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Before television, people went to the cinema to watch the news and British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films…
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The filmmaker who leaked footage of UFOs swarming a Navy battleship off the coast of California in 2019 has released a pixelated clip of three mysterious lit-up objects flying above the USS Omaha. The footage, posted by Jeremy Corbell Tuesday evening, was purportedly filmed by military intelligence officials in a restricted warning area off the coast of San Diego on a summer evening, but was met with skepticism on social media by some who panned the quality of…
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My previous article was on the subject of small, mysterious objects seen in the skies for decades. Today, however, I’m going to foucus on huge UFOs: the exact opposite. So, let’s have a lok at some of the biggest UFOs out there. UFOs come in all sorts of shapes: flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, flying triangles, and rocket-like vehicles. And that’s just the start of it. There is also the matter of the sizes of some…
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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…
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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…