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Moscow's 4 airports closed temporarily for unspecified security reasons
Thu, December 26, 2024 at 9:01 AM PST
Russian authorities on Thursday closed all four of Moscow’s airports, plus a fifth one in a city about 100 miles southwest of the country’s capital, citing unspecified safety concerns.
The five airports were “temporarily not accepting or sending flights,” according to a statement from Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsia.
“To ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the operation of Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky and Kaluga airports,” Rosaviatsia said in a post on Telegram.
All four of Moscow airports reopened after being briefly closed, with the fifth airport, in Kaluga, reopening later on Thursday afternoon.
Officials did not give an immediate or precise reason for the closures.
“Aircraft crews, air traffic controllers and airport services take all necessary measures to ensure flight safety — this is the top priority,” the official statement posted to Telegram said.
Nearly two years after President Vladimir Putin invaded Russia’s smaller neighbor, Ukraine has pushed the war into Russia.
On Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in the Oryol region and in Sevastopol in Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine after invading in 2014.
Sirens were also reported in the Russian city of Taganrog, located in Rostov, which borders Ukraine, local authorities said in a post to Telegram.
Two Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the Kursk region with no damage or casualties, according to a post on the Kursk region Telegram channel, after it was announced that the five Russian airports had been shut down.
A third Ukrainian missile was shot down in Kursk shortly after Moscow’s airports reopened, officials said.
This comes a month after Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on Moscow since the full-scale war began.
The airports temporary closures come on the same day that the Kremlin warned against speculating what may have caused an Azerbaijan Airlines flight to crash, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, after an aviation expert said evidence indicated that a Russian anti-missile battery may have brought down the passenger plane.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moscows-4-airports-closed-temporarily-170134087.html
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-12-26/news-1zExiElSPfO/p.html
PDW to Supply C100 Small Drones for US Army
December 26, 2024
Performance Drone Works (PDW) has received more than $15.3 million in contracts to deliver its proprietary C100 small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) to the US Army.
The drones will support the force’s posture across high-profile theaters, according to the Alabama-based company, with most to be distributed across the Indo-Pacific, European, and Central Command areas of responsibility.
The “game-changing” capabilities are expected to provide medium-range reconnaissance and tactical air support.
“The C100 drone is setting a new standard for battlefield agility and operational impact, equipping Soldiers with the ability to conduct missions autonomously without external fire support,” PDW Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Gury stated.
“We are honored to support the Army’s critical objectives and proud to deliver a solution that enables the maneuver force with decentralized and dispersed capabilities.”
PDW’s award followed the firm’s selection in September for the US Army’s Directed Requirement for Company-Level sUAS, a broader program seeking small drones for company-level intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance missions.
‘Cutting-Edge’ Technology
The C100 weighs 21 pounds (10 kilograms) and has a payload capacity of about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms).
The low-acoustic drone is equipped with night mode vision guides, collision avoidance and position hold system, and advanced flight autonomy with optional AI-based computing integration.
It can operate in environments with temperatures ranging from -20 to 57 degrees Celsius (-4 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit) and resist dust particles and water.
C100 has a range of 6 miles (10 kilometers), a speed of 40 miles (65 kilometers) per hour, a maximum altitude of 12,000 feet (3,658 miles), and 74 minutes of endurance.
“PDW is transforming the battlefield with cutting-edge drone technology,” PDW Board Chairman and former US Special Operations Commander Tony Thomas commented on the recent contracts.
“The C100 provides our warfighters with a decisive advantage, delivering unparalleled operational flexibility and survivability in today’s contested environments.”
https://thedefensepost.com/2024/12/26/us-c100-small-drones/
https://inews.co.uk/news/robot-submarines-fight-lights-north-sea-drone-battle-3441192
How robot submarines fight to keep the UK's lights on in North Sea drone battle
December 25, 2024 10:00 am
Over a two-week period last month, a steady stream of senior naval officers made their way to the English south coast for a ringside view of an epochal arms race.
At stake is the ability of Britain to defend critical seabed infrastructure – and in so doing, keep the nation functioning securely in the internet age.
What the military VIPs had come to see was Herne – a cutting-edge, British-made autonomous submarine about the size of a single-decker bus.
The vessel is packed with the kit necessary to monitor and protect against threats to the thousands of miles of data cables and energy lines that connect the UK to the outside world and keep institutions running, from the financial markets to the NHS.
The uncrewed craft, which made its debut in front representatives from no fewer than 10 allied navies potentially looking to acquire the technology, is at the cutting edge of an unseen but growing underwater dogfight with adversaries such as Russia and China, which use fleets of robotic craft controlled by artificial intelligence to prosecute a silent conflict off the shores of Britain and beyond.
The “drone war” that has developed in the skies above the battlefields of Ukraine is slowly but surely moving to the seas.
Intelligence sources told The i Paper that Moscow’s highly-specialised “cable sabotage” force – the Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research or GUGI – is “strongly assessed” to have deployed advanced uncrewed submarines in the Baltic and North Sea.
In little-noticed remarks earlier this year, a UK government minister suggested it was likely that Russian autonomous systems built for “underwater warfare” have been active off the British coast.
Now, after longstanding criticism that Britain and Nato have been painfully slow to confront this threat, a race by the UK and its allies to field equivalent – or even superior – military technology is under way.
Once it is fully operational within the next 18 months, Herne, developed by UK defence giant BAE Systems, will have the ability to stealthily rove the North Sea for up to two months at a time, or lie dormant on the seabed for up to nine months.
Using its advanced sensors it can detect incoming threats to fibre optic cables, electricity lines or gas pipe lines, and, in future, remotely destroy or disrupt whatever is responsible.
It is perhaps a sign of urgency, that in a world where defence projects can take decades, Herne has gone from “design to launch” in only 11 months.
Tim O’Neill, who has helped oversee the project for BAE’s maritime division, said Herne represents a new capability for military-grade “persistent surveillance” of the seabed to alert commanders to incoming threats.
He said: “What we’re trying to get ahead of is how can we detect that there is an adversary in an area, so that before they even get to the point of doing something with cables and pipelines, we can detect and deter them from closing in.
“Traditionally this was always about [crewed] submarines looking for submarines or surface ships looking for submarines. Those capabilities still exist but they are limited in number.
These cable runs are huge and what we’re trying to keep an eye on now is massive. So where we see a real priority is the use of subsurface systems to provide a persistent look to detect those threats to our infrastructure.”
It is a naval capability which, according to experts and intelligence sources, cannot come soon enough as adversaries – from Russia and China to Iran and the Houthi rebels in Yemen look to turn the seabed into the next battlefield between the West and the so-called “axis of disruption”.
From the Shetlands to Taiwan to the Red Sea, mysterious cable outages in the last two years have diverged from an assumption that such breakages are the result of accidents to fingers being pointed at the West’s foes.
For Britain and its European neighbours, it is the Kremlin that looms largest in this increasingly active, and quite literally murky, confrontation as Moscow, seeking to gain advantage in Ukraine, pursues its wider strategy of hybrid warfare – the testing Western defences and resolve to a point where damage is caused but remains below the threshold of outright conflict.
As Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and acolyte of Russian president Vladimir Putin, recently put it, Russia believes it has “no remaining moral constraints to refrain from destroying the cable connections of our enemies laid on the ocean floor”.
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That Moscow has been waging a campaign of mapping, monitoring, and highly likely targeting, the cat’s cradle of subsea cables and pipelines that criss-cross the seas of northern Europe is well-established.
In 2023, a senior Nato official said the Kremlin was “actively mapping” the seabed infrastructure of Ukraine’s allies, using fleets of “research” ships and deniable vessels such as fishing trawlers to loiter conspicuously over cable and energy infrastructure.
According to one study, non-military Russian vessels have been responsible for 945 suspicious movements in the North Sea over the last decade.
A report from Belgium earlier this year suggested that an explosive charge had been found on a UK-owned cable in the North Sea shortly after the start of the Ukraine war. The UK Ministry of Defence declined to comment.
In November, a Chinese-flagged cargo ship sailing from Russia was accused of severing two data cables, linking Germany to Finland and Sweden to Lithuania, by deliberately dragging its anchor in the Baltic.
Intelligence officials have pointed the finger at Russia. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defence minister, remarked: “Nobody believes that these cables were severed by accident.”
But less obvious is the trend for delegating this new genre of “seabed warfare” to uncrewed robots.
Speaking recently, armed forces minister Luke Pollard said it was “certainly true” that Britain faces a new type of threat in home waters. He said: “That’s the changing face of warfare that we need to think about – underwater warfare with autonomous systems in particular.
We are not just talking about submarines with crews battling in the North Atlantic in a World War II context. You are talking about uncrewed underwater systems that can potentially put our vital national infrastructure at risk.”
The precise capabilities of GUGI’s uncrewed submarines – known in military jargon as AUVs or autonomous underwater vehicles – are a closely kept secret but the unit, which is kept well-funded by the Kremlin, is widely regarded to be able to reach any subsea infrastructure up to a depth of 6,000 metres. Earlier this year, Moscow unveiled a military AUV with a range of 1,480km (919 miles).
The threat that such weaponry poses is sobering.
According to an authoritative study on the seabed threat earlier this year by the Policy Exchange think-tank, some 99 per cent of the UK’s external digital communications are reliant on a network of 60 subsea fibre optic cables spanning out from the North Sea and the Atlantic coasts.
Globally, the 1.4m kilometres of such cable spanning the globe conveys the vast majority of the world’s internet traffic, as well some $10trn (£7.9trn) in daily financial transactions.
For Britain, the loss of even a relatively small number of those connections would result in a cascade of digital outages that could see the country largely grind to a halt within a few hours.
Dr Adam Fenton, assistant professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security, and a specialist in uncrewed naval warfare, said:
“Part of the problem is that in international waters, Nato and allies are restricted because vessels of other nations are permitted to operate there without interference from other countries.
This includes conducting ‘scientific research’ or deploying undersea drones.
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Universal Studios Orlando cancels drone component of their nightly show
December 24, 2024 5:49pm EST
Universal Studios Orlando has canceled the drone component of their nightly show "Cinesational".
A company spokesperson stated, "We have currently paused the drone component of Cinesational: A Symphonic Spectacular.
Guests can still enjoy the show nightly at Universal Studios Florida."
Universal did not state as to why the drone component was canceled.
However, it comes after the tragic drone incident that took place at Lake Eola this past weekend.
Alezander, a 7-year-old boy, was hurt during that show after being hit by a falling drone, his parents, Adriana Edgerton and Jessica Lumsden, told FOX 35 News.
On Sunday, he underwent open-heart surgery for his chest injury.
Lumsden told FOX 35 News on Tuesday that their son, Alezander, is stable following surgery.
In a statement, she shared that he is "still being monitored but remains determined to walk again."
The family will spend the Christmas holiday in the intensive care unit (ICU) by his side.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the incident.
The NTSB confirmed to FOX 35 News on Tuesday that memory cards from the drones involved will be sent to the NTSB recorders laboratory in Washington, D.C., for analysis.
A preliminary report is expected within 30 days, but details on the probable cause of the crash and any contributing factors may take 12 to 24 months to be released.
Officials noted this was the City of Orlando's second year contracting Sky Elements as its drone operator.
Meanwhile, the City of Ocala recently renewed a two-year agreement with the same vendor.
This story is developing. Stay tuned for updates.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/universal-studios-orlando-cancels-drone-component-nightly-show
Russian Su-25 collides with recon drone mid-flight
24 December, 2024
A Russian Su-25 attack aircraft collided with a drone while flying missions over the Donetsk region.
The Dossier of the Spy Telegram channel reported this.
It is reported that the aircraft belonged to one of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment (military unit 75387, Primorsko-Akhtarsk).
During a combat mission over the Donetsk region, the Su-25 collided with a Russian ZALA reconnaissance drone.
The impact hit the nose of the attack aircraft, damaging the cockpit windows and avionics unit.
According to the Dossier of the Spy channel, the pilot was not injured and landed the combat vehicle at the base airfield.
The damage to the aircraft is not serious, at least visually, and the airfield’s maintenance department can probably repair it.
Aircraft collisions with drones are not uncommon. However, given the heavy air traffic of drones over the front line, similar situations have already occurred.
For example, in January 2024, a Ukrainian FPV drone almost collided with a Russian Su-25, and later, in June, a similar incident occurred involving a Ukrainian DJI Mavic.
It is reported that during the full-scale stage of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the Russian Aerospace Forces irretrievably lost about 31 Su-25s.
On December 18, the Russians announced the loss of a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter with its crew.
Russian military bloggers, in their typical manner, immediately claimed friendly fire from their own air defense.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-su-25-collides-with-recon-drone-mid-flight/
https://t.me/dosye_shpiona/629
Over a month later, the northeast drone mystery remains unsolved
Dec 25, 2024 / 11:51 AM CST
Drones are popular teen gifts, but Federal Aviation Administration bans in parts of New Jersey and New York may delay their use.
After more than a month of sightings across multiple states, lawmakers and the general public are no closer to discovering what mysterious drones are spotted in the northeast and a handful of other states.
An unexplained large number of drones began flying over sensitive military sites in New Jersey in mid-November. The White House and the Pentagon insist they don’t pose a threat.
Dr. Hasaan Shahidi, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, noted that among the thousands of reported incidents, some involved drones operating in restricted airspace, while others were sightings of piloted aircraft.
He encourages Americans to follow the restrictions and comply with regulations as the FAA conducts its investigation.
“The FAA is providing a lot of resources. There’s a Drone Zone website that you can go to and get a lot of information. Also, you can download … (the) Before You Fly app.
It tells you where you can and can’t fly,” Shahidi said.
The FAA temporarily banned drone flights in 22 areas of New Jersey where critical infrastructure is located.
FAA officials said federal security agencies requested the flight restrictions, which are effective through Jan. 17.
Other than New Jersey, drones have been spotted in other Northeastern states, including New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Sightings have also been reported in California, Florida, Ohio and Minnesota.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/northeast-drone-mystery-remains-unsolved/
UFO sighting in Cornwall as family films mysterious lights
Updated 18:31, 23 DEC 2024
A family in Cornwall were left baffled by mysterious lights in the sky which they believe was a UFO.
Charlotte Helyer reported seeing a “really strange series of lights” hovering over the hills near her family home in Torpoint.
Charlotte said they initially thought the lights were from drones but as they floated further away into the distance, she believed they would be too far out of reach for a drone controller to maintain connection to them.
She also said they made no noise and did not "move like anything I recognised".
Speaking to CornwallLive, Charlotte added: “They floated left and right before seeming to reduce into just two balls of white light that floated away miles into the distance,” she told CornwallLive.
“The distance is approximately six miles. “We can't explain what they might be.
They are too bright to be drones and the way they floated off into the distance means any drone controller would have been out of reach (they also did not return).
They were also completely silent and did not move like anything I recognised.”
Charlotte said they witnessed the mysterious lights earlier this summer on June 18 at around 10:30pm.
However, to this day, her family cannot understand what the lights were or where they came from, leading them to believe they spotted a UFO.
UFO sightings in Cornwall have been on the rise in recent weeks as more inexplicable objects have been filmed in the night sky.
The mysterious objects were spotted over the past couple of weeks in St Cleer near Liskeard, and in Porthtowan on the north coast.
One dog walker told CornwallLive that they spotted an unusual light in the sky in Porthtowan at around 7:18pm on Monday, December 9.
They said it hovered for about 10 minutes before it slowly moved south down the coast.
Video footage they recorded shows them approaching the Royal Airforce Base along the path before they zoom into a light hovering in the distance.
The dog walker said they believe what they saw is linked to another UFO sighting in Newquay recently.
A “blue or white object” was also spotted hovering around the full moon by photographer Chris Piper, while he was looking back at motion pictures he took of the lunar halo - an optical illusion that causes a large bright ring around the moon - last Sunday night (December 15) in St Cleer.
He said: “I was photographing the lunar halo and it wasn't until I showed [the pictures] to my friend that he noticed the blue dot hovering around the moon. When I looked back at the motion pictures, it appeared to be moving.”
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/ufo-sighting-cornwall-family-films-9815680
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/more-ufo-sightings-reported-cornwall-9799174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1sIU68TB_M
Declassified CIA Document Claims Life Did Exist on Mars — Once Inhabited by ‘Thin and Tall and Very Large’ Being Living Among Pyramid Structures
Dec. 24, 2024 11:00 am
A recently resurfaced CIA document, which was declassified in 2017, has shed light on an experiment conducted on May 22, 1984.
The experiment—part of a larger program often referred to as “Project Stargate”—allegedly transported the subject’s consciousness back in time, approximately one million years B.C.
Project Stargate was a secret U.S. Army initiative established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International.
Its primary objective was to investigate the potential use of psychic phenomena, including remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis, for military and intelligence applications, according to Daily Mail.
The news outlet added, “Project Stargate was the US government’s new weapon against the Soviet Union, aimed at creating mind-reading spies who could infiltrate the minds of its enemies.”
The declassified CIA document chronicles an unconventional “Mars exploration” mission conducted not with astronauts but through the use of remote viewing—a form of extrasensory perception (ESP).
A subject was provided with a sealed envelope containing cryptic instructions: to focus their mind on specific coordinates on Mars, roughly one million years B.C.
During the session, the subject reported seeing massive pyramidal structures, vast caverns, and colossal monuments carved into Martian canyons.
The descriptions included towering humanoid figures, “thin and tall, but they’re very large… some kind of strange clothes.”
These beings were said to be part of an ancient civilization teetering on the brink of extinction, victims of severe environmental collapse.
Daily Mail reported:
Participants were exposed to sounds like binaural beats and hemi-sync audio to induce altered states of consciousness and promote psychic abilities.
The experiment’s ‘subject’ was transported to the planet during the specified year, reporting an ‘oblique view of a pyramid’ and a ‘very large road’ with a monument similar to those known among ancient Egyptians on Earth, the report claims.
The vision then shifted to a population of ‘very large people’ searching for ‘a new place to live because their environment was corrupted.’
It shut down in 1995, but during its more than 10-year existence, psychics known as ‘remote viewers’ participated in a wide array of operations, from locating hostages kidnapped by Islamic terrorist groups to tracing the paths of fugitive criminals within the US.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/declassified-cia-document-claims-life-did-exist-mars/
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-rdp96-00788r001900760001-9.pdf
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14179243/cia-docs-reveal-life-mars-pyramids.html
https://thedebrief.org/surprising-link-between-uap-sightings-and-economic-conditions-revealed-in-controversial-new-research/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-04182-z
Surprising Link” Between UAP Sightings and Economic Conditions Revealed in Controversial New Research
December 24, 2024
New research reveals a surprising connection between Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and financial conditions across the United States, according to a study by a team with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Ohad Raveh of Hebrew University and Dr. Nathan Goldstein of Bar-Ilan University have introduced innovative methods of measuring public interest by analyzing UAP reports, which they say has revealed “a surprising link between UAP sightings and macroeconomic conditions at the U.S.-county, state, and national levels.”
Their findings challenge conventional metrics for assessing economic behavior, revealing how UAP sightings align with financial trends, inform policymaking, and provide insights into public adaptation to economic shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and shifts in monetary policy.
In an email to The Debrief, Dr. Raveh explained what motivated he and Goldstein to explore the potential connection between UAP sightings and economic conditions.
“As a social scientist fascinated by the UAP phenomenon, I was disappointed by the grave scarcity of studies that examine the social aspects of it,” Dr. Raveh explained, “especially as official reports (by NASA and others) confirm that about 95-98 percent of UAP sightings have conventional explanations, thus suggesting that patterns of UAP sightings are rooted in human and social behavior.
“This inspired undertaking a deeper examination, pursuing an unconventional hypothesis which ties sky viewing to economic attention,” Raveh said.
Key Findings on UAP Sightings
The researchers analyzed data from The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which spans over 20 years and is tracked across the United States. Raveh and Goldstein discovered that UAP sightings tend to occur more frequently in wealthier areas, but also tend to increase during economic downturns and decrease during periods of economic stability in those same regions.
This, they say, suggests that interest in unusual events like UAPs fluctuates based on broader societal conditions, especially during times of uncertainty.
“The counter-cyclicality on its own may point at various behaviors, ranging from, say, mental breakdowns, to extended leisure time; i.e., when unemployment rises, for example, the extent of UAP sightings increase because people may have more time on their hands, or otherwise they may be affected by the mental stress involved with unemployment,” Raveh explains.
“The key point, however, is that the patterns of UAP sightings are not only counter-cyclical, but they also exhibit a positive correlation with wealth cross-sectionally; i.e., at any given point in time, the extent of UAP sightings tend to be higher in wealthier regions, going against a mentally-related hypothesis,” he added.
“This opposite correlation across the two dimensions (cross-sectional and temporal) is rather consistent with patterns observed using traditional measures of economic attention, and hence supports an attention-related interpretation,” Raveh said.
When asked why NUFORC data was used for this study rather than other UAP databases, Raveh said the NUFORC data “is one of the two major reporting centers of UFO sightings in the U.S., reporting the details of sightings across the U.S. for decades;
in addition, as noted in the paper, it is also the source that the FAA recommends reporting to when observing an unexplained phenomenon in the sky, strengthening its validity.”
Raveh emphasized that this study does not claim UFO data is inherently more important than other data sources.
“We do show that other possible attention measures, such as, for instance, Google searches, do not match the patterns observed via traditional measures of macroeconomic attention,” Raveh said.
“However, we encourage the application of our proposed approach to other potential measures that may be useful in the attempt of measuring public attention.”
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UAP Sightings During COVID-19 Lockdowns
The study also highlights how the COVID-19 lockdowns affected UAP reporting. During periods of restricted movement, UFO reports increased, suggesting that people’s limited mobility led to greater attention on unusual phenomena.
“Previous studies have shown that COVID-19 lockdowns represent quasi-natural experiments for shifts in public attention.
Observing corresponding changes in UAP sightings via these quasi-natural experiments strengthens the hypothesized nexus between these sightings and public attention,” Raveh explained.
The study found that in regions where UFO sightings are more common, people reacted less strongly to changes in economic policies.
This suggests that shifts in public attention can influence economic outcomes. The researchers propose that tracking UFO reports can offer unique insights into how public attention fluctuates over time and across different regions.
Raveh believes policymakers could use insights from this research to better understand national and regional economic responses during periods of heightened stress or uncertainty.
“This research introduces a new potential measure for public attention, which has geographic and temporal coverage that goes beyond those of traditional measures.
To the extent that policymakers seek to account for public attention in their analyses, especially at specific locations, or at relatively high frequency over time, our approach may help them do so,” Raveh said.
Criticism and Alternate Perspectives
While the study suggests a correlation between UAP sightings and economic trends—including the idea that wealthier areas might have more expendable time for skywatching—critics may argue that the connection is not necessarily causal, and that data limitations and the potential impact of false sightings could distort the findings.
Dr. Eric Haseltine, a former intelligence officer and neuroscientist, voiced skepticism about the study’s findings in an email to The Debrief.
“During times of upheaval, such as pandemics, wars, and recessions, conspiracy theories abound for two reasons,” Haseltine said.
One, he argues, is because “Humans hate uncertainty, which causes major anxiety, and are thus drawn to anything that makes sense of what is happening.”
Secondly, Haseltine said that “Humans hate feeling out of control, as happens during upheavals, so they are attracted to anything that creates the illusion of understanding, predictability, and controllability.”
While Haseltine and others may find flaws in the reasoning behind the research, overall, Raveh maintains that similar to research detailed in past studies on public attention, “ours as well supports the notion that increased public attention helps mitigate negative economic shocks,” adding that “a better understanding of public attention, to which our study seeks to contribute, may help in coping with the impact of future economic shocks.”
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God Versus Aliens film implies that US government can fake alien invasions
25 December 2024
'God Versus Aliens' – which is now streaming on Tubi – looks into a secret US government programme called Project Bluebeam which uses top-secret technology including lasers, AI, sky projections and Hollywood special effects to create a false flag alien invasion.
The film's director Mark Christopher Lee said: "I have spoken to whistleblowers from the US intelligence community who insist that what people are seeing all over the skies in the United States is the US Government testing out this Project Bluebeam technology to see if it can actually work.
"It's not aliens but is made to look like aliens with the aim of putting the population into fear so that they can be easily controlled."
During the film, Lee speaks to Nick Pope – the former head of the UK Ministry of Defence's UFO desk – who has conducted his own research into Project Bluebeam.
Pope states: "The idea is they would use lasers, holographic technology and Hollywood Special effects to create what would look like an alien invasion, or indeed the second coming of Christ.
The idea that this could be then used to usher in some form of one world government to take control and deal with this event."
Lee adds: "I think what people are seeing now is a combination of this Project Bluebeam technology and misidentified planes and other craft.
As we have seen it doesn't take much to create fear and panic in the population. "We too in the UK are experiencing the same around US airbases here.
So this leads me to conclude that the UK government are also involved and may also explain the Rendelsham UFO incident of 1980 – where some say a UFO landed at the US airbase at RAF Bentwaters – but was probably the same technology being tested and which has evolved into what people are seeing now."
'God Versus Aliens' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and is now streaming on Tubi worldwide.
https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/god-versus-aliens-film-implies-government-can-fake-alien-invasions-1411202.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28247154/
Alien life may be able to create its own habitable haven on planets orbiting distant stars
December 26, 2024 at 3:06 am
Up to now, the search for extraterrestrial life has focused on finding a planet like our own. But could alien biology create its own habitable havens?
Alien worlds may be self-sustaining habitats with very different basic requirements for life than we’ve assumed.
Robin Wordsworth is professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on planetary habitability.
We spoke to Robin about what makes a planet habitable, and whether alien life could produce its own conditions necessary for survival.
What do we know about life on worlds beyond Earth?
We only have one example of an inhabited planet in the Universe right now – Earth – so all we know about life elsewhere is an extrapolation.
One school of thought says we should focus on Earth-like planets that can support liquid water and have plate tectonics that allow volatile compounds to cycle between the interior and atmosphere.
We took another approach, exploring whether biology has the capability to generate conditions for its own habitability, on planets or elsewhere.
Can life generate conditions for its own habitability?
On Earth, life and the planet have been constantly interacting.
This happened when oxygen first emerged and changed the composition of the atmosphere, or land plants appeared on Earth’s surface and covered it, or most recently when humans emerged and caused profound changes to the environment.
There’s no reason to believe this kind of interaction isn’t true of life everywhere it appears.
Why is liquid water essential for life?
There’s an argument that the nature of fundamental interactions between water molecules, and the way water behaves and interacts with other solvents, means the organic chemistry that all known life relies on can be much more complex in water than in other substances.
We assumed liquid water is required, but other forms of life are probably possible.
Is our understanding of extraterrestrial habitability correct?
The current understanding is that life needs a gravity well to exist. In other words, you need to have a planet of a certain size for liquid water to be stable.
We showed that biologically produced materials are quite capable of overcoming these constraints outside of planetary gravity wells.
If life can stabilise water and temperature and obtain access to a source of energy, then there’s no reason it couldn’t persist on its own, without the need for a gravity well.
What did your study involve?
This was a theoretical study. We did calculations to understand the requirements for carbon-based life to exist in a self-sustaining fashion beyond Earth – the need for liquid water sets constraints on temperature and pressure, and the availability of nutrients and energy is also important.
We then analysed what kind of biomaterials could maintain temperature and pressures in a habitable range.
Finally, we looked at how rapidly water and other volatiles would be lost to space – an important consideration for systems without internal gravity.
What kind of biomaterials did you examine?
We looked at the properties of a range of human-made bioplastics, as well as biominerals such as calcite (formed from the shells of many sea creatures), and showed that they could create habitat walls in a vacuum environment.
The kind of life we’re imagining could be free-floating habitats, or organisms that grow on the surfaces of asteroids or icy moons. We demonstrated that such things are possible.
How could this impact future endeavours in space?
One of the key advantages of biology is that it can recycle waste materials, allowing sustainability in a way industrial methods currently can’t.
Once humans need to spend large amounts of time in space, sustainability is going to be crucial.
Biologically generated habitats could be one way to achieve that.
The lessons we learn about sustainability in space also have the potential to improve how we co-exist with the biosphere here on Earth.
Will this work affect the way we look for extraterrestrial life?
We probably should be more broad-minded about potential biosignatures.
If we widen our understanding of the way life can exist in different environments, then we have more avenues to look for potential biospheres and different signatures of life.
We could look for spectroscopic signals caused by photosynthesis outside the conventional habitable zone, or outside planetary gravity wells altogether.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/could-alien-life-create-its-own-habitability
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