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Did you look at my original post & the first link? 145 pages from a FOIA request. Should be something in their to help you.
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Yep. It's interesting and it makes sense that the US Navy and DOD would be studying potential UFOs but the report is also clear that no evidence of extraterrestrial material was found.
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - NASA Mars
The Mars rover's helicopter is being primed for its first flight.
The Mars rover's helicopter is being primed for its first flight.
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I watched both of these YouTube documentaries titled Beyond Life while at work the other night about the possibilities of alien life forms, the creation of life forms, deep time and the concepts around it. They both are around half an hour long. Worth the watch just for the CGI, Cinematography and the Score(in 4k). The 1st is more texted based with sound clips, with the 2nd episode being narrated with some text and sound clips. Just thought I'd share. There is a 3rd episode due out a little later in the year.
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I've been watching Alien Worlds on Netflix where they take a recently discovered Exoplanet and theorise about the types of lifeforms that could exist on it given it's orbit around its sun etc. Very theoretical but interesting.
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US Navy destroyer films four flashing UFOs, including one shaped like a pyramid (news.com.au)
The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of a video clip showing four unidentified flying objects, including one shaped like a pyramid, hovering above a US Navy destroyer at sea.
Incredible footage from a night vision camera shows the encounter captured by a seaman on board the USS Russell, which most recently has been on deployment with the 7th Fleet in the Philippines Sea.
Shot by a night vision camera, the 18-second clip appears to show several mysterious flashing objects in the skies above the destroyer.
Three faint orbs can be seen before the camera pans to a fourth flashing object, zooming in to reveal its clear triangular shape.
The date and location of the incident hasn’t been confirmed.
The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of a video clip showing four unidentified flying objects, including one shaped like a pyramid, hovering above a US Navy destroyer at sea.
Incredible footage from a night vision camera shows the encounter captured by a seaman on board the USS Russell, which most recently has been on deployment with the 7th Fleet in the Philippines Sea.
Shot by a night vision camera, the 18-second clip appears to show several mysterious flashing objects in the skies above the destroyer.
Three faint orbs can be seen before the camera pans to a fourth flashing object, zooming in to reveal its clear triangular shape.
The date and location of the incident hasn’t been confirmed.
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Documentary shows what happens to Earth when you take humans out of circulation for a year
The Year Earth Changed shows the unexpected byproduct of the pandemic — and suggests a way out of our current environmental predicament.
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David Attenborough documentary The Year Earth Changed suggests silver lining ahead of Earth Day 2021
During the first lockdown, in March 2020, a video of dolphins carousing in the suddenly sparkling canals of Venice was seized upon with hope by those stuck at home. The video turned out to be fake – but it's undeniable that the global lockdown has given nature a reset.
Released ahead of Earth Day (April 22), the documentary The Year Earth Changed steps back to survey the consequences of the pandemic on the planet, offering a silver lining to a year many would rather forget.
The beloved British broadcaster David Attenborough, now 94, lends his velvety, statesmanlike voice to this BBC Natural History Unit special, which collects recent footage from South Africa to Alaska as researchers observe nature on the mend.
While Attenborough takes more of a back seat here than in earlier work like Planet Earth, this documentary continues his urgent, late-career focus on foregrounding the devastation brought about by humanity.
It's a barely spoken about side of the pandemic that shifts in human behaviour have in turn affected the natural world, for the better. (
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We pick up in the first weeks of lockdown, as the reduced car traffic results in cleaner, quieter skies.
Air pollution clears in Jalandhar, India, where the snowy peaks of the Himalayas are visible for the first time in three decades. Birdsong rings out across San Francisco, where the white-crowned sparrow boosts its breeding season by adding new notes to its bright mating call.
Meanwhile, under the ice, the voices of migrating humpback whales echo further across Glacier Bay, no longer drowned out by the engines of hulking ocean liners.
People saw whales communicate in new ways over the course of the pandemic. (
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As weeks become months, marked by sound bites of politicians reminding residents to "stay at home", lockdown offers scientists a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to observe the extent of human impact on animal behaviour, by simply taking us out of the picture.
We can use what we learn to re-evaluate and modify our habits, they argue, instead of mindlessly returning to how things once were in a pre-pandemic world.
The nesting success rate for Loggerhead sea turtles, for example, jumps from 40 to 61 percent, as they're observed happily frequenting beaches in Florida that are normally clogged with holidaymakers and Spring Break partygoers.
"As the breeding season begins," says Attenborough, over night vision video, "this female turtle is able to lay her eggs in peace, for the first time in her life."
The silky white orbs plop out into the sand like candy from a dispenser, glowing with the promise of new life.
We don't have to permanently close off the beaches, one researcher explains. But making a small change, like giving turtles exclusive access during the night, would have a dramatic effect.
"During this most difficult year, many people have reappraised the value and beauty of the natural world and taken great comfort from it," David Attenborough said. (
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In last year's deeply moving David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, wildlife were shown reclaiming the city of Chernobyl, which was abandoned after the tragic 1986 nuclear accident rendered it uninhabitable.
The recovery of land occurs on a global scale In The Year Earth Changed.
In Mpumalanga, a leopard turns an empty luxury resort into his own personal palace; in Cape Town, jackass penguins waddle through the city streets; and in Buenos Aires, "normally shy capybaras raid the manicured gardens of this well-heeled suburb, which has been built on their former wetland home".
Attenborough can barely mask the glee in his voice.
The images are amusing, as well as comforting, playing out like an environmentalist's fantastic vision for the redistribution of natural wealth.
Narrator David Attenborough said the global COVID lockdown has shown the impact humans have on nature.(
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Endangered animals get to play king for a day, instead of being forced to hide under the cover of night or pushed out to rapidly diminishing fringe spaces.
With a crew no doubt working under restricted conditions, the footage collected here can't match the effervescent, inspiring images that elevated Attenborough's canonical TV series; Planet Earth, for example, was shot over five years by 40 camera teams in more than 200 locations.
In place of such ambitious reach, there's a dull reliance on drone shots that sweep over pristine, vacant urban streets, stadiums and piazzas – images whose lack of any clear artistry or intuition at work further suggests the eerie absence of humans.
But there is hope, as the reemergence of wildlife proves that people's actions can actually lead to positive change. (
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Nevertheless, shots like a school of whales throwing themselves skywards to devour thousands of fish will always be spectacular and the emotional uplift of such scenes is heightened by the lofty string score.
Instead of burrowing into human tragedy, The Year Earth Changed reminds us of the interconnectedness and resilience of all the life forms on our planet.
It offers an affirmative slant – less 'we are the virus'; more, the suffering of these last 12 or so months hasn't been all in vain – as well as a way out of the environmental disaster that we're unquestionably still facing.
* During the lockdowns and restrictions I sat with the family and, at the time, we were quite stunned that there were people in India who hadn't seen the Himalayas for decades. These same people were also taking pictures of birds they'd never come across previously (or had rarely encountered).
It was great seeing people of all ages discovering 'life' beyond the smog. One of the positives to come out of C19.
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set to take historic flight on Mars today - ABC News
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to make its first flight from the surface of Mars today.
If it succeeds, it will make history as the first powered craft to take off from another planet other than Earth.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to make its first flight from the surface of Mars today.
If it succeeds, it will make history as the first powered craft to take off from another planet other than Earth.
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter makes historic first flight on Mars - ABC News
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter may only have been in the air for less than a minute, but it has gone down in history as the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on Mars.
Brilliant!!!
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter may only have been in the air for less than a minute, but it has gone down in history as the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on Mars.
Brilliant!!!
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I'm not sure I agree with spending all that climate change mitigating funds on Mars. Lets spend our money at home.
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Throwing a little money at climate change mitigation is unlikely to help much. It needs to be a complete change of people's mentality, otherwise the major polluters are still polluting. Best way seems to be changing the minds of the public who then influence the companies to come up with mitigation strategies.
There's also other ways to save money. The US spends around 3.4% of it's budget on military and less than 0.5% of its budget on NASA. The research from NASA missions often leads to massive advances in technology. Technology that we'll probably need if we don't mitigate climate change.
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No that's short sighted. As Hacky says, the technological advances we get from exploration influence our societies for decades. Without it we wouldn't have satellites, GPS, mobile phones, even medical advances come about from trying to put humans in places they shouldn't go like the vacuum of space. And he's also right in that if we stop wasting billions on useless defence spending we could turn that into something really worthwhile.
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May be so re R&D.
We need to be thinking about what impact these decisions OS will have on our main exports.
But ...lobbying....
"The European Union’s plans for sustainable finance have run into trouble. As part of their Green Deal which was launched in December 2019, European leaders want to draw up a taxonomy of environmentally friendly activities. The idea is to answer a problem at the heart of sustainable finance: which activities are green and which are not?
In the first step a panel of experts assigned green metrics and thresholds to high-emitting economic activities. Car transport, for example, will be judged by carbon dioxide emissions per vehicle kilometre. Cars that emit below a certain level will qualify as green; others will not. By 2023, big companies and investors will have to disclose what share of their revenues and their investments meet these standards. The car standard, for instance, will apply broadly, to carmakers, taxi services and vehicle-hire companies. The idea is that this will channel more investment into green activities and put a halt to greenwashing. The taxonomy may also guide other EU regulation. There were hopes that the 30% of the EU’s €1.8trn ($2.2trn) covid-relief stimulus allocated to climate-friendly investments would follow the taxonomy’s definition of green.
A handful of other countries and regions have similar classifications, including China. Plenty of others, such as Canada and Mexico, are considering developing their own. But many hold high hopes for Europe’s taxonomy. They think it could be adopted as a template around the world. Other types of European rules, such as those pertaining to data privacy and to chemical safety, have spread beyond the EU’s borders. If that happens with green rules too, the EU’s taxonomy could reshape financial flows and accelerate the energy transition.
But the European Commission is struggling to pin down the details. This week it is due to publish a new version of the taxonomy, following a first draft in March 2020. But some contentious decisions look likely to be delayed. Documents leaked to the press suggest that the commission may not decide until later this year how to classify natural gas and nuclear power.
The cause of the delay is lobbying. Several countries, such as Poland and Bulgaria, are objecting to the first draft’s classification of gas-power plants as not sustainable. Other member states, including France and the Czech Republic, are also pushing for the taxonomy to recognise nuclear as sustainable. Meanwhile, many financial firms are pressing for the disclosure rules to be watered down. InfluenceMap, a non-profit group, found that many asset managers and banks that have made statements supporting the taxonomy nevertheless remain members of trade groups that lobby against it.
This highlights one of the problems with green classification systems. Interest groups will inevitably, and in some cases reasonably, push for favourable changes to the thresholds. This problem will become more prevalent as the corporate world grapples with decarbonisation. One solution is to have a variety of definitions of green, reducing the incentive to lobby. Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has argued for such a “fifty shades of green” approach. Another approach is to scrap the classification system altogether and require far greater disclosure from corporations and financial firms on green metrics. Investors can then make up their own minds on what counts as sustainable.
If the decision is delayed, it is not clear that finding a consensus will be any easier later on. Debates about the role of these power sources in decarbonisation have been bubbling away for decades. The commission will ultimately have to upset some member states. And in doing so it will have to balance scientific rigour with political pragmatism. That will be a tricky balance to strike".
We need to be thinking about what impact these decisions OS will have on our main exports.
But ...lobbying....
"The European Union’s plans for sustainable finance have run into trouble. As part of their Green Deal which was launched in December 2019, European leaders want to draw up a taxonomy of environmentally friendly activities. The idea is to answer a problem at the heart of sustainable finance: which activities are green and which are not?
In the first step a panel of experts assigned green metrics and thresholds to high-emitting economic activities. Car transport, for example, will be judged by carbon dioxide emissions per vehicle kilometre. Cars that emit below a certain level will qualify as green; others will not. By 2023, big companies and investors will have to disclose what share of their revenues and their investments meet these standards. The car standard, for instance, will apply broadly, to carmakers, taxi services and vehicle-hire companies. The idea is that this will channel more investment into green activities and put a halt to greenwashing. The taxonomy may also guide other EU regulation. There were hopes that the 30% of the EU’s €1.8trn ($2.2trn) covid-relief stimulus allocated to climate-friendly investments would follow the taxonomy’s definition of green.
A handful of other countries and regions have similar classifications, including China. Plenty of others, such as Canada and Mexico, are considering developing their own. But many hold high hopes for Europe’s taxonomy. They think it could be adopted as a template around the world. Other types of European rules, such as those pertaining to data privacy and to chemical safety, have spread beyond the EU’s borders. If that happens with green rules too, the EU’s taxonomy could reshape financial flows and accelerate the energy transition.
But the European Commission is struggling to pin down the details. This week it is due to publish a new version of the taxonomy, following a first draft in March 2020. But some contentious decisions look likely to be delayed. Documents leaked to the press suggest that the commission may not decide until later this year how to classify natural gas and nuclear power.
The cause of the delay is lobbying. Several countries, such as Poland and Bulgaria, are objecting to the first draft’s classification of gas-power plants as not sustainable. Other member states, including France and the Czech Republic, are also pushing for the taxonomy to recognise nuclear as sustainable. Meanwhile, many financial firms are pressing for the disclosure rules to be watered down. InfluenceMap, a non-profit group, found that many asset managers and banks that have made statements supporting the taxonomy nevertheless remain members of trade groups that lobby against it.
This highlights one of the problems with green classification systems. Interest groups will inevitably, and in some cases reasonably, push for favourable changes to the thresholds. This problem will become more prevalent as the corporate world grapples with decarbonisation. One solution is to have a variety of definitions of green, reducing the incentive to lobby. Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has argued for such a “fifty shades of green” approach. Another approach is to scrap the classification system altogether and require far greater disclosure from corporations and financial firms on green metrics. Investors can then make up their own minds on what counts as sustainable.
If the decision is delayed, it is not clear that finding a consensus will be any easier later on. Debates about the role of these power sources in decarbonisation have been bubbling away for decades. The commission will ultimately have to upset some member states. And in doing so it will have to balance scientific rigour with political pragmatism. That will be a tricky balance to strike".
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Any good documentaries on space, the planets and the existence of life forces (not necessarily extra terrestrial). Kind of like the videos i posted previously in here. Just looking for some stuff to watch while at work.
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I'm watching Ancient Aliens and Alien Worlds, very theoretical but interesting. Although Ancient Aliens makes a lot more sense to me after two bongs.
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Nice, I've watched a few episodes of Ancient Aliens before. I'll have to look up Alien Worlds though as I haven't seen that.I'm watching Ancient Aliens and Alien Worlds, very theoretical but interesting. Although Ancient Aliens makes a lot more sense to me after two bongs.
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I watched 13 seasons of Ancient Aliens before I stopped watching it. It's complete rubbish but it's entertaining. Unfortunately they started recycling stuff to keep the show going.I'm watching Ancient Aliens and Alien Worlds, very theoretical but interesting. Although Ancient Aliens makes a lot more sense to me after two bongs.
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As Kambah said, Alien Worlds is good. It theorises what life would be life on other planets and references life on earth. For example, they explain how life adapted to our atmospheric density and gravity and theorise about what life forms would be like if they were on a planet with different parameters. And they use some pretty decent 3D animation.
Another one is the new series of "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey" hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson, based on Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". It was on Netflix, not sure if it still is
Also, Space Exploration, which is a free doco on Youtube but very well made (Full Documentary below)