Does The US Government Have Fleets Of UFOs? - The Solar Warden Project 

There are, and have been for some time, claims by UFO disclosure supporters that there is in existence a fleet or fleets of human spaceships charged with monitoring alien traffic throughout our solar system and even defending our solar system in the event of an extraterrestrial attack.

Perhaps this is science fiction or the result of an overactive imagination. But some have said they’ve seen evidence of this alleged project, commonly called “Solar Warden.”

If Solar Warden is indeed real, it would require advanced technology several generations ahead of what our military currently uses on the battlefield. Some speculate that backwards engineered alien technology is responsible for the rapid development of these types of systems.

Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, is probably one of the most high-profile persons to have come forward regarding the existence of alien beings visiting Earth. He has addressed the topic in several interviews, saying there are indeed extraterrestrial civilizations beyond our solar system, they have indeed visited Earth, and the United States government may have collected and backwards engineered alien technology.

“I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have,” stated Dr. Mitchel during a Kerrang Radio interview on July 23, 2008.

In 2001, a hacker named Gary McKinnon used a series of clever techniques to hack several government computers, including and probably not limited to NASA and U.S. Navy computers. His original purpose for hacking U.S. computers was to seek out hidden data regarding the existence of free energy, or “zero-point” devices, he told Wired in a 2006 interview.

In his digital travels he allegedly uncovered an excel spreadsheet with a list of names and a heading of “non-terrestrial officers,” he told Wired.

Another document was listed as “fleet-to-fleet” transfers, according to a 2006 Project Camelot interview.

McKinnon was unable to cross reference the names with any U.S. Navy ships and believed these were off-world or “Space Marine,” type officers.

“If you look at DARPA [Defence Advanced Research and Projects Agency] literature at the moment and in the last few years it’s all about ‘space dominance,’ that is the final frontier,” McKinnon told Project Camelot. “So, I think it’s natural for them to want to control space and be developing a space-going force in secret, but I think most likely using technology reverse-engineered from E.T. [extraterrestrials].”

McKinnon told Wired he was in the process of viewing a UFO image on a NASA computer in Building 8 of the Johnson Space Center remotely when he was discovered. Some months later (in March 2002), authorities showed up on his doorstep in the U.K. Severe hacking charges were brought against him and he was facing about 70 years in prison and $2 million in fines.

But in the years following his discovery, the U.S. government extradition request stayed in limbo until it was eventually dropped. Project Camelot speculated that McKinnon was holding “ace-in-the-hole” information he gathered during his hacking journey that he may have held as leverage against his extradition. McKinnon wouldn’t comment on whether he had such information.

The name “Solar Warden” is a term that generically refers to the ultra-secret space fleet. It’s presently unclear where exactly the name originated. If the program does exist, it would require a tremendous amount of capital to construct its fleets.

Last year, the United States’ black budget for secret programs spanning dozens of agencies was $52.6 billion, according to the Washington Post. In 2011, the U.S. government spent approximately $718 billion more on national defense and international security. Of course, much of that went to fighting the war against terrorism.

However, if the government did decide to build a space fleet of exotic technology and design, the money could be utilized, especially if more than one nation is involved and funneling money into this program as postulated by some disclosure advocates.

Read also: The U.S. Has Secret Craft That Can Reach The Moon In 90 Minutes

Currently, the U.S. government’s various military branches all have their own space commands, such as the Air Force Space Command and the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare System’s Command (SPAWAR). These departments have public websites and they help coordinate the military forces on the ground, in the air, and at sea. It is unclear if these departments may be linked with the so-called Solar Warden project, or if this alleged project would be separated into its own covert and isolated department.

Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/

28-03-2015 om 22:15 geschreven door peter  

15 Bizarre Things Found in Space 

28-03-2015 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Military Blackhawks Chasing Ufos Over City

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Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/blackhawks-0328

28-03-2015 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

Classic Moments in UFOlogy Ep#3 – Ed Walters vs. Philip Klass Debate (VIDEO)

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The field of Ufology is vast. Vast in the sense that there is so much history to understand before you can truly understand where we are now.  The current state of events is built upon all the people who come before us. The study of UFOlogy is the study of the strange, weird, and truly bizarre. It is hard for new people to Ufology to know what to believe and where to start.  We must not forget history as it is the ashes in which we climb from today.

There are pivotal events that have occurred over the past 70 years of modern Ufology that need to be known. Our video series (Classic Moments In Ufology) strives to preserve and update the existing media for a new generation of Ufologists.

In this third episode you will see Ed Walters and Philip Klass go head to head about the Gulf Breeze UFO Incident. The mud slinging goes hot and heavy as Klass looses his cool. Calls Walters out on his credibility and criminal past.

Who do you think won and why? Please comment.

28-03-2015 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

Massive UFO Fleet Over New York City (VIDEO)

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A massive UFO fleet over New York City has been caught on tape. This event has been reported as occurred on 2/28/15.

28-03-2015 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

What Is This modern Object Doing In An Ancient Tomb?

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What Is This modern Object Doing In An Ancient Tomb?

• Scattered throughout the world are objects that could not possibly belong to the time period in which they were found. A human footprint contemporary with the dinosaurs? The skeletal remains of men and women long before humanity appeared on the planet?[…]Time travel is not only theoretically possible, but the future generations may already be engaged in it.” – Excerpt from JH Brennan’s book Time Travel: A New Perspective.

Modern science is at a loss when attempting to explain the possibility of time travel. But we’ve come a long way in the last century and there’s still a long way to go.

Perhaps humans from the future have been regularly visiting us. This would explain many out of place artifacts, such as the one below.

This object was discovered in December 2008 by a team of Chinese archaeologists when they were excavating a 400-year-old Ming dynasty grave. The Si Qing tomb located in Shangsi County had been sealed off four centuries ago so you can imagine the surprise the archaeologists had when they discovered a small metal object that wasn’t supposed to be there.

As they were removing the dirt around the coffin, they saw a small ring in the shape of a Swiss watch.

“When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, suddenly a piece of rock dropped off and hit the ground with a metallic sound,” said the former curator of the Guangzi Museum, Jiang Yanyu.

The metal piece was marked ‘Swiss’ and looked like it had been there for a long time. However, watches were not present in the early 1600’s, making this little timepiece an out of place artifact.

Some believe this strange find is evidence of time travelers leaving objects behind while some believe it is a hoax. However, the tomb had been sealed for four centuries. Maybe the future holds the key to this mystery.

Source: http://locklip.com/

28-03-2015 om 21:32 geschreven door peter  

UFO Spotted On Google Street View Flying Over Mysterious Mount Shasta

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UFO Spotted On Google Street View Flying Over Mysterious Mount Shasta

The recent discovery of what appears to be a UFO above the legendary Mount Shasta has reinforced beliefs that something mysterious is happening in the area. The odd occurrence was spotted on Google Street View this October.

Mount Shasta in California is the central point of a large number of legends. People say strange activity occurs beneath the mountain due to the existence of a secret and massive city hidden deep inside it.

The Native Americans in the area tell legends of the great spirit chief Skell who came from the sky and they say he still inhabits the mountain. In more recent years, it was speculated that beneath Mount Shasta continues to exist a city established by survivors from the lost continent of Lemuria.

As the legend goes, British prospector JC Brown discovered the underground city in 1904. While looking for gold, he discovered a cave that spiraled down for 11 miles and eventually led to the city of Talos. Brown allegedly found giant mummies, gold, weapons and shields but was never heard from again once he decided to organize an expedition to the heart of the mountain.

During the last few decades, Mount Shasta has carried the reputation of one of the “few global power centers” and plays an important role within the New Age movement.

Is there really something going on beneath this mountain with mystical powers? If so, does this recent UFO sighting have anything to do with this secret activity? As always, there are many questions yet few answers.

Here’s a video of the Street View UFO sighting:

Source: http://locklip.com/

28-03-2015 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

Man And Woman Have Up Close Daylight Sighting (Video)

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28-03-2015 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

Who Shot this Neanderthal? The Mystery of Ancient Skulls with Bullet Holes

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Who Shot this Neanderthal? The Mystery of Ancient Skulls with Bullet Holes

Did ancient civilizations possess advanced technology? Do these ancient skulls with bullet holes answer this question?

If you’re like us, you might have noticed that history is littered with inconsistency and sometimes it completely lacks records of certain events. It makes one question the accuracy and integrity of the accounts of yesteryear.

Many alternative archaeologists consider the possibility that ancient man reached technological levels equal or even greater to our own and that catastrophes or the destructive passage of time could have erased almost all evidence.

In 1921, a Swiss miner named Tom Zwiglaar made a controversial discovery while digging in a zinc mine in modern-day Zambia. At a depth of around 60 feet (18 meters) Zwiglaar pulled from the ground an early hominid cranium, an upper jaw and some other bone fragments.

Named after the place where it was discovered, the Broken Hill skull was the first evidence toward the existence of a primitive species of man called Homo rhodesiensis. The skull is believed to be anywhere from 125,000 to 300,000 years old and can be currently found on display at the Natural History Museum in London. But there is more to this skull than meets the eye.

On its left temporal bone there’s a small circular hole that forensic scientists believe could only have been caused by a projectile traveling at high velocity. On the opposite side, the parietal plate is shattered from the inside. This suggests that whatever hit this ancient man entered through the left side of his head, maintaining enough force to shatter the bone on the opposite side. Undoubtedly, this was a fatal blow. But what caused it?

The sensible explanation would be that the hole was caused by an arrow or spear. But these rudimentary, low-velocity projectiles leave different markings on bone. When an arrow strikes, it creates hairline fractures, radiating from the point of impact. The Broken Hill skull shows no evidence of being hit with an arrow.

The clean, circular hole suggests a small and very fast projectile. As forensic scientists pointed out, a bullet fits the profile. In fact, the ancient skull shows the same damage as those of gunshot wound victims.

How can that be? Conventional history tells us gunpowder wasn’t invented until the 9th century AD and the first firearms were produced some centuries later. That’s a long way from the estimated age of the Broken Hill skull.

The depth at which it was found eliminates the possibility of a modern skull accidentally turning up in an older geological formation. The skull itself belongs to a hominid that predates the modern age by far. The evidence contradicts conventional archaeology and the only explanation would hurt the accepted scientific paradigms.

If this skull were the only one of its kind, its peculiar hole could be explained as the result of a freak accident. But it isn’t.

Half a world away, in the valley of the Lena River in Russia, an archaeological dig unearthed the skull of an extinct species of cattle called aurochs. This wild bovine first appeared two million years ago and went extinct about four thousand years ago.

Despite coming from an older time period, this skull features the same type of hole as the one found in Zambia.

The skull wasn’t shot in modern times as the bone tissue around the hole is calcified, suggesting that the animal survived after being shot and its wound healed.

If you want to see the skull for yourself, you’ll have to travel to Russia and visit the Museum of Paleontology in Moscow.

Or settle for this black and white photo.

Naturally, there are a few theories that attempt to explain these controversial skulls and some are more outrageous than others. From aliens to firearm-wielding time travelers, they paint the same strange picture.

But the fact of the matter is both these skulls show evidence of technology we call modern being used in ancient times. They don’t provide a certain answer to the question in the first paragraph but they give mainstream archaeology a run for its money.

Are we the first earthlings to develop hi tech or were there others before us, the evidence of their existence being largely eroded to dust by the sands of time? Let us know in the comments!

Source: http://locklip.com/

28-03-2015 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

The Top Secret Apollo 20 Mission: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Cigar UFO & Female Alien in Suspended Animation

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The Apollo Program officially ended in 1972 with the Apollo 17 being the last mission to the Moon and back. 

However, NASA had planned three more missions, Apollo 18, Apollo 19 and Apollo 20. According to conspiracy theorists, the Apollo missions had discovered ancient artificial structures on the Moon and wanted to explore them without public knowledge.

Apollo 20 is considered one of the most controversial UFO cover-up in history. In 2007, several videos were uploaded to YouTube and the user who provided them claimed they were footage from Apollo 20.

He identified himself as former astronaut William Rutledge and according to him, the mission took place in 1976 as a secret Soviet-American joint venture.

 He was chosen to be part of the team due to being an atheist, which was a rarity among astronauts in the 1970’s.

Why would NASA require someone who didn’t believe in God for this mission? Would a believer have lost his faith?

Rutledge said that the Apollo 14 mission had passed over the southern polar region of the Moon, observing numerous abandoned space ships and cities comprised of towering structures. 

The Apollo 20 landed near the Delporte Crater and its mission was to explore a cigar-shaped mother ship that had been abandoned for 1.5 million years.

 The following pictures are available to us thanks to Ramistrip.com 

The alien Spaceship on the Moon is estimated to be 11056 ft (3,370 meters) long:

 Click here for more images of the UFO, taken by the Apollo 20 module before landing 

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You can visit Ramistrip.com for more images. 

Once inside it, the astronauts found two alien bodies. The male was dead but preserved so they recovered the female, dubbed Mona Lisa.

 

She had a humanoid body, six fingers and her features were similar to those of a human, although she had no nostrils.

 

Rutledge described her as being in a state of suspended animation, neither dead nor alive. She was attached to the pilot controls of the spaceship, with several tubes going into her body and she was covered in a wax-like substance. 

She was brought back to Earth and he suspects that she was revived and is kept somewhere secret to this day. The male was also brought to Earth and an autopsy was performed on him.

The astronauts recovered what technology they could and started their trip home.

William Rutledge is 78 years old and currently living in Rwanda. Due to his age, he says he no longer feels threatened by the secrecy he was sworn to at the time of the mission.

He also stated that it’s not up to NASA or anyone for that matter to keep things of this magnitude hidden from the rest of the world.

The following three videos are allegedly from the Apollo 20 mission (in the first video we are seeing the ruins of an abandoned city on the Moon, in the second video the cigar-shaped UFO, and in the third video the bodies of two humanoid extraterrestrials: a well-preserved deceased male and a female that is still alive, but in suspended animation and covered by a waxy substance): 

Source: http://ufothetruthisoutthere.blogspot.pt/

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28-03-2015 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

Einstein had ongelijk: "spookachtige actie op afstand" bestaat wel

Belga

Volgens de kwantummechanica kan een enkel deeltje beschreven worden als een golffunctie die zich uitspreidt over willekeurig grote afstanden, maar die nooit waargenomen wordt in twee of meer plaatsen. Met andere woorden, als je een kwantumdeeltje waarneemt, is het daar waar je het aantreft, en wanneer je het opnieuw op een andere plaats waarneemt, is het daar. Natuurkundigen zeggen daarvan dat het deeltje door de ruimte "tunnelt" van de ene plaats naar de andere, maar dat is niet helemaal correct. Juister is te zeggen dat het deeltje op een bepaalde plaats is waar het waargenomen wordt, zich dan over de hele ruimte uitspreidt als een golf, om daarna opnieuw te verschijnen op de tweede plaats waar het wordt waargenomen. 

Belga

Het fenomeen wordt in de kwantumtheorie verklaard door wat Einstein in 1927 geringschattend afdeed als "spookachtige actie op afstand", namelijk de onmiddellijke niet-lokale instorting van de golffunctie tot de plaats waar het deeltje is waargenomen.

Bijna 90 jaar later hebben onderzoekers van het Centre for Quantum Dynamics van de Amerikaanse Griffith University en van de universiteit van Tokio een enkel foton gedeeld tussen hun beide laboratoria en met homodyne detectoren - die golfachtige eigenschappen meten - aangetoond dat de instorting van de golffunctie echt is.

Het fenomeen is het sterkste bewijs tot nu toe voor de verstrengeling van een enkel deeltje, een ongewone vorm van kwantumverstrengeling die in toenemende mate onderzocht wordt met het oog op kwantumcommunicatie en kwantumcomputers.

Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in "Nature Communications".

"Einstein zat fout"

"Einstein heeft de orthodoxe kwantummechanica nooit aanvaard, en aan de basis van zijn stellingname lag dit enkel-deeltje-argument.", zei professor Howard Wiseman, het hoofd van het Centre for Quantum Dynamics, op de website van de Griffith University. "Daarom is het belangrijk om de niet-lokale instorting van de golffunctie met een enkel deeltje aan te tonen."

AP

Albert Einstein

"Einstein was van oordeel dat het feit dat een enkel deeltje steeds maar op een enkel punt kon waargenomen worden, beter verklaard kan worden door de hypothese dat het deeltje steeds maar op een enkel punt is, zonder de onmiddellijke instorting van de golffunctie naar niets op alle andere punten in te roepen."

"In plaats van eenvoudigweg de aanwezigheid of de afwezigheid van het deeltje vast te stellen, hebben we homodyne metingen gebruikt die de ene groep toelieten om verschillende metingen te verrichten, terwijl de andere groep, met kwantum-tomografie, het effect van die keuzes bestudeerde. Aan de hand van die verschillende metingen zie je de golffunctie op verschillende manieren instorten, wat het bestaan van de instorting bewijst en aantoont dat Einstein fout zat", zo zei hij.

De natuurkundige Albert Einstein is vooral bekend voor zijn relativiteitstheorie maar hij heeft ook een zeer belangrijke rol gespeeld in de ontwikkeling van de kwantumfysica.

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28-03-2015 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

28-03-2015 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

Op diverse plaatsen werden dimensieportalen waargenomen.

Afgelopen week is weer een bijzondere geweest wat betreft UFO’s, vulkanen en dimensieportalen.

Het begint bij de Colima vulkaan, niet ver van Mexico City. Begin februari werd daar een vreemde UFO waargenomen die de wereldpers haalde.


Afgelopen week, op 22 maart 2015, was het weer raak bij de Colima vulkaan.

Dit keer zijn het een aantal donkere UFO’s die boven de vulkaan zijn vastgelegd en ontdekt door de bekende Youtube onderzoeker Streetcap1.

Deze foto’s werden genomen met de live webcam en het lijkt alsof de ene afdaalt in de krater van de vulkaan. Jammer dat de webcam maar iedere 20 tot 30 seconden beelden toont, in plaats van een live feed. Als dit er wel geweest zou zijn dan had je een goed idee gekregen over welke kant ze opvliegen. 

Enkele dagen later bij dezelfde vulkaan.

Op 25 maart 2015 ontdekt ufoloog Scott C. Waring de volgende vreemde wolk boven de Colima vulkaan.

Voor ons is dit uiteraard geen vreemde wolk, maar een dimensieportaal die buitenaardsen gebruiken om van het ene deel van het universum naar het andere te vliegen, zonder dat ze te maken hebben met beperkingen van tijd en ruimte.

Het mooie is ook dat volgens Scott de wolken achter deze wolken op behoorlijke snelheid naar rechts bewegen, terwijl deze volkomen stil hing.

Ook hier weer prachtig bewijs van de wolken/moederschepen of beter gezegd dimensieportalen.

De ene dag zijn er op die locatie UFO’s waar te nemen en enkele dagen later verschijnt de vreemde wolk.

Dan nog een dergelijk geval wat eerder dit jaar plaatsvond, 9 januari 2015, en bekend is geworden via MUFON.

De getuige vertelt het volgende:

Ik keek naar de lucht en zag dit vreemd gat in de wolken. Ik was onderweg naar onze plaatselijke vuilstort toen ik naar de lucht keek en deze bijna perfecte cirkel ontdekte.

Ik kwam uit de auto en nam een foto met mijn iPhone. Ik ben 35 jaar lang piloot geweest en ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien in al die tijd.

In eerste instantie zag ik de twee zwarte objecten onder de wolk niet totdat ik thuis kwam en de foto downloadde. Ik heb het doorgestuurd naar het Weerkanaal in de hoop dat een expert daar mij iets meer kon vertellen.

Toen ik enkele dagen later weer op de website keek, was mijn foto zonder verder commentaar verwijderd.

Bron:

Ufo Sightings Daily

{ WWW.NIBURU.nl }

28-03-2015 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

Sphere Of Light Sighting Video Over Central Coast Baffles Witnesses and Experts

A brief sighting in the sky left teenager Josh Elton and his family in Gorokan in the Central Coast baffled. According to 15-year-old Josh, they were just sitting on the lounge at around 7:30 last Thursday night when he and his younger brother saw what they initially thought a plane flying very low.

Josh said that the mysterious aerial object was swerving all around as Josh and his family looked out to San Remo. Josh thought that it was going to crash.

His mother thought it might have been a meteor, but no news something about it hitting the Central Coast.

Josh managed to get his iPad and used it to get a video of their encounter. He captured a 12-second video of the UFO.

Josh said that his friends and neighbours were equally stumped to the spherical, luminous object when he showed the brief video to them.

UFO sightings expert Dominic McNamara took a closer look at the video. McNamara, a senior member of the UFO and Paranormal Research Society of Australia, said that flashing lights regularly appear at a slower frequency, but sometimes appear to be a revolving object.

McNamara said that the UFO seems to change course slightly toward the left camera as it about to disappear. He was basing his analysis on vector diagram and measurement.

McNamara concluded that it was impossible to identify the object and no other report about it. He is planning to examine the video further. He also revealed that they are trying to search for other accounts in the area.

The last UFO sighting reported from the Central Coast happened in July 2013 when a hobby photographer Drew Ryan snapped images and extensive video footage of a large UFO above Empire Bay.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

28-03-2015 om 18:44 geschreven door peter  

The UFOs Keep Coming to St. Helens and Merseyside

The town of St. Helens in Merseyside, England, has in the past been known for mining and glassmaking but lately it’s becoming recognized as one of cities in Merseyside that have been visited repeatedly by UFOs. The latest sighting occurred recently above the town center and was captured on video. It’s one of over 30 sightings since 2000 in Merseyside. Are aliens coming to visit where The Beatles got their start?

This UFO was spotted by St. Helens resident George Hunter.

• It was just after midnight and as I looked through the kitchen window I saw some very bright lights in a triangular pattern quite high in the night sky. I filmed the lights and zoomed in on them, but I only managed to get a short clip as the lights moved out of shot as I was filming them. They were very fast and gone in less than a second, it was almost like something out of Star Trek moving at warp speed.

Hunter described the size of the UFO as “massive” and observed that it was “completely silent.”

St. Helens has been visited by UFOs before. In 2009 there were numerous reports of UFOs over the city in July and October. In September 2014 this UFO was seen hovering for almost a minute over a field before leaving quickly.

UFO hovering over St. Helens in 2014

This video was taken over a St. Helens factory in 2012.

That’s just some of the UFOs visiting St. Helens. This map shows the locations of many of the 30 UFOs in Merseyside reported to the Ministry of Defence over the 10 year period between 2000 and 2009.

Is something attracting UFOs to St. Helens and Merseyside? Are people there more attentive to the skies and quicker with their cell phones and cameras? Or are aliens just trying to get to Liverpool, the birthplace of The Beatles and the location of at least 10 sightings in that ten year period? After all, they did sing about their words flying “across the universe.”

 TAGS: alien, British UFO, Merseyside UFO, space, ufo, UFOs

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

28-03-2015 om 11:47 geschreven door peter  

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.

The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC.

The creation of Earth (Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:

When in the height heaven was not named,
And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being...

Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals.

The texts mention that at some point the gods mutinied against their labour.

When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toll
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was much.

Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labour was too great. His son Enki, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods.

You have slaughtered a god together
With his personality
I have removed your heavy work
I have imposed your toil on man.
…
In the clay, god and man
Shall be bound,
To a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
The Flesh and the Soul
Which in a god have ripened –
That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.

This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation myth. (world-myth.com)

Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. This ‘modification’ was done without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and a conflict between the gods began. Enlil became the adversary of man, and the Sumerian tablet mentions that men served gods and went through much hardship and suffering.

Adapa, with the help of Enki, ascended to Anu where he failed to answer a question about ‘the bread and water of life’. Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden.

Featured image: Sumerian chaos monster and sun god. (Wikipedia)

Note: Ancient Sumerian translations were taken from William Bramley’s book, The Gods of Eden.

Related Links

Adam and Adapa: Two Anthropological characters

Sumerian creation myth

Enuma Elish - The Epic of Creation

Sumerian Myths of Origins

Sumerian Deities

Related Books

By John Black

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28-03-2015 om 11:16 geschreven door peter  

NASA asteroid hunter spacecraft data available to public

The NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed through the closest point to our sun along its 14,000-year orbit, at a solar distance of 120 million miles (193 million kilometers). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Millions of images of celestial objects, including asteroids, observed by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft now are available online to the public. The data was collected following the restart of the asteroid-seeking spacecraft in December 2013 after a lengthy hibernation. 

The collection of millions of infrared images and billions of infrared measurements of asteroids, stars, galaxies and quasars spans data obtained between December 13, 2013, and December 13, 2014.

"One of the most satisfying things about releasing these cutting-edge astronomical data to the public is seeing what other exciting and creative projects the scientific community does with them," said Amy Mainzer, principal investigator for NEOWISE at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California.

In the first year of the survey, NEOWISE captured 2.5 million image sets, detecting and providing data on over 10,000 solar system objects. The data revealed 129 new solar system objects, including 39 previously undiscovered near-Earth objects. Each of the images also contains a multitude of background stars, nebulae and galaxies. More than 10 billion measurements of these more distant objects are contained in the release of the NEOWISE data.

"And we're far from finished," said Mainzer. "We're only into our second year of additional science collection, and we've already added another 21 new discoveries including six new near-Earth objects."

NEOWISE is a space telescope that scans the skies for asteroids and comets. The telescope sees infrared light, which allows it to pick up the heat signature of asteroids and obtain better estimates of their true sizes. As a result, NEOWISE can see dark asteroids that are harder for visible-light surveys to find. Nearly all of the NEOWISE discoveries have been large —hundreds of yards, or meters, wide— and very dark, similar to printer toner. When NEOWISE's infrared data on an object is combined with that of a visible-light optical telescope, it helps scientists understand the object's composition.

NEOWISE always looks in the dawn and twilight skies – the direction perpendicular to a line between Earth and the sun. This unique vantage point makes it possible for NEOWISE to spot objects that approach Earth from the direction of the sun, unlike ground-based telescopes that are only able to view the night sky.

Originally called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the spacecraft was placed in hibernation in 2011 after its primary mission was completed. In September 2013, it was reactivated, renamed NEOWISE and assigned a new mission to assist NASA's efforts to identify the population of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects and help characterize previously known asteroids and comets to provide information about their sizes and compositions.

NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars. For ARM, a robotic spacecraft will capture a boulder from the surface of a near-Earth asteroid and move it into a stable orbit around the moon for exploration by astronauts, all in support of advancing the nation's journey to Mars. The agency plans to announce the specific asteroid selected for the mission no earlier than 2019, approximately a year before launching the robotic spacecraft.

NASA also announced it has increased the detection of near-Earth Asteroids by 65 percent since launching its asteroid initiative three years ago.

"NEOWISE is a vital asset in NASA's program to find objects that truly represent an impact hazard to Earth," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near-Earth Object Observation Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The data reveals how far we've come to understand the danger to Earth but it will still take a concerted effort to find all of them that could do serious damage."

In 2012, the president's NASA budget included, and Congress authorized, $20.4 million for an expanded NASA Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, increasing the resources for this critical program from the $4 million per year it had received since the 1990s. The program was again expanded in fiscal year 2014, with a budget of $40.5 million. NASA is asking Congress for $50 million for this important work in the 2016 budget.

Explore further:     NEOWISE—a yearlong look at the sky   

More information: To view the NEOWISE data, visit: wise2.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/release/neowise/ 

28-03-2015 om 11:05 geschreven door peter  

The Ancient Stone Head Of Guatemala That History Wants To Forget

March 28, 2015 - Over half a century ago, deep in the jungles of Guatemala, a gigantic stone head was uncovered.  The face had fine features, thin lips and large nose and its face was directed up at the sky.  Unusually, the face demonstrated Caucasian features which were not consistent with any of the pre-Hispanic races of America.  The discovery rapidly attracted attention, but just as quickly it slipped away into the pages of forgotten history.

News of the discovery first emerged when Dr Oscar Rafael Padilla Lara, a doctor of philosophy, lawyer and notary, received a photograph of the head in 1987 along with a description that the photograph was taken in the 1950s by the owner of the land where the head was found and that it was located “somewhere in the jungles of Guatemala”.

The photograph and story was printed in a small article in the newsletter ‘Ancient Skies’, which was picked up and read by well-known explorer and author David Hatcher Childress, one of our guest authors at Ancient-Origins.net, who sought out to discover more about the mysterious stone head. He tracked down Dr Padilla who reported that he found the owners of the property, the Biener family, on which the monolith was found. The site was 10 kilometres from a small village in La Democracia in the south of Guatemala.

However, Dr Padilla said that he was in despair when he reached the site and found that the site had been obliterated: “It was destroyed by revolutionaries about ten years ago. We had located the statue too late. It was used as target practice by anti-government rebels. This totally disfigured it, sort of like the way the Sphinx in Egypt had its nose shot off by the Turks, only worse,” he said.  The eyes, nose and mouth had completely gone. Padilla was able to measure its height as between 4 and 6 metres, with the head resting on a neck. Padilla did not return again to the site due to armed attacks between government forces and rebel forces in the area.

The destruction of the head meant the story died a rapid death until it was picked up again a few years ago by filmmakers behind “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond” who used the photograph to claim that extra-terrestrials have had contact with past civilisations. The producer published a document written by Guatemalan archaeologist Hector E Majia who wrote: “I certify that this monument presents no characteristics of Maya, Nahuatl, Olmec or any other pre-Hispanic civilization. It was created by an extraordinary and superior civilization with awesome knowledge of which there is no record of existence on this planet.”

However, far from helping the cause and the investigation into the monolith, this publication only served to have the opposite effect, throwing the whole story into the hands of a justifiably sceptical audience who thought that it was all just a publicity stunt. Even the letter itself has been drawn into question with some saying that it is not genuine.

Nevertheless, it appears the giant head did exist and there is no evidence to suggest the original photograph is not authentic or that Dr Padilla’s account was false.  So assuming it was real, the questions remain: Where did it come from? Who made it? And why? 

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28-03-2015 om 10:57 geschreven door peter  

New Theory Suggests Quantum Effects Caused by Interacting Parallel Worlds

March 28, 2015 - The theory, first published by Professor Bill Poirier four years ago, has recently attracted attention from the foundational physics community, leading to an invited Commentary in a top-ranking physics journal, Physical Review X.

According to Poirier's theory, quantum reality is not wave-like at all, but is comprised of multiple, classical-like worlds. In each of these worlds, every object has very definite physical attributes, such as position and momentum. Within a given world, objects interact with each other classically. All quantum effects, on the other hand, manifest as interactions between "nearby" parallel worlds.        

         The idea of many worlds is not new. In 1957, Hugh Everett III published what is now called the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. "But in Everett's theory, the worlds are not well defined," according to Poirier, "because the underlying mathematics is that of the standard wave-based quantum theory."

In contrast, in Poirier's "Many Interacting Worlds" theory, the worlds are built into the mathematics right from the start.

Does this prove anything definitive about the nature of reality? "Not yet," says Poirier. "Experimental observations are the ultimate test of any theory. So far, Many Interacting Worlds makes the same predictions as standard quantum theory, so all we can say for sure at present is that it might be correct."

Poirier first arrived at the idea unexpectedly, in the pursuit of a much more practical goal. "I didn't just sit down one day and say 'gosh, let's invent a crazy new quantum interpretation with interacting parallel worlds.' I was trying to develop an efficient computational method using something called quantum trajectories, when it suddenly hit me how you could get everything from the trajectories (i.e. the worlds) themselves, without actually needing any wave."

Poirier published both the new mathematics and the new interpretation in a 2010 Chemical Physics paper, leading to a collaboration with mathematician Jeremy Schiff at Bar-Ilan University. This in turn led to a 2012 publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics which—with over 20,000 downloads—is one of the most downloaded papers in that journal's history. More recently, this work has garnered the attention of the broader community. "We are very pleased that other physicists and even philosophers are now getting involved," says Poirier.

One such researcher is Australian physicist Howard Wiseman of Griffith University in Brisbane. "I am very glad to have met Bill," says Wiseman, adding that Poirier is "taking literally this idea that you have an ensemble of particles...rather than just an individual one." Wiseman and coworkers recently submitted their first article on Many Interacting Worlds to Physical Review X, which was published together with Poirier's Commentary. Wiseman's approach is a discrete version, for which "there is a finite but extremely large ensemble of particles...well, ensemble of worlds, I should say," he explains.

Regarding the mathematical developments in Wiseman's article, Poirier says, "These are great ideas—not only conceptually, but also with regard to the new numerical breakthroughs they are almost certain to engender. Our group offered the foundational physics community a new interpretation of quantum mechanics; in effect, they have now returned the favor, by offering us a promising new computational method."

Bill Poirier is Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Professor and also Barnie E. Rushing Jr. Distinguished Faculty Member at Texas Tech University, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and also the Department of Physics.

Michael J. W. Hall, et al., "Quantum Phenomena Modeled by Interactions between Many Classical Worlds," Physical Review X, 2014; 4 (4); doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041013

Bill Poirier, "Does Research on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Fit into PRX's Scope?," Physical Review X, 2014; doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.040002

Jeremy Schiff and Bill Poirier, "Communication: Quantum mechanics without wavefunctions," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012; 136 (3): 031102; doi:10.1063/1.3680558

Bill Poirier," Bohmian mechanics without pilot waves," Chemical Physics, 2010; 370 (1-3) 4; doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.12.024

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28-03-2015 om 10:54 geschreven door peter  

NASA Spending A Billion Dollars To Give Moon Its Own Moon: Here's How And Why

The Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) is aimed at bringing a boulder from an asteroid into orbit around the moon. Here is a rundown of how the mission will unfold.
(Photo : NASA | JPL)

By James Maynard, Tech Times

The Asteroid Redirect Mission was originally designed to capture a complete asteroid and bring the space rock back into orbit around the moon.

But NASA officials announced a modified version of the plan on March 25, one which involves collecting just a single boulder from the surface of an asteroid, and driving the boulder to an orbit around our own natural satellite.

Asteroid EV5 is the most likely target for the historic mission.

The robotic ARM mission, scheduled for launch in 2020, will take between 215 and 400 days to corral the boulder into orbit around the moon. Five years later, space travelers will launch to the captured space rock aboard a Space Launch System (SLS) booster, housed in an Orion space capsule. Once they arrive at the body, two astronauts will leave the vehicle in a series of spacewalks to collect samples of the boulder.

Asteroid surveys carried out by NASA officials have resulted in a 65 percent increase in the number of near-Earth objects detected over the last three years.

"Asteroids are a hot topic. Not just because they could pose a threat to Earth, but also for their scientific value and NASA's planned mission to one as a stepping stone to Mars," Jim Green, director of NASA Planetary Science, said.
 

The mission is aimed at testing several technologies needed for future missions, including a journey to Mars. A Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) drive is one of the new pieces of equipment that will be examined on the mission. This engine collects solar energy through solar cells, and uses that energy to propel charged particles out an exhaust, providing thrust to the spacecraft.

Funding for the mission is currently capped at $1.25 billion, not including launch costs. Those funds are divided among several budget departments in the NASA budget.

"I think there will be some (funding) increase that is specific to the mission. We will take advantage of solar electric propulsion, which is estimated roughly at $300 million, which is already in the runout for space technologies. There's some capture technique mechanisms that were already in parts of the human exploration budget," Lightfoot said.

Asteroid EV5 was discovered in 2008, during observations made as part of of the Catalina Sky Survey, a project to discover comets and asteroids and to search for Near-Earth objects. The object is roughly 1,300 feet in diameter. Observations reveal the presence of large boulders and smaller debris on the surface of the body, and astronomers believe boulders around the desired size of 10 feet are also likely present on the space rock.

Two other asteroids, Itokawa and Bennu, are also being considered as potential targets for the boulder retrieval mission. A final decision on the destination of the spacecraft will not need to be made until the year 2019, one year before launch of the robotic segment of the mission.

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28-03-2015 om 10:43 geschreven door peter