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NASA is baffled by these 8,000-year-old mystery structures in Kazakhstan
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Yet another of history's ancient mysteries yet to be solved.
Kazakhstan
The huge formations are known as the Steppe Geoglyphs. Scientists have little idea how they were formed — but think that solving the mystery could lead to a huge change in how we understand early humans.
There are around 260 of the designs, which are carved into the ground and made out of piles of earth assembled into shapes that include squares, rings and swastika shapes. The oldest of them are thought to be about 8,000 years old.
The patterns were first spotted by a Kazakh enthusiast in 2007, who saw them on Google Earth. Dmitriy Dey, who works as an economist, was watching a programme about pyramids on the Discovery Channel and looked to see whether any such buildings were inKazakhstan
But despite being known for almost 10 years,Kazakhstan
But Nasa is now joining the hunt to find out how exactly they got there. Nasa has released a range of satellite images, showing them photographed for the first time in an attempt to catalogue and detail them.
The land around the symbols was once a key destination for Stone Age tribes looking for places to hunt. But scientists would previously not have expected that such a population would have the time or the organisation to build and dig the huge symbols.
“The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects — like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs — has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organization as one that predates settled and civilized societies,” Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg, told the New York Times.
It isn’t clear whether the creations were created as an early form of art, or for a practical function. They could have been solar observatories, some speculate, in a way similar to the theories that surround other ancient constructions likeStonehenge .
Some of the strange theories have also proposed that the structures have something to do with aliens, or have been linked with Nazis because of the appearance of the swastika. While some of those can easily be rejected — the swastika was used in a wide range of contexts before Hitler — others are harder to dismiss because so little is known about how the finds came about.
Yet another of history's ancient mysteries yet to be solved.
- Andrew Griffin, The Independent
The huge formations are known as the Steppe Geoglyphs. Scientists have little idea how they were formed — but think that solving the mystery could lead to a huge change in how we understand early humans.
There are around 260 of the designs, which are carved into the ground and made out of piles of earth assembled into shapes that include squares, rings and swastika shapes. The oldest of them are thought to be about 8,000 years old.
The patterns were first spotted by a Kazakh enthusiast in 2007, who saw them on Google Earth. Dmitriy Dey, who works as an economist, was watching a programme about pyramids on the Discovery Channel and looked to see whether any such buildings were in
But despite being known for almost 10 years,
But Nasa is now joining the hunt to find out how exactly they got there. Nasa has released a range of satellite images, showing them photographed for the first time in an attempt to catalogue and detail them.
The land around the symbols was once a key destination for Stone Age tribes looking for places to hunt. But scientists would previously not have expected that such a population would have the time or the organisation to build and dig the huge symbols.
“The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects — like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs — has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organization as one that predates settled and civilized societies,” Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg, told the New York Times.
It isn’t clear whether the creations were created as an early form of art, or for a practical function. They could have been solar observatories, some speculate, in a way similar to the theories that surround other ancient constructions like
Some of the strange theories have also proposed that the structures have something to do with aliens, or have been linked with Nazis because of the appearance of the swastika. While some of those can easily be rejected — the swastika was used in a wide range of contexts before Hitler — others are harder to dismiss because so little is known about how the finds came about.
Read the original
article on The Independent.
Copyright 2015. Follow The Independent on Twitter.
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Kentucky again to challenge for NCAA Basketball National Championship
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Jamal
Bad News for UK Haters
What we learned from Kentucky's first exhibition against Ottawa
Basketball season is back, folks!
Your Kentucky Wildcats took the
floor against Ottawa
University Kentucky
team.
These boys are hungry
If we saw one thing out of these kids tonight, it is
that these Wildcats play with energy, unselfishness and effort.
They've shown a will to learn and a hunger to become better. Most kids come
into Kentucky
with a set of skills that they use effectively. These kids seem to be
different; they allow Cal to work on them and
learn to play ways that Cal
knows will help them win basketball games.
Jamal Murray
is well deserving of #23
You can remember at the UK-UNC alumni game, Anthony
Davis went over to John Calipari and said, "you let him have
23?!?!" about Jamal Murray. Cal
responded with, "your number ain't retired yet! I hope he's better than
you so we can retire his instead of yours." Now, is anybody ever going to
be as good as Anthony
Davis was at Kentucky ?
Likely not, but Jamal Murray looked excellent tonight. Tallying up 17 points, 7
rebounds, and 6 assists at halftime, Murray
finished with 22 points, 12 rebounds, and 9 assists for a near triple double.
Cal is
looking rather spry
Over the years, it's been noticeable how much the stress
of leading Kentucky
can have on a person. Lately, we've seen Cal growing gray hair, showing those aging
aspects. Today, he looked a little different. A full head of black Italian
hair, a lot of energy, turning the clock back a little bit, probably because
this is the most fun he's ever had with a basketball team. Cal has guys that play to the same style he
loves for really the first time in his career. Cal always preaches for his kids to have
fun; it's nice to see the ol' coach having a little fun himself.
The guards will get to the rim
Coach Calipari loves for his players to get to the rim,
especially his backcourt players. Over the years, Cal has had mostly guards that do work
outside of the paint. Not this group of kids; Tyler Ulis,
Isaiah Briscoe and Jamal Murray love attacking the rim and are so
good when they get there. With 66 points in the paint, 26 fast break points and
32 assists tonight, this has the looking of a team that is absolutely perfect
for Calipari's scheme. That is scary to think about.
Alex still isn't all the way back
As we thought would be the case, senior forward Alex
Poythress clearly isn't all the way back from his ACL rehab. Anytime you're
dealing with a ligament tear, it's going to be a long road to recovery, and
while Poythress showed flashes of his beastly self, it was clear he's not all
the way back yet.
That's also why junior Marcus
Lee got the start at the 4 spot over Poythress. It may end being where
Poythress coming off the bench as the sixth man is best for this team, and as
long as Poythress gets back to 100%, this will be a true championship
contender.
Different team, same fundamentals
A lot of new faces are coming into Kentucky
this year, but tonight's game made it appear evident that it's going to be a
lot of the same fundamentals as it always is in Lexington moving forward. Kentucky's going to
play stout defense, garnering 9 blocks, 10 steals and holding the opponent to
26%FG shooting. They're going to throw lobs and slam them as Marcus
Lee and Skal Labissiere did numerous times tonight. They're also going to
stretch it behind the three point line, going 12-22 from range today
with Tyler and Murray making 4 each. The bench is going to deep as well, just
like last year; the bench unit provided 39 points today.
Overall, a great first performance by your Kentucky
Wildcats. This team looks like it's going to be very good in hopes for our
ninth national title.
Kentucky
Wildcats Basketball No. 1 in Preseason Top 25 Poll
The Kentucky
Wildcats will likely once again have one of the best teams in college
basketball when the upcoming season begins.
While the 2015-16 season doesn't open for another two
months, UK
is already having high expectations placed upon them with top-five rankings in
just about every preseason poll you'll find. That's the case with Athlon
Sports, who have the Cats No. 1 in their preseason top 25:
The Wildcats might not challenge 40-0 again, but Tyler
Ulis, Skal Labissiere and Jamal Murray should contend for the Final Four.
Here is the entire Athlon Sports 2015-16 College
Basketball Preseason Top 25:
1 Kentucky
2 Duke
3 North
Carolina
4 Maryland
5 Virginia
6 Kansas
7 Iowa
State
8 Arizona
9 Oklahoma .
10 Villanova
11 Gonzaga
12 Michigan
State
13 Cal
14 Wichita
State
15 Vanderbilt
16 Purdue
17 Indiana
18 UConn
19 Wisconsin
20 Butler
21 Oregon
22 Michigan
23 Louisville
24 SMU
25 Texas
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NASA Brings Star Wars to reality with secret EM Drive Thruster - Warp Speed Breakthrough
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Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens to premiere December 18 while NASA cracks secret to interstellar space travel in labs!
NASA is believed to be testing a
Engineer Roger Shawyer’s controversial EM Drive thruster jets back into
relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratories
recently completed yet
another round of testing on the seemingly impossible tech. Though no
official peer-reviewed lab paper has been published yet, and NASA
institutes strict press release restrictions on the Eagleworks lab these days,
engineer Paul March took to the NASA Spaceflight forum to explain
the group’s findings. In essence, by utilizing an improved experimental
procedure, the team managed to mitigate some of the errors from prior tests —
yet still found signals of unexplained thrust.
Isaac Newton should be sweating.
Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, theEM Drive makes use of a magnetron and
microwaves to create a propellantless propulsion system. By pushing
microwaves into a closed, truncated cone and back towards the small end of said
cone, the drive creates the momentum and force necessary to propel a craft
forward. Because the system is a reactionless drive, it goes against humankind’s
fundamental comprehension of physics, hence its controversial nature.
On the NASA spaceflight forums, March revealed as much as he could about the advancements that have been made withEM
Drive and its relative technology. After
apologizing for not having the ability to share pictures or the supporting data
from a peer-reviewed lab paper, he starts by explaining (as straightforward as
rocket science can get) that the Eagleworks lab successfully built and
installed a 2nd generation magnetic damper which helps reduce stray magnetic
fields in a vacuum chamber. The addition reduced magnetic fields by an order of
magnitude inside the chamber, and also decreased Lorentz
force interactions.
However, despite ruling out Lorentz forces almost entirely, March still reported a contamination caused by thermal expansion. Unfortunately, this reported contamination proves even worse in a vacuum (i.e. outer space) due in large part to its inherently high level of insulation. To combat this, March acknowledged the team is now developing an advanced analytics tool to assist in the separation of the contamination, as well as an integrated test which aims to alleviate thermally induced errors altogether.
While these advancements and additions are no doubt a boon for continued research of the EM Drive, the fact that the machine still produced what March calls “anomalous thrust signals” is by far the test’s single biggest discovery. The reason why this thrust exists still confounds even the brightest rocket scientists in the world, but the recurring phenomenon of direction-based momentum does make theEM Drive appear less a combination of
errors and more like a legitimate answer to interstellar travel.
At this time, it’s unknown when Eagleworks Laboratories intends to officially publish its peer-reviewed paper, however, hearing of theEM Drive ’s
advancements from one of its top engineers bodes well for the future of this
fascinating tech.
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Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens to premiere December 18 while NASA cracks secret to interstellar space travel in labs!
NASA tests WARP DRIVE
NASA is believed to be testing a
Warp Drive
Tue, Nov 3,
2015, 10:31AM EST -
In a new round of testing, NASA confirms yet again that the 'impossible' EMdrive thruster works
By Rick Stella
Isaac Newton should be sweating.
Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, the
On the NASA spaceflight forums, March revealed as much as he could about the advancements that have been made with
However, despite ruling out Lorentz forces almost entirely, March still reported a contamination caused by thermal expansion. Unfortunately, this reported contamination proves even worse in a vacuum (i.e. outer space) due in large part to its inherently high level of insulation. To combat this, March acknowledged the team is now developing an advanced analytics tool to assist in the separation of the contamination, as well as an integrated test which aims to alleviate thermally induced errors altogether.
While these advancements and additions are no doubt a boon for continued research of the EM Drive, the fact that the machine still produced what March calls “anomalous thrust signals” is by far the test’s single biggest discovery. The reason why this thrust exists still confounds even the brightest rocket scientists in the world, but the recurring phenomenon of direction-based momentum does make the
At this time, it’s unknown when Eagleworks Laboratories intends to officially publish its peer-reviewed paper, however, hearing of the
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Monday, November 02, 2015
American Pharoah wins Breeders' Cup Classic by 6½ lengths in last race
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ESPN News
Associated Press October 31, 2015
LEXINGTON , Ky.
The Triple Crown champion won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic by 6½ lengths Saturday, taking charge out of the gate in his final race before retirement.
The 3-year-old colt ran 1¼ miles in a track-record 2:00.07 as the sentimental 3-5 favorite among the crowd of 50,155 at Keeneland. Fans stood 20-deep all along the rail, cheering and snapping cellphone photos of the superstar horse and jockey Victor Espinoza.
Except American Pharoah didn't hear them. He wears ear plugs to muffle any sounds that might startle him.
ESPN News
Associated Press October 31, 2015
The Triple Crown champion won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic by 6½ lengths Saturday, taking charge out of the gate in his final race before retirement.
The 3-year-old colt ran 1¼ miles in a track-record 2:00.07 as the sentimental 3-5 favorite among the crowd of 50,155 at Keeneland. Fans stood 20-deep all along the rail, cheering and snapping cellphone photos of the superstar horse and jockey Victor Espinoza.
Except American Pharoah didn't hear them. He wears ear plugs to muffle any sounds that might startle him.
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