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...
16-03-2016
RUSSIA IS OFFICIALLY ON ITS WAY TO MARS... ARE ALIENS WAITING?
RUSSIA IS OFFICIALLY ON ITS WAY TO MARS... ARE ALIENS WAITING?
On Monday, Russia and Europe launched a spaceship in a team effort to explore our solar system. The seven-month journey will be heading to Mars. There, the two hope to examine the possibility of aliens as well as research any chances we on Earth may have of visiting the red planet.
Yes, the country known to many Americans as the homeplace of Borat is actually a vital asset to Russia’s space programme. It was from their Baikonur spaceport in Kazakstan that the Proton rocket launched. The craft is part of the ExoMars programme and will start its seven-month journey to Mars. On board the craft, an atmospheric probe will be used to study trace gases on the planet. Such gases like methane are strongly tied to life on Earth. Previous missions to Mars have brought back reports of methane and Russia hopes to research that further. Somewhere in here, there is a farting aliens joke, but that’s best left for the comments section.
Russia is certainly invested in this whole methane business. So much so, that they invested millions to launching a rocket to Mars. Do they truly expect to find aliens there? Aliens or not, this trip could give us a great deal of information about the solar system. Scientist believe that methane gas originated from micro-organisms. These “methanogens” are thought to have become extinct millions of years ago. This resulted in the frozen gas under the planet’s surface. Some think these micro-organisms are still alive. In other words, aliens.
Russia has never been accused of messing around and the ExoMars project is no exception. This isn’t just a showing of technological force, but a project that hopes to serve a greater purpose. As soon as 2018, the mission hopes to deliver a European rover to the surface of the planet. While this has been done before by NASA, this rover will be the first of its kind to have drilling capabilities. So step aside, Curiosity and Opportunity, a communist rover will be joining you on Mars soon enough
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Former World Bank Senior: Aliens With Elongated Skulls Are Behind Money and Religion
Former World Bank Senior: Aliens With Elongated Skulls Are Behind Money and Religion
Former World Bank Senior Council, Karen Hudes has been making a lot of noise lately, and she recently said something she’s never said before. She said that a second species on Earth controls money and religion.
Many people who have held positions to know things that the rest of us might not know have made some very shocking statements lately. For example, Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence recently said that there are at least “4 known alien species that have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.” You can read more about that here.
I am aware that just because somebody says something does not mean that it’s true, no matter what their background. At the same time, what she says corroborates with a lot of ancient historical facts, and modern day disclosures of other strange phenomenon, like UFOs, secret societies and more.
For someone like this to gain credibility as a World Bank whistle-blower and then all of a sudden make a comment like this is quite shocking. Although, in her interview she did discredit the idea of extraterrestrials on the planet, which I definitely disagree with.
There is an enormous amount of evidence out there to suggest we are not alone, and we have indeed been visited. For more information on that click here and here.
“These countries are not monolithic, there are forces fighting the corruption and there are forces that have totally been co-opted, and the way they act is treasonous to the people in those countries. The group that’s behind the network of control are the Jesuits, and there are also some groups behind them. One of these groups are hominids, they’re not human beings.
“They are very smart, they are not creative, they are mathematical. They had a much stronger force in the earlier ice-age. They have elongated skulls, they may produce offspring in mating with female humans, but that offspring is not fertile. We live in a world of secret societies, and secrets, and the information that ought to be public is not public.”
The quote above if from the show below. She starts speaking about it approximately 21 minutes into the program.
Karen held her senior position at the World Bank for twelve years before deciding to blow the whistle on the World Bank and corruption within it. She studies law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam.
She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non-Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
These are shocking statements that come shortly after gaining attention for being a credible world bank whistleblower, stating that the world is in a “currency war,” that the Federal Reserve continues to print money like crazy, and if they keep going at the pace they are on, other countries will no longer accept this currency.
She has been exposing criminal corruption that takes place at the highest levels of financial institutions. In 1999, she reported the corrupt take-over of the second largest bank in the Philippines. She’s exposed the collusion that takes place between financial institutions and various governments, and much much more.
This is a great clip of her telling us some important stuff. Before you brush off what she has to say, keep in mind that the reality of many strange phenomenon has a large amount of proof to back it up, or at least be open to the possibility.
this comment about Homo Capensis’ skulls in the Vatican’s tombs:
“It’s very true. I know this because someone at the Vatican actually found the heads and bones of [Homo Capensis'] dead buried in the basement at the Vatican, and the Vatican was built in 540 AD so the bones couldn’t have gotten in the basement until after that. Many heads were found so they have been burying their dead there for the last 1500 years and I believe they live.for about 800 to 1000 years. They want to kill us off now because there are too many of us and they are losing control because people are waking up.”
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“Google Maps toont cirkelvormige UFO in Area 51″
“Google Maps toont cirkelvormige UFO in Area 51″
Dankzij Google Maps weten we nu zeker dat het Amerikaanse leger buitenaards leven heeft ontdekt. Dat zegt althans UFO-jager Scott Waring. Dankzij een nieuwe update is hij ervan overtuigd dat de Amerikanen een UFO hebben liggen in het gebied.
In 2010 merkte Waring voor het eerst bijzondere activiteit op rond de installatie S4 in Area 51. Hij spotte een cirkelvormige UFO met een doorsnee van ongeveer 30 meter, die door de Nevadawoestijn vloog.
Toen hij onlangs de locatie van zijn vondst op Google Maps bekeek, zag hij dat de Amerikanen slechts een paar kilometer verderop een cirkelvormige hangar hebben gebouwd. Volgens Waring is dit het bewijs dat de Amerikanen de UFO verborgen willen houden voor het volk.
Critici stellen dat het puur toeval is dat er in het gebied een cirkelvormige hangar is gebouwd. Waring beargumenteert dan weer dat de hangar een paar jaar geleden nog in aanbouw was en toen al op Google Maps was te vinden. Volgens hem is de hangar speciaal gebouwd voor de UFO.
In de loop der jaren werden ook een landingsbaan en kleinere gebouwen en hangars toegevoegd aan de basis. Waring krijgt bijval van de bekende klokkenluider Bob Lazar. Volgens hem wordt in S4 door wetenschappers gewerkt aan buitenaardse technologie.
Cloud Orb UFO Over Coachella, California On March 9, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Cloud Orb UFO Over Coachella, California On March 9, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 9, 2016 Location of sighting: Coachella, California, USA This video was posted by gohstdog23 of Youtube and shows a cloud orb in a cloudless sky. Its rare to see them unless they are darting from cloud to cloud, but this one is wandering aimlessly about. These cloud orbs are everywhere in the world. Observing life and recording it below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Exploring Doctor Who's Blue Tardis On Google Earth, March 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Exploring Doctor Who's Blue Tardis On Google Earth, March 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 2016 Location of sighting: London, England Google Coordinates: 51°29'31.56"N 0°11'34.74"W Who doesn't love the show Doctor Who? I know I'm a fan, but so is someone at Google. They planted a blue Doctor Who telephone booth on Earls Court Road in downtown London. They even allow you to step inside and explore it a little bit. Very exciting if you are a Who fan. Remember most the inventions today, were just props 50 years ago on TV science fiction shows, which inspire people to work hard to make such an thing. Like the iPhone for instance...was seen in Star Trek The Original Series often in Captain Kirks hand. The Tardis may be a work of scifi, but if an alien species has existed over a million years with technology, I am confident that they or their government will have such marvels. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This extraordinary UFO was caught on the SOHO sun images by NASA and was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It shows a craft with two long arms or wings hanging out. NASA seems to ignore all reported UFOs, even though I always tweet to them the posts I make about them all. As of yet, NASA has never answered me. They ignore UFO researches because they know they are losing and the day will come when the truth comes out. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Sons and Daughters of Roswell Witnesses Reveal Years of Abuse and Surveillance by U.S. Government
San Francisco, CA (February 1, 2016) –– Since 1947 when alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, the historic incident has been well documented, described, researched and explained in countless books, articles and films. Two of the most reputable Roswell experts, Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, have at last exposed the turbulent and scandalous aftermath—the lifetime impact that Roswell has had on families who have lived with the truth while enduring the government’s erroneous accounts of the event.
In the newest of their bestsellers, The Children of Roswell: A Seven-Decade Legacy of Fear, Intimidation, and Cover-Ups, the authors reveal evidence of years of suppression and fear of reprisal that these descendants of the Roswell witnesses have suffered from the U.S. government.
Most of the parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children and grandchildren know what happened and have paid dearly for their knowledge. Their documented stories are described in chilling detail in The Children of Roswell, and they make for fascinating reading:
The daughter of a witness to an alien body discovered that her phone had been bugged for years.
How the U.S. Air Force tried to change the mind of the son of the Roswell intelligence officer.
What really became of the son of the principle witness, who disappeared in 1960. Why does the government go to such lengths to keep these families quiet after nearly 70 years? Frequent contributors to TV programs, documentaries, and movies on the subject, and frequent media and conference presenters, Carey and Schmitt are among the most trusted sources of answers to this question.
About the Authors:
Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt are the co-authors of Witness to Roswell and Inside the Real Area 51, one of which became the Showtime Page Two/Children of Roswell original movie “Roswell.”Both authors were consultants for the Sci-Fi Channel’s documentary,
“The Roswell Crash.” Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Captain USN [Ret.] and Apollo astronaut, said, “Witness to Roswell is a well researched, well documented, and well written account of a very important issue.”
Thomas J. Carey holds a master’s degree in anthropology and is a U.S. Air Force veteran who held Top Secret security clearance. He has investigated and written about the Roswell incident for over two decades, and consults on Roswell-related documentaries. Carey has appeared on Larry King Live, Coast to-Coast AM, and many more radio and TV shows.
Donald R. Schmitt is a cum laude graduate of Concordia University, and a former codirector and director of special investigations at the J. Allen Hyneck Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. He is also a founder and board advisor of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. Schmitt has appeared frequently on TV programs including Oprah, CBS 48 Hours, and the Today Show, and on many radio programs.
Stories presented in this episode: – Nebraska police officer saw a triangle UFO – Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and top-secret UFO Files – UFO sighting caught on tape over Las Vegas
On February 6, 2016 Yolanda Ramirez was near La Pera on the road to Cuernavaca which is very close to Tepoztlán.
She took some pictures facing Tepoztlán. In three of the pictures there are UFOs flying over an area, known as the scared valley of Magic and Mysticism.
Tepoztlán is the legendary birthplace more than 1200 years ago of Quetzalcoatl, the serpent god of the Aztecs.
Ominous cliffs hang over the town and on the top is the piramide de Tepozteco.
Location: Newton Abbot Devon UK Date:10th March 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I was sky watching when I notest an object that came down from the clouds moving at high speed in a semi circular flight path. The object went back up into the sky from where it had descended. Luckily I managed to catch this object with My Sony H300 Camera. because I had my camera in burst mode I managed to capture the movement of the object. I took six photographs in total. Photograph four clearly shows the object to be a silver saucer. This is more proof of alien craft in our skies. The photographs were taken on the 10th March 2016, at 1:08 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Location:Newton Abbot, Devon, UK Date:15th March 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I had an Incredible sighting of a giant ebani that was near the Moon. The ebani was slowly moving away from the Moon and was rotating as it moved. I have seen and photographed many ebanis but I have never seen one of this size. It really is quite Incredible. E.B.A.N.I is a Spanish acronym for “Entidad Biological Anomalous No Identificada” in Engish unidentified anomalous biological entity. Ebanis are some type of organic matter that can vary in many different shapes and sizes even colours. Ebanis can also morph into many forms and are often observed in the form of a serpent. Ebanis are also seen ejecting spheres. Ebanis are always accompanied by a lead sphere that protects it and at times appears to be controlling the ebani itself. As to what the purpose of these strange alien ebanis are is still unk nown. I took ten photographs of this Incredible giant ebani. The photographs were taken on the 15th March 2016, 2:47 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Retired Navy Petty Officer Claims to Have Seen Top Secret UFO Files
Retired Navy Petty Officer Claims to Have Seen Top Secret UFO Files
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Cigar Shaped UFO Travelling With The Space Station
Cigar Shaped UFO Travelling With The Space Station
Most of the time, UFO observers reported to have seen sphere-shaped objects in space, but the recent sighting may change the trend. A cylinder, semi-transparent UFO was observed in NASA live web feed earlier in March, moving alongside the International Space Station (ISS).
The video apparently shows the UFO moving at the same speed as the massive US spacecraft. UFO observers say that the cylinder space object is the same thing to what had seen on worldwide CNN in 2007.
The 1 minute and 22 seconds clip shows the outside of the space station, but on the right side of the screen, a seemingly moving object travelling at the same speed can be observed. UFO enthusiasts call this object a cylinder and semi-transparent one.
However, the screen went blue just when it was about to come into focus. UFO researchers have been alleging NASA of cover-up every time it catches a UFO on cam.
The CNN video of the external tank that fell from the Atlantis features a triangular object flying across the bottom right corner of the screen. John Schaser, who first published the clip to YouTube, said the footage was downloaded from the NASA website and posted it on the video sharing site.
The Mysterious ‘ Pyramid ’ on Dwarf Planet Ceres has a Strange ‘ Glowing ’ Side
The Mysterious ‘ Pyramid ’ on Dwarf Planet Ceres has a Strange ‘ Glowing ’ Side
It turns out that the mysterious ‘pyramid of Ceres’ has a strange ‘glowing’ side according to a set of new images beamed back by the Dawn Spacecraft.
Bright lights that defy explanation and mysterious ‘Pyramidal-shaped’ structures are just some of the mysterious features on dwarf planet Ceres.
New images beamed back from mysterious dwarf planet Ceres show several interesting features of the dwarf planet. The stunning new images reveal the three-mile high ‘Pyramid’ like never before, showing the mysterious ‘structure’ has a strange looking bright side, strangely resembling the mysterious bright spots located not far away.
According to astronomers, the ‘Pyramid of Ceres’ is in fact a ‘dome’ with smooth, steep walls – one of which appears to glow.
Astronomers are baffled as to how the structure came into existence in the first place.
On March 6, 2015, the Dawn Spacecraft accomplished an amazing thing by reaching the dwarf planet – located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – in a historical achievement.
Ever since it arrived at the anomalous dwarf planet, the spacecraft has delivered countless materials to scientists on Earth which were able to explore the dwarf planet like never before, learning it has numerous ‘alien’ spots and mysterious features that are until today, unexplained.
‘Ceres has defied our expectations and surprised us in many ways, thanks to a year’s worth of data from Dawn. We are hard at work on the mysteries the spacecraft has presented to us,’ said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the mission, based at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Two of the most enigmatic features discovered on Ceres are its mysterious bright spots, and Pyramidal shaped structure.
The mysterious ‘Dome-shaped’ structure Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
The ‘Alien’ Pyramid, as it has been dubbed by some is in fact called Ahuna Mons. At a distance of 46,000 kilometers, the enigmatic feature on Ceres looked like a small pyramid on the surface of the dwarf planet. As the Dawn spacecraft circled Ceres at much lower altitudes, the exact shape of the enigmatic ‘Pyramid’ on the dwarf planet came into focus. Now, with the new images beamed back from Dawn, scientists have learned that Ahuna Mons looks like a dome with smooth, steep walls. Scientists say that on its steepest side, Ahuna Mons rises 5 kilometers in height.
However, even though Ahuna Mons isn’t a Pyramid like it was said before, the mysterious structure still remains a great mystery for researchers.
‘No one expected a mountain on Ceres, especially one like Ahuna Mons,’ said Chris Russell, Dawn’s principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles.
‘We still do not have a satisfactory model to explain how it formed.’
670 kilometers northwest Ahuna Mons lies the now-famous Occator Crater with it’s enigmatic and mysterious bright lights.
Andreas Nathues, lead author of one of the studies about the enigmatic bright spots on Ceres, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, announced that the material that causes the mysterious bright lights is consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite. A different type of magnesium sulfate is familiar on Earth as Epsom salt.
“The global nature of the bright spots of Ceres indicates that the planet has a layer containing brackish underground water ice,” said Nathues, which further reinforces the theory that Ceres holds beneath its surface a huge amount of frozen water.
Ufologists, however have a very different opinion.
According to them, he Occator crater is filled with ‘anomalous’ structures that are anything but natural formations. Several Ufologists who have taken a look at the newest images from dwarf planet Ceres suggest that several ‘buildings’ are seen next to the bright spots. Researchers have not been able to explain the mysterious shapes and bright spots that have caused quite a debate on social networks.
Space shouldn't be exclusive domain of big nations: astronauts
Space shouldn't be exclusive domain of big nations: astronauts
Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz (C) speaks next to head of shuttle Columbia mission Robert Gibson (L), NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (2-L), and Democratic senator Bill Nelson (R) during a press conference in San Jose on March 4, 2016 (AFP Photo/Ezequiel Becerra)
San José (AFP) - Space shouldn't be the privileged domain of big countries but a frontier open to all, astronauts and scientists gathered in Costa Rica said Monday.
Even the smallest nations benefit from access to space technology, for example, improving farming and providing better understanding of oceans, weather and climactic changes, they told a news conference at the beginning of a weeklong forum.
"Thirty years ago, when we were in space, we all looked out the window and saw our blue planet," said Bill Nelson, a US senator and former astronaut who participated in a 1986 voyage on the space shuttle Columbia.
"We did not see political divisions, we did not see religious divisions, we did not see racial divisions. We are in this together."
Nelson and other members of that mission were invited to San Jose by another crew member, US-Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of that shuttle expedition.
Chang, who pioneers plasma research in Costa Rica, underlined that the space technology sector is worth $300 billion and growing at five percent annually.
"Space is our future and should be shared by all human beings," he said, urging "a future of collaboration and not confrontation, of inclusion and not exclusion."
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis opened the forum showcasing 110 companies linked to the aerospace industry that together employ 4,000 people.
The event also drew more than 120 astronauts and scientists.
The president noted that all the Central American countries were working together to build a mini-satellite forecast to be launched in 2018 to monitor the region's forests.
"We should look after space as much as we do our planet," he said, adding that responsible and shared work in the area should be for "the benefit of humanity."
The director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Simonetta Di Pippo, told the news conference that the forum in Costa Rica would "increase awareness about the benefits of human space technology and its multiple applications."
Pluto has proven itself to be a diverse, dynamic and fascinating world packed with strange phenomena that planetary scientists are having problems fully explaining. And now they've found an icy oddity that highlights one of the key processes that is believed to shape this dwarf planet's surprisingly young surface.
In recent high-resolution images sent back to Earth from NASA's New Horizons mission, which buzzed Pluto on July 14, 2015, a rather obvious chunk of ice appears to have been ripped away from Pluto’s surface. The upper layers of methane ice are missing from a western plain called Piri Planitia, a feature that is enriched with water ice.
Below Piri Planitia is a very old cratered terrain called Vega Terra, which is separated from the young plain by a series of cliffs (or "scarps"). Some of these scarps appear to have broken off, creating isolated hills (or "mesas"). But what has caused this discontinuity? Why has the methane ice-rich surface layers been cut off by the cliffs, giving way to a lowland plain rich in water ice?
According to mission scientists, the answer probably lies in how various ices in extreme environments react to being heated.
Compositional data from the New Horizons spacecraft's Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument, shown in the right inset, indicate that the plateau uplands south of Piri Rupes are rich in methane ice (shown in false color as purple). Scientists speculate that sublimation of methane may be causing the plateau material to erode along the face of the cliffs, causing them to retreat south and leave the plains of Piri Planitia in their wake.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
As we can probably guess, Pluto is a cold place. Though it's frozen, it is far from static. Chemicals that would normally be in a gas or liquid state here on Earth become solid layers of ice on Pluto. When the world receives even the tiniest amount of heating, volatiles — such as methane or ammonia ice — sublimate.
Sublimation occurs when the atmospheric pressure or temperature (or both) are very low. Water ice, for example, at sea level pressures on Earth will melt into a liquid and then boil into a vapor (or gas) when heated. On Pluto, because it's so cold and the pressures are a near vacuum, liquid water is not possible and heated water ice will sublimate directly from a solid into a gas. And it appears that's what's happening with the methane ice in Piri Planitia; it's sublimating into Pluto's thin atmosphere, likely contributing to the dwarf planet's atmospheric cycles of surface ices and exposing water ice-rich layers below.
It's almost as if Pluto is getting a rejuvenating facial scrub; over millions of years, as its surface is gently heated by our distant sun, the surface layers of ice are sublimated away, creating young-looking regions curiously free of ancient impact craters.
Vinca culture figurines have been researched numerous times and among one sphere of scientists and scholars some have come to the conclusion these mysterious ancient objects found in Serbia could depict extraterrestrial visitors! Possibly of Gods, or any similar superior life form that pushed our civilization to advance to the point where we are today. These ideas have been ridiculed by general media coverings, however still there are many idividuals that believe these old archaeological objects could give us some answers that we as human civilization seek from our existence. Just as pyramids and other ancient megalithic objects that inspire thinkers even till this day, in same manner Vinča figurines too inspire open minds around the globe! Mostly due to specific looks of figurines many think this is how aliens looked like in their encounters with our civilization.
Most ancient illustrations or figurines depict strange humanoid beings with oval-shaped heads, giant eyes and specific dark eyes. We all have seen those images in sci-fi movies and Vinča figurines might be the reason why we depict aliens as such today. Heads of figurines have a specific head shape, usually larger then their bodies while they are mostly pale in their overall looks. You will notice Vinča culture figurines depicts beings that look too much alike to what we usually enjoy in movies. Due to these facts it is safe to conclude that our speculations how Alien life forms look like might actually come from these traces that our ancestors left us. These ancient items are old over 7000 years BC and they are still regularly found by archaeologists in South-Eastern Europe, Ex-Yugoslavia area and Norther Greece.
The Vinča culture is a specific set of well examined and documented archaeological items found in “Vinca region” just 14km from Serbian capital Belgrade. These excavations brought us over 2000 alien like figurines and this is one of the largest collection of such items in Europe. These items are either a creation of some very imaginative individuals from human history, sort of a sci-fi pioneer or even more likely they are evidence of their own happenings that happened 7000 years ago on these areas. In other words their contact with beings that looked different than themselves, so they had a need to recreate them in this way.
It is interesting that the era when Vinča figurines and Vinča culture bloomed happened several thousand years earlier then ancient civilizations around Nile emerged such as old Egypt. This is one of the major proof for open mind thinkers how this in fact is an anomaly in human development. This is why these figurines are intriguing evidence of something irregular that happened thousands years before.
Many still today do not have any realistic explanation for Vinča culture, mostly due to the fact that these items left behind by Vinča civilization were too well developed while cultures of the Old World were still in neolithic stage. In other words, era where humans still didn’t built one of the grand megalithic monuments such as pyramid, the Vinča population had a highly developed cultural traits and art.
Most of !the objects found in diggings of Vinča culture are decorated with incredible inscriptions. Ceramic and stone figurines that represent humans, animals and irregular humanoid beings which today we would see only as aliens are the evidence of extraterrestrial life that happened long ago to advance our civilization before first pyramid happened! It is possible that this was our ancestors way to write history and leave us a clue how we came to the point where we are today. These items are original, intact and you can examine them yourself at Vinča museum
Last week, SpaceX held another successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Unfortunately, its landing was not quite as successful as the one in December (it crashed into the ocean).
SpaceX isn't alone in trying to develop reusable launch vehicles. Other private companies such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are also in the race to achieve the dream of consistently landing a rocket after hurtling it into the heavens. Each success — and failure — gets us a little closer.
But how significant is the creation of reusable rockets? And where will we go from here? Are we finally close to the future once promised by the Jetson's FX-Atmos "flying car" or Han Solo's Millennium Falcon: a world of personal, space-bound transports that can leave your garage, reach orbit and beyond, and return home in time for dinner?
What else stands in the way?
The final frontier
The "democratization of space exploration," spurred by NASA encouraging private companies to develop and manage complete launch systems, is igniting a new age of space development and awakening a spirit of exploration and technology innovation that’s been absent from our culture for far too long.
This resurgence of interest is reflected in NASA's latest call for astronaut applications: 18,300 hopefuls applied for just 14 positions.
And in the private sector, venture capitalists are showing the same enthusiasm by investing US$1.8 billion in space startups in 2015, compared with an average of $193 million a year over the previous 15 years. The increased demand for space access is further spurring on private companies to develop more efficient reusable rocket launch systems.
Today's space companies aren't the first to set their sights on such a rocket. This great feat of engineering was originally achieved in 1993, when McDonald Douglass tested the Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X), a prototype single-stage launch vehicle. NASA later canceled the project.
Now, it seems, the conditions are ripe once again to pick up where the DC-X left off. The private sector has started to take up this challenge, and the race is on to enhance all our lives with cheap space travel.
This future begins with the reusable rocket.
What does a reusable launch vehicle get us?
Imagine what life would be like if, after each trip to Grandma's, we had to throw away the car. Even with the benefits of mass production, the cost to an individual would be prohibitive, especially if there exist reasonable alternatives like horses or walking. Such automobiles could be employed only by governments, extremely wealthy enthusiasts or perhaps by a few skilled specialists who lived for the challenge.
This is pretty much the situation with current spacecraft technology. Not even the Space Shuttle program achieved the lofty goal of reliable reusability, although it tried very hard. The shuttle was such a complicated system that every time it returned to Earth, intense maintenance had to be performed and systems rebuilt or overhauled, making it three times as expensive as that of an expendable rocket. For example, a shuttle launch cost $450 million to $1.5 billion, compared with $110 million for a Russian Proton rocket with about the same lift capacity.
Truly reusable launch vehicles would significantly reduce the cost of getting material and people into orbit and enable new uses of space with far-reaching socioeconomic consequences that will ultimately reduce our impact on Earth’s environment, such as space-based energy collection, mining and manufacturing.
In order to get an idea of the savings, the retail price of a Falcon 9 rocket is around $60 million to build and launch (including fuel). Given its total lift capacity of 13,150 kilograms to low-Earth orbit, this translates into a price tag of about $400,000 to ferry a 90-kilogram (198-pound) person into space. But if you had to pay only for fuel, about $300,000 a launch, the price tag drops drastically to just $2,000 for the same person. That's not far from the cost of flying from New York to Sydney, which makes a future family vacation to a Bigelow B330 Space Habitat a viable alternative to Disney World.
At the pace things are going, we project that within 10 years the space industry will achieve the goal of a fully reusable launch vehicle. Companies and municipalities, small and big, are all starting to look into ways of taking advantage of this complete disruption in, or better yet creation of, the commercial space market.
So our next question is this: what do we need to make the Millennium Falcon — that is, a single-stage-to-orbit completely reusable spacecraft — a reality?
A little physics can help us see exactly what needs to happen and exactly how far we are from this goal.
Rocket Science 101
Space travel is all about speed. The old adage, "What goes up must come down," is true only to a point. If you throw something up fast enough, it won't come back down; it will have escaped Earth's gravity. The question is, exactly how fast is fast enough?
A simple application of Newtonian gravity theory tells us that if we achieve a speed of 11 kilometers per second — the equivalent of a plane flying 25,000 mph straight up — we are not going to fall back to Earth. Scientists and engineers refer to this speed, which depends on the physical properties of the Earth, as our planet's escape velocity.
A rocket tries to achieve that speed by taking mass and throwing it out the back as fast as possible. Thanks to Newton's third law — which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction — this propels the rocket forward.
The ratio between the change in velocity needed to escape the Earth's pull (known as delta-v) and the speed at which the rocket sends stuff out the back (exhaust velocity) is the most important number in rocket science. It determines how much mass needs to be expelled and how much energy is necessary to get to space. The smaller we can make the ratio, the better.
In addition, the propellants and fuels are themselves massive, and the rocket needs to carry these things with itself, making it heaver and harder to accelerate.
So we need propellants and fuels with a high energy content and low mass.
Now we can begin to appreciate the enormous feat of engineering that private companies and governments have achieved by not only launching a rocket but learning to land it as well.
The maximum achievable exhaust velocities for the rockets we've been using since the dawn of space travel are much less than the Earth’s escape velocity (about 4 km/s or 9,000 mph), forcing us to come up with ingenious and costly multistage launch techniques to get even a modest payload into space.
In summary, in order to leave the surface of the Earth with the grace and apparent effortlessness of the Millennium Falcon, we need to achieve speeds in excess of the escape velocity, 11 km/s. In order to do that without carrying a fuel tank that far exceeds the size of our ship, we need to achieve exhaust speeds significantly higher than the escape velocity, something not possible with the chemical fuels we use.
So where do we go from here?
So in order to make the Millennium Falcon a reality, we need a new type of fuel, as chemical-based engines are severely limiting.
Thanks to Albert Einstein, we know that there is energy stored in mass itself. Using his famous E = mc² equation, we know that exhaust speeds up to the speed of light are achievable, and way more than necessary to escape Earth’s gravity.
A sustainable exhaust speed of 1,000 km/s, less than 1 percent of the speed of light, would pretty much enable our dream ship. Its fuel-to-mass ratio would be about the same as that of your typical car.
The next question is: how do we get access to the energy stored in the mass (fuel and propellant) sufficient to achieve those speeds? The answer lies in nuclear reactions or, better yet, matter-antimatter reactions. In short, we need to put a mass reactor, nuclear or matter-antimatter, on board our ship. Think of the Enterprise's "warp core," for all those Star Trek fans out there.
Nuclear rockets may seem farfetched, but various versions have already been proposed and prototypes have even been built. The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) project, a joint NASA-Atomic Energy Commission program, developed a flight-certified nuclear-based rocket engine that meets all the requirements for a manned mission to Mars.
What is interesting, and perhaps a little sad, is that this was done in 1968, over four decades ago! The NERVA engine achieved exhaust velocities pretty close to Earth’s escape velocity, around 10 km/s. The program was tied to NASA's manned Mars exploration program and, since it was unable to justify the expense of going to Mars, was scrapped in 1972.
More recently, NASA has been developing electric propulsion systems that can generate large effective exhaust velocities that are limited only through the strength of the electric field. Effective exhaust velocities of 90 km/s are already achievable. But this is just the propulsion part. The solar panels, batteries or fuel cells that are currently used as power sources for these engines limit their usefulness. Electricity generated from nuclear power could solve this problem.
The International Space Station is primarily a science laboratory in space. NASA would like to invest in ventures beyond Earth orbit, but industry leaders fear what will happen if the agency pulls out its investment in the station before a commercial options is available.
Credit: NASA
Back to the future
With the renewed interest in space exploration and innovation, we challenge inventors and entrepreneurs to consider looking at advanced nuclear/antimatter-powered rocket systems. This could enable us to achieve the dream of a space car in our garages in half a century.
The key to all the recent advances in space exploration technology has been combining older proven technologies with modern computing capabilities, materials and fabrication processes. NASA's push to get technologies into private hands will accelerate this process.
Back in 1972, we were at 1 percent of the needed exhaust speed. It's not too much of a stretch to propose that, after 40 years of advances, we need only revisit the designs with fresh and entrepreneurial eyes to make it possible for a Han Solo — or, to be more contemporary, Rey Skywalker — to jump into the Falcon and speed off to somewhere far, far away.
Virgin Galactic rolled out its new SpaceShipTwo on February 19, 2016, at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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