Up At The Ranch And Beyond

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Space Rock | Joe Thompson



"Prayer for Terry Hill"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=d7xvUrvCeKI

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The Integratron

As mentioned in the previously posted Don Elkins/Carla Rueckert interview
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1701089

The Integratron is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus, who promised to come back and “activate” it. The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.



After Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s. The sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure", and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartz crystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation". The building is now a part of the National Historic Register, and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field by Daniel Stern





Most galaxies don't have any rings -- why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that's near NGC 1512's center -- and so hard to see here -- is the nuclear ring which glows brightly with recently formed stars.

Next out is a ring of stars and dust appearing both red and blue, called, counter-intuitively, the inner ring. This inner ring connects ends of a diffuse central bar of stars that runs horizontally across the galaxy.

Farthest out in this wide field image is a ragged structure that might be considered an outer ring. This outer ring appears spiral-like and is dotted with clusters of bright blue stars. All these ring structures are thought to be affected by NGC 1512's own gravitational asymmetries in a drawn-out process called secular evolution. The featured image was captured from a telescope at Deep Sky Chile in Chile.




Here's the Professor to explain further.

(3:37)

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

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CERN Concern(s)

Forbidden Experiments at CERN



The Terrifying Truth Behind the Large Hadron Collider

What’s really happening deep beneath the Swiss-French border?

⚡ Discover the theories scientists don’t want to discuss
⚡ Is CERN unlocking the universe’s secrets — or something darker
⚡ Are we tampering with forces beyond human control
⚡ Shocking connections between CERN, dark matter, and strange global phenomena


Published 12th November 2025 (11:53)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=txp5iTsd3I4

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Meet Norman Smith, Owl Whisperer




The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

Published 25th April 2025 (9:00)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H3xKx0DAxQw

Each winter, Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, hosts more than just airplanes. Snowy owls also make a surprising stop here. This rare phenomenon has long delighted travelers and birdwatchers alike.

Snowy owls are among the largest owl species in the world. The birds can grow up to 27 inches (68 cm) long and have a wingspan of up to 5.5 feet (1.67 m). They are also the only owls with mainly white plumage. These birds spend most of the year in the Arctic tundra.

But during winter, many migrate south in search of food and milder conditions. As they travel, the owls seek landscapes that resemble their Arctic home. The land around Logan Airport is ideal. It is low and flat, with short, scruffy grasses and an abundance of small mammals and birds to hunt. The owls usually arrive in early November and return north in April for the breeding season.





"It resembles the Arctic tundra," explains Norman Smith, a raptor specialist for Mass Audubon. "The open terrain lets the owls hunt efficiently, and there’s plenty of food available."

The area around the airport may be a perfect winter home for the owls. But it poses serious risks for both the planes and birds. As they fly, the owls could collide with airplanes. Even worse, they could get caught in an engine.

Fortunately, Smith — affectionately known as the “Owl Man of Logan Airport" — has spent decades keeping the birds and airport operations safe. Since 1981, he has humanely captured and relocated over 900 owls to safer habitats. Injured birds that cannot be released find permanent homes at Mass Audubon. Here, visitors can see them up close and learn about the species.




Published 14th January 2026 by Marcela B. – DOGO News
https://www.dogonews.com/2026/1/14/m...-logan-airport

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Breakthrough Could Make Ships Nearly Unsinkable





More than 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the idea of ships that cannot sink continues to motivate engineers. Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have now taken a significant step toward that long-standing goal. They have developed a technique that makes ordinary metal tubes unsinkable -- meaning the tubes stay afloat regardless of how long they remain underwater or how much damage they sustain.

The work was led by Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics and physics and a senior scientist at URochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Guo and his colleagues detailed the new method in a study published in Advanced Functional Materials. Their approach focuses on modifying the inside surface of aluminum tubes by etching it to create microscopic and nanoscale pits. This textured surface becomes superhydrophobic, allowing it to strongly repel water and remain dry.

When a treated tube is placed in water, its water-repelling interior captures a stable pocket of air inside. This trapped air keeps water from filling the tube, which prevents it from becoming heavy and sinking. The process resembles natural strategies seen in diving bell spiders, which carry air bubbles underwater, and in fire ants, which form floating rafts using their water-resistant bodies.

"Importantly, we added a divider to the middle of the tube so that even if you push it vertically into the water, the bubble of air remains trapped inside and the tube retains its floating ability," says Guo.

Published 30th January 2026 by University of Rochester – Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0130041105.htm

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The Night Sky

Sunday, Feb. 8 - The Winter Football (evening)



On February evenings, the southern sky hosts the Winter Football asterism, also known as the Winter Hexagon and Winter Circle. The huge pattern, which is composed of the brightest stars in the constellations of Canis Major, Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, and Canis Minor — specifically Sirius, Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Castor and Pollux, and Procyon — covers a region of the southeastern sky after dusk that spans 65 degrees high by 45 degrees wide. Tilted to the east at dusk, the asterism will stand upright in the southern sky after mid-evening, with the Milky Way ascending vertically through it.


Monday, Feb. 9 - The spectacular Orion Nebula



The bright stars of mighty Orion, the Hunter, shine in the southern sky on mid-February evenings. The sword of Orion, which spans 1.5 by 1 degrees (about the width of your thumb held up at arm's length), descends from Orion's three-star belt. The patch of light in the middle of the sword is the spectacular and bright nebula known as the Orion Nebula or Messier 42 and NGC 1976.


Tuesday, Feb. 10 - Crescent moon in the Scorpion's Claws (predawn)



Early risers on Tuesday morning, Feb. 10, in the Americas can look in the southern sky before sunrise to see the pretty sight of the waning crescent moon shining near the bottom of the up-down chain of stars that mark the claws of Scorpius. The bright reddish star Antares will twinkle off to the moon's left (or celestial east). That red giant star, which is located 550 light-years from our sun, marks the heart of the beast. The following morning, the moon will hop east to shine to Antares' left.

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Launching the Idea of Data Centers in Space

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.





Elon Musk's decision to have his rocket company SpaceX take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI has added fuel to the debate about whether orbiting data centers are feasible or foolish.

SpaceX has set the pace in the rocket launch market and Musk has spoken of putting data centers in space. Musk-led electric car company Tesla is also working on humanoid robots, providing potential workers and maintenance crews in space.

US startup Starcloud late last year sent a refrigerator-sized satellite containing an Nvidia graphics processing unit into orbit in what the AI chip maker touted as a "cosmic debut" for the mini-data center.

Meanwhile, tech giant Google has laid out plans to launch test satellites by early 2027 as part of its Suncatcher project to build solar-powered data centers in space.

Blue Origin, the rocket and satellite company established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is touting a TeraWave space-based high-speed network that can be used by data centers to move information anywhere around the planet.

More than a dozen startups, aerospace leaders, and major tech firms are involved in the development, testing, or planning of space-based data centers.

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels. Building in space also avoids the challenges of acquiring land and meeting local regulations or community resistance to projects.

Advocates argue that data centers operating in space would be less harmful overall to the environment, aside from the pollution generated by rocket launches.

"The idea is that it will soon make much more sense to build data centers in space than it does to build them on Earth," Starcloud chief executive Philip Johnston said at a tech conference last year.

Published 3rd February 2026 by Glenn Chapman – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/L...space_999.html

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"Ugokie-Ko-Ri-No-Tatehiki" (1933)



I will always pay money to be confused.

In the temple that became ruins, the fox that disguises as the samurai does the fight of magic with Asian racoon's parent and child.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WyGvGMa2RFg

[Johnnycomelately]

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Launching the Idea of Data Centers in Space

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.





Elon Musk's decision to have his rocket company SpaceX take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI has added fuel to the debate about whether orbiting data centers are feasible or foolish.

SpaceX has set the pace in the rocket launch market and Musk has spoken of putting data centers in space. Musk-led electric car company Tesla is also working on humanoid robots, providing potential workers and maintenance crews in space.

US startup Starcloud late last year sent a refrigerator-sized satellite containing an Nvidia graphics processing unit into orbit in what the AI chip maker touted as a "cosmic debut" for the mini-data center.

Meanwhile, tech giant Google has laid out plans to launch test satellites by early 2027 as part of its Suncatcher project to build solar-powered data centers in space.

Blue Origin, the rocket and satellite company established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is touting a TeraWave space-based high-speed network that can be used by data centers to move information anywhere around the planet.

More than a dozen startups, aerospace leaders, and major tech firms are involved in the development, testing, or planning of space-based data centers.

The big draw of space for data centers is power supply, with the option of synchronizing satellites to the sun's orbit to ensure constant light beaming onto solar panels. Building in space also avoids the challenges of acquiring land and meeting local regulations or community resistance to projects.

Advocates argue that data centers operating in space would be less harmful overall to the environment, aside from the pollution generated by rocket launches.

"The idea is that it will soon make much more sense to build data centers in space than it does to build them on Earth," Starcloud chief executive Philip Johnston said at a tech conference last year.

Published 3rd February 2026 by Glenn Chapman – Space Daily
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/L...space_999.html

Solar power is abundant above the atmosphere, no question that it can be collected at reasonable cost by today’s tech. But space operations have a rather severe hobble: cooling.

Rockets can produce huge power, but they eject almost all of the heat, physically away from the vehicle. Looked at in the frame of reference of the machine, that counts as a fourth type of cooling mechanism.

The standard other 3 are:
Convection, air passing by like a cooling breeze.
Conduction, touching a cooler other solid thing.
Radiation, like how our Sun gives us sunburns and heatstroke.

Space based platforms only have the means for radiation. With known tech now, afaik, that would up the scale and cost prohibitively.

I think they’ll all be land based and nuclear powered, probably hidden under miles of ice in Antarctica and Greenland, more defensible against intrusion and sabotage by the AI-enslaved masses. Possible motive for Trump’s Greenland goal? Considering, it would be way ea$ier there than on the cold cold butthole of the world.

Happy weekend, everybody. ♥️🥰👻

[Johnnycomelately]

More miniceing for me, than reminiceing, since I wasn’t into drag racing back in highschool.

Learned about Gary Beck, my adopted and his hometown of Edmonton AB NHRA winning driver/owner in top fuel cars starting in ‘72, said to have got his racing start in stock cars.

1976 NHRA Gatornationals Full Broadcast | NHRA 75th Classics

NHRA
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Feb 7, 2026

Step back into drag racing history with this full broadcast of the 1976 NHRA Gatornationals from Gainesville Raceway! Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering this NHRA 75th Classic for the first time, this is a must-watch piece of racing history.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=saweVwtkZ4Q

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Schley Brothers Lightning Bug 2 @ Bug In 43



I'll see ya Johnny and raise ya one. First VW to break the 10-second barrier in the quarter mile (1972).

(0:56)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0YLFhvcDTQ

1965 | 1968




1973






The brothers' innovations have been adopted and used to this day by Ford, Volkswagen, the Air Force, and NASA

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Continuing with the racing theme ...



Dog Joins High School Track Race

A furious come-from-behind win for Chucknorris' daughter as the crowd goes wild.

(2:18)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FLjDb3PhiXY

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Hubble Telescope Spots Strange, Massive Disk 40 Times the Size of Our Solar System





Astronomers working with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured images of the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen surrounding a young star.

Observed in visible light for the first time, the disk appears far more turbulent and disordered than expected, with streamers of material extending much higher above and below the disk than in any comparable system. Even more unusual, the longest filaments appear on only one side.

The results, published in The Astrophysical Journal, represent a major achievement for Hubble and offer new insight into how planets might form under extreme conditions, advancing NASA’s broader effort to explore the universe and our place within it.

The object, known as IRAS 23077+6707 and nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth and stretches nearly 400 billion miles across. This makes it roughly 40 times wider than the span of our solar system.

“The level of detail we’re seeing is rare in protoplanetary disk imaging, and these new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” said lead author Kristina Monsch of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).

The playful nickname “Dracula’s Chivito” reflects the backgrounds of the researchers involved, with one tracing roots to Transylvania and another to Uruguay, where a popular sandwich is called a chivito. Seen edge-on, the disk even resembles a layered burger, with a dark central band bordered above and below by glowing layers of dust and gas.

Published 8th February 2026 by NASA – SciTech Daily
https://scitechdaily.com/hubble-tele...-solar-system/

Hubble Spots Giant Vampire Sandwich?



(1:47)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r9H-oUcO8As

Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe



Eric Whitacre's "Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe" is a unique film and musical experience inspired by one of the most important scientific achievements of our time: the Hubble Telescope's Deep Field image.

(29:47)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yDiD8F9ItX0

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Martin Willis | Brothers in Arms



Mr Willis interviews a pair of brothers, neither of whom come across as hoaxers.
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Taken Since Childhood: Police Officer Describes 70 Years of Alien Contact

In this extraordinary episode of Podcast UFO, host Martin Willis interviews Sean and Chris O’Leary, two brothers who describe nearly 70 years of continuous alien abductions affecting multiple generations of their family.

According to their testimony, the encounters began in 1959, when their mother was allegedly taken in broad daylight by a silent triangular craft. What followed were decades of repeated abductions involving underground facilities, medical procedures, telepathic communication, Mantis beings, Greys, and the creation of human-alien hybrids.

Published 6th February 2026 (13:01)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGvhTO8t58A

Nightcrawler UFOs: Tedesco Brothers Reveal Alien Tech & Phenomena

In this explosive episode of Podcast UFO, host Martin Willis sits down with the Tedesco Brothers—John and Gerry—the fearless engineers and UAP researchers behind Nightcrawler: Eye on the Sky.

Over Long Island’s mysterious coastline, they’ve captured jaw-dropping videos of unexplained aerial phenomena (as well as anomalies in the sand) using infrared, radar, and advanced sensors.

Published 23rd January 2026 (11:43)

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

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Constellation Gemini - The Twins

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Hn3QDsZJD/

Zodiacal Characteristics: Gemini, Latin for twins, represents those born from May 21—June 20. Gemini is the third Zodiac sign of the year, directly after Taurus.

Geminis are known to be affectionate, gentle, exciting, impulsive. At the same time they are reputed to be indecisive, nervous, a bit flighty, and moody.

Myth and Legend: Gemini the twins represents Castor and Pollux from Greek mythology.  They had the same mother-Leda-but different fathers.  Pollux’s father was the God Zeus-Jupiter in Roman mythology, while Castor’s father was Leda’s husband, King Tyndareus of Sparta.  Pollux was immortal, due to the fact that his father happened to be a God. Castor his twin, who only had a king as a father was merely mortal.

The two Greek brothers grew up to become famous explorers and warriors.  They sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece; the story behind the Aries constellation.  Then they fought in the Trojan War. Helen of Troy, their half sister, had left her husband Menelaus for Paris of Troy, and the brothers were determined to bring her home.

Tragically Castor dies in the Trojan War. Overcome with grief, Pollux his immortal twin, pleads with Zeus to let his brother share his immortality.  Zeus responds by placing the twins in the night sky as the Gemini constellation.

Element Sign: Gemini is an air sign. Air signs are thought to be abstract thinkers and intellectuals. Other air signs in the zodiac include Libra and Aquarius.

Glyph: The Gemini glyph does not necessarily look like a pair of twins, but the symbol does make some kind of sense, as it represents the number two—in Roman numerals.





Constellation: This constellation looks exactly like twins, if you like twin stick figures drawn by five year olds. But as stick drawings go, it does resemble two people hand in hand. The Gemini constellation is unique in the Zodiac, in that two stars make up the twins’ heads. Pollux as the immortal twin has the largest bright orange—cranial — star. Castor, his mortal brother has a smaller blue white star.

If you want to look for the Gemini constellation, you can see it anytime between January and May.  The best viewing times are January  and February at around 9pm; between latitudes + 90° and – 60° in the northern hemisphere.  If you live in the southern hemisphere, look for the Gemini constellation in summer.




https://ameliasamazingspaceadventure...the-night-sky/

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Arctic Blast Creates Rare “Cloud Streets” Phenomena

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https://x.com/foxweather/status/2019365391575687506

On February 3, 2026, NOAA shared the above image of clouds rolling off the southeastern United States in neat columns. Meteorologists call this phenomenon cloud streets. NOAA said:

The recent Arctic blast that prompted freeze warnings as far south as southern Florida also created a captivating phenomenon over the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic on Sunday, February 1, 2026. NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured long, parallel bands of clouds called horizontal convective rolls.

Better known as ‘cloud streets,’ these formations can develop when cold, dry air flows over relatively warmer water. As the air absorbs heat and moisture from below, rows of long, parallel lines of cumulus clouds form, usually aligned with the wind direction. In the satellite imagery above, a gap of clear skies is visible between the coastline and where the cloud streets begin. That’s due to the time and distance it takes the cold air to pick up the heat and moisture from the water to form clouds.

The frigid air that plunged southward on Sunday was some of the coldest that Florida has seen in years. Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit in Winter Haven, 29 degrees in Tampa, 30 degrees in West Palm Beach and 35 degrees in Miami.

https://earthsky.org/earth/what-are-cloud-streets/

Cloudy Street

[Johnnycomelately]

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Arctic Blast Creates Rare “Cloud Streets” Phenomena

(0:16)

https://x.com/foxweather/status/2019365391575687506

On February 3, 2026, NOAA shared the above image of clouds rolling off the southeastern United States in neat columns. Meteorologists call this phenomenon cloud streets. NOAA said:

The recent Arctic blast that prompted freeze warnings as far south as southern Florida also created a captivating phenomenon over the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic on Sunday, February 1, 2026. NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured long, parallel bands of clouds called horizontal convective rolls.

Better known as ‘cloud streets,’ these formations can develop when cold, dry air flows over relatively warmer water. As the air absorbs heat and moisture from below, rows of long, parallel lines of cumulus clouds form, usually aligned with the wind direction. In the satellite imagery above, a gap of clear skies is visible between the coastline and where the cloud streets begin. That’s due to the time and distance it takes the cold air to pick up the heat and moisture from the water to form clouds.

The frigid air that plunged southward on Sunday was some of the coldest that Florida has seen in years. Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit in Winter Haven, 29 degrees in Tampa, 30 degrees in West Palm Beach and 35 degrees in Miami.

https://earthsky.org/earth/what-are-cloud-streets/

I’ve witnessed this same phenomenon on a much much smaller scale. Didn’t know it had a name, so thanks!

2nd last lodging, 12-10ish years ago, my housemate and I turned the detached garage into a rudimentary music studio. I named it, and wrote on the key tag, “Low Key Studio”.

The cloud street came as a result of how we heated it: burning methanol in a stainless steel salad bowl, about a cup at a time. The one whole cold winter, lots of nights -20 to -30C, iirc I bought around Cdn$600. at my workplace, wholesale+tax.

It burned clean, no worries breathing, even standing over the 2 ft blue flame. Problem was, that flame produced LOTS of moisture. After a number of burns, 10-15 minutes between at worst/coldest, it got chilly in there.

Solution was to open the walk-in door, for maybe 20 seconds, get some outside dry air in. Then begin again to heat that cold air. But it worked.

Cold dry air rushed in through the lower part of the door, while the warm moist studio air exited out the top. The difference in densities drove that.

A 3 ft high stream of cloud came rolling/roiling/rushing in, from the floor up, right to the back wall.

[Johnnycomelately]

Parallel bands lol. Life just got better.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RoUa4dIcO50

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Up At The Tyler Ranch And Beyond



Put These Little Lawnmowers To Work!

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Munchety munch munch.

Published 5th February 2026 (20:31)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ug1pA7F69E4