Okay everyone if you could please make your way to your seats. This is the final shared field talk today before the lightning talk start and I would very much like to introduce you to Dan Lambrite. Thank you. That's better. Okay so I'm going to be talking about intrusion detection on OpenStack. I work at Red Hat. I've been there the last couple of years in the storage group and I also teach at a local university in Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and that's how I basically got into intrusion detection. It's part of the class that I teach and there's a lot of OpenStack engineers who might work with in Swift and other components and so there's a lot of folks around who I can talk to and it's also a very interesting subject. I first gave this talk last summer at OpenStack Vancouver and since then the story has changed. It's actually become a lot easier to set it up in OpenStack so I'll be talking about that. So what I'll talk about are two types of intrusion detection systems. The network IDS, what it does and how you can configure it with OpenStack and integrate it with OpenStack, how you might want to do it. There's different use cases. The plumbing, the networking plumbing which is basically the key to it. I'll talk to you how to set that up and dive a little bit into the performance. Due to my work with storage I wasn't able to get to do a lot of the testing that I wanted to do with scalability but we do know a lot about how it would be practical to set it up. Then the second part of the talk is about host intrusion detection. That's not the network. That's more like virus scanning and a list of other things that those are capable of doing. So the question is how that can fit into the OpenStack scenarios and so we'll be talking about that. Then we'll put it all together using some open source tools and look to the future. Okay so first network intrusion detection. What the job of a network intrusion detection system is to analyze packets as they arrive on the system, scan them and look for malicious behavior and then if such behavior is seen do something. Typically tell the administrator that there is malicious behavior underway and maybe more and that's the response. There is an open source tool called Snort which is the variety called signature-based and the way it works is according to rules which you supply to it. The rules describe the malicious behavior in the packets sort of like the offset and the particular thing that's bad. You can download these community maintains them and they're called rule sets or you can purchase from the company the extra support. There's another flavor of intrusion detection systems which is a little bit more complex. It's more programmable or script based and you can look for anomalies. So things that are hard to describe in a one line or multi line rule, you could actually describe in a script some peculiar denial of service attacks which look like ordinary traffic normally but are not really and it takes a little more intelligence to detect those. Bro is a well-known IDS in that category. So here's just some examples. These are one-liners to look for scanning attacks and a typical rule at the very top. Look for TC packets from anywhere to my own network and any port with the SIN flag and the FIN flag in the TCP flags set and if that SIN display a message. So this is just a toy for demo and to show another example a last year shell-shocked attack was quickly put into the community rule set like in the same week. It turned out there was just a simple four character signature that could be used to detect that. You can see that in the content field. The one in the middle is the demo that I use in the class I teach. The one on the bottom is the actual rule which has all the nuances to make it hardened for real world use cases. Right so now we got that. What how would this work in OpenStack? So when you think about OpenStack you might have two use cases. One of them is in which you are the administrator of a tenant and you're responsible for all the instances in your tenant. In this case you may want to run snort or something inside of an instance and that tenant that instance would be charged against you like any other instance in the tenant. So this is the case where you want to do IDS but you do not have access to the underlying hardware. The second use case is where you're the administrator itself and in this of the hypervisor that is you have access to the hardware itself, the machine, the network and can do whatever you want. And in that case of course you've got to you might have two tenants with the same IP address and you've got some administrative overhead to do things like distinguished tenants. You might have one set of rules for one tenant and another set of rules for another tenant and you may use VLAN tags for example to distinguish the two tenants which snort allows you to do. So those are the two high level use cases. I'm mostly interested in the second. So let's say you are the administrator of say OpenStack and your next question is okay I want to use IDS, a network IDS. Where am I going to? The IDS basically involves sniffing packets. Where am I going to sniff the packets? So here is what the network looks like. This is a somewhat famous picture if you're involved with OpenStack. The blue rectangles are bridges, network bridges. The one that says BR ant is the so called integration bridge and all traffic flows through that. The green circles are instances and the blue rectangle between the green circles and the integration bridge are Linux bridges which are the firewalls. There is also a blue rectangle called BR-TUN. That's the tunnel bridge and that connects to other nodes. So that's the network layout internally and if you're an administrator your next question is where do I plug in my IDS? So here's one option that you could do. You could just create another instance and put it between that firewall, that Linux bridge that I mentioned in the previous slide and the instances. I know people who are doing this, who have tried this and it does work but it's slow because it's a store and forward model. You have an instance which reads every packet and then it checks it and then forwards it on to the ultimate destination. It is technically possible but I'm not crazy about it because of the performance overhead. Better I think is to mirror the traffic somehow. The traffic goes to its destination as normal but you receive a copy of it at the IDS where you can analyze it and take preventive action. Of course there's a window between the time that you see it and by the time it goes to the destination but this is more like I think the way it's set up in real life typically. What you actually want is a tap. A tap would do the mirroring and then the next question is where are we going to put it in that network and the integration bridge is a logical place where you sniff or tap into some subset of the instances that you're interested in analyzing. So how is that accomplished? Well last summer there wasn't really a good way to do it. OVS has had a mirroring capability but it was difficult to use. So last summer I used it but it was very difficult to set up administratively. Actually fantastically difficult. If anybody's messed around with networking in OpenStack it's a bear. So fortunately the community has come out with a new service for Neutron which wraps around that OVS mirroring capability. A very nice user interface and this has just come about in the last six to twelve months basically and that's what I'll hopefully demo in a few minutes. You can snoop bidirectionally or ingress or egress and let's see. So they built it. It came out of the telecom community. They built it for not just security but for analytics and some other use cases but it works great for IDS. So let's say you are an admin and you want to use this. You can just go to your, say the DevStack local.com file and add those lines.  One is the agent for OVS and one is the tap as a service. Now this tap as a service is built in an extensible way so that it can work with multiple network implementations but OVS is the one that they did first. So it's a pluggable model for OVS and maybe other networks in the future. Another thing you have to do in the local.com is set that port security flag and what that does I believe is say it's okay for you to forward a packet through the bridge to a destination in which the MAC address is not the same as the destination. That's normally blocked but with the security you can do that. That means traffic that was originally destined for that MAC address can go to somewhere else without it being blocked and you need to explicitly say that. So let's say you are, how you have tried this. You've downloaded it. What you'll see is a new bridge is created called the tap bridge. It's another blue rectangle in the diagram and it's connected to the integration bridge and also the tunnel bridge because the nice thing is that you can have multiple open stack nodes and one can tap into another node. The API looks like this straight forward. Basically you have a fan in model where there's a single destination in our case the IDS and multiple sources. So multiple sources are called flows and the single destination is called a service. So you first create the service with the interface that's up there.  Those are the ports of the sources that you want to sniff. Right. So you do that. This is just a depiction. I don't know if you can see it of OBS, VS Cuddle show. This shows all the bridges and you can see there's a tunnel bridge they're created. Another interesting thing. I'm not sure you can see this either. I had to learn this to set it up. It's quite nasty but basically these are the flows which go through the OBS bridge and the cool thing is once you set up a tap as a service flow you can actually see the flow that's created in the OBS bridge in the integration bridge which represents the MAC address that you're sniffing. So I've got a quick demo here which let's see if this works. So I've got a, so the font size is a little big here and those of you who use OpenStack know that it's got some crazy outputs. But I've got three instances here. Looks like we're working. We're SSH to a machine in the U.S. right now. So I've got three instances. One is an attacker. One is a victim. And the third one is the IDS. And I've set up a flow between the attacker and the IDS. So let's just see. Yeah. So let's see if we, yeah. Okay. So I've created two, these are the two ports, the neutron ports of the two instances that I just mentioned. The attacker and the IDS. And you can see that those are the identifiers of the two ports. And let's try this. Service list. See if this works. Yeah, that worked. Okay. So that's the service I created. The tap as a service service. That's the destination. And you can see that's the port of the IDS. And then we have flow list. This is, yeah. And that's the corresponding port of the source, which is the attacker. All right. So let's just quickly see. Let's see here. Right. This is the IDS. So I'm going to do a PCP dump and I'm only going to look for ICMP packets. I'm going to go over to the attacker and I'm going to ping Yahoo. And I should see, yeah. Okay. So this just shows you that I'm going from the attacker and I'm pinging Yahoo. And a marrying happened. The marrying intercepted the packets and routed them to my sniffer, my instance, which is sniffing that packet. You can see that happened. All right. I am running Snort right now. Right? Oh, am I? Oh, that's a... Yeah. Oh, this is the wrong one, I think. Let's try this one. Yes. Okay. Usually demos always fail, but this one just may succeed because I've... All right. So let's run Nmap. Nmap is a nice scanning utility. I'm going to do a fin scan. And that IP address is actually an internal IP address of the... So it's not going to the IDS. So I do that. Nmap is happening. Takes a little bit of time to group through all the ports. And there you can see Snort has found those. The fin scan has occurred and did an alert. So that's just a proof of concept of TAP as a service and shows that it's possible to make it. Current slide. Okay. Right. So that shows that it's practical to do. I think it shows that you can do an IDS. This was not true last summer. I think it is true now. The next question you might have is, okay. So do I want to run the IDS on the same node as my instances that I'm protecting? If you do that, you begin to worry about the cores that you're swallowing up for this monitor. And what might be preferable is to run the IDS on a separate node. Doing that means that separate node will have all the capabilities it needs to analyze these packets, but it's going to be more expensive. So what are the performance costs? What happens when the CPU is overwhelmed? Well, it will give you false negatives, which means I didn't see anything wrong. That's a negative when there may have been something wrong. Actually, it should be a false positive, but anyway. This happens pretty quickly when you fan in a lot of instances to one single recipient, one single NIDS. It will start to drop packets and then you'll miss the attack. So what is the performance overhead here? Well, on this sort of setup, you've got two components to look at. And one is the open V switch, and the other is the CPU overhead of snort. And then you can look at this a little deeper by scaling up to the maximums, which I haven't yet done, unfortunately, but I would like to. So open V switch performance by itself. OBS has a reputation for being quite fast. There's a table in the kernel mapping MAC addresses to destination ports. And as long as you stay in the kernel in the fast path, you are probably going to be so quick that you won't see OBS switch as a bottleneck. The only time you come to user space with OBS is if you have a configuration change, maybe a new flow that you've added, which is a rare event. Maybe in instance goes up and down perhaps. So that should be, OBS should be quick, and it shouldn't be a problem with setting up an IDS. But there is a problem with mirroring. I've seen, and others have seen, a performance degradation when you start to mirror traffic specifically. Now, I haven't redone that with TAP as a service, and I'm not sure they're doing mirroring in the same way I did last summer, but people have measured that the more mirroring you do in OBS, the more of a performance degradation you've got, it's close to linear degradation. So that's an issue which should be looked at. The second part of the equation would be the Snort performance itself. That's the program you're running to analyze the packets. And for that, Snort has up until recently been single-threaded. I don't think that's true any longer, but the very latest Snort might be multi-threaded. Now it will be very soon. To get around this, people have in the past run multiple instances. That's an option. An alternative to Snort is Syracuda, which is compatible with those rule sets. So it can read the Snort standard rule files, but it is multi-threaded and has a reputation for being faster. So you could investigate that as an alternative. But in any way, as far as I know, Snort is going to become multi-threaded. So that's the network IDS. How about host intrusion detection systems? So what is a host intrusion detection system? It looks for hackers attacking on the system itself, not the network, but on your system. So it's looking for maybe somebody's planted a virus, maybe somebody's planted a backdoor by modifying or tampering a binary, maybe somebody changed a configuration file. Those are the sorts of things it can do. The open source HIDS, which is popular, is OSEC. And it does those things that I just mentioned, and on top of that, it does something great for the administrator in a big distributed system, which is log aggregation. So you can have many different machines that you want monitoring, and you don't need to check each one of them individually, which would take forever. You can have one master OSEC server, which is responsible for protecting all those instances. Each of those instances that is responsible for protecting runs on it an OSEC agent, which does the information collecting and then reports back to the server. So you have a, this is a really ancient diagram, but it basically looks like this, where you have one server and all the clients feeding their information about back to the server. So, all right, this is the way OSEC has been for, since its inception, which is for some time now, translating that into the open stack world. How does that go? So you have the same use cases as before. You could be a tenant administrator where you have some instances that you're responsible for. If you want to run OSEC in that environment, you can set up one of your instances on the same node or a different node being the OSEC server. But you'd probably want to give, actually you would have to force your tenant users to run OSEC, and that means having the OSEC agent, and that means putting that in your glance images. Now, if you are, the other use cases, if you're responsible for the whole thing, that says you're the hypervisor administrator, then you can do some additional things. You can, you can actually look at the open stack configuration itself and protect that. So, we'll talk about that for a few slides as well. So, here's an example OSEC alert. Somebody tries to log in to your system to the root user, and they put in the wrong password. And VAR log messages reports this happened. And OSEC will see that because it can parse logs from multiple sources. That's part of log aggregation. It can read snort logs, VAR log messages, web application firewalls. It can get all these different sources, parse those different log sources. So, you only need to read one set of logs. So, let's say it read VAR log messages. It can then generate a active, it can then do some response, like alert the administrator. In open stack, it could do a bit more. And a parser could be created for the many open stack logs. So, open stack has neutron logs, nova logs, keystone logs, et cetera, et cetera. And a parser could be written just like it is for any other application. And OSEC could read that and say flag, an illegal network topography change occurred. I don't know if anybody's doing that. It would probably be quite challenging to do because parsing the open stack logs would be quite a job, but it's theoretically possible, like it is for any other application that OSEC works with. File integrity checking is another thing that OSEC's capable of doing. This is if somebody's like, modifies a file. Modifies a binary. A hacker says, I'm going to take a file and I'm going to put, I'm going to modify it so it does something beyond and malicious that it's supposed to be doing. And you don't know because it looks like the original file. Well, OSEC will find those kind of backdoor attacks by scanning your file systems, whatever directories you wish it to scan and compute checksums for each of those files and store them. So if somebody modifies a file, it'll come up with a new hash and then you can compare the saved hash with the modified hash and it won't match. And then you can say, wow, this changed behind your back. Now, in the open stack case, I think it would be interesting to, you could actually do this with Python files. So if somebody went and modified open stack code, so open stack software, you could quickly find it with this mechanism. Now, active responses in open stack are interesting because they're actually shell scripts. So you can open, OSEC can, could do anything in a shell script, basically, including killing an instance, turning off a tenant or adding a new firewall rule to the Linux bridge, a new security group, that's all within the realm of possibility. So, all right. So putting all this, all this stuff together, you might have two nodes. You might have, say, call a monitoring node and a compute node and you have an instance and maybe the instances running has the OSEC agent in it. So it's on that system monitoring of the host and you're also monitoring the network. So you, some malicious traffic comes in and you have, that traffic gets mirrored and read by Snort on, it's mirrored to the other node and then OSEC, which is capable of reading Snort logs and parsing them and understanding them, will capture that. And then it can go ahead and tell the agent to run a shell script, which could turn off and block that traffic. And if OSEC is too much for you, it's overkill and you just want to do network intrusion detection, it's the same idea, would work fine because Snort is capable of doing active responses as well. So in conclusion, this was last summer, I think, a much more difficult job. Today, I think it's quite feasible and you could do it and it's all because of TAP as a service, its capability has been introduced. Performance bottlenecks are still an issue if you're running many dozens of instances or more and feeding them all, all that traffic into a single IDS, I think that's going to likely drop packets. So you've got to look at the cost as well. That's going to add up and you're going to probably want a monitoring node and you're probably going to want to, you might need more than one monitoring node, depending on the size of your cloud. You might want to consider using a different IDS than Snort, although Snort is improving in this respect. And OVS itself, the network itself, may become a bottleneck, although that's an area of investigation. So yeah, that's the IDS on OpenStack and thank you very much. So I have a scarf or we can go home, if anybody has a question? Yeah, you have to tone down those logs and that's part of the tuning. There's lots of ways you can tune it. There's basically a file called Threshold, which I use myself when setting this up to turn off a lot of the bogus logs which are overly paranoid. If you don't do that, I agree, it's not terribly useful. IDS is not for everybody. Firewalls probably handle the majority of the cases for most people. But for those of you who want to use an IDS, probably the first step you're going to do is tone down the log messages and set those thresholds and screen out some of the junk. So your question is who should do the active response? Should Snort do it or some other mechanism? I think it's the flexibility that you get from making your own active response, your own shell script which is worth the trouble. It's a little more administrative overhead but you can fine tune exactly what you want to do. And particularly with OpenStack, you probably would want to do some thing that's in the OpenStack API.  And Snort doesn't know how to do that. Snort doesn't know anything about OpenStack. So it's likely that you'll... And I think this is an area that people will be contributing to more and more now that we have TAP as a service and this is viable. You might see people with OpenStack specific active responses which Snort won't know anything about but can call, can invoke. Yeah, that was like, I don't know. But I think it will... Last I looked, it was still single-threaded. I might be wrong now. Because it was single-threaded, it tended to drop packets. When it dropped packets, you don't see the attack. So there's alternatives out there which would fit just fine in this model. I'm not saying Snort is the most popular but that's why I brought it up. But there's other ones like that surakuta that I mentioned. I think Snort's... I guess I like Snort because it has such a large community that people add rules like immediately. So like this shell shock came out last year and immediately there was a new rule added. So that's real important. Let me give you a gift. Oh, okay. I think that was an isolation. I did it myself and I reproduced it but I had seen it written in a paper which I referenced in the slides. So that was not TAP as a service. That was just vanilla OVS port mirroring. So OVS has a capability to do this. I see a signature when you set up port mirroring with OVS. I can do OVS dump flows, one of those commands. And I can actually see the word mirroring in there. Now, when I do TAP as a service, I don't see that any longer. So I'm wondering if they figured out a different way to accomplish the same thing without using mirroring. And that's something I'm not clear on. Maybe that... I suspect, I don't have proof, but I suspect that is the origination of the 30% drop, that what you just said. You're adding a VXLAN ID and that incurs the copy? Yeah. Well, here. This is going to be a long way, but I'm going to try it. Oh, I see what you mean. That's a great question. So when you do an upgrade, it's going to change all your... I think what you would practically do is shut off OSEC temporarily. Yeah, you would have to. And you'd have to recompute. So OSEC also is a slow background crawl over the file system. It doesn't discover necessarily immediately, if I remember right, that the file has changed. So you have... So a hacker might do something and you find out hours later that it changed. So I think...  Here you go. Oh, you got one too. Okay. I have not done a great deal of looking into that. So I think, in general, the first thing you've got to think about is... So you can fan in from multiple network nodes to a single snort. But if you have many nodes, then one snort is probably not going to be powerful enough to handle all that traffic. So you're going to, in fact, have multiple snorts. You need to in order to scale up to the amount of traffic that's being received. But I believe TAP as a service has global visibility across all the nodes. It uses ports, and ports are visible throughout the entire network, as far as I know. So it will handle the underlying mechanisms to set up TAP bridges on each of those network nodes. And you give a port, and the port may live way over here, but the TAP as a service will set things up such that it will route the packet to the correct location without you having to worry about it as an admin. Right. Okay. That's it. Thank you.


Hey guys, welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Gold Pony, I do new car track SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2022 Toyota Sequoia courtesy of Younger Toyota in Hagerstown, Maryland for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so I am in this one today, not just because of the incredible reliability, but there is a ton of space in this three row SUV. You guys will see what I'm talking about when we get to that third row legroom. I'm gonna test it out for you. But really the question for me in this video is going to be, do you buy this 2022 Sequoia now or do you wait for the 2023 redesign which is when it's rumored to happen as a 2023 model? So nonetheless, in this video we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering for a ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all of that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. It said there are gonna be several different trim levels available for the 2022 Sequoia. First one being the SR5 starting at $50,500. Then there is the TRD Sport which actually is the one we have today starting at $53,215. Limited for $59,520. Nightshade Special Edition for $60,605. Platinum for $66,550. And lastly the TRD Pro starting at $64,625. But all of that pricing was for the rear wheel drive configuration with the exception of that TRD Pro that comes standard with four wheel drive. But if you wanted to add four wheel drive to any of those other trims you can, simply add roughly $3,200 then to any of those prices. But regardless of trim level that you go with, a power plant on the Sequoia is going to be the same. Powering this beast is a 5.7 liter naturally aspirated V8, putting out 381 horsepower at 5,600 RPM, 401 pound-feet of torque, coming in at 3,600 RPM. Power sent to rear wheels or all wheels over a six-speed automatic. Zero to 60 time is going to come in into approximately 6.6 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 13 in the city, 17 on the highway taking regular unlit fuel. But so now having gotten all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway and let's put this thing to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2022 Toyota Sequoia here up to speed. All right, here she is you guys. Actually, not bad. It's a V8, that's right. I don't know why. Yeah, that is plenty of an acceleration. You're definitely not gonna have any issues merge you got into the highway. It was somewhat hesitant about what that was going to feel like just because of the sheer size of the Sequoia. It's a mammoth, but with a V8, it's definitely gonna be enough power. So that is plenty of an acceleration for this thing, but to go along with that acceleration as always breaking is equally important.  As far as that 60s year stopping distance goes, it is going to come in at approximately 130 feet. And I will say kind of feels like that. That is a little bit on the higher side as far as that number goes. And it is a bit of a softer braking feel. Again, probably because this thing is a beast. Acceleration was great. Wouldn't mind it if the brakes bit just a bit harder on the Sequoia though. That's just my personal opinion. That touching on suspension and handling up front, you're gonna find an independent double wishbone type front suspension. In the back, exact same thing. Independent double wishbone type rear suspension, gas pressure eye shock absorbers, front and rear stabilizer bars, but the suspension configurations, there's gonna be a few of them that are gonna differ amongst the trim levels. For example, if you go with the TRD Sport that we have today that is actually going to add a TRD tuned Bilstein shock absorbers along with the performance tuned anti sway bar as well. Platinum trim is actually going to add an adaptive suspension system meaning it's gonna monitor each shock absorber individually, not only giving with smoother ride, but also tightening up the suspension during heavy cornering as well, giving you better handling. So again, best of both worlds there. Also an air suspension for the Platinum trim level. So really, if you're looking for the utmost ride quality and a little better driving dynamics, that Platinum trim level is really where it's gonna be at for that particular configuration. Then if you were to go with the TRD Pro that is going to add to this TRD Sports off-roadness, adding things like TRD Fox shocks and upgraded springs then as well. And as far as ride quality goes, it's actually been perfectly fine. I'm on some very smooth roads here in Hagerstown. I'll say that, ride quality has been perfectly fine in my short test drive here today. Definitely no issues there. As far as steering feel goes, as we are turning into Greenbrier State Park here, steering feel is just a little bit on the looser side, but it's kind of expected for a super huge SUV like this. So wouldn't mind it if it was firmed up a little bit. That's just my personal preference. But for what this SUV is, it's probably perfectly fine, so no issues there. As far as cabin noise goes, I am driving right now. There isn't a whole lot of wind noise or exterior road noise whatsoever coming into the cabin. So that is certainly on point. And touching on visibility, I can see perfectly fine out the back with the exception of this third row headrest being a little bit larger than normal. But other than that, I can see perfectly fine out the back. And you can fold that third row down anyways. And that would assist with visibility as well. Not only that, there actually is a button by the driver's side right knee here that opens and closes that rear power window. So you don't always see that on other SUVs. I knew you'd see it in the forerunner that I just got done reviewing, but with other SUVs out there that are not Toyota, you don't usually get that. And I personally love that. So anyways, that about rounds of performance segment of this review, guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2022 Toyota Sequoia. All right, so here she is, you guys, the new 2022 Toyota Sequoia looking dang good and black here. Let's go ahead and start upfront on this beast. 10 inches of ground clearance. Let me just start with that. And that's a big deal because most other SUVs will give you around seven or eight inches. So if you were planning on taking this thing a little bit off road, 10 inches is definitely, if you're a good starting point at least, but also just below it, if you were to go with the TRD Pro, I know we don't have it today, but you will actually get a TRD front skid plate if you were going off roading again. That's gonna help definitely protect a lot of the undercarriage components. So therefore that's what that TRD Pro trim is going to be there for. But front grille is going to of course differ amongst the trim levels. For example, since we have this TRD Sport, we have our front grille completely blacked out. There's going to be some chrome horizontal bars.  So again, a little bit different depending on the trim level. LED headlights coming standard for all trim levels across the board. I absolutely love that. So didn't always happen that way. So I do like to emphasize that. Now automatic feature coming standard across the board as well, meaning when it starts to get dark out at night, those headlights will turn on automatically for you there. LED fog lights coming standard for every single trim level as well. I love that. Not only that, if you were to go with the TRD Pro, you actually get rigid LED fog lights, meaning the company that makes it is called RIDGID. But little different design really, but either way you get LED fog lights across the board. So I love that. But pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the side of the Sequoia. Alright, so now since we are around to the side of this one, low profile roof rails coming for all trim levels and they're going to be finished in either black or chrome dependent upon the trim level that you go with. So we have all the black accents in case you guys didn't notice that already for the TRD sport. So that's what you're looking at right now. Rear privacy glass does come standard for every single trim level across the board, but also raised black roof rails for the TRD Pro. I just forgot to mention that and it comes with horizontal bars as well. Can't show it to you guys because we don't actually have it today, but that is going to be there for you as well. Take a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored power adjustable heated side mirrors for all trim levels across the board with LED integrated turd signals for the limited trim level and up.  So that's pretty nice. Running boards are going to come standard on all trim levels as you can imagine with 10 inches of ground clearance. This one does sit up a little bit higher than normal. So running boards are a necessity. Cast aluminum running boards then for the TRD Pro. That's pretty cool. Let's take a look down at the wheel setup, 18 inch alloys for the SR5, 20 inch alloys for the TRD Sport Limited and Platinum and then 18 inch BBS forged aluminum alloys for the TRD Pro, but pretty much rounds out the side of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one, body colored shark fin antenna all the way to the top, just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light, just below that rear window wiper. When it comes to the badging in the back there, it's either going to be finished in chrome or black. Again, we have all the black accents on this one. Smoke taillight housings coming standard for every single trim level. I do like that look. Looking down below though, when it comes to the towing capacity, we do have both four and seven pin connectors and the towing capacity is actually going to come in at 7,100 pounds if you were planning on towing with the Sequoia. So I always like to mention that, but to the bottom right-hand corner there, you do have a single exhaust outlet. So I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. It's announced that we are around to the back of the Sequoia. When it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is going to be a powered tailgate if you were to go with a limited trim level and up. Otherwise it is simply a manual tailgate. Once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 18.9 cubic feet behind that third row. If that was not enough space, of course the third row does fold down, bumping that up to 66 cubic feet. And then with all rows folded behind that first row, that is going to come in at a very impressive 120.1 cubic feet. That is a ton of space by the way. So plenty of space there. And there is a power folding third row that is available. So I wanted to mention that on the higher trim levels, we of course don't have it here today. Can find some grocery bag hooks in that cargo area. There's a 12-volt power outlet. There are tie-down anchors. And lastly, my favorite part, in-floor storage if you lift up underneath of that cargo floor so you can store your ice scraper or whatever else you need. It's actually a decent amount of storage there. But then making our way up to the third row legroom, this is very impressive, you guys. 35.3 inches of third row legroom. That is crazy. That's very, very impressive. Usually with three row SUVs, it comes in at 29 inches or 30 inches at tops. But 35.3, that is where all the space is right here. So it is adult-friendly in the third row, believe it or not, for reference, I'm an even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in that third row. You do have cup holders for those third row passengers. They even have storage back there just beneath the cup holders. And there is rear ventilation for all three rows. And that's gonna be found kind of on the ceiling in the Sequoia, even in that third row. So you gotta love that. Make our way to the second row legroom. That's gonna come in at 40.9 inches. Again, for reference, I'm an even six feet tall. Still plenty of space there. When it comes to the second row configurations, because you can get captain's chairs or bench seating, captain's chairs is going to come with the TRD Sport like we have today, or the Platinum, or the TRD Pro. Bench seating then coming with the SR5 and Limited. There is an optional nine-inch blu-ray player with headphones, don't have it today, but there's also some climate control buttons found just in front of those second row passengers so they can set their own temperatures if they wanted to, just beneath that. If they pull out underneath there, they're actually going to find a couple cup holders, which is pretty darn nice. That's where they're gonna be located. At least for the captain's chairs configuration. And there's a 12-volt power outlet then for those second row passengers as well. But then making our way up to the front seats, eight-way power driver's seat with cloth finishes coming with the SR5 and TRD Sport. That, of course, again, is what we have today. Ten-way power driver's seat coming with the Limited, and that's going to come with a leather finish as well, and those front seats will be heated. Platinum trim then is going to add a perforated leather, meaning you get ventilated front seats then as well with the Platinum. But overall, I gotta be honest, it's been quite a while, I feel like, since I've sat in cloth seats, that were this comfortable. Let me just say that. I've sat in cloth seats, because I've reviewed plenty of cars, but these are very, very comfortable cloth seats. So if you're gonna go that route, well, at least they're comfortable, right? So I'm definitely a fan. But anyways, then making our way to the steering wheel, it is tilt and telescoping, so I'm definitely easily able to find my perfect driving position, and it is leather-wrapped then as well. Then making our way to the startup, let me first start by showing you guys the key here. It is a pretty basic key, which is good news for me, because I like to lose my keys in Ocean City, Maryland, and when I do that, it's gonna be less expensive to replace this thing. Anyways, you got the Toyota logo on the one side, lock-unlock. It is all keyless entry with the push button start for all trim levels, so all I'm going to do here, simply put my foot on the brake, and press that engine start button located just by the driver's right knee. And so once started up, tachometers on your left speedometer is on your right. There is a small digital display front and center to control what is on that digital display. You can use the steering wheel mount to controls found on the right side of the steering wheel, giving you things like your outside temperature, higher pressure information. There is a digital speedometer. If you chose to display that up there, how many miles you have left until you hit empty, the list goes on. Pretty much everything you could possibly want on the digital portion, at least, of those gauges. They're making our way to overall interior quality. Power mooner coming with all trim levels across the board. You will get homely controls if you were to go with a limited trim level end up. Don't have them here today, though. Overhead sunglass holder coming with all trim levels as well. It's found on the ceiling there. Tri-Zoon climate control for all trim levels, like I was mentioning to you guys. One of the best parts about the Sequoia, besides that power rear window, though, is the dual glove boxes. A lot of times that kind of thing is gonna be overlooked by others, but I love that there's two glove boxes, because usually you don't get that with other SUVs. So it's different. You guys know I like different. So we got upper glove box and a lower glove box. And since I mentioned the towing capacity earlier, there is a tower haul mode found just in front of the shifter here. Just in front of the cup holders, there are actually three USB charging ports, another 12-volt power outlet. There is a smaller cup holder, kind of just behind the dual cup holders, little bit of orange ambient lighting as well. There's a little bit of space just behind the shifter. I think that's probably to put the key in. And then within the center armrest, there is probably the most space of any vehicle out there right now. There's a ton of storage. There's a 12-volt power outlet there on the backside of the center armrest. You're actually going to find a little slot for business cards. You're also going to find a place where you can put your pen. It's not going to slide around. And there is a separate section for tissues as well. Dare you put anything else besides tissues in that section? And Toyota will find you. So wanted to make you guys aware of that. But overall, interior quality is, it's kind of on the basic side. If I'm being honest, maybe the redesign next year is going to fix that, but it'll get the job done. I'll just put it that way. But so then taking a look at the infotainment screen here, it is a seven-inch color touchscreen display coming standard for all trim levels. Bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. So that's a good thing. Factory navigation system coming with the limited trim level end up. Of course, you can check out your radio information up there as well. And by the way, when it comes to the sound systems, you will find eight speakers with the SR5 and TRD Sport that we have today. 12 speakers with the limited. And then there's a 14-speaker JBL sound system with the Platinum and TRD Pro. And by the way, that sound system comes with an external amp and subwoofer as well. So that's pretty cool. Like I said, we do have the eight-speaker sound system here today. So what do you guys say? Since we're in December, let's go ahead and turn on some Christmas music and let's test out the clarity of this one. Relatives you don't know, then comes that. Actually, not that bad. There was a very decent amount of bass for a basic eight-speaker sound system. And you know what? It's not that bad. A lot of times you'll find six-speaker sound systems in SUVs. So the eight speakers, the extra two speakers, it's kind of nice. Being a standard sound system in the Sequoia, it's not that bad. I'll say that. Last thing I want to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen at least though is when you do put this one in reverse, you will find a rear-view camera coming standard across the board, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so at the time of this video, although it's not tested by IHS, it has scored some good safety ratings out there. You guys can do your own research there. But front-side, side curtain airbags do come standard, but driver and passenger knee airbags then as well.  Blonde spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert, front and rear park assist, and Toyota safety sense, which includes a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, lane departure alert, automatic high beams, and dynamic radar cruise control then as well. And so overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of our 2022 Sequoia, I love that there is an adult friendly third row, meaning I can actually fit back there. It's very rare that I fit in a third row SUV because I don't know, I'm six feet tall and usually there isn't all that much space back there. It's usually left for kids. So if you have adults that want to sit in the third row, they can do that here in the Sequoia. Of course you have that amazingly reliable V8 found in the Sequoia as well. You can check out any Consumer Reports magazine for confirmation of that. As far as room for improvement goes, it's just so, so interior quality. It's kind of on the basic side, especially for the price range. So hopefully that changes next time around. Outdated tech as well. It's a seven inch color touchscreen display in a vehicle that's going for over $50,000. That needs to be changed and I'm sure it will in the next generation. So that leads me to the ultimate question. Let me know what you guys think in the comments section below. Do you buy the 2022 Sequoia now or do you wait for the 2023 model year redesign? So that is about it for this one. 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Chris Hogan of the Patriots. He's another one whose stock is trending down again with the Pats We never quite know where Bill Belichick is gonna go with his game plan But he certainly didn't go to Chris Hogan who only had 11 yards on the day Yeah targeted just five times in this offense. He was the fourth highest targeted receiver on this team He was behind Gronk. He was behind Philip Dorsett. He was even behind James White only one reception for 11 yards The one thing that it will lean on here is something that you mentioned Maria is the fact that Bill Belichick's offense is Unpredictable week in and week out. We know Gronk is going to get his but there could have been something that Bill Belichick saw in film That said okay, we're gonna attack this team with James White. We're gonna use Philip Dorsett. Maybe next week It's Chris Hogan I just think it's worrisome because people were using a pretty high draft pick on Chris Hogan including myself a fourth fifth round Draft pick in season long and then a lot of people used him in daily yesterday as well And he you know, he wasn't one of the cheaper wide receivers He was priced like you know a low-end wide receiver to high-end wide receiver three So to see this kind of usage in the first game and the fact that they won 27-20 without using him Makes me a little bit worried about Chris Hogan moving forward. I'd be a little bit worried too And it's not like this game was a blowout. It's not like it was a strange sort of Progression of the game itself, but Hogan ends up with only 1.6 fantasy points on Fandall


Petra, undoubtedly one of the most impressive stone-cut ancient cities on Earth, carved into the meandering rising rock faces within a red stone gorge in Jordan, with the mastery of the original stone-cutter's abilities on full display, unfinished, possibly perceived as insignificant areas of this site. Invaluable to our investigations into their construction, as these areas still possess the initial stages of the stone-cutting procedure, patterning we have used to identify the work of the creators of these sites, by means of the tool marks they left behind, now found and identified by us at a number of different ruins all over the world. However, Petra is a place that although used as the backing for many popular titles, the true size of the entire city, and indeed many of the lesser studied rarely mentioned corners of the site, and the sculptures found therein, are just as impressive. Some of these areas displaying a tremendously greater age, proof of a far earlier group of stone-cut dwellings created far earlier in history, which are found intermingled with the more recognizable structures. For not only is any logical explanation as to how such structures were originally constructed absent from the mainstream tale of events, but additionally a near-identical conundrum confronts historians regarding the temples in India, one such being that of Kailash. These temples, instead of having been cut into rising rockfaces as found in Jordan's Petra, were instead carved downwards out of the bedrock, which was no less of an incredible feat if anything an even more impressive accomplishment. Additionally, why structures on completely different continents, both cut out of solid rocks, would share the same tool markings, which like a fingerprint, are now allowing said sites to finally be linked together, providing compelling evidence to support the posit of a past now lost, once highly advanced global civilization which existed far before academically documented history. Additionally, just like that of Longyu Cave in China, yet another ancient site cut straight out of solid stone, the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of tons of waste mortar has never been found. To create such an enormous structure is one thing, but to actually successfully transport away all of the quarried stone is a feat we feel would have taken any distant culture permitted to be studied by mainstream archaeology many years to have been accomplished, so long in fact that it is implausible to suggest this happened. Evidence of this would litter the sites, and many individuals would have been discovered by now, buried there, each displaying telltale injuries from what would have been an unimaginably difficult task to have accomplished. Bosda Caves in Turkey is yet another ancient site quarried from the bedrocks of earth, which too shares the same tool marks left by the same technology that clearly cut all of these sites, thus strongly supporting the premise that all these sites were not only cut by the same civilization, but they utilized lost yet once highly efficient technologies in the original building of these relics. Petra is a site that is thankfully remarkably sheltered and thus remarkably well preserved yet due to the areas clearly being of a far greater age supports the further premise of there having been multiple past civilizations which once dwelled here. Civilization which have been and gone on our planet which are unfortunately often dismissed or ignored even hidden with great effort. Yet thankfully the proof no matter how some try to keep hidden remains for all who can recognize them to see proofs which we find highly compelling. Over the last few years more and more modern technologies have been utilized by individuals with access to them in an effort to not only expose the truth regarding the real history of man but to discover the actual original size of these now lost civilizations ancient ruins. Many sites have been laid to waste not only by future settlements and tomb robbers but by mother nature herself many of these most impressive sites having endured eons of erosion after being mysteriously abandoned exposed to the elements. Yet there exists a number of these sites which have been somewhat protected from these forces. Although vegetation can have a catastrophic effect uprooting the megalithic foundations of these sites yet the actual footprint of these structures and indeed the overall size of these once lost settlements can still be seen through modern penetrative radar with one of the most incredible found in the past few years. Undoubtedly the mega metropolis hidden beneath the dense forests of Guatemala. Although some clearings dotted within this landscape have been spared somehow avoiding the suffocation of trees it has been discovered that these sites long argued as separate sites of habitation were in reality once part of the same gigantic city one of unimaginable size and complexity that was unquestionably home to not mere thousands but was in fact a settlement that was home to more than 10 million. Yet although this reality is a compelling supportive fact regarding our own beliefs in regards to a far greater now hidden and widely ignored history of mankind there are still features of this ancient site that is still attempted to be ignored overlooked and hopefully concealed from the majority of the world's population ultimately avoiding them questioning the true reality of what they have been taught and the possible truth regarding our history which these sites could provide to all those who gaze upon them. Although these particular megalithic blocks somehow stood on their heads have been explored and exposed for nearly a hundred years with many photographic expeditions having been made to these sites it has now been proven that these megalithic blocks were not merely signposts made of stones in situ but were clearly stones cut and once transported to their current location and were actually strategically placed within one huge mega settlement this fact is attempted to be stifled avoiding individuals questioning how if indeed they were transported and cut by our more recent ancestors the Mayans how they actually accomplished this feat when they clearly required now lost techniques and technologies as although they were far more primitive technologically speaking to the modern man with us only accomplishing such abilities within the last century all thanks to modern technology this is clearly an identifying feature which exposes the true capabilities of the builders of this enormous city and the fact that although academics would like to argue that it was merely a Mayan settlement it possesses like so many other astonishing sites on earth as yet unexplained enigmas which not only fly in the face of this explanation for their origins but actually suggest that they were merely re-inhabited by the Mayans allowing archaeologists to point the finger at such a group due to their archaeological fingerprint having been left at the location sites which were in fact built by a now lost yet once highly capable ancient civilization that due to their immense age has now been lost to history like so many of their ancient settlements lost to the sands of time with only the foundation of which now survive thankfully exposed by modern technologies who were these ancient people how or indeed why did they move and cut such enormous enigmatic ancient megaliths within this enormous now lost city it is a place which we find highly compelling we recently covered the astonishing ancient megaliths known as the Colossus of Memnod a pair of 1000 plus ton statues that have not only survived unknown eons into the modern day but still possessed some of their most intriguing features all the way into known recorded history most notably during the Roman Empire when they were often regarded as having been able to sing at first light every day we also touched upon the little-known conclusion made by a number of individuals and even funded academics referring to many other enigmatic artifacts that have been found across Giza and even Egypt as a whole as having been once lathe worked these often stone artifacts are so precise in their construction with pottery even displaying a level of delicacy from their makers that the only explanation for their existence could be attributed to having once been machine worked with the ancient Egyptians claimed as their so-called makers having once possessed enormous lathes something modern man has only understood and utilized for a very brief time span with a number of multi-ton sarcophagi also sharing this explanation for their creation as to explain them as having once been made merely by hand is not only illogical but almost an inconceivable tale to attach to such precisely made stonework created with not only astonishing symmetry but also an astoundingly delicate and precise attention to detail which modern man has only attained using modern lathes yet any explanation as to how these lathes were powered how these individuals worked such enormous stones or indeed what tools they utilized to cut such hard stones remains largely unexplained it is as if modern academia had been cornered by these past capabilities of this now lost civilization having to admit that such precision can only be accomplished with seemingly advanced technology yet conveniently leaving any practical explanation of what these technologies looked like where they went or how they were made or used absent from their explanations of these incredible artifacts yet interestingly ancient Egypt is not the only place which contains these remarkable relics Babolovo also known as Babolovka Palace is a historical building located near the city of Saint Petersburg Russia this palace was built towards the end of the 18th century during the reign of Catherine the Second of Russia and one of the most astonishing relics found within this building is the so-called bathtub which is claimed to have been made for the Tsar Alexander the first this explanation of origin is regardless of its incredible size symmetry and indeed precision in which it was once cut with precision that just like the enigmatic artifacts that can be found within Egypt should only have a logical explanation of creation which included that of a lost technology or more specifically an enormous lathe and heavy duty yet precision cutting instruments yet curiously this explanation is absent from mainstream academia's explanation as to the origins of this enormous multi-ton stone dish Nero's bathtub is yet another smoking gun of this now lost technology and indeed lost civilization and although the vaults beneath where it lay within the Vatican measures an incredible 25 kilometers in length packed full of hidden writings artifacts and historical controversies this so-called bathtub is housed in full public view upon the floors of the Catholic palace above these hidden vaults spared its presence as if when first displayed those in possession of it did not recognize the past accomplishment that this so-called bathtub once was not only the unusual shape of this other enormous dish for a bathtub but the technology and techniques of stonework that would have once had to have been utilized to create it they clearly believe that it was indeed created by Nero himself and not a past relic of a now lost civilization with all similar relics found within ancient Egypt exposed as ancient machine stones the question is who made these ancient relics how did they make them and if made by the claimed builders why is this technology now lost they are undoubtedly highly compelling one of the most enigmatic mysterious and least understood ancient structures to be found anywhere on earth although many academic institutions and funded individuals throughout the years have maintained that these structures were tomb sites built for ancient Egypt's greatest leaders the severe lack of evidence supporting such claims along with the lack of any hieroglyphic recording of the enormous undertaking that these structures would have been contradicts this explanation particularly Cheops the largest of the three great pyramids and the only one constructed to in fact have eight sides the only one with tunnels the only one with shafts most notably the shaft which led to Gatenbrink's door long thought to have been air shaft due to its steep incline and minuscule scale and although it is the only one to possess such features they were installed perfectly these tiny shafts were not only perfectly aligned throughout the structure's internal stonework built with unimaginable skill and accuracy but these were somehow hermetically sealed during the pyramids original construction this would have been required to avoid them becoming blocked with dust with the exterior shape of the pyramids built with such astounding precision the subtle indent creating the eight sides is so slight it is only visibly detectable under certain light angles often requiring modern technology to actually measure the perfection these ancient feats were as mentioned Gatenbrink's door leading from the king's chamber was for many years assumed to be an air tunnel however after attempting to inspect the shaft with an intention to consider utilizing the structure's own design to aid in fresh air circulation it was realized that this shaft led instead to a blocking door the doorway to an undiscovered chamber within the bowels of this most mysterious of ancient remnants however after several years of apparent reluctance to explore this hidden chamber along with the mammoth challenge Gatenbrink encountered attempting to develop a robot capable of reaching the blocking door capable of traversing the obstacles within the shaft to eventually penetrate this inner sanctum as the discovery came to its ultimate culmination of actually seeing what was hidden behind this door within this hidden chamber a shaft deliberately designed to be near impossible to discover without modern technology thus clearly a room of great importance the media was blocked a blackout descended upon the Giza plateau and the investigations remained guarded for a considerable amount of time when it was eventually opened up to the world the supposed tomb found in situ within the chamber was conveniently empty without any distinguishing evidence to suggest the chamber's past function many people would be forgiven to suspect a conspiracy ensued one in an attempt to conceal whatever was found in the supposed tomb of Osiris what are the egyptian authorities and even other influential countries governments concealing regarding this mysterious chamber thankfully it seems that this was not the last chamber to ever be realized two more chambers have now been discovered to still be buried hidden within this great pyramid one which is located above the grand gallery is said to be of a significant size the question is what could be hidden in these two remaining rooms well advancements in penetrative radar allow its true contents to be revealed to the world before the egyptian government have the chance to hide its contents these are astonishing ancient structures undoubtedly one of the most incredible wonders on earth as such they are highly compelling it is now a well known heavily studied fact that the modern day bird was once a very different looking animal evolution in the form of a radical transformational adaptation forced upon them by gradual changes in the earth's environment from which they once came that being the dinosaur we now know this to be fact thanks to modern technology our capability to now scan these fossils some found remarkably well preserved still fortunately containing many things which have allowed us to discover that dinosaurs had bird brains or more accurately birds have dinosaur brains with current investigations even shining light upon the reality that many of these gigantic animals including the t-rex once had manes made of feathers this drastic change from the dinosaur resulting in the vast array of creatures we see today from the ostrich to the albatross even to the commonly domesticated budgerigar yet they all share one common trait a significant reduction in their size even animals which survived unchanged such as the crocodile still shrank considerably this shrinking of said species having been demanded of them by environmental changes evolutionary adaptation as we have covered in the past is in the channel's opinion in its true sense an adaptation of specific sets of vertebrate types the true definition of specie not as Darwinian theory posits of leaps between such thus evolution witnessed within the animal kingdom is not indicative of a shared single ancestry but inseparable branching from specific vertebrae or phyla groups never proven to have leaped from one to another as such modern day birds could in fact be seen as the product of de-evolutionary adaptation possibly derived from cataclysm which deprived them of the resources needed to remain at such gigantic sizes the reason for this digression is the channel's postulation of this same process having once possibly occurred to homo sapiens also could this explain why some of the oldest ruins are also some of the most advanced with many remaining beyond the reach of modern man's ability to understand them is it possible that man once had a much higher intellect than us today due to a far greater size cranium simply put were we once giants just as modern day birds were once dinosaurs legends and accounts of ancient giants can be found all over the world also featuring in many ancient religious teachings additionally many of the still unexplained sites of earth regularly featured doorways many feet sometimes even meters above that which is required by and for humans of our modern scale the terracotta army for example is believed by many independent researchers including mystery history to have been made by a lost civilization and their average height intriguingly is much taller than modern man many accounts exist of giants which share similar descriptive characteristics red hair double road teeth elongated skulls etc with many accounts of red-headed giant remains actually discovered and excavated all over the world yet often all that survives of these reported events is a small news article regularly noting smithsonian involvement in said recoveries yet seemingly and conveniently always slipping away from the public domain lovelock cave being another example locals tell of it once being the home of a group of red-headed giants which was eventually blocked and the giants burnt alive a giant handprint still visible on a rock in the cave presumably made by one of these individuals during their unpleasant demise yet what has to be the most compelling piece of evidence fortunately still in view to suggest giants did indeed once exist our footprints found all over the globe once laid down upon sediment now fossilized into solid stone these footprints range in size up to a few meters in length indicating that humans at some point in the distant past may have been even larger than many dinosaur species we find the evidence to support the hypothesis of giant ancient humans highly compelling the red planet although many people assume it to be the closest planet to our own it is in fact venus which comes closer to the earth during its orbit around our star mercury is the closest planet not only to earth but to every other planet in the solar system at one time or another yet these giants bear in landscapes incapable of supporting life this reality is partly why mars is so often the focus of man's attention in regard to our solar systems planetary bodies with a partial atmosphere and thanks to the mars rovers proven to possess water it is a far less violent planet not scorched like mercury or filled with toxins like venus as such for many years now as the human population has exploded and modern technology has made self-sustaining isolated life supporting systems a reality the search for suitable places for future colonization of the solar system has become a more and more popular subject of study one of the most important additional factors for possible candidates for this exploration of space is the planet's distance from the sun nicknamed the goldilocks zone just like porridge being just right mars is located within a specific distance from the sun capable of sustaining life and although space agencies and other fields of funded institutions staunchly deny the possibility of it once having been inhabited possibly even by man himself dismissing such ideas as preposterous mars's desolate red oxide landscape is in fact uncannily similar to earth's possible future appearance if humans were to continue unsustainable activities or a cataclysmic event were to occur thus is it so preposterous to ponder the possibility that the planet we see before us today was in fact transformed into its lifeless form by an event or possibly past insatiable appetites for its resources by an ancient civilization which once called it home could the cambrian explosion the sudden appearance of advanced life on our planet be evidence of terraforming could there have also been a similar yet now hidden mammalian explosion indicating our own sudden arrival here on earth after it artificially became capable of sustaining us an orchestrated introduction of a complex food chain by ancient man who were in reality martians we have in the past covered some very strange occurrences on mars one in particular suggesting that possible black operations to colonize the red planet are already underway the mars rovers were given an expected lifespan of just 90 days this estimation was based upon the notorious dust storms which choke its surface yet spirit lasted an incredible seven years surviving until 2010 an opportunity only recently ceased operation this remarkable longevity solely a result of what has become known as cleaning events which for 14 years were repeatedly experienced and documented yet what is most curious regarding these events is that they always occurred while the rovers were offline in july 2007 during the fourth mission extension severe martian dust storms block sunlight to the rovers and threaten the ability of the craft's survival however when the dust storms lifted and the rovers came back online something had cleaned them up nearly all debris on may 1st 2009 during its fifth mission extension spirit became stuck in the soft soils of mars strangely it seems because the rover was not moving it missed subsequent cleaning events did our mysterious helper assume it had died join us in our next video which will be an expose of artifacts features ancient testimonies and satellite anomalies and many other factors which support the conspiracy of secret martian inhabitation supporting the hypothesis of an ancient martian civilization that once called our red neighbor home evidential arguments we find highly compelling in our last video we discussed the possibility of there being a secret colony on mars a colony made possible by modern technologies advances in sustainable agriculture and life-supporting artificial ecosystems an apparent astronaut silhouette caught during one of the rover's unexplained cleaning events and the resources such as water found upon the surface making it an ideal candidate for such a mission with running rivers oceans even possibly a thriving ecosystem did we once call mars home if we did indeed once call mars home there would be undoubtedly ruins on its surface rare surviving features that would still litter the landscape and over the years countless possible examples of these have been spotted and although many of these could be dismissed as mere cases of peridolia others are just too perfect too precise in their appearance to simply be dismissed possible ancient relics of a lost martian civilization ancient sarcophagi heads of statues pyramidal structures discovered to match star constellations in their layout most notably that of a pleiades constellation located near the famous face on mars an enormous face often argued as having been nothing more than a trickery of light this regardless of ancient texts linking the face the pyramids and the constellation alignment to the burial requests of a supposed ancient anunnaki king phobos is yet another curious anomaly of mars known to be in a continually decaying orbit there are many features of this satellite which baffle astronomers and researchers alike for example when one calculates its orbit they are shocked to find that this orbiting rock should have crashed into the martian landscape many many years ago what's more satellite imagery of its surface has captured images of a very mysterious anomaly on a number of occasions a cuboid monolithic object with no impact crater resting upon its surface buzz aldrin has even mentioned this anomaly specifically calling it a monolith also noting that he believed quote god put it there is phobos's enigmatic orbit deliberate a past attempt to draw our attention to it subsequently discovering this monolith could it possibly hold undeniable proof of not only other life in the universe but the past habitation of mars itself it is undoubtedly highly compelling habitation on the moon we can visit other people with their habitation we can keep track if there's something very important to be developed from the moon i'm not sure what it is right now and i sure think we should identify what it is for america to make such gross expenditures again for human habitation on the moon we can help we can join with together we can explore the moon and develop the moon we should go boldly where man has not gone before fly by the comets visit asteroids visit the moon of mars there's a monolith they're a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that that goes around mars once in seven hours when people find out about that they're gonna say who put that there many of the most astonishing feats of ancient engineering are often avoided by historians with many historical research materials absent their existence due to their unexplainable origins the reason for this should be obvious for when one gazes upon such relics instantly struck with wonder a curiosity as to how something of such incredible size or skill could have been created by the individuals these sites are often claimed as the work of this is one of the main thesis of the channel for not only are these sites largely ignored and thus overlooked regardless of being historically important structures clear yet suppressed evidence that a civilization far more capable than any currently recorded within permitted timelines once flourished on earth relics with a very different origin and indeed history we believe that such structures were instead rediscovered by the many academically claimed builders and this is often argued as being supported by empirical archaeological evidence however the archaeology merely proves inhabitation not construction with a record of construction never found within any of these academically claimed cultures surviving records merely having re-inhabited such structures for strategic motivations and in doing so left their own archaeological footprint subsequently concealing an unknown aspect of human history one which came to an abrupt end and one such site largely unknown by the greater world is known as the herodium what makes this structure so incredible is not the small arrangement of stone structures within the center of the build but the earthwork itself the entire site's footprint and indeed the volume of earth utilized in the making of this ancient earthwork was of gigantic proportions a seemingly pyramid-sized volume of earth used in the building of what can only be described as a respectably sized hill made by the hands of ancient man once one inspects this site from the air its huge size becomes apparent and the incredible feet this once was an undertaking if in fact constructed with primitive tools would have been a task of unimaginable hardship thousands of tons of earth were at some point quarried and then transported to this spot subsequently creating an incredible well-sheltered inhabitation with an intimidating incline on all sides many similar earthworks can be found throughout the united kingdom with the biggest pyramid in europe known as silvery hill mysteriously made completely of chalk yet this little mentioned site dwarfs silvery hill by some measure the question is how old is herodium who made it how do they accomplish such a feat it is undoubtedly highly compelling