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Post by swamprat on Feb 17, 2019 3:27:34 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 17, 2019 11:28:21 GMT
Good morning, good morning, good morning,
Telegraph
Newly discovered footage may solve riddle of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance
Julian Ryall, in Tokyo 17 February 2019 • 4:44am
Researchers attempting to determine the fate of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering flier who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, believe that newly discovered footage of her aircraft will help solve one of aviation’s longest-running mysteries.
After 10 years of negotiations, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has purchased a reel of 16mm film of Ms Earhart’s Electra aircraft being refuelled at an airstrip in Lae, New Guinea, shortly before she took off on the leg of her round-the-world trip that would take her to the Pacific island of Howland.
The researchers are hoping to be able to enhance the film to a degree at which it is possible to determine the exact shape of the panel and the lines of rivets that were used to attach it to the airframe, and then match it with an artefact discovered in the Pacific in 1991.
Attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe close to the equator, Ms Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae on July 2, 1937, but failed to locate Howland.
TIGHAR researchers have disputed the commonly held theory that the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, suggesting that she would have had sufficient fuel to reach uninhabited Gardner Island, then a British protectorate but now a part of the Republic of Kiribati and known as Nikumaroro.
A series of expeditions to the island have yielded a number of tantalising clues, including a panel of aircraft aluminium that TIGHAR believes perfectly matches a patch that was used to replace a window in the rear cabin of Ms Earhart’s aircraft.
Measuring 19 inches by 23 inches, the aluminium is an exact match for the Electra and has a series of five parallel lines of rivet holes.
Efforts to prove that the patch comes from Ms Earhart’s aircraft have been frustrated by a lack of documented evidence of the repair patch and a no images of sufficiently high resolution to enable a comparison.
In 2008, the organisation was contacted by a woman who said she had still images and a film showing Ms Earhart and her aircraft in New Guinea. The images were taken by a mining engineer who had been a relative of her husband and she had acquired them as part of a divorce settlement.
After a decade of negotiations on the price, TIGHAR purchased the footage and stills, which have yielded 24 still images of the rear of the aircraft and show the patch.
TIGHAR has launched a drive to raise the $2,000 required to have the brittle acetate film scanned at high resolution and rendered into digital format. A forensic analyst will then be able to compare the images with the artefact and, the group hopes, conclusively state whether or not it came from Ms Earhart’s aircraft.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/17/newly-discovered-footage-may-solve-riddle-amelia-earharts-disappearance/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 17, 2019 12:40:44 GMT
Express and Star (United Kingdom)
West Midlands Police called to 66 paranormal incidents over past five years
By Jamie Brassington Published: Feb 7, 2019
From a 'ghost on the motorway' to a 'poltergeist in Wolverhampton', a total of 66 haunted sightings have been reported to police in the last few years.
West Midlands Police has investigated 66 paranormal sightings in the past five years, new figures show.
Among those are a ghost sighting on a motorway and a poltergeist in Wolverhampton.
In the Black Country, the biggest number of paranormal sightings were made in Sandwell, with eight taking place in the past five years.
Across the region, the most common reported sighting was a 'spirit', with 29 calls made to West Midlands Police.
'Ghosts' were reported on 26 occasions since 2014, while there were 10 'haunted' reports.
The figures were revealed through a Freedom of Information request by the Express & Star.
Police officers combed through the force's logs for reports under the names ghost, haunted, spirit and poltergeist.
However a West Midlands Police spokesman said the data should be 'interpreted with caution' as the information has come from a range of sources.
In one incident, police were called to reports of a poltergeist at a Wolverhampton address in 2017.
And one person reported spotting a 'ghost on a motorway' in 2016.
Unsurprisingly, police took 'no further action' in most paranormal reports after arriving at the scene.
One two occasions, police enquired further which was to reports of a 'spirit' in Dudley, in separate incidents in 2014 and 2017.
A further breakdown of the statistics show six paranormal reports were made in Dudley since 2014, five were made in Walsall and four in Wolverhampton.
One report, which was made in East Birmingham in 2017, was listed 'as false and malicious' and wasted police time.
The West Midlands is a historic region with a number of old buildings and areas allegedly haunted - including those in the Black Country.
Among a few of them is Dudley Castle, Dudley; The Station Hotel, Dudley; The Manor House, West Bromwich; Holbeche House, Kingswinford; and the woods of Cannock Chase.
www.expressandstar.com/news/2019/02/07/west-midlands-police-called-to-66-paranormal-incidents-over-past-five-years/
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Post by swamprat on Feb 17, 2019 17:51:05 GMT
Chilling image of downtown LA posted online by terrorist group By: Oscar Flores, FOX 11
FEB 16 2019
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11) - Los Angeles police are looking into a chilling photo posted to the internet on Friday by an ISIS-supporting group showing a photoshopped explosion to a high-rise in downtown Los Angeles.
The disturbing, photoshopped image has been circulating on dozens of websites and media publications and shows a person in uniform with their face hidden and holding what appears to be the ISIS flag posing in front of the downtown skyline at night with a blast at the top of the Aon Center.
LAPD tweeted that at this time they have not been able to find a credible threat to the city’s buildings in connection with a social media post. However, law enforcement officials continue to work with federal agencies to "coordinate any information that will lead to the source of the post."
www.foxla.com/news/local-news/chilling-image-of-downtown-la-posted-online-by-terrorist-group?fbclid=IwAR2mHzL861ukSMBSt24iasz4mAiIxtIxpxrnIa2Tf2Kphi0ThxGLk-OeVKk
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Post by swamprat on Feb 17, 2019 19:37:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 19:43:08 GMT
Bill Gates backs tiny robotic surgeons that operate from inside a patient’s body Bill Gates has thrown $10 million behind the development of tiny camera-wielding surgical robots that can be placed inside a person’s body through a small incision and controlled by a surgeon anywhere in the world via VR. The innovative technology uses miniscule robots combined with virtual reality to carry out a groundbreaking new concept for minimally invasive surgery. The human-like bots consist of two arms and a head. The arms are controlled by a surgeon as they move their own arms, while the head acts as the surgeon’s eyes so they can see inside the patient’s body and virtually perform the procedure from within. The operation can theoretically be carried out from hundreds of miles away – providing there’s a strong internet connection, of course. “A lot of our long-term vision is about growing and scaling our technology to the point where it’s accessible not just to big cities and major hospitals in the US [but] also the small cities and towns in the rural US and around the world as well,” said Sachs. Most hospitals can’t afford the $2-million robots needed to perform today’s robotic surgeries, says Sachs, but by making the devices much smaller, the technology will be more widely available. “Long-term, it’s about the democratization of surgery that can come from surgical robotics,” he said.
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Post by swamprat on Feb 17, 2019 21:05:16 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 18, 2019 11:33:51 GMT
Hey Ya'll
Express (United Kingdom)
UFO sighting? Police release eerie CCTV video – 'we are not alone'
CCTV FOOTAGE released by Broome Police shows a bright mushroom-shaped object hovering in the sky during a thunderstorm in the far north-west of Australia on Saturday night.
By Katie Weston 18 February 2019
Police have released eerie footage of a glowing round object appearing during a fierce thunderstorm in a remote area in Australia’s far north-west. The mysterious video shows the object tilted on its side before zooming into the distance. The strange object appears in the left-hand corner just after a lightning strike. Broome Police tweeted the CCTV footage and hinted towards a UFO, posting: “After reviewing CCTV at town beach of last night’s storm, it appears we are not alone”.
more after the jump:
www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1088723/ufo-sighting-latest-alien-australia-police-2019-aliens-space-video-footage-cctv
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 18, 2019 11:38:35 GMT
Bloomberg News
China Wants to Build the First Power Station in Space
18 February 2019
(Bloomberg) -- China’s space ambitions are shifting into a higher orbit.
Following its successful and world-beating trip to the far side of the moon, China is preparing to build a solar power station in space, as the world’s No. 2 economy strives to burnish its superpower credentials. With an $8 billion annual budget for its space program, second only to the U.S., China is seeking to compete with its rival for economic, military and technological dominance.
Scientists have already started construction of an experimental base in the western Chinese city Chongqing. Initially, they plan to develop a smaller power station in the stratosphere between 2021 and 2025, a 1 megawatt-level solar facility in space by 2030, and eventually larger generators, according to the state-backed Science and Technology Daily.
Here’s what China’s been doing in space:
Moon Exploration
The nation’s space scientists successfully landed a lunar probe on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3, capping a series of missions and giving a boost to China’s ambitions. Landing on the unexplored region will enable Chang’e-4, the rover named after the mythical Moon Goddess, to better study the moon because of the lack of electromagnetic interference from Earth. The vehicle is equipped with a low-frequency radio spectrometer to help scientists understand “how the earliest stars were ignited and how our cosmos emerged from darkness after the Big Bang,” according to China’s official Xinhua News Agency.
Green Shoots
Reminiscent of the 2015 science fiction film “The Martian” starring Matt Damon, China’s lunar mission is also testing if the barren moon can support life. Pictures sent back from Chang’e-4 last month showed the first green leaf from cotton seeds nine days after the experiment was initiated, according to Chongqing University, which led the biological project. The test load on the mission carried cotton, canola, potato, yeast and fruit fly.
China has more such missions in the pipeline. Four more versions of the Chang’e probe are in the offing, with at least two of them planned for a landing on the moon’s south pole, according to Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of the China National Space Administration. The agency will also explore setting up a research base on the moon. A Mars probe is likely by the end of this decade.
Space Station
China aims to build its own space station around 2022. Dubbed Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace, it will have a core module and two other modules for experiments, altogether weighing 66 tonnes and able to carry three people, with a designed life cycle of at least 10 years. The facility would be used for scientific research in a dozen areas including biology, physics and material sciences.
Private Rockets
A mock up of the Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) headquarters.
President Xi Jinping has loosened the government’s monopoly on space launches, fueling the formation of small domestic companies with dreams of challenging companies such as Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The startups are receiving funding from China-based venture capitalists and private equity investors and can also rely on the expertise of rocket scientists from China’s space program.
GPS Challenger
Taking its rivalry with the U.S. to the heavens, China is spending at least $9 billion to build a navigation system and cut its dependence on the American-owned GPS -- whose satellites beam location data used by smartphones, car navigation systems, the microchip in your dog’s neck and guided missiles. And, all those satellites are controlled by the U.S. Air Force, making the Chinese government uncomfortable. So, it has developed an alternative called the Beidou Navigation System, which eventually will provide positioning accuracies of 1 meter (3 feet) or less with use of a ground support system.
Space Junk
The Asian power is developing sophisticated space capabilities such as “satellite inspection and repair” and clearing up orbiting junk -- “at least some of which could also function” as weapons against U.S. satellites, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said this month. China’s Foreign Ministry has said the U.S. allegations were “groundless.”
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-wants-to-build-the-first-power-station-in-space/ar-BBTKiai
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Post by swamprat on Feb 18, 2019 15:14:35 GMT
Mattel Is Launching Astrophysicist Barbie This Year (an Astronaut, Too!) By Kasandra Brabaw 21 hours ago
Astrophysicist Barbie was developed by Mattel and National Geographic to inspire kids to pursue STEM fields. (Image: © Mattel)
NEW YORK — The iconic doll Barbie will look to the heavens as an astrophysicist and astronaut this year in an effort by toy-maker Mattel to inspire young girls into STEM fields.
Since Barbie first launched in 1959, encouraging girls to dream big has always been a goal of the company, a Mattel representative told Space.com here at Toy Fair 2019. With Barbie’s 60th birthday coming up in 2019, the brand wanted to recreate several of the doll’s most successful careers, including an iconic astronaut design.
Barbie has a long history of exploring the cosmos, having first donned a spacesuit more than 50 years ago.
"Barbie took her first spacewalk in 1965 and has been shooting for the stars ever since,"reads the back of the new Barbie's packaging. The first astronaut Barbie was named "Miss Astronaut." The doll was redesigned in 1985, 1994, 1998, and 2016, with her spacesuit changing in each incarnation— sometimes not-so-realistic, like the '80s doll who wore a pink and silver mini-skirt spacesuit with sparkly tights, and sometimes more realistic like when Mattel collaborated with NASA on a Mars Explorer doll in 2013. More recently, Mattel has released an Astronaut and Space Scientist in a two-pack.
The new Barbie Career 60th Anniversary Astronaut is already available and retails for $9.99. She comes with a white space suit decorated with pockets, wires, and monitors in blue and pink, as well as a white space helmet, gloves, and shoes. "In celebration of her long career in space, she takes off on a new adventure, planting a flag for girls all over the world," the box reads.
But the new astronaut Barbie isn’t the only one going on space adventures this year. Mattel has collaborated with National Geographic to create a line of STEM career Barbies, including an astrophysicist. This line of Barbie dolls was specifically focused on science occupations in which women are underrepresented.
Among the line are: a Wildlife Conservationist, a Polar Marine Biologist, a Wildlife Photojournalist, an Entomologist, as well as the Astrophysicist. Each doll was developed with the help of a National Geographic advisory team made up of female National Geographic Explorers and National Geographic magazine editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg.
The advisory team helped Mattel create accessories that are relevant for each Barbie’s career. Astrophysicist Barbie, for example, comes with a telescope, a star chart, and a fun nebula-printed shirt (like you'd likely find in the closet of a a real-life astrophysicist).
"Helping people understand the world is, and always has been, the core purpose of National Geographic," Goldberg said in press release. "Through our partnership with Barbie, we are excited to reach kids in a new way, using the power of play to inspire our next generation of explorers, scientists and photographers."
Astrophysicist Barbie will be available in the fall and retails for $14.99.
www.space.com/astrophysicist-barbie-astronaut-doll-mattel-2019.html
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 1:57:27 GMT
Sys Groundbreaking Just Around The Corner Report
Telepathy Just Around The Corner Brain Boffins Baffled when disconnected tissue communicate.. I know how you feel ..literally
Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural CommunicationPETER DOCKRILL 18 FEB 2019 Scientists think they've identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another – even if they've been surgically severed. The discovery offers some radical new insights about the way neurons might be talking to one another, via a mysterious process unrelated to conventionally understood mechanisms, such as synaptic transmission, axonal transport, and gap junction connections. "We don't know yet the 'So what?' part of this discovery entirely," says neural and biomedical engineer Dominique Durand from Case Western Reserve University. "But we do know that this seems to be an entirely new form of communication in the brain, so we are very excited about this." Before this, scientists already knew there was more to neural communication than the above-mentioned connections that have been studied in detail, such as synaptic transmission. For example, researchers have been aware for decades that the brain exhibits slow waves of neural oscillations whose purpose we don't understand, but which appear in the cortex and hippocampus when we sleep, and so are hypothesised to play a part in memory consolidation. "The functional relevance of this input‐ and output‐decoupled slow network rhythm remains a mystery," explains neuroscientist Clayton Dickinson from the University of Alberta, who wasn't involved in the new research but has discussed it in a perspective article. "But [it's] one that will probably be solved by an elucidation of both the cellular and the inter‐cellular mechanisms giving rise to it in the first place." To that end, Durand and his team investigated slow periodic activity in vitro, studying the brain waves in hippocampal slices extracted from decapitated mice. What they found was that slow periodic activity can generate electric fields which in turn activate neighbouring cells, constituting a form of neural communication without chemical synaptic transmission or gap junctions. "We've known about these waves for a long time, but no one knows their exact function and no one believed they could spontaneously propagate," Durand says. "I've been studying the hippocampus, itself just one small part of the brain, for 40 years and it keeps surprising me." This neural activity can actually be modulated - strengthened or blocked - by applying weak electrical fields and could be an analogue form of another cell communication method, called ephaptic coupling. The team's most radical finding was that these electrical fields can activate neurons through a complete gap in severed brain tissue, when the two pieces remain in close physical proximity. " To ensure that the slice was completely cut, the two pieces of tissue were separated and then rejoined while a clear gap was observed under the surgical microscope," the authors explain in their paper. "The slow hippocampal periodic activity could indeed generate an event on the other side of a complete cut through the whole slice."
If you think that sounds freaky, you're not the only one. The review committee at The Journal of Physiology – in which the research has been published – insisted the experiments be completed again before agreeing to print the study. Durand et al. dutifully complied, but sound pretty understanding of the cautiousness, all things considered, given the unprecedented weirdness of the observation they're reporting. "It was a jaw-dropping moment," Durand says, "for us and for every scientist we told about this so far." "But every experiment we've done since to test it has confirmed it so far." It'll take a lot more research to figure out if this bizarre form of neural communication is taking place in human brains – let alone decoding what exact function it performs – but for now, we've got new science that's shocking in all kinds of ways, as Dickson adroitly observes. "While it remains to be seen if the [findings] are relevant to spontaneous slow rhythms that occur in both cortical and hippocampal tissue in situ during sleep and sleep‐like states," Dickson writes, "they should probably (and quite literally) electrify the field."
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 19, 2019 11:12:06 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
New York Post
Archaeologists work at NY site believed to be Revolutionary War burial ground
By Associated Press February 19, 2019
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — Archaeology work continues at an upstate New York construction site where the skeletal remains of several people have been found at what’s believed to be a Revolutionary War burial ground.
State archaeologists led by the New York State Museum were at the site this week in Lake George, in the southern Adirondacks.
A work crew unearthed skeletal remains Feb. 7, while excavating an empty lot for an apartment house. Work was halted, and experts were summoned to examine the property for more remains.
Officials say as the bones of as many as a dozen people have been recovered and taken to the State Museum in Albany for analysis.
Uniform buttons found among some of the bones indicate the people buried there were Continental Army soldiers serving during the American Revolution.
nypost.com/2019/02/19/archaeologists-work-at-ny-site-believed-to-be-revolutionary-war-burial-ground/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 19, 2019 11:17:34 GMT
MUFON
Philadelphia witness had good view of UFO
by Roger Marsh 1/18/2019
A Pennsylvania witness at Philadelphia reported watching a hovering orb that eventually flew away, according to testimony in Case 95886 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was in South Philadelphia at 11 p.m. on October 26, 2018.
“I was holding my three-month-old son and looking out my north facing third floor windows,” the witness stated. “There is an airport nearby and I see loads of helicopters and drones, but this was different than anything I have seen in the seven years that I have lived here.”
The witness said he sees many objects from the master bedroom window on the third floor.
more after the jump:
www.mufon.com/ufo-news/philadelphia-witness-had-good-view-of-ufo
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Post by thelmadonna on Feb 19, 2019 16:39:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 3:12:34 GMT
Oh Look! the Park Service is back in The News Again..
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