Up At The Ranch And Beyond

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
”SLAVA BANANA”

I’m remembering Masha, who used to say that. I hope she is well, or at least passed peacefully*.

* Paging Bill for any info/status abt her.

No news or info about her at all. Not a thing. Her Twitter/X account is inactive, and every now and then I send her an email (birthday, Christmas, Russia Day, etc), but she's never replied.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
The Alien-Human Hybrid Program



For decades, abductees have reported a chilling pattern: the same families targeted across generations. Richard's guest, Les Velez of the Alien Abduction Response Team explores claims of a secret alien-human hybrid program, missing pregnancies, and bloodlines seemingly tracked for decades.

Mr Velez of the Alien Abduction Response Team, describes a facility in Nevada where alien-hybrids are trained to fit in with society, and talks about meeting a woman that he believes was, in fact, a hybrid. The pair go on to explore claims of missing pregnancies and bloodlines seemingly tracked for decades.

Published 9th June 2026 (10:02)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gFPY9NRCH04

I've shared this fascinating story a few times before:

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I was contacted back in 2010 by a longtime Project Camelot supporter, a woman who lived at that time in Belleville, Ontario. I'll call her Jane (not her real name). Jane was a well-educated businesswoman, with her own knowledge of and interest in the UFO phenomenon.

Jane was in the Belleville Starbucks one day, and got talking to another woman drinking coffee there, with whom she struck up a friendly conversation over a period of an hour or more.

The two women were chatting about very regular things... movies, shopping, current affairs, and so on. Jane described the other woman as intelligent, articulate, maybe in her 40s, well-presented, and clearly well-educated.

When Jane asked the other woman about her job, she said she worked at the local Canadian Military base (I cannot remember if it was Army or Air Force). By now, they had established really quite a strong ‘instant friendship’. Jane stressed how they got along exceptionally well, and she liked this other woman very much, a feeling that seemed to be reciprocated.

The other woman then pointed out three men, who were sitting at tables, separately, in the restaurant. She said they were her trainees, and they were ETs who lived at the military base. They were sitting in Starbucks to observe and assimilate normal human behavior. (Surely a perfect place!)

Jane could see them all. She said their heads were slightly large and round, and they had some (but not a lot of) hair. She described them as ‘Charlie Brown’ heads. But they were all within the normal human range, and were normally dressed. No-one around them gave them a second thought. They were each sitting on their own, behaving quietly and normally.

The woman gave Jane her name and e-mail address, and said she would be happy to meet again. Jane did indeed try to contact her, but never heard from her again. She returned to the Starbucks after that many times, but never saw her again, or the three unusual men. I asked Jane if she felt there was any chance that the woman might have been joking, but Jane’s certain judgment was that she was absolutely not.

I was so curious about this that I flew to meet her, and sat in that Starbucks myself for many hours (with my camera in my pocket!). But nothing unusual transpired.

That’s where the story ends. Jane has now canceled all her e-mail addresses I had for her, and is not returning any messages.

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Space Weather Spotlight | Radio Blackout Risk for Field Day & Streamers Blow Out


Published 26th June 2026 (14:58)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4KOZh9h8pvw

♦ 0:00 Introduction & This Week's Highlights 0:19 Sponsor: Space Weather Certificate Program (Millersville University)
♦ 0:59 Earth-Facing Sun: Active Regions Overview
♦ 1:24 Field Day Weekend: Dayside Radio Noise Forecast
♦ 2:03 Coronal Hole Fast Wind Impact
♦ 2:17 Streamer Blowouts & Solar Filaments
♦ 4:00 Region 4478: X-Flare Watch 5:35 Far-Side Sun: Full 360° Sun Map
♦ 7:51 Current Conditions: Radio Blackouts & GPS Scintillation
♦ 10:01 Moon Phase Update
♦ 10:21 Solar Storm Conditions and Aurora Outlook
♦ 11:43 Solar Flare & Radio Blackout Outlook
♦ 12:39 Radiation Storm & Polar Aviation Outlook
♦ 13:30 Summary & Viewer Takeaways

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New York City's Most Iconic Foods in 24 Hours | Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens



New York City is the ultimate global food capital. In this NYC tour, National Geographic foodie veteran Mark Wiens spends 24 hours in New York eating the most iconic dishes that define the city's culinary soul. From legendary restaurants like Katz's Delicatessen to late-night NYC halal carts, join Mark on a journey through the dishes and personalities that define the city's energy and connect cultures across boroughs.

Published 17th February 2026 (27:11)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CE6Y8tqhO4A

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
New York City's Most Iconic Foods in 24 Hours | Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens



New York City is the ultimate global food capital. In this NYC tour, National Geographic foodie veteran Mark Wiens spends 24 hours in New York eating the most iconic dishes that define the city's culinary soul. From legendary restaurants like Katz's Delicatessen to late-night NYC halal carts, join Mark on a journey through the dishes and personalities that define the city's energy and connect cultures across boroughs.

Published 17th February 2026 (27:11)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CE6Y8tqhO4A

Twenty four hours, that’s enough to properly gauge 2 meals. Not counting the overnight or next day measure of full effect. But maybe he barfs up each meal, like a champion hot dog eater, and starts every subsequent meal fresh. Should that count?

[Johnnycomelately]

Fun to read of the hijinks and rivalry between and among warriors.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-s...ues-180949487/

“Zapping”—sneaking your squadron sticker everywhere—is a long-standing Navy tactic. Doug, our flight engineer on this trip, was a ruthless and fearless zapper. Portable johns and airshow vehicles were just the warm-up. He managed to zap a Canadair CT-114 Tutor belonging to the Snowbirds. I saw our sticker on the side of a C-130, on the boarding ladder of an E-3 AWACS, and on the nose gear of a B-1 bomber with a sentry stationed in front of it.

During a break, I started chatting with the crew chief of a C-17, the Air Force’s newest heavy lifter. He gave me a tour of his airplane, which actually smelled like a new car. The crew rest area was clean and comfortable; the bunks had crisp sheets and wool blankets. Our P-3 rest arrangements consisted of two bunks that flipped down, or wherever you could stretch out on the floor between the electronic racks and the drafty door. I asked if I could try out a bunk, then slipped into it. There it was, inches from my face—our squadron sticker.

[Bluegreen]

~ My Zap Sticker Collection ~







https://www.midwaysailor.com/zapcollection/

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Why does metal stick together in space?





If you push two metal plates together on Earth, nothing happens. But if you take those same plates into the vacuum of space, they can fuse into a single piece of metal.

This phenomenon, called cold welding, has been a known hazard for spacecraft engineers for a long time. So what's actually happening at the atomic level, and why does space make it so much easier?

The answer comes down to a lack of oxygen in space.

Metals are made of lattices — structures where atoms are bonded to one another. But atoms near the surface of a metal aren't bonded to anything on the outward-facing side. If given the chance, they'll "reach out" and share electrons with the surface of another piece of metal.

But on Earth, nearly every metal surface is coated in an oxide layer. The layer is just a few atoms thick and forms when metal meets oxygen.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXTik8NGgQL/

"Once the oxide is formed, it's over," said Julia Greer, a materials scientist at Caltech. "Then it can't cold weld anymore, because the oxygen basically passivates these bonds."

That thin oxide acts like an insulating wrapper. Without it, the free electrons at the surface of one metal piece stop recognizing which atom they belong to. "Those electrons don't know if it's in this piece or if it's in that piece, so they begin sharing the electrons, and essentially that cold welds things together," said Sven Bilén, a professor of engineering design and aerospace engineering at Penn State.

In space, there's no oxygen to rebuild that layer once it's gone. The cold and the radiation make things worse. Bombardment from solar and ionic radiation in orbit can scour metal surfaces clean, Greer said, leaving freshly exposed atoms primed to bond.

"Everything in space is conducive to cold welding," she added.

Metal surfaces are never perfectly smooth, either. At a microscopic level, they're jagged ‪—‬ more like tiny mountain ranges than flat plains, said Zachary Cordero, an aerospace engineer at MIT.

Pressing two surfaces together, especially with any sliding or vibration, can shear off the oxide layer that formed while the metal was on Earth and flatten those peaks into metal-to-metal contact. "You're breaking up the surface oxide, and you're forming metallurgical bonds," Cordero said.

Cold welding in space has long been a problem. "If there is cold welding, things can become stuck in place," said Cordero. "If you have a deployable structure and there's cold welding, you might freeze the mechanism, or a door might become locked, or something might become immobilized, which you don't want."

For example, say you were to add a metal screw to a metal door. After a while, you would not be able to unscrew it because it would have become part of the door.

Bilén pointed to NASA's Galileo probe, which launched in 1989: lubricant loss and vibrations during launch are thought to have stripped the oxide layer from parts of its furled high-gain antenna. When engineers attempted to deploy the antenna in 1991, it never fully opened.




The Galileo spacecraft: Cold welding victim

Some metals are more troublesome than others. Gold and platinum don't form an oxide layer at all, even on Earth, which makes them notoriously prone to cold welding. "Gold definitely is a very notorious metal for cold welding," Greer said, adding that gold's softness lets it conform easily to whatever surface it touches and it bonds even more easily.

Published 28th June 2026 by Larissa G. Capella – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/chemistr...ether-in-space

Printing metal in space with our 3D printer | ESA

(1:17)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gE4sO-1Qc3I

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Dark Matter Expert: New Evidence UFOs Have Been Here For 1 Million Years | Matthew Szydagis

Via RunningDear: Fascinating, lengthy, and edifying. Danny Jones interviews enthusiastic physicist Matthew Szydagis, who estimates there are less than 100 people in the world with his last name.

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

Dark Matter Expert: New Evidence UFOs Have Been Here For 1 Million Years | Matthew Szydagis

• Danny Jones
• September 22, 2025
• 1.12M subscribers

Matthew Szydagis is a professor at the University at Albany Department of Physics, pursuing experimental particle astrophysics, in particular the direct laboratory detection of dark matter. Matthew has been a member of UAPx, helping to seek answers regarding the true nature of UFO's from a scientific perspective.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQZtTgA1N80

00:00 - World's largest dark matter experiment
10:57 - Quantum Mechanics and the Brain
19:06 - How will dark matter change the world?
23:02 - Big bang theory debunked
32:06 - It's getting harder for science to be wrong
41:58 - Why Elon froze dark matter funding
47:32 - New planet discovered & the cosmic pie chart
55:19 - Why anti-gravity research went dark
01:10:35 - The moon landing conspiracy & simulation hypothesis
01:19:45 - Hunting UFOs with radiation detection
01:29:21 - Evidence UFOs have been here for 1.1 million years
1:38:37 - Ancient technological discoveries
01:45:08 - 6 times psuedo-science turned out to be correct
01:55:54 - Other species of hominids
02:02:25 - Why we don't have footage of a UFO crash yet
02:09:27 - UFOs are immune to nuclear weapons
02:16:43 - Proof the Tic Tac UFO is not man-made
02:18:19 - Proof Sean Kirkpatrick lied under oath
02:26:58 - Evidence the Bob Lazar story is fake
02:35:47 - Eric Davis holds the secrets to UFO phenomenon
02:39:53 - New study on Roswell UFO crash material

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Dark Matter Expert: New Evidence UFOs Have Been Here For 1 Million Years | Matthew Szydagis

He lost me right at the beginning, when he stated that they know that dark matter exists because they have observational evidence that it exists, mostly by the study of the effects of gravity.

I would disagree over whether or not this means dark matter exists. What they have is observational evidence that the gravitational model of what astronomers observe, on the galactic and larger scale, doesn't explain what they observe.

But, observing what one cannot explain with current theory, using observed causes, does not determine whether (1) your theory is wrong, or (2) additional hidden causes exist, consistent with your theory.

Are we not seeing it all, or are we not properly understanding even that which we do see?

Gravitationally based scientists and electric universe based scientists will answer that question quite differently.

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Donald E. Scott: Dark Matter Debunked | Thunderbolts

It's time to put to bed the fairytale of Dark Matter. Something so dark and mysterious that it remains undetected after decades of searching with sophisticated instruments. In 2014, a vast network of plasma filaments—the Intergalactic Web—was discovered that connects many if not all the galaxies in the universe. Evidence shows stars are connected to their planets and to other stars, and all galaxies are connected. The more we carefully examine, we find the cosmos interconnected with plasma filaments—also known as Birkeland Currents. Author and electrical engineer Donald E. Scott, PhD, systematically debunks the theory, and most importantly, the rationale, for Dark Matter.

Published 18th June 2022 (21:09)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BWW_mtihc1Q

[Bluegreen]

Earth-Directed X-Flare And CME (Updated)

As predicted, sunspot 4479 erupted on June 30th, producing an X1.1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash.




During the flare, radiation ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, creating a shortwave radio blackout over North America and the Pacific Ocean. Mariners and ham radio operators may have noticed loss of signal at frequencies below 25 MHz around 20:50 UTC.

A Comet Just Plunged Into The Sun

Hours before the June 30th X-flare, a comet plunged into the sun and disintegrated. NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph on GOES-19 recorded the death dive.




The comet was likely a member of the Kreutz family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Several of these fragments are thought to pass by the sun every day. Most are too small to see but occasionally a bigger fragment like this one attracts attention.



All Sky Fireball Network

On June 30, 2026, the network reported 7 fireballs. (7 sporadics)


www.spaceweather.com

In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue).

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UFOs & JFK: He Knew Too Much! (Ft. Danny Sheehan)



Who killed JFK? Answer below.

The conversation delves into the complexities surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, exploring the recent release of declassified files, the involvement of the CIA, and the covert operations that led to the assassination. We discuss the confusion generated by the released documents, the historical context of the assassination, and the political machinations involving Nixon, the Mafia, and the Bay of Pigs invasion. We also touch on Kennedy's evolving policies, particularly regarding Cuba and nuclear disarmament, and the influence of figures like Mary Meyer on his transformation.

This conversation delves into the intricate web of political maneuvering surrounding JFK's presidency, focusing on his vision for a joint US-Soviet space program, the challenges of nuclear disarmament, and the conspiracy theories surrounding his assassination. The discussion highlights the roles of key figures like Dulles and Oswald, the implications of the S-Force, and the potential connections to covert UFO programs, revealing a complex narrative of power, secrecy, and geopolitical strategy.

Themes include the impact of fossil fuels on national security, the hidden treasures of the Philippines, and the intersection of UFOs with government operations. It explores the potential of telepathic communication with extraterrestrial beings and the Church of Scientology's involvement in UFO-related activities.

Published 31st May 2025 (2:47:10)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C4rSj5Aum7w

More:

The Man Involved In Every American Conspiracy (2:58:18)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQXAPCdmPE

[Johnnycomelately]

Philosophical Friday question: What makes us happiest, when watching our world? IMO, it is seeing others fail. The bigger-a** fails, the better.

Nothing demonstrates this more than motorsports, where so much can go wrong and often does.

Happy weekend everybody! 👻🙏🏾♥️😎

Motorsport Fails but they get increasingly more stupid

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XHyX4BcO_FQ

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Why NASA Is Paying Attention to Sloths

The Discovery That Could Transform Space Travel





Yes, the world’s slowest mammal may hold the secret to reaching Mars. A new genetic study has revealed that sloths possess unique DNA sequences linked to their extraordinarily slow metabolism, a discovery that could eventually influence research into ageing, tissue preservation, critical care medicine, and even long-duration human spaceflight. Scientists say these unusual genetic adaptations may help explain how sloths conserve energy so efficiently while remaining remarkably healthy.

Why Scientists Are Suddenly Interested in Sloths

Sloths are famous for moving slowly, but their biology is far more remarkable than their reputation suggests.

They have the lowest metabolic rate of any mammal, often operating at less than half the expected energy expenditure for an animal of their size. They can even allow their body temperature to fluctuate with the environment rather than constantly regulating it, a strategy that dramatically reduces energy consumption.

For decades, researchers have wondered how sloths manage to survive and remain healthy while living in such an extreme low-energy state.

Now, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, and their collaborators have sequenced and analysed the genome of a two-toed sloth, providing the clearest genetic explanation yet.





The Discovery of Sloth “Jumping Genes”

The research uncovered thousands of active transposable elements, often called “jumping genes,” within the sloth genome.

These DNA sequences can copy and insert themselves into different locations in the genome, helping drive evolutionary change. While humans also carry remnants of ancient transposons, many of ours are inactive. In sloths, however, researchers found unique active versions that appear to have been preserved for roughly 30 million years.

Life in Space

Perhaps the most intriguing possibility is space exploration. One of the biggest challenges facing future missions to Mars is keeping astronauts healthy during months or even years in space. Long-duration missions expose crews to muscle loss, bone degradation, radiation exposure and metabolic stress.

Scientists have long discussed the possibility of placing astronauts into hibernation-like states during interplanetary voyages, reducing resource consumption and limiting some physiological damage.

While sloths do not hibernate, their ability to maintain health while operating with exceptionally low energy expenditure offers a fascinating natural model. Understanding the genetic mechanisms behind their metabolism could help researchers explore how humans might one day safely enter reduced-metabolic states during deep-space missions.

The idea remains speculative, but researchers believe sloth cells could become valuable laboratory models for studying how living organisms cope with prolonged low-energy conditions.

Published 6th June 2026 by Lilia Trubka – Orbital Today
https://orbitaltoday.com/2026/06/16/...-space-travel/

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Happy 90th birthday to Guy Ottewell, chart-maker of the night sky




Self portrait

The man behind the yearly Astronomical Calendar

Beloved British astronomer Guy Ottewell turns 90 on July 4, 2026. EarthSky wishes him a warm congrats on completing another trip around the sun. Guy Ottewell is best known worldwide for his beautiful astronomy charts and hand-illustrated yearly Astronomical Calendar, of which 2026 will be the final year. Virtually every astronomy educator knows Guy’s calendar and employs it in teaching about the night sky and outer space. Millions have benefited from Ottewell’s unique view of outer space.

Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar was popular as a printed book from 1974 to 2016. Thousands of sky-lovers in more than 100 countries purchased it. It took a hiatus beginning in 2017, but returned in 2023, in both printed and electronic formats. 2026 is the final year of Guy Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar.

And if you’re a regular reader of any astronomical publication, you’ll have seen many of his charts in sky guides and more over the years.




2026 chart showing the evening apparition of the brightest planet, Venus, by Guy Ottewell. This chart shows Venus from the Southern Hemisphere; the Northern Hemisphere path is similar, but the planet doesn’t get as high in the sky. Planet images are at the 1st, 11th, and 21st of each month.

Guy:

I had done well enough at school in Greek and Latin to earn a scholarship to Cambridge, but, while there, studied Arabic, Persian, archaeology and anthropology. On vacations, I made hitchhiking journeys to Switzerland (to work in a theater), Morocco, and Iran and Afghanistan (returning from there via central Asia and Finland).

My first extended job was at a school in Arab Jerusalem, living there with my late wife Barbara. At Manchester University, and then at UCLA, I cataloged their libraries’ books in Middle Eastern languages. While at Manchester, I was encouraged to make a study of modern Hebrew, and traveled around Israel, once living in a kibbutz.

For two years, I was a teacher at a native American “demonstration” school in the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Open-air camping during my travels had inspired me to know the stars, but it was at the Navajo school that I first had use of a telescope. And I collected Navajo star lore.

Then my wife was asked to start a Montessori school at Greenville, South Carolina, so we moved. Being ready to turn from astronomy to another side of nature – plants – I grew 80 kinds of vegetables and made botanical drawings.

But I was asked by Professor Bill Brantley, of the Physics Department at Furman University, to show the stars to students. This led to his suggestion of an astronomical yearbook that the Physics department could publish. This later became the yearly Astronomical Calendar. It turned out to meet a need, and I had to teach myself trigonometry and computer programming.

The early publishing imprint Astronomical Workshop – under which the Calendar and other works were initially released – had to become Universal Workshop when I took to the printer a book about human rights. I then added publications in some of my other fields of interest – history, fiction, poetry. Though not an employee of the university, I had the use of storage space and an office for fulfilling orders.

In 2001, I moved to England with my wife, Tilly, a journalist, and continued to publish the Astronomical Calendar.

My more recent journeys have been to see solar eclipses in Canada, Kenya, Java, Mexico, West Texas, India, Mongolia, the Caribbean, Turkey, Australia; to Peru at the time of Halley’s Comet; and long cycle rides in Italy, Turkey, Greece and India.

2026 chart showing the path of Comet Encke relative to the ecliptic plane (Earth-sun plane). Comets’ paths are drawn as thicker when brighter. Ticks mark the start of days 1, 11 and 21 of each month.




A view of Earth from space showing the timing and path of the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026

Sky dome map for visible planets and night sky



Published 4th July 2026 by Editors, EarthSky
https://earthsky.org/human-world/guy...dar-companion/

[petra]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
Philosophical Friday question: What makes us happiest, when watching our world? IMO, it is seeing others fail. The bigger-a** fails, the better.

I'd rather watch people dancing, than failing. I do love those "fail videos" though. I know some people that seem to be kind of addicted to them and I can totally see why.

[Bluegreen]

2026 Fails in Review



Oopsy-daisy.

(19:06)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z22ThIRzGQo

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NASA Needs Volunteers For Simulated Off-World Missions





NASA plans to begin recruiting volunteers for a new simulated deep-space mission that will begin no earlier than August 2027.

The year-long program will place participants at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will live and work in isolated, interplanetary-like environments. The exercise aims to mimic conditions crews would face during missions to the Moon or to Mars. More to the point, the experience seeks to gather information that can improve astronaut safety and readiness for future surface operations. The findings may also influence plans for a sustained lunar presence through Moon Base efforts and upcoming Artemis missions.

NASA is seeking applicants for this roughly year-long simulation, which will occur inside two connected habitats. In addition to meeting specific physical and education requirements, volunteers must be prepared to undergo a multi-day selection process.

They must also pass NASA’s physical and psychological assessments, which are described on the Moon and Mars Exploration Analog web page. Candidates should show a strong interest in unique, meaningful experiences and a willingness to contribute to NASA’s work preparing for extended stays on the lunar surface and the first crewed mission to Mars.

To apply, visit:

https://analogstudies.jsc.nasa.gov/mmea



Published 5th July 2026 – Orbital Today

https://orbitaltoday.com/2026/07/05/...orld-missions/

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Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZCj361g8Ak/