A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience. Tune-in online [http://tunein.com/popout/player/s130679].
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience. Tune-in online [http://tunein.com/popout/player/s130679].
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Found a Portal to the Fifth Dimension; It's probably in this weird particle" (2021-02-10, popularmechanics.com/science/a35471480/dark-matter-fermion-portal-fifth-dimension/) [archive.is/g7NXo]
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* "Quantum causal loops" (2021-02-10, ulb.ac.be, via spacedaily.com/reports/Quantum_causal_loops_999.html) [archive.is/Be2Lh]
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* "A new way to look for life-sustaining planets" (2021-02-11, University Of Arizona, via spacedaily.com/reports/A_new_way_to_look_for_life_sustaining_planets_999.html) [archive.is/sLgR6]
* "NASA’s TESS discovers new ‘Earth-sized’ exoplanets floating in a ‘river of stars’ " (2021-02-12, rt.com/news/515496-tess-discovers-exoplanets-river-stars/) [archive.is/9xOfM]
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* "Solar system's most distant planetoid confirmed" (2021-02-12, University of Hawaii at Manoa, manoa.hawaii.edu, via spacedaily.com/reports/Solar_systems_most_distant_planetoid_confirmed_999.html) [archive.is/0SnaD]
- image caption: Solar System distances to scale, showing the newly discovered 2018 AG37, nicknamed "Farfarout," compared to other known Solar System objects, including the previous record holder 2018 VG18 "Farout", also found by the same team.
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* "Scientists detect water vapor emanating from Mars" (2021-02-11, news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-11/Scientists-detect-water-vapor-emanating-from-Mars-XMPVlDwJck/index.html) [archive.is/15WNW]
* "Scientists detect water vapor in unlikely location on Mars, hinting at potentially abundant, life-filled past" (2021-02-11, rt.com/news/515230-water-vapor-mars-atmosphere/) [archive.is/MroHs]
* "Scientists detect water vapor in unlikely location on Mars, hinting at potentially abundant, life-filled past" (2021-02-11, rt.com/news/515230-water-vapor-mars-atmosphere/) [archive.is/MroHs]
* "Scientists detect water vapour emanating from Mars" (2021-02-10, AFP newswire, via marsdaily.com/reports/Scientists_detect_water_vapour_emanating_from_Mars_999.html) [archive.is/Wzfke]
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* "Ahoy! ‘Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg" (2020-05-29, news.yale.edu/2020/05/29/ahoy-oumuamua-may-be-hydrogen-iceberg) [archive.is/uspg1]
* "Have Aliens Found Us? An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb About the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua" (2019-01-16, newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/have-aliens-found-us-a-harvard-astronomer-on-the-mysterious-interstellar-object-oumuamua) [archive.is/OCujg]
* "Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid; The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen. A new analysis argues that if it were a comet, it would have broken apart as it passed near the sun" (2018-10-10, quantamagazine.org/interstellar-comet-oumuamua-might-not-actually-be-a-comet-20181010/) [archive.is/KbTWP]
- image caption: ’Oumuamua’s path through the solar system. Distances of the closest passage between ’Oumuamua and other objects are measured in astronomical units (AU); 1 AU is the distance between Earth and the sun.
* "How the second known interstellar visitor makes ‘Oumuamua seem even odder; New observations show that 2I/Borisov looks like a comet, just what astronomers expected" (2019-10-14, sciencenews.org/article/borisov-interstellar-visitor-makes-oumuamua-seem-even-odder) [archive.is/pwkUV]
- image caption: The first known interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, appeared to be a naked space rock (left, center). But 2I/Borisov (right, center) bears the usual characteristics of a comet: It’s cloaked in a halo of vaporizing gas and trailing a gaseous tail in its wake.
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NEO Watch
B612 Foundation [b612foundation.org] to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
* "What Hollywood gets wrong, and right, about asteroids" (2021-02-12, llnl.gov, via spacedaily.com/reports/What_Hollywood_gets_wrong_and_right_about_asteroids_999.html) [archive.is/EPZ8r]
NEO Watch
B612 Foundation [b612foundation.org] to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.
* "What Hollywood gets wrong, and right, about asteroids" (2021-02-12, llnl.gov, via spacedaily.com/reports/What_Hollywood_gets_wrong_and_right_about_asteroids_999.html) [archive.is/EPZ8r]
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Ancient News
* "The genius of Archimedes; Sun-focusing mirrors and Steam cannons – The legend tested by modern Science" (2019-07-14, novoscriptorium.com/2019/07/14/the-genius-of-archimedes-sun-focusing-mirrors-and-steam-cannons-the-legend-tested-by-modern-science/) [archive.is/8ZhQ0]
* "Reconstructed: Archimedes's flaming steam cannon" (2010-07-13, newscientist.com/article/dn19170-reconstructed-archimedess-flaming-steam-cannon/) [archive.is/591Th]
* "Archimedes's Steam Cannon" (2006, web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/steamCannon/ArchimedesSteamCannon.html) [archive.is/zFhg3]
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* "Breathtaking Ellora Caves Were Preserved by Hemp" (2016-03-14, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/scientists-discover-breathtaking-ellora-caves-have-been-preserved-hemp-020768) [archive.is/syW0e]
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* "Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales; Find backs theory that monument was dismantled and dragged over 140 miles to Wiltshire" (2021-02-12, theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales) [archive.is/jkByE]
* "Stonehenge likely made with stones from older monument located in WALES according to bombshell new study" (2021-02-12, rt.com/uk/515407-stonehenge-taken-other-monument-wales/) [archive.is/v29C3]
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* "Ancient shell horn can still play a tune after 18,000 years" (2021-02-11, news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-11/Ancient-shell-horn-can-still-play-a-tune-after-18-000-years-XMMe7d6LgA/index.html) [archive.is/Dvhph]
- image caption: Two sides of a conch shell discovered in a French cave with prehistoric wall paintings in 1931.
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* "Ancient stone tablet unearthed in China's Hebei" (2021-02-16, xinhuanet.com/english/2021-02/16/c_139745453.htm) [archive.is/xBZq0]
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* "14 Phenomenal Photos Reveal There Were Indeed Black Chinese People" (2018-02-05, nextshark.com/14-phenomenal-photos-reveal-indeed-black-chinese-people/) [archive.is/h9jne]
- image attribution: John Thomson, 1869
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* "Millennia-old wooden lid carries love of Chinese soldier" (2021-02-14, xinhuanet.com/english/2021-02/14/c_139742501.htm) [archive.is/xUq68]
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* "Kharanaq, Chak Chak and Meybod: Relics of ancient Persia" (2017-02-06, iliveasidream.com/index.php/2017/02/06/kharanaq-chak-chak-and-meybod-relics-of-ancient-persia/) [archive.is/qzNYC]
* "Inside Kharanaq: The 1000-year-old ghost town set to become Iran's newest World Heritage Site" (2019-05-15, stuff.co.nz/travel/news/112666620/inside-kharanaq-the-1000yearold-ghost-town-set-to-become-irans-newest-world-heritage-site) [archive.is/t0v43]
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* "Renaissance-Era Venetian Beads Found in Alaska Were There Before Columbus" (2021-02-12, mymodernmet.com/venetian-glass-beads-alaska-trade/) [archive.is/W6HlC]
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Miscellany & Errata
* " ‘UFO’ spotted off Florida coast triggers wild theories, but experts suspect Trident missile test" (2021-02-10, rt.com/usa/515108-ufo-spotted-florida-coast/) [archive.is/CBXIR]
* "Wishful Thinking? Floridians Mistake US Navy Missile For UFO in Palm Beach - Video" (2021-02-11, sputniknews.com/society/202102101082031508-wishful-thinking-floridians-mistake-us-navy-missile-for-ufo-in-palm-beach---video/) [archive.is/PAIrj]
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* "This company wants to build a time machine of 200 million, with a technical valuation of 5.4 trillion? Chinese Academy of Sciences Refutes Rumors-News-cnBeta.COM" (2021-02-04, 6park.news/en/this-company-wants-to-build-a-time-machine-of-200-million-with-a-technical-valuation-of-5-4-trillion-chinese-academy-of-sciences-refutes-rumors-news-cnbeta-com.html) [archive.is/MDqu7]
* "China's State Physics Lab Denies It Is Working on a Time Machine" (2021-02-05, yicaiglobal.com/news/china-state-physics-lab-denies-it-is-working-on-a-time-machine-) [archive.is/NaUWj]
* "China Swears It Isn't Building a Time Machine" (2021-02-10, popularmechanics.com/science/a35470439/is-china-building-a-time-machine/) [archive.is/vHxUy]
* "We Already Know How To Build a Time Machine; It’s just a matter of time before we build a machine that can take us into the far future" (2018-05-28, popularmechanics.com/science/math/a20718322/building-a-time-machine/) [archive.is/xfGDI]
* "This Guy Is Pretty Sure His Time Machine Would Work" (2020-01-06, popularmechanics.com/science/a30420165/time-machine-prototype/) [archive.is/N1zdb]
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Curiata
80% of all city people have never seen the Milky Way. The World At Night (TWAN) is an international effort to present stunning nightscape photos and timelapse videos of the world’s landmarks against celestial attractions. TWAN is a bridge between art, science, and culture. (www.twanight.org)
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* "Photographer Captures Northern Lights Taking the Shape of a Phoenix for 60 Seconds" (2020-06-05, returntonow.net/2020/06/05/phoenix-rising-the-northern-lights-miraculously-take-the-shape-of-the-legendary-firebird/) [archive.is/CDi6C]
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