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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31169225

The artificial blood is created by extracting hemoglobin — a protein containing iron that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in red blood cells — from expired donor blood. It is then encased in a protective shell to create stable, virus-free artificial red blood cells. As these artificial cells have no blood type, there is no need for compatibility testing. The synthetic blood can reportedly be stored for up to two years at room temperature and five years under refrigeration.

My intent here is to introduce new people to Fate with something kind of familiar. I think T2 works because it has a tight, well-characterized, and competent cast. So, I've set up a campaign that starts at the psych ward, with the scene of rescuing Sarah from the T-1000.

I've got Sarah set up with:

High concept

Freedom fighter for the future

Trouble

Haunted by knowledge of future past

Aspects

• Trusting Technology is a dangerous mistake

• John is the future

• You can't save everyone. I know.

John Connor:

High Concept

Destined to be the leader of the resistance

Trouble

Everyone's got it out for me

Aspects

• The Terminator is more than just a machine to me

• No Fate but what we make (Sarah's relationship aspect)

• I know I can save everyone

The Terminator:

High Concept

Killing machine sent back in time to protect

Trouble

Human calculations are not part of my programming

Aspects

• I must protect and obey John, always.

• Sarah is more dangerous than she thinks

• I know what Skynet knows

I still need to build out stunts and stay blocks and stuff, but I've got some other scenes and aspects for those scenes set up. I'd really appreciate any feedback anyone could offer me at this stage.

This and the "beep beep beep" deer are deer classics for me

Let's suppose we have a wish granting genie that gives us a working Alcubierre drive. The drive is turned on and the bubble is staying stationary to our frame of reference (so, it's turned on on our imaginary helipad and it's just sitting there). What could an outside observer expect to see when they look at the bubble? I.e. would light get redshifted or distorted, since it has to pass through space that's expanding faster than the surrounding space? If I shine a laser pointer directly at the bubble, does it lens around the bubble and stroke the far wall, or will it pass through and strike what's inside? Further, could one expect any ill effects from approaching or passing through the bubble, or would that even be possible? Would an Alcubierre drive in motion create a gravitational wave or something very much like it, since it works by distorting space?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62373168

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted. In the post, which Reuters saw before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge "obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week."

A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.

This is a thread to provide easy access to UAP disclosure information, including congressional hearings. The resources will be indexed first by date, from least to most recent. For material that may be missing a date, I will add a secondary index when the need arises. For the purposes of the thread, I'm only going to list content that is accessible at no cost.

April 27 2020 Navy 'Go Fast' video: https://youtu.be/YPcgSliHp5Y

April 27 2020 Navy 'Gimbal' video: https://youtu.be/QKHg-vnTFsM

July 26 2023 hearing in Congress: https://www.youtube.com/live/Glw76YKuWCY

Nov 13 2024 congressional house oversight hearing: https://youtu.be/Z5tzv0Mk7as

Please comment with any additional disclosure resources you'd like to see listed.

Didn't see this UFO, but I'm kind of sort of not godawful at landscape, and figured I'd try actually making the icon for the lemmy UAP community I made instead of relying on slop. Came out alright, I guess, at least as good as slop imo.

Happy Wednesday, everyone! This is your weekly invitation to share what's weird in your life. I'm kicking it off this week with the epic of HumperMonkey, one of my all-time favorite spooky tales from the internet.

Wow, you managed to see a UAP! What now?

Well, this guide is here to help. With any luck, you will have read it before, remembered its advice, and jotted down some notes to make sure you didn't lose any details. The best way to contribute to UAP investigation is to do your best to record objective facts alongside your subjective observations, and to record them as early as possible.

Start with:

• Date and Time (or best approximation)
• Location (or best approximation)
• What you observed with each of your five senses. Visual tends to be very important, and will usually offer the best details for distinguishing from aircraft or drones.
• If other people were with you, get them to write down what they observed with their five senses as well.

More advanced:

• Have a camera with you? Great! Make a note of the settings you used when you took the picture, as well as the device itself and any lenses or filters you may have been using. I've seen really interesting analysis done that was able to use the shutter speed of a camera to estimate UAP speed. Many smartphones also offer optical zoom these days.
• Have binoculars with you? Amazing! Try bracing against something to stabilize your view. Low-power, wide-aperture binoculars like 7x50s will be your best bet for getting a better look without being too unwieldy.
• You can estimate the alt-az (altazimuth) coordinates of where you observed the object, its track along the sky, and where you stopped observing the object. This, along with time and date and location, could prove highly valuable in helping to distinguish the observation from drones or other aircraft.

To estimate azimuth (the compass direction you're facing), I would recommend starting with an app called Stellarium (it's free and actually super cool) to help you find Polaris, the north star, if you're in the northern hemisphere. From Polaris, you can use the above chart to roughly estimate your azimuth positions. Simply rotate your hand ninety degrees and then estimate the degrees from the horizon to estimate altitude. The combined coordinates will give you altazimuth, which, together with date and time and location, can help investigators compare against public flight records and astronomical phenomenon.

• Additionally, make a note of the weather. If it was dark outside, note how clearly you could see the stars (i.e. were the stars twinkling strongly or not at all; how many stars in Ursa Minor could you see? If you can only see polaris, or not even polaris, that suggests poor sky transparency or high light pollution.

• Consider making a report to NUFORC: https://nuforc.org/

Some quick rule-outs to consider: NUFORC has a really useful guideline here:

https://nuforc.org/report-a-ufo/

But at a glance, consider:

• Venus: Venus is responsible for something like 33% of all UAP reports, because it's very bright and attention-getting. Check Stellarium. If the bright light was in the West for up to an hour or two before or after sunset, or in the east up to an hour or two before or after sunrise, that could very well have just been Venus punking you.
• Planes and drones: FAA requires that all operating aircraft use navigation lights, which are red on the left side of the aircraft, green on the right, and white on the tail. Aircraft will also use a strobe when taking off and landing, and may do so under 10,000 ft. Drones use similar nav lights, but are required to use bright red or white strobes at night as anti-collision lights.
• Starlink Constellation / LEO satellites: Increasingly, LEO satellites are polluting the sky with bright reflections. They're much more prominent at night, but have been seen during the day. Starlink in particular has been responsible for many reports due to its visually striking appearance; Starlink constellations appear as a series of lights moving in a single-file straight line across the sky. While Stellarium is another useful tool to double check, generally speaking, if it moved across the sky in a constant direction and constant speed, that's a pretty good candidate for a satellite.

Happy hunting!

I mean, it's a dude looking at pixels on google earth. It's hard to be sure, and there's nothing else really but conjecture to support the claim. Thoughts? Ideas on how to confirm or refute this?

Hey everybody, I know it's a little late, but I wasn't really sure how the weather was going to be until a little while ago. I'd like to invite you all to join me in looking at the sky tonight. What's on the menu:

• The full moon is going to steal the show tonight, of course. I may spend some time gawking at it.

• globular clusters: I've been having a hell of a time catching M3, but I'm going to try again tonight. I'm also going to attempt M53. I'm kind of hoping that coma berineces will be able to point me to my targets. I may also attempt M67 in Cancer.

• galaxies: probably not tonight with the full moon. I know it's doable, but I have a hard enough time with them as it is.

I'll share my findings later!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60439802

A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

Welcome to weird Wednesdays- UFO edition! Today, I'm sharing a three hour interview with one of the UAP disclosure folks. He's leading project skywatcher, which is an effort try and capture more definitive evidence surrounding UAP, and claims to have worked with people involved in the legacy crash recovery program. The interview has the level, calm pace of an intelligent discussion, and makes for good background listening, I think.

I personally don't have anything too exciting to report on the UFO/UAP front, though I had I guess what you'd call a near miss once. The story goes that I was out in my back yard, using my telescope to oggle the moon when I saw a flat disc zoom from left to right across my field of view in a fraction of a second. I've always been a UFO lore enjoyer, so I was JAZZED that I saw a literal flying saucer until I looked up from the scope to try and see it with my naked eye and saw it was a passenger jet. I was just zoomed in enough that the apparent motion of the jet was massively increased and the image appeared stretched and smoothed to my eye.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59942164

I thought it might have died in there, since I watched it for a good two minutes with no movement. It turns out that "passing out" in flowers is a thing that bees do sometimes.

I thought it might have died in there, since I watched it for a good two minutes with no movement. It turns out that "passing out" in flowers is a thing that bees do sometimes.

Hey, so, I'm interested in learning what a decolonization platform would look like in the US. Are there meaningful measures that have passed, and what were their outcomes? What are some of the more popular or more practical decolonization policies?

Hey everyone! I'm ruminating on running for my local state assembly seat or city council (leaning towards city council, I don't have any name recognition or political network to support an assembly seat run, so it'd be a hot mess probably). Around here, candidates typically run on pro-farm, pro-family, pro-cop, tough on crime platforms. I'm intending to run on a platform that focuses heavily on lowering the cost of living through policy choices. I think it can work specifically because this area is not very economically advantaged, and the cost of living has gone from bad to berserk in the last five years; meanwhile, there's really not that much crime here.

So, the platform goes like this:

• Ditch your car payment! I want to build world-class bicycle lanes and useful, predictable public transit that will help you travel in much greater comfort for a fraction of the cost of car ownership.

• • We'll achieve this goal by establishing transit-oriented zoning along our arterial streets that sets minimum density requirements, parking maximums and metered parking (60% goes to a special fund for the metered community to spend on improvements, 40% to the transit system directly, not one cent to the general fund), prioritizes pedestrian, public transit, and cyclist infrastructure, and sets up special taxes in the zone to sustainably grow our transit network.
• • No more bicycle gutters. All bike lanes will be class III or IV. The bicycle lane should be as safe for your kids to bike on as this sidewalk is for them to walk on.

• We will strive to have the most livable neighborhoods in the country. If you want bread, you won't need to spend gas to get it; if you want coffee, you won't have to drive to an overpriced big business. Buying the basic essentials or getting a small bite to eat will be no more difficult than walking to the end of your block.

• • we will do this via aggressive zoning reform. Not sexy, I know, just know three things:

1. No more parking minimums, period.
2. Allow small commercial (small grocers, small cafes) in all residential zones.
3. Re-zone the city so it's once again legal to build great places like main street.

• We're going to make sure that people can afford housing by building housing.

• • We're going to focus on tried and true historical forms of building, like over-under mid-rises, to make sure that everyone has a good place to live, whether you're a broke college kid, a family of six, or a senior on fixed income.

• We're going to balance the city budget by fighting sprawl. We will not annex one more acre until we know how that land is going to pay for the services it's going to consume. We're going to make sure that we're not wasting our valuable land burying it under parking lots and abandoned industrial parks; land will instead be used for housing, green spaces, and businesses to serve people.

Those are the key points I think will resonate most with people in my area, and align with important parts of my vision for our future. There's a few places where I've decided to be strategic about stuff so as not to scare people; most folks agree the cost of housing is too high, but most people also get freaked out when I start talking about bringing down home prices and building apartments instead of single family homes, for example. I'm still considering speaking plainly about it anyway.

Thoughts?