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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.
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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...
09-06-2014
10 Incredible Mummy Discoveries from Around the World
10 Incredible Mummy Discoveries from Around the World
Mummies of humans and other animals have been found on every continent, both as a result of natural preservation through unique climatic conditions, and as intentionally preserved corpses for religious or cultural purposes. In addition to the well-known mummies of Ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was a feature of several ancient cultures in areas of South America and Asia, as well as numerous other. Here we feature ten unique mummy discoveries from around the world.
The Mummies of Qilakitsoq – Greenland
His little face still stares upwards, as if eternally waiting for his mother. From the moment he was discovered, the little Inuit baby captured hearts with his photograph plastered on magazines and news stories around the world. When he was first found, he was believed to be a doll, but it was soon discovered that it was actually the body of a six-month old baby boy. He was buried alive with his already dead mother – presumably because there was no one left to care for him. The small Inuit baby was found along with a two-year-old boy, and six women of various ages, who were buried in two separate graves protected by a rock that overhung a shallow cave. The bodies were naturally mummified by the sub-zero temperatures and dry, dehydrating winds, providing a remarkable opportunity to learn about the Greenland Inuit of half a millennium ago – they are the oldest preserved remains ever to be found there.
Tollund Man – Denmark
Tollund Man is the naturally mummified body of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was hanged as a sacrifice to the gods and placed in a peat bog where he remained preserved for more than two millennia. Today, the face of the Tollund Man is as preserved as the day he died. The look upon his face is calm and peaceful, as though looking upon a sleeping man.
The Lady of Dai Mummy – China
When talking about body preservation and mummies, people all over the world think of Egypt and the mummified bodies of Pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun. But how many know that the world’s best preserved bodies actually come from China? The Lady of Dai, otherwise known as The Diva Mummy, is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty and the best preserved ancient human ever found. Just how this incredible level of preservation was accomplished has baffled and amazed scientists around the world. Xin Zhui, the Lady of Dai, died between 178 and 145 BC, at around 50 years of age. The objects inside her tomb indicated a woman of wealth and importance, and one who enjoyed the good things in life. But it was not the precious goods and fine fabrics that immediately caught the attention of archaeologists, rather it was the extraordinarily well-preserved state of her remains that captured their eyes.
The 500-Year-Old Inca Child Mummies – Argentina
Over a decade ago, the remains of three Incan children were found, remarkably preserved, atop the summit of Volcan Llullaillaco in Argentina. Last year, an analysis on the bodies of the 13-year-old ‘Maiden’ and her 4- to 5-year-old companions, Llullaillaco Boy and Lightening Girl, revealed that the children had been drugged and given alcohol on a regular basis as part of a year-long series of ceremonial processes leading up to their final sacrifice. Evidence suggests the sacrificial ceremony may have been used as a form of social control. Being selected for the ritual was supposed to be seen as a great honour, but it probably produced a climate of fear. In fact, it was a major offense for parents to show any sadness after giving up their children for the ceremony.
Tjayasetimu, the Child Star – Egypt
Tjayasetimu is the name of a little girl who was a star singer in ancient Egypt. Nearly three thousand years ago, she was a member of the royal choir and sang for the pharaohs in temples on the Nile. The seven-year-old girl, although heartbreakingly young when she died, was important enough to merit an elaborate mummification, a process normally reserved for Egyptian royalty and elite families. Tjayasetimu had been wrapped in painted bandages, her face covered with a delicate veil and hidden by a golden mask, and she had been placed in a gilded sarcophagus. The child star was well-preserved and still had a full head of shoulder-length hair. They could even see her milk teeth pushing up through her gums. At a height of just 4 feet, Tjayasetimu was far too small for her sarcophagus, although it is not clear why a casing was not made to fit her size. Scientists believe she died as a result of a short illness, such as cholera.
The Beauty of Loulan – China
Loulan was discovered in 1980, but it was 3800 years ago that she died on the trade route known as the Silk Road. The natural dryness and salty soil preserved her and over two hundred other mummies, individuals who had lived in several closely located settlements along the trade route. The mummy has been called the Loulan Beauty because of her amazingly preserved stately facial features that have remained quite beautiful even in death. Unfortunately, the region where she and the others were found is politically unstable and the discovery of the mummies in the Tarim Basin in China was seen as a possible instigating factor for unrest. The Chinese government has been reluctant to allow full access to the mummies because of their racial identity. The Tarim mummies are Caucasian and this fact has given credence to the claims of the local peoples, the Uyghur, who look more European than Asian that they are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the area and not later arrivals, as Chinese history claims.
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Ötzi the Iceman – Germany
Ötzi the iceman, who was discovered by some German tourists in the Alps in 1991, was originally believed to be the frozen corpse of a mountaineer or soldier who died during World War I. Tests later confirmed the iceman dates back to 3,300 BC and most likely died from a blow to the back of the head. He is Europe’s oldest natural human mummy and, remarkably, his body contained the still intact blood cells, which resembled a modern sample of blood. They are the oldest blood cells ever identified. His body was so well-preserved that scientists were even able to determine that his last meal was red deer and herb bread, eaten with wheat bran, roots and fruit.
The Lady of Cao – Peru
On the beautiful northern coastline of Peru overlooking the blue Pacific, the place known as Huaca El Brujo (Sacred place of the Wizard) gives us an incredible glimpse into the culture of the Moche and the ‘Wizard’ buried there. Its two main pyramids, Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna, were once the centre of social and religious functions in the area and the final resting place of the tattooed mummy, who has come to be known as the Lady of Cao. Not an elderly woman, she died in her mid-twenties about fifteen hundred years ago, probably as a complication of childbirth. The Moche did not mummify their dead purposefully, but the conditions for desiccation just happened to preserve the Lady of Cao and by doing so also preserved her intricate tattoos. Although it is not believed that the more common members of Moche society were tattooed it could certainly be inferred from this burial that the highest status members were, and the tattoos probably represented and strengthened the individuals’ connection with the divine through sympathetic magic.
Mystery Mummies of Zeleniy Yar – Russia
Zeleniy Yar is a remote site near the Arctic Circle known to the indigenous Nenets people as “the end of the earth”. The unique site has revealed nearly a dozen mysterious mummies who appear to be foreign to the region, and whose artifacts can be traced back to ancient Persia, nearly 6,000 kilometres away. Scientists are undertaking genetic testing to determine the origins of the mummies and unlock the secrets of a mystery medieval civilization. The mummies were found in a well-preserved state, seemingly by accident, and wearing copper masks and covered in reindeer, beaver, wolverine, or bear fur. Many of their skulls are shattered or missing, while the skeletons were smashed. One of the mummies is a red-haired male, protected from chest to foot by copper plating. In his resting place, was an iron hatchet, furs, and a head buckle made of bronze depicting a bear.
The Mummies of Palermo Catacombs – Italy
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo are located in Sicily, Italy. In the 16th century, the Capuchin monks of Palermo discovered that their catacombs contained a natural preservative that helped mummify their dead. One of the most famous mummies is that of a two year old girl, Rosalia Lombardo. Rosalia was placed in the catacombs when she died in 1920. Her body is so well preserved that she looks as if she were just sleeping in her glass coffin, hence her nickname “Sleeping Beauty”. The secret for her excellent state of preservation was revealed a few years ago, when a hand-written memoir of the embalmer, Alfredo Salafia, was discovered. This memoir recorded the chemicals that he injected into Rosalia’s blood. These chemicals were formalin, zinc salts, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin. It has been suggested that it was the zinc salts that were most responsible for Rosalia’s amazing state of preservation.
What did they want with the Knowles family? Were they simply experimenting with them or was this a sign that something far more sinister is coming to Earth?
THE Knowles family set out from Perth for Melbourne, in the hope of finding new jobs. Instead, a terrifying and violent 90-minute encounter with a UFO on the Nullarbor Plain left them so shaken they turned around and headed home.
The family claim the glowing UFO, shaped like an egg in an eggcup, chased and even lifted their car off the road, dropping it so heavily a tire burst.
During the height of the encounter in January 1988, they said their voices became distorted and sounded like they were in slow motion.
They said they drove at speeds up to 200km/h, that the car was covered inside and out by a black ash, and that the UFO landed on the roof, leaving dents.
The incident on January 20 made world headlines, with many treating their story with scepticism — so much so that the Knowles family retreated from public view before being allegedly duped by an Adelaide marketing man, and losing the car after failing to continue its repayments.
What the family said
Here’s what the Knowles family — mother Faye, Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, (ages at the time of the incident) say happened while driving their Ford Telstar, about 40km east of Mundrabilla near the SA-WA border.
It was a little before 5am when Sean swerved to miss a huge “bright glowing” object on the road.
It was bright and white with a yellow centre, shaped like an egg in an eggcup and about a metre wide, high enough to block their view.
“It was a weird-looking thing and we stopped to go back and have a look at it,” Sean told The Advertiser.
Walking towards the object, they became frightened and ran back to the car and drove away.
“It chased us and at one stage when we were trying to get away we were doing up to 200km/h,” he said.
He said the object, which was humming like a transformer, landed on the roof with a thump, pushing down the car and then lifting it from the road.
His mother reached out the window to touch the object, which she said felt hot.
“She told me it felt like a rubber suction pad,’’ he said.
When Mrs Knowles brought her hand back inside, it was covered with a fine dust.
While suspended in the air, their voices were distorted and it appeared as though they were talking in slow motion.
“I wound down the window — it came in the car like smoke,” Mrs Knowles told Channel 7. “We thought we were going to die. We were going silly. Something was going into our heads.”
Patrick said: “Something seemed to be on top of us. We looked around but it didn’t seem to be there. It seemed to kind of grab the car.
“I wound up the windows and the car began to smoke up inside. It smelt like dead bodies or something smelt really foul, like gas or something.’’
He said he felt as though his brains were being pulled from his head.
When the car dropped to the ground it blew a tyre.
The family hid in a bush and after about 30 minutes replaced the tyre and drove to the Mundrabilla roadhouse, where truckie Graham Henley said he also had seen the bright light in the area in his rear-vision mirror.
It was hovering above The Basin on the sweeping stretch of road just flickering in and out between the trees,” he said.
He said the family was in a state of shock and even their dogs were cowering in the car.
“The whole car smelt like bakelite or just like as if you’d blown a fuse,” he said.
“A soot was all over the car and there were four dents as though the car had been picked up by a magnet.
“I cannot explain it but all I know is that I saw four very terrified people at 4.45 on Wednesday morning.”
Police investigating the incident said the car had a dented roof and was covered with an ash-like material.
Ceduna policeman Sergeant Fred Longley said Mrs Knowles and her sons were obviously distressed when they walked into the police station.
“They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside. Where did that come from? There’s no soil like that out there, only sand.”
And Ceduna officer Sergeant Jim Furnell said the car had dents in the roof “as if something had landed on top”.
West Trenton, NJ – I was driving home from dinner on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. At approximately 8:15 pm when I turned onto my road, I noticed an incredible fog rolling into the 300+ acre field across the street from my house. I pulled my car over and took several pictures of the fog rolling into the field and onto the road. A few minutes later, immediately upon returning home, I posted seven fog pictures to Facebook directly from my iPhone.
Later in the evening, I looked at the pictures I posted from the vantage point of my laptop. In one picture, I noticed three objects in a triangle formation. It struck me as odd, as birds don’t typically fly in a formation like that. I downloaded the picture into my basic photograph editor on my MacBook Air. I cropped the picture and zoomed in on the three objects. They appear round and metallic and you can easily see air disturbance around each object. It is important to note that I did NOT notice these objects when I was taking the pictures, nor did I hear any sound associated with them at all.
MUFON is welcome to analyze this photograph and, if interested, I will provide my iPhone for further analysis. Any feedback regarding the nature of these objects would be greatly appreciated. – MUFON CMS
I live in Massachusetts, in a well known summer tourist destination. The summer season is about to break open so my girlfriend and I decided to take a drive down to the harbor tonight to people watch. On our way home, we’re driving down a poorly lit road, there’s another car in the oncoming lane a ways down the road. My girlfriend is fiddling with the iPod, I’m just staring off into space, letting my mind wander. Literally out of nowhere, a green ball of light appears out of the woods to my right side. It was roughly the size of a car tire, it just floated across the road in front of us, is happens so quickly, yet time seemed to slow down. I was in awe. It made its way across the road, I can’t describe it any other way than to say that it almost felt like it was looking back at me. As it came to the other side of the road, it glided upwards extremely precisely and gracefully, Illuminating the trees is front of it on its way up. I as I drove past, I looked into the woods and followed the sky where I last saw it, but it was gone. I was the only one of us that saw it, my girlfriend was looking down at the iPod. As I was describing what I saw to her, I suddenly felt like all of the energy was draining out of me. Like all of a sudden I could just fall asleep, right there, as I’m driving. I have no explanation for this, but I know what I saw. Can anyone offer an explanation or similar experience? – Reddit.com
Mysterious Supernatural and Ghost Encounters in Indonesia
‘The night was cold and gloomy, I was walking alone. All I could hear was leaves rustling and all I could see were lights flickering..’ That is an common opening to Indonesians’ ghost stories. Whether or not one believes in ghosts, no Indonesian children grow up without hearing some creepy chill-inducing stories. Indonesia has a number of haunted places which are sure to keep one on edge should one dare to enter and seek the creatures which dwell beneath the dark and mystical ruins..
Here are some real-life experiences from those who survived the encounters:
The Lady in White
A girl was going home from her campus, she decided to take an angkot (public mini-bus) for a quick ride since it was late and there were not many cars around. She sat in the angkot and stared outside the big glass window at the backside of the bus. Suddenly the angkot stopped, she assumed it must have stopped to accommodate another passenger for the ride. She did not bother lifting her gaze from the glass window. But, the angkot did not move. She was getting impatient and looked towards the driver’s seat. To her surprise, the driver was missing and the driver’s door was wide open. She decided to get off the bus but there stood a lady in white dress at the door. Her face was very pale, she had a long hair and she was looking straight at the girl. The next morning, people found the girl inside the angkot with a terrified look on her face and took her to a psychiatric ward. The horror does not cease even after she got out of the ward. She still could see the lady in white everywhere and at all times.
The Mysterious Hitchhiker
This story was found in an Internet forum. A lady reports an incident met by her husband and her family about 20 years ago when they were driving on an a abandoned road near a forest in Indonesia. The road was dark and they spotted a girl walking along the road. Seeing her alone in a deserted area, the family offered her a lift home. The girl accepted it and got into the backseat. Nothing about the girl seemed strange, she pointed towards a light hinting to the family that her home was nearby and pointed towards a road that was leading up to a mountain. The family kept driving for an hour up the mountain but they did not see any signs of houses. The mother got a bit uneasy at this point and asked the girl if they could drop her off somewhere there since the family was unfamiliar with the route and they did not want to end up getting lost. The girl got off, went into the trees and disappeared. The family started looking for a spot from where they could turn the car around. Suddenly, a pair of headlights speed towards them. A forest ranger in uniform got off and walked towards them. The ranger informed them that he saw them travelling up the road and rushed to stop them because after about a mile ahead, there was a 1,000-feet cliff they would fall into if they kept on driving. Also when the family asked about the girl, the ranger said that there was no one living in that area. The family freaked out and quickly drove back. The girl they met was probably a ghost or someone who would have definitely caused them harm.
President Yudhoyono’s Encounter with the Supernatural
Ghostly encounters do not even spare the rich and powerful. In his book, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono (SBY) shared his experience. SBY and his wife had a close encounter with a supernatural force when they were sleeping in their private residence. The president who, like many Indonesians, believes in the existence of supernatural presence , saw a dark swirling cloud entering and exiting his bedroom. His wife screamed at the sight. Doors and windows were opened and the president and his wife prayed for the blessings from Allah. The dark clouds finally left the house and they were able to take a sigh of relief.
These stories were not conceived out of thin air. Indonesia is indeed known for her mystical and mysterious forces surrounding the many islands. Therefore, should you travel to Indonesia and decide to explore the country, take heed from the locals about the different mystical areas to avoid and the many rituals that should not be disturbed. In this instance, an out-of-the-worldly experience may not be pleasant. – Global Indonesian Voices
This is the story of one woman’s life-long interaction with beings from another world, and her journey to go beyond the fear to find meaning and purpose. In this book she explores the abduction experience and shares with you the three important things they insisted she learn.
“This is my story. I cannot prove any of it. For years I was encouraged to write about these experiences, but I resisted. This is not an easy story for me to write, and it might not be easy for you to read or believe. I understand that. . . This book is not only a recounting of my experiences but also the story of how I discovered that, like most things, it is possible to turn the worst thing in your life into something positive just by choosing to look at it from a different perspective.” -from the author
About the Author
Sherry Wilde was living an idyllic life until 1987 when her community experienced a UFO flap that was considered one of the most active in the world. No one could have ever have guessed the unbelievable turn of events that would occur over the next 18 to 24 months as Sherry was forced to accept her involvement in a phenomenon that was totally unknown to her. Faced with the undisputable evidence that she was experiencing contact with extra-terrestrial beings was astonishing to this pragmatic and levelheaded woman of 37, but to learn her contact had been ongoing for her entire life almost pushed her over the edge. Sherry spent the next several years of her life trying to exonerate the experience from her mind and ignoring the occasional visits, but when heavy contact started again in late 2009, after several years of peace, she could no longer ignore it. Inexplicably she found herself writing a book about the experiences as her memory opened up to the past events and the teachings these beings had imparted to her. Overcoming her fear and learning the truth of her involvement became her life goal. She now accepts the truth of these encounters and has cooperative contact, on a regular basis; with the beings she calls “her guys.”
In fact, some anecdotal reports of these lights dated back to the 1700s, but no one had ever been able to produce solid evidence.
That changed in 1989, when scientists from the University of Minnesota captured low-light footage of towering columns of light above a thunderstorm.
The strange lights do exist, and today they’re known as transient luminous events, each with their own name.
Red sprites appear like jellyfish reaching into the sky. They last only milliseconds.
Blue jets emerge from the tops of storm clouds, shooting upward in cone-like shapes.
Elves are perhaps even stranger, lasting for less than a millisecond and spreading out over the sky in great rings. Their name means “Emission of Light and Very Low Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources,” and they were first observed via a low-light camera aboard the Space Shuttle in 1992.
What Causes Red Sprites, Blue Jets, and Elves?
While these phenomena only occur during thunderstorms, not every thunderstorm produces blue jets, red sprites, and elves. Instead, scientists have believed for some time that plasma irregularities in the ionosphere during thunderstorms are the true cause.
A recent study seems to have confirmed as much. Researchers studied high-speed video and created a mathematical model to track the evolution of the sprites.
“Analysis of the videos showed that streamers snake downward from the sprites much more quickly than they spread horizontally, suggesting plasma irregularities were driving the streamer spread.”
It’s still unclear what would cause these “plasma irregularities,” but, yes, meteors are on the table.
Anyway, the video up there, produced in 1994, shows off some color footage of these red sprites and blue jets above the clouds, as well as some other interesting facts. You can just feel the early 90s oozing out of it.
"For the longest time, scientists didn’t believe the pilots who reported strange lights above the clouds during thunderstorms.In fact, some anecdotal reports of these lights dated back to the 1700s, but no one had ever been able to produce solid evidence. That changed in 1989, when scientists from the University of Minnesota captured low-light footage of towering columns of light above a thunderstorm. The strange lights do exist, and today they’re known as transient luminous events, each with their own name."
= Dear scientists, pilots have been reporting UFOs for decades too! So I predict that the end result will be that UFOs do exist too! ;)
If anyone has seen anything like this before, let me know!
Date: August 6th, 1977 Location: Pelham, Georgia, United States
Retired automobile salesman Tom Dawson, 63, was walking with his two dogs from his trailer home to a nearby farm when a “circular shaped space ship” with a dome and portholes, 40-50 ft in diameter and 12-14 ft high, set down in a field in front of him. He found he was unable to move a muscle. A hatch in the object opened, a ramp was extended, and 7 strange looking humans 5 ft tall emerged, five men and two women.
Drawing by Billy Norris as described by the witness.
Full Report / Article
Source: Billy Rachels / Ronald Story (2001)
August 6, 1977, near Pelham, Georgia (20 miles north of Thomasville), in Mitchell County. At 10:30 a.m., retired automobile salesman Tom Dawson (sixty-three years old, at the time) took a walk down to his favorite pond to see how it looked for fishing later that day. Just as he got inside the fence surrounding the pond, a circular space ship zipped right in between the trees and hovered just a few feet above the ground. At the same time he found himself, his two dogs and twenty head of cattle, frozen in place by an unseen force. Dawson said the craft was about 15 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. It had portholes all around and a dome on top. It made no sound and changed colors rapidly from one to another. Suddenly, a ramp came down and out came seven hairless, snow-white beings, about 5 feet tall, with pointed ears and noses. Some had on tight-fitting one-piece suits while others wore nothing. They talked in a high-pitched’ gibberish he could not understand. They conducted what he thought to be a medical exam of some kind. They placed a skullcap-like device on his head and a large hula hoop-shaped thing (connected to a box) around his midsection. After they had collected “some leaves and stuff,” they got back on the ship and were gone in the blink of an eye. Once free, Mr. Dawson ran uphill (about 300 yards) to his trailer. He was having trouble breathing and talking, so he was taken to the Mitchell County Hospital, where the doctor said he had been shaken both mentally and physically from his encounter with the UFO and its occupants. He was treated for hysteria (given something to calm him down) and later released. Dawson said he believed that if he had been a younger man the extraterrestrials would have taken him away. — Billy J. Rachels [Another summary of this case from Albert Rosales' Humanoid Catalog. This summary describes an interesting and bizarre aspect of this case which is not included in the above account.]
Location: Pelham (Mitchell) Georgia Date: August 6 1977 Time: 1030A
Tom Dawson, 63 and retired, was walking with his two dogs from his trailer home to a nearby farm when a “circular shaped space ship” with a dome and portholes, 40-50 ft in diameter and 12-14 ft high, set down in a field in front of him, hovering several feet off the ground. He found he was unable to move a muscle, and his dogs, as well as the cattle in the field, seemed likewise to be immobilized. A hatch in the object opened, a ramp was extended, and 7 strange looking humans 5 ft tall emerged, five men and two women. The first to leave stepped down cautiously, as if to test the solidity of the ground; then the rest followed, with two taking up sentry positions at the hatch. They were all hairless, with skin “as white as a flour sack,” their noses were sharp and turned up, their ears were pointed, and they had no necks. One of the men and one of the women were completely nude. The clothing of the rest-males and females alike-was very beautiful with silk like shoes with pointed, turned up toes. The humanoids cautiously approached Dawson, and gave him a kind of physical examination, placing on his head a skullcap with cords connecting it to a hoop bearing dials. They dropped his trousers and lifted his shirt for the examination, passing the hoop over his body. While the examination was in progress, a loud voice came from the object, shouting three times ” I am Jimmy Hoffa” (!) a fourth repetition was cut off, and the voice was not heard again. After completing the examination, all returned to the craft except two men, who walked about 10 feet away and “went into a conference.” They had very shrill voices, and although Dawson was unable to comprehend what it was they said, he thought he heard the word “Jupiter.” He had the impression they were debating whether or not to take him onboard; at any rate, they did not, and the leader passed his palm across his chest as though to signal good-bye. They reentered the ship, closed the hatch, and took off. He saw the object rise to 75 feet, and then in a wink it was out of sight. Dawson was then freed of his paralysis; he ran directly to his next-door neighbor, but was so excited he could say nothing more than “space ship!” He was taken to a hospital and treated for hysteria.
Humcat 1977-43 Source: Billy Rachels, UFO Bureau of Georgia Type: B
NOTE:Jimmy Hoffa, the famous labor leader, had disappeared about 2 years earlier under mysterious circumstances. Here is more information from the Wikipedia Encylopedia.: “Jimmy Hoffa (14 February 1913 – 30 July, 1975?) was a noted American labor leader who is also well-known in popular culture for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his still-unexplained disappearance and presumed death… [He] disappeared on 30 July 1975 from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. His fate is a mystery that continues to this day and there are many guesses as to what happened to him.” — Wikipedia
The most important thing about the subconscious mind you need to know is that it is always "on". That is, it is active day and night, regardless of whether you are doing. The subconscious mind controls your body. You cannot hear this silent inner process with your conscious effort. You need to start taking care of your subconscious mind. It is vital to maintain your mind in a state of expectation of only good events and make the usual mode of your thinking based solely on loyalty, justice and love.
Faith and belief are the foundation of the subconscious. Do not forget that "you will be rewarded according to your faith".
Faith does not necessarily imply religion, but here is one example.
A Protestant minister who suffered from lung cancer wrote about his methods of transferring thoughts of perfect health into his subconscious mind: "Two or three times a day, I put my body and soul in a relaxed state, repeating these words: "My feet are completely relaxed, my legs are relaxed. Right now my stomach muscles are relaxing. My heart is beating quietly, my breathing is calm and relaxed. My head is completely relaxed, my whole body is completely relaxed and calm." After about five minutes, when I got into a drowsy, sleepy state, I repeated: "The perfection of the God's plan finds its expression in me. My subconscious mind is filled with thoughts of that I have perfect health. My image is spotless before God." This priest managed to heal himself.
Here are some brief recommendations to help you use your subconscious power for your best:
1. Your subconscious mind not only controls all the processes of the body, but also knows the answers to the various questions and can solve many problems.
2. Before going to bed, refer to your subconscious mind with any specific request and soon you will see its miraculous power in action.
3. Anything that is captured in your subconscious will directly affect you in the form of emotions, circumstances and events. Therefore, you need to watch closely what thoughts and ideas govern your mind.
4. All experiences arise from unfulfilled desires. If you are "fixated" on various issues and problems, thus will be the reaction of your subconscious mind.
5. When you have a specific goal or dream, consciously repeat this statement: "I believe that the power of the subconscious, which gave me this desire, will embody it in me now."
6. Stress, anxiety and fear can disrupt the natural rhythm of breathing, heart rate and work of any other part of the body. Cultivate in your subconscious mind thoughts of health, peace and harmony, and all the functions of the body will return to normal.
7. Fill your subconscious with expectations of the best experiences and emotions, and your thoughts will become a reality.
8. Imagine a positive outcome of your problems, fully feel the enthusiasm from what has happened. All your fantasies and feelings are clearly accepted by your subconscious and then implemented in life.
Location: Baixada Fluminense Rio de Janeiro Brazil Date: January 1977
Time: late night
The two main witnesses were telepathically instructed to go to a certain desolate area and wait. Suddenly somebody knocked on the window of their vehicle and they saw a tall man in dark clothing with red hair and beard. He told them that his name was “Zir” and then told them to wait there. He returned later with a being that called himself “Karran” who wore luminous clothing. He spoke in an unknown language that “Zir” translated. Zir had milky white skin and violet colored eyes; he told the witnesses he had two hearts. Karran then left in a huge luminous object that had apparently landed on the roadway nearby. The witnesses were supposedly able to snap a photo.
HC addition # 1622 Source: Casellato, Da Silva and Stevens UFO Abduction in Botucato
Location: Matias-Barbosa Minas Gerais Brazil Date: January 21 1976
Time: 2330
Erminio Reis, 30, and his wife Bianca were driving on the Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte highway near Matias Barbosa when they began to feel sleepy. Erminio pulled their VW over to the side of the highway and fell sleep over the wheel. Several minutes later, Bianca, still awake, became aware of a dead silence over the area, and noticed a blue light that appeared to intensify and approach them. As it neared, she screamed, believing it to be a plane about to crash. Her husband, now awake, had no time to say a word, as the couple still in their car, were “absorbed” in a bright beam of light, as it through a chimney. They found themselves, still in their car, in a brightly lit, “kind of circular garage.” A kind of skylight appeared in the ceiling and two human appearing men floated down toward the car and its occupants. They were dark and about two meters tall (6’6”). They signaled to the couple to open the doors and get out, but Bianca was paralyzed with fear. Erminio got out first and his wife, eventually, followed, having to force her door open. The men were speaking incomprehensibly to the couple and Bianca screamed at them, “What do you want? What do you want?” Her husband describing the situation as “dream like,” kept repeating, “It’s a mistake, it is a mistake.” One of the two beings stepped on a button in the floor and a staircase appeared, up which the couple was led into a large compartment filled with instruments. They were given headsets to put on over their ears; one of the two entities also donned a similar set, and then plugged them into a kind of computer. As he quickly manipulated dials, the couple heard a voice say, I’ am Karen, calm down,” Bianca was told that she had to undergo a series of examinations of the skin, ears, and eyes. Then she was placed in a box-like device that turned red, inducing in her a static electric charge that caused her to lose consciousness temporarily. She was next placed in a form-fitting chair that converted into a table and bed. Both were required to drink a thick green liquid of rather bad taste. Several other entities joined the others, including one tall female with dark hair and large dark eyes. The couple was told that they performed medical research on “their” world and that age was treated as an illness, and that no one experienced death. Finally they were advised not to speak of their experience, since they would be considered mad if they did. They were told that they had a method to “erase memory.” They were then set free to continue their journey. Bianca claims that by means of a small implement that was implanted during their experience she was able to remain in communication with the being called Karen or “Karran”.
Location: Winter Hill near Bolton, England Date: 1959
Time: afternoon
It was Reg Chapman’s habit to go out on the moorlands of Winter Hill in the afternoons for “peace and quiet”. One day, whilst sitting on a seat in the practically deserted countryside he looked up, and apparently from nowhere, there appeared in front of him a being “with a majestic aura” looking almost like the man in the Sandeman’s port wine. This being did not speak but communi…cated telepathically. (Reg refuses to share whatever information was imparted to him). After this ‘contact’ Reg felt sure something else would happen but did not know what form it would take, so later that day he returned to the same spot on Winter Hill anticipating a similar visit but instead he became aware of an object “about the length of a cricket pitch away”. It was shaped like a horseshoe and hovered just above ground level. A “visitant” appeared from an aperture in the craft (presumably a door slid back). The visitor was similarly dressed to the earlier visitor, having black hair, a black beard, dark eyes and very pale skin, “like a Jewish Rabbi in the streets of Manchester.” The “vibrations” from his were “very strong indeed”. Again, communication was telepathic and lasted several minutes. When returning to the craft he did not turn his back on Reg, but glided backwards like the projection of an image from somewhere else, receding and gradually getting smaller. The craft itself was “large” larger than an “Adamski scout ship” and as the aperture closed the saucer moved; gaseous vapor appeared but did not seem to be connected with its propulsion. It made a “sort of half circle movement” around Reg, and “whoosh” it was gone, leaving a small curl of vapor and an astonished man behind.
HC addendum Source: Gemini Vol. 1 Nr 2, April-June 1972
An infrared video from a Homeland Security helicopter shows a UFO over Puerto Rico. That and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
Stories discussed in this episode: - Airplane passenger photographs a UFO over London - Google relied on UFO watchers to track rogue Loon balloon - Complex alien life could exist on 100 million planets - Homeland Security UFO video
Yesterday night my sister and I were driving home from a shopping trip. It was about 10 pm and we were maybe a mile away from the house. She spotted the object first. I was forced on the road since we were in the country and animals are everywhere. At first I didn’t believe her and kept driving. But we got super close to it and I stopped the car and shut the lights off. You could see that the object was shaped like a typical saucer and from the lights on the outer rim you could tell it was rotating around. It stayed in that spot for over a minute then the light went off and we couldn’t see it again. We raced home scared. Neither of us had pictures or videos of the thing. We tried to take pictures, but when we got home to show our dad the pictures they were no longer on our phone. We were standing outside when we were telling my dad about this thing. Then my boyfriend pointed out to the field across the street and there was the thing again. It did the same things it did when we saw it the first time. It rotated around with lights on, then the lights disappeared and we couldn’t see it again. About 15 minutes later, we all saw this orb-looking thing shoot through the field left to right super-fast. It looked like if someone would have a flashlight and run from left to right. But this moved faster than I’ve seen any human running. My boyfriend and dad went walking over to the field to see if they could see anything and the orb went back to the left side of the field then straight up. After that we didn’t see anything again. NOTE: The above real photo is from Meersburg Germany.
So to everyone in MUFON, who really is sincere about knowing the truth and not just entertaining themselves with some pointless hobby chasing lights in the sky, why do you put up with MUFON deliberately hiding the truth from…you?
The Billy Meier case is what the UFO cover-up is really all about. So how does it feel to know that you’re part of an organization that does everything in its power to make sure that…you’re the last to know the truth?
Don’t you think you should require MUFON to tell all of us just why the Meier case isn’t the only real, singularly authentic UFO contact case?
But for MUFON to mention the Meier case would mean killing the cash cow, i.e. all of youmembers who support it and give your hard earned money to this abysmal farce.
So, whether you’re mad at MUFON, at yourselves for falling for all this…or at me for having pointed it out to you, please remember:
You don’t need to believe. You need to know…the truth.
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GTA 5 Online: Truth Behind Insane UFO Sightings Explained
GTA 5 Online: Truth Behind Insane UFO Sightings Explained
GTA 5 Online: Truth Behind Insane UFO Sightings ExplainedRockstar Games
Numerous random UFOs have been recently spotted in GTA 5 online and players have started wondering if Rockstar is actually introducing some new and exciting content to enhance gameplay experience.
Nevertheless, a discerning GTA 5 tipster, DomisLive, has uncovered some secrets to explain the truth behind the insane UFO sightings in GTA Online
The tipster has recently received some pictures with tweets regarding the massive UFO glitch that surfaced in the online version of GTA 5 via Twitter.
It is not yet clear if this is the handiwork of some modder or some kind of Rockstar Easter egg or a hint at an impending Jetpack DLC for the game.
After contacting ECB2, a renowned modder in GTA 5 Online, Dom has ascertained that ECB2 is the person who created this mod. In addition, the modder has also revealed the truth or cause behind these massive UFO sightings through a detailed press release.
According to the press release, the UFO mod was accidentally leaked to another person Renton who allegedly passed the mod to xIC3D. It seems xIC3D had then started blackmailing ECB2 to give him the updates, failing which he would release it.
Meanwhile, someone reportedly spawned the Xbox UFOs in a public lobby and the glitch manifested in all client systems as they switched lobbies. The UFO glitch is said to load into other computers' memory once it logged into the modded lobby and entered an infinite loop.
Basically, once a computer is infected, it will reproduce the glitch in another lobby as the player moves there and spreads the UFO glitch or infection to other computers logged into that lobby.
As the glitch is known to spread across lobbies using such infected systems, it has been identified as the Infinity UFO mod glitch.
8) Amateur photographer snaps mystery 'aircraft' streaking across the sky in Cornwall
Is this spooky image proof of extra-terrestrial life?
Granddad Michael Potter photographed the 'blazing triangular shape' above the seaside holiday resort of Mounts Bay. He said: "The photo hasn't been photo-shopped or tampered with, so what is it the mysterious object?"
9) Bizarre UFO spotted by robot on surface of MARS
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'UFO sighting' over Wales leads paranormal investigator to launch Facebook appeal for witnesses
'UFO sighting' over Wales leads paranormal investigator to launch Facebook appeal for witnesses
Sighting: Davies wants to find anyone with pictures or film of the UFO (file picture)
A paranormal investigator has launched a Facebook appeal for witnesses following a suspected UFO sighting over Wales.
Gavin Davies made the move after an unidentified cluster of lights was spotted in the night sky over west Wales on Thursday evening.
Davies said he was in bed when he saw the fast-moving objects over Haverfordwest.
He launched a Facebook appeal to gather information, photos and footage from anyone else who might have seen the same cluster of lights.
The UFO was described as being one larger, bright light, with two smaller lights around it and was heading east.
Gavin told the Carmarthen Journal: “My immediate suspicion was it was the International Space Station but I checked and it had already passed."
Davies, who runs the Paranormal Chronicles website, told the Journal that he had received several responses from people who had spotted the object that night.
“It is literally a UFO," he said. "I’m not saying it’s aliens but at this time we don’t know what it is."
A post on the Paranormal Chronicles website said: "Reports suggest [the object] was too bright and large to be a Chinese lantern and [that it]made “drastic” course changes.
"No sound was heard coming from the object. The smaller lights “Buzzing” it have not been identified as of yet.
"If you have any information or able to get film or photographic documentation then please contact the Paranormal Chronicles at : Paranormalchronicles@aol.com"
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What happened to the robots? The future of robots and robotics explained
What happened to the robots? The future of robots and robotics explained
Why we may never see fully functional robots in everyday life
With serious money being invested in robotics by companies such as Google, Dyson, and others, are we about to see robots become an everyday reality? We look at how far the field has come, and what lies ahead in the very near future. (See also: Google shows more love for robots with Savioke investment.)
Our lives are awash with technology. The internet brings valuable information and freshly cooked pizza to our doors, smartphones organise our lives, while even our cars are beginning to talk to us. But one huge omission blights this electronic utopia, prompting the eternal question: "Where's my robotic manservant?" Well, it might be sooner than you think that we'll be rubbing shoulders with digital denizens, at home, work and even in hospital.
Robots in the home
Books and movies have spun a yarn or two about how robots will serve our every needs: clean the house, cook dinner and walk the dog – unless that's a robot, too, in which case it can walk itself, possibly after making your favourite meal. It might then seem sensible to go to your robot emporium of choice, order the Jeeves-Bot 3000 and sit back to enjoy a life of peeled grapes and microwave-equipped canines. Sadly, things aren't quite there yet.
Although millions of pounds in research investment have been poured into robotics, the practical upshot for the high street consumer is that you can now buy a pretty funky vacuum cleaner. The Roomba 760 (£399) is a disc-shaped robotic device that will spend the day negotiating its way around your house, hoovering as it goes. It joins the family of devices available from US company iRobot that also includes the Scooba (£599), which scrubs your floors, the Looj (£249) cleans your guttering, while the Braava (£259) is a robotic mop. iRobot also sell a variety of military automatons, including the 710 Warrior, but they don't really get into those hard to reach corners of the carpet.
For the more technically astute there are a wealth of home robot kits that can be bought from shops such as Conrad, Jameco, and Amazon, but even these are still not much more than clever Meccano kits with a few sensors.
Other than these humble offerings, and the occasional expensive toy, the options for robot-hungry consumers are all mostly vapour and fairy wishes. Things could be set to change, though, as technology continues to develop at an incredible rate. Sir James Dyson, designer of the eponymous vacuum cleaner, has recently invested £5 million in a laboratory at Imperial College London, which will work with Dyson's company to research and develop domestic robots.
"My generation believed the world would be overrun by robots by the year 2014," Dyson told the BBC. "We now have the mechanical and electronic capabilities, but robots still lack understanding – seeing and thinking in the way we do." The goal of the research with Imperial College is to improve this aspect of robotics, and solve the problems that have held the area back so far. It will still be years before we actually see something affordable on the shelves of Tesco, but at least the area is now becoming a focal point for many developers and technology companies.
"Mastering this will make our lives easier," Dyson continued, "and lead to previously unthinkable technologies."
Google has spent the past year or so buying a number of robotics companies including Boston Dynamics, who build military devices for the US government. The search giant has remained strangely quiet on its motives, but the sudden move to acquire so many talented minds in the area illustrates how important it has become. One example of a Google use for intelligent machines is the self-driving car that has been in development for some time. The Chauffeur project has recently celebrated 700,000 accident free miles, many of them on the real streets of California. At the moment, the huge number of sensors and tracking technology in the cars amounts to an eye-watering £90,000 but in time this should come down to make it a far more affordable option. Robots might not be in our homes, but maybe they'll take us there safely.
One country where robots have a domestic presence is, unsurprisingly, Japan. Companion robots have been an accepted technology for many years now, with machines such as the Wakamaru, launched in 2005, used to provide company for the elderly or housebound. Employing a voice interface, admittedly primitive by today's standards, the Wakamaru could engage in basic conversation and also provide its owners with prompting for taking medication or even contacting emergency services in the event of a fall or sudden illness. Such is the need for care assistants, due to a large number of aged citizens, that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in the 2013 budget the allocation of around £14m for the development of robots specifically to help in this area. Replacing human carers with mechanical alternatives isn't proving popular yet, though, and the industry still has a long way to go before this becomes a serious alternative to human nurses.
One that's already earning its keep is the Paro therapeutic robot, which, rather unusually takes the form of a fluffy baby seal. This curious device is used to deliver animal therapy to patients in hospitals, in particular to those suffering with Alzheimer's and dementia. It learns from its user, responds to their voice and physical interactions, and the company claims that the robot "has been found to reduce patient stress" and "improves the socialisation of patients with each other and with caregivers". This led the Guinness book of records to certify it as the World's Most Therapeutic Robot.
The UK has also started to embrace the health-related benefits of robots with the diminutive Nao, built by Aldebaran Robotics, being used by a school in Birmingham to help teach children with aspergers and autism. The placid nature of the machine makes it an ideal tool for educational purposes, while its small scale, mobility and voice interaction endear the creation to the children.
There has been a trend in recent years to build smaller, more human-like robots. Some of these – Roboy, iCub and Asimo – are pushing forward the boundaries of design, artificial intelligence, and the ‘feel' that Sir James Dyson referenced. Asimo has become something of a celebrity in its own right, with appearances on TV shows all over the world, such as the UK's QI and Norway's Brille, conferences, and it even greeted US President Barack Obama on a recent trip to Japan, then proceeded to play football with him.
The Asimo (Advanced Step in Mobility) project has been in development at Honda for around 15 years, and the results are impressive. The robot can run, hop, jump, talk and interact with humans in a variety of ways. In terms of classic robots of fiction, Asimo is definitely the closest yet that any have come. It's the pinnacle of humanoid robotics, but with only an estimated 60 units in the world, it won't be making the transition to a domestic setting for a long time to come. See also:EU invests €2.8 billion in robotics to create new jobs.
Career-minded robots
If there's one area of robotics that is beginning to flourish then it's that of robots in the workplace. We've already seen how manufacturing has been automated in recent years so that robots are now a common sight on production lines and in car assembly plants. From a business point of view this makes perfect sense: machines are more efficient at handling repetitive tasks without getting tired, injured or needing the toilet. They also don't take lunch breaks, holidays, call in sick or engage in industrial disputes, although they will no doubt need repairing from time to time. Additionally, there are no regulations on how many hours a day robots can work, and overtime for weekends and national holidays isn't an issue.
Baxter is one of these new breed of employee. His creators, Rethink Robotics, have designed him to be affordable and easily adapted to new tasks. With a starting price of around £15,000 (plus £4,000 per year for maintenance) this certainly meets the first goal, and an innovative programming system makes the second surprisingly achievable. Baxter has two appendages that are multihinged to allow a wide range of movements. To teach him a task the operator presses a button, then physically moves the arms through the positions required. When finished they press the button again and Baxter will remember and repeat. In essence, it's recording a macro on a giant robot.
"Unlike traditional industrial robots, Baxter is an adaptive manufacturing robot' stated Mitch Rosenberg, Rethink Robotic's VP of Marketing and Production management, in a recent interview. "It contains cameras, sensors and sophisticated software that enable it to ‘see' objects, ‘feel' forces and ‘understand' tasks. The result is a robot that automatically adapts to changing environments."
This awareness also means that the robot is safe for humans to work alongside. Traditionally, industrial machines work in a defined pattern, which can be potentially dangerous if someone accidentally gets in the way. Baxter uses his sensors to prevent this from happening, and while there may be a few bumps they'll be more akin to a fellow employee backing into you rather than a bone-crunching attack.
Another goal of Rethink Robotics is to stem the flow of manufacturing being outsourced to the Far East, a trend that has increased in recent years due to the paltry wages and questionable safety requirements that allow for lower costs. By employing robots rather than impoverished people in another country, there could be serious implications on the nature of manufacturing and the worldwide economy if the idea were to be implemented on a large scale.
Obviously this is still worrying news for the large majority of unskilled workers in the West, who currently rely on factories and packing plants for their livelihoods. The average UK factory or assembly line employee is thought to earn somewhere in the region of £15,000 per year. That would mean that over five years they would cost their employer £75,000. Baxter, by comparison, would cost a frighteningly low £35,000, and be able to work more than twice as many hours. (See also: Intel plans to sell a robot you can customize with a 3D printer.)
It's not only industrial jobs that could be superseded; with voice interactions and increasingly sophisticated chassis that are safe to be around, how long before supermarket aisles are the domain of stacking robots that can also tell customers where they can find Fennel seeds? In fact this year at the Consumer Electronic Show the Furo-S robot was demonstrated by FutureRobot, which can roam around its environment, talk to people, features a touchscreen interface for customers to find information, order items and even has a card slot to take a payment. Whether it can be made waterproof or not might determine whether it will shortly be accosting you on city streets to donate to various charities.
While all of these innovations are fascinating, there's genuine concern that many unskilled or casual jobs will disappear in the coming years as robots become more financially attractive. The need for skilled supervisors will still exist, but for the majority of the workforce, the future could become very uncertain. Amazon has already bought Kiva Systems, whose squat, orange robots fetch and carry entire shelving stacks in the enormous Amazon fulfillment warehouses, to enable pickers to package and send deliveries far quicker than humans have ever managed.
This $775m purchase will no doubt pay for itself quickly, as productivity is estimated to have been improved threefold. Amazon isn't stopping there, though. With robots doing most of the heavy lifting in the fulfillment process, why not have them actually deliver the items as well? Amazon Prime Air is the new initiative from the retail megalith which involves flying drones delivering your packages. It might sound like an April Fool's joke, but the retailer is deadly serious and is just waiting on FCC approval to allow the company to enter US airspace. Couriers should be concerned about this, although Google may well put them out of business first with their self-driving cars. The International Federation of Robotics expect machines to be adopted in previously resistant areas at an increased rate.
"In 2007, the US Bureau of Labor reported rates of work-related injury or illness for full-time food manufacturing workers were higher than the rates for all of manufacturing and for the private sector as a whole," it says on its website. "Robot manufacturers have designed robots to meet the unique needs of the food industry that comply with food grade equipment standards. The pharmaceutical industry is another industry that has been slow to adopt robots but has pressure to decrease costs, increase production accuracy, and achieve flexible manufacturing. The worldwide demand for pharmaceutical products is on the rise making this another fertile industry for the use of robots."
While the IFR reports that the use of robots could create as many as three million jobs upstream from manufacturing in the next eight years, it's assured that many employment sectors will see substantial changes in the future.
"There's no automatic guarantee that these jobs will appear or that they'll be at good wages," argued author and technology analyst Eric Brynjolfsson in a recent BBC interview. "There's no economic law that says that everyone's going to benefit from technology. It's possible for some people, even potentially a majority of people, to be made worse off." One area where many people would be happy to see robots employed is when the danger to human life makes machines a preferable option. DARPA, the Pentagon's scientific research department for military technology, has created a competition for robotics companies to design and build machines that can be used for search and rescue missions. These robots must be capable of completing tasks that range from navigating their way through treacherous terrain, operating machinery (for example, pressure valves to avert explosions), using firefighting equipment, locating survivors and carrying them to safety.
This might sound like something still in the realms of science fiction, but creations like the Atlas robot illustrate just how far the technology has evolved. It's a six-foot tall, bipedal automaton that bears a frightening resemblance to a Terminator-style metal exoskeleton. It's about as advanced as things get at the moment in terms of strength, balance and capability in a single model. Demonstrations by its inventors at Boston Dynamics show its ability to balance on one leg after being hit on the side with a weight, climb stairs, walls, and there is also the potential for it to drive a vehicle. Eventually the hope is that Atlas, and units like it, will remove the need for humans to risk their lives in rescue situations, in much the same way as bomb disposal robots operate now.
Capabilities such as these raise the obvious question of military applications, after all Atlas received significant funding from DARPA. The US Department of Defence has gone on record, stating it isn't planning to use the robots in combat situations, but the temptation will prove very hard to resist as these creations become even more powerful.
Like so many other areas in technology, it seems that industry and the military will be the first to see the benefits of robotics. But just as the Apollo missions gave us non-stick frying pans, maybe the race for robotic supremacy will gift us similar benefits. Let's just hope that we get a C-3PO before the Transformers arrive. See also: In big step for robotics, one robot repairs another in space.
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Star Trek's "Scotty" finally launched into space
Star Trek's "Scotty" finally launched into space
James Doohan, insert, in 2004, and the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket early May 22, 2012, on which Doohan's ashes were passenger. CBS/Getty Images
(AP) WASHINGTON - James Doohan, Scotty from "Star Trek," spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos. Gordon Cooper was one of America's famous Mercury seven astronauts. And Bob Shrake spent his work life anonymously helping send NASA's high-tech spacecraft to other planets.
Now the three men who made space their lives are also making space their final resting place. Their ashes - and those of about 300 others - were aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that blasted into orbit Tuesday as part of an in-space for-profit burial business.
Shrake was an engineer who designed spaceship control instruments for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. After he died in 2007, his family decided that space would be a nice place to send some of his ashes so they spent a few thousand dollars to launch them in space with the Texas-based firm Celestis Inc. His daughter, Robin Smith of Grapevine, Texas, got up very early Tuesday to watch the pre-dawn launch, and said it was fitting.
"I thought wow, he was actually up in the sky, in the place where his work is being used," Smith said by telephone.
The ashes were in a special container, which SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed Tuesday was in the second stage of the Falcon rocket. That section of the rocket was jettisoned about 10 minutes after launching a capsule full of supplies for the International Space Station. It will remain in orbit for about a year then burn up as it returns to Earth.
You don't have to be in the space business to have your ashes deposited in orbit, but you do have to have nearly $3,000. Some of what Celestis calls "participants" in this flight, which the company called its "new frontier" mission, have no connection to space.
Some people's ashes that flew Tuesday, including those of Doohan and Cooper, were also on a botched 2008 SpaceX launch that didn't get the remains into orbit and dropped into the Pacific Ocean. This is a makeup flight for them.
Others whose ashes have flown previously include "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and his actress-wife Majel Barrett, who was in the series.
Smith said her father - ever the frugal engineer - might have thought this a waste of money, but his family is glad they did it: "Most of his career dealt with outer space and orbit and now he's in it."
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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