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  • NASA Reveals Message Europa Clipper Will Carry During Its Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Jupiter's Moon

    03/13/2024 11:44:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    The Debrief ^ | MARCH 12, 2024 | TIM MCMILLAN
    NASA has announced that its Europa Clipper space probe, set to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, will carry with it a unique “message in a bottle,” blending science, art, and human aspiration into its groundbreaking expedition. The Europa Clipper mission, scheduled for launch later this year, hopes to unveil the secrets hidden beneath Europa’s icy shell. Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, is thought to possess a vast liquid ocean beneath its smooth frozen surface, potentially holding over twice the volume of water than Earth’s oceans. Since water is essential to all life on Earth, Europa is...
  • UAP Incident Over Gulf of Mexico Revealed by U.S. Congressman Confirmed in Newly Declassified Files and Images

    03/08/2024 11:01:37 AM PST · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    The Debrief ^ | MARCH 7, 2024 | MICAH HANKS·
    New details involving a military pilot UAP incident over the Gulf of Mexico revealed by a U.S. Representative last summer have come to light, following the release of documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The incident, first described by Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) last year during a widely viewed Congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, reportedly occurred on January 26, 2023, during a test mission operated out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Now, additional confirmation of the incident has been obtained by Abbas Michael Dharamsey through documents he obtained through a FOIA request, copies...
  • New Research Sheds Light on Moon’s Mysterious Seismic Activity

    02/27/2024 4:20:19 PM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    SMITHSONIAN ^ | FEBRUARY 26, 2024
    The Moon’s contraction causes fault scarps and moonquakes in the south pole, posing risks for lunar outposts. Findings from a recently published paper led by Smithsonian senior scientist emeritus Thomas R. Watters reveal evidence that the south polar region of Earth’s moon has experienced the effects of the shrinking moon. Global contraction of the moon has caused young lobate thrust fault scarps near and within some regions NASA has proposed for the crewed Artemis III moon landing. The paper, “Tectonics and Seismicity of the Lunar South Polar Region,” published recently in the Planetary Science Journal, associates one of the most...
  • Moon lander tipped sideways on lunar surface but 'alive and well'

    02/23/2024 5:42:18 PM PST · by Red Badger · 66 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 23, 20247:19 PM CST | By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette
    Feb 23 (Reuters) - The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is "alive and well" but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the U.S. since 1972, the company behind the vehicle said on Friday. The vehicle is believed to have caught one of its six landing feet on the lunar surface near the end of its final descent and tipped over, coming to rest sideways, propped up on a rock, an analysis of data by flight engineers showed, according to Houston-based Intuitive Machines...
  • UFO Super Bowl commercial flies into big game's ad space (video at source)

    02/11/2024 6:13:03 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 13 replies
    foxbusiness.com ^ | Chris Eberhart
    UFOs — once a taboo subject that destroyed careers, like Bob Lazar's after he was essentially forced to hide in exile – will have a commercial during the Super Bowl, the grandest of advertising stages, which cost about $7 million per 30-second spot. The commercial includes scenes of oblivious humans with their heads buried in their phones while UFOs make an over-the-top racket and beg for attention with physics-defying maneuvers while real soundbites of congressional hearings and news segments play in the background. In one scene, a woman scrolling through social media flips past a legitimized UFO video with the...
  • It's Confirmed! Laser Fusion Experiment Hit a Critical Milestone in Power Generation

    02/07/2024 6:58:26 AM PST · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    Science Alert ^ | 06 February 2024 | CLARE WATSON
    (Jacob Long/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) In December 2022, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility announced a historic milestone: for the first time, their laser-powered fusion reaction had 'broken even', producing more energy than it consumed. But advances as big as this need to be rigorously checked – and that can take some time. Importantly, a series of papers detailing the experimental design, technological advancements, and results of the initial breakthrough reaction have just passed peer review, meaning researchers not involved in the work have vetted the methods and findings in order to check the sums. "This achievement is the...
  • This is what outer space smells like — and it’s stinkier than you’d expect

    02/03/2024 3:41:06 AM PST · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/10/24 | Katherine Donlevy
    It turns out space helmets serve a dual purpose - to keep air in and stink out. Just like Earth, the universe emits various smells from every corner of the never-ending universe, often of which are generally unpleasant, Space.com reported, citing numerous space expeditions over the decades. Although it is impossible to take a whiff of the cosmos without facing certain death, astronauts have long described strong odors clinging to their space suits after they return to their air-locked chambers. Metallic, burnt meat Those aboard the Apollo moon landings described the scent as gunpowder-like, while others who traversed the International...
  • Pilots describe 'bizarre' lights and 'triangles' over Canada in air traffic control audio [Those accents!]

    02/02/2024 2:54:27 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    ctv,com ^ | 01/31/2024 | Daniel Otis
    Early on Jan. 19, several pilots reported "multiple lights sometimes in a triangle formation(opens in a new tab)" high above the Canadian Prairies. The 13-minute clip was culled from 2.5 hours of raw audio downloaded from two feeds at LiveATC.net(opens in a new tab), a website that streams and archives air traffic control radio. Edited for length, the original conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers took place from approximately 4:20 a.m. to 6 a.m. CST. At least four aircraft reported seeing the lights that morning, including Flair and Morningstar jets, and two Air Canada flights. They estimated the lights...
  • UAPS and Non-Human Intelligence: What is the Most Reasonable Scenario?

    01/19/2024 6:47:59 AM PST · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    The Debrief ^ | JANUARY 6, 2024 | BERNARDO KASTRUP
    Allow me to start with a confession: although the topic of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, previously called UFOs) has always fascinated me, my reaction to confronting much of the related literature—beyond the safe harbour of a few serious authors—has been one of considered dismissiveness. In my view, a significant portion of the published material could benefit from greater rigor, empirical grounding, theoretical clarity, and logical reasoning. This field often appears to diverge from the standards of intellectual precision and level-headed analysis that hold in academia. However, recent developments over the past six or seven years invite us to re-examine the...
  • HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE REVEALS ‘ODDBALL’ ORIGINS OF FARTHEST AND WEIRDEST MYSTERIOUS RADIO SIGNAL OF ITS KIND

    01/12/2024 11:36:48 AM PST · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    The Debrief ^ | ANUARY 11, 2024 | MICAH HANKS·J
    A team of astronomers says they have found the unusual location of a rare cosmic event, which appears to be the farthest of its kind yet detected, with help from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Initially detected on June 10, 2022, FRB 20220610A was originally spotted by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and later confirmed to have come from very far away by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Lasting for as little as just a few milliseconds, the mysterious transient radio signal, known as a fast radio burst (FRB), is an extremely fast radio discharge...
  • Boeing, DARPA revolutionizing the future of stealth aircraft...CRANE program’s X-65 prototype aims to break the mold of how aircraft fly with new active flow control technology

    01/11/2024 10:52:20 PM PST · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    Asia Times ^ | JANUARY 10, 2024 | By GABRIEL HONRADA
    Aurora Flight Sciences’ experimental active flow control aircraft is designed around a system that supplies pressurized air to effectors embedded in all flying surfaces, replacing traditional mechanical aerodynamic surfaces such as flaps and rudders. Photo: Aurora Flight Sciences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences are working in tandem to produce an aircraft that utilizes pressurized air rather than physical surfaces for control, a revolutionary design with the potential to reshape the future of aviation and military stealth technology. This month, Breaking Defense reported that the pioneering prototype, known as X-65, weighs 7,000...
  • Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA's X-65 utilizing Active Flow Control

    01/11/2024 9:32:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Space Daily ^ | Jan 09, 2024 | by Clarence Oxford
    In third phase of CRANE program, Aurora Flight Sciences will build X-plane with no moving control surfaces. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to construct a groundbreaking full-scale X-plane. This aircraft, named the X-65, will serve as a technology demonstrator within the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. This initiative marks a significant shift in the realm of aircraft design, moving away from traditional flight control methods towards the innovative use of Active Flow Control (AFC) actuators. Since the Wright brothers' historic flight in 1903, aircraft have predominantly...
  • Longtime Madison resident's remains to head to the moon (Wisconsin)

    01/08/2024 10:47:07 AM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 26 replies
    Channel3000 News ^ | January 8, 2024 | Braden Ross
    MADISON, Wis. -- Monday morning, the first American spacecraft to land on the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972 will launch from Cape Canaveral, and one longtime Madison resident will be on it. Paul Wertsch and his wife Kay Heggestad always loved space. "Kay especially was a Star Trek person," Paul said. "We went down to Cape Canaveral, watched a lot of rockets." In fact, Paul remembers watching the first ever moon landing with Kay by his side. "She and I were both medical students, and we were doing a rotation up in Rhinelander, Wisconsin," Paul said. "I...
  • House Members to Receive Classified UFO Briefing

    01/05/2024 7:44:24 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 98 replies
    Hot Air ^ | Jazz
    The action on Capitol Hill involving UFOs (or UAP) doesn’t appear to be slowing down, even after a few House Republicans succeeded in blocking important portions of UAP transparency language in the recently signed NDAA for 2024. Following a couple of eye-popping public hearings last fall, members of the House Oversight Committee will soon receive a private, classified hearing regarding precisely what the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies know about “nonhuman intelligence,” recovered craft and biological evidence that is reportedly being kept from the eyes of government oversight and the public....It’s worth noting that the briefing will be provided by...
  • How the sun could wipe us out

    12/31/2023 4:53:08 PM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 72 replies
    Unherd ^ | 07/19/2021 | Bret Weinstein
    The world began to end on 12th May 2024, though another 309 years would pass before our species finally went extinct. The apocalypse was not the result of one thing, unless that one thing was that we repeatedly ignored signs that industrial civilisation had become increasingly fragile, even as it grew ever more powerful. But our end very definitely had a trigger. A burst of charged plasma from the sun caused the sudden, simultaneous collapse of numerous electrical grids across the world, setting in motion a cascade of devastating failures from which humanity would never recover.
  • Goodbye mysterious military space plane, and good luck – wherever you’re going

    12/29/2023 1:14:48 PM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | December 29, 2023 | Aria Alamalhodaei
    SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched a secretive military spaceplane to orbit last night after weeks of delays, though scant details about the mission have been released to the public. The Falcon Heavy lifted off on the clandestine mission at 8:07 PM Eastern from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane, a reusable vehicle that acts as a classified testbed for experiments in space, was the sole payload on the massive rocket. As with the other six uncrewed X-37B missions, little is known about this mission. The target orbit, mission duration and many of the payloads are...
  • This guy joked about washing his grandma's cast iron skillet ... judging by the replies, it nearly gave millions of people heart attacks 😂😭

    12/26/2023 12:50:58 PM PST · by Red Badger · 74 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | Dec 26, 2023 | Staff
    Gents, you may think this is funny, but I assure you, this man's life is in danger for even joking about this. [Warning: May induce cardiac arrest in people who like to cook] AND NOW FOR THE REACTIONS: Even the people who knew he was trolling them felt deeply unsettled in their souls: Then there was the AKSHUALLY crowd: Feel free to chime in below! I'll be over here giving my cast iron skillet a good scrubbing with some steel wool to get all the black stuff off.
  • Chicago photographer captures multi-colored UFO, experts blown away

    12/23/2023 3:36:05 PM PST · by Twotone · 83 replies
    The Blaze ^ | December 17, 2023 | Collin Jones
    Though the general shape of previously reported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are triangular, circular, or even in the shape of a "Tic Tac," a recent report will have the U.S. government adding yet another shape to the list. A photographer from Chicago captured a shot of a spooky object that was apparently changing colors while it was sitting stationary in the sky, according to the Daily Mail. The report noted that depending on who is looking at the phenomena, it could look like an alien's face, an indigenous totem, or even Rafiki, the monkey from "The Lion King." Experts are still...
  • For those with kids (and for the young at heart) Vanity

    12/22/2023 2:10:33 PM PST · by Jamestown1630 · 15 replies
    I’m an old lady, but I’m still tickled by the NORAD Santa Tracker.They now have a chatbot named ‘Radar’, and the kids can ask it questions (try ‘How do reindeer fly?’ Or ‘How does Santa do it in one night?’)http://www.noradsanta.org/en/As I compose this, we are 1 day, 10 hours, 50 minutes and 57 seconds to liftoff.The story of how the tradition began is fun too:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa
  • Congress hunts for illegal UFO programs as the media shrug

    12/22/2023 8:37:45 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 26 replies
    The Hill ^ | marik von rennenkampff
    Given the decades-long stigma associated with UAP, it seems that only a significant amount of credible evidence would convince normally cautious, risk-averse politicians, let alone a Senate majority leader, to level such a stunning accusation in public. The underlying allegations, which the mainstream media have studiously and curiously avoided, are shocking. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined Schumer and a bipartisan group of four other senators to co-sponsor the UAP Disclosure Act. In a rare colloquy with Schumer on the Senate floor, Rounds doubled down with yet more remarkable commentary, noting that the UAP Disclosure Act originally included “a requirement…for the...