Andreas Fichtner strips a cable of its protective sheath, exposing a glass core thinner than a hair — a fragile, 4-kilometer-long fiber that’s about to be fused to another. It’s a fiddly task better suited to a lab, but Fichtner and his colleague Sara Klaasen are doing it atop a windy, frigid ice sheet. After a day’s labor, they have spliced together three segments, creating a 12.5-kilometer-long cable. It will stay buried in the snow…
Mars rovers that hunt for traces of life could ride on microbes without noticing them, according to a study by scientists at Cornell University (USA). A new study of the terrestrial desert shows that technology can not always detect signs of life even on the surface of our planet, not to mention Mars. The scientific article was published in the journal Nature Communications. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, there is an ancient delta called the Red…
An EM Pump produces an electromagnetic field that ghosts and other supernatural entities are said to be able to feed on allowing them to manifest or communicate. Like most ghost hunting gadgets, this devices isn’t guaranteed to increase paranormal activity, but their creators claim that if there is a ghost present that wants to communicate, it can draw on the energy radiated by this device to do so. The connection between ghosts and electromagnetism is…
The recent conjunction of Jupiter and Venus has had many people wondering if what they’re seeing in the sky is a legitimate UFO. A conjunction is when two celestial bodies, in this case the planets Jupiter and Venus, appear to be very close together from our viewpoint on Earth. The last time Jupiter and Venus were in conjunction was April 30th, 2022, and the next time they’ll be in conjunction is May 23rd, 2024; although…
Sorry that it’s been well over a month since I last posted. I felt like I just needed to step back from a lot of things lately and just to reset. I think your mind needs that once in a while, but I’m back and I have a good few emails to catch up on, posts and reviews to make. For my first post in a while I thought I would share this story. A military and…