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Post by swamprat on Mar 12, 2019 1:01:05 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 12, 2019 11:35:21 GMT
Good morning fellow searchers,
Asahi Shimbun
Scientists move step forward in cloning woolly mammoth
By SEIJI TANAKA/ Staff Writer
March 12, 2019 at 15:45 JST
The female woolly mammoth seen after her arrival at the exhibition centre in Yokohama, Japan.
Credit: REUTERS/Toru Hanai
KINOKAWA, Wakayama Prefecture--Scientists confirmed signs of activity in the nuclei of cells extracted from the 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, fostering hopes of resurrecting the extinct ancient species.
The international research team led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kindai University here, published the research results on March 11 in the British magazine Scientific Reports.
The team collected muscle and bone-marrow tissues from the legs of “Yuka,” a female mammoth retrieved from the Siberian permafrost in northern Russia in 2010.
Yuka, 3.5 meters in length, has been kept in good condition.
The researchers extracted the nucleus of each cell that carries biological hereditary information, and those nuclei were injected into mouse oocytes.
The confirmed activity, similar to the one that occurs right before a cell divides, was likely possible because of the ability of mouse oocytes to restore DNA, they said.
However, reviving the mammoth would require cells to divide and multiply, and the team did not achieve this process.
“We were able to observe the activities of cell nuclei extracted from the remains of an ancient order from at least 28,000 years ago,” said Kei Miyamoto, a lecturer in the Department of Genetic Engineering at Kindai University’s Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology. “Once we obtain cell nuclei that are kept in better condition, we can expect to advance the research to the stage of cell division.”
According to the team, scientists in Japan and South Korea have pursued research to recreate a mammoth using cloning technology, while scientists in Europe and the United States are experimenting with genome editing technology in the same quest.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903120040.html
* I used a photo from ITV because the Asahi Shimbun article wouldn't let me copy the photo used in the article.
Here is the article link from ITV: www.itv.com/news/2013-07-10/39-000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-to-go-on-display/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 12, 2019 11:48:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 6:03:01 GMT
Jesus Found at Bottom of Lake Michigan!
Mob Hit? or something more mundane..like he didn't know how to swim?...Jesus Power to walk on water now in question
Warning bulletins being issued globally by UN..Do not attempt to walk on water w/o a life preserver or other flotation device.. Story developing
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 13, 2019 12:09:53 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Asahi Shimbun
Toyota, JAXA plan manned rover for lunar explorations
By TETSUYA ISHIKURA/ Staff Writer
March 13, 2019 at 13:35 JST
A manned, pressurized lunar rover planned by Toyota Motor Corp. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will have a range of more than 10,000 kilometers. (Provided by Toyota Motor Corp.)
Toyota Motor Corp. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have joined hands to develop the first lunar vehicle that astronauts can use without wearing spacesuits.
JAXA and Toyota said March 12 that they plan to send the pressurized, fuel cell-powered vehicle to the moon in 2029 and hope that a Japanese astronaut will use it to lead a lunar mission.
The envisaged rover will be 6 meters long, 5.2 meters wide and 3.8 meters tall, or the equivalent of two microbuses. It will have 13 cubic meters of living space and can accommodate two to four people.
Toyota said its automated driving technologies and fuel-cell know-how should enable the rover to travel more than 10,000 kilometers on the moon’s rough surface. The use of fuel cells will make it easier to store and transport energy sources in space.
JAXA will cooperate with Toyota on technologies to purify water and air in the vehicle.
The rover is expected to be used after a lunar-orbit space station, known as the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, is created in 2026. The Gateway is an international project under consideration by Japan, the United States, EU countries, Russia and other nations.
Under the plan, the rover, deployed from the Gateway, will travel on the moon’s surface close to the south pole for five explorations between 2029 and 2034. Each exploration will take about 42 days and cover a distance of about 2,000 km.
A day on the moon lasts for two weeks, followed by two weeks of night.
The rover will examine the lunar surface during the daytime and return to a space craft at night for fuel supplies, Toyota and JAXA said. After the crew exits the rover, it will autonomously cruise to the next exploration point and wait for the arrival of a new crew.
Traveling on the crater-filled lunar surface poses a slew of challenges.
NASA deployed moon buggies during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s. But the astronauts had to wear spacesuits to use uncovered vehicles.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903130037.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 13, 2019 12:18:09 GMT
ABC15 Arizona
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 13, 2019 12:28:04 GMT
Stonehenge Dronescapes
Published on Feb 12, 2019
The Devil's Den or Devil's Den is a dolmen burial chamber on Fyfield Hill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The chamber is part of a neolithic passage grave on Fyfield Down. Two standing stones, a capstone and two fallen stones are all that remain of what was the entrance to a long mound, described in the 1920s as being around 230 ft long. The capstone is believed to weigh 17 tons. The burial chamber was reconstructed in 1921.
The dolmen was named after the devil, along with many other prehistoric remains, after the coming of Christianity. A local tradition said that if water was poured into hollows on the capstone, a demon would come in the night and drink it.
Fyfield Down is part of the Marlborough Downs, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the village of Fyfield, Wiltshire. The down is a 325.3 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1951. The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England, known as the Grey Wethers.
The site is to be distinguished from another Fyfield Down also in Wiltshire, east of Pewsey and on the edge of Salisbury Plain, near another place called Fyfield. The two places are only about 9 miles (14 km) apart.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 14, 2019 11:02:56 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
San Diego Union-Tribune
Dog superheroes, UFO sightings and a 'Woman of Courage' make waves in San Diego
by Diane Bell
13 March 2019
When Judy Fridono attended a superhero movie world premiere last Saturday at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, she took her dog along.
For good reason. Ricochet, her golden retriever, was a star of the show.
Trotting the red carpet with her was Henry, a Canadian avalanche rescue border collie; Reef, a shaggy Newfoundland dog who doubles as a lifeguard with the Italian coast guard; and Halo, a rookie Dutch shepherd with a Florida disaster response team.
Missing were bloodhound brothers Tipper and Tony, who take a bite out of the illegal African ivory trade by tracking down elephant poachers in Kenya.
It’s the season of superheros, so why not cast the spotlight on four-legged crime-stoppers, life savers and do-gooders, reasoned Daniel Ferguson, director of the “Superpower Dogs” IMAX movie, which will be publicly released on Friday.
Who better to narrate their tales than actor Chris Evans — Captain America himself?
Fridono says the director approached her four years ago about her surfing/therapy dog, Ricochet, who works with wounded warriors suffering from PTSD and with special needs children. But filming didn’t actually take place here until last April.
The movie crew spent a couple of days at Cardiff State Beach and a day in Balboa Park filming Ricochet interacting with her San Diego buddies, Logan Powell, then age 7, and retired Marine Staff Sgt. Persons Griffith IV. Several San Diegans whom Ricochet has worked with over the years appeared as extras in the film.
Donning a pink boa, Ricochet will attend a private screening tomorrow night at the Fleet Space Center in Balboa Park and offer paw-tographs, especially of the “Superpower Dogs” photo book. This isn’t the golden retriever’s first book, by the way. In 2012, her memoir, “Ricochet: Riding a Wave of Hope,” was published.
As for viewing a film of canine heroics for 45 minutes on a huge 76-foot screen, Fridono says: “I think it’s too short.”
Identifying UFOs: The History Channel has linked up with singer and space enthusiast Tom DeLonge on a six-part exposé that examines the U.S. government’s role in a little-known study of unidentified flying objects.
The study, masquerading as the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was spotlighted in Politico and in a New York Times investigative report 16 months ago that quoted Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence officer. He led the Pentagon program created to investigate UFO sighting reports. He later resigned in protest that not enough was being done about this potential national security threat.
In the History Channel’s upcoming “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” series, Elizondo describes these unexplained encounters.
The History Channel link-up is a dream come true for DeLonge, a Poway native who parted ways with his rock band, blink-182, in 2015 and co-founded his space-focused To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science in Encinitas.
DeLonge is an executive producer of the series in which he works closely with Christopher Mellon, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, to investigate past UFO reports and conduct new probes. DeLonge draws on the expertise of a team of scientists and intelligence experts affiliated with his To The Stars Academy, two of whom are Elizondo and Mellon.
“With this show, the real conversation can finally begin,” DeLonge said in his announcement about the broadcast at a yet-to-be-announced date. “I think everyone that watches the show will walk away with questions answered and a feeling of, ‘Wow, I get it now.’ ”
Eli Lehrer, History Channel’s programming head, called it a “breakthrough series” and stressed that it isn’t about hunting for UFOs but rather initiating a discussion of unexplained phenomena.
more after the jump:
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/columnists/diane-bell/sd-me-bell-superhero-dog-ufo-20190314-story.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 14, 2019 11:14:46 GMT
Forbes
Are Machines Conscious?
Jayshree Pandya
Mar 13, 2019, 02:11am
Even though neuroscience has made amazing advances, the origin of consciousness in humans -- and its nature and processes -- still remain largely unknown; the underlying physiological mechanisms of generating conscious beings are still not clearly understood. However, with the advances in brain mapping and neuroscience, we are perhaps much closer to finally understanding the fundamentals of consciousness in humans than ever before.
It is said that what we cannot create we do not understand. While the very nature of human consciousness is difficult to understand, there is an intense effort going on to build a conscious computer mind out of computer chips (now neuromorphic chips). Understandably, there are growing concerns and questions about building a conscious mind using neuromorphic chips when there is so little clarity about the human mind and the very nature of human consciousness.
Now, we can perhaps understand the human brain as a functional computer and compare it with functional computer systems/machines. Now, over the years, we have wondered: to what degree are machines aware of their internal and external surroundings? Are computer systems/machines truly aware? Are self-aware machines already here? The answer to these questions perhaps raises only more questions, as comparing consciousness in functional machines to consciousness in functional humans is more difficult than expected.
Consciousness in machines is commonly understood to be the knowledge or situation of a fact. It seems the properties of consciousness are perhaps not biological. They are functional. The relationship between input, output and the state of the computer system (machine) is a causal relation to the state of a computer system (machine). It is this functionality, ability to know about one's inner workings and external surroundings that make machines functional, intelligent, aware and conscious.
Although definitions and understanding differ, self-awareness is an evaluative process, involving data gathering and processing skills. Now consciousness in machines may be seen as the awareness of their existence and the world around them: about things like perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts, memories and so on. Since consciousness is in the psychology of awareness, perhaps we can say that machines have awareness.
Machine Awareness
Researchers at Columbia University claim to have built a robot arm that can construct a self-image from scratch--taking a definitive step towards self-awareness. Let us evaluate the reality today. Each computer/machine that is connected to the internet has its identity in the form of an IP address, just like we humans have a home address and digital address. The fact that any machine has knowledge about its ecosystem, IP address, location, etc. is a sign of awareness. From knowledge about location, time, temperature, weather and more, computers/machines have an awareness of their surroundings. As we see, the evolving voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google can have simple conversations with humans. The answers we ask digital assistants are responded to in an intelligent manner. That certainly makes a compelling case for machines/computers being self-aware and functional.
Just like humans need to be aware of their emotions and behavior, machines also need to be aware of their behavior. Since consciousness is the awareness of internal and external environments, and since computers and machines are aware of their environment, self-awareness is recognition of that consciousness. Since self-awareness does not require a biological origin, today's machines can be categorized as self-aware.
Moreover, consciousness is about the ability to think, and self-awareness is about realizing we are thinking. Now, computers/machines also have a better memory than humans because we humans neither always recall everything, nor do we remember all our actions or encounters. That brings us to an important point: since machines have better data gathering and analytical capabilities along with processing power and memory, are machines able to think even better than humans?
Thinking Machines
That brings us to an important point: do machines think? On the other hand, does it simply perform tasks by controlling symbols it has no understanding of? If machines do understand what they are doing and the tasks they are performing, is it called thinking? The answer to these questions depends entirely on how we understand thinking, self-awareness and consciousness in machines. However, since there is no agreed central definition of consciousness for man or machine, it is perhaps time to begin a discussion and agree on a definition to understand and evaluate the fundamentals of consciousness.
Acknowledging this emerging paradigm, Risk Group initiated a much-needed discussion on Machine Consciousness with Prof. John Kontos, a Research Scientist and Professor from the Department of Sciences of Cognition and Thinking (SCT), the University of Athens, Greece on Risk Roundup.
more after the jump:
www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/03/13/are-machines-conscious/#6c34c1575b0e
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 14, 2019 23:15:16 GMT
LimaOhio.com
Lima Area UFO Research Associates: 7 p.m., New Creation Lutheran Church, 109 W. Main St., Elida.
LIMA — The Lima Area UFO Research Associates will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, at New Creation Lutheran Church, 109 W. Main St., Elida.
Tom Bowman will present case histories from the Mutual UFO Network, the largest collector of UFO cases in the world.
www.limaohio.com/news/346314/lima-ufo-research-associates-to-meet
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 5:41:41 GMT
LATEST AURORAS RUSSIA AND ICELAND
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 15, 2019 11:23:51 GMT
Kat those auroras are amazing!
Good morning to all of our lovely UFOCasebookers,
COAST TO COAST AM OFFICIAL
Published on Mar 14, 2019
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 15, 2019 11:34:08 GMT
WBTV
Pascagoula UFO: A new witness comes forward
Hugh Keeton
March 14, 2019 at 9:55 PM EST - Updated March 15 at 6:14 AM
PASCAGOULA, MS (WLOX) - A UFO and alien abduction on the Pascagoula River: you may have heard this story from the 1970s.
Now 45 years later, for the first time, a witness is coming forward saying she saw this alien encounter.
On Oct. 11,1973, Calvin Parker and now deceased Charles Hickson said while fishing they were pulled onto a space craft, examined and then put back down.
"It scared the living hell out of you," Parker said. "I still have a few nightmares about it. I really think that I was abducted by some kind of life form from another planet."
Parker and Hickson's story has made Pascagoula known around the world.
“They’ll say ‘oh that’s where that UFO encounter was,’” said Rebecca Davis, Main Street Pascagoula Director.
Davis welcomes the attention. She along with Dr. Chris Wiggins and the Jackson County Historical Society are working to place a historical marker across the river from where the alleged abduction occurred.
video and more after the jump:
www.wbtv.com/2019/03/15/pascagoula-ufo-new-witness-comes-forward/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 21:53:26 GMT
Another Stunning Sys Just Around the Corner Report VI Want to Turn Someone On? How About Off..literally sg.news.yahoo.com/harvard-university-uncovers-dna-switch-180000109.htmlHumans may one day have the ability to regrow limbs after scientists at Harvard University uncovered the DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration. Some animals can achieve extraordinary feats of repair, such as salamanders which grow back legs, or geckos which can shed their tails to escape predators and then form new ones in just two months. Planarian worms, jellyfish, and sea anemones go even further, actually regenerating their entire bodies after being cut in half. Now scientists have discovered that that in worms, a section of non-coding or ‘junk’ DNA controls the activation of a ‘master control gene’ called early growth response (EGR) which acts like a power switch, turning regeneration on or off.  “We were able to decrease the activity of this gene and we found that if you don't have EGR, nothing happens," said Dr Mansi Srivastava, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. |
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 16, 2019 11:44:29 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
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