Underground Pyramid at Tiahuanaco in Bolivia

The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. 

Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.

According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.

Ludwing Cayo, director of the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center told EFE News Agency that Tiahuanaco will be undergoing further investigations over the next five years. This is welcome news to some, as the site and stone monuments may have suffered from exposure weathering 4,000 meters above sea level.

AcercandoNaciones reports that some of the ruins of Tiahunaco have become dilapidated, and some researchers suggest these might benefit from the protection of an indoor museum.

Tiahuanaco has been a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site since 2000.

Ponce stela in the sunken courtyard of the Tiwanaku's Kalasasaya temple. 

Wikimedia Commons

It was the capital of an empire that extended into present-day Peru and Chile, flourishing from 300 to 1000 A.D., and is believed to be one of the most important cities of ancient America.  

Andean legends claim the area around Lake Titicaca was the cradle of the first humans on Earth. 

According to the myths, Lord Viracocha, the creator of all things, chose Tiahuanaco as the place of creation. It is unknown how old these ruins are, but some researchers suggest that they date to 14,000 years B.C.

Fox News Latino writes that at its height, the Tiwanaku realm covered 600,000 square kilometers (231,000 square miles), and “left a legacy of impressive stone monuments such as Kalasasaya, the semi-underground Templete, sculptures of prominent figures, the Gate of the Sun and ruins of palaces.”

Closeup of carved stone tenon-head embedded in wall of Tiwanaku’s Semi-subterranean Temple. 

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Previous excavations at the site have revealed substantial portions of the Akapana Pyramid Mound.

Archaeology’s InteractiveDig writes that in the ancient past there is evidence that the established infrastructure was razed and rebuilt by the inhabitants, and the city was abandoned.

Researchers say there was a sudden shift in 700 A.D. Previous monuments were torn down, and the blocks were used to build the Akapana Pyramid. However, by the time the city was abandoned, the project had still not been completed, and laid unfinished.

The Akapana Pyramid Mound, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Franciso Javier Argel/Flickr

Results from the excavations at Tiahuanaco and the research into the newly detected buried pyramid are expected to be announced later this year.

02-04-2015 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.

According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.

Detail, Gateway of the Sun, Tiahuanaco. This topmost relief is on a single block of Andesite stone weighing 10 tons. Twiga269/Flickr

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Ludwing Cayo, director of the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center told EFE News Agency that Tiahuanaco will be undergoing further investigations over the next five years. This is welcome news to some, as the site and stone monuments may have suffered from exposure weathering 4,000 meters above sea level.

AcercandoNaciones reports that some of the ruins of Tiahunaco have become dilapidated, and some researchers suggest these might benefit from the protection of an indoor museum.

Tiahuanaco has been a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site since 2000.

Ponce stela in the sunken courtyard of the Tiwanaku's Kalasasaya temple. Wikimedia Commons

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It was the capital of an empire that extended into present-day Peru and Chile, flourishing from 300 to 1000 A.D., and is believed to be one of the most important cities of ancient America.  Andean legends claim the area around Lake Titicaca was the cradle of the first humans on Earth. According to the myths, Lord Viracocha, the creator of all things, chose Tiahuanaco as the place of creation. It is unknown how old these ruins are, but some researchers suggest that they date to 14,000 years B.C.

Fox News Latino writes that at its height, the Tiwanaku realm covered 600,000 square kilometers (231,000 square miles), and “left a legacy of impressive stone monuments such as Kalasasaya, the semi-underground Templete, sculptures of prominent figures, the Gate of the Sun and ruins of palaces.”

Closeup of carved stone tenon-head embedded in wall of Tiwanaku’s Semi-subterranean Temple. Wikimedia Commons

Previous excavations at the site have revealed substantial portions of the Akapana Pyramid Mound.

Archaeology’s InteractiveDig writes that in the ancient past there is evidence that the established infrastructure was razed and rebuilt by the inhabitants, and the city was abandoned. Researchers say there was a sudden shift in 700 A.D. Previous monuments were torn down, and the blocks were used to build the Akapana Pyramid. However, by the time the city was abandoned, the project had still not been completed, and laid unfinished.

The Akapana Pyramid Mound, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Franciso Javier Argel/Flickr

Results from the excavations at Tiahuanaco and the research into the newly detected buried pyramid are expected to be announced later this year.

Previous excavations: Robotic exploration of a tunnel in the Akapana pyramid, June 13, 2006. Wikimedia Commons

Featured Image: The Gateway of the Sun from the Tiwanku civilization in Bolivia. Public Domain

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02-04-2015 om 01:21 geschreven door peter  

Tesla’s Amazing UFO

by Ivan Petricevic, Ancient Code

Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most innovative and mysterious men who ever lived.

If Tesla hadn’t invented and researched everything he did in his time, our technology today would be considerably worse. But is there something more to Tesla?

Did he in fact have contact with Aliens as he publicly proclaimed? He is one of the most amazing inventors our civilization has ever known his knowledge and ideas went far and beyond what was known and accepted in his lifetime.

Tesla was a Genius, and his inventions and ideas had no boundaries. Over a hundred years ago, during the first decade of the twentieth century, Tesla filed a request to patent a peculiar aircraft, which he called “the world’s first flying saucer.”

The methods used in the design of the flying saucer matched the descriptions of those who claimed to have seen a from the UFO inside: with a discoidal capacitor with sufficient size to provide enough thrust to fly, while other small capacitors allowed to control the direction of the flying saucer, to which he added a gyroscopic stabilization system and a electric “drive” control.

And if all of that isn’t enough, Tesla had more; the interior of the ship was equipped with flat screens and external video cameras for the pilots blind spots. Tesla’s UFO has eyes, and these were made of electro-optical lenses, arranged in quadrants, allowing the pilot to see everything.

Screens and monitors are placed on a console where the browser can observe all areas around the vehicle, and Tesla’s incredible invention included magnifying lenses, which could have been used without changing positions.

Basically it is a incredibly well designed aircraft, one that we could actually manage to build today. Or have we already built it? What happened to this invention? Why are we not flying into space with Tesla’s incredible invention?

While the patent was granted, the UFO or rather called IFO as it had been identified by the insatiable imagination of Tesla, had a drawback: since the aircraft did not include an energy source of its own, it needed to be energized by the towers of wireless transmission, Tesla’s sources of “free energy”.

The lack of funding led to the abandonment of the development of the towers, so, eventually the ship also fell into darkness, and Tesla’s UFO or rather IFO was never made. But hold on Never?

Actually don’t be so sure because the US Secret Service seized all patents belonging to Tesla after his death “for reasons of national security.”

Now if Teslas ideas were insane as some had categorized them, why would the United States secret Service seize the patents for reasons of National Security? Hmmm lets think about it for a minute.

The ideas of ​​the great Nikola Tesla are incredible and better yet, way ahead of its time, many of his inventions, aimed at contributing towards world peace through free energy access, but governments and financiers of the time, did not follow the progress of Tesla’s mind.

Years later, his groundbreaking models and technological projects were used by the Nazis (not the way he had imagined it), and now numerous of his projects are held by the secret service, far away from the eyes of the public.

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02-04-2015 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

Australia: Earth's 'Largest Asteroid Impact EVER' Discovered

March 31, 2015 - Scientists in Australia have uncovered what they say is the biggest asteroid impact area ever discovered. The 400 kilometer (250 mile) wide region is buried deep in the Earth’s crust and consists of two different impact scars.

“It would have been ‘curtains’ for many species in the world at the time,” said Dr. Glikson.

However, the team, which released its findings in the geology journal ‘Tectonophysics,’ hasn’t been able to link the event to any known annihilation. “It is a puzzle – we cannot find an extinction event that fits this crash,” said Dr. Glikson. “I’ve a feeling the impact may be older than 300 million years.”

The stones around the impact zone are about 300 to 600 million years old, however a layer of ashes that would have been thrown up by the impact hasn’t yet been found, as sediment in the stone layers form an identical interval.

“Substantial impacts such as these may have had a lot more important part in the Earth’s development than previously believed,” Dr. Glikson said.

The excavation returned bits of stone that were turned into glass by excessive temperature and pressure, consistent with a substantial impact.

The rocks around the impact zone are roughly 300 to 600 million years old, but a layer of ash that would have been thrown up by the impact has not been detected as sediment in rock layers from the same period.

The large meteorite believed to have killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago corresponds to a layer of sediment in rocks around the world.

"Large impacts like these may have had a far more significant role in the Earth's evolution than previously thought," Dr Glikson said.

The apparent impact zone in the Warburton Basin was discovered by accident while scientists were drilling 2km under the Earth's surface for a geothermal research project.

The dig returned traces of rock that had been turned to glass by extreme temperature and pressure, consistent with a massive impact.

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02-04-2015 om 01:10 geschreven door peter  

Was Roswell UFO Crash A Secret Nazi Aircraft?

Excerpt from  huffingtonpost.com


The Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash of 1947 was the result of -- here  it comes, wait for it -- top secret Nazi technology. No alien  spacecraft, no alien bodies, but an aircraft called the "Bell" (depicted above from a 2008 Discovery Channel documentary)...


To be sure, it's questionable what actually happened in the outskirts of  that small town 67 years ago. But it's also questionable if this film  will ever see the light of day. 

At least, here's the most  truthful thing known about the incident: Something came out of the sky  in July 1947 and crashed on a ranch near Roswell. But what that  "something" was has become a nearly 70-year-old legend.

Everything from extraterrestrial spacecraft to weather balloon to military high  altitude device for spying on Soviet nuclear testing has been offered  for the identity of the crashed object.

And now, the film,  supposedly called "UFOs and the Third Reich," is promoting another  theory: A 10-foot-wide, 12-foot-high, anti-gravity, bell-shaped craft,  combining rocket and helicopter technology, created by Nazi Germany,  fell into the hands of the U.S. in 1943, who further developed the  project. An alleged test of the Bell resulted in its crash, which became the event that started the Roswell UFO saga.

Stories about the  Nazi Bell have cropped up in the UFO literature for many years,  including Discovery Channel's 2008 "Nazi UFO Conspiracy." 

Watch Discovery Channel's "Nazi UFO Conspiracy" below: 

"This is what I saw, with my own eyes -- a Nazi UFO," German aeronautical  engineer Georg Klein is reputed to say in "UFOs and the Third Reich." "I don't consider myself a crackpot or eccentric or someone given to  fantasies."

The new film is also rumored to focus on German  engineer, Joseph Andreas Epp, who reportedly worked on a UFO project  which resulted in several saucer-shaped vehicles that supposedly  included dome-shaped cabins and a rotating rim.

"The wing blades  would be allowed to rotate freely as the saucer moved forward, as in an  auto-gyrocopter," Epp said. "In all probability, the wing blades speed  -- and so, their lifting value -- could also be increased by directing  the adjustable horizontal jets slightly upwards to engage the blades,  thus spinning them faster at the digression [sic] of the pilot."

If the so-called Bell UFO is what actually crashed outside of Roswell in  1947, it would contradict the many military eyewitnesses who eventually  came forward and described the physical appearance and otherworldy  characteristics of the object that fell out of the New Mexico sky -- not to mention their descriptions of several small humanoid occupants of  the craft.
This isn't the first time we've looked at the so-called Nazi-UFO-Alien connection.

Back in 2011, investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen raised a controversial  question in her book about the top secret Nevada military base, known as Area 51: Did former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin recruit Josef Mengele,  the Nazi "Angel of Death," to surgically alter children to look like aliens in 1947, and did they place these malformed adolescents on board a Soviet spy plane to be part of the Roswell UFO crash?

At the beginning of 2014, we examined a wild story that suggested the U.S. government has been under the control of a shadow government overseen  by extraterrestrials who helped Nazi Germany's rise in the 1930s.

The current German documentary certainly won't bring more answers to the  Roswell debate. At the very least, it offers further questions about who and what to believe of the biggest UFO controversy in history.

And, oh, there's one other thing about this "new" film. Whoever the  producers of it are, they don't seem too interested in releasing any  promotional clips, trailers or still images from it. An extensive  Internet search hasn't turned up anything -- yet.

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02-04-2015 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

California Man Sees Humanoid and Suspects Project Blue Beam

A man in southern California claims he’s being observed by a partially transparent humanoid and an invisible being with glowing eyes and has military helicopters flying over his house. Many photographs he’s taken appear to have a blue beam down the middle and he suspects he’s part of a rumored covert NASA project called Project Blue Beam. Is he?

Photograph of eyes seen by man in Highland Park

The report appeared on March 16, 2015, in the MUFON database. The man says he lives in Highland Park near Los Angeles and has been having these strange experiences for about two months. He claims his phone calls and emails to organizations to report his experiences and ask questions go mysteriously unanswered.

What caught my eye in his report was his statement that this was just like Project Blue Beam. Project Blue Beam is an alleged secret and extremely complex plan by NASA and the United Nations to use technology to simulate a Second Coming of Christ that would start a New World Order along with a new religion with the Antichrist at its helm. This theory was presented by Serge Monast in his 1994 book, “Project Blue Beam.”

Serge Monast

The four-step project consisted of (this is a very brief summary) creating chaos by causing earthquakes, using holograms to simulate a new god, beaming low-frequency waves to make humans think they are getting telepathic messages and controlling all electronic devices to simulate false attacks and bring earth to the brink of destruction so that humans are ready to accept this new world order.

Now THAT’S a conspiracy theory. Monast predicted the implementation of Project Blue Beam a number of times but it obviously hasn’t occurred yet, although we now have large realistic holograms and earthquakes created by fracking, not to mention plenty of talk about a New World Order. His followers believe his death by heart attack in 1996 was an assassination to stop his revelation of the plan. Skeptics point out that Project Blue Beam resembles the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Devil’s Due” and the plot of an unreleased 1975 Star Trek movie by Gene Roddenberry called “The God Thing.”

Project Blue Beam still has plenty of believers. The poor guy in California wonders if he’s “NASA’s guinea pig” for it. Is he? Would it help if he watched Devil’s Due?

 

 TAGS: aliens, Antichrist, Gene Roddenberry, New World Order, Project Blue Beam, Science, Star Trek, technology

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02-04-2015 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

Why Obama's UFO statement just changed the course of history

When I first saw this interview scrolling through my newsfeed I chose not to watch it (out of years of frustratingly observing politicians avoid and mock a crucial topic). This initial decision was the sign of a fatigued freedom of information activist, myself, just not having the energy to be exposed to more blatant lies. It stressed me out too much.

The headlines seemed to be saying that he denied knowledge and joked about it, as is usually the case when presidents are confronted. Nothing new, but it was especially annoying considering a close aid of Obama's, and Clinton's Chief of Staff, John Podesta, a known UFO disclosure enthusiast, recently stated "Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files."

Let it be known though that UFO files have already been disclosed, as can be viewed here, but it's quite obvious there are many more still concealed.

Bryce Zabel did a great analysis of why Podesta's tweet was absolutely not a joke considering his history with the subject. The sequence of Podesta's and Obama's statements was an emotional tornado of good news from Podesta (for bringing attention to the topic) and bad news from Obama (upholding the secrecy yet again). But maybe Obama's interview wasn't bad news. Maybe there was something more there that the mainstream interpretation wasn't digesting.

After about a week I couldn't help it and needed to analyze myself. Immediately after he responded to Jimmy Kimmel with the words "I can't reveal anything" I jumped out of my chair and yelled in disbelief because my primal sense told me that he was momentarily telling the truth.

Here's a transcript of the conversation:

Kimmel: This is something I feel like. If I was the president, and it is unlikely that is ever going to happen…

Obama: You never know.

Kimmel: If I was the president…

Obama: It was unlikely that I was going to be president.

Kimmel: The moment I was in inaugurated – my hand would still be hot from touching the bible – I would immediately race to wherever they have the files about Area 51 and UFOs and I would go through everything to find out what happened. Did you do that?

Obama: That is why you will not be president…

Kimmel: One of the reasons.

Obama: Because that is the first thing you would do.

Kimmel: It is at the top of my list.

Obama: The aliens won’t let it happen. You will reveal all of their secrets. They exercise strict control over us.

Kimmel: Now you know there are a lot of people who are going to examine your facial expressions here, every twitch, every everything and say, of course. Did you look? Did you see? Did you explore?

Obama: I can’t reveal anything.

Kimmel: Oh really? Because President Clinton said he did go right in and he did check and there was nothing.

Obama: You know, that is what we are instructed to say.

Now this doesn't mean that he absolutely was telling the truth and I'm not trying to convince anyone to believe anything. My reaction was purely based on confidence in my ability to discern humans telling the truth versus those lying. His demeanor and actions seemed sincere to me, even though, tradtionally, I don't trust much of what comes out of Obama's mouth. It's not a personal attack on him as a human being because I have no idea what reasons could be behind presidents being forced to lie. His life is most likely on the line.

The most obvious reason for the lies is:

Admitting we are now being engaged by ETs would cause global unrest in economic, security, and religious senses. Economics would be disrupted because ET technology shatters modern energy power structures. Religion would be disrupted because, well, aliens. Security would be at risk because the exotic tech could get into the wrong hands. Anyone in the world could have something more powerful than nukes.

That is the official view. I tend to side more with people like Stephen Bassett who say, "Joseph Farrell made a key point. Maybe the secrecy is because these weapons, if they get in the wrong hands, could be dangerous. I would like to make the suggestion that they are ALREADY in the wrong hands." Here's a powerful short video of that talk by Bassett, a leading disclosure lobbyist, at the Secret Space Program conference.

A weird possibility, which I'm not sure if I agree with, is that maybe the only thing that could bring about a state of global peace IS everyone having the power to destroy everyone else. It could cause universal respect.

Today I saw the below deep analysis of the Obama interview by Syfy Channel's Ben Hansen from "Fact or Faked". It's well balanced and exactly agrees with my instinctual thought.

This whole episode changes the course of history without changing the course of history in an immediate way. It could be the highest level admission ever that there's something serious going on here. The credibility that it potentially brings to the matter is significant. If/when a more traditional type of Disclosure occurs where a Whitehouse press conference happens and they admit it more clearly, this interview will be looked at as that time when we were told the truth without being told the truth. He could have flat out lied like the Whitehouse did in 2011 when they responded to a petition saying there is no evidence for ET, but he didn't. This is a good sign for the future.

Enjoy and get active on this. I'd prefer to not die without knowing whether or not governments are withholding the true origins and reality of life in the universe. I'd also like to get the information and technology released to bring some peace and sustainability to this planet.  What matters more?

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02-04-2015 om 00:50 geschreven door peter  

World's 10 Most Baffling UFO Sightings

Phoenix lights

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02-04-2015 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

NASA tests Mars ‘flying saucer’

NASA has given the world another glimpse of its revolutionary flying saucer technology, which will play a crucial role in future Mars missions.

The 15-foot wide, 7,000-pound test vehicle underwent a “spin test” on a table at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during a live broadcast Tuesday, ABC News reports.

The flying saucer is part of NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, which aims to develop landing vehicles for future missions.

NASA says the project tests “breakthrough technologies that will enable large payloads to be safely landed on the surface of Mars, or other planetary bodies with atmospheres, including Earth.” According to the space agency, the technologies will also offer access to more of the red planet’s surface by enabling landings at higher-altitude sites.

As part of its LDSD research, NASA will fly a rocket-powered saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June.

Last year an LDSD test in Hawaii was deemed a success by engineers, despite the vehicle’s huge parachute apparently failing to deploy properly, according to Space.com.

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01-04-2015 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

Icy-Moon Discoveries: What They Mean for Alien Life Search

Diagram showing the geysers that erupt from the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. New research suggests that Enceladus' geysers are powered by hydrothermal activity.
Credit :  NASA/JPL-Caltech      

New discoveries about icy moons in the outer solar system have raised exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.

Earlier this month, researchers made two big announcements: Saturn's moon Enceladus likely harbors hot springs, and Jupiter's huge satellite Ganymede apparently possesses a subsurface ocean that may contain more water than all of Earth does.

However, while the discovery makes Enceladus, which also has a subsurface ocean, even more intriguing to astrobiologists, Ganymede is still not a great bet for alien life, researchers say. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]

Enceladus is the sixth-largest of Saturn's moons, with a diameter of only about 314 miles (505 kilometers). Despite its tiny size, Enceladus has drawn a great deal of attention due to its erupting water geysers, first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Now, scientists have found that Enceladus may have hot springs under its frozen crust. The discovery that the floor of its hidden ocean may be home to near-boiling temperatures is the first evidence of active hydrothermal vents beyond the oceans of Earth.

"This surely has implications regarding astrobiology, life-searching and all those kinds of topics," said study author Hsiang-Wen Sean Hsu, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Specifically, these new findings suggest that the conditions on Enceladus' seafloor are similar to those found on Earth in a deep-sea field of hydrothermal vents known as Lost City in the Atlantic Ocean, which is home to a wide variety of animals, such as eels, snails, mussels, worms, shrimplike amphipods and flealike ostracods, said Gabriel Tobie, a planetologist at the University of Nantes in France.

Lost City consists of 196-foot-tall (60 meters) limestone chimneys that release alkaline fluid that is low in metals and lower than boiling temperature. In contrast, most other known hydrothermal vents on Earth give off metal-rich acidic fluid that is hotter than boiling temperature.

Alkaline hydrothermal vents might have been the birthplace of the first living organisms on the early Earth, supplying key nutrients and energy, Tobie said.

"For Enceladus, the new discovery of hot vents enhances its chance for life," Tobie told Space.com.

NASA also announced that a salty ocean hides beneath the icy crust of Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found that Ganymede's ocean could harbor more water than is found on Earth. Ganymede's sea may be about 60 miles (100 km) deep — 10 times the depth of Earth's oceans.

However, this finding does not necessarily raise Ganymede's chances for life, Tobie said.

"A major difference between Enceladus and Ganymede is the difference of pressure at the base of the ocean," Tobie said. The pressure at the base of Enceladus' ocean is rather low, at 50 to 100 bar — or about 50 to 100 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level. This low pressure permits water from circulating in underlying porous rocks, thus helping to drive chemical reactions that could lead life to emerge.

In contrast, the pressure at the base of Ganymede's ocean is much higher — about 15,000 to 20,000 bar, Tobie said. Under such high pressure, not only is rock less porous, but water can form a kind of ice.

"A very thick layer of high-pressure ice more than 400 kilometers [250 miles] thick will form at the base of the ocean," Tobie said. "Even if deep hot vents exist on Ganymede, the chance for life seems rather low due to the formation of this high-pressure ice layer."        

However, Ganymede is not the only watery moon of Jupiter. Prior research suggests that Europa, the fourth-largest moon of Jupiter, may possess both an ocean beneath its icy surface and hot springs.

"Like in Enceladus, the ocean in Europa would be directly in contact with the rock core, which will favor water-rock interactions and exchange of nutrients with the ocean," Tobie said.

"Both Europa and Enceladus have a high astrobiological potential," he added. "But for the moment, it is only a potential. Only future missions with in situ investigations will really answer if it is more than only a potential."

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01-04-2015 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

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01-04-2015 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

Mind-Control: Luister gewoon eens naar deze man..

We nemen dit artikel over met een ‘dankjewel’ aan de onnavolgbare Irma Schiffers, die de onderstaande video van ondertiteling voorzag. De informatie op de video, het bericht van Paul Hellyer daarmee voor een groot Nederlands publiek toegankelijk maakt. Dankjewel Irma! Je bent een kanjer.x

Luister gewoon eens naar deze man..

2015 © Irma Schiffers

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Ingenieur Paul Hellyer is bijna 92 jaar (augustus 1923!!) en politicus, schrijver en commentator. Hij heeft een lange en gevarieerde carrière gehad en was als vliegtuigbouwkundig ingenieur later actief in de politiek. Zo was hij o.a. minister voor Defensie van Canada! Niet de minste persoon dus. Deze man is echter ook een van de meest imponerende klokkenluiders, die we kennen. Hij heeft een dermate dringende, indringende en belangrijke boodschap, dat Irma Schiffers deze video ging vertalen en ondertitelen; hij duurt zo’n 34 minuten en is zéér de moeite waard. 

Paul Hellyer haalde alle kranten met zijn speech op de Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Dit was een congres in Washington dat was gericht op het vrijgeven van het ‘waarheidsembargo’ op de Aardse contacten met aliens of buitenaardsen. Hellyer beweert niet alleen dat deze contacten met buitenaardse rassen bestaan, hij is er ook van overtuigd dat ze op de aarde leven en actief met de Amerikaanse regering samenwerken om hun geavanceerde technologie te delen met onze menselijke geest.

En wat deze wezens hiervoor teruggeven is ook Hellyer onbekend, maar het staat voor hem als een paal boven water dat een groot deel van onze high-tech gadgets kadootjes zijn geweest van hypertechnologische ET’s. Ongetwijfeld zullen deze aliëns invloed uitoefenen, i.s.m. de ‘krachten-achter-de-schermen’, op het Aardse onderdrukkingsprogramma en de daarmee gepaard gaande manipulatie-technieken..

Irma Schiffers: “Wat mij betreft geldt dit: als je dit verhaal van Hellyer niet gelooft, dan ga je nooit meer iets geloven! Breng alles wat deze man brengt in verband met de laatste informatie over GMO’s, Big Pharma, chemtrails, HAARP, the Georgia Guidestones (agenda 21)  etc.  en je hebt het TOTAALPLAATJE..”

De tijd dringt nu echt om wakker te worden en daarom heeft Paul Hellyer onlangs deze openhartige video gemaakt en een boek geschreven ‘The Money mafia’. Heel dapper van hem! Hier dan nu de video in het Nederlands. Deel deze informatie alsjeblieft zoveel mogelijk, want we dienen onze geschiedenis te herschrijven, om het heden te begrijpen en de toekomst te veranderen..!

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01-04-2015 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

Korte radio-uitbarstingen vertonen opmerkelijke regelmaat

De Parkes-radiotelescoop in Australië met op de achtergrond een afbeelding van de Melkweg op radiogolflengten. Boven de schotelantenne is een 'radioflits' getekend. (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)

Het raadsel van de ‘fast radio bursts’ – korte flitsen van radiostraling die in 2007 voor het eerst werden opgemerkt – heeft een bijzondere wending genomen. De uitbarstingen lijken een wiskundig patroon te vertonen, en dat kan erop wijzen dat ze van kunstmatige oorsprong zijn.

De radioflitsen, waarvan er tot nu toe pas tien zijn gedetecteerd, duren slechts een paar milliseconden. Die korte duur wijst erop dat ze afkomstig zijn van een kleine bron met afmetingen van hooguit een paar honderd kilometer.

Om erachter te komen op welke afstand zo’n bron zich bevindt, maken astronomen gebruik van een grootheid die de ‘dispersiemaat’ wordt genoemd. Elke radioflits bestrijkt een heel scala aan radiofrequenties. Elektronen die door de ruimte zwerven verstrooien en vertragen de radiogolven zodanig dat die met hogere frequenties sneller aankomen dan die met lagere frequenties. Hoe groter de afstand die het signaal heeft afgelegd, des te groter is de dispersiemaat.

Uit een analyse van de dispersiematen van de tien bekende radioflitsen blijkt nu dat deze veelvouden zijn van het getal 187,5. Daardoor lijkt het alsof de bronnen, die zich op miljarden lichtjaren van de aarde bevinden, gelijkmatig over de ruimte zijn verdeeld.

De wetenschappers die de analyse hebben verricht vinden dat een beetje té toevallig. Volgens hen is het veel waarschijnlijker dat de radioflitsen worden veroorzaakt door bronnen binnen onze Melkweg die van zichzelf radiostraling met een regelmatig dispersiepatroon uitzenden.

Het kan niet helemaal worden uitgesloten dat er (exotische) hemelobjecten bestaan die dat doen. Maar het is aannemelijker dat de radiotelescopen af en toe het signaal van een onbekende spionagesatelliet oppikken. Dat idee wordt versterkt door het feit dat de aankomsttijden van de gemeten radioflitsen een geheel aantal seconden – een door de mens bedachte eenheid – uit elkaar liggen. (EE)

• Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

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01-04-2015 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

Rendlesham Forest Bombshell

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01-04-2015 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

Photographer puzzled by UFO over New South Wales

A photographer in the Australian town of Cawongla in New South Wales captured more than he was expecting when he noticed a UFO in one of his photos.

Astronomy enthusiast Andrew Hanlon was taking pictures of the Moon on January 30 in an attempt to photograph a planet moving behind the Moon. With his Panasonic digital camera mounted to a tripod, Hanlon snapped photos every thirty seconds. He didn’t notice anything unusual in the sky while he was taking the photos. It wasn’t until he was going through his photos the next day that he noticed the unidentified object in one of the photos.

Hanlon’s photo with the unidentified object. (Credit: Andrew Hanlon/Northern Star)

Intrigued by the unexpected bright object in his photo, Hanlon is trying to identify this UFO. Although he says he didn’t hear any aircraft engines during his photographing session, he considered the possibility that the photo might have been taken at the exact moment when a plane’s lights were flashing. But he was reportedly told by an expert that he could rule out this possibility.

Local media outlet The Northern Star reports that a spokesperson from the nearby Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome suggests the object in Hanlon’s photo is the International Space Station.

“It moves across the sky rapidly in a matter of minutes and does not follow the same path night after night,” he explains. He continues, “I have seen it described as the third brightest object in the sky.”

The ISS is just one possible explanation for the object in Hanlon’s photo. “I’m just very curious,” says Hanlon. “I’m trying to identify it.”

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01-04-2015 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 4/1/15

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• Forget Roswell. Gubernatorial candidate wants Puerto Rico to be world center for UFO tourism – Fox News Latino
• Site lists top hoaxes on April Fool’s Day – KRQE News 13
• Radio bursts from outside our galaxy ‘could be from aliens’ – Metro
• Local man puzzled over UFO – Northern Star
• UFOs and aliens are real, say half of polled British Columbians and Albertans – CBC.ca

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01-04-2015 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

UFO Struck By Lightning and More UFO Sightings Around The World (Video)

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A collection of interesting UFO sightings from various places throughout the world last month.

UFO Sightings from, New York City, Paris France, Mexico, Hawaii to mention a few…

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01-04-2015 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

Bermuda Triangle Mystery – A Secret Revealed! (Video)

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The Bermuda Triangle has long been believed to be the site where a number of mysterious plane and boat incidents have occurred.

While it has become part of popular culture to link the Bermuda Triangle to paranormal activity, most investigations indicate bad weather and human error are the more likely culprits.

Research has suggested that many original reports of strange incidents in the Bermuda Triangle were exaggerated and that the actual number of incidents in the area is similar to that of other parts of the ocean.

While its reputation may scare some people, the Bermuda Triangle is actually part of a regularly sailed shipping lane with cruise ships and other boats also frequently sailing through the area.

Aircraft are also common in the Bermuda Triangle with both private and commercial planes commonly flying through the air space.

Stories of unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle started to reach public awareness around 1950 and have been consistently reported since then.

Unverified supernatural explanations for Bermuda Triangle incidents have included references to UFO’s and even the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.

Other explanations have included magnetic anomalies, pirates, deliberate sinkings, hurricanes, gas deposits, rough weather, huge waves and human error.

Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include:

The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.

The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic.

A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found.

A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.

  

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01-04-2015 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

Ruins of Atlantis might be in Morocco, Not on the Bottom of the Atlantic

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Ruins of Atlantis might be in Morocco, Not on the Bottom of the Atlantic

According to one computer expert, we have been looking for the ruins of Atlantis in all the wrong places. As it turns out, they might be found on dry land, in Morocco.

The fabled city has been on the tips of so many pens and tongues that over the years it’s become synonym with a goose chase of insular proportions. While critics argue that Plato’s account is merely an allegoric tale of a fictional city, there are many more who believe Atlantis was a real place and perhaps a point of origin for the rest of the ancient civilizations.

One of them was a German computer expert named Michael Hubner. In 2008, Hubner combed Plato’s Timaeus and Critias for any clues about Atlantis. He gathered 51 hints, turned them into variables and added them into a computer program, hoping this might help him uncover the location of Atlantis, if there ever was one.

According to Plato, Atlantis was devastated by a tsunami after it incurred the wrath of the gods.

The clues specified that Atlantis consisted of concentric rings encompassing its center, was located near the sea and at a distance of around 3,100 miles from Athens. This narrows it down to areas of Europe, Africa or the Middle East.

Another set of clues mentioned it wasn’t found in Asia or Europe but was located west of Egypt and close to a massive mountain range. It was also said to be found outside the Pillars of Herakles, which many believe to be the Gibraltar Strait.

All the clues pointed towards a region in modern day Morocco, near the Atlas Mountains and about 100 miles south of Marrakesh. Hubner’s theory challenges the notion that the ruins of Atlantis lie as its name suggests, on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Like we said, the location was provided by a computer program which gracefully spat out the GPS coordinates for the location that best matched the set of clues.

When Hubner traveled to that particular location, he found a desert basin seven miles away from the sea. In it center there was a small mound, matching Plato’s description of the ancient city. The central mound was surrounded by concentric riverbeds, again matching the description.

01-04-2015 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

Obama UFO interview analyzed

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Ben Hansen, former host of the SyFy Channel’s Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, took a careful look at Obama’s recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, especially the portion in which Kimmel asked Obama about UFOs. Hansen says his analysis has given him some “huge” revelations, including that Obama was not joking when he told Kimmel that he can’t reveal what he knows about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Ben Hansen

Hansen has a background in law enforcement. However, he points out in his video analysis – which he posted on YouTube (seen above) – that he is not a body language expert, just someone with a lot of experience conducting criminal investigations and interviews, and working with body language experts.

Last year, after Kimmel asked former president Bill Clinton about UFOs, Hansen decided to put his experience to use, and analyze what Clinton had said. His conclusion was that there was, “Evidence of significant apprehension, stress, and guarded behavior. Several times when he started down a road and stopped himself in awkward ways as if he was about to say something he shouldn’t.”

This led Hansen to believe that Clinton knew more than he was sharing or he learned just enough to indicate that he should stop looking.

Earlier this month, Obama appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kimmel decided to ask him about UFOs as well. In the interview, Kimmel indicates that he may have seen Hasnen’s Clinton analysis. Kimmel warned Obama that people were going to look at his facial expressions and every move as he answered these questions to analyze what he was saying.

Kimmel’s short exchange with Obama about UFOs included a lot of jokes, and both Kimmel and Obama seemed to be enjoying themselves, but the question is, “Was Obama really joking?”

The conventional wisdom is that he was. However, Hansen says his analysis shows that the non-verbal communication Obama was displaying tells another story.

The first clue that Hansen gives that Obama seemed out of sorts by the UFO questions was his breathing rates. Hansen says that the video shows Obama’s breathing rate was much higher during the UFO questioning than the other parts of the interview. Hansen says this can indicate that Obama was “uncomfortable with the next line of questioning.”

Another aspect of the interview that Hansen felt may indicate there is more going on is the joking itself. He notes that each of Obama’s jokes ” interrupts, delays, and deflects Kimmel’s original question.”

Hansen says it is possible the jokes were an “attempt to influence Jimmy to drop the subject.” Hansen says jokes are often used to belittle a person into feeling silly for asking the question in the first place.

Hansen notes that Obama has used humor all of the very few occasions he has talked about UFOs. Hansen interviewed Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel about a UFO joke Obama made that did not go over so well. Speigel told Hansen that during Obama’s first visit to Roswell, New Mexico, Obama told the crowd that the first thing he said when he had landed was “I come in peace.” Obama then went on to say that he is often asked about UFOs by 9 and 10 year-old boys, and he often tells them “If I told you I would have to kill you.”

Speigel told Hansen that he felt that last joke was in bad taste, and that the crowd must have agreed because only a few people in the crowd laughed.

Obama addressing the crowd in Roswell.

Hansen wonders if Obama uses humor when he talks about UFOs because he is “uncomfortable telling the truth about what he may know,” or if it is “due to a fear of ridicule if he takes the subject seriously.”

In the video, Hansen asks, “Might he know more now than he did before he was president?”

The biggest revelation for Hansen comes during the last part of Kimmel’s UFO line of questioning. Hansen notes that despite all of Obama’s joking, Kimmel persists.

Hansen says, “Obama makes more jokes, but Kimmel is not dissuaded. Kimmel asks, ‘Did you look, did you see, did you explore?’”

“Almost immediately, you are going to see Obama do a series of things that paint a very interesting picture,” Hansen explains.

Hansen says Obama completely changes his demeanor at this point from “comedian” Obama to “guarded” Obama. Hansen says Obama’s smile changes from genuine to more of a look of annoyance. He also says Obama breaks eye contact, which is not unusual for Obama.

Hansen notes that in past interviews Obama often breaks eye contact to look down and to the right. Using Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) protocols, this often means someone is having an internal dialogue. Hansen says for Obama this seems to be a cognitive process when he “requires precision in answering difficult questions.”

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) eye chart from Hansen’s Obama video analysis. (Credit: Ben Hansen/YouTube)

Another thing Obama does at this point is shut his eyes a couple of times, both of which Hansen says were longer than just a normal blink. Hansen notes this could be due to someone trying to block out unpleasant auditory or visual cues. He notes that this is accompanied by a hard swallow, flexing of the jaw, a head turn away from Kimmel, and shaking of the head “No” with a stuttered reply.

Obama’s simple reply was, “I can’t reveal anything.”

Hansen says there is no way to tell if Obama’s earlier replies were anything more than a joke, but Obama’s demeanor change with this reply indicate to him that Obama, in this case, was telling the truth.

He likens Obama’s demeanor to a guy being asked to go fishing with his buddies, but can’t because his wife wants him to clean the garage. He doesn’t want to talk bad about his wife to his buddies, so he simple replies, “Sorry guys, I can’t.”

Obama’s apparent demeanor change, according to hansen’s analysis. (Credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live!/YouTube)

Hansen feels that Obama’s demeanor change is clear, and like the guy with his wife, out of duty, Obama appears to  be serious when he says he can not reveal anything further. Hansen says, to Obama, this sentence “is no longer a joking manner.”

Hansen explains, “This is a serious matter to Obama and everything points to supporting that he truly is not permitted to discuss it. That doesn’t mean he personally knows anything about an extraterrestrial presence. It means that who he talked to, why and when are not for public disclosure.”

Hansen also points out that John Podesta, a counselor to Obama and former Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, recently tweeted about UFOs. Podesta has had a long time interest in UFOs, and is leaving the Obama administration in order to help with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. On his last day with the White House, Podesta tweeted: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files.”

Hansen notes that many have reported that Obama denied any knowledge about UFOs or aliens. However, Obama never made that claim. (Credit: Ben Hansen/YouTube)

Most have seen this tweet to be a joke. However, Hansen interviewed Bryce Zabel, a filmmaker and former CNN correspondent, who says he thinks Podesta was serious.

Hansen wonders if the timing of the Podesta’s tweet and Obama’s discussion with Kimmel about UFOs was a coincidence.

In the end, Hansen feels that his analysis has convinced him that there is something more to Obama’s comments than mere jokes. He says, “All the evidence suggests that there is something to reveal. Whatever it is, we hope that one day it will be.”

Hansen’s analysis of Clinton’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance can be seen below:

You can read more about Ben Hansen at www.BenHansen.com.

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01-04-2015 om 22:23 geschreven door peter