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...
03-05-2016
UFO Encounter in 1966: What Happened At Beverly USA?
UFO Encounter in 1966: What Happened At Beverly USA?
To have an encounter with an alien is something one will never forget for the rest of his life. The victims of this crucial and rampant phenomenon will have a unique outlook on their everyday lives. It plants on a memory deep down that it cannot be erased in any way possible. This puzzling case took place in Beverly, Massachusetts on April 22, 1966, and involves nine witnesses. This dramatic encounter is viewed as being the most persuasive arguments for the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The occurrence began to appear at 9:00 p.m. when Nancy Modugno was laying in bed. Later on, she noticed a blinking light through her window. At forty feet away, an unidentified object of an automobile size brightly flashed in colors green, blue, white, and red lights. As it moved in low altitude; the football-shaped spacecraft has a whizzing and ricocheting sound. The object descended behind the trees behind Beverly High School.
She was terrified and told her father. Later on, the two friends of her mother saw the flashing lights in the field. Together with Claire, her mother, three of them walked down to the hill and saw something unusual. Three objects were hovering in the sky, circling and halting as if they were playing. The mysterious unknown objects were oval-shaped that has bright flashing lights. According to them, the object appeared larger as it drew closer. Since the colors were right, it became visible to other resident making the police officers to see and investigate the incident. Initially, Officers Mahan and Bossie asked the location of the airplane, but when it drew closer to them, they were shaking.
It had three lights – green, red, and blue without noise. Just as the policemen got out of the vehicle, the disc passed over the school and started to move slowly. Before it disappeared behind buildings, the speed accelerated.
EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIA'S SECRET UFO FILES RELEASED TODAY
EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIA'S SECRET UFO FILES RELEASED TODAY
It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO.
Documents that have just become available under the 30-year rule at the National Archives of Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were placed on the second highest level of alert to determine the cause of unidentified radar contacts seen on screens at Mascot.
The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give details of other unexplained sightings, some of which are supported by witness statements to police.
In the Sydney alert, the papers stamped ''restricted'' tell how operation ''Close Encounter'' was launched by No.3 Control and Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle on June 30, 1983, after the phenomenon was first noticed earlier in the month.
Senior air controllers at Mascot said the contacts were mostly located between 70 and 150 nautical miles north of Sydney at ''alleged speeds of 1100-6500 km/h that suggested high altitude''.
The papers state that no scramble was to occur in the round-the-clock operation unless confirmation of any reported tracks was made on the radar screens at RAAF Williamtown or any radar other than Sydney.
At the same time, three senior air defence controllers were dispatched to Sydney to investigate and plot every contact and ''control interceptors against these contacts if a reasonable chance of interception presented itself''. But then one of the defence controllers, a squadron leader, asked whether a comparison had been made of the contacts on the screens of Mascot's Area Approach Radar Centre and those in a ''workshop across the corridor''. Soon after, tests showed that the ''unidentified objects reported by Sydney were generated entirely by radar interference known colloquially as 'running rabbits' ''.
Squadron leader K. Keenan, in his six-page report, said operation Close Encounter cost 66½ days of overtime, 1000 kilometres was travelled by a staff car and a C130 Hercules transport aircraft ''may have been diverted to Sydney airport'' to deliver one of the defence controllers.
He wrote: ''The lines of communication, extending as they did across the width of an entire corridor, seem to have been insufficient for the purpose.''
He added rather dryly: ''Fortunately there was no temptation to launch aircraft and add to the fuel bill occasioned by use of the RAAF Datsun.'' A cautiously worded statement was released as a result ''in a manner that would not embarrass departmental personnel'' which blamed ''random atmospheric conditions''. Other reports in the X Files give details of an ''unidentified physical feature'' of circles on Milo Station at Adavale, Queensland, in 1982. The file refers to photographs that apparently were taken, but they were not among the papers.
Constable Geoffrey Russell, from the local police station, visited the site and wrote a report for RAAF Base Amberley near Ipswich. The officer saw depressions in the ground and thought they were caused by a motorcyclist doing donuts but then dismissed the idea.
He wrote: ''I strongly feel this [is] no hoax even though I do not know the cause of this 'feature'.''
He described a large circle of 2330mm in diameter with one inner circle of 2010mm which were 160mm in width and about 15-20 mm deep. The soil around the outer circle appeared to have been ''blown away'', he said.
Elsewhere in Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe phoned Imbil police at 5.30am in July 1983 to report seeing a strange object in the sky to the north of the town. The papers state that a Sergeant Waterson then went to his back verandah and saw ''a large white light with several flashing lights around it'' which did not appear to be a normal aircraft.
A similar sighting was made by Constable R. Keys from a separate position. He was also of the opinion that it wasn't a normal aircraft.
Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw a bright red glow gradually change to a white light which then started to move slowly east. Through binoculars, ''the light was disc shaped with a very bright light around the perimeter of the disc with two flashing lights in the front and one to the side'', he said.
AUTRALIA UFO FILES
The only photographs in the X Files were of unusual lights over Bendigo, witnessed by hundreds in May 1983. An interim report by the RAAF stated that Mike Evans, a 17-year-old disc jockey with the Bendigo radio station 3BO, received calls from listeners, then saw the lights himself and took photos.
One anonymous caller to the RAAF said the lights were caused by a rock group experimenting with laser lighting. The report said they were probably caused by train headlights or lasers or from planets or stars. There had been unusual weather atmospherics on the night.
Zoe¨ D'Arcy, director of digital and online access at the National Archives, said: ''Where you and I might think UFO - a spaceship - the RAAF and other agencies were probably wondering if there was a security threat.
''Most of the files you read and you think that most probably was a meteorite, but there are ones that you read and you think - well, what could that have been?''
I can't explain that from my knowledge ( via smh.com.au ).
''So what was it that these people have experienced? It has that open-ended question to it that I find really intriguing.''
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Researcher Discovers Huge Structures on the Surface of Venus
Researcher Discovers Huge Structures on the Surface of Venus
After NASA made public thousands of images showing the surface of Venus, it didn’t take long for a vigilant UFO hunter to spot the anomalies lying on the surface of the planet that’s second to the Sun.
Although some would expect Venus to be an inhabitable place, the presumed artificial structures discovered there may change the way we perceive things from now on.
YouTube user and UFO hunter mundodesconocito uploaded a video (below) revealing strange structures that he claims to be colossal alien cities.
His claims are based on a thorough analysis of the photos published by NASA from the Venusian mission of their Magellan probe that operated between the 80s and 90s, providing invaluable images of the surface.
To highlight the formations that he presumes to be of artificial nature, the man made 3d models of them to furtherly increase the visual experience, and for others to realize that they’re not volcanos, nor impact craters left by asteroids.
“The Magellan probe sent to Venus that operated in the late 80s and 90s, collected an enormous amount of images that have finally been published by NASA in which huge cities, artificial structures and all kinds of elements that seem to resemble constructions… by some kind of alien race that inhabited or colonized the second planet in our solar system,” the man wrote.
“In the following video, we show those buildings that we have found and their interpretation in three dimensions if them.”
Could these structures be artificial after all, or is there a more rational explanation for all these formations? To understand if he is correct, we’ll have to take a closer look at this planet.
Venus is the second planet to the Sun. It’s similar in structure and size to Earth, and its dense atmosphere encapsulates heat in a runaway greenhouse effect.
The permanent layer of clouds is what keeps the heat, resulting in surface temperatures of 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 Celsius,) hot enough to melt lead, making it the hottest planet in the Solar System.
The Venusian surface is comprised mostly of volcanos and mountains, with the tallest mount range rising up to 7 miles (11 kilometers,) above the planet’s elevation. It has a retrograde rotation, spinning backwards when compared to the other planets, meaning that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
Oddly enough, because of its slow spin, a day-night cycle on Venus equals to 117 days spent on the Earth, making a day on Venus last longer than an entire year.
It takes 225 Earth days to complete a full orbit around the Sun, and 234 Earth days until a full day cycle is complete.
At this point, it may sound as if there’s no chance for Venus to host alien life, but there’s more to it than it meets the eye.
The Venus Express sent by the European Space Agency studied Venus from 2006 until the end of 2014 when it ran out of fuel.
At that point, the probe descended towards the North Pole of the planet where it encountered an average temperature of -157 degrees Celsius (-250 Fahrenheit,) that’s colder than anywhere on Earth.
These recent observations reveal the planet’s atmosphere is much more intriguing than first anticipated.
About 80% of the Venusian surface is covered by smooth, volcanic plains, but the absence of evidence of lava flow accompanying any of the visible caldera remains an enigma.
Other studies have suggested that billions of years ago Venus’s atmosphere was much more like Earth’s, and there were substantial amounts of liquid water on the surface.
While there’s no doubt that conditions on the surface are too hostile for life, there is speculation on the possibility of lifeforms existing somewhere in the upper cloud layers of Venus, 31 miles (51 kilometers) up from the surface, where the temperature ranges between 30 and 80 degrees Celsius.
So, could the assumptions of Mundodesconocito be viable after all? Are there indeed artificial structures on the surface of Venus, the closest planet to Earth?
Considering the novel findings of ESA’s Express probe, where freezing temperatures exist on a hellish planet such as Venus, there could be other surprisingly aspects waiting to be discovered.
The planet has plenty of odd elements that exceed our understanding for the time being, meaning that there’s still plenty to learn about the rocky, cloud-encapsulated world of Venus.
There’s a slim chance for those structures to have an artificial nature, and NASA wouldn’t probably reveal an entire alien city so close to the Earth if it were really there.
However, there’s plenty of room left for speculation, so better filter the information and form your own opinions. The truth is somewhere out there.
The map of Venus used by researchers can be found here.
But what a sight and the plane did not even notice! Friends ufologists, who see this video, cuts through a cloud and the air passage of the line to be noted.
But how can they have such a quiet technology? Friends are really fascinated by this technology, as if all of a sudden we are in an airliner and decide to accelerate the quantum speed.
My question is fairly obvious, you can never hope to have these technologies? Clearly, if the spacecraft can afford to cut in this way a cloud, it probably means consists partly of the same material. In my previous videos and studies it seems that “they” have to do directly with the Earth’s climate.
It almost seems that they are able to manipulate it. I believe that the spacecraft that is evident in the video is a kind of standard spacecraft, for us as a standard air line. If you notice that it is characterized by all that we imagine when we think of “them.”
This is what I want to say that it is structurally perfect in its components. In the past we have seen how these phenomena, but never so relevant. When my “friends” have exposed me this video, I was shocked and at the same time fascinated.
If “they” have this technology so sophisticated, how can we detect with the naked eye? or even less with our rudimentary radar? Well time to time, sooner or later humans will be able to match these technologies, but when they do, “they” will be even more evolved. Friends we must seek the truths that we face every day, we must think of it as “their”, just so one day we can fully understand their vital essence.
For my part, my mission is this, to know the truth! I really have to close because there is a big storm is coming, outside, enjoy yours.
DNA Analysis Of The Paracas Skulls Proves That We Are Not Alone
DNA Analysis Of The Paracas Skulls Proves That We Are Not Alone
DNA Analysis of the famous Paracas Skulls from Peru has proven that they are not human.
The skulls were found by Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the barren landscape of the desert peninsula of Paracas, on Peru’s southern coast.
Researchers believe that the skulls are significantly different from any known to man and could only be the result of interbreeding between alien species and humans.
There have always been suggestions that alien speciesinfluenced the ancient civilizations, such as those in south America or the Pharaohs of Egypt.
The Paracas skulls are considered to belong to a hybrid race of super-humans known as the Nephilim. The Bible refers to ‘Fallen Angels’ and the birth of the ‘Nephilim’ and their descendants who became immortal.
Tello discovered a massive and complex graveyard containing tombs, buried under the sand and rocks of the desert in 1928.
In these tombs Tello found some of the most controversial human(?) remains in history. The bodies had the largest elongated skulls in the world and have since been called the Paracas skulls. Tello found a total of more than 300 skulls and they have been dated at around 3,000 years old. A recent DNA analysis performed on some of these skulls has presented amazing results that could challenge the current perspective of the human evolutionary tree.
Several other cultures have practiced skull elongation or deformation but the techniques they used produced different results. Certain South American tribes used to bind infants’ skulls in order to change their shape. Binding the head between pieces of wood modified the appearance of skulls by applying constant pressure over a long period of time. This type of cranial deformation changed the shape but it did not alter the size, weight or cranial volume; these are all standard characteristics of a regular human skull.
The Paracas skulls are different however. Since their craniums are 25% larger and 60% heavier than regular human skulls, researchers strongly believe that they couldn’t have been modified through binding. They are also structurally different and only have one parietal plate as opposed to the two normally found in human skulls. These differences have deepened the decade-old mystery around the Paracas skulls and researchers haven’t been able to explain their origins.The director of the Paracas History Museum has sent samples from 5 skulls to undergo genetic testing. The samples consisted of hair, skin, teeth and fragments of skull bones. The genetic laboratory was not informed about the samples’ origins in order to avoid biased or influenced results. The results were fascinating.
The mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) presented mutations unknown to any man, primate or any other animal. The mutations suggested we are dealing with a completely new human-like being, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals or Denisovans. The Paracas individuals were so biologically different from humans they wouldn’t have been able to interbreed. “I am not sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary tree”, one geneticist added.
The implications of this discovery are huge. Who were the mysterious Paracas people? Did they evolve here on Earth on a path so different from us that they ended up looking drastically different? If not, where did they come from? Are any of them left?
This breakthrough brings up more questions than it answers but counts as another piece of evidence suggesting that we are not alone.
L.A. Marzulli has long searched for physical evidence of the Nephilim, the giants of the Bible. A significant cover-up over the years moved these hybrid humans to the dustbins of history. But now evidence has been found in Peru and the U.S.A.!
Deux astronomes américains évoquent des extraterrestres intelligents et technologiques
Deux astronomes américains évoquent des extraterrestres intelligents et technologiques
Il y a quelques jours, deux astronomes américains, Adam Frank et Woodruff Sullivan, ont publié un article dans la revue Astrobiology dans lequel ils déclarent qu’il est plus que probable que des espèces intelligentes, productrices d’innovations technologiques aient existé avant nous dans l’univers.
AFP PHOTO / ESO/L. CALÇADA
En se basant sur les dernières découvertes d’exoplanètes (planètes situées en dehors de notre système solaire), ils ont réussi à calculer la probabilité d’existence de civilisations évoluées avant l’apparition de l’espèce humaine sur Terre. Adam Franck affirme : “La question de savoir si des civilisations avancées existent dans l’univers se heurte à trois incertitudes… Combien d’étoiles ont de planètes pouvant accueillir la vie ? Quelle est la fréquence de création et de transformation de la vie vers une espèce intelligente, productrice de technologies ? Et enfin combien de temps peut vivre une civilisation évoluée avant de disparaître ?” Grâce notamment au télescope de la Nasa Kepler, Adam et Sullivan ont réussi à répondre à la première question : “Nous savons désormais qu’environ une étoile sur cinq peut abriter des planètes dans des zones habitables où les températures ne sont ni trop élevées, ni trop basses pour accueillir la vie telle que nous la connaissons”. Mais pour les deux scientifiques, on ne peut pas répondre à l’interrogation : “Sommes-nous seuls dans l’univers ?” car nous ne disposons pas d’informations pour répondre à la question sur la durée de vie des civilisations. Ils ont donc ouvert le spectre et se sont demandés : “Sommes-nous les seuls à avoir vécu dans l’univers ?” Et leur réponse est claire : « Pour nous, d’autres espèces intelligentes, productrices de technologies ont existé avant nous ! » Néanmoins, les deux chercheurs semblent pessimistes à l’idée d’une rencontre avec une vie extraterrestre aujourd’hui : « L’univers est vieux de 13,7 milliards d’années » déclare Sullivan. « Vu les distances entre les étoiles et la vitesse limitée de la lumière (environ 300 000 km par seconde), il paraît improbable d’avoir une discussion avec une civilisation extra-terrestre. Si une civilisation avancée se situe à 50 000 années-lumière, il en faudrait le double pour qu’on puisse leur répondre ». Ils ajoutent : « Nous pouvons désormais répondre à la question : ‘Est-ce qu’au moins une espèce avancée a existé avant nous dans l’univers ?’ par un : “Oui, très probablement ! Et cela, c’est incroyable ! »
A Monster Black Hole is Forming From 3 Colliding Galaxies
A Monster Black Hole is Forming From 3 Colliding Galaxies
An example of a galaxy collision.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/AURA/B. Whitmore et al.
IN BRIEF
Astrophysicists have discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass 3.8 billion times than that of the Sun that is 1.8 billion light-years away from Earth.
THREE MAKES A BLACK HOLE
About 1.8 billion light-years away in a galaxy called IRAS 20100-4156, astrophysicists have recently discovered that a monster black hole is forming from the collision of three other spiral galaxies.
The black hole, which has been classified as supermassive, is 3.8 billion solar masses.
As a comparison, astrophysicists assert that the black hole at the center of our own galaxy has a mass that is only 4 million times that of the Sun, so a black hole that we measure in billions is a beast of truly epic proportions.
A galaxy collision. Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, NASA
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY
Its discovery was, interestingly, accidental. Scientists from CSIRO were just testing their new telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), when unusual readings from the aforementioned galaxy came into the picture.
Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith, who was using the telescope, was making a simple routine measurement of wave emissions from IRAS 20100-4156, and she saw that gasses within the emissions were traveling at unusually fast speeds.
The speeds, which were at about 600 km/s (372.823 mi/s), were unexpected from the galaxy, indicating that there’s a supermassive black hole forming at the center.
Harvey-Smith says, “This very fast motion of the gas tells us about how massive the black hole is. The really exciting thing about this is it is a direct measurement of the mass of the black hole by stuff that’s swirling around it.” She adds that discovery of these phenomena that occur in the universe may help in understanding how galaxies form.
It is known that whenever galaxies collide and form a supermassive black hole, stars form at an extremely high rate. This process is called a starburst.
Harvey-Smith’s team has submitted their findings for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The quest to identify what dark matter is remains mostly fruitless. But through the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), scientists were able to cross off one more contender from the list: Axion-like particles (ALPs).
ENDLESS ELIMINATION ROUND
At the present time, some 85% of the composition of the universe remains unknown to us. The only thing that we really know about this portion of the universe is that it doesn’t interact with light (aka the electromagnetic spectrum) like normal matter.
You may have heard of this ‘missing matter’ and its perplexing partner in crime before. They are know by the enigmatic terms we use to refer to them: Dark matter and dark energy.
And now, after more than a hundred physicists have smashed their heads together in an attempt to find a glimmer of what they might be, well, we still don’t know what they are. But at least there’s a development: One of the most eligible suspects related to what dark matter is has been eliminated.
That’s one contender crossed off the undefined list.
ALPS ADDED TO “NOT-DARK-MATTER” LIST
Credit: NASA
The candidate eliminated this time is the axion-like particle (ALP), or at least the idea that it makes up 5% of dark matter. Axions are hypothetical particles that are 500 million times lighter than an electron and have no spin.
According to Princeton, “axions are potentially detectable through their weak coupling to electromagnetism.” Aaron Chou, a scientist at the New York University, who, along with a team of scientists, published a research on axion-like particles, says, “we can only detect these kinds of particles with telescopes, looking out into space. And then it is only an indirect detection.”
A team of 102 scientists, collectively known as The Fermi-LAT Collaboration, simulated galaxies with and without ALPs with the assumption that, at some point, these ALPs would run into some regular matter in space and send gamma rays out with a specific energy—an angle scientists have not looked into before.
They then compared these simulations to six years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), which can detect gamma rays, and found that the models with ALPs did not seem to predict the observed gamma rays any better than if they weren’t there.
And the nerve-wracking and seemingly endless elimination contest that is the quest to expose dark matter continues.
A team at the University of Melbourne in Australia has successfully 3D printed a superconducting aluminum cavity, broadening the range of 3D printing for use in applications in particle physics.
For several decades, the 3D printing of metals has been adding to a myriad of industries. One thing missing from the technology, however, is ensuring their electrical properties match specific necessities, such as those that require superconductivity.
Superconducting cavities are used to store microwaves for use in particle accelerators, function as ultra-sensitive motion detectors for measuring the speed of light, and they have a host of other important applications in physics.
Now, at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Professor Daniel Creedon and his team havesuccessfully designed and built a superconducting aluminum microwave cavity through a 3D printer for the first time, bringing metal 3D printing to a higher level.
This new development would help make substantial advancements in particle physics (as well as related fields).
The composition of 3D printed superconducting aluminum, which starts out as aluminum powder, is a little different from standard industrial aluminum, and come out with rough surfaces. But the process is quick and cheap, and the team has found ways to refine the cavities with no significant impact on the resulting cavities’ superconductivity.
The 3-D printing of metal parts promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries. Aircraft carriers, for example, might no longer need to carry spare parts for the myriad aircraft, engines, and weapons systems they carry. Instead, each part could be printed as needed.
The big worry of course is that the mechanical properties of 3-D printed parts might not match those of parts made in other ways, particularly when they are used as critical components, in high-performance jet engines for example.
To that end, materials scientists have spent much time and effort characterizing the mechanical properties of these parts. And consequently, they are now used as customized medical implants, jet engine bearings and for rapid prototyping in the car industry.
But while the mechanical properties of 3-D printed parts have been well studied, less attention has been paid to their electrical properties.
Today that changes thanks to the work of Daniel Creedon at the University of Melbourne in Australia and a few pals who have designed, printed, and successfully tested a superconducting microwave cavity for the first time. They say their work paves the way for a new generation of superconducting components that can be designed and made relatively quickly and cheaply.
Superconducting cavities are the workhorses in an increasing number of experiments to study the properties of the universe. Their purpose is to store microwaves, allowing them to resonate while losing as little energy as possible.
The microwaves interact with the electrons in the surface material of the cavities. So the resistance of this material is an important factor in the performance. Hence the interest in superconducting cavities where the resistance is essentially zero.
Resonating microwaves are useful things—they accelerate charged particles inside particle accelerators, they are ultra-sensitive motion detectors, they can produce highly stable frequencies, help measure the speed of light, and so on.
But the cavities that hold them are high precision devices that are time-consuming and expensive to make. 3-D printing offers significant advantages in speed and cost, provided the process of printing doesn’t interfere with the cavities’ superconducting properties. That’s something nobody had attempted to measure, until now.
To study the effect of 3-D printing on these superconducting properties, Creedon and co simply printed two of cavities using a process which selectively melts aluminum powder so that it solidifies into the required shape. In this way, a complex 3-D cavity can be built up layer by layer.
This process is quick and cheap but has several potential limitations. The first is that 3-D printing produces shapes with rough surfaces.
The second is that aluminum powder has a different composition to standard industrial aluminum designated Al-6061. In particular, the powder contains some 12 percent silicon by weight, whereas the usual stuff has only 0.8 percent. It also contains small amounts of iron (0.118 percent) and copper (0.003 percent) compared to 0.7 percent iron, 0.15 percent copper, and 1.2 percent magnesium in the industrial stuff.
The impact of these kinds of differences could be important or insignificant but until it is measured, nobody knows which. That’s what Creedon and co set out to do. And to their surprise, they found that neither of these factors has a significant impact on the resulting cavities’ superconductivity.
Creedon and co report that the cavities become superconducting at the expected temperature of 1.2 Kelvin and that the electrical properties were similar to those of industrial Al-6061. “The results are comparable to cavities machined from common Al-6061 alloy, and are unaffected by the surface roughness of the cavity walls due to the 3-D printing process,” they say.
However, they were able to improve the performance of one cavity by polishing its inside surface to reduce the roughness. They then heated it to 770K for four hours and allowed it to cool slowly to room temperature. This has the effect of driving out silicon from the material. “Annealing at 770K for four hours to drive off residual silicon impurities was found to improve the Q-factor by approximately a factor of two,” they say.
That’s interesting work that has further potential. One future avenue would be to use purer aluminum powder. Creedon and co say this should produce higher quality cavities. Another is to start creating cavities that are impossible to manufacture using conventional machining techniques.
A first step on an exciting route to a new era of 3-D-printed superconductors.
Archaeologists know who built the Moai statues and they weren't Martians.
Were the huge iconic statues on Easter Island created (or influenced) by extraterrestrials?
The idea that extraterrestrials visited ancient civilizations has been around for decades, a theory most prominently promoted by Erich von Daniken, author of the best-selling classic work of pseudoscience "Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past."
Von Daniken believes, for example, that ancient Egyptians had neither the intelligence nor the tools to create the pyramids at Giza — thus they must have been made by aliens. Similar claims have been made about the Mayan pyramids in Central America and the giant drawings in the Nazca desert of Peru.
A writer on Huliq.com suggested that a recent BBC television show called Wild Pacific repeats that claim, though it’s not clear whether the show actually made the UFO-related claims attributed to it or not.
Such ideas are hardly new; the piece also references a report from a quasi-official French UFO research organization named COMETA which asks, “Who built these giant stone statues and how did they get there on this remote Pacific Island?”
Yet such mystery-mongering questions are red herrings. Archaeologists know who built the moai statues: people who lived on the island, not Martians. The question of how the statues got “there on this remote Pacific Island” misleadingly suggests that the huge carvings were somehow brought vast distances across the ocean for some unknown, mysterious purpose to this remote island.
In fact, the stone (actually a substance called tuff, compressed and easily carved volcanic ash) was taken from an extinct volcano called Rano Raraku on the northeastern part of the island and transported using ropes and logs to various sites along the coast. There’s no mystery where the moai came from; in fact hundreds of them can be found still embedded and only partially carved out of the side of Rano Raraku volcano.
So if there’s no mystery who carved the huge, enigmatic stone heads, and there’s no mystery where the heads came from, then the only remaining mystery is why they were carved. Researchers believe that each head (and torso — many of the figures are buried deep in the ground and go below the waist) represented a deceased head of a family or clan. The inhabitants of Easter Island (believed to once number in the thousands) gradually diminished due to internal warfare, slavery and disease.
Thus there remains no real mystery to be answered, by wild speculation about extraterrestrials or anything else. Unfortunately the real, genuine history and cultural traditions of ancient civilizations are often overshadowed by sensational and fictional theories about aliens.
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Mystery 'triangle UFO' seen on BOTH sides of US in seperate sightings just 24 hours apart
Mystery 'triangle UFO' seen on BOTH sides of US in seperate sightings just 24 hours apart
A BIZARRE "triangle-shaped UFO" was reported being seen in the skies above the east and west USA - with sightings just one day apart, www.express.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
A CGI impression of one of the huge triangle UFOs after an earlier sighting
Paranormal investigators are looking at the two independent reports which were made to them the same day.
In the first sighting, at 8.30pm local time on Saturday an unnamed witness told the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) he and his wife were left speechless after the "once in a lifetime experience" of seeing an enormous triangle-shaped flat object flying silently towards Los Angeles in California.
The second sighting was at 9.15pm in Geneva, Ohio, about 2,300 miles away on the eastern side of the continent.
Both witnesses said they were unable to successfully film or photograph the events, but each provided sketches of what they saw.
Remarkably, both were large triangles with seven lights along two of the edges.
In a report to MUFON about the Californian sighting, above Inglewood about five miles outside the city, the man said the family were chatting, when it drifted into view.
He wrote: "Exactly at 8.30 pm over our heads, suddenly appeared a triangular-shaped object, with very dim lights, of almost yellowish tone.
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A sketch of the latest LA sighting drawn by the witness and sent to MUFOn as evidence
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The witness in Geneva also independently sent in a computer sketch of the object with the same shape
"The object was gliding on a straight line going west. It was apparently close or too big and there was no kind of noise produced by the flying object that was flying at approximately at 50 miles per hour.
"To my wife and I there was no doubt what we were witnessing was a non man-made airplane or drone.
"It looked nothing like a drone, airplane or helicopter, was flat and produced no noise almost like the object was trying to sneak through the sky."
The pair tried excitedly to video and photograph it, but said due to local bright lighting, it would not show on the images.
He added: "I was in shock. The flying source simply disappeared before our eyes continuing his way to the west exactly in the direction of LA, leaving us speechless and with the certainty that what we both witnessed was a once in a life time experience."
Just over 24 hours later, another unnamed witness told of seeing a similar craft coming from this time west to the east.
MUFON
This was an actual photograph snapped of on of the huge triangles seen in the USA
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Yet another MUFOn case CGI, leading some to believe these UFOs are really out there
The flying source simply disappeared before our eyes continuing his way to the west exactly in the direction of LA, leaving us speechless and with the certainty that what we both witnessed was a once in a life time experience.
Los Angeles witness
In a report to MUFON, they said: "I noticed the lights directly overhead travelling from west to east.
"There were approximately seven lights. Three in triangular shape in the centre, then two lights on each side of the three centre.
"The two lights on the sides extended out very far, a very large craft."
This person noticed a faint noise being made.
He said: "I had no way to record this event and just stood there carefully examining the lights due to the fact I've never seen anything like it.
"It flew slowly over trees and I lost sight of it. It did not sound like a jet, but a steady rumble or hum for the duration."
MUFON investigators, who are part of the world's largest database of UFO sightings based in the states, will be examining both cases to see if they could be connected.
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A MUFON recreation of another similar UFO sighting reported to it in 2010
They will also likely look back at similar previous reports which have been made to MUFON before.
On November 14 2010, a witness reported seeing a "mind-blowing" triangle-shaped UFO the "size of a football field" move silently overhead in California at 1.45 am, that time with 12 red-amber lights outlining it.
In February that year in Punta Gorda, Florida, a graphic designer saw a triangle-shaped UFO move over buildings and then hover.
The witness said the object had a total of seven white lights.
There have been other reports in Plainfield, Illinois, and Sedona, Arizona.
In most cases the objects are described as huge and either silent or humming.
In 2012, the Huffington Post published a report saying the triangles were one of the most common UFO sightings across the globe.
Some conspiracy theorists claim they are secret aircrafts developed by the US government, and sceptics say they are just misidentified regular aircrafts.
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‘UFO’ SPOTTED ON LIVE CAM OVER ELK REFUGE NEAR YELLOWSTONE: ALIENS MONITORING SUPERVOLCANO COULD MEAN ERUPTION IS IMMINENT, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS RAISE ALARM [VIDEO]
‘UFO’ SPOTTED ON LIVE CAM OVER ELK REFUGE NEAR YELLOWSTONE: ALIENS MONITORING SUPERVOLCANO COULD MEAN ERUPTION IS IMMINENT, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS RAISE ALARM [VIDEO]
Following reported sighting of a “UFO” hovering over the Elk Refuge near Yellowstone, UFO bloggers have raised alarm, saying that an uptick in UFO activity near the Yellowstone Supervolcano at the National Park in Wyoming could mean that aliens are preparing for a major eruption of the volcano.
The alleged UFO appeared for a few minutes in footage uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, April 28, by Kat Martin2016. It appeared as light passing in front of a live cam at the Elk Refuge.
According to Kat Martin2016, she was looking at live cams in the area when she noticed the mysterious light passing over the Elk Refuge in the middle of night. The YouTuber speculated that the light might have been a reflection from the headlights of a vehicle nearby.
“I was browsing some live cams and stopped in at the Elk refuge, and this happened in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, at an Elk refuge near Yellowstone,” Kat Martin2016 writes. “It is probably a passing vehicle that caused the reflection.”
The YouTube user then dropped a hint about aliens knowing that members of the UFO community would take the message and run with it.
“I am sure some will think it is the handiwork of aliens and that the reflection is a tiny spaceship,” she writes in the video description.
And as expected, UFO Sightings Daily’s Scott Waring declared as soon as he saw the footage that the light was an alien UFO drone conducting surveillance flight over Yellowstone to monitor the volcano’s activity.
“OMG! I knew it! It took less than one day for this to be taken and posted on a UFO site…”
According to Waring, UFOs are commonplace on wildlife live cams so the latest sighting at Yellowstone National Park was not unusual. In Waring’s expert opinion, Kat Martin2016 was mistaken in her assumption that the mysterious object was just a light reflection.
“The shadows on the side of this object make me think it is a three dimensional object and not a reflection,” Waring argues. “Alien drones often record data […] in nature. This catch may be one of those drones.”
Other UFO bloggers were more concerned about the implications of the suggestion that aliens are monitoring the Yellowstone Supervolcano. That aliens are monitoring the volcano should cause humans concern because it could indicate that aliens are worried the supervolcano could erupt, conspiracy theorists reasoned.
Referring to recent footage that shows an apparent uptick in activity at the volcano (see YouTube above) with ominous bright flashes and steam issuing from a geyser, UFO Sightings Hotspot raises alarm that “something weird is going on” at Yellowstone.
“Something weird is really going on there as a big flash (at 4.05 mark first video – left of the screen) comes out of one of the geysers,” the blog warns.
The UFO blogger then speculates fancifully that the uptick in UFO activity over Yellowstone could be due to alien UFOs tapping “energy from the magma moving up underneath the ground.”
The writer suggests that alien technology could be able to harvest and store energy obtained directly from hot magma.
“It’s the same concept as what we see as lightning at the top of a volcano that’s erupting, UFOs are quite often spotted around active volcanoes for that reason,” the blogger explains further.
Conspiracy theorists consider active volcanoes to be UFO hotspots [Image via Shutterstock]However, other UFO hunters, including Waring, speculate that the alien UFOs seen flying over the volcano could belong to alien species that have an alien UFO base built beneath the supervolcano. The aliens were flying a drone over the volcano to monitor its activity for predictive purposes, according to alien hunters.
Volcanoes, especially active ones, are considered UFO hotspots and UFO conspiracy theorists believe aliens often build UFO bases beneath volcanoes because the interior of volcanoes are inaccessible to humans.
For instance, UFO hunters claim that major volcanoes, such as Popocatepetl and Colima in Mexico, have large underground UFO bases. It is also believed there is a major government-alien UFO base beneath the Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone.
TheInquisitrreported recently that a conspiracy theory has emerged online about an impending Yellowstone false flag event. According to rumors making the rounds in the conspiracy theory blogosphere, there is a sinister plan to induce an eruption of the Yellowstone volcano. The rumor, which apparently originated on the conspiracy theory-leaning website, The Common Sense Show, claims that a group was conducting “fracking style” activity near the supervolanco ostensibly with the aim of inducing an eruption. Another group was reportedly conducting experiments using “electromagnetic interference” to induce an eruption.
Footage captured on April 18 by a videographer named Shawn that appeared to show a UFO crashing at a spot near the supervolcano sparked speculation that the crash was linked to the alleged plan to stage a Yellowstone false flag operation (see YouTube videos below).
The ongoing conspiracy theory hysteria over the Yellowstone Supervolcano started online after geologists, such as Roger Bilham at the University of Colorado, warned that recent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions along the infamous Ring of Fire indicate that the world is going through a spike in seismic activity that raises concern about the risk of potentially catastrophic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the U.S. West Coast.
Footage uploaded online by Kart Martin2016 on April 15 showing a Yellowstone geyser bubbling with renewed life appeared to confirm fears.
[Image via Shutterstock]
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‘UFO CRASH’ AT YELLOWSTONE SPARKS RUMORS OF IMMINENT FALSE FLAG EVENT – SECRET PLANS UNDERWAY TO INDUCE ERUPTION OF SUPERVOLCANO, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SAY [VIDEO]
‘UFO CRASH’ AT YELLOWSTONE SPARKS RUMORS OF IMMINENT FALSE FLAG EVENT – SECRET PLANS UNDERWAY TO INDUCE ERUPTION OF SUPERVOLCANO, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SAY [VIDEO]
Fear-mongering rumors of an impending Yellowstone false flag event, an alleged plan by a sinister group linked to government, to induce artificially an eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano that could lead to an extinction level event (ELE) are gaining traction in the doomsday blogosphere and spreading fear and panic among the susceptible readers.
The rumors follow reports of increased activity that have sparked fears that the Yellowstone volcano could erupt.
And even as rumors of an alleged impending Yellowstone false flag event spread, UFO hunters are scrutinizing closely new YouTube footage allegedly showing a UFO crashing at a spot in the Yellowstone National Park near the Yellowstone Supervolcano (see YouTube below).
The video purportedly showing a massive UFO crashing near the supervolcano has sparked rumors of sinister experiments at Yellowstone linked to an alleged plan to stage a false flag operation that involves inducing artificially a massive eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
The footage (see above) captured by an amateur videographer, called Shawn, shows a large object burning up in the sky and then crashing at a spot in the Yellowstone National Park reportedly close to the supervolcano on the morning of April 18, 2016.
Some UFO conspiracy theorists, such as UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott Waring, believe the object is an alien UFO spacecraft that crashed to Earth, possibly while monitoring the volcano for signs of increased activity.
Commenting on the incident, Waring pointed out that it would be difficult to locate the crash site in the vast expanse of wilderness that constitutes the Yellowstone National Park. But he argued that the fact that the object crashed at such an isolated area suggests a deliberate choice by an alien pilot attempting to avoid contact with humans.
But other conspiracy theorists have linked the incident with rumors about a sinister, clandestine plan to stage a Yellowstone false flag attack by triggering a major eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Fear-mongering rumors of a plan to stage a false flag attack by artificially triggering an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano appear to have originated on the blog The Common Sense Show.
On April 19, 2016, the blog published a letter it allegedly received from an “anonymous source” that identified as a “geologist and geophysicist.”
The anonymous letter writer alleged that a clandestine group, apparently linked to government, was planning to artificially induce an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano by conducting “fracking-style” activity near the supervolcano.
“We discovered fracking that was going on at the site of one of our investigations [at Yellowstone] in which the quakes in the area were increasing exponentially,” the letter read.
“It was our operating hypothesis that the fracking was able to redirect pressure point of any quake or subsequent magma eruption…,” the letter continued. “Based on the limited data set available, it looks like the ‘frackers’ were experimenting… in other words, somebody was trying to assess if they could cause a series of eruptions at Yellowstone.”
“In other words, somebody was trying to assess if they could cause a series of eruptions at Yellowstone…”
The anonymous source went on to say he obtained information from another colleague working independently at Yellowstone that the group was also investigating other methods — including “electromagnetic interference” — that could be used to induce an eruption of the supervolcano.
The anonymous letter writer then alleged that scientific evidence shows that the recent earthquake in Ecuador was not caused naturally but was induced artificially. According to the anonymous writer, Ecuador was used to test a technology that could soon be applied to trigger a catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
“The quakes in Ecuador are not natural and do not follow expected patterns,” the letter said. “Ecuador could be a test for what is coming to Yellowstone. If this technology was directed to the highly volatile Yellowstone region… I can tell you without hesitation that one-third of the country would be completely uninhabitable for years. Tens of millions of people would die.”
“The quakes in Ecuador are not natural… Ecuador could be a test for what is coming to Yellowstone.”
According to the purveyors of the Yellowstone false flag conspiracy theory, the clip allegedly showing a UFO crashing at Yellowstone actually shows the test run of a technology to induce an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. But some supporters of the theory that the footage shows a UFO crashing have argued that the UFO crash theory is not necessarily inconsistent with the Yellowstone false flag theory, and that both probably complement each other.
It is believed widely in the UFO community that there is a major top-secret government-alien UFO base beneath the Old Faithful geyser. The government-linked group planning the false flag operation, according to UFO conspiracy theorists, could be working with an alien race to achieve it goals.
Volcanoes are recognized widely as UFO hotspots. According to UFOlogists, frequent sightings of UFOs near the world’s major volcanoes, such as Popocatepetl and Colima in Mexico, show that extraterrestrials take an interest in Earth’s volcanoes. It is claimed that alien scientists observe Earth’s volcano to understand the planet’s geology while other UFO experts point to alleged evidence that aliens often choose to locate their UFO bases beneath volcanoes because humans are unable to access them.
Alien and UFO hunters who believe there is an underground alien base beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano cite recent multiple reports of strange lights over the Yellowstone park as evidence of UFOs landing and taking off from the alleged underground alien base.
TheInquisitr also reported last month that grainy webcam footage captured by the upper geyser basin night time live streaming camera at the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and uploaded to YouTube on March 1, 2016, by Kat Martin2016 (see above) went viral in the online UFO community after UFO hunters began touting it as proof of alien UFO activity linked to the Yellowstone Supervolcano.
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Zijn we alleen in het universum en zullen we ooit contact hebben?
Zijn we alleen in het universum en zullen we ooit contact hebben?
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Pieterjan Huyghebaert
Wetenschappers hebben een nieuwe formule ontwikkeld die de kans op intelligent leven ergens anders in het universum berekent en wat de voorwaarden zijn vooraleer we met één andere beschaving contact kunnen hebben.
Een studie die is verschenen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Astrobiology heeft berekend aan welke voorwaarden onze Melkweg moet voldoen vooraleer we contact kunnen hebben met minstens één andere beschaving. De wetenschappers hebben feitelijk een afleiding gemaakt van de zogenoemde vergelijking van Drake waarmee wordt bekeken hoeveel technologische beschavingen er op dit moment in de Melkweg bestaan.
Vergelijking van Drake
gemiddeld aantal sterren dat per jaar in ons melkwegstelsel wordt gevormd
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fractie van die sterren met planeten
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gemiddelde aantal planeten waarop leven mogelijk is
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fractie van die planeten, waar zich leven ontwikkelt
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fractie van die planeten, waar zich intelligent leven ontwikkelt
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fractie van die planeten, waar zich een technologie ontwikkelt
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gemiddelde levensduur van communicerende beschavingen in jaren.
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Het geschatte aantal intelligente beschavingen in onze Melkweg
Nieuwe formule
De wetenschappers hebben deze vergelijking gebruikt als startpunt en ingrijpend veranderd. Het grote probleem met de 7 parameters die gebruikt worden bij de vergelijking van Drake is dat de meeste erg onzeker zijn, waardoor de foutenmarge erg groot is. De nieuwe formule heeft de formule vereenvoudigd tot slechts twee parameters:
het aantal bewoonbare planeten (naar schatting 4.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 planeten)
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de kans op het ontstaan van technologisch geavanceerde soorten op een van die planeten
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Het aantal technologisch voldoende geavanceerde levensvormen die ontstaan zijn sinds het begin van het waarneembare heelal. (minstens 1)
De onderlimiet voor de biotechnische waarschijnlijkheid dat een bewoonbare planeet een technologisch geavanceerde vorm van leven heeft voortgebracht in het waarneembare universum is 1 kans op 10.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 (1 kans op 10 miljard biljoen). In onze Melkweg is die kans 1 op 100 miljard. Die kans lijkt vrij klein, maar we weten dat in onze Melkweg (en uiteraard ook in het waarneembare universum) sinds het ontstaan van het heelal er minstens één planeet is waarop technologisch geavanceerd leven is ontstaan, namelijk de Aarde.
De wetenschappers hebben hun bevindingen gekoppeld aan de vergelijking van Drake en ermee getracht te benaderen hoeveel andere technologische beschavingen zich ooit in onze Melkweg moeten hebben ontwikkeld, zodat we met minstens één beschaving contact kunnen hebben. Het antwoord is 2 miljoen. Met andere woorden: vooraleer we de kans hebben om met één andere beschaving contact hebben, moeten er sinds het begin van de Melkweg minstens 2 miljoen geavanceerde beschavingen hebben bestaan.
Zijn we alleen in de kosmos? Wellicht niet, maar contact met een andere beschaving lijkt niet vanzelfsprekend. Het ziet er dus niet naar uit dat we binnenkort bezoek mogen verwachten van groene mannetjes.
Over the past months, Yellowstone’s imminent massive eruption has been lingering all over the news, drawing fear among residents around the volcano’s danger zone.
Just recently, a group of alien hunters claimed they spotted a UFO or an unidentified flying object hovering over the majestic volcano in a video uploaded on YouTube, theMirror reported.
A YouTube user named Kat Martin2016 claimed in the video that the clip only proves that aliens are continuously monitoring the volcano. In the video, a whitish circular object was seen flying over the volcano. The video was reportedly taken from an elk reserve area in Wyoming, where a large area of the 3,500 square mile Yellowstone National Park, is situated.
The murky image was seen hovering over the area of the volcano. In a disclaimer, the video owner admitted that she only posted the video to see whether alien hunters would validate that the video is proof of aliens’ existence.
Alien hunters claim that the presence of UFOs could indicate that the supervolcano would soon erupt. As previously reported by Morning News USA, a team of researchers from University of Leicester claims on a study that the last major eruption of Yellowstone happened some 70,000 years ago.
The researchers claimed that these massive super explosions were responsible for the current geography of the volcano, which extends to thousands of square miles. Although it has already been proven that there were several massive eruptions recorded in Yellowstone’s history, especially during its “adolescence” stage, scientists believe that the volcano is now losing strength.
If the Yellowstone would erupt in the present days, experts estimated that the volcano could spew ashes all the way to New York, the Seeker reported. But studies on the volcano indicate that a major eruption is highly unlikely, at least in the near future.
If there’s anything Floridians love, it’s cigars, aliens and bath salts. One fortunate resident was able to get two-thirds of those the other day on film. One video shows a cigar-shaped UFO flying over the skies of Saint Petersburg. Scientists were not available to comment as they had their hands full with a weird new comet. Plus, no one believes a Florida man anyway.
DID UFO CIGAR ESCAPE FROM CUBA?
A Florida man in Saint Petersburg caught some interesting footage the other day. No, it was not some girls gone wild at spring break, but a strange UFO flying in the sky. Usually, one is used to seeing circular saucers or square like alien objects, but this one was unique. As shown in the video, the out of focus object is long and slender, much like one of the many cigars produced in Cuba. Not to say there is any relationship but it is a little strange. Cubans love cigars and Floridians love UFOs, it’s odd the two would appear in one. If only there were some scientists available to put this to rest. Oh, right. They are off observing events of substance.
ASTRONOMERS DETECT WEIRD COMET HEADING OUR WAY
A crack team of researchers from the University of Hawaii has made an interesting discovery the other day. A report from Reuters says a weird comet without a tail was discovered and it’s made of the same type of rock found here on Earth. Astronomers believe this discovery could help us shed light on our solar system humble beginning. The comet was likely formed in the same area as Earth before it began it’s solar orbit. There may even be more of these organic UFO’s out there.
DANCING WITH THE STARS
Depending on how many of these comets are found, scientists will be able to figure out if planets dance around the stars when they were young or if they grew up in a more stable environment. The comet they are calling “Manx”, after a cat without a tail, is not the average comet. It contains materials similar to those found in the asteroids stretching between Mars and Jupiter. It also has no long stream of vaporized ice associated with many comets. While scientists continue to work on the mysteries of our universe, Floridians can keep themselves busy with cigar UFO’s. Who knows what they will find next.
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets around a nearby ultracool dwarf star, dubbed TRAPPIST-1. Details of the discovery appear in thejournal Nature.
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three exoplanets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 38.8 light-years from Earth. These alien worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth. In this view one of the inner planets is seen in transit across the disc of TRAPPIST-1.
Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.
TRAPPIST-1, also known as 2MASS J23062928-0502285, is an ultracool dwarf star in the constellation of Aquarius.
The star is 38.8 light-years distant, close enough to be considered part of Earth’s neighborhood.
It is much cooler and redder than our Sun, with an age constrained to be 500 million years old, and with a luminosity, mass, and radius of 0.05%, 8% and 11.5% those of the Sun, respectively.
The planetary system TRAPPIST-1 hosts at least three planets, which are designated TRAPPIST-1b, c, and d.
The planets have been detected by the TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope), a Belgian robotic 0.6-m telescope based at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from close to one of the three planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1.
Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.
According to Dr. Gillon and his colleagues from the United States, Belgium, the UK and India, ultracool dwarf stars, such as TRAPPIST-1, are both very common in the Milky Way Galaxy and very long-lived, but this is the first time that planets have been found around one of them.
“This really is a paradigm shift with regards to the planet population and the path towards finding life in the Universe,” said co-author Dr. Emmanuël Jehin, an astronomer with the University of Liège.
“So far, the existence of such ‘red worlds’ orbiting ultra-cool dwarf stars was purely theoretical, but now we have not just one lonely planet around such a faint red star but a complete system of three planets.”
Follow-up observations with larger ground-based telescopes, including the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s 8-m Very Large Telescope in Chile, have shown that the planets around TRAPPIST-1 have sizes very similar to that of Earth.
TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c have orbital periods of 1.51 days and 2.42 days, respectively, and the third planet, TRAPPIST-1d, has a less well determined period in the range 4.5 to 72.8-days.
“With such short orbital periods, the planets are between 20 and 100 times closer to their star than the Earth to the Sun,” Dr. Gillon explained.
“The structure of this planetary system is much more similar in scale to the system of Jupiter’s moons than to that of the Solar System.”
Although they orbit very close to their host dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c only receive four times and twice, respectively, the amount of radiation received by the Earth, because their star is much fainter than the Sun.
That puts them closer to the star than the habitable zone for this system, although it is still possible that they possess habitable regions on their surfaces.
TRAPPIST-1d’s orbit is not yet well known, but it probably receives less radiation than the Earth does, but maybe still enough to lie within the habitable zone.
The masses of these planets are still unknown, making their internal composition as yet undetermined.
“We intend to measure their masses during the coming months, to determine if these planets are mainly rocky, like the Earth, or if they are water-rich, like icy moons of the giant planets,” Dr. Gillon said.
Een internationaal team van astronomen onder leiding van wetenschappers van de Luikse Universiteit (ULg) heeft op slechts veertig lichtjaar van ons in het sterrenbeeld Waterman drie levensvatbare exoplaneten gevonden. Dat hebben de ULg en de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO, parallel met een publicatie in het vakblad Nature, meegedeeld. Het zijn tot nu toe de beste plaatsen om (met de huidige technologie) te zoeken naar leven buiten ons zonnestelsel.
De astronomen vonden het planetair systeem met de TRAPPIST-robottelesoop van het ESO-observatorium in het Chileense La Silla, waarna andere telescopen de ontdekking bevestigden. De drie planeten draaien rond een ster die veel kleiner, kouder en roder is dan onze Zon. Het hemellichaam, 2MASS J2062928-0502285 alias nu ook TRAPPIST-1, is nauwelijks iets groter dan "onze" Jupiter. Dergelijke ultra-koude dwergsterren komen in onze Melkweg zeer frequent voor, meer dan sterren die op onze Zon gelijken. Tot nu toe waren er rond dergelijke dwergsterren geen planeten gevonden (omdat de onderzoeksprogramma's zich richtten op grotere, zwaardere en warmere sterren, zegt de Luikse Universiteit).
De drie gevonden exoplaneten lijken qua grootte en temperatuur op Venus en de Aarde. In theorie bestaat de mogelijkheid dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak is.
De twee dichtst tot de - met het blote oog niet zichtbare - ster staande planeten hebben slechts 36 en 58 uur nodig voor een omloop. Van de derde is de afstand nog niet uitgemaakt, maar één baan zou ook slechts 4,5 tot 73 dagen duren, aldus de ESO.
Volgens de Luikse wetenschapper Julien de Wit kunnen er temperaturen heersen die, althans op minstens een deel van het oppervlak, leven mogelijk kunnen maken.
De massa van het drietal is nog onbekend, waardoor ook hun interne samenstelling onzeker is. Maar volgens teamleider Michaël Gillon "mag men zich aan van alles verwachten".
De ontdekking is des te meer van belang omdat de studie van de atmosfeer van deze planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel binnen het bereik is van de huidige generatie telescopen.
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Trois planètes "potentiellement habitables" ont été découvertes par des chercheurs de l'université de Liège, en Belgique
Trois planètes "potentiellement habitables" ont été découvertes par des chercheurs de l'université de Liège, en Belgique
L'étude a été publiée dans la revue "Nature", lundi 2 mai. Ces planètes sont situées à 40 années-lumière de la Terre, donc pour le moment hors de portée de l'être humain.
Les huit principales planètes du sytème solaire tournant en orbite autour du Soleil. (MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA / MGA / AFP)
Trois exoplanètes "potentiellement habitables" ont été découvertes en orbite d'une petite étoile à 40 années-lumière de la Terre, rapporte une étude publiée dans la revue Nature, lundi 2 mai. Cette découverte des chercheurs de l'université de Liège en Belgique a été réalisée dans le cadre du programme européen prototype nommé Speculoos. Et cela, grâce au télescope robotique de l’université de Liège, Trappist, installé depuis 2010 à l’ Observatoire européen austral de La Silla, au Chili, relaie La Libre.
Pour rappel, il y aurait plusieurs centaines de milliards de planètes habitables, rien que dans notre galaxie, la Voie lactée. Et les exoplanètes sont tellement lointaines qu'il est quasi-impossible de les observer directement et qu'il est impensable de s'y rendre. En tout cas pour le moment. En attendant, Francetv info liste trois choses à savoir sur cette découverte.
Des planètes de taille similaire à la Terre
Ces planètes, qui transitent autour d'une étoile naine ultra-froide, offrent pour la première fois la possibilité "de trouver des traces chimiques de vie en dehors de notre système solaire", selon les chercheurs. La découverte est importante : il s'agit de "planètes de taille similaire à la Terre, potentiellement habitables et propices aux études atmosphériques détaillées avec la technologie actuelle", a déclaré à l'AFP Michaël Gillon , coauteur de l'étude.
Une possible existence d'eau liquide
Selon les chercheurs, deux des trois planètes orbitent près de l'étoile, tandis que la troisième se situe probablement dans la zone habitable de TRAPPIST-1. Cette zone, où il ne fait ni trop chaud ni trop froid pour maintenir l'eau sous une forme liquide, peut permettre le développement d'une forme de vie telle que nous la connaissons sur Terre.
Cette planète peut "potentiellement abriter de la vie sur toute sa surface",explique le chercheur. Les deux autres planètes, plus proches de l'étoile,"sont trop chaudes pour cela mais pourraient avoir des zones d'habitabilité, avec des températures suffisamment basses pour permettre l'existence d'eau liquide et peut-être de vie".
Des caractéristiques atmosphériques bientôt attendues
La température, la taille et la composition de ces nouvelles planètes les rapprochent fortement de la Terre. Mais il faudra attendre de définir avec exactitude leur masse, leurs caractéristiques atmosphériques (si elles ont une atmosphère) pour savoir si elles sont réellement propices à la vie.
Des informations que les chercheurs pourraient obtenir "relativement rapidement" grâce à la technologie actuelle, "d'ici 5 à 10 ans, notamment avec le télescope spatial James Webb qui sera lancé en 2018", selon Michaël Gillon.
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