Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-01-2016
Quetzalquatl—White Alien God of the Mesoamericans
Quetzalquatl—White An God of the Mesoamericans
How did humanity surpass the test of time? Did we make it on our own, or were we in fact guided by intelligent extraterrestrial beings who were willing to help us grow and prosper in their own image?
According to numerous legends and beliefs, the “White Gods“ once came to Earth and helped humanity develop and thrive by offering knowledge in many ways.
Quetzalcoatl is considered to be one of the first “white gods“ to visit our planet. He was one of the most important Gods from ancient Mesoamerica and was also known as “Kukulkán” to the Mayans, “Gucumatz” to the Quichés of Guatemala, and “Ehecatl” to the Huastecs of the Gulf of Mexico.
Based on Mesoamerican folklore, Quetzalcoatl is the one who created the world and all of mankind, and was regarded as the god of wind and rain. He is also known for structuring art and culture and was looked upon as the organizer of society.
Since 1200 CE in Central Mexico, he was considered the god of learning, agriculture, science, and arts. He was the patron god of merchants, as he managed to discover corn with the help of a giant red ant who led him to a mountain packed full of grain and seeds. Legends named this entity, Quetzalcoatl, or the “God of Dawn”. This is one of the reasons why he is believed to be from a far-away planet.
Keep in mind that according to Maya paintings and sculptures, many structures arose during this period and strongly resembled spaceships from the 21st century. Many images representing the gods showed similarities to what astronauts look like nowadays.
It is believed that Quetzalcoatl burned himself and vanished into the skies towards the planet identified today as Venus. Could this be interpreted as an extraterrestrial being fulfilling its mission on Earth and quickly vanishing through the skies to reach new planets in need of guidance?
The writer Robert Marx has written broadly about the concept of “white gods,“ after he came to the conclusion that they are present in almost every indigenous culture in America.
After his journey in South America, the British writer Harold Wilkins also came to the conclusion that a vanished white race occupied all of South America in ancient times,helping the indigenous people cultivate food, and build up pyramids along with other large structures that would otherwise be impossible to buildconsidering the lack of knowledge and tools during that period. He also claimed that Quetzalcoatl was from Atlantis.
Sharing his beliefs, some ancient astronaut and UFO writers have suited that the “white gods“ were actually extraterrestrial beings. Peter Kolosimo believed that the myths of Quetzalcoatl had support, in fact he stated that the legends actually described a full race of white men who were born in spaceships and migrated to Atlantis; after the city was destroyed by water, the remaining white men moved to the Americas where they were treated like “white gods“ by the “primitive earth – dwellers.“
other interesting theory is based on the writings of the Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Sahaguan, from the 16th century in which he describes the meeting between the Mexica emperor “Moctezuma the 2nd” and the Spanish captain “Hernan Cortes”.
At first sight of the white Spanish men, emperor Moctezuma thought the “white gods“ have returned from the east, and Captain Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl. Because of his beliefs, the Emperor gifted him a mask representing the “Feathered Serpent”.
The mask was carved from a single piece of cedar wood and covered with turquoise mosaic work. The teeth were made of white clam shell. The design consisted of two serpents green and blue, encircling the eyes and entangled over the nose and around the mouth.
According to Sahagun’s description, it was worn with a crown of dazzling long green – blue shimmering feathers, possibly those of the quetzal, a tropical rain forest bird with iridescent green – blue plumage.
Much of the idea of Captain Cortes being seen as a deity can be followed back to the Florentine Codex written down about 50 years after the conquest. In the codex’s tale of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortes, the ruler of the Aztec is illustrated as giving a speech in classical oratorical Nahuatl, a dialect which as reported verbatim in the codex written by Sahagun’s informants, added such prostrate announcement of divine, or near divine adoration.
An imperfect intellectual understanding of high Nahuatl oratory style make the exact intent of these comments tricky to approve, but some argue that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortes may well have been meant as the exact opposite of what it was taken to mean: kindness in Aztec culture was a way to affirm dominance and show superiority.
This speech, which has been extensively referred to, has been a factor in the widespread assumption that Moctezuma was addressing Cortes as the returning god Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl is described as light skinned, bearded and tall, with a serpent head hiding his human appearance. The earliest surviving image of Quetzalcoatl comes from the Olmec civilization with a sculpture at La Venta, of a beaked snake with a feather crest surrounded by two quetzal birds.
The earliest representations found in Mexico, is at Teotihuacan where there are sculptures of feathered snakes dating from the 3rd century CE and that is also the place where a six – tiered pyramid was built in the honor of the Serpent God of knowledge.
The deity was often described in architectural and sculptural decorations, appearing in other sites such as Xochivalco but he was rarely represented with any human form before the Late Postclassical period.
KUKULKAN
Since 1200 CE, Quetzalcoatl was usually represented in his human form and mostly wore shell jewelry and a tapered hat. Representations of the god often have “wind jewelry“ which is a cross section of a clam whorl worn as a pectoral, and often wear red masks like a goose’s beak bearing long canine teeth.
As time passed by, we educated ourselves through history and managed to see a glimpse of what life used to be. At our current level of understanding, we realize that some things from the past might have been impossible to accomplish without any external help.
The White Gods could have given us knowledge, thus explaining how the Mesoamericans used to obtain power.Butas the extraterrestrials left, the indigenous people couldn’t suffice in controlling that power, a force given perhaps too early, and without any warning of its side effects.
It ultimately led to self-destruction of the most knowledgeable and prosperous civilizations of our past because the guidance of aliens had long disappeared.
Will they return as the prophecies foretell and help us again to build a better future?
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Mysterious Sounds Coming From the Sky Reported All Over the World
Mysterious Sounds Coming From the Sky Reported All Over the World
In the last couple of weeks, Dutch citizens have reported hearing strange sounds in the sky. Martijn Mastenbroek from Pijnacker, a town in the Dutch province of South Holland, was at home on the evening of January 10th, 2016 when he suddenly heard a peculiar sound.
It sounded like trumpets, he recalls. It lasted about five seconds. No, it wasn’t coming from the washer. It really came from outside. My girlfriend heard it too.
A week earlier, on the evening of January 3rd, residents in Casablanca, Agadir, Tangier and other Moroccan cities also heard similar strange sounds, ‘coming from the sky.’ Several citizens were able to catch the sound on film and posted recordings on YouTube.
The following day, on January 4th, a British man – Youtube user ‘Stevie B’ – recorded the same kind of sound in Bristol, southwest England
We suspect that these sounds are some kind of transduced extra-low frequency radio waves. While we wouldn’t normally be able to hear them, due to changes in our near-space and the broader cosmic environment, they seem to interact with other electromagnetic factors in, on and around the planet, causing them to be amplified and converted into sound waves.
Although nobody knows for sure what these sounds are, they are almost certainly related to each other, and together they constitute a unique natural phenomenon that had also been described in ancient times.
The Hopi Indians speak of the trumpet sound coming from earth and sky and consider it to be a precursor of the Red Star Kachina – The Purifier. Could this bizarre “trumpet sound” be interpreted as a sign announcing the arrival of the notorious Planet X? Well, if we look at the recent discovery of a ninth planet in our solar system, the Hopi Indians prophecy doesn’t sound so absurd after all.
Other analysts have suggested that the anomalous sounds are emanating deep from within the earth’s crust. Are the ancient beings finally awakening? Or maybe Mother Earth has had enough of us humans and is now preparing to eradicate us?
Whatever the case, we cannot deny the importance of this sign. Something BIG is upon us and more and more people are feeling it. More evidence in the video below filmed in Morocco.
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5 Alien Species That Already Walk Among Us
5 Alien Species That Already Walk Among Us
While it is often believed that most aliens are an unfriendly bunch, there are a few species that proved to be quite benefical for humanity. Some of the more friendly alien species are listed below.
THE LYRANS
It is widely believed that the Lyrans are our oldest ancestors. In fact, there are those who believe the Lyrans were actually the first “humans” to form a civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.
The world famous Billy Meier was the first to spill the beans about Lyrans. He claims that they revealed to him their origins and story. Lucky for us that he was wishful enough to share this story with mankind.
They have described their ancient past, and consequently ours, as originating in a far sun-system in a star group near what we now know today as the Ring Nebula of Lyra, for which we have called them Lyrans in the same manner as we refer to human beings from what we call the Pleiades.
These early Lyrans during their numerous migrations in their great cosmic Arks, went to many other star systems and found suitable habitat, and put down colonies, eventually launching their own space travelers.
Many millennia ago, their civilization achieved a great level of technological advancement, ranking high on Kardashev’s scale of comparison, however, conflicts between different factions turned into a total war. The situation escalated to such a point that many fled and colonized Hyades, the Pleiades and the Vega systems.
The offspring of these colonies eventually began to settle on Earth approximately 22 million years ago and have existed here on Earth before taking off for other star systems. Some UFO researchers believe the Lyrans could be the gods depicted in many ancient religious texts. If this theory is correct, then the Lyrans could be credited for being one of the main influences in creating and shaping mankind.
By most accounts, the Lyrans are often depicted as Nordic in appearance; they are tall people with blue eyes and long blonde hair. They have also been referred to in some circles as “The Galactic Historians” of the human species.
THE ARCTURIANS
After many eons of existence, one of the oldest alien species in our galaxy, the Arcturians managed to reach such an ascendant state that many classify them as a fifth dimension civilization, the most evolved on Kardashev scale.
Their home planet orbits the largest star in the Bootes Constellation and is located approximately 200 light years away from Earth.
Millions of years ago, the Arcturians achieved the level of technology we now have on Earth. They now possess some of the most advanced technology in the Milky Way galaxy, if not the entire universe.
While few people have directly interacted with the Arcturians, those who had describe them as being between 3 and 5 feet tall, with large heads and big black almond shaped eyes. Their skin is normally a greenish color and they have three fingers on each hand.
In addition, they appear to be masters of telepathic communication and can move objects or interact with their environment using only their minds. Furthermore, aging and the concept of dying have been virtually removed from their society due to their godlike development.
It is believed that their fleet of starships crisscrosses the galaxy and that one of their crafts – Starship Athena, remained in our solar system to prevent a deadly cataclysm that would otherwise wipe our entire human species.
The Arcturians take their role as protectors extremely seriously. So seriously that one of their envoys, the Black Knight Satellite, is believed to have been orbiting Earth for the last 13,000 years.
THE TELOSIANS
Described as being tall, blonde humanoids, the Telosians are considered by many to be the last survivors of a long lost human-like civilization on Earth.
There are those that say they are the survivors of the cataclysms that sunk Atlantis and Lemuria, while another group of researchers believe they are much older than that.
Their name derives from the ancient Greek word “telos” meaning “end’ or “purpose.” It is a fitting name for their gigantic city of Telos considered by some to be located under Mt. Shasta, California.
Using highly developed cerebral abilities, their advanced society has been in constant contact with a number of other extraterrestrial civilizations including the Pleiadians and Arcturians.
The first person to describe the Telosians was Admiral Richard Byrd in his diaries that were published after his death. He spoke of a secret North Pole mission which led him deep inside the hollow earth where he discovered the home of an advanced subterranean race.
Admiral Byrd wrote a detailed paper about this alien species, revealing that they had been living in a few secret underground settlements until our nuclear bombs forced them to come out to the surface. He mentioned this in his diary from Antarctica.
“Our interests rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the “Flugelrads” to your surface world to investigate what your race had done”.
You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely that of atomic energy.
“Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our culture and science is many thousands of years beyond our race”.
Thousands of years of scientific advancement offered the Telosians the ability to evade disease and aging. The Telosians are widely known for their longevity and it’s likely that some of our earthly shamans also received a glimpse of this knowledge. They are also the true protectors of Earth’s environment and keepers of knowledge about our planet’s past.
THE ALPHA CENTAURIANS
The extraterrestrials from Alpha Centauri are considered to be the most technologically advanced alien species in the Milky Way galaxy, but at the same time the species with the most destructive force.
They got in this position because they are reported to be highly intelligent and possess a natural curiosity which in turn led them to rapid growth in the fields of science and technology.
Over time they evolved into an aquatic species with gills and webbed limbs. Some researchers believe they are responsible for most of the underwater and the USO phenomena.
It’s also believed that they have a number of bases that operate on the bottom of our seas, oceans, and lakes around the planet.
In keeping with their nature, the Alpha Centaurians are believed to be very benevolent towards the human race and have a desire to help us overcome some of the many challenges that come with the evolution of our species.
It’s believed that they communicate telepathically and their subtle influence is also felt upon us humans. Many researchers believe that the Alpha Centaurians promote social justice and human rights as they are responsible for teaching us not to abuse destructive mass-effect weapon.
THE PLEIADIANS
Believed to be descendants of the early Lyrans, the Pleiadians, in some circles, have come to represent one of humanity’s most active allies.
Their home is located in the Pleiades Star Cluster, which is a group of stars located about 400 light years from Earth. Their name is derived from the ancient Greek verb, “plein” meaning “to sail”.
The Pleiadians have always played an important role in humanity’s cultural expanse. One of their chosen representatives, Billy Meir, transmitted the messages of Semjase, a Pleidian female who was deeply concerned for our fate:
We are neither guardians of Earth nor beings of God. Many people believe we are watching over Earth and over its beings and that we control the fate.
This is not true, because we only perform a self-selected mission which has nothing to do with supervising or regulating Earth’s fate. Thus it is wrong to expose us as supra terrestrial messengers and guardians.
Despite the message from Semjase, the Pleiadians were the first to warn Earth about the danger that Grey aliens posed. The Pleiadians accused the Greys of having a lack of wisdom and empathy when using inferior humans to serve their evil, remorseless purposes.
For this reason, the two alien species have fought one another not only here, but in other star systems also.
Those who have been in contact with the Pleiadians claim that they have been trying to free ourselves from oppression for quite some time.
Extraterrestrials walk among us, we only have to open our eyes to see them. Signs and signals are everywhere, people only need to stop denying them. If they will further protect us from harm or decide to annihilate us remains only a matter of time. The hour of disclosure is coming.
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ALIENS ARE SILENT BECAUSE THEY ALIENS ARE SILENT BECAUSE THEY PUBLISHED 17:42, 23 JANUARY 2016 New research into how life might have evolved elsewhere in the Universe has thrown up a rather depressing possibility - we haven’t found any aliens yet be
ALIENS ARE SILENT BECAUSE THEY
New research into how life might have evolved elsewhere in the Universe has thrown up a rather depressing possibility - we haven’t found any aliens yet because they’re probably already dead.
The hypothesis is based on what we know about the first billion years or so after a new planet forms - its environments are extremely unstable, fluctuating in temperature and atmospheric composition so wildly that the chances of a new life form evolving quick enough to cope are very slim (which means give yourself a pat on the back, fellow human, we made it.)
"The Universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens," said lead researcher, Aditya Chopra from the Australian National University. "Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive."
Chopra and his team reference the early environments on Venus and Mars - some 4 billion years ago when they first formed, they were likely fairly habitable, and there is a chance that life forms did in fact appear on their rocky surfaces.
But we have evidence to suggest that around a billion or so years after these planets had formed, Venus was well and truly on course to become the smouldering hothouse of death we know it as today, and Mars did the opposite - its temperatures plummeted, and any early life that might have formed on its surface was likely frozen out of existence.
So what makes Earth so special? Turns out, it’s us. Well, our earliest ancestors, at least. The researchers suggest that the success of life on Earth is down the fact that the earliest life forms actually had a stabilising effect on the rapidly fluctuating environment. "Most early planetary environments are unstable," says Chopra. "To produce a habitable planet, life forms need to regulate greenhouse gases such as water and carbon dioxide to keep surface temperatures stable."
The researchers simulated this scenario using a model they call the Gaian bottleneck, which basically means that if life can’t evolve fast enough to stablise its environment, it dies out. If we’re looking at examples such as Venus and Mars, the Gaian bottleneck states that if you don’t make it through that brief period of rough but possible habitability, you’ve probably missed your chance.
We know from previous research that life on Earth managed to evolve so fast, it ended up regulating greenhouse gas emissions on a planetary scale, and this appeared to have a favourable effect on what’s known as our planet’s albedo - the ratio of reflected radiation to absorbed radiation.
That's important, because when Earth was just forming, the Sun was up to 25 percent less luminous than it is now, but all the evidence points to the oceans being liquid, or at least not completely frozen. This seemingly impossible scenario is known as the faint young Sun paradox.
Back in 2012, researchers in the US came up with a possible solution - the high concentrations of warming greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), that were being regulated by early life likely kept the planet sufficiently warm before the Sun could. This ensured that Earth escaped the 'snowball state' that we see in the majority of rocky planets we know about today.
The interaction between these large patches of frozen and liquid water on the surface of Earth interacted with the radiation, and established the planet’s albedo, which ultimately determined its surface temperature.
"In extremely rare cases - like on Earth - the relatively rapid evolution from single- to multicellular organisms to complex life forms did not produce enough greenhouses gases to cause runaway negative feedback and heat the planet enough to evaporate all its liquid water," explains Campbell Simpson at Gizmodo. "It’s that particular and so far unique quirk that has kept us alive, if the Gaian bottleneck explanation is accurate."
The hypothesis, if we can somehow prove it, answers the problem posed by the Fermi paradox: if the Universe is a colossal space, filled with trillions upon trillions of potentially life-sustaining stars and habitable planets, why haven’t we found any aliens?
"The mystery of why we haven't yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of the origin of life or intelligence and have more to do with the rarity of the rapid emergence of biological regulation of feedback cycles on planetary surfaces," says one of the team, astronomer Charles Lineweaver.
The research has been published in the journal Astrobiology, and the team has also posted it here with free access, to encourage other scientists to come forth and scrutinise it. If what they're proposing ends up matching what really happened all those billions of years ago, it's a huge bummer that alien life probably died out before we ever had a chance to meet them. But it's also incredibly humbling to think about how incredibly lucky we all are to exist. High fives all 'round
Apart from abductee testimony, some researchers have suggested that the government has signed a "treaty" or "contract" with the aliens and are allowing the aliens to abduct people, and even helping them, in order to gain productive knowledge of extraterrestrial technology. They have been doing what they want with absolute impunity for perhaps over 100 years. Their technological superiority over us is supreme. Furthermore, they have been abducting people around the world.
1.) Is it possible that secret human experiments or covert operations could occur in western democracies?
2.) What is the human agenda which seems to be involved in the alien abduction phenomenon and what is the purpose of MILABs?
A new science project launched in 2015 with a lofty goal: to record data on reported sightings of "Unidentified Flying Objects" (or UFOs) in the hopes of identifying what they are.
The group is called "UFODATA" – short for UFO Detection And TrAcking – and is based on building a network of automated surveillance stations with high-tech sensors for gathering scientific data on sightings of alleged UFOs.
The aim is to move toward a scientific solution to the UFO reports by implementing an effort to gather systematic instrumented observations. [10 Alien Encounters Debunked]
Anomalous aerial phenomena
UFODATA stations would measure anything unusual that comes within their range. While detecting anomalous aerial phenomena is top priority, the stations are sure to record already known but rare natural events, such as ball lightning.
The main project goal is to directly record physical data – photos, videos, magnetometer readings, electromagnetic radiation, etc. – about unexplained aerial phenomena "in a more comprehensive manner than has ever been done before," the website adds.
"Whether or not our observations suggest an extra-terrestrial presence," the website explains, "collecting such data would show (a) that UFO phenomena can be studied in a rigorous and systematic fashion, and (b) thereby hopefully break down the 'taboo’ that has long stymied basic scientific research in this area."
Do you believe alien life exists elsewhere in the universe?
Regarding the UFODATA stations, the expense of developing a prototype station — including not just the equipment, camera, and sensors — but also software, construction and testing is in the range of several tens of thousands of dollars. Subsequent stations should be less-costly once the design and construction details are in place.
UFODATA's initial goal is to raise enough money to design and construct one prototype station that would undergo testing for up to one year. The group then expects to fully deploy the first station and begin construction of as many additional stations as funding permits. Ideally, the stations would eventually be deployed on a global basis.
Given an assessment of the instrumentation and software necessities for the system, UFODATA intends to launch a crowdfunding campaign to secure needed funds to pursue building and installing a network of stations.
Silent partners
The intellectual sparkplugs behind UFODATA are over a dozen volunteers, a confab of scientists, engineers, and UFO researchers. “We are also joined by several 'silent partners,’ all scientists and engineers at academic institutions who are prepared to help, but because of the cultural stigma attached to UFOs have chosen to keep their involvement private,” explains the UFODATA website.
A UFODATA board member is Leslie Kean. She is an investigative reporter and author of the New York Times best-selling book, "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" and is also co-founder of the Coalition for Freedom of Information.
"I'm a journalist and not a 'ufologist’. I remain agnostic about the nature and origin of UFOs," Kean told Inside Outer Space. "The popular debate tends to go back and forth between two extremes: conspiracy theorists convinced that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft, and debunkers equally convinced that UFOs don’t even exist. Neither position is the rational one."
Kean said because so little science has been done on UFOs "we remain ignorant about what UFOs actually are."
UFODATA aims to change that, Kean said. “We now have the opportunity to elevate UFO investigations so that they become part of the larger scientific search for extraterrestrial life and will eventually be recognized as such by the world community.”
For detailed information on UFODATA and its plans, including a call for volunteers to assist in their work, go to: http://www.ufodata.net/
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and is co-author of Buzz Aldrin's 2013 book "Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration" published by National Geographic with a new updated paperback version released in May 2015. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
Independence Plaza at Space Center Houston is the only place in the world where the public can see a space shuttle (mockup) mounted atop a Boeing 747 jetliner. It is also the only exhibit where the public can enter both vehicles. Credit: collectSPACE.com
HOUSTON — A large sign outside the entrance to Space Center Houston promotes the six-story-tall centerpiece of the new Independence Plaza as "bigger on the inside."
Starting on Saturday (Jan. 23), the public will have a chance to see for themselves as general boarding begins of the largest single artifact saved from NASA's space shuttle program: the original Boeing 747 jumbo jet that ferried the shuttle orbiters across the country between missions. Making the 8-story-tall exhibit even bigger is the addition of a full-size space shuttle replica. [Photo Gallery: First Look at Houston's New 747-Shuttle Exhibit]
Space Center Houston visitors can enter the replica space shuttle Independence to peer into a detailed replica of the flight deck, where the commander and pilot were seated to fly the orbiter, and then take a turn posing for a photo in replica shuttle chairs. Credit: collectSPACE.com
"It is a world-class [exhibit]," said Frank Marlow, who was among the NASA pilots who flew the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. "It was such an honor to fly it."
Almost four years in the making, Independence Plaza is the only place in the world where the public can see a (mock) space shuttle atop a Boeing 747 jetliner and be able to go inside both. NASA's retired space shuttle orbiters and its second Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, NASA 911, are on display at other museums across the nation but those vehicles can only be viewed from their outside.
Inside the mock space shuttle Independence, guests can tour a detailed replica of the orbiter's two-level crew cabin. On the flight deck, they can see the controls the commander and pilot used to fly the shuttle. On the mid-deck, the public can enter where the astronauts lived, as well as walk into payload bay.
One of the new hands-on exhibits inside NASA’s original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Space Center Houston replicates a wind tunnel like the type NASA used to ensure the jumbo jet could safely fly with the space shuttle. Credit: collectSPACE.com
A hands-on museum now fills the length of NASA 905's fuselage, providing guests with a look back at the history of the space shuttle and how a jumbo jet was able to fly the orbiters between the launch and landing sites. Visitors can try their hands at mating a shuttle atop a 747, run the aircraft and spacecraft stack through a wind tunnel and view the original flying scale model of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that convinced NASA a jetliner could carry an orbiter piggyback.
The eight-story-tall access tower that enables guests to enter both the aircraft and shuttle also offers panoramic views of NASA's nearby Johnson Space Center and the surrounding Clear Lake area in Houston.
"Visitors will be a part of history entering this one-of-a kind exhibit," Richard Allen, the president and CEO of Space Center Houston, said.
An unnamed witness who photographed the flying object from a back garden on Monday immediately reported the sighting to official investigators because they were so puzzled by it.
In a brief report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) the homeowner, from New Orleans in America, said: "It blocked out the sun's rays."
The person said they "observed the object's activity in all lines" of their vision."
In the image it looks like a so-called cigar-shaped UFO, which left trail almost like that of a plane.
It looked like they were going about the same speed. When they got about the length of ten jets apart the second jet made a 45 degree turn to the right and shot out of site.
UFO witness
New Orleans has been a hotbed for UFO sightings according to the MUFON database.
It lists 36 sightings - 21 of which were since 2010 - but dating as far back as 1965
On July 18 1993 two men reported seeing a jet at a bout 20,000 feet, with another approaching that "made an erratic movement."
One of them said: "From the opposite direction we notice what we thought was another jet heading right at it.
"They were about five miles apart when we first saw them.
"It looked like they were going about the same speed. When they got about the length of ten jets apart the second jet made a 45 degree turn to the right and shot out of site.
"We both looked at each other and new right away it was a UFO.
"The turning object had to be going three-times the speed after the turn. After that day I new for sure that UFOs are real."
Alien visitation is a big topic for “The X-Files.” (Credit: Fox)
UFOs are back in style, thanks in part to the return of “The X-Files” to television this weekend, almost 14 years after the last episode had its original airing. And while Mulder and Scully are delving into new anomalies in prime time, the folks who deal with UFO reports in real life are gearing up for renewed attention as well.
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute
“X-Files, Y-Files, No-Files, I get calls from people who say they have evidence of alien visitation,” said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. “Either they’ve seen something, they’ve photographed something or they’re in touch with something.”
The calls generally come in at a regular rate, but Shostak does recall that there was a noticeable uptick while the original “X-Files” show was on TV.
Don Lincoln, a physicist at Fermilab who’s the author of “Alien Universe,” notes that attitudes toward UFOs tend to reflect depictions in popular culture, ranging from flying saucers and little green men to mysterious “Men in Black” and alien conspiracies. The original “X-Files” told tales of gray extraterrestrials and government coverups, and he’s curious to see whether the new series will follow the same path.
“It could well be that what the new X-Files will ultimately accomplish is to introduce a new generation to the mysteries of Area 51 and the unsettling idea of the Men in Black,” Lincoln wrote in an email. “I have said enough. They’re watching…”
One expert who won’t be watching is Peter Davenport, who’s the director of the National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC. He doesn’t even own a television.
“I try to avoid addressing works of fiction, because I am a scientist,” he told GeekWire from his home base in Harrington, Wash. “I collect data that is appropriate and accurate. … I find [fictional UFO tales] to be unsatisfying, seeing that I deal with the real thing, all day, every day.”
Since he took over NUFORC in 1994, Davenport has compiled more than 100,000 reports of UFO sightings. Some of the records are stored in a decommissioned missile silo that he bought years ago. Almost all of them are available online. (The exceptions tend to be obvious hoaxes or pranks.)
“From my vantage point, after 22 years of doing this work, it appears to me that this planet has been visited routinely by these objects that we call UFOs,” Davenport said. “This is very good evidence that we are being visited, apparently by creatures from other parts of our galaxy. We are just beginning to awaken to phenomena beyond what our five senses seem to tell us is the case.”
What Davenport can’t figure out is why it takes something like “The X-Files” to get the broader public interested in UFOs. Here are five of the cases that he puts at the top of his list for Washington state:
April 22, 1998:Ten reports come in from observers as far north as Whistler and as far south as Portland, about a bright flash, oval, fireball or disk that was seen in the skies. (It’s worth noting these reports came during the annual Lyrid meteor shower, and that meteor-watchers were interested in this fireball.)
April 8, 2000: A formation of glowing objects is sighted over downtown Seattle.
Jan. 15, 2015: Orange lights sighted in the skies over Friday Harbor.
June 6, 2015:More orange lights, this time over Arlington.
Some folks regard Mount Rainier as a mecca for flying saucers, in part because it was where one of the seminal sightings took place in 1947. But Davenport says he sees no evidence of UFO hot spots — with the possible exception of Myrtle Beach and its environs in South Carolina, for unknown reasons.
“Many people contact me and ask where they can take the spouse and the kiddies to see UFOs,” Davenport said. “My response traditionally is, just go out on your back porch and look up at the sky, and be alert.”
So what happens when someone sees something, and then gives Shostak a call or sends him an email at the SETI Institute? He tries to keep an open mind about the sighting and reply with possible explanations if he can. “I’ve never seen something where I say, ‘This is absolutely it,'” he said.
Shostak notes that it’s a lot harder to investigate the circumstances of a UFO report than it is to report it. Because he has a day job that focuses on scientific studies using radio astronomy, he doesn’t have the time to go into X-Files mode: “You’re seldom in a situation where you can say, ‘Yeah, I know what that was. That was Flight So-and-So.'”
Last fall, a project called UFODATA started trying to close that evidence gap. The UFODATA team brings together well-known names from the UFO field — such as Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies and investigative journalist Leslie Kean — plus astronomers, engineers and even a former Pentagon official.
The project’s main objective is to develop automated stations that can record data from anomalous events — a Mulder-Bot, if you will. The instruments on the Mulder-Bot could include an all-sky camera, high-resolution imagers with spectrographic capability, a magnetometer, a weather station, a gravimeter or accelerometer, radiation sensors and perhaps a gamma-ray sensor.
“Technically, the big challenge is going to be the software, not the hardware,” Rodeghier told GeekWire.
The monitoring stations would be placed in areas remote enough to be off the beaten track, accessible enough to be serviced, and interesting enough to provide a likelihood of something happening. Someday, they could show up in Washington state, or Montana, or northern New England.
“We will be lucky to get a couple of honest-to-goodness UFOs,” Rodeghier said.
The way Rodeghier sees it, the first step is to build a community of supporters for the project. The second step is to raise the money, perhaps through a crowdfunding effort.
“If things go well, it’s possible we might do the crowdfunding by the end of 2016,” he said. “Around $40,000 should be enough.”
So stay tuned, UFO fans: The truth — along with the Kickstarter campaign — is out there.
Saturday: Meet the woman who specializes in “X-Files” science. And coming up later today: TV columnist Melanie McFarland’s review of the “X-Files” reboot.
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Chronicles of the Future: The secret diary of a man who saw the future
Chronicles of the Future: The secret diary of a man who saw the future
It is one of the most incredible things you will probably read for years. The Chronicles of the Future tell the bizarre, incredible and “controversial” experience of Amadeus Dienach Paul, who lived at the beginning of last century in Central Europe. Due to a serious illness, the author was in a coma for a whole year, during which he claims his conscience traveled to the future and entered a different body, allowing him to interact with people of that distant era. Even though this might sound extremely bizarre and many will consider these the texts as a “cheap shot”, Dienach writings about the future have been taken very seriously by certain organizations around the world. Some of those are believed to be the Masons. There are many books that contain alleged prophecies and futuristic visions, but none of those come close to the strange circumstances surrounding the experience of Dienach. Furthermore, only a handful of selected individuals have had the privilege of reading these stories; in fact, there are only few printed copies published in Greece.
In 1921, Dienach fell victim to a sleeping sickness, and, as a result of the disease fell into a coma and remained in that state an entire year in the hospital of Geneva. When he woke, he recorded in his diary that he was awake and alert all the time, but not in the year or the place where his body was.
According to the diary of Dienach, his consciousness had traveled into the body of another man, called Andrew Northman, and the year was 3906 AD.
According to Dienach, people noticed that the year 3906 a different consciousness had invaded the body of Andrew Northman, so they decided to show and explain everything about that era, as well as exactly what happened from the twenty-first century until the beginnings of the fortieth century.
In the future, people mentioned that a new species of humans called Homo Novus Occidantalis were created, these are the next step in evolution. For fear of being treated crazy or exposed to ridicule, both personally and professionally, Dienach did not tell his story to anyone but that changed when he moved to Greece.So how did the story of Dienach end up being told?At the age of 36, with a very poor health after recovering from coma, Dienach moved to Greece in the fall of 1922, as a gentler and more mediterranean climate would certainly improve his quality of life. Once there, he took the opportunity to practice and teach in a German university. It was there that he met the student George Papahatzis, who later became the vice president of the National Council of Greece, a founding member of the Philosophical Society, and senior Mason.After two years, his health had deteriorated once again and Dienach decided to move again, this time to Italy. Before leaving, Dienach confided to his favorite student, Papahatzis, a briefcase full of notes, urging him to read in the future. In 1924 Dienach died of tuberculosis.George Papahatzis translated Dienach notes gradually over a period of 14 years, from 1926 to 1940. Initially he thought his teacher had written a strange novel, but as Papahatzis ead more and more, he realized that what he was translating were the very memories of his teacher.
World War II and the subsequent civil war in the Hellenic country, made Papahatzis temporarily abandon translations of the notes. Subsequently, in the period from 1952-1966, he tried to track down the relatives of his deceased teacher, even traveling to Zürich on twelve occasions. Once the translation of the incredibly story of Dienach was complete, Papahatzis shared the notes with a closed circle of fellow Masons. The writings were seized by the secret society as critical to the future of mankind and, among insiders, Dienach received the title of prophet of modern times.
The notes of Dienach were available in philosophical circles of Freemasonry, which believed that such information should not be visible to an audience that would not be prepared to handle it. Papahatzis strongly disagreed and published the diary of Dienach which caused him countless problems. He lost his job, was accused of heresy by the Church, and most copies of the book disappeared quickly. In 1979, when Greece was moving onto democracy Papahatzis decided to try again but with similar results.
The Chronicles of the future will probably, one day, become the ideal script for a Hollywood movie that many of us would love to see in theaters. The incredible stories and information contained inside the “diary” of Dienach, if true, will change history of mankind as we see it, the question is, will this diary, which was never intended to become a book, come to its “unintended” audience across the world.
The only case of air combat against a UFO: the Peruvian secret (VIDEO+)
The only case of air combat against a UFO: the Peruvian secret (VIDEO+)
In all these decades of UFO sightings, only one man tried to shoot against them: the Peruvian fighter pilot Colonel Oscar Santa Maria Huerta that over 35 years ago, on 11 April 1980 was the star of the only documented case of fighting between a military jet (a Sukohi-22) and a UFO in the shape of light bulb.
Santa Maria Huerta, Peruvian Air Force pilot Lieutenant at the time, with eight years of experience in combat missions, was preparing for the daily exercises along with about 1,800 military and civilians at the air base of La Joya, 1,000 kilometers south of the Peruvian capital. Suddenly he was ordered to take off with his Sukohi-22 to intercept a strange UFO silver that had been reported in flight over the end of the runway. The object was located about 5 kilometers in the air at about 600 meters above the ground, and had not responded to any attempt at communication. Huerta said that the object “was in an airspace without authorization and posed a severe challenge to national sovereignty” Peruvian also Huerta continues to say that “La Joya was one of the few bases in South America that had equipment of Soviet origin , and we were worried about possible espionage activities “. After taking off, Huerta reached 2,500 meters above sea level by starting a running attack. “I have reached the necessary distance and I fired a volley of bullets sixty 30 mm, they have created a” wall of fire “in the form of cone that normally would erase everything in its path,” he writes, adding that the former military pilot “one of these bullets would destroy a car, but they had no effect against ‘UFO’.
“I thought that the” ball “was torn and gas jets would emerge out of it. But nothing happened, seemed that the enormous projectiles had been absorbed by the balloon, and was not at all damaged.” The object then moved away quickly from the base toward the sky, forcing Huerta to activate the afterburner aircraft to hunt him remaining 500 meters behind. When they reached the city of Camana, 84 kilometers from the base, the subject underwent a sudden stop, forcing Huerta to divert to side. Turning upward and to the right Huerta tried to hire again a fighter plane but just when the UFO was at the center of the viewfinder and Huerta was ready to hurl a new burst, the object suddenly stood up, “breaking” the attack . Twice more the maneuver was repeated twice more and the object escaped the attack, jumping up a few moments before Huerta could fire. Meanwhile the UFO had risen to 14,000 meters above sea level, so the pilot tried to attack from above, but the object was able to take up to 19,200 meters above sea level, beyond the limits of Sukohi-22. Huerta, afraid of running out of fuel, trying to get closer to what until then had been considered to be a balloon aircraft. But 100 meters away he realized that was not what he thought it “an object that measured about 10 meters in diameter with a dome on top glossy cream, similar to a light bulb cut in half.
The fund was a large circular base, in silver, and it seemed a kind of metal.It lacked all the typical components of aircraft; he had wings, jet propulsion, drains, windows, antennas. He had no visible propulsion system”. Huerta was face to face with a UFO and at that point began to be run out of fuel and to have suspected that it can be an easy target, so he decided to return to base with evasive zigzag, hoping not to be chased the UFO. After the 22-Sukohi of Huerta was landed, the UFO remained in place for another two hours visible to anyone base, reflecting the sunlight. Another similar incident had already happened in 1976 to a pilot Iranian Air Force, General Parviz Jafari, but due to a malfunction of the machine guns had failed to open fire on a UFO.
The Peruvian case was made by the Department of Defense in 1980 in a dossier entitled “UFO sighting in Peru” in which you came to the conclusion that the origin of the mysterious object was unknown. Since then, over 35 years later, there have been no recorded “close encounters” between UFOs and military aircraft.
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Speed of light 'broken': life changing scientific discoveries
Speed of light 'broken': life changing scientific discoveries
The science world has been left in shock after it was announced that CERN scientists had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a finding that could overturn fundamental law of physics. Here are a selection of other major scientific discoveries.
Galileo Galilei Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Gravity
Galileo Galilei overturns nearly 2,000 years of Aristotelian belief that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones by proving that all bodies fall at the same rate with his Law of Falling Bodies in 1604. More than 60 years later Sir Issac Newton concludes in his "Universal Gravitation" theory that all objects in the universe, from apples to planets, exert gravitational attraction on each other. Then in 1687 he changes our understanding of the universe by formulating three laws to describe the movement of objects. 1) An object in motion remains in motion unless an external force is applied to it. 2) The relationship between an object's mass (m), its acceleration (a) and the applied force (F) is F = ma. 3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921Photo: AP
Relativity
Relativity has revealed the bizarre world of black holes and told us that the universe had a beginning. With his Special Relativity theory in 1905 Albert Einstein that explained the relationship between speed, time and distance. Einstein’s theory stated that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light.It overthrew basic assumptions about time and space by describing how clocks tick slower and distances appear to stretch as objects approach the speed of light. That same year E = mc^2 or energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. His famous formula proves that mass and energy are different manifestations of the same thing, and that a very small amount of mass can be converted into a very large amount of energy. One profound implication of his discovery is that no object with mass can ever go faster than the speed of light. It is Special Relativity that scientists had CERN appear to have disproved.
Best known for his treatise "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres", The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus asserted that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun - contrary to the medieval belief that the earth was the centre of the universe. He presented his theory in 1532 to a select audience in the Vatican Gardens. The theory was viewed with suspicion by the Church, and his treatise was not published until 1543, the year of his death. Eventually the theory became the cornerstone for a future generation of scientists including Kepler and Galileo, but one of its ardent advocates, Italian cleric Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600. Galileo discoveries proved the Copernican System.
Quantum theory
The theory has made the modern world possible, giving us lasers and computers and iPod nanos, not to mention explaining how the sun shines and why the ground is solid. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, considered one of the most important figures in modern physics and the "father" of quantum mechanics, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his research on the structure of an atom. Although he help develop the atomic bomb, he deplored its use for war and instead promoted atomic power for peaceful purposes.
Evolution
Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in which he challenges contemporary beliefs about the creation of life on Earth. His seminal work, which popularised the theory, was published in 1859 and drew fierce criticism from the Church of England for the way it challenged the notion of divine creation. Darwin had served as an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle, which set out on a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South America in early 1832. The data he collected on the expedition, especially specimens from the Galapagos Islands, was the inspiration for his theories on evolution by the mechanism of natural selection. His work has been at the centre of controversy ever since it was published. Darwin's The Descent of Man, published in 1871, aroused even greater debate as it suggested that humans descended from apes. Although Darwin is the most familiar name associated with evolution, he was only persuaded to publish his work when another young scientist, Alfred Russel Wallace, came forward having independently come up with a similar explanation for how evolution occur.
Disease and bacteria
Before Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and and biologist, began experimenting with bacteria in the 1860s, its cause was unknown. He not only discovered that disease came from microorganisms, but he also realized that bacteria could be killed by heat and disinfectant. This idea caused doctors to wash their hands and sterilize their instruments, which has saved millions of lives. He was able to demonstrate that organisms such as bacteria were responsible for souring wine and beer (he later extended his studies to prove that milk was the same), and that the bacteria could be removed by boiling and then cooling the liquid. This process is now called pasteurisation. Pasteur then undertook experiments to find where these bacteria came from, and was able to prove that they were introduced from the environment. This was disputed by scientists who believed they could spontaneously generate.
Penicillian
The era of antibiotics began in 1928 when Alexander Fleming spotted how penicillin produced by green mold killed bacteria. The improbable chain of events that led him to the discovery in 1928 is the stuff of which scientific myths are made. The young Scottish research scientist, who had a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects. He left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday. Upon his return he spotted a clear halo surrounding the yellow-green growth of a mold that had accidentally contaminated the plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. He decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator and during a cold patch of weather, gave the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria started growing in a similar fashion to a piece of lawn that eventually covered the entire plate except for the area surrounding the moldy contaminant. Seeing that halo is considered to be Fleming's "Eureka" moment and he later correctly deduced that the mold must have released a substance that inhibited the growth of the bacteria. It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mold, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency.
Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe.
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."
If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.
That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.
The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research centre near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
A total of 15,000 beams of neutrinos - tiny particles that pervade the cosmos - were fired over a period of three years from CERN towards Gran Sasso 730 (500 miles) km away, where they were picked up by giant detectors.
Light would have covered the distance in around 2.4 thousandths of a second, but the neutrinos took 60 nanoseconds - or 60 billionths of a second - less than light beams would have taken.
"It is a tiny difference," said Ereditato, who also works at Berne University in Switzerland, "but conceptually it is incredibly important. The finding is so startling that, for the moment, everybody should be very prudent."
Ereditato declined to speculate on what it might mean if other physicists, who will be officially informed of the discovery at a meeting in CERN on Friday, found that OPERA's measurements were correct.
"I just don't want to think of the implications," he said. "We are scientists and work with what we know."
Much science-fiction literature is based on the idea that, if the light-speed barrier can be overcome, time travel might theoretically become possible.
The existence of the neutrino, an elementary sub-atomic particle with a tiny amount of mass created in radioactive decay or in nuclear reactions such as those in the Sun, was first confirmed in 1934, but it still mystifies researchers.
It can pass through most matter undetected, even over long distances, and without being affected. Millions pass through the human body every day, scientists say.
To reach Gran Sasso, the neutrinos pushed out from a special installation at CERN - also home to the Large Hadron Collider probing the origins of the universe - have to pass through water, air and rock.
The underground Italian laboratory, some 120 km (75 miles) to the south of Rome, is the largest of its type in the world for particle physics and cosmic research.
Around 750 scientists from 22 different countries work there, attracted by the possibility of staging experiments in its three massive halls, protected from cosmic rays by some 1,400 metres (4,200 feet) of rock overhead.
It might be relatively easy for life to evolve on hospitable planets throughout the universe, but very hard for it to get any kind of a foothold, a new study suggests.
"The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens," lead author Aditya Chopra, of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, said in a statement. "Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive."
Chopra and co-author Charley Lineweaver, also of ANU, posit that environmental conditions on young planets are unstable, and there is thus likely only a small window of time for life to get going, even on initially hospitable worlds.
In the first 500 million years or so of a wet, rocky planet's life, for example, it will be too hot and heavily bombarded to support life. Life could emerge over the next 500 million years, as the planet cools and the impact rates settle down a bit.
During that time, however, the planet will probably be losing its liquid water, perhaps as the result of a runaway greenhouse effect (as occurred on Venus), or perhaps because it got too cold. There's a good chance that the planet will end up shifting from habitable to uninhabitable, as Venus and Mars apparently did, by roughly 1 billion to 1.5 billion years after its formation — unless life gets going fast enough to stabilize things, Chopra and Lineweaver say.
"Between the early heat pulses, freezing, volatile content variation, and runaway positive feedbacks, maintaining life on an initially wet rocky planet in the habitable zone may be like trying to ride a wild bull. Most life falls off," they write in the study, which was published in the journal Astrobiology. "Life may be rare in the universe, not because it is difficult to get started, but because habitable environments are difficult to maintain during the first billion years."
The researchers term this idea the "Gaian bottleneck" hypothesis. They contrast it with the "emergence bottleneck" concept, which postulates that it's tough for life to get started at all. (Good news: Earth life has made it over both of these putative hurdles.)
It's unclear, of course, which of these hypotheses better represents reality, or if either of them represents reality well at all. But there are possible (albeit difficult and time-consuming) ways to test such ideas out, the researchers said.
"One intriguing prediction of the Gaian bottleneck model is that the vast majority of fossils in the universe will be from extinct microbial life, not from multicellular species such as dinosaurs or humanoids that take billions of years to evolve," Lineweaver said in the same statement.
Has the Kepler Space Telescope Discovered an Alien Megastructure?
Has the Kepler Space Telescope Discovered an Alien Megastructure?
By By Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
The artist's concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2.
Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is tasked with finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. However, exoplanets aren’t the only thing Kepler can detect — stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings can also pop up in the mission's observations.
But there's also been speculation that Kepler may have the ability to detect more than natural phenomena; if they're out there, Kepler may also detect the signature of artificial structures orbiting other stars. Imagine an advanced civilization that's well up on the Kardashev scale and has the ability to harness energy directly from its star. This hypothetical alien civilization may want to construct vast megastructures, like supersized solar arrays in orbit around their host star, that could be so big that they blot out a sizable fraction of starlight as they pass in front.
When Kepler detects an exoplanet, it does so by sensing the very slight dip in starlight from a given star. The premise is simple: an exoplanet orbits in front of star (known as a "transit"), Kepler detects a slight dimming of starlight and creates a "lightcurve" — basically a graph charting the dip in starlight over time. Much information can be gleaned from the lightcurve, such as the physical size of the transiting exoplanet. But it can also deduce the exoplanet’s shape.
Normally the shape of an exoplanet isn't particularly surprising because it's, well, planet-shaped. It's round. The physics of planetary formation dictate that a planetary body above a certain mass will be governed by hydrostatic equilibrium. But say if Kepler detects something that isn’t round. Well, that's when things can get a bit weird.
For the most part, any dip in star brightness can be attributed to some kind of natural phenomenon. But what if all possibilities are accounted for and only one scenario is left? What if that scenario is this object appears to be artificial? In other words, what if it’s alien?
In a chilling article written by Ross Andersen of The Atlantic, at first glance, it seems we may be at this incredible juncture.
The research paper is thorough, describing the phenomenon, pointing out that this star is unique - we've seen nothing like it. Kepler has collected data on this star steadily for four years. It's not instrumental error. Kepler isn't seeing things; the signal is real.
"We'd never seen anything like this star," Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctorate researcher at Yale University and lead author, told The Atlantic. "It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."
The Planet Hunters volunteers are depended on to seek out transits in Kepler's stars in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. This is a huge quantity of data, from over 150,000 stars in Kepler’s original field of view, and you can’t beat the human eye when identifying a true dip in starlight brightness. The Planet Hunters described KIC 8462852 as "bizarre," "interesting" and a "giant transit." They're not wrong.
Follow-up studies focus on two interesting transit events at KIC 8462852, one that was detected between days 788 and 795 of the Kepler mission and between days 1510 to 1570. The researchers have tagged these events as D800 and D1500 respectively.
The D800 event appears to have been a single transit causing a star brightness drop-off of 15 percent, whereas D1500 was a burst of several transits, possibly indicating a clump of different objects, forcing a brightness dip of up to 22 percent. To cause such dips in brightness, these transiting objects must be huge.
The transit data for KIC
8462852, featuring the obvious transit features D800 and D1500.
Credit: Boyajian et al.
The researchers worked through every known possibility, but each solution presented a new problem. For example, they investigated the possibility of some kind of circumstellar disk of dust. However, after looking for the infrared signal associated with these disks, no such signal could be seen.
Also, the star is a mature F-type star, approximately 1.5 times the size of our sun. Circumstellar disks are usually found around young stars.
The researchers also investigated the possibility of a huge planetary collision: could the debris from this smashup be creating this strange signal? The likelihood of us seeing a planetary collision is extremely low. There is no evidence in data taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that a collision happened, creating a very tiny window of opportunity between WISE's mission end and the beginning of Kepler's mission (of a few years) for an astronomically unlikely cosmic event like this to occur.
The only natural explanation favored by the researchers seems to focus on an intervening clump of exocomets.
"One way we imagine such a barrage of comets could be triggered is by the passage of a field star through the system," write the researchers.
Indeed, they argue, there's a nearby star that might have tidally disturbed otherwise dormant comets in the outermost regions of the KIC 8462852 star system. This small star is located around 1,000 AU from KIC 8462852 and whether it's a binary partner or an interstellar visitor, its presence may have caused some cometary turmoil. Like the other scenarios, however, the exocomet explanation still falls short of being fully satisfactory.
This research paper focuses only on natural and known possible causes of the mystery transit events around KIC 8462852. A second paper is currently being drafted to investigate a completely different transit scenario that focuses around the possibility of a mega-engineering project created by an advanced alien civilization.
This may sound like science fiction, but our galaxy has existed for over 13 billion years, it's not such a stretch of the imagination to think that an alien civilization may be out there and evolved to the point where they can build megastructures around stars.
"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 astronomer from Penn State University, told The Atlantic.
Indeed, hunting down huge structures that obscure the light from stars is no new thing. The Search for Extraterrestrial Technology (SETT) is one such project that does just this. Only recently, a survey of the local universe focused on the hope of detecting the waste heat generated by a technologically advanced civilization, specifically a Type II Kardashev civilization.
On the Kardashev scale, a Type II civilization has the ability to utilize all the available energy radiating from a star. Using a vast shell or series of rings surrounding a star, a Dyson sphere-like structure may be constructed. This has the effect of blotting out the star from view in visible wavelengths, but once the solar energy has been used by the alien civilization, the energy is shifted to longer wavelengths and likely lost as infrared radiation.
This recent search for aliens' waste heat drew a blank, reaching the conclusion that as there appears to be no alien intelligence cocooning stars to harvest their heat, there’s likely no Type II civilization nearby.
But as KIC 8462852 is showing us, there may be something else out there — possibly an alien intelligence that is well on its way to becoming a Type II civilization, which is setting up some kind of artificial structure around its star.
Of course, these mystery transit events are nowhere near "proof" of an alien civilization. In fact, it's barely evidence and a lot more work needs to be done.
The next step is to point a radio antenna at KIC 8462852, just to see whether the system is generating any artificial radio signals that could indicate the presence of something we'd define as "intelligent." Boyajian and Wright have now teamed up with Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, to get a radio telescope to listen into the star and if they detect an artificial signal, they will request time on the Very Large Array (VLA) to deduce whether any radio signals from that star are the chatter of an alien civilization.
It might be a long shot, and the phenomenon is more likely a clump of comets or some other natural phenomenon that we haven't accounted for blocking star light from view, but it’s worth investigating, especially if there really is some kind of alien intelligence building structures, or perhaps, ancient structures of a civilization long-gone, around a star only 1,500 light-years away from Earth.
Examples of organisms and trajectories observed in sackhole brines of Malene Bay, Greenland, using digital holographic microscopy. (A) Appearance of a nearly full-screen image containing objects suggestive of bacteria (arrows). (B) Zoomed-in appearance of a single bacterial cell. (C) Amplitude image of non-motile diatom. Note the clear resolution of cell walls and nuclei. (D) More slowly swimming, typical photosynthetic algal cell. (E) Zig-zag motility of a bacterium, observed as a projection through 60 seconds of time. Credit: Jay Nadeau et al./Caltech
The first evidence of alien life may be recorded as a hologram.
Scientists have detected microbes in Greenland sea ice using a specially built digital holographic microscope, suggesting that the instrument could have similar success on icy moons in the outer solar system, if any of them harbor life.
Indeed, the holographic microscope could theoretically make a contribution to NASA's mission to the Jupiter moon Europa, which the agency plans to launch by the mid-2020s, the instrument's developers say. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
"This was designed from the beginning to have a path to flight," said Chris Lindensmith of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who presented the team's latest results last month at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. "We're ready to jump up and say, 'Pick us! Pick us!'"
Photographing life
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) uses the interference of light (which is produced by an internal laser) to record information about an object as ahologram. A computer then uses this information to construct a viewable image of the object.
Digging the digital holographic microscopy unit into the sea ice during a field trial near Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Shelly Carpenter, University of Washington
DHM has several advantages over ordinary imaging microscopy when it comes to possible use on a space mission, Lindensmith said. For example, it's easy to make DHM instruments autonomous; there is no need for knob-twiddling to bring a target object into sharp view.
"The thing that makes it magic is, we don't have to do any focusing," Lindensmith told Space.com at AGU. "We can reconstruct any image in the object field."
DHM images can be recorded in the form of videos, which allow researchers to detect microbe motility — one of the least ambiguous signs of life.
The team built a field-ready DHM system that’s about the size of an airplane carry-on bag, then put it to the test last March in three different sea-ice sites near Greenland's capital city, Nuuk, which lies on the giant island's southwestern coast.
The results were extremely promising, Lindensmith said. The instrument was able to resolve objects smaller than 1 micron (or 1 millionth of a meter), and it detected moving eukaryotes — organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles — in every single one of the more than 100 sea-ice samples it examined.
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It was obvious from the DHM footage that the microbes were actively swimming, and not merely being swept along by fluid flow, Lindensmith said. Some of the imaged eukaryotes were motionless, but in many cases their cellular structure clearly identified them as organisms, he added.
"Big eukaryotes — those things just scream out," he said.
The story was a bit different for the prokaryotes — organisms such as bacteria that have no nuclei or other membrane-enclosed internal structures. Most of them were not moving upon initial observation, and when motionless they were tough to tell apart from random debris.
However, the researchers were able to induce prokaryotic movement by adding the amino acid serine to the samples.
Similar goosing strategies would likely be employed on a space mission to get microbes to move, Lindensmith said. For example, samples could be heated slightly, or hit with light and/or a magnetic field. It would even be possible to offer up food to alien microbes without adding sugars or other contaminants from Earth, he added — simply kill a small portion of the native prokaryotes, and let the others swim over and feast on their brethren. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in Solar System]
Going to Europa?
The DHM unit's performance in the Greenland ice could make it an intriguing contender for future life-detection missions to moons such asEuropa and the Saturn satellite Enceladus, both of which possess global oceans beneath their icy shells.
Close-up of the digital holographic microscopy unit during field trials in the sea ice near Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Shelly Carpenter, University of Washington
NASA is already developing a Europa mission, a $2 billion project that's scheduled to launch in the early to mid-2020s. The as-yet-unnmaned spacecraft will perform 45 flybys of Europa from Jupiter orbit over the course of 2.5 years or so, assessing the moon's habitability with nine different science instruments.
The Europa spacecraft's payloads are not set in stone yet; NASA is considering adding a lander to the mission, possibly to hunt for signs of life on or near the moon's surface. If the agency does decide to go this route, a DHM unit would make a lot of sense, Lindensmith said; the microscope could be integrated into an instrument suite that also contains spectrometers, which would perform chemical analyses of target samples to complement the imaging work.
There shouldn't be any trouble getting a DHM instrument ready to go in time for the Europa mission's launch, he added. The unit that got a workout in Greenland last year is already nearly in "space mode," and the team should have a design for a bona fide flight version laid out by the end of February, Lindensmith said.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted signs of a plume of water vapor emanating from Europa's south polar region in late 2012 (though future efforts to confirm the plume have not been successful), and geysers near Enceladus' south pole continuously blast out large amounts of water ice, organic compounds and other material.
A DHM instrument could theoretically search for signs of life in Europa orEnceladus plume material collected during flybys, Lindensmith said, but such work would pose challenges that a lander-based instrument wouldn't face. For example, plume samples would be very small, so the odds of seeing something interesting would be lower. Further, plume material would be snagged by a spacecraft at high velocity, possibly killing and/or destroying any cells that were picked up.
UFO Passes Between Earth And Moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Passes Between Earth And Moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2, 2015 Location of sighting: Earths moon This UFO is moving very slowly, which is proof that its very far away at the time it was recorded. The UFO may be in Earths orbit or passing by Earth on its travels. Fantastic catch and I hope to see more from this up and coming UFO researcher Richard205Maria of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I recorded this flying object last year, but never put that much attention to this flying strange object... you decided what it is, I just recorded this flying object and it is very strange.
Alien conspiracies, monsters, cryptids, mutants, paranormal phenomena -- just a typical day for the fictional FBI agents of "The X-Files."
But how close to fiction was it?
Creator, writer and director Chris Carter tells a real-life tale about the show in its early days that's worthy of the show's catchphrase, "The truth is out there."
"I had someone come up to me during the original run of the series, who said they worked in some high place in a secret government agency, [and] said that we were very close to the truth," Carter told The Huffington Post.
"I didn't know whether to take that person at their word or not. I can tell you this: When I wrote the [1993] pilot, I called the FBI to do some research, and they were nice enough, but didn't really give me the time of day.
"Then, all of a sudden, as we got close to airing, the FBI called and said, 'Who are you and what are you doing?' And for a second, I thought it was going to be the long arm of the law coming in to shut me down."
The science fiction classic returns to TV this weekend after a 14-year absence, and Carter tells HuffPost Weird News that the feds eventually took a liking to him -- and he took a liking to them.
"They became unofficial fans [of the 'X-Files']. And as a member of the FBI Citizens Academy, I've had a chance to shoot many a firearm with the FBI. I got to shoot a few rounds at the firing range at FBI headquarters in Washington."
Sunday night's premiere of the long-awaited 10th season mini-series marks the first of six installments, combining the alien conspiracy mythology of the original "Monster of the Week" series with stand-alone episodes.
"The X-Files" first invaded the consciousness of viewers in 1993, eventually producing more than 200 episodes over nine seasons along with two feature films.
An ardent worldwide audience has anxiously waited to see the reunion of FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), as they continue to unravel the fictional unsolved cases that have plagued the bureau.
The show's updated catchphrase: "The truth is still out there"
While Mulder's obsession with the paranormal propelled him forward in his quest to prove that Earth is visited by colonization-minded aliens, level-headed skeptic Scully spent an equal amount of time doing her best to remain focused, trying to provide logical explanations for all of the weird stuff they've come in contact with.
One thing for sure, after more than a decade since the last time he wore Agent Mulder's alien conspiracy shoes, Duchovny told HuffPost it was a no-brainer stepping back into the character for the new season.
"It was easy because we had so many years doing it with one another, and for those eight or nine years that we shot the show, we would've spent more time with each other than with our families. And, very much like a family, we fall into a certain way of being and relating and bring that to the characters. You can't fake that kind of history. It's such a gift for an actor to be able to have that much time with the people that he or she is working with."
Check out the following behind-the-scenes video: "The X-Files: Re-Opened"
Carter, Duchovny and Anderson have all hinted they'd be interested in continuing the "X-Files" franchise beyond these upcoming new episodes.
While the series has featured many bizarre, dangerous and mind-bending adversaries -- human and otherwise -- what about Carter, the creator and life force behind it all. Has he ever seen anything he couldn't explain?
"Not a UFO and I've never had a visitation. I've certainly had experiences that seemed somewhat paranormal, but I'm still in the 'I want to believe' camp."
Note to Carter: How about a newer catchphrase: "The truth is always out there"
The two-night premiere of "The X-Files" returns to Fox on Jan. 24 at 10 p.m. and Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. Check your local listings.
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