News 7 December 2022 Everyone knows the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, but what is rare in ancient Egypt is a Greek mummy. The leaders of the army of Alexander the Great became the leaders of Egypt and a few seemed to adopt the ancient Egyptian religion and a few even got mummified after they died. For a period of time the rulers of Egypt were not Egyptians but Greeks and many believe Cleopatra was actually Greek. A tomb was recently found with the mummy of a Greek and what made it even more interesting was the fact his nameplate was in the casket. He died during what is known as the Greco-Roman era. His name was Nikostratos and even more amazing was the tomb was raided and yet nothing of his was touched. Perhaps his body was considered to be cursed. Anyway, it certainly looks like this Greek believed the Egyptians had a religion which was more holy than the Greeks'. Some things never go away, and one of these things is the idea the Sasquatch is real. Sasquatch is also known as Bigfoot, and yes, the plural of Bigfoot is Bigfoots not Bigfeet, which makes things even stranger. It turns out there are people who live in Chautauqua County, New York who claim they are living in an area where the Bigfoots also live. They claim the creatures are living in the woods in their area. While the creature is said to be seen all over the world but by different names, we have yet to get definitive proof of its existence. There are quite a few people around the world building collections of what they believe is proof of the existence of UFOs. Most of the items are books on the subject which also contain accounts of sightings, and mysterious happenings. The real lucky ones might have some material connected with a UFO crash or landing, but rest assured while these people may be silent about their collections, the collections do exist. I knew of one person who had the means to purchase items that were out of the reach of the average person, and others who I suspected of having these types of collections. The Black Vault website is a good place to start if you want to start a collection. They are said to have hundreds of thousands of documents on line. The building of the world’s most powerful radio telescope array is being conducted in South Africa and Australia. In case you are wondering how can this be in two places at once, radio telescopes do not have to all be in the same place, they can still link together. It is being claimed this will allow the sites to cooperate to produce a detection instrument 1,000 times more powerful. This is one of the reasons I believe we never rebuilt the radio telescope at Arecibo Puerto Rico when it collapsed. Currently the Chinese have the biggest radio telescope but this will be far eclipsed by the new telescope which is made of many radio telescope units which can operate separately or be linked together as one huge radio telescope. The Orion capsule which was launched toward the moon had a problem. Some of the electrical switches turned off and had to be reset. NASA doesn’t want to talk much about this since the Artemis Rocket which launched it has been riddled with problems. It will be very important to find the cause of this problem, which was said to be fixed in flight by the way, before putting humans on the rocket and sending them into space. I have been interested in telescopes for most of my life and even had a professional made, beautiful 12 inch reflector I used for many years. Lately I have been wondering if there is some electronic way of increasing the sensitivity of these devices beyond what they already can do. Everything else in the world of devices which use electronics is shrinking in size while becoming more powerful, why not telescopes? Just recently it was announced a new approach will probably be able to boost the ability of large telescopes. Scientists want to integrate radio-holography into a cryogenic telescope instrument. It is a way to improve the performance of an antenna. The first trial will be to make the afterglow of the Big Bang which is said by some to have created the universe, much more noticeable. Cryogenic instruments operate at a very cold temperature. One contract which NASA has given out doesn’t seem to tell the entire story. They awarded a company 57 million dollars to build roads on the moon. Since it would probably cost more than that just to get to the moon, why would a company accept a contract like this? There seems to be more to this story we may not know. Also building roads would indicate NASA is planning to build a settlement of some kind, otherwise why the roads? One of the things which interests many people is a treasure hoard. It was announced a Viking treasure hoard was just found in Norway. Being from the Vikings makes it even more interesting. It was found by people doing metal detecting. First a ring was found, which must have wet the man’s appetite to do even more detecting and it paid off. He then found the hoard which consisted of many different silver objects including coins. When he dug up the objects, they were covered with so much clay he didn’t even know what he had discovered until he washed the objects off at home. Who says you have to win the lottery to become rich? Sometimes I cannot believe what scientists do and this is one of those times. Scientists have been reviving viruses which were trapped for thousands of years in the permafrost and they have said they are not worried. I don’t know how others feel about this, but having just gone through a pandemic, I am not happy to hear this. A very curious article was written about a scientific advance. The title was, how to fire projectiles through materials without breaking anything. Scientists discovered when they fired charged particles through materials the results were not always the same. Sometimes the material would have a hole in it, but other times it wouldn’t. They say they discovered why. They say the key is the material and the results are mostly different on the nano scale than the macro scale. Quantum computers just keep improving. It was announced a scalable quantum memory has been developed which has error correction and lasts over 2 seconds, which is a lifetime in quantum computing.
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