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, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
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.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
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...
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UFO sightings are common in tiny Colorado town, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO sightings are common in tiny Colorado town, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of news article: Feb 1, 2016 Location of sightings: Hooper, Colorado, USA Source of news article:
http://kdvr.com/2016/01/24/ufo-sightings-are-common-in-this-tiny-colorado-town/ Colorado is known for its glowing orbs that come and go above the mountain ranges. Colorado Police have recorded them, mayors have reported seeing them and thousands of eyewitnesses have seen them at the same time, and yet, the US government has continued to deny that they exist. Aliens are real. Don't believe it...know it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: HOOPER, Colo. -- As part of the new series "Colorado’s Unexplained Stories," we’re taking a trip four hours south of Denver to the San Luis Valley. The area is nicknamed "The UFO Hot Spot of America." Apparently, there are more UFO sightings there than anywhere else in America. Locals refer to Highway 17, which cuts through the valley, as "The Cosmic Highway." If you take the highway into Hooper, you’ll eventually pass by an oddly shaped dome-like structure known as "The UFO Watch Tower." It was created by Judy Messoline 15 years ago. “What I find is we get people here because they need a place to talk about it and especially ones that have had experiences. Especially abductees,” Messoline said. Ask anyone who lives in the Hooper area if they’ve ever seen anything weird in the sky and chances are each one of them will tell you "Yes." Their experiences inspired Messoline to create the tower. It features plenty of things, including a log book where people can write their run-ins with the unknown. “I had an air traffic controller from DIA come in who said they get six to eight UFO reports from pilots every month. Now figure that one out,” Messoline said with a chuckle.
There are 3 videos of her sightings on the article, but they don't allow embedding, so you will have to click the source above to see the videos. And for others, 3 new videos that are not on Youtube yet...5 min after I post this they will be. I admire this woman. She knows that aliens exist and she is not hiding in the shadows. She steps forward and takes a stand, announcing it to the world and trying to catch more evidence on video. She is a warrior. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Are we alone in the universe? Everyone has a theory - but for Sue Sill, there’s only one answer. Sue, 57, of Outlane, claims she’s had many encounters with UFOS - and believes she was abducted in 2010. She says Huddersfield is a hotbed of activity and has filmed UFOs in the sky all around the town. Her latest experience was just last month, when she filmed a light in the sky above her home. She said: “I was in my kitchen with my sister-in-law Colleen, who has seen quite a lot of things with me. She said, ‘there’s something over the top of your house again - a bright light in the sky.’” Sue has been an avid UFO spotter for most of her life and in 2010 had an experience she describes as an abduction, around the same time crop circles were found at Castle Hill.She said: “I was sorting my things out for the morning and running a bath. I walked back into the bedroom and it was like I had gone into a trance.
“I sat down on the bed and the next thing, some figures appeared. They were really small and they had black skin or were wearing black suits. “They had long, thin arms and their faces were obscured, like a liquid. I was thinking, ‘oh God, what’s happening here?’ “They came to the side of the bed and something like a veil came over me. The next thing I knew I was in a space on a craft looking at Earth.“The craft was iridescent like a bubble, I could see everything around me. I was thinking, ‘how can I be looking at the Earth?’ “The creatures spoke with telepathy and were showing me the Earth. At once there was a massive explosion on Earth, like a mushroom, and my heart sunk. “When the creature put its hand on my shoulder it was like ET with a long middle finger. It was like it was feeding off my emotions. I remember the creature saying, ‘don’t worry, you will be all right’. “I didn’t feel they wanted to harm me or the people on Earth, I think they were concerned about what’s happening on Earth. We are destroying the planet.” Sue said all of a sudden she woke up fully dressed lying on the bed. Hours had passed since her last memories from her bedroom. She said: “I tried to get up and I couldn’t stand up. I felt sick. I tried to do my normal routine, getting ready for work, but it was like I was jetlagged. “I saw my neighbour and he asked me what was wrong. I said, ‘I think I’ve been abducted’. He just laughed. “I thought I was going crazy so I went to the doctor. He just looked at me and sent me straight to a psychiatrist, who said I was okay. I knew I was fine. More at source.
Marta Kristen was born in Oslo, Norway, and moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family in 1959. After being discovered by Hollywood, she appeared in a memorable 1961 episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” Her first success in acting was the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie “Beach Blanket Bingo.” She would later star in “Lost in Space” and make numerous guest appearances on television shows.
MUFON’s Conclusion of a UFO Sighting in P.E.I. Disputed
MUFON’s Conclusion of a UFO Sighting in P.E.I. Disputed
Many theories have emerged to explain the UFO sighting, but national UFO group not rocked. The subject matter is a UFO sighting in June 2014 off P.E.I.’s North Shore.
John Sheppard recorded an eight-minute video that showed bright lights in the sky over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He was camping in the late spring of that year at Twin Shores campground when he shot the video.
He submitted the footage to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) of Canada, which investigated the sighting and concluded it was an unknown aerial vehicle.
But many people are looking to debunk that conclusion. Canada’s Halifax president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Paul Gray, who has been taking photographs for 27 years, believes the thing in the Sheppard’s video is likely the 11:42 p.m. Air Canada flight approaching the Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport. He explains the main runway of the airport is directly in line with the area of the North Shore where the filming is done.
He further says that the aircraft’s landing lights are turned on ten to fifteen minutes prior arrival and visible up to 160 km away, making it possible for anybody on the P.E.I shore to see them.
As for the light’s erratic behaviour, Gray says that if someone 10 to 20 miles from an airport uses a cell phone and holds it for 5 minutes or more while taking a video of the plane on approach, will also give a result that looks almost the same, which is a bright light bouncing around the screen.
However, assistant director of MUFON Canada, Stu Bundy isn’t convinced with Gray’s explanation. He says that the director of MUFON B.C. is an astronomer and ex-pilot, and he doesn’t think it is an aircraft on approach.
Bundy states their investigator looks into flight schedules out of the Charlottetown and Halifax airports that time of the night.
Bundy also says that they can be wrong, but he stands by MUFON’s conclusion.
A former worker at the P.E.I. National Park, Hugh McCormack, believes the video shows two parachute flares dropped from Canadian military aircraft, which he has witnessed during search-and-rescue training or regular exercises.
Bundy says MUFON is glad to sift through all theories but adds “this is a very polarizing subject with many on both sides who believe they know the truth.”
Ross Thompson, a Thunder Cove cottage owner, offers a third theory. He reveals that he once thought he saw a UFO in the summer of 2014 between his cottage and the water late one evening. But after some investigations, he found out that it was a large drone with multi-coloured lights operated by a cottage renter in the area.
Thompson says he sees red, blue and white lights, plus another one bright light. It flies very similar to the man’s video- moves up and down fast and at approximately the same altitude to the one in the video, says Thompson.
Bundy says they consider the possibility of a drone, but one of MUFON’s field investigator, who owns a drone company, states that it doesn’t have any characteristics or not many of a drone.
2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte
2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte
The strange relationship between America’s most secret military base, Area 51, and UFOs will be explored in a special lecture by researchers Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, titled “Exploring Dreamland: A History of Area 51.” The authors recently gave this same presentation at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
A UFO was shot down after it was picked up on the radar; Air Force officials have announced. A Su-30 MKI fighter jet of an Indian Air Force in Barmer, Rajistan has reportedly intercepted an unidentified flying object on January 26, 2016.
The object on radar was a balloon-shaped object and triggered an alert. According to the IAF, the Indian Air Force (IAF) radar picked up an unidentified balloon-shaped object between 10:30 and 11 am. Then an IAF fighter was ordered to intercept the object and bring it down. Debris from the object has been recovered and subjected to further investigation.
Some locals speculated that the object was a meteorological weather balloon from Pakistan or India. But the IAF has yet to confirm the object’s identity.
Located less than 300 miles from Jaipur, the Bamer village was first in the headline this month when locals reported seeing mysterious balls falling from the sky.
The police investigators who checked the area for debris reportedly retrieved five triangle-shaped pieces of a metal object, which were turnover to the IAF.
Many villagers had claimed that they heard a loud blast over a three-mile radius when the incident took place. Eyewitness Manoj Singh said he heard the explosion sound five times, and something went down after an aircraft flew by.
Last year, nearby Sinleejageer villagers heard similar blasts also in January, and the incident was still under investigation.
Some believe that the mysterious object was a spy equipment because it was above the border with Pakistan.
Astronomy can be bittersweet. We’ve recently caught a glimpse of a tiny galaxy, some 54 million light-years away that is in the process of dying. As its life draws to a close, it’s weeping with tears of stars and ultraviolet light, which stream out for hundreds of thousands of light-years into the bleak emptiness of intergalactic space…
Well OK, so maybe that’s all a bit melodramatic and melancholy, but the interesting fact remains that this is possibly the first time we’ve actually witnessed the death of a galaxy in detail. It’s known as IC 3418, part of the Virgo galaxy cluster, and its death knell is important news for astronomers.
You see, extragalactic astronomy is a difficult art; looking at objects so distant and faint that it’s difficult to see them clearly can make it difficult to immediately recognize what we’re seeing out there. Couple that with the fact that we’re literally gazing out into the unknown. It’s a big universe out there, and we still understand only a very little of it. So when Jeffrey Kenney, ofYale University, recognized what he might be looking at it was an understandably exciting realization.
“We think we’re witnessing a critical stage in the transformation of a gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy into a gas-poor dwarf elliptical galaxy — the depletion of its lifeblood,” Kenney explained. Galaxies need all of their gas to form stars. Without that gas, their star formation ceases, leaving them with a population of steadily aging stars that will eventually all die off.
Astronomers categorize galaxies by the colors of light they emit. When undergoing a healthy amount of star formation, galaxies appear blue; young, hot stars shine brightly in blue to ultraviolet wavelengths of light. Older galaxies whose star formation days are over, however, appear much more red, leading some to refer to them as “red and dead.”
But the actual transition, where a galaxy loses its gas and star formation stops (technically referred to as ‘quenching’) has been elusive to spot. “Until now, there has been no clear example of this transformation happening,” said Kenney, highlighting the importance of this discovery.
Ultraviolet Tears
Those ‘tears’ you can see in the image above actually show the way in which the galaxy is dying (incidentally, the scientists involved in this study are no less melodramatic, referring to them as fireballs). It’s undergoing a process known as ram pressure stripping.
Intergalactic space is by no means empty. Instead, it’s full of a thin plasma made up mostly of hydrogen ions, known as the intergalactic medium, buffeted about by the gravitational pull of nearby galaxies. While it may be at pressures that are unfathomably low compared to what we’re used to on Earth, it’s enough that any galaxy feels some pressure as it drifts through intergalactic space — it’s perhaps easiest to think of it as an intergalactic wind.
In the midst of galaxy clusters (containing numerous large galaxies and even more numerous dwarfs), that intergalactic plasma becomes denser — usually being referred to, technically, as ‘intracluster medium’. Heated to extreme temperatures by pure gravitational energy, this hot plasma shines brightly in x-rays. As gravity accelerates entire galaxies towards the center of these clusters, they feel this intergalactic wind more strongly.
Eventually, it becomes too much, and as a galaxy falls towards the center of a cluster, its gas and dust are literally blown away. Only the heavier objects, like stars, are unaffected by this process, leaving a galaxy which has undergone ram pressure stripping in this way with no gas from which to form new stars.
In the case of IC 3418, those tears aren’t actually tears at all, they’re huge globules of gas that have been blown out of the galaxy. And all of that gas is still forming stars! Newly formed, orphaned stars born in intergalactic space illuminate the globules in ultraviolet. Kenney and his colleagues note this as a sign of active ram pressure stripping occurring.
However, since its collision with the Virgo cluster, this is almost certainly the last star formation that this ill fated galaxy is ever going to see. No new stars have formed in the core of IC 3418 for over 200 million years.
While poor little IC 3418 is not a new discovery by any means, the paper entitled “Transformation of a Virgo Cluster Dwarf Irregular Galaxy by Ram Pressure Stripping: IC3418 and its Fireballs” (due to be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal) is the first to argue the case that it is, in fact,doomed.
“It’s gratifying to find a clear example of an important process in galaxy evolution,” continued Kenney, true to the spirit of any good scientist. “I enjoy digging through evidence to assemble a story about what happens to galaxies. I’ve come to think of myself as an intergalactic forensic pathologist — someone who studies the bodies of galaxies seeking evidence of traumatic events responsible for the present state of the galaxy.”
Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, but can generally be grouped into easily identifiable regular shapes, such as the elegant spirals or run-of-the-mill ellipticals. And then there are the irregular galaxies, which account for roughly a quarter of known galaxies, that are just kinda messy.
In this recent Hubble Space Telescope observation, one such irregular galaxy, located around 16 million light-years from Earth, has been observed. It looks like a loose collection of stars that have been thrown together and shuffled, like my end-of-semester university dorm room. But this galaxy, called NGC 5408, isn't just a scattering of stars, it's a whole galaxy and it's a galaxy with some interesting astronomical history.
Originally discovered by British astronomer and mathematician John Herschel in June 1834, NGC 5408 was presumed to be a planetary nebula -- a gaseous cloud of gas generated by a dying star. But as astronomical optics improved, its true nature was revealed; NGC 5408 is an entire galaxy living by its own rules, refusing to conform to a regular shape.
Intermediate-mass black holes (or IMBHs) are the "middleweight" black holes that are thought to be the missing evolutionary link between puny stellar mass black holes and the gargantuan supermassive black holes. They are, however, very hard to find and astronomers are currently keeping tabs on ultraluminous X-ray sources in the hope that they may signal the presence of these mid-sized black holes.
THIS BIZARRE IMAGE OF A 'HUMANOID' WAS TAKEN DURING AN ALIEN ABDUCTION, CLAIMS WOMEN
THIS BIZARRE IMAGE OF A 'HUMANOID' WAS TAKEN DURING AN ALIEN ABDUCTION, CLAIMS WOMEN
An unnamed woman claims 40 mysterious pictures, including one which appears to show a humanoid being, appeared on her mobile phone after she "lost time" to what she thinks was an alien abduction in her home.
Her claims have been reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a recognised global alien and paranormal investigation organisation, which also keeps a database of sightings and incidents.
In a report to MUFON she said asked the organisation to look at pictures she says were taken by beings and appeared on her phone.
She said she woke in the bathroom in foetal position
The woman claims to have no idea how thee images got on her phone.
She said: "I believe I was abducted that night."
The woman said she was at home in a condominium in Plymouth, Hancock County, Illinois, USA, when she had a row with her boyfriend who chose to sleep in his van on the driveway.
She said: "I was lighting a cigarette on the stove and had a scratch off ticket in my hand.
"The next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor of my bathroom in foetal position.
"The cigarette I had and ticket were on the floor in the kitchen apparently I'd dropped them."
Sceptics say that people who claim to be abducted have no evidence but missing time.
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She says they could only have come from "another world"
When you truly look at the detail you see they are other worldly and cannot be faked.
Woman who claims she was abducted
She said a few days later she looked at her phone and found the 40 pictures "that neither she nor her boyfriend had taken."
She said: "When you truly look at the detail you see they are other worldly and cannot be faked."
The woman posted just ten of the pictures with her report to Mufon.
Nine of them appear to be blurred lights or colour, but one includes a humanoid which appears to be laying down with an alien-like face, although the picture is of poor quality.
The rest of the images could be simply blurred images of a light source taken in the dark.
She did not comment on who or what she thought the human like figure was or if it could have been her boyfriend snapped by someone unknown.
It has already been picked up by some uFO websites which have described the images as extremely creepy.
Sceptics argue that most claims of alien abduction include no real evidence of anything actually happening, other than the "abductee" losing time and then deducing they must have been taken by something
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De aarde bestaat eigenlijk uit twee planeten
De aarde bestaat eigenlijk uit twee planeten
De aarde is ooit frontaal op een andere planeet gebotst. Die planeet, Theia geheten, overleefde de botsing niet en barstte uit elkaar.
Uit een deel van de brokstukken van Theia is de maan ontstaan, zo zeggen Amerikaanse wetenschappers. Een ander deel is opgenomen door de aarde, waardoor onze planeet eigenlijk uit twee planeten bestaat.
Vingerafdruk
Wetenschappers dachten altijd dat de aarde en Theia elkaar hadden geschampt, maar concluderen nu dat het om een frontale botsing ging. Ze schrijven over hun bevindingen in het blad Science.
Onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Californië in Los Angeles vergeleken de chemische ‘vingerafdruk’ van zeven maanstenen met die van vulkanisch gesteente uit het binnenste van de aarde. De stenen bleken zuurstofatomen te bevatten die precies hetzelfde zijn samengesteld. Volgens de wetenschappers moeten ze daarom dezelfde oorsprong hebben.
Enorme kracht
Om dat mogelijk te maken moet er bij de botsing een enorme kracht zijn vrijgekomen. Daaruit leiden de onderzoekers af dat de botsing tussen de aarde en Theia frontaal moet zijn geweest.
Een andere theorie is dat Theia destijds langs de aarde is gescheerd en daarbij in stukken uit elkaar is gevallen. Maar in dat geval zouden de stenen op de maan moeten verschillen van het gesteente op aarde, omdat ze een andere afkomst hebben.
Pluto's Surface Has a Surprising Amount of Water Ice (Photo)
Pluto's Surface Has a Surprising Amount of Water Ice (Photo)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer |
These maps of water ice on Pluto's surface were created using data captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. The map at left is an early effort; the one at right used modeling techniques to achieve greater sensitivity.
Credit: NASA/JHUIAPL/SwRI
Water ice is surprisingly abundant on Pluto's surface, a new map of the dwarf planet reveals.
Scientists created the map using data collected by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its epic flyby of Pluto last July.
The new map is more sensitive than an earlier version also produced using flyby observations, and thus shows more water ice — the dwarf planet's bedrock material — cropping up across Pluto's surface than had been seen previously, NASA officials said.
"But despite its much greater sensitivity, the map still shows little or no water ice in the informally named places called Sputnik Planum (the left or western region of Pluto’s 'heart') and Lowell Regio (far north on the encounter hemisphere)," NASA officials wrote in a statement Thursday (Jan. 28). "This indicates that at least in these regions, Pluto's icy bedrock is well hidden beneath a thick blanket of other ices such as methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide."
New Horizons zoomed within just 7,800 miles (12,550 kilometers) of Pluto on July 14, 2015, returning history's first up-close looks at the dwarf planet and its five moons.
The new and old water-ice maps were both made using infrared-light observations captured by New Horizons' Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument, at a distance of about 67,000 miles (108,000 km) from Pluto, NASA officials said.
New Horizons is currently zooming toward a small object about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto called 2014 MU69. If NASA approves and funds a proposed extended mission, the spacecraft will study 2014 MU69 up close on Jan. 1, 2019.
Pluto Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Dwarf Planet?
Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet in our solar system, underwent a well-publicized (and somewhat controversial) reclassification that took away its title as the ninth and most distant planet from the sun. So, how well do you know this fascinating world?
New Horizons is also still beaming home the many photos and measurements it captured during the July 14 flyby. All of the close-encounter data should be on the ground by this coming fall, mission team members have said.
Alien Species to replace humans by 2100 says SETI Researcher
Alien Species to replace humans by 2100 says SETI Researcher
According to statements from a senior SETI astronomer, due to the vast advancements in different science and technology, humans could cease to be the dominant species on Earth as life could someday take a toll on humans with Alien beings replacing us on Earth, and all of this by 2100.
Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California believes that our technology is advancing at such pace that soon we will have designer babies and AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Earth, leading to the creation of a new DOMINANT species on planet Earth. According to Shostak, the advanced in these two fields could soon lead towards the emergence of an ‘alien species’ in the next century.
Shostak wrote in January 2016 a different kind of article titled “Could This Be Humanity’s Last Century?” which takes a totally different approach on things. His writings are basically a possible ‘crash-course’ as to what life will look like in the next century or so, given the pace technology and science are advancing.
“But what about the 21st century? What will your kids and grandkids do that will still be important a thousand years from now?” he argued.
Shostak argues that he didn’t mention the numerous threats present on Earth today, such as terrorism or climate change, he rather focused on the future making mention to a possible outcome that not only he but other scientist have openly spoken about.
Not long ago, speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium in October, Musk described artificial intelligence as ‘biggest existential threat’ to our species.
He said: ‘I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.’
‘I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.’
‘With artificial intelligence, we’re summoning the demon. You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and … Is he sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.’
“The third thing you can expect before the year 2100 is the development of generalized artificial intelligence,” Shostak said.
Shostak seems to share the views bright minds such as Musk and Hawking have on the future of mankind. The SETI astronomer mentioned three things that according to him, can happen in the next 100 years on Earth. Shostak talked about how mankind will understand the DNA sequences and the molecular level of biology. He also believes that with advancements in technology, medicine, and several sciences, mankind will be able to cure numerous diseases that are deemed as incurable today.
“But our efforts won’t be limited to merely fixing ourselves; we’ll also opt for improvement. You may hesitate to endorse designer babies, but hot-rodding our children are as much on the horizon as the morning sun,” Shostak said referring to biotechnology and gene editing.
Shostak believes that re-engineering our children will create something humanity has never seen, creating drastic changes in the ‘evolutionary path’ of our species.
Shostak also mentioned space and how humans are set to explore the vast frontiers of the cosmos searching for intelligent life and valuable resources that are scarce here on Earth but abundant on other planets and celestial bodies through the universe.
With scientific advancements like these, the Homo sapiens that walked the Earth for 50,000 years might be unrecognizable in the next 100 years. He added that these changes may not happen in this century but it may happen in the next 1,000 years.
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UFO Barely Misses US Army Helicopter [Video
UFO Barely Misses US Army Helicopter [Video]
In 1973, the crew of an Army Helicopter encountered a UFO and subsequently won $5,000 for “the most scientifically valuable report of the year.”
Such a large number of sightings took place in October 1973 that the period is often referred to as the Great UFO Wave. It’s fortunate that one of them was witnessed by a crew of credible witnesses.
On October 18, at approximately 10:30 p.m., an Army Reserve Bell UH-1 (Huey) helicopter took off from Port Columbus, Ohio. It was headed for Cleveland Hopkins Airport, about 100 miles to the north. Its crew consisted of four men: Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, First Lieutenant Arrigo Jezzi, Sergeant John Healey and Sergeant Robert Yanacsek.
The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 2,500 feet and was cruising at a speed of 90 knots. Atmospheric conditions were ideal and a clear sky allowed for optimum visibility.
As they got closer to their destination, Sgt. Healey noticed a red light to their west, flying the opposite way. Two minutes later, he saw a similar light, this time far in the south-east horizon. He got the chance to observe it for a while but, like the other crew members, Healey thought it was nothing more than distant air traffic.
About half a minute later, Yanacsek spotted the mysterious light had changed course and was now heading towards the helicopter. Captain Coyne took over the Huey’s controls and began a rapid descent. He also contacted the nearby Mansfield control tower, as he was unable to establish radio communications with the unknown aircraft. Unfortunately, radio contact with the tower soon failed and could not be established again.
In the meantime, the red light had increased in intensity and was still heading on a collision course. Coyne therefore increased the helicopter’s rate of descent and airspeed.
At 1,700 feet I braced myself for the impact with the other craft, Coyne told United Press International reporters. It was coming from our right side. I was scared. There had been so little time to respond.
The thing was terrifically fast.
The crash seemed imminent when the object simply stopped and assumed a hovering position above and in front of the Huey. It was close enough for the airmen to distinguish some of its features.
The object was a metallic gray cigar-shaped craft, with “a suggestion of windows ” on the top and red light emanating from its bow. Another white light appeared on its rear side and a green “pyramid shaped” followed it. The airmen said the green beam behaved like a directional spotlight.
We looked up and saw it stopped right over us, Coyne said. It had a big, gray metallic-looking hull about 60 feet long. It was shaped like an airfoil or a streamlined fat cigar. There was a red light on the front. The leading edge glowed red a short distance back from the nose. There was a center dome. A green light at the rear reflected on the hull.
The green beam of light passed over the helicopter canopy, bathing the cockpit in an eerie green light. The airmen were bewildered as their helicopter began climbing by itself. The tractor beam was in control.
I had made no attempt to pull up. All controls were set for a 20-degree dive. Yet we had climbed from 1,700 to 3,500 feet with no power in a couple of seconds with no g-forces or other noticeable strains.
After about ten seconds, the UFO suddenly switched off the green beam and began accelerating to the west. In a few minutes, it had disappeared over the horizon. Lieutenant Jezzi approximated its speed at more than 500 knots (570 mph).
Despite traveling that fast, it made no sound at all, and produced no air turbulence. These aspects suggest it was equipped with something other than conventional propulsion systems. Its ability to pull the Huey into a rapid ascension demonstrates the effective use of antigravity.
After the unidentified object lost interest, Captain Coyne and his crew became aware of their altitude and managed to safely descend to 2,500 feet. Radio contact with Akron-Canton Airport and the rest of their flight was uneventful.
Their UFO encounter would become one of the most well-documented cases and one of the most reliable sightings. When questioned, the four men gave similar descriptions of the event and provided similar sketches. As further confirmation of the incident, ground witnesses reported seeing a mysterious light in the sky.
More than forty years later, this UFO encounter is still fascinating and still unexplained.
Furnished with the sworn testimony of an eyewitness, Oscar Linke, a 48-year-old German and former mayor of Gleimershausen, West Berlin intelligence officers have begun investigating a most unusual “flying saucer” story. According to this story, an object “resembling a huge flying pan” and having a diameter of about 15 meters landed in a forest clearing in the Soviet Zone of Germany.
Oscar Linke along with his wife and six children witnessed an extraordinary UFO sighting in East Germany in 1952.
Linke and his 11-year-old daughter, Gabriella, made the following sworn statement before a judge:
“While I was returning to my home with Gabriella, a tire of my motorcycle blew out near the town of Hasselbach. While we were walking along toward Hasselbach, Gabriella pointed out something which lay at a distance of about 140 meters away from us. Since it was twilight, I thought that she was pointing at a young deer.
“I left my motorcycle near a tree and walked toward the spot which Gabriella had pointed out. When, however, I reached a spot about 55 meters from the object, I realized that my first impression had been wrong. What I had seen were two men who were now about 40 meters away from me. They seemed to be dressed in some shiny metallic clothing. They were stooped over and were looking at something lying on the ground.
“I approached until I was only about 10 meters from them. I looked over a small fence and then I noticed a large object whose diameter I estimated to be between 13 and 15 meters. It looked like a huge frying pan.
“There were two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On the top of this metal object was a black conical tower about three meters high.
“At that moment, my daughter, who had remained a short distance behind me, called me. The two men must have heard my daughter’s voice because they immediately jumped on the conical tower and disappeared inside.
“I had previously noted that one of the men had a lamp on the front part of his body which lit up at regular intervals.
“Now, the side of the object on which the holes had been opened began to glitter. Its color seemed green but later turned to red. At the same time I began to hear a slight hum. While the brightness and hum increased, the conical tower began to slide down into the center of the object. The whole object then began to rise slowly from the ground and rotate like a top.
“It seemed to me as if it were supported by the cylindrical plant which had gone down from the top of the object, through the center, and had now appeared from its bottom on the ground.
“The object, surrounded by a ring of flames, was now a certain number of feet above the ground.
“I then noted that the whole object had risen slowly from the ground. The cylinder on which it was supported had now disappeared within its center and had reappeared on the top of the object.
“The rate of climb had now become greater. At the same time my daughter and I heard a whistling sound similar to that heard when a bomb falls.
“The object rose to a horizontal position, turned toward a neighboring town, and then, gaining altitude, it disappeared over the heights and forests in the direction of Stockheim.”
What makes the testimony so tangible, is other people who live in the same area later said they saw the same object which they thought to be a comet.
After submitting his testimony to the judge, Linke made the following statement: “I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved: When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been. I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug. It was exactly the same shape as the conical tower. I was then convinced that I was not dreaming.”
Linke continued, “I had never heard of the term ‘flying saucer’ before I escaped from the Soviet Zone into West Berlin. When I saw this object, I immediately thought that it was a new Soviet military machine.
“I confess that I was seized with fright because the Soviets do not want anyone to know about their work. Many persons have been restricted to their movements for many years in East Germany because they know too much.”
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Mac's UFO News - January 2016 (Season 4 Episode 1)
Mac's UFO News - January 2016 (Season 4 Episode 1)
Published on Jan 29, 2016
This month on Mac's UFO News: Mr. Philip Mantle, The Flying Disk Press and UFO's Over Poland / Element 115 / British Astronaut Tim Peake on life in our Solar System / Hillary Clinton on UFO Disclosure / The 4th UFO Truth Magazine International Conference / Mr. Gary Heseltine appeals to serving and retired British Police Officers / UFO Sightings for January / Independence Day 2 and a cast sneak peak + Global release dates / Jason Mcclellan, Rogue Planet and UFO Modpod / UFO's In the news.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This weekend, a new opera about space exploration, the universe's creation and one astronaut's journey will play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) — and audience members will be able to talk to performers and astronomers after several of the shows.
The 75-minute opera, "The Astronaut's Tale," opens tonight (Jan. 28) at 8 p.m. EST, followed by a special reception honoring retired NASA astronaut Michael Massimino, who launched on two space shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the opera's first full production; Encompass New Opera Theatre put on a partially staged reading in 2012 and is producing this premiere at BAM Fisher's 250-seat theater, complete with a set built around vivid projections of space and the universe's mysteries.
The opera was composed and written by Charles Fussell and Jack Larson, and is directed by Nancy Rhodes. The production's website sells tickets and includes a schedule of the postshow talks.
Over the course of the narrative, a young man grapples with religious and scientific views of the universe, and is inspired to become an astronaut and blast into space. To tell the story, the opera uses song — four singers accompanied by a chamber orchestra — as well as spoken narration. The show is a multimedia experience: Three projectors display images onto the floor, a wall, and a round, hanging set piece, so the actors are surrounded by views of the cosmos.
Encompass New Opera Theatre focuses on bringing 20th- and 21st-century American operas to the theater, and has tackled scientific topics before: Its opera "The Theory of Everything" explored scientific and spiritual ideas about alternate dimensions.
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station by Staff Writers Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 29, 2016
Section of rock coloniszed by cryptoendolithic microorganisms and the Cryomyces fungi in quartz crystals under an electron microscope. Image courtesy S. Onofri et al. For a larger version of this image please go here.
European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60% of their cells remained intact, with stable DNA. The results provide new information for the search for life on the red planet. Lichens from the Sierra de Gredos (Spain) and the Alps (Austria) also travelled into space for the same experiment.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys, located in the Antarctic Victoria Land, are considered to be the most similar earthly equivalent to Mars. They make up one of the driest and most hostile environments on our planet, where strong winds scour away even snow and ice. Only so-called cryptoendolithic microorganisms, capable of surviving in cracks in rocks, and certain lichens can withstand such harsh climatological conditions.
A few years ago a team of European researchers travelled to these remote valleys to collect samples of two species of cryptoendolithic fungi: Cryomyces antarcticus and Cryomyces minteri. The aim was to send them to the International Space Station (ISS) for them to be subjected to Martian conditions and space to observe their responses.
The tiny fungi were placed in cells (1.4 centimetres in diameter) on a platform for experiments known as EXPOSE-E, developed by the European Space Agency to withstand extreme environments. The platform was sent in the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS and placed outside the Columbus module with the help of an astronaut from the team led by Belgian Frank de Winne.
For 18 months half of the Antarctic fungi were exposed to Mars-like conditions. More specifically, this is an atmosphere with 95% CO2, 1.6% argon, 0.15% oxygen, 2.7% nitrogen and 370 parts per million of H2O; and a pressure of 1,000 pascals. Through optical filters, samples were subjected to ultra-violet radiation as if on Mars (higher than 200 nanometres) and others to lower radiation, including separate control samples.
"The most relevant outcome was that more than 60% of the cells of the endolithic communities studied remained intact after 'exposure to Mars', or rather, the stability of their cellular DNA was still high," highlights Rosa de la Torre Noetzel from Spain's National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), co-researcher on the project.
The scientist explains that this work, published in the journal Astrobiology, forms part of an experiment known as the Lichens and Fungi Experiment (LIFE), "with which we have studied the fate or destiny of various communities of lithic organisms during a long-term voyage into space on the EXPOSE-E platform."
"The results help to assess the survival ability and long-term stability of microorganisms and bioindicators on the surface of Mars, information which becomes fundamental and relevant for future experiments centred around the search for life on the red planet," states De la Torre.
Also lichens from Gredos and the Alps Researchers from the LIFE experiment, coordinated from Italy by Professor Silvano Onofri from the University of Tuscany, have also studied two species of lichens (Rhizocarpon geographicum and Xanthoria elegans) which can withstand extreme high-mountain environments. These have been gathered from the Sierra de Gredos (Avila, Spain) and the Alps (Austria), with half of the specimens also being exposed to Martian conditions.
Another range of samples (both lichens and fungi) was subjected to an extreme space environment (with temperature fluctuations of between -21.5 and +59.6 + C, galactic-cosmic radiation of up to 190 megagrays, and a vacuum of between 10-7 to 10-4 pascals). The effect of the impact of ultra-violet extraterrestrial radiation on half of the samples was also examined.
After the year-and-a-half-long voyage, and the beginning of the experiment on Earth, the two species of lichens 'exposed to Mars' showed double the metabolic activity of those that had been subjected to space conditions, even reaching 80% more in the case of the species Xanthoria elegans.
The results showed subdued photosynthetic activity or viability in the lichens exposed to the harsh conditions of space (2.5% of samples), similar to that presented by the fungal cells (4.11%). In this space environment, 35% of fungal cells were also seen to have kept their membranes intact, a further sign of the resistance of Antarctic fungi.
Earth is actually made up from two planets which came together in a head-on collision that was so violent it formed the Moon, scientists have concluded.
Initially it was believed that the Moon was created when a smaller planet called Theia grazed the Earth and broke up, sending a smaller chunk into space where it was caught in Earth’s gravity.
But if that was the case the Moon would have a different chemical composition to the Earth, because it would be made up, predominantly, of Theia.
"Theia probably would have become a planet if the crash had not occurred"
Prof Edward Young, University of California
However, after studying Moon rocks brought back by astronauts on the Apollo missions, scientists at theUniversity of California have found that their oxygen isotopes are the same as on Earth.
It means that the collision between Their and the early Earth was so violent that the two planets effectively melded together to form a new planet, a chunk of which was knocked off to form the Moon.
“We don’t see any difference between the Earth’s and the Moon’s oxygen isotopes; they’re indistinguishable,” said Edward Young, lead author of thenew study and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
“Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the Moon, and evenly dispersed between them.
“This explains why we don’t see a different signature of Theia in the Moon versus the Earth.”
Professor Edward Young
The crash with Theia happened approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, almost 4.5 billion years ago.
It was thought Theia had collided with Earth at an angle of 45 degrees or more, described by the report authors as a ‘powerful side-swipe’
The researchers analysed seven rocks brought to the Earth from the Moonby the Apollo 12, 15 and 17 missions, as well as six volcanic rocks from the Earth’s mantle -- five from Hawaii and one from Arizona.
The key to reconstructing the giant impact was a chemical signature revealed in the rocks’ oxygen atoms. More than 99.9 percent of Earth’s oxygen is O-16, so called because each atom contains eight protons and eight neutrons.
But there also are small quantities of heavier oxygen isotopes: O-17, which have one extra neutron, and O-18, which have two extra neutrons.
In 2014, a team of German scientists reported in Science that the Moon also has its own unique ratio of oxygen isotopes, different from Earth’s. The new research finds that is not the case.
Lunar rock from Apollo 17, credit, Paul Warren
Prof Young’s research team used state-of-the-art technology and techniques to make extraordinarily precise and careful measurements, and verified them with UCLA’s new mass spectrometer.
Theia, which did not survive the collision - except that it now makes up large parts of Earth and the Moon - was growing and probably would have become a planet if the crash had not occurred, added Prof Young.
Prof Young and some other scientists believe the planet was approximately the same size as the Earth; although believe it was smaller, perhaps more similar in size to Mars.
A head-on collision was initially proposed in 2012 by Matija Cuk, now a research scientist with the SETI Institute, and Sarah Stewart, now a professor at UC Davis; and, separately during the same year by Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute.
The new research was published in the journal Science.
William K. Hartmann painted this rendering of the first moments of impact
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