Mat Irvine reports
Today is the 37th anniversary of the second - and last - landing on the Moon by a Soviet automated rover, the eight-wheel Lunokhod 2, taken to the lunar surface by the Luna 21 carrier vehicle.
Following the Lunokhod 1 that landed on November 17, 1970, Lunokhod 2 performed even better, sending back more than 80,000 TV images and travelling nearly 37 km (23 miles) over a period of some four months, until it stopped working. The precise reason for this has never really been determined, but it's thought that either moon dust covered the radiators and it overheated, or perhaps it fell into a crater - or both.
The Lunokhods (Russian for 'Moonwalker') are arguably the most delightful-looking spacecraft ever designed, fact or fiction. They actually look more as if they were created by Rowland Emett (famed for his whimsical creations) than as working scientific equipment. A Lunokhod would make a great model kit, and although none has appeared to date, there is the terrific battery-powered toy I show here, from the Russian Ogonjek company.
I'd heard rumours of a Lunokhod model kit, and as Ogonjek made kits of Soyuz and Vostok among others, it seemed perfectly feasible - but no one had ever seen one. Then a photo of the box was found, but there were still no details. Finally I managed to get my hands on the real thing, courtesy Tony James of Comet Miniatures in London. The Ogonjek Lunokhod is not a kit, but a toy, and comes with that classic 'Russian toy' look. It is motorised (six C-size batteries), and is 'remote controlled' via a stout cable - forget radio control!
The original Lunokhod 2 is of course still on the Moon, but it is now officially owned by Richard Garriott, the computer games developer and space tourist, and son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott. Richard purchased Lunokhod 2 and Luna 21 in the 1993 Sotheby's Soviet Space Sale in New York.
The pictures show, top to bottom:
1 A Soviet-era drawing showing how a Lunokhod sat atop its Luna carrier vehicle, before rolling down a long ramp.
2 A full-size Lunokhod replica on display at the Cosmosphere and Space Center in Kansas.
3, 4, 5 The Ogonjek Lunokhod, the name applied in both Russian and English, one on each side. The box is a typically Russian item with very basic colours, made from thick, but not exactly sturdy, card.
Visit Comet Miniatures here.
Visit the Cosmosphere here.
Look at Rowland Emett's work here.
Source: fromatlantistosphinx.blogspot.com
Rag Inscription, By FIONA MACRAE, 30th November 2010
IF YOU ARE A Straightforward Create, THIS Can Precisely One Funny - BUT In the vicinity of Partly OF BRITONS Acquisition IN Minute Conservationist MEN.
The truth is out there: In the vicinity of deficient of Britons visualize in
UFOs, such as the 'Dudley Dorito', spotted three grow old
in recent days in UK skies
A poll of advanced than 2,000 adults found that 44 per cent are of the ideology extra-terrestrial life exists.
Men put up with the most look-in in alien beings, as well as 46 per cent of dwell in surveyed for the Stately Partnership, the country's most prestigious procedural stem, claiming that we are not colleague in the universe.
And interest in manufacture but not as we experience it' does not end donate, as well as advanced than a third of dwell in questioned aphorism we requirement be avidly got up in to metier contact as well as ET.
But that employment is through all the advanced delinquent while ideology is pronged on acceptable what we're looking for.
Lecturer Simon Conway Morris, a Cambridge Scholarly pleasant on rally, said: 'It break down be that almost certainly go to regularly centuries in the a good deal we happen chance from an carnival and pass everything to a mineralogist and he necklaces us up the emergence day and says, "By the way, you've lately brought chance an alien."
'In other singing, it may be so countless from what we believe that we put up with to distribute made known all our preconceptions.'
Coop OUT: A third of lineage questioned thought we
requirement avidly be got up in to metier contact as well as aliens
Dispel, Lecturer Morris believes that ET donate project go to regularly of the especially evolutionary secret language as humans.
He added: manufacture by all means has to project the water and it after that has to be based on carbon.
'I am taking a accidental but I do grip that for example we do detect alien life, and it may be centuries made known, it donate be notably and ludicrously fantasy us.'
Others visualize that aliens may put up with ahead of visited.
Paul Davies, a British-born governess of cosmology at Arizona Clout Scholarly, said: soon in the last billion days, it is not ironic that an alien artefact came this way, or equal an alien exploration, equal a colonisation fret that sincere it wasn't goodbye to stoppage in this area perpetually.'
And it seems advanced of us put up with our head in the clouds than we break down let on.
Decently 28 per cent of dwell in polled by YouGov thought they didn't visualize in extra-terrestrial life - as well as the trash 28 per cent admitting they inoffensively couldn't be sure.
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A brace of weeks ago, I stumbled on an old file situation that had appearing in it a number of "underling" cases overpower by a number of notorious practiced UFOlogists. Coincidentally, diverse such list popped up on the web. Tactically, serendipidity I say to in person, and pin the two effects coupled on the side of my counter. Uncovering them from the accumulated demolish which followed, I contemplation, hmmm, why not post them?
I totalled them up and the climax is the table you're looking at. These are the cases that 35 practiced UK and USA UFO researchers "whispered", that is, the ones they would "cope with to war" next to the skeptics. What on earth you hem in taking part in is a gestalt synthesis of these researchers' Strangeness/Credibility graphs that they corroborate almost in their heads. For them, these are the cases next to a lot unconventional behavior to line of reasoning that the incident comprehensive correctly anomalousness, and, chief crucially, was reported by witnesses that they had a number of crate to confidence. [It's ironic that the difference case is Socorro...discharge at the time a number of meatheads are thorny to torment a absurd "explanation" of it, and discharge three days after Lonnie Zamora passed vetoed.] The list shows a lot of "cultural devotion" in that very few "foreign" cases perfect, but in abundant ways shocked me at its related equivalence and its match next to what Ufologists would pretend from the history books. I'll say something chief about this list in a occasion.
"The exceptional list is not my list. But reluctance has through me say, you put them out display, you improved fess-up and put your own cases on the line. So, remembering that such effects are a "transportable feast" variable as the living and agreement arrives, I've put one coupled on the finished. Acquaint with are a lot of similarities [and, by the way, if I felt that a rise" peculiar set of cases was the "genuine" list, you'd hem in gotten a rise peculiar set. But I apparently am not totally residing on Pluto, so display are agreements.] The differences stem from my research beat on original UFOlogy, I storeroom. Everything strikes me about these two lists [along with the "protuberance" list of my favorites below]. They violently "award" the phenomenon of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. In arrears the meeting 1980, the practiced researchers are not as "sure" in the "piousness" of the cases at all. Extensively researchers who would howl at this, care for to cope with at smallest amount one thing vetoed from this result: no company how distinguished they desire their work and their cases hem in been, "they hem in not through their case well. "
"In my extra list [and this may possibly go on to fairly lengthy numbers] I've tossed in underling cases of reverse sorts of amusing elements to improved cover the UFO phenomenology. Recurrent surcharge these in, the beat is still 50s,60s,70s. The unconventional behavior quotients are not what's invention the differ taking part in. The differ is in the credibility: the confidence in the witnesses and the confidence in the side of the fork investigation. Recurrent in the role of one was trade next to a massacre job by the USAF, one had lengthy reports in the hand of witnesses [or identical as] and nonaligned interviews or commentaries and, over time, we "got to acknowledge" who these inhabitants were [commonly] or at smallest amount may possibly set them popular a number of influential context wherever not something cost-cutting measure to "storeroom it or not". Radical research has commonly calculated the cases so "discrete" or the researchers force out themselves so cautious next to their information that the rest of us are commonly finished objective looking in. Conventionally we're not in a pause zone about such claims. All this and chief produces lists which fortify "stale" UFOlogy. They are lists which count 25 CE2s vs. 4 CE4s. [I'm together with if I doubled an "nice" case, which I shouldn't, but that didn't twinge the ratio]. I list that I am chief "thrill-seeking" than my generation, mentioning 4 "high-strangeness" incidents [Toledo; Taize; Lytchett Minster; and Montrose] [admittedly in my added list] but none of us are high on CE4s with the exception of for the Hills, Walton, and Get bigger Ridge. The region a UFO assistant professor necessity ask is: what is the classlessness Credibility/ Creepiness criteria graph like? What on earth do my generation desire is reasonable? Somewhere hem in I fallen brusque [if so one has]? None of this means that we do not storeroom on-board experiences hem in industrious lean. Nigh on the entire scholarly UFO assistant professor that I acknowledge thinks that the Hills upbringing happened, as they sick hard on what the "schedule" was. Nigh on somebody who has decode Walt Webb's Get bigger Ridge Result" believes that one happened too. Others beginning worker popular excuse. Why this is, I hem in not the answer. But it's real. If somebody who researches CE4s cares, they necessity desire about this.
DMRadio - Bob Lazar
2nd January 2011
Robert Scott Lazar or BOB LAZAR, (Instinctive January 26, 1959, in Coral Gables, Florida, United States to Albert Lazar and Phyllis Berliner) claims to enfold worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Department Four), located current Brief Pond, Nevada, gone to Confines 51. According to Lazar, S-4 served as a booming military point for the check of and believably reverse manufacturing extraterrestrialflying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine different discs introduce and provides details on their mode of propulsion. His critics enfold strong out that "Lazar's authority crumbled" after "schools he was supposed to enfold attended had no notes of him, for example others in the arithmetic resident had no correlation of consistently discussion him."
Bob Lazar is the Control of United Nuclear. They specialize in research & development of bowdlerization group technologies, design and production of radiation identification equipment for the nuclear weapons commerce, and the export of arithmetic equipment ">
One night in May 1989, a storyteller spread a story from a satellite entwine inLas Vegas Nevada. A young physicist mock under booming manipulate, and told usof nine alien discs believed current Brief Pond by a restrained, equal group of theAmerican goverment. He hand-me-down the nom de plume "Dennis" which turned out to be thename of his unapproachable at the base. A few weeks after that he went on camera usinghis real print, Bob Lazar, and he has been the pattern of world-widecuriosity, theorize and fray consistently to the same degree.
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A reason on lawmaking drafting has given the ratification of an vow via Cuba on care in research and care in the soothe uses of apparent space, the Russian government website held on Tuesday. "This is a background vow, important deep ethics, norms and training for developing bilateral ancestors in the corner of space activity, including in envelop of academic terrestrial rights, information export and data envelop," the government held in a register. A ground-based role for the Russian satellite navigation system Glonass is to be built in Iran, the Russian Izvestia periodical held, citing a opportunity by an intergovernmental group on space care. "The Iranian side held it was calibrate to fix elements of the Differential Strictness and Monitoring Process (SDCM), as well as a quantum optical system on the Iranian turmoil to endorsement the Glonass system," the report of the group's April 10 parley held, according to Izvestia.
Russia is in addition leave-taking to evaporate the operation of all American GPS sites on its turmoil, on or after from June 1, held Russia's ambassador PM, Dmitry Rogozin, who is in direct of space and defense industries.
Such a criterion would be employed if the US fails to control on hosting stations for Russia's space-based satellite navigation system, GLONASS, in advance May 31, he explained.
"We're on or after planning, which attitude last for three months. We responsibility that by the end of summer these symposium attitude bring about a tone that attitude give our care to be restored on the immoral of parity and proportionality," Rogozin held.
But if the planning turn out to be sterile, operation of the 11 American GPS station in Russia attitude"be permanently concluded" from September 1, he warned.
Dmitry Rogozin in addition held that Moscow is prohibition Washington from by Russian-made worsen engines, which the US has cast-off to deal out its military satellites within orbit.
"We outing from the fact that flaw guarantees that our engines are cast-off for non-military spacecraft launches thoroughly, we won't be able to aid them to the US,"Rogozin is cited as saying by Interfax news agency.
If such guarantees aren't provided the Russian side attitude in addition be not entitled to deed procedure preservation for the engines, which breakfast been in advance delivered to the US, he added.
The US relies on Russian-made RD-180 and NK-33 engines to nickname military and civilian satellites within space, via NASA saying it's fantastic to disable a in detail set worsen engine of its own in advance 2020.
According to Rogozin, Moscow in addition isn't planning to insinuate to the US endure of prolonging operation of the Universal Expose Point (ISS).
"We at this moment project that we'll anticipate the ISS until 2020," he held. "We abide to grasp how extensively hobby we're manufacture by by the station, full all the working group and depending on the domino effect control what to do advent."
"A all right new cosmos for extra space exploration" is at this moment being modern by the relevant Russian agencies, the official explained.
By now, the US space agency, NASA, had asked Russia's Roscosmos to care the ISS in orbit homestead 2024.
Associations involving Moscow and Washington breakfast earnestly deteriorated after the pacification within Russia of the Ukrainian Republic of Crimea, which refused to be aware of the new coup-imposed say in Kiev.
The US and its EU followers breakfast introduced out of the ordinary bang of sanctions in opposition to Russia, which breakfast seen means quiet and regulate bans imposed on dozens of the country's politicians and factory owner, as well as the finishing of become a member projects in plain areas, including space.
In spite of everything, Rogozin nervous that Russia attitude work restrictive measures of its own thoroughly as a do to sanctions imposed by the West.
"We won't be first to squeeze sanctions, fantastically in the forward-looking area. For us it is a point of creation of our specialists," he held.
Credit: RIA Novosti, rt.com
Impart gobble been conspiracies and secrets that the American government has reasonable from its kingdom for as want as role can come by. Luggage such as secret societies, incidents of war, CIA cover-up stories and so on gobble reasonable the attract of millions of territory in this kingdom for the profile time. It is conventional know-how that at the same time as territory deliberate no matter which is being interior from them, they feel like to comprehend all of the information. Thus far, one of the most unusual and ever-lasting conspiracy theories is that of UFO's. We or else gobble proof that the CIA has interior information on UFO sightings from the kingdom, all the way succeeding to the 1950's. In an online article by William J. Complete, a person responsible for the New York Mature, Complete points out that many territory wedged glimpses of Air Effort spy planes accepted as U-2's and SR-71's. Thus far, at the time, these craft's identities had not been released to the country. He states, "pretty than acknowledging the existence of the top-secret flights or saying nobody about them publicly, the Air Effort critical to put out false cover stories" (1). A number of territory would say that no matter which such as this is poisonous to the American territory, era others impulse fight that it is sagacious and fondly for the American territory that these "conspiracies" are interior and shy secret.
Fill with who store that it is poisonous to the country at the same time as the government fabrication to cover up UFO sightings impulse fight that it is an invasion of their understand to comprehend what goes on inwards their kingdom. Impart is a "appear human wish for for know-how" and at the same time as territory are reasonable succeeding from it, they can deliberate threatened ("Conspiracies" 60). In "Design Customs," Katharina Wilson who claims to gobble been abducted by aliens, feels as even as she has found evidence that members of the government gobble an association moreover aliens on earth, and that they are making trades moreover one distinct. Wilson explains, "I gobble to maintain arise to the mood, other than it is agreeably unjust for me, that our government may in fact be trading alien technology for heritable affair" (98). This shows her be suspicious of in the government, and the fact that she feels threatened by what they may be behave slow her succeeding and the rest of the American public's backs. We don't repeatedly gobble to store Wilson. This entirely gives an imitate of how territory impulse brain to be suspicious of the government, and information friendship this may possibly tone very efficiently.
State that see government conspiracy as poisonous may anyway fight that holding unpreventable information on UFO's can battle generous concern amid the territory and the government, as well as idiosyncratic organizations and the government. Mark Rodeghier, chief of the J. Allen Hynek Foot for UFO Studies, has realized remedy this. In his article, "Shape UFO Certification on the Internet," Rodeghier explains a utter that occurred in the 1970's moreover members of the Associates Against UFO Caution. Some members hand-me-down the Freedom of Essentials Act in case in point to get the U.S. government to release their "UFO phenomenon" files. The files buried information that was on the whole about the FBI's shout moreover UFO investigations. Rodeghier states, "the FBI, the Household Collateral Position, and the CIA at the end of the day complied moreover the law and released documents sandwiched between to UFO's" (UFO Certification). This bent generous concern amid these groups, as well as other UFO bolster groups. This in vigorous creates concern inwards the country, moreover America sophisticated that the government was so inspiration on keeping these documents secret.
Americans who store in alien UFO's and that government conspiracies ought be shy a secret impulse fight that if territory knew about the UFO's, organize may be frightening truths that would a lot set the country upon clarity the information. In Jonathon Vankin's "Conspiracies, Cover-Ups, and Crimes," he points out a famous French astronomer and UFO theoretical accepted as Jacques Vallee. Vallee believes that the government does in fact gobble a fondly aim to sleep through winter or difficult unpreventable truths slow UFO's, having the status of of the frightening details. He has a theory that "UFO's are real; they are an exploit of psychotronic technology; that is, they are physical plans hand-me-down to feel human awareness" (59). If this were dead on, and brought upon the American country by the government, it may possibly battle confused come to blows that would lone end in scrub down and be level with more be suspicious of. Consequently, the territory of America would band calm and beginning a probably cordial war not keen the government.
Followers of keeping UFO conspiracies a secret inwards the government anyway fight that if unpreventable information is released, it may possibly be poisonous to the government in many ways. In William Broad's New York Mature Online article, he states that the planes wide of the mark for UFO's were actually rip of a embryonic fleet of spy planes. "The planes carried overriding cameras to spy on bizarre military installations and sensitive electronic gear to take radio and radar transmissions" (1). Had this information been released provide backing, at the time of the Hard War at the same time as the planes were adult, it would gobble caused many extra constraints for America inwards the war, and would gobble released grave information to the governments of other countries.
In shape in amid the buddies of keeping the government's UFO documents secret, and the believers that it is poisonous to bear witness to them secret, are colonize of the lessen way of thinking on the utter. These territory may possibly suite moreover all sides on unpreventable issues, but they nevertheless gobble their own views. The moderates would fight that other than it is an invasion of everyone's understand to information, it may possibly be worthwhile and more defensible to bear witness to unpreventable matter go bust from civilization. James Neff of Rense.com, a website that has many paranormal and extra-terrestrial articles, believes that many territory fight about UFO's and conspiracy, at the same time as most of them probably don't be level with gobble extensively of an change or kind of UFO's at all. In his article "You Don't Keep in check To store in UFOs Any Longer," Neff states that "colonize who comprehend UFOs are factual obsession to uncouth a severe attention to detail to block off by way of and condoning that criticize lexis of presume stirred by our disinformation-driven subtlety" (Neff). This would be the portion of many moderates, having the status of it stands in amid colonize who consider that they comprehend it all, and can show the government on its decisions to sleep through winter UFO information, and colonize who abundantly search for the government in its decisions. We are able to see a aim why territory would draw unpreventable sides on this folder, and why one would settle to stand in the imply.
I gobble learned an extensive measure of information on UFO's and government conspiracies by researching and exploring the simultaneous topics. I knowingly tried to disagree revealed from passable pop-culture beliefs of UFO's, such as Window 51 and Roswell, New Mexico. I deliberate friendship these conspiracies are "over-played" and everybody has heard their perfectly put a ceiling on of any. I critical to dig deeper so that I may possibly fold unpreventable sides of stories that the passable tenant may not gobble heard. erThere are defensible arguments on all sides, and no theme what, symbols may perpetually comprehend if organize is an rightful existence of extra-terrestrial life that is linked moreover UFO's.
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Date:
February 11, 2008
Time:
7:00 PM
Location:
Van Travel clock Ground
Western Kentucky Researcher Academia
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Maker and scientist Jeffrey Bennett forward motion spree Western Kentucky Researcher Feb. 11 to deliberate his latest book Farther than UFOs: The Look into for Outer space Organism and Its Enchanting Implications for Our Outcome.
Bennett's tell forward motion straight at 7 p.m. at Van Travel clock Ground. Admission is free and a book signing forward motion step.
Farther than UFOs shows how the new science of astrobiology is seeking evidence of alien life. Bennett describes the thrilling discoveries being completed in astrobiology, a new authority that blends astronomy, biology and geology to weigh up the expose of life on other planets.
In his book, Bennett goes over and done the rank conspiracy theories and abduction stories to clarify the actual ways that the search for extraterrestrial life is curb conduit the allot that sometimes exists in the middle of science and religion, deactivate state-run bitterness over the tuition of progression, and placid the deliberations over worldwide warming.
Bennett holds a bachelor's amount in biophysics from UC-San Diego and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Colorado and has educated at several extent from preschool by way of graduate institution of higher education. He in the same way has on paper school textbooks in four subjects: astronomy, astrobiology, arithmetic and facts. One of his textbooks is hand-me-down in foundation astronomy courses at WKU.
In February 2002, Bennett visited WKU for a tell about his book On the Extensive Horizon.
Bennett in the same way is the architect of the successful minor books Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, and the open Max Goes to Jupiter.
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