Photographs From Apollo Project Apparently Contain Evidence Of Alien Life

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It might be a small piece of proof, but the incredible images have caused extraterrestrial hunters to think something big. Earlier this week, NASA released new pictures of the Apollo moon missions, which astonished the world.

But no one got more excited than the online UFO spotters, who recently claimed the images featured smoking evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Alien researchers on the internet pointed out that there were at least three separate UFOs in the Apollo photos. They claimed the Apollo 17 mission went to the moon along with an ET craft.
Also identified in the pictures was a UFO with dangling arms that apparently looking towards the Apollo lander.

The UFO had a metallic look and seemed to have a window facing the Apollo team. It’s considered as the amazing find and UFO hunters just don’t see the reason NASA doesn’t go into detail about the massive amount of proof that the public is posting.

UFO hunters also highlighted the presence of an array of pyramids and alien faces on the Moon’s surface. Those believers of the conspiracy theory, which says that the human moon landings were hoaxes, now got confused if we really landed on the moon.

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25-10-2015 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

Comprehensive Information About The Search For Extraterrestrial Life In A Quick Look

Our solar system may contain some form of life as hopes are high on Jupiter’s moon Europa and other few bodies within the system. The ET life that scientists hope to discover shortly may not be intelligent life at all. However, that doesn’t mean there’s no intelligent life somewhere within our galaxy or beyond.

Karl Tate released a new infographic on Space.com detailing our search for alien life starting in 1960 with astronomer Frank Drake’s Project Ozma, which looked to scan our skies for radio signals from other planets.

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Along the way, the infographic highlights Drake’s equation for estimating the number of civilizations in the galaxy, which might be between 2 and 280 million. It discusses a mysterious radio signals received in 1977 that then eventually called the “Wow! Signal.” Furthermore, it talks about whether our effort to contact aliens using messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is a good idea. After all, we don’t know who might receive our intergalactic telephone call.

The graphic also features several sci-fi images, such as star-wrapping Dyson spheres from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the habitable ring from 1970 novel “Ringworld,” by Larry Niven. The presentation attempts to illustrate that radio waves may not be the only path to identify extraterrestrial life outside our solar system. Finding structures may also help to meet intelligent beings.

Also presented is the Kardashev scale, a suppositional way of ranking how advanced the beings from other planets might be on a scale from those who can beam radio waves to those who can take advantage of resources in the entire universe.

Lastly, the infographic presents the question – where is everybody? For the answer, check the info below!

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25-10-2015 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

Airliner Sees UFO Mothership Meeting With Smaller Craft Over Ocean, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Did you notice the red light at its end? Also there were two other glimmers of light father back.
The right side of the UFO is visible above, the left side is semi-cloaked.

Date of sighting: 7-19-2015, but submitted today.
Location of sighting: Between LA and Maui.
Source: MUCON #71817

In this submitted video, we see two UFOs. One large one that is a semi-cloaked disk, the other is much smaller below it. The large UFO turns fast to set itself over the smaller one so that it can pull it inside of its cargo bay. Also, did you see the glimmer of light on its right side? Two white glimmers farther back and a red one. A signal to the other craft below.
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Eyewitness states:
On plane coming from Maui left at night going to Seattle; probably saw it right at dawn. The event did not take place in LA, CA, but hard to know when we are in an airplane. My daughter in window seat saw it first, let me know and I saw a smoke trail with a red light then the light went out. She first took a pic and then took video. When the object turns there are no wings and my husband said it's probably a missle? We were going 500 mph at 6 to 6.5 miles up in the air. Her pic and video is attached, I couldn't get video turned.

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25-10-2015 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

Megalithic Evidence That Cusco Existed Before The Incas, Oct 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: Oct 23, 2015
Location of ruins: Cusco, Peru

Here is an interesting theory. DanielofDoria02 of Youtube says he believes that the Incas built around a previous construction that they found, reinforcing it with their own added stones. That the giant Basalt carved square rocks were created from a much more ancient and advanced society. Perhaps even ancient aliens.

I have to admit, it does look like it at first glance and it also makes a lot of sense. Tell us your thoughts on this in comments below.
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25-10-2015 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

Three images that prove the Ancient Builders of Puma Punku had access to advanced technology

Puma Punku is a place where one loses the notion of space and time. This temple complex located near Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America.

Perhaps the biggest mystery involving Puma Punku is, how ancient mankind managed to transport these huge blocks of stone from quarries within 10 to 100 km. How did they manage to achieve this type of precision cuts and how did they place the blocks in such a perfect manner. Engineers and constructors around the world today cannot answer nor replicate these achievements done by ancient mankind thousands of years ago. Archaeologists cannot come to a conclusion and answer how were these amazing blocks of stone transported. Some of them believe that it was accomplished by the large labor force of ancient Tiwanaku. Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative.

Another puzzling mystery at Puma Punku is the assembly of the walls. Each stone was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today’s engineering abilities.

The answer to these and other enigmas can be answered by a different approach and different thinking methods.

By looking at images from Puma Punku you can notice a perfection that is baffling, you will notice elegance in every single construction at Puma Punku, but most importantly, you will notice a mysterious pattern that could help explain how ancient man achieved all of this thousands of years ago.

This image is one of the best examples of advanced technology present at Puma Punku. We are looking at andesite blocks, a material that is extremely difficult to work with. Can anyone explain how ancient mankind managed such perfection, elegance and precision? We believe that this is one of the best examples of highly advanced tools that were made available to ancient man, thousands of years ago.

One of our favorite images of Puma Punku where you can see small holes that are placed with such perfection apart that it is hard to believe that primitive man achieved this with sticks and stones.

Puma Punku is one of the most important places if you want to see what ancient man was capable of. These stone structures are among the biggest ever found.

The H Blocks. A trademark of Puma Punku and perhaps one of the best examples of lost technology. The perfection present within these blocks is staggering. It is difficult to even think that ancient mankind managed to cut, transport and stack these blocks of stone which such perfection without the use of some sort of technology. Not everything can be achieved through force.

What do you think? Is it possible that the ancient builders of Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco had access to advanced technology that has been lost in history? A forgotten, omitted piece of history that mainstream scholars do not seem to be interested in?

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24-10-2015 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

Sign of alien life? Kepler telescope spots strange star

By Fox News

A distant star is getting a lot of attention from astronomers — possibly as a sign that alien life is out there.

The star KIC 8462852 was discovered through Planet Hunters, a citizen science program at Yale University. Taking data from the Kepler Space Telescope, volunteers go searching for signs of a drop in light due to orbiting exoplanets crossing in front of their parent stars.

KIC 8462852 is 1,481 light years away from Earth. A light year measures the astronomical distance that light travels in one year and is equivalent to 5.8 trillion miles. Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who wrote a paper on the star that appeared in the Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, told the New Scientist that she was drawn to the star’s flickering behavior.

Related: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin

She then sent her data to Penn State University astronomer Jason Wright, who has done research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

He was impressed.

“That was when I got interested in it because the light curve is so bizarre,” Wright told FoxNews.com. “It gets dimmer for days at a time. We haven’t seen anything quite like this.”

Wright said such behavior has been seen in young stars. Such flickering in young stars, he said, could be from something landing on the star, a disc of material passing in front of it as well as something like the “recent discovery of a giant planet with enormous rings and it very slowly, over the course of a month or two, passed in front of its star and the star kept flickering, blinking out as the rings went by.”

But KIC 8462852 is not young.

“This seems to be old. It doesn’t show any signs of youth. It is nowhere near a place that stars form,” Wright said.

“It’s moving too quickly to be a young star. It doesn’t look young,” he said. “So, that gets rid of all the natural, obvious things. Then, you start reaching for contrived ways to do this to an old star.”

Related: Cassini Gets Close Encounter With Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

In her paper, Boyajian, according to the Atlantic, ruled out a number of scenarios for the odd flickering, including instrument malfunction. She came up with only one scenario that made sense — a sea of comets pulled inwards by another passing star.

Wright said this is a “nice but contrived explanation” — and something that would have been incredibly hard for planet hunters to have noticed.

“We just happened to be looking when a giant swarm of enormous comets is passing by,” he said. “Maybe. Something weird is going on. This may be the best explanation I’ve heard so far.”

Another possibility is that the flickering is a sign of alien life, a swarm of megastructures built by space creatures passing in front of the star.

Such a scenario was first proposed in 2005 by astronomer Luke Arnold.

“If alien civilizations do build giant structures, planet-sized structures in space, sometimes they will pass in front of their star and it will look different from when a planet transits the star,” Wright told FoxNews.com. “If Kepler surveyed 100,000 stars and one of those is surrounded by alien megastructures, Kepler will notice them. They won’t look like a planet. They will look very different.”

Wright said it was “notable” that KIC 8462852 has these “very strange signatures that presumably are consistent with giant noncircular structures going in front of it.”

But Wright added that the flickering of KIC 8462852 is “unlikely to be aliens.”

“But you have got to look,” he said. “It’s got us intrigued and it’s worth it for SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] to take a look because that is what SETI does. SETI is a moon shot, a long shot … You have to try and this is one of the best places to look.”

With a clear explanation elusive, Boyajian is now teaming up to write a proposal with Wright and Andrew Siemion, director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California Berkeley. They would like to direct a huge radio dish at the star to see if it emits radio waves of the “sort that could only be emitted by artificial technology.”

“If you see radio emissions of the sort that we’ll look for with this antennae coming from that star, then that is case closed,” Wright said, comparing such a discovery to something out of the movie “Contact.” “There is no natural way to generate those. That is why they do it. It’s a slam-dunk case for alien intelligence.”

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24-10-2015 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

Former Air Force pilot witnessed UFO crash, saw the crew and they were not human

Pilot Robert Willingham was an air force colonel. He said he saw a UFO crash near the border with Mexico in 1955 while piloting a F86 of the air force.

He was there with three other jets following a B47 boeing. They were having a bombing drill flying over El Paso, Texas.

Then they received a call of distant alert and they said they registered a UFO on the radar. The UFO was flying over the North-West area of the U.S and was moving to the South.

Minutes later they saw the UFO and it was an object as bright as a star traveling at a speed of 3200 km per hour. Then the UFO turned 90 degrees to the South-West and never stopped.

While Colonel Willingham requested permission to follow the object while it was moving to the border with Mexico he saw that the UFO had already crashed in Mexican territory when he was flying over Launtry so he went back to the military base of Carswell.

After being returned to the base he requested an airplane to go back there with Jack Perkin and saw that the area was surrounded by Mexican military forces until the U.S. forces arrived.

Colonel Willingham said he not only saw the UFO but he also saw the crew of this saucer shaped UFO and they were not human.

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24-10-2015 om 17:53 geschreven door peter  

What you didn't know about the First spacewalk: A historical achievement that nearly ended in traged

50 years ago the first spacewalk nearly ended in tragedy, the story behind the historical moment which changed the way we look at space is fascinating and here we have the details.

During the so-called space-race between the USSR and the United States, the competition was fierce and both the USSR and the United States wanted to be the first to make it to the moon, to space in general… In order to conquer space, many steps were required but above all, courage was needed, a courage that would give those chosen once, the space adventure of their life time.

On March 18, 1965, Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov had an adventure of a lifetime as he stepped outside the Voskhod-2 spaceship to float in space: the first spacewalk in human history which opened many doors for future space exploration. With this great achievement, Leonov became the first human to ever ‘walk’ in space, observing planet Earth from a distance of 500 kilometers.

The First Space Walk a dangerous attempt with a happy ending. Image credit: March 26, 1965, Vol. 85, No. 13

The truth about this historical moment is fascinating and could have very well ended in a tragedy that could have changed the way we look at space exploration forever. In 1965, Leonov was celebrated by the USSR as a hero, the Cosmonaut who gave them a strategic advantage over their competitor, the United States.

On that historic day, Leonov stepped out of the spaceship attached by a 5.35 meter-long cable, remaining in space for a period of over ten minutes. When everything seemed alright, luck proved how unpredictable it was. Leonov had a very simple mission while in space: Attach a camera to the airlock, film his spacewalk with a camera mounted on the front of the spacesuit and… survive. Leonov managed almost all three objectives expect the second one. It was impossible for Leonov to document his spacewalk since his spacesuit inflated like a balloon which prevented him from reaching the shutter-switch located on his thigh.

The first human spacewalk was an extraordinary and dangerous attempt. Until then, no one knew what it was like, what to expect and how things would turn out. According to medical reports, Leonov’s core body temperature rose 1.8 degrees Celsius in just 20 minutes, nearly causing a heat stroke. Leonov floated inside his space suit.

The BBC reports Leonov’s recollections of the critical moment:

      “My suit was becoming deformed. My hands had slipped out of the gloves [and] my feet came out of the boots. The suit felt loose around my body. I had to do something. I couldn’t pull myself back using the cord. And what’s more, with this misshapen suit, it would be impossible to fit through the airlock.”

A Victory that nearly ended in defeat

As Leonov’s spacesuit bloated and stiffened in the vacuum, it was too large to fit through the airlock. Leonov opened an oxygen valve slowly, depressurizing his suit until it became small enough to allow him to squeeze into the spacecraft. The problems however, did not end once he was inside the spacecraft. Once the inflatable airlock was ejected it sent the spacecraft into an extremely dangerous spin, to add to the misery of the situations, a malfunction within the spacecraft sent oxygen levels up, a very risky situation for the cosmonauts. A single spark could have caused an explosion destroying the entire spacecraft.

In an interview with RT, former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov reflects on the dangers during the first human spacewalk:

“I keep going over the mission and I keep finding mistakes that could have been avoided. They could have led to tragedy, everything was on the edge. We were thrown to an altitude of 495 kilometers by an error, it [was]...200 kilometers higher than planned. And it so happened that we were flying some 5 kilometers below the radiation layer.”

Leonov outside the Voskhod-2 during the first human spacewalk. Image credit: Central Press / Stringer
“The sheer size of the Earth, space. We don’t understand it on the ground. Only there you can comprehend space. While from inside the spacecraft cosmonauts could see only a small fraction of the scenery, outside “the stars and the sun are everywhere… I did not expect all this.

The silence struck me. I could hear my heart beating so clearly. I could hear my breath – it even hurt to think. The heavy breaths were looped via microphones and broadcast to Earth.”

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24-10-2015 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Wat speelt zich in hemelsnaam af bij ster KIC 8462852?

Wetenschappers hebben nog nooit zoiets als dit gezien. De dipjes in de onderstaande grafiek zouden zelfs kunnen aantonen dat er rond de ster KIC 8462852 aliens zweven. Andere verklaringen zijn er ook, maar daar is net zo veel bewijs voor als voor 't alienverhaal. Namelijk geen. En dat is spannend.

Maar wij zijn geen wetenschappers, dus we snappen net zo veel van deze grafiek als jij, misschien zelfs minder. Daarom vroegen we sterrenkundige Lucas Ellerbroek wat deze ontdekking nou precies inhoudt.

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Hierboven is de helderheid van de ster KIC 8462852 in een grafiek gezet. Als je ter hoogte van de 1.0000 een horizontale lijn naar rechts trekt, heb je de gemiddelde helderheid van de ster. De uitschieters naar boven bewijzen dat een ster helderder is, die naar onder logischerwijs dat 'ie minder helder is.

Het punt bij de KIC 8462852 is dat er geen peil op te trekken is wanneer de ster helder is en wanneer niet. En dat is bij álle andere sterren die we tot nu toe hebben ontdekt wel het geval. Heel simpel gezegd is dit hoe een grafiek van een 'normale' ster eruitziet:

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Uit de grafiek hierboven kun je opmaken dat er om de twee dagen een planeet rond de ster draait, want je ziet dat er dan een dipje in de helderheid zit. Het probleem bij de KIC 8462852 is dat er geen enkel patroon te ontdekken is.

"Dat betekent niet per se dat er nu dan buitenaards leven is ontdekt, maar het kan. Er is namelijk net zo veel bewijs voor álle andere opties, als voor de optie aliens: geen", zegt Lucas. "Wetenschappers kunnen geen andere verklaringen uit het boekje halen, dus blijven alle opties open."

Aliens?

De Kepler-telescoop heeft geregistreerd dat de ster zo nu en dan zelfs 22 procent in helderheid afneemt. "Dat zou betekenen dat er iets gigantisch tussen de ster en de Kepler in hangt. Maar wat is er dan zo groot? Dat is een van de vragen waar nu een antwoord op wordt gezocht."

Radio in de ruimte

Wetenschappers zetten nu alle mogelijke verklaringen op een rij en gaan ze net zo lang door tot er geen opties overblijven om te ontkrachten. "Een groep wil de theorie over aliens nu gaan testen door radiogolven te meten rond de planeet. Als ze radio-activiteit meten, kan dat erop duiden dat er buitenaards leven contact legt met elkaar."

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Punt is alleen dat die methode, SETI, omstreden is in de wetenschap. "Het kan namelijk bewijzen dat er iets met iets communiceert, maar als er geen radiogolven worden opgevangen, hoeft dat niet per se te betekenen dat er géén buitenaards leven is. Misschien communiceren die aliens namelijk wel op een hele andere manier."

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24-10-2015 om 17:36 geschreven door peter  

[OVNI] La rencontre choc du policier Val Johnson (1979)

Published on Nov 9, 2014

Le 27 août 1979, le shérif-adjoint Val Johnson du poste de police de Marshall County (Minnesota) effectue une patrouille de routine sur la route nationale 5 à bord d'une Ford 1977 LTD de service.
Vers 1h40 du matin, alors qu'il arrive aux abords de l'intersection avec la route nationale 220, le shérif aperçoit une forte lumière sur sa gauche, derrière une ligne d'arbres. La lumière étant trop puissante pour être de simples phares de voiture, Val Johnson pense qu'il s'agit, peut être, d'un avion posé dans un champ.

Voulant s'assurer que tout va bien, le témoin décide d'aller voir de plus près et tourne à gauche pour emprunter la route nationale 220. Aussitôt, la lumière fonce sur la voiture du shérif, l'atteint en moins d'une seconde (alors que la ligne d'arbres était située à presque deux kilomètres de l'intersection des deux routes).

Le témoin et son véhicule se retrouvent complètement englobés dans cette lumière puissante, Val Johnson entend son pare-brise craquer et sombre dans l'inconscience. A 2h19, le shérif Johnson reprend conscience, il ressent une douleur terrible aux yeux. Il arrive péniblement à demander de l'aide par radio. Aussitôt, l'agent Everett Doolittle est dépêché sur place. Quand il arrive sur les lieux de l'accident, il découvre la voiture du shérif avec un des phares brisé, le capot endommagé et un choc sur le pare-brise.

Le shérif est blessé à la tête et se plaint d'une forte douleur aux yeux et semble complètement désorienté et choqué. Val Johnson sera évacué en ambulance vers l'hôpital Warren peu après. Un ophtalmologue de Grand Forks qui examina le témoin le lendemain diagnostiqua une brûlure interne des yeux due à une exposition à une très forte source de lumière. La montre-bracelet du témoin, ainsi que l'horloge du véhicule présentèrent toutes les deux un retard de 14 minutes (temps manquant inexpliqué).

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24-10-2015 om 16:57 geschreven door peter  

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24-10-2015 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

SETI listening to Star with ‘Alien Megastructures’

The search for signs of life has begun. SETI has tuned into Star KIC 8462852 to look for signals that could point towards the existence of life. Not long ago, researchers discovered huge mega structures orbiting the star KIC 8462852 which are, according to astronomers extremely bizarre.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

As we reported a few days ago, according to experts, the dips follow a pattern which suggests that the star is being orbited by a large, irregularly shaped object. What is even more interesting is the fact that the object which is causing the mysterious dips has to be a recently formed object according to scientists, as it would have been pulled in by the star’s gravity on the contrary.

Now, astronomers have begun searching for signals with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of satellite radios located 483 kilometers northeast of San Francisco. Experts have begun hunting for signals in the vicinity of KIC 8462852, a star located 1,500 light years from Earth.

Mysterious giant megastructures the product of Alien Civilizations? Guess we'll find out soon...
According to Jason Wright, an astronomer at the Pennsylvania State University, these structures, or better said mega-structures, could be the product of a highly advanced alien civilization.

But there are other explanations that have not been ruled out

While the mysterious dips are not likely caused by planets, it is possible that other celestial objects such as a huge cloud of dust, or a group of comets that literally rushed towards KIC 8462852 after a gravitational push from a passing star.


But scientists believe that it is very unlikely that these mega structures are the result of Mother Nature. Their pattern is odd. It is very possible that these giant structures could be the result of super-advanced Alien Civilizations and the mega structures orbiting the star could be giant Solar Panels or a giant Dyson Sphere placed around the star in order to harness energy.

"We are looking at it with the Allen Telescope Array," said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

According to astronomers, KIC 8462852 could host extraterrestrial life forms that do not emit any signals, meaning that even though we point our satellites at the star, and pick up nothing, that doesn’t mean that the systems is in fact lifeless. Astronomers say: “The lack of a detectable signal, after all, does not establish that KIC 8462852 is a lifeless system.”

It is possible that KIC 8462852 might have hosted an Advanced Alien Civilizations Millions of years ago and we are looking at the remains of the technology, a giant object orbiting its star, and the only thing that remains of their once great civilizations.

Astronomers say anything is possible.

"It almost doesn’t matter where you point your telescope, because there are planets everywhere," Shostak said. "If there's somebody out there, there are going to be so many of them out there that I do think there's a chance."

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24-10-2015 om 16:31 geschreven door peter  

Chasing Wormholes: The Hunt for Tunnels in Space-Time

Folding of Space-Time
[Pin It] The folding of space-time could create wormholes that could be used for faster-than-light journeys and time travel.
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Science fiction literature is full of stories in which tunnels in space-time — known as wormholes — are used for time travel. How much fact lies within the fiction? The answer is, more than you might think. Scientists are looking at ways to use traversable wormholes (if they exist) to travel faster than the speed of light — and even to travel through time itself.

"A traversable wormhole is a hyperspace tunnel, also called a throat, that connects together two remotely distant regions within our universe, or two different universes — if other universes exist — or two different periods in time, as in time travel, or different dimensions of space," physicist Eric Davis told Space.com by email.

Davis specializes in the field of space-time as a member of the Tau Zero Foundation, where he uses equations from Einstein's general theory of relativity to think about possible (or impossible) designs for traversable wormholes, warp drives and time machines.

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Building a wormhole

Wormholes were first proposed in 1916 by mathematician Ludwig Flamm, who was toying around with equations from Einstein's theory of general relativity that describe how gravity can curve space-time, which refers to the fabric of physical reality. While these tunnels through space-time are a fascinating theoretical possibility, according to physicist Kip Thorne, a professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, scientists have not yet come up with an agreed-upon way that wormholes could form in nature, and no wormholes have ever been detected.

Thorne and some of his colleagues also showed that even if a wormhole appeared, it would likely collapse before an object (or person) could pass through it. To keep the wormhole open long enough to traverse it would require some kind of scaffolding, but normal matter wouldn't stand up to the job — it would require an "exotic material."

"Dark energy is one form of naturally occurring exotic matter whose negative pressure produces the gravitationally repulsive force that pushes the space inside our universe outward, thus producing the inflationary expansion of the universe," Davis said.

Along with dark energy, scientists also know of an exotic material called dark matter, which is five times more prevalent in the universe than regular matter. To date, scientists have been unable to directly detect either dark matter or dark energy, so much about them is still unknown. Scientists can learn about these materials, though, by examining the effect they have on the space around them.

According to Ali Övgün of Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus, it's possible that wormholes could form where dark matter is present, and thus that they could exist in the outer regions of the Milky Way, where dark matter lies, as well as within other galaxies. Övgün is working to prove that wormholes could exist in regions dense with dark matter. He and his colleagues have run simulations that show that wormholes in dense regions of dark matter found in galactic halos would satisfy the physical requirements scientists think the tunnels require.

"But it is only mathematical proof," Övgün said. "I hope one day it will be possible to also find direct experimental evidence."

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So, what happens to a person or instrument traveling through a wormhole?

"Nothing! The space-time geometry of traversable wormholes requires that there be no nasty, intolerable gravitational tidal forces acting upon the spacecraft or its passengers while they move through the wormhole tunnel," Davis said. "They go into the throat at their departure location near Earth and get shunted through the tunnel to emerge out the other side near the destination star."

Because these theoretical tunnels cut through space-time, they would allow travelers to achieve speeds that appear to an outside observer to be faster than light (FTL). However, from the travelers' points of view, they would never actually outpace the speed of light — it would just seem that way to outside observers because the travelers would be taking a route that's shorter than they would have taken through ordinary space.

Before scientists could use wormholes, they would first have to find them. To date, wormholes have not been discovered. However, if they exist, locating a tunnel through space-time may not be as difficult as it sounds.

"As it is visualized in the movie 'Interstellar,' in the future, there will be some experiments to observe [wormholes] indirectly," Övgün said.

Based on certain wormhole theories, he compared peering through a wormhole to Alice's glimpse through the looking glass, in Lewis Carroll's novel of the same name. The region of space at the far end of the tunnel should stand out from the area around the entrance thanks to distortions that would be similar to the reflection in curved mirrors. Another indication may be the way light is concentrated as it moves through the wormhole tunnel, much as the wind blows through a physical tunnel.

Davis refers to what is seen at the near end of a wormhole as a "rainbow caustic effect." Such effects could be seen from a distance.

"Astronomers were planning to use telescopes to hunt for these rainbow caustics as a sign of a naturally occurring, or even an alien-made, traversable wormhole," Davis said. "I never heard if that project got off the ground."

Wormhole Spaceship
[Pin It] An artist's image of a hypothetical spacecraft that could be used to travel through a wormhole.
Credit: NASA

Traveling through time

As part of his study of wormholes, Thorne also proposed a thought experiment in which a wormhole could be used as a time machine. Thought experiments about time travel often run into paradoxes. Perhaps the most famous of these is the grandfather paradox: If an explorer went back in time and killed his or her grandfather, that person could not be born, and would never have gone back in time in the first place. This seems to suggest that backward time travel is impossible, but according to Davis, Thorne's work opened up a new avenue for scientists to explore.

"An entire cottage industry of theoretical physics was born after that, which led to the development of other space-time techniques that can produce causal, nonparadox time machines," Davis said.

But although using wormholes for time travel may appeal to fans of fiction (and those who'd like to change their past), Davis said current theories show that to make a wormhole time machine, one or both ends of the tunnel would need to be accelerated to velocities approaching the speed of light.

"It would be extremely difficult to construct a wormhole time machine," Davis said. "It's relatively much simpler to use wormholes for FTL interstellar travel between the stars."

Other physicists have suggested that using a wormhole to travel through time would cause a massive buildup of energy that would destroy the tunnel just before it could be utilized as a time machine — a process known as quantum back reaction. Nonetheless, it is still fun to dream about the potential.

"Think of all the possibilities of what people could do and the discoveries they could make if they could travel through time," Davis said. "Their adventures would be very interesting, to say the least."

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24-10-2015 om 16:22 geschreven door peter  

Have We Really Discovered A Megastructure Around A Star Build By An Alien Civilization?

Last week, the internet was abuzz with the news of a mysterious object orbiting a distant star 1,500 light-years away that was blocking a huge amount of its light. With no obvious candidate for what the object could be, one scientist suggested the very faint possibility that it could be artificial in nature – yes, made by aliens.

“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build,” Jason Wright, an astrophysicist from Pennsylvania State University, told The Atlantic. Wright wasn't directly involved in the study, which has been published in Arxiv, but made his comments after discussing the findings with lead author Tabetha Boyajian. Is he right, and if so, what could it be?

Wright has since clarified his comments and said that such a theory is extremely (emphasis on “extremely”) unlikely. But it’s intriguing, nonetheless – if not least to spark discussion as what might be out there. After all, there are hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy, itself one of hundreds of millions of galaxies in the known universe. It seems doubtful that we are the only planet with life on it, although why we have not found other intelligent life yet is a mystery, known as the Fermi Paradox.

The star in question is KIC 8462852, an old star about 1.5 times larger than the Sun. Using the Kepler space telescope, a team of astronomers found that its light dipped by up to 20% on several occasions due to the orbit of a vast object that would have to be almost half the star’s size. What’s more, these huge dips occurred at random across the 1,600 days the star was observed.

Owing to the age of the star, the object must be relatively new, or it would have been consumed by the star’s gravity. The other object cannot be a star, as it is not emitting light nor is it circular. It is also unlikely to be a planet, owing to its irregular orbit. So, what is it?

In the paper, the leading suggestion is that it is debris left from comets breaking up around the star. This would be expected to produce large amounts of infra-red radiation, though, owing to the scattering of dust around the star, something that was not observed. This led Wright to suggest the other, more outlandish theory – that an alien civilization could be the cause, or more specifically, a Dyson sphere.

A Dyson sphere is a structure that harnesses a star’s energy for use by a civilization, sort of like solar power but on a massive scale. It would be composed of hundreds or thousands of spacecraft, often referred to as a Dyson swarm, that would theoretically be large enough to block out a significant portion of a star's light.

A Dyson Sphere, illustrated, is one vageuly possible explanation. Vedexent.

It’s estimated that as a civilization gets more and more advanced, it will require more and more energy to thrive. Some consider a Dyson sphere the best way to gather this energy, labeling the civilization a type 1 on the Kardashev Scale (for reference, we are at 0.73). However, a recent separate study to find such structures around stars proved fruitless.

Indeed, if this were a Dyson sphere, it would be producing large amounts of infrared radiation, something not apparent at the moment. The researchers are planning to use telescopes to observe the star in greater detail and see if it is producing any unusual signals, but for now there doesn’t seem to be anything untoward. One possibility is that the Dyson sphere is a remnant of an ancient civilization that is now extinct, or elsewhere, and the machines are defunct, simply left to orbit the star and block its light.

Perhaps it could also be some other type of alien structure. The possibility has tantalised the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California enough to take a closer look at the star with the Allen Telescope Array as of today. We’ll have to wait and see if they find anything.

But this is all very unlikely. We’re definitely not suggesting for certain this is some kind of alien technology. Indeed, similar speculation occurred in the past when pulsars – rapidly rotating neutron stars – were discovered and mistaken for possible signs of artificial intelligence. Their existence had not previously been theorized; perhaps this latest discovery is, too, a new natural phenomenon. Even if this turns out to be nothing more than a swarm of dead comets, or something else, that would still be of huge interest. But, here or elsewhere, we’re surely going to find some sign of another intelligent race eventually. If not, as the Fermi paradox famously states, then where is everyone ( via iflscience.com )?

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24-10-2015 om 15:56 geschreven door peter  

Dogs 'mysteriously fall ill after being walked in notorious UFO hotspot dubbed UK Roswell'

ALIEN visitors have been held up as one possible causes of sickness in dogs being walked at a notorious UFO hotspot that has been dubbed 'UK's Roswell'.
By Jon Austin

Dogs have fallen ill and even gone missing or died after Rendlesham walks

Dog walkers have reported their beloved pets becoming ill after being walked in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, the scene of a mysterious mass UFO hotspot in 1980 where flying saucers are still reportedly seen.

US military personal based at RAF Woodbridge, next to the forest, reported a series of unexplained lights and even a UFO landing in the forest over the Christmas period.

Bizarre UFOs were also seen by residents of the village and the unexplained case remains one of the UK's most perplexing with the forest regularly visited by alien hunters.

It is not the first time the UFO mystery at Rendlesham has been linked to unexplained sickness.

The servicemen who "saw the craft land" have since received a payout after being "affected by radiation".

Now there have reportedly been numerous cases of dogs getting sick after being walked along what is now known as the UFO trail.

Do aliens really visit Rendlesham?

Caroline Peters from Felsted in Essex, is the latest to report her two dogs becoming ill after a visit.

She says they got so sick they almost died.

She said: “We were there for about an hour-and-a-half.

“Ruby was off the lead but Sparkie was on the lead.

"We saw toadstools but they have been ruled out –there was nothing in their tests to suggest there had been any form of poisoning.”

Both dogs stayed in the vet's overnight in intensive care, but are now recovering.

Dog walking is nearly as popular as skywatching in the forest

Health problems and lots of other weird incidents have certainly been associated with Rendlesham.

UFO author Nigel Watson

She has been told it was probably Seasonal Canine Illness - itself a mystery sickness which affects dogs from August to November.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, thinks there may be more to it.

He said: “Even today ufologists squabble over what really happened at Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980.

"Did an alien spaceship land here? Were the US airmen who saw the UFO fooled by the light from a nearby lighthouse?

"Was it a smokescreen to hide a nuclear incident or some other type of covert operation? Or was it a hoax?

“Health problems and lots of other weird incidents have certainly been associated with Rendlesham.

People claim aliens have visited the isolated woods since the 1980 sightings

"US airman John Burroughs, who said he saw the UFO on the night of Boxing Day 1980, received a medical payout from the US Veteran’s Association that confirmed he had received some physical harm from this craft.

“Ever since the incident he has had heart problems and was fitted with a pacemaker.

"John and fellow witness Jim Penniston both claim to have suffered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after seeing the three-metre craft, covered in hieroglyphics land in the woods.

“Whether it is or not it, it will add fuel to the raging controversy that surrounds this notorious UFO incident which is second only to Roswell in the annals of ufology.”

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24-10-2015 om 15:41 geschreven door peter  

The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama

UFO over DC WaPo

Could President Truman have known the story behind the front page news from July 28, 1952?

For decades, pulp fiction writers, film-makers, and countless UFO researchers have maintained that a veil of secrecy surrounds the government’s knowledge of extraterrestrial beings. But does this veil – if it exists – mask more than 70 years worth of verifiable findings from even the office of the President of the United States? Author Larry Holcombe believes the answer is “yes”, and he has set forth the evidence for that belief in his book, The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama (St. Martin’s Press). The Baltimore Post-Examiner recently spoke with Holcombe about his extensive research, which included weeks spent gleaning records in several presidential libraries. Holcombe will be one of the featured speakers at this Saturday’s Mysteries of Space & Sky Conference. The highly regarded annual UFO conference will be held in nearby Gambrills, Maryland.

BPE: Thank you for taking some time to speak with us today. To start, would you please tell us about your background? What led to your interest in UFO’s?

LH: When I was in junior high, I found a couple of Major Donald Keyhoe’s books – Flying Saucers From Outer Space and Flying Saucers Are Real – in my school library. Keyhoe was a retired Marine aviator who wrote for a number of publications in the late 1940’s. When he started to write about the flying saucer phenomenon for True Magazine, Keyhoe was a skeptic. But within a year, he became convinced that the Air Force was concealing UFO evidence.

When I graduated from high school, the Vietnam War was in progress. I joined the National Guard and served 8 years there. Then I went into selling commercial construction products, and eventually represented a manufacturer out of Chicago as a military sales manager. I closed out my business career developing the military sales for this company and traveled all over.

UFO's and PresidentsBPE: In your interaction with the military, did you ever talk about your interest in UFOs?

LH: I had some conversation, but very little. Unfortunately now, I look back on it and see that other people do the same thing; they keep it to themselves. They don’t talk about it, because it may affect their careers. A good friend who retired as a full colonel in the Air Force has a number of high-ranking officer friends who have said they are willing to talk with me. They say, “Yeah, I’d love to talk with him, but I don’t really know anything about the subject.” Whether you’ve got 3 or 4 stars on your shoulder, if you don’t have a need to know, then you don’t know.

BPE: Your book is about UFOs and the presidents. Do the presidents have a need to know?

LH: That’s a very good question. Let me answer it this way. President Truman undoubtedly had a need to know.

It is believed Truman set up an inside group, called MJ-12 or Majestic 12. This group was made up of six eminent scientists and six high-ranking military officers, including General Nathan Twining, and it charged them with handling all flying saucer issues. This was in 1947, right after Roswell and right after the National Security Act was passed and the CIA was created. Truman was deeply involved in it, although you won’t find any Truman biographer who will talk about it. There are even film clips of Truman talking about flying saucers. And there were world-wide headlines being made during the Truman Administration over flying saucers. The famous 1952 Washington merry-go-round, where Washington was overflown by numbers of these crafts. Truman got his military aide, General Robert Landry, and said (Truman had a salty tongue), “Hey get out there to find out just what the Hell is going on. I want this information to come back to me and me only.” It would strictly be handled by the office of the President.

When Truman left office, Eisenhower came in under the same general guidelines. It is my belief, based on my research, that the flying saucer issue had become so big that, after Eisenhower came into office, control of the information was slowly stripped away from the White House and placed into the hands of the intelligence community and the military industrial complex. The military industrial complex is as capable – or more – of keeping secrets than the intelligence community. They are very, very good at it.

BPE: Is that where this information still resides?

President Harry S. Truman charged Robert Landry to, “find out what the Hell is going on”.

LH: I think that’s where it resides now, so today, the presidents really know very little of it. I think it depends on who the president is, how favorable they are looked upon by the intelligence community. President George H.W. Bush was highly regarded by the intelligence community.

BPE: George H. W. Bush had been CIA Director at one point.

LH: Yes, but only for one year. People forget that. They think that, because he was Director of the CIA, that he had all the data. Bush was only director for one year, but CIA headquarters is named after him. So he was truly on the inside. I think people like Bill Clinton were frowned upon by the intelligence community, and knew very little of it. Jimmy Carter, who had a UFO sighting, said that he would open up all UFO files once he got into office, yet he learned nothing from it. Reagan probably was briefed on it in some detail. But I really think all contemporary presidents, with the exception of Richard Nixon, probably have only limited knowledge of it. I think there are some people in government that have a great deal of knowledge. Former Vice President Dick Cheney probably has a great deal of knowledge of the UFO subject, as may Donald Rumsfeld. I think they are two people on the political side that are, and have been, involved in it.

BPE: You’ve mentioned a number of the presidents from Truman to Clinton. Let me ask a specific question about President Clinton. There is a story that Clinton reached out to the intelligence community through his friend, Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell. Is there anything to this story?

LH: Well, the only story there is that when Clinton took office, he said to Webb Hubbell, “I want you to find two things for me as quickly as you can: who killed JFK and what really happened at Roswell.” There was probably more to the conversation, but the bottom line was Hubbell came up empty. He couldn’t get anything. So here you have a President of the United States asking for information on UFO’s, and he in essence is being denied the files or told they don’t exist.

BPE: Have you ever been to Roswell?

Major Jesse Marcel holds some of the debris recovered from the 1947 incident near Roswell, New Mexico. (Roswell Daily Record)

LH: I have been to Roswell every year for the Roswell festival. I’ve been invited by the International UFO Museum and Research Center every year since 2011 for their 3 or 4 day event, to lecture at the Museum. They gave me a lifetime membership this past July.

BPE: The museum in Roswell is quite interesting. I know they have scores of letters and affidavits posted throughout the main hall which validates, in one form or another, that something did happen there in 1947 which doesn’t follow the official party line.

LH: Well, Roswell has some 200 witnesses who have come forward. Some may not be totally believable. People, after so many years, can stretch the truth. But Roswell is of special interest to me. I am convinced that Roswell was an extraterrestrial event. I can’t prove it. I can’t give you a piece of the saucer. But there is so much evidence that that’s what it was; and the Air Force has lied so many times that instead of building their credibility, they’ve gone a long way to destroying their credibility.

You get all sorts of arguments over Roswell, but there are 6-7 basic facts that when taken together make it very, very hard to support what the Air Force said crashed there.

BPE: Between the economy and two continuing wars, both Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama have certainly had their hands full. Have either one of them expressed any interest in the UFO phenomena?

LH: I think that George W. Bush was so involved with terrorism after 9-11 that he gave very little consideration to the subject. When asked about it once, his reply was, “Go ask Cheney”.

When I wrote the book, I thought that Obama had very little background knowledge. That the intelligence community would not trust him or give him much information at all. But during his recent appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, when asked about the subject, his response was something like, “They don’t let us talk about that.” He said it in sort of a joking way, but that’s how he brushed it off. “They don’t let us talk about that”. Well, who is “they”? So I think there is probably a lot of truth in what he said. That he has been briefed to some limited degree, but how much a president is briefed now depends on who the president is and how much information they want to give him.

I know this may sound conspiratorial, but the people I call the keepers of the secret call the shots on how much a president knows. If there was a major UFO sighting by thousands of people, like there was in Phoenix, the president would probably be briefed on that; to what extent I do not know.

BPE: You’re talking about intrigue here, and in my mind – that brings us back to Richard Nixon.

LH: My book is actually built around the Nixon administration and what I believe was a desire to release at least some information on an extraterrestrial presence. That’s another story in and of itself, but my research shows that Nixon supported using a made for TV documentary to expose an alien presence. But then, along came Watergate and that all went away. The documentary, by the way, was eventually made, with Rod Serling as the host.

Comedian Jackie Gleason with Richard Nixon.

BPE: Aside from this documentary, I’ve heard that Nixon may have shared some of this information with one of his closest friends.

LH: We know that Jackie Gleason thought that the government was concealing UFO information. He was very concerned and irritated that the government was not divulging some of the information they had on an extraterrestrial presence.

Now it is clear to me that Nixon had a great interest in the UFO subject. He was also a very good friend of Jackie Gleason. They played golf together, and I think it’s reasonable to believe that Gleason bent Nixon’s ear about disclosure; that they talked extensively about the subject. Gleason called his house in New York the Mother Ship, and some of the smaller out buildings looked like flying saucers. When Gleason died, his wife gave 1600 volumes on UFOs to the University of Miami library.

BPE: Does your book deal with presidents prior to Truman and the events of 1948?

Yes; but it only goes back to 1941 in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. I’ve heard the stories about George Washington going into the woods at Valley Forge and having some sort of an alien encounter; it could be. You’ve got to be skeptical but also have an open mind with these things. If you don’t, you won’t do a decent job as a researcher.

My book goes back to 1941, and the first incident that I report was told by a lady named Charlotte Mann. Mann said her grandfather, who was a Baptist minister, was called to an airplane crash in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When he got there, it was not an aircraft as he knew it but a disc-shaped object which had crashed. Two or three very small men – 3 1/2-4 foot tall – occupants with big heads and big eyes, were dead, laying on the ground. So he went ahead and said a prayer for them. The fire department was there. Photographs had been taken, and then the military showed up. And when the military showed up, they confiscated everything, including the photographers’ film. Then the military commander got everyone together and said, “Folks, this is a very serious matter of national security. You are never to speak of it again to anyone at any time.”

If it wasn’t Japanese aircraft, what were coastal batteries shooting at during the Battle of Los Angeles?

Anyway, Charlotte Mann, who was a very small child at the time, remembers that she grew up with this being whispered about among the family from time to time. Her grandmother told her the whole story as she was dying of cancer. That’s the first incident and everything checks out as far as people have been able to check it out.

Then I go into the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles, where some 1600 rounds of anti-aircraft artillery were fired at a strange object that flew over the coast of Southern California. There was a lot of war news in 1942, but it was a pretty big deal and reported in the newspapers extensively. Some people were even reported to have had heart attacks over the event.

BPE: So your book deals with both verifiable facts and informed speculation?

LH: There are letters, which are not documented, that I do put in the book that I got from Dr. Robert Woods, a retired executive from McDonnell Douglas aircraft. Dr. Woods’ interest was started because McDonnell Douglas had a stake in UFOs. They wanted to know what the propulsion systems were, and they wanted to find out before Lockheed found out. It was a pure business decision, so McDonnell Douglas spent about $500,000, and Bob Woods headed that effort up.

When Bob retired, he became so enamored with the UFO question that he started his effort in authenticating leaked documents. Well, there are several leaked documents in his possession that were between President Roosevelt (FDR) and General George C. Marshall.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (New York Public Library)

In one letter General Marshall told FDR that two objects had been recovered after the Battle of Los Angeles, one by the Navy in the sea between Los Angeles and Catalina Island, and a similar object that they recovered in the San Bernadino mountains. I think his exact words were that the objects bore no resemblance to anything conventional. He went on to say that the only explanation is that they are other-worldly. I think those were his terms.

I also discuss that Roosevelt wrote George Marshall and said that, as soon as the United States was victorious in the war, which obviously he was consumed with, that they (the army and the government) would have the fruit of these wonders that we have come into possession of. And I think he even mentioned atomic weapons. But that was before anybody knew about the atomic bomb, and I’m assuming here that if Roosevelt talked about atomic power, he knew about it secretly. So he presumed that that’s what these craft must have been powered by. But that’s an assumption on my part.

The reason I put that in the book is because the terminology seemed correct for the time. For some reason, this subject seems to generate a lot of people coming forward and hoaxing things. I’m not a psychologist; I don’t understand why people do such ridiculous things. It does seem to occur quite often, so you have to be very careful. But because these documents had a ring of authenticity to them, I did include them in the book.

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24-10-2015 om 14:58 geschreven door peter  

Ingredients for Life Were Always Present on Earth, Comet Suggests

Comet Lovejoy Seen from France
[Pin It] This photo of the comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was taken on Feb. 12, 2015 by French amateur astronomer Fabrice Noel, 31 miles (50 kilometers) south of Paris. (4 minute exposure, 6400 ISO, Sony A7s DSLR).
Credit: Fabrice Noel, France

The basic building blocks of life may have been present on Earth from the very beginning.

Astronomers detected 21 different complex organic molecules streaming from Comet Lovejoy during its highly anticipated close approach to the sun this past January. Many of these same carbon-containing compounds have also been spotted around newly forming sunlike stars, researchers said.

"This suggests that our proto-planetary nebula was already enriched in complex organic molecules (as disk models suggested) when comets and planets formed," study lead author Nicolas Biver, of the Paris Observatory, told Space.com via email. [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]

IRAM Radio Telescope in Spain
[Pin It] The IRAM 100-foot (30 meters) radio telescope in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Credit: IRAM-30m radio telescope by Nicolas Biver

Biver and his colleagues studied Comet Lovejoy with the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique's 100-foot-wide (30 meters) radio telescope in Spain during two separate three-day stretches in January 2015. That's when the spectacular, green-hued comet was making its closest approach to the sun.

At the time of the observations, Lovejoy was about 0.6 astronomical units (AU) from Earth and 1.3 AU from the sun, researchers said. (One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)

The sun's heat drove a great deal of material from the comet's surface out into space; indeed, Lovejoy was one of the most active comets to cruise through Earth's neighborhood since the superbright Hale-Bopp in 1997, the researchers write in the new study, which was published online today (Oct. 23) in the journal Science Advances.

Biver and his team spotted 21 different complex organics in the cloud of material surrounding Lovejoy, including two — ethyl alcohol and the simple sugar glycolaldehyde — that had never been seen in a comet before.

The researchers also calculated the abundances (relative to water) of each type of organic molecule, and compared these abundances to those of organics observed in Comet Hale-Bopp and around two "protostars" by other research teams.

Overall, organics are quite abundant in comets — often more abundant, in fact, than they are around newly forming stars. This result is "in line with their [organics'] synthesis through grain-surface reactions and ice irradiation in the early solar nebula," Biver and his colleagues wrote in the study.

Modeling work suggests that the solar system's four biggest planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — migrated significantly in the solar system's early days. Some of these dramatic movements likely sent huge numbers of comets careening toward the realm of the rocky planets, which includes Earth and Mars, 4 billion years ago or so.

"So even if Earth was born dry and depleted of volatile elements, complex organics formed further away may have been supplied in large amount via comet nuclei early and certainly contributed to the emergence of more-complex molecules and ultimately life," Biver said.

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24-10-2015 om 14:22 geschreven door peter  

Researchers in Russia discover over a dozen of mysterious disc-shaped objects containing ‘Tungsten”

More news from Russia as researchers in Volgograd have discovered over a dozen of disk-shaped objects, including one which has over four meters in diameter. According to experts, these “Alien” disc-shaped rocks contain tungsten, a high-density metal used in military technology.

Tugnsten, aka “wolfram“ is remarkable for its robustness, especially the fact that it has the highest melting point of all the elements. Tungsten’s hardness and high density give it military applications in penetrating projectiles.

The group responsible for the discovery was Kosmopoisk, according to a Russian website, Kosmopoisk is a Russian UFO and cryptozoology research group that was performing excavations in the district of Zhirnovsky, Volgograd. While researchers have stumbled upon disc-shaped rocks in the past, this is the first time a disc-shaped rock with such proportions was unearthed.

“We had already found over a dozen of these discs, most of them had a diameter of around one meter, at Kuzbass we unearthed a disc-shaped object with a diameter of nearly two meters, but this new ‘giant’ disc shaped rock is unique and impressive,” said Vadim Chernobrov, who was in charge of the excavation.

The shape of the four-meter disc, which is extremely similar to modern-day interpretations of UFO’s has given UFO hunters and Ufologists a lot to talk about. Scott Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com believes that the discovery of this mysterious disc-shaped rock is the ultimate evidence of extraterrestrial visitations in the past, and that its composition is what makes it unique, since it is made of tungsten, which is used in military technology today.

Beyond speculations about the nature of the mysterious objects that have been unearthed, the newly found disk-shaped “UFO” has been transported to the Zhirnovsky museum, where scientists are studying it trying to find out its age and the exact composition of the material’s it is made from. However many people remains skeptical about the objects suggesting that these could be the result of natural erosion and are not the result of ‘alien beings’ visiting Earth in the distant past.

Earlier this year, another mysterious disc shaped object was discovered in Russia by a mining company near the city of Belovo located in the Kuznetsk Basin. The mysterious 1.2 meter disc was located a t depth of 40 meters suggesting that it could be very old. Archaeologists performed several tests and concluded that this perfectly circular 1.2 meter disc was something made by man in the distant past.

Is it possible that these mysterious objects are “monuments” created by ancient man? Representations of what they had seen in the past? Or is it possible as skeptics suggest, that these disk-shaped objects are the product of natural erosion?

If they are the result of natural erosion… how would you explain the large amounts of tungsten?

These disc shaped objects will certainly continue to fuel the debate among UFO hunters, Ufologists and skeptics. We look forward to finding out more about the objects after experts analyze them in the Zhirnovsky museum in Russia. Stay tuned for more information about these incredible objects.

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24-10-2015 om 14:12 geschreven door peter  

Researchers: A study shows that there was life on Earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought

     "We need to think differently about the early Earth.” Elizabeth Bell

A team of geochemists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have just found evidence that there was life on Earth 4,100 million years ago, ie, 300 million years earlier than previously thought. The finding implies that life came into existence very soon after our world was formed, 4.554 million years ago. The work was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

“Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking,” said Mark Harrison, co-author of the research and a professor of geochemistry at UCLA.

“Life on Earth may have started almost instantaneously,” added Harrison, a member of the National Academy of Sciences. “With the right ingredients, life seems to form very quickly.”

According to this new study, life existed on our planet even before the massive bombardment of the inner solar system some 3,900 million years ago when numerous celestial objects crashed into the Moon and Earth.

Carbon found in a piece of zircon indicates life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

“If all life on Earth died during this bombardment, which some scientists have argued, then life must have restarted quickly,” said Patrick Boehnke, a co-author of the research and a graduate student in Harrison’s laboratory.

Countless researchers believed that the Earth was a desolate and parched planet in the distant past, but just as we learned from what we have found out on Mars, it isn’t quite as science suggested.



“The early Earth certainly wasn’t a hellish, dry, boiling planet; we see absolutely no evidence for that,” Harrison said. “The planet was probably much more like it is today than previously thought.”

Under the supervision of Elizabeth Bell, investigator from UCLA studied over 10,000 zircons formed from molten rocks from Western Australia. Zircons capture and preserve their immediate environment which has led researchers to nickname them ‘time capsules’.

According to a report from UCLA’s website, scientists identified 656 zircons containing dark specks that could be revealing and closely analyzed 79 of them with Raman spectroscopy, a technique that shows the molecular and chemical structure of ancient microorganisms in three dimensions.

Researchers had one goal, look for carbon, a key component for life. Interestingly, one of the 79 zicrons contained graphite in two locations.

Researchers are very confident that these ziccros actually represent 4.1 billion year-old graphite. “There is no better case of a primary inclusion in a mineral ever documented, and nobody has offered a plausible alternative explanation for graphite of non-biological origin into a zircon.”

Harrison added that the research suggest that life as we know it in the universe could be abundant since on our planet, simple life appears to have formed very fast.

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24-10-2015 om 13:59 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Panama City, Florida on 26th September 2015

New interesting video footage of a UFO sighting recorded over Panama City, Florida on 26th September 2015.

Poster said:
I would love to have this analysed because this was truly the weirdest thing l ever encountered. It was a very cloudy night. No stars. No noise. Towards the end it started disappearing and reappearing. What l can’t see on this video, is when it really disappeared, purple light beamed from the clouds above it. I have still pics of it that l took before filming. The light emitted from it changed colors and was brighter than a regular light. The light resembled lasers or neon, however it was so bright, it seemed unreal. It was less than a mile away…l was on the 17th floor of an ocean front condo balcony. You can hear the people on the beach reacting to it…Let me know what you think. I have not believed in in aliens.

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24-10-2015 om 12:25 geschreven door peter