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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 25, 2018 17:31:51 GMT
That was a too short episode. I wanted to see the flying disk man. This is the only continuation I could find except for links to sites where you may be able to download the full series.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 17:32:12 GMT
The tweet that said that mysteriously disappeared..We know The Lady managing the foundation also managed his tweet acct...no longer I'm sure. The same lady and family members concerned about his mental state..although this must be a sudden thing as they pushed him..he didn't want to go there..to a place that would be harsh to even a young man not trained to go and be there..he was 87 then. Think about that. That tweet made people question whether he was all there...He was already questiong the companies finances..they got nervous and are pushing for getting him committed. He was making 37k a year..and unbeknownst to him they were getting 150k apiece..he gets committed and they get it all..he dies..the foundation keeps it all as far as rights to trademarked items..use of name in movies etc....make no mistake..he was at deaths doorstep in Antarctica..by their hand..for an agenda..imo.
As to what's on Mars..I have no idea..but the Evil is on Earth..not Mars..It's name is Greed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 18:44:18 GMT
That was a too short episode. I wanted to see the flying disk man. This is the only continuation I could find except for links to sites where you may be able to download the full series.
I gotcha Covered!!!..That Russian drove me crazy episodes 2-12..did you know they used same props and scenes from the purple monster..that one had some pretty convincing fight scenes..
That wing design has been around a long time
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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 25, 2018 20:52:35 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 26, 2018 12:53:48 GMT
Good morning lovely people
Mysterious Universe
Reward Offered for Info on Australia’s Mysterious Marree Man
Brett Tingley
June 26, 2018
Among the more curious man-made wonders of the world are the huge geoglyphs which appear on nearly every continent. While the most famous of these are the enigmatic Nazca lines of Peru, similar geoglyphs have been found in the Amazon, throughout the deserts of the Middle East, and even in the Ural mountains of Russia. In fact, every continent except Antarctica contains some type of giant geoglyph. Many of these massive works of art are ancient, and modern scientists struggle to explain how ancient peoples could have constructed them using known technologies. Others are thought to be more modern creations, but that in no way makes their origins any less mysterious.
One such modern mystery geoglyph is Australia’s Marree Man, sometimes referred to as Stuart’s Giant in honor of explorer John McDouall Stuart who was the first explorer to traverse the Australian mainland. The geoglyph is thought to have been first discovered in 1998 by charter pilot Trec Smith as he flew over a remote region of northern South Australia near the tiny town of Marree.
The geoglyph consists of a naked presumably Aboriginal man hunting with a throwing stick. The figure measures four kilometers (2.5 miles) across, with the outline stretching for around 28 kilometers (around 17 miles). The figure is composed of a trench dug 30 centimeters (12 inches) into the ground and measuring up to 35 meters (115 feet) across in some places. No tire tracks or footprints were discovered near the site. The Marree Man has deteriorated due to erosion since its discovery, but is still visible on Google Maps.
The discovery became a media sensation, and the mystery grew as several anonymous press releases sent to Australian media outlets. These releases contained references to American geoglyphs and used terms not commonly used in Australia, prompting speculation that the creator might be American. This theory gained traction when a glass jar was found in a freshly-dug hole near the Marree Man containing a satellite photo of the geoglyph and a small U.S. flag. However, many contend that these were all red herrings meant to throw researchers off the scent of the true creator. To date, the identity of the individual or group responsible for the Marree Man remains a mystery.
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/06/reward-offered-for-info-on-australias-mysterious-marree-man/
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Post by ZETAR on Jun 26, 2018 19:12:17 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 26, 2018 23:07:51 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 26, 2018 23:08:54 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 26, 2018 23:14:22 GMT
The Week (United Kingdom)
The Roswell incident: how ‘UFO sighting’ sparked 70 years of conspiracy theories
Jun 26, 2018
A US government ‘cover-up’, the declassification of top secret files and big-budget alien movies have fuelled interest in UFOs
On 8 July 1947 the Roswell Daily Record newspaper published a front page article with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, and the legend of America's most famous brush with aliens was born.
Today, many conspiracy theorists consider the so-called “Roswell incident” to be one of the most conspicuous pieces of evidence that the US government has covered up the existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth.
Next month thousands of people from all over the world will travel to the town, the de facto UFO capital of the world, but the Roswell story's position in the public imagination was far from immediate.
What was the Roswell incident?
On 7 July 1947, around 75 miles north of the town of Roswell in New Mexico, debris from a highly classified project used by the US Army Air Force (the precursor to the US Air Force) to detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union, was recovered from a ranch after being reported by ranch worker William Brazel.
Intrigued by the idea of flying saucers, Brazel gathered some of the debris and went to Roswell where he told Sheriff George Wilcox about his find. According to reports he “whispered kinda confidential like”. Wilcox immediately reported the encounter to the USAAF base at Roswell which promptly sent agents to visit the ranch, but not before the press picked up the story.
What was reported at the time?
On 8 July 1947 Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had crashed on a ranch near Roswell during a powerful storm. Later in the day, as government scientists arrived in the area, the story appeared to change. A press conference was held and it was stated instead that a weather balloon had crashed. Reporters were shown debris said to be taken from the crash area, such as foil, rubber and wood, which appeared to confirm that the object had been a weather balloon.
After initially suggesting that Brazel's debris had come from a UFO, the Roswell Daily Record reported a correction which included the USAAF statement that it was a weather balloon that had been found at the site. Brazel later went on record to say that he regretted the publicity that his misidentification had caused.
According to the official accounts, the debris Brazel found came from a balloon which was part of an experimental technology trial codenamed Project Mogul.
What was Project Mogul?
The classified Project Mogul was designed to detect sound waves in the upper atmosphere from Soviet atom bomb tests by flying microphones on trains of balloons at high altitude. Although the technology was quickly superseded, it remained secret for more than 20 years after the event. The fact that the balloon was involved in Cold War surveillance of the Soviet Union may have helped to propel rumours of a cover-up.
How did it become a cause celebre?
For 31 years the story was largely forgotten until The National Enquirer reported the original Roswell Daily Record story again, but not the correction. Following the publication of the new story, theories suggesting that the government's incomplete account had been an attempt to cover-up the discovery of an alien spacecraft began to take root.
What did other witnesses say?
Several people claimed to have seen debris scattered over a wide area and at least one person reported seeing a blazing aircraft in the sky shortly before it crashed, but the key account came from a former mortician, Glenn Dennis, who claimed in 1989 that a friend who worked as a nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field had accidentally walked into an examination room where doctors were bent over the bodies of three creatures. They apparently resembled humans, but with small bodies, spindly arms and giant bald heads.
In 1995, Ray Santilli, a London-based entrepreneur, released “footage” of an alien autopsy performed in Roswell in 1947. Experts immediately ridiculed the footage as a hoax and he admitted years later that it was almost entirely fake. Nevertheless, Santilli insisted real footage existed, but due to its poor condition he had been forced to recreate it.
Critics have questioned the validity of various witnesses and pointed out that many claims over the years have come from “friends of friends” who supposedly saw something out of the ordinary.
Stranger than fiction?
Coincidentally, the republication of the story came just one year after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film about a government conspiracy covering up alien visits to Earth. The film was released in the USA in November and the following year in the UK. That year 750 sightings were officially documented in the UK by the Ministry of Defence UFO desk, the highest figure on record.
Did UFO sightings continue to increase?
Looking at UFO sightings data from both sides of the Atlantic, a direct correlation between popular films involving aliens and real world UFO sightings becomes evident. In 2009, The Guardian detailed the popular culture influences that may have helped propel UFO sightings in the UK in 1996. In the year that Independence Day and Mars Attacks were released there were 609 UFO sightings across the UK, significantly more than the years just before or after.
Unofficial data, supplied by the National UFO Reporting Centre in America suggest that UFO sightings have been slowly increasing in the US since the 1970s, growing increasingly rapidly since the early 1990s.
One possible explanation for this is that the reporting centre became both better known and easier to contact with the advent of new technologies such as fax machines and the internet.
In 2014, The Economist analysed the available data from 2000 to 2014 and found that most UFOs were reported when people were drunk.
Did declassifying Project Mogul help?
Even though Project Mogul was declassified in the 1970s, it wasn't fully connected to Roswell until 1994 when the normally secretive National Security Agency finally published an in-depth report refuting all claims of a conspiracy at the site. A second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of alien bodies actually related to life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies.
But by providing detailed analysis of the Roswell incident, many analysts believe that the US government inadvertently fuelled interest in conspiracy theories and public suspicions that the US military was involved in a cover-up.
Roswell: the UFO capital of the world
Because of the huge notoriety surrounding the Roswell incident, the town has become Ground Zero for UFO conspiracists.
Each year on the anniversary of the story, thousands of enthusiasts embrace all things alien and paranormal at a UFO Festival. There, they can dissect mock alien bodies and take part in scientific experiments.
Last year, to mark 70 years since the incident was first reported, around 38,000 people turned up from all over the world.
Kathy Lay, executive director for MainStreet Roswell, says:
“You have people all over the city. There will be some out at the mall at Galactic Con. Some will be at the UFO museum doing the seminars and workshops. You'll have some that will be going to the plays that are going on, some will be over at the planetarium, some will be here at this festival. They're all over - we just embrace it.”
www.theweek.co.uk/us/59331/roswell-ufo-crash-what-really-happened-67-years-ago
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Post by nyx on Jun 27, 2018 1:48:41 GMT
Well Wings,
When it comes to Roswell, it comes down to this comparison.
Do you believe in God, do you believe in UFOs?
It is a personal thing.
Members who know me, know I am a UFO advocate.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 27, 2018 12:33:49 GMT
Well Wings, When it comes to Roswell, it comes down to this comparison. Do you believe in God, do you believe in UFOs? It is a personal thing. Members who know me, know I am a UFO advocate.
I don't have a clue what is going on. Something is. As for God vs UFO's why can't both exist?
I am not saying that UFO's come from God. I'm just saying it's a big Universe out there and all kinds of things are possible.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 27, 2018 12:39:24 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Atlas Obscura
The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture
An ancient game known as “hnefatafl” held immense symbolic and religious significance.
by Daniel Crown
June 26, 2018
The Icelandic saga Hervör and Heidrek abounds with tropes instantly familiar to modern fantasy fans. Regarded as a key influence on classic early-20th century works in the genre, the 13th-century tale features dwarves, a tragic curse, a magical sword, and, perhaps most recognizable of all to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, a fateful contest of riddles.
The contest begins in the saga’s closing chapters when Heidrek, King of the Goths, summons to court his enemy, Gestumblindi. Fearing execution, the latter resorts to desperate measures: He seeks help from Odin, the most powerful and notoriously capricious Viking god. Seemingly content with Gestumblindi’s subsequent sacrifice, Odin agrees to transform himself into a doppelgänger and take the man’s place at court. Rather than submit himself to the judgment of Heidrek’s council, the disguised god convinces the king to settle the matter through a game of wits.
The story’s subsequent riddles illustrate countless facets of life during the Viking Age—most notably riddle 13, which provides rare insight into an intriguing Nordic pastime. “What women are they,” asks Odin as Gestumblindi, “warring together before their defenseless king; day after day the dark guard him, but the fair go forth to attack?” For centuries, Heidrek’s answer to this riddle has fascinated archaeologists and historians alike. “This is the game of hnefatafl,” he says, “the darker ones guard the king, but the white ones attack.”
Heidrek’s reference, here, is one of several in the Icelandic sagas to an ancient board game known as hnefatafl (pronounced “neffa-tafel”). Ubiquitous among Nordic settlements during the early Middle Ages, Vikings played the game on a checkered wooden tablet similar to the modern-day chess board. Once a relative mystery to researchers, archaeologists now believe it held immense symbolic and religious significance.
more after the jump:
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-hnefatafl-viking-board-game
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Post by thelmadonna on Jun 27, 2018 13:26:20 GMT
I can attest that The Extraterrestrials that had contact with me said repeatedly that there was no god, but it didn't stop them looking for my soul/spirit. The last I remember of that abduction was singing a hymn repeatedly that had my name in the chorus. They were annoyed with me for not succumbing to oblivion, or for not denying god, not sure the answer to that one. Nowadays I am not an atheist per say, but I do think all religions are an abomination. I do believe in an Almighty Spirit, that each of us has a tiny bit of,in us.
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Post by nyx on Jun 27, 2018 21:53:55 GMT
thelmadonna,
I believe we are cut from the "same block of cheese" in our ideas.
We could use a good old fashion UFO sighting, like maybe the Phoenix Lights.
It has been too quiet lately.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 28, 2018 12:12:22 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers
Scientific American
“Traveling” Brain Waves May Be Critical for Cognition
Physical motion of neural signals may play a more important role in brain function than previously thought
By Simon Makin on June 28, 2018
The electrical oscillations we call brain waves have intrigued scientists and the public for more than a century. But their function—and even whether they have one, rather than just reflecting brain activity like an engine’s hum—is still debated. Many neuroscientists have assumed that if brain waves do anything, it is by oscillating in synchrony in different locations. Yet a growing body of research suggests many brain waves are actually “traveling waves” that physically move through the brain like waves on the sea.
Now a new study from a team at Columbia University led by neuroscientist Joshua Jacobs suggests traveling waves are widespread in the human cortex—the seat of higher cognitive functions—and that they become more organized depending on how well the brain is performing a task. This shows the waves are relevant to behavior, bolstering previous research suggesting they are an important but overlooked brain mechanism that contributes to memory, perception, attention and even consciousness.
Brain waves were first discovered using electroencephalogram (EEG) techniques, which involve placing electrodes on the scalp. Researchers have noted activity over a range of different frequencies, from delta (0.5 to 4 hertz) through to gamma (25 to 140 Hz) waves. The slowest occur during deep sleep, with increasing frequency associated with increasing levels of consciousness and concentration. Interpreting EEG data is difficult due to its poor ability to pinpoint the location of activity, and the fact that passage through the head blurs the signals. The new study, published earlier this month in Neuron, used a more recent technique called electrocorticography (ECoG). This involves placing electrode arrays directly on the brain’s surface, minimizing distortions and vastly improving spatial resolution.
Scientists have proposed numerous possible roles for brain waves. A leading hypothesis holds that synchronous oscillations serve to “bind” information in different locations together as pertaining to the same “thing,” such as different features of a visual object (shape, color, movement, etcetera). A related idea is they facilitate the transfer of information among regions. But such hypotheses require brain waves to be synchronous, producing “standing” waves (analogous to two people swinging a jump rope up and down) rather than traveling waves (as in a crowd doing “the wave” at a sports event). This is important because traveling waves have different properties that could, for example, represent information about the past states of other brain locations. The fact they physically propagate through the brain like sound through air makes them a potential mechanism for moving information from one place to another.
These ideas have been around for decades (pdf), but the majority of neuroscientists have paid little attention. One likely reason is that until recently most previous reports of traveling waves—although there are exceptions—have merely described the waves without establishing their significance. “If you ask the average systems neuroscientist, they’ll say it’s an epiphenomenon [like an engine’s hum],” says computational neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who was not involved in the new study. “And since it has never been directly connected to any behavior or function, it’s not something that’s important.”
The tools researchers use may also have played a part. Today’s mainstream neuroscience has its roots in studying the behavior of neurons one at a time using needlelike microelectrodes. Pioneering researchers in this area noticed the timing of when a neuron fired varied from one trial of an experiment to another. They concluded this timing must not be important and began combining responses from multiple trials to produce an average “firing rate.” This became the standard way to quantify neural activity, but the variability may result from where neurons are in oscillation cycles, so the practice ignores the timing information needed to reveal traveling waves. “The conceptual framework grew out of what a single neuron is doing by itself,” Sejnowski says, but “the brain works through populations of neurons interacting with each other.” Because traveling waves comprise the activity of many neurons spread across the brain, they are invisible to single-neuron techniques. But over the last decade new technologies have appeared that allow many neurons to be monitored simultaneously. “This has given us a very different picture,” Sejnowski says. “For the first time we have the tools and techniques to see what’s really going on—but it’s going to take a generation before it’s accepted by the established neuroscience community.”
Optical methods, like voltage-sensitive dyes, allow researchers to visualize electrical changes in thousands of neurons simultaneously but cannot be used in humans because of the risks they pose. ECoG, however, is commonly used in epilepsy patients to investigate seizures. So the researchers behind the new study recruited 77 epilepsy patients with implanted ECoG arrays and went looking for traveling waves. They first looked for clusters of electrodes displaying oscillations at the same frequency. Nearly two thirds of all electrodes were part of such clusters, which were present in 96 percent of patients (at frequencies from 2-15 Hz, spanning the theta band at 4-8 Hz and alpha band at 8-12 Hz). The researchers next assessed which clusters represented bona fide traveling waves by analyzing the timing of the oscillations. If consecutive oscillations are part of a traveling wave, each will be slightly delayed or advanced, depending on direction of travel. (Think of how people in crowd wave follow one another with a slight delay.) Two thirds of the clusters detected were traveling waves moving from the rear to the front of the cortex. These involved nearly half of all electrodes and occurred in all lobes and both hemispheres of patients’ brains.
The team next gave participants a working-memory task and found traveling waves in their frontal and temporal lobes became more organized half a second after people were prompted to recall information. The waves changed from moving in various directions to mostly moving in concert. Importantly, the extent to which they did this varied with how quickly participants responded. “More consistent waves correspond to better task performance,” Jacobs says. “This suggests a new way to measure brain activity to understand cognition, which can perhaps give rise to new, improved brain–computer interfaces.” (BCIs are devices that connect a human brain to a machine that performs some task, like moving a prosthetic limb.)
These findings should help dispel some researchers’ lingering doubts about the importance of such waves. “The article is a strong contribution to the study of cortical traveling waves, adding to previous work on their role in human cognition,” says psychologist David Alexander of the University of Leuven in Belgium who did not take part in the work. “This really will put to rest any worries that the waves are an artifact of blurring of signal passing through the skull.” He also says the authors make unjustified claims about the novelty of the findings and fail to acknowledge some previous research, however. “Previous work on traveling waves has shown they are evoked during working memory tasks,” he says, pointing to a 2002 EEG study that found the timing of a reversal in direction of theta waves correlated with memory performance. Interestingly, an EEG study Alexander himself published in 2008 found fewer waves moving from the front to the back of the head during a working-memory task in people who had experienced their first episode of schizophrenia, compared with healthy individuals, suggesting differences in traveling wave behavior can be related to psychiatric symptoms. He also claims the methods the team used to assess traveling waves are similar to those he used in a 2016 study. “Alexander’s work is really interesting, but it’s not clear his findings involve the same signals as our paper,” Jacobs notes. “He reported patterns that literally involve the entire brain whereas our findings were limited to particular regions.” Jacobs also points to differences in recording techniques and the nature of recorded signals.
Confirming the importance of traveling waves creates new horizons in neuroscience. “Finding that such a wide range of oscillations are traveling waves shows that they involve coordinating activity across different brain regions,” Jacobs says. “This opens key new areas of research, such as understanding what exactly this coordination consists of.” He thinks the waves propagate information, at least in the context of the current study.
Another idea holds that waves, by repeatedly moving across patches of cortex, modulate the sensitivity of neurons so as to sweep a “searchlight” of attention across, say, the brain’s visual processing area. “The concept of a traveling wave is closely tied up with the issue of how you maintain the cortex in the sweet spot where it’s maximally sensitive to other inputs and able to function optimally,” Sejnowski says. Interest in traveling waves will undoubtedly continue to increase. “What you’re seeing right now is a transformation from one conceptual framework to a completely new framework,” he adds. “It’s a paradigm shift.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Simon Makin
Simon J. Makin is an auditory perception researcher turned science writer and journalist. Originally from Liverpool in the north of England, he has a bachelor's in engineering, a master's in speech and hearing sciences, and a Ph.D. in computational auditory modeling from the University of Sheffield. He spent several years working as a research fellow in the psychology department at the University of Reading before recently branching out and retraining in journalism.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/traveling-brain-waves-may-be-critical-for-cognition/
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