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...
03-04-2016
Scientists want to camouflage Earth in order to hide it from Hostile Aliens
Scientists want to camouflage Earth in order to hide it from Hostile Aliens
Two researchers have proposed beaming controlled laser emissions in order to create an invisibility cloak around Earth, in order to help disguise the faint dimming of light produced by our planet every time it passes in front of the sun, hiding from prying ‘Alien’ eyes.
Is it possible that an ‘invisibility cloak of lasers’ could hide Earth, preventing an Alien invasion? According to experts, a new system could help protect our planet from hostile Aliens that might try and destroy it.
Two astronomers have proposed that beaming controlled laser emissions could literally create an invisibility cloak around Earth, in order to help disguise the faint dimming of light produced by our planet every time it passes in front of the sun.
According to experts, Intelligent Alien civilizations might be looking for Earth the same way we search for Alien Worlds: by looking for dips in our Suns light. This is why, they propose beaming a laser into the sky, in order to cloak this change in light. This ‘new’ system could effectively hide our planet from extraterrestrial telescopes, pointed at our planet. The method used in order to search for Alien worlds is based on light anomalies created by planets as they pass in front of their host star. Using this technique, NASA Kepler space telescope has discovered over 1000 new planets among them several which are believed to be extremely similar to Earth, located in the so-called habitable zone of their host star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water to exist.
However, it’s very likely that advanced alien civilizations m inhabiting other parts of the cosmos might have adopted similar techniques in order to hide their worlds from possible predators.
Professor David Kipping and his student Alex Teachey from Columbia University in New York believe that ‘alien astronomers’ might be using similar techniques as we do, in order to spot habitable zones around distant stars. Some of these aliens might not be as benevolent as we would want them to be, this is why it would be a great idea to hide our planet from prying ‘alien’ eyes.
The two researchers believe we can effectively hide our planet by masking the dip it creates while passing in front of our star. This can be achieved by sending a continuous 30MW laser blast for 10 hours each year.
‘There is an ongoing debate as to whether we should advertise ourselves or hide from advanced civilizations potentially living on planets elsewhere in the galaxy.
‘Our work offers humanity a choice, at least for transit events, and we should think about what we want to do,’ explained Professor Kipping.
In the past, numerous scientists have warned about sending radio signals into outer space since it could attract hostile aliens that would be technologically superior than we are. Professor Stephen Hawking warned about Aliens last year in an interview with El Pais: “ If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.” Hawking speculated.
But Hawking wasn’t the only one to suggest looking for aliens might not be such a great idea.
According to a statement from Dr. Kaku, who is an advisor on the Discovery channel’s Curiosity series, the human race wouldn’t stand a chance if Aliens came to Earth and attacked us. Aliens which could be over a million years ahead of our technology could wipe out mankind in seconds if they were to invade our tiny little planet.
“Hollywood assumes the aliens are maybe 100 years advanced than us and only if we had a secret weapon would defeat the aliens.
“Wrong.
“They could be a thousand, a million years more advanced than us. Realize the universe is 13.7 billion years old – they could have weapons we couldn’t even conceive of,” said Dr. Kaku.
This is why Professor David Kipping and Alex Teachey have proposed sending a continuous 30MW laser blast for 10 hours each year in order to hide our planet.
In their study, the duo wrote: „We suggest that advanced civilizations could cloak their presence, or deliberately broadcast it, through controlled laser emission. Such emission could distort the apparent shape of their transit light curves with relatively little energy, due to the collimated beam and relatively infrequent nature of transits. We estimate that humanity could cloak the Earth from Kepler-like broadband surveys using an optical monochromatic laser array emitting a peak power of about 30 MW for roughly 10 hours per year.
A chromatic cloak, effective at all wavelengths, is more challenging requiring a large array of tunable lasers with a total power of approximately 250 MW. Alternatively, a civilization could cloak only the atmospheric signatures associated with biological activity on their world, such as oxygen, which is achievable with a peak laser power of just around 160 kW per transit. Finally, we suggest that the time of transit for optical SETI is analogous to the water-hole in radio SETI, providing a clear window in which observers may expect to communicate. Accordingly, we propose that a civilization may deliberately broadcast their technological capabilities by distorting their transit to an artificial shape, which serves as both a SETI beacon and a medium for data transmission. Such signatures could be readily searched in the archival data of transit surveys.“
‘To another civilization, this should make the Earth appear as if life never took hold on our world,’ said Mr. Teachey.
The proposal created by Professor David Kipping and Alex Teachey are published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Japan's space agency says that has received signals from the Hitomi satellite, which might have separated into multiple pieces due to being hit by space debrisJAXA
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says it is still receiving signals from the its black hole-hunting satellite Hitomi, even though it is likely that the $273m (£191m) observatory has broken into multiple pieces.
Hitomi, which is a state-of-the-art x-ray observatory, was developed in conjunction with Nasa, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), with the intention of having it observe and analyse some of the greats secrets of the universe, such as black holes and exploding stars.
Hitomi, also known as ASTRO-H, was launched into space on 17 February, but JAXA lost contact with the satellite 4.40pm GMT (00.40am JST, 09.40am CST) on 26 March. Then on 27 March, the US Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), which tracks and monitors all space debris near Earth tweeted that five pieces of debris were seen floating in the vicinity of Hitomi around the same time that it lost communication with Earth.
Then on 28 March, JSpOC confirmed that its analysis of the incident showed that the Hitomi satellite definitely did break into multiple pieces, which means that the satellite was possibly hit by some sort of space debris that caused it break into pieces.
Now that's pretty bad news, and JAXA has since confirmed JSpOC's report, but the Japanese space agency hasn't given up on finding Hitomi, and in fact posted an update on 29 March at 2pm GMT (10pm JST, 7am CST), stating that it received signals from the satellite on two separate occasions.
"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been trying to communicate with the X-ray Astronomy Satellite "Hitomi" (ASTRO-H), using ground stations both in Japan and overseas. By utilising two opportunities of communicating with Hitomi, JAXA received signals from the satellite: the first time was at about 10pm on 28 (March) at the Uchinoura Ground Station, and the second one was at around 0.30am on 29 (March) at the Santiago Tracking Station in Chile," JASA wrote in its update.
"JAXA has not been able to figure out the state of its health, as the time frames for receiving the signals were very short."
So in fact, Hitomi might not have suffered extensive damage after all, a belief echoed by Dr Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is also the author of Jonathan's Space Report, a bi-monthly newsletter that documents satellite launches.
"'Debris' doesn't mean Hitomi's in little pieces. It means little pieces have come off it. Satellite might be basically intact, we don't know," McDowell wrote in a post that was retweeted by JSpOC.
"Debris" doesn't mean Hitomi's in little pieces. It means little pieces have come off it. Satellite might be basically intact,we don't know
JAXA also confirmed that telescopes at the Bisei Space Guard Center (BSGC) owned by the Japan Space Forum detected two objects around the satellite's original orbit, and that a radar located at the Kamisaibara Space Guard Center (KSGC) identified one of the objects. The space agency says it is continuing to investigate the connection between JSpOC's information and the communication anomaly.
For now, we still very little about what's happened to the Hitomi satellite, but it would be great if $273m hadn't gone completely down the drain.
…ou illusion d'optique comme sur cette photo mettant volontairement en situation étonnante l'œuvre d'un architecte ?
Phénomènes d'optique comme sur ce document amateur… - (Photos archives NR)
Lumières étranges, objets brillants se déplaçant à des vitesses inhabituelles, triangles lumineux… l’Indre-et-Loire n’échappe pas aux apparitions parfois étonnantes. Ovnis or not ovnis ?
Loches, le 19 juin 1980, il est 23 h 45. « Un enfant voit sa chambre s'éclairer et aperçoit par la fenêtre un engin de forme triangulaire. Des lumières fixes ou clignotantes éclairent l'objet qui se déplace sans bruit. La base de l'engin est éclairée de jaune et sur les côtés des lumières jaunes et rouges disposées alternativement clignotent. Un gyrophare rouge s'éclaire fortement lorsque les lumières des côtés arrivent au sommet. Effrayé l'enfant appelle sa mère et ils verront ensemble l'engin disparaître dans le paysage. Lors de l'observation le ciel était nuageux. Aucune autre information n'a été recueillie sur ce phénomène pour lequel nous manquons d'informations. »
En juillet de cette même année, la mère de cet enfant se rend à la brigade de gendarmerie de Loches et y fait une déposition. Souhaitant rester discrète sur ce phénomène des plus étranges, elle demande au brigadier qui la reçoit de ne pas ébruiter l'affaire. Le procès-verbal suivra pourtant alors le chemin des procédures habituelles : ministère de la Défense, commandement des bases aériennes, services de renseignements… Pour se retrouver aujourd'hui dans les archives du Geipan, le très sérieux Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés. Une structure scientifique rattachée au Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes) sur lequel l'État français porte une attention toute particulière.
Ou quand l'étoile Capella joue aux ovnis
Sur le site du Geipan il est ainsi possible d'accéder à toutes les archives mentionnant des apparitions étranges survenues dans le ciel de Touraine. A la plupart d'entre elles, les scientifiques du Geipan apportent une explication qui décevra les adeptes d'ovnis.
Comme en ce mois de mars 2015 où plusieurs témoins, dans le secteur de Joué-lès-Tours, observent un objet lumineux se déplaçant dans le ciel. A cela, les scientifiques concluront « que le cas concerne l'observation certaine de l'étoile Capella doublée d'une illusion de déplacement et d'un effet physiologique de micro-nystagmus. L'étoile disparaît probablement masquée par un banc de nuages ».
Il existe ainsi plusieurs cas tourangeaux recensés ces dernières décennies par le Geipan. Entre phénomènes étranges et sans réponses - comme celui de Loches - et apparitions « normales » (satellites, étoiles, illusion d'optique, ballon-sonde…), le ciel de Touraine livre ainsi (presque) tous ses mystères. Pour faire référence à la célèbre série X-Files, la vérité n'est donc pas forcément ailleurs…
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En France, 16 % des phénomènes analysés par le Geipan sont parfaitement identifiés. Et 34 % sont probablement identifiés.
En fait, sur la totalité des phénomènes observés sur le territoire national « seuls » 280 d'entre eux sont non-identifiés.
Pyramids in China Hidden by the Chinese Government We have all heard about the great Pyramid, the one in Giza, that is the tallest Pyramid on Earth, Right? You may be surprised to discover that the great Pyramid found in Giza is NOT the tallest one on Earth, in fact it is not even close. Wait till you hear this!
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKeplertelescope In China, there are large Pyramids that are not only lined with the stars and showing advanced Mathematics in lay-out, design and construction, they are also among the largest in the World, in fact the true great Pyramid, the largest that we know of, is twice the size of the Great Pyramid at Giza and it is hidden in plain, but why are the Chinese trying to hide the biggest and most significant archaeological find of the Ancient World? Despite speculation about the existence of the great pyramids in China, archaeologists have refused to consider even the rumours about such structures. But recent aerial pictures proves that China’s pyramids are indeed real, rivalling those of Egypt and Central America for their age, size and significance. The Chinese pyramids drew popular attention just after World War II. Many early stories were focused on the existence of the Great White Pyramid. This is the tomb of Emperor Wu of Han located in Shaanxi Province.** shang-k-sii, (I think)** U.S. Army Air Corps pilot James Gaussman is said to have seen a white jewel-topped pyramid during a flight between India and China during World War II. James Gaussman told of his eyewitness encounter with a Chinese pyramid in the March 28, 1947 edition of The New York Times. A photo of a pyramid in China appeared in The New York Sunday News on March 30, 1947, raising a few eye brows across the globe. Pseudo-historians have increased western awareness of these pyramids. Hartwig Hausdorf speculated it was built by aliens, and Philip Coppens repeated this theory The existence of these pyramids in China remained completely unknown in the Western world until the 1910s. They were documented in large numbers around Xian, first in 1912 by the Western traders Fred Meyer Schroder and Oscar Maman, and also in 1913 by the expedition of Victor Segalen. It is located about 40 miles southwest of Xian **Zyan**, the largest of sixteen pyramids located in the area designated as a no-go area, a forbidden zone by Communist authorities. These restrictions make it extremely difficult and dangerous for Westerners to visit the pyramid and take photographs of it. Despite the restrictions and with the help of the people of China, photos are emerging. It is unknown when exactly the Great Pyramid of China was built. According to some Chinese archaeologists the pyramid was built around 3000 years before the birth of Christ. Ancient records preserved in an old monastery near the Mongolian border describe the Xian pyramid. The structure was said to measure 1,000 feet in height which made it the highest pyramid in the world, the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 450 feet in height, so the Great China pyramid is more than double the height. Imagine that for a second, 2 Giza pyramids on top of each other and then some, does that not blow your mind? According to the monastic documents the pyramid was already extremely old when the records were made so we are talking about some of the oldest structures on Earth here. In the valleys surrounding the Xian pyramid there are dozens of other pyramids, some almost as tall as the Great Xian Pyramid, these smaller ones are also larger than any of the other Pyramids found scattered across the globe. When Hartwig Hausdorf and his friend Peter Krassa reached the township of Xianyang, about 40 miles west of Xian they saw at least 15 pyramids in the area. The two researchers were surprised to see small trees planted on the sides of these pyramids. “I had been told that, over the past four or five years, the Chinese had been planting fast growing conifers, a kind of Cypress tree on the slopes of these pyramids. I wondered briefly what they were trying to hide by making these Ancient Wonders blend so completely into their surroundings. The construction of these smaller Chinese pyramids is similar to that of the pyramids of Teo-tiahu-can**teo-tia-hu-can_, near Mexico City, the tops of most of these Chinese structures are flattened off, similar to the rectangular structures of the Mayans,” Hausdorf said. The estimated age of these pyramids is 6000 years and it is believed they have been arranged to align with certain constellations in the night sky, just as certain key pyramids in Egypt were constructed in imitation of the constellation Orion. The Chinese pyramids near Xian are proof of the immense knowledge of geometry and mathematics by these builders five millennia ago, who were they? And where did they go? In 1994, archaeologists discovered several pyramids near the Wei River, north of Xian. It is thought that there may be as many 100 pyramids in China, including the Great White Pyramid which is the highest of them all. All of them are unheard of in the Western world so spread the word guys. Who were the mysterious Chinese pyramid builders? Were they members of an ancient Atlantean civilization, or were they perhaps giants of the past, or maybe even Alien visitors or inhabitants from the stars? Maybe they positioned the pyramids under their home stars. Local villagers claim their distant ancestors spoke of sky ships that navigated the heavens and used the pyramids. Whatever the purpose was for these Pyramids, they were built with such precision that our current technology cannot replicate it. Pretty amazing right. What do you guys think of the Giant Pyramids in China? Why are the Chinese trying to keep them secret? Comments below.
Ook het leven van de zon duurt niet eeuwig en als de zon sterft ziet het er slecht uit voor onze planeet. Maar misschien…kunnen we de aarde met haar hele hebben en houwen wel verhuizen naar een veiliger plekje!
Een hele tijd geleden kon je op Scientias.nl lezen wat er gebeuren zou als onze zon sterft. Erg rooskleurig zag het er niet uit. Kort samengevat: de zon wordt groter en helderder (een rode reus) en slokt Mercurius en Venus op. En ook voor de aarde ziet het er niet goed uit: de kans is aanwezig dat onze planeet ook door de uitdijende zon wordt verorberd. Of de aarde wordt – in het gunstigste geval – enkel geroosterd en van zijn water ontdaan. Beide scenario’s resulteren in hetzelfde: de aarde raakt zijn leven kwijt.
Redding Het is nog niet direct iets om vannacht over wakker te liggen. De zon heeft naar schatting nog meer dan zes miljard levensjaren te gaan en zal pas over zo’n 3,5 miljard jaar een bedreiging voor het leven op aarde gaan vormen. Desalniettemin houdt deze naderende ellende wetenschappers in haar greep. Want hoe kunnen we het leven op aarde – ervan uitgaande dat dat er tegen die tijd überhaupt nog is – redden?
De zon laat haar stralen over de aarde glijden. Afbeelding: NASA.
Huis en haard verlaten Er is een vrij simpele oplossing: maken dat we wegkomen. We zouden in een ruimteschip kunnen stappen en naar een exoplaneet (een planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel) kunnen vliegen die in veel opzichten op onze aarde lijkt. Voorwaarde is wel dat zo’n exoplaneet bestaat (tot op heden hebben we het tweelingzusje van de aarde nog niet kunnen vinden) en we deze bereiken kunnen (de dichtstbijzijnde exoplaneet is zo’n 40 biljoen kilometer van ons verwijderd).
Huis en haard meenemen Het zal even slikken zijn: onze planeet – of wat er tegen die tijd dan nog van over is – achterlaten. Gelukkig is er nog een andere manier om het vege lijf te redden. En het grote voordeel van deze methode is dat we niet alleen ons eigen vege lijf, maar ook dat van de aarde veilig kunnen stellen. Wetenschappers kwamen enkele jaren geleden met het idee om de gehele aarde te verhuizen. Het is een interessant voorstel dat in theorie zou kunnen werken. De zon wordt groter en helderder en vroeg of laat komt deze te dicht bij onze planeet in de buurt. Tenzij we de afstand tussen de zon en de aarde voorafgaand aan dat moment geleidelijk aan vergroten. Klinkt eenvoudig, maar dat is het niet. Want hoe gaan we de aarde in beweging krijgen?
Een artistieke impressie van een Kuipergordelobject. Afbeelding: NASA.
Kuipergordelobject In 2008 deden drie wetenschappers dat in hun paper ‘Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits‘ uit de doeken. Ze stelden voor om gebruik te maken van een Kuipergordelobject. Dit zijn objecten die zich voorbij de baan van Neptunus bevinden en – net als de planeten – om de zon cirkelen. Om zo’n Kuipergordelobject te kunnen gebruiken, moeten we het eerst dichterbij halen. Dat kan door het object – dat een omvang van zo’n 100 kilometer moet hebben – af te remmen (bijvoorbeeld door met behulp van een raket tegengas te geven). Het Kuipergordelobject zal dan richting het hart van het zonnestelsel beginnen te vallen. Het is de bedoeling dat het object daarbij op zo’n 16.000 kilometer afstand langs onze planeet scheert. Tijdens die scheervlucht moet het object de aarde een zwiepje geven, waardoor onze planeet zich van de zon verwijdert.
MAG DE MAAN MEE?
Ze zijn al heel lang samen: de aarde en de maan. Wat gebeurt er met onze natuurlijke satelliet wanneer we de aarde gaan verhuizen? Mag de maan mee? Uit de berekeningen van de onderzoekers blijkt dat de aarde de maan tijdens dit hele proces kwijt zou raken. Nu is het verlies van de maan mogelijk niet wenselijk en zullen er dus wellicht maatregelen moeten worden getroffen om onze natuurlijke satelliet toch mee te laten verhuizen.
Geduld! Eén scheervlucht van een Kuipergordelobject zal ons niet van de ondergang kunnen redden. Daarvoor zijn meerdere scheervluchten (bij voorkeur van hetzelfde Kuipergordelobject) nodig. Met elke scheervlucht schuift de aarde namelijk ongeveer 48 kilometer op. Om de aarde ver genoeg van de zon vandaan te krijgen, moet er voor de rest van het leven van de zon elke 6000 jaar zo’n scheervlucht plaatsvinden. In dat scenario zou de aarde over 6,3 miljard jaar – wanneer de zon 2,2 keer helderder is dan nu het geval is – anderhalf keer verder van de zon verwijderd zijn dan nu het geval is en ongeveer evenveel zonlicht ontvangen als deze nu doet. Het zou betekenen dat de oceanen niet gaan koken, de planeet niet geroosterd wordt en het leven op aarde blijft bestaan.
De risico’s Het klinkt als een prachtig plan. Maar er zijn wel risico’s aan verbonden. Het komt namelijk allemaal heel erg nauw. Om zoveel mogelijk energie op de aarde af te geven, moet het Kuipergordelobject heel dicht bij de aarde in de buurt komen. Een kleine fout in de calculaties kan zomaar resulteren in een inslag. Wanneer een object met een omvang van zo’n 100 kilometer op aarde inslaat, zou al het leven op aarde (met uitzondering van de bacteriën) verdwijnen. Ook het effect dat het Kuipergordelobject op de aarde heeft, moet goed berekend worden: we willen natuurlijk niet dichter naar de zon toe bewegen. En welke gevolgen heeft het verhuizen van de aarde voor de andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel? “De gevolgen van het opnieuw inrichten van het zonnestelsel moeten geëvalueerd worden,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers. Ze verwijzen daarbij naar een studie uit het eind van de twintigste eeuw die aantoont dat het verwijderen van de aarde uit ons zonnestelsel ervoor zou zorgen dat Venus en Mercurius uit balans raken. Hoewel de onderzoekers niet voornemens zijn de aarde te verwijderen, zou het verhuizen ervan ook gevolgen kunnen hebben voor de stabiliteit van andere planeten.
Zo zijn de planeten nu geordend. Maar wat gebeurt er als we met één van die planeten gaan rommelen? Afbeelding: WP (via Wikimedia Commons).
Er zijn dus zeker risico’s aan verbonden. En dat brengt ons bij de vraag: wegen die risico’s op tegen het redden van onze planeet? Voor je daar een antwoord op kan geven, is het goed om te weten dat ook het verhuizen van de aarde in feite niets meer is dan uitstel van executie. Want de zon blijft niet voor eeuwig een rode dwerg. Uiteindelijk zal alleen de kern van de zon overblijven. We noemen dat een witte dwerg. Die kern – waarin geen fusie meer plaatsvindt – koelt steeds verder af. En zo komen we voor een nieuw probleem te staan: dit keer geen hitte, maar kou. En dan zal er dus opnieuw een oplossing gezocht moeten worden om ons vege lijf te redden.
Gelanceerd met een H-IIA draagraket in februari, zijn er zware problemen met een Japanse satelliet voor ambitieus astronomisch onderzoek, zo heeft het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa bekendgemaakt.
Vorige week verloor de röntgensatelliet Hitomi (de nieuwe naam voor de Astro-H) de communicatielink met de grond.
De kunstmaan was er niet in geslaagd zichzelf te stabiliseren, raakte op 26 maart in een rolbeweging en liep daarna "enige schade" op, aldus een functionaris van het Jaxa. Het denkt niet dat de satelliet met ruimteschroot is gebotst. Meerdere objecten, tot een meter groot, in de buurt van het tuig zouden afgebroken delen van de kunstmaan zijn.
Wel heeft de satelliet nog vier onvolledige pakketten data doorgestuurd wat erop wijst dat sommige systemen nog steeds functioneren.
Mogelijk zal het Jaxa maanden nodig hebben om te weten hoe het precies zit en om eventueel wegen te vinden om de Hitomi weer aan de praat te krijgen.
Als mogelijke oorzaak denkt het Jaxa aan een breuk in de heliumtank, een brandstoflek in de stabilisatiemotor of een batterijpanne.
Medeontwikkeld door de Amerikaanse NASA beschikt de Hitomi over vier röntgentelescopen en twee detectoren van gammmastraling.
Wetenschappers hoopten bijvoorbeeld meer te weten te komen over zwarte gaten.
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VREEMD WEZEN ONTDEKT IN THAMES BIJ LONDEN, GB ( VIDEO )
VREEMD WEZEN ONTDEKT IN THAMES BIJ LONDEN, GB ( VIDEO )
Iedere dag maken toeristen gebruik van een mooie kabelbaan die bij Greenwich in Londen de ene oever met de andere verbindt.
Je hebt van daaruit een prachtig uitzicht over de rivier en soms zie je ook dingen die er eigenlijk niet thuis horen.
In Londen heb je tegenwoordig een kabelbaan die de ene oever van de Theems met de andere verbindt.
Wanneer je echt van het uitzicht wilt genieten, is het natuurlijk een mooie manier om van de ene kant naar de andere van de stad te reizen.
Nu zijn er enkele mensen geweest die tijdens die overtocht over de rivier iets vreemds onder en half boven water hebben gezien.
Het zag eruit zoals op de volgende foto’s:
Er zijn door een aantal mensen ook video-opnames gemaakt zoals hieronder te zien.
Wat het ook is, het is maar heel kort zichtbaar.
Afgezien van een vreemd wezen zou het natuurlijk ook een soort onderzeeër of iets dergelijks kunnen zijn. Als dat het geval is dan zal ongetwijfeld Vladimir Poetin weer worden aangewezen als schuldige (grapje).
Natuurlijk bestaat ook de mogelijkheid dat het monster van Loch Ness besloten heeft om een lang weekend in Londen door te brengen.
Fleet Of UFOs Lift Off Out Of Ocean Near Island Off Of Spain, March 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Lift Off Out Of Ocean Near Island Off Of Spain, March 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 27, 2016 18:42:28 Location of sighting: Callao Salvaje Island, Spain Source: MUFON #75515 Look closely and not only do you see a long UFO over the water at Callao island, but you also see five round UFOs behind it. There is also something very big and cloaked on the left side of the screen. It looks like buildings, but is probably a cloaked vessel. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: One mothership with cigar apareance plus 5 objects near mothership, faraway up to skyline caught from our security camera with movement detector. You can see clearin the photo, but in video only appear as a flash during one second in the second number two of the film.
Silver UFO Over Neighborhood In Virginia On March 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Silver UFO Over Neighborhood In Virginia On March 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Alexandria, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #75524 This UFO was reported today on MUFON and the eyewitness states they spotted the object while on the train. Excellent capture, even though he only had a few seconds to get the photos. If you live in Alexandria and have seen this UFO, please let us know in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: On Saturday March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro garage on the Huntington Ave side (lower Huntington Metro) when coming down the ramp across from Fenwick Dr. when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance seemingly over the area of the highway/Eisenhower ave/ Duke st. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary ( it did not lower or raised as I watched it). I noticed that the sky was partly cloudy but the top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said that they had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I said I did not as we watched it hover, then spin on its axis and I saw the attachment just under its "nose". It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and snap off a couple of pictures. I then quickly cross Huntington ave and made my way towards Huntington Park, which took me know more than 5 minutes. I lost sight of the object so I crossed the length of the park still not spotting it. I made my way to the banks of Camron Run/ Huntington Creek, looked and saw nothing. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I left and went on my way. The pictures are nice and clear but the object to far away for the phone to get a better picture. Blow-up you can see the attachment better.
UFO-and-alien-themed movies have been making sizable dents at the worldwide box-office for decades. As I define it, the UFO subgenre boasts some of the most successful movies of all time. But for every Independence Day, there are dozens of lesser-known UFO movies. Some have slipped under our radar for being, shall we say, less ‘polished’ than the typical Hollywood fare; some have been simply too ‘weird’ and failed to connect with audiences of their time; while others have escaped our attention for being produced outside of the Hollywood system altogether.
Here, then, are five UFO movies you’ve (probably) never seen…
The Flying Saucer (1950)
The Flying Saucer was the world’s very first UFO movie, and its director, Mikel Conrad, had claimed publicly while in production that he had managed to secure footage of a real flying saucer that would wow audiences the world over. In September 1949, Conrad told the Ohio Journal Herald, “I have scenes of the saucer landing, taking off, flying and doing tricks.” Shortly thereafter the director became the subject of a two-month Air Force investigation.
As documented by Nick Redfern, files released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that an agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was dispatched not only to interrogate Conrad about his claims, but also to attend the first private screening of his completed film. Unsurprisingly, Conrad’s story was soon revealed as an elaborate marketing scam designed to promote what was, in reality, a tedious and uneventful movie. The Conrad case is significant for its demonstration of the high degree of seriousness with which the USAF regarded the issue of media depictions of the burgeoning UFO phenomenon.
Disappointingly, the eponymous flying saucer eventually proves to be a soviet secret weapon. Aliens don’t even get a mention. At the time of the movie’s release in 1950, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) was already firmly in favor among UFO believers, and Conrad’s unimaginative story failed to connect with audiences. Its shoddy production values and dreadful performances didn’t help. Like many a real flying saucer, Conrad’s movie was seen by only a few people, and for a short time.
The Body Stealers (1969)
When a unit of British military paratroopers vanishes inexplicably during a jump from an army plane, two investigators, Patrick Allen (Bob Megan) and Neil Connery (Jim Radford), are tasked with solving the mystery and soon uncover a dastardly alien plot to steal human bodies by snatching them out of the air.
Released in 1969, this James-Bond-inspired, low budget Brit flick was arguably the first motion picture ever to focus directly on the idea of alien abduction. This was a time when abduction lore was still embryonic, with only a small handful of accounts having surfaced in UFO literature, most notably the Hill abduction case of 1961 (not widely publicised until 1966), and the Herbert Schirmer case of 1967. While earlier movies, such as Invaders from Mars (1953) and This Island Earth (1955), had contained plot details closely paralleling those of modern UFO abduction accounts, The Body Stealerswas the first to devote its entire narrative to the mystery of alien-human kidnappings. Sadly, it’s incredibly dull, dramatically and UFOlogically, although it still entertains today in an Austin Powers sort ofway.
The Stranger Within (1974)
This peculiar production was broadcast in 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week. The Stranger Within starred Barbra Eden as a suburban housewife with a vasectomized husband who finds herself inexplicably pregnant. As the narrative unfolds the wife’s behavior grows increasingly bizarre. Her husband and her doctor eventually reach the radical conclusion that she has been abducted and impregnated by aliens, and that her memory of these events has been erased. The film plays out as a serious psychological drama, free of the cheap sensationalism it could so easily have embraced.
The author Mike Clelland has provideed insightful analysis of the movie, noting: “What is terribly bizarre is that this movie seems to have predicted so much of what has now become well documented within the UFO abduction research field – accounts of women who are mysteriously pregnant, seemingly after an abduction by aliens.”
Clelland further observes a list of plot points in this obscure little movie which anticipate with eerie precision what are now considered to be key characteristics of the abduction phenomenon:
~ A pregnancy without any sexual source.
~ A female abductee with gynecological problems
~ The urge to research and study scientific topics.
~ Hypnosis as a tool for recovering memories of the abduction experience.
~ An abductee channeling an alien being.
~ Telepathic communication.
~ A sense of longing for an alien world.
~ Experiencing a dramatic healing.
~ Marks on the body that can’t be explained, only to heal rapidly without scarring.
~ Lower than normal body temperature.
~ An abductee with Rh blood factor.
~ Sensitivity to sound.
~ Craving salt.
The Stranger Within was scripted by famed writer Richard Matheson, based closely on his own 1953 short story, Trespass. “How did Matheson write something that so closely predicted what would unfold decades later?” Clelland asks. “One thought is that he might have been an abductee, and he was simply using his own experiences, either remembered or buried, when he wrote the story.” Clelland dismisses this idea, though, “because he [Matheson] had a massive output of work, and little else [of his] seems to match these ideas.”
Clelland instead suggests that a far stranger force could be at work in this case. He writes:
I am convinced that there is a very real power in the creative process, and when abandoning (or disciplining) oneself to this kind of artistic inspiration, something mysterious can unfold. The artist can somehow tap into deeper truths. The work-a-day routine of sitting in front of a typewriter (or canvas, or drawing board) can be seen as a ritual act, very much like the forgotten alchemist who sits before his candle. Matheson must have been on fire during those early years writing for pulp magazines, and something weirdly predictive seems to have been manifested in his tight little story.
The power of the creative process to anticipate and manifest realities has been explored extensively by Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Texas. In his book, Mutants and Mystics, Kripal asserts that “There is something fundamentally mystical about writing… words, stories, and symbols can become real.” Kripal means this literally, not figuratively. It is through the creative process, he says, that “The imagination can become empowered to make contact with what appears to be a real spiritual world or, at the very least, an entirely different order of mind.”
The Arrival of Wang (2011)
Gaia (Francesca Cuttica), a Chinese-to-Italian interpreter in Rome is summoned for an urgent and highly sensitive assignment. So sensitive that she’s kept in the dark, both figuratively and literally, by her government employer, represented by belligerent Secret Service agent, Inspector Curti (Ennio Fantastichini).
Unable to resist a substantial cash offer for her services, Gaia reluctantly accepts her clandestine assignment, which requires that she be blindfolded for her own security. Ushered into a darkened room in an underground government bunker, Gaia is asked to sit (still blindfolded) at a table opposite the subject of her translation – a mysterious “Mr. Wang.”
Inspector Curti then prompts Gaia to elicit from Mr. Wang the reason for his unexpected arrival in Rome. As Curti’s interrogation methods become increasingly hostile, Gaia demands that her blindfold be removed and the lights turned up, only to find that the quietly-spoken ‘Chinese man’ in front of her is, in fact, an alien. And a slimly, tentacled one at that. He’s shackled to a cold metal seat in a stark room under the watchful eye of an armed guard.
Gaia is horrified – first by Mr. Wang’s distinctly alien visage, then, more so, at the shameful manner in which this unique and timid visitor is being treated by her government. Mr. Wang is adamant that he comes in peace on a mission of “cultural exchange,” and it’s not long before the liberal Gaia begins admonishing Curti for his total disregard for human rights, pleading for the parched captive to have a sip of water and to be freed from his shackles. But Curti won’t budge, insisting that Mr. Wang, despite his gentle and courteous manner, is a grave threat to national security.
Things go from bad to worse for the poor Mr. Wang as he endures not only psychological but also physical torture in a prolonged effort to divulge his true agenda on Earth. At one point, Gaia even sneaks off to phone Amnesty International to inform them of the crimes unfolding beneath the Roman streets, and we want desperately for her call to be answered.
It may have been written as an allegory of Earthly foreign politics, but The Arrival of Wang raises interesting UFOlogical questions: Would aliens have human rights? Should they? What would it take for non-human extraterrestrials (or any extraterrestrials, for that matter) to gain our trust? Are all potential alien races deceptive and invasive, as Hollywood so often assumes?
Intelligently scripted and powerfully acted, The Arrival of Wang has a brilliant premise, and one that directors the Manetti brothers (Antonio and Marco) deliver on until a most unwelcome last-minute twist, which, rather than daring to subvert our inherent fear of ‘the Other’, cynically plays to it, imparting to the viewer a message that’s just plain abhorrent. Shame. A Hollywood remake is rumored to be in the works.
Crawlspace (2013)
“In 1966, the Australian and US Governments established Pine Gap, a top secret research facility in the remote Australian outback. 15 hours ago all contact with the facility was lost.” Thus reads the opening blurb for Crawlspace, a low-budget Australian sci-fi horror set at the infamous Pine Gap base, which, in real-life, is a joint US-Australian defence space research installation operated by the US National Security Agency in conjunction with the CIA. It is, by all accounts, one of the most secretive government facilities on Earth. It is also alleged by some to be a testing ground for captured alien technologies.
Crawlspace fully embraces the Pine Gap folklore, pitting an elite black-ops assassination unit against the terrors that lurk 200 feet beneath the surface of what is referred to in the movie as “Australia’s own Area 51.” The black-ops unit has been sent in to kill a number of highly psychic and extremely dangerous human “test subjects” who have escaped from their cells and wrought havoc on the facility.
That’s right, Pine Gap in this movie is concerned less with satellite tracking and communications-monitoring than it is with horrific biomechanical research involving inter-species grafting procedures that stitch-together human and alien brains to create the ultimate psychic warrior in a decades-long East-vs.-West remote viewing war. “What we do here isn’t exactly sanctioned by the government,” says a Doctor Mengele-like scientist. No kidding.
Crawlspace begins with bags of potential, but, within minutes, dumps these bags in one of its many cramped ventilation shafts, where they remain just beyond the reach of all involved in this clumsy and clichéd production.
With its wise-cracking, heavy-heat-packing elite military unit, and its extensive use of night-vision POV shots, Crawlspace wants desperately to be James Cameron’s Aliens. But while Cameron’s movie is an adrenalin shot to the heart, Crawlspace is more like a dose of Valium. Still, for the committed UFO buff, there’s much here to wrap your brain around. It’s worth a watch.
There’s an ever-growing chance of an actual alien invasion taking place in the near future, that’s why scientists are now working on a defense mechanism based on lasers that would cloak our planet’s activity from any unwanted visitors.
A considerable portion of energy emanating from the human race is directed towards the discovery of alien life. Past the enthusiasm of such an accomplishment, there is always the possibility of these intelligent aliens not being so peaceful. Even more, in the case of an alien contact, they could see planet Earth as an extremely valuable place from where to harness resources. After all, we humans are exploiting it, so why shouldn’t they want to do the same?
Fortunately for us, a destructive alien scenario has been pictured by astronomers who also found a solution – cloaking our planet using lasers in case things go the other way around. So how will they do that you might ask? While on the lookout for planets outside of our solar system, astronomers are mainly tracking stars which dim periodically. That perturbation in light indicates that a celestial body is passing in front of it, thus revealing relevant traits about it such as the orbiting time, size, and even how close the planet is to the star.
Although this survey allows only for a few planets to be studied at a given time, it’s an effective way to determine where else could life reside in the universe. Now, if intelligent aliens would use a similar technique when scouting for hospitable planets, they’ll be in for a treat since humans have already developed a way to block all signals.
A project initiated by a team from Columbia University aims at blasting a laser whenever the Earth passes in front of the Sun, thus covering the dip in brightness receive by the Sun and ultimately cloaking us from a hostile alien species. At first, astronomers believed that altering the signal broadcasted by our planet would solve the issue, but they’ve soon reconsidered and found this cloaking scenario more viable. After all, it would only take a 30 megawatts laser blasting into space for 10 hours each year to completely block our planet’s signal whenever it passes in front of the sun. That’s almost the same energy amount collected by the International Space Station’s solar panels in a year, and it is well worth it considering that it could prevent Earth’s total annihilation.
Another possibility would be to use a system of turning lasers that would make us “invisible” on all wavelengths, but that would require approximately 250 megawatts of power. This system may seem like the best choice, but according to scientists, it could also make us more vulnerable to ETs scouting for signs of life because a total cloaking device would only offer limited protection, meaning that indirect signs of our planet can still be intercepted. In theory, this would rise suspicions since our planet will be perceived as a space anomaly.
Another safer way proposed by researchers is the cloaking of atmospheric signals associated with biological activity, such as oxygen and water vapors. This process would only take up to 160 kilowatts of energy and would make Earth look like a dead rock in space, a thing seemingly unwanted by the alien scouts.
“The atmospheric cloaking produces totally self-consistent observations,” said co-author of the study Alex Teachey.“They see a planet, but they think it’s just another dead world floating out in space.”
Whichever system they’ll choose to put in place, it won’t change the fact that ETs may be using technology that exceeds our imagination, thus penetrating through any defense system we build. However, aliens aren’t necessarily bad, and they are not necessarily looking for us, but why not give it a try and cloak the planet since we already have all the necessary means.
“We could build this next week if we really wanted to. It’s totally feasible with current technology,” added Alex Teachey.
There’s another thing though; if we’re trying to hide our planet from hostile alien species, why not assume they’re doing the same? If so, it’s likely they already have a system in place, unlike us who only aspire at one.
The aim of science, as is generally accepted today, is to organize knowledge gleaned from what we observe in nature. We take what we observe, and we structure it by using testable explanations, which thereby help us make future predictions about new things we may eventually learn about our universe. Hence, with regard to our study of nature and the cosmos, a good question that comes to mind from time to time is this one: What criteria would define a subject that science does not seek to address?
When we ask what things science doesn’taim to study in our broader quest for knowledge, should that necessarily mean that these kinds of things, esoteric though they may seem, cannot be “known” or studied at all? This has long been among the questions that philosophers have asked; after all, in the modern sense of the study of things around us, such issues surrounding concepts that fall “beyond” the scope of the physical sciences generally are left out altogether, if not left to the philosophers among us.
One might argue that, when it comes to the study of the unexplained, one way of seeking to understand certain “paranormal” subjects would be to subject them to some degree of logical philosophical thought, particularly in areas where science has either dismissed them (i.e. these aforementioned subjects that science does not address), or where there is not enough physical data that a proper scientific assessment can be rendered.
This brings us to epistemology, which, defined roughly, involves the “theory of knowledge”, or study of how we know what we know (more broadly, it is an assessment of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and the study of limitations on how knowledge pertinent to a particular subject can be acquired). Recently, Michael, a reader and listener of my weekly podcast, wrote to me with a question about epistemology, and how our philosophical theories of knowledge might relate to the study of the unexplained.
Michael writes, and takes us “down the rabbit hole”, thusly:
What I would like to get your opinion on is a matter of epistemology, and how one who is exposed to such a myriad of ideas and thoughts, often times conflicting ones, can come to know the truth. I reject rigid relativism and subjectivism in favor that there is objective truth. It’s quite possible for there to be objective truth and due to our human limitations we simply cannot know or ever be certain (the skeptics position), but one cannot assume that because something is yet to be verified or unverifiable empirically it is untrue. I find the latter to be an irrational position, but therein lies the problem. What method or means can we rely on outside of sensory experience to give us truth?
Without the dogmatism that science holds today, the ancients may have trusted some other means of truth finding that we have either dismissed or lost. You might think this other method would need some verification process like science has with experimentation, but isn’t that just a scientific bias creeping through? True things, especially events, can certainly be unique instances and unrepeatable. What then is to be said of truth dependent on verification and verified by what means? Divorcing empiricism and verification from truth can obviously lead to a number of errors, so it’s unwise to dismiss these methods entirely and in all cases.
What I am proposing is that outside the realm of things which lend themselves to be subject to science, there is truth to be realized and possibly a way to arrive at it. I know you’ve addressed this kind of issue a number of times, but I think it is worth reiterating and revisiting from time to time because it really underpins nearly all conspiracy and paranormal related topics.
Michael’s discussion of epistemology here is esoteric indeed by today’s standards (and especially as it relates to the “popular” study of the unexplained). Deep though it is, his observations, I feel, may bear fruit for those patients enough to pose similar contemplation; they also mirror, in many ways, my own notions and perceptions about certain alleged “paranormal” phenomenon.
This is particularly the case with UFOs, and I feel that this subject, while representative of something that is also a very tangible mystery, has similarly been deemed “outside the area of questions that science seeks to answer”, as physicists like Stephen Hawking might phrase it.
For me, such matters that science will not (or cannot, at present) address likely should enter the realm of philosophy. The problem, however, is that in many cases, the modern scientist views philosophy as being “dead”, and having not kept up with the progress of science, especially since the time Einstein arrived on the scene with his revolutionary theory of general relativity. Therefore, if philosophy is dead in the minds of some scientists, then those things relegated to philosophy are thus unimportant (or “dead”, as it were) as well.
Hey, even Einstein enjoyed reading the philosophy of Kant.
This ongoing debate over which things are “dead” or otherwise unimportant in relation to the schism between science and philosophy is an interesting logical conundrum unto itself, in my view. However, as far as Michael’s line of thought expressed in his question above, in which things resting “outside of science” may still be knowable in some manner, I do believe that part of understanding this problem involves understanding the nature of individual specialization.
To return to Hawking again, the great physicist has often said that serious advances in the sciences are now relegated to specialists in the field, unlike the old days when many “untrained” individuals who proceeded logically could render new discoveries. Here, I would argue instead that the latter is actually still the case as well, although the specialization Hawking refers to allows new kinds of discoveries, as a result of the deep thought, scientific training, and complex systems that are employed. Such things might have been “knowable” much earlier, had the tools and practices that allow for their study today already been in place at an earlier time. This does not mean, however, that all things are “unknowable” without the use of such tools, training, and practice that the modern specialist employs. Indeed, I think the right non-specialist, looking at the right subject, may indeed stumble onto discoveries in the everyday that are scientifically meaningful.
As an interesting parallel, Hawking’s own specialization illustrates, at times, some of his own logical shortcomings, such as in cases where he begins to apply his thoughts and perspectives to other fields of interest beyond his “specialty” in the area of physics. Hawking, for instance, while not an A.I. researcher himself, seems pretty convinced that the creation of artificial intelligence would be a bad thing for humanity.
Elsewhere, his remarks about philosophy itself have generally been quite dismissive (as have his statements pertaining to UFOs, which we’ll return to in a moment). One could argue that Hawking does not possess the required “specialization” to be able to recognize the shortcomings of his own thought processes, as evidenced not only by his “philosophy is dead” remarks, but also by his observations about philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s assessment of language being “the only subject left for philosophy”, as related by Hawking in the final pages of A Brief History of Time. (Personally, I am amazed that there aren’t far more philosophers who have come along and challenged Hawking’s views on Wittgenstein, or A.I., or UFOs, or philosophy in general… but I digress).
I feel that discerning those things which science deems “unknowable” must require a bit more than specialization, and in fact, at times may also require multi-disciplinary efforts. For example, putting on our physicist or astronomy cap, we may look out into space for answers about things like UFOs, but would doing so really help us find any more answers than we have already managed to glean thus far? Furthermore, are there other areas of study that might help us solve the problem too, from “the ground up”, so to speak?
An interesting observation to be made has to do with the attitudes among those studying UFOs — the scientists, and believers alike — which will typically reveal one simple reality: that both “approaches” to study are actually quite dogmatic, and representative of belief-based biases that are built around, or perhaps grow from within, what are obviously social movements.
To put it another way, belief in an “alien” reality underlying UFOs is as much a social movement as modern skepticism and its “I think, therefore it is not!” approach. This is because those of similar mind on a subject will likely gather together, and when allowed to run to their illogical extremes, run the unfortunate risk of producing a very dogmatic, faith-based approach to the study of a given subject. At its worst, this bears promise for a lack of objectivity, and an approach that is generally unscientific, despite any attempts to the contrary.
Philip Klass, widely considered an “arch debunker” of UFOs, and at times even unscientifically so
Thus, a range of new phenomena begin to emerge. Within the skeptic camp, the result has often been a move toward more “debunking” by individuals whose minds are already made up about the subjects they study at the outset of their “investigations”. This, rather famously, led sociologist and skeptic Marcello Truzzi to leave the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, now known as CSI) shortly after it was formed in 1976, due to the uncompromising stances of his fellow members. On the other side of the fence, from within the ranks of the “believer” camp, we find more and more reformed UFO advocates and “born again skeptics”, as I like to call them, who (like myself) have had to accept a vast change in our attitudes and perception about so-called UFO research, after spending many years of (frustrating) examination of data that, often times, is spurious at best.
That’s not to say that either side — belief (or advocacy, as some may prefer), or skepticism — is the way to absolute truth. I actually prefer a more agnostic, middle-of-the-road stance, in an effort not to be dismissive of good evidence that may be put forth by either position. However, straying too far in one direction or the other often leads to bias, just as well.
Thus, while making a good case for what a UFO is (or is not) remains difficult, we could certainly employ science of sociology to make a strong case that belief systems can, and have influenced (perhaps negatively) the serious attempts at applying science to certain subjects. In this case, the subject would be UFOs, and although this observation is fundamental, it is my belief that it is important, on a much broader scale, and not just in terms of sociological studies, but in applying a bit of philosophical logic to the breakdown between people’s thoughts and attitudes. In other words, in the epistemological sense that Michael had suggested earlier, we’re asking “how we know what we think we know.”
This is the great role of philosophy: while some will continue to proclaim that it is a “dead” practice, its proponents and practitioners view it as an important system of “checks and balances”, that if not providing new discoveries itself, might at least help guide future scientific inquiry in positive ways.
Indeed, perhaps our predicament with things “outside” science has more to do with understanding why those things are deemed unknowable through science; and asking “why” is the fundamental job of the philosopher.
Admitting you’re active in the field of UFO research, in all likelihood, will not serve you well as a pickup line when visiting a bar. After all, anytime a subject like alien abduction lands on the table during a conversation with someone you’re just getting to know, you’re bound to get a few strange looks… and if you’re lucky, you might even get a few strange stories, also.
To put it simply, I got lucky last night. But before I have to drag your mind back out of the gutter, I should make it clear what I mean: I was lucky enough to be able to share a conversation with someone who, rather than getting squeamish when the conversation drifted to the subject of alien abduction, responded by calmly saying that, “oh yeah, well that happened to a family member of mine.” The details that followed were incredibly interesting… and perhaps even a bit unsettling.
The conversation took place during a break between sets at a pub I visit once a week near the North Carolina/Georgia border, where my acoustic group is the house band on Wednesday evenings. My friend Amy had stopped in to watch us play, and since she was waiting for a few of her friends to arrive, I started chatting with her at the bar after she came over and told me “she had seen a wolf” on her way into town earlier that evening.
“A wolf,” I said, admitting a bit of skepticism. “Are you sure that wasn’t a coyote?”
She argued that coyotes she had seen were always more scrawny and physically smaller, and soon, a couple of the locals had chimed in with information about wildlife programs where Timber Wolves had been reintroduced in certain areas throughout the region. From this point, the conversation went on to sightings of weird or unusual animals, and before long, a full-on discussion of the unexplained had been initiated. When I admitted my primary area of interest dealt with UFOs, Amy told me something I had hardly expected.
“Well, I believe there’s evidence for that sort of thing. My dad’s mother actually said she was abducted by a UFO back in the 1970s.”
“Oh really?” I replied with genuine interest, though I’ve grown accustomed to people telling these kinds of stories by now.
“Yeah, but they say she’s a little crazy. And the weird thing about it was that she said that when they took her on board, they did all these tests on her… but they weren’t aliens or anything,” Amy told me, grasping for words a bit. “She said they were people on board that thing.”
“Wait, you said people? You meanhumans?”
“That’s right,” Amy said. “She lives in Florida now, but if she’s ever in town, I’ll try and bring her by to speak to you.”
“I may just want to speak to her before then, if it could be arranged!” I told her. While there are a plethora of interesting reports of alleged alien abduction, the more seldom reports where people have claimed that there is a human connection to the entire UFO mystery have always intrigued me. Such reports are often connected with stories of underground bases, secret military projects, and a number of other conspiracy theories; but also of interest are studies that have emerged over the years which seem to suggest altered states of consciousness might be capable of inducing strong hallucinatory experiences where an individual might misinterpret things about their environment (such as with the research of Dr. Rick Strassman, outlined in his bookDMT: The Spirit Molecule). Could it be even a remote possibility that some accounts of “alien abduction” involve something far more terrestrial going on, as perceived by abductees who filter their experience through the distortions some kind of altered state might present? Furthermore, what could be the reason for such an altered state (which could lend itself to the reasons for “dreamlike” experiences reported by many abductees)? Is there a chance they could be the result of some variety of hallucinagens that victims of abduction scenarios might be introduced to in some way?
While this is all mere speculation (and stemming from a conversation this author had with a friend at the pub), it does remind me of the countless other experiences reported by abductees that seem to bear these sorts of characteristics. What could be the real story behind the abduction phenomenon, and might certain aspects of the mystery remain far closer to home than most of us are willing to accept or realize otherwise?
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New Mysteries Emerge from Undeneath Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Surface
New Mysteries Emerge from Undeneath Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Surface
New images sent back from dwarf planet Ceres reveal a detailed perspective of the bright white spots considered by many to be an extraterrestrial city.
To recap on this topic, Ceres is a dwarf planet located between Mars and Jupiter that was subject to heated debate last year, when scientists around the world tried to determine what formed the mysterious white dots seen on the planetary surface. With the recent photos beamed back by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, researchers are closer than ever to solving this puzzle.
The pictures revealed only recently at the 47th annual Lunar Planetary Science Conference in Texas, were captured from a distance of 385 kilometers (240 miles) above the Occator Crater, a 4 kilometers-deep hole on the planet’s surface stretching across 92 kilometers of rocky terrain.
The novelty of those pictures is given by the relatively low altitude from where the probe is hovering above the dwarf planet. Planetary scientist Ralf Jaumann explained the following:
“Before Dawn began its intensive observations of Ceres last year, Occator Crater looked to be one large bright spot. Now, with the latest close views, we can see complex features that provide new mysteries to investigate. The intricate geometry of the crater interior suggests geologic activity in the recent past, but we will need to complete detailed geologic mapping of the crater in order to test hypotheses for its formation.”
The team of researchers has also made public a colour map of Ceres’ surface which contains the various materials from which the dwarf planet is made of and a close analysis of craters around it. This data is vital for determining what lies below the Ceres’ crust.
Another surprise from Ceres comes from the Oxo Crater where traces of water were spotted through the infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR). It appears that the bright spots are not the only controversial subject, as numerous mysteries are still being found by the orbiting probe.
A new research paper will soon be released with some of the mysterious discoveries on the dwarf planet. The new data will encompass further details into the mystery regions of the planet such as the Occator Crater, but will also focus on new discoveries such as the liquid water recently observed.
Although astronomers debunked the white bright dots as being salt deposits, it has been highlighted that they constantly change in shape and size, and no one seems to know the reason for the moment.
“We’re excited to unveil these beautiful new images, especially Occator, which illustrates the complexity of the processes shaping Ceres’ surface,” said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the mission. “Now that we can see Ceres’ enigmatic bright spots, surface minerals, and morphology in high resolution, we’re busy working to figure out what processes shaped this unique dwarf planet.”
The latest high-resolution map of Occator Crater clearly indicates there’s no alien city found on the surface of the planet, but since there’s a clear indicator of geologic activity underneath the dwarf planet, along with liquid water and other anomalies, the possibility of an underground ecosystem arises.
Furthermore, there are some sky watchers and UFO analysts who firmly believe there are signs of intelligent life on Ceres. Although NASA has unveiled a close-up of the bright spots from Occator Crater, the bizarre mountain “Ahuna Mons” hasn’t been brought into discussion yet. Could this prove that the renowned space agency has found something suspicious there and refuses to reveal it to the public until a proper investigation (or alteration) has been done?
Whatever the case, dwarf planet Ceres will remain as enigmatic as last year and will provide debatable content for both the scientific community and UFO enthusiasts. Until NASA reveals more pictures, we can only speculate on what could reside underneath Ceres’ crust, but I have a feeling that we’re not being told everything.
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C.
In 1911, during the excavation of the graves of Naqada, north of Egypt, archaeologists came across what appeared to be a necklace made of iron inlaid with gold and precious stones, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
More than a century later, a study conducted by Egyptologist Thilo Rehren of the University of Hamad bin Khalifa showed that the precious ancient treasure, currently in possession of the Petrie Museum in London, is actually made of meteoric iron. X-ray analysis determined that the necklace was made from thin sheets of iron from a meteorite, molded with a hammer and rolled in the form of beads.
Researchers discovered that the nickel content of this original metal was extremely high, indicating that it originated from a meteorite, and not from Earth minerals as first believed. During the study, scientists identified a distinctive crystalline structure called a Widmanstätten pattern. Scientists say that this structure can only be found in iron meteorites that cooled extremely slow inside their asteroids during the formation of our solar system.
Professor Thilo Rehren, lead author of the Journal of Archaeological Science study said: „The beads were created by ‘multiple cycles of hammering’ and not by the traditional carving or drilling stone techniques that were used on other beads found in the same tomb.“
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C., almost two thousand years before the iron casting technique was developed, proving one more time that the Ancient Egyptian civilization was extremely advanced having developed techniques that were reinvented by ‘modern’ society thousands of years later.
Scientists from the University College London’s Petrie Museum conducted several tests of beads and necklaces, pictured in the image. They used gamma ray scans to demonstrate that the beads, which were originally believed to be made from simple iron, were in fact created using fragments of meteorites thousands of years ago
In an interview with Culture24, Professor Rehren said: ‘The really exciting outcome of this research is that we were for the first time able to demonstrate conclusively that there are typical trace elements such as cobalt and germanium present in these beads, at levels that only occur in meteoritic iron.’
The study allowed researchers to understand for the first time ever, the internal structure of the beads revealing how they were created, showing an extremely advanced knowledge and skill of metal work.
A gift from the ‘Gods’
‘The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,’ said Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper on the discovery.
‘Something that falls from the sky is going to be considered as a gift from the gods.’
Dr. Tyldesley added: ‘Today, we see iron first and foremost as a practical, rather dull metal. To the ancient Egyptians, however, it was a rare and beautiful material which, as it fell from the sky, surely had some magical/religious properties.
Alien Hunters Want NASA To Explain This ‘Formation Of UFOs’ The picture was captured during a mission to the International Space Station.
Alien Hunters Want NASA To Explain This ‘Formation Of UFOs’
The picture was captured during a mission to the International Space Station.
Alien hunters are demanding an explanation from NASA over the “formation of UFOs” seen in an image posted by the space agency.
The photograph has sparked fresh debate despited being published in 2001.
Conspiracy theorists believe this picture, captured during the STS 100 Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission to the International Space Station, shows a “formation of UFOs.”
NASACaptured by STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission
In 2013, alien enthusiasts including YouTuber, UFOvni2012, posted videos highlighting aspects of the photograph they wanted NASA to explain.
At the heart of their request are small silver-like dots seen in the following picture.
UFOVNI2012/YOUTUBE
Now UFO forums including The Black Vault, have reignited a conversation about the so-called “sighting,” speculating on what that objects might be.
They also draw attention to other “anomalies” in the picture that could be satellites or space debris, latest-ufo-sightings reports.
Sceptics have suggested that the “unidentified objects” could be the result of multiple photos being placed on top of each other.
However, The Black Vault group believe that this technique would make “additional anomalies appear as several objects and not several single objects,” UFO sightings reports.
The world of dreams is a mystery to all. We dream every night when we go to sleep, though sometimes we remember our dreams and sometimes we do not. It can be a lot of fun to relay your dreams to friends and coworkers the next day, but often their significance is only perceptible to yourself and you end up boring your audience with a long, drawn-out recall of the previous night’s adventures.
Have you ever woken up from a dream so real that you were overcome with whatever emotion had been triggered in the dream, such as sadness, anger, bliss, or excitement? How about waking up with a huge sigh of relief that it was only a dream? Dreams can seem so real to our minds that our bodies actually respond as if they were.
Despite all our years of studying and trying to interpret dreams, the age-old question remains, what is the significance of dreams and do they actually mean anything in relation to waking life? Many people dismiss dreams as random thoughts formulated from the subconscious mind, but what about the concept of precognitive dreams — dreams about events or experiences that haven’t yet occurred, but end up taking place at a later point in reality? The very notion goes against what we know to be true of time and relativity; if time is linear, then precognitive dreams simply cannot be possible.
Is It Possible To Accurately Dream About The Future?
Dr. Stanley Krippner, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University, has devoted his life to the research and experimentation of parapsychology, precognitive dreaming, and shamanism for the past forty years. He claims that this phenomenon of precognitive dreaming is not only possible, but his research can back it up. In an interview with Geraldine Cremine of Vice Motherboard, Krippner explained one of his most significant laboratory studies on precognitive dreaming:
Each night, the subject dreamer would go through an ordinary night of dreaming, with an intent to dream about an experience he would have the following morning. The dreamer was woken 4-5 times throughout the night to relay his dreams to an experimenter. The following mornings, experimenters randomly selected an experience from a number of prearranged options, and the dreamer was subjected to that experience. Dr. Krippner said there was no way for the participants to know what experience they would encounter before it was selected and administered.
The following is a specific example of a dreamer who, one night, had several dreams about birds in various different settings and circumstances. The following morning, the dreamer was exposed to one of the experiences selected at random. “The experience was to have him sit with earphones on,” Dr. Krippner said. “And what was played? Bird calls. He was also played a video. And what was played? Pictures of birds.” After the experiment, which lasted 8 days, was over, outside judges who were not a part of the original experiment were called in to determine the dreams of the dreamers versus the experiences they were subjected to upon waking. For each participant, the judges were able to find at least one match between a dream and the random experience on most nights of the experiment.
Even if we were to accept — at least for argument’s sake — that this phenomenon of precognitive dreaming is possible, we are still left wanting an explanation. And unfortunately, we simply don’t have one yet.
What we do know is that the unconscious mind is capable of having deep revelations during the rapid eve movement (REM) state of sleep, aka: the dream state. One example of such a revelation occurred in 1865, when chemist Frederich August Kekulé was struggling to understand how atoms in the benzene molecule were arranged. After wrestling with the problem for some time, he fell asleep and dreamt about a snake biting its own tail. Through this image, he conceived the benzene ring, revolutionizing organic chemistry in the process. But people come to much more mundane understandings during sleep all the time, as I’m sure you yourself have on one or more occasions, perhaps explaining where the phrase, I’ll sleep on it comes from.
Could Quantum Physics Be The Answer?
Quantum physics offers one theory for precognitive dreams, suggesting that during the uninhibited state of REM, the brain may be capable of identifying some kind of a signal that we aren’t aware of in our conscious state. These signals could assist with awareness of the future. This idea links to theories of quantum entanglement and the idea that two separate particles or points in time can interact as if connected to one another despite being spatially separated.
Dr. Krippner himself elaborated on how quantum physics could potentially explain precognitive dreaming. “Quantum events happen on a different time scale to what most people live and experience in the West,” he explained. “We have this understanding of time that is: ‘past, present, future.’ But quantum physics gives you a different concept of time.” He says that these same concepts are found throughout the many indigenous cultures he studied during his research into precognitive dreaming and shamanism:
Many indigenous people see time going in a circle; it goes around and around and it’s a spiral. “Then you also have the indigenous North American point of view that people lived in a ‘long body’; they do not end where their skin ends. A person’s long body projects and involves other people and other parts of nature, so everything is happening all at once. For them it’s no surprise that you can dream about the future.
Precognitive & Lucid Dreams
Precognitive dreams are fairly common phenomena and many people have reported experiencing them, including some famous people throughout history, like Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain. While researching this topic I also came across some interesting information on lucid precognitive dreams – the notion that you could actually intend to see into the future by being conscious in your dream and asking questions such as: What are Saturday’s winning lottery numbers?; What will be the best performing stock tomorrow? and so on… Trying this out for yourself could help prove that it works, and would be a fun experiment at the very least.
Dreams are a mystical experience to all who have them, and I think it’s safe to say that few people aren’t at least curious about their nightly adventures. Have you had any dreams you would consider precognitive? Please share with us in the comments below!
What’s happening at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi? Specifically, why are so many UFOs being reported there? This week, reports of a fish-shaped UFO over the airport prompted calls to the government security force responsible for the facility to deal with it. What was it and why is this airport attracting so many UFOs?
According to Indian media, a member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) working in an airport watchtower issued an alarm on March 30th after seeing an unidentified flying object over the apron area where airplanes are parked for boarding and unloading.
It looked like a dark-colored balloon floating above the apron area.
Specifically, a fish-shaped object. CISF is required to notify both the Indian Air Force and National Security Guards before taking action against UFOs. A so-called “quick-response” team was dispatched to “shoot down” the fish-shaped UFO, but it was gone by the time they arrived and nothing more appeared on air traffic control radar over that area or adjoining aprons.
Shoot it down? Is security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport a little jumpy? Well, CIFS Director General Surender Singh announced at the organization’s last big meeting that 62 UFO sightings were reported at the airport in a four month period. Most airports are still on alert because of the Brussels bombings and the Indian media said that there were a number of recent hoax reports at the airport. However, Indian media also points out that Delhi police have been authorized since January to …
… shoot down any unacknowledged flying device in the capital’s sky, especially in and around the airport, be they paragliders, drones, hot air balloons or other machines.
Not the “fish-shaped” UFO seen over the New Delhi airport
Yes, it was a “fish-shaped” floating object. That sounds like it might be a balloon, except a balloon would show up on radar, wouldn’t it? Why does this particular airport have so many unresolved UFO reports? Does New Delhi really lead the world in paragliders, drones, hot air balloons or other hard-but-not-impossible-to-identify flying objects? Why is it so difficult for this particular airport to patrol its perimeter when so many other busy airports in heavily populated metropolitan areas seem to be able to do it effectively and without shooting down UFOs?
Or is something else happening at the Indira Gandhi International Airport? Keep watching.
In a December 2013 article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Arnold’s Flying Saucers: Were They Saucers at All? Micah Hanks wrote: “Despite the popularity this subject would garner in those golden years after the War, perhaps there is no early UFO incident that has proven to be quite as influential as that of Kenneth Arnold, a civilian pilot who spotted an entire fleet of strange aircraft while flying over Washington state in June of 1947. The strange craft that Arnold observed would spark a flame that grew like wildfire, eventually forming the modern UFO phenomenon, and at the center of it all was the curious staple that became known as the flying saucer.”
Arnold’s encounter occurred on June 24, 1947, around twenty to twenty-five miles from Mt. Rainier, in the Cascade Mountains. Precisely what Arnold saw is something that Ufologists have pondered on for decades. They will likely continue to do so for decades, too. The Arnold affair has become such a staple part of the UFO controversy that, for many, it’s right up there with the Roswell case. However, I’m not here, today, to discuss the merits of the case. Rather, I’m going to share with you a bit of notable data that might provide corroboration for Arnold and his experience.
The story revolves around the testimony of a man named Fred Johnson. He was a prospector who may have seen the very same objects encountered by Arnold. Both military intelligence and the FBI took an interest in what Johnson had to say. It should be noted that the FBI has chosen to black-out Johnson’s name on its paperwork; however, that the military has not means we know who the man was.
“Fred Johnson reported without consulting any records that on June 24, 1947, while prospecting at a point in the Cascade Mountains approximately five thousand feet from sea level, during the afternoon he noticed a reflection, looked up, and saw a disc proceeding in a southeasterly direction. Immediately upon sighting this object he placed his telescope to his eye and observed the disc for approximately forty-five to sixty seconds.”
We’re then told that Johnson “…remarked that it is possible for him to pick up an object at a distance of ten miles with his telescope. At the time the disc was sighted by Mr. Johnson it was banking in the sun, and he observed five or six similar objects but only concentrated on one. He related that they did not fly in any particular formation and that he would estimate their height to be about one thousand feet from where he was standing. He said the object was about thirty feet in diameter and appeared to have a tail. It made no noise.
“According to Johnson he remained in the vicinity of the Cascades for several days and then returned to Portland and noted an article in the local paper which stated in effect that a man in Boise, Idaho, had sighted a similar object but that authorities had disclaimed any knowledge of such an object. He said he communicated with the Army for the sole purpose of attempting to add credence to the story furnished by the man in Boise.”
And, finally, we have this: “Johnson also related that on the occasion of his sighting the objects on June 24, 1947 he had in his possession a combination compass and watch. He noted particularly that immediately before he sighted the disc the compass acted very peculiar, the hand waving from one side to the other, but that this condition corrected itself immediately after the discs had passed out of sight. Informant appeared to be a very reliable individual who advised that he had been a prospector in the states of Montana, Washington and Oregon for the past forty years.”
Scientists have devised a method to “cloak,” or hide, the Earth from potentially hostile advanced alien civilizations. According to scientists, we could cloak or hide the Earth from hostile alien planet hunters seeking potentially habitable planets by firing laser beams into outer space to disrupt efforts by extraterrestrial astronomers to detect signals that betray our planet’s presence as it orbits the Sun in the habitable zone.
The proposal by Professor David Kipping and and his graduate student Alex Teachey, two astronomers at Columbia University in New York, comes in response to fears that just as astronomers on Earth are scanning the skies in search of potentially habitable exoplanets, technologically advanced alien civilizations located near distant stars may also be searching our solar system for potentially habitable planets.
Prominent scientists, such as the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, have voiced concern about the potential dangers of our world being discovered by more advanced alien civilizations. A hostile, advanced extraterrestrial civilization that discovers us could decide to invade and take over our world. Even if an alien civilization that discovers our world “comes in peace,” first contact could be very risky because they could introduce deadly diseases that humans on Earth have no defenses against and thus expose humanity to the risk of extinction.
According to Kipping and Teachey, we could make our world invisible and effectively prevent it from being detected by advanced and possibly hostile alien races searching for potentially habitable planets by beaming a laser into space during the periods that Earth is transiting or passing in front of the Sun.
The laser would hide our planet from alien astronomers by disguising the dimming of the Sun’s light — as seen from the perspective of the observing civilization — each time Earth passes in front of the Sun. Beaming a laser with a sufficient amount of power into space could thus render Earth invisible to potential alien invaders.
The “cloaking” concept being proposed by scientists is based on the principle underlying the transit method that human astronomers have used successfully to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars. The method involves detecting dips in the brightness of the parent star as the orbiting planet passes in front of it.
Analysis of the patterns of dips or dimming of a distant star could give astronomers information about characteristics, such as size and density, of the celestial body passing in front of the star.
Aliens from distant civilizations could be searching our solar system for signs of life [Image via Shutterstock]
“To make it look like the planet is not there at all, you’ve got to get rid of that dip. You’ve got to fill in the missing starlight.”
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has used the transit method to detect hundreds of planets orbiting other distant stars in our galaxy. The scientists reasoned that alien astronomers observing our solar system from a distant star in our galaxy would likely use the same method to search for potentially habitable exoplanets.
According to Kipping and Teachey, blasting laser beams into space at the time Earth is passing in front of the Sun compensates for dips in the brightness of the Sun when the Earth passes in front of it. Thus, an alien planet hunter measuring changes in solar brightness would not notice any dips.
The researchers also noted that the concept is implementable because not much energy is needed to “cloak” our planet. Dips or dimming of the Sun’s light could be masked by emitting 30 MW laser continuously for 10 hours once a year at the time the Earth is passing in front of the Sun.
Alien invasion fleet hovers over Earth city. [Image via Shutterstock]Kipping explained that he thought of the idea after reports about the star KIC 8462852 that was found in 2015 to exhibit an anomalous dimming pattern which some speculated could be due to an “alien megastructure” orbiting the star.
The reports inspired Kipping to consider how an advanced civilization could deliberately alter transit signals it sends out to space to deceive alien astronomers attempting to observe the planet from a distant star.
“There is an ongoing debate as to whether we should advertise ourselves or hide from advanced civilizations potentially living on planets elsewhere in the Galaxy,” Kipping said. “Our work offers humanity a choice, at least for transit events, and we should think about what we want to do.”
The researchers noted there are other ways that an intelligent civilization could hide its world from alien observers. Instead of wiping out the transit signals of its planet entirely, a civilization could distort it. The options include deliberately erasing the signals of life that the planet sends out to space.
For instance, we could emit a laser with a power of only 160 KW into space to cloak atmospheric signatures — such as oxygen — that alien astrobiologists could interpret as signalling presence of biological life on Earth.
Kipping and Teachey emphasized that their proposed “cloaking” technique is so simple that “we could build it this next week if we wanted to.”
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