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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 1, 2020 12:56:05 GMT
Hello lovely UFOCasebookers and stealth visitors,
Live Science
Hundreds of towering hydrothermal chimneys discovered on seafloor off Washington
By Mindy Weisberger 1 May 2020
An autonomous diving robot captured the vents in unprecedented detail.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/65fD60JL/Sea-Towers-off-coast-of-Washington-state.jpg) (Image: © Copyright 2020 MBARI)
In the dark ocean depths off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, a magical fairyland of towering spires and hydrothermal chimneys sprout from the seafloor, a stunning new underwater map reveals.
These towers belch superheated liquid warmed by magma deep inside Earth.
The field of hydrothermal chimneys stretches along the ocean bottom on the Juan de Fuca Ridge to the northwest of coastal Washington state, in an area known as the Endeavor Segment.
Research on the Endeavor vents began in the 1980s, and scientists had previously identified 47 chimneys in five major vent fields. But recent expeditions, using an autonomous underwater vehicle operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) revealed more than 500 chimneys in a zone about 9 miles (14 kilometers) long and 1 mile (2 km) wide.
Deep-sea chimneys form around hydrothermal vents from a buildup of minerals that flow to the surface in heated liquid — as hot as 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius). As hot liquid meets cold seawater, minerals precipitate and settle around the vent, collecting to form towers that can reach impressive heights.
At the Endeavor Segment, "abundant and vigorous" hydrothermal activity has transformed the seafloor for approximately 2,300 years, and periods of intense seismic vibration shake things up even more, according to a new study on the MBARI expedition. Chimneys that climb from Endeavor are among the tallest in any mid-ocean ridge; the biggest ever documented, a top-heavy tower known affectionately as "Godzilla," extended 150 feet (45 meters) from the seafloor, but it crumbled in 1995.
Most of the five Endeavor vent fields have whimsical names. While the field serving as the main research destination is simply called "Main Endeavor Field," the other fields are known as: "High Rise" (for its resemblance to a cityscape crammed with skyscrapers); "Sasquatch;" "Mothra;" and "Salty Dawg." Other vent sites are named "Quebec," "Dune" and "Clam Bed," according to the study.
High-res surveys
Prior expeditions struggled to identify seafloor structures in the depth and darkness of the vent fields; sonar from surface vessels and explorations by diving robots couldn't map the region at high enough resolution for researchers to count individual chimneys.
"It's very hard to see down there because all the particulates in the water create a kind of haze," said MBARI senior scientist, geologist and volcanologist David Clague, who is lead author of a new study on the Endeavour Segment.
"There was one well-studied chimney where the composition of the fluids seemed to vary from one research dive to the next. It wasn't until we did our detailed mapping that people realized they had actually been sampling at two different chimneys," Clague said in a statement.
"They apparently would encounter one chimney or the other depending on what direction they approached the site," he said.
This time, MBARI scientists took a closer look at the chimneys with the D. Allan B, a yellow torpedo-shaped AUV measuring about 17 feet (5 m) long and capable of mapping with multibeam sonar at a resolution of 4 feet (1 m), according to the study.
more after the jump:
www.livescience.com/hundreds-hydrothermal-vents.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 1, 2020 13:06:26 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 1, 2020 13:10:54 GMT
Farmer Sees 5 Metallic Rotating Objects Leave Circles On His Crops | Close Encounters
Apr 21, 2020
Quest TV
Farmer Edwin is probably one of the first people to find crop circles, and what makes his story special is that he saw the objects that left the marks on the field.
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Post by moksha on May 2, 2020 11:03:46 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 2, 2020 11:52:29 GMT
Good morning lovely people!
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 3, 2020 12:51:25 GMT
Good morning fellow couch potatoes!
The Pentagon's Latest UFO Admission | Richard Dolan Livestream.
Streamed live 2 May 2020
Richard Dolan
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 3, 2020 13:01:01 GMT
Stranger Dimensions
Japanese University Working On Spherical Robot that Sweats
Posted by Rob Schwarz May 1, 2020
By now, it’s clear that there are robots for nearly every conceivable situation. So maybe you won’t be surprised when you see the University of Tsukuba’s Sweating Robot, designed to help the elderly better perceive surrounding temperatures.
“The elderly are more affected by higher environmental temperatures. If they misperceive the temperature, it can lead to a number of potentially dangerous health issues. To address this, we propose a robot that sweats to indicate the high environmental temperature to the elderly.”
The robot concept and its accompanying paper are the work of the university’s Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, co-authored by Yijie Guo and Fumihide Tanaka.
According to their study, the elderly sometimes have “misperceptions of heat” caused by “skin sensory perception and thermal homeostasis decreasing over time.” To remedy this, their robot uses simulated sweat to “indicate the high environmental temperature to the elderly,” in hopes that they’ll be motivated to change the thermostat or otherwise take action to cool down.
The process is outlined in this included graphic:
![](https://i.postimg.cc/4NBWR2z4/sweating-robot.jpg) Image: University of Tsukuba
Whether or not anyone would be more likely to follow the advice of a sweating robot, the paper points to the “social presence” of physical robots that may lead to better user acceptance and trust. A physical presence, they say, may even help build empathy toward such systems.
The authors mention the potential for distrust among the elderly when it comes to already existing technologies and systems, such as the United States’ National Weather Service.
They’re exploring three different possible robot designs — one that simply produces liquid, one that produces both liquid and a sweat-flavored perfume, and finally one that actually includes a “sweating skin layer” complete with pores. Other designs involve systems that work via touch, for those who may have vision problems.
www.strangerdimensions.com/2020/05/01/japanese-university-working-on-spherical-robot-that-sweats/
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Post by moksha on May 4, 2020 11:25:53 GMT
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 4, 2020 12:44:49 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Scientific American
Ancient Egyptian 'funeral home' was one-stop shop for the afterlife
New evidence shows priest-embalmers were savvy entrepreneurs who offered burial packages for every budget.
By Andrew Curry 3 May 2020
The discovery made headlines around the world when it was first announced in July 2018: Archaeologists had unearthed an ancient Egyptian “funeral home” deep beneath the sands of Saqqara, a sprawling necropolis—city of the dead—located on the banks of the Nile less than 20 miles south of Cairo.
In the two years since, thorough analysis of the finds and new discoveries in a nearby shaft filled with tombs have yielded a trove of information about the business of death in ancient Egypt. For centuries, archaeology in the land of the pharaohs was focused on uncovering inscriptions and artifacts from royal tombs rather than the details of day-to-day life. Mummification workshops probably existed at necropolises all over Egypt, but many were overlooked by generations of excavators rushing to get to the tombs underneath.
Now, with the discoveries at Saqqara, that’s changing as the archaeological evidence for a vast funeral industry is unearthed and documented in detail for the first time.
“The evidence we uncovered shows the embalmers had very good business sense,” says Ramadan Hussein, an Egyptologist based at the University of Tübingen in Germany. “They were very smart about providing alternatives.”
more after the jump:
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/05/ancient-egyptian-funeral-home-one-stop-shop-afterlife/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 4, 2020 12:49:43 GMT
Sarah Scoles, Journalist and Author of “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers”
May 3, 2020
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
Science journalist and author Sarah Scoles talks about her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers”, a study of UFO culture and its critics.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 4, 2020 12:53:59 GMT
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Post by moksha on May 5, 2020 11:09:08 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 5, 2020 13:00:26 GMT
Good morning, good morning lovely people,
Live Science
Scientists discover evidence of ancient, nitrogen-rich Martian groundwater hiding in Antarctica
By Rafi Letzter 5 May 2020 Could life have swum in those waters billions of years ago?
A bit of 4-billion-year-old rock blasted off the Martian surface about 15 million years ago and eventually landed in Antarctica, where explorers found it in 1984. In the decades since, organic compounds found in that meteorite have been sources of controversy: Did they come from Mars, or did the meteorites get contaminated on Earth? Now, a team of Japanese researchers has reexamined the meteorites, and say they found traces of ancient oceans, rich in useful carbon and nitrogen — key ingredients for life.
The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, after the location where it was first discovered, has long been known to contain organic materials. The hunk of space rock has been the subject of paper after paper after paper debating whether those materials came from Earth or Mars. There's even been a controversial claim, as Live Science sister site Space.com reported in 2016, that evidence for actual Martian life is hiding out in the rock.
The trouble was that researchers could never rule out the possibility that organic molecules from Antarctica got mixed up with the meteorites during their centuries locked in ice. Alternatively, the meteorite could have been contaminated with organic matter in a laboratory.
But now the researchers have taken extraordinary pains to rule out those possibilities. Their results suggest the organic compounds come from Mars — and for the first time show the meteor also contains nitrogen-bearing organic materials. Most nitrogen we've discovered on Mars is locked up in inert nitrogen gas (N2) or in harsh chemicals in the soil that break down organic matter, the researchers wrote. These newly-discovered organic nitrogen compounds in the carbonate suggest that if life did exist on Mars, it would have had access to the same forms of nitrogen that Earthly life relies on.
Together, the researchers wrote in the paper, which was published April 24 in the journal Nature Communications, these findings amount to the signature of an groundwater environment with plenty of potentially life-giving organic material.
The researchers studied the meteorites in a "class-100 clean lab," an environment where everyone wears head-to-toe bodysuits and the airflow is controlled to keep particulates from floating around. (Typically, such labs are used when manufacturing delicate advanced technologies like spacecraft or certain pharmaceuticals.) Past research into Allan Hills 84001, such as a 1999 study in the journal Advances in Space Research that argued the organics likely came from Mars, took place in more typical laboratory environments.
In their ultraclean environment, the scientists peeled off tiny grains of carbonate — the compound in the 4-billion-year-old meteorites. Then, they blasted the surfaces of the grains with a beam of focused charged molecules, or ions, to remove surface contaminants. The material underneath that surface layer, the researchers argued, represents a close approximation of the chemicals inside the meteorites before they were exposed to Earth.
They found levels of organic nitrogen far higher than could easily be explained by contamination from Antarctic ice, suggesting the nitrogen-bearing organic material entered the rock as it formed. The carbonate in Allan Hills 84001 formed in water, researchers believe. On Earth, carbonates like limestone and calcite are also the dried-out remnants of old water sources. Taken together, these lines of evidence suggest that the organic nitrogen compounds were plentiful in early Martian oceans.
That's important because "nitrogen is an essential element for all life on Earth, as it is necessary for protein, DNA, RNA and other vital materials," the researchers wrote.
These results fit with other evidence from the Red Planet. NASA's Curiosity rover and Viking landers found traces of organic material on the Martian surface. But rover instruments can't do the battery of tests that an Earthbound laboratory can,, so the rover data doesn't tell scientists where the organic compounds came from, how old they are or how they formed. This research, if borne out, suggests that at one point, when Mars was covered in oceans, those oceans flowed with organic matter.
All of that said, organic materials form in many lifeless places in the solar system, most notably comets. There's even evidence for organic material in the dust floating between stars, Space.com reported in 2011. So whether these apparent ancient, organic-rich oceans on Mars ever hosted life is still a mystery.
www.livescience.com/hidden-organic-nitrogen-water-evidence-life-mars.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 5, 2020 13:14:45 GMT
New York Post
5-year-old caught driving to California to buy himself a Lamborghini
By Tamar Lapin May 5, 2020
Hot Wheels weren’t good enough for him.
A 5-year-old boy was caught driving his parents’ car on a freeway in Utah on Monday — apparently on his way to California to buy a Lamborghini.
The kid driver made it a handful of miles, from his home in Ogden to I-15’s 25th Street offramp, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
Troopers initially thought they’d stumbled upon an impaired driver, but soon found their perp was actually a child with a penchant for luxury cars.
The boy told them he left home after an argument with his mom, who refused to buy him a Lamborghini.
So he decided to go get one himself.
“He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 in his wallet,” troopers posted on Twitter.
Their post included a photo of the boy in a gray sweatshirt and patterned shorts, wringing his hands inside his parents’ car.
UHP Sgt. Nick Street confirmed to local outlet KSL that the boy is indeed 5 years old, though the angle at which the photo was taken may have made him look older.
Cops didn’t mention a punishment for the boy — but going to bed without supper could be in his future.
nypost.com/2020/05/05/5-year-old-caught-driving-to-california-to-buy-a-lamborghini/
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Post by SysConfig on May 5, 2020 19:41:33 GMT
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