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Post by swamprat on Nov 7, 2018 3:27:35 GMT
Philosophical Comments Over the Years
Betsy Salkind
Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.
Jean Kerr
The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
Prince Philip
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Harrison Ford
Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
Spike Milligan
The best cure for Sea Sickness is to sit under a tree.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.
WH Auden
We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
Jonathan Katz
In hotel rooms, I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.
Johnny Carson
If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.
Steve Martin
Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
Jimmy Durante
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
George Roberts
The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.
Jonathan Winters
If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport.
Robert Benchley
I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
John Glenn
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind -
every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
David Letterman
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
Howard Hughes
I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. Actually, I'm a billionaire.
Old Italian proverb
After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 7, 2018 11:25:21 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
The Guardian
The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies, research shows
New chemical analysis of iron age skulls confirms the grisly practice, referred to in ancient texts
by Nicola Davis
7 November 2018
They were fearsome warriors who cut off the heads of their enemies and displayed them for all to see, bringing them back from battle hanging around their horses’ necks. But now research has confirmed that the Gauls did not merely sever the heads of their foes, they appear to have embalmed them to boot.
Experts say they have found traces of conifer resins on the remains of skulls discovered at the iron age settlement of Le Cailar in the south of France – a discovery they say backs up ancient reports that the Celtic Gauls preserved their grisly trophies.
“In fact the ancient texts told about us the head [being] embalmed with cedar oil … thanks to our chemical analysis we know that this information is right,” said Réjane Roure, co-author of the study from Paul Valéry University of Montpellier.
Previous finds at other sites have included a sculpture of a mounted warrior, not only with sword and spear but a head slung around the neck of the horse, while the gruesome practice is also noted in a number of ancient texts, and supported by discoveries of human skulls with marks of decapitation, and even nails inside them.
However, whether the Gauls did indeed embalm the severed heads was less clear.
Writing in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Roure and colleagues describe how they analysed human skulls found with weapons in an area of Le Cailar where they would have been widely visible – suggesting they would have been on display. The team took samples from 11 human skull fragments, noting many of the skulls showed cut marks of decapitation and signs that hint at the removal of the brain. They also tested five bones from animals found in the same area.
The analysis revealed traces of a host of substances on the human fragments, including fatty acids and cholesterol, much of which the team say are characteristic of degraded human, plant or animal fats. The animal bones also showed traces of cholesterol.
However the team found that six of the eleven human skull fragments bore traces of substances called diterpenoids – telltale signs that the bones had been in contact with conifer resin. Such traces were not found on the animal bones.
The researchers say the findings add weight to ancient reports that, after severing the heads of their enemies, Celtic tribes embalmed them – pointing to ancient Greek writers Strabo and Diodorus of Sicily who both record that a Greek called Poseidonios claimed to have seen such sights in Gaul. While these texts note that cedar oil was used, the team say it might have been a resin with a similar smell, as it is not clear if cedar trees were growing in the area in the third century BC.
Roure said the purpose of the preservation might have been to make sure the face and features of the enemy remained on show. “The ancient texts said only the most powerful enemies and the most important enemies were embalmed – maybe that was to be able to say ‘see that face, it was some big warrior’,” she said. She added the texts also said that the Gauls never gave back such heads “even for an equal weight of gold”. “We think that means sometimes some people tried to buy the heads,” said Roure.
The authors say it is not clear exactly how the embalming process was carried out, but that the heads might have been dipped in the resin, or it could have been poured over them, and might have been applied more than once as time went on. It is also unclear whether the process was also carried out on revered locals, or was reserved solely for enemies.
Dr Rachel Pope, an expert in European prehistory at the University of Liverpool who was not involved in the study, said the research was exciting.
“We knew from statues that the display of human heads was popular in Mediterranean France – akin to a broader tradition at this time involving the display of weapons. The evidence now, from this site, is that human heads were indeed embalmed,” she said. “Now we have the science that supports earlier archaeology, as well as a greater understanding of where the classical texts and the archaeology meet.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/07/the-gauls-really-did-embalm-the-severed-heads-of-enemies-research-shows?CMP=share_btn_tw
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 7, 2018 11:31:50 GMT
Mysterious Universe
UFOs, Aliens and Strange Dreams
Nick Redfern
7 November 2018
Strange and traumatic dreams that occur after someone has encountered the UFO phenomenon up close and personal are nothing new. The September 1961 alien abduction affair of Betty and Barney Hill is a perfect example. Many, however, might not be aware of the sheer scale of such weird and stressful situations. So, with that latter point in mind, I thought I would share with you a few examples from my old files. They are a few of what amount to many. Today, the phenomenon of so-called Shadow People is very well known. Their name is most apt: these shadow-like entities are dark, human-like in appearance, and dangerous. Theories for who, or what, they may be range from aliens to demons, and shapeshifters to time-travelers. Whatever their point of origin – or maybe even multiple origins – an early encounter with one of these wretched things was encountered in Boston, Massachusetts by a young woman named Sally Salisbury, in early 1961.
In the early hours of a winter’s morning, Salisbury was woken from a deep sleep by the terrifying sight of one of the Shadow People looming over her and oozing negativity and hatred, senses that Salisbury immediately picked up on. Paralysis set in – also immediately – and which lasted for around two minutes, after which the entity vanished. Interestingly, and very likely directly connected, on the following night Salisbury had a graphic dream – if that is all it was – of being taken on-board a UFO and subjected to traumatic and intrusive procedures of a medical and gynecological nature.
There is also the May 1962 report of Leonard Murray, of Beckenham, Kent, England. In the early hours of the morning in question he was awakened from a dead sleep by a “spaceman” wearing a “fishbowl”-style “space helmet” and a light blue outfit. The other-world character warned Murray that a Third World War was on the horizon and that he and his family should prepare to try and survive the looming Apocalypse. Cold War-era anxieties? Or a real encounter with an extraterrestrial concerned about our future as a species? More than half a century later, the chances are we will never find out the truth of this odd encounter.
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/ufos-aliens-and-strange-dreams/
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 7, 2018 12:56:37 GMT
A little post-election decompression
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 8, 2018 11:17:43 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 8, 2018 11:24:42 GMT
Fort Morgan Times
No mention of satanic cults - or UFO's - in CBI report
Part 6 and last in a series on the area's history of cattle mutilations and other spooky happenings
By Community History Writers
Posted: 11/05/2018 04:15:14 PM MST
Editor's Note: This series is part of the monthly contributions to the Fort Morgan Times by the Community History Writers, a group of area individuals committed to documenting and writing about local history and the people, places and happenings that created the various communities within Morgan County.
On Dec. 15, 1975, the Greeley Daily Tribune announced that following an extensive investigation of 203 suspected cases of cattle mutilations by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, only 11 could be definitely attributed to humans. And all 11 had died of natural causes before being mutilated.
The CBI analyzed hide and tissue samples of 36 carcasses and found only two that had been cut with sharp instruments. The vets at CSU had examined 19, and nine had been mutilated by humans. There was no evidence of drugs or poisons used on any of these animals.
Because some of the cattle had been cut up by humans, Carl Whiteside from CBI planned to continue his investigation.
However, he noted, "Our investigation has been unable to produce any indications of the existence of a group or groups of persons organized for the purpose of engaging in animal mutilations."
Following the release of the CBI findings, The president of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association made a statement saying that there was now "enough scientific data to put the idea of mutilation to a rest."
However, not all ranchers were convinced. Many ranchers stopped reporting mutilations, stopped sending the remains of their cattle to the labs, and stopped talking openly about it. They quit trusting what the "experts" and government officials had to say.
UFO connection?
Like the ranchers, not all law enforcement officials were on board with the conclusions of the CBI.
In Logan County, Sheriff "Tex" Graves and his undersheriff, Jerry Wolvever, continued for years to investigate cattle mutilations and strange lights in the skies over northern Colorado. Graves had a file cabinet with more than 200 photos of mutilated cattle, and he was happy to share them with anyone who was interested.
He said, "Look at these pictures and tell me how anyone could blame it on natural predators. I'd like to see a coyote do that."
According to author J. Henry McHenry, Sheriff "Tex" Graves became a star in the UFO world because he was constantly waging war against helicopters and mutilators.
more after the jump:
www.fortmorgantimes.com/fort-morgan-local-news/ci_32251905/no-mention-satanic-cults-or-ufos-cbi-report
Crystal
edit to add this link to an article about the community history writers: www.fortmorgantimes.com/fort-morgan-local-news/ci_31829488/community-history-writers-unmasked
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 9, 2018 11:41:56 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
Discovery
Alien Space Rock ‘Oumuamua Just Keeps Getting Weirder
By Alison Klesman
November 8, 2018 5:02 pm
On October 19, 2017, astronomers first saw an object from another solar system traveling through our own. Zipping into our solar system from above, the interloper, now known as 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua), swung around the Sun and shot away again, never to return once it leaves our neck of the woods for interstellar space once more.
What have we learned about this mysterious visitor?
‘Oumuamua’s Path
Astronomers were able to record data on ‘Oumuamua (which means “scout” or “messenger” in Hawaiian) for only a brief period of time, although it’s been in our solar system for over a century. “It came into the solar system, inside 1,000 AU, around 1837 or so,” says Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is equivalent to the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles [150 million kilometers]). But ‘Oumuamua wasn’t spotted until last year because it was too far from the Sun to reflect enough light for astronomers to pick it up, even with today’s best telescopes. And once it got close enough to the Sun, it was moving fast, remaining for very little time in the relatively small region where it is visible to modern-day telescopes.
After it sped around the Sun, ‘Oumuamua was again on its way out, growing ever fainter. “Our very last observations from Hubble were January 2nd of 2018 at fainter than magnitude 27,” says Meech. “By May 3rd, it was again outside of Jupiter’s orbit. And … once it gets beyond about 1.2 AU or so, it’s 25th magnitude, so beyond Jupiter’s orbit, forget it. It’s gone.”
And while it may be gone from sight, it’s not yet gone from the solar system. According to Meech, ‘Oumuamua is expected to reach the Kuiper belt in about 2024, and pass the edge of the Kuiper belt in late 2025. It will pass the most distant location the Voyagers have reached, she says, in about 2038. By 2196, it will again be 1,000 AU from the Sun, although our Oort Cloud is projected to extend beyond 100,000 AU, so when ‘Oumuamua truly passes the “edge” of the solar system depends on where you define that edge.
Regardless, since January, ‘Oumuamua has been beyond astronomers’ reach. Now, they are working with what data they were able to gather over the course of just a few months to learn all they can about this strange interstellar interloper.
Speeding Up
At first, observers assumed ‘Oumuamua, which is about 2,600 feet (800 meters) long and about 260 feet (80 m) wide, was an asteroid. But in a June Nature paper led by Marco Micheli, astronomers (including Meech) reported that ‘Oumuamua was not moving as it should. Instead, it showed a “really strong non-gravitational acceleration,” Meech explains, which means its motion indicated that gravity was not the only thing dictating its path.
“There were a number of things that can cause acceleration in that direction,” she says. Her team investigated at least six of those things that could cause the acceleration, throwing out several along the way because they either required the object to be so very strange it wasn’t plausible (e.g., less dense than aerogel), or because the acceleration they produced didn’t match what was observed. The team ultimately concluded “the most likely one [was] comet outgassing, because we see that pretty often in comets.”
Outgassing is simply the process of gas and dust escaping from a comet as it nears the Sun and heats up, sublimating ices on the surface — turning them directly from a solid to a gas. As gas escapes, it gives the comet an extra push in the opposite direction, affecting its speed and rotation, giving it an extra push that deviates from gravitational effects. ‘Oumuamua’s motion “was the same level of strength as you would typically see comets,” says Meech. “So that didn’t seem unusual.”
What was unusual, she says, is that no dust was seen coming from the object. When gas escapes from a comet, it generally carries surface dust with it, and the stronger the outgassing, the larger the grains of dust it can liberate. That didn’t kill the comet theory, however — Meech says that even if the comet was devoid of small dust, large dust could have been coming off the surface and affecting its motion. And large dust is harder to see at visible wavelengths, where astronomers were looking.
So — no dust was seen escaping ‘Oumuamua, but what about gas? “We didn’t see any evidence of gas” either, says Meech. That was strange, because astronomers expected “a fair bit” of gas to be escaping to affect ‘Oumuamua’s motion in the way that was observed. The caveat here is that Meech’s team looked for CN gas, which, she says, is bright and easy to spot. “CN is usually dragged off the comets in our solar system when water comes out,” she says, so it can be used as a proxy for water, which is harder to observe. But down to their detection limit, “there was no CN at all seen. And that upper limit was strong enough that if there was that much water coming off, it says this comet’s also unusual, chemically.” After all, comets in our solar system can be pretty abundant in water.
“But again,” she adds, “it comes from another solar system, so maybe that’s not so surprising.”
‘Oumuamua’s Strange Reflections
How else is ‘Oumuamua strange? Astronomers used the Spitzer Space Telescope for over 30 hours of observations of ‘Oumuamua in the infrared — or rather, Meech says, they tried. “They detected nothing,” she says, when looking in the thermal infrared, which detects heat. “So it was just an upper limit.” But sometimes even non-detections can provide information. “From this, they said, ‘Okay, if it has thermal properties typical of comets, then it’s going to have to be brighter than everyone thought.’”
Reflectivity, or how much light an object reflects, can tell astronomers a lot about its shape, size, and composition. “We just always assumed [the reflectivity] was cometlike and very low,” Meech says. But “instead of the normal four percent reflectance, which is typical of comets, they were getting more like 10 percent reflectance. So that again isn’t quite matching a cometary body. The only way they could get it to agree with a four percent reflectance is if you assume it has very different thermal properties on its surface than normal comets. So again, a little bit peculiar,” she says.
Those same infrared observations also failed to see significant carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide outgassing from ‘Oumuamua. That’s important because Meech’s team had also looked at the possibility that it was spitting off those two gases, but in much higher quantities than is indicated by the limits set by the Spitzer observations.
“It’s always a little bit tricky to interpret too much out of not seeing something,” Meech cautions. But “yet again, it’s not quite hanging together as a typical comet.”
Where’s Home?
‘Oumuamua was born in another solar system, so perhaps all these oddities are normal for something that formed somewhere else. The next question then becomes, “Where did it form?”
“The whole point of getting HST time was to get the longest possible arc so that we could try to trace back where it came from,” says Meech. Coryn Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, calculated ‘Oumuamua’s track back to before it first entered the solar system, and compared that path to the past positions of 7 million stars measured by the Gaia satellite. Because stars are moving in the galaxy over time, he had to rewind their orbits, in addition to ‘Oumuamua’s, to look for places where the two might reasonably overlap.
He found four possible candidates that passed close enough to the rewound track of ‘Oumuamua’s motion that they might be its home. (By “close enough,” Meech says, Bailer-Jones was looking at stars ‘Oumuamua’s path had come within one to two Oort Cloud radii — 100,000 to 200,000 AU.)
But even here, all was not straightforward. “The only problem with these four candidates is that the encounter velocities were relatively high, between about 10 and 25 kilometers per second,” she says. “‘Oumuamua is probably an ejected planetesimal or building block from the birth process of planets, and it’s pretty hard to get ejection velocities this high during that birth process, just from a planetesimal getting too close to giant planets. We would have expected only a few kilometers per second. So these are high. It’s not impossible but it is pretty unlikely.”
It would be more likely, she says, if ‘Oumuamua came from a binary star system. But, of course, none of the four candidates found are known to be binary stars. The next Gaia data releases, she says, may help, allowing astronomers to trace back the motions of stars nearby even further in time, and possibly find a better candidate for ‘Oumuamua’s home. “It would be great to revisit this in a couple of years,” she says, when more data from Gaia is available.
An Ongoing Mystery
‘Oumuamua remains the first and (thus far) only interstellar visitor we’ve caught skipping through our solar system. The data available on it are limited, but that doesn’t stop researchers around the world from wondering what they can find within its depths. “What’s especially fascinating is that people are still writing papers on it,” says Meech, “even though we effectively got a couple weeks of data with everyone trying, and then the HST and the Spitzer data went a little longer, but that’s it. And people are still writing papers.”
What’s more, A recent TED talk Meech gave on ‘Oumuamua currently has more than 2 million views and is continuing to gain more, she says. “Clearly people are interested.”
It’s certainly an interesting object. Its strange properties have even prompted some to suggest it’s of truly alien — as in, alien-built — origin. But those arguments don’t really hold up against the data we do have, Meech says, limited though it may be.
So while it’s not an alien spaceship or an artificial light sail, ‘Oumuamua is still a mysterious, transient visitor that has captured the attention of researchers and the public alike.
blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/11/08/oumuamua-alien-asteroid-comet/#.W-VxRUxFx2M
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 9, 2018 11:44:57 GMT
TED
Published on Jul 19, 2018
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from the Hawaiian for "scout" or "messenger" -- raised intriguing questions: Was it a chunk of rocky debris from a new star system, shredded material from a supernova explosion, evidence of alien technology or something else altogether? In this riveting talk, Meech tells the story of how her team raced against the clock to find answers about this unexpected gift from afar.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 9, 2018 12:06:36 GMT
CW39 Houston
Published on Nov 8, 2018
Government documents on possible UFO sightings are now available on the internet for all to see and it`s free thanks to UFO enthusiast John Greenewald.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 9, 2018 12:18:57 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Nov 9, 2018 15:41:41 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Nov 9, 2018 15:42:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 20:49:39 GMT
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Post by HAL on Nov 9, 2018 22:42:51 GMT
I gave up wondering about your political system a long time ago.
It says more about the people who vote than it does about the ones they vote for.
HAL.
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