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Post by swamprat on Nov 12, 2018 15:25:24 GMT
R.I.P. Hal 9000
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Post by HAL on Nov 12, 2018 17:49:52 GMT
Sad to hear. But at 90 he had a good run.
He was the original emotionless voice used often in later films.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 13, 2018 11:49:07 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Fox News
Irish authorities probe UFO sightings by commercial pilots: report
By Amy Lieu
13 November 2018
A British Airways pilot on Friday reported the sighting of an unidentified flying object off the southwest coast of Ireland, that was described as a "bright light" that came alongside his aircraft and "rapidly veered to the north," the BBC reported.
The pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control to check if there were military exercises and was told that there were no exercises in the area, the report said. Another pilot said the speed was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2,” which is twice the speed of sound, the report said.
Another pilot in a Virgin plane theorized that the lights could have been a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. He also observed “two bright lights” to his right which “climbed away at speed,” the BBC reported.
“Glad it wasn’t just me,” another pilot said, according to The Irish Times.
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating the reports.
"Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report," the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said, according to BBC. "This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."
A spokesman for the IAA told The Times that the UFOs were unlikely to be aliens from another planet.
www.foxnews.com/science/ufos-spotted-by-pilots-saying-there-were-very-bright-lights-report
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 13, 2018 11:53:11 GMT
Science Alert
An Incredibly Fast 'Dark Matter Hurricane' Is Blowing Past Earth Right Now
MICHELLE STARR
13 NOV 2018
If astronomers' calculations are correct, the Solar System is right in the middle of a turbulent space event: a vast 'hurricane' of dark matter, blowing at an insane speed of 500 kilometres per second (310 mps).
We can't see it, and we can't feel it - but it could mean that a direct detection of dark matter is closer than we thought.
Dark matter is one of the big conundrums of the Universe. We have never directly detected it, and we don't know exactly what it even is - but we do know that it's out there. We can infer it based on the motions of the stars and galaxies, which are far too fast for the amount of observable mass.
So there's something else out there, some other mass creating the gravity to influence those cosmic movements. We can even, based on those movements, calculate that invisible mass. "Dark matter" - whatever that might be - is the name we give that mass, and scientists are working on ways to detect it directly.
But we're not there yet. So how do physicists know we're in the middle of a tremendous storm of dark matter? The clue lies in the motion of the stars.
With the release of data from the Gaia satellite last year, astronomers discovered a stellar stream, the dissolving remains left behind by a large dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was eaten by the Milky Way many years ago.
There have been several such streams of stars detected in the Milky Way, but S1, as it is now known, is unusual in that the neighbourhood of the Solar System is smack-bang right in its path of 30,000 stars.
None of them are going to hit us - so you can relax about any fears you might have harboured of fiery stellar death - but it does mean that the dark matter associated with this last shred of the cannibalised dwarf galaxy is moving along with the stream.
Theoretical physicist Ciaran O'Hare from the University of Zaragoza in Spain has led a team of researchers in figuring out the effect of S1 on the dark matter in our little corner of the galaxy.
They looked at different models for the density and distribution of the dark matter flowing in on the S1 stream, and then predicted the dark matter signatures for these models that could be picked up by our detectors here on Earth.
One of these potential signatures is produced by the hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs. If these particles exist, we should be able to detect them via their collisions with electrons or atomic nuclei, which would cause charged particles on Earth to recoil, producing light that could be picked up by liquid xenon or crystal detectors.
Based on their calculations, the team determined that these WIMP detectors are unlikely to see any effect from S1, although it's possible that future tech, as it becomes more refined and advanced, could.
Axion detectors - such as the Axion Dark Matter Experiment - have a better chance, they determined. Axions are, again, only hypothetical at this point. If they exist, they are incredibly light, around 500 million times lighter than an electron, and it's possible they are a principal component of cold dark matter.
According to calculations by theoretical physicist Pierre Sikivie, these ultralight particles - which we can't see - could be converted to photons which we can see, in the presence of a strong magnetic field.
"Axion haloscopes possess by far the greatest potential sensitivity to the S1 stream if its dark matter component is sufficiently cold," the researchers wrote in their paper. "Once the axion mass has been discovered, the distinctive velocity distribution of S1 can easily be extracted from the axion power spectrum."
The Axion Dark Matter Experiment, as far as we know, hasn't made an S1 detection either. But knowing what to look for could help scientists improve the chances of this - and if no detection is made, improve detection technology for the ongoing search for dark matter in the future.
The team's research has been published in the journal Physical Review D. (https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.103006)
www.sciencealert.com/apparently-there-s-a-dark-matter-hurricane-blowing-past-earth-right-now
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 13, 2018 12:01:22 GMT
Richard Dolan
Published on Nov 12, 2018
Richard Dolan chats with Ryan Sprague, author of Somewhere in the Skies, at the Alien Con in Baltimore, Maryland, November 11, 2018. Ryan's book delves into UFO contact experiences of a number of people, detailing not only what happened, but how these encounters affected their lives.
More about Ryan at www.somewhereintheskies.com/a...
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 14, 2018 12:05:27 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
Science Alert
We Thought Earth's Water Came From Comets. Turns Out That's Not The Full Story
EVAN GOUGH, UNIVERSE TODAY
14 NOV 2018
We have comets and asteroids to thank for Earth's water, according to the most widely-held theory among scientists. But it's not that cut-and-dried. It's still a bit of a mystery, and a new study suggests that not all of Earth's water was delivered to our planet that way.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, and it's at the center of the question surrounding Earth's water.
This new study was co-led by Peter Buseck, Regents' Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University.
In it, the authors suggest that the hydrogen came, at least partially, from the solar nebula, a cloud of gas and dust left over after the Sun formed.
Before we dig in to the details in this new study, it's helpful to look at the long-held theory that it may replace.
Earth's Water: The Widely-Held Theory
For a long time, most scientists believed the water-from-comets-and-asteroids version of water's origin here on Earth. It all starts with the formation of the Sun.
When the Sun formed out of a molecular cloud, it swept up most of the material in the cloud, leaving a little left over for everything else: planets, asteroids, and comets.
Once the Sun burst into life with fusion, a powerful solar wind sent a lot of hydrogen from its outer layers out beyond where the inner rocky planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - are today.
This is the realm of the gas giants, and more importantly, comets and asteroids.
Comets are icy, rocky bodies, thought to contain significant amounts of the hydrogen blown out there by the early Sun, and asteroids too, although to a lesser extent. They became a significant reservoir for hydrogen.
When Earth formed, it was a molten ball, its surface kept in that state by repeated collision with asteroids. So far, so good, since the early Solar System was a much more chaotic place than it is now.
As asteroids and comets struck this hot Earth, the water and the hydrogen in it were boiled off into space. As Earth cooled over time, water from comet and asteroid collisions was allowed to condense on Earth, and not be boiled off into space. The water stuck around.
The evidence for this lies in isotope ratios. The ratio of the heavy hydrogen isotope deuterium to normal hydrogen is a chemical signature.
Two bodies of water with the same ratio must have the same origin, the thinking goes. And Earth's oceans have the same ratio as water on asteroids. That's a very simplified version of the widely-held theory of how water got to Earth.
Earth's Water: A Leaky Theory With Holes In It
But scientists are malcontents, always trying to have a better, more thorough understanding of things. They were questioning the "water from comets" theory before this newest study came out.
Back in 2014, some scientists studied the issue by looking at meteorites of different ages. (Meteorites are just asteroids that have struck Earth.) First they looked at what are known as 'carbonaceous chondrite meteorites'.
They're the oldest ones we know of, and they formed about the same time as the Sun did. They're the primary building blocks of Earth.
Next, they studied meteorites that we think originated from the large asteroid Vesta. Vesta formed in the same region as Earth, about 14 million years after the solar system was born.
According to this 2014 study, the ancient meteorites resembled the bulk Solar System composition and have a lot of water in them, so they've been widely considered to be the source of Earth's water.
The measurements in this 2014 study showed that these meteorites have the same chemistry as the carbonaceous chondrites and rocks found on Earth. They concluded that carbonaceous chondrites are the most likely common source of water.
At the time, Horst Marschall, one of the authors of the study, said, "The study shows that Earth's water most likely accreted at the same time as the rock. The planet formed as a wet planet with water on the surface."
The team behind that study acknowledged that some of our water did come from impacts.
Which brings us to this new study, which reinforces the conclusions from the 2014 study.
Earth's Water: All About The Hydrogen
The authors of this new study say that the oceans and their isotope ratios may not tell the whole story. "It's a bit of a blind spot in the community," said Steven Desch, a professor of astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
"When people measure the [deuterium-to-hydrogen] ratio in ocean water and they see that it is pretty close to what we see in asteroids, it was always easy to believe it all came from asteroids." It's hard to blame them; it's a pretty compelling piece of evidence.
Desch and the other authors of this new study point to research published in 2015 showing that Earth's oceans may not be representative of Earth's primordial water.
The oceans may have cycled between the surface and a deeper reservoir of water, deep in the Earth. This may have changed the ratio over time, and it may mean that this deeper water represents at least some of Earth's true primordial water.
And that water may have come directly from the solar nebula, rather than through comet and asteroid impacts.
The study develops a new theoretical model of Earth's formation to explain these differences between hydrogen in Earth's oceans and at the core-mantle boundary.
This new model shows large water-logged asteroids formed into planets billions of years ago in the solar nebula swirling around the Sun. These planetary embryos suffered sequential collision and they grew quickly.
Eventually, they say, a powerful enough collision melted the surface of the largest embryo into an ocean of magma. This largest embryo became Earth.
This large embryo had enough gravity to hold onto an atmosphere, and it attracted gases, including hydrogen, the most abundant one, from the solar nebula to form one.
The hydrogen in the solar nebula contained less deuterium and is lighter than asteroidal hydrogen. It dissolved into the molten iron of the magma ocean on Earth.
The hydrogen was pulled to the center of Earth by a process called isotopic fractionation. Hydrogen is attracted to iron and was delivered the Earth's core by the iron.
Deuterium, the heavy hydrogen isotope, remained in the magma, which cooled to form the Earth's mantle. Continuing impacts brought more water and mass to Earth, until it reached the mass it is today.
The key point in this new model is that hydrogen in the Earth's core is different than hydrogen in the mantle and in the oceans. Core water has much less deuterium. But what does it all mean?
The new model allowed the authors to estimate the amounts of water that came from asteroid impacts as Earth grew and evolved, compared to how much came from the solar nebula when Earth formed.
Their conclusion?
"For every 100 molecules of Earth's water, there are one or two coming from solar nebula," said Jun Wu, assistant research professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and co-lead author of the study.
Conclusion: It's About More Than Just Earth's Water
This study is a new perspective on planetary formation, development, and on how early life could flourish on a young planet.
"This model suggests that the inevitable formation of water would likely occur on any sufficiently large rocky exoplanets in extrasolar systems. I think this is very exciting." – Jun Wu, School of Molecular Sciences and School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU, co-lead author.
Previously, we thought that the only planets that could have life on them would have to be in a solar system rich with water-bearing asteroids and comets. But that may not be the case. In other solar systems, not all Earth-like planets have access to asteroids loaded with water.
The new study suggests any habitable exoplanets might have gotten water from the solar nebula in their system. Earth hides most of its water in its interior. Earth has roughly two ocean in its mantle, and 4 or 5 in its core. Exoplanets may be similar.
"This model suggests that the inevitable formation of water would likely occur on any sufficiently large rocky exoplanets in extrasolar systems," Wu said. "I think this is very exciting."
There's one cautionary point in this new model though, and that involves the hydrogen fractionation.
It's not well-understood how the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio changes when the element dissolves in iron, which is at the center of this new model. It had to be estimated in this new study.
Overall, the new study fits in well with other research into Earth's water. Once more work is done on hydrogen fractionation, the new model can be tested more rigorously.
This article was originally published with Universe Today. Read the original article (https://www.universetoday.com/140477/not-all-the-earths-water-came-from-comets/)
www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-water-didn-t-just-come-from-comets-says-new-study?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 14, 2018 12:16:22 GMT
KOIN 6 (Oregon)
Published on Nov 13, 2018
Multiple unidentified flying objects have been spotted in St. Helens, according to one woman who said they've appeared over her house two nights in a row.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 14, 2018 12:23:15 GMT
KOIN.com
Oregon's UFOs: Strange sightings in the Northwest
One expert said Oregon has the 2nd-most UFO sightings in the United States
By: Cole Miller
Posted: Oct 30, 2018 01:21 PM PDT
PENDLETON, Ore. (KOIN) -- More often than not, when we hear about unidentified flying objects, we think about the Southwest -- New Mexico and Roswell, but what about right here in the Northwest? One expert said Oregon has the 2nd-most UFO sightings in the United States.
The most recent was seen in the skies above Pendleton.
A small dot in a sea of blue -- just a speck in the sky -- was spotted by Virgil Bates Jr. The UFO floated above Pendleton, with its historic downtown and cowboy statues, for more than an hour in July 2018.
"We looked up, you know, you see this white thing. It's just there," Bates said. "That got our attention"
The little speck didn't go unnoticed. A lot of people in town looked up and saw it.
"Yeah it was pretty cool," Bates said.
In a landscape that looks somewhat extraterrestrial itself, with an air base not far from town, Bates said there was nothing else flying that day. His only explanation is that it was an unidentified flying object.
"I think there's other things out there," Bates said. "We can't be the only people around, or whatever you want to call us."
Tom Bowden is a UFO expert of sorts. He's the Oregon director for what's known as MUFON --the Mutual UFO Network, which is dedicated to studying UFO sightings and those who report them.
more after the jump:
www.koin.com/entertainment/strange-news/oregon-s-ufos-strange-sightings-in-the-northwest/1546912885
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Post by ZETAR on Nov 15, 2018 6:17:07 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 15, 2018 11:23:00 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Atlas Obscura
How a ‘Bug Whisperer’ Helps Haters Learn to Love Insects
“The fear and hatred of insects is just the fear of the unknown,” says Aaron Rodriques.
by Lizzie Philip
November 14, 2018
Crowded on every surface with glass tanks and plastic containers, Aaron Rodriques’s bedroom is kept at a “cozy” 80 degrees Fahrenheit, to make sure his pets are comfortable. Rodriques has hundreds of animals, most of them insects. Infatuated by bugs since a young age, he finally began showing them off at live events in recent years. Among his collection are twig mantises, baby rose-haired tarantulas, and green caterpillars.
As a child, Rodriques says he often found himself reading about bugs rather than socializing with classmates or making friends. He brought beetle larvae to show and tell once, but his classmates were disinterested.
Today however, Rodriques hosts events at which he teaches others how to forge connections with insects. Attendees can hold the creatures and experience them in a way perhaps they never have before. For Rodriques, the shows have allowed him to open up about what he is most passionate about: tiny, curious creatures who are often misunderstood.
In the video above, Atlas Obscura gets a close-up look at Rodriques’s infatuation with insects. For more about Aaron and his pets, read our recent article (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bronx-bug-whisperer-and-his-traveling-bug-zoo)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bronx-bug-whisperer-and-his-traveling-bug-zoo
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 15, 2018 12:50:36 GMT
Evening StandardLife-sized gorilla statue worth over £20k stolen from roof terrace of Soho hotel by thieves in high-vis jackets
by Alistair Foster &
Barney Davis
14 November 2018
A life-sized statue of a gorilla worth more than £20,000 has been stolen from the roof terrace of a celebrity hotspot in Soho.
The sculpture, nicknamed “Ace”, is 6ft tall and weighs 160kg. It had been at the Karma Sanctum Hotel in Warwick Street — whose guests have included Harry Styles and Britney Spears — since 2013.
But at about 9am on Saturday, November 5, two men dressed in hard hats and hi-vis jackets were allegedly seen unscrewing Ace from his rooftop lookout over the hot tub.
When challenged, one of the men laughed and told the hotel’s florist: “We’re removing this for my garden.”
Builders in a neighbouring building are then alleged to have unwittingly aided the thieves, who pretended to be doing work for the Karma Sanctum.
Mark Fuller, the hotel’s CEO, said the builders offered to help get the fibreglass statue through their site. “They allowed them access to the stairs but the two guys couldn’t physically get it down themselves so two or three builders offered them a hand,” he said. “They were very embarrassed after. They carried it down the internal stairs as a favour.”
Witnesses said the thieves left the statue in Warwick Street until a white van pulled up outside the HQ of Sony Records and drove away with it. The heist took less than an hour.
Mr Fuller said: “It’s a unique piece of art. We want him back where he belongs — keeping an eye on the people in the hot tub.”
The statue, which has a sleeve on its arm painted by tattoo artist Dan Gold, cost £11,000 to install. There is no CCTV on the roof terrace as it is a private area for members and hotel guests, open 24 hours a day.
Mr Fuller said: “We are completely perplexed at how they’ve managed it. It’s a 6ft gorilla, so will have taken some careful manoeuvring to get it out of the building.”
A builder working on an office block next door but one said he saw the gorilla being carried down to the street. “It was huge, bigger than me,” he said. “Two guys I didn’t recognise were in charge — it looked very heavy. It was strange to see but there is so much work to do. I saw it on the street and then it was gone.”
A site manager said: “Builders are very helpful people. All the guys here help everyone out. It’s not the first time someone got in a hi-vis to steal and people believed them. There’s so many things going in and out of the building you just don’t think they might be stealing it. It’s brazen.”
The statue was bought for Mr Fuller’s previous nightspot, Embassy in Mayfair, but moved when it shut five years ago.
A spokesman for the Met said police had received an allegation of theft and inquiries were continuing.
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/thieves-in-hivis-ask-builders-to-help-carry-20k-gorilla-statue-from-hotel-roof-terrace-a3989491.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 15, 2018 12:59:10 GMT
Skywatch International
Published on Nov 14, 2018
Possible footage of the Ireland Pilot UFO Sighting. Filmed in Ireland three minutes before the pilot sighting. Filmed on a dash-cam showing the time and date. The time is an hour fast as it’s not been put back to winter time. Followed by four other separate sightings of unknown objects over the last few days in Ireland. First video taken over Coleraine Ireland three minutes before the Ireland pilot sighting at 06.44 hours. November 9th 2018. Credits: Video 1. Sandy Laverty. Video 3. rickster69. www.youtube.com/user/rickster69 Video 4. GameZ Craic. www.youtube.com/channel/UCu1F... Video 5. Donal Brady.
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Post by HAL on Nov 15, 2018 16:41:10 GMT
It appears that 'This channel does not exist'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2018 21:41:02 GMT
fake-fingerprints-can-imitate-real-fingerprints-in-biometric-systems-research
No more cutting off fingers to break into your iphone
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