Thursday, March 28, 2019

THEE STRANGER NEWS (2019-03-28)

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Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Meandering track: Spacemind - Memory Hole [youtube.com/watch?v=uL0mvPZuklM]



Science & Futurism
[futurism.com] [kurzweilai.net] [eurekalert.org


* "Scientists deploy robot ‘translators’ for interspecies communication & behavioral control" (2019-03-22, rt.com/news/454453-robots-facilitate-interspecies-communications-control/) [archive.is/o2ZW9]
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* "China clones ‘Sherlock Holmes of police dogs’ to cut time and cost of K9 training" (2019-03-20, rt.com/news/454262-china-police-dog-clone/) [archive.is/tdkRS]
* "China's cloned police dog starts training" (2019-03-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d3141544e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/ZNILg]
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* "Lab-grown HUMAN ‘mini-brains’ learned to control muscles" (2019-03-19, rt.com/news/454171-mini-brains-stem-cell-spine/) [archive.is/rdzAa]
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* " 'Flip of a switch’: Scientists 'cure' alcoholism in rats by firing lasers at their brains" (2019-03-22, rt.com/news/454480-alcoholic-rats-laser-brains/) [archive.is/vWl33]
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* "Submersibles being built to challenge the ocean bottom" (2019-03-22, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d794d544e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/meBv4]


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Space News
[astrobio.net]


* "Earth hit by meteor explosion 10 times more powerful than nuclear bomb, but no one noticed" (2019-03-19, rt.com/news/454187-massive-meteor-explosion-unnoticed-kamchatka/) [archive.is/gDikV]
* "US detects huge meteor explosion" (2019-03-18, bbc.com/news/science-environment-47607696) [archive.is/Q6t5l]
* (2019-03-18, twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1107613140240531463) [archive.is/hnx5i]: Some colour views of the #meteor that flew over the North Pacific in December 2018, taken by Japan's #Himawari satellite. The meteor is really clear here - bright orange fireball against the blue + white background! [archive.is/jqcG8] [archive.is/XXwky]
* (2019-03-18, twitter.com/UCLOAstroSphinx/status/1107747745035632640) [archive.is/KoVbx]: Hi, fantastic post on the meteor. I quickly checked MODIS-Terra.... they seem to have had a pass roughly at the right time (incredible coincidence!). I cropped the 250m res below or check the link (https://lance.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl1_143.A2018352235000-2018352235500.250m.jpg).

* "NASA shares IMAGES of meteor as powerful as Hiroshima bomb that no one spotted" (2019-03-23, rt.com/news/454589-nasa-mystery-meteor-images-bering/) [archive.is/r8vKr]

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* "NASA baffled by mysterious, unexplained ejections on asteroid Bennu" (2019-03-20, rt.com/news/454326-asteroid-bennu-unexplained-ejections-nasa/) [archive.is/haKmj]
* "Bennu's rugged surface erupting plumes may change NASA's landing plans" (2019-03-19, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/20/c_137908279.htm) [archive.is/hZP0P]
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* "Japan to make crater on asteroid to get underground samples" (2019-03-19, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3455444e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/MyQwv]
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* "Mercury is actually Earth’s CLOSEST neighbor, astounding new measurement reveals" (2019-03-19, rt.com/news/454196-mercury-actually-earths-closest-neighbor/) [archive.is/rl3nN]
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* "Russia, US set to search for LIFE TRACES on Venus – scientist" (2019-03-19, rt.com/news/454179-life-traces-venus-mission/) [archive.is/gueoS]
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* "NASA's New Horizons unravels mysteries of Ultima Thule" (2019-03-19, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e7755444e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/mVv69]
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* "More Cloud Cover on the Moon (Apollo 8 AS8-13-2225)" (thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Moon_Images_A07.html) [archive.is/75vmj]:
View of Goclenius and other craters. December 24, 1968 (full-size image) [archive.is/hjXLb], (extract):

Just another typical morning on the Lunar Surface.... Sun coming up burning off the morning mist... I wonder what's hiding beneath those clouds...


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Ancient News
Music for your perusal (via beatport.com) [is.gd/2MzlEd]


* " ‘Abundant’ Occurrence of Skeletal Abnormalities Found in Early Humans" (2018-11-07, ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/skeletal-abnormalities-0010957) [archive.is/DPWKw]
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* "The Last of the Siberian Unicorns: What Happened to the Mammoth-Sized One-Horned Beasts of Legend?" (2017-02-22, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/last-siberian-unicorns-what-happened-mammoth-sized-one-horned-beasts-legend-021239) [archive.is/3rzaq] [begin excerpt]:
Legends of the unicorn, or a beast with a single horn, have been around for millennia in China and Eastern Europe. The Chinese “K’i-lin”, referring to some sort of beast, was translated into Turkish and Mongolic languages and lore. While the writers in all these languages did not know how to describe the beast, one common theme was the single horn, along with their vast stature.
A bronze vessel from the Warring States period shows an animal very much like one depicted in cave paintings that are said to be Elasmotherium: head down for grazing, horn protruding from the forehead, and head and shoulders slumped. In 1866, Vasily Radlov found a legend among the Yakuts of Siberia of a “huge black bull” killed by a single spear. The beast was said to have a single horn so large that it had to be transported by sled. Other legends circulate in this region, usually concerning a large white or blue woolly bull with one large horn coming from its forehead.
From medieval Northern Russia comes a collection of ballads, called “Golubinaia kniga” or “The Book of the Dove,” coming from Zoroastrianism, but with Christian overtones. These ballads show a righteous unicorn battling a lion, representing lies. The unicorn of these tales lived in a Holy mountain, and it was believed to be the mother and father of all animals. This creature saved the world from drought by digging springs of pure and clean water with its horn. At night, it wandered the plains and forged a path with that very same horn.
This same creature appears in other religious texts, however, it is typically seen more as a symbolic creature rather than a real entity. The Arabo-Persian word for unicorn actually conflates unicorn and rhinoceros, looking to the rhinoceros as a bringer of truth and good in the world. In Christianity, the single horn is seen as a symbol of monotheism. [end excerpt]
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* "Elaborate Wari Offerings Found At Pikillaqta Ritual Site" (2019-03-23, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/wari-offerings-0011654) [archive.is/oCsOU]
- image caption: A Wari figurine of a warrior with a spear and shield found at Pikillaqta.

- image caption: Some of the Wari offerings found at Pikillaqta: figurines of pumas, zoomorphic figures, and warriors were found along with spondylus shells and a silver sheet.


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* "Bamboo slips reveal how Chinese played chess 2,000 years ago" (2019-03-20, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d3567444e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/n5TF8]
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* "Taxila: Pakistan’s ancient city" (2019-03-22, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d304d544e33457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/5ZecX]

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* "China-Italy Cultural Links: Chinese literature in the time of Da Vinci" video page (2019-03-21, news.cgtn.com/news/31417a4e32494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/TXxDQ]
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* "Ancient Irish Law - Where You Could Be Fined if Your Bees Stole Nectar From a Neighbor’s Flower" (2019-03-25, ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/ancient-irish-law-0011660) [archive.is/MgSNd]
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* "Viking Raids and Long-distance Oceanic Explorations Were All Enabled by Tar" (2018-11-08, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-tar-0010962) [archive.is/pWUxH]

* "Ramsund Carving: Viking Inscription Speaks of Dragon Slayer" (2018-11-02, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places/ramsund-carving-0010941) [archive.is/RLEmT]
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* "Cyril and Methodius - Spiritual Fathers of Slavic Civilization" (2018-11-03, ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/cyril-and-methodius-spiritual-fathers-slavic-civilization-0010943) [archive.is/fjEKR]
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* "The Cataclysm of Easter Island, Part 5 - The Megalithic Wall of Vinapu" (2013-07-12, by David Hatcher Childress, via ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/cataclysm-easter-island-megalithic-wall-vinapu-part-5-00646) [archive.is/ytsNI] [begin excerpt]:
When Jacques Cousteau came to Easter Island, he performed several important investigations. One was diving around the island searching for statues and other possible artifacts in the ocean. The presence of statues in the ocean, he believed, would prove the theory that the statues had been moved around the island using rafts. He found none. The only unusual feature he discovered were underwater tunnels, which he theorized to be volcanic in origin.
He mentions that the oldest carbon date on the island is 690 AD at a “well developed site” indicating actual habitation must be older. [...]
Vinapu consists of a partially-destroyed wall with megalithic construction that is basically unique to the island, but not unique in the world. The main wall consists of enormous slabs very skillfully laid. I stood in front of the wall and was genuinely amazed at the construction which was not just similar, but identical to that at Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuaman and Ollantaytambo in the high Andes of Peru.
Like those constructions, the wall at Vinapu is perfectly fitted together with irregularly-shaped stones, and has rounded edges, and small triangular stones filling in gaps. One would describe the construction in the Andes the same way; polygonal blocks that were smoothed and rounded, perfectly cut and fitted together, with small keystones placed in the wall to help make it earthquake proof. It is the most sophisticated construction technique in the world, essentially unduplicated today. It is often said that the construction at Vinapu is identical to that of Tiwanaku, although Tiwanaku lacks the pillowed walls, which are mainly found around Cuzco. However, pillowed or rounded walls can be found at the ruins of Sillustani and Cutimbo, both on mesas—flat topped mountains—near Lake Titicaca, which are usually said to be of Tiwanaku origin.
Probably the confusion arises from the general consensus that Tiwanaku is of pre-Incan construction and is thousands of years old. The massive ruins found in Peru, many in the vicinity of Cuzco, a still-living city, are usually said by academics to have been built by the Incas a few hundred years ago. That the ruins at Vinapu on Easter Island are identical in construction then raises the unlikely notion that the Incas built the platform.
The answer is simpler than might be thought. While the Incas did indeed construct large cities and were excellent stonemasons, their construction is with small rectangular blocks that are perfectly fitted together. This construction can be seen in Cuzco and elsewhere on top of the earlier and larger, polygonal construction. The construction therefore that I am speaking about, found at Easter Island and the Peruvian Andes around Cuzco—both places called “the navel of the world” (coincidentally?)—are apparently built by the same mysterious people, and are pre-Incan. Considering the lichen growth on the wall at Vinapu, I would venture to say they lived thousands of years ago. [end excerpt]

The rest of the series, Part 1 [archive.is/us7vj], Part 2 [archive.is/uUkni], Part 3 [archive.is/i8kbj], Part 4 [archive.is/ILEAF], Part 6 [archive.is/wZEoG]
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* "Mexico Scientists May Have Foot In Grave of Ancient Aztec Ruler; Archaelogists in Mexico say they have rediscovered the remains of a young boy in what may be the tomb of one of the Aztec's last rulers" (2019-03-25, telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Scientists-May-Have-Foot-In-Grave-of-Ancient-Aztec-Ruler-20190325-0003.html) [archive.is/Y99jt]

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Meteor or alien invasion? Los Angeles skies set ablaze – nothing to panic about, police say" (2019-03-22, rt.com/usa/454452-meteor-aliens-wingsuit-los-angeles/) [archive.is/9o4MK]
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* "Timeless Mystery: How did a Swiss Ring Watch End up in a Sealed Ming Dynasty Tomb?" (2015-06-27, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/timeless-mystery-how-did-swiss-ring-watch-end-sealed-ming-dynasty-tomb-003312) [archive.is/m49OH]
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* "The Giant Footprint of Pingyan: Giant Made or Man Made?" (2017-06-06, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/giant-footprint-pingyan-giant-made-or-man-made-008191) [archive.is/CRE8P]
- image caption: A man stands in what appears to be a giant footprint in bedrock in Pingyin China

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