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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 22, 2018 12:11:37 GMT
Apollo Magazine
A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument
Rakewell
22 August 2018
Stonehenge is Britain’s most famous prehistoric monument – an accolade that dance music afficionados might also bestow on ’90s trance DJ Paul Oakenfold. Appropriately enough, then, Oakenfold will this September become the first musician to play an invitation-only set at the neolithic site, with proceeds from the recording going to English Heritage. ‘The energy there will be like nowhere else on earth, and this will be reflected in my music and performance,’ Oakenfold says. ‘Despite having performed at incredible events and locations across the globe, sunset at Stonehenge will be the most magical.’ The Rake is keeping everything crossed for a Spinal Tap moment.
www.apollo-magazine.com/rakes-progress-last-week-in-gossip-3/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 22, 2018 12:20:01 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 23, 2018 12:36:38 GMT
Good morning good morning!
Scientific American
India’s “Vyomanauts” Seek to Join Elite Club of Spacefaring Nations by 2022
Based on more than a decade of preparations, the nation’s ambitious time line for human spaceflight seems feasible to many senior space scientists
By Shekhar Chandra on August 23, 2018
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just announced a plan to send humans to space by 2022, when the nation will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence. If successful, India will join Russia, the U.S. and China in the elite club of countries to achieve homegrown human spaceflight. India’s only citizen to travel to space as yet has been Rakesh Sharma, a pilot in the country’s air force who orbited Earth in 1984 as part of the Soviet Union’s space program.
The planned Gaganyaan (Sanskrit for “sky craft”) mission aims to send a three-person crew to low Earth orbit for up to a week. In keeping with the localized naming traditions set by U.S. astronauts, Russia’s cosmonauts and China’s taikonauts, Gaganyaan crew members will be called “vyomanauts”—a moniker derived from vyoma, the Sanskrit word for space.
Kailasavadivoo Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, is confident about the 2022 deadline. “Most critical technologies required for the Gaganyaan program have been developed by ISRO engineers,” he says. “ISRO has also successfully demonstrated the prototype of the crew module, a capsule to take humans to space, as well as a launch-abort system, which is needed to eject the crew in case of a failure.” Next, Sivan says, come the more intricate aspects of the program: ensuring the rocket and crew module meet stringent safety requirements, developing life-support systems and heat shields for atmospheric reentry, and constructing communications and crew-training facilities. The program’s entire cost, Sivan says, will be less than the equivalent of $1.4 billion.
From humble beginnings in the 1960s and ‘70s—when India began developing its first rockets and satellites—the nation’s space program has blossomed. Besides partnering with other spacefaring countries on a variety of missions, India has also launched scores of satellites and even two farther-flung craft: Chandrayaan 1, its lunar orbiter, operated at the moon from 2008 to 2009; its Mars orbiter, Mangalyaan, reached the Red Planet in 2013. Specific plans for a crew to fly date back to at least 2006, according to G. Madhavan Nair, a space scientist who served as ISRO’s chairman from 2003 to 2009. That was the year the agency completed a study advocating such a project as the next logical step for India’s burgeoning space program, and began lobbying the government for formal approval and further funding.
But this series of successes has been accompanied by setbacks typical of any country striving to advance in spaceflight, such as occasional launch failures and faulty satellites. The launch of India’s next high-profile space science effort, Chandrayaan 2—which aims to orbit the moon and place a lander at the lunar south pole—has been delayed twice in the past year and is now slated for January 2019.
Even so, A. S. Kiran Kumar, former ISRO chairman and one of the masterminds behind Chandrayaan 1 and Mangalyaan, is ebullient about the 2022 deadline for India’s human mission. ISRO, he notes, has for many years been diligently advancing the core technologies for human spaceflight. The nation has selected its newest, heaviest and most powerful rocket, the GSLV Mk III, to carry its crews to orbit, and Kumar says multiple test flights in the next few years should further refine the rocket’s capabilities. Nair shares Kumar’s optimism about the GSLV Mk III as well as meeting the 2022 deadline, but he worries “India hasn’t yet started the process of selecting and training astronauts for the mission”—a task that is time-consuming. To accelerate the crew selection process, Nair says, ISRO may seek collaborations with the U.S. or Russian space agencies.
Also, not every Indian aerospace expert is so sanguine about the nation’s rocketry being ready in time. Ajey Lele, a senior fellow in the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, says “the major problem is going to be the availability of the rocket for the mission. ISRO needs to make the GSLV Mk III operational—fast.”
A more fundamental (and political) concern facing India’s pursuit of a domestic human spaceflight program may be balancing such aspirations against its goals of continuing its economic development and lifting more of its citizens out of poverty. Kumar, however, sees India’s space program not as a frivolous distraction from this goal but rather as an affordable necessity that will create new jobs and lead to technological spin-offs, which enhance and stimulate development. “It is necessary to meet the growing needs of the economy,” he says. “Space has become the fourth frontier after land, air and water.”
ISRO’s total budget since its establishment, he notes, is less than what NASA now spends in a single year; this is in keeping with India’s major space successes being achieved at remarkably low costs compared with its global counterparts. At $78 million, its Mars mission cost less than the production and marketing of a typical Hollywood movie. And if ISRO’s budgetary projections hold, its first human spaceflight will consume roughly one seventh of what NASA is spending on a single space observatory, the $9.6-billion James Webb Space Telescope.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/indias-vyomanauts-seek-to-join-elite-club-of-spacefaring-nations-by-2022/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 24, 2018 12:09:35 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
posted on 18 August 2018
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 24, 2018 12:15:37 GMT
Oddity Central
The Swiss Man Who Built A UFO Landing Port Because Aliens Told Him to
By Spooky August 23rd, 2018
This is the story of Werner Jaisli, a Swiss man who in 2008 started building a giant, star-shaped ‘ovniport’ – a UFO landing spot – in an Argentinian desert, because aliens telepathically ordered him to.
It’s not clear exactly when Werner Jaisli arrived in Cachi, a small town in the Argentinian province of Salta, but it’s not hard to figure out what drew him to this place. The deserts of Salta have become famous among UFO enthusiasts around the globe, after several sightings of unidentified flying objects and other unexplained phenomena were reported in the area over the last few decades. On the night of November 24, 2008, Jaisli himself was allegedly contacted by aliens who gave him specific instructions on how to build a UFO landing port, aka ‘ovniport’.
“I was there, at Forte Alto, at midnight on November 24, 2008. Suddenly, everything was silent and the power was cut off,” Werner Jaisli told reporters a few years back. “At that moment, two luminous objects advanced about 200 meters above the Calchaquí River. They were solid, circular, and had the color of burnished metal. They stood about 100 meters above our heads and projected a powerful beam of light. The strange thing is that this extraordinary light did not affect our vision at all. At that moment, something began to boil through my brain: it was an order. They asked me telepathically to build the UFO port.”
Soon after this bizarre incident, the Swiss started building his now famous ovniport of Forte Alto, about 4 kilometers from the town of Cachi. It consists of a large star-like pattern, with 36 points and measuring 48 meters in diameter, which has a smaller star in its center. It is made of white stones that Jaisli and his assistant, Luis – who was also present the night that the aliens made contact – gathered from the nearby mountains. There are also smaller star patterns made of darker rocks that together form a compound visible from high altitudes.
“I built it the way they told me to,” Jaisli once said after being asked what the patterns of his ovniport symbolized.
more after the jump:
www.odditycentral.com/travel/the-swiss-man-who-built-a-ufo-landing-port-in-argentina-because-aliens-told-him-to.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 24, 2018 12:21:36 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 24, 2018 23:21:08 GMT
Long time no see Kat!
That's interesting.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 24, 2018 23:25:48 GMT
Scientific American
Forget “Manned” Missions—Females May Be More Mentally Resilient in Deep Space
A controversial new study in lab mice hints at sex-based differences in cosmic ray–induced cognitive decline
By John Wenz on August 24, 2018
Just past the confines of Earth’s geomagnetic field, deep space gets downright nasty. There, cosmic radiation from solar flares, supernovae, supermassive black holes and other powerful astrophysical phenomena could spark cancer, vision loss and impaired thinking in future astronauts voyaging to the moon, Mars or beyond.
But a new NASA-funded study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159118304173) published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity makes a bold claim: When exposed to cosmic radiation, women may have an innate biological capacity to stave off associated cognitive declines. A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) and at Brookhaven National Laboratory found female mice somehow kept clear heads after dangerous doses of radiation whereas males developed obvious cognitive impairment. The group may have also discovered the reason why—which could help create “vaccines” to inoculate humans against radiation’s worst effects on the brain.
In the study Brookhaven scientists bombarded an equal number of male and female mice with a potent mix of radioactive particles mimicking those that suffuse deep space—such as high-energy atomic nuclei of oxygen, helium and hydrogen. These particles and others like them ping-pong through the void beyond Earth’s protective magnetic bubble, and some are even channeled into the Van Allen Belts—a zone of seething radiation that girdles our globe. Only 24 human beings have ever traversed this treacherous territory: the Apollo astronauts, who sped through the belts en route to the moon. Just how deleterious that radiation bath was for each Apollo voyager remains a matter of contentious debate, but on each trip an astronaut only spent about four hours in the belts, and less than two weeks outside of Earth’s geomagnetic field. Astronauts on future missions to deep space may have to contend with much longer exposure times.
The Apollo astronauts were also all men—NASA did not send a woman into space until 1983, when Sally Ride launched into Earth orbit onboard the space shuttle Challenger. And no one at all has ventured back into deep space since the final Apollo mission in 1972. “The type of radiation we’re looking at, the astronauts on the International Space Station would be protected from,” says lead author Karen Krukowski of U.C.S.F.’s Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science.
After exposing the mice to a seven-minute session of simulated cosmic radiation at Brookhaven, researchers at U.C.S.F. monitored the mice for months on end, watching for changes in their physiology, genetics and behavior. The females exhibited no discernible cognitive problems but males displayed clear signs of anxiety as well as diminished socialization, memory and problem solving. “What was most striking to us when we looked at the data is that we saw deficits in the males, and the females were protected in all of them,” Krukowski says.
Krukowski and her colleagues hypothesize it could come down to sex-based differences between the activity of microglia—protective cells in the central nervous system that, when activated, can spark inflammation in the surrounding tissue. Previous research has suggested female mice possess fewer numbers of activated microglia than their male counterparts do, potentially offering females more protection against inflammation. As a next step, the U.C.S.F. team is now conducting follow-on experiments, suppressing the activity of microglial cells in new groups of irradiated male and female mice to better understand this potential sex-based difference. With further work, this proposed microglial mechanism might someday be exploited to protect men and women alike on deep-space missions.
But some researchers who were not involved with the work are not buying the study’s surprising results. According to Francis Cucinotta, a professor of radiation science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and former chief scientist for NASA’s Space Radiation Program, most literature on human exposure to radiation shows sex-blind results. “Humans irradiated for brain cancer treatment at much higher doses don’t show much difference between males and females,” he says. “For A-bomb survivors in Japan, no brain effects were seen except for in utero exposures.” Astronauts on space stations—as well as workers at nuclear power plants—also show no discernible sex-linked differences, he notes. Even if the new results from U.C.S.F. and Brookhaven are independently confirmed, Cucinotta adds, “females are definitely higher for cancer risk due to breast and ovarian cancers from radiation exposure—many human and animal studies show this to be true.”
Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, a radiation biologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is similarly skeptical of the new results, saying the male mice may have been predisposed to some of the problems later documented by Krukowski and colleagues. Her criticism draws from known sex-based differences in how mice socialize. “While I think that all the correct tests were run for cognition and that proper controls were in place, the authors have a huge problem in their empirical setup: The male mice were fighting throughout the entire experiment while the female mice were not,” she says. “It appears that the male mice fought so much that five died as a result, and they all had wounds throughout the experiment. This is very common and generally only littermate males are housed together because they will not fight.” Fighting between males from multiple litters, Oberley-Deegan adds, could cause an increase in anxiety and inflammation. “I would not say that these results show conclusively that males are at more risk in developing radiation damage than females,” she says. “I would say this data shows that a stressed-out, wounded animal is more vulnerable to radiation damage.”
Krukowski confirms not all of the study’s male mice shared kinship, but notes this was accounted for: Littermates were only housed together, and any aggressive mice were singled out for separate housing in a solitary but stimulus-rich habitat. Neither mice that were wounded nor those that died during the experiment were used in the subsequent behavioral analyses.
Even with these and other precautions, however, Krukowski and her team acknowledge the question of how humans react to long sojourns in deep space is so multidimensional that any experiment short of actually mounting such missions must be considered preliminary. “Cosmic radiation exposure is only one obstacle astronauts face during deep-space missions,” Krukowski says, pointing to other potential troubles such as sleep deprivation and the physiological effects of spending months or years in microgravity—factors that she and her team intend to eventually study in tandem with radiation’s effects. “This is a first step in understanding how cosmic radiation can influence cognitive and behavioral domains.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/forget-manned-missions-females-may-be-more-mentally-resilient-in-deep-space/
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 7:13:23 GMT
Proof we reversed engineered The drone..right there ..hehe..you can't fool the ole' gator..no siree' look at the design graphics used for wireless charging. God only knows where else we used it..prolly incorporated into those fancy 5g towers..ready to fry brains on a whim..no cloaking necessary..its all in plain sight....
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 25, 2018 11:00:39 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 25, 2018 11:03:25 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Aug 25, 2018 18:17:23 GMT
CRYSTAL ~ CASEBOOK..."If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" ~ George Washington
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Post by swamprat on Aug 26, 2018 2:24:43 GMT
Rest in Peace, John McCain. Thank you, sir, for your service to this country.
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