Germans believe in aliens

It's not just sci-fi nerds: According to a representative survey, a lot of Germans can put their skepticism aside when it comes to creatures from outer space. Even scientists believe there could be extraterrestrial life.

Are we alone in the universe? More than half of the Germans polled in a recent survey don't think so. Market research institute YouGov asked 1,171 people whether they believed in extraterrestrials and 56 percent said yes.

More than 1,000 people asked is considered a representative number for Germany. YouGov researchers conducted the survey via an online questionnaire between September 18 and 22. Anna Schneider, senior consultant with the institute, said she was not surprised by the high number of believers.

"The reason for believing is a mix of hope and fear," Schneider told DW. "It's hard for humans to imagine that we are this special and singular in a universe whose end we don't even know, but it's also not easy to picture sharing the special status of intelligent life. So I expected an outcome of around fifty-fifty."

Life finds a way

Klaus Jäger says it's only "plausible" that we're not alone

The idea that aliens or extraterrestrials could exist is not just purported by a layman's majority; it's also subject to serious scientific research.

"The formation of life in the entire cosmos, in every niche it can find, is probably a completely natural process," Klaus Jäger, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy , told DW. He pointed to the fact that simple forms of life survive even in the most barren conditions, like at the bottom of the deep sea. Why not on far-away planets?

Discoveries made by space missions support the idea that somewhere, extraterrestrials exist, according to Jäger.

"Scientific facts are pretty clearly pointing toward the existence of life outside of Earth," the astronomer and spokesman of theGerman Astronomical Society said. "Even in interstellar gas that floats around and among the stars in our milky way we've found organic material, which is the preliminary stage to life."

Aliens among us?

Jäger does not believe, however, that aliens are already among us, saying that finding another life-form is a possible scenario of the future.

Martin Schädler, webmaster of the German website and online community www.alien.de disagrees. He became interested in extraterrestrials roughly 20 years ago when he read a book about alien abductions and does not only believe that aliens exist, but that they have been to Earth, too.

"The universe is gigantic and it has existed for such a long time - why should we be the only living things in it?" Schädler asked. "And how likely is it really that aliens are not here on Earth, too? I believe that the universe is so big and so old that it's brimming with extraterrestrial life, that it's full of it. That no one would have made their way to us so far is very unlikely to me."

There's a great fascination with aliens, like at this science fiction exhibition in Leipzig, Germany

The tech-expert, who works on email encryption as a day job, told DW he thought that the high number of people who believe in aliens was partially due to the presence of astronomy in daily life. With media reporting on space-related discoveries and astronomy documentaries airing on TV, people become more aware of the sheer size of our universe, Schädler says.

From there, he believes, it's only a small step to wondering why we should be alone in it.

How Hollywood believers could be disappointed

Women seem to be doing more wondering - and doubting - than men. According to the YouGov survey, 61 percent of men, but only 51 percent of women believe in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

"Maybe the underlying reason is a difference in love of adventure - or the cinematic education," Anna Schneider from YouGov said. "I think Hollywood is partly responsible for this outcome."

If aliens ever do come to Earth, their spaceships hopefully won't wreak havoc like this one in "Independence Day"

Movies like "Alien" and "Star Wars" have an audience that is more male than female, so men could be more likely to believe in extraterrestrials, according to Schneider's theory. But astronomer Klaus Jäger emphasizes that life in space may not look like what film fans imagine it to be.

Instead of man-sized creatures arriving in impressive space ships, aliens could also be smaller - much smaller, the astronomer says. Perhaps single-cell organisms will be the first extraterrestrial life-forms to be discovered.

That would be much less exciting than meeting a friendly, talking alien like ET, but also more comfortable than discovering that we're sharing the universe with a highly intelligent hostile species à la "Independence Day," the Hollywood blockbuster in which vicious creatures from outer space try to eradicate humanity.

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25-09-2015 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 9/24/2015

(Before It's News)

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• Ministry of Defence covering up infamous UFO sightings which made 14 children draw similar pictures, claims Tory peer – Mirror Online
• Germans believe in aliens – DW
• Broadhaven UFO book launched today – Milford & West Wales Mercury
• Man who blamed demons, aliens gets prison for burning home – WPXI News
• The E.T. crowd: We can handle the truth – Purdue Exponent

25-09-2015 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: “Stonehenge ontdekt op Mars”

Op Mars is een mysterieuze steencirkel ontdekt, die de naam Marshenge heeft gekregen. Volgens alienjagers doet de cirkel sterk denken aan Stonehenge in het Engelse Wiltshire.

De vreemde verzameling stenen is volgens sommigen achtergelaten door een oude Marsbeschaving. Experts hebben in het verleden gezegd dat dergelijke steencirkels kunnen ontstaan door natuurlijke processen die zich ook hier op aarde voordoen. Zo schrijft Jeffrey Kargel van de Universiteit van Arizona dat steencirkels zich op Mars kunnen vormen als gevolg van geologische activiteit.

Op de Facebookpagina van Journey to the Surface of the Mars, waar geregeld ongewone vondsten voorbij komen, werd aandacht besteed aan de steencirkel. Op het YouTube-kanaal Mister Enigma is een filmpje verschenen waarin het object wordt vergeleken met Stonehenge.

Piramides

“Hebben de bouwers van Stonehenge mogelijk een bezoek gebracht aan Mars en hebben ze daar hetzelfde bouwwerk neergezet, of hebben we bezoek gehad van wezens die ons hebben geleerd om deze dingen te bouwen,” zei hij. “Of is het slechts een illusie?”

Schrijver Nigel Watson zei: “Er zijn al vaker piramideachtige structuren gespot op Mars, die vervolgens zijn gelinkt aan de oude piramides op aarde. Marshenge wordt nu gelinkt aan onze eigen prehistorische culturen.”

Aardbeving

“Ondanks alle sceptici zijn dergelijke theorieën niet minder populair geworden,” ging hij verder. “Door de ontdekking van Marshenge lijkt het er sterk op dat astronauten in het verleden ons zonnestelsel hebben bezocht en een blijvende invloed hebben gehad op de geschiedenis van de mens.”

“Het is nogal wat om Marshenge te vergelijken met Stonehenge,” zei Watson. “Je weet bijvoorbeeld niet hoe groot deze objecten zijn of hoe ze er van dichtbij uitzien. Het kan gewoon een verzameling stenen zijn die in een ver verleden door aardbevingen aan het oppervlak zijn gekomen.”

De steencirkel op Mars is gevonden op foto’s die zijn gemaakt door de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Hieronder het filmpje van Mister Enigma:

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25-09-2015 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

No nearby asteroids approaching says JPL/NASA data, Sept 25, 2015, UFO Sighting News

JPL Source: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

I've been hearing a lot of talk about an asteroid that is suppose to hit Earth between Sept 23 and 28th, but could find nothing to support it. If there is one, then NASA is hiding all the data from it. There is however two semi-close asteroids that are about the same distance from Earth as the moon is. The first of the two will come near us on Sept 25, but it will be 2.3 times the moons distance from us. Then on Sept 30 there is another that will be 1.3 the distance to the moon. That means its slighter further away than our moon. Thats still far off, so no worries. 
Scott C. Waring
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25-09-2015 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

Dark UFO Over Martian Surface Observes Rover, Sept 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: September 2015
Location of discovery: Mars
NASA photo: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/n/2915/1N386964719EFFBR51P1670L0M1.JPG


I have never seen this kind of object on Mars before. The UFO is dark, more so than the surface of the hill, which means its not part of it. It has a pole line above and below that seems perfectly balanced. It could be that the small alien people we have been finding are still alive and this could be one of their craft observing the rover. It has a good vantage point from the hill.  
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Streetcap1 of Youtube states:
This is a photo from Opportunity Rover on Mars. I am posting the Link below. Opportunity is still LIVE and updates pictures almost daily. There are just too many anomalies being found by myself and other Ufologists to dismiss them as nothing. One day we will be proved right. When you have seen these things right above you and I have, it changes your perception of all you have been taught. People don't believe you, so I'll keep posting what I find.

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25-09-2015 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Henderson Watching Over City At Night, Nevada On Sept 23, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 23, 2015

Location of sighting: Henderson, Nevada

 

This UFO looks like its scanning the city at night, or even watching over it. The UFO is bright red and accelerates fast. The UFO just disappears when its lights turn off, so we cannot determine what direction it leaves in the end. Overall, its an awesome video by Steve Barone of Youtube. 

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

 

Eyewitness states: 

This video was captured in the foothills near Henderson, Nevada which borders Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of September 23, 2015. This is such a reliable spot to capture UFOs. I get the feeling that these UFOs have been there doing what they do for a very long time. One of these days I hope to understand what their purpose is and what it is they are doing. I could see at least a couple UFOs in this video but at times there can be six or more of them back there.

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25-09-2015 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

Amazing UFO sighting filmed over Iqaluit, Canada 21-Sep-2015

Here’s one really fascinating footage of a fast objects maneuvering in the sky above Iqaluit, the largest city and territorial capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. This was taken on 21st September 2015.

Witness report: i was home, my camera caught two shots of an object that appears and disappears in frame. 
I shot the time-lapse at 3 seconds apart. It appears in one shot but doesn’t appear in previous or after shots. Shot#1985-nothing, #1986-has object and #1987 has no object showing. Same with object in shot #2021, which has moved a little to the left. 
I only saw them when I put the movie together. 
I first thought it was glare, but after fiddling with the light balance, it really looked like a solid object. 
It just moved a little in between 1986-2021 photos. 
Feelings? Curious, very curious.

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25-09-2015 om 22:19 geschreven door peter  

Snowden Explains the Reason Behind Alien Silence

Encryption isn’t a new thing as people have been using it to protect their online privacy. However, American whistleblower Edward Snowden has offered a new idea about encryption. He said the detection of signals sent from aliens could be difficult because of the security measure.

Snowden thoughts about the encryption and foreign signals were made during an interview with science communicator and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the StarTalk podcast.

Snowden was communicating from Moscow through a beam remote presence system, which is a robot video link. The whistleblower managed to control the robot from Russia. He rolled straight into the office of Tyson at the Hayden Planetarium in New York.

Tyson asked Snowden on the possibility of alien civilizations communicating with encrypted messages. Snowden answered that most advanced societies may have been encrypting their communications, and it may be the reason humanity never heard from other civilizations. Snowden went on to say that there’s no real method to determine encrypted messages in a properly encrypted communication.

Snowden became famous after leaking classified U.S. documents involving secret mass surveillance program. Washington charged him with espionage and theft, and Russia granted him asylum.

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25-09-2015 om 22:15 geschreven door peter  

Amerikaanse generaal-majoor onthult wat er werkelijk op Mars is aangetroffen

“De tijd is nu écht aangebroken dat de regering, wetenschappers en luchtvaartexperts samenwerken om de vragen over UFO’s te ontrafelen,” zei John Podesta, oud-topadviseur van president Obama, manager van Hillary Clintons presidentscampagne en de voormalige stafchef van president Bill Clinton.

Mede door de uitspraken van deze hooggeplaatste overheidsfunctionaris, spreken steeds meer mensen zich openlijk uit over dit fenomeen. Generaal-majoor Albert Stubblebine is één van hen. Hij werkte in totaal 32 jaar in het leger en stond tussen 1981 en 1984 aan het hoofd van INSCOM (Intelligence and Security Command). Hij had de leiding over 16.000 troepen.

Stubblebine speelde een belangrijk rol in het Stargate Project, een programma dat was gericht op remote viewing of verzien. Deze vorm van buitenzintuiglijke waarneming stelt een persoon in staat om een locatie tot op vele honderdduizenden kilometers afstand te beschrijven met het geestesoog.

Albert Stubblebine

De uitkomsten van dit project zijn gepubliceerd in het Journal of Scientific Exploration. Individuen wisten tijdens het project fysieke objecten te beschrijven die zich ver van hen vandaan bevonden.

Het Stargate Project vormde onder meer de inspiratie voor de film The Men Who Stare at Goats, die gaat over een man die beweert een voormalig paranormaal soldaat te zijn. Hij vertelt over een speciale afdeling van het Amerikaanse leger die zich bezighoudt met het ontwikkelen van paranormale strijdkrachten.

Generaal Stubblebine had over Mars het volgende te zeggen:

• Er zijn structuren op het oppervlak van Mars. Daarnaast zijn er structuren onder het oppervlak van Mars die niet konden worden gezien door de camera’s van de Voyager, die in 1976 langs de planeet vloog. Er zijn ook machines op en onder het oppervlak van Mars, die je tot in detail kunt bekijken.

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25-09-2015 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

La machine d'Anticythère est encore plus ancienne qu'on ne le croyait

Une nouvelle étude suggère que le stupéfiant mécanisme d'Anticythère serait plus vieux qu'on ne le pensait; au lieu d'avoir 1500 ans d'avance sur son époque, ce pourrait être 1800...

Le mécanisme avait été découvert en 1904 dans l'épave d'un bateau qui avait coulé dans la mer Egée aux alentours de 60 avant JC. Bien que son origine soit inconnue, il devait servir à calculer les mouvements astronomiques, ce qui en fait en quelque sorte un précurseur des ordinateurs.

Le degré avancé de sophistication de l'appareil le rend mystérieux, étant bien plus avancé que tout instrument connu de son époque, ou même des siècles qui ont suivi...

Même si des parties sont manquantes, après avoir passé autant de temps dans l'eau salée profonde, il avait eu, d'après une étude, au moins 30 engrenages. C'est peut-être pourquoi pour nombre de personnes, il représente le summum de la technologie de l'ancien monde et qu'il fut perdu pendant les siècles obscurs.

Si des dispositifs comme celui-ci avaient survécu, Kepler pourraient avoir trouvé la tâche visant à expliquer les orbites des planètes beaucoup plus facile à réaliser.

Bien que les constructeurs ne devaient probablement pas comprendre pourquoi la lune accélérait et ralentissait sur son orbite, ils étaient suffisamment conscient du phénomène. En fait, la machine le simule à la perfection.


L'une des fonctions du mécanisme était de prédire les éclipses, et une étude de ces cadrans montrent qu'ils opéraient sur un calendrier commençant en 205 avant JC. Les estimations de l'âge de la construction de la machine ont été progressivement repoussées, après avoir commencées avec l'année où il coula avec le navire.

L'appareil était abrité dans une boite, qui portait des gravures allant de 80 à 90 avant JC, mais les caractères correspondaient à une époque remontant entre 100 et 150 avant JC.
Cependant, dans The Archive of History of Exact Sciences, le Dr Christian Carman de l'Université Nationale de Quilmes en Argentine, et le Dr James Evans de l'Université Puget Sound, pensent avoir identifié l'éclipse solaire qui eut lieu au treizième mois sur le calendrier de la machine. Si c'est le cas, cela entrainerait sa date de départ, lorsque les cadrans sont à 0, à Mai 205 avant JC.

Carman et Evans ajoutent, "Nous avons aussi examiné des possibilités pour la théorie qui soutient la thèse des périodes des éclipses sur le cadran du Saros et qui a trouvé que le schéma arithmétique, de style babylonien, utilise une équation du centre et des vitesses journalières qui correspondrait bien avec les périodes journalières inscrites. De plus, un schéma arithmétique pour les périodes écliptiques apporte la preuve de quelque chose de mieux que ce que pourrait apporter un modèle trigonométrique."

Alors que le dispositif pourrait théoriquement avoir été construit avec une date de départ fixée de nombreuses années avant sa construction, cela aurait réduit son utilité. Aussi précis que soit le mécanisme, les erreurs s'accumulent naturellement, réduisant son exactitude; aussi, les constructeurs n'ont pas dû commencer trop loin dans le passé. 

Les spéculations sur les origines du mécanisme se sont souvent concentrées sur 

Archimède, si ce n'est comme inventeur, au moins comme inspirateur. Cependant, l'influence babylonienne rend cela improbable, bien que la date de commencement se situe à peine 7 ans après son meurtre.

Voici une vidéo d'une recréation du mécanisme en Lego pour avoir une idée de sa complexité:

Source:

• IFL Science: "Ancient Computer Even More Ancient Than We Thought"

Dernier article sur Anticythère:

• Le mécanisme d'Anticythère révèle certains de ses secrets

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25-09-2015 om 01:03 geschreven door peter  

crédit: journaldemontreal.com

Article- source: journaldemontreal.com via l’AQU.

Un couple de Mirabel a tout récemment raconté les détails d’une soirée pour le moins troublante qu’il a dit avoir vécue le 10 juin 2010, à Sainte-Scholastique, en prenant part à un enregistrement organisé par l’Association québécoise d’ufologie.

Alors qu’ils revenaient du ciné-parc Saint-Eustache par la 148 vers 23 h, l’homme et la femme ont aperçu un étrange objet volant non identifié pourvu de lumières blanches voler à très basse altitude tout près de leur véhicule, à environ 150 mètres au-dessus d’eux.

Selon l’un des témoins, l’objet émettait une vibration et avait la grosseur d’une maison. «Ça ne se peut pas qu’un objet aussi gros soit aussi près d’un boisé. Si c’était un avion, il y aurait eu un écrasement.»

L’objet a été vu d’assez près (moins d’une centaine de mètres), confirmant qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’un appareil conventionnel.

En arrivant à la maison, ils s’en parlent. Ils se couchent vers minuit. Vers 1 h du matin, la femme se fait réveiller par les jappements de son chien, qui se trouve dans sa cage au sous-sol. L’animal aboie de manière hystérique, contrairement à sa nature plutôt calme. En ouvrant les yeux, la résidente aperçoit une lumière blanche éblouissante illuminant sa chambre à coucher. Prise de panique, elle tente de réveiller son conjoint, qui a habituellement le sommeil léger, mais en vain.

Le président de l’Association québécoise d’ufologie, Gilles Milot, s’est entretenu avec les deux témoins. Voici ce qu’ils lui ont raconté.

Vidéo  ovni expert sur youtube

Ajoutée le 7 sept. 2015

« C’est en revenant du Ciné-Parc St-Eustache en direction de Mirabel le 10 juin 2010 vers 23h00 qu’un couple observa un étrange objet oblong pourvu de lumières blanches qui survolait un champ à très basse altitude.

Lire le rapport complet : http://ovni-expert.com/2015/07/28/cin…

L’objet a été vu d’assez près (moins d’une centaine de mètres) pour confirmer qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’un appareil conventionnel. De retour à la maison, le couple, bien qu’encore ébranlé, se prépara à aller se coucher. Une fois au lit, la jeune femme aperçut une intense lueur blanche envahir leur chambre. Tandis qu’elle tenta, en vain, de réveiller son conjoint qui dort généralement d’un sommeil très léger, le chien jappait frénétiquement, d’une manière inhabituelle. Prise de peur, elle trouva refuge sous les couvertures et réalisa soudain qu’elle avait dormi toute la nuit, malgré la crainte qui l’habitait. 
Quelle était donc cet objet qui inonda de lumière leur chambre à coucher ?

Ufologue-enquêteur : Gilles Milot
Conception et réalisation : André Gauthier et Jonathan Laporte »

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25-09-2015 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

Un ancien ingénieur de la RAF explique que le MI5 réalisait des faux crop circles

crédit: the-x-files.fr/

Article source: the-x-files.fr/

Un ancien ingénieur RAF déclare : « Le MI5 a payé des gens pour réaliser de faux crop circles pour discréditer la recherche ufologique. »

David Clayton, ancien ingénieur de la Royal Air Force, explique que MI5 payait des farceurs pour créer de faux crop circles afin de discréditer les observations authentiques d’ovnis et de Men in Black.

David Clayton est à présent un spécialiste des crop circles et mutilations de bétails.

M. Clayton met en évidence le fait que les crop circles, réalisés dans les années 1980, pourraient potentiellement être l’œuvre des « Aliens »étant donné que les plantes situées à l’intérieur du cercle n’étaient pas été écrasé par la force physique, mais plutôt par la chaleur.

M. Clayton admet que la plupart des crop circles, mis en évidence depuis les années 1990, sont des faux, mais que des vrais avaient été découverts et avérés.

Il affirme que les agences de renseignement britanniques ont été derrière la majeure partie des crop circles.

Il déclare : « Le MI5 payait les gens pour brouiller les pistes. »

crédit: the-x-files.fr/

Gary Hestletine, ufologue, ayant organisé l’événement à Holmfirth dans le West Yorkshire, pense qu’il existe une « politique délibérée » menée par les autorités dans le but minimiser ou discréditer toute activité inexplicable.

Il a également critiqué les médias traditionnels de ne pas vouloir regarder la vérité en face.

Il déclare : « La presse doit enlever ses œillères et sélectionner les meilleurs témoignages… »

Le média Express.co.uk   a contacté le MI5 pour les interroger au sujet des accusations de Clayton.

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25-09-2015 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

GreenBiz tech talk explores future of sustainable space travel

NASA

GreenBiz Group will host a collaborative discussion among NASA and business leaders on the role of emerging technologies for sustainable, long-duration spaceflight.

In two sessions at GreenBiz’s annual VERGE conference, NASA will reach beyond the aerospace industry for ideas on providing such necessities as food, energy, water and building materials to astronauts traveling to Mars and beyond.

VERGE, the flagship of a global event series produced by GreenBiz Group, looks at how technology accelerates sustainability solutions across industries and sectors in a climate-constrained world. VERGE 2015 will be Oct. 26-29 at the Fairmont San Jose. Additional speakers and agenda sessions are being added weekly to the event website.

At this year’s event, astronaut Cady Coleman and Jason Crusan, director of Advanced Exploration Systems with the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA, will challenge the VERGE audience — which includes Fortune 500 companies as well as tech start-ups — to come up with the innovations NASA needs to sustain life in deep space and invites them to “Ideate with NASA” on how sustainable technologies and processes are helping to enable the journey to Mars and beyond.

“We hope to collaborate with the nation’s best innovators — people with different ideologies and influences to help us ideate on what it will take for us to sustain life beyond Earth,” said Crusan, who leads technology and innovation approaches to new flight and system capabilities for human exploration.

“We’re seeing non-traditional industries become a part of the solution and there’s a transfer of knowledge that bodes well for both space and Earth.”

Despite accomplishments in low-Earth orbit, space missions are still constrained by the need to re-supply and replenish spacecraft from Earth. Leaving the blue planet presents a host of challenges that stretch the definitions of concepts such as supply chain management, logistics and sustainability. It requires that astronauts grow their food, filter water, generate power and build structures on distant planets and moons using indigenous materials.

A VERGE workshop, “The Trajectory to Sustainable Space Exploration,” will bring together representatives from NASA and private-sector companies to address the space program’s technology needs for sustainable sources of air, water, food and recycling for long-distance human space exploration.

It represents a unique opportunity for both large and small tech companies to “Ideate with NASA” about how to solve pressing problems associated with deep-space travel.

“The absence of gravity changes the lens through which we look at a lot of things,” said Coleman, an American chemist, former U.S. Air Force officer and current NASA astronaut. A two-time space shuttle veteran and International Space Station resident who logged 159 days in space, Coleman will help lead the “Ideate with NASA” workshop Oct. 27.

“Making things sustainable, whether on Earth or in space, is very technical in nature, but we hope to glean what we can from sustainably focused groups of experts to better understand how we can take our discoveries from space and apply these to life on Earth.”

“In talking with Cady and Jason, it is clear that if we wanted to go to Mars tomorrow, it’s already possible,” said Joel Makower, chairman of GreenBiz Group.

“The challenge and the opportunity for the tech community is to apply its unparalleled innovation capabilities to making space travel sustainable. Those innovations will, in turn, help make things more sustainable here on Spaceship Earth.”

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25-09-2015 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

To Mars And Back On One Fuel Tank: University Student Beats NASA Fuel-Efficiency Record

Traveling to the Red Planet presents several obstacles, but a university student may have just addressed one by developing an ion space drive more fuel-efficient than NASA’s.
(Photo : Kevin Dooley | Flickr

A Physics doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney has developed a new kind of ion space drive that has left NASA's own in the dust in terms of fuel efficiency.

The agency has been developing ion space drives for years and its HiPEP system currently has capacity for 9,600 (+/- 200) seconds of specific impulse. Patrick Neumann's work, however, the Neumann Drive, is capable of up to 14, 690 (+/- 2,000) seconds. Given this figure, even conservative results on the Neumann Drive would result in a performance well above NASA's record, meaning that it is using up fuel more efficiently, which will allow for longer use. Additionally, Neumann's ion space drive can run on different kinds of metals, unlike the HiPEP that can only utilize xenon gas. The Neumann Drive was running on magnesium when it beat NASA's fuel-efficiency record.

To function, the ion space drive developed by Neumann relies on a reaction produced by metal and electricity, where electric arcs hit the fuel source (magnesium, in this case), leading ions to spray. The resulting spray is then gathered by a magnetic thrust, producing thrust in short and light bursts. Current propulsion devices running on chemicals typically operate by producing short, high-powered bursts they can coast on. Because the Neumann Drive uses more sustained bursts, it preserves the fuel source better, making it ideal for long-term missions.

The Neumann Drive has the potential to be packhorse for space travel, transporting cargo over long distances, but it also offers the added benefit of cleaning up space debris by recycling old satellites as fresh fuel. This ion space drive runs on metals, remember? And there are a lot of metal pieces floating around in space. If Neumann's drive can utilize scrap metal in space, it could not just dramatically reduce the price of space transport but enable safer travels in space as it will be reducing debris floating around.

If a satellite uses the Neumann Drive, it will also stay in orbit longer, allowing more data to be gathered and letting its owner make the most out of investing in the facility.

Neumann was assisted by Marcela Bilek and David McKenzie. He has submitted a patent for the Neumann Drive under Neumann Space, his new company, and is in the process of acquiring funding for his research's next stage. His work will be presented at the 15th Australian Space Research Conference.

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25-09-2015 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

‘Ion space drive’ designed by Australian student smashes NASA’s fuel efficiency record

Australian student smashes NASA’s fuel efficiency record with ‘Ion Space Drive’

With some improvements the innovative Ion space drive would be able to power a spacecraft so that it can travel till “Mars and return with just one tank of fuel”.

Paddy Neumann, a PhD student from the University of Sydney, has designed a new kind of “Ion space drive” which has smashed the current fuel efficiency record set by NASA.

Ion space drive: 

The new space drive designed by an Australian student works on the principle of Ion propulsion technology.

Under normal conditions, a spacecraft is propelled by using standard chemicals as fuel; however in this technology the gas is ionized or charged electrically to propel the spacecraft.

Currently NASA’s record holder for fuel efficiency is its High Power Electric Propulsion or HiPEP system and it allows 9,600 (+/- 200) seconds of specific impulse.

However, as per the student newspaper Honi Soit, the new Ion space drive developed by Neumann was able to achieve up to  14,690 (+/- 2,000), which is pretty impressive.

Interestingly, the new Ion space drive or the Neumann’s Ion drive uses an entirely new type of fuel. NASA’s HiPEP system runs on Xenon gas, however the Neumann’s Ion drive utilizes a range of metals as fuel and so far the best results have been achieved by using metal magnesium.

Working of the Ion space drive:

In this case electricity is used to ionize the metal. Electric arcs strike magnesium, which is being used as fuel, and it results in the formation of ion spray that is then directed by a magnetic nozzle to produce the required thrust.

The standard chemical propulsion devices that are currently used in the industry works by short, high powered bursts of thrusts followed by coasting.

On the other hand, Neumann’s drive can run on a combination of short and light bursts thus conserving the fuel source.

Neumann’s Ion drive smashes the current fuel efficiency record set by NASA; however it could not beat NASA’s acceleration. In other words the new Ion space drive is not an ideal option to power a spacecraft off a planet. However, Neumann says that with some improvements, such as pairing with other propulsion systems, the Ion space drive would be in a better position to power a spacecraft so that it can travel longer distances without having to stop and refuel.

Neumann says there is also a possibility that in future his Ion space drive might actually power a spacecraft so that it can travel to  “Mars and back on one tank of fuel”.

Neumann believes that his Ion space drive would definitely reduce the cost of space transportation and at the same time help the satellites to remain in orbit for much longer time as well as it might also power the spacecraft to travel much longer distances.

Another plus point of Neumann’s Ion drive is that it runs on those metals which are commonly found in space junk indicating that the exhausted satellites could possibly be utilized as fuel for this new drive thus making provision for recycling of the old satellites. Well, this also means that the new Ion space drive would be much more cheaper and it might probably even help the space companies to save on the exorbitant cost of carting fuel into space.

The results of Neumann’s innovative Ion space drive is currently awaiting a peer review; however Neumann has already lodged a patent for the new device under the purview of a new start up namedNeumann Space, because for some unknown reason the University of Sydney decided not to commercialize the invention and just passed back the research completely to Neumann and other two researchers who were part of the project.

He plans to present the details of his innovative device on 30th September at the 15th Australian Space Research Conference, where he might provide some more concrete details of his device.

For now, Neumann and his team are busy securing funds for further research and development of the new propulsion system-Neumann’s Ion drive.

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25-09-2015 om 00:11 geschreven door peter  

New York Times writer begs us not to colonize Mars

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The push back against settling space, taken up by Jess Zimmerman in the UK Guardian, has continued in the pages of the New York Times. In a Monday Oped, a writer named Ed Regis begs,“Let’s Not Move to Mars.” The article is both a projection of the author’s personal distaste for what he thinks are the difficulties of traveling to and setting on Mars and a straw man that he leaves for the very end.

Most of the article is a recitation of the hazards of interplanetary travel and of trying to survive on Mars. The litany of horribles is a familiar one to those who have studied the subject. Weightlessness, radiation, close quarters, and a myriad of other conditions would make the trip to Mars a “nightmare.” As for Mars, he states, “it would be accurate to call Mars a veritable hell for living things.”

The first hint that the author is offering a straw man comes with the qualifier he uses, “Using current technology and conventional chemical rockets.” Of course, a serious Mars effort would involve developing new technology and advanced propulsion systems, nuclear powered rockets for example. In any event, people with the courage and fortitude to survive and overcome the hazards of settling Mars almost certainly exist today.

The straw man is trotted out in the final paragraph.

“These are only a few of the many serious challenges that must be overcome before anyone can put human beings on Mars and expect them to live for more than five minutes. The notion that we can start colonizing Mars within the next 10 years or so is an overoptimistic, delusory idea that falls just short of being a joke.”

The problem is that the only group that thinks we are going to start colonizing Mars within the next ten years is the Dutch-based Mars One. The Mars One plan, such as it is, has been thoroughly debunked by experts from MIT. SpaceX’s Elon Musk may or may not believe we can be on Mars by 2025, but he is keeping his plans closely guarded.

In any case, human ingenuity would likely mitigate a lot of the hazards of traveling to Mars. The same quality would change Mars from a “living hell” into a new Earth by a process called terraforming. The humans who will accomplish this task will be bolder and more resilient than the author who trashes the idea in the New York Times.

25-09-2015 om 00:06 geschreven door peter  

Ministry of Defence covering up infamous UFO sightings which made 14 children draw similar pictures, claims Tory peer

Tory peer calls on defence chiefs to come clean about what happened in the skies over an area known as the Broad Haven 

The Ministry of Defence has been accused of covering up a top secret investigation into one of Britain's most infamous spates of UFO sightings.

In the late 1970s, a number of mysterious objects were spotted above an area which became known as the Broad Haven Triangle, in Pembrokeshire.

One extraordinary incident occurred near a primary school , when 14 pupils saw a UFO landing and drew strikingly similar pictures of it.

Now a Tory peer has called on the MoD to come clean and tell the world what it knows about the bizarre events.

Lord Black of Brentwood said: "A number of recently released Ministry of Defence files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.

"There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new."

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The peer has a long-standing interest in the subject of UFOs, but his interest in this old case was sparked by new research into the Broad Haven sightings.

Neil Spring, a novelist, investigated several of the cases during the research for his upcoming book The Watchers, digging up a document which suggests a secret UFO investigation was carried out in the area, without politicians knowing about it.

"I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal," he said.

The declassified document is a letter from the head of S4, a wing of the MoD, to the Provost & Security Service, which functions as a kind of internal police force within the RAF.

In this letter, an official expressed surprise that so many otherwise "level-headed" witnesses had reported UFO sightings to the press and suggested a "discreet enquiry" could be the best way to proceed.

"I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you," the defence chief wrote.

At the time the MoD had denied there was any unusual activity in the area.

Nick Pope, who worked as UFO investigator for the MOD, said: “This bombshell document shows how the MoD's UFO project asked the RAF Police to conduct a secret investigation into these mysterious events, while Parliament, the media and the public were being told the subject was of no defence significance."

"Defence ministers were cut out of the loop," he suggested.

The sightings in Broad Haven took place near a military base, leading some observers to suggest the crafts had actually been Harrier jump jets and the aliens were just men wearing fireproof flying outfits.

We have contacted the MoD for comment.

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24-09-2015 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

MIT’s Super-Fast Camera Can Capture Light as it Travels

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A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second. Compare that with a traditional movie camera which takes a mere 24. This new advancement in photographic technology has given scientists the ability to photograph the movement of the fastest thing in the Universe, light. In the video below, you’ll see experimental footage of light photons traveling 600-million-miles-per-hour through water. The actual event occurred in a nano second, but the camera has the ability to slow it down to twenty seconds. For some perspective, according to New York Times writer, John Markoff, “If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion moving through the same fluid, the resulting movie would last three years.”

It’s impossible to directly record light so the camera takes millions of scans to recreate each image. The process has been called femto-photography and according to Andrea Velten, a researcher involved with the project, “There's nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera.”

(H/T Curiosity)

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24-09-2015 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

24-09-2015 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

1966: I KNOW THE SECRET OF THE FLYING SAUCERS

24-09-2015 om 22:17 geschreven door peter