Parker Solar Probe’s Record-Breaking Journey, Mysterious X-ray Flares, and Solar Cycle’s Weather...
SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 03
Parker Solar Probe's Historic Journey
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made history by becoming the fastest man-made object, surviving a record-breaking close approach to the Sun's surface. The probe, travelling at an unprecedented speed of 155,520 kilometres per hour, flew just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun, providing invaluable data to help scientists understand the Sun's impacts on the solar system, including Earth. This mission marks a significant achievement in space exploration, shedding light on the Sun's mysterious processes and aiding in the search for habitable worlds beyond our planet.
Mystery of Ultra Luminous X-Ray Sources
Astronomers have detected unusual flaring activity in an ultra luminous X-ray source, challenging our understanding of these enigmatic cosmic phenomena. Observations reveal flux variations by up to a factor of six over a few hours, offering new insights into the nature of these powerful sources, which could be linked to feeding supermassive black holes or intermediate mass black holes.
Solar Cycle and La Niña Connection
A new study suggests a possible link between the Sun's 11-year solar cycle and Earth's La Niña weather patterns. The findings indicate that solar variability may drive seasonal weather changes, potentially improving predictions of major climatic events like El Niño and La Niña, which have significant impacts on global weather patterns.
January Skywatch
00:00 Stuart Gary talks about NASA's Parker Solar Probe and more
00:39 NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived its close approach to the sun on December 24
05:19 NASA's Parker Solar Probe is 3.8 million miles from the sun
10:52 Astronomers studying an ultra luminous X ray source have detected strange flaring activity
13:12 Solar variability may be driving seasonal weather variability here on Earth
17:19 New study suggests eating more fruits and vegetables could help reduce depression
19:35 A much anticipated United States Congressional hearing on UFOs turned out to be flop
25:23 A new paper claims that one of the biggest mysteries in science doesn't actually exist
35:55 If the universe has an energy field of the right kind, expansion can accelerate
42:59 New findings could provide fresh insights into the enigmatic planet's geological history
45:50 Scientists have identified a new genetic link to autism spectrum disorder
48:29 LG will release a fridge with a transparent OLED door
49:35 Nintendo has announced that it will launch its Nintendo Switch by March 31st
51:06 Microsoft have announced their own version of Apple's Mac Mini with ARM chips
52:25 A new study claims there's evidence for recent volcanic activity on Mars
56:11 Astronomers using radio telescope in Western Australia study supernova 1987A
01:04:08 What exactly caused 87A to go to a blue super giant phase
01:05:12 The long awaited inaugural flight of Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane is now expected
01:10:34 Canadian scientists compared prevalence and risk of mental disorders between trans and gender diverse people
01:12:49 Phoenix, Arizona named as America's top location for UFO sightings
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✍️ Episode References
NASA Parker Solar Probe
[NASA Parker Solar Probe](https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe)
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
[Johns Hopkins APL](https://www.jhuapl.edu/)
XMM-Newton Space Telescope
[XMM-Newton](https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton)
NuStar Space Telescope
[NuStar](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/main/index.html)
Chandra X-ray Observatory
[Chandra](https://chandra.harvard.edu/)
Swift Space Telescope
[Swift](https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
NGC 4559 Galaxy
[NGC 4559](https://www.constellation-guide.com/ngc-4559/)
Earth and Space Sciences Journal
[Earth and Space Sciences](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23335084)
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00:00 - Stuart Gary talks about NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and more
00:39 - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its close approach to the sun on December 24
05:19 - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is 3.8 million miles from the sun
10:52 - Astronomers studying an ultra luminous X ray source have detected strange flaring activity
13:12 - Solar variability may be driving seasonal weather variability here on Earth
17:19 - New study suggests eating more fruits and vegetables could help reduce depression
19:35 - A much anticipated United States Congressional hearing on UFOs turned out to be flop
25:23 - A new paper claims that one of the biggest mysteries in science doesn’t actually exist
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this is spacetime series 28 episode 3
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for broadcast on the 6th of January
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2025 coming up on SpaceTime more on the
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fastest man-made object in history
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NASA's Parker solar probe the mystery of
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ultra luminous x-ray sources and a
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possible link between the sun's solar
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cycle and the linia weather pattern all
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that and more coming up on
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SpaceTime welcome to SpaceTime with
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Stuart Gary
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[Music]
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Mission operations teams have confirmed
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NASA's mission to touch the sun has
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survived its record-breaking close
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approach to the solar surface on
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December 24th breaking its previous
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record by flying just 6.1 million Kil m
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above the sun's surface NASA's Parker
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solar probe hurdled through the solar
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atmosphere at a blazing
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155,50 120 kmph faster than any man-made
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object has ever moved a beacon tone
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received late on December the 26th by
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NASA's deep space Communications
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facility at tidb bill in near CRA
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confirmed the spacecraft had made it
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through its close encounter safely and
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was operating nominally the close flyby
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was the first of Mor to come at this
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this distance allowing the spacecraft to
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conduct unrivaled science measurements
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with the potential to change our
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understanding of our nearest star by
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studying the sun closeup scientists can
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better understand its impacts throughout
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the solar system including that on
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technology which we use daily here on
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Earth and in space it also allows
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astronomers to learn more about the
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workings of stars Across the Universe in
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order to Aid science's search for
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habitable worlds beyond our home planet
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but it hasn't been an easy job Journey
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Parker solar probe has spent the last 6
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years setting up for this moment
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launched back in 2018 the spacecraft U7
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flybys of Venus to gravitationally
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direct it ever closer to the Sun and
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with its last Venus flyby November the 6
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the spacecraft finally reached its
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optimal orbit the oval-shaped orbit
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brings Parker to an ideal distance from
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the Sun every 3 months close enough to
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study the stars mysterious processes but
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not too close to become overwhelmed by
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the the sun's heat and damaging
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radiation the spacecraft will remain in
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this orbit for the remainder of its
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primary Mission flying this close to the
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Sun Parker relies on a crucial carbon
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foam shield in order to protect it from
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the extreme heat of the upper solar
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atmosphere or Corona which can exceed a
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million de C in the hot but low density
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Corona Parker's Shield is heated to
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about 1,000° CS The Shield was designed
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to reach temperatures of 1500° C that's
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hot enough to melt steel while still
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keeping instruments behind it shaded at
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a comfortable room temperature of
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21° by flying through the solar Corona
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Parker solar probe can take measurements
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that help scientists better understand
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how this origion gets so hot it can
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trace the origins of the solar wind the
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constant flow of charged particles
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streaming out from the sun and it can
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discover how energetic particles are
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accelerated to almost half the speed of
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light previous passes have already aided
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scientists in understanding the sun when
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the spacecraft first passed into the
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solar atmosphere back in 2021 it found
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that the outer boundary of the coronal
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was wrinkled with spikes and valleys
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that's contrary to what was expected
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Parker also pinpointed the origin of
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important zigzag shaped structures in
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the solar wind known as switchbacks at
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the visible surface of the Sun the
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Photosphere since that initial pass into
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the Sun the spacecraft's been spending
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more and more time in the corona where
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most of the critical physical processes
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occur astronomers now understand the
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solar wind and its acceleration away
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from the Sun and this close approach has
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given them more data to understand how
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it's accelerated closer in Parker solar
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probes also made discoveries across the
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inner solar system observations showed
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how massive solar eruptions called
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coronal mass ejections vacuum up dust as
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they sweep across the solar system and
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other observations have revealed
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unexpected findings about solar
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energetic particles flybys of Venus have
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documented the planet's natural radio
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misss from its atmosphere as well as the
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first complete image of its orbital dust
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ring so far Park is still only
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transmitted that it's safe and operating
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nominally but soon it'll be far enough
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away from the Sun that it'll be able to
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down link all the data that's collected
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during this latest solar pass the data
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that will be coming down from the
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spacecraft will be fresh information
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about a place that we as Humanity have
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never been but which we rely on for our
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very
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existence this report from NASA TV in
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1958 scientists put a vision that we
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need to fly a spacecraft within the
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atmosphere of the Sun but it is so
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challenging extremely difficult to
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realize that it took us six decades to
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build a system that can fly safely and
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reliably within the atmosphere of a star
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3 2 1 Zer liftoff of the mighty Delta 4
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heavy rocket with NASA's Parker solar
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probe a daring mission to shed light on
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the mysteries of our closest star the
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sun it looked like we had a hit there
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for a
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second yes Nick uh I believe we do have
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a detection of Beacon tone
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one there it is see it there it
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is Parker solar probe is 3.8 3.8 3.8
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million miles from the surface of the
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Sun it is so incredible to just realize
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this is the moment that we designed this
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mission for 3.8 million miles may not
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sound that close but if I put the Sun
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and the Earth 1 M apart Parker solar
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probe would be 4 cm from the sun it's
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the closest human-made object to a star
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and also the fastest traveling at
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430,000 M an hour I mean we're flying
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through the atmosphere of a star that's
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not easy to do it's something we've
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never done
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before this is our first close encounter
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with a star and it's really just amazing
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this area that Parker is going into is
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just so crucial to our understanding of
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the Sun and its impact on the earth that
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solar interaction that space weather
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those billions of tons of material that
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the sun can throw at us interacts with
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our power grids can interact with our
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technology so it's really important to
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understand them at their source and how
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they get all that energy when we were
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thinking about designing a spacecraft to
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go to someplace that had never been
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before and it's actually going there to
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study the Sun and so you're kind of
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saying what am I designing what are the
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environments designing for it has to go
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from the deepest coldest space to a very
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warm area and keep everything working at
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a little bit above roof temperature it's
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designed to go to such an extreme
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environment you look at it and it
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doesn't quite look like most other
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spacecraft the whole thing is designed
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such such that the heat shield is taking
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most of the brunt of the heat of the Sun
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the heat shield will be at about,
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1800° Fahrenheit and it's protecting the
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spacecraft so the spacecraft is actually
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basically a room temperature this is
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such a great feat of engineering and it
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really shows how capable we are in space
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this is something that we've been
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wanting to do since 1958 when it was
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first mentioned and the technical
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problems that had to be overcome in
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order to achieve it it's just Monumental
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to be able to get a spacecraft this
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close to the Sun to get close to the
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sun is not easy it looks like from Earth
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to the Suns not that far uh the key
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issue is energy in order for Parker to
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get close to the sun we needed to lose a
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lot of Parker's speed possessed at
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Earth's orbit fortunately I was able to
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create a trajectory with seven Venus Fly
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by the mission uses Venus in order to
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actually change its angular momentum and
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slow down to actually go closer and
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closer to the sun over the course of
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about 6 years and the Seven flybys we
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were able to move closer to the Sun and
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each time unraveling a little bit more
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of the uh Mysteries of the Sun as we get
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data from places that no spacecraft has
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ever been
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before it's the only star in our galaxy
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that we can actually go visit and that's
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what makes makes it so magical by flying
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within the atmosphere of the sun we are
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basically tracing the Fingerprints of
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the physical mechanisms of the sun we
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now view the sun in a different way when
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you look at images from Parker solar Pro
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oh my goodness they are extremely
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extremely complex and that complexity
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for us it's a new science that we need
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to investigate we need to understand the
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things that we've learned over the years
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that Parker has been in orbit have been
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amazing they've challenged our ideas
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about how the solar wind is made about
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how the Sun Works about some of these
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fundamental things that are going on
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there's a lot of Pride and excitement uh
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for this closest approach so much effort
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and so many people have worked on this I
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think it really took the teamwork and
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Synergy of Engineers and scientists and
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um administrators and and a lot of
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different people to think this Mission
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up and in that report from n V we heard
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from Parker project scientist nor waafi
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from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
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laboratory NASA's science Mission
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directorate Chief Nikki Fox NASA's
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heliophysics director Joseph Westlake
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Kelly K also from NASA heliophysics and
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from John's Hopkins Applied Physics
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laboratory lead heat engineer Betsy
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cogden mission systems engineer John
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werzberger and Parker Mission engineer
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Yan pinga this is spacetime still to
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come astronomers to protect unusual
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flaring activity in a mysterious object
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known as an ultr luminous x-ray source
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and a possible link between the sun's
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solar cycle and Earth's Lear in your
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weather patterns all that and more still
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to come on
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SpaceTime astronomers studying a
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mysterious object known as an
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ultraluminous x-ray Source have detected
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strange flaring activity first
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discovered back in the 1980s by the
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Einstein Observatory ultraluminous x-ray
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sources are Point sources of intense
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x-ray energy they're less luminous than
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active Galactic nuclei which are caused
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by feeding super massive black holes but
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consistently more luminous than any
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known Stellar process although the Milky
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Way galaxy has no known ultraluminous
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x-ray sources most galaxies that have
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been studied surf have at least one and
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some of several astronomers used the xmm
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Newton Newar Chandra and Swift space
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telescopes to observe an ultraluminous
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x-ray Source known as X7 it's one of two
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ultraluminous x-ray sources the other
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designated X10 located in the
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intermittent spiral galaxy NGC 4559 some
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29 million light years away in the
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constellation coma brenes a report on
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the prepress physics website archive.org
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says x7s long term x-ray light curve
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shows flux variations up to a factor of
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six over just a few hours now this sort
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of activity wasn't seen in any earlier
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x-way observations of X7 and it
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manifests only when the source is at its
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highest observed luminosities during the
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peck of these flares the Luminosity was
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a factor of three higher than pre-flare
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Luminosity that indicates the maximum
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variability of the source conspan almost
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an order of magnitude right now
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astronomers think that most
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ultraluminous x-ray s ources are in fact
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background quazar powerful Jets produced
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by feeding super massive black holes but
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another source could be feeding
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intermediate Mass black holes while a
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third possibility are unusually bright
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Supernova remnants at least on short
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time scales this is spacetime still to
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come a possible link between the sun's
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solar cycle and Earth's learning your
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weather patterns and later in the
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science report the discovery of a
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spectacular 166 million year old
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dinosaur tra way in Oxfordshire all that
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and more still to come on
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SpaceTime a new study shows a
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correlation between the end of the Suns
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11U solar cycle and a switch from El
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Nino to Lino weather patn in the Pacific
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Ocean the the findings reported in the
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journal Earth and space Sciences suggest
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that solar variability may be driving
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seasonal weather variability here on
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Earth now if this connection holds up it
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could significantly improve the
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predictability of the largest El Nino
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and Lino weather events these have major
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seasonal climatic effects on Earth for
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example eastern Australia becomes drier
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and more drought prone during an elino
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while it becomes wetter and more flood
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prone during a Lino event and the
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Southern United States tends to be
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warmer and drier during linia or the
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northern us tends to be colder and
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wetter the sun's 11U solar cycle
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involves a regular polarity flip at the
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sun's magnetic field at solar minimum
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the Magnetic North Pole becomes magnetic
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South and the Magnetic South Pole
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becomes magnetic north and this
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coincides with a steady increase in
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sunspot activity solar flares and
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coronal mass ejections on the sun's
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surface these climax around solar
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maximum about 5 and 1 half years after
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solar minimum the violent upheaval then
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gradually dissipates as the sun moves
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back to solar minimum and the start of
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the next solar cycle the appearance and
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disappearance of sunspots the outwardly
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visible signs of solar variability have
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been observed by humans for hundreds of
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years the waxing and waning of the
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number of sunspots takes place over
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approximately 11e Cycles but these
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Cycles do not have distinct beginnings
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and ends this fuzziness in the length of
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any particular solar cycle has made it
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challenging for scientists to match up
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the 11year solar cycle with changes
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happening on Earth in this new study the
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authors rely on what they're describing
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as a more precise 22-year clock for
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solar activity this 22-year cycle begins
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when oppositely charged magnetic bands
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that wrap around the sun appear near the
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Stars polar latitudes now over the cycle
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these bands migrate towards the solar
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equator causing sunspots to appear as
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they travel across mid- latitude D the
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cycle ends when the bands meet in the
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middle mutually annihilating one another
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in what the authors are calling a
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Terminator event and it's these
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Terminators which provide exact guide
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posts for the end of one solar cycle and
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the beginning of the next the authors
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then impose these Terminator events
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oversee surface temperatures in the
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tropical Pacific stretching back to
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1960 amazingly they found that the five
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Terminator events that occur between
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that time and 2010 2011 all coincided
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with a flip from an El Nino when the
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central eastern Pacific Sea surface
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temperatures are warmer than average to
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a Lin when the central eastern Pacific
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Sea surface temperatures are cooler than
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average and the end of the most recent
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solar cycle 24 in 2019 also coincided
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with the beginning of a Lor event the
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authors then undertook a number of
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statistical analyses to determine the
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likelihood that this correlation was
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just a fluke finding there was only one
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in 5,000 chance or less of all five
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Terminator events included in the study
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randomly coinciding with the flipping
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ocean temperatures now that a sixth
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Terminator event and the corresponding
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start of the new solar cycle 25 in late
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2019 also coincided with a Lenor event
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the chances of it all being a random
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occurrence becomes even more remote
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while the authors haven't determined
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what causes this apparent correlation
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they're looking at the influence of the
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sun's magnetic field on the amount of
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cosmic rays that penetrate the solar
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system and ultimately bombard the Earth
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however a robust physical link between
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cosmic ray variations in climate has yet
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to be determined this is
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spacetime and time now to take a brief
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look at some of the other stories making
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new in science this week with a science
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report a new study has found increases
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in ambient air pollution ution
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especially if sustained for several days
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appears to correlate with a higher risk
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of hospitalization for people suffering
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from schizophrenia the findings reported
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in the Journal of the American Medical
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Association looked at over 800,000
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hospitalizations for schizophrenia in
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250 Chinese cities and short-term
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increases in a range of air pollutants
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scientists found the link was strongest
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for nitrogen dioxide pollution which
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could account for over 6% of
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hospitalizations the authors say that
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these short short-term relative
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increases rather than only absolute
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concentrations of air pollution should
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be factored in when targeting
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intervention
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strategies a new study suggest that
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eating more fruits and vegetables could
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help reduce depression although the
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benefits of high fruit and vegetable
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intake has previously been reported few
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Studies have focused on adults aged over
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45 the new research by the University of
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New South Wales assist associations
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between fruit and vegetable intake and
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depressive symptoms over 11 years in
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3,483 twins from Australia Denmark
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Sweden and the United States the
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findings published in the journal
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scientific reports shows that higher
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intakes of both fruit and vegetables
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were associated with lower symptoms of
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depression over time a low intake of
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fruit on average is considered to be 0.3
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serves per day while a low intake of
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vegetables is considered to be 0.5
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serves daily whereas high fruit intake
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was 2.1 serves per day and high
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vegetable int take was too serves daily
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interestingly the total fruit and
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vegetable consumption in the high
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category still fell notably below the
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dietary recommendations for most
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countries paleontologists have released
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details of a 166 million euro dinosaur
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trackway and covered in an Oxford she
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Limestone Quarry the footprints belong
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to a herbivorous ctsa surus caod and a
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Megalosaurus theropod carnivore and were
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made in what was once a warm shallow
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Lagoon they were discovered by a quarry
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worker clearing clay with a
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scientists have now Unearthed around 200
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large Footprints in five separate
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trackways in the Quarry stretching up to
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150 m in
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length well it seems a much anticipated
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United States Congressional hearing into
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evidence for the existence of
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unidentified anomalous phenoma has
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turned out to be a major flop with
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nothing but third person hearsay and
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vague unsubstantiated claims it was
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meant to be the big reveal were those
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behind all the UFO claims and there
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exposing the cover up would come forward
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and tell all under Congressional
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protection from prosecution hope for
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actual heart evidence such as the
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presentation of actual alien technology
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or firstperson testimony was
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nonexistant Tim mendum from a strange
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skeptic says he for one isn't surprised
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this is the latest Hearing in the US
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Congress the house Review Committee
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always sort of interviews all these
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different sort of government departments
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most countries have the say how are you
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going are you spending money correctly
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blah blah blah and so this one's popped
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up about UFOs same as one last year
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popped up about UFOs with people who are
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reasonable authorities at least in their
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proper career jobs the people who sound
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good retired rear Admiral I think was
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one of these speaking to this Congress
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committee about the UFO or UAP as it's
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called these days work that being
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undertaken by the government and these
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people always saying that the
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government's covering up they got the
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technology if worst case they got the
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alien bodies Etc and they're developing
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all these products and one day all of
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this is going to be revealed and the
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trouble is these people who do front up
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to Congress hearings Etc I don't think
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they've ever seen it but they've heard
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about it and so it's all third party
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third person testimony they don't but I
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know someone who did or I know someone
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and they know someone have seen an alien
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body or something UFA proponents have
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been talking this way for 70 years at
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any day now the evidence is going to be
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revealed and everyone would be shocked
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at the government cover up and that they
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really do have spaceships under the
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Nevada desert or something like that and
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it hasn't happened and this was no this
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was the great day for the big reveal and
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nothing was revealed it's just claims
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including some of the people who were
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there supposedly going to have a big
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reveal we're pointing out that yeah you
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know there's unidentified things out
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there but you know maybe they'll be
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identified and that's the whole problem
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that's what UFOs and uaps are they're
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unidentified and the only reason they
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being called up as aliens is because we
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don't know what they are they very well
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might be identified one day and most of
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these things are identified the vast
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majority but yep some will probably
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remain unidentified not enough witness
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testimony bit unreliable no record of
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them etc etc etc or just unclear vague
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sort of thing that they couldn't be
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identified unidentified this was a big
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thing UI Community saying fantastic it's
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all going to be revealed someone's going
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to drop the information on the on the
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desk in front of Congress and say here
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you go here's the evidence here's where
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it's at or the photos or whatever no
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didn't happen didn't happen last year
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hasn't happened anything definitive
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anything that hasn't been questioned for
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70 years and yet they keep saying any
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day now any day now it'll be revealed
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within 12 12 months and I've heard gilo
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people say that all the time and they
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always find excuses mainly because the
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government's cover up is very good or
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people are frightened to reveal the
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truth that they know because they're
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going to be sacked or intimidated or
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what or laughed at whatever that might
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be true also might be true that they
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don't know anything and there are people
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who making wild claims that they haven't
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then just substantiated journalists who
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saying it's off the Record or I don't
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want to reveal my sources Australian
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journalist who's been doing this for a
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couple of years pointing out that
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there's 11 12 13 enormous spaceships
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buried around the earth often with a big
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building on top of them um people were
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wondering where which buildings Etc and
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they did say not in the US so it might
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be under the Sydney Opera house or
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something or CERN in Europe or the
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Vatican or who knows what and all you
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have to do is ask well where are they
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surely we can sort of put a little hole
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down and find this things that oh no I
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can't do that because we reveal the
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sources don't reveal the sources just
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tell us where it is and then we can go
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and have a look is this enormous I mean
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really normous the are building siiz
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flying sources are buried somewhere they
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should be pretty easy to find but no 70
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years no evidence put forward always
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going to be any day now that excuse is
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used every time to raise journalists and
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raise the interest of newspapers and
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shock jocks and that sort of stuff
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course the latest ones are the drones
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flying over us bases that have been uh
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in the headlines of late and I looked at
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those pictures and straight away I said
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well that's a highflying airliner an
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Airbus or or a boing 737 or something
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and lo and behold a week later Mick West
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comes out with exactly the same
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conclusion so yes yeah yeah Mick W is
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very useful he did the same with the the
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famous Pentagon videos that were these
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Top Secret videos that everyone knew
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about and they were they finally
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released them and said here they are
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this is what some of our Pilots have
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seen I think Nick spent about five
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minutes on each of them and explain what
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they were so he it's very much worth
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seeking out mck west pedon don't want to
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admit anything because what it does it
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shows just how inefficient the most
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advanced Optical technology we have on
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our most advanced fighter jets really is
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yeah that's right yeah yeah it it it uh
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picks up a lot of things which they
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should know better as to what they are
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but the truth is out there and it's
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amazing actually some of these people in
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this latest Congress hearing said
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exactly that the truth is out there all
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we have to do is find it Well maybe the
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truth is not out there by saying this
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exists but I have no evidence for it
00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.510
doesn't mean it exists it just means
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that you don't know what you're talking
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about one thing I found through my many
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years on this planet studying you people
00:24:49.919 --> 00:24:52.470
is that most politicians and and most
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senior bureaucrats aren't playing some
00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.590
four-dimensional mavian chess game they
00:24:57.600 --> 00:24:59.350
really aren't that bright and they
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really are just doing the first thing
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that comes to mind yes that's right I
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mean the the people asking the questions
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at these Congress things you get both
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sort people asking with a Ry smile is
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this what you're claiming and someone
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else with their Wise Eyes Wide Open
00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:14.029
saying wow this must be true they do
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they run a gamut of brightness or lack
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of brightness and the people they're
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interviewing people who who are
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presenting giving evidence tend to have
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a bit better qualifications than the
00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:22.990
politicians do so naturally the
00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.029
politicians believe them that's Tim mum
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from Australian Skeptics
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