Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Science & Futurism
* "Digital immortality: Transhumanism may hold key to eternal life, along with multiple caveats & ethical dilemmas" (2019-12-02, rt.com/news/474821-digital-immortality-transhumanism-physiology/) [archive.is/IRmGv]
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* "Beijing Police Accepts Six Cloned Dogs Into Service" (2019-11-21, southfront.org/beijing-police-accepts-six-cloned-dogs-into-service/) [archive.is/0Lu3d]
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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "From the brightest lights, to the eeriest sounds, and finally LIFE on Mars: What we learned about space this week" (2019-11-23, rt.com/news/474110-space-news-this-week/) [archive.is/CG6lg]
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* "Planetary systems ‘of astonishing scale’ could exist on doorstep of supermassive black holes" (2019-11-27, rt.com/news/474439-black-hole-planet-formation-research/) [archive.is/DOzT8]
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* "Astronomers capture brightest light ever seen by humanity, more energy in seconds than 10bn years of our sun" (2019-11-21, rt.com/news/473959-brightest-light-ever-seen/) [archive.is/nSyTA]
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* "NASA tests aquatic rover in Antarctica searching for life under ice" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138569858.htm) [archive.is/fgnKg] [begin excerpt]: According to the JPL, there are moons throughout the solar system believed to be covered in deep oceans hidden beneath thick, frozen surfaces. Kevin Hand, JPL lead scientist on the BRUIE project, believes that these lunar oceans may be the best places to look for life in the solar system.
"The ice shells covering these distant oceans serve as a window into the oceans below, and the chemistry of the ice could help feed life within those oceans," Hand said.
The Antarctic waters are the closest Earth analog to the seas of an icy moon, which makes them an ideal testing ground for BRUIE technology, said the JPL. [end excerpt]
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* "Gargantuan ‘dust towers’ may have STRIPPED Mars of all its water, says NASA" (2019-11-27, rt.com/news/474469-mars-dust-towers-channel-water/) [archive.is/bbKgk]
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* "OHIO entomologist: Photos show evidence of life on Mars; Ohio University Emeritus Professor William Romoser analyzed a number of photos from various Mars rovers and found insect-like and reptile-like forms in the images, appearing to verify that life exists on Mars" (2019-11-20, ohio.edu/news/2019/11/ohio-entomologist-photos-show-evidence-life-mars) [archive.is/u7g4A]
* "Does Insect/Arthropod Biodiversity Extend Beyond Earth?" (2019-11-19, William S. Romoser, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Ohio University, via researchgate.net/publication/337155924_Does_InsectArthropod_Biodiversity_Extend_Beyond_Earth) [is.gd/2bQQm2], report (.pdf) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Romoser2/publication/337155924_Does_InsectArthropod_Biodiversity_Extend_Beyond_Earth/links/5dc88b934585151435006ff4/Does-Insect-Arthropod-Biodiversity-Extend-Beyond-Earth.pdf) [is.gd/KoMlhu]
* "Under Our Noses? Researcher Reveals What Creatures Allegedly Dwell on Mars, Cites Photo Evidence; The scientist argued that arthropod body segments can be spotted on many of the publicly available photos of Mars, and that one image apparently even shows an insect in flight" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/science/201911201077360392-under-our-noses-researcher-reveals-what-creatures-allegedly-dwell-on-mars-cites-photo-evidence/) [archive.is/2GsaB]
* "Photos show evidence of life on Mars, claims scientist" (2019-11-20, twistarticle.com/photos-show-evidence-of-life-on-mars-claims-scientist/) [archive.is/taqQP]
* "Ohio University professor claims insect-like beings are living on Mars after spending years studying photos from different missions to the Red Planet" (2019-11-19, dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7703269/Ohio-University-professor-claims-insect-like-beings-living-Mars.html) [archive.is/XSAv1]
* "Insects on Mars? Or Another Case of Pareidolia?" (2019-11-21, universetoday.com/144091/insects-on-mars-or-another-case-of-pareidolia/) [archive.is/clmR6]
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* "Asteroids v Eiffel Tower? ESA gets cash boost, shares breathtaking mockup of space rocks at famous landmark" (rt.com/news/474635-esa-asteroid-mission-hera/) [archive.is/tD3bP]
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NEO Watch
B612 Foundation [b612foundation.org] to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
* "Pyramid-sized asteroid to zoom past Earth on Friday, as scientists warn one day a space rock may hit" (2019-12-03, rt.com/news/474894-pyramid-size-asteroid-close-approach/) [archive.is/3pedX]
* "Gigantic, 500ft asteroid to fly past Earth on Monday & come BACK in 7 years" (2019-11-24, rt.com/news/474199-nasa-asteroid-flyby-earth/) [archive.is/gPOmC]
* "Huge Asteroid Capable of 'Continental-Scale Devastation' on Track to Zoom Past Earth; According to the Center for NEO Studies, as of September 2019 there are over 20,600 near-Earth objects, of which roughly 922 near-Earth asteroids have been listed on the risk table, with about 95 per cent far too small to qualify as a potentially hazardous object" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/science/201911201077359246-huge-asteroid-capable-of-continental-scale-devastation-on-track-to-zoom-past-earth-/) [archive.is/iERSs]
* "Struck by Bad Luck: Meet the Woman Whose Life Was Ruined by a Cursed Meteorite" (2016-08-21, weekinweird.com/2016/08/21/bad-luck-from-outer-space-meet-the-woman-whose-life-was-ruined-by-a-cursed-meteorite/) [is.gd/sQn9mf]
* "14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite; A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph" (2009-06-12, telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5511619/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html) [archive.is/0mIke]
* "Mud ball meteorites rain down in Costa Rica; “Mud ball” meteorites – full of clays, organics and water – are unique among space rocks. And a lot of them fell in April 2019 on a small town in Costa Rica, much to the delight of scientists" (2019-06-04, earthsky.org/space/mudball-meteorite-fall-aguas-zarcas-costa-rica-2019) [archive.is/RRaXX]
- image caption: This meteorite from the fall at Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, in April hit a doghouse. Luckily, the dog – Rocky – was unharmed. Image via Michael Farmer
* "Superconducting materials found in meteorites" (2018-03-06, sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/superconducting-materials-found-meteorites) [archive.is/nr7EN]
- image caption: This 9980-kilogram meteorite, which crashed into Australia, contains tiny amounts of natural superconducting material, physicists have found.
* "NASA investigating fiery meteor-like object seen flying over Bay Area" (2019-02-22, sfgate.com/news/article/Flaming-meteor-like-object-NASA-bright-sighting-13634780.php) [is.gd/lCaTRw]
* "One That Fell to Earth: Researchers Reveal 2012 Novato Meteorite Took a Beating" (2014-08-18, universetoday.com/113959/one-that-fell-to-earth-researchers-reveal-2012-novoto-meteorite-took-a-beating/) [archive.is/F9cQj]
* "Car-Sized Meteor Breaks Up Over Bay Area Skies" (2012-10-18, sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/10/18/car-sized-meteor-breaks-up-over-bay-area-skies/) [is.gd/NYacl9]
* " ‘Mysterious light’ over Bay Area was very rare cloud created by meteor, officials say" (2018-12-20, kron4.com/news/bay-area/-mysterious-light-over-bay-area-was-very-rare-cloud-created-by-meteor-officials-say/1668357554) [archive.is/L9vnZ#selection-1105.0-1105.85]:
About last night…
People are still buzzing over that “mysterious light” spotted all across Northern California late Wednesday.
In case you missed it, officials say that light may have been a meteor!
That meteor created what officials call a “noctilucent cloud,” or “night shining cloud.”
NASA says the night shining cloud, which is concocted with ingredients from outer space, is very rare.
They were first spotted in 1885.
The last time these types of clouds were seen in the Bay was back in 2011 following a rocket launch.
Did you see it?
* "Aliens, is that you? Mysterious ‘fireball’ streaks across the sky in Oregon, leaves cops scratching their heads" (2019-11-25, rt.com/usa/474236-aliens-fireball-mystery-oregon/) [archive.is/JAxFD]
* "Australian desert FIREBALL may actually have been ‘MINIMOON,’ say scientists" (2019-12-02, rt.com/news/474827-fireball-which-exploded-australia-minimoon/) [archive.is/JBiCQ]
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Ancient News
* "All in the Gospel: Scholar Tackles the Existence of Jesus' Alleged Twin Brother; The researcher explained that a certain Christian tradition actually portrayed one of the apostles as Christ’s twin, and that traditional Orthodox Christians do not share this belief" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/society/201911201077359614-all-in-the-gospel-scholar-tackles-the-existence-of-jesus-alleged-twin-brother/) [archive.is/AdRNw]
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* "University students reconstruct old Byzantine church in Gaza" (2019-11-24, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/25/c_138580487.htm) [archive.is/27oIc]
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* "The Evidence is Cut in Stone: A Compelling Argument for Lost High Technology in Ancient Egypt" (2017-08-04, by Brien Foerster, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/evidence-cut-stone-compelling-argument-lost-high-technology-ancient-021545) [archive.is/dVppv]
* "The Big Egyptian Sphinx Cover Up: Hidden Chambers, An Unexcavated Mound and Endless Denial" (2017-10-06, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/big-egyptian-sphinx-cover-hidden-chambers-unexcavated-mound-and-endless-denial-021647/) [archive.is/WEyLq]
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* "Sheldon Breiner dies; pioneer in magnetometry found 13-ton heads in jungle" (2019-11-14, sfchronicle.com/science/article/Tech-pioneer-Sheldon-Breier-used-magnetism-to-as-14835669.php) [is.gd/DHxMc0] [begin excerpt]: Breiner’s measurements of magnetic fields led to what is perhaps his most famous discovery. In 1964 at a 3,000-year-old archaeological site in southern Mexico, he found magnetic variations in the Earth that he used to locate scores of artifacts, including two enormous ancient stone heads — one weighing 13 tons — buried in the jungle in the state of Veracruz. [...]
He was involved in the discovery of Sybaris, a 2,500-year-old Greek city buried 20 feet deep in Southern Italy. In 2005, he explored the wreckage of the 16th century galleon San Felipe, which was lost in 1576 on its way from Manila to Mexico.
The colossal heads that Breiner found in Mexico were among 31 subsequently unearthed at three archaeological sites called San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán that were cultural centers for the Olmec civilization dating to 1,200 to 900 years before Christ. Driskill-Smith said her father discovered that these sites, constructed primarily out of volcanic basalt, were aligned toward magnetic north — long before the compass was invented.
He told researchers that his magnetic surveys identified as many as 100 large monuments, but most remain buried. Driskill-Smith said Breiner stopped digging up the artifacts after a helicopter arrived in the middle of the night and stole one of the heads.
Breiner often returned to the archaeological sites in Veracruz, where his 13-ton head is now displayed in the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Geophysicist Sheldon Breiner in 1998 with one of the Olmec heads he helped discover in Mexico. It is now displayed at a museum in Xalapa, Mexico.
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* "Over 140 New Nazca Lines Have Been Discovered, And We Finally Have Clues to Their Use" (2019-11-19, sciencealert.com/over-140-mysterious-geoglyphs-discovered-within-the-ancient-nazca-lines) [is.gd/ogrhHC]
* "143 New Geoglyphs Discovered on the Nasca Pampa and Surrounding Area; Yamagata University Expands Use of IBM's AI Technology in an Aim to Understand Nasca Lines as a Whole" (2019-11-15, yamagata-u.ac.jp/en/files/7615/7381/2393/PRESS_RELEASE_nasca191115EN.pdf) [is.gd/PnAT9U]
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* "The Megalithic Temple of Malinalco: Could these Magnificent and Complex Rock-Cut Structures Actually Pre-Date the Aztecs?" (2017-08-18, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/megalithic-temple-malinalco-could-these-magnificent-and-complex-rock-cut-021567) [archive.is/HOZJ1] [begin excerpt]: Strange Tools Made the Mysterious Rock-cut chamber – “Structure IV”
The last important structure, called “Structure IV”, is, in fact, an immense rock-cut chamber cut directly out of the cliff face. The chamber is rectangular, measuring nearly 20 meters (65 feet) on its longer side by 10 meters (33 feet) on the shorter side. It is open to the east and has a rock-cut bench running along the perimeter of the walls. A number of pillar bases and a rectangular basin, probably serving as an altar, are also similarly cut from the living rock. The depth of the cut reaches at least five meters (16 feet) on the northern side. In addition, the upper portion of the cliff face appears to have been artificially leveled, perhaps in an even earlier epoch. It is possible that from this chamber alone at least 1,000 cubic meters or 3,000 tons of rock were removed in ancient times! The astonishing precision of the cut, which left a very smooth and remarkably planar rock face, with no visible chisel or other tool marks, suggests the use of tools that would have hardly been available to the Aztecs or any of the other known Mesoamerican civilizations of antiquity. [...]
In all of Mesoamerica, a similar style of monolithic architecture is only found among the ruins of Texcoco, which bear a distinct similarity with the rock-cut temples of Malinalco, although on a much smaller scale. As in the case of Malinalco, the perfectly cut and polished stone basins, stairways, and rock-cut chambers of Texcoco exhibit a level of workmanship far in advance of what could have been achieved with simple stone tools. In addition, the significant erosion to which the rock surface has been subjected in both cases is indicative of an antiquity far more remote than the supposed 15th or early 16th century assumed date of the carvings.
Another point of similarity with the ruins of Texcoco is offered by the presence of rock-cut aqueducts. A number of water channels can be found at Malinalco, particularly on the upper terraces. Their great antiquity is testified by the fact that they appear in some cases to have been cut by later structures and rock-cut trenches.
- image caption: A number of aqueducts and water channels run around the base of the cliff and would have served to drain the rainwater from the upper terraces and the roofs of buildings to the valley below.
- video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbRglQutrwU)
References
Mario Gómez Molina, Malinalco, el lugar sagrado de los guerreros Mexica . [Online] Available at: https://www.academia.edu/198204/Malinalco_el_lugar_sagrado_de_los_guerreros_Mexicas
Francisco Arturo Schroeder Cordero, La Arquitectura monolítica en Tezcotzingo y en Malinalco, Estado de México , UNAM, Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana, no.4, July 1985, pp.65-95. [Online] Available at: http://arquitectura.unam.mx/uploads/8/1/1/0/8110907/cam04_reducido.pdf
INAH, Zona Arqueologíca de Malinalco, official website [Online] Available at: http://inah.gob.mx/es/zonas/135-zona-arqueologica-malinalco
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* "Archeological discovery in W China unveils ancient cultural exchange along Silk Road" (2019-11-24, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/24/c_138580367.htm) [archive.is/NP3mn]
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* "Large prehistoric city site unearthed in Inner Mongolia" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138569916.htm) [archive.is/nHG4D]
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* "Sentasi Lake: The mysterious stone men in Xinjiang" (2019-11-22, news.cgtn.com/news/2019-11-22/Sentasi-Lake-The-mysterious-stone-men-in-Xinjiang-LP7yY0cFag/index.html) [archive.is/9ak8N]
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* "Over 1,200-yr-old tomb unearthed in China's Hebei" (2019-11-25, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/25/c_138582060.htm) [archive.is/Cw6IW]
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* "Vikings were never the pure-bred master race white supremacists like to portray" (2017-09-28, theconversation.com/vikings-were-never-the-pure-bred-master-race-white-supremacists-like-to-portray-84455) [archive.is/wDDDK]
* "You Speak Like a Viking! 10 Everyday Words in English with Old Norse Origins" (2017-09-24, ancient-origins.net/history/you-speak-viking-10-everyday-words-english-old-norse-origins-008840) [archive.is/ZWQxS]
* "Vikings, Baking Powder And Poets: Boston’s Long And Confusing History With Leif Erikson" (2010-12-27, wbur.org/news/2018/12/27/vikings-boston-history-leif-erikson) [archive.is/gP2hc]
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* "Thai gov't to nominate Songkran as intangible cultural heritage" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138570497.htm) [archive.is/lqmjq]
* "Songkran (Thailand)" (retrieved 2019-11-25, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkran_(Thailand)) [archive.is/4MXwF] [begin excerpt]:
Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]) is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on the 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to five days, 12–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. In 2019, the holiday will be observed 12–16 April as 13 April falls on a Saturday. The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti,literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. The term was borrowed from Makar Sankranti, the name of a Hindu harvest festival celebrated in India in January to mark the arrival of spring. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Buddhist calendar. The New Year takes place at virtually the same time as the new year celebrations of many countries in South Asia like China (Dai People of Yunnan Province), Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.
In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated on 1 January. Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday.
Songkran derives from Sanskrit meaning 'to move' or 'movement'. It derives from the movement of the sun from one position to another in the zodiac. According to its literal meaning in Sanskrit, a songkran occurs every month. However, the period that Thai people refer to as songkran happens when the sun moves from Pisces to Aries in the zodiac. The correct name for this period should actually be Maha Songkran ('great songkran') because it coincides with the arrival of a New Year. The songkran festival is, therefore, a celebration of the New Year in accordance with the solar calendar. The celebration covers a period of three days: 13 April is regarded as Maha Songkran, the day that the sun moves into Aries on the zodiac or the last day of the old year. The next day, 14 April is called Wan Nao, the transitional day between the old and the new years, and 15 April is called Wan Thaloeng Sok (Thai: วันเถลิงศก 'to begin a new era or year'), New Year's day itself. [...]
Nowadays the royal palace ceased to issue Songkran notification; they replaced it with a small calendar booklet given to the public on New Year's Day. Government Savings Bank still prints a one-page lunisolar calendar, which is different from multiple-page solar calendar commonly seen. The calendar features the image of Songkran goddess with her vehicle and subordinates, led by Chinese zodiac animal holding a flag with Thai script for that zodiac. It also contains a comprehensive information on the correct Songkran day and religious days. Some astrologers, especially in northern Thailand, still issue their own Songkran notif ication containing predictions and other information. In 2013, Chiang Mai provincial council decided to defy the government-set holiday by rescheduling the ceremony according to the correct calculation. [end excerpt]
* "Mahothorn Devi represents the mythological element of this year’s Songkran" (2018-03-13, nationthailand.com/national/30340801) [archive.is/uqhV1]
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Science & Futurism
* "Digital immortality: Transhumanism may hold key to eternal life, along with multiple caveats & ethical dilemmas" (2019-12-02, rt.com/news/474821-digital-immortality-transhumanism-physiology/) [archive.is/IRmGv]
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* "Beijing Police Accepts Six Cloned Dogs Into Service" (2019-11-21, southfront.org/beijing-police-accepts-six-cloned-dogs-into-service/) [archive.is/0Lu3d]
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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "From the brightest lights, to the eeriest sounds, and finally LIFE on Mars: What we learned about space this week" (2019-11-23, rt.com/news/474110-space-news-this-week/) [archive.is/CG6lg]
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* "Planetary systems ‘of astonishing scale’ could exist on doorstep of supermassive black holes" (2019-11-27, rt.com/news/474439-black-hole-planet-formation-research/) [archive.is/DOzT8]
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* "Astronomers capture brightest light ever seen by humanity, more energy in seconds than 10bn years of our sun" (2019-11-21, rt.com/news/473959-brightest-light-ever-seen/) [archive.is/nSyTA]
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* "NASA tests aquatic rover in Antarctica searching for life under ice" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138569858.htm) [archive.is/fgnKg] [begin excerpt]: According to the JPL, there are moons throughout the solar system believed to be covered in deep oceans hidden beneath thick, frozen surfaces. Kevin Hand, JPL lead scientist on the BRUIE project, believes that these lunar oceans may be the best places to look for life in the solar system.
"The ice shells covering these distant oceans serve as a window into the oceans below, and the chemistry of the ice could help feed life within those oceans," Hand said.
The Antarctic waters are the closest Earth analog to the seas of an icy moon, which makes them an ideal testing ground for BRUIE technology, said the JPL. [end excerpt]
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* "Gargantuan ‘dust towers’ may have STRIPPED Mars of all its water, says NASA" (2019-11-27, rt.com/news/474469-mars-dust-towers-channel-water/) [archive.is/bbKgk]
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* "OHIO entomologist: Photos show evidence of life on Mars; Ohio University Emeritus Professor William Romoser analyzed a number of photos from various Mars rovers and found insect-like and reptile-like forms in the images, appearing to verify that life exists on Mars" (2019-11-20, ohio.edu/news/2019/11/ohio-entomologist-photos-show-evidence-life-mars) [archive.is/u7g4A]
* "Does Insect/Arthropod Biodiversity Extend Beyond Earth?" (2019-11-19, William S. Romoser, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Ohio University, via researchgate.net/publication/337155924_Does_InsectArthropod_Biodiversity_Extend_Beyond_Earth) [is.gd/2bQQm2], report (.pdf) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Romoser2/publication/337155924_Does_InsectArthropod_Biodiversity_Extend_Beyond_Earth/links/5dc88b934585151435006ff4/Does-Insect-Arthropod-Biodiversity-Extend-Beyond-Earth.pdf) [is.gd/KoMlhu]
* "Under Our Noses? Researcher Reveals What Creatures Allegedly Dwell on Mars, Cites Photo Evidence; The scientist argued that arthropod body segments can be spotted on many of the publicly available photos of Mars, and that one image apparently even shows an insect in flight" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/science/201911201077360392-under-our-noses-researcher-reveals-what-creatures-allegedly-dwell-on-mars-cites-photo-evidence/) [archive.is/2GsaB]
* "Photos show evidence of life on Mars, claims scientist" (2019-11-20, twistarticle.com/photos-show-evidence-of-life-on-mars-claims-scientist/) [archive.is/taqQP]
* "Ohio University professor claims insect-like beings are living on Mars after spending years studying photos from different missions to the Red Planet" (2019-11-19, dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7703269/Ohio-University-professor-claims-insect-like-beings-living-Mars.html) [archive.is/XSAv1]
* "Insects on Mars? Or Another Case of Pareidolia?" (2019-11-21, universetoday.com/144091/insects-on-mars-or-another-case-of-pareidolia/) [archive.is/clmR6]
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* "Asteroids v Eiffel Tower? ESA gets cash boost, shares breathtaking mockup of space rocks at famous landmark" (rt.com/news/474635-esa-asteroid-mission-hera/) [archive.is/tD3bP]
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NEO Watch
B612 Foundation [b612foundation.org] to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
* "Pyramid-sized asteroid to zoom past Earth on Friday, as scientists warn one day a space rock may hit" (2019-12-03, rt.com/news/474894-pyramid-size-asteroid-close-approach/) [archive.is/3pedX]
* "Gigantic, 500ft asteroid to fly past Earth on Monday & come BACK in 7 years" (2019-11-24, rt.com/news/474199-nasa-asteroid-flyby-earth/) [archive.is/gPOmC]
* "Huge Asteroid Capable of 'Continental-Scale Devastation' on Track to Zoom Past Earth; According to the Center for NEO Studies, as of September 2019 there are over 20,600 near-Earth objects, of which roughly 922 near-Earth asteroids have been listed on the risk table, with about 95 per cent far too small to qualify as a potentially hazardous object" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/science/201911201077359246-huge-asteroid-capable-of-continental-scale-devastation-on-track-to-zoom-past-earth-/) [archive.is/iERSs]
* "Struck by Bad Luck: Meet the Woman Whose Life Was Ruined by a Cursed Meteorite" (2016-08-21, weekinweird.com/2016/08/21/bad-luck-from-outer-space-meet-the-woman-whose-life-was-ruined-by-a-cursed-meteorite/) [is.gd/sQn9mf]
* "14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite; A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph" (2009-06-12, telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5511619/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html) [archive.is/0mIke]
* "Mud ball meteorites rain down in Costa Rica; “Mud ball” meteorites – full of clays, organics and water – are unique among space rocks. And a lot of them fell in April 2019 on a small town in Costa Rica, much to the delight of scientists" (2019-06-04, earthsky.org/space/mudball-meteorite-fall-aguas-zarcas-costa-rica-2019) [archive.is/RRaXX]
- image caption: This meteorite from the fall at Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, in April hit a doghouse. Luckily, the dog – Rocky – was unharmed. Image via Michael Farmer
* "Superconducting materials found in meteorites" (2018-03-06, sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/superconducting-materials-found-meteorites) [archive.is/nr7EN]
- image caption: This 9980-kilogram meteorite, which crashed into Australia, contains tiny amounts of natural superconducting material, physicists have found.
* "NASA investigating fiery meteor-like object seen flying over Bay Area" (2019-02-22, sfgate.com/news/article/Flaming-meteor-like-object-NASA-bright-sighting-13634780.php) [is.gd/lCaTRw]
* "One That Fell to Earth: Researchers Reveal 2012 Novato Meteorite Took a Beating" (2014-08-18, universetoday.com/113959/one-that-fell-to-earth-researchers-reveal-2012-novoto-meteorite-took-a-beating/) [archive.is/F9cQj]
* "Car-Sized Meteor Breaks Up Over Bay Area Skies" (2012-10-18, sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/10/18/car-sized-meteor-breaks-up-over-bay-area-skies/) [is.gd/NYacl9]
* " ‘Mysterious light’ over Bay Area was very rare cloud created by meteor, officials say" (2018-12-20, kron4.com/news/bay-area/-mysterious-light-over-bay-area-was-very-rare-cloud-created-by-meteor-officials-say/1668357554) [archive.is/L9vnZ#selection-1105.0-1105.85]:
About last night…
People are still buzzing over that “mysterious light” spotted all across Northern California late Wednesday.
In case you missed it, officials say that light may have been a meteor!
That meteor created what officials call a “noctilucent cloud,” or “night shining cloud.”
NASA says the night shining cloud, which is concocted with ingredients from outer space, is very rare.
They were first spotted in 1885.
The last time these types of clouds were seen in the Bay was back in 2011 following a rocket launch.
Did you see it?
* "Aliens, is that you? Mysterious ‘fireball’ streaks across the sky in Oregon, leaves cops scratching their heads" (2019-11-25, rt.com/usa/474236-aliens-fireball-mystery-oregon/) [archive.is/JAxFD]
* "Australian desert FIREBALL may actually have been ‘MINIMOON,’ say scientists" (2019-12-02, rt.com/news/474827-fireball-which-exploded-australia-minimoon/) [archive.is/JBiCQ]
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Ancient News
* "All in the Gospel: Scholar Tackles the Existence of Jesus' Alleged Twin Brother; The researcher explained that a certain Christian tradition actually portrayed one of the apostles as Christ’s twin, and that traditional Orthodox Christians do not share this belief" (2019-11-20, sputniknews.com/society/201911201077359614-all-in-the-gospel-scholar-tackles-the-existence-of-jesus-alleged-twin-brother/) [archive.is/AdRNw]
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* "University students reconstruct old Byzantine church in Gaza" (2019-11-24, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/25/c_138580487.htm) [archive.is/27oIc]
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* "The Evidence is Cut in Stone: A Compelling Argument for Lost High Technology in Ancient Egypt" (2017-08-04, by Brien Foerster, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/evidence-cut-stone-compelling-argument-lost-high-technology-ancient-021545) [archive.is/dVppv]
* "The Big Egyptian Sphinx Cover Up: Hidden Chambers, An Unexcavated Mound and Endless Denial" (2017-10-06, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/big-egyptian-sphinx-cover-hidden-chambers-unexcavated-mound-and-endless-denial-021647/) [archive.is/WEyLq]
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* "Sheldon Breiner dies; pioneer in magnetometry found 13-ton heads in jungle" (2019-11-14, sfchronicle.com/science/article/Tech-pioneer-Sheldon-Breier-used-magnetism-to-as-14835669.php) [is.gd/DHxMc0] [begin excerpt]: Breiner’s measurements of magnetic fields led to what is perhaps his most famous discovery. In 1964 at a 3,000-year-old archaeological site in southern Mexico, he found magnetic variations in the Earth that he used to locate scores of artifacts, including two enormous ancient stone heads — one weighing 13 tons — buried in the jungle in the state of Veracruz. [...]
He was involved in the discovery of Sybaris, a 2,500-year-old Greek city buried 20 feet deep in Southern Italy. In 2005, he explored the wreckage of the 16th century galleon San Felipe, which was lost in 1576 on its way from Manila to Mexico.
The colossal heads that Breiner found in Mexico were among 31 subsequently unearthed at three archaeological sites called San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán that were cultural centers for the Olmec civilization dating to 1,200 to 900 years before Christ. Driskill-Smith said her father discovered that these sites, constructed primarily out of volcanic basalt, were aligned toward magnetic north — long before the compass was invented.
He told researchers that his magnetic surveys identified as many as 100 large monuments, but most remain buried. Driskill-Smith said Breiner stopped digging up the artifacts after a helicopter arrived in the middle of the night and stole one of the heads.
Breiner often returned to the archaeological sites in Veracruz, where his 13-ton head is now displayed in the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Geophysicist Sheldon Breiner in 1998 with one of the Olmec heads he helped discover in Mexico. It is now displayed at a museum in Xalapa, Mexico.
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* "Over 140 New Nazca Lines Have Been Discovered, And We Finally Have Clues to Their Use" (2019-11-19, sciencealert.com/over-140-mysterious-geoglyphs-discovered-within-the-ancient-nazca-lines) [is.gd/ogrhHC]
* "143 New Geoglyphs Discovered on the Nasca Pampa and Surrounding Area; Yamagata University Expands Use of IBM's AI Technology in an Aim to Understand Nasca Lines as a Whole" (2019-11-15, yamagata-u.ac.jp/en/files/7615/7381/2393/PRESS_RELEASE_nasca191115EN.pdf) [is.gd/PnAT9U]
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* "The Megalithic Temple of Malinalco: Could these Magnificent and Complex Rock-Cut Structures Actually Pre-Date the Aztecs?" (2017-08-18, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/megalithic-temple-malinalco-could-these-magnificent-and-complex-rock-cut-021567) [archive.is/HOZJ1] [begin excerpt]: Strange Tools Made the Mysterious Rock-cut chamber – “Structure IV”
The last important structure, called “Structure IV”, is, in fact, an immense rock-cut chamber cut directly out of the cliff face. The chamber is rectangular, measuring nearly 20 meters (65 feet) on its longer side by 10 meters (33 feet) on the shorter side. It is open to the east and has a rock-cut bench running along the perimeter of the walls. A number of pillar bases and a rectangular basin, probably serving as an altar, are also similarly cut from the living rock. The depth of the cut reaches at least five meters (16 feet) on the northern side. In addition, the upper portion of the cliff face appears to have been artificially leveled, perhaps in an even earlier epoch. It is possible that from this chamber alone at least 1,000 cubic meters or 3,000 tons of rock were removed in ancient times! The astonishing precision of the cut, which left a very smooth and remarkably planar rock face, with no visible chisel or other tool marks, suggests the use of tools that would have hardly been available to the Aztecs or any of the other known Mesoamerican civilizations of antiquity. [...]
In all of Mesoamerica, a similar style of monolithic architecture is only found among the ruins of Texcoco, which bear a distinct similarity with the rock-cut temples of Malinalco, although on a much smaller scale. As in the case of Malinalco, the perfectly cut and polished stone basins, stairways, and rock-cut chambers of Texcoco exhibit a level of workmanship far in advance of what could have been achieved with simple stone tools. In addition, the significant erosion to which the rock surface has been subjected in both cases is indicative of an antiquity far more remote than the supposed 15th or early 16th century assumed date of the carvings.
Another point of similarity with the ruins of Texcoco is offered by the presence of rock-cut aqueducts. A number of water channels can be found at Malinalco, particularly on the upper terraces. Their great antiquity is testified by the fact that they appear in some cases to have been cut by later structures and rock-cut trenches.
- image caption: A number of aqueducts and water channels run around the base of the cliff and would have served to drain the rainwater from the upper terraces and the roofs of buildings to the valley below.
- video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbRglQutrwU)
References
Mario Gómez Molina, Malinalco, el lugar sagrado de los guerreros Mexica . [Online] Available at: https://www.academia.edu/198204/Malinalco_el_lugar_sagrado_de_los_guerreros_Mexicas
Francisco Arturo Schroeder Cordero, La Arquitectura monolítica en Tezcotzingo y en Malinalco, Estado de México , UNAM, Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana, no.4, July 1985, pp.65-95. [Online] Available at: http://arquitectura.unam.mx/uploads/8/1/1/0/8110907/cam04_reducido.pdf
INAH, Zona Arqueologíca de Malinalco, official website [Online] Available at: http://inah.gob.mx/es/zonas/135-zona-arqueologica-malinalco
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* "Archeological discovery in W China unveils ancient cultural exchange along Silk Road" (2019-11-24, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/24/c_138580367.htm) [archive.is/NP3mn]
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* "Large prehistoric city site unearthed in Inner Mongolia" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138569916.htm) [archive.is/nHG4D]
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* "Sentasi Lake: The mysterious stone men in Xinjiang" (2019-11-22, news.cgtn.com/news/2019-11-22/Sentasi-Lake-The-mysterious-stone-men-in-Xinjiang-LP7yY0cFag/index.html) [archive.is/9ak8N]
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* "Over 1,200-yr-old tomb unearthed in China's Hebei" (2019-11-25, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/25/c_138582060.htm) [archive.is/Cw6IW]
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* "Vikings were never the pure-bred master race white supremacists like to portray" (2017-09-28, theconversation.com/vikings-were-never-the-pure-bred-master-race-white-supremacists-like-to-portray-84455) [archive.is/wDDDK]
* "You Speak Like a Viking! 10 Everyday Words in English with Old Norse Origins" (2017-09-24, ancient-origins.net/history/you-speak-viking-10-everyday-words-english-old-norse-origins-008840) [archive.is/ZWQxS]
* "Vikings, Baking Powder And Poets: Boston’s Long And Confusing History With Leif Erikson" (2010-12-27, wbur.org/news/2018/12/27/vikings-boston-history-leif-erikson) [archive.is/gP2hc]
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* "Thai gov't to nominate Songkran as intangible cultural heritage" (2019-11-20, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/20/c_138570497.htm) [archive.is/lqmjq]
* "Songkran (Thailand)" (retrieved 2019-11-25, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkran_(Thailand)) [archive.is/4MXwF] [begin excerpt]:
Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]) is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on the 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to five days, 12–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. In 2019, the holiday will be observed 12–16 April as 13 April falls on a Saturday. The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti,literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. The term was borrowed from Makar Sankranti, the name of a Hindu harvest festival celebrated in India in January to mark the arrival of spring. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Buddhist calendar. The New Year takes place at virtually the same time as the new year celebrations of many countries in South Asia like China (Dai People of Yunnan Province), Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.
In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated on 1 January. Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday.
Songkran derives from Sanskrit meaning 'to move' or 'movement'. It derives from the movement of the sun from one position to another in the zodiac. According to its literal meaning in Sanskrit, a songkran occurs every month. However, the period that Thai people refer to as songkran happens when the sun moves from Pisces to Aries in the zodiac. The correct name for this period should actually be Maha Songkran ('great songkran') because it coincides with the arrival of a New Year. The songkran festival is, therefore, a celebration of the New Year in accordance with the solar calendar. The celebration covers a period of three days: 13 April is regarded as Maha Songkran, the day that the sun moves into Aries on the zodiac or the last day of the old year. The next day, 14 April is called Wan Nao, the transitional day between the old and the new years, and 15 April is called Wan Thaloeng Sok (Thai: วันเถลิงศก 'to begin a new era or year'), New Year's day itself. [...]
Nowadays the royal palace ceased to issue Songkran notification; they replaced it with a small calendar booklet given to the public on New Year's Day. Government Savings Bank still prints a one-page lunisolar calendar, which is different from multiple-page solar calendar commonly seen. The calendar features the image of Songkran goddess with her vehicle and subordinates, led by Chinese zodiac animal holding a flag with Thai script for that zodiac. It also contains a comprehensive information on the correct Songkran day and religious days. Some astrologers, especially in northern Thailand, still issue their own Songkran notif ication containing predictions and other information. In 2013, Chiang Mai provincial council decided to defy the government-set holiday by rescheduling the ceremony according to the correct calculation. [end excerpt]
* "Mahothorn Devi represents the mythological element of this year’s Songkran" (2018-03-13, nationthailand.com/national/30340801) [archive.is/uqhV1]
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Curiata
* "Electrons can form solid orderly structure: Israeli research" (2019-11-21, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/21/c_138573260.htm) [archive.is/luB49]
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Vinicunca, The Rainbow Mountain of #Peru
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* "World’s Rarest Textile is Made From the Silk of One Million Spiders" (2017-10-21, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/world-s-rarest-textile-made-silk-one-million-spiders-009010) [archive.is/ZVg34]
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