Analysts Might Have Just Found First Evidence of Intelligent Life on Mars

There are countless anomalies surprised by NASA’ rovers on the surface of Mars, and although most of them resemble artifacts left behind by a former civilization, or even biological life forms, there is still no conclusive evidence of intelligent design. However, the latest images beaconed by Opportunity rover might turn the tides in this matter.

 

 

What if the artifacts found all across the Martian soil act only as a distraction from the bigger picture? What if the ground level details are only meant to mask the real activity that’s happening up in the sky? Indeed, more and more reports of UFOs are surfacing from the vigilant UFO analysts that are constantly on the lookout for anomalies on Mars.

 

In the last few months, bizarre dots were found in some of the pictures sent by the rovers, and although at first, skeptics believed they were the result of common phenomenon such as lens flares or even dust, they soon realized the opposite after further photos revealed moving objects in consecutive frames.

 

The most recent case of a UFO on the Red Planet comes from Opportunity rover’s camera, and it reveals an unidentified flying device while in motion. The spectacular image has been highlighted by Streetcap1 of YouTube, who also provided us with an official NASA link to diminish all doubts. The photo clearly shows how a UFO is flying over a nearby hill on a serene sol on Mars. The object leaves a trail behind, indicating its trajectory and from where it came from. Could this surprising image prove that highly intelligent entities exist on the planet?

 

 

According to UFO analysts, the UFO could be a surveillance drone spying on NASA’ rover. It could be either remote controlled or piloted by something (or someone). Judging by the distance, the device is flying at a relatively low altitude and appears to have medium proportions. It leaves a trail behind which is a clear indicator of movement. Other than this, the fact that it is found near Opportunity indicates a certain level of interest in the rover.

 

Scott Waring from ufosightingsdaily also confirmed the above mentioned after he closely analyzed the NASA image:

 

Reports of strange things in rover photos never seem to cease, but it’s always the public that reports them, he wrote on his site. Here, Streetcap1 of YouTube caught an object not too far in the distance that is moving from right to left of the screen. There is a faded trail behind it, a distortion of sorts which tells us the direction it came from. It looks like the spacecraft in the distance is watching the Opportunity rover, observing it.

 

If these concerns prove to be true, could Mars be hiding a tremendous secret? Is it possible that NASA already knows about this and is keeping the general public in a cone of shadow? After all, it only takes 9 months to reach the Martian soil, so the space agency is bound to have more insight regarding what is happening on the neighboring planet.

 

From our perspective, the mysterious black dot could be a fine example of artificial intelligence found in space. Either that, or NASA has a black budged program that’s already operating on Mars. However, since many brilliant minds on Earth discussed the possibility of artificially intelligent beings found in outer space, we find the first mentioned hypothesis more likely than the other. If the renowned space agency knows about this, they will probably reveal more information when they’ll be certain of it. Until then, we can only speculate at what awaits us in the big red wasteland, but day by day the truth becomes harder and harder to swallow. [Official NASA link]

 

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17-02-2016 om 13:31 geschreven door peter  

Gas Cloud Flung Out of Milky Way Is Coming Back for Revenge

This time, it's personal. A massive cloud ejected from the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy about 70 million years ago is now hurtling back toward the disk at breakneck speed.

The boomeranged collection of gas, known as Smith's Cloud, was discovered in 1963, and scientists say it will collide with the Milky Way in about 30 million years. But a new study looking the composition of the cloud shows that it shares a similar chemical signature as the outer disk of the Milky Way.

Smith's Cloud is 11,000 light-years long by 2,500 light-years wide (for comparison, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter), and is speeding toward the Milky Way at nearly 700,000 miles per hour. While it is invisible to the naked eye, if humans could see it in the night sky, it would appear to be about 30 times the size of the full moon, according to NASA. [Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery)]

To determine the cloud's composition, the authors of the new research used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. As light from background galaxies passes through the cloud, certain chemical elements inside the cloud absorb the light in specific wavelengths. The dips in brightness reveal which elements are present within the cloud. The researchers looked for sulfur, which provides a good gauge of how many elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are contained by the object.

"By measuring sulfur, you can learn how enriched in sulfur atoms the cloud is compared to the sun," lead author Andrew Fox, of the Space Telescope Science Center in Baltimore, said in a statement from the University of Notre Dame, where one of his co-authors is based.

Fox and his colleagues found that the cloud is as rich in sulfur as the outer disk of the Milky Way, a region filled with material created by stars and spread when they exploded into supernovas. This region is about 40,000 light-years from the galactic center.

If the starless cloud originated from the depths of space, as some have proposed, it would contain only hydrogen and helium. The new study reveals that upon collision, the fresh supply of gas should kick-start star formation in the galaxy. It contains enough gas to generate two million suns, according to the statement.

"We have found several massive clouds in the Milky Way halo that may serve as future fuel for star formation in its disk, but, for most of them, their origins remain a mystery," said Nicolas Lehner, of the University of Notre Dame, in the statement. "The Smith Cloud is certainly one of the best examples that shows that recycled gas is an important mechanism for the evolution of galaxies."

The research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Follow Nola Taylor Redd on Twitter @NolaTRedd or Google+. Follow us at @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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17-02-2016 om 11:57 geschreven door peter  

China zet meer dan 9.000 mensen hun huis uit voor gigantische radiotelescoop die zoekt naar aliens - HLN.be 

  Bron: Belga

© epa.

China zal bijna 10.000 mensen uit hun woning zetten voor de goede werking van de grootste radiotelescoop ter wereld, een enorm gevaarte dat onder meer op zoek moet gaan naar buitenaards leven. Dat hebben de staatsmedia dinsdag gemeld.

© photo news.

© epa.

De wetenschappers noemen het ding de "Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope" of FAST. Het zal zich in een geïsoleerd ruraal gebied in de zuidoostelijke provincie Guizhou spreiden over een oppervlakte van dertig voetbalvelden en moet nog in september in dienst treden.

De provinciale autoriteiten willen aldus tegen dan 9.110 bewoners van een gebied in een straal van vijf km rond de luisterpost onthemen, aldus het persbureau Nieuw China. De verhuizingen moeten een "betrouwbare omgeving in verband met elektromagnetische golven bewerkstelligen", zegt de door het staatspersbureau geciteerde hoge ambtenaar Li Yuecheng.

De bewuste mensen zullen een schadevergoeding van omgerekend 1.650 euro krijgen, sommigen krijgen bijkomende hulp.

De bouw van de FAST begon in maart 2011 en heeft al 165 miljoen euro gekost. De radiotelescoop overtreft met een diameter van 500 meter die van Arecibo op het eiland Puerto Rico die een diameter van 305 meter heeft.

In het verleden hebben al honderdduizenden Chinezen hun woning moeten verlaten in verband met enorme infrastructuurwerken zoals dammen en kanalen. Een groot aantal van die mensen klaagt over een te lage schadeloosstelling. Soms komt het ook tot geweld.

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17-02-2016 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Belgische studente ontdekt eerste atmosfeer van superaarde - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Een artistieke impressie van superaarde 55 Cancri e. © Ron Miller/NASAblueshift.

WETENSCHAP Britse wetenschappers en een doctoraatsstudente van de KU Leuven zijn erin geslaagd voor het eerst de atmosfeer van een superaarde te ontdekken. Naast het feit dat het op de "diamanten planeet" heel erg warm is, blijkt het er ook bijzonder giftig om te wonen, meldt het Institute of Astronomy (KU Leuven).

© NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC).

 

'Een dag op deze exoplaneet duurt 18 uren en de temperatuur aan het oppervlak loopt op tot 2.000 graden Celsius'

Olivia Venot (KU Leuven)

Superaardes zijn planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel die zwaarder zijn dan onze eigen aarde. Ze komen in onze Melkweg in grote getalen voor. 

Wetenschappers maakten gebruik van de NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescoop om een van die superaardes, de 55 Cancri e, te bestuderen. "Een dag op deze exoplaneet duurt 18 uren en de temperatuur aan het oppervlak loopt op tot 2.000 graden Celsius", zegt Olivia Venot (KU Leuven). "De planeet bevindt zich in een planetenstelsel rond 55 Cancri, een ster in het sterrenbeeld van de kreeft op ongeveer veertig lichtjaren van de aarde."

De superaarde 55 Cancri e heeft als bijnaam "de diamanten planeet", omdat op basis van massa en straal vermoed werd dat koolstof in de atmosfeer aanwezig is. "Niettegenstaande bleef het een verrassing dat grote hoeveelheden waterstofcyanide werden aangetroffen. Dergelijke hoeveelheden waterstof cyanide wijzen erop dat voor elk zuurstof atoom in de atmosfeer verschillende koolstofatomen aanwezig zijn." 

Een nieuwe generatie infraroodtelescopen moet over enkele jaren bevestigen of de planeet inderdaad rijk is aan koolstof, merkt professor Jonathan Tennyson (UCL) nog op. "Al is waterstofcyanide zeer giftig en is deze planeet misschien niet onze favoriete reisbestemming."

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17-02-2016 om 11:17 geschreven door peter  

UFO over Buenos Aires – January 2016

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 14th of January 2016
Submitted by Mihaly

Witness report: Around 22:45 a couple of days ago, I went outside to take some fresh air, and as I like to gaze the stars, I looked up. For my biggest surprise, I have seen something, that looked like nothing I have seen before. It was a mostly blue, redish spot on the sky, that was much larger than a star. It was moving, coming from Notheast, and at a 75 degree angle it stopped, and hovered in that position for about 2 minutes. I quickly grabbed my digital camera, and started recording it. I tried to zoom in to see if I can get a clearer picture of it, and astoundingly, I did. It was just like a dream, only that it was real. And it happened to me. In a circular arrangement I saw 6 lights. 2 red on the left, and 4 blue to the right. Also faintly 1 middle light could be seen blinking in pink. The lights appear as if they are spheres. Then it started to descend to the same direction where it came from. With zoom it was hard to follow it at this time. It disappeared beyond the rooftops. Not thinking about that it might come back, I rushed inside to download my footage and to tell others what happened. However, I was suspicious that it might be back, so I went outside, and there it was again. Seemed to follow the same pattern as earlier. But this time I arrived too late, and it was just about to disappear again, in the same direction where it came from, on Northeast. I have no way to tell the size of the aircraft, it might be much larger than the lights suggest. The distance I believe could not be too far, as it could be zoomed in on by a regular digital camera. I wish I had a better one on me, I could make a great quality footage, that no one have ever seen. It was still an unbelievable sighting.

17-02-2016 om 11:05 geschreven door peter  

UFO photographed near Area 51, USA

Location: near Area 51, Nevada
Date: 7/21/2015
Submitted by Ashley

Witness report: I was flying from Phoenix to Sacramento around 9am and saw these 2 bright lights far out in the distance from 30,000feet up in the air. They never moved from what I could see and they stayed in view through the clouds for 2 minutes or so as we passed. I took one photo, zoomed in a bit and took another. Both are taken with a cell phone.

17-02-2016 om 10:54 geschreven door peter  

UFO activity photographed over Geelong, Australia

Location: Geelong, Australia
Date: 5 of February 2016
Submitted by Ellis

Witness report: 4/5 white dots in the sky with a main ship and a green glow all around it

17-02-2016 om 10:47 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting reported south of Catalina Island, California

Location: south of Catalina Island, California
Date: 1 February 2016
Submitted by Christine

Witness report: PLEASE! people think I am crazy and when I confide my profession dismiss me immediately. I was on a yacht cruising south of Catalina Island returning to L.A. after a weekend ‘party’ cruise. It was late Sunday night. I remained on deck after everyone else had gone below
except the helmsman. We encountered a fast moving fog and I saw balls of lightning zoom overhead. the boat rocked violently and dozens of flying fish broke the surface. A HUGE, pewter colored disk rose from the water and hovered overhead silently. I felt vertigo, my stomach lurch and felt myself floating in a beam of intense light.
My next memory was of someone pulling me to my feet by my arms. It was bright daylight and a USCG boat was alongside hailing us not to move. There were already armed sailors onboard who roughly handcuffed me and tried not to stare ( my bikini was missing) and men in suits in charge giving orders. My famous companion came out; very groggy and their attitude changed. They claimed we matched a drug runner. they let us go. My companion was upset about publicity and we raced to LA overdue.He told me never to tell anyone we were out and dropped all contact with me. I think I am being watched. I have flash memories and weird things going on physically. I am scared, ashamed without knowing why and nobody will listen.

17-02-2016 om 10:41 geschreven door peter  

ORB caught on tape over UK

Location: Britain Penrith, Cumbria
Date: 6pm 15th February 2016
Submitted by Richard

Witness report: It’s what I would think is a UFO flying orb here is the link. So exciting.

17-02-2016 om 10:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO seen and photographed over Medellin, Colombia

Location: Medellin, Colombia, South America
Date: Satuday, febr 13/2016- Aprox 11:45 pm
Submitted by Carlos

Witness report: Informed from my daughther who was looking 3 red lights extrange movements in the Envigado(beside Medellín) night sky, I search in this direction (orient) to take this photos.It seems to have a light tail during ascending. The sighting take aprox 1 minute.

17-02-2016 om 10:32 geschreven door peter  

UFO over Philippines

Location: Batangas, Philippines
Date: 16th February 2016
Submitted by Symon

Witness report: Came out of a cloud above the mountain fast.

17-02-2016 om 10:24 geschreven door peter  

These Are The Vehicles That Will Take You To Space

Virgin Galactic’s human spaceflight system consists of two vehicle types: WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. The first of each vehicle type was built by Scaled Composites, and all future vehicles in our spaceline fleet will be built by our sister company, The Spaceship Company.

WhiteKnightTwo

WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft. It is designed to carry SpaceShipTwo (or LauncherOne) up to an altitude of ~50,000 feet for safe and efficient air launch, a concept that was established by Chuck Yeager’s supersonic Bell X-1, the X-15, and of course SpaceShipOne.

WhiteKnightTwo’s signature design features are its twin fuselage configuration; single-piece, carbon composite high main wing; and four jet engines. The twin boom configuration allows for a spacious central attachment area between the two fuselages for SpaceShipTwo or LauncherOne.

WhiteKnightTwo’s pilots fly the plane from its right fuselage. In the future, with the right regulatory approvals, research experiments or even customers preparing for their flights to space may sit in the cabin of either fuselage.

The first WhiteKnightTwo, called Eve, has completed an extensive four-and-a-half year flight test program.

SpaceShipTwo

SpaceShipTwo is a reusable, winged spacecraft designed to repeatedly carry as many as eight people (including two pilots) into space — a larger total flight crew than any previous space mission except for NASA’s 8-member STS-61-A mission in 1985. Everyone on board SpaceShipTwo will earn official astronaut status, just like the pilots who flew the X-15 spaceplane.

SpaceShipTwo is powered by a hybrid rocket motor — one that combines elements of solid rockets and liquid rocket engines by using a solid fuel source and a liquid oxidizer. Hybrid rocket motors are not a new idea; they have been used in many other applications, including on SpaceShipOne. Although each type of rocket engine has important advantages for different applications (for example, LauncherOne uses liquid rocket engines), hybrids are particularly well suited for SpaceShipTwo because they can be shut down safely and quickly at any point during the flight, unlike solid motors, but do not require the cryogenic propellant tanks or complex plumbing needed by liquid rocket engines.

Like SpaceShipOne before it, SpaceShipTwo uses a unique system to safely re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. With this system, SpaceShipTwo can mimic the performance of a capsule or of a winged vehicle at the appropriate parts of its trajectory. Each of those vehicle types on its own offers important advantages: winged vehicles provide gentle deceleration and precision landing accuracy but require extremely high precision and advanced thermal protection systems, while capsules require less precision and less advanced thermal protection, but subject astronauts to much harsher decelerations and less accurate landings. By changing its configuration in flight, SpaceShipTwo can benefit from the advantages of both types.

SpaceShipTwo’s cabin has been designed to maximize safety and comfort — it is the only spacecraft in history designed explicitly to optimize its passengers’ experience. A dozen windows line the sides and ceiling of the spacecraft, offering each astronaut the ability to view the black skies of space as well as stunning views of the Earth below. Exposure to G-forces during SpaceShipTwo’s ascent and descent is safely and comfortably managed thanks to systems such as our custom-designed, articulated seats, which are upright during rocket boost and reclined during reentry. The cabin is also designed for unfettered enjoyment of a large floating environment.

With the exception of the rocket motor’s fuel and oxidizer, which must be replenished after each flight, SpaceShipTwo is a fully reusable spacecraft.

The first SpaceShipTwo, called Enterprise, was tragically lost during its 55th test flight. The second SpaceShipTwo, not yet named, is approximately two-thirds assembled and 90% structurally complete. It is expected to commence testing in 2015.

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17-02-2016 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

The Futuristic Space Tourism Projects That Are Actually Underway Today

Virgin Galactic

Meet four space tourism programs and see the crafts (and the tech) that can take you beyond Earth

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What was once only possible in the pages of science fiction novels, travelling to the edge of space, is now a reality – and you can even choose your ride to get there! Here are some of the best ways that you can actually take yourself to space (or very nearly so).

SPACESHIPTWO (VIRGIN GALACTIC)

Blue Origin’s New Shephard Rocket.

Image credit: Blue Origin

The unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo (informally referred to as VSS Voyager) will be one for the books, as none other than physicist – and owner of the only free ticket on the craft – Stephen Hawking will be there (if his health permits) at the ceremony.

After the ill-fated crash of VSS Enterprise, the new SpaceShipTwo has clearly incorporated the lessons from its predecessor into its latest design. It has amped up its safety measures, including a feature that prevents the tail booms from extending prematurely and throwing the craft out of control.

This emphasis on safety is also carried over to its cabin. According to Virgin Galactic’s website, it has custom-designed, articulated seats, which stay upright during rocket boost and recline during re-entry.

But as SpaceShipTwo is still targeted towards promoting space tourism, passengers will be treated to an unobstructed view of the Earth from space through the dozen windows that line its sides and ceiling.

Of course, it won’t be an ‘out of this world’ experience without experiencing zero gravity. SpaceShipTwo is also big enough for passengers to float around during a few minutes of weightlessness.

The unveiling of SpaceShipTwo is scheduled on February 19 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

NEW SHEPHARD (BLUE ORIGIN)

Blue Origin

Owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, what sets Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket apart from others in the space tourism race is that it’s re-usable.

In a video released by Blue Origin, it shows New Shephard hitting an altitude of 333,582 feet (63 miles) before landing softly, and vertically, on the ground. If that’s not cool enough, Blue Origin says that, during flights, passengers will experience at least a few minutes of weightlessness after the capsule separates from the booster. At such times, passengers will be able to leave their seats and float about the capsule before a signal tells them to be reseated for landing.

And although no  other details of space tourism operations has yet to be released, Blue Origin’s New Shephard has clearly changed the game for space travel by making it cheaper.

LYNX (XCOR AEROSPACE)

Image credit: Lynx/ XCOR

As far as Lynx goes, the company sums up their tech better than anything else:

“Lynx departs direct from the runway under its own rocket power. Supersonic in one minute, weightless in five minutes, Lynx wastes no time delivering the spaceflight experience in full.”

If that doesn’t get you giddy for suborbital space travel, nothing will.

XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx is a reusable two-seat vehicle which can reach sub-orbit in less than four minutes. It’s also equipped with a dozen thrusters that allows the passengers to “roll the vehicle” to get the view they want during that six to seven minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth.

Currently, it’s estimated that there are already over 350 clients waiting to take their trip to space. You can be one of them for $150,000 a ticket (a hefty fee to be sure, but space isn’t cheap).

VOYAGER (WORLD VIEW)

Artist rendering provided by World View Enterprises

If fast and furious isn’t your space travel style, Arizona company World View has got you covered.

The World View voyage can be likened more to a cruise, with its four to six hour flight – two hours of which are spent at 100,000 feet (20 miles) above Earth.

Its pressurized space capsule suspended beneath a high-altitude balloon has all the amenities of posh hotel suite from a mini bar to a lavatory. There’s also in-flight real-time social media communications available to passengers. Tickets are priced at $75,000 inclusive of a non-refundable $7,500 handling fee.

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17-02-2016 om 00:08 geschreven door peter  

Navy's 'Star Wars' weapon could be used on a new stealth warship: Gun that penetrates concrete 100 MILES away to be ready in 2018

• Rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph with such force that it penetrates three concrete walls
• Weapon uses electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound
• Navy wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers

By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018.

Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles. It does this with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.

Development of a futuristic weapon is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers.

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A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018. Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles

Electromagnetic launchers were one of the areas researched by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, nicknamed 'Star Wars' after the science fiction film franchise. 

Rail guns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets.

It's technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles.

Admiral Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated the idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson - though no final decision has been made.

'The Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for the electromagnetic railgun,' said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy spokeswoman. 

'Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others.' 

4/08/2014 -- US Navy tests electromagnetic Railgun -- to be deployed in 1-2 years

https://youtu.be/h6sAUHwTP4A

Using an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed.

This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.

Railguns were first conceived of nearly a century ago and patented by French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee.

Nazi Germany took up the research during the Second World War to adapt its anti-aircraft guns.

There has been talk since the inception of the Zumwalt program that the massive destroyers would be a likely candidate for the weapon because of its power plant. 

The USS Johnson will be the third and final destroyer in the Zumwalt class.

Development of a futuristic weapon is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers. Pictured is one of two electromagnetic railgun prototypes on display aboard joint high speed vessel USS Millinocket (JHSV 3) in port at Naval Base San Diego in 2014

Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, head of US Naval Research, said the futuristic electromagnetic railgun – so called because it fires from two parallel rails – had already undergone extensive testing on land

The weapon uses speed rather than explosives to destroy its target

The 600-foot-long warship uses marine turbines similar to those that propel the Boeing 777 to help produce up to 78 megawatts of electricity for use in propulsion, weapons and sensors. That's more than enough power for the railgun.

If it's placed on the warship, the system could replace one of the forward turrets housing a 155mm gun that fires rocket-propelled projectiles.

For now, however, the official plan remains for the railgun prototype to be tested aboard a joint high speed vessel this year. 

But there are concerns that the plan may be pushed back into 2017, and Fanta suggested skipping it altogether.

The railgun, along with laser weaponry, are two futuristic technologies that Fanta said have evolved from being a matter of scientific research to one of practical engineering.

The Navy is interested in those weapons — along with smart munitions that can improve existing naval guns — because of their low cost as well as lethality.

'The Navy is determined to increase the offensive punch of the surface warships,' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute. 

'To do that with a limited budget, it needs to look at everything from smart munitions to railguns to lasers.'

The railgun discussion isn't widely known inside the shipyard, where the Zumwalt-calls destroyers are being built. 

Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, had no comment.

Shipbuilder Charles Davis said there was talk of a railgun when the yard began work on the first ship in the class, but he said there's been no discussion since then.

'They've been pretty tight-lipped about it,' he said. 

Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets. It's technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles

Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers for its incredible range, the rail gun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage. Pictured is the Death Star from Star Wars

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16-02-2016 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

The Truth Is Out There: CIA Publishes UFO Investigation Tips

In 1947, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car when he heard a loud noise. He saw a flame shoot up in a nearby patch of desert and went over to investigate, thinking a dynamite shack in the area might have exploded.

What Zamora reported is still under intense dispute decades later. He says he saw a sedan-size, shiny object on a hilltop. Once he got closer on foot, the object began making loud noises. Zamora backed away but saw the UFO rise into the sky and speed away until it disappeared.

The UFO sighting — which is still unexplained despite investigators' belief that Zamora told the truth — was investigated by the United States Air Force as a part of Project BLUE BOOK, which recorded 12,618 sightings of strange objects between 1947 and 1969. The Central Intelligence Agency also assisted in analyzing the sightings. [Where to Spot UFOs (Infographic)]

ASA Astronaut Sees 'UFO' Near Space Station (2015 UFO video)

https://youtu.be/mcjXG5oN5js

Astronaut Scott Kelly Tweets Photo Of UFO From ISS

https://youtu.be/kWEDiaSYkKo

Below are the tips that the CIA learned from "flying saucer intelligence," as the agency highlighted in a recent blog post. Helpfully, the CIA also published a list of UFO cases that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully — the heroes of the recently revived "X-Files" TV series — would enjoy.

1. Create a group to find and evaluate the sightings. After the 1947 incident, Project SAUCER was established to obtain all possible information about these sightings. (The premise was that the sightings were not necessarily UFOs, but could be foreign craft.) The group was renamed Project SIGN and then Project BLUE BOOK.
2. Figure out your investigation's goals. Project BLUE BOOK aimed to find out if UFOs were a threat to U.S. security, determine if UFOs have technology that could be used by the U.S., and explain which stimuli cause a person to report a UFO.
3. Consult with experts. Project BLUE BOOK's outside experts included astrophysicists, federal aviation officials, pilots, academics, and people at the U.S. Weather Bureau, local weather stations, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and NASA, among other organizations.
4. Organize cases in a reporting system. BLUE BOOK's categories included astronomical, aircraft, balloons, satellites, other (such as reflections or mirages), insufficient data and unidentified.
5. Eliminate false positives. Examples included misidentified aircraft (particularly the U-2, A-12 and SR-71 spy planes), hoaxes and mass hysteria.
6. Develop methodology to identify common aircraft (or other phenomena) the public mistook as UFOs.
7. Examine witness documentation.
8. Conduct controlled experiments, such as photographing certain types of balloons from different distances under similar weather conditions.
9. Gather and test physical and forensic evidence. The Zamora investigation included using Geiger counters to look for radiation, and sending soil samples off for expert analysis.
10. Discourage false reporting. In the 1950s, during the Cold War, there were concerns the Soviet Union could deploy fake "UFOs" to incite panic in the U.S. So officials countered that by teaching the public how to look for similar phenomena, such as astronomical objects (meteors) or illuminated objects (balloons).

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16-02-2016 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

UFO crashed into a crater on Mars?

The image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (HIRISE) shows the northern rim of a crater in Deuteronilus on Mars.

At the northern end, we see the crater rim and ridges inside and below that rim. A channel set is entering from the west and passing through a notch in a ridge.

 

At the bottom of the crater we see a strange (impact?) spot and an object what looks like a flying saucer.

 

Is it just an optical illusion or HIRISE has captured a UFO that crashed into the crater wall?

 

 

 

 

 

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16-02-2016 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

UFO Attempts To Dock With ISS?

16-02-2016 om 22:54 geschreven door peter  

Strange and amazing sky phenomena !

(Before It's News)

Strange and amazing sky phenomena !

16-02-2016 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

Oud-marineofficier ‘staat op punt boekje open te doen over duizenden topgeheime UFO-stukken’

16-02-2016 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

STUUR JE PERSOONLIJKE BOODSCHAP DE RUIMTE IN 

Wanneer je altijd al het gevoel hebt gehad dat je je hier op aarde een beetje machteloos voelt en graag contact zou maken met onze verre ruimtebroeders dan is komende herfst je kans. 

In de periode september tot november 2016 kan iedereen gratis een boodschap met de snelheid van het licht de ruimte in sturen. 

Deze boodschappen zullen worden gestuurd in de richting van de Polaris, bij ons beter bekend als de Poolster. 

Polaris of de Poolster (alpha Ursae Minoris) is de helderste ster in het sterrenbeeld Kleine Beer (Ursa Minor). 

De ster staat ook bekend als Alruccabah, Cynosura, Phoenice, Loodsster, Tramontana, Navigatoria, Ster van Arcady, Yilduz en Mismar. De ster maakt deel uit van de Pleiadengroep. 

De naam Polaris en Poolster dankt de ster aan het feit dat hij tegenwoordig ongeveer op de plaats van de noordelijke hemelpool staat. 

Je gedachten zullen zonder enige twijfel op de Poolster aankomen, al duurt het wel even. Met hun reis door de ruimte zal je boodschap over 434 jaar aankomen op de Poolster. 

Natuurlijk zal het daarvoor talloze plaatsen passeren en ook na de Poolster zullen je gedachten verder door de ruimte reizen. 

Het project wordt gerund door een aantal wetenschappers die een tijdcapsule willen maken met daarin een soort boodschap in een fles idee, maar dan de ruimte in. 

De boodschappen uit het publiek zullen worden omgezet in radiogolven en vervolgens met de snelheid van het licht de ruimte in gestuurd worden. 

Nu moet je niet denken dat je zomaar ieder berichtje de ruimte in kunt sturen. Dingen zoals: “Ik wil de groeten doen aan Tante Hannie op de Pleiaden” zijn niet het soort boodschappen waarnaar de wetenschappers op zoek zijn. 

De boodschappen die de ruimte in zullen worden gestuurd, zijn allemaal antwoorden op één en dezelfde vraag: 

Hoe zullen onze huidige milieuactiviteiten/-interacties onze toekomst bepalen? 

Met andere woorden, als we doen wat we nu doen op het gebied van milieu en dergelijke, hoe ziet de toekomst van onze aarde er dan uit. Er staat niet bij dat ze op zoek zijn naar antwoorden om het probleem op te lossen, maar mocht je die hebben dan is dat mooi meegenomen. 

Er zijn geen goede of verkeerde antwoorden en ongetwijfeld kan je ook een stukje persoonlijke boodschap toevoegen, maar de wetenschappers uit Engeland zijn benieuwd hoe mensen uit verschillende delen van de wereld denken over dit vraagstuk. Door de antwoorden hopen ze daardoor zelf meer inzicht te krijgen. 

Mocht je ervan overtuigd zijn dat jouw boodschap absoluut de Melkweg in moet, doe dan mee. Het kost niets, het is leuk en je hebt in ieder geval het gevoel dat je nooit weet wie het bericht uiteindelijk gaat lezen. 

Als je mee wilt doen, kun je hier klikken. En ohja, je hoeft ook geen roman te schrijven, je hebt 172 tekens tot je beschikking, succes.

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16-02-2016 om 22:36 geschreven door peter