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Post by ZETAR on Jan 23, 2020 21:20:15 GMT
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Post by HAL on Jan 23, 2020 21:24:44 GMT
Zetar, Hi. HAL
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 24, 2020 12:03:23 GMT
I'd say balloons tied together? Good morning mrgort,
I hadn't thought of that but it would make sense.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 24, 2020 12:07:41 GMT
Good morning all,
The Wrap
Science Channel Orders Bermuda Triangle Investigative Series (Exclusive)
“Curse of the Bermuda Triangle” premieres Sunday, Feb. 9
Margeaux Sippell January 23, 2020 @ 10:01 AM
The Science Channel has ordered “Curse of the Bermuda Triangle,” a new investigative series about the mysterious region famous for its long history of lost ships and missing persons.
Premiering on Sunday, Feb. 9, the series follows the members of the Triangle Research and Investigation Group, or TRIG team. Their leader is long-time captain and former Coast Guardsman Paul “Moe” Mottice, with his first mate and engineer Mike Still, who has spent thousands of hours inside the Bermuda Triangle, by his side.
They’re joined by a Chuck Meier, a former Navy rescue diver, sheriff’s deputy, and military contractor, who will take the reins of the investigation both on land and underwater. Dave Cziko, a former Army Cavalry scout and rescue diver, will help them explore the ocean floor for evidence.
Here is the description for “Curse of the Bermuda Triangle.”
“Throughout ‘Curse of the Bermuda Triangle,’ the team investigates a variety of mysteries and attempts to determine whether these stories of strange mishaps are purely coincidence, or if there’s an explanation – scientific or supernatural – hidden beneath the surface.”
The series premiere will find the TRIG team investigating the famous disappearance of Flight 19, the Navy aircraft squadron that vanished while on a routine training mission through the triangle in 1945, never to be seen again. The TRIG team will attempt to figure out what could have caused the planes to stray from their route, and why no physical evidence of a crash has ever been found.
Other mysteries will include a missing diver who disappeared in an area believed to be the home of a mysterious sea monster; a hotspot for UFO activity including the site of a famous sighting in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; the 1967 disappearance of luxury yacht The Witchcraft and its two passengers, and a theory about the fabled Lost City of Atlantis.
“Curse of the Bermuda Triangle” premieres Feb. 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the Science Channel.
www.thewrap.com/science-channel-orders-curse-of-the-bermuda-triangle-investigative-series-exclusive/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 24, 2020 12:13:24 GMT
Live Science Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics
By Rafi Letzter 24 January 2020
What's making these things fly out of the frozen continent?
Our best model of particle physics is bursting at the seams as it struggles to contain all the weirdness in the universe. Now, it seems more likely than ever that it might pop, thanks to a series of strange events in Antarctica. .
The death of this reigning physics paradigm, the Standard Model, has been predicted for decades. There are hints of its problems in the physics we already have. Strange results from laboratory experiments suggest flickers of ghostly new species of neutrinos beyond the three described in the Standard Model. And the universe seems full of dark matter that no particle in the Standard Model can explain.
But recent tantalizing evidence might one day tie those vague strands of data together: Three times since 2016, ultra-high-energy particles have blasted up through the ice of Antarctica, setting off detectors in the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a machine dangling from a NASA balloon far above the frozen surface.
As Live Science reported in 2018, those events — along with several additional particles detected later at the buried Antarctic neutrino observatory IceCube — don't match the expected behavior of any Standard Model particles. The particles look like ultra high-energy neutrinos. But ultra high-energy neutrinos shouldn't be able to pass through the Earth. That suggests that some other kind of particle — one that's never been seen before — is flinging itself into the cold southern sky.
Now, in a new paper, a team of physicists working on IceCube have cast heavy doubt on one of the last remaining Standard Model explanations for these particles: cosmic accelerators, giant neutrino guns hiding in space that would periodically fire intense neutrino bullets at Earth. A collection of hyperactive neutrino guns somewhere in our northern sky could have blasted enough neutrinos into Earth that we'd detect particles shooting out of the southern tip of our planet. But the IceCube researchers didn't find any evidence of that collection out there, which suggests new physics must be needed to explain the mysterious particles.
To understand why, it's important to know why these mystery particles are so unsettling for the Standard Model.
Neutrinos are the faintest particles we know about; they're difficult to detect and nearly massless. They pass through our planet all the time — mostly coming from the sun and rarely, if ever, colliding with the protons, neutrons and electrons that make up our bodies and the dirt beneath our feet.
But ultra-high-energy neutrinos from deep space are different from their low-energy cousins. Much rarer than low-energy neutrinos, they have wider "cross sections," meaning they're more likely to collide with other particles as they pass through them. The odds of an ultra-high-energy neutrino making it all the way through Earth intact are so low that you'd never expect to detect it happening. That's why the ANITA detections were so surprising: It was as if the instrument had won the lottery twice, and then IceCube had won it a couple more times as soon as it started buying tickets.
And physicists know how many lottery tickets they had to work with. Many ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos come from the interactions of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. Every once in a while, those cosmic rays interact with the CMB in just the right way to fire high-energy particles at Earth. This is called the "flux," and it's the same all over the sky. Both ANITA and IceCube have already measured what the cosmic neutrino flux looks like to each of their sensors, and it just doesn't produce enough high-energy neutrinos that you'd expect to detect a neutrino flying out of Earth at either detector even once.
"If the events detected by ANITA belong to this diffuse neutrino component, ANITA should have measured many other events at other elevation angles," said Anastasia Barbano, a University of Geneva physicist who works on IceCube.
But in theory, there could have been ultra-high-energy neutrino sources beyond the sky-wide flux, Barbano told Live Science: those neutrino guns, or cosmic accelerators. "If it is not a matter of neutrinos produced by the interaction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the CMB, then the observed events can be either neutrinos produced by individual cosmic accelerators in a given time interval" or some unknown Earthly source, Barbano said.
Blazars, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, starburst galaxies, galaxy mergers, and magnetized and fast-spinning neutron stars are all good candidates for those sorts of accelerators, she said. And we know that cosmic neutrino accelerators do exist in space; in 2018, IceCube tracked a high-energy neutrino back to a blazar, an intense jet of particles coming from an active black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.
ANITA picks up only the most extreme high-energy neutrinos, Barbano said, and if the upward-flying particles were cosmic-accelerator-boosted neutrinos from the Standard Model — most likely tau neutrinos — then the beam should have come with a shower of lower-energy particles that would have tripped IceCube's lower-energy detectors.
"We looked for events in seven years of IceCube data," Barbano said — events that matched the angle and length of the ANITA detections, which you'd expect to find if there were a significant battery of cosmic neutrino guns out there firing at Earth to produce these up-going particles. But none turned up.
Their results don't completely eliminate the possibility of an accelerator source out there. But they do "severely constrain" the range of possibilities, eliminating all of the most plausible scenarios involving cosmic accelerators and many less-plausible ones.
"The message we want to convey to the public is that a Standard Model astrophysical explanation does not work no matter how you slice it," Barbano said.
Researchers don't know what's next. Neither ANITA nor IceCube is an ideal detector for the needed follow-up searches, Barbano said, leaving the researchers with very little data on which to base their assumptions about these mysterious particles. It's a bit like trying to figure out the picture on a giant jigsaw puzzle from just a handful of pieces.
Right now, many possibilities seem to fit the limited data, including a fourth species of "sterile" neutrino outside the Standard Model and a range of theorized types of dark matter. Any of these explanations would be revolutionary. But none is strongly favored yet.
"We have to wait for the next generation of neutrino detectors," Barbano said.
The paper has not yet been peer reviewed and was published January 8 in the arXiv database ( arxiv.org/pdf/2001.01737.pdf )
www.livescience.com/antarctic-neutrino-mystery-deepens.html
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Post by HAL on Jan 24, 2020 18:43:18 GMT
Could be related to the Antarctic being one of the two regions where the Earth's magnetic field is strongest.
As stated, the Standard Model has been in trouble for a long time.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 25, 2020 11:46:09 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers and stealth visitors!
Crystal
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 25, 2020 12:29:31 GMT
Live Science Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics
By Rafi Letzter 24 January 2020
What's making these things fly out of the frozen continent?
Crystal
It's Evil Itself Crystal Evil!
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Post by swamprat on Jan 25, 2020 22:00:28 GMT
Know anyone looking for a career?Shortage of 400,000 welders predicted in next 4 years Published November 19, 2019
Consumer | FOX 13 News
TAMPA, Fla. - Big companies flock to Hillsborough Community College to woo students in the welding program. The stakes are high for welding recruiters.
"By the year 2024, we'll be over 400,000 shortage of welders in the United States," says Randy Kelley with Tampa Tank Inc. He says the industry is evolving. "One of the things that's been really big in the welding industry is the introduction of robotics."
That's where H.C.C. stays ahead of the curve. Administrators are putting advances in technology at the forefront of the curriculum. Lead welding instructor Logan Harry says today's welder needs to be more tech-savvy.
"We are buying new equipment. The industry is telling us the need and then we are providing the student with that ability," he explained.
Student Samuel Serrano says that type of hands-on, tech-based experience is hard to come by in a classroom setting.
"We even have a submerged arc welder that we've learned on, which is a semi-automated process that a lot of technical schools don't even touch on," he said.
It's not just the H.C.C. welding department keeping up with the times. Diesel technician student Bianca Melendez says you can't go far in the industry without a solid technology background.
"Maybe back in the day it was a possibility, but now everything is electrical. Everything is computer-based now," she offered.
Robert Half Recruiting's Michael Clemens says its education that's preparing students for a wealth of opportunity.
"Right now, it’s just this super-intense job market for technology. Employers who are moving quickly on hiring decisions are reaping the benefit of getting the top talent in our community."
Hillsborough Community College grads aren't having any problems finding jobs. The welding program boasts a job placement rate of 80% and the diesel tech program is at 100%.
www.fox13news.com/news/shortage-of-400000-welders-predicted-in-next-4-years?fbclid=IwAR2l803_MzXFTrpLM4V_u8pXIeJbMEKI5pyhdeZF9ZLh_5GafJ0coRfVEfs
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Post by HAL on Jan 26, 2020 0:31:43 GMT
.. and the diesel tech program is at 100%...
That is good to hear; however..
If the future is electric, and some places are already either banning Diesel vehicles altogether or making the cost of running them so high that it is becoming impractical, then these people may be spending their time training themselves for redundancy.
I speak as an 'old school' Diesel mechanic who is dismayed at the complexity being built into today's Diesel engines.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 26, 2020 12:11:24 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Evening Standard
Final UFO sightings before secret RAF unit closed down to be published online
Ewan Somerville 26 January 2020
Sightings of alleged UFOs made to a now-defunct RAF unit will soon be released to the public.
The secret team was disbanded in 2009 after no reports spanning 50 years were found to be a potential threat.
The claimed sightings have since been issued to the National Archives under classification, before being made available for a limited number of years.
But now the full list will be publicly available online, a freedom of information request by the PA news agency found.
A spokesman for the RAF said that “it had been assessed that it would be better to publish these records, rather than continue sending documents to the National Archives".
He said there are plans for putting them on to a dedicated gov.uk web page.
Publication is expected to take place “some time within the first quarter of 2020”, the force said.
It will be done following a clearance process.
Those who spot mysterious objects in the sky are now directed to local police.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ufo-sightings-raf-unit-a4344806.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 26, 2020 12:16:38 GMT
ISS UFO Sighting. 2020.
Jan 25, 2020
Skywatch International
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Post by swamprat on Jan 26, 2020 16:14:33 GMT
Pacifiers Then and Now Andy Marlette, Pensacola News Journal
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Post by SuzyQ on Jan 27, 2020 1:27:03 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 27, 2020 12:30:14 GMT
Good Monday morning lovely searchers,
Live Science
'Witch bottle' found in Virginia dates to the Civil War
By Mindy Weisberger - 27 January 2020 Bottles such as these were thought to ward off a witch's curse.
Archaeologists found the bottle at a Civil War-era site on the median of Interstate 64 in York County, Virginia. (Image: © Photo by Robert Hunter)
A glass bottle filled with rusted nails may not sound like much of an archaeological find. But this Civil War artifact could represent a type of talisman that was popular for warding off evil spirits: a "witch bottle."
Researchers found the bottle at a site known as Redoubt 9, a fortification built in 1861 by Confederate troops and later occupied by Union forces. Remains of the defensive structure lie on a highway median between exits 238 and 242 on Interstate 64, in York County, Virginia, representatives of the William & Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) said in a statement.
The bottle, discovered near a hearth, measures roughly 5 inches (13 centimeters) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide, and was made in Pennsylvania. This suggests that it was placed there by a Union soldier, likely at a time when the fort was occupied by the Pennsylvania cavalry, according to the statement.
When archaeologists recovered the bottle, "we thought it was unusual, but weren't sure what it was," WMCAR director Joe Jones said in the statement. At first, the researchers guessed that Union soldiers had simply used the bottle to store nails for repairing the mini-fort after Confederate attacks. But the bottle's location near a hearth, as well as the nails it contained, hinted that it might have served a ritual purpose.
"There were a lot of casualties and fear during this period," Jones said. "The Union troops were an occupying force in enemy territory throughout most of the war, so there were plenty of bad spirits and energy to ward off."
Hidden witch bottles dating to centuries ago have been found concealed in homes in London; the practice originated in England and then traveled to North America with British immigrants, and it persisted on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean into the 20th century, JSTOR Daily reported.
These forms of protection for buildings and families were most numerous during the 16th and 17th centuries, when witch-hunting and fears of harm through witchcraft were reaching a frenzied peak, according to the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). If a person thought that they had been cursed by a witch, they would fill a glass or ceramic bottle with bent pins and nails, sometimes adding bits of human hair or even urine, according to MOLA.
"The victim would bury the bottle under or near the hearth of his house, and the heat of the hearth would animate the pins or iron nails and force the witch to break the link or suffer the consequences," wrote anthropologist Christopher Fennell in 2000, in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
"It is said that once the evil-doer was dead, the bottle would break," according to MOLA.
Though approximately 200 witch bottles have been found in the U.K., fewer than a dozen have turned up in the U.S., according to the WMCAR statement. The discovery of a witch bottle in a 19th-century fort offers a glimpse of traditional superstitions that may have persisted for a soldier who was far from his family, perhaps "an officer who felt especially threatened occupying hostile territory," Jones said.
"Given the perceived threat of Confederate attack and general hostility of local residents, he had good reason to pull all the stops and rely on folk traditions from his community in Pennsylvania to help protect his temporary home away from home."
www.livescience.com/witch-bottle-civil-war.html
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