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These lava tubes are turning out to be a very desirable target for exploration on other worlds, just as they are here on Earth.

Lava tubes are formed when the surface of flowing lava cools and hardens, but the lava underneath keeps flowing. It's kind of like a freezing river that forms an ice layer on top while the water underneath keeps flowing. The flowing lava can remain hot and drain out, leaving a cave. This happens on Earth, and can be both a delight and a challenge for spelunkers.

But it's also happened on the Moon, and on Mars, and maybe anywhere else where there's been volcanic activity. Lava tubes are unique environments. They may provide a shelter for life, or evidence of microbial life in the past, and they may contain easily observed records of geological activity.

This is the main idea behind an article titled 'Core Concept: Lava tubes may be havens for ancient alien life and future human explorers'. The author of the article is Sid Perkins, a science journalist who specializes in Earth Sciences, and who also writes about planetary sciences.

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The first evidence of lava tubes on Mars came from NASA's Viking Orbiter. At the volcano Alba Mons, in the Tharsus region of Mars, Viking's camera captured an image of a long tube shape extruded above the surface of the volcano's flank. This is almost undeniably a lava tube.

Mars at one time in its past was wet and warm, and may have hosted life. Over time, it was stripped of its atmosphere and its water, and became frigid. But if there was life there, it may have had time to "migrate" to the only remaining niches where it could survive. On Mars, that might mean lava tubes.

What if this also happened on Earth in remote antiquity...

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"If Mars ever hosted life, it may have moved into such refugia as the planet evolved and surface conditions became increasingly harsh," Perkins wrote in his article. "Indeed, some researchers suggest that microbial life may yet hang on in the Red Planet's underground havens. "

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The walls of lava tubes might hold all kinds of evidence of the history of the world they're on that's simply unattainable any other way. When the Apollo astronauts visited the Moon, they never drilled deeper than about 2.9 meters (9.5 ft.) But the walls of skylights and tubes on the Moon can be tens of meters thick. Mars will be similar, maybe even more exposed.

Distinct geological layers will be exposed to easy study. The walls of lava tubes could show evidence of periods of lava flow, evidence of periods of intense meteor impacts, and more. Examining these walls can shed light on Earth's history too.

Earth is a very active planet, and lots of ancient evidence is simply erased by all the geological activity and erosion. If lava tube walls on the Moon show evidence of sustained periods of meteor impacts - like a well defined layer of pulverized rock - that layer can be dated. With that evidence, we can conclude the same thing happened on Earth, at the same time.

There may be other ancient races who lived on the surface of the Earth prior to us

They migrated inside our planet as they survived a prior surface cataclysm (either on Earth or elsewhere)

What we may be seeing in our skies may be them obtaining surface resources periodically ...

Humanity itself may be a resource that is monitored/harvested (genetic or otherwise)

My last few posts and the JR /Knapp podcast touch on this. This may be why it is a tightly guarded secret. Some could not handle these themes...

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Posted on 7/23/20 at 2:54 pm to ThinePreparedAni

Much of this is not new
We discussed this here in the past

What is new is The NY Times reporting it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html

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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.

TRANSCRIPT U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. [radio transmission]

“By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean July 23, 2020, 2:58 p.m. ET Despite

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Mr. Elizondo is among a small group of former government officials and scientists with security clearances who, without presenting physical proof, say they are convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on earth with materials retrieved for study.

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Mr. Reid, the former Democratic senator from Nevada who pushed for funding the earlier U.F.O. program when he was the majority leader, said he believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts. “After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” Mr. Reid said in an interview.

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Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007, said that, in some cases, examination of the materials had so far failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”

The constraints on discussing classified programs — and the ambiguity of information cited in unclassified slides from the briefings — have put officials who have studied U.F.O.s in the position of stating their views without presenting any hard evidence.

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Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later. Committee staff members did not respond to requests for comment on the issue.

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Public fascination with the topic of U.F.O.s has drawn in President Trump, who told his son Donald Trump Jr. in a June interview that he knew “very interesting” things about Roswell — a city in New Mexico that is central to speculation about the existence of U.F.O.s. The president demurred when asked if he would declassify any information on Roswell. “I’ll have to think about that one,” he said.

DJT knows...

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