 minutes ago, here's Megyn Kelly's merciless lampoon of the uber-feminist Blue Origin flight a couple of weeks ago.



Blonde Origin

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6awW_ZYtz50

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How Are We Made of Star Stuff? We Asked a NASA Expert



Published 23rd April 2025 (1:34)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=63uNNcCpxHI

"We're All Made Of Stars"

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

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It’s hard to name a species — and even harder to rename one

A beetle named after Hitler is just one of many names that haven’t aged well. Here’s how the species-naming process works.




The A. hitleri population has dwindled because Nazi fanatics like to collect them.

How does a blind cave beetle end up being named after a Nazi dictator? Or a fossil after a famous British broadcaster? 

There is no one answer because the process of naming species — for both scientific and common names — is complex and inconsistent and sometimes produces names that, over time, become offensive. 

Why do species have both scientific and common names?

Many species, like the Slovenian blind cave beetle, have multiple common names across different languages and countries. The problem with multiple common names, however, is they can be very confusing, especially for researchers who need to understand exactly which species is being discussed in a scientific paper. 

In 1753, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus came up with a solution: a Latin-based naming system that could be universally applied. Linnaeus tried to classify all living things (and rocks, too) into groups. From the broadest to the most specific, his classifications were kingdom, class, order, genera and species. 

Today, parts of Linnaeus’ system have been modified or junked, but most species are still formally referred to with a binomial scientific name: its genus followed by its specific name. 

For the Slovenian blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri, the genus name is Anopthalmus (which applies to many ground beetles native to Europe) and the specific name is hitleri, named in 1933 by an Austrian collector who admired Adolf Hitler (the dictator later sent him a thank-you note). 

Scientific names serve as universal anchors so researchers anywhere in the world can communicate with one another about a certain species without having to worry about confusing one species for another.

“Standardization is an essential thing for anything, especially in cases where you need to communicate things clearly over time,” explains Douglas Yanega, assistant editor of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, a publication of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, or ICZN. “The stability of the name is extremely important because science is not just what we do today; it links tremendously to things that have happened in the past, and the only solid link that we have is the name of the thing.”

What’s the ICZN and what does it do?

It’s the international scientific group that since 1895 has been responsible for assigning scientific names to animal species — but not plants, fungi, bacteria or viruses, which are covered by separate codes of nomenclature. 

The ICZN has elaborate rules to govern the process. The three principal steps, Yanega says, are determining whether something is a unique species, making sure the species has not been previously named, and then preparing and publishing its formal description, including its new name.

Those steps may sound simple, but in practice, each has its own challenges. To decide whether something is a unique species, for instance, specialists in taxonomy rely on multiple lines of evidence, including both physical characteristics (for example, dolphins are mammals instead of a fish) and DNA, which is scrutinized for genetic similarities.

Then comes the trickiest part: to determine whether a species deemed as new really is new. Often, it’s not. “It could be very embarrassing to get this wrong, and people do get this wrong all the time,” notes Yanega.

Where do species names come from? 

All sorts of places. Some of the most common sources of names are geographical references (such as Alces americanus for moose) and tributes to people — also known as eponyms. 

There’s a barnacle named after Darwin (Regioscalpellum darwini), a fossil named after UK’s most famous broadcaster (Attenborosaurus conybeari) and even a small amphibian, a blind and burrowing worm-like creature named after Donald Trump (Dermophis donaldtrumpi). No political favoritism there we're sure.

Some taxonomists now argue that species shouldn’t be named after people at all because it suggests humans are superior to other living things.

“It’s a species that has been evolving for hundreds of years without human intervention, and we should consider it sacred,” says Richard J. Ladle of the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, adding that the underlying principle for species naming should be to “respect nature.” 

Published 12th March 12 2025 by Miriam Bahagijo • Scienceline.org
https://scienceline.org/2025/03/its-...to-rename-one/

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Love and Saucers (FULL DOCUMENTARY)





Aliens, Abductions, Hybrid Children, Relationships with ETs

74 year-old David Huggins lives a quiet, solitary life in Hoboken, NJ. He spends his days painting landscapes and still-lifes, tidying up the house, and working part-time in a local deli. But David's mild-mannered exterior belies a truly mystifying story. Since childhood, he’s experienced a lifetime of bizarreencounters with otherworldly beings, including losing his virginity to an extra-terrestrial woman at 17.

Published 23rd June 2023 (1:04:11)

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

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David Huggins – Artwork

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MY MOTHER THE MANTIS

THE TRUE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT STORY OF SONDRA X.





Published 14th March 2025 (36:01)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6hEgoSfheuo

A teacher from Virginia, Sondra came from a military family and has lived in many locations on the planet. She was born in 1940, and like many ET contactees, unusual events surrounded her from a very young age. In fact, when she was only a few weeks old, her mother woke up one morning to see Sondra levitating above her crib! Soon other mystical events occurred. At age three, while living in sunny Long Beach in southern California, Sondra discovered that she was able to call forth the wind, and even make it snow.

In 1946, Sondra’s father (now an attaché to a Navy Admiral) moved the family to Tsingtao, China where they lived in the former Swiss Embassy building. There Sondra soon displayed other abilities. She began having out-of-body experiences. Fresh-cut flowers would remain alive and healthy in her room for weeks on end. She began to hear a voice in her head teaching her about the human body. She excelled academically to a degree that should would soon skip grades in school, and more. Her stay in China was cut short by conflict within the country, and in 1947, her father was called to serve in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was there that Sondra had perhaps the most unusual event of her life ...

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Sky Goddess Depictions Show Ancient Egyptians Were Aware of the Milky Way

Artistic depictions of the Ancient Egyptian god Nut reveal an awareness of our place in the Galaxy





The ancient Egyptians were astute astronomers. They often depicted the cosmos atop coffins. A new study in The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, a survey of such artwork, suggests that they may have had a greater understanding of the Milky Way than previously thought.

The study focuses on how the Egyptian Sky Goddess Nut has been depicted in several settings over time. The goddess was often portrayed as a naked, star-covered woman arching over the Earth, often above the Earth god Geb. Nut’s legend has her consuming the sun at night and giving birth to it at dawn.

Her coffin depicts a wavy line across Nut’s star-covered body. This feature “recalls the Great Rift that cleaves the Milky Way in two,” according to the study’s author, Or Graur, an astrophysics professor at the University of Portsmouth, England.

“Hence, I argue that the undulating curve is a visual representation of the Milky Way and that it supports a previously suggested identification of ‘Winding Waterway’ as the Galaxy’s Egyptian name,” according to Grauer.





Published 1st May 2025 by Paul Smaglik - Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the...-the-milky-way

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL VIGNETTE: FIRST VISUAL EVIDENCE OF THE MILKY WAY AND TRENDS IN COFFIN DEPICTIONS OF THE SKY GODDESS NUT - Or Graur
https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/1...807.2025.01.06

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Belgian Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, Creator of First Artwork on Moon, Dies at 99





Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, renowned for creating the first and long-time sole artwork on the moon, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday at the age of 99, according to a press release from his family.

Philip Heylen, a friend of the artist and honorary alderman of Antwerp, mentioned in the release, “A few weeks ago, we celebrated his 99 and half birthday. It was evident then that his light was slowly fading. It’s surreal that Paul is no longer with us. You almost thought he would be here forever, and perhaps he will be, thanks to his vast artistic legacy. Through his works, he continues to communicate with us.”





Born on 8 October 1925 in Antwerp, Van Hoeydonck was a multifaceted artist, working as a sculptor, painter, illustrator, collage artist, and graphic artist. As a modern sculptor, he utilised contemporary materials such as bronze, chrome steel, plexiglass, polyester, and mixed media.

His most famous piece is ‘Fallen Astronaut’, which Apollo 15 astronauts left on the moon in 1971 to honour their deceased colleagues. It remained the only artwork on the moon until February last year, when 125 mini-sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons landed on its surface.

Published 3rd May 2025 by The Brussels Times with Belga
https://www.brusselstimes.com/156271...k-on-moon-died

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These are the sharpest images yet of planets being born around distant stars

Unseen by previous generations




Four different views of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HD 135344B that reveal swirling, vortex-like structures. Such vortices can trap dust and trigger instabilities that help planets form and grow.

Astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed images yet of young solar systems where planets are just beginning to take shape.

Exquisite snapshots released on April 28 provide a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of planet formation in more than a dozen star systems, revealing where planets emerge, how quickly they form and what materials they're made from. Scientists say the data could help refine computer models of planetary formation and evolution, as well as shed new light on how these infant systems compare to the myriad of mature exoplanets already discovered.




ALMA observations of carbon monoxide emission from 15 protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning variety of gas structures, including gaps, rings and spirals

Newly developed techniques "are like switching from reading glasses to high-powered binoculars," Richard Teague of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who serves as the principal investigator of the project, said in the statement. "They reveal a whole new level of detail in these planet-forming systems."

Published 4th May 2025 by Sharmila Kuthunur - Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/as...-distant-stars

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Declassified Psychic Technology - ROBERT SEPEHR



Taking into account documented historical events in Russia and elsewhere, Robert takes a closer look at recently declassified information quietly released by the US government.

Published 26th August 2024 (23:53)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lZL-CS-VYpY

Parapsychology is defined as the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena that can't be explained by scientific laws or data. The field focuses on investigating the existence and nature of experiences and abilities, such as ESP (Extrasensory Perception), telepathy, clairvoyance. psychokinesis, Near-death or out of body experiences, astral travel or remote viewing, lucid dreaming, and synchronicity.

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#NSFW

Poorly-Aged 70s Commercials



Oh my. How times have changed.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=grgVVOT7WpQ

0:00 - Bill Cosby would go on to do things unbecoming of a White Owl Cigar spokesperson
0:30 - Just some garden variety sexual harassment
1:00 - If Andrew Jackson directed a Ford commercial
1:30 - The Sexy Legs pantyhose company went out of business due to not understanding their audience
2:00 - OJ Simpson had a little trouble maintaining his image in the 90s
2:27 - If Andrew Jackson directed a chewing gum commercial
2:57 - Is it any wonder they went out of business?
3:27 - The metric system did not, in fact, become a regular part of American life as predicted
4:23 - Ladies didn't buy Hanes based on what "gentlemen" prefer
4:53 - The term "ball buster" has different connotations these days
5:48 - Actor Stephen Collins confessed to sexual abuse of minors
6:42 - They really had a thing for Native Americans in the 70s, huh?
7:12 - Husbands can make crappy coffee too
7:43 - Using feminism to sell cigarettes to women was quite a choice

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Space Rock | György Ligeti





"Lux Aeterna"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-iVYu5lyX5M

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James Bartley Interviewed About His Childhood Abductions and Contacts With Aliens



Some Bartley followers may not have heard the personal stories shared with Randy Maugans in this interview.

Published 27th April 2025 (53:57)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AA4D0RJrqD0

In Part 1, James Bartley is interviewed by Randy Maugans from Off Planet Radio. James talks about his childhood experiences with abductions, alien contact and discusses different alien and UFO related phenomenon. In Part 2, James and Randy discuss ancient flying machines from the Vedas with a crew of aliens and humans. James goes deeper into military and alien topics including the wars in the heavens and celestially driven cataclysms.

https://www.thecosmicswitchboard.com...od-abductions/
Part 2: Available at www.offplanetradio.com