Pshaw - you should see some of those 'alien' gals - Teri take a ticket and move to the back of the line.
Posted on 07/17/2021 2:41:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An international collaboration of astronomers has identified a curious occurrence of nine star-like objects that appeared and vanished in a small region within half an hour...
Scientists from Sweden, Spain, the US, Ukraine, and India... investigated...photography that used glass plates to capture night sky images of April 12, 1950, exposed at the Palomar Observatory in California.
They detected these transient stars, which were not to be found in photographs half an hour later and not traced since then.
The astronomers have not found any explanation in well-established astrophysical phenomena like gravitational lensing, fast radio bursts or any variable star that could be responsible for this cluster of fast changes in the sky.
The astronomers are examining the possibility that the photographic plates were contaminated with radioactive particles, causing false stars on the plates.
But if the observation is proven to be real, another option is solar reflections from reflective, unnatural objects in the orbit around the earth several years before the first human satellite was launched...
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.in ...
He didn't really have a choice.
It was clear in the movie, he was psychologically compelled, or programmed.
“I would have stayed and worked thing out here.”
My interpretation of that part of the film is that when the aliens caught him in the pickup, and fired something through him, it effected his mind so he needed to go more than anything just the same as the overwhelming urge to identify the mountain as the Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. He just had to, period, and nothing was going to stop him.
I’ve been to Devil’s Tower and it is a fascinating place geographically. It’s not part of a mountain range. It’s just the one monolith in the middle of nowhere. Pretty country during the warm parts of the year with wild animals in the area. A lot of people climb the tower each year.
wy69
But Terri Garr !!!!
Bingo! Spots on the plate, most likely.
My point to infinity. It’s not like his wife was some dumb trailer park trash.
Pshaw - you should see some of those 'alien' gals - Teri take a ticket and move to the back of the line.
I see there’s been some mass accumulation over time !
I see there’s been some mass accumulation over time !
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Astronomers in the know are calculating time to super nova ...
...photography that used glass plates to capture night sky images of April 12, 1950, exposed at the Palomar Observatory in California. They detected these transient stars, which were not to be found in photographs half an hour later and not traced since then... But if the observation is proven to be real, another option is solar reflections from reflective, unnatural objects in the orbit around the earth several years before the first human satellite was launched...
Not too sure I believe the story. Anyway, sidebar, suggested by one of the topics.
Comparing a 70-year-old survey with recent images of the night sky, astronomers have discovered that 100 stars may have gone dark...
Those vanishing light sources could be short-lived flashes in the night or possibly, the disappearance of a long-lasting star. These preliminary findings almost certainly represent natural and well-understood events, but there is the hope that they could indicate technological civilizations elsewhere.
We invited two astronomers to discuss this extraordinary finding and the future of this research.
Beatriz Villaroel is the principal investigator of the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project. She led the effort to compare a series of sky images taken by the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), starting in 1949, with recent observations by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) between 2010 and 2014. While searching for vanishing stars, the VASCO project found ~100 red transients; objects found in the old Palomar plates that did not appear in the new ones.
James Davenport is a Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington and the Associate Director of the DiRAC Institute. He advocates using big data techniques to search for intelligent life in the universe and leads multiple data-driven technosignature projects, including at the Vera Rubin Observatory. This 8m telescope will start scanning the sky once every few nights in late 2022 and speed the hunt for such transient objects.
These astronomers will give us an update on the search for vanishing stars two years after their discovery. They’ll discuss the possibility that we are seeing unknown phenomena or that the vanished “stars” could be relics of technologically advanced civilizations, particularly the theoretical mega-engineering projects known as Dyson spheres. Either way, this discovery has turned up something that may become very important for both astrophysical and SETI investigations.
Beatriz Villarroel is the principal investigator of the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project. She got her master’s degree in 2012, the same year she received the Crafoord stipend for young researchers from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2017, Villarroel received her Ph.D. from Uppsala University for research on active galactic nuclei and soon after started her first postdoc at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Since 2018, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Nordita in Stockholm (Sweden) and IAC Tenerife (Spain). This year, Villarroel received the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science prize in Sweden for her work on VASCO and the searches for vanishing stars (and ET).
James Davenport is a Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington and the Associate Director of the DiRAC Institute. His research focuses on survey astronomy, using large volumes of data from observatories and telescopes worldwide (and in space!) to study nearby stars in the Milky Way. Davenport is an expert in the magnetic activity behavior of stars, including hot flares and cool spots on their surface, and is interested in understanding how these events may impact life. He has also become an advocate for using big data techniques to search for intelligent life in the universe and is leading multiple data-driven technosignature projects over the next five years.Going Dark: The Mystery of Vanishing Stars | SETI Institute | Streamed live on Apr 21, 2021
I’d meet her for coffee.
There were a number of articles about it from different parts of the world I believe meaning the investigation was quite large and opinionated.
Here’s a few:
https://hitechglitz.com/astronomers-searching-for-et-find-9-appearing-and-disappearing-stars/
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1736106
I’m not sure if what was seen is explainable, but no one has been able to do it yet. Maybe we are not as smart as we claim?
Wy69
There have been a number of other such finds in old plates, apparently this has been the focus of her project. It wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out to be transient high-altitude events, basically debris from space burning up by chance as the film was exposed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/809572/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1216757/posts
https://freerepublic.com/tag/lunarimpact/index
Perhaps they were stars and their disappearances are a confirmation of the Dark Forest Theory: a casual strike by one competing civilization eliminating another competitor, in such a way as not to reveal the existence of the attacking competitor.
Possible method of a casual strike: Competitor A detects the ‘noise’ of potential Competitor B; Competitor A has launched objects into orbits far outside of their solar system; existence of Competitor B is made known to one object; object travels in random course toward Competitor B’s system; object launches ‘seed’ toward Competitor B and leaves the area as it entered; ‘seed’ travels slowly toward and into Competitor B’s system; at a predetermined point, the ‘seed’ ‘blossoms’ converting Competitor B’s system from a 3-D object to a 2-D object. Competitor B and the entire system vanish from the 3-D universe - become invisible and are no longer a competitor for resources.
“It wouldn’t surprise me...”
Nor me either. But that’s the difference between people on each end of the topic and some in the middle. One end tries to demand it be considered truth, one to prove it being false.
But the small group in the middle, those not influenced by guesses and excuses without positivity, are the only ones looking for what they are rather then what they might be. This is a failure of way too many people and I can equate this with the current political problem in the US.
We could have, and a lot of proof has already surfaced to include those that perpetrated the crimes being placed under arrest, an election that was more than questionable in its conclusions. And we have those that say there is a fraud and others that totally deny it. We do have people in jail for investigation and charged, but for those that deny it, that don’t mean squat.
So, here’s the quandary: if there is nothing wrong with a process that could take no more than a few weeks to straighten up and find the rest of the criminals if there are more that performed it as no one is capable of doing it by themselves, then why are the winners in this, the liberals fighting this action tooth and nail? This places the politicians in a dilemma as either could be right and nothing has proved it.
So let’s get to the proof. Explain why it happened with concrete information. Everything they are doing is speculation. Find the truth and those in the middle would be satisfied. And that is a greater amount and will garnish trust. I’m sure we can agree to that. Other wise, the system fails. And in the case of the stars disappearing, the failure is less on the system and more on the investigators at this point. I believe in almost nothing I have heard and only half of what I see.
wy69
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