re: NY Times: Pentagon’s UFO Program - aerospace/esoteric/quantum mechanics/future

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I don’t. This is the first I have heard of these guy’s. This is a pretty interesting one hour podcast of them talking about the occult symbolism in Washington DC and the origins of America if you are interested.

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History’s The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch Tasks Scientists to Investigate Paranormal Ranch
A scientist says mysterious phenomena captured on History’s “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” will blow you away.

By Alejandro Rojas
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March 30, 2020

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A sleepy ranch In Utah’s Uinta Basin has been the focus of decades of secretive scientific paranormal research and now it’s the focus of the History Channel reality series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. According to History, this is the first time TV cameras have been allowed on the ranch. The show’s team of scientists and experts, equipped with the “latest in cutting edge technology,” made shocking discoveries that one scientist describes as “phenomena that cannot be explained by human technology.”

“I don’t like the word paranormal,” explains Astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor on a conference call with reporters, including Den of Geek. “I don’t like it at all because it suggests that something we see in the universe, and it exist within the universe, that it’s not supposed to be in the universe. And what I saw was within our universe. So to me, I’d say it’s normal. I would say it’s something that we just don’t understand and don’t know what it is.”
Taylor is one of the investigators on the show. For decades he has worked with the Department of Defense and NASA. Taylor has five degrees in the fields of science and engineering. He also co-wrote a book theorizing on how we might defend ourselves against an alien attack.

“What I will tell you is that absolutely, without a doubt, we had scientific instruments detect and measure, multiple witnesses see, multiple cameras, and multiple occasions, phenomena that cannot be explained by human technology,” Taylor says. “It doesn’t mean it can’t be explained by a better or future understanding of physics, but it does mean we can’t explain it with human technology.”

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Responding to a question on a conference call about the show, Taylor says Fugal is a religious person and wants to ask the big questions regarding the origins of the phenomena taking place at the ranch.

“Is it God? Is it angels? Is it aliens? Is it demons? I mean, you know, what could be causing these strange phenomena? Or is it just something that is, you know, a serendipitous piece of nature?” Taylor explained. “

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In the past, scientists have said they have seen portals open (a story that causes a major eye roll by Taylor), seen mysterious lights, giant wolves, and any number of weird ghostly things. Getting to the brass tacks, we asked Taylor to tell us what they saw.
“I’m not going to tell you what evidence was observed and what phenomena were observed because, you know, it would be spoilers for the show,” Taylor responds. “But what I will tell you is, yes, when you watch the show and you see the evidence we acquired that is scientifically verifiable, you’re going to be blown away. Cause I was. I’m still amazed to this day and still have a hard time believing what I saw.”

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch premieres Tuesday, March 31, at 10 PM ET/PT on the History Channel.

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A Rainforest Flourished in Antarctica 90 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests
A remarkably well-preserved soil sample leads researchers to believe the frozen continent was once home to a swampy ecosystem.

By Leslie NemoApril 1, 2020 3:26 PM

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Hidden beneath Antarctic ice lies evidence of an ancient swampy rainforest that sprawled far before humans roamed the Earth. Researchers were unaware an ecosystem of this nature ever existed on the frozen continent — that is, until one team got a closer look at the decayed plant matter dug out from under ice and hoisted aboard an expedition ship.

Dating back 83 million to 92 million years, the prehistoric soil is strangely well preserved. “If you were to go to a forest close to your house and dig a hole several feet in the ground, it would look like this sample,” says Johann Klages, a geologist with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany who helped author a recent paper on the findings.

The soil reveals a range of plant life that flourished in what researchers think was a waterlogged and humid ecosystem. Published this week in Nature, the findings suggest that during the hottest period in the last 140 million years, Earth wasn’t just too warm to support ice at the South Pole. Instead, the planet boasted a rainforest similar to those in New Zealand today.

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Ancient Antarctica would have had to be much warmer to support these moisture-loving plants. Hints of particular bacteria species, combined with the pollen samples, suggest that for this life to be supported, the forest had to have reached 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, Klages says. And silty, fine deposits recovered from the dirt could only have settled and accumulated preserved plant life if this rainforest’s water had been slow-moving or stagnant.

The broader interpretations about what this find could mean for our understanding of ancient Earth came to light after Klages knocked on the door of a paleoclimatologist. With the data from this dirt sample, the researchers were able to model what kinds of atmospheric conditions would have been around globally if this rainforest were to exist during the Cretaceous.

The simulation supports a warmer world than researchers previously envisioned, and a higher carbon dioxide concentration, too. Researchers thought this ancient, dinosaur-dominated era boasted CO2 levels about 2.5 times greater than our levels today. This simulation suggests levels were as much as four times the CO2 we currently have.

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The team plans to keep exploring what this ancient environment must have been like. Antarctica sees four months of almost total darkness every year. What else the planet needed to keep life thriving at its southernmost point — without sunlight — is still a mystery.

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