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Pilot's Rare Trip Around Area 51 Includes Pics Of Range Targets, Drone Bases, UFO Legends
Link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32951/pilots-rare-trip-around-area-51-includes-pics-of-range-targets-drone-bases-ufo-legends
Our account and its accompanying gallery of private pilot Gabriel Zeifman's somewhat astonishing flight through the usually highly restricted Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), which includes shadowy bases like Area 51 and Tonopah Test Range Airport, and the Nevada Test Site, where hundreds of nuclear weapons were tested, drew fascination from readers all over the globe.
Papoose Lake. Located just to the southwest of Area 51, this is the place where Bob Lazar claims of having reversed engineered flying saucers in the 1980s while working inside a camouflaged facility called S-4 that was built into the side of a mountain.
The most impressive part of his route through the NTTR was the turn to the west, just south of the infamous impenetrable "box" of airspace that surrounds the clandestine flight test facility located at Groom Lake. This part of his flight took him directly over Papoose Lake and the hill that Lazar famously claimed had camouflaged hangar doors built into the side of it to hide from 1980s imaging satellite technology.
Scientists Determine How an Outer Space Object Got Shaped Like a Blunt
Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgez9x/scientists-determine-how-an-outer-space-object-got-shaped-like-a-blunt
ʻOumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered in our solar system, was whittled into its elongated shape by stellar tides, scientists say.
Two years ago, scientists found the first visitor from interstellar space ever spotted inside the solar system. The trajectory of the elongated object, named ʻOumuamua, showed that it originated in an unknown star system that must have ejected it a long time ago.
Since then, debates have raged about the formation of this blunt-shaped traveler, including speculation that it is a UFO (note: it’s not aliens).
“A unified formation theory has yet to comprehensively link all ‘Oumuamua’s puzzling characteristics,” said co-authors Yun Zhang, a planetary scientist at the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Douglas Lin, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz, in the study.
In order to square all of these unusual features, Zhang and Lin ran high-resolution computer simulations of various celestial bodies—such as comets, debris, or even planets—approaching stars. The results predicted that a star about half the size of the Sun could shred large objects into these fragments, some of which would have even more elongated axis ratios than ʻOumuamua (perhaps more of a joint shape than a blunt shape).
“Here we show by numerical simulations that ‘Oumuamua-like ISOs can be prolifically produced through extensive tidal fragmentation and ejected during close encounters of their volatile-rich parent bodies with their host stars,” the team added.
Paper “Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua)”
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1065-8.epdf?referrer_access_token=IOIO8tP7jn82vnWAU6EbntRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PM8SIvfz037oRtmowzq7mMXrnpoYsX80ITGV98IJg8w6D9enlpN20AEvdEd8pOZB-TFki7UX5wMOKtMcZ1dmZ0gvQzqg8d9JOjmZ8n3-fXSC1uJ1TrKalfLCTeaw732sN-ikeFHQc6Jlysv9znh_e5Mg_-JrEVSBjzBg-e-H5NVBwBPr2ChnNn2BidAEczu0ONkhMAV08Ft-K0MVJ9Fm7Hatal_VPQ1ojQBiB9Zg9OSp1BG4S90SdpARw-GX3MLlP8N8IIVWfF9IYjThSpM8DE&tracking_referrer=www.vice.com
The Mission NASA Doesn’t Want to Postpone
So far, the pandemic isn’t stopping the space agency from moving forward with a historic SpaceX launch next month.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/04/spacex-nasa-coronavirus-astronauts/609871/
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the United States, SpaceX, on NASA’s behalf, is preparing to launch astronauts from the shores of...