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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 6:43:27 GMT
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Post by moksha on Oct 20, 2018 8:43:23 GMT
credit: BOEING is that a accounting term ? maybe
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 20, 2018 10:43:01 GMT
It's Saturday! Good morning lovely people
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 21, 2018 12:48:31 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
This is the first image captured in space by the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury. It was taken by a monitoring camera on BepiColombo’s Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on Oct. 20, 2018, the day after the mission launched on its long voyage to Mercury. The photo shows one of BepiColombo’s extended solar arrays (right) and an insulation-wrapped sun sensor on the MTM (left). Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM – CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Welcome to Space! BepiColombo Spacecraft Headed to Mercury Snap 1st Photo
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer October 21, 2018 07:53am ET
A newly launched mission to Mercury has beamed home its first photo from space.
The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured a selfie showing an extended solar array and an insulation-wrapped sun sensor on Saturday (Oct. 20), a day after lifting off from Kourou, French Guiana.
The heart of BepiColombo is two spacecraft — the European Space Agency's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which was provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. A third component, the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), serves to support this duo during the long cruise to the solar system's innermost planet.
And this cruise will be very long indeed. BepiColombo is scheduled to slip into orbit around Mercury in December 2025, after nine different planetary flybys — one of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury. This complicated trajectory is a consequence of Mercury's high orbital speed and proximity to the sun; Mercury-bound spacecraft have to thread a needle to reach the planet and avoid getting sucked in by our star's powerful gravity.
Once at Mercury, the two orbiters will separate and go their own ways. The diverse data gathered by the duo will paint a comprehensive picture of the rocky planet, shedding light on its composition, structure, magnetic field, formation and evolution, among other characteristics, mission officials have said.
more after the jump:
www.space.com/42206-bepicolombo-mercury-mission-first-photo.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 22, 2018 11:24:36 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Baltimore Sun
No place to run': Loch Raven Reservoir's forgotten UFO, 60 years later
Libby Solomon October 22, 2018
Around midnight on Oct. 26, 1958, Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small were taking a drive by Loch Raven Reservoir in Towson when they said a great, iridescent, egg-shaped object appeared above a bridge.
The young men inched closer and the car stopped dead — no headlights, no engine, no ignition, as if the entire electrical system had given out.
“There was no place to run,” Small, then 27, told an Air Force investigator less than two weeks later, according to an interview transcript in a declassified report of the incident. “We probably would’ve if we could’ve but we were terrified at what we saw.”
Cohen, then 24, told investigators the men hid behind the car and watched the object hover. There was a flash of light and noise and heat — and then, Cohen said, it rose into the sky and disappeared.
Oct. 26 this year will mark 60 years since Cohen and Small reported seeing the mysterious object above the reservoir, at the height of the American obsession with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
The incident inspired UFO hunters through the years and launched an official Air Force investigation. But today, locals say, the story has largely been lost to history and many do not know it ever happened.
After conducting interviews and examining the scene, the investigating officer, 2nd Lt. Bert R. Staples, wrote in the 1958 report: “This UFO remains unidentified.”
Saucers and spies
The Loch Raven incident was one of many strange occurrences reported in the 1940s through the 1960s, when Cold War paranoia intersected with a fascination with outer space and the unknown.
Pennsylvania State University history professor Greg Eghigian, who studies the history of UFOs, said in the late ’40’s and early ’50’s, even mainstream news outlets would report strange sightings of “flying saucers.”
Around the same time, the U.S. government started investigating the reports — not looking for signs of alien life, but for signs of spy technology from the Soviet Union. From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated these occurrences under a program called Project Blue Book.
According to a 1985 Air Force fact sheet posted on the National Archives website, 12,618 sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. Of those, just 5 percent were never explained. The Loch Raven incident was among the 701 that remained “unidentified.”
The Air Force was not the only organization watching the skies. According to the Air Force report, after the object disappeared and Small and Cohen found that their car would start again, they drove to the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and Joppa Road to make a phone call. Their first call was not to police, but to the Ground Observer Corps, a civilian organization that watched the sky for enemy airplanes during the Cold War.
Tom Graf, a Baltimore County Historical Society board member who has studied the Loch Raven incident, said he was fascinated that the organization was the first call the men would make “when the strangest event in your life happens.”
“A million and a half people watching the skies; they don’t do that today,” Graf said. “It was just a different world back then.”
Other groups watching for UFOs included the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, or NICAP. The group, founded in the 1950s, visited the site of the Loch Raven incident to conduct its own forensic tests, which were inconclusive, according to the Air Force report. The Air Force report was accessed on the NICAP website.
By 1958, Eghigian said the media and the public had tired of UFO watching unless an incident was “something really unusual or arresting.” The Loch Raven incident fit the bill, he said.
“It’s what’s later going to be called a real-close encounter,” Eghigian said. “The idea that would grab attention is … they are very, very close to this thing. It’s not up in the sky miles away.”
Though the Air Force was not looking for aliens, Eghigian said many civilians certainly were — and incidents like Loch Raven concerned those UFO watchers, dubbed ufologists.
“If these are really aliens, they’re getting kind of close to us, a little bold, a little less reserved,” Eghigian said ufologists thought at the time. “There are some ufologists who are going to start seeing these stories as indicative of something more sinister.”
A compelling story
Graf, of the Historical Society, is not exactly sure what happened that night in 1958, but it seems like something did.
“You read the report and it sounds like these two guys were telling the truth,” Graf said, adding that, separately, “they sounded scared.”
“I am sorry I saw it; I wish I hadn’t seen it,” Small told the Air Force.
Eghigian said the UFO community seeks out “compelling” reports that have three elements. The people who report them should be believable. The details should lend credence to the stories. And there should be forensic evidence. Loch Raven, he said, had all three.
“Both SMALL and COHEN appeared to be well educated and spoke in an intelligent manner,” wrote Staples, the Air Force lieutenant. “ They seemed sincere and they indicated that they did not want publicity.”
Efforts to learn Small and Cohen’s present-day whereabouts were unsuccessful.
The lieutenant also interviewed other witnesses, including a 16-year-old boy and two employees of a lakefront restaurant, who all saw similar glowing objects around the same time and location. The restaurant employees also heard the same sound the men reported: a loud boom that sounded to Cohen like an explosion, to Small like a thunderclap.
Then there was the car’s electrical system, which allegedly shut off when Phillip and Small got close to the object. Eghigian said that could be considered forensic evidence.
After the object disappeared and Small and Cohen made that first phone call, the Ground Observer Corps member who answered said “Aww, come on now,” and hung up. They then called the Towson Precinct of the Baltimore County Police Department, which sent two officers to the scene and took a report.
After the “tremendous heat wave” from the object, Small said he and Cohen felt as if their faces had been sunburnt. They went to St. Joseph’s Hospital “to try to determine if possibly they were some kind of radiation burns,” he said.
The hospital did a cursory examination and released the men. Small said his face was noticeably red, and The Baltimore Sun reported that December that he said his wife and colleagues had noticed the change in color.
The Air Force investigator was convinced: Staples wrote that with all the credible witnesses, “it can be assumed that the sighting did actually occur.”
But the Air Force could find no explanation for the glowing egg, the report said. No unusual meteorological activity, no thunderstorms, no clouds, no possibility of it being an aircraft at such a low altitude. And “no special projects are known to be operating in that area.” The Air Force had no answers.
Mystery in the neighborhood
The Knollwood Association, hosted a neighborhood Halloween celebration at the intersection of Knollwood Road and Aigburth Road. The association paid homage to Orson wells' War of the Worlds 1938 broadcast on Facebook by posting a Knollwood version dealing with an alien invasion of Towson.
David Riley is not sure where he first heard about the Loch Raven UFO, but now that he has he is going all in.
The Knollwood Association president mobilized his southeast Towson neighborhood last year to host an “alien invasion” themed Halloween display, one he said will return this year.
“It was such a cool story, and something that really wasn’t well known,” Riley said. The self-described horror and science fiction fan bought an alien prop from a movie house in L.A. and staged a series of videos and photos picturing a world in which aliens invade Knollwood. In some of the photos, a dead alien holds a map of the Towson neighborhood.
Someday, Riley said, he hopes to organize an “alien festival” in downtown Towson around Halloween, to draw people into the business district during the colder months.
“It’s something that has been kind of buried in time and has never been part of local lore,” Riley said. “And you know what, I think there’s so much potential there to have fun with it and expand it.”
Graf, the Historical Society member and a Lutherville resident, said he walks his dog by Loch Raven Reservoir and drives through the area at night and thinks about what it must have been like to see that glowing egg.
“It’s fun to know that people were crazy and paranoid back then, just like they are now,” he said. “And it’s really nice to know that the Air Force, with all the resources that were available to them, they didn’t crack the case.”
Eghigian, the historian, said UFO stories don’t grab people or make people nervous today, the way they did in the 1950s. But “it still has a draw,” he said.
“There’s kind of an inexhaustible, unquenchable thirst many people have for thinking about things they consider to be mysterious or paranormal,” Eghigian said. “That speaks to a thing I think is almost virtually universal in people: wanting to understand and think the universe is actually a lot bigger than most of us can comprehend. Strange things happen in the world, and these things are not going to be explained at first glance.”
Graf said he is fine with not knowing exactly what happened near his Lutherville home in 1958; in fact, he likes it.
“It’s fun to have a little mystery in the neighborhood,” he said.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/towson/ph-tt-loch-raven-ufo-1024-story.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 22, 2018 11:42:56 GMT
Landsat 8, Shoal Complex. The main feature here, near Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, is the Schooner Cays shoal complex. The tidal sand ridges, parabolic bars, and intervening channels explode in a blue rhythm. The Bahamas have the third most extensive coral reef in the world. Image courtesy of US Geological Survey/NASA.
Gallery after the jump:
news.artnet.com/art-world/satellite-images-earth-as-art-series-1376128
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Post by ZETAR on Oct 22, 2018 19:20:01 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 23, 2018 12:44:27 GMT
Good morning,
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 24, 2018 10:47:43 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Untapped Cities
A UFO Tugboat Abduction Memorial has Popped Up in The Battery
by Nicole Saraniero 10/23/2018 Arts & Culture
Standing at the edge of the water in The Battery, with the Statue of Liberty just behind it, is a monument dedicated to the crew of the tugboat Maria 120. According to the plaque on the pedestal of the statue, the six man crew and vessel mysteriously vanished from New York Harbor in July of 1977. Perhaps this story doesn’t ring a bell because that summer is better known in New York City for the two-day city-wide blackout or the terrifying crimes of serial killer David Berkowitz. Or perhaps, it’s because it never happened. This fun and farcical memorial, which depicts a longshoreman crewman gazing up at what can be presumed to be an alien spacecraft as an extraterrestrial figure lays at his feet, is the latest public art piece from Staten Island based sculptor Joe Reginella. Reginella’s previous installations include the Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede monument and a monument to an octopus attack on a ferry in Staten Island harbor.
As in his previous work, for the NYC Tugboat Abduction monument Reginella draws from true New York City history to add credibility to the story. The blackout of July 13th was a very real occurrence that happened during the summer of 1977. Many neighborhoods saw a surge in crime and flaws in the city’s infrastructure and emergency preparedness were brought to light. Reginella frames his fictional story in the context of this real life event. In the story of the Maria 120, crewmen were patrolling the waters between Liberty Island and Battery Park when in the pitch blackness, a bright streak of light shot through the night sky and what appeared to be a private aircraft crashed into the harbor. The crew immediately radioed the Coast Guard a distress signal and informed them that they were going to try to tow the crashed vessel to shore. However, when the Coast Guard boats arrived to help, there was no aircraft, and the tugboat Maria 120, as well as her crew, had vanished.
The tugboat abduction narrative is further enhanced by supplemental material that includes a website, documentary trailer and even souvenirs that you can buy. Reginella and a team of up to a dozen creatives work together for months to bring these stories to life through various mediums. For this piece, the accompanying documentary follows the son of one of the abducted crewmen as he seeks to uncover the truth of his father’s disappearance. Though in the trailer you see this character perturbed by the commercialization of the tugboat “tragedy”- which has spawned a touristy “Harbor Mystery Cruise” and Statue of Liberty abduction tchotchkes – fans should check out the website’s shop, as proceeds from the themed t-shirts and souvenirs help fund these fantastical projects.
The bronze statue and pedestal, which breaks down into four pieces for mobility, weighs a hefty total of around 300 pounds! What is exciting for Reginella is to see the different ways people react to his statues, whether they believe the story is real or not. While people-watching on a windy Sunday in the Battery, Reginella told Untapped Cities that he loves to see when people “get it,” the moment of head scratching as they realize maybe what they are looking at isn’t what it seems. Regardless of whether the story is true, seeing the sculpture creates a fun moment and story to tell friends about, for those who take the time to stop and observe it. The reactions to this sculpture in particular have been very entertaining for Reginella as a lot of people interact with the it by re-enacting the dramatic pose of the longshoreman figure.
For a chance to see the monument for yourself, head down to the Battery on a Saturday or Sunday now through November. The monument is periodically on display across from the East Coast Memorial. Dive deeper into the story of the NYC UFO Tugboat Abduction Monument and purchase themed souvenirs here: www.nycufoencounter.com/
untappedcities.com/2018/10/23/a-ufo-tugboat-abduction-memorial-has-popped-up-in-the-battery/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 24, 2018 10:59:47 GMT
r.i.p. Harry Ettlinger, one of the World War II "Monuments Men," speaks at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, Oct. 22, 2015. JOE GROMELSKI/STARS AND STRIPES
Stars and Stripes 24 October 2018
A member of the Monuments Men — a group responsible for saving dozens of priceless artworks and artifacts stolen by the Nazis during World War II — died Sunday in New Jersey at age 92.
Harry Ettlinger called the thefts the “greatest plunder ever perpetrated in the history of civilization” in a 2015 interview with McClatchy.
After joining the Army in 1944, Ettlinger was set to fight in the Battle of the Bulge but was instead reassigned to translate at the Nuremberg Trials due to his fluency in German, according a biography on the Monuments Men Foundation website. Waiting for an assignment, Ettlinger instead volunteered for the Monuments Men in 1945.
He became a translator and right-hand man to one of the chiefs of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies, the formal title of the group, McClatchy reported.
The group’s mission was at the center of the 2014 Hollywood movie “Monuments Men” starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. In the film, English actor Dimitri Leonidas portrays Sam Epstein, a character based on Ettlinger, New Yorker magazine reported in 2014.
Ettlinger, a Jew, was born in Germany in 1926, according to his obituary. His family escaped the Nazis in 1938 and settled in Newark, N.J.
After the war, Ettlinger went on to a career in aerospace engineering for Singer-Kearfott.
In 2015, he and three other surviving Monuments Men members accepted the Congressional Gold Medal for the group during a ceremony at the Capitol building.
The obituary said Ettlinger was preceded in death by his wife, Mimi Goldman, and is survived by his three children, their families and his longtime companion.
There will be a service Friday at Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Funeral Chapel in Livingston, N.J., and a burial service in Cedar Knolls, N.J., according to the obituary.
www.stripes.com/member-of-famed-monuments-men-of-wwii-dies-at-92-1.553249#.W9BGFaRtDTw.twitter
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Post by swamprat on Oct 24, 2018 14:53:40 GMT
US stealth bomber forced to make emergency landing By Zachary Cohen, CNN
October 24, 2018
© David McNew/Reuters A B-2 Stealth Bomber performs a flyover at the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California January 1, 2015
A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber safely landed at Colorado Springs Airport Tuesday morning after suffering an in-flight emergency, a spokesperson with the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base confirmed to CNN.
The $1.2 billion aircraft was en route to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Two pilots were on board and both aviators were unharmed, and the exact cause of the in-flight emergency is under investigation, according to the Air Force.
"Our aviators are extremely skilled; they're trained to handle a wide variety of in-flight emergencies in one of the world's most advanced aircraft and they perfectly demonstrated that today," said Brig. Gen. John J. Nichols, 509th Bomb Wing Commander.
The incident was first reported by KOAA News, a CNN affiliate.
The aircraft is based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and is assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing.
B-2 bombers are manned by a two-person crew and are capable of delivering a 40,000-pound payload, including nuclear bombs, according to the US Air Force, which maintains 20 aircraft in its fleet of stealth bombers.
According to the B-2's primary contractor Northrop Grumman, the B-2 can fly 6,000 nautical miles before it needs to be refueled.
The aircraft involved in Tuesday's incident was not armed when it was forced to land, according to the Air Force.
"Whiteman AFB routinely conducts training missions with the B-2 Spirit to effectively provide lethal global strike capabilities for the United States. During this training mission, the aircraft was not carrying any weapons," Air Force spokesperson Lt. Allen Palmer told CNN in a statement.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-stealth-bomber-forced-to-make-emergency-landing/ar-BBON0Mf?ocid=sf
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 25, 2018 11:35:35 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
Inverse
Elephant Study Reveals an Innate Ability for Math, Rivaling Humans
Authai the elephant is the queen of counting.
By Sarah Sloat October 23, 2018
When the arithmetic-performing celebrity horse Clever Hans was exposed as a phony in 1907, we lost faith in the math skills of our animal kin. But new research shows Clever Hans’ owner should have opted for elephants instead. A study published Monday in the Journal of Ethology suggests that Asian elephants’ math ability could put them head and shoulders — and trunk and ears — above most other animals, even the ones we think are especially clever.
In this new study, a team of scientists show that Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) have an inherent ability to count that surpasses the skills of other animals. The authors say the findings, which focused on an elephant living in Japan’s Ueno Zoo, are the “first experimental evidence that nonhuman animals have cognitive characteristics partially identical to human counting.”
This skill has just been demonstrated by just one elephant: a 14-year-old female named Authai. She was the only elephant of three that successfully learned to use a large touchscreen designed to test numerical abilities. In the studies, Authai was presented with two images of different-sized fruits clustered together, and her task was to choose the image showing the larger number of items. In the end, she correctly completed this task 181 out of 271 times — a success rate of 66.8 percent.
The scientists, who work at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, determined that Authai’s ability to choose the correct image was not affected by magnitude (how many fruits), distance (how close she was to the board), or ratio of the comparisons (the difference in number of fruits). Instead, she studied the various images and meticulously chose the figures containing the highest numbers of fruits — dealing with the numbers in a way that the scientists write “is quite different from that of other animals.”
George Wittemyer, Ph.D., is a professor at Colorado State University and the scientific director of the charity Save the Elephants. Wittemyer, who was a not a part of this research, tells Inverse that “the work offers an interesting insight into the numerical abilities of Asian elephants.” He suspects that in wild settings, where elephants have to make foraging decisions, the ability to discern between volumes presented numerically would only be enhanced.
“I wonder if these skills are related to their advanced social networks, where they recognize individual relationships among numerous individuals with their recognized spatial cognitive abilities,” Wittemyer says. “Because vision is known to be a tertiary sensory modality for elephants, I would imagine numeric sensitivity would be enhanced if assessed with one of their primary sensory systems [like olfactory modalities].”
No one is sure why Asian elephants have counting skills that are similar to our own and so different from those of other elephants. It’s possible their unique ability evolved independently; lead author Naoko Irie, Ph.D., explained Monday that Asian and African elephant species diverged more than 7.6 million years ago, so its highly probable they have different cognitive abilities.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that animals can count: elephants aside, researchers know that lions only attack prides that outnumber their own, and guppies can distinguish between four guppies and five. Nevertheless, the cognitive underpinnings that allow these animals to do so are still debated. Asian elephants are seemingly more advanced than the rest of the animal kingdom, and scientists who study them are likely counting their blessings.
www.inverse.com/article/50118-asian-elephant-counting-skills
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Post by GhostofEd on Oct 25, 2018 15:27:01 GMT
Elephant Study Reveals an Innate Ability for Math, Rivaling Humans
Authai the elephant is the queen of counting.
She's a big show off.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 26, 2018 12:00:01 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Science Alert
Astronomers Have Detected Radio Waves From Our Own Galaxy Bouncing Off The Moon
MICHELLE STARR 26 OCT 2018
The entire time the Moon has been sitting up there, quietly orbiting Earth, it turns out it's actually been doing something incredible. Something that could help teach us about the early Universe.
Off its rocky surface, the Moon reflects radio waves emitted by our home galaxy, the Milky Way. And now astronomers have detected them.
The signal was picked up by researchers from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D). But even though that's cool enough, it's not the end goal.
Their target is something much more elusive: they want to detect the extremely faint signal emanating from the hydrogen in the very earliest days of the Universe, in the time between the Big Bang and the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), when the Universe's lights switched on.
"Before there were stars and galaxies, the Universe was pretty much just hydrogen, floating around in space," said astronomer Benjamin McKinley.
"Since there are no sources of the optical light visible to our eyes, this early stage of the Universe is known as the 'cosmic dark ages'."
The instrument the team are using is a low-frequency radio telescope called the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), in the desert of Western Australia. Consisting of 2,048 dipole antennas, it's one of the best tools in the world for trying to understand the early Universe.
Its low frequency range of 80-300 MHz, astronomers hope, will be able to detect the radio signal emanating from the hydrogen atoms prior to the EoR.
"If we can detect this radio signal it will tell us whether our theories about the evolution of the Universe are correct," McKinley noted.
But that signal is incredibly faint, especially compared to all the other radio signals that have since filled the Universe.
One possible solution is to measure the average brightness of the radio sky - but this can't be done using standard techniques, since interferometers aren't sensitive to a global average that doesn't vary.
So this is where the Moon comes in. Radio waves can't actually pass through the Moon - which is the reason why it's difficult to communicate with astronauts on the Moon's far side, and also why scientists think it would be an amazing idea to put a radio telescope back there, where it wouldn't encounter interference from terrestrial radio emissions.
The flip side of that is that the Moon occults the radio sky behind it. So the research team leveraged this property to measure the average brightness of the patch of sky surrounding it.
This is not a new idea, but the team also employed a more sophisticated method of dealing with 'earthshine', the radio emissions from Earth that bounce off the Moon and interfere with the signal received by the telescope.
Then, after calculating earthshine, they also had to establish how much interference was being caused by the galaxy itself.
To create the incredible image of the Milky Way's galactic plane reflected off the Moon, the team put together data sets. The first was the MWA's lunar observations. The second was a Global Sky Model - a map of diffuse galactic radio emission - published in 2008.
Using ray-tracing and computer modeling, they were able to map the Global Sky Model onto the face of the Moon, and work out the average radio brightness of the galaxy's reflected radio waves.
So, yes - that's a generated image, not an exact representation of the MWA data, which you can see in the picture below. The dark patch in the middle is the Moon.
So did they detect the EoR? Well, not yet. This research was early groundwork to establish the efficacy of the technique. And it's looking pretty good so far.
"Our initial results using the lunar occultation technique are promising. We are beginning to understand the errors and spectral features present in our data and will continue to refine our techniques," the researchers wrote in their paper, but they noted there's much more work ahead.
"Future progress depends upon processing more data and further refining our techniques to effectively model foreground and reflected emission within our frequency range. The reflective behaviour of the Moon at low frequencies is not well studied and this will require particular attention. We must also develop techniques to break the degeneracy between the sky temperature and the Moon temperature in our fitting procedure."
Now that's going to be pretty danged interesting, don't you think?
The team's research has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/481/4/5034/5091824
www.sciencealert.com/murchison-widefield-array-lunar-occultation-milky-way-galaxy-radio-waves-reflecting-moon-epoch-of-reionisation
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 26, 2018 23:15:57 GMT
I know this is not a cooking thread but this chicken is FANTASTIC!
Potato Stuffed Roast Chicken
Adapted from Smoke & Pickles by Edward Lee
1 large Yukon Gold potato (about 11 ounces), peeled
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 teaspoons kosher salt (or to taste)
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (or to taste)
Fresh herbs, roasted garlic, or other flavorings (optional)
1 roasting chicken (3 to 3 1/2 pounds)
2 teaspoons olive oil
Grate the potatoes coarsely using the large holes on your favorite grater. Wrap the potatoes in some cheesecloth or a clean kitchen towel and wring out as much liquid as possible.
Melt the butter in your largest cast iron skillet over medium heat (you'll be using this skillet to cook your chicken, so just make sure the chicken fits). Add the grated potato, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper (or to taste). Stir gently and cook for exactly 2 minutes, then transfer the potatoes to a plate and let them cool.
When the pan has cooled, wipe it out with a paper towel; you'll be using it again.
Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and heat to 400 degrees. The chicken needs to fit in the pan on that rack, so make sure it fits - ovens are not all the same, and you don't want the chicken bumping the top of the oven.
Now it's time to wrangle the chicken. Place it on your work surface with the breast side up and the legs facing you. Slide your fingers under the skin and start moving it from side to side to release the skin from the breast meat. You want it completely loose from front to back. If you like, you can spin the bird around and work at it from the opposite side. Try not to tear the skin.
If you're adding fresh herbs or other flavorings to the potato mixture, mix them in now. A teaspoon of fresh herbs should be fine, or add what you like to taste. Stuff the potatoes into the space between the loosened skin and breast meat. Try to get it in somewhat evenly, then massage the outside skin of the chicken to get those potatoes into an even layer all across the breast.
Rub the chicken with the olive oil and season with as much of the remaining salt and pepper as you like.
Heat the cast iron pan on medium heat. When the skillet is hot, place the chicken breast-side down in the pan and press it gently against the bottom of the pan. Hold it while it browns lightly - about 3 minutes.
Flip the chicken over onto its back in the pan and place it in the oven. Cook at 400 degrees (yes, that's correct) for 50-60 minutes, until it reaches your desired cooking temperature. These days, 155-160 degrees is accepted. Remove the chicken from the oven and let it rest in the pan for 10 minutes.
Carve the chicken as desired. The best thing to do with the breasts is to carefully remove them from the chicken bones and cut each breast into 3 or 4 large pieces for serving.
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