The US government has released 2,800 previously classified files related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in November 1963. As readers, historians and journalists comb through the thousands of pages of documents, here is what we have found - Read more
Based on this recently released snapshot of the night sky captured by NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we can safely assume ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Gmail's confidential mode has been available for personal accounts since 2018, but soon, it will arrive for G Suite users who use Gmail at work. In just a few ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Aladdin is one of the best games made for the Genesis.
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
London (CNN Business) Big Tech is raising concerns about a "ghost proposal" from UK spies that would allow them to eavesdrop on encrypted messages.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is real. It's a reimagining of the 2007 game, and it's coming this October with cross-play and no season pass.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Gmail's confidential mode has been available for personal accounts since 2018, but soon, it will arrive for G Suite users who use Gmail at work. In just a few ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical.
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
By Ryan McCaffrey Developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision have announced 2019's Call of Duty game, which is called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
London (CNN Business) Big Tech is raising concerns about a "ghost proposal" from UK spies that would allow them to eavesdrop on encrypted messages.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Gmail's confidential mode has been available for personal accounts since 2018, but soon, it will arrive for G Suite users who use Gmail at work. In just a few ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Mosquito samples taken in St. Tammany Parish have tested positive for West Nile, according to the State Health Department.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Hawaii health officials are warning residents and visitors to avoid slugs, snails, and rats after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that three travelers ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
There are so many exciting new Android smartphones coming in 2019. In fact, several of the best ones have already been released. After two years with the ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is real. It's a reimagining of the 2007 game, and it's coming this October with cross-play and no season pass.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a special reactor that can transform carbon dioxide into molecular oxygen. This could ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
For decades, one standardized test has been key to admission to U.S. science graduate programs: the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test, ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
We often think of stars as things that don't move around much, but in some galaxies, that's far from a universal truth. New observations made by NASA's powerful ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
A few years after a motocross accident left him paralyzed, Kent Stephenson came to Louisville from his home in Texas to be part of an experimental treatment for ...
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
S.C. Department of Health and Environment Control announced today customers who ate at Teriyaki Japan on Edgefield Road in North Augusta might have ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Eating five or more servings of ultra-processed foods per day increased the risk of mortality by 62%, researchers claimed.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
If your favorite fruits are not in season, or the veggies on your Sunday shopping list will be eaten much later in the week, it might be time to favor frozen.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Alexa is pretty fantastic when it comes to all of the skills it has. When it comes to dictation, however, Alexa kind of stinks. That's why I couldn't imaging using my ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Anyone who has spent any time surfing the Internet has at one time or another seen a picture (cute or otherwise) of a meerkat suddenly standing up when it hears something. There was a time in history when this was not the case and some brave or confused meerkat probably accidentally discovered the maneuver and its benefits. Most people assume the same thing happened with the first ancient human who carefully leaned against a tree or cave wall and fell forward while moving his or her legs in order to stay upright. According to a new study, this assumption is wrong. A new paper uses geology to propose that there was a supernova bombing Earth with cosmic energy a few million years ago that caused constant worldwide lightning strikes which burned down the forests of trees out ancestors were hanging out in and forced them to the grassy ground where they learned how to stand and run from the fires and lightning. Plausible? Could this have caused the first upright meerkat brigade too?
“The observation is that there’s a lot more charcoal and soot in the world starting a few million years ago. It’s all over the place, and nobody has any explanation for why it would have happened all over the world in different climate zones. This could be an explanation.”
Professor Adrian L. Melott of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas co-authored the paper, “From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires?” published this week in the Journal of Geology. He explains in a press release how he and co-author Brian Thomas of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washburn University in Kansas built their theory on some known facts. For example, it is accepted that a layer of iron-60 deposits lining the world’s sea beds came from a very near supernovae explosion only about 163 light years away during the overlap of the Pliocene Epoch and Ice Age. That roughly coincides with the appearance of Lucy, owner of the earliest bipedal hominin species (Australopithecus afarensis) fossils ever found. Why is the iron-60 significant?
“We contend it would increase the ionization of the lower atmosphere by 50-fold. Usually, you don’t get lower-atmosphere ionization because cosmic rays don’t penetrate that far, but the more energetic ones from supernovae come right down to the surface — so there would be a lot of electrons being knocked out of the atmosphere.”
Electrons in motion is the cause of lightning bolts, but this 50-fold increase means there were a LOT of lightning bolts as a result of this atmospheric ionization and they were striking all around the world, resulting in massive fires that forced Lucy and her relatives to jump/climb/fall to the ground. Lucy died from the fall but we’re living proof that some of her kin didn’t and they eventually got tired of bloody knees and palms.
“After this conversion to savanna, they would much more often have to walk from one tree to another across the grassland, and so they become better at walking upright. They could see over the tops of grass and watch for predators. It’s thought this conversion to savanna contributed to bipedalism as it became more and more dominant in human ancestors.”
This definitely sounds plausible. Unfortunately, it causes modern humans to wonder if this catastrophic supernova-caused cosmic bombardment could happen again … perhaps from Betelgeuse, which is only 652 light years from Earth. Fortunately, Melott says that’s not likely. Unfortunately, he thinks we have bigger things to be concerned with.
“Worry about solar proton events. That’s the danger for us with our technology — a solar flare that knocks out electrical power. Just imagine months without electricity.”
Maybe we should learn how to climb trees again?
Paul Seaburn (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
The Native Americans of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, believe in the existence of an extremely dangerous and supernatural creature in their midst. They refer to it as the Tall Man Spirit. It is also known as Walking Sam; the latter is the name which has proved to be easily the most popular of the two monikers. He or it – go ahead and take your pick – looks not at all unlike the Slenderman. Walking Sam is in excess of seven feet in height and, just like the Slenderman, he doesn’t have much in the way of meat on his bones. His arms and legs are long and spidery. And he lacks a mouth. Peter Matthiessen, who in 1983 wrote a book about the area and its people – titled In the Spirit of Crazy Horse – said of the supernatural thing that it is “both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as though the trees weren’t there.”
Note that Matthiessen references Walking Sam in a wooded-based context, which is the preferred domain of the Slenderman – of both lore and reality. And, just like the Men in Black, the Shadow People, and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon – all of which were inspirations for Eric Knudsen’s spindly beast in black – Walking Sam wears a black hat. In his case, though, it’s usually of the old, stovepipe variety. Walking Sam, like the Slenderman, is alleged to have the ability to take control of peoples’ minds. We might accurately call it a form of mind-enslavement. Perhaps, this might explain a deeply disturbing event that occurred on a particular day in February 2015.
The site of the Drexel Mission Fight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Lakota warriors and the United States Army
A large number of teenagers from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation headed out to a specific area of land that was dominated by trees. There was a notable reason for this; albeit hardly a positive one. The plan was for each every one of them to hang themselves by the neck and from the trees – which explained why they all went to the area armed to the teeth with nothing but… rope. Thankfully, John Two Bulls, a local pastor, heard of what was about to go down there and quickly managed to stop what would very likely have become a mass suicide of almost unthinkable proportions. More than a few of the tribes’ people were privately of the opinion that Walking Sam – not unlike some gruesome and insanely evil Pied Piper – had led the teenagers to what almost turned out to be their place of death.
This particular theory is bolstered by the words of a minister, Chris Carey, who works with the kids who live on the reservation. He says that the Tall Man Spirit / Walking Sam seems to be telling the young people on the reservation to take their lives. Intriguingly, the monster does so by inserting itself on the Internet, its shadowy, spindly form appearing on-screen, which is very similar (and eerily similar) to the 2016 experience of “Lacy,” as discussed in an earlier article from me here at M.U. Indeed, the Slenderman too is an entity that haunts the Internet – further evidence that Walking Sam and the Slenderman are very likely two parts of the very same sinister phenomenon.
“Red Pill Junkie,” who is a regular contributor to the very website you’re on right now, says that what we have here may amount to “…a cultural ‘remix’ between the older myth of the Tall Man/Suicide Spirit which already existed among Native Americans prior to the rise of the World Wide Web, and the newer, more potent icon of Slenderman introduced to these communities through the pervasiveness of new social networks…”
Nick Redfern (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
The NASA New Horizon team has finally published the first study of the data it gathered on Ultima Thule, the strange, distant binary object consisting of two conjoined pancake-shaped lobes which resemble a half-melted snowman. Ultima Thule lies four billion miles away from Earth in the Kuiper belt, the ring of rocky and icy asteroids just past Neptune. NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft has been studying Ultima Thule since late 2018, and the mission marks the first ever study of a planetesimal, a half-formed object leftover from the era of planetary formation.
Ultima Thule gets its name from a Latin term which refers to the most distant place beyond the borders of the known world – but unfortunately that same term was used by the Nazis to refer to the mythical homeland of the Aryan race in all of that weird Nazi mythology. Whoops. Despite the somewhat controversial name, the object offers astronomers the chance to study a truly unique and mysterious object right here in our own Solar System, just a few billion miles away. We’re practically neighbors!
Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule is about 22 miles long and has two distinctly differently shaped lobes, or bodies, joined at a central ‘neck.’ Just how the two objects came to be conjoined in such a way is a mystery, but it likely happened as many other planetesimals were crashing together on their way to becoming a planet. For some reason, these two bodies didn’t make the final cut and were likely ejected from that burgeoning planet’s gravity and left adrift in the cold blackness of space some time in the cosmic past.
“We’re looking into the well-preserved remnants of the ancient past,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator and rock star astronomer Alan Stern in a press release. “There is no doubt that the discoveries made about Ultima Thule are going to advance theories of solar system formation.”
Composite image of Ultima Thule
In their new publication in Science, the New Horizons team disclosed some of their initial findings about Ultima Thule and discussed the features they are continuing to study. Already, they have discovered that Ultima Thule is a rocky, reddish object lined with hills, pits, and craters and the reddish color is believed to come from methanol, water ice, and organic molecules on Ultima Thule’s surface, a rare discovery if confirmed. NASA will continue its flyby of Ultima Thule until 2020.
According to one version of the panspermia hypothesis, organic molecules hitching rides on objects like Ultima Thule could be the ‘seed’ which spreads life throughout the universe. Could the molecules lurking on Ultima Thule hold the keys to life itself? All it takes a few nuggets of carbon, a few chunks of hydrogen, throw some oxygen in there, mix in a pinch of nitrogen, add calcium and phosphorus to taste, crash it all into a volatile oxygen-rich planet, wait a few billion years and boom: Big Macs, Facebook, and Boeing 737s. The universe is a weird place.
Where will Ultima Thule ultimately end up? Will their reality TV be as miserable as ours?
Brett Tingley (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Soldiers put their lives at risk every day to protect our freedom and we are truly thankful for their sacrifices. Tragically, many of them have lost their lives in combat over the years and some of them are still protecting our freedom even in death. There are several places where the ghosts of deceased soldiers are roaming the locations as if they’re still on active duty. Below are four examples of ghostly soldiers who are still working hard long after their deaths.
The Crew Of The USS Hornet
The USS Hornet was used as an aircraft carrier during World War II and is now a museum where people can visit the ship located in Alameda, California. It is said to be so haunted that visitors can take a paranormal tour of the ship and even stay overnight if they wish.
Guests and staff have regularly reported seeing unexplained things on the ship, such as sailors walking down passageways and into rooms that are completely empty. An angry poltergeist is said to have thrown objects in the dish-washing area of the mess hall. Some people have even heard the terrified voices of people on the lower decks yelling “run”. It is believed that those are voices of the crew who did not escape combat and are still telling the others to run to safety.
USS Hornet
The Officer Of Warren Air Force Base
F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming is said be haunted by several spirits. Troops who have been stationed at the base reported seeing the ghosts of cavalrymen wearing their full uniforms patrolling the grounds. Others have allegedly seen a soldier standing at attention near several of the buildings. A more disturbing claim is that people have heard unexplained screaming which they believe is from a Native American woman who was assaulted and then murdered by two cavalrymen.
Some people have claimed to have seen a nurse in Building 223 which was once used as the living quarters for several of the women on the base while others have said they witnessed numerous ghosts in Building 34 which was previously used as a morgue.
“Gus” is the most famous ghost on the base. He was a young officer who went home early one day to find his wife cheating on him with a fellow soldier. Since the husband was blocking the door, the other soldier jumped out of the second-story window and got caught in the clothesline which ended up strangling him to death. The soldier, who is known as “Gus”, has been said to move objects and furniture around the house, as well as open cabinets. Some say he’s still searching the house for his pants…
Civil War Soldiers At Jefferson Barracks
There have been numerous sightings of ghostly troops from the Civil War era still patrolling the Jefferson Barracks Military Post in Lemay, Missouri. The most commonly seen apparition is that of a guard with a bullet hole in his head. It is believed that he was shot during an enemy raid and he still makes his presence known to troops who are on duty.
During a Halloween party at the hospital on the base, several officers reported seeing a person wearing a Civil War officer’s uniform, but nobody at that party was wearing such a costume. In fact, several people on different occasions have claimed to have seen the spirit of a man dressed in a uniform from the time of the Civil War.
Recruits At The Parris Island Old Barracks (Rifle Range)
Tragically, there have been several murders and suicides at the Parris Island barracks and it seems as though some of the victims still remain there. Recruits who have been stationed at Parris Island claimed to have heard unexplained footsteps, doors opening and closing on their own, as well as the sounds of voices and people crying in the bathrooms.
A ghostly apparition wearing camouflage has been spotted, but when the soldiers approached him, he disappeared. Several members of a platoon drowned in the swampland after their drill instructor forced them to cross it. This could be why so many apparitions are constantly seen around the barracks.
Jocelyne LeBlanc (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
The full power of the biggest temblors could be determined in as little as 10 to 15 seconds after they begin, a new study finds, and long before it ends.
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
NASA's Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, just eight years after President John F Kennedy outlined his plan to win the Space Race. The mission ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
A sixth case of measles has been diagnosed in King County, bringing the total number in the Puget Sound region this year to nine and marking the first time this ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Astronauts are often touted for being calm and collected, but according to NASA transcripts, several public slip-ups, and various reports, the space explorers are ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Dredging projects at PortMiami killed a half-million corals between 2013 and 2015, when the port was widened.
(CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
Something very interesting will happen this year when Google finally releases its next-generation Pixel 4 flagship phone lineup in October: it will sell ...
View full coverage on Google News (CLICK HERE TO READ AND SEE MORE)
