ALBUFEIRA

“A Verdade anda por aí à solta à nossa procura e nem sequer nos damos ao trabalho de a encontrar; do mesmo modo que os “Ficheiros Secretos” são apenas mais um instrumento de compreensão da realidade, apesar de continuarmos a viver na ilusão e completamente alienados”

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Parte da estrutura de um OVNI que recentemente deu à costa numa praia situada no concelho de Albufeira – provavelmente arrastado a partir do local da sua queda – descoberto ao fim do dia e por acaso, por alguns jovens aqui residentes

A maré tinha estado a encher desde a hora do almoço, nada fazendo prever a ocorrência de um acontecimento tão bizarro como este e fora dos parâmetros normais de partilha e aceitação. Com o mar ornamentado de carneirinhos e decorado com vagas sucessivas esticadas pela força do vento, bastou apenas a estes jovens turistas ocasionais e acidentais, desviar o seu olhar do percurso habitual e cronológico instituído, para deste modo poderem ver com lucidez e para lá das suas próprias palas de proteção, a realidade que diante deles se expunha e que muitos diziam não ver.

A forma cilíndrica do estranho objeto encontrado encalhado no areal desta praia nos arredores da cidade de Albufeira, fazia lembrar através da sua forma e dimensão, a ideia de se tratar de um componente parcial de uma mais vasta estrutura exterior ao nosso planeta, fazendo esta e por sua vez parte de uma outra megaestrutura tecnológica avançada, ligada ao setor dos transportes e comunicações.

O objetivo desta missão Exterior estaria numa tentativa de controlar a Terra, por simples aceitação das ações dos Invasores – um grupo de inocentes vê algo de estranho, diverte-se com aquilo que não consegue compreender e em seguida passa a pasta a outros, de modo a assim poder desculpar a sua ignorância e cansaço decadente, por utilização contratualizada de sucessivos caminhos de morte e de monotonia.

II

OVNI (canto superior esquerdo) avistado a partir de um avião a jacto da RYANAIR, numa viagem de passageiros efetuada recentemente entre o sul de Portugal e o Reino Unido, com alguns algarvios a bordo

O Algarve continua a ser um destino turístico de preferência para muitas comunidades do norte e centro da Europa. Por essa razão muitas companhias aéreas de baixo custo operando no espaço aéreo europeu, têm como uma das suas escalas operacionais e também mais lucrativas, o aeroporto situado na cidade de Faro, servindo como base de difusão turística por toda a região algarvia e zonas periféricas envolventes.

Na época alta é intenso o tráfego aéreo de e para Faro, com ligações diretas e indiretas para muitos destinos exteriores, sobretudo para as Ilhas Britânicas, Espanha e Alemanha e outros países do norte da Europa, como a Suécia e a Holanda.

É assim natural que entre os milhares de voos que ocorrem periodicamente, algo de imprevisto ou de estranho possa acontecer, como o visionamento por passageiros de um determinado voo programado, de um outro voo realizado no mesmo espaço ou em espaços contíguos, utilizando um meio de transporte similar a esse, mas desconhecido de fato e não previamente programado.

Na imagem acima, provavelmente um inglês ainda não curado da ressaca do dia anterior, após uma bebedeira repetida e prolongada numa rua da Oura e bestialmente acompanhada por uma insolação profunda sofrida nesse mesmo dia numa praia da zona, teve a capacidade intelectual de num momento de lucidez, pegar na sua máquina fotográfica e registar a passagem deste objeto não identificado pilotado por outro não identificado.

Mais um extraterrestre fazendo horas extraordinárias para a coligação e sem gratificação governamental – no espaço exterior pratica-se a partilha e não o pagamento do salário a um empregado!

No meu encontro imediato do 3.º grau com um ser extraterrestre que me apareceu um destes dias à noite num terreno com uma casa de que sou proprietário e onde tenho alguns cães a residir aos quais assiduamente lhes vou fazer companhia e dar de comer e situado na freguesia de Algoz, coloquei a esse ser estranho e desconhecido uma única questão que me atormentava há muito tempo e que me perseguia continuamente e sem descanso o pensamento, por razões de saúde pessoais e familiares.

O que comer para prevenir ou ajudar no combate à diabetes?

E após tradução por interpretação da comunicação disponibilizada pela entidade extraterrestre presente, ao seu descodificador, fiquei a saber seis coisas muito importantes: deve-se comer queijo, muitos frutos secos, ameixas, maçãs e ainda muitas verduras, tudo isto muito bem acompanhado pela ingestão moderada de álcool e do delicioso café.

RYANAIR seeks aircraft with wider doors to speed boarding

RYANAIR is at it again, this time turning heads with a plan to source aircraft with extra-wide doors, reports The Guardian.

The wider door would allow RYANAIR to get passengers on and off the plane more quickly, allowing the airline to reduce its turnaround times. Talks are underway with state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC)

"The Chinese are willing to listen to what we want," RYANAIR’s Chief Financial Officer, Howard Millar, told The Telegraph. “A plane manufactured by Boeing or Airbus is a one-size-fits-all. We want two people to walk through the door.”

RYANAIR is interested in COMAC's planned C919, which, as opposed to the 189-seat Boeing 737, holds 200 passengers.

This move is just the latest scheme in a long list of money-making ideas from RYANAIR. First, it considered removing toilets to make way for more seats. Then, there was the plan to charge passengers extra to sit in an exit row, which led to an investigation by aviation authorities. Most recently, RYANAIR announced it would print its in-flight magazine on thinner paper, cut the amount of ice brought on board, and reduce the weight of seats and carts.

Last year, RYANAIR proposed porn as the new in-flight entertainment. But, it also gave us the sexy flight crew calendar, which you can check out below.

Stone age poison pushes back dawn of ancient civilization 20,000 years

The late Stone Age may have had an earlier start in Africa than previously thought — by some 20,000 years.

A new analysis of artifacts from a cave in South Africa reveals that the residents were carving bone tools, using pigments, making beads and even using poison 44,000 years ago. These sorts of artifacts had previously been linked to the San culture, which was thought to have emerged around 20,000 years ago.

"Our research proves that the Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa far earlier than has been believed and occurred at about the same time as the arrival of modern humans in Europe," study researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, said in a statement.

The Later Stone Age in Africa occurred at the same time as Europe's Upper Paleolithic Period, when modern humans moved into Europe from Africa and met the Neanderthals about 45,000 years ago.

"The differences in technology and culture between the two areas are very strong, showing the people of the two regions chose very different paths to the evolution of technology and society," Villa said.

Hints of culture

Traces of civilization have been found going back nearly 80,000 years in Africa, but these fragments — bone tools, carved beads — vanish from the archaeological record by about 60,000 years ago.

In fact, almost nothing is known about what happened in Southern Africa between 40,000 and 20,000 years ago, Villa and his colleagues wrote online today (July 30) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This gap makes it hard to link middle-Stone Age societies to the ones that came later.

The researchers brought the latest in dating technology to bear on a site on the border of South Africa and Swaziland called Border Cave. They found that a number of the artifacts in the cave were much older than expected.

Ostrich eggshell beads, sharp bone points likely used for arrowheads, and notched bones were among the fragments of life dating back thousands of years before the San were thought to have emerged. One long-bone tool is decorated with a spiral incision that was then filled with red-clay pigment. A set of warthog or pig tusks shows signs of grinding and scraping. Other bones are marked with notches, as if they were used to keep a tally of something.

The researchers also found beads, several apparently deliberately blackened by fire, one dating back more than 38,000 years. A piece of wood associated with a stone with a hole through it was dated to about 35,000 years ago. The tool appears to be an early digging stick of the sort used by the later San people to unearth roots and termite larvae.

Oldest poison

The researchers also dated a lump of beeswax mixed with toxic resin that was likely used to haft, or attach, stone points to the shafts of arrows or spears. The beeswax dates to about 35,000 years ago, making it the oldest known example of beeswax being used as a tool.

Finally, researchers dated a thin wooden stick scarred with perpendicular scratches. A chemical analysis revealed traces of ricinoleic acid, a natural poison found in castor beans. It's likely that the stick was an applicator used to put poison on an arrow or spearheads, the archaeologists reported. At about 20,000 years old, the applicator marks the first use of poison ever discovered.

"The very thin bone points from the Later Stone Age at Border Cave are good evidence for bow and arrow use," Villa said. "The work by d' Errico and colleagues [published alongside Villa's group's report in the same journal] shows that the points are very similar in width and thickness to the bone points produced by San culture that occupied the region in prehistoric times, whose people were known to use bows and arrows with poison-tipped bone points as a way to bring down medium and large-sized herbivores."

The ancient dates help fill in a continuity gap of human civilization, said study researcher Lucinda Backwell, a researcher in palaeoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

"The dating and analysis of archaeological material discovered at Border Cave in South Africa, has allowed us to demonstrate that many elements of material culture that characterize the lifestyle of San hunter-gatherers in southern Africa, were part of the culture and technology of the inhabitants of this site 44,000 years ago," Backwell said.

It seems plausible that these technologies arose 50,000 to 60,000 years ago in Africa and later spread to Europe, Villa said.

India power outage: 600 million people affected by one of the world's biggest blackouts

India's energy crisis spread over half the country Tuesday when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving 600 million people without power in one of the world's biggest-ever blackouts.

The power failure has raised serious concerns about India's outdated infrastructure and the government's inability to meet an insatiable appetite for energy as the country aspires to become a regional economic superpower.

The outage in the eastern grid came just a day after India's northern power grid collapsed for several hours. Indian officials managed to restore power several hours later, but at 1:05 p.m. Tuesday the northern grid collapsed again, said Shailendre Dubey, an official at the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. in India's largest state. About the same time, the eastern grid failed as well, said S.K. Mohanty, a power official in the eastern state of Orissa. The two grids serve about half India's population.

Traffic lights went out across New Delhi. The city's Metro rail system, which serves about 1.8 million people a day, immediately shut down for the second day in a row. Police said they managed to evacuate Delhi's busy Barakhamba Road station in under half an hour before closing the shutters.

S.K. Jain, 54, said he was on his way to file his income tax return when the Metro closed and now would almost certainly miss the deadline.

The new power failure affected people across 13 states — more than the entire population of the European Union. They raised concerns about India's outdated infrastructure and its insatiable appetite for energy that the government has been unable to meet.

India's demand for electricity has soared along with its economy in recent years, but utilities have been unable to meet the growing needs. India's Central Electricity Authority reported power deficits of more than 8 percent in recent months.

The power deficit was worsened by a weak monsoon that lowered hydroelectric generation and kept temperatures higher, further increasing electricity usage as people seek to cool off.

But any connection to the grid remains a luxury for many. One-third of India's households do not even have electricity to power a light bulb, according to last year's census.

(huffingtonpost.com)