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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 14:13:34 GMT
wow crystal that brung memories..1953
fitting the BBC..BadBrainCorporation reported it..
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 19, 2019 11:18:30 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Space.com
Jerrie Cobb, Record-Breaking Pilot and Advocate for Female Spaceflight, Has Died
By Meghan Bartels 19 April 2019 She was much more than a woman whose dreams of spaceflight were thwarted.
Jerrie Cobb, the first woman to pass all the same preflight tests as NASA's seven Mercury astronauts, has died.
Cobb, whose full first name was Geraldyn, was a record-setting pilot and an outspoken advocate for gender equality in spaceflight who dedicated her later life to Christian missionary work in the Amazon. She was also one of countless American women who have pushed back against sexism and reached for space. She died in March at age 88; her death wasn't publicly confirmed until yesterday (April 18).
She is sometimes called NASA's first female astronaut candidate, but she was not; the agency did not accept women as candidates until 1978, in the class that included Sally Ride, who would become the first American woman in space five years later. But Cobb aired her frustration with NASA's sexism openly, culminating in 1962, when she testified before Congress at hearings that essentially investigated whether the agency was discriminating against women, years before the practice was made illegal.
"She was optimistic in a moment when the U.S. space program still felt very new and open," Margaret Weitekamp, a historian at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, told Space.com.
History took its toll on Cobb and her legacy, leaving her and her colleagues, who were dubbed the Mercury 13 in the 1990s, deep in the shadows cast by Alan Shepard, John Glenn and their fellow astronauts. "The women of the Mercury 13 should have been just as famous," Ellen Stofan, former chief scientist of NASA and current director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, told Space.com. "They should be inspiring girls today … they should have been there to inspire me."
But although Cobb never broke through the boundary of space, she still left her mark on the world, Weitekamp said. "I always think it's a shame that people focus so much on the door being shut to her for spaceflight, and less on the achievement that it was for any woman to gain access to that kind of sophisticated aeromedical testing at that moment, and to get the kinds of national-level conversations started in that historic moment, when both the women's movement and the space age were starting at essentially the same time," she said.
Cobb, who was born in 1931, became a pilot when she was 16. She purchased her first plane with money earned as a semiprofessional softball player for the Oklahoma City Queens, according to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. She set three separate world aviation records and was the first woman to fly at the prestigious Paris Air Show.
That experience caught the eye of two leading figures of early space medicine, who were looking to test women's capacity to handle the predicted stresses of spaceflight. It wasn't as enlightened as it might sound: They envisioned outposts in space staffed by dozens of people and in need of labor from traditionally "pink-collar" jobs, like secretaries and telephone operators.
When they asked Cobb to undergo the same physical fitness tests they had developed for NASA's first astronauts — but beyond the scope of the agency, as part of a private organization — she jumped at the chance and passed every one of the tests. Then, she dug through national pilot records and recruited 25 other women to take the same tests. Nearly half of them passed.
She also publicly advocated for NASA to recognize that requiring fighter pilot experience as a prerequisite for consideration of the astronaut office was discriminatory because the military didn't let women fly in combat. For several years, she told the media and Congress that NASA should fly the most qualified candidates, regardless of sex, and she endured the costs that came with that public profile.
"Jerrie Cobb was by nature very shy and quiet, and not one to seek the limelight, so it says something about just how important she thought what she was doing was that she subjected herself to media scrutiny as much as she did," Weitekamp said. And that media scrutiny was brutally sexist and objectifying, with even the most prestigious outlets describing her outfits in detail and printing her bust, waist and hip measurements.
By 1964, the Soviet Union had sent the first woman into space with much weaker pilot credentials than Cobb could claim, and NASA had proved itself too close-minded for her to continue the fight. She returned her focus to aviation and, as a lifelong devout Christian, dedicated herself and her plane to missionary work in the Amazon. "Despite what must have been a crushing personal disappointment, she turned it into something positive — so she's such a hero to me," Stofan said. "She persevered, and I think that's an important lesson for everybody, not just women."
It wasn't until 1983 that Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space — and it wasn't until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle pilot. Before that flight, Collins arranged for Cobb and several of the female pilots who had joined her in astronaut testing to attend the launch together as her guests to commemorate the groundwork they laid for her own flight.
Despite her accomplishments in aviation and activism, Cobb was best known as the woman who wasn't allowed to become an astronaut. "There's always so much focus on the testing and whether or not the testing went anywhere," Weitekamp said, arguing that's more of a statement about our fascination with astronauts than about Cobb's legacy.
"She got people talking about women's physical capabilities and women's talent in a moment that was a little prescient of the conversations to come in the late '60s and '70s," Weitekamp said. "If there had been more of a structure for [feminist activism], what a difference that might have made. She was so much on the cutting edge that she was really out there by herself pushing for this."
www.space.com/jerrie-cobb-died-mercury-13-women-in-space.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 19, 2019 13:33:15 GMT
NBC
Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are helping archaeologists uncover ancient sites
The images offer a vast trove of information about ancient villages and agricultural sites.
This aerial photo of Aleppo, Syria, was taken by a U-2 spy plane in 1959.
April 17, 2019, 8:33 AM MST
By Denise Chow
The Cold War may be over, but spy photos from the era are now a hot commodity with archaeologists.
During the 1950s and the 1960s, American U-2 spy planes flying top-secret missions over the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union snapped countless high-resolution photographs of military installations on the ground below.
But the photos, which were declassified in 1997, contain a vast trove of visual information about ancient villages and agricultural structures — including some in places that are now too dangerous to visit in person and others that may have been destroyed in recent decades.
“The planes were flying over these areas of intelligence and geopolitical interest — things like airfields in the middle of nowhere in Syria,” said Emily Hammer, an assistant professor of archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. “But they passed over a lot of other places on their way to their main targets, and they had their cameras on while they were doing that.”
Hammer is co-author of a new study, published March 12 in the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice, that used the black-and-white images to get an unprecedented look at Bronze Age villages and 3,000-year-old irrigation canals in southern Iraq, and prehistoric walled structures known as "desert kites" that were used as hunting traps in eastern Jordan.
The photos taken by the U-2 spy planes capture objects on the ground with remarkable detail even though their cameras were routinely used at altitudes as high as 70,000 feet — almost twice as high as commercial airliners fly. “Cameras in the 1950s were just as good as they are now — they just weren’t digital,” Hammer said.
For their research, Hammer and her collaborator, Harvard anthropologist Jason Ur, cataloged photos from 11 separate U-2 photo reconnaissance missions over the Middle East during the 1950s and the 1960s. The photos were not indexed in any way, forcing the pair to unspool hundreds of feet of film, photograph them to create digital copies, and then carefully stitch the frames together to recreate the flight paths of the spy planes.
more after the jump:
www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/declassified-u-2-spy-plane-photos-are-helping-archaeologists-uncover-ncna995381
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 20, 2019 11:14:25 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Apr 21, 2019 2:32:22 GMT
credit: artwork created by Eli Wolff
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 21, 2019 10:44:19 GMT
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Post by thelmadonna on Apr 21, 2019 13:23:05 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Apr 21, 2019 14:24:38 GMT
I pray for the people of Sri Lanka.
On the day when we celebrate the Resurrection, I think of my Dad, whom we lost two years ago when he was 100 years old.
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Post by HAL on Apr 21, 2019 21:17:47 GMT
So God, the protector of the innocent, omnipotent super-being, was asleep at the switch .
Surprise, surprise.
No doubt it is because God moves in mysterious ways.
Come on folks, it's all bollocks. And you know it.
HAL.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 7:26:42 GMT
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-06/russian-troops-trained-use-telepathy-combat-according-defense-ministryFighters can see right through the enemy soldier: what kind of person they are, what their weak and strong sides are and whether they can be recruited [as a spy]," read the magazine. "By force of thought, it is possible to shut down computer programmes, burn crystals in generators, listen in on conversations and disrupt radio and telecommunications," the article continues. These 'goat-staring' specialists in "parapsychological" warfare are said to have honed their skills during combat in Chechnya, using their purported abilities for applications ranging from managing the amount of pain felt by a wounded soldier, to locating caches of enemy weapons Russia's chief skeptic, Yevgeny Aleksandrov who chairs the Russian Academy of Science's committee for combating "false science" called claims of psychological warfare capabilities "complete rubbish," according to Sky.com "Such research did indeed exist and was developed in the past but it was made secret. Now it's being brought out into the light again but such research is recognised as a false science," Aleksandrov added. It's a real, yet unreliable phenomenonThe declassified materials make clear that "remote viewing is a real phenomenon," with potential applications in counternarcotics, counterterrorism and counterintelligence - with limited potential for predictive intelligence. According to a declassified 1981 threat assessment, "Laboratory demonstrations have shown that gifted individuals using remote viewing can describe small details in a room or describe a SIGINT site and particular types of antennae."
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 22, 2019 11:19:50 GMT
Good morning all,
HAL this one is for you
Live Science
8 Archaeological Sites That Jesus May have Visited
By Owen Jarus April 21, 2019 09:06am ET
Jesus travels
The Gospels claim that Jesus visited numerous sites across modern-day Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon. But how can we tell which accounts are real versus legend? To find out, archaeologists have excavated areas at various religious sites. Their discoveries provide valuable information about what these sites were like in ancient times, and whether or not Jesus could have visited them. Here's a look at some of the more interesting places the historical Jesus may have set foot in, and what he was doing there.
more after the jump:
www.livescience.com/65285-archaeological-sites-jesus-visited.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 22, 2019 11:49:17 GMT
Live Science
A Dart in a Boy's Eye May Have Unleashed This Legendary Massacre 350 Years Ago
By Owen Jarus April 22, 2019 07:17am ET
Archaeologists have uncovered a 350-year-old massacre in Alaska that occurred during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome ways the people in a town were executed and confirms part of a legend that has been passed down over the centuries by the Yup'ik people.
A recent excavation in the town of Agaligmiut (which today is often called Nunalleq) has uncovered the remains of 28 people who died during the massacre and 60,000 well-preserved artifacts.
Agaligmiut had a large interconnected complex that was designed to make defense easier, said Rick Knecht and Charlotta Hillerdal, both archaeology lecturers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland who are leading the team that is excavating the site. "We found that it had been burned down and the top was riddled with arrow points," Knecht told Live Science.
Some of the 28 people found "had been tied up with grass rope and executed," said Knecht, adding that "they were face down and some of them had holes in the back of their skulls from [what] looks like a spear or an arrow."
When exactly the massacre occurred is not certain, though Knecht said the complex was constructed sometime between A.D. 1590 and 1630. It was destroyed by an attack and fire sometime between 1652 and 1677, he added.
The start of war?
The massacre occurred during what historians called the "bow and arrow wars," a series of conflicts in Alaska during the 17th century. According to one Yup'ik legend, the conflict started during a game of darts when one boy accidently hit another in the eye with a dart. The father of the injured boy knocked out both eyes of the boy who caused the injury, the story goes. Then, a relative of the boy who had both eyes knocked out retaliated, the conflict escalating as other family members of the two boys got involved. The dart-game melee eventually resulted in a series of wars across Alaska and the Yukon.
"There's a number of different tales," Knecht said, adding that "what we do know is that the bow and arrow wars were during a period of time [called] the little ice age, where it went from quite a bit warmer than it is now to quite a bit colder in a very short period of time."
The colder weather may have caused a food shortage that could have triggered the conflict, Knecht said.
Massacre at Agaligmiut
Stories passed down over the centuries tell how the people of Agaligmiut, led by a man called Pillugtuq, put together a war party and went to attack another village that went by various names, including Pengurmiut and Qinarmiut. The people of this other village had prior warning of the war party, and they ambushed the fighters, killing or scattering all their warriors.
There are a number of stories about the ambush. In one story, women from the other village dressed up to look like men and participated in the ambush, using bows and arrows to attack the war party. Another story says that, shortly before the war party left Agaligmiut, a shaman warned Pillugtuq that Agaligmiut would be reduced to ashes, a warning that Pillugtuq ignored.
After the ambush, warriors from the other village proceeded to Agaligmiut, killed its inhabitants and burned Agaligmiut down. Since most of the men of fighting age were with the war party that had been ambushed, the slaughter consisted of mostly women, children and old men. Archaeological discoveries confirm this, as the 28 bodies consist mostly of women, children and older men. "There was only one male of fighting age," Knecht said.
Before the massacre
About 60,000 well-preserved artifacts tell what life was like at Agaligmiut before the massacre. The artifacts include dolls, figurines, wooden dance masks and grass baskets.
The permafrost kept the artifacts exceptionally preserved, Hillerdal said. "It's amazing, a lot of these things could just be used today. Sometimes, we find the wood still bright and not even darkened by age," Knecht said.
Wooden dance masks are some of the most interesting artifacts. "Oftentimes they depict a person turning into an animal or an animal turning into a person," Knecht said.
The figurines and dolls were used for a variety of purposes, including religious rituals and as toys.
A team from the 3DVisLab at the University of Dundee in Scotland has been using an Artec Space Spider scanner, which they acquired from Patrick Thorn & Co, to create highly detailed 3D scans of the artifacts. The scans will be digitized into an education package to help students learn about the artifacts at Agaligmiut and what life was like at the site before the massacre occurred.
Research at Agaligmiut is supported by Qanirtuuq Inc., an Alaska Native Village Corporation in Quinhagak.
www.livescience.com/65282-legendary-massacre-dart-game.html
Crystal
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Post by HAL on Apr 22, 2019 12:58:49 GMT
Crystal, Hi. Just passing through. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out later today. Busy planting out my tomatoes this afternoon. HAL
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Post by HAL on Apr 22, 2019 21:31:07 GMT
The problem with the 'Jesus was here' stories are, as mentioned in your post, that there is really no proof.
He is supposed to have visited Scotland.
And he didn't live very long. so to fit all these places in during his short life was quite an achievement; if it happened.
As everyone here knows, I am am atheist.
I have no problem with people having their own belief. I do know it is comforting for many, and the thought that, when you die, as we all must, then maybe we move on to something else. what that something else is seems to depend upon your religion. The option of oblivion is rather daunting to some. I don't know why as you will be, well, oblivious to it; oblivion that is.
So, we have prophets, lot's of them. But if we take the three main ones, Moses, Mohamed and Jesus ( I regard him as a prophet, not the Son of God. they all have this curious connection. They all appear to get their instructions from the same God.
Now, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are quite different in their approach.
One has to ask 'why, if there is only one God ?'
Is this God giving contradictory instructions to each ? If so, why ?
God is supposed to be an all-seeing super entity, completely beyond our comprehension. Yet it is written into the basic tenets of Christianity that God is a benevolent protector. particularly of the innocent. I.e. women, children and generally good people.
So why does this entity allow things like the recent bombings in Sri Lanka to happen ? Particularly in a place where the faithful have gathered to celebrate His Son ?
Makes no sense.
There are four possibilities I can see.
He doesn't really care.
He enjoys the carnage.
He isn't omnipotent and thus has no control over anything.
Or, to me the obvious one, He doesn't exist. And it's all a human power game.
Again, I am happy for anyone to follow whatever belief they want. Just don't kill others because you think it is part of some just cause to further the power of the belief you choose.
HAL.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 22, 2019 23:18:35 GMT
"There are four possibilities I can see.
He doesn't really care.
He enjoys the carnage.
He isn't omnipotent and thus has no control over anything.
Or, to me the obvious one, He doesn't exist. And it's all a human power game.
Again, I am happy for anyone to follow whatever belief they want. Just don't kill others because you think it is part of some just cause to further the power of the belief you choose.
HAL."
Hello HAL,
I believe in God. Things happen to his flock. Hurricanes, earthquakes. Why do children die? I don't know.
I do know that I do believe in God and an afterlife, including animals. It just wouldn't be heaven without animals.
Crystal
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