The Very Serious Business of Figuring Out How Earth Will Handle First Contact with Aliens

A scene from 'The Visit.'

If aliens landed in Central Park tomorrow, how would humankind respond? Would we point every tank and gun squarely on the spacecraft? Or would we offer a more neighborly greeting? What questions would we ask these extraterrestrials? And what would we tell them about us?

The Visit, a documentary by Danish director Michael Madsen, presents a hypothetical scenario: Aliens have arrived on earth and we know nothing of their intentions, only that they are here. Madsen asks experts from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (this is a real office that exists at the UN), and other scientists, ethicists, government officials, and public relations personnel to explain how they would respond to this event. The result is a step-by-step guide for dealing with humanity's first-ever encounter with intelligent life from space.

I recently spoke with Madsen about getting scientists to agree to play pretend, what discovering intelligent life would really mean for humankind, and about choosing the ideal spokesperson for humanity.

VICE: I guess the first thing to ask is why? Why did you want to make a movie about how humankind would respond to an alien invasion?
Michael Madsen: I think that the greatest event for mankind to ever experience would be extraterrestrial life—to meet life from elsewhere. I think that would question everything that we hold to be true about ourselves and our particular place in the universe. In that respect, I think this is a unique scenario by which to explore something about human understanding and human self-perception and also, of course, ideally create a kind of a mirror. That's what I've been trying to do with The Visit.

So what sorts of questions did you want the audience to ask themselves while watching this? What were you hoping to achieve with the film?
I'm interested in having the audience be the main character in the film in a way. By that I mean that I'm interested in putting the audience in the shoes of an alien—if they are wearing shoes, that is.

I'm interested in using this outside perspective of a creature coming from elsewhere, outside of human understanding, outside of human self-evidence about everything in this world that we inhabit. I assume that a kind of a task force would be formed in such an event—what sort of things would they be asking about? What would they be explaining about human beings? What's important to understand about human beings? These are the things that I'm interested in. You can also say that I'm trying to create a kind of philosophical launch within the audience, in terms of these questions.

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Let's talk a little about the scenario itself. The UN doesn't actually have a plan, but the film features various experts who give their opinions on how they'd respond to an invasion. Can you explain how the scenario in The Visit was formulated? How did you choose which experts to speak to and also which steps to include in this scenario?
I think that the scenario in The Visit can only be understood as an ideal scenario. By that I mean things would not unfold as depicted in The Visit—although I think that the military aspects, or the concerns, and the perhaps calls for action, I think they are very close to what would most likely happen. And, of course, the film is made without a script, because I wanted all the individual experts to just respond as they would actually do if they were in this situation.

I didn't want to create a scenario that they would have to adhere to—it's all based on how they have chosen to react. But it's an ideal scenario in the sense that these are experts—as far as you can be an expert in this field. And some of them have also been thinking a lot about such an eventuality. But who knows if somebody comes, and they land in a field and address the cows in the field, not the farmer.

Let's say the first contact is performed with children, for example. It might be better, I don't know, but it would be a completely different scenario in terms of the mechanisms in it. But I do believe that the question about what's a human being, I think that question would come into play in any encounter you can envision. Because we would come into play ourselves.

But it's an ideal scenario. This was the only way I could think of in which I, to some extent, could bring some kind of authenticity into this speculation. By means of using people in real decision-making positions and also, for example, positions within a government—in this case the UK government—people who had knowledge of a kind that would have to be used, for example, in terms of how to address the public and so on.

Was it difficult getting experts to agree to the film? I'd imagine that some might be worried about how this might be perceived.
I think this was a concern from all of the experts. I really understand it very well because they are, of course, putting their professional reputation on the line. There is no empirical evidence, so you are taking a risk as a scientist. But this is also why I first approached the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to accept to be in the film. After they agreed to this—and that took about a year with different meetings—after this, I could tell this to the other experts that I approached. Plus, I said that I would hope you would find the time to look at my previous film, Into Eternity, and you will see how I work and that will address some of your concerns. This is not a UFO film, it's not a sensation film or a conspiracy or anything like that. I'm genuinely interested in some of these philosophical and existential questions that such an encounter would [bring forth] and also, as I said earlier, this is a mirror. It's not a film about aliens. It is ultimately a film about ourselves. And this is what [the experts] understood.

But it was also, I think, for some of these persons—I mean, some of them told me, "This is the best interview I've ever given," and I think it's because they were, by this conceptual device of talking to the camera as if it was a visitor from elsewhere, somehow freed.

They got to indulge their imaginations.
Yes. They really dived into it.

How much of this scenario, or how we mentally prepare for this kind of event, do you think is informed by popular culture?
I think it's soaked in popular culture and popular imagination. And I think that is potentially disastrous. This is my opinion, although I share it, but it's another anthropologist who's been suggesting that because films, literature, and so on [have been] dealing with invasions and hostile invasions [for the past 100 years]—beginning with, of course, War of the Worlds—that would inadvertently mean that we would respond ourselves in a defensive, therefore also a hostile, way. That we would most likely not be able to perceive even a friendly gesture.

And the question is—this is something that I was very interested in exploring with the experts—to which extent are we able to perceive something that is not like ourselves? How can we see something that is fundamentally different? And this is also of course what is being discussed in terms of lifeforms and so on. But how do we actually detect life that's not like life on earth? With it comes other minds, other feelings, other emotions, other types of memory, other perceptual faculties, it's just exponentially more difficult. But, of course, there is also something infinitely wondrous about this. What if somebody comes here and has a completely different experience of reality and we could learn something from that and could of course expand our own world?

Then we aren't talking about fearful scenarios and so on anymore. But as we know from earth, people who think differently to oneself, can sometimes be very difficult to understand or just embrace.

It was interesting because you have some experts who are saying we might not even be able to detect that alien life is among us, and then you have others who make the very human assumption that, as humans, the most intelligent life form on our planet, we will be able to experience this event or to connect with these other beings.
This, of course, is something that's very contested philosophically, but it's a part of modern human self-understanding to have this idea that ultimately we can gain access to everything. I would say that this can also leave humans very lonely in a very, in my mind, cold place where everything is understood—where no mystery is left. This fear that is also in the film, this loss of control that I think would be a result of such an encounter. I think it's very interesting, because we understand ourselves not only in the center of the universe, but also in the center of control. We think we understand and master reality, and I think that just the presence of something else would tell us that we don't do that. For a modern human being, for a time that hails individualism and all those things, that would be very, very frightening.

If there's one thing the film can say definitively it's that we don't really have a clue what we'd be facing in the event of an alien invasion. So what is the point of a plan even? Would it just be a way for us to feel in control?
Yes, it's true that the military and the press begin to talk about this being interpreted as an invasion, but it's never clear in the film, it's just something turns up. But I think that the most difficult thing to prepare for is, of course, the event where you don't know exactly what it is, but where you sort of say, "Open your mind to what can this be for me."

I think what drives humans into space, and has already—we have skimmed the surface in a way. We have gone short distances in reality—but what drives us out there and what drove us across oceans and so on is curiosity. This might also help us in such an encounter. I think we should perhaps think about [the possibility] that other intelligent life might also be curious. They might also just cross space to see if there is life. They may also be scared shitless if they come here and meet us.

But hopefully there will be fascination, too. Perhaps that can be the common ground. I don't know, but that could be a hope.

The line that really stuck out for me was when one of the experts says that mankind would be plunged into despair if aliens do show up and then they leave.
I think this is connected to something deeply human and perhaps the whole thing why we do look to the stars and ponder if there is life out there. Because there is a very interesting longing toward space and what's out there. I think it has to do with this hope or idea or longing towards being seen by something other. By being seen, also by something superior, you actually gain existence, because you're recognized as something.

I think if somebody came here and left again without a word, more or less, without any [idea of] why they [came] and so on, I think, yes, that would plunge us into a collective depression, because we would get the idea that we were nothing. We weren't worth wasting more time on. It was just like they just stopped by on the road and there was nothing to see and then they just drove on in a way. That would give us a kind of inferiority complex, which we might already have.

At a recent panel discussion, a chief scientist at NASA said that we'll have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years. But she emphasized that this evidence wouldn't be "little green men," but rather microbes. That would be a huge step toward finding life as we know it, but still, I feel that if that's all we found, it would really disappoint a lot of people.
In my mind, its a strange statement to make, because why talk about it not being "little green men"? Yes, yes, yes, I agree. You might find fossilized bacteria and so on or similar things on Mars and so on. But I think the reason why the talk is only about bacteria is also very much more difficult to understand and to decide what to do if higher lifeforms were encountered. Not to mention, of course, lifeforms with life like us, because then it's a whole different ethical and moral question.

Can we land on this planet? Let's say we could do that. Can we interfere, can we contaminate, potentially, this world? So, it's much, much more difficult moral and ethical questions. Questions that have nothing to do with science alone, meaning that NASA perhaps cannot decide for themselves how to cut the cake, or whatever you say in English. So, much more difficult questions will come into play.

The film covers everything from how to best issue a statement to the public to if we should reveal humanity's worst traits to aliens. The question that caught me most off guard though was "Who should be humanity's spokesperson?" It's funny because movies have taught me that it's always the US president who handles space relations. But when Sir David Attenborough was suggested I just thought, Oh yes, of course. There are other possibilities! So lastly, who do you think would make a good spokesperson for humanity?
I think that in the present day world the only super-national entity is, of course, the United Nations. There is, of course,  the opinion that the UN is bogged down in bureaucracy, but it's the only thing we have. It's also, of course, very possible that if this were to happen, if these entities think like we do, then they will approach the strongest power on earth, which would currently be the US because they would think that they're the best ones to negotiate with. Because if we can agree with them then everyone else will also most likely agree. But, if they address the cows, of course, it's a different scenario. Perhaps if somebody comes it will be so value-changing that humans start to think in a different way. I don't know. If we know that astronauts who have been in space and have seen the Earth, they seem to have some shifts in their perception of values and so on.

But of course, most of these sci-fi scenarios are coming from Hollywood, and American self-understanding is to be superior, at least after the Second World War. But if you see Japanese films then perhaps its the Japanese military who takes care of things. So its also about perspectives.

The Visit plays at Hot Docs documentary film festival on April 29 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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30-04-2015 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

NASA --"Is It On the Verge of Discovering 'Warp Bubbles' Enabling Dreams of Interstellar Travel?"

“Routine travel among the stars is impossible without new discoveries regarding the fabric of space and time, or capability to manipulate it for our needs,” says Neil deGrasse Tyson, the "Cosmos famous" astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, said “By my read, the idea of a functioning warp drive remains far-fetched, but the real take-away is that people are thinking about it — reminding us all that the urge to explore continues to run deep in our species."

There have been hints in recent news that NASA may be on the path to discovering warp bubbles that could make the local universe accessible for human exploration. NASA scientists may be close announcing they may have broken the speed of light. According to state-of-the art theory, a warp drive could cut the travel time between stars from tens of thousands of years to weeks or months.

The catalyst for the trending warp-drive excitement is the Electromagnetic Drive or EM Drive, a thruster that was engineered to steer rockets which eliminates the use of a propellant originally intended for moon missions, Mars missions and low-Earth orbit (LEO) operations.

The experiment that led to the possibility of faster than light interstellar travel took place in the vacuum of space. According to posts on NASASpaceFlight.com, a website devoted to the engineering side of space news, when lasers were fired through the EmDrive’s resonance chamber, some of the beams appeared to travel faster than the speed of light. If that’s true, it would mean that the EmDrive is producing a warp field or bubble. 

But "How?" If the laser beams are moving faster than the speed of light, then it would indicate that they are creating some sort of warp field, or bubble in the space-time foam, which in turn produces the thrust that could, in theory, power a spaceship bound for the center of the Milky Way or one of its dwarf galaxy satellites.

The bubble would contract space-time in front of the ship, flow over the ship, then expand back to normality behind it. It’s inaccurate to describe the spaceship as moving faster than the speed of light, but rather space-time is moving around the ship faster than the speed of light.

Harold G. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at NASA and other NASA engineers are trying to determine whether faster-than-light travel — warp drive — might someday be possible. The team has attempting to slightly warp the trajectory of a photon, changing the distance it travels in a certain area, and then observing the change with a device called an interferometer.

“Space has been expanding since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago,” said Dr. White, 43, who runs the research project told the New York Times. “And we know that when you look at some of the cosmology models, there were early periods of the universe where there was explosive inflation, where two points would’ve went receding away from each other at very rapid speeds. Nature can do it,” he added. “So the question is, can we do it?”

In 1994, a Mexican physicist, Miguel Alcubierre, theorized that faster-than-light speeds were possible in a way that did not contradict Einstein by harnessing the expansion and contraction of space itself. Under Dr. Alcubierre’s hypothesis, a ship still couldn’t exceed light speed in a local region of space. But a theoretical propulsion system he sketched out manipulated space-time by generating a so-called “warp bubble” that would expand space on one side of a spacecraft and contract it on another.

An Alcubierre Warp Drive stretches spacetime in a wave causing the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. The ship can ride the wave to accelerate to high speeds and time travel. The Alcubierre drive, also known as the Alcubierre metric or Warp Drive, is a mathematical model of a spacetime exhibiting features reminiscent of the fictional "warp drive" from Star Trek, which can travel "faster than light/"

Alcubierre-warp-drive-manifold“In this way, the spaceship will be pushed away from the Earth and pulled towards a distant star by space-time itself,” Dr. Alcubierre wrote. Dr. White, the NYT reports, has likened it to stepping onto a moving walkway at an airport.

Alcubierre’s theory, however, depended on large amounts of a little understood or observed type of “exotic matter” that violates typical physical laws.

In general relativity, one often first specifies a plausible distribution of matter and energy, and then finds the geometry of the spacetime associated with it; but it is also possible to run the Einstein field equations in the other direction, first specifying a metric and then finding the energy-momentum tensor associated with it, and this is what Alcubierre did in building his metric. This practice means that the solution can violate various energy conditions and require exotic matter. The need for exotic matter leads to questions about whether it is actually possible to find a way to distribute the matter in an initial spacetime which lacks a "warp bubble" in such a way that the bubble will be created at a later time.

Yet another problem according to Serguei Krasnikov is that it would be impossible to generate the bubble without being able to force the exotic matter to move at locally FTL speeds, which would require the existence of tachyons. Some methods have been suggested which would avoid the problem of tachyonic motion, but would probably generate a naked singularity at the front of the bubble.

Dr. White believes that advances he and others have made render warp speed less implausible. Among other things, he has redesigned the theoretical warp-traveling spacecraft — and in particular a ring around it that is key to its propulsion system — in a way that he believes will greatly reduce the energy requirements. But ”We’re not bolting this to a spacecraft,” he said of the technology.

Richard Obousy, a physicist who is president of Icarus Interstellar, a nonprofit group composed of volunteers collaborating on starship design, said “it is not airy-fairy, pie in the sky. We tend to overestimate what we can do on short time scales, but I think we massively underestimate what we can do on longer time scales.”

Dr. White likened his experiments to the early stages of the WW 11 Manhattan Project, which were aimed at creating a very small nuclear reaction merely as proof that it could be done.

Still, one of the most dubious is Dr. Alcubierre himself. He listed a number of concerns, starting with the vast amounts of exotic matter that would be needed. “The warp drive on this ground alone is impossible,” he said. “At speeds larger than the speed of light, the front of the warp bubble cannot be reached by any signal from within the ship,” he said. “This does not just mean we can’t turn it off; it is much worse. It means we can’t even turn it on in the first place.”

The Daily Galaxy via New York Times and Dr. David Lewis Anderson/Anderson Institute

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30-04-2015 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

Early Urban Planning: Ancient Mayan City Built on Grid

In the course of excavating remains of the Mayan city, archaeologists uncovered a corridor containing shiny white plaster that originally would have covered the city.

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An ancient Mayan city followed a unique grid pattern, providing evidence of a powerful ruler, archaeologists working at Nixtun-Ch'ich' in Petén, Guatemala, have found.

The city, which contains flat-topped pyramids, was in use between roughly 600 B.C. and 300 B.C., a time when the first cities were being constructed in the area. No other city from the Maya world was planned using this grid design, researchers say. This city was "organized in a way we haven't seen in other places," said Timothy Pugh, a professor at Queens College in New York.

"It's a top-down organization," Pugh said. "Some sort of really, really, powerful ruler had to put this together."

The ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan also used a grid system. But that city is not considered to be Mayan, and so far archaeologists have found no connections between it and the one at Nixtun-Ch'ich', Pugh said. [In Photos: Mayan Art Discovered in Guatemala]

People living in the area have known of the Nixtun-Ch'ich' site for a long time. Pugh started research on it in 1995 and has been concentrating on Mayan remains that date to a much later time period,long after the early city was abandoned. However, in the process of studying these later remains, his team has been able to map the early city and even excavate a bit of it. 

Archaeologists have mapped an early Mayan city, revealing the city used a rigid grid system with the main ceremonial way aligned east to west.

credit: Image courtesy Timothy Pugh

Ceremonial route

From the mapping and excavations, Pugh can tell that the city's main ceremonial route runs in an east-west line only 3 degrees off of true east. "You get about 15 buildings in an exact straight line — that's the main ceremonial area," he said. These 15 buildings included flat-topped pyramids that would have risen up to almost 100 feet (30 meters) high. Visitors would have climbed a series of steps to reach the temple structure at the top of each of these pyramids.

At the end of the ceremonial way, on the eastern edge of the city, is a "triadic" structure or group, which consists of pyramids and buildings that were constructed facing each other on a platform. Structures like this triadic group (the name comes from the three main pyramids or buildings in the group), have been found in other early Mayan cities.

The residential areas of the city were built to the north and south of the ceremonial route and were also packed into the city's grid design, Pugh said.

From the excavations, archaeologists can tell that many of the city's structures were decorated with shiny white plaster. "It was probably a very shiny city," Pugh said.

The city's orientation, facing almost directly east, would have helped people follow the movements of the sun, something that may have been of importance to their religion.

A wall made of earth and stone also protectedthe city, suggesting defense was also a concern of these Mayans.

Were the people miserable?

While the city was a sight to behold, its people might not have been happy with it, Pugh said.

"Most Mayan cities are nicely spread out. They have roads just like this, but they're not gridded," said Pugh, noting that in other Mayan cities, "the space is more open and less controlled."

Cities in early Renaissance Europe that adopted rigid designs were often unpleasant places for their residents to live, Pugh said. It's "very possible" that the residents of this early Mayan city "didn't really enjoy living in such a controlled environment," Pugh said.

Preserving the city

Archaeologists said they are thankful to the cattle ranchers who own the land the site is on and are protecting it against looters, Pugh said.

This location is one of the few Mayan sites in the area that hasn't been looted, and that's because the ranchers are "really protective, and they don't want people messing with the Maya ruins," Pugh said.

Additionally, the ranchers use a type of quick-growing grass, which, in addition to helping feed cattle, also protects the site from erosion, helping preserve it.

Pugh's team presented their research recently at the Society for American Archaeology's Annual Meeting, in San Francisco.

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30-04-2015 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

Could 50 galaxies be hiding advanced alien life? Infrared emissions suggest beings are using stars for energy, study claims

• Pennsylvania scientists find evidence that we might not be alone
• They found 50 galaxies emitting unusually high levels of radiation
• This could be because aliens are harnessing the power of entire stars
• However, further research is needed to confirm that is the case 

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Pennsylvania scientists have found evidence that we may not be alone. They found 50 galaxies emitting unusually high levels of radiation. This could be because aliens are harnessing the power of  stars. However, further research is needed to confirm that is the case. Shown is Arp 220, one promising galaxy candidate

The study was led by Dr Jason Wright from the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University in Pennsylvania.

The Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies Survey (G-Hat), published in the Astrophysical Journal, details how the team thought they might see the infrared signature of a race far more advanced than ours.

The idea behind our research is that, if an entire galaxy had been colonised by an advanced spacefaring civilisation, the energy produced by that civilisation's technologies would be detectable in mid-infrared wavelengths,’ said Dr Wright.

The energy used by such a race to be noticeable would have to be huge - likely harnessing the power of a galaxy’s stars.

But Dr Wright said that ‘fundamental thermodynamics tells us that this energy must be radiated away as heat in the mid-infrared wavelengths’.

This would make them noticeable to Nasa's Wise telescope, used in the study.

The researchers picked out 100,000 galaxies of interest, and found that 50 of them were emitting ‘unusually high levels of mid-infrared radiation.’

‘Our follow-up studies of those galaxies may reveal if the origin of their radiation results from natural astronomical processes, or if it could indicate the presence of a highly advanced civilization,’ said Dr Wright

HOW COULD ALIENS HARNESS THE POWER OF ENTIRE STARS?                

A proposed method for harnessing the power of an entire star is known as a Dyson sphere (artist's impression shown). First proposed by theoretical physicist freeman Dyson in 1960, this would be a swarm of satellites that surrounds a star to gather its energy

The findings were made using Nasa’s orbiting Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise) telescope (artist's illustration shown). This telescope is perfect for detecting mid-infrared radiation that an advanced alien race might be emitting

However, talking to MailOnline, Dr Wright noted that the findings were not a sure-fire sign of alien life. The observations could simply be due to natural phenomena, such as dust and star formation.

He said, including the 50 galaxies, none of the 100,000 were found ‘with more than 85 per cent of their light being used by alien industry.’

However, it’s possible that some galaxies do harbour advanced alien life - but they are emitting less energy than we can currently detect.

‘The harder we look and the longer we work, the better our detection limit will be, and the less energy a galaxy-spanning civilization would need to use for us to discover it,’ he added.

Another possibility, of course, is that such civilisations simply don’t exist.

But Dr Wright and his colleagues will be hoping that is not the case - and they are continuing to study galaxies for signs that we are not alone. 

The Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies Survey (G-Hat), published in the Astrophysical Journal, details how the team thought they might see the infrared signature of a race far more advanced than ours. None have been confirmed yet - but the signs so far could be considered promising

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30-04-2015 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.

The images were captured in early to mid-April from within 70 million miles (113 million kilometers), using the telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera on New Horizons. A technique called image deconvolution sharpens the raw, unprocessed images beamed back to Earth. New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal the dwarf planet has broad surface markings – some bright, some dark – including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap.

“As we approach the Pluto system we are starting to see intriguing features such as a bright region near Pluto’s visible pole, starting the great scientific adventure to understand this enigmatic celestial object,” says John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “As we get closer, the excitement is building in our quest to unravel the mysteries of Pluto using data from New Horizons."

Also captured in the images is Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, rotating in its 6.4-day long orbit. The exposure times used to create this image set – a tenth of a second – were too short for the camera to detect Pluto’s four much smaller and fainter moons.

Since it was discovered in 1930, Pluto has remained an enigma. It orbits our sun more than 3 billion miles (about 5 billion kilometers) from Earth, and researchers have struggled to discern any details about its surface. These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto’s surface as it rotates.

“After traveling more than nine years through space, it’s stunning to see Pluto, literally a dot of light as seen from Earth, becoming a real place right before our eyes,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “These incredible images are the first in which we can begin to see detail on Pluto, and they are already showing us that Pluto has a complex surface.”

The images the spacecraft returns will dramatically improve as New Horizons speeds closer to its July rendezvous with Pluto.

“We can only imagine what surprises will be revealed when New Horizons passes approximately 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above Pluto’s surface this summer,” said Hal Weaver, the mission’s project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

APL designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. SwRI leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

To view images from New Horizons and learn more about the mission, visit:

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30-04-2015 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: What's 'Jade Helm 15'...Really? -- Humanity Won’t Survive Another 1000 Years on Earth -- Wizards and Witches Gather in Kiev

What's 'Jade Helm 15'...Really?

Jade Helm 15 is set to kick off in seven states this summer, sending Special Operations forces from all four main branches of the military onto civilian soil to conduct hostile take-over training – and civil-rights advocates are sounding the alarms.

This is how the military describes it:

“The nature of warfare is always changing and U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s mission is to make certain the Army’s various Special Operations Forces are trained, equipped and organized to successfully conduct worldwide special operations in support of our nation’s interests,” said command spokesman Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, in a statement to the Washington Post a few weeks ago. “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat.”

But plenty on social media aren’t calmed by the explanation, in part remembering the recent similar operation in Broward County, Florida, that saw Blackhawk helicopters flying above community streets while soldiers loaded citizen participants into white vans for transport to internment camps. It was all a staged exercise but for those watching, the scenes that unfolded were alarming.

The looming Jade Helm exercise, set for July 15 through Sept. 15, labels Texas and Utah as hostile areas. Global Research also reported the military says New Mexico “isn’t much friendlier.” Other states participating: California, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.

And another: “Using Foreign Troops with Jade Helm Martial Law is TREASON.”

Yet one more poster pointed to recent reported Wal-Mart closures in Texas, California, Florida and Oklahoma with concern, saying the cited “plumbing problems” cited as the reason for the sudden shut-downs just don’t meet the smell test.

“Employees impacted by the Wal-Mart closures were given just a few hours notice about the six-month shutdown,” the blog Inquisitr wrote. “Approximately 2,200 employees will now be without a paycheck during the ‘extended repairs.’ … The abrupt Wal-Mart closures announcement has reportedly left employees confused and Americans pondering the existence of Wal-Mart underground tunnels and Operation Jade Helm conspiracy theories.”

One of the theories?

Inquisitr reports: “One of the widely circulating rumors associated with the Jade Helm Wal-Mart story on the Internet speculates that the military will use the underground tunnels to move undetected around certain states with the stores being used as either a communications hub or FEMA camps.”

The fear is ratcheted by the fact city officials who govern the areas of the impacted Wal-Marts say the stores haven’t filed any permit requests for plumbing problems, Inquisitr said.

Meanwhile, a presentation made to Big Spring, Texas, City Council members by Tom Meade, a retired special forces senior non-commissioned officer, to explain some of the upcoming Jade Helm exercises emphasized residents shouldn’t worry about private property trespasses.

“We won’t trespass on somebody’s property without the agreement of that landowner,” he said, in a YouTube video of the presentation.

He also described the operation as a joint military-interagency activity involving members of all military branches, the FBI, the DEA and other law enforcement agencies. Meade said the FBI, for example, will do some questioning at one of the airports in Arizona.

One council member asked about the operation’s involvement of NATO and U.N. personnel.

“Currently … it is U.S. only,” Meade said. - Is Operation Jade Helm 15 a Prelude to Martial Law?

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Stephen Hawking: Humanity Won’t Survive Another 1000 Years on Earth

"He's worried about the future of the human race. You know, he thinks that human beings are, I suppose naturally aggressive," said Professor John Webb, the director of the lecture series at the University of New South Wales that made Hawkings talk possible.

"That may have been useful at some point in the early history of humanity enabling us to find food and get a partner and things like that, but he thinks that aggression that remains with us today is now the thing that could well end up destroying us.”

"I think he's put a time on it to make us realise we've got to take better control of what we're doing."

The 73-year-old, who suffers from motor neurone disease, addressed sold-out crowds at the Opera House both Saturday and Sunday. He touched on a wide range of topics like the nature of the universe, new discoveries about black holes, and other scientific questions, while peppering his talk with life advice.

"I want to share my excitement and enthusiasm about this quest, so remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet," Hawking said. "Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at."

Hawking touched on a similar idea about humanity's fate during a speech in London earlier this year, saying that he believes "that the long term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonising other planets."

He also addressed what he called humankind's "ambivalent attitude" to science.

"We have come to expect a steady increase in standard of living that science and technology have brought. But people distrust science because they don’t understand it or feel they can control it."

He emphasized a better understanding of science so the public could make informed decisions about issues like the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons and genetic engineering.

The physicist even had a chance to show off his sense of humor when he took the last question of the night.

"What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?" the moderator inquired, to audience laughs.

"Finally, a question about something important, " Hawking answered, before using it to make a point about theoretical physics and the possibility of parallel universes.

"It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another, different universe and, in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction." - Stephen Hawking: Humanity Won’t Survive Another 1000 Years on Earth

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Over 2,000 Wizards and Witches Gather to Hold Ritual in Kiev

Over 2,000 psychics, wizards, healers and even witches are set to gather in the center of Kiev on April 30 to hold a ritual based on the “tried-and-true rituals of the civilizations of the world” and to “charge up” protective amulets for peace, harmony and ballistic protection prior to deployment in the country’s conflict zone.

Over 2,000 adherents of Esotericism, who call themselves psychics, wizards, healers and even witches, are set to gather at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev on April 30, the Ukrainian news website Vesti reported on Tuesday.

The square that stretches between the Monastery and another of Kiev's most well-recognized buildings, Saint Sophia’s Cathedral, will then serve a ground for a mass moleben for peace and harmony, based on the “tried-and-true rituals of the civilizations of the world”.

The coordinator of the event, Sergey Grechishkin, says that the people who are set to take part in the ritual have paranormal capabilities and are "decent people with kind hearts”; Grechishkin also refers to himself as Sabirius and claims to be a wizard who has reached the highest level of enlightenment.

“I am ready to stand for all of the major operators of the moleben – 13 masters of the primary circle,” he adds.

The self-styled magician assures that the idea of holding such a ritual came to his head when the military operation in the east of Ukraine was first launched.

“It will be a joint appeal to the higher forces. Each of us will do it in his own way. We will ask them to help people to recover from this bloody attack of anger and hatred and save those who found themselves in this wild bloodbath. The second ritual is a “charging up” of protective amulets for the warriors and residents in the conflict zone, which will then protect people from bullets, frags, knives and batons,” he says.

The website, however, notes that the date of the ritual, April 30, is often referred to as the date of the witches' Sabbath in the history of Ukraine. The magician also explained that it is a day associated with special astronomic activity and the square where it is going to be held is the “spiritual center and the heart of Kiev and the whole of Ukraine”. - Sputnik News

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30-04-2015 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

Newly Discovered Dinosaur had Wings like a Bat

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30-04-2015 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 4/30/15

(Before It's News)

openminds.tv

• MUFON Celebrate the Existence of UFO’s in Memphis with the First Annual World UFO Day Festival! – PR Urgent
• Buffalo-like figure spotted on NASA Mars cam – Houston Chronicle
• In Search for Alien Life, Follow the Water – Space.com
• Antarctic microbe find could aid search for alien life – The Arctic Journal
• New Robotic Telescope Discovers Three Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Star – Science World Report

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-43015/33326

30-04-2015 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

Alien Crash 1897!

(Before It's News)

http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocrashcases/p/aurora.htm

Most people have heard about the Roswell supposed alien UFO crash of 1947, and the majority would say that was the first crash. Not so. There was a reported crash, a few years before the Wright Brothers even started the first flight. The 1897 alien crash defies what we thought we knew about man's flight-oriented way of seeing alien visitation. These folks were not used to anyone ever being up in the air except the occasional dirigible in big cities for special occasions. And, what the citizens reported was very vivid an a bit chilling when compared with Roswell.

It begins like this – in the 1896-1897 time frame around the US, various cigar-shaped craft were reported in the air. One report came in 1897 from the small rural farming town of Aurora, Texas where one of these airships was said to of crashed into a windmill. It was reported an alien being was found dead. The crash wreckage was said to have been dumped down a nearby well and the alien buried in a graveyard with a “Christian” burial. 

Some say it was a hoax performed by a member of the town who saw that, due to a lot of bad incidents, the town was dying and he wanted to keep it alive and remembered. 

But, in 1935, a man bought the property and opened up the well and removed the trash and then came down with a cripple and unusual case of arthritis supposedly caused by the contaminated well.  

For all the very good shows that have tried to uncover information at the site, there have been roadblocks from getting no permission to dig in the graveyard where ground-penetrating radar found a grave, to a supposed makeshift headstone being removed and more. 

So, did this crash really occur? I'd have to say something hit that windmill, something was dumped into the well, and people there seemed to be a bit excited about what it was, so either the stories got changed along the way in a town where there weren't big occurrences, or something truly unexplained confused them all. 

Ghost Hunting Theories

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2015/04/alien-crash-1897.html

30-04-2015 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

Encounter With Black Eyed Kids Terrifies Airman on Texas Military Base

(Before It's News)

I think it’s a pretty good bet that no creature terrified people more in 2013 than the Black Eyed Kids, and with good reason. Encounters with the spooky children have grown from a creepy tale whispered about on internet message boards to major plot points in Hollywood films, begging the question – are the BEK’s the new Bigfoot? While that remains to be seen, the stories of personal run-ins with the Black Eyed Kids keep racking up in our inbox.. and our nightmares.

Take the following account sent in to us from an airman at a Texas military base. It’s one thing to scare a woman alone in her home, but to terrify a trained military man on base? That only goes to show how frightening these kids really are. Buckle up, this story is a good one.

I’m a 6’7″, 260 lb airman who was prior Special Forces. About a month ago, while stationed at a base in Texas that I will not disclose, I was up drinking a beer when I heard a knock on my dorm door. I got up outta bed thinking it was my pissmate, and since we have “Jack and Jill” styled bathrooms connecting our rooms, I opened our bathroom door and there was nothing. Being confused as hell, I heard this sharp rapping on my door again so I look out my peep hole.

Now the hole, being quite settled halfway down the door, I had to bend down to look through it. Standing there in front of me was a boy who looked about 17 or 18 at the most. I asked “what’s up”, and he looked up with a smile that I can only describe as partially cruel and hungry looking. With a gaunt face, the boy asked me if he could use my phone. I said, “sorry Bud, I’m about to go to sleep so try the SP building across the parking lot”. I closed the door, thinking nothing of it.

He knocked again, and I walked over to my window, this time to intimidate the boy into leaving me be. I pulled my blinds up and looked straight at him. He looked up at me. I’d say he was only 5’9″ and about 140 lbs.. real gaunt and frail looking guy. Believe me when I say I don’t scare easily, but something about him made me feel uneasy as all hell.

He looked up at me and asked if he could come in again and then I saw his eyes.. they were empty looking coals and a smile crept to his mouth – that same hungry predatory smile – and I felt goosebumps on my legs and back. Something wasn’t right. I said, “I’m going to tell you one more time before I kick your ass to get lost.” I turned around to get my phone and looked back and he was gone.

The only thing that I cant help but shake is the feeling that  I’d seen him somewhere before.

In Pennsylvania, two years before that night, I was working in a gas station. Late one night I was working a 11-7 shift in late October, still in highschool, when I saw him walk across a four lane highway to our pumps and stare at me and my brother who were outside smoking a cigarette. My brother yelled over to him asking if he needed anything, and it was that same reply.. he needed to use our phone. My brother told him it was behind the counter and he can’t use it, but the kid kept on coming closer. We went inside and he stood in front of the shop glass, and he just knocked for about five or so minutes until my brother got a bat and went outside.

He said the same thing I did… that the kid had a white face and black eyes. I’m uneasy about this. I shouldn’t be terrified like this. 

Source:  whofortedblog

30-04-2015 om 17:54 geschreven door peter  

UFO ET Dulce Base Revealed From A Scientist Now In Hiding

(Before It's News)

30-04-2015 om 17:51 geschreven door peter  

Mother Ships or Simply the Right Size for the Occupants

(Before It's News)

I was talking with a friend of mine whom I have known since the third grade. We were talking about the changes that have taken place on Long Island New York over the last 50  years. We were discussing the days when we had only one highway to drive to the end of Long Island in order to reach Montauk Point . The Montauk Point area is  also  the location  of Plum Island and Camp Hero. During the 1940′s until recently both were active extremely strange institutions of secret ominous activates with long lists of odd events happening for many years following World War II. Long Islanders considered them dangerous if not evil places.

My friend and I were talking about our life on Long Island when we were teens  in the early 60 s  around  1963  to 65. Those years were a  time when  Long Island was having numerous UFO sightings being reported. My father had been told during that  time period  that a few people in our town had seen a group of UFOs a  over a town golf course which was still being talked about by all the local people when a few sightings came along of people witnessing large UFO;s flying low over Great River which ran out in to the Great South Bay and on to the Atlantic Ocean.. All of these  sightings were still the talk of the town when this next event took place.   One night.my Dad read  aloud after dinner as the family still was sitting at the kitchen table  from the Long Island Press (which was a favorite newspaper on Long Island at the time) an article describing how hundreds of Long Islanders traveling along the Sunrise Highway ( which was the only main highway that was used to travel to then end of Long Island in that time period) had called in to the local police reports of an enormous UFO traveling low  over  Sunrise Highway as it traveled out towards the end of Long Island towards the Atlantic Ocean. 

The people who witnessed this huge craft insisted it was at least a half a mile if not bigger in circumference. The people who saw this huge craft all reported the same details of a enormous oval craft slowly hovering over the highway at times as it made its way in silence following the highway below out to the end of the roadway frightening those who were traveling under it on the highway lanes. It followed the roadway to its end and continued on towards the end of Long Island and the Atlantic Ocean.


There were no offerings of what it could have been in the article or comments other than the description of this huge metallic shinny windowless  craft and the mention of  many other UFO sightings being reported over Long Island during that time.

I have often had that event flash through my mind over the years when I learned of other sightings of huge unexplained crafts being reported from all over the world. These huge crafts seemed to have taken on the name of  Mother Ships.

I thought about this and wondered if we have this correct in our thinking or if we simply are missing another explanation to the enormous size of these unknown crafts thinking they are something they are not. 

 It is true that the enormous size of the crafts many have witnessed over the years may well be main carriers of large populations of other life forms and their equipment and living areas or there is one other strange idea that could explain there massive size.  It may sound simplistic but why could the difference in size of UFO.s simply be an indication of the different sizes of the aliens traveling in them?

How many times have we been told of history that talks  to us about giants walking on the earth? How many times have the idea of extremely tall beings being seen over history have we come across in our search for answers to our past and understanding of our possible futures.?

I really thought about this when I came across the reported incident where our astronauts were reported to have had an encounter with a huge space man that was so large and tall that they had to open the cargo bay of the space shuttle so he could stand towering over our men in the open cargo bay in order to have a meeting with them



There is no reason at all to think that other life forms in this enormous universe are similar in size to the humans on earth. In fact there is no reason to think that they are like us at all in any way shape or form. I think we should consider that shape, size and form of those who may visit this planet may be anything from bug size to building size and all things in between.

I now wonder in pure fascination what may pilot those enormous crafts and can only keep my mind open to the endless possibilities that could exist inside those metallic walls from huge populations of aliens to simply huge aliens!

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Aliens may be the size of POLAR BEARS: Formula calculates extraterrestrials  have a mass of 650lbs (if they exist, of course)

• Fergus Simpson said aliens probably  weigh more than 650 lbs (300kg)
• Calculations based on idea that  there’s a minimum size  for intelligent life
• Larger aliens are more likely to  live long enough to make advanced tech 
• Estimated size doesn’t factor in  evolution or an alien planet’s gravity 

Aliens (illustrated with a stock image) are often  portrayed as diminutive beings, but in ‘reality’ they could be much larger, one  scientist claims. Fergus Simpson from University of Barcelona applied a  mathematical formula to assume aliens obey the same laws of conservation of  energy as animals  on Earth

Mr Simpson said there must be a minimum size necessary  for supporting intelligent life, based on the range of body sizes of intelligent  animals such as apes and humans, found on Earth. And, if they exist, he believes  intelligent aliens typically weigh more than 650 lbs (300kg) – around the size  of a polar bear (stock image)

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30-04-2015 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

UFO photo captured over San Diego

(Before It's News)

openminds.tv

Several San Diego residents reported spotting mysterious lights on Tuesday night, and one witness was able to snap a picture.

According to NBC 7 San Diego, viewer Larry Fox sent them a picture of an odd light he spotted in the night sky. NBC 7 described the picture as “a string of multicolored lights.”

Fox reported that he was in his backyard when he saw the strange light to the southwest. He says he ruled out a drone or a plane because the light was stationary.

“It was a series of flashing lights,” he told NBC 7. “If it was a plane, it would have moved.”

NBC 7 reported that Fox described the lights as “red, blue and green,” and that the lights “kept flashing and changing colors.”

UFO photographed over San Diego. (Credit: Larry Fox/NBC 7 San Diego)

Apparently, Fox was not the only one to see the lights. NBC 7 says they heard from several other viewers who saw them, and even one of their own photographers says he saw the lights.

Although the image shows what appears to be multiple lights, or one long illuminated streak, it is very similar to pictures of a single point of light that looks like it is moving due to camera shake. At night cameras will keep the aperture open longer in order to capture more light. If the camera is moved during this time, the image will create a motion blur effect.

Often bright stars are photographed and mistaken as UFOs due to this effect.

As for the colors, stars will often look like they blink and change colors due to the atmosphere, and if the star is closer to the horizon, then there is more atmosphere to look through, and in a big city, there is also pollution.

In 2013, a resident of the town of Oshawa in Ontario, Canada took this UFO picture (below) of what he thought was a UFO. He says it was a bright point of light, but the object looks like a streak because of camera shake.

On June 18, 2013, Paul Shishis saw a white roundish object but due to camera shake, he was not able to capture it properly. (Paul Shishis/Examiner.com)

The biggest culprit when it comes to celestial objects being mistaken for UFOs is Venus. It may seem odd, but Venus is remarkably bright in the night sky, and it is easy to mistake it for something else. According to EarthSky.org, it is in the night sky this month, and very bright. Their site says this month Venus is the “brightest planet and third-brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon – climbs higher up at dusk, and stays out later after dark, than it did in March 2015.”

So was it Venus that was captured in this photograph in San Diego? It’s possible. But then again, perhaps there is another picture out there that can prove it is something much more mysterious.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-photo-captured-over-san-diego/33320

30-04-2015 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

4 Large Orbs Of Light Spotted Over New Hampshire

(Before It's News)

4 LARGE ORBS OF LIGHT SPOTTED OVER NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
APRIL 15, 2015     ………..   DALTON NEW HAMPSHIRE

30-04-2015 om 17:23 geschreven door peter  

Mens tegen zichzelf beschermd door buitenaardsen ( Video )

In een recent interview werd door Dr. Steven Greer gesteld dat er volgens hem tientallen verschillende goedaardige buitenaardse rassen zijn die staan te popelen om contact met ons te maken.

“Sommige van deze rassen maken zich echt zorgen om onze vijandigheid en hebben bepaalde dingen gedaan om ons te beperken, zoals in een quarantaine.”


“Deze wezens willen heel graag in contact komen met mensen die verlicht zijn en die hen vreedzaam benaderen omdat het doel is van onze stiekeme geheime militaire projecten om deze objecten te volgen en uit de lucht te schieten”.

Volgens Dr. Greer nam het UFO fenomeen toe in intensiteit na de ontwikkeling van nucleaire wapens toen wij een bedreiging begonnen te vormen voor het leven op deze planeet. Die niet alleen wij bewonen, maar ook door andere intelligente wezens in het universum wordt gebruikt.

“Ik denk dat de buitenaardsen hier al duizenden jaren op aarde zijn, ik denk niet dat dit een fenomeen uit de recente geschiedenis is”.

“Ik denk dat wanneer je hiernaar kijkt en met mensen praat in de Britse veiligheidsdiensten en ook die van Amerika dan zie je dat de werkelijke toename in incidenten met UFO's steeg toen we nucleaire wapens daadwerkelijk gingen gebruiken en rond dezelfde tijd dat we de ruimte in gingen”.

“Je moet begrijpen dat het punt waarop onze beschaving begon met het ontwikkelen van atoomwapens en het verkennen van de ruimte, dit grote rode vlaggen liet wapperen als waarschuwing bij deze planeet. Men is behoorlijk bezorgd over wat wij aan het doen zijn en dat we mogelijk dingen loslaten op het universum die wij niet kunnen beheersen. Waardoor wij een bedreiging vormen voor andere planeten die een vreedzaam bestaan leiden en waar oorlogvoeren en wapensystemen geen onderdeel uitmaken van hun bestaan”.

Volgens Dr. Greer bestaat er niet zoiets als ontvoering door buitenaardsen en is dit iets dat volgens hem door de overheid verzonnen is om ons bang te maken zodat wij ons niet verzetten tegen een bewapening van de ruimte.

“De mythologie in de New Age wereld dat er goeden zijn en slechten is in werkelijkheid desinformatie die wordt verspreid door veiligheidsdiensten om ons op die manier bang te maken, zodat wij maar wat graag miljarden Dollars uitgeven aan een soort Star Wars technologie. En dat is precies wat er is gebeurd”.

“Ik ken mensen die al in de jaren '60 aan dit soort programma’s werkten. Toen al hadden we wapensystemen in de ruimte die gericht waren tegen deze vreemde ruimteschepen. Dit is al 40 jaar gaande”.

Dr. Greer verklaarde ook dat, voor zover hem bekend, er niet één van de tientallen buitenaardse rassen ons vijandig gezind is.

“Sommige van deze rassen maken zich echt zorgen om onze vijandigheid en hebben bepaalde dingen gedaan om ons te beperken, zoals in een quarantaine.”





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In5D

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30-04-2015 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

Zo beneden, zo boven...

Wereldwijde klimaatveranderingen, zinkgaten die overal ontstaan, aardbevingen en weer actief wordende vulkanen.

Steeds meer  UFO’s worden gesignaleerd en een toenemend aantal meldingen van contacten met buitenaardse entiteiten, veranderingen in energie, graancirkels blijven komen, steeds meer mensen op zoek naar (echte) antwoorden.

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Hoogste tijd voor een evenement als Earth & Beyond. “Earth & Beyond zet de deur niet een stukje verder open, maar zet de deur wagenwijd open. We zijn niet bang om zaken naar voren te brengen” zegt Frans Heslinga van het bedrijf Infinity Event BV uit Utrecht.

Ca. 4 jaar geleden begon Frans zaken te onderzoeken, accepteerde niet meer wat er hem in de krant en via de TV voorgeschoteld werd. Daarna ging het in snel tempo. Hij bezocht seminars, verdiepte zich in de materie, las magazines, bezocht evenementen en verenigingen. De echte waarheden over politiek, het (falende) bankensysteem, false flag operaties, voeding, (vermeende) aanslagen kwamen snel aan het licht. Daardoor groeide alleen maar zijn motivatie om verder te gaan. De sprong naar ruimtevaart, ufo’s, de werkelijke oorsprong van de mens, buitenaardse contacten, etc. was snel gemaakt. Zijn interesse was heel goed te combineren met zijn werk: het initiëren en organiseren van evenementen en beurzen, binnen zijn bedrijf Infinity Event BV.

Dus events organiseren is niet nieuw. Een evenement als Earth & Beyond is dat wel en in die zin wel bijzonder omdat het in deze vorm en grootschalige uitvoering nog niet eerder is gebeurd.

De Intergalactische mens, de werkelijke menselijke geschiedenis, healing

Earth & Beyond wil een vernieuwend krachtig evenement zijn waarbij bezoekers volop informatie kunnen krijgen. En verrast zullen worden. Niets is immers wat het lijkt. Op Earth & Beyond komen zeer uiteenlopende onderwerpen aan bod, veel in relatie tot buitenaards leven & contact.

Van remote viewing (informatie ophalen op een andere plek dan dat je fysiek bent of uit een andere tijd) tot de op komst zijnde poolverschuiving, contact met buitenaards leven tot onthullingen over de diverse ruimteprogramma’s die (wel of niet) hebben plaatsgevonden. Zo zal Maarten Horst & Jeroen Ghuijs (van ET first contact radio) die hun visie presenteren op de komende ‘Golden Age’. Maar ook de werkelijke oorsprong van de mens, de vroegere contacten met andere beschavingen, magnetisme, etc. komen aan bod. Eén zaal zal de hele dag het thema healing behandelen.

Het evenement (beurs en alle seminars) vindt plaats in de Jaarbeurs Utrecht, in het fonkelnieuwe Super Nova gebied. Een ruim en prachtig gedecoreerd complex , je zou eigenlijk zeggen speciaal voor een evenement als Earth & Beyond gebouwd. Het bestaat uit een beursvloer (Transit Zone) en ca. 5 high tech, zelfs ‘spacy ‘ te noemen seminarzalen. Met andere woorden: alleen al de locatie staat garant voor weer een geslaagd evenement!

Meso Earth Cosmic Library

Visionair René van den Brink zal in de middag in de grote Progress zaal een zeer bijzondere en onthullende presentatie verzorgen. Het is een aanslag op uw bevattingsvermogen maar de presentatie ‘Meso Earth Cosmic Library’ is iets wat u niet wilt missen. René staat bekend om zijn bijzondere spiegelingen van de micro-, meso- en macrowereld.

Ook kunnen bezoekers van het evenement hun ervaring kunnen delen met experts. Iemand die al jaren rondloopt met een bijzondere gebeurtenis of een (buitenaardse) ervaring, kan dit uiten en dus delen op het evenement met anderen en met ons forum.

“Een evenement bezoeken op een A-locatie (zoals Jaarbeurs Utrecht) is altijd laagdrempelig en brengt mensen makkelijker er naar toe en sneller tot elkaar” zegt Frans Heslinga hierover. “Bovendien is beursbezoek aan een evenement op een A-locatie anoniem, d.w.z. er zijn veel mensen waardoor een individu min of meer opgaat in de massa en dat is niet te vergelijken met een bijeenkomst in een klein dorpje waar de volgende dag meteen bekend is dat je bij een bepaalde ‘vreemde’ meeting bent geweest….”

Evenement, meer dan beurs

Earth & Beyond wordt bewust steeds ‘evenement’ genoemd. Er is immers een grote beursvloer met diverse stands, tevens centrale ontmoetingsruimte en in 5 seminarzalen worden tegelijk presentaties/seminars gehouden (ca. 30 in totaal). Daarnaast zijn er workshops en vinden er demo’s plaats. Earth & Beyond is dus veel meer dan een beurs alleen.

Ook wordt er een inspirerend afsluitingsceremonie voorbereid. Dit wordt verzorgd door gastvrouwe en creatief multi-talent Femke Bloem. Een unieke happening, die rond 20.00 uur zal starten, in de fenomenale Progress zaal.

Bezoekers kunnen voor 47,50 euro alle seminars van het evenement bezoeken. Dat wil zeggen, u stelt uw eigen programma samen voor die dag.

Ook de Amerikaan Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich, bekend als de ontdekker van de Bosnische piramides zal op het evenement een anderhalf uur durende presentatie geven. Ook is er op de beursvloer een stand aanwezig waar u alle verdere vragen hierover kunt stellen en verder kennis kan maken met deze bijzondere man en zijn team.

De organisatie adviseert een ieder met ‘een open mind’ naar het evenement te komen. “Rather an open mind full of surprises than a closed one with belief”. Er zal zeer veel worden verteld en aangeboden, ook zaken die u niet direct kunt of misschien wilt accepteren.

Op de vraag waarom ‘we are going to leave the comfort zone’ (dat is de slogan van de beurs) is het antwoord van Heslinga: “omdat we bijzondere onthullingen zullen doen en verbanden laten zien die u niet verwacht”. Dus dat belooft wat.

Earth & Beyond vindt plaats op zaterdag 6 juni en de beursvloer is open vanaf 10.30 uur. De eerste ronde van seminars begint om 10.45 uur.

Locatie: Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

www.earthandbeyond.nl

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30-04-2015 om 17:08 geschreven door peter  

Latest UFO activity over Pampanga, Philippines – Many witnesses!

There are a lot of UFO reports coming from Pampanga, a province of the Philippines in the Central Luzon region, these days. Apparantly, there was a mass sighting that happened on Sunday, 26th April 2015.

What do you think this was? More info coming…

Here are a few videos of these unknown lights in the sky.

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30-04-2015 om 17:04 geschreven door peter  

Most remarkable UFO sightings in April 2015

early April 2015; unidentified flying object – Tijuana, Mexico

1st April 2015; triangle formation – El Paso, Texas

3rd April 2015; ring in the sky – Shortandy, Kazakhstan

9th April 2015; triangle formation of orbs – Sevilla, Spain

11th April 2015; triangle formation of orbs – Naples, Florida

22nd April 2015; UFO over Volcano Eruption – Chile

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30-04-2015 om 17:02 geschreven door peter  

UFO activity over Coronado, California 29-Apr-2015

New footage of a strange lights hovering above Coronado – Bay Area in California. This happened on Wednesday, 29th April 2015.

Witness report: Weirdly shaped geometric object, rectangular-square-ish. Many different color lights, a few blinking ones.seemed to stay stationary for very long period of time I saw this on the local news, the object seemed to stay stationary for more than 2 hours, very oddly shaped unlike any other shaped UFO I’ve seen, the UFO had many different colored lights … A few seemed to bling with a patern. The local news called the military and the military “did not give an answer”

Author (source: mufon)

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30-04-2015 om 16:56 geschreven door peter  

Confirmed-2.5 Mile Wide Comet Headed Toward Earth With Chilling, Hellish Mystery Sounds and Screams

April 29, 2015 - For a while now, we have all been hearing from different sources about a coming asteroid or meteor that will wreak catastrophic damage on earth and wipe out the United States of America. But I have a source who has confirmed to me that a 2.5 mile wide comet that researchers have been studying for years is headed toward earth and scheduled to arrive between September 15 (the end of Jade Helm Drills, and two days after the end of the Shemitah) and September 28 (another Blood Moon) of this year, 2015.

He also confirmed to me that this is the reason nations have been mysteriously moving their missiles to different locations, and why over the last two years, there has been a sudden desire for all of the nations to ‘test fire’ their missiles, including the USA this year!

Why the need to strategically move the missiles and test fire them? Well, as last resort, if this 2.5 mile wide comet does not break up enough (which, even if it does, it’s going to do MASSIVE, UNPRECEDENTED damage), everyone can fire missiles at it at the same time. However, it will basically be a one time shot. Furthermore, we really do not possess the technology yet to destroy a heavenly body, especially one of that size, with a missile.

*The Mysterious Sounds Are In the Below Feature Video-When you get to them, they are best heard through stereo headphones*

Note: I want to make it clear that I am not prophesying this event, as I am merely a watchman and not a prophet. Secondly, I am not stating that I know for sure that this will indeed happen. I am, however, bringing you the information that has been personally delivered to me and showing you things that have been posted and shared by others publicly on the internet. I am also asking for you to be watchful, prayerful, and prepared.

According to a recent article published in Reuters News:

The New York branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve, wary that a natural disaster or other eventuality could shut down its market operations as it approaches an interest rate hike, has added staff and bulked up its satellite office in Chicago.  (Emphasis added by Lyn Leahz)

So when the economy collapses in September following the ending of the Shemitah cycle (September 13th), shortly thereafter, the comet, according to my source, will be making its fiery-tailed appearance.

This will not be Wormwood, by the way. This will be a ‘Book End’ event; meaning, this event will be the final blow (literally) which throws us into the tribulation. Does that mean the tribulation will immediately begin? No! It will happen over a period of months, I would assume…probably sometime in March of 2016 when the Antichrist will be revealed to the world.

Also, this particular heavenly body had what was labeled as a “mysterious song” of its own which was recorded by the satellite that was studying it.  I have included those sounds within my video. Do not miss it! I recommend you listen to those sounds in stereo headphones for the full effect, as it sounds like you are walking straight through the bowels of hell, chilling screams and all!

I was, by the way, notified of the name of this particular comet, however, I am unable to say the name as what you are being shown in real time regarding this comets coordinates and orbit is not correct. Be it known, they have invested millions of dollars into the study of this particular comet.

Here are my notes from our conversation, still mostly in the rough:

countries moving equipment missiles relocating for a path of least resistance in order to shoot at the comet…     Global Effort   China,  moving missiles.

Expected September 15-September 28

unstable orbit

Venezuela and Brazil 200 miles off shore   Tsunami   GLOBAL if it does not break up and hits

would be Extinction Level Event  (ELE) – USA Nuclear Winter! Darkness, death of vegetation and animals, crops, food supply, starvation, etc. etc. Catastrophic!

Heavy Earthquake Activity — we have had  Two new islands rising out of pacific, volcanic activity, earthquake… up 200% since 2010  A year prior

yellowstone, guys in space suit looking attire… the geyser has risen 6-8 inches (video on unseen)   sign of gravitational pull….  (Video)

Astronomy Asteroid/Comet/Meteor Watch Program called Project Wormwood in Australia  (Vatican)



Too many people are prophesying such an event. Too many people are having dreams and visions. Too many sources are confirming. Too many strange things are happening (Jade Helm. Asteroid Day. NASA Near Earth Object Program. Illuminati Messaging. Strange Weather. Masses of Dead Animals Falling From the Sky or Washed Ashore. Increase in Earthquakes, Volcanic Activity, and more…). When will we finally wake up and at least pray?

Unless the overall majority of America puts on sackcloth and ashes and truly repents within the next few months (2 Chronicles 7:14)—and I do not see that happening—we are in grave danger! God only tolerates sin and blatant disobedience for so long. Prophecy WILL be fulfilled and the time is NOW!

These events will throw us into the tribulation! PLEASE WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO for the full story, including the sounds of hell, as I have ONLY brushed on some of the information here.

CONFIRMATIONS:

Blood Moon, Tsunami and the Last Days Outpouring – Perry Stone with Sid Roth

1 – Perry talked about many prophetic dreams he had long ago which were eventually fulfilled.  Then from about the 11 minute mark to 15 minutes in, Perry said he has been having dreams of tsunamis hitting the USA. He said these dreams have been accelerating in frequency, having been rare, then occurring once every two weeks, then recently 3 times in 10 days. As I expect a catastrophic pole shift in a few years, I expect many tsunamis to hit the coasts of the world. Many prophecies describe this.

2 – he says we are in “a prophetic crunch time” because, as Daniel chapter 12 explains, greater understanding will be revealed as we approach the time of the end. I think we are fast approaching the end and this is correct.

3 – “it’s 1933 all over again and America can’t see it” – I also suspect dictatorship is imminent. —End Times News

Yellowstone Alert! Men In Orange Suits At Old Faithful Geyser

REMEMBER THIS?

Climate Chaos in 2015 warns World Government officials!!!

(Regarding the above ’500 days’..that date would be September 24, 2015, FYI)

Explosión volcán Calbuco / Calbuco volcano explodes! / 该卡尔布科火山爆炸! / Извержение

Something BIG will happen in September 2015

6 month warnings pointing to September 2015 (part 2)

URGENT Warning! The Most Horrific Event Ever Prophesied In Our Day Coming This Year!?

RUSSIA WARNS: ASTEROID IMPACT in Atlantic Ocean

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30-04-2015 om 00:20 geschreven door peter