Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Milky Way Galaxy Contains BILLIONS of Habitable Planets. We are not alone!
Milky Way Galaxy Contains BILLIONS of Habitable Planets. We are not alone!
March 29, 2015- A new study claims that the Milky Way is home to billions of planets positioned at the ‘habitable zone.’
According to the new study based on 151 multi-planetary systems found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a lot more planets than thought before are at the right distance for liquid surface water, which is necessary to harbor life.
Steffen Kjær Jacobsen, co-author of the study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journal, said:
“We decided to use this method to calculate the potential planetary positions in 151 planetary systems, where the Kepler satellite had found between three and six planets…But we only made calculations for planets where there is a good chance that you can see them with the Kepler satellite.”
If there are billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, can you imagine how many exist in the Universe that holds billions of Galaxies!
Freedom in the clouds: Russia unveils Flying House project
Freedom in the clouds: Russia unveils Flying House project
March 29, 2015 - Russian designers have presented a visual concept of a state-of-the-art house which they claim will be capable of flying.
A visual concept of a sophisticated new home which will be capable of floating through the air has been showcased by Russian designers, who claim that the house can also be used as a summer cottage and a small airship, media reports said.
The Freedom house, which has first and foremost been designed for so-called citizens of the world, can be installed almost anywhere on our planet — in the woods, at sea, on the coast, in the mountains, and in an urban area, according to Dmitry Ulitin and Anstasiya Taratuta of the design studio Artzona.ru.
The owner of this house will be able to make him or herself at home while soaring through the clouds, a dream that now may finally come true.
However, 'Freedom' comes at a price: the prospective home, which will take at least four years to perfect, will cost at least six million euros.
Freedom is touted as a house that is not tied to any particular place or time. It provides a unique opportunity for its owners to live in any city without spending money on rent. On the other hand, it will help put an owner in a cheerful frame of mind each time he (or she) feels upset.
The house's aerostatic air power is provided with a container of phlegmatized hydrogen, as well as a thermal volume and vertical-horizontal propeller power. The propellers' engines can run both on hydrogen and petrol, and in the parking mode are used as wind generators.
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In this acrylic painting, University of Utah astrophysicist Ben Bromley envisions the view of a double sunset from an uninhabited Earthlike planet orbiting a pair of binary stars. In a new study, Bromley and Scott Kenyon of the Smithsonian …more
Luke Skywalker's home in "Star Wars" is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified circling such binary stars, and many researchers believe rocky planets cannot form there. Now, mathematical simulations show that Earthlike, solid planets such as Tatooine likely exist and may be widespread.
"Tatooine sunsets may be common after all," concludes the study by astrophysicists Ben Bromley of the University of Utah and Scott Kenyon of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
"Our main result is that outside a small region near a binary star, [either rocky or gas-giant] planet formation can proceed in much the same was as around a single star," they write. "In our scenario, planets are as prevalent around binaries as around single stars."
The study has been submitted to Astrophysical Journal for review, but as is the custom in the field, the authors have posted the unreviewed paper on the scientific preprint website ArXiv.
With Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens due to hit movie screens Dec. 18, fans of the epic series may be cheered at the possible reality of planets like Tatooine, home planet of both Luke and Anakin Skywalker, meeting place of Obi Wan Kenobi and Han Solo and the domain ruled (until his death in battle) by crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke stares at Tatooine's double suns setting in a classic film moment.
The title of the new study is "Planet formation around binary stars: Tatooine made easy," but the paper looks anything but easy: it is filled with mathematical formulas describing how binary stars can be orbited by planetesimals – asteroid-sized rocks that clump together to form planets.
"We took our sweet numerical time to show that the ride around a pair of stars can be just as smooth as around one," when it comes to the early steps of planet formation, Bromley says. "The 'made easy' part is really saying the same recipe that works around the sun will work around Tatooine's host stars."
The study was funded by NASA's Outer Planets Program and was a spinoff of Bromley's and Kenyon's research into how dwarf planet Pluto and its major moon, Charon, act like a binary system. Both are orbited by four other moons.
'Planets form like dust bunnies'
From a swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star, "planets form like dust bunnies under your bed, glomming together to make larger and larger objects," says Kenyon, whose observatory is part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "When planets form around a binary, the binary scrambles up the dust bunnies unless they are on just the right orbit."
University of Utah astrophysicist Ben Bromley used acrylics to paint this depiction of a double sunset from an inhabited Earthlike planet orbiting a pair of binary stars. To date, only gas giant planets like Saturn have been found orbiting …more
Scientists call that a "most circular orbit," which in reality is a not-quite-circular, oval-shaped orbit in which the entire oval has numerous little waves in it, Bromley says.
"It's an oval with ripples," which are caused by the cyclic tugging of the two central stars, he adds.
"For over a decade, astrophysicists believed that planets like Earth could not form around most binary stars, at least not close enough to support life," he says. "The problem is that planetesimals need to merge gently together to grow. Around a single star, planetesimals tend to follow circular paths – concentric rings that do not cross. If planetesimals do approach each other, they can merge together gently."
But if planetesimals orbit a pair of stars, "their paths get mixed up by the to-and-fro pull of the binary stars," Bromley says. "Their orbits can get so tangled that they cross each other's paths at high speeds, dooming them to destructive collisions, not growth."
Previous research started with circular orbits when pondering planet formation around binary stars, Bromley says, while the new study shows that "planets, when they are small, will naturally seek these oval orbits and never start off on circular ones. … If the planetesimals are in an oval-shaped orbit instead of a circle, their orbits can be nested and they won't bash into each other. They can find orbits where planets can form."
In their study, Bromley and Kenyon showed mathematically and by simple computer simulations that rocky, Earth-sized planets can form around binary stars if they have the oval "most circular" orbit. They didn't conduct their simulations to the point of planet formation, but showed that planetesimals could survive without collisions for tens of thousands of years in concentric, oval-shaped orbits around binary stars.
"We are saying you can set the stage to make these things," Bromley says. "It is just as easy to make an Earthlike planet around a binary star as it is around a single star like our sun. So we think that Tatooines may be common in the universe."
Kepler and worlds discovered
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered more than 1,000 planets orbiting other stars, including some rocky planets in the so-called habitable zone neither too near and hot, nor too far and cold from the star they each orbit.
So far, Kepler has found seven planets orbiting within or near the habitable zone around binary stars, but all of them are giant gaseous planets, Bromley says.
"The planets that Kepler has discovered so far around binary stars are larger, Neptune- or Jupiter-sized gas giants," he says. "None of those found so far are small and rocky like our Earth – or like Tatooine in 'Star Wars.'"
Bromley believes Kepler hasn't yet spotted Earthlike planets around binary stars because they are small compared with gas giants, "so it's a hard measurement."
While Kepler has found other gas giants farther from binary stars, there has been debate about how the seven in the habitable zone got where they are.
The new study shows it is possible they formed in place from gas and dust – something "everyone else says is impossible," Bromley says. He also doubts it because there doesn't appear to have been enough gas and dust for gas giants Kepler has spotted near binaries to have formed in place. The study also showed that the gas and dust could have moved in from elsewhere so the gas giants could form where they now are seen.
The prevailing theories contend the gas giants discovered by the Kepler spacecraft must have formed farther out in a cooler, calmer part of space and then migrated closer to the binary stars, either by spiraling inward though a disk of gas surrounding the binary pair, or by being hurled in by the gravity of another more distant gas-giant planet.
But "an Earthlike Tatooine would have no problem forming right where it needs to be to host life," Bromley says.
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 UFO is an enigma. 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 our fifth episode you will hear the legendary Kenneth Arnold interview tape. The Arnold case was arguably the first modern case of a UFO sighting . It launched the modern field of UFology we have today. To truly understand this case you must hear his first hand account of this historic event.
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2 Earth-like planets could be hiding close to our solar system
2 Earth-like planets could be hiding close to our solar system
Two Earth-like planets could be orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri, our closest solar system.
The mystery worlds are thought to be much too hot to support life, with surface temperatures of around 1,500...C.
But astronomers say they could be part of a more extensive solar system containing watery worlds like our own 4.3 light years away.
The first planet, dubbed Alpha Centauri Bb, was discovered in 2012, but quickly dismissed by scientists who believed it had been a false alarm.
Now a team of astronomers, led by Cambridge University, has taken a second look at the evidence.
'If you ask anyone working in exoplanets, they would all have a different opinion about the existence of Alpha Centauri Bb,' Brice-Oliver Demory of the University of Cambridge told the New Scientist.
The original method of looking for the planet was based on measuring tiny wobbles in the motion of Alpha Centauri B caused by a gravitational tug of war with the orbiting planet. The latest study has combined that data with Hubble's technique of looking for a dip in the light from Alpha Centauri B caused by the planet passing in from of the star.
The team observed Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014, for a total of 40 hours.
The 2013 data showed signs of a transit, but they were longer than expected. But the signal disappeared completely in the 2014 data set. According to the New Scientist, the researchers say that doesn't mean the planet isn't there, just that it is difficult to be seen from Earth.
They believe the signal in the 2013 data may be another Earth-sized planet in that solar system with a year lasting around 20.4 days.
This discovery suggests there is a chance of other planets in the same solar system, which may have conditions in which life could thrive.
Russian Navy UFO records say aliens love the ocean
Russian Navy UFO records say aliens love the ocean
The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.
The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says. Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.
On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away.
Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.
Vladimir Kremlev to RT-
“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.
Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments:
“Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water.
In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured.
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Stanton Friedman Chimes in On Alleged Roswell Alien Slides and His Declination to Participate in Upcoming Show
Stanton Friedman Chimes in On Alleged Roswell Alien Slides and His Declination to Participate in Upcoming Show
By Stanton T. Friedman The UFO Chronicles 3-29-15
"I could find no convincing information that there is any connection between the slides and Roswell."
I keep being asked my views about the so-called “Roswell” Slides. So, let me summarize my position. I have tried to obtain as much information as possible and responded with interest when at the International UFO Congress in Scottsdale, Arizona, in Mid-February, I was interviewed by journalist Jaime Maussan of Mexico City who has arranged for a huge event focused on the slides. I recall the so called Roswell Autopsy which turned out to be a fiasco. I had spoken with Ray Santilli over the phone, checked on a number of his claims which turned out to be false, met with him twice in England and even had some comments distributed at his big press conference.
Jaime invited me to attend the May 5, Mexico City, conference as had Don Schmitt. My expenses would be paid. My first thought was that since I would be asked about my views, as the original civilian investigator of the Roswell crashed saucer event, it would be nice to have first hand information. This being the worst winter in our 35 years in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, it would also be nice to get to some warm weather. So I read as much as I could, positive and negative. I have not held copies of the slides. I could find no convincing information that there is any connection between the slides and Roswell. How would an outsider gain access to the real bodies? I worked under security for 14 years and have been to classified facilities in New Mexico. The barriers are tough. I have seen no specific data to convince me that these are phony. But that doesn’t establish a connection with Roswell events. Yes, I am still convinced that alien spacecraft with bodies on board crashed near Corona, in the Plains of San Augustin, and near Aztec. But I don’t want to appear to add legitimacy by my presence in Mexico City in the absence of serious evidence of the slides being what is being claimed they are. Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence and I have a large “gray” basket.
“It was around four or five in the afternoon on a spring day. I was working, cutting grass at the farm, and my position afforded me a good look of the surroundings, as the house is higher than the rest of the property, being located on a small hill. I looked at the sky and was able to see an object that drew my attention. It was a sort of very large sphere, like the size of an average car, and it appeared to be surrounded by some sort of steam or smoke…”
After much hearsay and a bit of news appearing in the media, members of the Red Nacional de Corresponsales – a UFO research center – visited Alcalá de Guadaira, specifically the area known as “la Lapa” and its surroundings. Repeated questioning led them to get in touch with the ranger of the Rogelio Farm, located in the community.
A small property surrounded by orchards which allow for a dairy farm to be maintained. A flat surface with low vegetation, some eucalyptus trees and pines. Sedimentary rocks are found in the vicinity and chalky, compacted sand. At this location, a fifty-five-year old man, father to a numerous family – three boys and a girl – with no other livelihood than his work and without time to waste on far-fetched scientific notions, recalls how one spring day, while working, he saw an object that caught his eye.
“The object was some 200 meters over the ground and some 300 meters over me. I watched it for about five seconds. I wanted to call my wife and daughter, who were the two ones at home, to come out and see, but the minute they arrived, and I turned my head, the object had vanished. I ran to get a better vantage point, but no use. There wasn't a trace left.”
There is no further information, no exact dates are provided, but there is something strange in the air. The investigation is ongoing, questions are asked here and there – some time having elapsed from the original sighting – but there is an item that begins to clarify things, bolstering the underlying storyline…
Leopoldina Becerra, at five thirty in the afternoon on 19 April 1976, went to purchase milk at the Rogelio Farm. She was accompanied by a cousin. Leopoldina, an uneducated woman, remembers the events…
“My cousin and I went to the Rogelio Farm to buy milk, as we often did. It would have been five thirty in the afternoon. We saw something odd in a bend on the road: something seemed to be on fire on top of a dung heap near the farm wall. At first we thought it might be the dung heap itself, because a lot of smoke seemed to come out of the ground, but it wasn't the case. We saw an egg-shaped object, dark in color, suspended in the air, about a meter from the ground. I alerted my cousin, a much more educated and learned person than myself, and she said that thing could be a UFO. The object was some fifty meters away from us. We broke into a run and were truly scared, thinking that the object would head our way at some point. As we ran, we fell and screamed, since the ground is very rough in that area. One of the ranger's children came out to help us. What happened, he asked. We pointed toward where the object was, telling the boy to look at the sky, that something strange had come out of the dung heap. When he looked, there was nothing to be seen, but I'm sure there was something there.”
There is a close relationship between some statements and others. These are two other direct witnesses to the case, and a long time has elapsed from when the event took place to the investigation. Neither woman wants any publicity. “Because, you know, some people do not believe in these things, and in a village, well, you understand…” and they are completely uninterested in the UFO phenomenon, having never found themselves in a similar situation.
The members of the Red Nacional de Corresponsales managed to contact two more witnesses who appear to be connected, but this pair refuses to make any comment whatsoever, while the ranger at the Rogelio Farm and Leopoldina Becerra remember the event vividly. On that spring afternoon, specifically on 19 April 1976, an unidentified flying object landed in Alcalá. One witness saw it at an altitude of two hundred meters; another witness saw it fifty meters away, suspended a meter off the ground. It was an egg-shaped object that issued smoke, and was dark in color…
(Translation (c) 2015 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Ignacio Darnaude)
[NOTE: In his landmark The Mothman Prophecies (NY: Signet, 1975) John A. Keel mentions the persistent connection between unidentified objects and "dirty" places much like the dung heap on the Rogelio Farm. "In early times," wrote Keel, "fairies, demons and even human witches practicing their Black Sabbath rites, chose gravel pits, garbage dumps, cemeteries and crossroads for their appearances. Modern hairy monsters and UFOs select the same sites..." An aspect to be taken into consideration in this case? -- SC]
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 fourth episode you will hear the legendary Barney Hill regression hypnosis tape. The Hill case was the first modern case of alien abduction. It launched the investigation we have today. To truly understand this case you must hear this incident recounted in their own words and in their own terror.
Dear White House: Please Tell Us the Truth About E.T
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Dear White House: Please Tell Us the Truth About E.T
Petitioners Seek Everything From Boosting Raw Milk Sales to Legalizing Pot
By Laura Meckler
WASHINGTON—When the White House promised to answer citizen petitions on the most pressing problems of the day, it may not have had extraterrestrial life in mind.
More than 10,000 petitions have poured in since the new initiative was announced last month in a bid to bring government closer to the people. And issues like massive federal deficits, two wars and high unemployment don't appear to be on the people's minds.
One petition wants to legalize raw milk sales. Others seek to mandate the spaying and neutering of pets, abolish the Transportation Security Administration and "formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race."
The White House has promised that any petition meeting a threshold for a number of signatures—more than 50 so far have met it—will get an expedited hearing and an official policy response.
The first responses could come as early as Tuesday.
Some of the petitions are somewhat cryptic: "Make Bribing Politicians Illegal" refers to banning corporate campaign contributions. Others are narrow; the second most popular by number of signatures calls for an investigation into the prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin, a former kosher slaughterhouse executive spending 27 years in prison on 86 financial fraud charges. And others could use help with their marketing, such as "Allow Seriously Backlogged EB2/EB3 Beneficiaries with Their I-140 Approved to File I-485 and Apply for EAD & AP." Nonetheless, that last one, which would aid people awaiting employment green cards, has collected more than 7,500 signatories.
Then there's Stephen Bassett, who wants to end the "truth embargo," or what he believes is the government's deliberate decision to withhold what it has long known about the existence of extraterrestrial life.
"The fact is that there is an extraterrestrial presence. I know this because I'm familiar with the research and a couple hundred government witnesses have come forward in the last couple years," he said. "Acknowledging this E.T. presence is about open government."
Mr. Bassett decided to post a petition as soon as he heard about the opportunity and immediately sent a link to his 10,000-person email list. He posted to six Facebook pages and his Twitter account and the petition now has more than 9,500 signatories, making it the 20th most popular.
The "We the People" petition project was proposed a couple of years ago by Macon Phillips, director of digital strategy at the White House. The idea languished until David Plouffe, a major force behind the 2008 Obama campaign's online push, arrived in January to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Mr. Plouffe overrode concerns of others in the White House about increased workload, privacy implications and sticky situations such as requests for clemency for a particular individual, a White House official said.
The petition drive was inspired by a similar project in Britain. The most popular petition there currently calls for convicted London rioters to lose government benefits.
Mr. Phillips allows that some U.S. petitions submitted so far are a bit outside the White House agenda for America. "Some of these issues are going to be inconvenient," he said. He added that all these issues are important to someone and deserve a government response.
Asked which official or agency would tackle the E.T. question, Mr. Phillips said it would be decided at a meeting the next day. Asked after the meeting who drew the assignment, a spokesman said they wouldn't be commenting until the official response is ready.
What about that truth embargo? "You're going to have to wait," Mr. Phillips said.
Of the 202 petitions posted with at least 150 signatures, not one mentions President Barack Obama's jobs plan, something the White House talks about almost every day.
Indeed, the only mention of federal spending is in reference to the TSA's "monstrous budget," which, at $7.7 billion, is 0.2% of the total. Only one petition refers to the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, and that's a call to provide troops with free Internet service.
The White House's initial threshold for consideration was 5,000 electronic signatures in 30 days, but more than 30 petitions met that in the first week, blowing past expectations. Officials then raised the bar to 25,000 names.
Mr. Bassett's E.T. petition quickly surpassed the first threshold and he hopes a "very large number" will force attention to the issue. "We'll never catch up with the legalized marijuana petition, but everyone knows that."
Marijuana legalization is the reigning champion of we'll-take-any-question politics, reaching the top of the heap every time the White House takes suggestions from the public. Indeed, five petitions calling for pot legalization in one form or other are in the top 10. Mr. Obama has said repeatedly he doesn't favor legalization.
Dan Bingham, a 25-year-old software developer from Bloomington, Ind., was having trouble sleeping when he tried his hand at a petition draft and picked the first issue that came to his mind: forcing the patent office to stop issuing software patents, a move he thinks will protect small developers from larger companies. He accidentally submitted his petition before proofreading it and posted the link on a couple of techie websites. The next morning, he found several errors in his text, but the link had already gone viral.
"People were signing it despite my poor writing, though the most frequent comment was something along the lines of, 'Did anyone proof read this?' The answer is 'No. They didn't,' " he said. His petition is now the 12th most popular, with more than 13,800 signatures.
JP Massar, a blogger for the liberal DailyKos website, decided not filing a petition was the better strategy for one of his causes: promoting same-sex marriage. After consulting with like-minded allies, he concluded either Mr. Obama would say he was against it, which would hurt the cause, or he would be for it, which could hurt the president's re-election chances.
That didn't stop others. A similar petition blew past the signature requirement and now has more than 10,000 names.
Corrections & Amplifications The Transportation Security Administration's $7.7 billion budget is 0.2% of the total federal budget. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated it was 0.002% of the total.
Over fifty years ago, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed an awesome, if slightly insane, idea: That an advanced alien civilization might construct a massive, energy-harvesting sphere around its star, and bunk up inside.
Scientists have never given up on Dyson spheres—we've even conducted a few legitimate searches for their infrared heat signatures. Now, physicists Ibrahim Semiz and Salim Ogur may have an explanation for why we can't seem to find the megastructures. If Dyson spheres exist, they're probably a lot smaller than we thought.
Since Dyson first proposed his massive space habitats, scientists have tried to imagine how such structures could physically work. By and large, researchers have focused on Dyson spheres encircling Sun-like stars. But this scenario poses a few major, and perhaps insurmountable, problems. For starters, such a sphere would have to be built at a distance of roughly 1 AU, the same distance between the Earth and the Sun. That means the structure would be utterly massive, requiring huge volumes of material to construct. What's more, the surface of the sphere would experience only minuscule levels of gravity. To live on it, humans would either need substantial genetic modification, or some sort of advanced artificial gravity system, the likes of which we haven't been able to piece together, even theoretically.
From "Relics," the Star Trek episode that introduced millions to Dyson spheres.
A white dwarf star—the dimmer stellar remnant left over after a Sun-like star swells up and explodes—might be a better option for Dyson spheres. A white dwarf's habitable zone is much closer, so the sphere would end up being significantly smaller. The researchers calculate that a one meter-thick sphere built in the habitable zone of a white dwarf would require 10^23 kilograms of matter, slightly less than the mass of our moon. A Dyson sphere encircling a white dwarf would also have almost Earth-like gravity, according to the researchers' calculations.
There's just one catch: Because white dwarfs are less luminous than Sun-like stars, the infrared heat signatures emitted by a white dwarf Dyson sphere would be much smaller and harder to detect. If intelligent aliens are out there, it may be a while yet before our scopes are powerful enough that we're able spot them from Earth. [arXiv via MIT Technology Review]
Top image via Slawek Wojtowicz
A small footnote:The researchers estimate that a Dyson sphere surrounding a white dwarf would be roughly 10 ^6 kilometers in radius. As pointed out by an astute commentator, this puts the newly proposed Dyson sphere within an order of magnitude of the one featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It may be new to science, but it seems Star Trek figured this all out loooong ago.
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CLEAR PHOTO OF AN ALIEN CRAFT OVER AUSTIN TEXAS APRIL 11, 2014 ……….. AUSTIN TEXAS
Association Observatory in Voohees, New Jersey. I was taking pictures of my son and because I am a drone flyer I saw an object in the sky moving rather quickly across airport grounds. Because I thought that this object was a security drone I snapped the picture and didn’t really look at it for weeks. After finally looking at it to compare to my drone I noticed that it was not a drone at all. It had 4 dome-like structures and a central structure holding it together. There is no obvious flight surface to provide lift so one would assume a balloon. Unfortunately I had never seen a balloon move this fast and with such purpose… in a straight line and at a level height. Could it be a drone? Possibly… but given the distance and using some simple geometry (and some assumptions) I estimated the craft to be roughly 20-25 feet across. This is my 3rd strange sighting I have had in my life. And the only one made during the day OVER a VERY active airport. In addition I have the RAW. I took this with a 70-200mm f2.8 canon lens… so not cheap glass… and the detail on the raw can be zoomed way in with little loss of resolution. I will try to attach.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze steencirkels gevonden in woestijn China
VIDEO: Mysterieuze steencirkels gevonden in woestijn China
De 200 mysterieuze steencirkels die in 2003 in de Gobiwoestijn in het noordwesten van China zijn ontdekt, stellen experts nog altijd voor een raadsel. Inwoners van de stad Turpan spreken van ‘vreemde steencirkels’.
Volgens één van de experts werden de bouwwerken door primitieve nomaden gebruikt om de zon te aanbidden. Mogelijk werden er ook offers gebracht. Sommigen hebben gezegd dat ze werden gebruikt als begraafplaats.
Er zijn een aantal duidelijke overeenkomsten tussen de Chinese steencirkels en Stonehenge in Engeland. Beide formaties zijn gelinkt aan zonaanbidders, de vorm van de bouwwerken komt overeen en de stenen werden van buitenaf naar het gebied gebracht.
De cirkels zijn gelegen in de buurt van de stad Turpan en strekken zich uit over een gebied van 6,6 vierkante kilometer. Ze zijn van bovenaf gefilmd met een drone om ze beter te kunnen begrijpen. Experts zeggen dat er zeer weinig bekend is over de bouwwerken. Niemand weet precies hoe oud ze zijn.
Er zijn soortgelijke formaties gevonden op de berg Burkhan Khaldun in het noorden van Mongolië. Archeologen hebben gezegd dat ze kunnen helpen bij het lokaliseren van het graf van Genghis Khan.
Dr. Volker Heyd, een archeoloog van de Universiteit van Bristol, schat dat de steencirkels in de Gobiwoestijn mogelijk 4500 jaar oud zijn. Eén van de cirkels staat bekend als de ‘Zonnecirkel’ en bestaat uit vier concentrische cirkels, waarvan de grootste een doorsnee heeft van acht meter.
Three More Witnesses Claim They Also Saw The Same UFOs
Three More Witnesses Claim They Also Saw The Same UFOs
A dog walker, an AA patrol officer and an off-duty police officer all saw the same two flying UFOs. A woman in her early 40s from Earl Shilton first reported about the orbs to a UFO network. She claimed to have spotted two balls of bright, white light hovering in the sky of Barwell on February 3.
The woman, who successfully captured a video footage of the UFOs through her mobile phone, was awakened by a strange sound at 4:50am.
When the woman looked outside through the window, she saw the bright objects for around a minute. She said that they merged into one and made a side to side movement before shooting off at tremendous speed.
Joanne Kavanagh of the Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network (Lufoin) said they ruled out air ambulance, police helicopter or anything low flying man-made object as the possible explanations of the two aerial objects.
Investigators requested other witnesses to come forward. Days later, the group managed to speak with a Hinckley man from the Hollycroft estate. This man said that he also saw two large illuminated spheres crossing his view above the sky when he was walking his dog around 5am along Roston Drive.
He said that the objects were completely silent at approximately a thousand feet from the ground. Just like what the woman witness had claimed, he also saw the object for around a minute and said that they were heading towards Nuneaton.
When he saw the video of the first witness, he said that the ones he saw looked similar of the UFOs in the footage.
Another witness, an AA patrol officer, came forward saying he also spotted the same objects moving from one place to another and back again across the road without a sound. He continued to observe it flying away from his position, towards Earl Shilton.
The last witness to come out was an off-duty police officer who said that the objects did not resemble any known aircraft.
The officer claimed that he observed them for approximately a minute as they floated in silence over the Barwell area.
Joanne said that their investigation was very exciting as they ruled out a lot of possibilities. They’re hoping that more witnesses will come forward so that they can gather more evidence.
Included you will find Stan's comment re the "Roswell Slides" and the upcoming associated May 5 event. Just a matter of putting things somewhat into perspective.
Kind regards.
André
Van: "Stan"
Onderwerp: Fw: The Roswell Slides
Datum: 21 Mar 2015 17:01:56 GMT+01:00
Aan: André Skondras
Andre:
Feel free to post these comments. Stan Friedman
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 12:48 PM
Subject: The Roswell Slides
Andre
For what it is worth, I was invited several weeks ago by Don Schmitt and Jaime Maussan to attend the Mexico City event about "Roswell Slides" on May 5. I accepted and have also been asked to say a few words at the beginning. I presume my attendance was requested because so far as I know, I am the original civilian investigator of the so called Roswell Incident beginning with my discussions with Lydia Sleppy,in the mid 1970s and after that wound down, with my first discussions in 1978 with Major Jesse Marcel,the Intelligence Officer with the 509th Bomb Group stationed at Roswell, my work with William Moore to locate 62 "witnesses" by 1980 and 30 more by the mid eighties, my instigation of the Unsolved Mysteries Roswell TV program , my discovery of Walter Haut, retired General Thomas Jefferson DuBose etc.etc. My book with Don Berliner "Crash at Corona" is still available.I have not yet taken a stand , believing that one should have facts in hand before puting mouth in gear. It should be interesting.
Stan Friedman says "No" to involvement in Roswell slides May 5th circus
Chris Rutkowski posted in our sub rosa Facebook group looking into the "Roswell slides" that he had heard from the dean of pro-ET Roswell researchers Stan Friedman that Stan had been asked to appear at the May 5th event in Mexico City being staged by the slides promoters, and that Stan had declined. I contacted Stan yesterday and asked him to confirm this, and he did. "I can't find a connection between the slides and aliens at Roswell," he replied
Good for Stan. He and I may disagree about Roswell in general, but when it comes to the "slides" we are in accord.
Deux navires extraterrestres effectuant un transfert observés en périphérie du Soleil, mars 2015
Deux navires extraterrestres effectuant un transfert observés en périphérie du Soleil, mars 2015
Soleil
Date de l'observation: 15 Octobre 2014, 04h06
Lieu de l'observation: Soleil
Streetcap1 de Youtube observe depuis des années des photos du soleil à la recherche d'anomalies quand il a trouvé cette photo avec deux navires extraterrestres. Streetcap1 pense qu'il y a probablement un navire qui effectue une transfert vers un autre navire. En outre, on peut imaginer un faisceau d'énergie ... une sorte de rayon tracteur .. pour effectuer ce transfert .
One individual posted: “My house was rumbling, and I’m still shaking. It was slow and it was huge.”
Another wrote: “Way too slow for fighter jets. It flew directly over our house, made a sharp left turn and carried on.”
The craft, sporting three red lights, was so low that many feared it was a plane in trouble.
Paranormal investigator Lee Brickley witnessed the same phenomenon, and began blogging as the drama unfolded.
He described the thunderous rumbling as like a World War Two bomber.
“Before anything could be seen with the naked eye, there was a deep and very loud droning,” he said.
“After around three minutes, the craft came into sight. It seemed incredibly large and astonishingly low in the sky with three red lights that were easily noticeable.
“The UFO travelled very slowly and many people thought it was about to crash.”
Cannock journalist Hannah Hiles, who has worked for the Sunday Mercury, was also alerted by the thunderous noise.
“It was ever so loud and it went on for quite a while,” she said. “It was much more prolonged than a military jet. It was very curious.”
Another resident described the sound of jets followed by a loud whirr, akin to propellers.
The reports – and Lee is still collating them – have spawned three theories:
* Members of the public did see something from another planet, or
* They witnessed a plane in distress, or
* They saw an experimental military craft – a so-called “black project” – being tested over Staffordshire.
Lee added: “I’ve checked online with flight tracking services, and have concluded it would be impossible for this to have been a plane in trouble. There simply weren’t any flights in the area at that specific time.
“I also contacted Birmingham Airport to make sure, and they confirmed none of the flights leaving or arriving at the airport experienced issues that would have led them to fly so low.”
A number of recent UFO alerts have turned out to be drones, BUFORA, which takes a sceptical view of alien claims, revealed. And that could well be the explanation for Tuesday’s mass sighting.
A spokeswoman said: “I’m sure it is something that can be explained. Whether it will be explained is another matter.
“There are so many drones around.”
She stressed that tests of secret military machines are fact, not fiction.
“Development of new black projects – military hardware and vehicles – can take between 20 and 30 years. We are not going to know about the development and tests that go on. There are so many reasons why people see things in the sky.”
Meet NGC 2100: a star cluster with an accompanying nebula in one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Usually, when a telescope is focused on our galactic neighbor, it concentrates on one of two regions: either the Tarantula Nebula or N44. NGC 2100 is very unlucky in that regard, as it can be found within close proximity to the former region (otherwise known as 30 Doradus). In fact, the two are so close together, you can actually see the Tarantula Nebula peeking through in the lower left.
This image, captured using the ESO’s New Technology Telescope, combines multiple exposures, each taken with a specialized color filter. By putting them all together, the image paints a clear picture of what’s happening inside the nebular cloud. For instance, the stars themselves are shown in true color, while ionized hydrogen can be seen in red, and oxygen in blue.
These things, in turn, largely correspond to temperature. The stars in the cluster doing a majority of the work, called NGC 2100, burn so brilliantly, they can set oxygen alight. The regions in which blue tapers off and becomes red are where the cone of influence ends—the stellar winds simply have no effect there. Instead, this section of the cloud is pervaded by more evolved stars, which can still excite the gas and generate emission nebulae.
A wide-field view of NGC 2100 and the Tarantula Nebula (Credit: ESO)
NGC 2100 is classified as an open cluster of stars. Astronomers estimate they are around 15 million years old, which makes them pretty young on a cosmological scale. However, open clusters tend to breed large stars that live fast and die young, ergo some might say that this cluster is middle-aged.
The whole lot can be found about 163,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dorado.
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