Up At The Ranch And Beyond

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

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Record Marsquake
More evidence of the Galactic Superwave, which causes the current 12,000 year solar cycle/geomagnetic pole reversal that is underway now.
Experts (except for "catastrophists") cannot (or will not) explain this kind of very unusual phenomena which is being seen all over the solar system, and in the space between here and the Great Central Sun from which the Galactic Superwave periodically issues.
It's not over yet...not for another 2-3 decades, and changes will be on the increase as the Wave continues expanding.

Posted by onawah (here)
Record Marsquake, Antarctic Anomaly, New Sunspots Appear
Sep.6.2026
SpaceWeatherNews (S0)
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Live Magma At Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Bigger Marsquakes: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
STEVE Messes With Satellites: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.25764

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tDOTZydmh6U

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The Night Sky






A – The moon is now waning, rising in the east only shortly before sunrise. New moon – when the moon passes generally between the Earth and sun – will fall later this week at 3:27 UTC on September 11. Between now and new moon, the waning crescent will sweep past Jupiter in the eastern, predawn sky. And Jupiter is easy to spot. It’s the brightest thing up there before sunrise. Watch for the moon and Jupiter – especially on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week – as dawn’s light begins to glow.

B – NOAA’s CCOR-1 coronagraph aboard the GOES-19 spacecraft spotted the moon drifting through its field of view, on its way to the August 12, 2026, total solar eclipse. CCOR-1 blocks the sun’s blinding face with an occulting disk so it can watch the faint outer corona for coronal mass ejections. The moment of new moon will fall at 3:27 UTC on September 11, 2026. That’s 10:27 p.m. Central Daylight Time on September 10 in the Americas. And it’s 3:27 p.m. New Zealand Standard Time on September 11. New moons rise and set with the sun. Nights around the new moon offer the darkest skies.

C – Here’s another don’t-miss view involving a crescent moon and a super-bright planet. Shortly after sunset on September 13 and 14, the thin waxing moon will sweep past brilliant Venus. And Venus is at its greatest brilliancy this week! Be sure to step outside for this sweet sky scene. The farther south you are on Earth’s globe, the better. The moon will occult, or pass in front of, Venus – in daylight for most possible observing locations – at 11 UTC on September 14.

D – Shortly after sunset on September 15, the young moon will hang between blazing Venus – at its brightest for this evening apparition around now – and the bright red star Antares, Heart of Scorpius the Scorpion.

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Alien Sphere Emitting Orbs | Island of Madagascar Aug 9, 2026 | UFO Sightings Daily



Wait for it ...

Published 10th August 2026 (5:07) Credit: NUFORC

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hxbbl5Zvvz8

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Designer Creates Digital Camouflage Shirt to Avoid AI Surveillance





World's loudest Hawaiian shirt?

Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems.

Developed in response to a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI) video surveillance at Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, which starts this month, the shirt was designed to stop the user being recognised as a person.
Named Digital Camouflage, the shirt aims to confuse the AI-powered object-detection system by subverting what the system recognises as a person.

"AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is – they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images," said Weckert.

"In the early layers it's edges, contrasts and texture gradients; deeper in the network it's part-like patterns: the head-and-shoulders silhouette, the proportions of limbs against a torso, the continuity of a body's outline against the background," he continued.

"A 'person', for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics – and that is exactly its weakness."

The shirt uses a combination of bright colours and patterns to confuse the AI systems so that it doesn't recognise what it is seeing as a person.

"Both [colour and pattern], and neither alone – it's their interplay, optimised against the machine rather than the human eye," said Weckert.

"The saturated colour transitions fire strongly in the network's early layers, while the overlapping shapes break the continuity of the body's outline, so the detector can no longer bind the parts into one figure," he continued.





"The pattern essentially shouts over the quiet statistical whisper that says 'person'. To a human it reads as an almost hypnotic textile; to the AI model it reads as nothing at all."

Published 25th August 2026 by Tom Ravenscroft – Dezeen.com
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/di...simon-weckert/

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The Eclipse and the Stork by Włodzimierz Bubak



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse.

If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime animal behaviors. During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies. In the dark, most birds are quiet. Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their beaks tucked into their back feathers (they don't really sleep with their heads tucked under one wing).

When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new "morning" with their dawn songs. The crickets and frogs go quiet again. Animals and people resume their lives, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.

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FA&FO



An American Airlines passenger, who had to be duct-taped to his plane seat by passengers and staff after going on an alleged alcohol-fueled rant, has been identified as Arizona realtor Layne Arthur Lundeen, 67. Lundeen is was a vice president for Long Realty in Tucson. F-ck around and find out!

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The Aftermath of a Solar Flare by Mark Johnston (Scottsdale, Arizona)





On Aug. 21, 2026, an unusually long-lasting M-class flare erupted from a sunspot group near the Sun’s west limb. As the flare’s stretched magnetic field lines reconnected and relaxed, they filled with hot plasma that cooled and drained along the loops, producing the glowing arcade seen here in Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) light. The imager stacked and processed high-speed video captured over 2 hours and 16 minutes into a time-lapse gif.

Click here to view entire video in full resolution:
https://www.astronomy.com/wp-content...2026-08-21.mp4

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Rocket Launch: ‘Space Jellyfish’





What used to be a rare sight gracing the twilight sky is now becoming strangely commonplace. If you live on either U.S. coast, you have a good chance at seeing what’s become a common sky scene in our modern technocene era: a space launch jellyfish.

It’s all about viewing geometry. An iridescent launch plume occurs near dusk or dawn, around an hour before local sunrise or after local sunset. These can appear especially dramatic, as the feathery exhaust trail rises over the curve of the Earth and hits sunlight, all while you’re watching it evolve from dark skies below.

These can take on some pretty strange (and, for the unsuspecting, startling) looking shapes, from a bulbous tentacled jellyfish to a slow moving, luminous 'comet'.





The increasing launch tempo has made this once rare scene commonplace, though that’s always in flux. The last five years broke the record for sheer number of launches worldwide, and 2026 seems to be continuing this trend.

Ironically, SpaceX just announced that the Starlink Group 10-49 launch from the Cape on August 25th may be the last from the Florida Space Coast, as the company transitions to launching Starlinks en masse onboard their massive Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas and a future Louisiana-based facility.

Published 8th September 2026 by David Dickinson – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articl...pace-jellyfish

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Stoners




This skull of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer that was found in Sulawesi, Indonesia shows extreme dental wear caused by sucking on betel nuts.

World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia

Hunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts, likely to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.

The world's oldest known habitual drug use can be traced to an island in Indonesia, where ice age hunter-gatherers sucked on betel nuts — palm seeds that contain a neuroactive substance, a new study finds.

Scientists made the discovery after studying strange grooves in the teeth of two prehistoric hunter-gatherers. The deep grooves were caused by regularly sucking on betel nuts (Areca catechu), likely for relief from the pain of toothache, according to the study, which was published in the journal Science Advances.

The partial skeletons of the two people were found on the island of Sulawesi, but their lives were separated in time by thousands of years. One of them, a man who died between about the ages of 40 and 50, lived between 25,000 and 16,000 years ago. This period roughly corresponds to the Last Glacial Maximum, the coldest part of the last ice age — although Sulawesi was not covered with ice at that time.

The second person, who was around the same age when they died, lived on Sulawesi between 7,600 and 6,300 years ago, according to the study. The sex of this individual could not be determined.

Betel nuts contain a neuroactive compound called arecoline, which has a powerful stimulant effect when chewed with slaked lime, or calcium hydroxide.

Published 9th September 2026 by Tom Metcalfe Laura Geggel, Kristina Killgrove – Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeol...s-to-indonesia

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“Movement and Change" | Kelly Boesch | 4K



AI surreal video by Kelly Boesch.

(2:32)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j7CdI49_CnM

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GET READY FOR THE GIANT BLUEBIRD SATELLITES





The largest commercial satellite antennas ever put in orbit are about to fly over the USA, producing a series of "mini trains" over towns and cities in most states.

Introducing the BlueBirds: They've been called "cell phone towers in space," designed to deliver broadband to ordinary phones anywhere on Earth. AST SpaceMobile launched the prototype in 2022, and now there are a dozen in Earth orbit.

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

The newest BlueBirds are the largest, with flat antennas about the size of a tennis court (2,400 sq ft): BlueBirds 11, 12 and 13 launched together on Aug. 5th. Two of them (12 and 13) have recently unfurled their giant antennas, while BlueBird 11 appears to be in the process.

Few people have been tracking these satellites. Early sightings suggest that they are about as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper when they pass directly overhead. This makes them easy naked-eye targets.





On Sept. 12-14, The BlueBirds will fly over the USA in a train with 3 to 7 minutes between satellites. Skies will be dark: New Moon is Sept. 10th, and the Moon is below the horizon during almost every evening pass.

www.spaceweather.com

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This video shows a timelapse of Rome at the location of the Colosseum that runs from 950 BC to 2030. Why it ran from 2027 to 2030 isn't clear and I wondered if there was some kind of harbinger clue there.

Timelapse Studio

06/24/26 (21:50)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BUkfj75-Q

Rome was not built in a day, and this video is proof of that.

In this episode, your window reveals a timelapse of one of the most dramatic urban evolutions in human history. For over two millennia, Rome was shaped by political revolutions, wars, plagues, the rise and fall of empires, and a continuous cycle of destruction and renewal.

Among its most dramatic chapters is the era of the Domus Aurea. After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, Emperor Nero seized vast areas across the Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills to build his sprawling Golden House, complete with an enormous artificial lake at its heart. Just a few years later, that same lake would be drained and filled to lay the foundations of the Colosseum.

Over time, the valley around the Colosseum fell into ruin and silence. During the Middle Ages, the Roman Forum, once the center of the ancient world, became little more than an open field known for centuries as “Campo Vaccino”, a grazing ground for cattle.

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ESA’s First Lunar Rover Rolls Forward





During a signing ceremony at the Space for Inspiration event in Copenhagen, Denmark, the European Space Agency (ESA) and ispace-Europe celebrated the implementation of MAGPIE, set to be the first European rover on the Moon.

MAGPIE, the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration, is ESA's first lunar rover. Designed to operate for roughly 10 Earth days, the rover will explore the Moon's south pole to detect and measure the presence of water and other volatiles and analyse the lunar subsurface geology. 

Equipped with a drill, volatile analyser, ground-penetrating radar and neutron detector, the rover is planned to launch in 2029 and will improve our understanding of the lunar environment and the resources it may contain – critical knowledge for the next phase of lunar exploration.

“The Moon’s south pole is a key destination for future exploration. By prospecting for water and other volatile resources, MAGPIE will provide critical knowledge for the next phase of sustainable lunar exploration,” said Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration.

“Combining ambitious scientific and technological objectives with a faster, more cost-effective development model, the mission brings together European expertise and international cooperation through our partnership with JAXA."

"MAGPIE brings together some of Europe’s leading scientific and engineering expertise around a shared ambition for the Moon. We are proud to lead this consortium alongside ESA, combining commercial delivery with world-class science to investigate the lunar south pole while building Europe’s operational capability on the lunar surface. The knowledge and experience we build through MAGPIE will extend far beyond this mission, helping to lay the foundations for future lunar exploration missions globally.”

- Julien-Alexandre Lamamy, CEO at ispace-Europe

A render of MAGPIE, ESA's first lunar rover, on the Moon

Published 02/09/2026 by ESA
https://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat..._rolls_forward

Meanwhile ...

China Lands on Moon's Far Side in Historic Mission | REUTERS



Having already landed on a region no other country has reached, China is emerging as the much-agreed-upon world leader in space exploration. China's Tiangong ('Heavenly Palace') Space Station is presently in orbit (crewed and operated by a growing team of male and female taikonauts), while grumblings continue about abandoning the aging International Space Station.

Published 2nd June 2024 (1:02)

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

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Examining the Human Psyche



The Hidden Forces Behind Our Beliefs | Framed By Existence | BBC Earth Science

What shapes the beliefs we hold about life, identity, and control? From ancient rituals to modern neuroscience, Max Tobin explores how subtle forces guide how we make sense of the world (and ourselves).

Published 25th March 2026 (10:54)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y60ZhCmAnLM

Why Shame, Power & Fear Rule Society | Framed By Existence | BBC Earth Science

Presenter Max explores the evolutionary psychology behind shame, power and fear, revealing how these ancient social instincts still shape modern behaviour and decision‑making in society today.

Published 18th March 2026 (9:33)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W-sdF9Pftck

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10 Celebrities Who Refuse to Use Modern Technology



Published 8th September 2026 (11:47)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mM_ASQag93o

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4K Video of Liquid in Space



Astronauts on the International Space Station dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water, and captured colorful images using an 'Epic Dragon' camera, capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-def cameras.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bKk_7NIKY3Y

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SETI Institute / ETH Zurich Join Forces to Search for Origins of Life

Mountain View, CA -- The question of how life originated and whether it exists elsewhere in the universe has fascinated humanity for centuries. Now, ETH Zurich and the SETI Institute in California are joining forces to seek answers. The two institutions have agreed on a strategic partnership and signed a corresponding agreement.

ETH Zurich is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854, the university primarily teaches and conducts research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.





At the heart of the collaboration is a new assistant professorship, to be called ‘Earth and Planetary Evolution’, which will be based in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich. The professorship will play a key role at ETH’s Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL).

A shared interest in one of science’s great questions

Both the SETI Institute and COPL are investigating how life arises and how widespread it might be in the universe. The new ETH professorship, advertised on August 28, 2026, is intended to strengthen this research and establish closer links between complementary scientific disciplines. Topics may include biosignatures – measurable indications of life – habitability and habitable environments, as well as the co-evolution of life and the environment on Earth and on planets outside our solar system.

Through the professorship and the associated research activities, ETH Zurich aims to bring together complementary approaches from Earth and planetary sciences and related fields, opening up new perspectives on the origin and evolution of life.

The SETI Institute will provide start-up funding for the professorship over a ten-year period, with a total contribution of 8.5 million US dollars. The contribution will support the establishment phase of the ETH professorship and associated research activities, including a research scientist and postdoctoral research positions.

Swiss leaders looking forward

“Many of today’s major scientific questions can only be answered through collaboration,” said ETH President Joël Mesot. “By teaming up with the SETI Institute, we are gaining a renowned partner that enhances our academic expertise and fosters new interdisciplinary and international connections.”

For COPL, which was founded in 2022, the partnership opens up new opportunities. The center’s director, Nobel Laureate in Physics Didier Queloz said, “The partnership with the SETI Institute is an exciting opportunity to build a strong and enduring connection between our institutions. It leverages our complementary expertise and a shared ambition to address one of science’s most fundamental questions: the origin and prevalence of life in the Universe.”

Published 1st September 2026 by SETI
https://www.seti.org/news/seti-insti...h-join-forces/

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Scientists Turn Common Plastic Waste Into Fuel Using Heated Salts





Plastic bags, cutting boards, and many other everyday products are made from a plastic that is notoriously difficult to reuse once it becomes waste. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have now found a way to break down this plastic and turn it into gasoline-like and diesel-like fuels using a relatively simple mixture of heated salts.

The plastic is polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics in the world. In laboratory experiments, the new process converted it at temperatures below 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit), far cooler than many conventional methods, and produced a gasoline yield of about 60%.

The method also avoided several ingredients commonly needed to turn plastic into fuel. It did not require expensive precious metal catalysts, organic solvents, or an outside supply of hydrogen, as the molten salts replace harsher chemistry.

At the heart of the process are molten salts containing aluminum chloride. Molten salts are simply salts heated until they form a liquid. In this case, the liquid salt mixture served both as the environment where the reaction took place and as the catalyst that helped drive it.

“We converted polymer waste to value-added fuels by using commercially available inorganic salts as the reaction media to provide the catalytic sites,” said Zhenzhen Yang, an ORNL staff scientist who was also a co-corresponding author of the paper.

“Unlike traditional techniques for converting polymer to fuel, the new process did not require noble-metal catalysts, organic solvents or external hydrogen. This is the first time molten salts were used as media to produce high-value-added chemicals from waste without any catalytic initiator or solvent and at temperature below 200 degrees Celsius.”





The method still has an important drawback. The aluminum-based molten salt readily absorbs water, which makes the system less stable. The researchers now hope to develop ways to better contain and protect the molten salts, potentially using halogens or carbon-based materials to improve separation and processing.

If those challenges can be overcome and the process can be scaled beyond the laboratory, discarded polyethylene could become a source of useful fuel-like chemicals rather than remaining difficult plastic waste. The team has applied for a patent on the method.

“Polymer source material is abundantly available from consumer waste, and our catalyst system, aluminum molten salts, is very cheap. This advance may be promising for industry and our planet.”

Published 13th September 2026 by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-...-heated-salts/

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Space Rock | Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze

The Dark Side Of The Moog

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Mother - Pt. 3

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P7k1K4-uFxg