The Conspiracy Theorists 'Holy Grail' UFO Has Returned After A Mysterious Absence

© YouTube/secureteam10Conspiracy theories are a natural by-product of space exploration, surfacing to provide an answer when neither our eyes or governments are able to provide one.

One of the oldest theories around has to be the 'Black Knight' satellite, a mysterious black object which has been repeatedly referred to in reference to sightings all over the world and indeed even outside of this world.

After a period of absence from the limelight it appears as though the 'Black Knight' is back again, appearing in the sky above Jacksonville, Florida.

Believed to be a '13,000 year-old alien satellite' (no, really), the 'Black Knight' story originates as far back as 1954, however theorists use a series of images taken in 1998 by the Space Shuttle Endeavour which showed a mysterious black object apparently in orbit around the Earth.

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NASA quickly dealt with the 'rumour' calling it nothing more than a thermal heat plate that had fallen off the shuttle.

Of course once a theorist gets hold of a good set of images you're unlikely to keep them quiet and the idea has persisted ever since.

YouTube user "secureteam10" who posted the video has a history of posting UFO videos that could be considered 'dubious' by even the most believing of theorists.

That hasn't stopped the video from getting over 133,000 views though, cementing the one singular truth that comes out of every 'UFO discovery'. Whether you believe them or not, people don't want us to be alone in the universe, and in some ways, that's pretty reassuring. 

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27-08-2015 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

Does Ice on Mars mean Life will be Found?

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the search for alien life on the Red Planet.

• ‘This discovery will provide the momentum, we are going to put a man on Mars,’ said Nasa’s Dr Jim Garvin.

How much Ice is there? If it was to melt, it would cover the entire planet in an ocean at least 1,640ft deep.

The news greatly increases the chances that there was once at least microscopic life on Mars and that some of it may still survive-Having water just below the surface also means that human colonies could survive and even thrive on the planet and indicates that fuel for manned spaceflight could be manufactured there.

Just beneath the planet’s dirt surface, UA researchers found an enormous slab of water ice, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California and Texas combined.

It was a “crazy-looking crater” on the face of Mars that caught Ali Bramson’s eye. But it was a simple calculation that explained the crater’s strange shape.

Combining data gleaned from two powerful instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, Bramson and her colleagues determined why the crater is terraced — not bowl shaped, like most craters of this size.

“Craters should be bowl shaped, but this one had terraces in the wall,” says Bramson, a graduate student in the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL.

Terraces can form when there are layers of different materials in the planet’s subsurface, such as dirt, ice or rock.

“It’s worth mentioning that terraced craters of this size are quite rare,” says Shane Byrne, associate professor in LPL. “But in this area of Mars (Arcadia Planitia), there are a lot of terraced craters. The craters may have formed at different times, but they all have terraces, which indicates something weird is going on in the subsurface.”

Terraced Crater in Arcadia Planitia NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Thanks to Mars’ unstable obliquity — the degree the planet tilts on its axis — its climate changes often. Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a large moon to keep it stable. Instead, it wobbles on its axis, and that wobbling leads to dramatic climatic shifts. Those shifts, in turn, have led to intermittent ice ages.

Using MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera, which is operated out of LPL, the researchers created three-dimensional models of the area’s craters, which allowed them to measure the depth of their terraces. The researchers then used MRO’s Shallow Radar, or SHARAD, instrument to beam radar pulses to Mars, allowing them to measure the time it took for the radar signals to penetrate the surface’s buried layers and bounce back.

Bramson combined the two data sets to measure the radar waves’ speed, a pivotal clue to the layers’ composition.

In this crater’s case, the layers turned out to be ice, and lots of it. Just beneath Mars’ dirt surface, or regolith, the researchers found an enormous slab of water ice, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California and Texas combined.

The researchers’ results were published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

While the presence of ice came as little surprise to Bramson and Byrne, its age, amount and location did. Although scientists have known for some time about Mars’ icy deposits at its poles and have used them to look at its climatic history, knowledge of icy layers at the planet’s midlatitudes, analogous to earthly latitudes falling between the Canadian-U.S. border and Kansas, is something new.

“Knowing where the ice is and how thick it is can tell you about Mars’ past climates,” Byrne says. “The fact that the ice is so thick and widespread leads us to think it came into place during one of Mars’ past climates when it snowed a bunch, ice accumulated, was buried, and then preserved.

“There have been a lot of climate changes between now and the tens of millions of years ago when we suspect the ice was put there. But it shouldn’t be stable today, and other past climates of ice instability in this region mean the ice should’ve sublimated away into the dry Martian atmosphere by now. So, that’s what we need to investigate.

“What kept the ice around all this time? There’s no climate model that we have now that explains this.”

Also Curiosity confirms Water!

UNEXPECTEDLY high levels of liquid water have been found just a metre under the surface of Mars, boosting the chances of the Red Planet once housing life.

The historic discovery was made by Nasa’a Curiosity Rover – a robotic four-wheel drive space probe which is exploring in detail the surface of Mars – during its latest mission to forensically analyse the Martian floor.

The rover will now turn its attention to looking for evidence of “ancient habitable environments” by examining layers of the lower Mount Sharp region of Mars, and hopefully evidence about how early Mars environments evolved from wetter to drier conditions.

Until this year it was believed Mars was too cold to hold any liquid water, but it emerged in April the Rover found Martian soil is damp with liquid brine, due to the presence of a salt that significantly lowers the freezing point of water.

But now this month the rover had found rocks just a meter below the surface with up to four times as much water content as previously found.

Previous observations by the probe’s stereo camera showed areas characteristic of old riverbed, with rounded pebbles indicating there were once flowing rivers up to one meter deep.

In April close-up images showed slanting expanses of sedimentary deposits, lying one above the other – the kind of deposits formed when large amounts of water flow down the slopes of a crater and meet stagnant water in the form of a lake.

Curiosity rover MAHLI camera wheel images from SOL 529. You can clearly see soil sticking to the rover wheels as if moist:

Silica, monitored with Curiosity’s laser-firing Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, is a rock-forming chemical containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz.

Hydrogen in the ground beneath the rover is monitored by the rover’s Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument. It has been detected at low levels everywhere Curiosity has driven and is interpreted as the hydrogen in water molecules or hydroxyl ions bound within or absorbed onto minerals in the rocks and soil.

Igor Mitrofanov, DAN Principal Investigator of Space Research Institute, Moscow, said: “The ground about one metre beneath the rover in this area holds three or four times as much water as the ground anywhere else Curiosity has driven during its three years on Mars.”

The rover has spent several weeks in the Marias Pass region investigating a “geological contact zone” and rocks “unexpectedly high in silica and hydrogen content” indicating water bound to minerals in the ground.

Also Mars Glaciers Confirmed!

Several satellites orbit Mars and on satellite images, researchers have been able to observe the shape of glaciers just below the surface. For a long time scientists did not know if the ice was made of frozen water (H2O) or of carbon dioxide (CO2) or whether it was mud.

Using radar measurements from the NASA satellite, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have been able to determine that is water ice.

The image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera shows that a thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as the surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that there are glaciers composed of frozen water underneath the dust.

Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 3.6-foot(1.1- meter) thick layer of ice, scientists said In August 2015.

The glaciers are found in two bands in the mid-southern and mid-northern latitudes. Radar data, collected by Mars-orbiting satellites, combined with computer models of ice flows show the planet has about 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic meters) of water locked in the ice, according to a study published in the issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letter.

Mars distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes — between the blue lines, in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers.

Credit: Mars Digital Image Model, NASA/Nanna Karlsso

We have known about Ice Deposits for some time, the HRSC on ESA’s Mars Express obtained this perspective view on 2 February 2005 during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 meters per pixel.

It shows an unnamed impact crater located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars’s far northern latitudes, at approximately 70.5° North and 103° East.

The crater is 35 kilometers wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometers beneath the crater rim. The circular patch of bright material located at the center of the crater is residual water ice.

The colors are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times. The view is looking east.

A frozen lake of water-ice on the floor of a 35 km wide impact crater on Mars.

Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Neukum

We Live in Exciting Times in Space and Planet exploration and with plans of human settlements on Mars these discoveries confirm that settlements will have access to water. And with water a large list of possibilities come into play, like Terraforming!

What would the Red Planet look like?

See a fantasy animation below

http://www.modifiedmars.com/ is a project with the ambition to visualize a 23rd century terraformed Mars and to explore its touristic potential.

It is hard to believe that just a few centuries ago Mars was a lifeless place. Around the turn of the millennium, a time when space programs were stagnating due to a lack of vision by those in power, no human had even set foot on the then Red Planet. Dust storms were torturing the arid landscape, it’s stark beauty unseen by human eyes.

Only a few people were aware of the immense promise of terraforming Mars. With environmental problems on the home world running out of control, even the thought of modifying another planet was like blasphemy to many other earthlings’ ears. Still, it happened.

Just over two hundred years later, rivers are running once more through ancient valleys, ocean waters are washing a long and capricious shoreline, forests are working their way up on magnificent slopes.This Modified Mars is a home to millions of people and the Solar System’s favorite tourist destination.

Ok,… so the the last Video is more of promising fantasy visualization.

What does Science Say?

What do you Say?

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Brent Peterson @UAATN

Sources: http://uanews.org/story/terraced-craters-windows-into-mars-icy-past
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-mars-belts-glaciers-frozen.html#jCp

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27-08-2015 om 23:42 geschreven door peter  

Astronauts Photograph 35 Mile High 'Sky Jellyfish' That Live Above the Clouds

Over the past century a number of writers on Fortean topics have speculated that there are strange, unknown beings that live above us in the sky - atmospheric beasts that range from dragons to massive 'sky jellyfish'. Could it be possible that some sightings - in particular of the latter type of 'beast' - are caused by atmospheric phenomena that are only just now beginning to be understood?

A case in point would be so-called 'sprites' - "large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky." The first report of a sprite sighting was in the late 19th century, but they weren't photographed until a century later.

Now, sprites are captured in photographs and on video quite often - and recently, some were even seen from above, by astronauts on the International Space Station (see image at the top of this post). On August 10th, the astronauts spotted red sprites above a cluster of storms over Mexico and El Salvador, and managed to snap some wonderful images.

Click through the link below for more imagery and information.

Link: Red Sprites Above the U.S. and Central America

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acquired August 10, 2015download large image (6 MB, JPEG, 4928x3280)

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

Huge Beam of Light appears above Earth captured during ISS Live Stream

27-08-2015 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

Whatever happened to the Marshall County cop who hit a UFO?

27-08-2015 om 22:14 geschreven door peter  

Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell Speaks: UFO Cover-Ups Must End

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27-08-2015 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

Black Knight UFO Satellite Debunked

A new video and photographic images has arisen from UFOlogists who claimed they had further proof of the mysterious ‘Black Knight’ satellite. Alien researchers have been calling the ‘Black Knight’ “one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life” for the past 17 years, while some claimit has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.

Watch the proof on ParaNormicsTV (video below)

The above video claims to conclusively prove the ‘Black Knight’, as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).

In the above video from NASA of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS. The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space. It is easy to identify that the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the ‘Black Knight’ in the 1998 pictures seized on by tin-foilists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.

After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of branding it a huge cover up.

The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there. He was one of the first people to hear the rhythmic beating of a pulsar.

In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet. Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.

The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the ‘Black Knight Satellite’ while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.

It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists’ data from 1928, before claiming the “messages” suggested the ‘Black Knight’ was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.

Many skeptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.

They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.

A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found. There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the ‘Black Knight satellite’ on that mission or at all.

Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods. Despite this video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled ‘Black Knight satellite’ could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction. Not sure how the true believers would know that since the shape and dimensions of an ISS thermal blanket is unknown to them. They just know. These thermal blankets are custom formed to fit over the heavily utilized and odd shaped ISS components for a custom fit.

So a thermal blanket (which can be up to 10 cm’s thick) that is the exact shape and size is discarded or lost on the ISS. ISS cameras catch it slowly meandering away…but no it’s a 13,000 year old alien probe obviously…

For some reason which I can not fathom many, many people purposely and intentionally want and can believe anything. Facts do not sway them and anything that substantially threatens their topsy-turvey worldview is instantly labelled a conspiracy. It is the height of intellectual laziness. This whole ‘Black Knight’ subject was explained to 100% satisfaction to the people that really know…NASA themselves. But to some people UFOlogy has become a religion. None of those pesky facts for them…belief is all they need even if it provably wrong.

UFOlogy MUST sway and discourage this religiosity of the UFO subject. It helps no one, confuses most and irritates people that KNOW better. Faith in anything is a bad thing. It robs a person of the burden of thinking too much and festers lies and deceit.

UFOlogy and UFO’s are REAL…no faith required. The scientific facts all point to a Universe teaming with life. Science is our only hope to validate and legitimize the study of such a paradigm shaking subject.  People have to learn to critically think about what they believe. In the end what you believe does not matter, it is what you know that counts.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk

Source: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21mar_1/

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27-08-2015 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

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. 

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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