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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 27, 2020 12:35:01 GMT
Atlas Obscura
Inyo, California
The Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
There is something utterly magical about the sailing stones of The Racetrack playa in Death Valley, California. Scattered about the desert are large rocks with mysterious trails left behind them. The trails show that these rocks have rolled and zig-zagged across the ground, sometimes for as long as 860 feet. The trails last for years before fading, so it is almost impossible to predict when the stones will move or how fast they move.
The sailing stones have been studied since the early 1900s, and researchers have suggested several theories to explain stones’ mysterious movement. In the early 2000s, a team of scientists set out to find the answers. They named a group of stones and did surveys of the area over a seven-year period. A 700-pound block dubbed Karen, which didn’t move at all while under study, was entirely missing when they returned years later. A sighting of the 700-pound Karen was made over half a mile from the survey site. Later teams have studied the phenomenon and determined that melting winter ice sheets are responsible for the movement of the stones. These stones are composed of dolomite and syenite. Studies show that the highest chance of spotting the movement of the stones is during the winter months when conditions are just right.
Visiting the Racetrack: To reach the location of moving rocks of the Racetrack Playa, drive about 2 miles south of the Grandstand parking area. The precise location of the sailing rock is always changing, but you usually get a chance of good views by walking about a half-mile towards the southeast corner of the playa. It's prohibited to drive off the established road.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 27, 2020 12:37:19 GMT
Wandering Rocks of Death Valley
Mar 8, 2016
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 27, 2020 13:38:41 GMT
Wow I was always intrigued by that Crystal! Thanx (Mustering the Deepest Baritone & Majestic Feline Voice I can)
Some of you here...yes You! You know who you are!...already know the signs..have been fulfilled..wars and rumours of war..pestilences...signs in the heavens..earthquakes in diverse places..oceans dying..pretty close to a 1/3 of everything..we can deny them..we can ignore them..but the signs won't ignore us..nor deny us our just rewards~thus Spake Sys www.zerohedge.com/health/biblical-locust-plague-worst-mega-swarms-70-years-devastate-east-africa'Biblical' Locust Plague With Mega-Swarms The Size Of Cities Descends On East AfricaProfile picture for user Tyler Durden by Tyler Durden Mon, 01/27/2020 - 02:45 0 SHARES As if the world's facing a looming new global pandemic weren't enough, here's yet another rare occurrence of apocalyptic proportions threatening to devastate the economy and way of life on an entire continent: the worse outbreak of desert locusts in seventy years is ravaging East Africa — specifically Kenya as hundreds of millions have swarmed in from Somolia and Ethiopia, reports the Associated Press. The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on their crops in this rural community.
The by all accounts "huge" infestation is threatening to devastate communities and a region already long struggling with food security. One news source likened it to a Biblical Locust Plague With Swarms the Size of Cities. The invading locusts are "deadly" in the sense that these 'mega-swarms' devour crops at incredibly rapid pace — at a faster rate of destruction than other natural disasters. The numbers and immediate destructive force are staggering, according to quotes in the AP: About 70,000 hectares (172,973 acres) of land in Kenya are already infested. A single swarm can contain up to 150 million locusts per square kilometer of farmland, an area the size of almost 250 football fields, regional authorities say. One especially large swarm in northeastern Kenya measured 60 kilometers long by 40 kilometers wide (37 miles long by 25 miles wide). Farmers are afraid to let their cattle out for grazing, and their crops of millet, sorghum and maize are vulnerable, but there is little they can do. “Even cows are wondering what is happening,” one local farmer laments in the AP report. “Corn, sorghum, cowpeas, they have eaten everything.” his as the mega-swarms consume the very fodder the livestock survive on. There's additional concern that new rains after March could bring another explosion of the fast breeding locusts prior to the dry season taking their numbers back down. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization is reportedly mobilizing an emergency response, given even small swarms can wipe out crop fields at sizes constituting enough food that could have fed tens of thousands of people in a single day, which makes it a humanitarian disaster in the making. It's both the nature of their small size (about a finger's length) and the fact that they swarm in millions at a time that make preventative measures nearly impossible. The UN agency listed some creative but futile methods suggested and/or initiated in the past: “Although giant nets, flamethrowers, lasers and huge vacuums have been proposed in the past, these are not in use for locust control.” It added, “People and birds often eat locusts but usually not enough to significantly reduce population levels over large areas.”
We can all thank Hillary Clinton..The white lady from town..for killing Gadaffi of Libya..who had controlled these swarms for years , not only the human locusts swarming to Europe
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 27, 2020 14:18:41 GMT
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Post by HAL on Jan 27, 2020 20:31:46 GMT
Locust have to be wiped out during the phase of their life when they are still on the ground. Once they fly it is too late.
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Post by swamprat on Jan 27, 2020 21:03:38 GMT
Get some Kleenex. Listen to the words of the pilot and the tower. God bless our Veterans! Semper fi.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 27, 2020 23:12:56 GMT
Get some Kleenex. Listen to the words of the pilot and the tower. God bless our Veterans! Semper fi.
God Bless our Veterans!
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 27, 2020 23:14:41 GMT
"Wow I was always intrigued by that Crystal! Thanks"
Glad you like it!
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Post by swamprat on Jan 28, 2020 2:51:21 GMT
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
A few years ago Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about
yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 28, 2020 12:38:09 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers and our stealth visitors,
Phys.org
Seeds of hope: Young volunteers replant Tunisia forests
by Caroline Nelly Perrot January 28, 2020
Volunteers plant trees on the Kesra mountains in Tunisia's Siliana region
Around 40 young Tunisian volunteers gather on a bare hill in the central region of Siliana. Their weekend mission—revive a burned forest by planting Aleppo pine shoots.
Hamdi, from the eastern city of Sfax, gets straight to work after travelling 250 kilometres (150 miles) to the marginalised region.
A camping and hiking enthusiast, he found out about the initiative on Facebook. "It's a chance to have fun and do something good together," says the student.
He is part of a network of nature lovers who have joined forces with Tunisian authorities for an ambitious venture; plant 12
million trees across the country by the end of this year.
That target equates to one tree per Tunisian citizen.
"We can only get there together," says Baya Khalfallah, one of the heads of the Soli&Green association, which launched the campaign in November.
"To reach our objective, we are counting on all the (community) organisations, our partnership with the government—and, obviously, on those who are environmentally conscious," she adds.
Most of the volunteers come from the large coastal cities of Tunis, Sfax and Sousse.
Amin Farhat, a young executive from Tunis who is also an activist for a recycling charity, says they want to safeguard Tunisia's natural beauty and resources.
"We're doing it for the future," he says.
Effective & enthusiastic
Soli&Green, founded by a handful of environmental activists in their thirties, organises planting weekends in winter and helps other organisations that want to do the same.
Since November, it has compiled a list of all the country's reforestation initiatives and estimates that by mid-January, almost a million trees had been planted.
The state does most of the work. The regional commission for agricultural development (CRDA), a public body, provides volunteers with basic training, thousands of tree shoots and a watering truck.
"When we use labourers, we plant around 1,000 trees a day. But with volunteers, we can plant 4,000, even 5,000 a day. There are a lot of them, they are effective and it's free," says Nizar Khlif, a manager at the Siliana branch of the CRDA.
"And there is a participatory approach—they involve the local population."
The arrival of the city-dwelling, backpack-carrying volunteers has inspired Siliana residents.
In 2017, 40 hectares (almost 100 acres) of forest went up in smoke. A suspected arsonist said he had hoped the blaze would compel authorities to recruit forest rangers, and that he would be hired.
"It was as if we'd lost a family member," says 14-year-old Khairi Jaied, from a nearby village.
"I have many good memories of the forest. It's good to see these people helping so that our region can rebuild its resources."
'Motivating'
"Before the fire, there was a dense forest here," says 46-year-old Khlifa Jaidi, pointing at a rocky hill.
Reforestation is a crucial part of curbing erosion and fighting global warming—trees capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and transform it into oxygen.
But it's also a way of creating local revenue.
"People used to gather Aleppo pine seeds to make zgougou (a traditional dessert) and rosemary, sold for its essential oil," adds Jaidi, a local guide from the nearby town of Kesra.
Forest fires, both deliberate and accidental, eat away at hundreds of hectares each year.
But the state is increasingly joining forces with local residents and its reforestation strategies seem to be paying off.
Forests and scrubland now cover more than 1.3 million hectares (over 3 million acres), or around 8.5 percent of the country, up from 7.4 percent in 2011, according to the directorate general for forests.
The aim is to reach 10 percent by 2024.
Whether it's post-fire reforestation or fighting desertification in the south by planting palms and olive trees, the task is enormous.
Nessim Zouaoui, 26, says he is sometimes discouraged.
"I spend most of my free time cleaning beaches and planting trees," says the young entrepreneur and activist.
"But we just went to see a neighboring plot where we worked in March and we realized that we had completely planted a forest. That's really motivating!"
phys.org/news/2020-01-seeds-young-volunteers-replant-tunisia.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 28, 2020 12:41:48 GMT
#AskNASA┃ How Will Astronauts Dig on the Moon?
Jan 27, 2020
NASA
How will we uncover the history of the Moon? What tools and instruments will help us dig deeper? The latest episode of #AskNASA will answer these questions and more.
NASA’s Chief Exploration Scientist Jacob Bleacher demonstrates exactly how craters help us understand the history of Moon rocks and the Moon’s surface.
As part of the Artemis program, Jacob highlights the import role astronauts play in finding and analyzing samples. Jacob also explains how field work on Earth support both science and human exploration.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 28, 2020 12:45:10 GMT
UFO, oggetto a forma ovale, Svizzera, 9 Gennaio 2020
Jan 27, 2020
Progetto Coscienza Cosmica
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 28, 2020 14:25:43 GMT
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/navy-submarine-encountered-500mph-nimitz-21357187US Navy submarine ‘encountered 500mph Nimitz UFO in ocean’ 4 years after sighting
EXCLUSIVE: A former United States Air Force intelligence expert claims he found reports of a Los Angeles-class submarine seeing an unidentified submerged object in "2007 or 2008" that travelled at 550mph underwater. It supposedly matched the description of the USS Nimitz UFO A craft matching the description of the USS Nimitz UFO was spotted by a US Navy submarine hurtling at 550mph through the water in a previously unrevealed encounter, a former US Air Force intelligence expert has claimed. The sighting of a ‘tic-tac’ craft by two US Navy fighter jets in 2004 has become one of the most famous UFO videos of all time. The US Navy is still unable to explain the object, previously identifying it as an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. But Mike Turber, an intelligence expert who claims to have worked in the USAF, claims the craft was actually created by the US military. He first made his bombshell comments on The Hidden Truth Show with Jim Breslo. And in an exclusive chat with Daily Star Online, he suggested the craft is capable of hurtling at astonishing speeds in both the air and sea. “There was a submarine situation – that report will probably come out further down the line,” he explained. “It (the tic-tac object) was travelling at 550mph. As far as I know, it was a Los Angeles-class submarine. “I believe it was around 2007 and 2008. It was kind of in passing when someone mentioned it – I thought it was just a torpedo. “But, apparently not.” Ever since the huge revelation of the Nimitz encounter in 2017, there has been an overwhelming sense among Navy witnesses and the general public that there is more footage that is yet to be disclosed. This was finally confirmed earlier this month, with a US Navy spokesperson saying it is yet to be released as it has been classified “secret”. “It is very short in length and they don’t show the full flight of the aircraft targeting the object and then acquiring the object and then kicking on,” he said. “They just seem to turn on instantly when the craft is in view and that’s just not how it works. “FLIR is turned on and all the instrument is turned on once the plane launches so there is at least 10 minutes video of this encounter.”
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Post by swamprat on Jan 28, 2020 16:38:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 23:57:19 GMT
Two Dead Satellites Could Collide Above The U.S. This Week Two decades-old dead satellites have a small chance of colliding in low-earth orbit above the United States on Wednesday, according to a firm that tracks space debris.
LeoLabs has been tracking the paths of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) that was launched in 1983 and GGSE-4, an experimental Air Force satellite sent to space in 1967. The company announced via Twitter Monday that the pair could pass within about 50 feet of each other directly above Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening.
Continue reading here www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2020/01/28/two-dead-satellites-could-collide-over-earth-this-week/#4fd391f947ee
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