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Post by HAL on Sept 30, 2018 21:14:20 GMT
That was my whole point. The other 14000 + were, shall we say' ephemeral'. Possibly illegal migrants bussed in or the purpose ? HAL
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Post by GhostofEd on Sept 30, 2018 22:42:05 GMT
That was my whole point. The other 14000 + were, shall we say' ephemeral'. Possibly illegal migrants bussed in or the purpose ? HAL Half of those ~19,000 members were Sys. I liked diane and quincy the best. The other half were those interested in Isaac and the Drones.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2018 23:37:41 GMT
That was my whole point. The other 14000 + were, shall we say' ephemeral'. Possibly illegal migrants bussed in or the purpose ? HAL Half of those ~19,000 members were Sys. I liked diane and quincy the best. The other half were those interested in Isaac and the Drones.
Excellent point..and now with Palo Alto and Stanford back in the news with the Ford hearing..we can prolly tie it up in a nice bundle..That isaac was captured and reprogrammed by those mk ultra people..and since Ms ford was a cia recruiter ---albeit--- a confused and rich one thanks to gofund me..she may have witnessed or known Isaac..and linda was forced to cancel release of the 11 fotos..possibly by threats from the old palo alto alumni assoc. Why with yale thrown in we skull n bones..we can make a series lasting for years and years..
Oh snap Ghosst! Thats a video..the artists are stepping forward..like we knew this so what is he talking about..no one discussed this? is he insane?!! it was a c ommunity of artists..like the hologram and led dude android jones..corporate artists..sold out artists..2007 was year burning man went corporate..look at it today..a shell of its former greatness..but the video guy is so excited...hate to burst his bubble..the myth making started with Titor..then this..all internet based..using the net to influence reality shape it..manufacture ..its just one tool left abandoned on the scaffolding of the matrix..No one is interested..so the "pranksters" never got the chance for applause..now they want some modicum of acknowledgement..tst tst..
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 1, 2018 11:41:33 GMT
Good morning lovely people!
The Scotsman
West Lothian Council create ‘UFO trail’ at site of famous close encounter
Published: 18:39 Sunday 30 September 2018
The scene of a close encounter with a UFO is set to attract visitors from across the world after being officially recognised by a council. West Lothian Council has created a “UFO trail” in woods where a forestry worker claimed he was attacked by a craft from outer space almost 40 years ago. It remains the only such incident in the UK to have led to a criminal investigation and made headlines around the world. Bob Taylor said he was left injured and traumatised after the close encounter in Dechmont Law Woods in Livingston in November 1979.
He claimed he was walking through the forest with his dog when he came across a large dome shaped craft hovering in a clearing. He said two smaller spheres with spikes protruding from them came out and grabbed his legs before dragging him towards the larger object.He recalled smelling an acrid smell and a hissing sound before passing out and woke up 20 minutes later, dragging himself back to his truck which mysteriously wouldn’t start. He managed to walk a mile back to his house. On seeing his dishevelled state, his wife called police and a doctor came out to check him over. His trousers were ripped and he had grazes on his chin and thighs. Police initially treated the incident as an assault but after visiting the scene, they discovered two “ladder” indentations on the ground and 40 small circular holes that followed the path of the mine-like objects.
Forensic tests on his clothes showed it was likely they had been ripped by a sharp upward pull, such as a mechanical device.Various theories have been put forward to explain the bizarre encounter, from an epileptic seizure to the planet Venus. Mr Taylor, who was well respected in the local community, never deviated from his story right up until his death in 2007 aged 88.West Lothian Council has now placed marker posts and a display board in the woods to point the way to the scene of the baffling incident. It is the only officially recognised UFO site in Scotland.Tom Conn, executive councillor for the environment, said: “The Dechmont Woods encounter is Scotland’s most famous alleged UFO incident, and has featured in a number of books and TV programmes.
The information board will help visitors to Dechmont Law find the exact location of the encounter, as well as give details of Mr Taylor’s report of the incident. “Dechmont Law is already very popular with local residents, especially runners and walkers, and we hope this board will help more people discover and enjoy the picturesque area.” Scottish author Malcolm Robinson, who has been campaigning for three years to have signage placed in the woods, welcomed the move.He said: “UFO fans the world over will now be able to find with ease the location of Scotland’s most intriguing UFO incident. This is Scotland’s biggest case of its kind and the marker posts and display board will ensure that the site will be easily reached by those who flock to it each year. “The Dechmont Woods UFO site is the only site in Scotland that officially recognises an event of this nature and whatever UFOs may be, there is no denying that this case stands head and shoulders above anything that has been seen in Scotland.”
www.scotsman.com/news/odd/west-lothian-council-create-ufo-trail-at-site-of-famous-close-encounter-1-4807498
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 1, 2018 11:43:24 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 1, 2018 12:38:23 GMT
Science Alert
This Omnivore Shark Is The First of Its Kind, And Further Confirmation Nature Is Weird as Hell
Also, cannibal hippos.
KATHERINE WHITEHOUSE-TEDD, THE CONVERSATION 1 OCT 2018
Animals don't always stick to traditional menus, and they certainly don't read the descriptions of their diets we include in textbooks. When it recently emerged that a notorious carnivore (a shark) was actually selecting the vegetarian option, scientists were intrigued.
We've known for some time that bonnethead sharks consume large quantities of seagrass, but this was thought to be accidental - pesky vegetation finding its way into their mouths while they were hunting crabs.
Yet this new research has revealed that the bonnethead shark actually digests and draws nutrition from the seagrass – the first known omnivorous shark.
This finding isn't just an interesting new fact about sharks, it's an important acknowledgement that environments need to be protected for reasons we may not have even considered.
Who's to say there aren't other examples of species interacting with their habitats in unexpected ways?
The natural world is far from fully understood, and while new scientific discoveries continue to be made, these revelations aren't keeping pace with the rate of environmental destruction.
Equally, nature seems to have a habit of surprising us. Or perhaps it's just that we forget that animals don't read the books we write about them.
In the field of feeding ecology alone, there are multiple examples of animals breaking the "rules" we've set for them. If the plant-eating shark was a shock, what about supposedly strict vegetarians turning to meat?
Although carcass-eating bunnies and cannibal hippopotamuses may sound like something out of a horror movie, they aren't restricted to the imaginations of screenwriters.
The food chain's grislier links
Let's take the case of the hippo first. These iconic African animals are described in most textbooks as strict herbivores, who only use their large tusks and teeth for display and territorial fights.
However, the rotund vegetarians have been seen consuming animal carcasses, including other hippos. This behaviour is not isolated to a single observation and scientists believe it may even help diseases such as anthrax to spread more widely throughout hippo populations.
As for the cute and fluffy bunnies, even these will choose meat over veg in some circumstances. In a mixed-species zoo exhibit, the chicken and mice offered to captive birds of prey were actually consumed by domestic rabbits sharing the enclosure.
More gruesome examples of erstwhile vegetarians abound. The poor table manners of sheep and deer were reported in the late 1980s, as they were seen biting the legs, wings and heads off fledgling chicks.
Only a few months ago, startling footage of rare curlew nests being raided by sheep in the UK caused a sensation on social media.
But the dining tables are turned in New Zealand, where it's sheep who are the victims.
The kea bird, New Zealand's friendly "mountain clown", is a native parrot with a taste for open wounds on livestock, and can often be seen plucking tissue and blood from the animals while perched on their backs.
As early as 1895, the species' feeding habits were the subject of scientific interest. However, it was the interest of farmers in these birds that warranted the greatest concern, as the keas' apparent thirst for blood prompted a campaign to exterminate them.
The jury may still be out as to whether keas are clowns or killers, but what does appear accurate is that they are highly adaptable opportunists who don't play by any rules we may make for them.
A fresh look at food choices
These examples force us to rethink the notion that feeding habits are a simple reflection of gut anatomy. Perhaps feeding behaviour and strategies are driven more by opportunity than physiology.
Rabbits, hippos and keas don't have anatomies which make them good at capturing prey, but that doesn't mean to say they can't, and won't, make use of animal tissues if they get the chance. Likewise, not all carnivores may be as hungry for meat as we once thought.
Free-living animals must make the most of the opportunities presented in their environment. If that means tucking into a chum that's just died, or taking a flexitarian approach to one's dietary regime, then that's what they'll do.
After all, as my colleague Ellen Dierenfeld pointed out, carnivores and herbivores are just two extreme ends of the scale, and it's only humans that tend to think of the points on that scale as immovable. So until the animals learn to write their own textbooks, we should be prepared for the unexpected, and never take anything off the menu when it comes to understanding the natural world.
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-the-first-ever-omnivore-shark-and-it-s-weird-as-hell
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Post by HAL on Oct 1, 2018 19:16:19 GMT
Sys,
If Kushner is the best android the Black Projects can produce there is still hope for us.
But they are becoming very human like in appearance.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 1, 2018 20:00:50 GMT
Stripes
Green Beret medic receives Medal of Honor for lifesaving actions in Afghanistan
By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: October 1, 2018
WASHINGTON — Dillon Behr never understood how he and Ron Shurer received the same valor award for their actions in the midst of a savage, 6-hour firefight in which their Green Beret unit was nearly overrun in the jagged, icy cliffs of eastern Afghanistan.
The entire 12-man force from Operational Detachment-Alpha 3336 had fought valiantly April 6, 2008, on that Nuristan province mountain where they’d been sent to kill or capture a high-value leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin insurgent group, Behr said Sunday. But Shurer not only single-handedly kept Behr alive after he was shot through the hip early in the fight known now as the Battle of Shok Valley, but he also ultimately was responsible for ensuring all of the American troops on that mountain made it out alive.
“Without Ron Shurer at my side, I would have died that day. No question,” Behr said. “His presence gave me the confidence to know I could make it. There’s a good chance if he would have been critically injured or killed on the battlefield … we all might have died out there.”
Months after the battle, 10 soldiers who fought that day were awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest honor for valor, representing the most such battlefield awards earned in a single engagement since the Vietnam War. On Monday, Shurer’s Silver Star was upgraded to the Medal of Honor when President Donald Trump presented the nation’s highest military honor to the former Green Beret at the White House.
“Knowing that he was awarded the Silver Star, the same award that I got, it didn’t really seem fair,” Behr said one day before the ceremony. “So, to see him elevated and given the nation’s highest honor — there’s nobody else that could deserve it any more, and I’m extremely proud to know him.”
For Shurer, 37, who has worked as a Secret Service agent since he left the Army in 2011, the upgraded award was unexpected and the result of a Pentagon review that began in 2016 of high-level, post-9/11 combat awards.
Before he heard on Sept. 4 from Trump that he would receive the Medal of Honor, he was not aware his Silver Star was under consideration for an upgrade.
“Since we got the word, I’ve felt every emotion — pride, humbled, a little embarrassed,” he said. There’s “so much to try and process and take in. It’s definitely something you grow up hearing about, but never would have considered myself in that conversation.”
Ultimately, Shurer said, the award is about recognizing the other men who fought alongside him on that mountain a decade ago.
‘Utter chaos’
The Green Berets and some 100 Afghan commandos sent on that mission could sense something was amiss not long after their arrival. The unit was forced to drop about 10 feet from the hovering helicopters, which could not find a place to land, and needed to scale a nearly vertical, 100-foot cliff to reach the compound where their target was expected to be, according to soldiers who served on that mission.
Behr said he felt a sense of “eeriness” immediately.
Then the battle erupted — heavy fire from rifles and machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades rained down onto them from enemy positions overhead.
“It was just an onslaught of fire and explosions for a very long time,” said Behr, who was then a sergeant first class and the unit’s communications specialist. “Utter chaos.”
The operation’s ground commander Lt. Col. Kyle Walton, then a captain, split the team into several assault elements, leading the way up the cliff with Behr and several others. Below the cliff, some of the Afghan commandos were wounded. Shurer, the only medic on the operation, began tending to them.
Before long, Walton recalled, the situation for him and the others atop the cliff became untenable.
With his team outmanned, outgunned and taking casualties, Walton was forced to call Shurer to his position.
“When I called for Ron, there was a silence over the radio for a few seconds, because everyone realized what that meant — that it was bad,” Walton said. “He had to climb a mountain under fire with a couple other guys on the team. When he showed up, nearly everybody was wounded. We were under direct fire. We were pinned down with nearly nowhere to go except down that 100-foot cliff.
The unit’s Afghan interpreter, who they knew by the nickname C.K., was mortally wounded. Behr was down and even after Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs arrived to help, soldiers kept getting hit with the mix of enemy fire and shrapnel from the “danger close” strikes, bombs that were called in close to their own position.
Shurer went to work on Behr, calmly reassuring his friend he would make it.
He checked the others' injuries. C.K. was not going to make it; the others had a chance to live if they could be evacuated. But Behr was in the worst shape, with the gnarled hip injury and another wound to his arm, Shurer recalled.
“Constantly bleeding,” the former medic said. “I got to the point where … I just resorted to using my fingers to kind of shove in and then bandaged him up as tight as I could.”
Shurer was hit twice — once in his helmet, leaving him momentarily stunned, and then again in his arm. He kept working.
Behr, in a morphine stupor, believed he would die. He said a prayer.
Then “Ron slapped me across the face and said, ‘Wake up. You’re not going to die today,’” he recounted. “I knew at that point I was going to make it.”
‘Calm, collected and cool’
After hours of fighting, the unit was still not in the clear.
Walton feared his force was on the verge of being overrun.
With the insurgents nearing his position, Walton reached for a grenade and called in a massive “danger close” strike, expecting it could take his entire team out.
They were “all prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice,” he said.
The bomb dropped. And then he saw the image he would forever remember from that fight – Shurer’s body draped over the injured men he’d been working on through the fight.
“In that moment, the strike that we had called in on our own position detonated just above us and blocked out the sun. As the dust settled, Ron Shurer was the first thing that I saw on top of his wounded teammates, protecting them even to the end when we had all fully accepted the fact that we were going to go down fighting,” the officer said. “Ron Shurer was still thinking of others.”
The bomb blast gave the team enough cover to remove the wounded.
Shurer strung together nylon tubular webbing to form a makeshift sling to lower Behr and the others off the cliff to get them to the incoming helicopters. They would survive.
Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Williams, another Green Beret who served on that mission, credited Shurer’s sure-handedness with allowing the unit to survive the battle — one of the worst Green Berets have faced in recent years, he said.
“His ability to manage an unmanageable situation and remain calm, collected and cool — always was that guy, hanging out or training or whatever,” said Williams, who is still with 3rd Special Forces Group. “It really came to light during the worst possible time and that is the reason we were all able to make it away from that position alive and as a team.”
The mission might not have been a success, but Shurer managed to ensure his fellow soldiers survived.
“We’d been in engagements before, even on that deployment,” he said. “Nothing like that before. Luckily, we’re all incredibly well trained, we trusted each other, and it all just kind of worked for us that day. On our worst day.”
Shurer said Sunday that his fellow soldiers' appreciation of his actions that day means more to him than receiving the Medal of Honor.
“That means so much more,” he said. “I know these guys’ wives, their kids. Just knowing that — it’s very humbling for them to say [he saved their lives]. Luckily, it all kind of worked for me to help those guys.”
Shurer, who last year was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, hopes his award can draw some attention to the sacrifice Green Berets have made through the years and continue to make today in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and in countries across Africa.
“Hopefully, [it will] remind the American public about all the servicemembers we still have out there, still doing the missions today, just quietly going about their jobs, you know, not asking for recognition,” he said. “Whatever little voice I get, I hope to just be able to direct attention that way.”
www.stripes.com/green-beret-medic-receives-medal-of-honor-for-lifesaving-actions-in-afghanistan-1.549915
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Post by swamprat on Oct 1, 2018 23:51:27 GMT
Mother Nature is an expert at efficient design. SOURCE: GetsetflySCIENCE
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Post by GhostofEd on Oct 1, 2018 23:53:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 23:59:20 GMT
hahah I'm dying Laffing here..glad no one was hurt
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 2, 2018 12:18:50 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 2, 2018 12:22:22 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Phys Org
Kepler put into sleep mode as telescope's pointing performance degrades
October 2, 2018, NASA
NASA's Kepler team has received data showing that the spacecraft's ability to point precisely has degraded. In order to preserve high-value science data collected during its latest observation campaign, the Kepler team has placed the spacecraft in a stable, no-fuel-use sleep mode.
During Kepler's allotted Deep Space Network time, scheduled to begin October 10, the Kepler team will "wake up" the spacecraft and direct it to point its large antenna back to Earth and transmit the science data home. Due to uncertainties about the remaining available fuel, there is no guarantee that NASA will be able to download the science data. If successful the Kepler team will attempt to start the next observing campaign with the remaining fuel.
NASA anticipates that the spacecraft will soon run out of fuel, but it remains unclear how much remains. NASA's goal is to collect and downlink as much science data as possible while the spacecraft remains viable.
Kepler's latest observing campaign, Campaign 19, started on August 29 after the spacecraft's configuration had been modified in order to adapt to a change in thruster performance. Over the following 27 days, Kepler observed more than 30,000 stars and galaxies in the constellation of Aquarius. The stars included dozens of known and suspected exoplanet systems—including the well-known TRAPPIST-1 system with its seven Earth-sized planets.
As engineers work to preserve the data stored onboard the spacecraft, scientists are continuing to mine existing data already on the ground. A recent notable find is Wolf 503b, a nearby super-Earth-size planet orbiting a bright star. At approximately twice the size of Earth, Wolf 503b is representative of the most common size of planet Kepler found in the galaxy. However, since there are no planets this size in our own solar system, we have a lot left to learn about planets this size. Since Wolf 503b is nearby and orbits a bright star, it is particularly well suited for subsequent observations with other telescopes that promise to help unravel the mysteries of what planets this size are like.
Launched in March 2009, NASA's first planet-hunter has confirmed more than 2,600 planets beyond the solar system.
phys.org/news/2018-10-kepler-mode-telescope-degrades.html#jCp
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 12:24:00 GMT
Did ya notice..not one table was was knocked over?..thats amazing...
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 2, 2018 12:24:46 GMT
Bad Lip Reading
Published on Sep 26, 2018
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