Astronaut André Kuipers: “Buitenaards leven bestaat”

Ruimtevaarder en wetenschapper André Kuipers gaf woensdagmiddag een lezing op het Lauwers College in Buitenpost. Honderden leerlingen hingen ruim anderhalf uur aan zijn lippen. Na afloop mochten er prangende vragen worden gesteld. Rector Gerard Janze was erg tevreden. “Deze investering betaalt zich wel terug,” zei hij.

Is er buitenaards leven? Wie vraagt zich dit nu niet af. Een leerlinge legde deze vraag woensdag voor aan dr. Kuipers, de enige Nederlander met twee ruimtemissies achter zijn naam en daarmee een autoriteit op dit gebied.

In december 2002 werd Kuipers geselecteerd als boordwerktuigkundige voor de Sojoez TMA-4 naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Hij verbleef ruim een week aan boord van het ruimtestation en voerde wetenschappelijke experimenten uit. Op 21 december 2011 vertrok Kuipers voor vijf maanden naar het ISS om deel te nemen aan een tweetal expedities.

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27-08-2015 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

NSW Skywatcher Confession: Quizzed by Men in Black Incident

Unidentified Flying Objects are always an exciting challenge not only to both science and scientists, but also those for the masses. A person who admits seeing strange objects in the sky were often subject to ridicule. However, it is important to note that each sighting has its elements and occurrences that must be taken into consideration before judging the same. Recently, there has been a documentary film showing the discovery of unidentified flying objects by the witnesses residing in Australia. Next week in Sydney, there’s a movie being screened that is sure to polarize its audience. The film is called Australien Skies.

So, what does the film say? It is a documentary of the unexplained stuff that were seen by the people. These people were called skywatchers, and guess what the timing is incredibly good. Earlier this month, Yuri Milner, the prominent Russian billionaire, announced to spend $US 100 million just to see if there’s anything “out there”. Meanwhile, Australia committed to contributing the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.

When speaking about the documentary, Kiama knows how intriguing it is. No doubt, he is a builder, at the same time a married person with two kids. He is a simple guy who had no particular interest in strange objects, or at least has a thing to stare up at the heavens. It started in March 2013 when he and his workmate saw the daylight. Afterwards, the bright stars were seen gathering around a ball of white light that reappeared and disappeared before approached by an F18 Super Hornet. Once done, the whole thing vanished.

What is unique about the incident is the fact that he begins to see strange objects regularly, at least twenty to thirty times. He got in touch with Mariana Flynn, the president of UFO Research NSW and Damien Nott. In fact, she testified that they had seen reports of black helicopters hovering over numerous homes.

27-08-2015 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

Watch – Three UFOs Flying Over the Moon

Several UFOs captured on high definition digital camera passing the lunar surface, cameraman claims. In a series of videos posted on YouTube, black objects are apparently moving near the Moon, including one object that looks to be powered by the rocket jets.

The cameraman named Crow777 claims he never post any hoax video and says he only manipulates colour, contrast, and zoom to point further the anomalies he caught on camera rather than misleads the viewers.

He states in the video description that he’s not saying he captured an alien, but a ship that’s controlled intelligently.

The cameraman rules out objects being satellites orbiting Earth in these three clips because of the length of time he took the video while they were passing the lunar surface – lasted for up to a minute in one case.

He concludes that they are very close to the Moon for them to be satellites orbiting Earth, which would only need two to three seconds to pass the Moon because of their distance from it.
On his channel, the cameraman said that everything in the video is in high definition, and some are captured using an eight-inch telescope. He claimed to have shot UFOs, lunar UFOs, the Moon, and space anomalies.

He makes a pledge to his channel’s subscribers never to edit the clips to make them deceptive. He says that what viewers see is what he observes through his camera and telescope.

27-08-2015 om 20:39 geschreven door peter  

Former Navy Rescue Films A Triangle UFO

A witness with a military background reported spotting and capturing a photograph of a triangle-shaped UFO with three white, pulsating lights in North Carolina at Concord. The witness was with his dogs outside his home at 8 p.m. on 11th of June 2015.

He said in a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) report that he saw the object hovering and then travelling northeast slowly before the lights went off, and the UFO disappeared.
The witness said that he had a military background being a former Navy rescue. He claims to have known all about aircraft warning lights and he says he never saw anything like the UFO in the military.

Along with the video, the witness also provided MUFON a still shot of the object. The witness reported to MUFON on 20th June 2015. North Carolina MUFON investigated the case led by field investigator Sanford Davis, who closed the case as Unknown.

David also stated in his report that two witnesses spotted another triangle 50 miles away in Case # 66524 four days later.

According to Davis, the object in the video seems military, perhaps a type of black project aircraft, a variation of the Astra, TR3B.

In Case 66524, a witness reported spotting a black triangle with blinking lights near Gastonia, NC. The witness said that the UFO moved 150 miles in less than a minute. David also closed this particular case as Unknown.

David stated that there had been numerous sightings in and around the Charlotte area in the last few months.

27-08-2015 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO Eyewitness Harassed By Helicopters: Men in Black Documentary

Just this week, a new Australian documentary was released. Such documentary points out UFO information showing the interviews with people who saw the shaky video of odd and lights, with a silvery and shimmering shapes hovering in the skies. However, there is one section of the documented footage that may entice the viewers, and it is the story of Liam Freaney.  Liam Freaney is a married person having two kids residing in Australia. Working as a construction worker, he and his co-worker saw bright stars piling up around a ball of white lights in broad daylight. After watching them, the stars and balls disappear and reappeared. The strange happening occurred just before the objects were being strafed by an F-18 Hornet fighter jet. After the arrival of the jet, once they disappeared, they vanished for good.

A few months later, he started seeing the objects regularly. He even bought a video camera to film in this regard. After capturing several strange objects on videotape, helicopters began to show up and hover low over his house. In a documentary, Freaney gives further details about the strange objects.  He would see and film the object. Afterwards, a helicopter would show up and sit around his house. So he started shooting the helicopters and unidentified flying objects. He communicated with the locals and spoke with the president named Mariana Flynn, telling her what he saw on the videotape. Mariana Flynn also told him that he was not the sole person videotaping the UFOs. In fact, there are many reports of people filming the helicopter.

In the documentary, he admitted giving finally a presentation on what he recorded. There was a buzz about his speeches, but his performances were advertised well. Extraterrestrials are a controversial topic that many are quick to hop on opposite sides of the battlefield on. However, it is also important to consider the totality of the evidence.

27-08-2015 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

Zie jij het verschil tussen een maan en een doodgewone pan? NASA daagt je uit

Bron: https://twitter.com/NASAEuropa

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RUIMTEVAART Wie zegt dat wetenschap saai hoeft te zijn? De onderzoekers van de 'NASA Europa Mission' deelden onlangs alvast een erg leuk vraagstuk op Twitter: "Europa of braadpan? Eén van deze is een maan van Jupiter, Europa. De rest zijn pannen..." Zie jij het verschil?

Jupiter. © photo news.

De ruimte is een wonderlijke plek vol prachtige planeten, manen, sterren en magisch aandoende verschijnselen. Dankzij NASA kunnen ook wij van al dat moois genieten, zowaar vanuit onze luie zetel.

Daar waar NASA meestal foto's deelt die ergens heel ver weg van ons zijn genomen, koos het nu voor enkele kunstige kiekjes van objecten die we allemaal in onze keukenkast hebben liggen: doodgewone pannen. Maar NASA zou natuurlijk NASA niet zijn moest er niet ergens tussen dat simpel keukengerei een echte maan verstopt zitten: een maan van Jupiter, die luistert naar de klinkende naam 'Europa'. Maar waar staat die? Weet jij het? 

Wat later stuurde het Twitter-account van de NASA-missie de volgende tweet uit: "Dat is geen maan! Artiest Chris Jonassen maakte de 'panfoto's' voor zijnDevour Project". Wie dat project eens bekijkt, weet meteen ook het antwoord op het vraagstuk. Inderdaad: de linkse foto in de middelste rij (dus de vierde foto) is geen pan, maar wel Europa. Wist jij het?

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27-08-2015 om 12:26 geschreven door peter  

Hypersonische SpaceLiner zal in anderhalf uur van Londen naar Sydney vliegen - HLN.be

Op een hoogte van 80 kilometer splitsen de raketmotoren en het passagiersgedeelte dat vervolgens door de toplaag van de atmosfeer glijdt met 25.200 km per uur. 

© DLR Space Launcher Systems Analysis Group.

In de toekomst zal je met het nieuwe hypersonische vliegtuig Spaceliner in 90 minuten van Londen naar Sydney kunnen vliegen. Het toestel zal met een waterstof-zuurstofraket tot een hoogte van 80 kilometer gecatapulteerd worden. Daarna zal het door de hogere atmosfeer glijden met 20 keer de snelheid van het geluid.

27-08-2015 om 12:11 geschreven door peter  

The Effect of Ancient Catastrophe on Humankind (Video)

(Before It's News)

It is the hypothesis of many members of the Electric Universe community that within human memory, perhaps a mere four or five thousand years ago, the Earth’s sky and the inner solar system underwent profound changes.

An epoch of planetary instability produced extraordinary electromagnetic events and global catastrophes that were recorded in myths and legends around the world.

Today, we shift our focus to perhaps the most important question one can explore when considering this thesis – what were the effects of these events on humankind, and to what extent did they shape our world and our species to this day?
 

  

27-08-2015 om 11:58 geschreven door peter  

Is Military The Cause Of The UFO Lights Over El Paso, Texas That Cause Residents To Worry, Aug 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 2015
Location of sighting: El Paso, Texas, USA
News source: http://www.kvia.com/news/some-believe-lights-in-east-el-paso-are-ufo/34921124
News source 2: http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Mystery-lights-turn-out-to-be-Fort-Bliss-training-exercise-191084.shtml#.Vd5s3OtiCtY

This string of lights was seen over El Paso last night. The video only shows us 10 seconds of the sighting, but still gives us a good idea of what took place. Normally I would not believe the military, they like to cover up UFO sightings, but this does look like flares, in a row, falling together. Still, we need some views of people living in El Paso to be certain its flares. If you live there, please tell us about it in comments below. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
EL PASO, Texas – Flashing lights near Fort Bliss sparked curiosity among Northeast residents Tuesday night. A Fort Bliss spokesperson said aviation and artillery units were training in the area Tuesday night. “Trainings are conducted during hours of limited visibility using flares, visible laser aiming devices and other equipment that could contribute to strange sights to the untrained observer,” said Lt. Col. Craig Childs with Fort Bliss. Childs said the units were firing illumination rounds which hover in the air for several minutes like a giant flare at various altitudes. "This is most likely the culprit of the reports," said Childs.

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27-08-2015 om 11:52 geschreven door peter  

Two UFO Near Space Station, On So big It Lights Up the entire ISS, Aug 26, 2015, 19 min video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 26, 2015
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS

I caught this UFO near the space station. It was matching speed with the station, then it would slowly allow the station to catch up with it and pass it. I caught sight of the UFO during the day and night. I show you both views in the video. The grey metallic UFO comes very close to the station. 

Later the UFO is seen during night and something very strange happens. The space station begins to glow with a black light off of it. Then I thought maybe a UFO was very close lighting up both the small UFO and the ISS at the same time. My feelings were confirmed when glowing blue/purple lights from above begin shining down on the space station. It was a very large UFO above causing the space station to light up.

I caught over 19 minutes of video, so you know its real.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

These are the lights shining down on the space station.

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27-08-2015 om 11:49 geschreven door peter  

UFO Caught Near Sun On SOHO Image, Aug 23, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 23, 2015
Location of sighting: Between Earth and Sun 

NASA URL: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2015/c2/20150823/20150823_2124_c2_1024.jpg

This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and shows a spaceship that has a lot of similarities to the old Atlas rocket. However the bright spot may just be a reflection of sunlight and the two other lines (total three) could mean this is a three armed ship. Difficult to say for sure on this one. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Streetcap1 of Youtube states:
I am going to stick my neck out here and say that does look awfully like some sort of spacecraft a few miles off from the SOHO satellite. Please stop thinking they are near the sun, if that was the case you would not see them.

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27-08-2015 om 11:45 geschreven door peter  

Fan Made Pilot Of New Star Trek Series Called Renegades Has Been Released! Aug 24, 2015, UFO Sighting News

Release Date: August 24, 2015

I know this is off topic, but I know this is important to a lot of viewers, so its going up. This is best news I have heard all month. A fan made series has begun and it includes some very big stars from each of the old Star Trek series. Nobody can argue that Star Trek hasn't shaped today in many ways, as well as it helping us to see what we may be able to become one day, hundreds of years into the future. I know, this is somewhat similar to what is out there, so here is the full episode below, grab a sandwich and a beer, and kick back, I know I did.

I didn't read the about section of the video, so when I watched it, every 7-10 minutes, I got a wonderful nostalgic surprise. I wont post it, I would hate to give spoilers, but wow! I was very impressed with this and I really hope a big TV network picks it up. This is 1 hour and 28 minutes of heaven. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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27-08-2015 om 11:41 geschreven door peter  

How SETI Will Understand Messages Broadcast by an Alien Intelligence

Imagine the day when we finally receive a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, only to find that there’s a message embedded within. Given that we don’t speak the same language, how could we ever hope to make sense of it? We spoke to the experts to find out.

Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, aka “CETI”, is the branch of SETI concerned with both the transmission and reception of messages between ourselves and an alien civilization. Scientists have been trying to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) since the 1960s, but haven’t found anything.

At least not yet. If and when we do receive a signal, whether it be an intercepted transmission or a deliberate attempt to get our attention, we’ll be tasked with deciphering an alien message. It could prove to be a monumental task, but it’s a problem with no shortage of solutions.

Natural or Unnatural Signals?

The first challenge will be to recognize an incoming alien signal. This may prove easier said than done.

When pulsars were first discovered, for example, their eerily precise spectral flashes convinced some scientists that we were actually looking at some sort of alien beacon. And in 1977, the 72-second-long Wow! signal was likewise interpreted as extraterrestrial in nature. More plausibly, it was just a natural, continuous signal, or some human-instigated artifact. 

These episodes aside, most SETI researchers agree that an alien signal will be unambiguous.

“Due to the random motions of the particles that are ultimately at the source of natural electromagnetic emission, these emissions tend to get spread out in frequency or in time,” says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. “Technology, on the other hand, is capable of producing very fine time and frequency structure. We can use this fine structure to distinguish between natural and ‘unnatural’ sources.”

Siemion says it’s important to keep in mind that our knowledge of physics and the cosmos isn’t complete, and it’s conceivable that there are some natural processes that could mimic the types of signals we look for in SETI experiments.

“But discovering these would be great as well,” he told io9. 

•          “If an advanced civilization did want to communicate with us, they would probably choose to base their communication on something we have in common, such as the fact that we live in the same physical universe.”

- Andrew Siemion, SETI-Berkeley 

According to Douglas Vakoch, Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, we should actively look for signals that stand out from the cosmic static as distinctly artificial.

“The radio signals created by nature are spread out on the radio dial,” he says. “We’re looking for narrowband signals at one place on the radio dial.”

Overcoming the Language Barrier

Given that an ETI would most assuredly “speak” a different language than any found on Earth, it’s fair to ask how we could ever hope to overcome such a barrier. 

Linear A tablets. (Credit: University of Houston/CC BY 3.0)

And indeed, linguists are already struggling with this issue as it pertains to Linear A—an undeciphered writing system used in ancient Greece. It’s not immediately obvious if we’ll ever crack the code of this ancient language. Likewise, if we ever intercept an unintentional alien message, say something akin to a radio or television transmission, we may never be able to decipher the message, save for any visual or acoustic information gleaned from the broadcast.

But it would likely be a different story if the message was intentional.

“If an advanced civilization did want to communicate with us, they would probably choose to base their communication on something we have in common, such as the fact that we live in the same physical universe,” says Siemion. “They might use the properties of astrophysical objects, like pulsars, quasars or the shape of our galaxy, as a first step at teaching us their language.”

Siemion says that an advanced ETI, if they were fairly close to us, say within 40-50 light-years, might actually know quite a lot about us. They may have already taken it upon themselves to decipher parts of our early radio and television transmissions. If this is the case, Siemion says it may be very easy for them to communicate with us in a way we understand.

Speaking in Math

Alternately, we can forgo arbitrary symbolic communication altogether and use the logic of math as a communication medium. As Vakoch says, the ability to communicate mathematics will allow aliens to communicate virtually anything that can be quantified.

“One of the most basic parts of mathematics is counting,” Vakoch told io9. “When we think of counting, we usually imagine counting 1, 2, 3, and so on. But there are other ways to count as well.”

For example, Vakoch says we could tell an ETI about the Fibonacci series by starting with the simplest numbers, zero and one, and then add them together, and then repeat the process over and over, adding the last two numbers in the series. Zero plus one is one, one plus two is three, and so on until the Fibonacci series is obvious. 

Spencer Greenberg from Ask a Mathematician says it shouldn’t be too hard for an ETI to develop a signal that, if we received it, could tell us it was created by another intelligent life.

To understand why, Greenberg considers how we ourselves might construct a signal if we wanted aliens to notice that we’re intelligent. To that end, he devised a (somewhat oversimplified) approach that assumes an ETI would have developed the notions of binary encodings of integers (which is by no means an overreaching assumption).

Talking in code: Greenberg says we could pulse our signal by emitting a relatively high frequency, and at other times emitting a relatively low frequency. Each high section of our signal could represent the digit 1, and each low section, the digit 0. “With this mechanism in place, it’s easy to transmit in binary,” says Greenberg.

By sending out pulses in binary, Greenberg says we could let the receiver know how many bits we’re using to represent a single number. After settling on the number of bits per group (e.g. 16), we could communicate our system by simply starting the message off with counting.

So for instance, if we wanted to signal that we are treating groups of 16 bits as a single number, we could transmit all the binary numbers from 0 to 65,535 in order, each of which would be represented by 16 binary digits. Therefore, our transmission would start 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on, which in binary, with 16 bits per number, would be:

0000000000000000, 0000000000000001, 0000000000000010, 0000000000000011, 0000000000000100, etc.

Greenberg says that instead of sending each of these numbers a single time through, we might actually want to send each sequence of 16 bits a fixed number of times in a row (say, 100 times each) to provide for redundancy. That way if our signal gets corrupted in transit, it’s still easy to correct any mistakes that are introduced.

It should be obvious to an alien receiver that we are sending digits in groups of 16, with each 16 digit block representing a number. That would allow us to transmit any number we please (so long as it’s between 0 and 65,535) by representing it in the next 16 digits of our binary code.

At that point there would be plenty of options for what to send to prove that we’re reasonably intelligent. We could transmit all the prime numbers from 2 up to 65,521. We could also send triplets of numbers where the third number in the triplet is equal to the first two multiplied together, or we could send pairs of numbers that are twin primes. We could even convey mathematical formulas by creating special symbols like an equal sign.

Other ways to Communicate

Once a rudimentary mathematical language is established, we could also send a pictorial message. Again, through the use of binary, a digital image could be transmitted by us which graphically conveys a message. 

In 1974, scientists transmitted a message into space consisting of 1,679 bits, arranged into 73 lines of 23 characters per line. Called the Arecibo Message, it consisted of the Arecibo telescope itself, our Solar System, DNA, a stick figure of a human, the biochemicals of terrestrial life, and other things. 

Such messages aren’t perfect or overly sophisticated, but they can convey simple concepts, like our location relative to our Sun, and our physical appearance. Clearly, an ETI could send or transmit a similar pictorial message. 

The Pioneer message: So simple even an alien could understand it. (Credit: NASA)

Mathematics could also be used to send algorithmic messages. These systems, such as CosmicOSand logic gate matrices, use a small set of math and logic symbols to form the basis of a simple programming language that an alien receiver could conceivably run on a virtual machine. Algorithmic messages, if complex enough, could actually be used to convey advanced concepts—and even signs of intelligence—if run on a sufficiently advanced computer system.

Binary logarithms represent a microarray of expression data for 8,700 mouse genes. (Credit: Louis M. Staudt/National Cancer Institute/Public domain)

As for natural language processing, we’re still a long ways off from having the ability to make sense of arbitrary symbols. But Laurance Doyle, a member of the SETI institute, is using math to do just that. Doyle is trying to use information theory—a branch of math that looks at the structure and relationships of information—to separate binary code from random 0’s and 1’s. The idea is to find linguistic substance within undefined symbols, whether they be written or oral, and an associated grammar and syntax. Fascinatingly, Doyle’s work is being applied by marine biologists in an effort to crack the dolphin language code.

Hmm, What to Talk About...

Assuming that an alien civilization wants to reach out to us and say “hello”, it’s reasonable to wonder what else they might want to say to us.

Vakoch says the most important thing an alien civilization could communicate to another is their intention to make contact.

Siemion says ETIs might offer tips on existential dangers to humanity, both intrinsic threats, like biological weapons or artificial superintelligence, and extrinsic threats, such as asteroid impacts or a looming nearby supernova.

“Some people believe that technological progression and increased altruistic tendency go hand-in-hand—that is, that the more advanced a civilization becomes, the friendlier they get,” says Siemion. “Personally, I don’t think we have any evidence of that. In fact, I think we have evidence that the contrary may be the case.”

The Risk Factor

Indeed, this could be a rather dangerous exercise. We run the risk of receiving and translating a malign message, such as a trojan horse that contains a kind of computer virus, or the seeds of our own destruction.

And as we’ve written before at io9, the effort to deliberately transmit messages to aliens—an endeavor known as METI—needs to be seriously re-considered. Our efforts to reach ETIs could alert an evil force to our presence. 

Alien Outpost

“Sending messages of our own creation to try to make any possible aliens aware that we exist, is an incredibly risky proposition,” says Greenberg. “Sure, they might be friendly, but then again, they might not—and that’s a big risk to take,” says Greenberg. “Attempting to wake up a force more powerful than ourselves that we do not understand is simply not a good plan.”

Vakoch says that concerns of alerting an ETI to our presence are too late.

“Any civilization with the ability to travel between the stars would already know we’re here from our accidental leakage radiation,” he says. “So a sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial might already have picked up ‘I Love Lucy.’ But they still don’t know that we’re attempting to communicate with them. That’s the most important reason for us to transmit powerful, intelligible signals to other stars—to let any intelligence out there know we’re ready to make contact.”

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27-08-2015 om 00:33 geschreven door peter  

EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS VISITED THE EARTH IN THE DISTANT PAST, THE EVIDENCE IS HERE

Extraterrestrial civilization visited the Earth in the distant past and there is evidence all around us

It isn't a question anymore, if ancient man was visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings in the distant past. A great amount of evidence has been gathered that proves that in the distant past, human beings were visited by beings from another planet. These visitors were misinterpreted by our ancestor as "Gods", because our ancestor did not understand technology as we do today.

Almost all ancient civilizations that have been studied by researchers and archaeologists point to "myths" and texts of "divine" beings that came from the stars and got involved, in one way or another, with ancient humans on Earth. Ancient Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and many other ancient civilization make reference to "otherworldly" beings that descended from the sky, considered as divine, since ancient man, did not have the knowledge to explain in another way, these mysterious visitations.

Ancient texts from the Bible are perhaps the best evidence that point to the existence of "otherworldly" beings in the remote past of human history. The myths of creation, the mysterious light that guided the Israelites on the long journey through the desert, the description of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the union of children of the Gods with daughters of men, the power of the Ark of the Covenant and the trip to "heaven" of Elijah and Enoch are just some of the many biblical stories that involve divine beings who come from the skies, incredible technology of the past that was considered by ancient man as being "heavenly" or "divine". In addition to the biblical texts, we can add other stories of different cultures such as the Mahabharata of India where a War between the gods was described.

Another incredible item which seems to resemble a mask, a breathing apparatus and suit. Very similar to modern-day divers and astronauts.

Since the beginning of time, humanity has always had intervention of unknown forces, "Gods", "messengers", "angels" and other beings that, however you put it, are not from our planet, and thus are of extraterrestrial origin. This contact is reflected in ancient texts such as the Bible and the Mahabharata. Translating these ancient texts today, points to the fact of the existence of "supernatural" beings with incredible technology.

Today, if we were to witness a UFO landing, and a being existing the vehicle, we would surely know that it is a being not from Earth, an extraterrestrial. We would probably understand that kind technology and know that it originated from elsewhere. Humans can travel to space, land on Moons and we even have our very own "alien" robots on planets like Mars. But imagine if ancient man were to witness a UFO landing 5000 or 10000 years ago! How would ancient man interpret that moment? Since the difference of technology is so great, ancient man would have interpreted that being and that vehicle as "divine" and would characterize that being as "God" because that being can do something that humans at that point in history could not.

Revising ancient texts, some researchers have come to the conclusion that it is very likely that, ancient cultures such as the Aztecs, Incas and Pre-inca civilizations could have witnessed the presence of otherworldly beings and their technology, and it is very likely that these beings, in one way or another, influenced the development of ancient civilizations in the past.

Today, we continue to have these "encounters" that ancient people had thousands of years ago, the only difference is that, today, we do not catalogue UFO sightings as visitations from "the Gods". We know that "God" does not need vehicles to move from one point to another. But beings, that are similar to us in some way, do need vehicles just as we need cars, bikes, helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.

These "Ancient Astronauts" left a legacy behind, a legacy that has been recorded in many ancient texts such as the Bible or the Mahabharata to mention a few, intervening for good or for bad, in the history and development of ancient civilizations, the only thing is how you interpret these texts today. At the end, it comes down to what you believe, but the evidence is, without a doubt here.

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27-08-2015 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

3 Ways Intelligent Extraterrestrials Could Traverse The Universe In Seconds

26-08-2015 om 23:48 geschreven door peter  

Colonel Halt and Airman First Class Larry Warren – Will They Ever Unite?

Is It Really That Difficult?

Colonel Halt is a compassionate man. That statement may shock those who were at his recent Rendlesham Forest Incident presentation in the UK.

It is of course just my opinion but after the private conversations I have had with Colonel Halt since he returned to the USA, I would say my opinion is based on very solid ground. And it is ground I feel I should reveal since many people attending the conference felt that Colonel Halt had more to say but for whatever reason, did not say it.

At this point, I have no idea how Colonel Halt will react when he becomes aware that I want to make our private conversations public. However, if what he has been saying his from his heart, and not from the ‘military head’ he had on at the RFI conference, I believe he will give me his blessing to publish what I want to say.

Colonel Halt delivered what many of Larry Warren’s supporters saw as a damning blow to a much-loved figure in the RFI story. It was a shock, there is no denying that. The day before the conference, I spent some time with Colonel Halt recording an interview. I quickly realised there are two very distinct sides to a man whose military career spanned many decades. It was a career that saw him thrown, unexpectedly, into the highly volatile RFI situation – a situation that plagues him to this day. As indeed it plagues the few individuals that were actually affected by the fall-out from the incident. The few who were actually there at the time.

Perimeter fence at the old RAF Woodbridge Air Base 2015

Colonel Halt’s military career took him to Vietnam, Japan and Korea. But whatever active service he saw in those places, it is overshadowed by one week in the UK in December 1980. Publicly, Colonel Halt will forever be remembered, not for his active service in places where there was conflict but for something that happened one night in a quiet woodland in the UK.

What really happened remains a mystery and possibly always will. But one thing came across to me loud and clear when I talked to Colonel Halt, the military had a job to do on the nights in question and they did it. The military top-brass did whatever they had to do, at the time, under the direction of the US government, to contain the situation. Colonel Charles Halt will always stand by what he says publicly because that is what military people have to do – that is what they sign up for and are bound by in law, even when they leave the military.

The Colonel On Stage

So that is the military man – but what about Chuck, the family man who happens to be a retired Colonel? During my interview with Colonel Halt, I saw glimpses of Chuck when I steered him away from talk of the RFI into his everyday life as a husband and father back in the States. Chuck, I observed, is an entirely different person to ‘Colonel Halt’. The hard lines, defined by the military allegiance that must continue even into retirement, soften and he becomes just an ordinary man. Later when our interview was over, we joined up with Brenda Butler, a friend of Chuck going back 35 years. We went outside for photos and when they were done, we stood outside for sometime while they chatted over old times. The serious face of Colonel Halt dissolved again and there was a great amount of laughter as Chuck pulled memories from the past.

Old Friends In Suffolk – Colonel Halt and Brenda Butler

The RFI was hardly mentioned as the banter went back and forth and it was all good. By the following evening, in public, Colonel Halt was back, as I expected. There is only so much a military man can say about military matters in public. But the attack on Larry Warren and his book? What was that all about? I found it hard to believe that Chuck would say those things and mean them. However, Colonel Halt left the hall immediately after the conference and I did not get the chance to catch up with him again in person.

I then wrote the article which you can find by clicking here. After contacting Colonel Halt back in the states to ask more questions I was finally able to dig down past the public damning of Larry Warren and elicit what Chuck has to say about Larry. I would be lying if I told you I was shocked. Something inside me didn’t quite buy the venom he appeared to spit during his presentation which is why I pursued it further.

My feeling, as I said in my previous Colonel Halt article, is that this was a man pushed to his limits by a naughty child. He came across like a father who has had enough and snaps. I felt Colonel Halt was yelling at a wayward 19-year-old GI who unwittingly made life very difficult for him in the years following the RFI.

But I did not believe for one minute that Colonel Halt’s outburst on that stage would extend to Chuck who had stood laughing in the sun the day before.

Colonel Halt returns to the UK

So after he returned to the US, I did my best to talk to Chuck rather than Colonel Halt and what he told me might shock some people. Hopefully, he will allow me to share the content of our private conversations here. Why do I even care? I care because after talking at length to both of them, I believe Larry deserves to hear what Chuck has to say and Larry’s fans need to hear it too. Larry was naturally very angered at what Colonel Halt said at the conference so I believe it is only fair he hears what the softer side of the man who appears to dislike him had to say in private.

If I get Chuck Halt’s agreement, I will reveal what he told me in my next post. I am sure some people will have a negative reaction. Why? Because keeping Colonel Halt and Larry Warren apart may be more exciting, entertaining, intriguing and profitable  than seeing them united. But I ask you this, if we cannot resolve even the smallest conflicts on our own planet, why in the hell are we looking outwardly into the universe for other beings?

Is it time to do things differently on earth – while we still have time?

If we can’t accept that we have major differences but still be peaceful with each other, why would any ‘aliens’ want to deal with us? If we bitch and fight with each other over things we will never agree on, what happens when the first ‘alien’ says something we don’t like? Going on our horrendous track record on earth, I expect we will lash out at aliens just like we do at each other if they are the wrong colour, say the wrong thing or have the wrong opinion. That is what us humans do and we need to stop because if we don’t, any intelligent life ‘out there’ from other planets will probably just exterminate us all in the way we cull animals we believe are a nuisance to humans. Watch this space.

Update: Since I wrote this, it has been communicated to both Chuck Halt and Larry Warren for approval. They have both said they are happy with the content. I don’t have to do this – I choose to do it because they are people with real lives and families and I will never publish anything about a person without their full co-operation.

I then wrote the follow-up which I also communicated to them. Larry was shocked when I revealed Chuck Halt’s private comments. He seemed happy and appeared to feel vindicated on one point at least. He was happy with what I had written. Larry had many very favourable things to say about Chuck which I  included in the follow-up article. However, I cannot publish the second article yet because I still do not have Chuck’s permission. As the things he said to me were ‘off the record’ – I need his permission to share them.  He has not said ‘no’ – he has been silent and may still respond. I am hoping he will.  

Meanwhile, a huge storm seems to be raging in Larry’s camp in response to the Woodbridge conference. It is a storm that may be aimed at former friends who Larry perceives did nothing to defend him on the night. It is certainly aimed at the organisers who facilitated the Halt Briefing while banning Larry from being present to defend himself.  In banning him, it appears his right to reply, at the time of the presentation,  was denied him.

The storm will probably put paid to any reconciliation there might have been. 

It will be a great shame if Colonel Halt goes down in history as a man who had no time for Airman First Class Larry Warren. Chuck and Larry, as they are now with military titles stripped away, are two ordinary family men who have always been so much more than just players in a UFO mystery.

Chuck and Larry – what, or who, is preventing them from laying down their guns and moving past the conflict?

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26-08-2015 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

'Alien warp speed UFO' spotted ZOOMING past the International Space Station

Official NASA footage shows a strange craft before the space agency allegedly cuts the feed

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Alien spotters have glimpsed a strange cigar-shaped UFO zooming past theInternational Space Station at "warp speed".

The unexplained object appears in an official NASA video feed, moving at an incredible pace.

"This craft is moving so fast it only appears in one single, solitary frame," said a spokesman for SecureTeam 10, the alien hunting group which spotted it.

Rather than just dismissing the anomaly as a fault in the film or perhaps a single dust particle, the ET enthusiast zoomed in to have a closer look.

"What appeared to be a possible dust particle or meteor reveals itself to be a massive, cylinder-shaped craft," he claimed.

After the weird object zoomed past, the feed was allegedly cut off - which conspiracy theorists claim is NASA's common reaction to any sighting of an unexplained craft.

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Beneath the video on Youtube, commentors excitedly claimed the video was evidence that aliens were visiting the Earth.

"Looky looky," exclaimed one believer.

"Right after that brief shot of that UFO NASA cuts the video, what a coincidence.

"That in my opinion is proof positive that they are hiding SOMETHING from us."

Other posters casted doubt on the veracity of the sighting.

"Nothing to see here, it's probably just a space rock.

"It just looks long because thats what happens with cameras and fast moving objects."

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26-08-2015 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

SHOULD MARS BE INDEPENDENT, OR JUST A COLONY OF EARTH?

ASTROBIOLOGIST WANTS TO MAKE SURE THE RED PLANET IS INDEPENDENT FROM THE START

Artist's vision of a colony on Mars

NASA Ames Research Center

It’s a popular sci-fi plot: Earth sets up colonies on Mars; Mars colonies grow, developing their own technologies and culture; Mars colonies rebel against overbearing Earth government, demanding independence. It happens in Total Recall, in Babylon 5, in Red Mars.

But what if we gave Mars its independence right from the get-go? Rather than giving future colonies to governments or corporations, Jacob Haqq-Misra thinks we should let Martian colonists develop their own values, governments, and technologies, with minimal interference from Earth. Haqq-Misra is an astrobiologist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a non-profit organization that promotes international unity in space.

Not only would Haqq-Misra's strategy preclude any Martian wars for independence, but cultural independence could help Martians think differently enough to solve problems that Earth continues to struggle with—such as working together to fight global environmental problems, or making long-term plans for the future of humanity.

•    “Maybe Mars is more valuable in trying to seed the second incidence of civilization.”

Instead of getting divided by nations or plundered by industry, says Haqq-Misra, “maybe Mars is more valuable in trying to seed the second incidence of civilization.”

A Free Mars

The plan that Haqq-Misra lays out in an essay in New Space has five main provisions:

1. Humans who leave Earth to permanently settle on Mars relinquish their planetary citizenship as Earthlings and claim a planetary citizenship as Martians.

2. Governments, corporations, and individuals of Earth cannot engage in commerce with Mars and cannot interfere with the political, cultural, economic, or social development of Martian civilization.

3. Scientific exploration may continue as long as it does not interfere with the development of civilization on Mars. Sharing of research and information between Mars and Earth is permitted only to pursue mutual scientific or educational goals.

4. The use of land on Mars will be determined exclusively by the citizens of Mars. No Earthlings may own or otherwise lay claim to land on Mars.

5. Any technology, resources, or other objects brought from Earth to Mars become permanent fixtures of the Martian civilization. Earthlings may not make any demands for resources on Mars.

You Can't Own Mars, But You Can Rule A Colony

There is some legal precedent for the idea. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which 103 nations (including the U.S. and Russia) are party to, prohibits any nation from claiming territory in space. The treaty “makes very clear that a colony on Mars could never become a colony in the classical legal sense of the word, like the U.S. was originally a colony of the U.K.,” says Frans von der Dunk, a space law professor at the University of Nebraska.

Screenshot from 'The Martian' official trailer

20th Century Fox

The Martian, which hits theaters in October, is a great reminder of all the things that can go wrong on another planet.

Nevertheless, under the current legal system, von der Dunk says American colonists on Mars would still probably fall under U.S. jurisdiction.

Sailors in international waters are expected to follow the rules of their ship's flag, and astronauts must do the same. The rules even hold when they're not on board the ship—for example, when the Apollo astronauts roamed around the moon, or when astronauts on the International Space Station do spacewalks, they're still subject to U.S. laws.

But what about when the excursion is longer than a few hours? On the ISS, where astronauts spend months at a time, participating countries have worked up their own quasi legal system, which is pretty similar to Earth's. If an American astronaut were to hit a Russian astronaut over the head, for example, first the U.S. would have the right to determine whether a criminal act was committed. If the U.S. doesn't take action, then he could be tried under Russian jurisdiction.

The rules could be different when we're talking about pioneers who venture to another planet with no intention of returning home. Still, says von der Dunk, “You cannot simply say 'I'm no longer a citizen of the U.S.' It's not for you to decide.”

Cultural (R)evolution

Von der Dunk thinks that if Americans are able to set up self-sustaining communities on Mars, they'll consider themselves Americans and abide by U.S. laws—at least at first. “At some point in time, they will not like that anymore,” he says. “They won't feel like they are American or Russian or wherever they come from, they'll feel like they are Martian. They will say, 'Listen, we don't want to pay taxes anymore, and we want to develop our own legal system.'”

Illustration Showing a Mars Colony with Living Quarters and Solar Panels

Mars One

Cultural evolution is inevitable in small populations that splinter off from Earth. A lot of Earthly traditions just won't apply, and the Martians will develop their own jokes, rules, and customs. Haqq-Misra's suggestion of limiting contact with Earth would simply speed up that transition.

Von der Dunk thinks it would be difficult to set up a colony as a blank slate, as Haqq-Misra proposes. Mars colonists would carry with them a lot of legal and cultural baggage that biases their ideas about how society should work. But over time, Martian culture could change dramatically. "It's hard to think outside the box there, but one could think that because Mars is so different from Earth, that when they tear themselves away from traditional legal structures, they could develop something very new," says von der Dunk. "This is all very hypothetical."

Getting There Is Half The Battle

There are other potential problems. Getting to Mars ain’t easy, and there are a lot of ways to die once you get there. Unfortunately, Earth's help won’t come cheap: these days it costs about $10,000 to send one pound of supplies to the space station, and that's a much closer, easier trip than Mars. Without the financial incentives of Martian communities, resources, and/or business, nations and private companies aren’t likely to rally around the Free Mars idea. Haqq-Misra’s plan relies on either extremely thorough planning to make sure the colonies are completely self-sufficient, or generous donations to send resupply missions to Mars.

Haqq-Misra says he’s not holding his breath for anyone to jump on this idea. Still, he says, since everyone from NASA to SpaceX and Mars One has their sights set on visiting or colonizing Mars in the coming decades, it's important to think about.

“Hopefully it’s going to instigate people to have a longer-term vision for whatever we do on Mars.”

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26-08-2015 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

Has Stephen Hawking Just Solved a Huge Black-Hole Mystery?

Stephen Hawking may have just solved one of the most vexing mysteries in physics — the "information paradox."

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that the physical information about material gobbled up by a black hole is destroyed, but the laws of quantum mechanics stipulate that information is eternal. Therein lies the paradox.

Hawking — working with Malcolm Perry, of the University of Cambridge in England, and Harvard University's Andrew Stromberg — has come up with a possible solution: The quantum-mechanical information about infalling particles doesn't actually make it inside the black hole.

"I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole, as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon," Stephen Hawking said during a talk today (Aug. 25) at the Hawking Radiation conference, which is being held at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

The information is stored at the boundary as two-dimensional holograms known as "super translations," he explained. But you wouldn't want super translations, which were first introduced as a concept in 1962, to back up your hard drive.

"The information about ingoing particles is returned, but in a chaotic and useless form," Hawking said. "For all practical purposes, the information is lost."

Hawking also discussed black holes — whose gravitational pull is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape once it passes the event horizon — during a lecture last night (Aug. 24) in Stockholm.

It's possible that black holes could actually be portals to other universes, he said.

"The hole would need to be large, and if it was rotating, it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn't come back to our universe," Hawking said at the lecture, according to a KTH Royal Institute of Technology statement. "So, although I'm keen on spaceflight, I'm not going to try that."

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom,Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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26-08-2015 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

NASA And The European Space Agency Finally Prep Public For Alien Disclosure

First NASA chief scientist, Ellen Stofan openly admitted that alien life is ‘imminent’ and just last Tuesday, Dr. John Grunsfeld of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate announced that the agency was ‘on the verge’ of discovering life onplanets other than earth.

Stofan and Grunsfeld hide the fact that NASA has been lying to the public about known extraterrestrial life for decades now, and that ETs have likely have been visiting earth for centuries.

Grunsfeld told a House Committee:

•      “Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know…. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question.”

And Stofan’s recent comments were even more bold:

•    “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years. We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

Her declaration is synchronized with the agency’s recent discovery of water of five of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons. We were also told by NASA recently, that their Kepler mission found another ‘earth’ in the ‘habitable zone’ in our Universe circulating around a star that resembles our sun. NASA defines ‘habitable’ based on the ability of a planet to pool water ostensibly to support life as we know it.

And then there’s the Guardian article titled “Is Kepler 425b humanity’s best chance to find alien life?” that discusses how earth’s twin – an exoplanet more similar to our own than has ever before been known is a likely case for alien life – never mind the 12 other hospitable planets that theSeti Institute is researching, and the fact that we’ve assumed all life would require the same things as ourselves, without considering that other sentient beings might not even have physical form.

Russia has even threatened the US, essentially saying, “tell the world about aliens or we will.”

But there is more to the story – as usual – than NASA and the European Space Agency, or even Seti are revealing.

Beginning in early March 2015, there was an alleged meeting on the moon involving up to 70 private individuals along with about 120 officials representing different secret space programs and national governments who heard plans about disclosing the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Dr. Michael Salla and David Wilcock have been giving ‘air time’ or you could say ‘Internet real estate’ to a whistleblower named Corey Goode. He is also known as GoodETxSG. He has his own Facebook page titled after the Sphere Being Alliance, a life-form(s) he has been working with to help disclose the massive extent of our corporate military industrial complex into space.

Whether you believe his wild testimony of secret space programs and bases on the moon or not, the very fact that thousands of people are signing up to see him be interviewed by Wilcock on Gaiam TV is a testament to just how ready people are to be told the truth about extra terrestrial life.

When you pontificate the facts, GoodETxSG is showing up precisely when the largest space-related military industrial complex arm is admitting openly that alien life exists after decades of cover-ups and numerous possible murders, or the defaming of military personal, astronauts, and scientists who have been trying to tell us the same thing for some time now.

While it may be difficult to swallow the facts as Goode tells us – particularly that dozens of extra terrestrials have been manipulating our genetic code, and that the military industrial complex is even more bloated in space as it is here on earth – his testimony is at least worth hearing, and then deciding upon for yourself.

You can catch up rather quickly on what Goode has already ‘disclosed’ via Divine Cosmos, David Wilcock’s website, or you can go directly to Gaiam to watch his interviews. Coupled with NASA’s recent statements, and Russia’s threats, it seems something is brewing – perhaps the pressure is truly immense enough finally, that these agencies will now have to tell the truth.

Source: The Mind Unleashed

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26-08-2015 om 22:51 geschreven door peter