Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-02-2014
Will we ever travel faster than the speed of light?
Will we ever… travel faster than the speed of light?
Einstein said it is impossible, but as Jennifer Ouellette explains some scientists are still trying to break the cosmic speed limit – even if it means bending the laws of physics.
“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
Last summer, a small neutrino experiment in Europe called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) stunned the world with a preliminary announcement that it had clocked neutrinos travelling just a few fractions of a second faster than the speed of light. The news even briefly overshadowed the far more recognizable Large Hadron Collider’s ongoing hunt for the Higgs boson.
Despite careful hedging by scientists, the popular imagination jumped right from neutrinos to a viable spacecraft for fast interstellar travel. After all, the prospect of faster-than-light (FTL) travel has been a science fiction staple for decades, from wormholes and Star Trek’s original warp drive, to the FTL “jumps” used to evade the Cylons in SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. It takes years, decades, centuries even to cross the vast expanses of space with our current propulsion technology – a realistic depiction of the tedium of space travel in entertainment would likely elicit the viewer equivalent of “Are we there yet?”
So the OPERA announcement was bound to generate excitement, even if the neutrinos in question were only moving nanoseconds faster than light – hardly sufficient to outrun the Cylons, but nevertheless faster than c, the cosmic speed limit set by Albert Einstein back in 1905.
Unfortunately, the euphoria was premature: the OPERA results were incorrect, thanks to a calibration error. The culprit: a faulty cable connection in the GPS system used to time the neutrinos along their journey. That killjoy Einstein wins again.
But if the OPERA saga did tell us anything, it’s that the idea of travelling faster than light continues to capture the imagination. As Hollywood screenwriter Zack Stentz (Thor, a.k.a. “Vikings in Space”) said recently at a Los Angeles panel on the science of superheroes, “Every science fiction writer who wants to get out of the solar system [within a human lifetime] gloms onto that. It’s the leap of faith that lets you tell stories on this bigger canvas.”
“You cannae change the laws of physics”
“Leap of faith” is a particularly relevant phrase to use here. The fact is we’ll never be able to travel beyond the speed of light, at least based on our current understanding of established physics.
As any object with mass accelerates – like a proton in the LHC – it gains energy, always needing just a little bit more energy to accelerate even further. The LHC, the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator we have, boosts protons as close to the speed of light as we can get, but they never quite hit the mark. If a proton did achieve that speed, it would need infinite energy to go any faster, and we don’t have an infinite supply of energy.
Equations don’t tend to lie, especially ones that have been tested and re-tested in countless experiments for over a century. For all practical intents and purposes, the speed of light is an insurmountable threshold.
But physicists would never make any progress at all if they threw in the towel quite that easily, and nobody thinks Einstein will have the final word in perpetuity. Many scientists are happy to consider the possibility of violations of relativistic principles, even if none have yet been experimentally confirmed.
One of the earliest proposed possibilities for FTL travel involved a hypothetical particle called a tachyon, capable of tunnelling past the speed of light barrier. This turned out to be more of a mathematical artifact rather than an actual physical particle.
However, another reason for all the OPERA-tic excitement was that back in 1985, physicists proposed that some high-energy neutrinos might really be tachyons, capable of interacting with an as-yet-known field, giving them just enough of an energy boost to break through the barrier. Such tachyon-like neutrinos would supersede photons as the fastest particles in the universe.
OPERA’s calibration error dashed those hopes, but there are still plenty of potential loopholes to be explored, such as the Star Trek-inspired warp drive mechanism first proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. In general relativity, spacetime is dynamic, not static, warping and bending in response to the presence of mass or energy. Alcubierre suggested that it might be possible to encase a spaceship within a “warp bubble”, whereby space contracted in front of the craft and expanded behind it, enabling it to travel faster than light. But within that bubble, spacetime would remain essentially flat and the craft would technically “obey” the cosmic speed limit.
Alas, once again we face an energy problem: achieving that degree of curvature would require enormous amounts of energy – and negative energy at that – equivalent to the mass of Jupiter. To propel a spacecraft across the Milky Way galaxy may require more energy than can be found in the mass of the entire universe. A more energy-efficient ring-shaped design for such a warp drive was described recently at a symposium on interstellar space flight, offering a meager shred of hope to diehard space acolytes that for future generations, warp drive will be a reality.
However, given what we know about general relativity and quantum field theory, “It almost certainly can’t be done,” says Ken Olum, a cosmologist at Tufts. “Of course, if we are talking about quantum gravity, it’s hard to know, because we don’t really know what that is.”
Former Nasa scientist Kevin Grazier, who was the technical consultant for Battlestar Galactica, says that a version of the Alcubierre warp drive inspired the “jump drive” used in that series. It was based on the assumption that, in this fictional world, the Colonials had merged theories of electromagnetism and gravity, such that if you could create a very intense electromagnetic field, it would be functionally equivalent to an intense gravitational field capable of warping spacetime. Turning that ingenious fiction into a viable reality is another matter altogether.
Brane gain
If we really want to get speculative, Olum suggests FTL travel would be possible if exotic concepts, like those that emerge from superstring theory, prove to be correct.
We inhabit four-dimensional spacetime, but various permutations of superstring theory suggest our universe is just one of many, co-existing within a bubble of five-dimensional spacetime called the “bulk.” Within that bulk, our universe lines up in parallel with all the others, just like the pages in a book. Olum explains that, hypothetically, one could take a shortcut through the bulk, thereby arriving at your destination sooner than if you had travelled along your four-dimensional surface, or brane (short for membrane) as it is known.
Even then, there is a catch. “In brane theories, only gravitons can travel through the bulk,” says Olum. So one would need to invent a machine that could scan an object and transmit the information in the form of gravitons to a second machine on the other end which would then reconstruct that object – shades of teleportation, only with gravitons.
Considering we have yet to observe gravitons in our most powerful accelerators, and the current record for teleporting small clouds of atoms is the relatively non-Cylon-troubling distance of 143 kilometres (88 miles), this scenario must also remain firmly in the realm of science fiction, at least for now. Science advances, but it does so slowly, at a pace nowhere near the speed of light.
l'explication des flares est parfaitement ridicule et positivement incompatible avec les témoignages et les films (pas de fumées visibles à proximité des lumières, aucun intéret à tirer des flares au dessus d'une zone densément urbanisée, alignement très difficile à accomplir des prétendus flares). Vous omettez de préciser que ce ne sont pas que des lumières lointaines en forme de V qui sont observées dans la première phase de l'observation mais des super structures qui bouchent la vue du ciel étoilé et qui sont de taille considérable à tel point que les témoins parlent de ville ou de stade de foot.
2.° Réaction de J.:
Bon, j'ai été un peu provoc sur ce coup. Oui, l'étude de Maccabee sur les flares paraît convaincante (quoique prodigieusement assommante !). Elle est cependant réfutée, en particulier par certains militaires, comme indiqué dans le document TV "OVNIs, quand l'armée enquête". (On ne peut tenir compte de l'analyse contradictoire de Bill Hamilton et Tom King, personnages controversés et fortement soupçonnés de fraude aux US.) Par ailleurs, les caractéristiques techniques de l'éclairante LUU-2 décrites par Maccabee, en particulier son émission lumineuse, apparaissent pompées presque mot pour mot sur des sites web, comme par ex. celui de GlobalSecurity.org alors qu'il les présente comme de son cru. Ainsi on peut lire sur la page http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/luu2.htm : The flare candle burns magnesium which burns at high temperature emitting an intense bright white light. The consumption of the aluminum cylinder that contains the flare "candle" may add some orange to the light. Mais le texte précise : The LUU-2 flare enhances a pilot's ability to see targets while using Night Vision Goggles. With the introduction of A-10 Warthog Night Vision capability, such flares are not used as frequently as in the past as they provide too much light for the very sensitive goggles.
On peut donc se demander pourquoi des A-10 Thunderbolts auraient utilisé des éclairantes alors que leurs pilotes en auraient été gênés pour la vision de nuit... ... Sauf peut-être (un point en faveur des flares) si l'exercice aérien n'en étaitpas un et avait quelque chose à voir avec la première observation (les lumières en V), hypothèse que malheureusement Maccabee n'envisage pas. La coincidence spatio-temporelle est tout-de-même frappante. Le A-10 (Fairchild Republic) Thunderbolt est justement un appareil spécialement conçu pour l'attaque de cibles fortement protégées comme les tanks et autres véhicules blindés (certaines armées ennemies s'en souviennent !) Son blindage titane et son armement, (en particulier canon rotatif GAU-8 de 30 mm à obus uranium appauvri, missile intelligent AGM-65 Maverick) en font l'arme idéale dans une éventuelle confrontation avec un objet inconnu jugé puissant et potentiellement menaçant (rien ne dit que le "triangle" l'était mais c'est la procédure en pareil cas). Dans cette hypothèse on peut considérer que ces A-10 aient été équipés d'éclairantes LUU-2 pour la circonstance : visuel amélioré d'un objet non identifié à structure très sombre (seulement délimitée par des lumières) et/ou leurrage de leur propre détection optique par ledit objet.
Non-Human DNA Found in Elongated Paracas Skulls. THE LIP TV “A DNA analysis of elongated Paracas skulls has shown that they may not be human and that they could come from an entirely new species that fits outside of the known evolutionary tree.”
Videographer Skander Gharbi looks at the Secchi images from 02/01/2014 To 02/13/2014 and catches a weird anomaly, what he believes is a UFO, flying out of the sun at incredible speed. Watch the top right going diagonally up and to the left as you are watching the video. He will slow it down and show it with different filters for better imaging of whatever this object is.
UFO sighting recorded over Manhattan, New York, USA on 14th February 2014
UFO sighting recorded over Manhattan, New York, USA on 14th February 2014
UFO sightings2014 – New interesting video footage of a bright UFO recorded over Manhattan, New York, USA on 14th February 2014.
Witness said: The object move over the roof line horizontally and vertically. At one point it descended out of our sight behind the rooftop of the building. I then moved to the top of the front stoop to gain height and re-spotted the object. I saw it move for a few seconds and then it descended further out of sight. At this point we all decided to run up to our building’s rooftop to get even higher off the ground in hope to capture it on video again. When we reached the top of our building we saw the object again. It was hovering in one spot and then it started to ascend. Then it moved to our right. Then it appeared to move in our direction slightly. That is when I saw a glare of pure white light with a tint of blue. I have seen something similar to to this glare on the HID lights of some cars. We observed the object move in a straight line to our right and then back to the left. It ascended and hovered and then descended behind the same building it was flying over. There were many things that helped distinguish this object over its surroundings. The clouds, lights on top of buildings, airplanes flying by, background city noise, even airplane engine noise. This thing made no sounds that we were able to pick up.
Cigar shaped UFO recorded over Bryce Canyon, Utah in February 2014
Cigar – shaped UFO recorded over Bryce Canyon, Utah in February 2014
Amazing video footage of a cigar – shaped UFO recorded in the daytime sky above Bryce Canyon, Utah in February 2014.
Witness said: Ufo Cigar Shaped Ufo Over Utah Canyons, February 2014. Not far from Area 51 and close to Nevada there are many interesting places like Brice Canyon National Park. Brice Canyon National Park was exactly where this video was recorded. This tape was exclusively turned into us so we can present to our viewers for the very first time. In this video we can clearly see what appears to be a Cigar Shaped Ufo flying over some mountains on the horizon, these mountains are located on the outskirts of Nevada. We enhanced the footage by slowing it down so the viewers can easily see the Cigar Shaped Ufo that was recorded.
Location: Thetis Lake, British Columbia, Canada – 8/19/1972
The two boys, namely, Robin Flewellyn and Gordon Pike, were standing next to the recreation center on Thetis Lake when they saw a scaly creature emerge from the lake and move unto the shoreline. It was, as they had described, roughly triangle shaped, with dark, large, bulging fish-like eyes and mouth, and a razor-sharp spike on the top of its head. Its weight is estimated to be 120 lbs, and measures around 5 feet tall, and 5 feet wide. The two teens were terrified at the sight of the huge scaly amphibious monster and they ran for their lives.
With its sporting webbed extremities, the creature chased the two teenagers until a few distance from the lake. The voracious predator was able to catch up with one of the young men, lacerating his hand with its razor-pointed head.
The two lads, still filled with terror after narrowly escaping the grisly creature, rushed to the nearest Royal Canadian Mountain Police station and told the officers about the incident on Thetis Lake. They showed them the cut that was claimed to have been caused by the razor-sharp fin of the lake monster. The authorities felt sincerity on the story of the two boys, hence they immediately launched a manhunt, or should I better say, “monsterhunt”, on the said lake. However, nothing turned up during that time of investigation.
The case was almost taken for granted until four days after, August 23 of the same year, at around 3:30 in the afternoon, Russell Van Nice and Mike Gold claimed to have seen the same creature from the opposite side of the Thetis Lake. But unlike the report of the two teens that were pursued by the creature, this time, it only emerged from the lake, looked around, and submerged itself back into the water.
Gold and Nice described the monster-faced creature as having a human-like body, of at least 5 feet tall. It has silver-colored scaly skin, a sharp point protruding on its head, and very big ears and horrifying eyes.
Location: Johnson City, Tennessee – June 18, 1997 – 1:00 am
The witness and his cousin were out hunting and were sitting on the side of the wall of a rather large hollow which consisted of very thick underbrush and lots of evergreen. A larger valley then lead first to a clearing and then on to a supposed old Indian graveyard. All of the sudden they heard the brush in the hollow below rattling and they could tell that whatever was making the sounds was rather large.
The main witness was armed with a Ruger 10-22 rifle with approximately 150 rounds of ammo ready to go. Under his night vision scope he could see what appeared to be a man, but upon further inspection he realized that the “man” was a creature about 7-8 ft tall approximately 450 lbs. It was covered with thick black fur and was slimmer that the popular Bigfoot image, almost skinny with a neck. Also protruding on either side of its head were long tapered “horns” also black in color. On the top of the head also protruded a horn pointing straight up. All horns were approximately 5-6 inch in length and were the same dark color as the creature.
The terrified witness emptied a 25 round clip into the creature and then retreated into a nearby cabin about 65 ft away. The next morning they could not find anything except for lots of spent shell casings and bullet holes on a walnut tree. He thought he had struck the creature several times. Nearby animals traps had been sprung and all the bait extracted. On a nearby ridge the witnesses located a series of tunnels made up of brush and various sizes of tree limbs, vines and leaves. They thought it could have been “the lair of the beast.” Afraid they returned home.
As the witness slept in her apartment she suddenly awoke feeling a strange oppressive atmosphere around her. She opened her eyes and saw a humanoid figure bending down over her. The figure was short, about 130cm, and looked intently at the witness. The figure had a grayish green pale facial complexion. It had large dark pupil less eyes. Heavy skin folds covered the head and body of the creature. It had what appeared to be a thin beard and appeared to be elderly. A second humanoid now appeared next to the first one. This one was somewhat shorter and appeared younger, both resembled aged “gnomes”. Both figures then floated back from the bed and vanished. At this point what appeared to be a tennis ball size sphere of light appeared in their place. The sphere disappeared into the next room and then flew out an opened window.
The main witness, a 10-year old girl enjoying her vacation at her aunt’s home, and other members of the family heard what sounded like loud knocks on the patio door. The 10-year old girl went outside but found no one around. She went back in, but moments later there was more knocking at the door. The girl went outside again and this time she saw two lights hovering over her aunt’s house. Both lights were bright red in color. She felt fear and attempted to go back inside but a strange attraction to the lights kept her from moving. She stared fixedly at the lights when suddenly a smaller red light appeared followed by a larger red light that appeared to chase the smaller one. The larger red light then suddenly flew towards the girl blinding her with its brightness. The girl was unable to move felt herself being transported to another location.
Some time later her mother, worried about the witness whereabouts, went out looking for her finding her daughter sprawled out on the patio floor in an apparent trance-like state, mentioning things that were supposedly going to occur in the future. Apparently the girl remained in this trance-like the rest of the night. Her mother was extremely concerned since she had several years previously lost a brother (the girl’d s uncle) in similar mysterious circumstances apparently involving UFOs. There are no specific details on how he died.
Two men reported seeing a “hairy man-like creature” on Snow King Mountain near Jackson, Wyo., early one morning.
Robert Goodrich and Glenn Towner, reported to police that they were chased off Snow King Mountain by a possible Bigfoot that was 12 feet tall with long, dark hair and arms, which hung almost to the ground. The two men said that they were going to visit a friend who had built a lean-to on the mountain when they encountered the creature.
The men told police the creature breathed heavily and made a moaning growl-type noise. They described the creature as having a simian-like face as big as a stop sign and that the creature was hunchbacked. They ran when they spotted the creature, and that it followed them. The last time they saw the creature, it was standing under a street light near the Ramada Snow King Inn in Jackson.
Neither had been drinking and no further evidence was found.
Parfois la réalité rattrape la fiction. C'est d'autant plus impressionnant lorsqu'il s'agit de films de science-fiction. Le designer de Nike vient en effet d'annoncer la future commercialisation de chaussures lacées automatiquement, inspirées directement de "Retour vers le futur II", un film devenu culte, notamment chez les geeks du monde entier.
La trilogie "Retour vers le futur" de Robert Zemeckis propose de suivre les aventures de Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) et de Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) qui voyagent dans le temps grâce à une voiture - une DeLorean - volante. Le premier film, sorti en 1985, parle d'un voyage dans le passé trente ans plus tôt, en 1955. Le second volet emmène les protagonistes en octobre 2015 à Hill Valley (ville fictive en Californie).
Sorti en décembre 1989, le deuxième volet du film égraine, avec vingt-six d'avance, une série de trouvailles géniales, qui ont marqué une génération de spectateurs. Certaines se sont effectivement réalisées, d'autres loin de là. Le "Nouvel Observateur " fait le point.
En 2015, Marty McFly chausse ses Nike Air Mags qui s'ajustent automatiquement à son pied et surtout se lacent toutes seules. Le designer de Nike, Tinker Hatfield, a annoncé que la marque américaine a mis au point des chaussures utilisant cette technique d'auto-laçage et qu'elles seront bien commercialisées en 2015.
2.Des tablettes tactiles partout
Et si Steve Jobs avait inventé l'iPad en regardant "Retour vers le futur II" ? Dans le film, un homme tend à Marty McFly une tablette tactile pour signer électroniquement une pétition pour sauver l'horloge de l'hôtel de ville.
On suppose ainsi que, dans le 2015 vu par Robert Zemeckis, les tablettes tactiles sont omniprésentes. Soit une explosion prédite 21 ans avant le premier iPad. Génial, on vous dit.
3.La fin des disques
A l'époque de la cassette audio et de la VHS, "Retour vers le futur II" prédit déjà la mort du nouveau format vidéo : le Laser disc. Ces (très) grands disques vidéo ont été commercialisés jusqu'en 1998, avant de disparaître. On les aperçoit dans les poubelles, derrière Marty McFly.
Les Laser disc ont été rapidement remplacés par le plus petit DVD (lancé en 1995), et aujourd'hui par le Blu-Ray. Même constat pour le CD audio qui a remplacé la cassette, avant de se voir terrasser par le MP3.
4. La maison connectée
Dans la maison de Marty et Jennifer McFly de 2015, la domotique est omniprésente. On voit des ordinateurs un peu partout pour cuisiner et autres.
Aujourd'hui, la maison connectée commence à s'imposer : frigo, chauffage, air conditionné, lit... tout devient contrôlable avec le smartphone. Même Google s'y intéresse, en rachetant Nest. Bien vu.
5. La vidéo-conférence
Les premières expériences de vidéo-conférences ont lieu en 1987 dans le cadre restreint d'expériences universitaires coûteuses. On est alors bien loin d'outils comme le logiciel Skype, gratuit, répandu et accessible à tous avec un simple ordinateur ou smartphone (le logiciel n'est lancé qu'en 2003).
Pourtant, "Retour vers le futur II" prédit dès 1989 qu'en 2015 la plupart des conversations auront lieu par vidéo-chat. Marty McFly se fait d'ailleurs licencier par ce biais sur un écran de télévision. Aujourd'hui, il est en effet possible d'accéder à Skype sur sa télé connectée ou sa Xbox. Les appels vidéo tendent même à s'imposer sur mobile.
6. La sécurité biométrique
"Retour vers le futur II" parie sur une généralisation des contrôles biométriques, en particulier par empreinte digitale.
Dans le film, le doigt sert ainsi à ouvrir la porte de sa maison, mais aussi à régler des achats. Bingo ! Aujourd'hui, les scanners d'empreinte se multiplient. Apple propose ainsi de déverrouiller son iPhone 5S avec son doigt, mais aussi de régler des achats sur l'AppStore.
7. Le contrôle vocal
Dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", tout se contrôle à la voix, à commencer par le téléviseur. On voit l'un des personnages principaux "zapper" en prononçant tout haut le nom des chaînes. Idem pour le four, ou quand Marty cueille des fruits dans une corbeille suspendue au-dessus de la table à dîner, en disant "hey fruit !"
A nouveau, le film s'avère en adéquation avec la réalité où le contrôle vocal tend à se généraliser. Avec la Xbox One et son capteur Kinect, il est désormais possible de contrôler sa télé à la voix. Même constat pour les smartphones Android et iPhone qui intègrent des détecteurs de commandes vocales de plus en plus élaborés.
8. Les films en 3D (et les suites à répétition)
Quand il se promène dans le Hill Valley de 2015, Marty McFly tombe nez à nez avec une publicité holographique géante pour "Les Dents de la mer 19". Certes, les cinémas ne proposent pas encore une 3D holographique aussi poussée que dans le film de Zemeckis - et encore moins en extérieur, en plein jour.
Mais la 3D s'est imposée dans les salles obscures, en particulier pour les blockbusters et les films d'animation. Même constat pour les suites à répétition, monnaie courante dans le cinéma hollywoodien, même si "Les Dents de la mer" ne compte (pour l'instant) que quatre suites.
9. Les lunettes vidéo
Dans "Retour vers le futur II", le fils de Marty McFly utilise des lunettes vidéo qui lui permettent de regarder un film en solitaire. Effectivement, plusieurs casques existent.
En 2011, le "Nouvel Obs" avait ainsi testé le casque vidéo de Sony qui permet de regarder des films en 3D de manière individualiste, ou de jouer à sa Playstation. En matière de jeux vidéo, le prototype Oculus Rift fait également beaucoup parler de lui.
10. Des jeux vidéo sans manette
Alors que l'acteur Elijah Wood fait ses débuts au cinéma en regardant Marty McFly jouer sur une borne d'arcade, "Retour vers le futur II" fait le (juste) pari de jeux vidéo où l'on ne joue plus avec des manettes, mais face à des détecteurs de mouvements.
Le film prédit ainsi les succès de la Wii de Nintendo et du capteur Kinect de la Xbox de Microsoft.
11. Le Slamball
Un journal du 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II" évoque le début des éliminatoires du Slamball, un sport imaginaire en 1989... mais qui a été créé en 2000. Outre la Une du journal, le sport est évoqué dans le film sur le dos de la couverture du fameux almanach des sports.
Le réel Slamball est une variante du basket-balll où des trampolines sont placés sous les paniers pour des dunks impressionnants. Les équipes comptent 4 joueurs et le terrain est entouré de murs plastifiés. Il dispose de son propre championnat. Bref, le film a imaginé le nom d'un sport, qui a vu le jour 11 ans après !
B) Ce qui s'est (presque) réalisé
Le rêve de tout enfant qui a vu "Retour vers le futur II" est rose et flotte dans les airs : l'hoverboard. Ce skate-board du futur se déplace en lévitation, offrant une course poursuite d'anthologie à Marty McFly.
"La technologie dont nous avons besoin pour construire un vrai hoverboard existe déjà", s'enflamme Robert Haleluk. "Elle coûte seulement très cher et est difficilement accessible aujourd'hui", tempère-t-il. Le fondateur de Hakel Industries a ainsi lancé un appel aux dons des internautes pour récolter 1 million de dollars afin de créer le skate futuriste, qui fonctionnerait avec des hélices et non des aimants comme dans le film. L'ensemble serait commandé depuis une appli mobile.
Robert Haleluk a imaginé une structure en fibre carbone, pour un hoverboard alimenté par une batterie en cours d'élaboration par IBM qui tiendrait jusqu'à 800km. Reste que d'après le projet, la planche imaginée ne semble pas capable de supporter le poids d'un passager.
Un autre concept a été imaginé en 2011 à l'université Paris VII Diderot. A l'occasion de la Fête de la science, la faculté a créé un prototype d'hoverboard qui reste en lévitation à 3cm au-dessus d'un rail aimanté.
Mieux, il est capable de supporter une personne jusqu'à 100kg. Reste qu'il ne s'agit pour l'instant que d'un prototype, qui n'est pas encore prêt d'être commercialisé.
Un artiste français a lui créé un hoverboard capable de flotter dans les airs grâce à un système électromagnétique et une stabilisation laser. Il n'est toutefois pas capable de supporter le poids d'un humain et ne glisse pas vers l'avant.
Enfin, le fabricant de jouet Mattel a commercialisé en 2012 une réplique de l'hoverboard vendue 120 dollars. Seulement, celui-ci ne flotte pas dans les airs. Si bien que Gizmodo l'a baptisé "pire jouet de 2012".
Les lunettes-téléphones
"Retour vers le futur II" a bien prédit qu'en 2015 tout le monde dispose d'un téléphone sur soi. Seulement, le film imagine les mobiles implantés dans des lunettes de soleil. Des premiers prototypes de lunettes connectées existent effectivement déjà (les plus célèbres étant les Google Glass), mais tous passent par un smartphone pour les fonctions téléphoniques. Les lunettes n'intègrent en effet pas encore les puces téléphoniques.
Les drones-journalistes
Lorsque Griff (petit-fils de Bill) quitte le tribunal entouré de policiers, l'événement est couvert par des drones-journalistes. Ces petits robots volants filment à l'aide de plusieurs caméras.
La question des drones se fait effectivement de plus en plus récurrente, et en toute logique les médias s'en emparent. Pour l'heure, l'idée n'est pas de remplacer la meute de journaliste à la sortie des tribunaux mais plutôt de couvrir des zones de guerre. L'utilisation des drones n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts en matière de médias, et les restrictions sont nombreuses - la préfecture de police interdit pour le moment de survoler une manifestation dans Paris à l'aide d'un drone - Le "Nouvel Observateur" peut en témoigner.
C) 13 choses qui ne se sont pas réalisées
1. Les voitures volantes
Outre la DeLorean, dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", toutes les voitures volent. Le ciel s'est transformé en immenses autoroutes. Des feux et panneaux régissent une circulation chaotique. Un fantasme récurrent dans les films d'anticipation qui n'est pas encore prêt d'être réalisé. Plusieurs tentatives ont été réalisées.
On peut citer, en Slovaquie, un ingénieur qui a créé un prototype d'automobile qui déploie des ailes pour se transformer en avion et s'envoler.
Ou encore, la société américaine Terrafugia a également créé un prototype d'une voiture disposant d'ailes flexibles pour se métamorphoser en petit avion. Reste que, pour l'instant, les voitures volantes sont loin d'être la norme. L'industrie automobile réfléchit plutôt à des véhicules automatisés, voire qui se conduisent tout seul.
2. Mr Fusion
Cette marque imaginaire aperçue au début de "Retour vers le futur II" semble être l'une des inventions les plus pratiques du film. Il s'agit d'un collecteur de déchets qui transforme tout ce qu'on jette en énergie propre, grâce à un processus de fusion nucléaire.
Un tel procédé n'a malheureusement pas encore été inventé. Même s'il existe le procédé de biogaz, c'est-à-dire le gaz produit par fermentation de matières organiques animales ou végétales qui peut être utilisé comme source d'énergie, l'équivalent d'un pratique et facile Mister Fusion n'est pas commercialisé pour les particuliers.
3. Les robots pompistes
Lorsqu'il doit faire le plein de sa DeLorean volante, Doc laisse un robot pompiste s'en charger. De quoi laisser supposer que de nombreux métiers de 2015 seraient réalisés par des automates. Que nenni. Aujourd'hui, il faut toujours faire soi-même le plein de son véhicule. Et l'avenir ne semble plus donné à l'essence mais à l'électrique. Cela dit, on peut payer son plein dans des stations sans pompistes, avec uniquement sa carte bleue. Un demi point.
4. Les centres de rajeunissement
Dans "Retour vers le futur II", Doc explique à Marty qu'un centre de rajeunissement lui a permis de gagner 30 ans d'espérance de vie. Il s'y est fait remplacer les intestins, la rate et le sang, implanté des cheveux, etc.
Robert Zemeckis trouve surtout un moyen d'expliquer que l'acteur n'a physiquement pas vieilli entre 1989 et 2015. Toutefois, malgré l'augmentation du recours à la chirurgie esthétique, de tels centres n'existent pas.
5. La veste auto-séchante
Dans la veine des Nike auto-laçantes, Marty McFly dispose d'une veste qui s'ajuste automatiquement à sa carrure et qui offre une option de séchage après la pluie. Aucune veste de ce type n'est en rayon, même si les ingénieurs se penchent de plus en plus sur une garde de robe qui se connecte. Une grosse déception. Ingénieurs, où êtes-vous ?
6. La double cravate
Le Marty McFly de 2015 aborde fièrement une double cravate. Summum de la classe ? En tout cas, ce style n'a toujours pas pris.
7. Le fax pour tous
"Retour vers le futur II" a parié sur le mauvais cheval. En effet, le film part du postulat qu'en 2015 le fax se sera répandu partout, remplaçant la lettre postale.
Les boîtes aux lettres intègrent des fonctions fax, la maison des McFly dispose de fax dans toutes les pièces (et même dans les placards), etc. Raté. Robert Zemeckis n'a pas prédit l'émergence d'internet et de l'e-mail.
8. Les poubelles mobiles
Lorsque Doc veut se débarrasser du fameux Almanach des sports, il le jette dans une poubelle mobile qui vient vers lui automatiquement. De telles poubelles mobiles, qui seraient capables de se mouvoir et de se vider sans action humain, n'existent pas.
9. La nourriture déshydratée
Dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", exit le micro-ondes. Les pizzas surgelées sont déposées dans un hydrateur de nourriture qui en quelques secondes transforme une toute petite pizza sèche et dure en appétissante et grande pizza.
La nourriture déshydratée existe (les pâtes, les soupes en poudre...) mais n'est pas vraiment répandue.
Il est également possible d'opter pour l'un des 5.000 plats déshydratés de l'entreprise américaine Costco, mais le goût ne semble pas être au rendez-vous. Et il n'existe pas de pizza déshydratée, trop complexe à recréer.
En revanche, l'armée américaine vient d'inventer la pizza (presque) immortelle. Comme quoi, en 2014, l'humanité a bien progressé.
10. Le chenil galactique
Pour éviter d'être encombré de son chien Einstein, Doc explique dans le film qu'il l'a laissé en hibernation dans un chenil galactique. Cela permet de s'absenter sans que son animal ne s'en aperçoive.
La cryogénisation est largement évoquée à travers la science-fiction, seulement dans l'état-actuel du savoir-faire médical ce procédé n'est pas réversible. Pour autant, quelques centaines de personnes décédées ont déjà été cryogénisées, les adeptes de cette pratique affirmant que cela permet de conserver la mémoire et la personnalité de l'individu dans la structure chimique du cerveau gelé.
11. La chaîne paysage
Dans la maison des McFly de 2015, la télévision diffuse sur un mur un paysage. "Antenne paysage" se veut une chaîne qui ne diffuse que des paysages animés. Pour l'instant, aucune chaîne n'exploite ce créneau. Même si depuis la diffusion du film, les diffuseurs n'ont pas manqué d'imagination, comme la création d'une chaîne montrant des poulets rôtissant à la broche 24h/24.
12. Diana en reine d'Angleterre
Un journal du film indique (à droite) que Washington s'apprête à recevoir la visite de la reine... Diana. "Retour vers le futur II" a parié par anticipation sur l'accession au trône de Diana. Problème, la princesse est décédée dans un accident de voiture en 1997.
13. Et bien sûr, last but not least.... la machine à remonter dans le temps
Le postulat de départ de la trilogie "Retour vers le futur", à savoir la DeLorean capable de voyager dans le temps, n'a pas été inventée. Aujourd'hui, cette hypothèse pose encore de nombreux problèmes de physique.
Mais pour en avoir le cœur de net, il est possible de s'inscrire sur Facebook pour faire partie de ceux qui accueilleront Doc, Marty et Jennifer le 21 octobre 2015 à 16h29 à Hill Valley.
How would humanity change if we knew aliens existed?
How would humanity change if we knew aliens existed?
We have yet to discover any signs of an extraterrestrial civilization — a prospect that could quite literally change overnight. Should that happen, our sense of ourselves and our place in the cosmos would forever be shaken. It could even change the course of human history. Or would it?
Last week, SETI’s Seth Shostak made the claim that we’ll detect an alien civilization by 2040. Personally, I don’t believe this will happen (for reasons I can elucidate in a future post — but the Fermi Paradox is definitely a factor, as is the problem of receiving coherent radio signals across stellar distances). But it got me wondering: What, if anything, would change in the trajectory of a civilization’s development if it had definitive proof that intelligent extraterrestrials (ETIs) were real?
Finding a World Much Like Our Own
As I thought about this, I assumed a scenario with three basic elements.
First, that humanity would make this historic discovery within the next several years or so. Second, that we wouldn’t actually make contact with the other civilization (just the receipt, say, of a radio transmission — something like a Lucy Signalthat would cue us to their existence). And third, that the ETI in question would be at roughly the same level of technological development as our own (so they’re not too much more advanced than we are; that said, if the signal came from an extreme distance, like hundreds or thousands of light-years away, these aliens would probably have advanced appreciably by now. Or they could be gone altogether, the victims of a self-inflicted disaster).
I tossed this question over to my friend and colleague Milan Cirkovic. He’s a Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and a leading expert on SETI.
“Well, that’s a very practical question, isn’t it?” he responded. “Because people have been expecting something like this since 1960 when SETI was first launched — they haven’t really been expecting to find billion-year old supercivilizations or just some stupid bacteria.”
Indeed, the underlying philosophy of SETI over the course of its 50-year history has been that we’ll likely detect a civilization roughly equal to our own — for better or worse. And no doubt, in retrospect it started to look “for worse” when the hopes of an early success were dashed. Frank Drake and his colleagues thought they would find signs of ETIs fairly quickly, but that turned out not to be the case (though Drake’s echo can still be heard in the unwarranted contact optimism of Seth Shostak).
“Enormous Implications”
“Some people argued that a simple signal wouldn’t mean much for humanity,” added Cirkovic, “but I think Carl Sagan, as usual, had a good response to this.”
Specifically, Sagan said that the very understanding that we are not unique in the universe would have enormous implications for all those fields in which anthropocentrism reigns supreme.
“Which means, I guess, half of all the sciences and about 99% of the other, non-scientific discourse,” said Cirkovic.
Sagan also believed that the detection of a signal would reignite enthusiasm for space in general, both in terms of research and eventually the colonization of space.
“The latter point was quite prescient, actually, because at the time he said this there wasn’t much enthusiasm about it and it was much less visible and obvious than it is today,” he added.
No doubt — this would likely generate tremendous excitement and enthusiasm for space exploration. In addition to expanding ourselves into space, there would be added impetus to reach out and meet them.
At the same time, however, some here on Earth might counterargue that we should stay home and hide from potentially dangerous civilizations (ah, but what if everybody did this?). Ironically, some might even argue that we should significantly ramp-up our space and military technologies to meet potential alien threats.
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Premier Nieuw-Zeeland ontkent buitenaards te zijn
Premier Nieuw-Zeeland ontkent buitenaards te zijn
De Nieuw-Zeelandse minister-president John Key is naar eigen zeggen geen buitenaards wezen dat van gedaante kan veranderen.
Key zag zich gedwongen te reageren tegenover journalisten, nadat een man uit Auckland een Wob-verzoek had ingediend waarin hij om bewijs vroeg.
“Voor zover ik weet ben ik er niet één,” verklaarde Key. “Ik ben naar een dokter en een dierenarts geweest en allebei hebben ze bevestigd dat ik geen reptiel ben,” zei Key met een glimlach.
Menselijke vorm
“Ik ben nog nooit in een ruimteschip of in de ruimte geweest,” voegde de premier van Nieuw-Zeeland toe. Afgelopen maand diende Shane Warbrooke bij het kantoor van de premier een Wob-verzoek in, waarin hij vroeg om bewijs waaruit blijkt dat John Key geen buitenaards wezen is dat van gedaante kan veranderen.
De Britse schrijver David Icke stelt dat de wereld in het geheim wordt bestuurd door een ras van reptielen in menselijke vorm. Als voorbeelden noemt hij onder meer Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush, Tony Blair en prinses Beatrix.
Antwoord
Wayne Eagleson, de rechterhand van Key, heeft Warbrooke inmiddels geantwoord dat het Wob-verzoek is afgewezen omdat ‘het document waarin de gevraagde informatie staat niet bestaat of niet kan worden gevonden’.
Dit was precies het antwoord waar Warbrooke op had gerekend. “Maar ze hebben wel de volle 20 werkdagen die ervoor staan gewacht voordat ze me antwoord gaven,” zei hij.
A strange object was seen in the skies over San Miguel de Tucumán, creating doubts as to whether it was a UFO.
The images were recorded with a cellphone camera from the corner of Mate de Luna and Pellegrini avenues from the capital city of the “Jardín de la República” (garden of the republic – the name bestowed by president Domingo Sarmiento on the area when he encountered the subtropical cloud forest [yungas] of the Tucumán-Bolivia region – Ed).
The videoclip is 42 seconds long and a displays a slow-moving white object or light.
After a number of seconds, the light vanishes behind the treeline as a radio broadcast can be heard in the background.
The nearly seventy year mystery of UFOs has still not been solved or revealed in any satisfactory sense. That UFO/ET experiencers both inside and outside the national security state, the former being whistleblowers, have not produced a solution to this most aggravating and persistent of daily phenomena weighs hard on reason. How is such a thing possible? Is it because they, the aliens, are so far advanced over us that they don't have to worry about the sentient apes penetrating their systems? Is it because intelligence agencies throughout the world are supremely competent at keeping secrets? Or is it possibly because the aliens that really matter are so far ahead of human notions of auto-transportation that they don't even use UFOs? Although we can't seem to fathom how ET might establish a presence in our solar system without UFOs, recent thinking has considered the possibility in terms of inter-dimensional travel, various quantum and string-theory-based possibili ties. It should not surprise us if beings a billion years more advanced than us transport themselves in some way other than auto-propelled carriages.
The Peekskill meteor impact of October 9, 1992 (Gannett Suburban Newspaper photo).
The license plate numbers “933″ over-scored by the chrome accent seem to “augur” comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's appearance in March 1993 five months later. Note the “skill” and precision, not to mention the knowledge of impact mechanics, demonstrated. The recovered 27.3 pound Peekskill meteorite was 4″ x 5″ x 11″; the dimensions of the car signal-light are approximately 5″ x 22″. Both the car and meteorite were exhibited together in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC in 1993. The fireball from which the meteorite came was seen at 8 p.m. (prime-time) in at least eight U.S. states and filmed from six of them.
The impact occurred Oct.9, 1992, three (b0) days before NASA-Ames commenced the “Targeted Search”, a 100 million dollar SETI project, on October 12, 1992, and three (b0 )) days before the American Quincentennial (Columbus discovered America Oct. 12, 1492). NASA's hypothesis was and remains a simple one: ET exists. ET's semiotic reply: “Right, Ames! (we do exist). Of course, the ET investigators at Ames Research Center were only looking for intelligently produced radio-wave signals (not meteoritic signals), and so missed ET's reply. Many other extraordinary details and coincidences seem to confirm that the meteor event was, in fact, intelligently fashioned as a multi-eloquent, albeit semiotic, communication/overture of greeting.
But can a non-UFO ET theory be seen as anything but sacrilege? It shouldn't, really. Reports that alien spacecraft reside in secret hangars are anything but confirmed. The people who have reported seeing them at Area 51 might easily be duped into thinking they saw crashed saucers when all they really saw were models. What's more, the art and science of film special effects (Fx) is ceretainly nothing less than amazing these days.
“National Security” is a convenient catch-all excuse to black-box the whole subject, and use it for propaganda purposes. Governments have proven their capacity to be nothing less than nefarious when it comes to disseminating disinformation, and one should certainly expect the subject of UFOs to be exploited to help promote one agenda or another.
One question is, why would advanced aliens need to collude with generals and the like? Is there anything they could possibly want that they couldn't take or find elsewhere? If these unknown generals or property owners (Area 51 seems not to belong to the US government) have dead aliens staked out or embalmed, would this endear them to aliens sufficiently to cause aliens to collude with them? The idea that elite cabals are able to compel aliens to do anything seems incredible on its face.
Another question is why wouldn't the aliens have thought about the inevitable contingency that someday one of their ships would crash on our planet, allowing some of their most valuable secrets to be acquired by primitive and opportunistic aliens (humans)? Why wouldn't they have taken measures to preclude any such capture or exploitation of their technology and genotype? A simple auto-destruct mechanism would do the trick. The idea that advanced aliens would overlook this makes no sense.
That UFOs are real is not the issue because numerous cases have been satisfactorily confirmed as being of a non-alien type. This includes secret experimental military aircraft, weather balloons, holograms, inversion layers, conventional aircraft (e.g. when under certain atmospheric conditions the wings of a jet appear to disappear), hallucinations (e.g. from an acid trip), hoaxes, and, most recently, drones, to name a few. These are not alien in origin, yet many in the UFO field insist that all this comprises but a substantial percentage of the cases, not all cases. If it is true that some small percentage of unexplainable cases are alien space/air craft, then we are back to the aliens-are-just-too-advanced-for-us theory. Such a theory makes sense inasmuch as they have at least proven themselves eminently spaceworthy, where we humans have not.
So what does a non-UFO alien theory look like? For one thing, the aliens will probably not resemble humans, reptiles or any other Earth inhabitant. For another thing, they will probably be well beyond transporting themselves in space carriages or other faulty contraptions. Having survived and even flourished over a long period of time, they will probably have transcended the will-to-power-for-its-own-sake thing that seems to obsess and plague humankind. If their intentions were malevolent they would have almost certainly taken our planet for themselves by now, men with spears or even stars on their shoulders notwithstanding. So we are left with benevolent entities that just happen to be even more advanced over us than Chris Columbus and the Conquistadors were over the indigenous natives found in the new world. But give such an advantage to humans and they'll exploit it to the hilt every time.
Because extra-terrestrials are, in hindsight, essentially benevolent toward us, followers of Nietzche, Darwin (“survival of the fittest”) and Machiavelli would no doubt find such kindly restraint more than a little perplexing. Perhaps this is just a human thing, a thing that puts the ape-like creature a crawl, a few steps, and a roll from the primordial swamp. We should at least be careful not to automatically transfer human traits onto extra-terrestrials, especially if we consider what could be the “extra” in extra-terrestrial.
How would aliens express themselves to humans? Would they express themselves to us at all, any more than we would attempt to express ourselves to ants in an anthill? The answer, it turns out, is not terribly hard to find, because the facts strongly suggest that they have expressed, even revealed, themselves to us.
Take 21 comets crashing into Jupiter, for example. This happened in July 1994 and could count as the kind of thing aliens might pull off to augur and celebrate the ape-man's 21st century. Yet who in the world thought it odd that the number of comet fragments just happened to be twenty-one? Almost no one. Comets have been thought for millenia by human societies to be messages from the gods, harbingers of great change and disasters to come. The notion is very much a human thing, after all.
That advanced aliens might use their overarching technology to interface with our world in this manner is consistent with what we know about aliens. They do seem to maintain a hands-off approach where humans are concerned. That is, direct contact with our species has so far been a no-no, but this does not preclude indirect contact being made (alas!).
The great comet crash of 1994 was certainly hard to miss, and the event won't be going away anytime soon. There's hardly anything in the world scientists enjoy more than to watch really really big explosions. The 21 impacts of Jupiter were the most energetic events of any kind ever seen in this solar system. Period. They were documented, filmed, photgraphed, and studied nine ways to Sunday by the world's astronomical community. Scientists were bouncing off the walls for six days while fragments A through W (I and O were not used) pummeled the gas giant from July 16 to 22. According to one estimate, fragment “G” alone released about 600 times the energy of all the nuclear bombs on Earth!
Maybe the alien message to astronomers was that they should begin to study asteroids and their impacts. This bio-galactic reality was pretty much laughed off by science before 1994 as something that happened millions of years ago but no longer. It would be a damn shame if such a promsing but planet-bound species should go extinct from something so simple and stupid as the impact of some comet or asteroid, without that species having had much of a clue about this particular danger. Shoemaker-Levy 9 sure woke scientists up to the reality in a hurry, so much so that they only then began to study asteroids. So there was extraterrestrial communication and a human response to it, after all. In spite of NASA's denial that the 21 comets could have been a message to them from aliens, “the message” got through loud and clear, anyway.
Project NEAR, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, launched from Cape Canaveral just three years after Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered. After a four year journey that included fly-bys of Earth (Jan. 1998) and asteroids Mathilde (June 1997) and Eros (December 1998), NEAR began orbiting the 21-mile-long asteroid Eros on Feb. 14, 2000. Maybe this was exactly what the designers of SL-9 had in mind when they fashioned the so-called “string of pearls.”
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its aftermath may not be the only interworld interface that has taken place. 2013 saw two record-breaking asteroid events occur on the same day, February 15. The tip off here was that the two asteroids were completely unrelated, astronomically. The European Space Agency, among others, confirmed as much. The two asteroids, one 45-60 in diameter, the other 150 feet in diameter, just happened, the same day, that's all. What a “coincidence!”
The smaller asteroid exploded in the air over Russia causing perhaps one billion rubles worth of window damage and about 1,100 facial cuts of Russians standing anywhere near the shattering windows. Of the 1,158 people who applied for medical assistance, 52 were hospitalized, including 13 children. If the asteroid/bolide had held together for a few more seconds and thus exploded lower in the atmosphere it would have killed a million Russians. Although it was damn close, nobody died. Talk about precision!
The larger asteroid, called 2012 DA14, passed underneath Earth orbiting satellites to become the largest space rock that astronomers have ever known about in advance. As the name implies, asteroid 2012 DA14 was spotted in 2012, and was fully expected to pass by the Earth when it did; the smaller Chelyabinsk asteroid was a complete surprise, however, as it woke up the entire Ural Mountain region with a super-loud and bright flash-bang.
The fact that the two “unrelated” record-breaking asteroids should exert pressure on our world barely 16 hours apart could be coincidence, of course; so could the appearance and impact of “21″ (not 1, not 4, or 12 or 18) comets. On the other hand, they could be the only way ethical extraterrestrials allow themselves to communicate with our world. The technique certainly doesn't give away anything of strategic value, such as where they come from, where their “posts” are located, or how they are able to maintain their embargo and presence here without our detecting them.
But there are other excellent benefits to such an approach: they get to “control the verticle and the horizontal”, so to speak. SETI scientists, and therefore governments, would necessarily disavow any notion of asteroids being signals from ET. The notion is in no way “scientific”, after all. Besides, the pan-cultural belief in comets and firey rocks in the sky as “messages from the gods” comes to us from that soft academic area called history, and therefore can't possibly matter. What's more, the world was not substantively changed by the events. Aside from opening up the issue of large impacts, and except for some footnotes in future history and astronomy books, there was no interference in human history or worldviews, no DEFCON alerts, no panic in the streets, no possibility of government censure and propaganda, the latter because the events were made available to all mankind. In short, the status quo was maintained. And yet a human/ET interface did taken place. What a wonderful device, what a great little system!
Perhaps if we broadened our investigative approach and afforded ET the benefit of a doubt by listening to what they are saying by such incredibly unlikely and world-shaking events, we can make progress on the extra-terrestrial question. It's not about the cars, after all, its about what's in the mind of the entities allegedly inside them. On the other hand, we can continue to beat our heads against the brick wall of UFOs and get nowhere for another sixty-five years.
Earth has another close encounter with large asteroid by The Extinction Protocol February 18, 2014 – SPACE – An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields whizzed close to Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people. Slooh Space Camera tracked the approach of the asteroid as it raced past the planet at about 27,000 mph (43,000 kmph), starting at 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT, Feb. 18), the robotic telescope service said in a statement on Slooh.com. The Dubai Astronomy Group provided Slooh photos of the part of the sky where the rock was expected to be seen, but its motion could not be picked out immediately in a live webcast against the backdrop of night-time stars. The 295-yard (270-m) asteroid was streaking past Earth at a distance of about 2.1 million miles (3.4 million km) little more than a year after another asteroid exploded on Feb. 15, 2013, over Chelyabinsk, Russia. That asteroid injured 1,200 people following a massive shock wave that shattered windows and damaged buildings. Chelyabinsk region officials had wanted to mark the anniversary by giving a piece of the meteorite to each 2014 Winter Olympic athlete who won a medal on Saturday at the Sochi Games. However, the International Olympic Committee at the last minute said it could be done only after the games and separately. Slooh’s flagship observatory on Mount Teide in Spain’s Canary Islands was iced over and unable to be used for the 2000 EM26 viewing, Paul Cox, Slooh’s technical and research director, said on the one-hour webcast. “We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids – sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth,” Cox said in a statement before the show. He added, “We need to find them before they find us!”
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The Kostroma Android Location. Kostroma, Russia Date: May 23 1991 Time: after midnight Around midnight, the witness, Ipat Fedorovich (involved in numerous other encounters) suddenly awoke after hearing a sharp sibilant sound. Looking at the opened window he saw an “object” entered the room and land on the night table. The “object” resembled a small robot-like humanoid or a sophisticated toy. The height of the robotic figure was only about 15 cm and width about 10cm. It seemed to be multi-layered and emitted a light with all the colors of the rainbow, although blue and greenish predominated. A small glow was also observed briefly at the window. Meanwhile, the night visitor after staying on the table for about 30-40 seconds fell or jumped to the floor, executing this maneuver totally noiselessly. The multicolored glow now dimmed and Fedorovich arose from the bed and immediately looked around the table, but there was no trace of the “little fellow”. After this Fedorovich went immediately to sleep, in the morning he made a sketch of the strange robotic entity. (Above).
Location. Mexico City, Mexico Date: May 1975 Time: evening Two weeks after a dramatic UFO sighting from his plane—a sighting confirmed on the radar screens at Mexico City airport—-young pilot, four black-suited Scandinavian looking men in a black limousine pursued Santos Montiel down the freeway. After forcing him to the side of the road, they warned him not to discuss his sighting, the pilot was on his way to do a television interview, a month later one of the strangers reappeared and threatened him again while he was on his way to a hotel to talk to the prominent UFO investigator Allen Hynek. He described the MIBs as tall and strangely white, and said he never saw them blink.
HC addendum Source:David Pratt, Visitors from the twilight zone Type: E Comments this is an account of the original encounter: On May 3 1975, Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel was flying to Mexico City in his Piper PA-24 when his plane started to shake for no apparent reason. When he looked to his right he was astonished to see a dark gray disc-shaped object, about 10 or 12 feet in diameter, just beyond the wing tip. On his left he spotted a similar object pacing his aircraft. But neither of these was nearly so unsettling as the sight of the third, which was moving at him head on. De Los Santos yanked a lever which should have lowered the landing gear—he had hoped to touch the UFO with his wheels—but the mechanism failed to respond. But he still succeeded in touching the object, in fact, much to the pilot’s chagrin; the UFO scraped the underpart of the fuselage and caused the plane to jolt. By now, and beside himself with fear, De los Santos discovered that the controls would not operate. Theoretically at least the craft was out of control but it continued flying relatively smoothly at 120 mph. That didn’t make him feel any better—he was weeping as he described the encounter over the radio to the control tower at the Mexico City airport. The UFOs no longer visible, the pilot asked for and received permission to land and was relieve to find the plane’s instrumentation working normally again. Carlos de los Santos was given a medical examination and pronounced fit, free of physical or psychological damage from the experience.
Location. Minduri, Minas Gerais, Brazil Date: August 1958 Time: 09:00 a.m. Three men walking up a hill on the other side of a valley saw two gigantic human-like figures. Both figures were wearing tight-fitting shiny red clothing that covered them from head to toe, they seemed to be well proportioned and were moving at a normal pace and ignored the presence of the stunned witnesses. When the two giants walked next to some tall trees, the men estimated that one of the figures was about 5 or 6meters in height while the other 3 meters in height. Two hours before a local businessman and his family observed a very bright round object flying in the direction where the giant figures were seen later by the 3 witnesses.
HC addition # 1066 Source: Timothy Green Beckley, Saga UFO Annual 1975 quoting SBEDV Type: D High Strangeness Index: 7 Reliability of Source: 7 Comments: The height of the alleged humanoids is almost a record for South American reports. There have been similar reports from the former USSR and Greece.
Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily, says “Here I present to you some photos that have exactly what most of you imagine alien structures will look like. There are many buildings tall, short, long, most made to conform to how we see a civilized society. These structures look like they were built recently. They are whole, without breaks or fissures and clean with no dirt or dust blanketing them over time, which tells me…they are occupied. ”
Date of discovery: February 10, 2014
Location of discovery: Mercury
NASA Mission: Mariner 10
Photo ID: PIA00066
Exact Location on Mercury: Shakespeare Quadrant, Northern Half, H-3
‘First you must know this is not a black and white photo, but an infrared photo. The Mariner 10 had an “8-postition filter wheel.” Each filter allows the camera to take a different kind of photo. The infrared filter is so powerful that if you pour ink onto a typed page, you can see right through the ink and read the words as if the ink never existed. That is what happened to the shadow areas on Mercury in this photo. The shadows hid a honeycomb-like structure that always varies in shape, but its smaller components resembles that of…a honeycomb. Other structures are located near hills and mountains to blend in at a distance. This is why normal photos of Mercury will not have these structures in them.
Infrared filter can see through ink and tinting to allow you to read the words.
Waring says, “Long ago, four to five years ago I found a face…so new in appearance on the planet Mercury. It was massive in scale and appeared as if I was looking at the face of a statue here on Earth, but this was tens of floors high. I saved the photo and then a few days later a virus wiped out my whole computer. So it was gone. I still have the image of the face in my head, a black person, big forehead, chubby cheeks and confident. I had to find it again, so as I was looking I found these this particular photo with structures in it. Sure, this one is not the photo I was looking for, but the number of structures in it is staggering. People often misconstrue what an alien structure looks like when they see it…having only their past experience with humanity to build upon, and often those kind of human preferred structures are hard to find. Most alien structures look like black mountains (moon) or giant white mushrooms (moon), so finding a structure we can relate to is difficult.”
“And to the aliens on Mercury, I send greetings. Since your structures have some commonality to our own, then there must be other things we have in common. We the people are asking to meet you. Balls in your court, says Waring
Let me put it to you straight. For 35 years, I have been exploring and investigating UFOs and UFOlogy (both the serious endeavor and the silly speculative fare that fills popular culture) and...well, UFOs are real: They fly, they evince technologies we don't understand and they have been around for years.
Above all, despite voluminous and overwhelming evidence to support those assertions, to raise this subject as worthy of historical and scientific investigation is to invite ridicule, the shaking of pitying heads, derision and hostility and embarrassed silence.
Still, I persist in believing, as Francis Bacon said in 1620, that if something deserves to exist, it deserves to be known, not rejected out of hand with prejudice. The scientific method, principles of historical analysis and an open mind ask that much.
No subject has been more marginalized and maligned than this topic. By "unidentified flying objects" I mean not the many things commonly mistaken for them — balloons, Venus, sprites, ball lightning, secret craft, etc. — I mean anomalous vehicles that for decades have been well-documented by credible observers ("Credible people have seen incredible things," said Gen. John Samford, U.S. Air Force chief of intelligence in 1953), to which our government responded with the formulation and execution of policies in light of genuine national security concerns.
I was recently privileged to be included as contributing editor and writer on a team that produced the book, "UFOs and Government: An Historical Inquiry" over five years. The research/writing team was led by Michael Swords, a professor of natural science (now retired) at Western Michigan University and Robert Powell, a nanotechnologist formerly with AMD. The book is regarded as an "exception" to the dreary field by Choice, the journal that recommends works for inclusion in university collections. Choice suggested that all university libraries should have it (to date, 45 have it in their collections, including four in the University of Wisconsin system, as well as many Wisconsin public libraries).
The almost-600 page book is well-grounded with nearly 1,000 citations from government documents and other primary sources so it is "bullet proof." There is virtually nothing speculative in it. We document the response of governments from the 1940s forward to events they took quite seriously — and which readers, judging on the evidence and data, will take seriously as well.
A short op-ed cannot do justice to the complex narrative, but I can state a few facts.
■ Any other domain of inquiry with hundreds of well-documented events would be considered worthy of scientific and historical investigation.
■ Well-executed policies carried out with secrecy do not constitute "a conspiracy," and we are not "conspiracy theorists," a term used to attack investigators of unpopular subjects. Members of the military and intelligence community, from the early 1950s on, decided to learn as much as they could about UFOs — which they decided did not constitute a direct threat to national security — while at the same time playing down and dismissing reports from the public. The reports themselves were considered to be the primary threat by the CIA.
■ The data illuminates a phenomenon that is global, persistent and sufficiently similar in small details to invite taxonomic classification as to vehicle types, the physics of force fields that power the objects and ionize the air around them, producing characteristic colors in relationship to speed and power, and diverse kinds of robotic or sentient beings associated with the objects.
■ It is an astonishing sociological and psychological phenomenon that throughout the 20th century, despite reports by credible observers, corroborated on multiple radar sets on the ground and in jets, resulted not in public investigation but in an inability to get our minds around the mere possibility. Instead the subject is literally "unthinkable."
■ One reason it is "unthinkable" is the effective use of ridicule, the mocking of people who made reports or took the subject seriously, and a long silence from official authoritative voices in the face of credible testimony. When I delivered a speech and served on a panel recently at the National Security Agency, I was reminded by a veteran analyst that "the three legs of cover and deception are illusion, misdirection and ridicule. But the greatest of these is ridicule"— which discredits the person, not the testimony, and the testimony I have heard has come from military and civilian pilots, astronauts, even the intelligence head of a foreign military force. "This is what I saw, and I know what I saw" is what I am told, corroborating the statement in 1947 by Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining that "The phenomena is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
■ My personal exploration began in 1978 when, as a recently ordained Episcopal clergyman in a parish on the edge of an Air Force base, a parishioner, a decorated fighter pilot with all the "right stuff" who retired as a colonel, told me, "We chase them, and we can't catch them."
■ "UFOs and Government" includes quotations from generals, senior intelligence personnel and professionals such as Hermann Oberth, the father of German rocketry, that affirm the exotic characteristics of the technology that no earthly power could then achieve. As Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell told me, "Richard, if we could do what they can do, they wouldn't have sent me to the moon in a tin lizzie."
■ We increasingly accept through our own scientific explorations that many Earth-like planets likely to harbor life fill our galaxy and the galaxies beyond. When we hear that from authoritative voices, we accept it as a probability, but when we examine the evidence of decades of visitation by real explorers, we find it difficult to think in a concrete way that we are not alone, not the top of the food chain and that others may have been voyaging for thousands of years — as if we are the gold standard of scientific knowledge and our current understanding of physics is the end of all physics.
So I'm out of the closet on a subject. As an older man with a solid track record of delivering insights into likely futures that have pretty much worked out over the years, a man who has spoken for security conferences all over the world (including NSA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Pentagon, etc.), discussing the impact of new technologies, I can say without embarrassment that documented data supports the contention that many historical reports show exactly what they seem to show — anomalous vehicular traffic demonstrating aerodynamic capabilities and propulsion systems beyond the range of our own technology.
So...why do well-intentioned people who know more than I do persist in the pretense that nothing unusual has been going on? That's a more speculative exploration, one for another time.
Richard Thieme of Fox Point is a writer and professional speaker (www.thiemeworks.com). In addition to "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry," he has written "Islands in the Clickstream (2004)" and "Mind Games (2010)" and contributed chapters to several books.
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