Up At The Ranch And Beyond

[edina]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Thx edina

Putting on my shoes and going down to the lake

Perfect! Hearing this makes my heart happy.

[Johnnycomelately]

One of the quirkiest animals, in the history of … animals. Sorry, paraphrase of Redford’s character’s quote in The Electric Horseman. Couldn’t resist.

Quirky critters are a sure sign that aliens have messed with life on earth, way before they GMO’d primates into vessels for us humans. Poe’s Law?

The Insane Biology of: The Pangolin

Real Science

1.98M subscribers

August 30, 2025

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q1O5B8I6cXs

[Bluegreen]

September
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Astronomy Events in September | Lunar Eclipse | Solar Eclipse | Saturn Opposition



￰ﾟﾏﾻ‍ Created By: Rishabh Nakra | ￰ﾟﾏﾻ‍ Music By: Enrize (Envato)

(9:12)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vtdpkJ3cFQA

Wait for it ...





All Saints Days




Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky



Here is the sky dome view for September 2025. It shows what is above the horizon at mid-evening for mid-northern latitudes. The view may vary depending on your location.


Late September mornings: Are Uranus and Neptune in the morning planet parade?



About those planet parade memes you might have seen … Yes, there are 5 planets in the morning sky. But, are they visible to the eye? They are, however, you’ll need binoculars or a telescope to see all 5 planets in the morning sky. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are visible with your eyes alone. But to see Uranus and Neptune, you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope. Uranus lies between Venus and Saturn, and Neptune lies close to Saturn.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essen...aturn-mercury/

[Bluegreen]

Space Shuttle UFOs

Childish? A bit of a stretch to state as fact ...



(1:14)

https://x.com/uBF2fV1cVQxRjQo/status...29800269455641

[Bluegreen]

Inside the Decision to Eliminate the UK Space Agency

'We've known it's been coming for a while'




Authorities examine debris thought to be from a spacecraft launched from the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana after it was found by residents of Salinopolis, Brazil.

The U.K. government's announcement to absorb the nation's 15-year-old space agency into a recently established government department may sound shocking to some, but it came as no surprise to insiders. Still, some industry experts fear the move may harm the U.K.'s space ambitions and weaken its position within the European Space Agency, to which Britain allocates most of its civilian space budget.

The UK Space Agency (UKSA), formed in 2010 with the goal of propelling the country's space and satellite sector into the new space age, will be absorbed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) by April.

The UK government announced the decision Aug. 20, saying the move would "cut duplication and ensure decisions are made with clear ministerial oversight." UKSA will effectively become a department within DSIT, which had been providing all of the agency's funding since 2023. The merger has been widely seen as part of the Labour government's initiative to cut government expenditure and civil service costs by 15% by the end of the decade.

The U.K. has had a different approach to space than its European counterparts, such as Germany, France and Italy.

Historically, the U.K. has dedicated most of its resources to the European Space Agency (ESA) rather than pursuing a multipronged approach involving a strong domestic space program and bilateral partnerships independent of ESA. Therefore, over 80% of UKSA's budget has been placed into ESA. The perception in the government was that UKSA was acting more in line with ESA's wishes than with the U.K. government's needs.

ESA is an intergovernmental institution independent of the European Union, which the U.K. exited in January 2020. Currently consisting of 23 member states, ESA has a special status that sets it apart from other major space agencies, including NASA.

Published 1st September 2025 by Tereza Pultarova - Space.com
https://www.space.com/space-explorat...k-space-agency

[Bluegreen]

September 7 - Full Corn Moon - Total Lunar Eclipse




The crest of the full Corn Moon occurs at 18:09 UTC on September 7 (12:09 p.m. CDT). A total lunar eclipse will start at 17:30 UTC, when the full moon will start to pass through the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, the umbra. The moon will be totally eclipsed from 17:30 UTC to 18:53 UTC. The moment of greatest eclipse is 18:11 UTC. By 19:56 UTC, the moon will have completely left the umbral shadow. The total lunar eclipse will sweep across Antarctica, Australia, Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Africa.




Total Lunar Eclipse September 7th 2025



Pam is excited and cautiously optimistic about the total eclipse and the future.

(50:19)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRGGCVaJ2PY

[Bluegreen]

ISS Live – NASA Earth View from Space | 24/7 Real-Time Cameras

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvpXSDt5MbI

Started streaming July 21, 2025 #isslive #spacelive #nasa

Watch real-time views of Earth from space, streamed 24/7 through live NASA cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This stream includes live ISS tracking, orbital data, and rotating panels featuring space weather updates and the latest from the Space Station Daily Blog. The feed may occasionally go dark when the ISS loses satellite connection. It will resume automatically. The International Space Station (ISS) orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 420 km (260 miles), traveling at 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) and completing one orbit every 90 minutes. It is a joint project between five space agencies—NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada)—and functions as a permanently crewed science laboratory and observation platform in low Earth orbit.

• Primary NASA ISS Camera (Top-Left Panel) This high-definition camera provides a stunning nadir view (Earth-facing) in 720p resolution. Mounted on the Harmony module, it continuously captures breathtaking visuals of Earth’s surface, including weather systems, oceans, continents, cloud formations, city lights, and the transition between day and night.

• Secondary NASA ISS Camera (Bottom-Right Panel) This secondary feed offers alternate viewing angles, often showing the curvature of Earth (limb view), docked spacecraft, solar arrays, and various parts of the ISS’s external structure, which adds depth and realism to the live experience.

• ISS Real-Time Tracker (Top-Right Panel) In the top-right corner, a zoomed-in tracker displays the current position of the ISS as it moves across Earth in real time. This simplified visualization helps viewers follow the live movement of the station over the planet’s surface.

• Orbital Telemetry & Path (Bottom-Left Panel) In the bottom-left panel, you’ll see real-time telemetry provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), displaying the ISS’s current latitude, longitude, altitude, and orbital speed. The arc shows the ISS’s ground track, illustrating its position 90 minutes ago and 90 minutes ahead. Due to its orbit and Earth’s rotation, the station shifts about 2,200 km (1,367 mi) westward per orbit while appearing to travel west to east.

• Space Info Panel (Center-Bottom) The center-bottom rotating panel alternates automatically between two content sources: 1. Latest updates from the NASA Space Station Blog, featuring mission news, astronaut activities, spacewalks, science experiments, and educational content from aboard the ISS.

[Bluegreen]

Tokamak Fusion Reactor Turns Mercury Into Gold





The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

Since the days of the ancient Greeks, practitioners of alchemy pursued the goal of learning how to make the fabled Philosopher's Stone that would allow them to turn base metals like lead, tin, iron, copper, and mercury into gold. Using techniques that mixed crude chemistry with esoteric metaphysics, it was an exercise that was as much a seeking of spiritual enlightenment as a get-rich-quick scheme.

However, though they made many discoveries and formed the foundations of modern chemistry, the only gold these alchemists created was what the more unscrupulous among them could con out of greedy backers with dreams of avarice.





In the 20th century, physicists cracked the secret of transmutation using the power of the atom, but the amount of gold produced in the laboratory was so minuscule and the process so expensive that it was hardly worth the effort.

Today, chrysopoeia, as the process of transmutation is called, may become a practical reality. And like many technological advances these days, it's the side benefit of another creation.

According to Marathon Fusion – a company dedicated to the development of fusion energy components – a tokamak fusion reactor can not only produce limitless clean energy, but five tonnes of gold out from mercury for every gigawatt (~2.5 GWth) of electricity generated.

Publishes 24th July 2025 by David Szondy - New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/science/fusion-...ld-department/




World's largest tokamak fusion reactor in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

First conceived by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, tokamaks are toroidal reactors that are one of the leading contenders to become the first commercially viable fusion power plants. The name is a Russian acronym for Toroidal Chamber with Magnetic Coils and consists of a large doughnut-shaped chamber surrounded by magnetic coils that compress a plasma made of hydrogen isotopes until it reaches pressures and temperatures that are only found in the interior of the Sun to initiate fusion.

[Bluegreen]

Craziest Nature Videos of the Decade



“Glad-you-weren't-there” moments captured on film.

Published 12th October 2024 (16:08)

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

[Bluegreen]

Mysterious UAP Caught on Doorbell Cam (Season 5) | The Proof Is Out There



These UFOs may not be UFOs at all, but rather, an otherworldly sign from Mr Parsons' late wife.

Published 2nd September 2025 (2:34)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhdG0uegxMw

[Bluegreen]

American Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe







Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Residency: New Mexico
Famous artworks: Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932), Radiator Building–Night New York (1927), Cow’s Skull: Red White and Blue (1931)

Frequent visits to the American Southwest inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and she developed a distinct style combining abstraction and realism.

O’Keeffe’s art is often linked to the American Modernism period, a time of inventive invention in the early 1900s that focused on individual expression and experimentation. Her paintings are known for their bold colors, simplified shapes, and enlarged forms that emphasize the beauty of nature.









Georgia O'Keeffe's Home and Studio in Abiquiú



(2:27)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9EVMjL-nmhY

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)

I downloaded and saved the image. It's SUCH a very beautiful painting, though so extremely simple.

[Bluegreen]

American Artist

Miles Davis

An award-winning jazz musician whose musical legacy will never tarnish is Miles Davis (1926 - 1991), from St Louis, Missouri. Relentlessly creative, Mr Davis' talents extended to other fields.


Self Portrait




"So What"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c

Kielce, Poland | New York City, USA


St Louis Roots (excerpt)

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

The final painting created by Miles Davis





"Move"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I9ik43_XsNU

[Kryztian]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)

Bluegreen, do you know where you found this image? I dropped the image into two search engines and could not find it. The background landscape looks like O'Keefe's style BUT the fox's head does not - it looks like art made by air brush (and can now be easily made on computers.).

[Bluegreen]

Hi Kryzs

You could be right, I had similar thoughts after seeing it posted. While not entirely absent from her oeuvre, O'Keeffe was not in the habit of using sharp, well-defined lines.

I can't find it now, but got it from google images under [Georgia O'Keeffe paintings], liked it, took it at face value, and did not further investigate. If I have misidentified, apologies, my bad.

But I still like the painting

AI has thrown a wrench into the art world. Digital artwork is an accepted genre, but only when the artists make no bones about what they're doing and don't try to fool the audience. Autotune, songwriting, even the music itself … are authors going to be submitting signed affidavits stating they actually wrote their own book?

[Kryztian]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Hi Kryzs
You could be right, I had similar thoughts after seeing it posted. While not entirely absent from her oeuvre, O'Keeffe was not in the habit of using sharp, well-defined lines.

Yes, she was great in taking landscapes and natural objects and almost making them look like abstract paintings. Her paintings are wonderful in books, but to fully take them in, you have to go see the originals hanging on a wall in a museum.

Thanks Bluegreen for bringing her to this thread and here are a few more images:
(and if you click "Open in New tab" you will get an even larger image)



Georgia O'Keefe, Blue Morning Glories, New Mexico, II, 1935



Georgia O'Keefe, Series I - No. 1, 1918



Georgia O'Keefe, Near Abiquiu, New Mexico

[Kryztian]

One of the most ancient UFO reports is the beginning of the book of Ezekiel. Here is a bizarre and electrifying musical setting of this text by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I71EhiCHToA

[Bluegreen]

Ezekiel Saw The Wheel | Woody Guthrie

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eha1XZYIr7A

[Bluegreen]

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards 2025

Astrophotographers from across the globe submitted over 5,800 entries in the various categories for the 17th annual competition hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in conjunction with astronomy camera manufacturer ZWO.

Our Moon — The Trace of Refraction by Marcella Giulia Pace



Marcella Giulia Pace captured the light of the moon as it was scattered and refracted by Earth's atmosphere above the Italian island of Sicily on Apr. 7, 2024.


Our Sun — Active Region of the Sun's Chromosphere by James Sinclair



This breathtaking image from James Sinclair gives us a detailed view of a section of the Sun's atmosphere known as the chromosphere — a chaotic region where hydrogen and helium plasma is molded and reshaped by our star's ever-shifting magnetic field.


Comet 12P/Pons−Brooks Taking a Final Bow by Dan Bartlett



This shot of the wandering comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was taken in early 2024 around the solar maximum by Dan Bartlett, who was able to capture spectacular structural detail in the trail of the wandering solar system body.


Fourth Dimension by Leonardo Di Maggio



For this image, Leonardo Di Maggio combined an image she took of a geometric pattern contained in a meteorite with gravitational lensing deep space observation data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, creating the impression of a fourth dimension or alien city with a monochrome aesthetic.


Encounter Across Light Years by Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan



This surprise shot of a bright Perseid meteor captured streaking through the patch of sky containing the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured by Yurui Gong and Xizhen Ruan above Zhucheng City, China.


The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu



This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way's closest neighbor. The image reveals the complex structure present in the heart of the spiral galaxy, which was captured over the course of 38 hours from the AstroCamp Observatory in Spain.

[Johnnycomelately]

Whatever. And I mean that in a good way. ~XD

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg