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Post by ZETAR on Apr 29, 2020 11:15:58 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 29, 2020 12:58:58 GMT
"And, if you're STILL bored.....
INFORMATION YOU MAY NOT NEED, BUT HOPEFULLY CAN ENJOY.
REMEMBER THAT NO JOB IS COMPLETED UNTIL THE PAPER WORK IS COMPLETED?"
Thanks Swamprat. Good morning to you and all of our lovely UFOCasebookers & stealth visitors,
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 29, 2020 13:34:34 GMT
Guardian
Lost henge? Digging archaeology online during lockdown
With excavations shut because of coronavirus, online courses in Britain are experiencing a boom
Esther Addley 28 April 2020
A Google Earth image of what could possibly be the site of a newly discovered henge in the village of Swarkestone in south Derbyshire. Photograph: Handout
It was around the time the lockdown began and his wedding photography jobs were drying to a drought that Chris Seddon spent a few hours idly looking through maps and images of the area close to his home in southern Derbyshire.
He was following the line of the River Trent when he noticed an unusual feature close to the village of Swarkestone “and I thought, what’s that? It looks a bit odd, and a bit round.”
Aerial photos of the ploughed field were unremarkable, but a Lidar image – a topographical scan using laser light – showed something that maybe, just maybe, appeared to be the ghostly image of a lost henge.
A week or two later, having joined an online course run by the archaeology firm DigVentures – in part to help pass the time – Seddon uploaded his pictures to a discussion group, unsure if he had discovered a forgotten Neolithic monument, a former course of the river or a modern drainage ditch. The response from coursemates and professional archaeologists was as excited as he had hoped.
While there is no way of knowing for sure without digging, says Lisa Westcott Wilkins, managing director of DigVentures, “we are very happy to say that this does indeed look like a ‘thing’”.
Other known Neolithic sites nearby, the scale of the feature and the fact that historic field boundaries respect its course, all support the hypothesis, she says, that it could be a large henge – a significant find in this part of the country if so.
“Of course, we are all just itching to get out there and investigate,” – just one more ambition put on hold by the current lockdown conditions.
Seddon’s circular feature might be the most intriguing, but it is far from the only discovery shared by participants of the course. Developed several years ago to let students explore archaeology for the first time, or brush up on existing research, excavation and documentation skills, previous cohorts have seen about 80 participants at a time.
But with almost all of this year’s excavations being shutdown because of the coronavirus crisis, the company decided to offer the course for free, and received an overwhelming response; 4,000 people from 69 countries are currently learning how to read maps, draw up plans and record finds from their own laptops.
It is far from the only online course to have seen a rush in interest since lockdown began, nor the only one focused on archaeology. The Council for British Archaeology and Lincoln University last week launched Dig School, an online programme of archaeology-themed workshops aimed at school children and families, devised by Carenza Lewis, professor for public engagement at the University of Lincoln and a former presenter of Time Team. But while remote learning can be a challenge in any subject, acquiring practical skills such as how to handle a trowel or dig a test pit might seem a particular challenge for participants who, in many cases, are confined to flats without gardens or limited to a brief daily spin of their neighbourhoods.
Learning about archaeology online “has renewed my hope [of finding] a dig to volunteer at, despite my age,” says Bonnie Stewart, a recently retired former quality manager from Asheville, North Carolina, whose lifelong passion for archaeology was sparked when she dug up a revolutionary-era stone musket ball in her back garden as a child. Living in an apartment, she has no opportunity to practise her trench-digging, so has opted for an online investigation into the area around Bath. “It was fun to find the Roman Baths and pretend that I was digging there.”
Christine Green has had to temporarily close the craft shop she runs in Talgarth in the Brecon Beacons; her daughter had upcoming surgery cancelled as the crisis began, “so this is a very worrying time for both of us”. Inspired by the DigVentures course, she has dug a trench a metre-deep in her back garden, in which she has found nothing more precious than a fork and a marble.
www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/28/lost-henge-digging-archaeology-online-during-lockdown
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Post by swamprat on Apr 30, 2020 0:20:08 GMT
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Post by SysConfig on Apr 30, 2020 9:45:30 GMT
Researchers from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) who were tracking the record-breaking ozone hole over the Arctic tweeted last Thursday: “The unprecedented 2020 Northern Hemisphere ozone hole has come to an end.”
The hole, which was the single largest such ozone hole ever detected in the arctic, first opened in late March as unusual wind conditions trapped frigid air over the North Pole for several consecutive weeks. However, scientists took pains to point out that the closing of the hole has nothing to do with drop in emissions recorded across the world as a result of lockdown measures meant to curb the coronavirus. On Twitter, the group wrote: “COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns probably had nothing to do with this. “It’s been driven by an unusually strong and long-lived polar vortex, and isn’t related to air quality changes.” Live Science reports that a polar vortex is comprised of powerful winds that create a circular cage of cold air that leads to the formation of high-altitude clouds in the region. The clouds mixed with harmful human-made chemicals such as chlorine and bromine, which migrated into the stratosphere and accumulated inside the vortex. The unprecedented 2020 northern hemisphere #OzoneHole has come to an end. The #PolarVortex split, allowing #ozone-rich air into the Arctic, closely matching last week's forecast from the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service. More on the NH Ozone hole➡️https://t.co/Nf6AfjaYRi pic.twitter.com/qVPu70ycn4 — Copernicus ECMWF (@copernicusecmwf) April 23, 2020 The chemicals then ate away at surrounding gases, thinning the ozone layer and forming a huge hole approximately three times the size of Greenland in the atmosphere, according to a European Space Agency (ESA) statement. The ozone layer is the layer in the Earth’s stratosphere that is responsible for absorbing the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the Sun, effectively filtering out radiation that causes skin cancer among humans, destroys crops, and disrupts marine ecosystems among other devastating effects on the planet. The ozone layer has faced decades of degradation thanks to the use of harmful chemical compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons, halons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, and other organic and synthetic (human-made) ozone-depleting compounds that are commonly used in refrigerators, aerosols, and a range of industrial processes. The startling decline of the ozone layer became such a dire matter of concern that in 1987, governments agreed to the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty meant to phase out the production and use of ozone-depleting chemicals. However, ozone holes have continued to form annually in the Antarctic due to a failure to sufficiently check the amount of human-made chemicals that continue to make their way into the stratosphere. Scientists believe that this will remain a seasonal phenomenon in the future. In October, the ozone hole shrank to its smallest size ever recorded, mainly due to the unusually hot climate conditions above Antarctica caused by global warming. (never fail to stick that in)
In the Arctic, polar vortexes tend to be far weaker, which means that the conditions which eat away at ozone gases aren’t typically found—hence the “unprecedented” nature of this ozone hole. According to a 2018 study by the World Meteorological Organization, the southern ozone hole has been shrinking at a rate of 1 percent to 3 percent per decade since 2000, meaning that it won’t heal entirely until about 2050. Credit is also due to the Montreal Protocol for the apparent healing of the ozone layer.
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Post by moksha on Apr 30, 2020 10:35:11 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 30, 2020 12:28:20 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 30, 2020 12:58:13 GMT
Forbes
The Navy Just Released UFO Videos That Demand Another Look
Eric Mack Science 29 April 2020
If you follow the universe of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings at all, you’ve probably already seen the intriguing footage that was officially released by the US Department of Defense this week.
The clips were recorded in 2004 and 2015 by infrared cameras on US Navy aircraft and show what the Pentagon calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” - oblong objects appears to move through the sky in unusual ways. Pilots can be heard on the videos marveling at their speed, sudden movements, how they seem to rotate in mid-air and fly into a substantial headwind with ease.
The unclassified videos have already been circulating for a few years after coming to light in 2017. This week the DoD made them officially available for download in response to an apparent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and a determination that their release did not pose a threat to national security.
Naturally, any UFO footage immediately turns into speculation about aliens, but before making that leap, we need to take a closer look at the evidence.
First off, is it possible that the objects moving in remarkable ways are actually spacecraft constructed by extraterrestrial intelligence? Sure. Anything’s possible and as the phenomena are by definition “unexplained,” all possibilities are on the table.
But there’s a huge gap between a possibility and a probability. And in the case of aliens, our ability to assess UFO or UAP evidence can be clouded by decades of alien imagery from science fiction and pop culture.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Given what we know about the vastness of our universe and how plentiful planets are throughout, it is counter-intuitive that we have no solid evidence of life beyond our little corner of the galaxy.
The problem is that the combination of our strange existential conundrum and inundation with alien storylines sets us up to fall victim to our own confirmation bias. Put another way, we’re wired to go looking for aliens and to convince ourselves we’ve found them if we don’t take a more critical look at the evidence.
Imagine for a second that aliens aren’t a thing. For whatever reason, we know that they did not visit our planet at any point this century. The question is, with that explanation off the table, can we explain what the Navy pilots saw?
Before answering that, let’s first consider what the pilots were actually seeing on their displays. Those are infrared cameras, so they were really seeing heat, which should be a factor in how we interpret what we’re seeing in the videos.
We can’t even infer from the images without a doubt that there was a solid object in the footage. It’s possible that it was some odd heat mass or other atmospheric phenomena.
And, of course, this is imagery inter-mediated by a computer system that could have had a bug.
One clip in particular shows an object speeding along in a straight line, not unlike a meteor or piece of space debris re-entering the atmosphere.
The fact the videos were released by the military suggests this is not some kind of top secret technology from the US or some other nation, but that also has to be considered as a possible explanation. Heck, maybe it was an elaborate hoax involving drones or something. Who knows.
But with aliens off the table, we’re easily able to come up with several plausible explanations without having to make the giant leap to a phenomena we’ve yet to prove exists.
But still, I’m not saying it’s absolutely not aliens. I’m just saying it’s worth another look before we make that leap.
www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2020/04/29/the-navy-just-released-ufo-videos-that-demand-another-look/#1f268bd12c77
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 30, 2020 13:24:43 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Apr 30, 2020 20:55:43 GMT
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Post by JustCBDflott on Apr 30, 2020 21:13:02 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Apr 30, 2020 22:01:48 GMT
Crystal, the other day, you posted Andrea Bocelli and Katharine McFee singing "The Prayer". I ran across another rendition that is also stunning. One person does both parts.
Marcelito Pomoy performs both Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli's parts in this rendition of "The Prayer"! After winning Pilipinas Got Talent in 2011, Marcelito is ready to show the world his incredible voice.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Apr 30, 2020 23:06:32 GMT
Crystal, the other day, you posted Andrea Bocelli and Katharine McFee singing "The Prayer". I ran across another rendition that is also stunning. One person does both parts.
Marcelito Pomoy performs both Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli's parts in this rendition of "The Prayer"! After winning Pilipinas Got Talent in 2011, Marcelito is ready to show the world his incredible voice.
WOW!
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Post by moksha on May 1, 2020 10:43:25 GMT
HAPPY MAY DAY
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