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Post by swamprat on Mar 9, 2024 9:21:06 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Feb 14, 2024 9:21:58 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jan 14, 2024 9:15:26 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jan 13, 2024 9:23:15 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 30, 2023 9:30:15 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 25, 2023 9:24:48 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 21, 2023 19:37:41 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 15, 2023 16:12:13 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 8, 2023 9:12:07 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Dec 4, 2023 19:16:56 GMT -6
A Very Merry Christmas
David MacDonald, Executive Director, MUFON
In the past we talked about some of the changes and improvements that have been implemented within MUFON. But this month I want to finally introduce you to Project Aquarius. The concept goes back as far as 1975, when the idea of a global, accessible UFO database was first discussed.
At that time computers were not as prevalent as today. So, it remained a dream until it was revisited around 1985. Computers were developing, and a group was put together to begin assembling the data and start a workable program. It languished. In the late nineties, CMS began to develop and emerge.
In 2013, the concept came up again. Now we had the technology to make it happen. The CMS was undergoing a massive overhaul, and I asked that a translation program be included so that the system could be utilized on a global scale. For whatever reason, the people developing the system ignored the repeated request. So, finally in 2019 the Board approved Project Aquarius, which is reaching out to other organizations to join with us in the development of the largest repository of translatable, accessible UFO data in the world. We are now at the point of digitizing and assimilating the files of NICAP, which when combined with the Pandora files, the Ruppelt files, Bob Pratt files, the Stringfield files, and more will constitute the most amazing assembly of researchable UFO data ever developed.
Additionally, our friends and chapters in Europe, Canada, South America, and other parts of the world have supplied us with vast amounts of data. Tens of thousands of news articles, case files, papers, and investigations go into making this a worldwide effort to develop the most comprehensive collection of UFO data on the planet.
So, after all these years, Project Aquarius is HERE and will be available to the world in January.
Project Aquarius, which now consists of 1.2 million pieces of data, makes MUFON the largest source of UFO research data on this planet!
For me, it’s a dream come true.
Thanks to every one of you for your efforts and support.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good flight.
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Post by swamprat on Dec 2, 2023 17:10:52 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Sept 11, 2023 9:08:02 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Sept 2, 2023 17:17:04 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Sept 2, 2023 7:48:21 GMT -6
R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett.
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Post by swamprat on Aug 31, 2023 19:08:14 GMT -6
Pentagon to release declassified UFO photos, videos and reports on new website
Pentagon spokesman calls new site a 'one-stop shop' for publicly available information on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)
By Greg Wehner Fox News Published August 31, 2023 6:22pm EDT
The Pentagon on Thursday announced the launch of a new website with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which will provide the public with declassified information about UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said at a press briefing that the new website will provide the public with information including videos and photos associated with resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for public release.
Other information the general said would be available includes reports, trends and a frequently asked questions section, as well as links to official reports, transcripts, press releases and other resources the public may find useful.
"The department is committed to transparency with the American people on AARO’s work on UAPs," Ryder said.
He added that the site will serve as a "one-stop" shop for information that is publicly available, and AARO will regularly update the website with its most recent findings when new information is cleared for the public to view.
The new website can be accessed at aaro.mil
Pentagon to release declassified UFO photos, videos and reports on new website | Fox News
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Post by swamprat on Aug 31, 2023 10:59:29 GMT -6
The middle one is Andrea Bocelli’s son. The one with glasses is Placido Domingo's son. The one on the right is Pavarotti’s son.
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Post by swamprat on Jul 31, 2023 8:24:12 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 27, 2023 9:14:38 GMT -6
I asked my pal Billy Cox what he thought of the hearing. Here is his response:
Far exceeded my expectations. More importantly, it was great to see congress on the same page for once. I'm a bit more optimistic now.
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Post by swamprat on Jul 26, 2023 13:21:08 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 25, 2023 19:18:42 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 22, 2023 9:40:16 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 21, 2023 11:34:21 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 21, 2023 8:27:08 GMT -6
R.I.P. Tony
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Post by swamprat on Jul 21, 2023 8:19:07 GMT -6
R.I.P. Tony Bennett
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Post by swamprat on Jul 13, 2023 15:16:40 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 11, 2023 8:07:02 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 4, 2023 11:06:47 GMT -6
Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns
By Ben Turner published about 24 hours ago Climate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.
Earth's ecosystems may be careering toward collapse much sooner than scientists thought, a new study of our planet's warming climate has warned.
According to the research, more than a fifth of the world's potentially catastrophic tipping points — such as the melting of the Arctic permafrost, the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet and the sudden transformation of the Amazon rainforest into savanna — could occur as soon as 2038.
In climatology, a "tipping point" is the threshold beyond which a localized climate system, or "tipping element," irreversibly changes. For instance, if the Greenland ice sheet were to collapse, it would also reduce snowfall in the northern part of the island, making large parts of the sheet irretrievable. Yet the science behind these dramatic transformations is poorly understood and often based on oversimplified models. Now, a new attempt to understand their inner workings, published June 22 in the journal Nature, has revealed that they may happen much sooner than we thought.
"Over a fifth of ecosystems worldwide are in danger of collapsing," co-author Simon Willcock, a professor of sustainability at Bangor University in the U.K., said in a statement. "However, ongoing stresses and extreme events interact to accelerate rapid changes that may well be out of our control. Once these reach a tipping point, it's too late."
Unlike the well-established link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change, the study of tipping points is a young and contentious science. To understand how rising temperatures and other environmental stressors could cause complex ecosystems to break down, scientists use computer models to simplify ecosystems' dynamics, enabling them to predict the fate of those ecosystems — and when their tipping points could be reached.
But if these simulations miss an important element or interaction, their forecasts can land decades off the mark. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the United Nations' most important body for evaluating climate science) said in its most recent report that the Amazon rainforest could reach a tipping point that will transform it into a savannah by 2100.
The researchers behind the new study say this prediction is too optimistic.
According to the researchers, most tipping-point studies build the math in their models to focus on one predominant driver of collapse, for example deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. However, ecosystems aren't contending with just one problem but rather a swarm of destabilizing factors that compound one another. For example, the Amazon also faces rising temperatures, soil degradation, water pollution and water stress.
To investigate how these elements interact and whether these interactions can, in fact, hasten a system's demise, the scientists behind the new study built computer models of two lake and two forest ecosystems (including one which modeled the collapse of civilization on Easter Island) and ran them more than 70,000 times while adjusting the variables throughout.
After testing their systems across multiple modes — with just one cause of collapse acting, with multiple causes acting and with all of the causes plus the introduction of random noise to mimic fluctuations in climate variables — the scientists made some troubling findings: multiple causes of collapse acting together brought the abrupt transformation of some systems up to 80% closer to the present day. And even when the main cause of collapse was not allowed to increase with time, 15% of the collapses occurred purely because of the new elements.
"Our main finding from four ecological models was that ecosystems could collapse 30-80% earlier depending on the nature of additional stress," co-author John Dearing, a professor of physical geography at Southampton University in the U.K. told Live Science in an email. "So if previous tipping points were forecast for 2100 (i.e. 77 years from now) we are suggesting these could happen 23 to 62 years earlier depending on the nature of the stresses." This means that significant social and economic costs from climate change might come much sooner than expected, leaving governments with even less time to react than first thought.
"This has potentially profound implications for our perception of future ecological risks," co-author Gregory Cooper, a climate systems researcher at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., said in the statement. "While it is not currently possible to predict how climate-induced tipping points and the effects of local human actions on ecosystems will connect, our findings show the potential for each to reinforce the other. Any increasing pressure on ecosystems will be exceedingly detrimental and could have dangerous consequences."
Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns | Live Science
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Post by swamprat on Jul 4, 2023 10:56:52 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 1, 2023 13:09:13 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jun 24, 2023 18:32:35 GMT -6
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot
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