UFO sighting over Rome, Italy on 12th April 2015

New interesting video footage of a strange disc – shaped UFO sighting recorded over Rome, Italy on 12th April 2015.

28-04-2015 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

Studie: ons universum is mogelijk één groot hologram

We leven in een reusachtig hologram en alles wat we om ons heen zien is slechts een projectie van een tweedimensionaal oppervlak. Deze theorie werd in 1997 voorgesteld door de Argentijnse natuurkundige Juan Maldacena.

De meeste mensen kennen hologrammen van creditcards en bankbiljetten. Ze zijn tweedimensionaal, maar ogen driedimensionaal. Ons universum gedraagt zich mogelijk op soortgelijke wijze.

Oostenrijkse wetenschappers hebben nu voor het eerst aangetoond dat het holografische principe ook werkt in een realistisch model van onze kosmos. Volgens het holografische principe bestaat er een tweedimensionaal oppervlak dat we niet kunnen zien. Dit oppervlak bevat alle informatie die nodig is om een driedimensionaal object te beschrijven, in dit geval ons universum.

Gegevens die de beschrijving van een 3D-object bevatten, zoals het apparaat waarmee je dit artikel leest, kunnen verborgen liggen in een gebied in deze platte, ‘echte’ versie van het heelal. Maldacena kwam tot deze conclusie toen hij ontdekte dat er voor wiskundige beschrijvingen van het universum één minder dimensie nodig was dan je zou verwachten.

Tot nu toe werd dit principe alleen nog maar getest in anti-de-sitter-ruimtes (ADS), een ruimtetijd-continuüm dat negatief is gekromd. Het probleem is dat ze erg verschillen van de ruimtes in ons eigen heelal.

Wetenschappers van de Technische Universiteit Wenen hebben nu ontdekt dat het holografische principe ook stand houdt in een vlakke ruimtetijd. Hoewel dit nog niet bewijst dat we in een hologram leven, wijst het onderzoek wel steeds meer in die richting. De studie is gepubliceerd in Physical Review Letters.

[Technische Universität Wien]

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28-04-2015 om 16:52 geschreven door peter  

“NASA kiekt geheime legerbunker op Mars”

Een man uit Canada beweert op een NASA-foto van Mars een bunker met soldaten te hebben ontdekt. Voormalig journalist Andre Gignac stuitte aan de rand van de Endeavour-krater op de rode planeet op een ‘donkere vlek’.

“Ik stond verteld,” vertelde de 58-jarige Gignac aan Cryptozoology News. “In de krater is een enorm raam aangebracht. Achter het raam kun je een persoon zien staan.”

Hij claimt dat de ‘bunker’ mogelijk in verbinding staat met een nog grotere bunker. “Niet ver van de bunker staan raketten en structuren opgesteld in een cirkel,” zei Gignac.

De ‘bunker’ op Mars

“Er zijn al vaker bunkers gespot op NASA-foto’s,” zei schrijver Nigel Watson “In sommige gevallen zijn het schaduwen of is de resolutie te laag waardoor details verdwijnen. Er zijn ook mensen die beweren dat op foto’s van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA bunkers staan. Volgens wetenschappers waren dat natuurlijke formaties.”

“Het is natuurlijk een fascinerend idee: mensen die in het geheim onder het Marsoppervlak leven en onderdeel zijn van een geheim ruimtevaartprogramma,” aldus Watson. “Een dergelijk project zou ongelooflijk veel geld kosten en lastig te verbergen zijn, maar toch denken velen dat dit gebeurt, in samenwerking met één of meerdere buitenaardse soorten.”

[MailOnline]

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28-04-2015 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

Mysterieuze lichten op Ceres: ijsvulkanen of deuren van een buitenaards ruimtestation?

Ruim een maand nadat ruimtesonde Dawn lichtgevende stippen op dwergplaneet Ceres vastlegde, breken wetenschappers nog steeds hun hoofd over het mysterieuze verschijnsel. Sommige wetenschappers denken dat het mogelijk vulkanische ijsuitbarstingen zijn.

In plaats van magma, komt er dan water, ammonia en methaan uit de krater. Wetenschappers van NASA vermoeden dat er ook oceanen voorkomen op de dwergplaneet. Het hemellichaam ligt in de planetoïdengordel, de regio tussen Mars en Jupiter.

Death Star

Volgens UFO-spotters zijn de lichten gemaakt door aliens. Op veel verschillende internetfora wordt beweerd dat Ceres een reusachtig buitenaards ruimtestation is dat – net als de Death Star in Star Wars – is vermomd als planeet.

“Het licht is wit van kleur, zoals stadsverlichting, niet oranje of rood zoals een vulkaan,” zei één UFO-spotter. “Er zijn twee lichten te zien. De grootste stip is vierkant van vorm, de kleinere driehoekig. Denk je nog steeds dat het een vulkaan is?”

“Ceres is het grootste object in de planetoïdengordel en heeft een doorsnee van slechts 950 kilometer,” klinkt het nog. “Dit zijn enorme deuren waar schepen doorheen gaan. Ik zeg dat Ceres is veranderd in een buitenaards ruimtestation. Het oppervlak is bedekt met een laag stof dat het station beschermt tegen aanvallen, meteorieten en straling. Doet denken aan de Death Star.”

Een andere UFO-spotter: “Deze twee stippen hebben geen natuurlijke oorsprong. Wat is de kans op een dubbele uitbarsting in een gigantisch kraterbekken? Wellicht gaat het om een kleine buitenaardse mijnbouwbasis. We zullen het in december gaan zien, tenzij Dawn voor die tijd wordt neergeschoten door de aliens.”

Nog te vroeg

Anderen zijn voorzichtiger. Eén iemand zei dat het kan gaan om licht dat wordt gereflecteerd door vloeibaar kwik aan het oppervlak. De meest recente foto’s van de lichten op Ceres dateren van 14 en 15 april. Dawn draait sinds maart in een baan om de dwergplaneet.

NASA hoopt de stippen vanaf volgende week vanaf een afstand van 21.600 kilometer te kunnen bekijken. Op 9 mei zal de ruimtesonde nog dichter in de buurt van Ceres komen. Dawn-hoofdonderzoeker Chris Russell zegt dat het nog te vroeg is om een verklaring te kunnen geven voor de lichten.

[Express]

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28-04-2015 om 16:26 geschreven door peter  

Wederom buitenaards bezoek ISS Ruimtestation ( video )

Het is even stil geweest met betrekking tot UFO’s die zich vertonen bij het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS.

Meestal duurt het echter nooit erg lang voordat de volgende zich alweer vertoont.

De man die verreweg de meeste UFO’s weet te “vangen” bij het ISS ruimtestation is Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1.

Zo ook in dit geval, waarbij hij via de camera’s van NASA de volgende UFO waarnam:

De opname werd gemaakt op 22 april toen Streetcap1 in de verte een kleine metalen schijf ontdekte.

Het lijkt alsof het object zich met niet al te grote snelheid door de lucht begeeft, maar dat is misleidend omdat het schijnt dat de UFO zijn snelheid heeft aangepast aan die van het ISS. 

Als je bedenkt dat deze met een snelheid van 26.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte schiet dan krijg je ook een aardig idee van de snelheid van de UFO.

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28-04-2015 om 16:21 geschreven door peter  

Amerikaanse stad Bakersfield alweer in ban van UFO's ( Video )

Er zijn plekken op aarde waar meer UFO’s voorkomen dan op andere.

De Amerikaanse stad Bakersfield in Californië is één van die lokaties.

Update: 27 april 2015:

Het blijft feest in de Amerikaanse stad Bakersfield in Californië.

Zoals in het originele artikel staat, worden er al jarenlang UFO’s waargenomen boven deze stad.

Ook dit jaar gaat het onverminderd door en de volgende opname is gemaakt op dinsdag 14 april 2015 rond zes uur ’s morgens.

De video is gemaakt door Alex Viveros die het heeft opgestuurd naar het lokale televisiestation 23ABC.

Hij vertelde daarbij dat het fel verlichte object in de video zich langzaam door de lucht beweegt en op bepaalde punten blijft hangen alsof het wat wil onderzoeken. De felheid van het object neemt dan weer toe en wordt vervolgens weer minder.



Waar de getuige het heeft over één UFO, lijkt het eerder dat we hier, net zoals bij de Calbuco vulkaan in Chili, te maken hebben met twee afzonderlijke in een soort formatie.

Origineel artikel: 10 april 2015

We hebben al eerder geschreven over deze stad in Californië, waar men begin december 2012 in rep en roer was omdat er vreemde lichten in de lucht hingen. Toen was men nog volop in een "het einde van de wereld" stemming, maar gelukkig is dat niet gebeurd.

Ook de jaren daarna werden er regelmatig vreemde lichten gesignaleerd boven Bakersfield en ook nu is het weer raak.

Het mooie van de waarnemingen daar is dat ze door talloze getuigen worden waargenomen.

Dat is ook het geval met het vreemde blauwe licht wat merkwaardig genoeg werd waargenomen op de veertiende februari en precies een maand later op veertien maart nog een keer.

Getuigen verklaren dat ze meer dan twintig jaar in de wijk hebben gewoond waar het licht zichtbaar was en nog nooit zoiets hebben gezien. 



Dat er een vreemd blauwe UFO zich heeft opgehouden boven Bakersfield is duidelijk. 

Ook de lokale televisiezender heeft er de nodige aandacht aan besteed. En al die reportages van de mainstream televisie volgen onveranderlijk hetzelfde patroon. 

Eerst laten ze getuigen aan het woord en laten eventueel beeldmateriaal zien en dan worden er de “experts” bijgehaald.

Experts die altijd één ding gemeen hebben en wel dat ze volledig uit hun nek lopen te kletsen. Maargoed, dat schijnt nu eenmaal de norm te zijn in mainstream-land.

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28-04-2015 om 16:17 geschreven door peter  

UFO Stories Fill NYC As Terrified Earthlings Call 911

Some Hunts Points residents called authorities to report the possible arrival of aliens from outer space. Residents spotted what they described as the flying spaceship moving quickly over East 149^th Street and the Bruckner Expressway. Many witnesses called 911 including one terrified woman, according to an FDNY source.

Juan Marrero believes he too had a close encounter. Fifty-seven-year-old pigeon fancier, Marrero, said that he saw fireballs moving at a fast speed from the roof of his building at 11:30 pm. He mainly saw two bright lights streaking across the horizon. He described the quick movement as too fast for airplanes.

Andres Morales, 25, also claimed to have a close encounter. Like Marrero, he also saw the super-fast orb. He was too excited to take photos of it that he stuck his hand out the car window and snapped like crazy. He didn’t know what it was, but he saw it moving crazy fast.

It’s not the first time locals have claimed extraterrestrial visitors have come down to check the neighborhood. In the same area, unusual lights were spotted last year and in 2011, according to UFO journalist Ryan Sprague.

Sprague strongly believes that we’re dealing with strange activities that could potentially be nonhuman.

While Sprague admitted that misidentifications were also possibilities in East 149^th Street because of the presence of La Guardia Airport nearby, he said that witnesses should not be discounted.

Those witnesses on Saturday and last May have described the same light that just hovered before shot off in just a matter of second, Sprague said.

The maneuvers of these objects, according to Sprague, appear to be not fitting with any current technology that people know.

Spraque explained that they’re not moving and then darting off at hard-to-believe speeds. He said that no human could survive at those speeds.

But why aliens like to visit The Bronx? One resident says that these aliens might want to learn how to break dance.

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28-04-2015 om 16:11 geschreven door peter  

Proof We Are Not Alone with Stanton Friedman & Kathleen Marden

Brent Holland’s Night Fright Show with Stanton Friedman and Kathleen marden together. The possible connection between alien abductions and demonic experiences, latest on the MJ-12 documents, answer to the question why we are NOT alone on this planet, Betty and Barney Hill abduction and many more.

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28-04-2015 om 16:09 geschreven door peter  

Unknown lights over Aliso Viejo, California – August 2014

Here’s one older footage that was just submitted to MUFON. This one was filmed over Aliso Viejo in California on 25th August 2014.

Witness report: Notice objects glowing in the distance when getting off exit in Aliso Viejo. Three bright lights appeared stationary and in triangle formation. Pulsing. Eventually two disappeared, but the third remained in the sky for a long time in excess of 20 minutes. I have pictures and video of event from the balcony of my house. Heard lots of helicopters in area too. The last picture is taken from thru the windshield of my car and shows the difference compared to a traffic light.

Author (source: mufon)

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28-04-2015 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

Top U.S. Astronomers Tell Congress That Extraterrestrial Life Exists Without Question

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

Wormhole Entanglement and the Firewall Paradox

April 27, 2015 - One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity, physicists are still stuck with perhaps the biggest incompatibility problem in the universe. The smoothly warped space-time landscape that Einstein described is like a painting by Salvador Dalí — seamless, unbroken, geometric. But the quantum particles that occupy this space are more like something from Georges Seurat: pointillist, discrete, described by probabilities. At their core, the two descriptions contradict each other. Yet a bold new strain of thinking suggests that quantum correlations between specks of impressionist paint actually create not just Dalí’s landscape, but the canvases that both sit on, as well as the three-dimensional space around them. And Einstein, as he so often does, sits right in the center of it all, still turning things upside-down from beyond the grave.

Like initials carved in a tree, ER = EPR, as the new idea is known, is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. One involved the paradox implied by what he called “spooky action at a distance” between quantum particles (the EPR paradox, named for its authors, Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen). The other showed how two black holes could be connected through far reaches of space through “wormholes” (ER, for Einstein-Rosen bridges). At the time that Einstein put forth these ideas — and for most of the eight decades since — they were thought to be entirely unrelated.

The New York Times

When Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published their seminal paper pointing out puzzling features of what we now call entanglement, The New York Times treated it as front-page news.

But if ER = EPR is correct, the ideas aren’t disconnected — they’re two manifestations of the same thing. And this underlying connectedness would form the foundation of all space-time. Quantum entanglement — the action at a distance that so troubled Einstein — could be creating the “spatial connectivity” that “sews space together,” according to Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University and one of the idea’s main architects. Without these connections, all of space would “atomize,” according to Juan Maldacena, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who developed the idea together with Susskind. “In other words, the solid and reliable structure of space-time is due to the ghostly features of entanglement,” he said. What’s more, ER = EPR has the potential to address how gravity fits together with quantum mechanics.

Not everyone’s buying it, of course (nor should they; the idea is in “its infancy,” said Susskind). Joe Polchinski, a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose own stunning paradox about firewalls in the throats of black holes triggered the latest advances, is cautious, but intrigued. “I don’t know where it’s going,” he said, “but it’s a fun time right now.”

The Black Hole Wars

The road that led to ER = EPR is a Möbius strip of tangled twists and turns that folds back on itself, like a drawing by M.C. Escher.

A fair place to start might be quantum entanglement. If two quantum particles are entangled, they become, in effect, two parts of a single unit. What happens to one entangled particle happens to the other, no matter how far apart they are.

Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study

Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Maldacena sometimes uses a pair of gloves as an analogy: If you come upon the right-handed glove, you instantaneously know the other is left-handed. There’s nothing spooky about that. But in the quantum version, both gloves are actually left- and right-handed (and everything in between) up until the moment you observe them. Spookier still, the left-handed glove doesn’t become left until you observe the right-handed one — at which moment both instantly gain a definite handedness.

Entanglement played a key role in Stephen Hawking’s 1974 discovery that black holes could evaporate. This, too, involved entangled pairs of particles. Throughout space, short-lived “virtual” particles of matter and anti-matter continually pop into and out of existence. Hawking realized that if one particle fell into a black hole and the other escaped, the hole would emit radiation, glowing like a dying ember. Given enough time, the hole would evaporate into nothing, raising the question of what happened to the information content of the stuff that fell into it.

But the rules of quantum mechanics forbid the complete destruction of information. (Hopelessly scrambling information is another story, which is why documents can be burned and hard drives smashed. There’s nothing in the laws of physics that prevents the information lost in a book’s smoke and ashes from being reconstructed, at least in principle.) So the question became: Would the information that originally went into the black hole just get scrambled? Or would it be truly lost? The arguments set off what Susskind called the “black hole wars,” which have generated enough stories to fill many books. (Susskind’s was subtitled “My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics.”)

Eventually Susskind — in a discovery that shocked even him — realized (with Gerard ’t Hooft) that all the information that fell down the hole was actually trapped on the black hole’s two-dimensional event horizon, the surface that marks the point of no return. The horizon encoded everything inside, like a hologram. It was as if the bits needed to re-create your house and everything in it could fit on the walls. The information wasn’t lost — it was scrambled and stored out of reach.

Susskind continued to work on the idea with Maldacena, whom Susskind calls “the master,” and others. Holography began to be used not just to understand black holes, but any region of space that can be described by its boundary. Over the past decade or so, the seemingly crazy idea that space is a kind of hologram has become rather humdrum, a tool of modern physics used in everything from cosmology to condensed matter. “One of the things that happen to scientific ideas is they often go from wild conjecture to reasonable conjecture to working tools,” Susskind said. “It’s gotten routine.”

Jeff Singer

Leonard Susskind at home in Palo Alto, Calif.

Holography was concerned with what happens on boundaries, including black hole horizons. That left open the question of what goes on in the interiors, said Susskind, and answers to that “were all over the map.” After all, since no information could ever escape from inside a black hole’s horizon, the laws of physics prevented scientists from ever directly testing what was going on inside.

Then in 2012 Polchinski, along with Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf and James Sully, all of them at the time at Santa Barbara, came up with an insight so startling it basically said to physicists: Hold everything. We know nothing.

The so-called AMPS paper (after its authors’ initials) presented a doozy of an entanglement paradox — one so stark it implied that black holes might not, in effect, even have insides, for a “firewall” just inside the horizon would fry anyone or anything attempting to find out its secrets.

Scaling the Firewall      

Here’s the heart of their argument: If a black hole’s event horizon is a smooth, seemingly ordinary place, as relativity predicts (the authors call this the “no drama” condition), the particles coming out of the black hole must be entangled with particles falling into the black hole. Yet for information not to be lost, the particles coming out of the black hole must also be entangled with particles that left long ago and are now scattered about in a fog of Hawking radiation. That’s one too many kinds of entanglements, the AMPS authors realized. One of them would have to go.

The reason is that entanglements have to be monogamous, existing between just two particles. Two entanglements at once — quantum polygamy — simply cannot happen, which suggests that the smooth, continuous space-time inside the throats of black holes can’t exist. A break in the entanglement at the horizon would imply a discontinuity in space, a pileup of energy: the “firewall.”

The AMPS paper became a “real trigger,” said Stephen Shenker, a physicist at Stanford, and “cast in sharp relief” just how much was not understood. Of course, physicists love such paradoxes, because they’re fertile ground for discovery.

Both Susskind and Maldacena got on it immediately. They’d been thinking about entanglement and wormholes, and both were inspired by the work of Mark Van Raamsdonk, a physicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who had conducted a pivotal thought experiment suggesting that entanglement and space-time are intimately related.

“Then one day,” said Susskind, “Juan sent me a very cryptic message that contained the equation ER = EPR. I instantly saw what he was getting at, and from there we went back and forth expanding the idea.”



Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine

The ER = EPR idea posits that entangled particles inside and outside of a black hole’s event horizon are connected via wormholes.

Their investigations, which they presented in a 2013 paper, “Cool Horizons for Entangled Black Holes,” argued for a kind of entanglement they said the AMPS authors had overlooked — the one that “hooks space together,” according to Susskind. AMPS assumed that the parts of space inside and outside of the event horizon were independent. But Susskind and Maldacena suggest that, in fact, particles on either side of the border could be connected by a wormhole. The ER = EPR entanglement could “kind of get around the apparent paradox,” said Van Raamsdonk. The paper contained a graphic that some refer to half-jokingly as the “octopus picture” — with multiple wormholes leading from the inside of a black hole to Hawking radiation on the outside.

In other words, there was no need for an entanglement that would create a kink in the smooth surface of the black hole’s throat. The particles still inside the hole would be directly connected to particles that left long ago. No need to pass through the horizon, no need to pass Go. The particles on the inside and the far-out ones could be considered one and the same, Maldacena explained — like me, myself and I. The complex “octopus” wormhole would link the interior of the black hole directly to particles in the long-departed cloud of Hawking radiation.

Holes in the Wormhole

No one is sure yet whether ER = EPR will solve the firewall problem. John Preskill, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, reminded readers of Quantum Frontiers, the blog for Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, that sometimes physicists rely on their “sense of smell” to sniff out which theories have promise. “At first whiff,” he wrote, “ER = EPR may smell fresh and sweet, but it will have to ripen on the shelf for a while.”

Whatever happens, the correspondence between entangled quantum particles and the geometry of smoothly warped space-time is a “big new insight,” said Shenker. It’s allowed him and his collaborator Douglas Stanford, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, to tackle complex problems in quantum chaos through what Shenker calls “simple geometry that even I can understand.”

To be sure, ER = EPR does not yet apply to just any kind of space, or any kind of entanglement. It takes a special type of entanglement and a special type of wormhole. “Lenny and Juan are completely aware of this,” said Marolf, who recently co-authored a paper describing wormholes with more than two ends. ER = EPR works in very specific situations, he said, but AMPS argues that the firewall presents a much broader challenge.

Like Polchinski and others, Marolf worries that ER = EPR modifies standard quantum mechanics. “A lot of people are really interested in the ER = EPR conjecture,” said Marolf. “But there’s a sense that no one but Lenny and Juan really understand what it is.” Still, “it’s an interesting time to be in the field.”

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28-04-2015 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

THE ANCIENT CITADEL OF TEOTIHUACAN, BUILT BY GIANTS THAT CAME FROM 'ABOVE'

April 27, 2015 - This gigantic citadel was home to over 200,000 people thousands of years ago. It is an ancient city unlike any other in the region. It was an ancient metropolis whose builders are unknown to history.

Interest in Teotihuacan has increased over the recent years. Most of the excavation works at Teotihuacan were performed by Mexican archaeologist Sergio Gómez with most important results coming from the work in the last six years. During this time, thousands of mysterious artifacts were uncovered, among them incredible sculptures, golden artifacts, jewelry and gigantic seashells.

Due to the difficult conditions that rule in the tunnels beneath the gigantic pyramids, excavation works have moved forward at slow speeds. Archaeologists use special equipment to avoid mercury poisoning due to the large amounts of the element discovered recently.

American archaeologist George Cowgill, who has spent over four decades excavating Teotihuacan believes that the discovery of Mercury will lead to the eventually discovery of the long-lost Tomb of the first ruler of the ancient citadel.

According to archaeologist Linda Manzanilla, at its peak, the ancient city of Teotihuacan was governed not by a single king, but by a council consisting of four men, Gomez hopes to find the remains of one of them.

Researchers have also discovered traces of Radon, a highly contaminant gas that has greatly complicated the excavations process.

Halfway through the tunnel, two chambers were discovered on the sides. These chambers are relatively small and mostly “empty”, but archaeologists have found over 300 metal spheres ranging from 2 to 25 centimeters in diameter. Researchers have no idea what these spheres represented in the past.

30 meters form the end of the tunnel, the trail descends steeply where three chambers are located. Their center is located exactly below the apex of the Pyramid. The entire ancient city of Teotihuacan extends over 23 square kilometers, researchers have excavated only 5 percent of the ancient citadel. During its peak, the ancient city was home to over 200,000 people from different ethnicities and cultures.

Ancient Teotihuacan had ties to the ancient city of Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras and many other ancient cities in the region. This points to the power of this ancient city thousands of years ago and provides a lot of information on how these ancient cities communicated, traded and lived.

Related: Ancient Giants Documented In Aztec Records

There are still numerous enigmas surrounding Teotihuacan as researchers have little knowledge of the government system of the city, the language that was spoken and their written languages which is still undeciphered. Researchers have no idea why the ancient city crumbled leading to the eventual abrupt abandonment of the site.

The three incredible pyramids of Teotihuacan; The Pyramid of the Sun, the Moon and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl were constructed at the main plaza of the city, these were the main landmarks of a city meticulously planned, obsessed with astronomical alignments.

Researchers expect to have more information by July, while discoveries are expected to be announced by the end of 2015.

Continue reading: Archaeologist Finds Liquid Mercury Underneath A Pyramid

Traces of Mercury have also been found in ancient monuments in Egypt and China. The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China is located on Mount Li, 30 kilometers east of the city of Xian. This mausoleum has 2.13 square kilometers and was built according to the urban plan of the city of Xianyang, former capital of the Qin Dynasty.

Divided into two parts, internal and external, it had the shape of a truncated pyramid with a base of 350 meters and a height of 76 meters. This ancient mausoleum remained forgotten and buried for about 2,000 years. The burial chamber has not been excavated yet, but according to researchers, it is located at the center of the underground palace of the mausoleum.

According to ancient texts, the tomb is located between a replica of China, a sea of mercury and the dome of the camera which has many artifacts, including jewelry and paintings that simulate the stars.

Traces of Mercury have been found in many monuments of Africa, America and Asia. Researchers hope to understand the exact purpose of this element and why it was incorporated in the most important temples built by ancient civilizations.

28-04-2015 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

500,000 Year Old Engraving On A Fossilised Mollusc Shell Rewrites Human History

April 27, 2015 - Anthropologists said they had found the earliest engraving in human history on a fossilised mollusc shell some 500,000 years old, unearthed in colonial-era Indonesia.

The zigzag scratching, together with evidence that these shells were used as a tool, should prompt a rethink about the mysterious early human called Homo erectus, they said.

The discovery comes through new scrutiny of 166 freshwater mussel shells found at Trinil, on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in East Java, where one of the most sensational finds in fossil-hunting was made.

It was here in 1891 that an adventurous Dutch palaeontologist, Eugene Dubois, found "Java Man."



With a couple of army sergeants and convict labour to do the digging, Dubois excavated part of a heavy-browed skull, a tooth and a thigh bone.

He interpreted these as being the remains of a gibbon-like hominid that was the long-sought "missing link" between apes and humans.

Dubois' claim excited fierce controversy, as well as jokey images of our distant ancestors as slack-jawed primates with dragging knuckles.

Palaeontologists eventually categorised the find as a Homo erectus, or "upright human"—a hominid that according to sketchy and hugely debated fossil evidence lived from around 1.9 million years ago to about 150,000 years ago.

Reporting in the science journal Nature, a team led by Josephine Joordens at Leiden University in the Netherlands, harnessed 21st-century technology to take a new look at the Trinil shells, now housed in a local collection.

Carbon dating of sediment found in the shells put their age at between 430,000 and 540,000 years ago.

A third of the shells were also found to have a curious hole at the base of one of the bivalve's muscles.

Sharp-toothed animals such as otters, rats or monkeys may have bitten into it to get at the flesh—but a likelier source, said the experts, is H. erectus, which tucked into the shells for food.

The team carried out experiments on living mussels of the same mollusc family, Pseudodon, piercing the shell at the same location with a pointed object.

As soon as the shell was broached, the muscle was damaged by the tool tip and the mollusc could be easily opened without breakage.

The scientists then deployed a scanning electron microscope to get a closer look at the shells.

One of them was found to have a polished and smooth edge, suggesting it may have been used as a tool to cut or scrape.

Another had a zigzag set of grooves incised into it, by a sharp implement such as a shark's tooth.

The marks are at least 300,000 years older than the earliest previously known, indisputable engravings.

"The simple zigzag on the shell is the earliest engraving known thus far in the history of humankind," Joordens' colleague, Wil Roebroeks, told AFP in an email.

"But: we have no clue why somebody made it half a million years ago, and we explicitly refrain from speculating on it" in terms of art or symbolism, he said.

Francesco d'Errico of Bordeaux University in southwestern France said the engraving was "the oldest known graphic expression."

"The behaviour is deliberate. The individual had the desire to make a zigzag pattern in a single go," he said.

But d'Errico cautioned, "We don't know why he did it. It may have been a mark of ownership, a personal code, a gift."

Geometric marks are considered to be a sign of cognitive behaviour and neuromotor skills that—until now—have been overwhelmingly attributed to modern man, Homo sapiens.

Put together, the new evidence delivers a blow to the stereotype of H. erectus as lumbering, heavy-handed and stupid.

He was smart enough to feed himself efficiently from mussels, dextrous enough to use slim, smooth shells as tools and brainy enough to engrave an abstract pattern on one of them.

A "richer" image of this enigmatic hominid results, Roebroeks said.

"We knew that H. erectus made nice handaxes etcetera," he said.

"Now we have this evidence for sophisticated opening of shells and a small zigzag, it might create a more subtle picture."

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28-04-2015 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

Mars OXygen In Situ: New Device To 'Brew' Oxygen on Mars

April 27, 2015 - Six years from now a machine that makes oxygen will be in operation on Mars.

The small oxygen device will be sent to the Red Planet with the NASA Mars 2020 mission.

"We're going to build a small instrument that will generate oxygen on Mars. It will be the prototype of a much larger 'factory' that will provide astronauts with oxygen at some point in the future," says Morten Bo Madsen, the head of the Mars group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

The project is known at NASA as MOXIE (Mars OXygen In Situ resource utilisation Experiment).  Madsen's research group was selected by NASA to participate in the project alongside senior researcher Christopher Graves from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

How to brew oxygen on Mars

There is practically no oxygen in Mars's atmosphere, but the MOXIE device will “brew” oxygen from carbon dioxide (CO2), which there is plenty of in the planet’s atmosphere.

The illustration shows the construction of the MOXIE instrument. If all goes according to the plan, MOXIE will be brewing oxygen on Mars six years from now. (Illustration: NASA)

A carbon dioxide molecule consists of a carbon atom (C) and two oxygen atoms (O2), and it will be the job of the MOXIE apparatus to split the carbon dioxide molecules apart.

The splitting process requires energy, but the end result will be oxygen molecules and a by-product in the form of carbon monoxide (CO).

"MOXIE works like a sort of fuel cell in reverse. A fuel cell produces energy by melting together hydrogen and oxygen to produce water. Instead, we'll be using energy to remove an oxygen atom from CO2," says Madsen.

He explains that MOXIE will get its energy from a Radio Thermal Generator (RTG) which generates electricity from heat developed in radioactive plutonium.

Will provide oxygen people on Mars

Around 96 per cent of the Martian atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide so there is plenty of raw material for oxygen production.

The MOXIE instrument will sit aboard the unmanned vehicle. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen are also involved in building one of the other instruments on board the vehicle, the so-called Mastcam-Z. (Illustration: NASA)

NASA spokespersons have stated that MOXIE is only the beginning of oxygen production on Mars.

"Having the ability to produce oxygen on the surface of Mars is a great step forward when it comes to mankind's future exploration of Mars," said Michael Meyer, a leading scientist at NASA's Mars Exploration Program, to Space.com.

The plan is to build an entire oxygen factory on the red planet which will be about 100 times the size of the first MOXIE prototype which is to be launched from Earth with the Mars 2020 mission.

The prototype oxygen factory will have to be ready when NASA sends the first humans to Mars at some time in the 2030s.

Vehicle will collect samples on Mars

The idea behind the Mars 2020 mission is to send an autonomous rover to Mars and have it drive around collecting samples from a planet -- much like Curiosity is doing right now.

Time line: Oxygen production on Mars

2018: Construction of the MOXIE instrument is complete and it is ready to be tested and calibrated on Earth.

2020: The oxygen machine MOXIE will be launched with the Mars 2020 mission.

2021: MOXIE will begin generating oxygen on Mars to test whether the technology works

Approximately 2030: If all goes well, an oxygen “factory” about 100 times the size of the first MOXIE instrument will be sent to Mars. Here, the factory will start generating oxygen to fill storage tanks ready for the arrival of humans on the planet.

Approximately 2035-36: NASA will (perhaps) send people to Mars. They will be able to breathe using the stored oxygen, as well as using it as an oxidant for the combustion of fuel for the journey home.

"In comparison to Curiosity, what is new about the Mars 2020 mission is that it will gather selected samples which can be encapsulated and then returned to Earth at a later date," says Madsen.

His contribution to MOXIE instrument is, among other things, developing a method whereby the instrument can “harvest” carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere without the fine electrical circuits being wrecked by dust.

The Mars group at the University of Copenhagen has also been selected to contribute to the development of another instrument for the Mars 2020 mission, known as Mastcam Z.

It is a special camera which, fitted to a mast on the vehicle be able to see way out in the terrain as well as to zoom in and take close-ups.

The Mars 2020 rover will be launched in July or August 2020. The journey to Mars will take 7 to 9 months.

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28-04-2015 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

Easter Island 'hats' were rolled in to place

Some of the statues boasted distinct red headgear. Image Credit: CC BY 2.5 Honey Hooper

The huge stone headpieces worn by the statues on Easter Island were probably placed using ramps.

There are still many aspects of the enigmatic Easter Island statues that are not yet fully understood, in particular how the ancient people of the island managed to carve, move and position the massive stone figures using only primitive tools and techniques.

Now however the secret behind one aspect of their construction might have finally been solved thanks to researchers who presented their latest findings at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology earlier this month.

What they found was that the large red 'hats' worn by around 100 of the statues would have most likely been placed on top of the stones by rolling them up ramps. This technique would have been remarkably effective and might have only required a small group of workers to achieve.

Evidence pointing to this idea was found in the form of ring-shaped indentations and vertical scratches on the edges of the headgear that would have helped to provide traction.

A small lip at the base of the stones also likely helped prevent them from tipping over.

Archaeologists now believe that these 'hats' were most likely a representation of hair on the statues and that their vivid red color probably held ritualistic significance for the islanders.       

Source: Yahoo! News

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28-04-2015 om 00:30 geschreven door peter  

Liquid mercury found under Mexican pyramid

Many mysteries surround Teotihuacan. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Carlitos Alonso Caballero Vallejo

Significant quantities of the metal have been found inside the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent.

Discovered by Mexican researcher Sergio Gómez, the mercury was found within a chamber inside one of the pyramids of Teotihuacan, the world famous pre-Columbian ruins located in Central Mexico.

For years Gómez and his team had been working their way down through the bowels of the pyramid after its tunnels were unsealed in 2003. Dating back over 1,800 years, the ancient structure could still contain an undiscovered king’s tomb or ritual chamber that would help shed some light on how the ancient city was ruled.

Last year the team uncovered three chambers located 60ft below the pyramid and now with the discovery of liquid mercury they are hoping that a significant discovery could be close at hand.

While this dangerous metal would have had no practical application for the ancient Mesoamericans its reflective properties may have seen it used for symbolic or ritualistic purposes.

"Mirrors were considered a way to look into the supernatural world, they were a way to divine what might happen in the future," said Prof Annabeth Headreck of the University of Denver.

In this case the mercury may have represented an underworld river - a gateway to the afterlife.

If these indications of a burial chamber prove correct then it might not be long before Gómez and his team locate the ultimate prize buried deep down within the ancient tunnels of the pyramid

Source: The Guardian

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28-04-2015 om 00:25 geschreven door peter  

UFO buzzes NYC

By Tom Wilson and Kathianne Boniello

28-04-2015 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

UFO? Meteor? Fireball shoots over UK skies

Stargazers spotted a large, bright light in the skies over the UK last night.  Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

A ‘huge fireball’ was seen in the skies above England last night.

The sighting was one of many of a mystery object in the skies above the UK last night.

The fireball was also reportedly seen by people in Ireland and Scotland.

So far there has been no confirmation as to what the object was, but the most likely causes would be a meteor or piece of space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

Did you witness the fireball over the North East last night? Use our Comments section below to report what you saw.

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28-04-2015 om 00:08 geschreven door peter  

.It Fell from the Skies: The Shag Harbor UFO Crash

27-04-2015 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

NASA: "There Might Be Civilizations Existing in Cold Dark Space Beyond Galaxies" (Weekend Feature)

“There might be people living out there, out in the middle of cold dark space, that don't have a Milky Way,” says Harvey Moseley, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Astronomers have spotted a faint cosmic glow, unseen until now, that may come from stars that float adrift between galaxies. The discovery suggests that as many as half of all stars in the universe lurk outside galactic boundaries.

26-04-2015 om 23:18 geschreven door peter