Saturday, October 17, 2020

Jo Wood: I'm a UFO spotter | People | oanow.com

Speaking in HELLO! magazine, Jo - who has her own UFO-themed podcast 'Alien Nation with Jo Wood - said: "I really believe they exist. Ever since Ronnie and I saw this strange object hovering over the ocean before speeding off at supersonic speed - while we were on holiday in Brazil - I've been obsessed.

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"I think that some aliens might be studying us. Others might just be visiting, like tourists - 'Let's go and have a look at that blue planet over there.' "

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In case you are keeping track:

New Mexico UFO sightings ranked 5th in the nation, report finds

She was with a group of astronomers at Bottomless Lakes State Park just outside the city of Roswell when a mysterious light sped across the night sky.

The group Wiegand was with, many seasoned astronomers and a retired aviation specialist, were all shocked by the sight.

The light moved faster than any aircraft known to man, Wiegand said. The sight was not only spectacular but became one in a long line of "sightings" recorded throughout history.

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Are those ‘UFOs’ spotted over central Texas?

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you glanced up at the sky on Saturday morning and swear you saw a UFO staring right back at you, you're not alone.

Several eagle-eyed KXAN viewers contacted us after they spotted three mysterious white objects high in the sky above central Texas early on Saturday morning.

But don't start planning for an alien invasion just yet – because these are not mysterious creatures from another world after all.

Publisher: KXAN Austin
Date: 2020-08-15T16:34:51 00:00
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UFO sightings in North America jumped to nearly 6,000 in 2019 - ABC News

There was a rise in the number of North Americans who looked up into the sky in 2019 and found something that didn't look like a bird or a plane.

Peter Davenport, who runs the independent organization that's based in Davenport, Washington, said he couldn't explain why more people called about seeing flashing white lights, fireballs, disc-shaped objects or other oddities in 2019.

"One of the mysteries of ufology is there is a fluctuation in the number of reports over the years," he told ABC News in a phone interview. "Some years it's been low, but it's gotten higher recently."

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Date: 2020-01-08T22:57:39Z
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How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession | WIRED

In 1947, Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 between Chehalis and Yakima, Washington, when he took a detour to search for a downed Marine Corps aircraft. There was a reward for anyone who could find the plane, and who couldn't use $5,000?

Arnold flew around searching for a while, and accidentally found something else—something much stranger than what he'd actually been looking for. As he watched, rapt, nine objects flew through the air in formation.

Publisher: Wired
Author: Sarah Scoles
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Investigation into jet pack flyer spotted near LAX airport again

Someone in a jet pack was apparently spotted near Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. If this sounds familiar, that's because this isn't the first time this has happened in recent months, something Twitter could not get enough of as the story unfolded on social media.

"A China Airlines crew reported seeing what appeared to be someone in a jet pack at an approximate altitude of 6,000 feet, about seven miles northwest of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday," according to a statement from the FAA. "The FAA alerted local law enforcement and will look into the report."

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Author: David Oliver
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The UFO Sightings that Pushed the UK to Take 'Flying Saucers' More Seriously - HISTORY

In late September 1952, only months after a rash of “flying saucer” sightings over Washington, D.C. made headlines around the world, dozens of military officers participating in NATO exercises in the North Atlantic were struck by their own UFO fever.

Exercise Mainbrace was the largest peacetime military exercise since World War II . The war-game-style maneuvers simulated NATO’s response to a mock attack on Europe, presumably by the Soviet Union . The Mainbrace operation involved 200 ships, 1,000 planes and 80,000 soldiers from multiple NATO countries—including large deployments from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Publisher: HISTORY
Date: 2020-01-15T18:18:08Z
Author: Dave Roos
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‘UFO’ spotted in Congo jungle turns out to be internet balloon | Trending News,The

An unidentified flying object parachuted into the dense Congo jungle to the confusion of local authorities, who detained two people for questioning until a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet confirmed the device was an internet balloon.

Images shared on social media showed people inspecting a large silver-coloured contraption fitted with solar panels and wires, which had landed in the tropical forest of Bas-Uele province in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, trailing a large deflated balloon.

Publisher: The Indian Express
Date: 2020-08-26T21:06:41 05:30
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This Japanese Engineer Created the Robots That Make Your Cars - WSJ

It is well-known nowadays that robots do much of the work making a car, their giant arms swinging in precise motion to bolt on doors and weld metal. Less well-known is one of the major figures behind that assembly-line transformation, a Japanese engineer who built an empire at the base of Mount Fuji where his own robots churned out robots for the world's factories.

Born March 5, 1925, in Chikusei, a small city some 50 miles north of Tokyo, Mr. Inaba was the son of a local landowner. He attended what was then known as Tokyo Imperial University during World War II, where he studied arms manufacturing.

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Date: 2020-10-16T14:00:00.000Z
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Robots Use AI to 'Feel' Pain and Self-Repair | Unite.AI

The newly developed system relies on AI-enabled sensor nodes, which process 'pain' and then respond to it. This pain is identified when there is pressure brought on by an outside physical force. The other major part of the system is self-repair. The robot is able to repair that damage, when the case is a minor 'injury,' all without having to rely on human intervention.

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Most of the world's current robots receive information about their immediate surroundings through a network of sensors. However, these sensors do not process information, but instead send the information to a central processing unit. This central processing unit is where learning takes place, and it means current robots are required to have many wires. This system results in longer response times.

Publisher: Unite.AI
Date: 2020-10-17T18:35:42 00:00
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Exoskeleton suits turn car factory workers into human robots | Deccan Herald

Wearable technology is taking on a different meaning in the world of automobiles. As employees age and younger people shun the idea of working on a factory production line, car companies are looking at ways to lighten the load.

High-tech exoskeletons are being explored by firms including Hyundai Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. The technology, initially developed to help people who had lost the ability to walk or stand on their own, eases fatigue and helps prevent injury. It's particularly useful for repetitive processes that can't be automated even as robotics makes big inroads into the sector.

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Date: 2020-10-17T09:54:14 05:30
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Bipedal robot developer Agility announces $20M raise – TechCrunch

Agility's robots have been some of the more sophisticated I've seen in recent years. The original ostrich-inspired Cassie really captured the imagination of the robotics community, with a graceful, bipedal gait.

Announced last year, Digit takes things a step further, building on the Cassie base to create a package-delivery robot capable of navigating stairs and other terrain that would prove difficult for a more traditional wheeled ‘bot. In fact, the technology really struck Ford's fancy. The automotive giant announced that it would be Digit's first customer, with plans to use the robot in tandem with self-driving cars for delivery.

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Date: 2020-10-15 08:50:46
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Start-up Profile – Omnirobotic - Reducing the Cost of Robot Programming for 'High Mix'

Editor’s Note: Robotics Business Review’s coverage emphasizes innovation, including start-up companies (or 'young' companies). RBR “Start-Up Profiles” highlight individual start-up companies using a consistent, templated format that makes for quick, yet informed reading, that also simplifies comparative analysis.

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Funding Status – The company recently closed a seed stage investment of US $5M and is not actively seeking new funding at this time.

Publisher: Robotics Business Review
Date: 2020-10-16T13:37:44 00:00
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Poultry Industry Looks Into Use of Robots | Northern Region | lancasterfarming.com

Robots and drones won't bread and fry the chicken, at least not yet, but they have the potential to do a remarkable array of tasks quickly and well.

Normally, the conference hosted by Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. draws a large crowd to Ocean City, Maryland, but the sessions were held virtually this year because of COVID-19 health concerns.

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"Ideally, we would like it to be like a Roomba — just set it up in your house and press go," Usher said.

Publisher: Lancaster Farming
Date: 2B99F54CA617112F75CE495FAAFCA280
Author: Michael Short Delmarva Correspondent
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Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor Review | PCMag

Lego’s Mindstorms kits take the boundless possibilities of Lego blocks (and the mechanical potential of the Technic system) and add robotics components like servo motors, sensors, and a brain you can program. The Lego Mindstorms EV3 wowed us seven years ago, and the new Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit proves to be well worth the wait.

The Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit comes with 949 pieces, nearly twice as many as the EV3 set. They include four motors (EV3 has three), a color and light sensor, a distance sensor, the new Intelligent Hub, and more than 900 additional Lego Technic and System pieces for building the five robots on the box, with plenty of extras for accessories.

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Ten Things to Know About Bennu

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Date: 2020-10-08T15:46-04:00
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Scientists who identified hepatitis C among U.S. Nobel winners | U.S. Embassy in Georgia

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus." pic.twitter.com/MDHPmbiFmS

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Thanks to their efforts, new blood tests have essentially stopped the spread of the virus through transfusions in many parts of the world, greatly improving global health.

First awarded in 1901, Nobel prizes recognize outstanding achievements in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. The prize in economic sciences was established in 1968 by Sweden's central bank, in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Publisher: U.S. Embassy in Georgia
Date: 2020-10-15T10:14:36 00:00
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A spacecraft en route to Mercury just caught this fresh new look at Venus | MIT Technology Review

What happened: On Thursday morning, as part of a long journey to Mercury, BepiColombo made a close pass of Venus at a distance of about 6,660 miles. The flyby is meant to use Venus's gravity as a speed-reducing force to adjust the trajectory of the spacecraft on to its eventual destination.

What did the mission actually observe? Most of BepiColombo's instruments are still stored away until the rendezvous with Mercury—including its primary camera. Those that are functional at the moment (10 in total) are still designed primarily for studying the atmosphere-less Mercury. But there are still some bits of data the spacecraft collected that may be useful.

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Scientists are searching space for extraterrestrial viruses

Recent NASA-sponsored astrovirology workshops amass interest from scientists spanning borders and levels of experiences, says Kathryn Bywaters, a scientist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at NASA Ames Research Center. "It created a forum where people could express these ideas that they haven't really been able to vocalize on the community level." 

With an active and engaged community of interested researchers, the hope is that these workshops will spur NASA towards allocating more funding towards astrovirology research.

Publisher: Massive Science
Date: 2020-08-24T04:12:58.355Z
Author: Jordan McKaig
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Not to change the topic here:

Believable Extraterrestrials - Scientific American Blog Network

On the 26th of April 1920, in a bit of canny PR, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C. hosted a debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. The topic was the question of whether or not the 'spiral nebulae' were actually distant galaxies (implying a universe far more expansive than previously imagined) or simply a part of our own Milky Way (implying that this galactic realm was, in effect, the universe).

Regardless of the immediate value of this slightly contrived discussion, it did help push along the publication of works by Shapley and Curtis and in some ways become a model for bringing the nature of the scientific method (and argument) more into the public eye. In fact, back in 1995 the format was resurrected , again at the Smithsonian, for the first of a new generation of public debates. That one tackled the then-unknown nature of gamma-ray bursts.

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Author: Caleb A Scharf
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We Should Message Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Not Just Listen for Them - Scientific American

For one thing, most of them, like most intelligent species on our own planet, are probably not technological. Then, too, the span during which a high technology species both can and might wish to make contact with a relatively low-technology species such as our own may be limited. Technological species may even regularly destroy their capacity for interstellar contact, something that not inconceivably could be our own fate.

How relatively easy it is to study child development, with billions of children growing up all the time, each with a brief and comparable trajectory. How hard it is to study the development of a high-technology species, with an n of 1 so far and a developmental trajectory of tens of thousands of years.

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Author: Jerome H Barkow
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Jo Wood: I'm a UFO spotter | Entertainment | insidenova.com

Speaking in HELLO! magazine, Jo - who has her own UFO-themed podcast 'Alien Nation with Jo Wood - said: "I really believe they exist. Ever since Ronnie and I saw this strange object hovering over the ocean before speeding off at supersonic speed - while we were on holiday in Brazil - I've been obsessed.

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"I think that some aliens might be studying us. Others might just be visiting, like tourists - 'Let's go and have a look at that blue planet over there.' "

Publisher: INSIDENOVA.COM
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Not to change the topic here:

Mexico Has a UFO and It's Not an Unidentified Flying Object - IDN-InDepthNews | Analysis That

QUERETARO, Mexico (IDN) – For the majority of people, the emotion engendered by a UFO landing on Earth is fear. For others, it is a confirmation of a hope – that there are alternative realities to the beliefs the majority currently hold. Confirming the reality of a UFO landing on Earth opens up vast possibilities that people had heretofore thought impossible.

Currently, Mexico has a UFO. It is not an Unidentified Flying Object. It is an Unequivocal Failing Organization. The name of the UFO is Pemex or Petróleos Mexicanos. Pemex is the largest taxpayer in Mexico, its largest company, and one of the largest companies in Latin America.

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Harry Reid Doesn't Hold Back On Trump's Environmental Record -- Or UFOs | Nevada Public Radio

But as a new documentary finds, some of those who once held him in contempt found respect as Reid worked to protect the environment in Nevada.

The film, "The New West and the Politics of the Environment" is the work of a team led by former Nevadan Jon Christensen. He's now an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA.

From the Great Basin National Park and protections for the water flowing into Pyramid Lake to the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act and his fight against the mothballed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, Reid built a strong environmental legacy in Nevada over his 34 years in Washington, D.C.

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Pentagon forming a task force to investigate UFO sightings - CNNPolitics
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Date: 2020-08-13T21:21:47Z
Author: Ryan Browne CNN
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California and Florida Report Most UFO Sightings

FLORIDA — At least once or so a decade, a story about a new UFO sighting (or newly released documents about an old one) pops up on the mainstream media's radar. When that happens, it always seems to instantly reignite the popular culture's interest in unexplained aerial phenomena.

That renewed curiosity has continued. In June of this year, the Senate Intelligence Committee—chaired by Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio— included a provision in its annual authorization bill requiring various military and intelligence agencies to compile a detailed analysis of all of the other data on unexplained aerial phenomena. The analysis would be declassified and available to the public and must be completed within 180 days of the bill's passage.

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Pentagon to release new details of UFO encounters to public - CNN Video
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Date: 2020-07-30T23:04:03Z
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The Navy Says UFOs Are Real. Are They Little Green People? Unlikely. : 1A : NPR

An Unidentified Flying Object is pictured over Bulawayo, in what is now Zimbabwe. Barney Wayne/Wayne/Keystone/Getty Images hide caption

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In late April, the Department of Defense released footage of Navy fighter pilots encountering something "unidentifiable." The black and white videos are grainy and show small objects flying across the in-flight cameras of Navy fighter pilots.

This footage had already been circulating on the internet. By releasing it, the Department of Defense confirmed the videos' authenticity —and that it didn't know what they showed.

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Date: 2020-05-25
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UFO Spotting Has Replaced Bird Watching as Pandemic Obsession - WSJ

In the wake of the coronavirus, sports stadiums have fallen silent, shopping malls have been turned into ghost towns, and bars have emptied. But the skies—depending who you ask—have gotten a lot busier.

Hannah Levine was outside with her dog around midnight in April when she saw a curious yellow light glide across the sky and vanish, one that didn't resemble a plane. Puzzled, she pulled up a night sky app on her phone to check whether it might be a satellite or the International Space Station, but nothing came up.

Publisher: WSJ
Date: 2020-09-01T18:55:00.000Z
Author: Te Ping Chen
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Friday, October 16, 2020

UFO sightings near pensacola

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Readers : In honor of Halloween, here's a column about Florida and the unexplained: UFOs Over Gulf Breeze.

Ed and Frances Walters claimed that the dozens of photographs and a 1 minute, 38 second video that Ed shot in a six-month span, from November 1987 to May 1988, were those of spaceships over their home in Gulf Breeze, a Pensacola suburb.

They weren't alone. A city council member said he saw a bright orange object fly over on March 17, 1988. A retired newspaper publisher said he saw it too. So did a doctor, a chemical engineer and his wife. About 100 witnesses in all backed the Walters' claims.

Publisher: The Palm Beach Post
Date: Florida Time: The Gulf Breeze UFO sightings
Author: Eliot Kleinberg Palm Beach Post
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UFO videos have been officially released by Pentagon - CNNPolitics
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Date: 2020-04-27T16:35:19Z
Author: Michael Conte CNN
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Pentagon releases UFO videos for the record - BBC News

.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;} The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of "unexplained aerial phenomena".

The Pentagon said it wanted to "clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real".

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After they were first leaked, some people claimed the videos showed alien unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean.

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Pentagon UFO report: The case for taking these videos seriously - Vox

Earlier this year, the Pentagon released three videos of UFOs recorded by the Navy — one taken in 2004 and the other two in 2015. The videos, which first leaked a couple of years ago, show … well, it's not exactly clear.

There are various objects — two of which look like aircraft — spinning through the sky and moving in ways that defy easy explanation. As the images bop across the screen, you can hear the pilots' excitement and confusion in real time as they track whatever it is they're seeing.

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Date: 2020-05-08T08:50:00-04:00
Author: Sean Illing
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What does the Pentagon's new UFO task force mean? Experts weigh in. | Space

If you're a fan of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alien visitation, this is manna from heaven.

Three videos showing U.S. Navy pilots encountering mysterious, fast-moving objects emerged in 2017 and 2018. The videos were made public due to reporting by The New York Times and efforts by To The Stars Academy, a research, development and media center for cutting-edge science and technology.

One of the UAP videos was taken in November 2004, and the other two were shot in January 2015. All were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jets with pilots utilizing Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) technology, hardware that detects heat and creates images.

Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2020-08-17T18:24:07 00:00
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We're not saying it was aliens, but … here are 12 recent UFO sightings in the Lehigh Valley -

Some people are seeing more than the full moon and fireworks in the sky, like above on July 4 in Bethlehem. There have been at least a dozen UFO sightings in the Lehigh Valley so far in 2020, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com

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UFO Day was July 2, an event that Pennsylvania's official Twitter account observed with a map of UFO sightings reported around the state so far in 2020.

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Date: 2020-07-07T11:00:01.288Z
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Drive around Massachusetts to Find These Five Idyllic Covered Bridges

From UFO sightings and small-town charm, to waterfalls and dazzling foliage, these local icons are worth the trip.

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We've all perfected the art of the aimless drive this year, but if you're looking for a bit of direction for your weekend leaf-peeping, it doesn't get more enchanting than a good old covered bridge. They're magical in the winter, arching over icy rivers; they're lovely in the spring and summer, providing a spot of shade; and they're breathtaking in the fall, nestled among a cornucopia of foliage. Below, check out five covered bridges you can find around Massachusetts.

Publisher: Boston Magazine
Date: 2020-10-16T19:23:22 00:00
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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public - The New York Times

[radio transmission] "Whoa, got it — woo-hoo!" "Roger —" "What the [expletive] is that?" "Did you box a moving target?" "No, I took an auto track." "Oh, OK." "Oh my gosh, dude. Wow" "What is that man?" "There's a whole screen of them. My gosh." "They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots from west." "Dude." "That's not — is it?" "[inaudible]" "Look at that thing."

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Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.

Date: 2020-07-23T18:58:57.000Z
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Japan wants to bring space travel into the city - CNN Style

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Date: 2020-10-16T07:23:58Z
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How Did Space Travel Go Commercial? HBO Series Set to Explore the Real Story

Ever wonder how space exploration stopped being a great national mission and became just another commercial enterprise? HBO will make a new limited series about billionaire Elon Musk and his controversial company SpaceX and how we made that transition is sure to be a focus of the show.

Musk is the Canadian-South African tech entrepreneur who hit the big time with his share in PayPal. He founded SpaceX in 2002, but has enjoyed his greatest business fame as CEO of electric car company, Tesla. He has a portfolio of other cutting edge companies involved in artificial intelligence, brain/computer interfaces and alternative transportation.

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RTL Today - Space travel: New crew reaches ISS in record time

The three-member crew launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan / © Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP

A three-person crew successfully reached the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a Russian rocket after the fastest ever journey from Earth of just over three hours.

The mission of the Soyuz space craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut was of immense importance to Russia's space agency Roscosmos, coming as the SpaceX programme relaunches manned spaceflight from the United States and ignites fresh talk of a space race between the two countries.

Date: Space travel: New crew reaches ISS in record time
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Experiencing the next-best thing to space travel with Zero-G and Blade

Editor’s note: TPG attended this special flight as a guest of Blade. While TPG tries to pay full price for all staff travel, we sometimes make exceptions for select events to provide our readers with exclusive access.

Since 2004, Zero-G has been offering thrill-seekers the chance to experience complete weightlessness on Earth through parabolic flights (when an aircraft alternates between rapid upward and downward arcs). New this year for the 2020 tour, Zero-G teamed up with Blade to give Manhattan and Hamptons-based passengers the ultimate adventure bundle, including helicopter transfers to and from their flights.

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While you're here, how about this:

Astronaut Cady Coleman urges future generations to share her dreams and their own - masslive.com

Astronaut Cady Coleman poses with Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station on March 15, 2011. (NASA photo)

Why she grew her hair long might not have been most people's first question to an astronaut, but the answer it produced might have been Cady Coleman's most revealing of all.

"We still don't have many women in the space program — not enough,'' said Coleman, who spoke to more than 130 Western Massachusetts high school, community college and four-year college students and educators by Zoom Thursday night.

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Date: 2020-10-16T14:27:29.704Z
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The Challenger disaster: we can't say we weren't warned about American hubris | The space shuttle

This conclusion is a particularly easy reach for someone raised in Britain in the 1980s, when the cultural distance between the UK and the US seemed as wide as it must have felt in the 50s. We had four TV channels; they had cable. They had the 31 flavours of Baskin-Robbins; if we were lucky, we had Mr Whippy. And while they were preparing to send a teacher into space, in strike-addled Britain, we were barely sending teachers to school.

What really busts this particular when-America-was-great myth, however, is the programme-makers' forensic retelling of the missteps that lead to the explosion – oversights and incompetence created amid a culture of arrogance, at an agency that believed itself infallible. While the public narrative around the shuttle programme was that it marked the beginning of routine space travel, the truth was that the technology was still experimental.

Publisher: the Guardian
Date: 2020-10-16T09:45:34.000Z
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NASA readies for first asteroid collection attempt - POLITICO

— New FAA launch regulations are "the first step in a hopefully positive process," industry advocates say.

— More than half of people who have gone to space have been American , according to a Space Foundation review. But will that trend continue?

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC KIND: NASA will try for the first time to collect a sample of an asteroid on Tuesday afternoon in a mission engineers hope will spur officials in Washington to support future sample return missions from other objects, including Mars. The mission is targeting the asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid within our solar system that comes close to Earth about every six years.

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Without gravity, the fluid around an astronaut's brain moves in weird ways | Space

Fluid around the brain redistributes in the skull during spaceflight, scientists found in a new study of 11 cosmonauts who visited the International Space Station (ISS).

The study, which confirms previous findings about the effects of microgravity on the human brain, was led by Steven Jillings, a doctoral student at the Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace (LEIA) at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Previously, Jillings co-authored two studies that examined the effect of spaceflight on the brains of Russian cosmonauts, and recently Jillings took the analytical helm to further explore the topic.

Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2020-10-16T11:05:49 00:00
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Sols 2912-2913: Star Light, Star Bright? – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

Nope, that’s not a red star hanging low in the sky. Right now, Mars is one of the brightest objects in the sky, outshining even Jupiter (the waning Moon and late rising Venus will make it even easier to see Mars in all her glory), due to the close timing of both the Martian opposition and perihelion.

Opposition (when Mars and the Sun appear to be on opposite sides of the sky) occurs every 26 months. Mars appears to rise in the east as the Sun sets in the west, not setting until the Sun rises again in the east. As per NASA, every 15-17 years, opposition occurs within a few weeks of Mars’ perihelion, the point in its orbit when it is closest to the sun, which occurred this year on Aug. 3 rd . Closest approach to Earth occurred on Oct.

Publisher: NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Author: Catherine O
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Many things are taking place:

NASA InSight's 'Mole' Is Out of Sight – NASA's Mars Exploration Program

InSight's Arm Pulls Back, Revealing the Mole: NASA's InSight retracted its robotic arm on Oct. 3, 2020, revealing where the spike-like "mole" is trying to burrow into Mars. The copper-colored ribbon attached to the mole has sensors to measure the planet's heat flow. In the coming months, the arm will scrape and tamp down soil on top of the mole to help it dig. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›

NASA's InSight lander continues working to get its "mole" – a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe – deep below the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight's arm recently took images of the now partially filled-in "mole hole," showing only the device's science tether protruding from the ground.

Publisher: NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Date: 2020-10-16 15:44:12 UTC
Author: mars nasa gov
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Starman just made his closest approach to Mars

The Roadster made its first close approach of Mars a week ago, at about 11:25 AM PDT (02:25 PM EDT) on Wednesday, Oct. 7th. According to independent calculations performed by astronomer Jonathon McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Roadster passed within 7.4 million kilometers (4.6 million miles) of Mars. Too far to look down on the surface, but close enough to see Mars' big red disk.

Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today—within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet pic.twitter.com/gV8barFTm7

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Mars makes a close approach to Earth | WWMT
Publisher: WWMT
Date: 2020-10-07T17:05:09 00:00
Author: Meteorologist Christina Anthony News Channel 3
Twitter: @wwmtnews
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Quite a lot has been going on:

Trio of Mars missions to follow OSIRIS-REx on space exploration calendar - AZPM



The Mars 2020 rover is among the planetary explorers set to make news in 2021. NASA

The University of Arizona backed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft makes its first attempt at collecting a soil sample from the asteroid Bennu next Tuesday. But space scientists say they won't need to wait long before the next big moment in planetary exploration.

Mark Sykes of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute notes the skies above Mars will be crowded with new visitors from Earth early next year.

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Date: oct 15 2020 12:32 p.m.
Author: Tony Perkins
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Multiple Salty Lakes May Exist Below the South Pole of Mars | Planetary News
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SpaceX's Tesla roadster made its first close approach with Mars - CNN

The stage passed Mars's orbit a couple days earlier, about Oct 5.5, but Mars was further from it then (hadn't reached that part of its orbit). pic.twitter.com/mWUoUn0UO9

Publisher: CNN
Date: 2020-10-08T20:21:37Z
Author: Allen Kim CNN
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Airbus Wins Mars Spacecraft Contract. Why the Stock Is Falling. | Barron's

European aerospace giant Airbus has won a contract to design and build a spacecraft headed for Mars, but the news has been overshadowed for investors by more turbulence for the aviation industry.

The plane manufacturer said on Wednesday it has been selected by the European Space Agency for its joint mission with NASA to bring samples from Mars back to Earth for the first time.

Airbus will build the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO), as well as a small rover which will collect the samples, for the five-year mission set to launch in 2026. The ERO contract is worth €491 million, the company said.

Date: 2020-10-14T11:04:00.000Z
Author: Callum Keown
Twitter: @BarronsOnline
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