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Post by swamprat on Jul 20, 2018 15:29:08 GMT
Today in science: 1st footsteps on moon
By Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 20, 2017
The world watched on television as Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969. It was the first time humans walked another world. As he stepped onto the lunar surface, Armstrong said, “That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=MR-IjVv5NNQ
July 20, 1969. On this date, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their moon module on a broad dark lunar lava flow, called the Sea of Tranquility. Six hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the surface of a world beyond Earth.
Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 1/2 hours on the moon’s surface. They collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of moon rocks for return to Earth. Then they blasted off in their module from the lunar surface to meet up with Michael Collins in the command module orbiting overhead.
They returned safely to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=bJEnTE8kcFY
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Post by HAL on Jul 20, 2018 19:28:38 GMT
Swamp,
Regarding that picture.
I could never work out just where the camera was mounted.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 21, 2018 11:00:33 GMT
Good Saturday lovely people
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 12:20:07 GMT
Swamp, Regarding that picture. I could never work out just where the camera was mounted. HAL The Russians took that picture  |
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Post by swamprat on Jul 22, 2018 1:06:21 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 22, 2018 12:01:09 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 22, 2018 12:05:37 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 22, 2018 12:17:26 GMT
National Geographic
Published on Jul 21, 2018
The “Rose City” is a honeycomb of hand-hewn caves, temples, and tombs carved from blushing pink sandstone in the high desert of Jordan some 2,000 years ago. Hidden by time and shifting sand, Petra tells of a lost civilization. Little is known about the Nabateans—a nomadic desert people whose kingdom rose up from these cliffs and peaks, and whose incredible wealth grew from the lucrative incense trade.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 23, 2018 10:42:00 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Science Alert
An Insane Collection of Neil Armstrong's Stuff Will Be Auctioned Later This Year
Get your cash ready.
JACINTA BOWLER
23 JUL 2018
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
Forty-nine years later, his family is auctioning off a number of incredible and rare items, according to Heritage Auctions in Texas.
We can't imagine these items are going to go cheap, but those who have a bit of money to spare might be able to get some awesome Moon memorabilia.
There's a number of auctions, so we don't know all the items yet, but so far the collection includes Robbins medallions and lots of flags, as well as plane parts from the first successful powered flight in human history.
"There will be flown items, autographed items and items of historical significance," Neil Armstrong's son Mark said in a statement.
"There will be items that make you think, items that make you laugh and items that make you scratch your head."
Robbins medallions are mostly silver medallions that have been produced for, and flown on, every crewed US mission since Apollo 7.
Between 255 and 450 are minted per mission, but a much smaller number of 14kt gold medallions are also produced. These were only available to the flight crew, and apparently one of these gold medallions is up for sale as well.
The family are also auctioning a Purdue University Centennial 1869-1969 silk flag, pieces of a wing and propeller from the Wright Brothers Flyer and a gold pin from Gemini 8 – Armstrong's first space flight. All of these items went to space with Armstrong.
Plus, if you're not really interested in items that have been to space, they are also auctioning off his Boy Scouts cap.
Although we don't yet know the prices of these rare items, items connected to scientists have sold for a pretty penny at auctions over last few years.
Einstein's (really gross) leather jacket went for US$150,000 in 2016, a note he wrote about his 'theory to happiness' went for US$1 million a year later.
A Nobel Prize medallion that was awarded to particle physicist Leon Lederman in 1988 went for US$765,000 in a 2015 auction, and then there's the controversies around auctions of dinosaur fossils and space rocks.
So, it's time to crack into your piggy bank. But even if you can't afford any of the sweet memorabilia, you can still see them - some of the items will be previewed across the United States in October; the first lot of auctions are on the 1st and 2nd of November.
There's more items going on sale in May and November 2019.
"He was never about himself, so I would expect that he didn't give much thought about how he would be remembered," says another of the astronaut's children, Rick Armstrong.
"With that being said, I think he would be pleased to be remembered as being part of a program that demonstrated amazing things can be achieved when people come together to dedicate themselves towards a common goal."
You can see the whole collection of items here: historical.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=6205
www.sciencealert.com/an-insane-collection-of-neil-armstrong-s-stuff-is-going-to-auctioned-later-this-year-boy-scout-hat-robbins-medallions
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 23, 2018 15:02:55 GMT
New York Post
Ex-NASA engineer builds world’s most insane Super Soaker
By Mike Wehner, BGR
July 23, 2018 | 10:47am
We’re right in the heart of summer, which means getting sprayed down with a water gun sounds like a pretty nice way to spend an afternoon. That is, unless that the water gun pointing at you is seven feet long and fires a stream of liquid at 2,400 psi (pounds per square inch) and 243 miles per hour.
Mark Rober is a former NASA engineer who is now a YouTube sensation and his latest build is literally one for the record books. His seven-foot-long Super Soaker is now the top dog in the Guinness Book of World Records and the video he released showing its incredible power makes it easy to see why.
The gun, which is fashioned to look like the classic Super Soaker 50, which was the first model of the brand and the first popular pressurized water gun to ever hit toy stores. That original Super Soaker was capable of firing a stream of water at 40 psi, which is fine when you’re battling your friends in your swimming pool or backyard, but Rober wanted something a bit more powerful.
His oversized replica doesn’t work quite the same way as the original water gun — there’s no pumping and the tank that holds the water is actually in the handle rather than the large green cylinder that graces the top of the device — but it’s a lot more powerful. Using pressurized nitrogen to push the water out through the tip of the gun, the principal is the same, but the stream moves much, much faster.
The water is pressurized to 2,400 psi, according to Rober. To give you a frame of reference, that’s roughly eight times as much pressure as the hose on a firetruck. Yeah, you wouldn’t want to get in this thing’s way.
Rober shows off how powerful the stream is by slicing things in half, like a banana, hot dog and even an entire watermelon. He even equipped the tip of the gun with a swappable nozzle so he can select either a super fast, thin stream, or maximum water output. The gun took six months to construct, but it was most definitely worth it.
nypost.com/2018/07/23/ex-nasa-engineer-builds-worlds-most-insane-super-soaker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 24, 2018 10:28:41 GMT
Good morning all,
Science Alert
Russian Hackers Infiltrated US Power Networks And Had Power to Trigger Mass Blackouts
This is terrifying.
ROSIE PERPER
24 JUL 2018
Russian hackers infiltrated US electric utilities last year and had the ability to cause widespread blackouts, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a briefing on Monday.
Symantec first reported on a hacking campaign by the state-sponsored group Dragonfly targeting dozens of victims in the US energy sector in 2017.
But this is the first time the DHS has provided detailed information about an incident in an unclassified setting and said the hack affected "hundreds of victims".
Attacks began in 2016 and continued through 2017, and DHS officials said it's likely the campaign is still ongoing.
By first penetrating the networks of power companies' trusted vendors, hackers for Dragonfly, also known as Energetic Bear, were able to access utility networks, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing officials at the DHS.
Russians used email phishing scams and fake websites to gain access to corporate networks.
"They got to the point where they could have thrown switches" and caused power outages, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.
Experts told The Journal it was unclear whether the attack was done in isolation or in preparation for a larger operation.
The DHS confirmation comes amid increasingly tense relations between Moscow and Washington.
Earlier this month, 12 Russian intelligence agents were indicted in relation to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee before the 2016 US election.
www.sciencealert.com/russian-hackers-infiltrated-power-dragonfly-us-utilities-networks-2018/page-2
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 24, 2018 10:32:07 GMT
Siberian Times
Mystery gets murkier over cloud that turned day into night
By The Siberian Times reporter
24 July 2018
No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.
The territory impacted by the mysterious gloom is larger than Italy.
Day suddenly turned to night around noon on Friday, and for almost three hours locals needed torches to see where they were going.
The area hit by the bizarre darkness now appears more extensive than first reported when it was said to have covered Eveno-Bytantaisky and Zhigansky districts of Russia’s coldest region - Yakutia.
Now reports say the sun dimmed in Verkhoyansky too.
The territory impacted by the mysterious gloom is larger than Italy.
The darkness had a ‘yellow’ tinge, or was associated with dust clouds, say various versions.
Some blamed the work of the devil but the main assumption initially was that smoke from raging wildfires in other districts had blotted out the sun.
Yet some official sources have expressed doubts over this theory without explaining what caused the weird phenomenon.
Into this vacuum locals have swapped theories on WhatsApp and other social media over the cause of the darkness like an eclipse - except there wasn’t one.
A local resident in from Eveno-Bytantaisky said:
‘Messages are going around about about a light flash registered by the US satellites, followed by increase of radioactive level and unusual activity of the military.
‘We are never going to be told is this was true or false.’
Another source said: ‘This can only be explained by a UFO.’
An official in Nizhne-Bytantaisky settlement contradicted residents who had reported a thick layer of dust after the cloud and darkness vanished.
’There was no dust,’ he said..
‘At first it looked like it was a strong thunderstorm coming.
‘The air went dark, and got darker and darker, but this time unlike anything else we have seen before the darkness had a rich yellow undertone.
‘It was very unusual.
more after the jump:
siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/mystery-gets-murkier-over-cloud-that-turned-day-into-night/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 25, 2018 11:25:00 GMT
Good morning, good morning,
Science Daily
Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever
July 24, 2018
The dinosaur foot known as 'Bigfoot,' described in a new scientific paper recently published in the open-access journal PeerJ -- the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, was excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, with Anthony Maltese, lead author of the study, as member of the crew. After detailed preparation and study, Maltese and his international team of researchers identified it as belonging to an animal very closely related to Brachiosaurus.
The Black Hills region of the United States is famous today for tourist attractions like Deadwood and Mount Rushmore, but around 150 million years ago it was home to one of the largest dinosaurs known. This dinosaur was a member of the sauropod family with long necks and tails. These giant plant-eating dinosaurs like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus were the largest land animals that ever lived on this planet.
The foot described in a new scientific paper recently published in the open-access journal PeerJ -- the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences was excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, with Anthony Maltese, lead author of the study, as member of the crew. As he writes, it was immediately apparent that the foot, nearly a meter wide, was from an extremely large animal -- so the specimen was nicknamed "Bigfoot."
Now, after detailed preparation and study, Maltese and his international team of researchers from the USA, Switzerland, and Germany identified it as belonging to an animal very closely related to Brachiosaurus, famous for its appearance in the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
Anthony Maltese, Emanuel Tschopp, Femke Holwerda, and David Burnham used 3D scanning and detailed measurements to compare Bigfoot to sauropod feet from numerous species. Their research confirmed that this foot was unusually large. According to Holwerda, a Dutch PhD student at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, comparisons with other sauropod feet showed that Bigfoot was clearly the largest dinosaur foot discovered to date.
It also confirmed that brachiosaurs inhabited a huge area from eastern Utah to northwestern Wyoming, 150 million years ago. "This is surprising," says Tschopp, a Swiss paleontologist working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, "many other sauropod dinosaurs seem to have inhabited smaller areas during that time."
According to Maltese, who was part of the original University of Kansas team in 1998 but is now at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park, Colorado, the rock outcrops that produced this fossil hold many more "fantastic dinosaur skeletons," and the research team hopes to continue their studies on fossils from there.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180724110119.htm
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 25, 2018 11:31:47 GMT
Telegraph
Police use of ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition cameras in legal challenge
Natasha Bernal
25 July 2018 • 10:33am
The use of 'Orwellian' facial recognition cameras by the British police is to be challenged in the courts for violating human rights.
Facial recognition technology works by scanning images recorded by a surveillance camera and matching them to a database of criminals in real time. It is being piloted by police forces in London, Humberside, South Wales and Leicestershire.
Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch claims the technology is inaccurate and breaches the rights of individuals under the Human Rights Act. The Metropolitan Police, however, insists it increases the safety of citizens.
The Met recently targeted Westfield shopping centre with the surveillance cameras following previous controversial deployments at the Notting Hill Carnival and Remembrance Sunday last year. No arrests were made at Westfield, but officers were spotted rushing to stop and search a young black man following the software mistakenly identified him for someone else, Big Brother Watch claims.
The charity is working alongside Baroness Jenny Jones, who said she had been targeted by the police’s facial recognition technology, to bring a legal challenge against the Home Secretary Sajid Javid and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick.
Baroness Jones, a member of the House of Lords, claims that a photo of her was held on the Met’s “domestic extremism” database and her political activities were monitored when she sat on an official committee scrutinising the Met.
"The idea that citizens should all become walking ID cards is really the antithesis to democratic freedom. Facial recognition surveillance is likely to impact on my political work, whether I’m trying to meet whistleblowers in the city or attending protests and meeting campaigners where it is being used.
The group received over £5,000 in crowdfunding to raise money for the legal challenge earlier this month.
Big Brother Watch obtained police figures in May revealing that 98% of the Met’s facial recognition “matches” wrongly identified innocent people.
Its investigation revealed that even when innocent people are wrongly “matched” the police store biometric photos of the individuals for up to a year without their knowledge.
Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo said that facial recognition subjects the public to a “constant police lineup” without consent.
“Facial recognition cameras are not only authoritarian, they’re dangerously inaccurate. The use of this technology by the police risks taking us down a slippery slope towards an Orwellian society,” Ms Carlo said.
It is the public’s support that has allowed us to bring this legal challenge. We’re hoping the court will intervene, so the lawless use of facial recognition can be stopped. It is crucial our public freedoms are protected.”
Earlier this year, the group and Baroness Jones threatened legal action if the police did not end their use of facial recognition cameras, saying that this is a “clear breach of privacy rights and freedom of expression in the UK”.
Rosa Curling, a solicitor at Leigh Day representing the group, said: “The Home Secretary has failed to show that the use of AFR is either proportionate or necessary in our democratic society.
“Our clients hope the issuing of proceedings will result in an immediate halt of its use by the police and reconsideration by both the police and Home Office as to whether it is suitable to use in the future.”
Facial recognition is not yet widely used in the UK, but the tech has been trialed at the Notting Hill Carnival for two years, and police expect to start using it at British borders.
Police will also have greater powers to use biometric technology, which can identify people's body measurements. Its use follows success using smartphones to match people to the current face image database, which is made up of 12.5m photos.
The Metropolitan Police and the Mayor of London's office were approached for comment.
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/07/25/police-use-orwellian-facial-recognition-cameras-face-legal-challenge/
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Post by ZETAR on Jul 26, 2018 3:30:48 GMT
CRYSTAL,
THE CHONGQING CONNECTION... ...NICE CATCH!!!APPEARS TO BE A MATCH...
  SHALOM...Z
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...NICE CATCH!!!