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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 2, 2018 21:58:33 GMT
South China Morning Post
Could this new Chinese radar system really be used to play God with the weather?
China is building a geoengineering system in the South China Sea that can knock out communications systems, but some scientists believe it could have more alarming uses such as causing natural disasters like hurricanes
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 02 June, 2018, 7:03pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 02 June, 2018, 11:30pm
by Stephen Chen
China is building a powerful radar system in the South China Sea that critics say could knock out communication systems, manipulate weather systems and even cause natural disasters.
The system, which sounds like something out of science fiction, uses pulsed energy beams to study and manipulate electrically charged particles in the high atmosphere.
It has civilian and military applications and could challenge US dominance in both spheres.
The US military has already been working on similar geoengineering technology, but it has proved controversial with critics warning that it could allow governments to play God by causing disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons and tsunami.
more after the jump:
www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2148697/could-new-chinese-radar-system-really-be-used-play-god-weather
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Jun 3, 2018 0:17:40 GMT
World's oldest cat celebrates 30th birthday
By Tom Bevan, SWNS | Fox News
June 2, 2018
Michele Foster got Rubble as a kitten on her 20th birthday in May 1988. (SWNS)
A British cat has been hailed as the oldest in the world - after celebrating its 30th birthday.
The ageing feline- named Rubble - has been with owner Michele Foster since she got him as a kitten on her 20th birthday May 1988. The pair have been inseparable ever since and Rubble has now matched the age of the last world record holder.
Rubble celebrated its milestone with a party at his local vets where he was treated to some of his favorite cat food and a free check-up. And his incredible longevity is put down to the fact that Michele never had her own children and pampers him like her child.
Michele, 50, said that despite possibly now owning the world's oldest cat she had never wanted to go down the record route as she didn't want Rubble turning into a celebrity. But she said she was still extremely proud of her cat's achievements.
"I was lonely living on my own so got him in as a kitten. It was in May 1988." (SWNS)
She said: "He's a lovely cat, although he has got a little grumpy in his old age. I got him just before my 20th birthday when he was a kitten. Rubble suffers from high blood pressure so he needs regular medication and City Vets have been a huge help in keeping him healthy."
The previous oldest living in the Britain - Nutmeg from Tyne and Wear - died last September. Rubble is now the same age as Scooter, a Siamese Texas, named as a record breaker at the age of 30 by the Guinness Book of World - but later died.The oldest cat ever according to the record books is Creme Puff who was born on August 3, 1967, and lived until August 6, 2005 – an amazing 38 years and three days.
www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/06/02/worlds-oldest-cat-celebrates-30th-birthday.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 3, 2018 12:07:50 GMT
Go Rubble! 30 years old!
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 3, 2018 12:11:56 GMT
This is for you Swamprat,
Phantoms and Monsters
Saturday, June 02, 2018
'Flying Gargoyle' Observed Over Brandon, Florida
The following comment was posted at Beyond Creepy, a video that referenced one of the winged humanoid sightings in the Zephyrhills area of Pasco County, Florida:
"You wouldn't believe me but I live in Florida, and about 6 months ago on the way to work early in the morning, no lie, I swear I saw a gargoyle. In the Brandon area. Not too far from Zephyrhills. I literally only clicked this video hoping you were talking about Florida." - Surago
I asked my associate, who is the administrator of the YouTube channel, if he could contact the witness for further information. He received the following information:
"Not too much to add. I was on my way to work. It was about 6:40am and quite a few months ago. It was very dark out still and I got to an intersection. It was a red light, so I stopped and was about three cars back. When the light turned green, I looked up and off in the distance there was a human-sized gargoyle looking thing flying across the sky. I’d say probably 2-3 hundred feet up and a good distance away. It was pretty quick but it flew behind some trees and a building so I lost sight of it. I was in so much awe of what I was looking at. I couldn’t even muster out a single word to get the guy in the truck with me to look up at it." - Surago
NOTE: I realize that there isn't much detail, but the area is approximately 15-20 miles south of 3 other sightings of a similarly described winged being. The other sighting reports can be found at:
'Skinny Gargoyle' Confronted By Florida Truck Driver (http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/09/skinny-gargoyle-confronted-by-florida.html)
2nd 'Winged Gargoyle' Encountered Near Zephyrhills, Florida (http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/10/2nd-winged-gargoyle-encountered-near.html)
3rd 'Winged Being' Encountered in Zephyrhills, Florida Area (http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/02/3rd-winged-being-encountered-in.html)
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/06/flying-gargoyle-observed-over-brandon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Jun 3, 2018 14:55:19 GMT
"This is for you Swamprat,
'Flying Gargoyle' Observed Over Brandon, Florida
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Ha! Just some more of our Florida "wild"life!
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Post by swamprat on Jun 3, 2018 16:21:00 GMT
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Post by HAL on Jun 3, 2018 20:04:27 GMT
Four of them would make a fearsome knuckle duster.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 4, 2018 11:47:12 GMT
Good Monday morning lovely UFOCasebookers
ABC Palm Springs CA
Contact in the Desert explores the unknown in the Coachella Valley
By: Katie Widner
Posted: Jun 03, 2018 11:42 PM PDT
INDIAN WELLS, Calif - It was an out-of-this world experience in Indian Wells as thousands flocked to the city for what organizers say is the world's largest UFO expo.
"This convention is based on finding the truth," said founders Paul Andrews and Victoria Gevoian.
The sixth annual Contact in the Desert Expo took over the Renaissance Resort and Spa for the first time after spending the last five years in Joshua Tree.
"Knowledge is power, therefore the more the public knows, the more power they have," said Richard Newton, who traveled from Bakersfield to attend.
Andrews and Gevoian said the expo is a serious exploration of the UFO phenomenon and ancient artifacts and structures found around the world. The event included speakers from the FBI, CIA, and NASA, as well as scientists, pilots and astronauts.
"They're all threads of the same web coming together in one place," Andrews said.
A new focus this year included government disclosure.
"There's all this evidence. Why isn't somebody in authority talking about it? Why isn't somebody telling us what's going on," said Andrews.
Gevoian added that the expo hosted roughly 3,000 people this year.
"To many, this is a homecoming because you no longer have to hide if you had an experience with a UFO," said Giorgio Tsoukalos.
Tsoukalos said he is an ancient astronaut expert.
www.kesq.com/news/contact-in-the-desert-explores-the-unkown-in-the-coachella-valley/749148562
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 4, 2018 11:52:22 GMT
Science Alert
Scientists Have Discovered The Brain Region Involved in Spiritual Experiences
This is where the magic happens.
PETER DOCKRILL
4 JUN 2018
Whether we think of ourselves as religious or not, lots of people experience moments in life that can be considered spiritual – where we feel a greater sense of meaningfulness, serenity, or connection with the world around us.
Now, scientists think they've pinpointed where those transcendental moments are processed in the human brain, identifying a region in the parietal cortex that appears to be involved in experiences that go beyond our ordinary state of being.
"Spiritual experiences are robust states that may have profound impacts on people's lives," says one of the researchers, neuroscientist Marc Potenza from Yale University.
"Understanding the neural bases of spiritual experiences may help us better understand their roles in resilience and recovery from mental health and addictive disorders."
To ascertain where these moments of spiritual insight take place inside people's heads, Potenza's team interviewed 27 healthy young people, inviting them to help develop a personalised 'imagery script' in which they recalled a spiritual episode from earlier in their lives.
"We would like you to describe a situation in which you felt a strong connection with a higher power or a spiritual presence," the participants were instructed.
"Spiritual states are those that through a felt-sense connect you to something bigger than oneself, a oneness, or strong force which may be experienced as an energy, force, higher power, G-d, deity or transcendent figure or consciousness."
In a separate session one week later, the same volunteers underwent fMRI brain scans recording their neural activity as they listened to a neutral female voice reading a script of the spiritual experience they had recounted.
The idea was to make them recall the personal moments where they felt a transcendent experience of something bigger than themselves, while imaging their brain activity to see where and how that spirituality registered itself cognitively.
"Across cultures and throughout history, human beings have reported a variety of spiritual experiences and the concomitant perceived sense of union that transcends one's ordinary sense of self," the team explain in their paper.
"Nevertheless, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms of spiritual experiences, particularly when examined across different traditions and practices."
The results showed that when the spiritual experiences were recalled, participants exhibited similarly reduced patterns of activity in the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL), which is involved in awareness of self and others, as well as reduced activity in the medial thalamus and caudate, regions associated with sensory and emotional processing.
"Taken together, the present finding suggests that spiritual experiences may involve a perceived encounter with a spacious 'presence' or entity external to oneself," the researchers write.
"This interpretation is consistent with a strong feeling of connection or surrender to a deity or other revered figure, as often reported in religious and spiritual literature."
It's important to note one of the chief limitations with this particular research.
Specifically, the team are basing their findings on a study of only 27 participants, all of whom were young, English-speaking people recruited from New Haven, Connecticut.
Of course, their experiences of spirituality can't be said to be representative of everybody else's – which is something the team acknowledges and says should be extended upon in subsequent studies, by incorporating people from a more diverse set of backgrounds.
But to the extent that this study offers us new insights into how feelings of spirituality occur inside the brain – and the attendant calmness and sensations of connectedness that go along with it – it could be a great launching point for future research into the neurological mechanisms of mental health.
By improving "our empirical understanding of how spiritual experiences are mediated by the brain," the researchers write, we will be able to help "facilitate the judicious integration of spirituality into treatment and prevention in areas of mental health conditions".
The findings are reported in Cerebral Cortex. (https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy102)
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-identified-spiritual-heart-human-brain-neural-cognitive-parietal-lobe
Crystal
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Post by HAL on Jun 4, 2018 21:20:49 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 5, 2018 12:22:05 GMT
Good morning lovely people 
Blood Horse
A Close Encounter With Mine That Bird
Horse-loving reporter travels to New Mexico to visit classic winner.
By George Mallet
5 June 2018, 6:00 AM
Roswell, N.M., a town of less than 50,000, is best known for the alleged crash of a UFO in 1947. Today, a few miles from the International UFO Museum and Research Center that chronicles the disputed event, there lives a scrappy bay gelding whose achievement in 2009 was as unlikely as an alien spaceship crashing to earth.
Unlike the UFO of that bygone era, though, Mine That Bird's remarkable victory in the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) is indisputable. And today, he most assuredly calls New Mexico home.
Mark Allen's Double Eagle Ranch sits about five miles outside of Roswell. Here, Mine That Bird spends his days in a roomy paddock partially shaded by a canopy adorned with his own replica twin spires.
Nearly a decade after the 50-1 longshot surged from dead last to overtake the leaders and romp to a nearly seven-length victory in the Louisville classic, Mine That Bird remains a muscular, bay stunner. On the day I visited him, the New Mexico sun beat down and reflected brightly off the horse's well-brushed coat.
While most Derby champs go off to stud farms and command large sums to pass along their athletic genes to subsequent Thoroughbred generations, gelding Mine That Bird keeps 59-year-old Allen company and ensures a stream of visitors to the ranch.
"It's a lot of fun," said Allen as he stood at the tailgate of a pickup truck parked beside the Bird's paddock and adjusted his black cowboy hat. "He probably gets 15 or 20 visitors a week. He's changed our lives."
Allen campaigned Mine That Bird with retired equine veterinarian Dr. Leonard Blach. Blach, nearing his 84th birthday, might be the more sentimental of the two men. When Bird retired, he never considered doing anything other than bringing the horse home.
"We've had some offers to send him back to Old Friends [Thoroughbred Retirement Farm] and stuff like that," Blach said as he leaned back behind his desk in his Buena Suerte Equine Clinic office. "But, he's part of Mark's family. He's part of my family, so we weren't about to trade him off to anybody."
The owners' homes are mere yards from their famous horse's paddock. They see the horse every day, feed him peppermints, dote on him, and even have long talks with him. They love their horse.
"We give him a bath once a week or so," Blach said. "He has visitors, so he's always presentable. He's a real fan, a real show. Of course he knows company, He knows when he's got visitors and loves those peppermints."
(I lost count of how many of those peppermints I fed the blissful Bird from the palm of my hand. At one point, he became impatient with me, chomping down on my thumb when I failed to unwrap his treats quickly enough. "Hey now!" Allen said to Bird firmly as we all chuckled at the horse's determination.)
Bird's retirement hasn't been spent entirely in the paddock. Allen has occasionally thrown a Western saddle on his champion, put a snaffle bit in his mouth, and taken him out for a trail ride.
"I took him out on the trail when we were doing an event at the Air Force Academy in Colorado," Allen said with a broad smile. "I was opening and closing gates on him by the end of that ride. He was very professional."
When the movie "50-1," which chronicles the dramatic Mine That Bird story, came out in 2014, Allen trailered the horse to countless movie premiers. The easygoing horse grazed on grass patches near movie theaters and happily ate carrots, apples and peppermints offered by fans. "He knows he's a star," said Allen.
Having seen a few snapshots of Bird in Western tack and a smiling Allen in the saddle, this reporter-turned-cowboy wondered if he might saddle up the famous Derby winner for a ride around the Double Eagle Ranch. No such luck.
"He's totally retired now," Blach told me with a tone of paternal protectiveness. "He's got three paddocks that we rotate him in. He's put on some weight. He looks good. We don't ride him anymore."
Still, before my visit to the Double Eagle Ranch was complete, Allen gave me a leg up and allowed me to sit bareback on the famous horse. Bird was nonplussed by this move and stood calmly as I settled my 6 foot 4 inch, 180-pound frame onto his broad back.
Sitting on a Kentucky Derby champion was the perfect way for a horse-obsessed journalist to conclude his New Mexico sojourn. I'd made the trip to feed an infatuation with racehorses that began when I covered Smarty Jones
more after the jump:
www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/227820/a-close-encounter-with-mine-that-bird
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 5, 2018 12:33:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 12:52:51 GMT
Wow interesting Crtystal..I just found out Darpa has a project BlackJack to fill up low space orbit where Musk jas launched dozens as well w specialized sats to fight future space wars..and of course..no doubt..they will not jsut be laying idle in between wars when they intensify the surveillance and control of billions below.. I am quite sure they have been peppering the sky for quite sometime.. www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-04/darpa-rushes-develop-constellation-low-earth-orbit-spy-satellites-next-space-wars#comment-11785538
Facebook was caught lying to Congress and it was discovered that it sol/shared its databes to 60 + device manufacturers..you know..thos Tvs and Toasters and speakers that listen to us..on top of that ..I just want to congratuale UCB2 for making it to the DHS list..of bloggers posters and Influencers.. But wait..More..all those ancestry sites and send your dna in..send your pix and voice samples in... Slap it into one ball and put it up those sats with AI.....sit back and enjoy the show..
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 6, 2018 12:48:21 GMT
Good morning lovely UFO chasers
UFO Crash Tour
1947 1st VIP UFO Crash Site Tour
Be the first of the first in 71 years to take the ultimate tour of the Brazel crash site including Brazel's original ranch house. Your ticket includes authentic Mexican cuisine such as chicken & cheese enchiladas with beans and rice in true New Mexican tradition. You won't want to miss our interactive activities while on the site and many more surprises for the ultimate personal experience.
www.ufo1947crashtour.com/
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