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Post by purr on Oct 28, 2018 21:17:28 GMT
Purr, I just returned from a trip to our local Aldi. They are selling 'PAWsecco'. Wine for cats. Thought you may like to know. HAL.  Thank you HAL, This sounds like a major development esp. with Xmas looming. Questions coming to mind: any alcohol in there? Taste (have you tried it, or your pets?) uh.. what the hell is it really? During our festive meals our cats opportunistically have climbed into momentarily empty seats, replacing a human guest/participant, clearly convinced we wouldn't notice the difference. Just sitting there, calmly and quietly expecting to be served. (And of course we laughed our heads off and rewarded such intrepid action with say nice tidbits of salmon or venison.) Now there's Prawsecco to wash it down! I'll have a google...
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Post by swamprat on Oct 28, 2018 22:20:26 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 29, 2018 10:52:05 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Science Alert
The L5 point, with central region of the Kordylewski cloud visible in bright red pixels (J. Slíz-Balogh)
Astronomers Have Detected a Ghostly Dust Cloud Orbiting Our Earth
PETER DOCKRILL
29 OCT 2018
For decades the existence of weird space clouds in Earth's orbit has been speculative and controversial, but new research looks to validate their strange reality after all.
The Kordylewski clouds – two mysterious swarms of dust trapped between the competing gravitational fields of Earth and the Moon – were first hypothesised back in the 1950s, although evidence for their existence was faint.
Now, a new study by researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary helps make the case for these unusual, ever-present satellites in the sky.
"The Kordylewski clouds are two of the toughest objects to find, and though they are as close to Earth as the Moon, [they] are largely overlooked by researchers in astronomy," says first author of the study, astronomer Judit Slíz-Balogh.
"It is intriguing to confirm that our planet has dusty pseudo-satellites in orbit alongside our lunar neighbour."
The Kordylewski clouds have been speculated about for decades, but the science that underpins their existence goes back even longer.
In space, the Kordylewski clouds occupy positions that are called Lagrange points – locations where small objects get stuck in a gravitational nexus between the forces exerted by two larger bodies.
Lagrange points were first discovered in the 18th century, and there are five of these co-orbital points in any applicable system, such as the Sun-Earth system, the Earth-Moon system, and many others.
In the case of the Earth-Moon system, two of these five points – L4 and L5, sometimes called trojan points – form an equal-sided triangle with Earth and the Moon.
Theoretically, interplanetary particles could be trapped inside these points forever, were it not for the gravitational perturbation of even greater bodies (such as the Sun, in this instance) or other destabilising forces (like solar wind) eventually coaxing them out into the open.
In 1961, Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski became the first scientist to claim photographic evidence of this dust accumulation phenomenon, although the extreme faintness of dust almost 400,000 kilometres (about 250,000 miles) away makes such observations difficult to confirm.
more after the jump:
www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-two-mysterious-clouds-constant-orbit-around-earth-kordylewski-lagrange-points-gravity
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Post by swamprat on Oct 29, 2018 16:59:52 GMT
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Post by HAL on Oct 29, 2018 18:11:17 GMT
...The Kordylewski clouds – two mysterious swarms of dust trapped between the competing gravitational fields of Earth and the Moon – were first hypothesised back in the 1950s, although evidence for their existence was faint...
May turn out to be where all the plastic bottles dumped overboard by UFOs finished up. The galactic version of the great ocean gyres that are filled with our waste.
Maybe the 'Little Green Men' are not so green after all.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 30, 2018 11:32:58 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Science Alert
A Really Creepy Myth About Disneyland Just Got Confirmed to Be True
MICHELLE STARR
30 OCT 2018
Disney has something of a cult following, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that some people want to stay in the entertainment giant's theme parks... forever.
As a report in the Wall Street Journal has just confirmed, some people really try to do that - by having loved ones scatter their cremains.
At Disneyland park in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, it happens so frequently that staff have a special code to call in when they spot any sign of cremains: "HEPA cleanup."
Staff then come in with a vacuum cleaner equipped with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, specifically designed for picking up the very finest particles, and vacuum up the remains, possibly for disposal into a garbage bin.
"Human ashes have been spread in flower beds, on bushes and on Magic Kingdom lawns; outside the park gates and during fireworks displays; on Pirates of the Caribbean and in the moat underneath the flying elephants of the Dumbo ride," the WSJ's reports.
"Most frequently of all, according to custodians and park workers, they've been dispersed throughout the Haunted Mansion, the 49-year-old attraction featuring an eerie old estate full of imaginary ghosts."
Human cremains - a portmanteau of "cremated" and "remains" - are not actually ashes in the typical sense. During the cremation process, soft tissue vaporises under the extreme heat; all that's left is calcined bone, which the crematorium crushes into a powder.
Because of that extreme heat, any micro-organisms in the body are also burned away; there's no public health risk associated with cremains. But that doesn't mean Disney wants them scattered around their parks.
"This type of behaviour is strictly prohibited and unlawful," a Disney spokesperson told the WSJ. "Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property."
In fact, in most of the United States, scattering cremains on private property without permission is considered a misdemeanour, and can incur a penalty such as a fine or community service.
This includes amusement parks, museums, and sports stadiums, as one man found out to his detriment when he dumped his mother's cremains on a sports field in 2005. Although it is worth noting that he was arrested and charged with defiant trespass, not reckless mum-scattering.
But there are also places where it is legal to scatter cremains in the US. National parks are allowed, if the bereaved have the relevant permit, and make sure to scatter away from high-traffic areas, such as hiking trails and playgrounds.
The sea is also permitted, but only at a distance of at least three nautical miles from land, according to Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.
Similar laws exist in Australia and in the United Kingdom, where it is lawful to scatter cremains on public or private land, provided you have the relevant permission from the landowner, local parks authority, or government environmental agency.
It's worth noting that the phosphates in the calcined bone dust are a natural fertiliser - in fact, animal bone is sometimes used this way - which can have an environmental impact by stimulating plant growth.
On the other hand, human cremains can have a high salt content, and also have high pH, which can be toxic to certain plants. In 2008, the Jane Austen's House Museum in England banned people from scattering cremains in the garden of the beloved author's former home, noting, among other reasons, that doing so "is of no benefit to the garden!"
And while there are products that help you convert your loved one's cremains into a beautiful plant, you can't just go putting them anywhere willy-nilly either; as the Brontë Society noted in 2013, the impact of mourners planting memorial plants on the moors had been destroying the local ecosystems.
If nothing else, it's also just terribly impolite to leave your loved one's powdered bones where someone else might have to clean them up.
And do you really want them to end up in a dustbin?
www.sciencealert.com/disneyland-bereaved-death-scattering-cremains-hepa-cleanup-environment
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Post by swamprat on Oct 30, 2018 20:21:24 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 30, 2018 21:57:00 GMT
Honolulu Civil Beat
Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope
The ruling says the state Board of Land and Natural Resources properly granted a conservation district permit for Mauna Kea.
By Stewart Yerton
30 October 2018
There are currently 13 observatories on the summit of Mauna Kea, with one more planned.
Construction of a massive observatory can proceed on one of the Native Hawaiian people’s most sacred sites, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a major decision ending years of litigation involving the summit of Mauna Kea.
Although the snow-capped volcano is one of the most revered spaces in Native Hawaiian culture, the area is also considered one of the best places in the world for astronomical observatories and hosts numerous facilities, despite the summit’s status as a conservation district.
The question before the court was whether the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources had properly granted a permit to use the conservation district for construction and operation of the largest observatory, the Thirty-Meter Telescope.
The telescope is being developed by an international consortium including the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India and Canada’s National Research Council.
“Upon careful consideration of the written submissions, the applicable law, and the oral arguments, and for the reasons explained below, we now affirm the BLNR’s decision authorizing issuance of a Conservation District Use Permit (“CDUP”) for the Thirty Meter Telescope (“TMT”),” the majority ruled in its 73-page opinion.
www.civilbeat.org/2018/10/supreme-court-approves-thirty-meter-telescope/?utm_source=Civil+Beat+Master+List&utm_campaign=b995950e8b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_30_08_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51c2dd3cf3-b995950e8b-401836001&mc_cid=b995950e8b&mc_eid=e31ac620d1
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 30, 2018 22:01:02 GMT
Ditto! Happy Halloween!
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Post by thelmadonna on Oct 31, 2018 0:00:23 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Oct 31, 2018 5:26:51 GMT
 
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 31, 2018 10:31:21 GMT
Good morning and Happy Halloween to our Lovely UFOCasebookers!
Jonathan Turley
Bizarre, Criminal law, International
October 31, 2018
Artistic License? Scientist in Antartica Stabs Fellow Scientist For Repeatly Spoiling The Ending Of Books
Many people might empathize with Scientific Engineer Sergey Savitsky, 55, who was fed up with a fellow scientist who repeatedly told him the endings of books that he was reading. It made it all the worse when the two men were confined to a research center in Antarctica. However, Savitsky took the spoiler gripe a bit too far in stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov, 52, with a kitchen knife. It is reportedly the first recorded attempted murder in Antartica — a rare distinction to be the first such criminal in an entire continent.
The two men had spent four years in the remote Russian Bellingshausen station on King George Island. At the facility, you can read or read or apparently stab people. Police said that Savitsky had become enraged that Beloguzov “kept telling his colleague the endings of books before he read them”.
Beloguzov had to be evacuated to Chile for medical treatment for his chest wound. Savitsky was deported to St. Petersburg for prosecution. It is an interesting jurisdictional question given the location in Antartica where there is no legal authority.
Under the 53-nation Antarctic Treaty, workers accused of serious crimes at a research base are subject to the jurisdiction of their home country. The record as the first accused murderer may run into difficulty with a 1996 case when an American cook attacked a co-worker with a hammer at McMurdo Station. F.B.I. agents investigated the matter while the cook was confined to a hut.
jonathanturley.org/2018/10/31/artistic-license-scientist-in-antartica-stabs-fellow-scientist-for-repeatly-spoiling-the-ending-of-books/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 31, 2018 10:34:20 GMT
Hollywood Reporter
October 31, 2018 2:00am PT
by Rick Porter
Laurence Fishburne to Star in, Executive Produce 'Rendlesham' UFO Drama Series
The limited series is inspired by a UFO incident in the U.K. in 1980.
Laurence Fishburne is headed across the Atlantic for a UFO encounter.
The Emmy-winning actor and producer (Black-ish, Miss Evers' Boys) has signed on to star in and executive produce Rendlesham, a limited series from British company Eleventh Hour Films (Foyle's War) and Sony Pictures Television.
No outlet on either side of the pond is attached yet. Sony is handling international distribution.
Rendlesham is inspired by reported UFO sightings near an airbase in Suffolk, England, in 1980. The eight-part series, planned as an anthology, will move back and forth between the time of the incident and the present.
Fishburne will play the lead role of Tyrone, a retired U.S. airman who was stationed at the base during the Cold War. When he and his family return to England to visit his wife's dying father, he's forced to confront events that have haunted him for 40 years.
"I'm beyond thrilled this phenomenal and iconic actor will be leading Rendlesham as Tyrone and facing down one of the most notorious UFO mysteries in history," said series creator Joe Ahearne (Doctor Who).
Fishburne and his partner in Cinema Gypsy Productions, Helen Sugland, will executive produce the series along with Ahearne (who's also directing) and Eve Gutierrez and Jill Green of Eleventh Hour Films.
Fishburne is repped by Paradigm, Landmark Artists and Del Shaw.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/laurence-fishburne-star-executive-produce-rendlesham-ufo-drama-1156399
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Post by swamprat on Oct 31, 2018 14:39:30 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Oct 31, 2018 20:15:11 GMT
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