Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?

The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.

While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.

We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is not confirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.

Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might posses some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably in contradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, are a staple ofscience fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.

Since such feats would require lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.

Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one have not limitation over it one can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something likeaccretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.

To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in it’s tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligence’s. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.

To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.

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03-03-2016 om 23:31 geschreven door peter  

France Police Dispatches Patrols and A Chopper After Receiving UFO Crash Reports

Terrified people reported to police about a UFO that allegedly crashed in southern France. However, officers in Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine near Bordeaux, posted on social media saying that they had failed to find a downed object or craft.

Local news website reported that Operations Centre and Intelligence of Gendarmerie of the Gironde got an unusual call. A Sainte-Croix-du-Mont resident told the police that he noticed an aircraft in his area travelling at low altitude, which then vanished into thick smoke.

According to the local report, the police took the call seriously with patrols and chopper being dispatched. However, despite the effort, no trace of any craft was found.

The gendarmerie posted to its Facebook account informing the public that they only found a burning plot of vines in the area, which may explain the fumes that the witness had reported.

Some local speculated that the fireball was a meteor that burnt up in the atmosphere. The speculation was raised after a meteor shower took place at the same time in the south-east area of France.

Was this sighting merely a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere because the officers did not find anything? Or a flying saucer and the authorities removed it quickly from the crash site?

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03-03-2016 om 18:17 geschreven door peter  

A Secretary of Defense and the M.I.B.

Within the field of Ufology there are longstanding rumors that the May 22, 1949 death of James Forrestal – the first U.S. Secretary of Defense – was linked to the UFO phenomenon. So the story goes, while suffering from severe depression and anxiety, and ultimately spiraling into a complete nervous breakdown (as a result of his exposure to what the U.S. Government knew about UFOs), Forrestal was on the verge of revealing his knowledge of an alien presence on Earth. The theory continues that powerful figures decided such a thing simply could not be allowed to occur. The result was that Forrestal had to go. And “go,” he certainly did: out of a window. In the early hours of May 22, Forrestal plunged to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. The big question is: was he pushed or did he jump?

 

Of course, there’s no hard proof in the public domain that Forrestal was briefed on the more sensational and top secret aspects of the UFO phenomenon. Although, logic dictates that he would have been briefed (at least to some degree), since he accepted the position of Secretary of Defense in 1947 – the year in which the flying saucer was “born” and when the military was indeed taking the mysterious matter very seriously. Even outside of Ufology, there are suspicions that Forrestal’s death was no suicide. But, that’s not the focus of this article. Rather, the focus is on something that happened before Forrestal died and prior to his admittance to Bethesda on April 2, 1949.

 

Just a few days before he ended up in the naval hospital, Forrestal had a curious experience which had distinct Men in Black overtones attached to it. On the day in question, Forrestal received a visit from one of his friends, a man named Ferdinand Eberstadt, someone who was deeply concerned about Forrestal’s fragile and paranoid state of mind. Eberstadt (a lawyer, a banker, and the author of a historic 1945 document, “Task Force Report on National Security Organization”) was floored by what he saw when he arrived at Forrestal’s home. All of the curtains were closed. Forrestal told his friend – in hushed tones – that listening-devices were all over the house. Sinister characters were watching his every move. His life was in danger.

 

James Forrestal

 

To demonstrate this to Eberstadt, Forrestal carefully opened one of the blinds and pointed, knowingly, in the direction of a pair of shabbily-dressed men on the street-corner. “They” were a part of it, Forrestal assured Eberstadt. In no time at all, the doorbell to Forrestal’s home was heard ringing. The last thing Forrestal wanted to do was answer the door. Fortunately, one of his staff was on hand to do exactly that. A brief conversation took place, but which neither Forrestal nor Eberstadt were able to hear. The facts, however, quickly came to Forrestal from his houseboy.

 

According to what the two men were told, the visitor at the door was trying to generate support that would hopefully allow him to become postmaster in his hometown. Could he come in and speak with Forrestal and have him offer some help and advice? Due to Forrestal’s fraught state of mind, the man was sent packing. Eberstadt and Forrestal watched carefully as the man walked directly towards the two badly-dressed men that already had Forrestal in a state of turmoil. It was even more evidence of a conspiracy against him, Forrestal grimly concluded, when he saw the three clearly engaging in conversation.

 

Maybe the whole thing was blown out of proportion by a man descending into a collective state of paranoia, fear, and nervous collapse. Certainly, that’s what happened. But, it’s worth noting that this odd affair, which occurred during Eberstadt’s visit, has several Men in Back-themed parallels to it. First, the Men in Black are typically described as looking not quite right: they are extremely pale-skinned, they often have bulging eyes (hidden behind wraparound shades), and (very bizarrely) are at times described as wearing wigs and make-up. Forrestal’s visitor on the day in question was described by his staff as very odd-looking.

 

 

That the man tried to gain access to Forrestal’s home – by claiming to be seeking support for a potential job as a postmaster – mirrors the 1960s-era reports of MIB finding ways into the homes of UFO witnesses by claiming to be military personnel or police officers. In the same time-frame, Women in Black were posing as census-takers and as gypsies. They were clearly neither. The MIB are often described as wearing clothes that are shabby, dirty, and which occasionally give off an odor like dirt. The two characters that the “odd-looking” man walked towards (and began speaking to) were badly dressed. And, of course, there’s the fact that the men amounted to a trio. Particularly in the 1950s and the 1960s, the MIB turned up in threes. See, for example, Albert Bender’s book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men.

 

It must be stressed that none of this proves James Forrestal was murdered because of what he knew about the UFO phenomenon (or even because he may have been on the verge of revealing his knowledge to the world). It must be said, however, that the day in question was a very weird one. And not just for Forrestal, but also for Eberstadt. Even he had to admit it was all a bit odd. And, it’s worth noting the words of Dennis Stacy – a long-time and well-respected figure in Ufology, and who runs Anomalist Books with Patrick Huyghe. Of that MIB-like affair, Stacy observed in a 1993 article for Flying Saucer Review magazine titled “Forrestal’s Fall: Did He Jump, or Was He Pushed?” that “…the whole thing has the appearance of a one-act play staged for Forrestal’s ‘benefit.'”

 

Notably, Stacy added that the affair “begins to smack of orchestration aimed at unsettling an already unstable Forrestal.” Thought-provoking words, indeed

 

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03-03-2016 om 18:06 geschreven door peter  

Top secret NAZI space program Nazi moon base 1 Nazi Ufo program

03-03-2016 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

Project Horizon: Army Base on the Moon

The Army's quest for the highest high ground was a project whose time never came

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“ … a lunar outpost … is of critical importance to the U.S. Army of the future.” It was March 1959, and Army Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, the author of those words, was tasking the Army’s chief of ordnance to develop a proposal for a “manned lunar outpost” that would “protect potential United States interests on the moon.” The story behind this secret study (called “Project Horizon”) and the plan to have an Army base on the moon by 1966, is the story of a great idea whose time has never come.

 

When Trudeau wrote the ordnance chief, it was less than a year after the Soviets had shocked America and the West with the launch of the Sputnik satellite. With the United States now clearly behind in the so-called “Space Race” with the Soviets, it should come as no surprise that Trudeau and other senior Army leaders were thinking about a military presence in outer space in general – and on the moon in particular. In fact, according to a 118-page monograph produced by the Army in June 1959, “to be second to the Soviet Union in establishing an outpost on the moon would be disastrous to our nation’s prestige and in turn to our democratic philosophy.” Since the Soviet Union had already claimed that its citizens – and presumably the Red Army – would be on the moon in 1967, it was urgent for the United States to get there first.

 

The Army concluded that seventy-five Saturn II rocket launches could be achieved by the end of 1964 – with forty of these launches needed to put sufficient Project Horizon equipment into orbit for the lunar base’s construction.

 

The plan was to build a self-sustained moon base that would serve as an outpost for exploration of the moon, and further exploration of space. The base – which would house 10-20 personnel – would be the “first permanent manned installation on the moon” and, perhaps most importantly, would provide a platform for the Army, if required, to conduct “military operations on the moon.”

 

 

Cover sheet of the Project Horizon proposal. Note the illustration of the Saturn II that the Army planned to employ in building and supplying the moonbase.

 

The Army insisted that there were no known technical barriers to establishing a manned lunar base and believed that Project Horizon “should be a special project having authority and priority similar to the Manhattan Project in World War II.” After all, if America had built the atomic bomb, there was no reason that it could not put a handful of soldiers on the moon. Project Horizon contemplated using the multistage Saturn II rocket, then under actual development, and intermediate orbiting space stations (then only on drawing boards) to ferry construction materials to the moon. The Army concluded that seventy-five Saturn II rocket launches could be achieved by the end of 1964 – with forty of these launches needed to put sufficient Project Horizon equipment into orbit for the lunar base’s construction.

 

As for the base itself, the scientists and technicians who took part in Project Horizon suggested that natural “holes” or “caves” could be covered and sealed with pressure bags to create living space on the moon. This sort of construction also had the attraction of lessening the danger from meteorites and alleviating temperature extremes on the lunar surface. Drawings in the Army study also show a buried cylindrical structure that included living quarters – and an airlock to the surface. As for power, it would be provided by solar or nuclear energy. Oxygen and water could be extracted from the natural environment of the moon. Military personnel stationed on the moon would wear space suits and carry special weapons and equipment developed expressly for moon-use.

 

The proponents of Project Horizon argued that America’s ultimate goal on the moon should be to deploy moon-based weapons systems. Why?  Because moon-based military power would be a strong deterrent to war since an enemy would have great difficulty in preventing U.S. retaliation.

 

The Army also proposed that a “unified space command” be created to control the lunar base and “that portion of outer space encompassing the earth and the moon.” There seems little doubt that the Army leaders who pushed Project Horizon saw an Army general as the perfect choice to lead such a unified command.

 

A page from the Project Horizon proposal, detailing plans for layout and living quarters.

 

The proponents of Project Horizon argued that America’s ultimate goal on the moon should be to deploy moon-based weapons systems. Why?  Because moon-based military power would be a strong deterrent to war since an enemy would have great difficulty in preventing U.S. retaliation. This was because the enemy – read the Soviet Union – would have a hard time reaching the moon and, if American forces were already present, they could counter or neutralize any hostile force that might land.  This, of course, was also the reason that American military forces must reach the moon first, and establish a military outpost, since the enemy could counter any U.S. attempt to land on the moon “if hostile forces were permitted to arrive first.”

 

A Manhattan Project-scale effort might have worked, but it would have required a huge increase in the U.S. government’s expenditures on defense and, as the alarm over Sputnik dissipated, there seems to have been diminishing political interest in funding a military base on the moon.

 

The Army officers working on Project Horizon concluded that the United States could establish “an operations lunar outpost by late 1966,” assuming that “initial manned landings” took place in the spring of 1965.

 

So what happened to Project Horizon, and the Army’s plan to have a manned lunar outpost?

• First of all, the technological challenges were more difficult than the authors of Project Horizon had thought – and also considerably more expensive. A Manhattan Project-scale effort might have worked, but it would have required a huge increase in the U.S. government’s expenditures on defense and, as the alarm over Sputnik dissipated, there seems to have been diminishing political interest in funding a military base on the moon.

• Second, the expansion of the war in Vietnam also siphoned off energy – and money – that might have gone to Project Horizon.

• Finally, and most importantly, any future American military presence on the moon became an impossibility when the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom signed an outer space treaty in 1967.

Known formally as the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies,” this international agreement limited the use of the moon to peaceful purposes.  In short, the militarization of the moon was no longer an option – and remains an impossibility since this international treaty is still in effect.

 

It took until 1969 before a man – astronaut Neil Armstrong – would take a giant leap for mankind on the surface of the moon, but there is still no base of any kind there. While Project Horizon is largely forgotten today, it remains a great idea whose time simply never came.

 

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03-03-2016 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

Leaked Footage of UFO Flying Extremely Close to a Russian Military Base has Just Surfaced

Leaked military footage of flying objects has recently surfaced and it shows the most amazing thing: a close-up view of a glowing sphere-UFO surprised by the security cameras surrounding a Russian military base. The video reveals further insight on the UFO phenomenon, and it may help us understand the purpose of these mysterious objects.

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 shown in the previous articles, the ‘orb-UFOs’ are a common sighting in present days, and there are countless reports and recordings of them. However, there has been no close-up view of the objects until recently.

 

On July 23, 2009, a military operator safety officer surprised what we presume to be an orb-UFO flying extremely close to the perimeter of a military base. The glowing sphere descended from above and approached the water surface of the Moskva River as if looking for something specific. The vigilant guard spotted and then immediately traced the object on the surveillance camera. Although no clear features can be observed other than the unusual glow that’s cloaking the device, the recently leaked video provides valuable evidence of the existence of these UFOs.

 

As the flying object approaches the water, its reflection starts to emerge, making it likely to be an authentic phenomenon. The device then starts to inspect the area as if interested in something. Its features don’t let much to see except for the usual glow and small dip in brightness, but since it was surprised from such a close distance, its size and round shape are clearly visible, thus excluding the possibility of them being piloted by someone. So are these devices remotely controlled, or do they have a mind of their own?

 

 

 

According to UFO analysts, the luminous sphere could be an alien drone that’s used by an advanced specie of extraterrestrials to spy on earthlings. Its cautious movement, in their opinion, is a clear indicator of it being remote-controlled for the sole purpose of gathering information. However, the fact that the orb-UFO is somehow neglecting the human surveillance cameras, as well as the deadly potential of entering a restricted perimeter of a military bases raises some question marks. Why is this mysterious device exposing to the threat of being downed or captured? Is it possible that its defense mechanism can deflect our earthly weapons? If so, is it trying to send a subtle message or is this lack of precaution a sign that the aliens have a secret pact with the military?

 

In my opinion, the military of the ‘World’s Powers’ could have a secret pact with otherworldly beings. Either that, or because of their black-budget programs they managed to develop technology way ahead of our time, and are now testing their toys on their own military grounds. Since we lack relevant evidence we can only interpret such cases, but the fact that there are many videos revealing UFO activity all around the world makes it likely that such devices really exist. Regarding their purpose, the best guess is that they are watching us from the shadows in order to understand the human behavior, and this could be because ‘they’ have reached Earth in the last one hundred years or so.

 

Other than the leaked footage from the Russian military base, TercerMilenio of Youtube compiled other two cases of bright flying spheres, but considering the potential of CGI these days, I do not rule out the possibility of them being manipulated since no relevant features such as reflection or a more detailed image of the material from which the UFO is built-of can be observed. Either this, or they could be organic entities, a hypothesis venturing far from the standard artificially designed devices. Whatever the truth, the provided footage may lead us one step closer towards understanding the widespread UFO phenomenon. What are your thoughts on this?

 

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03-03-2016 om 17:37 geschreven door peter  

@HillaryClinton aide John Podesta seeks UFO files, March 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of news article: March 1, 2016
Location of news: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Source of article: 

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-clinton-aide-seeks-ufo-files

Here is a great article today by George Knapp, a fantastic and highly respected UFO researcher and journalist. He dives in to discus the potential for John Podesta to push for UFO disclosure if Hillary Clinton is elected as US president. A lot of people are saying Hillary was making a joke when she said it, but I believe she was 100% serous. She not a comedian, she is carful about her words overtime she speaks. If she says it, then she will try. Thats all we can ask right?
Scott C. Waring
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News states:
Several U.S. presidents are on the record, talking about the UFO mystery. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan say they had UFO sightings of their own, but the current presidential campaign might be the first in which UFO disclosure has been championed by a major party candidate. During a recent campaign stop in Las Vegas, the campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told Politics NOW co-host Steve Sebelius that Clinton will try to get to the bottom of the UFO question. John Podesta has always been a strong advocate for declassification of government files in general and UFO files in particular. “I think the American people can handle the truth about this,” he said.

As White House Chief of Staff for former President Bill Clinton, Podesta helped declassify hundreds of millions of documents. If there were UFO secrets being held somewhere, however, they eluded even the president. Podesta returned to the White House as a special advisor to President Barack Obama. On the day he left the job, he sent out a Tweet saying his biggest disappointment was the failure to find and uncover the UFO files.

These days, Podesta has the ear of another potential president; he's running the campaign for Hillary Clinton. He made it clear to Sebelius that the UFO question has been discussed. “I've talked to Hillary about that. It's a little bit of a cause of mine, which is, people really want to know what the government knows, and there are still classified files that could be declassified,” he said. It wasn't an offhand remark. Podesta has encouraged journalists to ask his candidate about UFOs, and a few have done so.

Mrs. Clinton told a New Hampshire newspaper that she intends to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery, thinks it is possible the planet may have been visited and would consider creating a task force to investigate Nevada's Area 51 military base. The base became a center of UFO attention more than 25 years ago because of reports that aired on KLAS-TV. CNN characterized Mrs. Clinton's remarks as jokes, but Podesta makes it clear that he and his candidate are serious. “I think I've convinced her that we need an effort to kind of go look at that and declassify as much as we can, so that people have their legitimate questions answered,” he said. “More attention and more discussion about unexplained aerial phenomena can happen without people who are in public life, who are serious about this, being ridiculed.” The Clintons know first-hand how the UFO topic invites ridicule.

Many people may remember the frequent tabloid headlines during the Clinton presidency with titles such as “Hillary Adopts Alien Baby” or “Space Alien Endorses Bill.” More recently, conspiracy theorists have suggested there are UFO secrets hidden in Mrs. Clinton's private e-mails. It comes with the territory. “I come in for my fair share of people asking questions about whether I am off my rocker, but I've been a long-time advocate of declassification of records,” Podesta said. Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel has followed the UFO debate since the late 1970s. He notes that Podesta has been way out in front on UFO disclosure in speeches at places like the National Press Club. “It's time to open the books," Podesta told the club. “He ended one of his speeches by saying, not only could the public handle it, but we should do it because it's the law,” Speigel said. In the mid-1990s, billionaire Laurence Rockefeller lobbied the Clintons to end UFO secrecy. Mrs. Clinton was photographed with Rockefeller while holding a book titled, “Are We Alone? The Implications of Discovery of ET Life.”

Bill Clinton has made public statements confirming that he tried to get to the bottom of UFO issues while in office. “First thing I did is send people to Area 51 to see if there were any aliens there,” he told late night host Jimmy Kimmel. The government's interest in UFOs officially ended with the closure of Project Blue Book in 1969, but suspicion remains that unexplained encounters involving national security are still being studied by someone. Podesta suspects someone is holding on to a large cache of UFO files. Speigel says several whistleblowers have surfaced over the years, including the late lunar astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who say secrets are still being kept. “There's military people coming forward now saying, ‘Yeah, the government never did stop investigating UFOs,’ and we need to own up to that,” Speigel said. “We can see what's going on here in Nevada,”

Podesta said. Mrs. Clinton's rival for the Democratic nomination, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, was also asked about UFOs. He said he is far more interested in issues that are more pressing for most Americans.

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03-03-2016 om 17:26 geschreven door peter  

The Grey Aliens Want To Probe Your DNA (Video)

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Thanks http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/

Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal to Prophecy

03-03-2016 om 12:42 geschreven door peter  

Area 51 is one of America's, if not the world's, most mysterious places, home to a host of conspiracy theories, including the development of time travel and extraterrestrial activity. WatchMojo takes a look at the top five facts about Area 51.



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03-03-2016 om 12:32 geschreven door peter  

Disclosure Of The Real UFO X Files 2016

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U.S. Navy research optical physicist Bruce Maccabee discussed his decades-long quest to force the release of government documents relating to the UFO subject. Many of the issues and events he originally uncovered were appropriated by the X-Files TV series as plot points. He began searching government archives for UFO documents in the mid-1970s and reported his findings in UFO journals at the time. He said that beginning in the early 1950s, even though the Air Force was privately considering an interplanetary explanation for UFOs, they pursued a public policy of denial, which continues to this day. This is supported by many documents that Maccabee uncovered, which he says show that at the time they were written by the military, FBI, and CIA, and “no one thought any of this would ever get out.” In 1977, he received a call from the FBI in response to a letter and was told that there were 16000 pages of UFO material in the FBI files. He says it is more difficult to get historical documents released nowadays.

Judge Napolitano: Hillary Will Be Indicted If AG Loretta Lynch Convenes A Grand Jury 

Coverup Of Alien Activity In Our Oceans Exposed 

Cops: Teen Shoots Family After They Wake Him Up For School 

Youtube : Non Human Entities

03-03-2016 om 12:25 geschreven door peter  

Coverup Of Alien Activity In Our Oceans Exposed

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Most of the UFO sightings occur near and around our Oceans, and other large bodies of water that are 95% unexplored.

Secure Team 10  talks about a mysterious low frequency hum that has been detected in an area quoted as, ”The Twilight Zone” 

Curt Schilling: Hillary Clinton Belongs In Jail, Not On A Presidential Ticket – Breitbart 

World War 3 Is About To Begin: 120 Countries Amassing Troops! (Media Blackout) 

Judge Napolitano: Hillary Will Be Indicted If AG Loretta Lynch Convenes A Grand Jury 

The Planned Extinction Of The White Race?! Sweet Dreams And Terror Cells, The Politically Incorrect Thriller Of The Time 

Youtube:secureteam10

There are several articles of UFO’s spotted exiting from the Ocean.

03-03-2016 om 12:04 geschreven door peter  

Dit is de eerste foto van de Europese satelliet Sentinel-3A - HLN.be

© ESA.

Twee weken geleden lanceerde de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA de Sentinel-3A satelliet in een baan rond de aarde. Bovenstaande foto is het eerste beeld dat de satelliet doorstuurde naar de Aarde.

Op de foto is de Noorse archipel Svalbard te zien. De eilandengroep bestaat uit drie grotere en een tachtigtal kleine eilanden. Het beeld werd op 29 februari genomen samen met twee andere foto's van het Iberische schiereiland en Californië.

Lees ook

• Duits bedrijf wil Duitse astronaute naar ruimtestation vliegen

Een ruimtefoto van het Iberisch schiereiland. © ESA.

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03-03-2016 om 11:55 geschreven door peter  

Mars 'kantelde' veel later dan tot nu toe aangenomen - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

© afp.

STERRENKUNDE 'The Great Tilt' op de planeet Mars heeft zich veel later voorgedaan dan tot nu toe aangenomen, zo heeft de Britse krant The Guardian vandaag op gezag van een publicatie in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature gemeld.

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03-03-2016 om 11:33 geschreven door peter  

Deeltjesversneller CERN is mogelijk iets veel groters dan Higgsdeeltje op het spoor - HLN.be

  Bron: Belga

De deeltjesversneller van het CERN. © reuters.

WETENSCHAP De gigantische deeltjesversneller LHC van het Europees Centrum voor Nucleair Onderzoek CERN is mogelijk iets op het spoor waarbij de vondst van het Higgsdeeltje en de recente bevestiging van het bestaan van zwaartekrachtsgolven verbleekt. Dat heeft het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift New Scientist vandaag op gezag van de Italiaanse vorser Gian Giuduce getwitterd.

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New Scientist 

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The LHC may have found a surprise particle that gives a glimpse into a new theory of reality http://ow.ly/YZhze 

9:10 PM - 2 Mar 2016

Bij de botsing tussen deeltjes in de Large Hadron Collider (LHC) zijn twee 'bumps' opgedoken, onafhankelijk van elkaar en op dezelfde plaats, in de jongste data van het Atlas- en het CMS-experiment dat in juli 2012 het bestaan van het 'godsdeeltje' of het Higgsdeeltje bevestigde.

Mogelijk gaat het een verrassend zwaar deeltje dat de deur openzet voor een totaal nieuwe theorie in plaats van de bevestiging van een bestaande, zo citeerde het blad Giuduce.

Het Higgsdeeltje was het sluitstuk van het Standaard Model over het wezen van de materie. Het bestaan van het deeltje dat alle andere deeltjes massa geeft was al vijftig jaar tevoren voorspeld door de Schot Peter Higgs en de Belgen François Englert en Robert Brout. Dankzij de bevestiging van het bestaan kreeg Englert de Nobelprijs voor Fysica.

Het valt nu af te wachten of er in de komende weken en maanden nog meer hints tevoorschijn zullen komen.

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03-03-2016 om 11:29 geschreven door peter  

Melkweg bevat gigantische deeltjesversneller - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

De Melkweg. © thinkstock.

WETENSCHAP In onze Melkweg lijkt er een gigantische deeltjesversneller te zitten, wellicht in de vorm van een enorme ster. Dat zegt astronoom en astrofysicus Stijn Buitink van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Zijn publicatie verschijnt morgen in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.

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03-03-2016 om 11:18 geschreven door peter  

"Astronautentweeling brengt missie naar Mars dichterbij" - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

NASA: "Het is weer een stap op weg naar Mars.’’

De Amerikaanse astronaut maakte tijdens zijn jaar in de ruimte regelmatig selfies. © ap.

Astronaut Scott Kelly landt woensdagochtend om vijf uur na een jaar in de ruimte weer op aarde. Tijdens zijn verblijf in het International Space Station kletste de Amerikaan niet alleen met president Obama, maar was het vooral belangrijk om veel data te verzamelen. Kelly (48) en zijn identieke tweelingbroer Mark (die heeft een snorretje) vormen namelijk samen de prestigieuze NASA Twin Study.

Dunnere botten

Scott Kelly gaf zichzelf de griepprik. © ap.

Smolders: "Als je een tijd in de ruimte bent, verslappen je spieren fors.'' Je botten worden ook steeds dunner. Elke maand in de ruimte verlies je 1,5 procent aan botmassa. "Door veel te trainen, kan je dat wel een beetje tegengaan, maar de eerste uren op aarde ben je nog niet in staat om op je eigen benen te staan. Dat zie je ook altijd bij een astronaut die landt: die wordt in Kazachstan opgevangen door een groep mensen, op een soort strandbed gelegd en weggedragen.'' 

Maar op Mars staat er niemand om astronauten op te vangen. Daar moeten ze op eigen kracht aan de slag gaan. "De zwaartekracht op Mars is ongeveer de helft van die op aarde. Met kunstmatige zwaartekracht kunnen de astronauten er lichamelijk wel op worden voorbereid, maar het blijft een ingewikkelde kwestie'', vertelt Smolders.

Propagand

Kelly en de bloem die hij tot bloei liet komen in de ruimte. © ap.

Toch zijn er ook sceptici. Ruimtevaartdeskundige Luc van den Abeelen bijvoorbeeld, denkt dat NASA de reis van de tweeling vooral gebruikt als propaganda. "Als je puur wetenschappelijk kijkt, is een onderzoek met slechts twee proefpersonen natuurlijk niet zo best.'' En er zijn wel wat meer wetenschappelijke wenkbrauwen gefronst: Zo eet aardbewoner Mark bijvoorbeeld geen astronautenvoer, zoals zijn zwevende broer. 

Van den Abeelen vermoedt dat het NASA hoogstwaarschijnlijk meer om geld te doen is. "Ze zijn de Amerikanen en de toekomstige president aan het opwarmen om meer budget vrij te maken voor hun onderzoeken. Dat vind ik prima hoor, maar om nou te zeggen dat dit een grote stap in de richting van Mars is...'' 

Maar toch... zo'n ruimtereis en alle tweets, foto's en filmpjes die Scott Kelly naar aarde stuurt, blijft iets magisch om te volgen, vinden beide mannen. Van den Abeelen: "Ondanks mijn scepsis blijf ik groot fan. Het is bovendien toch fantastisch als je bedenkt dat de eerste man of vrouw die straks in 2030 op Mars nu al op aarde loopt, of kruipt.''

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03-03-2016 om 11:13 geschreven door peter  

Back on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly Faces Gravity After 1-Year Mission

Scott Kelly returns to Earth after nearly a year in space

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After zipping around Earth for nearly a year, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly must now get used to living on the planet's surface again.

Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth with a landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan late Tuesday (March 1), ending their unprecedented 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station. 

Shortly after landing, both spaceflyers — along with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who also came home, but after the typical, 5.5-month station mission — were taken out of their Soyuz spacecraft, placed in chairs near the landing site and taken into a medical tent for an hour-long "field test" to assess their general condition. [Welcome Home! Landing Photos for 1-Year Astronaut Scott Kelly]

That test consists of a variety of experiments, Kelly said late last month in his final conversation from the space station with reporters.

"Some are physical — kind of like even an obstacle course, where you run around obstacles and stand up from a sitting position, and jump and stand," he said.

The spaceflyers then went their separate ways, with Kornienko and Volkov headed to Moscow and Kelly to Houston, where NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) is located.

NASA astronauts just back from an ISS mission undergo several hours of medical tests at JSC, Kelly said. They then generally complete a 45-day "reconditioning period," to build up bone mass and muscle strength lost in the microgravity environment of space, said Stevan Gilmore, the lead flight surgeon for Kelly's one-year mission.

"There are daily workouts and exercises to make sure that we return the crewmember back to the same kind of functioning that they had before the mission started," Gilmore said last month during a NASA TV interview with NASA spokesman Dan Huot.

Even though Kelly stayed aboard the International Space Station for twice as long as crewmembers usually do, the current plan is to put him through the standard 45-day reconditioning program, Gilmore added.

"We do have the latitude, in the case that a little bit more time is required for the rehab process — we can extend that if necessary," Gilmore said. "But I anticipate that it'll look in many ways similar to the six-month experiences that most of the station astronauts have."

The main goal of Kelly and Kornienko's mission — a joint effort involving the United States and Russia —is to better understand how astronauts cope physiologically and psychologically with long-duration spaceflight. This information should help mission planners map out future crewed journeys to Mars, NASA officials have said. (The space agency aims to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet in the 2030s.)

Kelly and Kornienko are participating in 17 different experiments related to the one-year mission, said John Charles, the chief scientist of NASA's Human Research Program. And those experiments aren't over just because the spaceflyers have landed.

Indeed, Charles said, many of the duo's blood samples won't even come down to Earth until next month, when the samples are scheduled to land aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule. Furthermore, researchers will be tracking Kelly and Kornienko's progress for a while even after that happens.

"There's months and months of post-flight data collection," Charles told NASA spokesman Gary Jordan during an interview on NASA TV last month.

"In some cases, up to nine months after landing, we're still acquiring samples of the astronauts — perhaps even longer, as they return to their normal duties and we acquire data from their annual physicals and so forth," Charles added. "And then the data analysis really begins."

Some of this analysis involves comparing Scott Kelly to his identical twin brother, Mark, himself a former NASA astronaut. Mark stayed on the ground during the yearlong mission and serves as a control, to help researchers identify any genetic changes spaceflight induced in Scott.

Space Station Live: Research Results During One Year Mission

https://youtu.be/leYseS988Gg

Scott Kelly said during his last in-space news conference that he has been experiencing some issues with his vision, a common occurrence among astronauts. However, while scientists will ultimately have the last word on how the 340-day mission affected Kelly, the astronaut said he's doing all right.

"Physically, I feel pretty good," Kelly said.

The nearly yearlong mission, while unprecedented for the ISS, did not set the record for most time spent in space continuously. Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov earned that distinction, living aboard Russia's Mir space station for more than 437 days, in 1994-95. 

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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03-03-2016 om 01:31 geschreven door peter  

photo credit: Geostationary satellites orbit at about 35,000 kilometers (22,000 miles). Johan Swanepoel/Shutterstock

First things first: There’s no cause for alarm. Asteroid TX68 poses no threat to Earth at the moment. But this asteroid, due to fly past Earth on March 8, is rather interesting.

That’s because, while there is huge uncertainty in how close it will fly past, it might come as close as 24,000 kilometers (15,000 miles). This would be within the orbit of geostationary satellites, which orbit at 35,000 kilometers (22,000 miles).

As mentioned, there is a large amount of uncertainty, though. While that’s the closest approach, it may pass anywhere between there and several million kilometers. NASA'slatest estimate suggests it will fly past at 5 million kilometers (3 million miles). We won’t know for certain until after the asteroid has passed, if we get a chance to observe it.

“2013 TX68 is estimated to be about 100 feet [30 meters] in diameter,” said Cornell University Ph.D. student Sean Marshall, who works on observations of near-Earth asteroids, in a statement. “Its closest approach could be within Earth’s ‘ring’ of geostationary satellites, or it could be 40 times the distance to the Moon – or anywhere in between.”

The chances of the asteroid actually hitting anything are slim to none, though. Space is vast, so don’t expect any satellites to get knocked out any time soon. Nonetheless, it’s a pretty neat event. This isn’t the first time an asteroid has come this close – without actually hitting us, of course – but with more modern telescopes, we should hopefully get a good chance to take a look at the asteroid.

“Should this asteroid come closer than the geostationary satellites, it would be a rare occurrence – that only happens about once per decade for large asteroids,” added Marshall. “What we know for sure is that it will not collide with Earth this month, so do not panic.”

The asteroid will fly past us again on September 28, 2017, with a one in 250 million chance of hitting us. Further flybys in 2046 and 2097 have similarly low probabilities. But while these are low, they do highlight the importance of tracking asteroids to ensure we won’t be hit, something that will be highlighted by the upcoming Asteroid Day on June 30, 2016.

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03-03-2016 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

photo credit: Artist’s concept of the antimatter driven sail. Steven Howe/Hbar Technologies, LLC

The dream of interstellar travel could be closer than we think, or at least, that's the claim of physicists Gerald Jackson and Steven Howe, who have been working on an antimatterpropulsion system for over a decade now, as reported by Forbes.

Their proposal is for an antimatter-driven sail that could deliver a 10-kilogram (22-pound) probe to the next closest star system, Alpha Centauri, in just 40 years using 17 grams (0.6 ounces) of antihydrogen. The large 100-kilogram (220 pounds) sail would be five meters (16 feet) in diameter, made of carbon, and coated with depleted uranium.

Propulsion would be driven by antimatter stored by the probe. When the antihydrogen hits the sail, the uranium atoms undergo fission. The main product of this fission is two similar sized atoms with high and opposite speeds. One will hit the sail, propelling it forward, and the other will be lost in space. Via this method, the researchers say the probe could reach speeds up to 10 percent the speed of light, reaching the edge of the Solar System in just 10 years.

One of the main issues that need to be addressed, though, is how to store the antimatter. Antimatter is a mirror version of normal matter, which we are made of. Antimatter particles, like the positron and the antiproton, have the same mass of their ordinary matter counterparts but have an opposite charge. When matter and antimatter come into contact they annihilate, turning into pure energy. It is still not clear why the universe is made of matter instead of antimatter.

The idea was first proposed in 2003, at the Particle Accelerator Conference, but it was not pursued due to lack of funding. So, Jackson and Howe, via their company Hbar Technologies, are planning to launch a Kickstarter campaign next month that would allow them to construct a proof-of-concept design and a device to measure the thrust of such system. They hope to raise $200,000, which will provide funding for the next phase of the research.

“Crowdfunding may be a good way to show interest in the project when it comes time to find bigger investors or governmental support,” Jackson told Forbes.

“We will then need funding on the order of $100 million to actually build small prototype propulsion and power systems.”

[H/T: Forbes] 

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03-03-2016 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

photo credit: An aerial view of Arecibo where the FRB was observed. H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF

We thought we were finally getting a basic understanding of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as rare and one-off events, and then Mother Nature decides to throw us a curve ball and hit us with the first repeating FRB.

The source, FRB 121102, was discovered first in 2012. Last year, an international team of researchers used the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope to look at the same region and they were surprised to find 10 additional bursts. As cataclysmic events don’t repeat themselves, the team believes that these bursts were produced by a highly magnetized, extragalactic neutron star.

FRBs were only discovered about a decade ago, and there are only a handful of known examples. These phenomena are isolated and rare, making it very difficult for scientists to understand their causes. The emission regions are estimated to be just a few hundred kilometers across, and it is thought that these signals are from another galaxy. These two qualities indicate that whatever is behind these events must be very bright.

Hypernovae and colliding binary neutron stars, or even black holes, have all been proposed as potential explanations. These events are all incredibly powerful but they would be a one-off occurrence, not a multiple-burst event like the one observed.

"Not only did these bursts repeat, but their brightness and spectra also differ from those of other FRBs," notes Laura Spitler, first author of the new paper, in a statement.

The research, published in Nature, comes in a big week for FRBs. Last week it was announced that scientists had pinpointed the location of an FRB for the first time, but now that claim is being questioned. Being able to pinpoint the exact location is paramount to understanding better these astrophysical events. To find the exact location of this unusual burst event, scientists will need to study the source in more detail.

"Once we have precisely localized the repeater's position on the sky, we will be able to compare observations from optical and X-ray telescopes and see if there is a galaxy there," says Jason Hessels, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. "Finding the host galaxy of this source is critical to understanding its properties."

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03-03-2016 om 00:58 geschreven door peter