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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 14, 2020 12:50:54 GMT
Yowie Sighting (Audio Report #158), near Owens Creek, Queensland
Apr 13, 2020
Yowiehunters Witness Audio Reports
Riding his Quad Bike late at night while searching for his hunting dog, our Witness stops at a violently shaking tree on the side of the track. When he turned his lights on the tree, he see’s the cause.
The creature made no effort to conceal itself, in fact, quite the opposite. He wanted to be seen.
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Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Apr 14, 2020 15:57:10 GMT
ECONOMY IS SO BAD THAT....
My neighbor got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
I saw a Mormon with only one wife.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
A picture is now only worth 200 words.
When Bill and Hillary travel together, they now have to share a room.
The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
And, finally...
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Afghanistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 15, 2020 12:32:26 GMT
Good morning, good morning,
Oregonian
UFO Fest in McMinnville postponed until September
Jamie Hale
Posted Apr 14, 2020
Alien encounter enthusiasts will have to wait a little longer for their big celebration in Oregon.
The UFO Fest, held each May in downtown McMinnville, has been postponed until September due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced Tuesday.
Originally scheduled for May 14-16, the festival is now set to take place Sept. 17-19.
The festival is known for its colorful alien-themed parade, as well as appearances from guest speakers who discuss UFO sightings, alien abductions and other topics. All previously scheduled speakers will be able to make the new dates, organizers said on the festival’s website Tuesday.
McMenamins Hotel Oregon hosts the annual festival, but the landmark Northwest hotel and brewpub chain laid off 3,000 people and closed nearly all its locations last month as restaurants and hotels around the region shut down in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Tickets that were already purchased for the 2020 event will be valid in September, but anyone who can’t make the later dates can request a refund.
As scheduled, the festival risked violating Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s stay-home order and ban on public gatherings, a mandate made to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Issued on March 23, the order remains in effect until further notice.
www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2020/04/ufo-fest-in-mcminnville-postponed-until-september.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 15, 2020 12:38:57 GMT
Phys.org
NASA's Curiosity keeps rolling as team operates rover from home
by Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 April 2020
Members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission team photographed themselves on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely from home. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For people who are able to work remotely during this time of social distancing, video conferences and emails have helped bridge the gap. The same holds true for the team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. They're dealing with the same challenges of so many remote workers—quieting the dog, sharing space with partners and family, remembering to step away from the desk from time to time—but with a twist: They're operating on Mars.
On March 20, 2020, nobody on the team was present at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is based. It was the first time the rover's operations were planned while the team was completely remote. Two days later, the commands they had sent to Mars executed as expected, resulting in Curiosity drilling a rock sample at a location called "Edinburgh."
The team began to anticipate the need to go fully remote a couple weeks before, leading them to rethink how they would operate. Headsets, monitors and other equipment were distributed (picked up curbside, with all employees following proper social-distancing measures).
Not everything they're used to working with at JPL could be sent home, however: Planners rely on 3-D images from Mars and usually study them through special goggles that rapidly shift between left- and right-eye views to better reveal the contours of the landscape. That helps them figure out where to drive Curiosity and how far they can extend its robotic arm.
But those goggles require the advanced graphics cards in high-performance computers at JPL (they're actually gaming computers repurposed for driving on Mars). In order for rover operators to view 3-D images on ordinary laptops, they've switched to simple red-blue 3-D glasses. Although not as immersive or comfortable as the goggles, they work just as well for planning drives and arm movements.
The team ran through several tests and one full practice run before it was time to plan the "Edinburgh" drilling operation.
What It Takes to Drive a Rover
Of course, hardware is only part of the equation: A great deal of logistical adjustments are required as well. Typically, team members at JPL work with hundreds of scientists at research institutions around the world to decide where to drive Curiosity and how to gather its science. Working at a remove from those scientists is not new. But working apart from other people who are usually based at JPL is.
Programming each sequence of actions for the rover may involve 20 or so people developing and testing commands in one place while chatting with dozens of others located elsewhere.
"We're usually all in one room, sharing screens, images and data. People are talking in small groups and to each other from across the room," said Alicia Allbaugh, who leads the team.
Now they do the same job by holding several video conferences at once while also relying more on messaging apps. It takes extra effort to make sure everybody understands one another; on average, each day's planning takes one or two more hours than it normally would. That adds some limits to how many commands are sent each day. But for the most part, Curiosity is as scientifically productive as ever.
To make sure everyone is being heard and understands one another, science operations team chief Carrie Bridge proactively talks to the scientists and engineers to close any communication gaps: Does anyone see issues with the current plan? Does the solution the engineers are converging around work for the scientists?
"I probably monitor about 15 chat channels at all times," she said. "You're juggling more than you normally would."
Typically, Bridge would make her rounds to several groups working in a kind of situation room where Curiosity's data and images are viewed and commands are generated. Now she calls into as many as four separate videoconferences at the same time to check in.
"I still do my normal routine, but virtually," she said.
The transition has taken getting used to, but Bridge said the effort to keep Curiosity rolling is representative of the can-do spirit that attracted her to NASA.
"It's classic, textbook NASA," she said. "We're presented with a problem and we figure out how to make things work. Mars isn't standing still for us; we're still exploring."
phys.org/news/2020-04-nasa-curiosity-team-rover-home.html
Crystal
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Post by moksha on Apr 16, 2020 11:11:54 GMT
THE REPORT
NO SOUP FOR YOU
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 16, 2020 12:33:21 GMT
Howdy all,
Scientific American
Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-Era Pass in Norway’s Mountains
Artifacts show people used the route for 1,000 years—then abandoned it, possibly amid a plague
By Tom Metcalfe on April 16, 2020
The mountains northwest of Oslo are some of Europe’s highest, and they are covered with snow throughout the year. Norwegians call them the Jotunheimen, meaning the home of the jötnar—the giants of Norse mythology.
But years of warm weather have now melted much of that snow and ice, revealing a mountain pass that mere mortals traversed for more than 1,000 years—and then abandoned about 500 years ago. Archaeologists working along the ancient, high-altitude route have discovered hundreds of artifacts that indicate people used it to cross a mountain ridge from the late Roman Iron Age and through the medieval period. But it fell into disuse, perhaps because of worsening weather and economic changes—with the latter possibly brought about by the devastating plague of the mid-1300s.
Researchers say the pass, which crosses the Lendbreen ice patch near the alpine village of Lom, was once a cold-weather route for farmers, hunters, travelers and traders. It was mainly used in late winter and early summer, when several feet of snow covered the rough terrain.
A few modern roads go through neighboring mountain valleys, but the winter pathway over Lendbreen had been forgotten. The four-mile route, which reaches an altitude of more than 6,000 feet, is now marked only by ancient cairns, piles of reindeer antlers and bones, and the foundations of a stone shelter. An artifact found in 2011 led to the lost path’s rediscovery, and research published on Wednesday in Antiquity details its unique archaeology.
Years of combing the pass’s ice and snow have uncovered more than 800 artifacts, including shoes, pieces of rope, parts of an ancient wooden ski, arrows, a knife, horseshoes, horse bones and a broken walking stick with a runic inscription thought to say “Owned by Joar”—a Nordic name. “The travelers lost or discarded a wide variety of objects, so you never know what you are going to find,” says archaeologist Lars Pilø, co-director of the Secrets of the Ice Glacier Archaeology Program, a collaboration between Norway’s Innlandet County Council and the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History. Some of these items, such as a Viking mitten and the remains of an ancient sled, have not been found anywhere else.
Many of them look as if they were lost only a short time ago. “The glacial ice works like a time machine, preserving the objects over centuries or millennia,” Pilø says. These items include Norway’s oldest garment: an astonishingly well-preserved woolen tunic made during the late Roman Iron Age. “I keep wondering what happened to the owner,” Pilø adds. “Is he still inside the ice?”
About 60 artifacts have been radiocarbon dated, showing the Lendbreen pass was widely used from at least A.D. 300. “It probably served as both an artery for long-distance travel and for local travel between permanent farms in the valleys to summer farms higher in the mountains, where livestock grazed for part of the year,” says University of Cambridge archaeologist James Barrett, a co-author of the research.
Foot and packhorse traffic through the pass peaked around A.D. 1000, in the Viking Age, when mobility and trade were at a height in Europe, the researchers write. Mountain products, including furs and reindeer pelts, could have been popular with distant consumers, while dairy products such as butter or winter fodder for livestock could have been traded for local use.
But the pass began to be frequented less in the centuries that followed, perhaps because of economic and environmental changes. Among them was the Little Ice Age, a cooling period that may have worsened the weather and brought more snow in the early 1300s. Another factor could have been the Black Death, a plague that killed tens of millions of people in the middle of the same century. “The pandemics inflicted a heavy toll on the local population. And when the area eventually recovered, things had changed,” Pilø says. “The Lendbreen pass went out of use and was forgotten.”
Glacial archaeologist James Dixon of the University of New Mexico, who was not involved in the new research, is struck by evidence of animal herding found at the Lendbreen pass, such as the wooden tongs apparently used to hold fodder on a sled or wagon. “Most ice-patch sites document hunting activities and don’t contain these types of artifacts,” he says. Such pastoral objects hint at the links between Norway’s alpine regions and the rest of northern Europe during times of economic and ecological changes, he adds.
Recent decades of warming weather have exposed hidden archaeology in many mountain and subpolar regions, from Europe’s Alps and Greenland to South America’s Andes. Barrett notes there is only limited time before artifacts exposed by the melting ice start to decay in the light and wind. “The Lendbreen pass has probably now revealed most of its finds, but other sites are still melting or even only now being discovered,” he says. “The challenge will be to rescue all of this archaeology.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-ice-reveals-a-lost-viking-era-pass-in-norways-mountains/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 16, 2020 12:37:04 GMT
UFO sighting Bolivia 🇧🇴 | 13th April, 2020
Apr 15, 2020
HalfBakedPinoy
A couple of ranchers working on a property filmed this strange object which slowly descends presumably into a clearing beneath the trees. There are conflicting reports that this was actually filmed in Colombia 🇨🇴.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 16, 2020 13:22:38 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Apr 16, 2020 14:08:09 GMT
 This Mile Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach When You Roll A Ball Down It
SHALOM...Z
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 16, 2020 14:48:51 GMT
Mysterious Universe
Quarantined Alone in a Haunted Ghost Town – It’s as Scary as It Sounds
Paul Seaburn
April 16, 2020
When one buys a haunted house or property, one expects to have to deal with the ghosts at some point … in fact, that may be one’s reason for buying said property. A buyer may even choose to live in the haunted property, with the understanding that they can leave if things get scary. That was probably the plan Brent Underwood had when he bought the haunted ghost town of Cerro Gordo on the ominous date of Friday the 13th, 2018. What Underwood didn’t plan on was the coronavirus quarantine of 2020 – a quarantine that has him locked alone in his haunted ghost town until further notice. How’s that working out for you, Brent?
“Things are moving around, I’m seeing curtains move, I’m hearing things in the night. There’s no draft, but things drop inside of houses.”
That’s just the beginning of the quarantine saga of Brent Underwood. The things moving and making noise are probably ghosts of people murdered in Cerro Gordo, which at one time averaged a killing a week. Located on the western slope of the Inyo Mountains about 220 miles due north of Los Angeles, the town was founded shortly after Pablo Flores discovered silver there in 1865. In just four years, the Cerro Gordo (means “fat hill”) mines were the state’s largest producers of silver and lead. Like other boomtowns far away from civilized society and populated primarily by greedy miners and the greedy people trying to take advantage of them, Cerro Gordo had its share of Wild West-style crimes and murders.
“A TV show called “Ghost Adventures” once investigated the town and found that it was haunted by the ghosts of two children who died after being trapped in a closet.”
These two ghosts, reported by the New York Post, may have been the result of fires in 1877 due to drought, neglect and carelessness as the water and the minerals disappeared along with money as the price of silver and lead dropped substantially. The town came back for a while in the early 1900s when zinc was discovered, but by the late 1930s, Cerro Gordo was the 22-building ghost town Underwood fell in love with. (Photos here.) Those buildings include the Belshaw House, the Bunkhouse, the old American Hotel (all with rooms for rent) and the remains of the Union Mine, equipment, and kilns. They were in good enough shape that Underwood and his partners bought it in 2018 for $1.4 million, spent about $1 million in restorations and retained the caretaker, Robert Desmarais. Did Desmarais have a vision of what was about to happen?
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/04/quarantined-alone-in-a-haunted-ghost-town-its-as-scary-as-it-sounds/
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Post by ZETAR on Apr 16, 2020 18:38:15 GMT
  SHALOM...Z
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Post by nyx on Apr 16, 2020 19:01:44 GMT
For the people who will get stimulus money in the form of paper checks, in the memo line they will see the name President Donald J. Trump.
Trump claims this was done without his knowledge and he was not responsible.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 17, 2020 13:56:33 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers and our stealth visitors,
Mainichi (Japan)
Sweets designed after Japanese folklore creature to end epidemic debut in north Japan
April 17, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
A cookie with a print of the traditional Japanese folklore creature Amabie
is seen in the city of Akita on April 14, 2020. (Mainichi/Kaho Shimokobe)
AKITA -- A local sweets maker in this northwestern Japan city began selling Japanese-style confectionery and cookies designed after a traditional folklore creature that is believed to answer prayers to end epidemics.
Amabie is a "yokai" character that has a shimmering half-human, half-fish body with a beak, which appeared on a newssheet in the Edo period (1603-1868). It told people to share pictures of itself with others to drive away the plague, according to legend.
The character has become famous among those praying for an end to the coronavirus pandemic. A confectionery maker at the company proposed the new products, and they hit the shelves on April 11 priced at 162 yen each.
The company initially planned to make five a day for each of its five stores, but it received many inquiries after an image of the product was posted on social media, so it now produces 200 a day in total. On April 13 the firm went one step further and released its Amabie cookie.
Hirohide Kato, head of the firm's sales department, said, "As the situation in which people cannot go out for unnecessary purposes continues, we hope they will enjoy talking at home while eating these treats."
(Japanese original by Kaho Shimokobe, Akita Bureau)
mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200416/p2a/00m/0na/016000c
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 17, 2020 14:01:31 GMT
Live Science
Russia tests anti-satellite missile and the US Space Force is not happy
By Chelsea Gohd
17 April 2020
Russia just fired an anti-satellite missile in a test of technology that the U.S. Space Force considers a threat to American orbital assets.
On Wednesday (April 15), Russia conducted a test of its direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile system, which is designed to destroy satellites in low Earth orbit.
This test followed the country's on-orbit test maneuvers of two satellites that "exhibited characteristics of a space weapon," COSMOS 2542 and COSMOS 2543, which the U.S. has been closely following, the U.S. Space Force said in a statement. In February, the U.S. Space Force spotted these Russian satellites following a U.S. spy satellite, behavior that Space Force commander Gen. John "Jay" Raymond described at the time as "unusual and disturbing."
The U.S. Space Force also has serious concerns about this recent DA-ASAT missile test. "Russia's DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to U.S. and allied space systems are real, serious and growing," Raymond said in the statement. "The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the nation, our allies and U.S. interests from hostile acts in space."
"This test is further proof of Russia's hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms control proposals designed to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting their counterspace weapons programs," Raymond added. "Space is critical to all nations and our way of life. The demands on space systems continue in this time of crisis where global logistics, transportation and communication are key to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic."
"It is a shared interest and responsibility of all spacefaring nations to create safe, stable and operationally sustainable conditions for space activities, including commercial, civil and national security activities," he said.
In February, when the two Russian satellites were seen seemingly "stalking" a U.S. spysat, it was the first time in history that the U.S. military publicly revealed an identified, direct threat from another country to a U.S. satellite. Yesterday's test, as described by Raymond, is another threat to U.S. space systems and resources in low Earth orbit.
However, anti-satellite weapons have also posed an indirect threat to U.S. satellites, because orbital debris, or "space junk," from damaged and destroyed spacecraft could collide with other satellites in orbit. For example, India launched an anti-satellite test in March 2019 that created at least 60 large pieces of orbital debris that NASA said could have potentially hit the International Space Station, putting astronauts' lives at risk.
The Space Force, which was allocated $15.4 billion in the Trump administration's 2021 budget proposal, was created in part to protect such resources. Satellites and technology in low Earth orbit have become increasingly more valuable as tech advances and as countries increasingly adopt space technologies for national security purposes.
This has become especially pertinent for the U.S. as both Russia and China continue to advance their space programs and capabilities in low Earth orbit. Additionally, these actions by Russia could add to political tensions that were already building between Russia and the U.S. because of allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In addition, Russian officials continue to trumpet the development of advanced, potentially threatening military technology, including a hypersonic weapon and a 100-megaton nuclear torpedo.
www.livescience.com/russia-anti-satellite-missile-test-2020.html
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Post by swamprat on Apr 17, 2020 15:01:10 GMT
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