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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
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10-05-2016
Bionic Implant Improves Vision for Some Eye Patient
Bionic Implant Improves Vision for Some Eye Patients
By Christopher Wanjek-
An artist's concept of a bionic eye.
Credit: Andrey VP/Shutterstock.com
It may sound like something out of "Star Trek": Doctors have implanted a device in patients that has restored some central vision after advanced eye disease left those individuals with only limited peripheral vision. This is the first time that artificial and natural vision has ever been integrated in humans, the U.K.-based research team said.
The study was small and preliminary, involving only four patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The research team reported that the implant enabled the patients to recognize the outline of faces and some facial characteristics, such as whether the mouth was open or closed — ordinary details of life that had long been lost to these patients, as AMD slowly robbed them of their vision.
AMD, as the name implies, is a deterioration of the eye's macula, a small area in the back of the eye that allows you to see fine details clearly. AMD does not lead to complete blindness, but rather to the gradual loss of central vision that can interfere with everyday activities, such as the ability to see faces, read or do close work, such as cooking. The remaining peripheral vision doesn't provide the acuity for such activities.
AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 2 million Americans have AMD — a number that's expected to more than double by 2050, according to government data. AMD is most common among people over age 65. The cause is unknown, but people's risk of being stricken by the condition is heavily influenced by smoking and genetics.
Doctors have been successful in slowing the advance of AMD through a dietary supplement regimen comprising vitamin C, beta-carotene and other nutrients. Injections of prescription drugs are also used to treat certain kinds of advanced AMD. However, no treatment can reverse the loss of vision.
To restore central vision in four patients with advanced AMD, doctors implanted into their eyes a device called the Argus II electronic epiretinal prosthesis. This is a new commercial product that, in earlier incarnations, has restored very limited sight to people who had only perception-of-light vision as a result of a rare, degenerative eye disease. The device is essentially a miniature camera attached to the back of the eye that captures images and sends electrical signals to the brain. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body]
None of the patients reported "confusion" about what they were seeing when the device was turned on. This was a concern for the researchers, because the brain was receiving a combination of natural electrical impulses from the peripheral areas of the eye as well as artificial impulses from the central implant, and they didn't know how the brain would interpret this.
Another element of success was that the implant didn't seem to cause problems in the patients' bodies; they tolerated them for up to six months, with no signs of infection.
The researchers wrote that, while previous implants have helped people with rare diseases, the latest research results may "indicate a new way of restoring central vision in one of the most common causes of severe loss of central vision in people over the age of 50, dry age-related macular degeneration … for which no other treatments are currently available."
The research team comprised doctors and engineers from the University of Manchester in England and the company that makes the implant, Second Sight Medical Products in Sylmar, California.
Follow Christopher Wanjek @wanjek for daily tweets on health and science with a humorous edge. Wanjek is the author of "Food at Work" and "Bad Medicine." His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on Live Science.
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Missouri witness photographs triangle UFO
Missouri witness photographs triangle UFO
A Missouri witness at Richmond Heights reported watching and photographing a triangle UFO with bright lights at 11 p.m. on May 3, 2016, according to testimony in Case 76223 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 1. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness and her family had just left the St. Louis Cardinal game and were westbound along Highway 40 when the incident occurred.
“I was the first to see it,” the witness stated.“Off in the distance approximately four or five miles away in the west – southwest from our current position – I could see an extremely bright row of lights – four round, very large set of lights side-by-side.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 2. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness thought they were stadium lights.
“I pointed it out to my husband and son. My husband said, ‘It’s just lights on top of a building or crane, no big deal.’ As we got closer to it we realized there were no buildings or cranes around. All highway and some trees.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 3. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the light and its location.
“The lights were straight forward like headlights. It seemed like it was in the same spot from when I first spotted it. We got onto the off ramp from Highway 40 and were going to head south on Highway 270. As soon as we got onto Highway 270 my husband pulled to the shoulder so I could try and get some better pictures of this ‘floating light tower.’”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 4. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness first thought the object was hovering.
“It seemed like it was less than a quarter of a mile to the right of us at that point. Since we were stopped and now looking up at this thing we realized it was moving really super slow instead of hanging out in midair like we originally thought. We could now see its triangular shape and the lights were not as I described above, but rather, two in front toward the outer tip of the wings and two toward the top center. And what looked like rope lighting around the outer perimeter.”
The witness continued to watch the object and its odd lighting.
“The lights definitely seemed to dim down as it was passing over us. My husband said there were a set of colored blinking lights on the underside, but I honestly didn’t notice them. It was bigger than our truck – an extended cab Silverado – and made absolutely no sound – the whole time. That was the most amazing part – how something so big flying through the air could be so quiet?”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 5. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness did not feel threatened during the sighting.
“And there wasn’t a moment during this amazing experience where we felt scared or threatened in any way. It stayed a safe distance above us, about as low as a helicopter would fly when doing a traffic report. As it was passing over us it picked up a tremendous amount of speed. Almost like it noticed us watching it. I know, let’s not get crazy. Then it took off straight toward St. Louis – east – and then shot upward at an angle toward the southeast. Within seconds it was out of sight.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image # 6. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness feels that there should be additional witnesses.
“Even though it was about 11p.m. on a Tuesday, there was a Blues game and Cardinal game that just let out – so the highways were far from empty. Surely we are not the only three people in STL to see this thing. I sent a Tweet to Fox2now (local news) like I always do when I have something ‘odd’ or weather related to share. And I still have not heard a response from them.”
Missouri MUFON Chief Investigator Joe Palermo is investigating. Richmond Heights a city in St. Louis County, population 8,603. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Massive Alien Entity Floating Over Mexico Proves Aliens are Already Here
Massive Alien Entity Floating Over Mexico Proves Aliens are Already Here
A video showing a UFO of considerable proportions that strongly resembles a living creature has recently surfaced. Could this prove the UFO phenomenon is real, and even more, that otherworldly creatures reside on the Earth?
The sky is full of mysterious sightings, and although most of them can be given a rational explanation, there are some that seem to defy all logic. It’s true that even the unexplained can be interpreted as being nothing more than a common appearance, but thinking beyond that will offer relevant clues defining our world.
While Earth may be home to various undiscovered (or undocumented) alien lifeforms, there will always be skeptics trying to alter this perception by ridiculing the unusual, making it look like something childish or pathetic. This however is understandable, considering that cgi today can easily imitate reality, thus veiling an authentic and mystic phenomenon in a shroud of disbelief.
Such is the case of Zeroids – one of the first lifeforms to arrive and develop in space. These alien entities are capable of surviving in zero atmospheric pressure conditions from space, and are also known to reside on our planet. It may sound impossible, but alien entities are already among us, and there are numerous videos capturing their unusual behavior.
They float at extremely high altitudes, and are usually observed using a telescope. While some sightings are only visible in full light spectrum, these zeroids can be seen with the naked eye. These fascinating alien creatures are poorly documented, although many researchers know and even acknowledge their existence.
In 2012, Dr. Franklin Ruehl, an American ufologist and cryptozoologist with a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from UCLA, shared his opinions about zeroids in an article for The Huffington Post.
Considering that our island universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old, it is conceivable that zeroids represent the earliest forms in the cosmic backdrop, perhaps even existing for nearly that entire time,” he wrote. “With such an elonged span of time at their disposal, zeroids could easily have trod many different evolutionary paths: They may range in dimensionality from the microscopic to the macroscopic.
According to Dr. Ruehl, these ancient, organic beings could be found throughout the entire universe and have adapted to different conditions of life. He suggests that such creatures can vary from the “utterly simple to the extraordinary complex,” they take various shapes and sizes and can have a solitary life, as well as live inside vast colonies. He also speculates that the “larger zeroidal entities might possibly feast upon smaller ones,” theory that’s similar to what we call the “food chain” here on earth, but on a universal scale.
On May 3, 2016, a video has surfaced revealing an impressive zeroid sighting floating above Guadalajara, Mexico. It strongly resembles a blue whale, but from another dimension, and it may also prove that Ruehl’s theory regarding smaller zeroids being assimilated or eaten by the bigger ones is true. On a cosmic level, this could be a variation of the food chain defined by our earthly standards.
Scott Waring from ufosightingsdaily who shared this find with the UFO community expressed his excitement on his blog:
It’s not often you get to see a UFO that moves like a living, breathing animal, but this is one of those. Watch as it almost swims through the sky. Such creatures do exist in space and have been recorded on live cam, but to see them in our sky, that’s even rarer.
Since these otherworldly creatures remain mostly undocumented, we can only speculate on certain aspects such as their intelligence level and composition, but their presence on this planet and throughout space is a well-known thing.
While some believe them to be nothing more than weather balloons, or elaborated jokes meant to distract us from the real green men and artificial crafts, I consider them to be part of the various, mind-boggling UFO phenomenon. The truth is out there, and before searching beyond our earthly boundaries, we should meticulously analyze our own planet, as it may hold the key to universal knowledge.
US General Warns of Little Green Men and Hybrid Armies in the Near Future
US General Warns of Little Green Men and Hybrid Armies in the Near Future
There’s a chance that 2016 will be the great year of disclosure. A recent statement of a renowned military figure pointed out at a possible alien contact this year.
An unprecedented race to find alien lifeforms outside of our planet has recently began. Declassified files from different institutions have shown that UFOs are an actual phenomenon that has been kept at bay for many years. Prominent figures from across the world are now slowly preparing the world for UFO disclosure. The moment seems right with all the massive shift in technology, but are we going to be satisfied upon learning the truth?
A recent episode of such sort has as its protagonist an important American figure. General Mark A. Milley, the 39th Chief of Staff of the U.S Army, has warned the world about the upcoming events that are about to change the world as we know it. A few decades back, such a statement would had been considered a fantasy point of view to say the least, but recent years have shown that even the impossible can be achieved if we only desire badly enough.
General Milley spilled the beans about a certain topic that has been considered taboo for countless years – aliens and the UFO phenomenon, which in his acceptance appears to be extremely real. In a press conference he let the following information slip away:
“I can tell you that, from personal experience, and I know there’s many others who could tell you that as well…you’ll be dealing with terrorists, you’ll be dealing with hybrid armies, you’ll be dealing with little green men…and you’ll going to be dealing with it all, and it’s all going to be dealt with simultaneously. For that, you’re going to have to be ready. That’s why readiness, in my mind, is number one.”
This is a direct warning signal for the American people, and also the world. An imposing figure from the U.S. army has once again revealed what the future holds in store for us. The icing on the cake is probably the direct reference to the “little green men” that, according to the general, will make their presence noticed in the near future.
But why does he speak of aliens as a threat? Is it possible that the world governments have been provoking these otherworldly beings to reveal themselves to the world? Do they really know of their existence?
After thoroughly analyzing this statement, along with many other facts noticed throughout the years, an unusual scenario loomed into my mind. What if the U.S. government did have a secret pact with these otherworldly visitors, and are now planning to end it because our earthly technology has reached a considerable level?
If so, it’s possible that the U.S. has borrowed their knowledge in exchange for certain things such as free abduction and exchange programs, green light to monitor our species, and even free access to walk among us. All of these were possible through a silence treaty that is about to be broken.
This would explain why NASA has bombed the moon in 2009, and why we haven’t returned there for so long. A substantial goal for humanity has been to walk and eventually set camp on Earth’s natural satellite. However, we’ve briskly renounced our dream soon after achieving the first step. Were the alien outposts discovered there the main reason for this? Numerous photos that were made public by various governmental institutions show plenty of unidentified objects found in the vicinity of our landers and orbiters, but also structures resembling mining facilities.
If this is the case, it’s possible that the alien treaty has been (or soon will be) violated by our earthly rulers. The outcome can only be interpreted for the time being, but the future doesn’t look so bright for the regular humans.
Whatever the case, we can only wait for the final disclosure event. The warning has been launched, and we may have a few more years to prepare for the future, so if you haven’t built a bunker yet, you may need to reconsider your list of priorities. Search no longer for the truth, as it has apparently been here for decades.
The Black Knight is a mysterious ship that orbits around the Earth before the modern Space Age. Its origin, as well as its function, is unknown but different images of this object exist. The images have been taken by NASA.
In the following video we show you a long and comprehensive investigation to reconstruct, with the little available information of the object.
Even though the investigation is in the Spanish language, the images speak for themselves.
20 facts about the Black Knight satellite
According to monitoring agencies around the world, The Black knight satellite has been transmitting radio signals for over 50 years now.
The US and Soviet Union have shown particular interest in this “unidentified space object”
Rumors are that it was Nikola Tesla the first man to “intercept” a signal from the black knight satellite in 1899 after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs.
Since the 1930′s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which allegedly come from the “Black Knight”.
In 1957, Dr. Luis Corralos of the Communications Ministry in Venezuela photographed it while taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed over Caracas.
The story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940′s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th 1954.
The Time Magazine wrote about the Black Knight Satellite on the seventh of March, 1960.
In 1957, an unknown “object” was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft. According to reports, the “unidentified object” was in Polar orbit.
In 1957. The United States nor the Russians possessed the technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit.
The first Polar orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
In the 1960′s the Black Knight satellite was located once again in Polar Orbit. Astronomers and Scientists calculated the object’s weight to be over 10 tons which would be at that time the Heaviest Artificial Satellite to orbit our Planet.
The Black Knight’s orbit was unlike any other object orbiting Earth.
The Grumman Aircraft Corporation gave much importance to this mysterious “Satellite”, On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
The Grumman Aircraft Corporation formed a committee to study the data received from the observations made but nothing was made public.
In 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space. On his last orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green object in front of his capsule in the distance moving towards his Spacecraft. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar travelling East to West.
It was the Ham Radio operator who apparently decoded a series of signals received from the UFO Satellite and interpreted it as a star-chart centered on the Epsilon Bootes Star System.
According to the decoded message, the Black Knight satellite originated from the Epsilon Bootes Star System 13.000 years ago.
On August 23, 1954 the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story about the Black Knight Satellite that angered the Pentagon who were trying to keep the information secret.
NASA has released official images which apparently show the Black Knight Satellite.
Scientists suspect that chunks from the bottom of the North American tectonic plate, which is the upper portion of the mantle, are peeling off and sinking. Replacing the resulting void is gooey material from the asthenosphere.
Credit: Johan Swanepoel / Shutterstock.com
An odd phenomenon may explain why the Southeastern United States has experienced recent earthquakes, even though the region sits snugly in the middle of a tectonic plate and not at the edges, where all the ground-shaking action usually happens.
This seismicity — or relatively frequent earthquakes — may be the result of areas along the bottom of the North American tectonic plate peeling off, the researchers said. And this peeling motion is likely to continue, leading to more earthquakes in the future, like the 2011 magnitude-5.8 temblor that shook the nation's capital. [Image Gallery: This Millennium's Destructive Earthquakes]
To figure out the cause of these earthquakes, Berk Biryol, a seismologist at UNC Chapel Hill, and colleagues created 3D images of the uppermost part of Earth's mantle, which is just below the crust and comprises the bottom of a tectonic plate. These tectonic plates scoot around atop a layer of warm, viscous fluid called the asthenosphere.
The resulting X-ray images revealed that the plate's thickness in the southeast United States was uneven, with thick regions of dense, old rock combined with thinner areas composed of younger rocks that were also less dense.
The ground-shaking from the magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia, on Aug. 23, 2011, was felt by more people than any other earthquake in U.S. history, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Credit: USGS
Here's what the researchers think caused the wonkiness: Over time, as new material was added to the plate and parts of the plate were pulled apart, areas of higher density formed. Gravity would have pulled down the denser areas into the mantle, and at some point chunks would have broken off to sink into the gooey asthenosphere below, the researchers speculated.
At the same time, to fill the void left by the chunks peeling off from the bottom of the plate, the lighter material in the asthenosphere would have moved up to fill in the space. That buoyant material then would have cooled to become the thinner, younger section of the plate.
Where parts of the plate broke off or peeled, it became thinner and more prone to slip along fault lines, thus causing seismic activity. Biryol estimates that this activity has occurred for the past 65 million years or so.
"These events, usually, when they occur, they occur over long periods of time. The geological time scale is millions of years," Biryol said.
While the research looks only at what has occurred in the past, and not what seismic activity there may be in the future, Biryol said people living in the Southeast don't need earthquake preparedness kits just yet.
"I don't think things will be changing in the future, at least not in our lifetimes or our grandchildren's grandchildren's life," Biryol told Live Science. "Geological processes take place over long periods of time and nothing will change dramatically overnight."
Stunning Cloud Maps Tell the Story of Life on Earth
Stunning Cloud Maps Tell the Story of Life on Earth
By Brian Kahn, Climate Central
Seasonal cloud concentration by month. Darker colors indicate less of a seasonal trend in cloudiness.
Credit: EarthEnv
Clouds might seem like a nuisance if you’re headed on a Sunday afternoon picnic. But put aside your personal biases for a second and consider this: clouds can also tell the story of life on earth.
That story has become a lot clearer thanks to new maps created by scientists that document a global year in the clouds in more intimate detail than ever before. The maps — a cloud atlas if you will — provide a fine-grained view of how clouds move around in our atmosphere and represent an important link between climate and ecological research. They’re also pretty easy on the eyes.
It turns out, England is indeed cloudy for most of the year while most of the Bay Area’s clouds show up in February. Adam Wilson, a researcher at the University of Buffalo who helped create the cloud atlas, joked that you could use the maps to settle bets between friends on who lives in the cloudiest place.
But beyond bets and bragging rights, Wilson said the maps also provide a tool for tracking life around the planet. It turns out that the different biomes of the world from deserts to mountains to cloud forests all have their own special patterns of clouds, patterns that can be instrumental to studying the patterns of life itself.
"I wasn’t expecting the signal of the biomes would stand out so stark globally," Wilson said. "The Mediterranean, southwest Africa, Australia, they all pop out as a totally different. That’s not scientifically amazing but seeing it for the first time in a map was just striking."
Spatial variation in cloud frequency.
Credit: EarthEnv
There have been other efforts to get fine-grained cloud data in the past, but they’ve been marred by being limited to the tropics or getting false positives of clouds in snowy areas. Wilson and colleagues at Yale created a new analysis of satellite data captured at a 1-kilometer resolution by NASA everyday for the past 15 years to shine a light on the cloudy skies.
The new data analysis helps bridge an big divide between the climate and ecology communities. Ecologists track plants and animals across the planet at very fine scale, sometimes looking at a few square feet of soil, but climate science often provides data at a much larger spatial scale. With the new dataset, ecologists' understanding of the climate factors that affect life has vastly expanded.
And because it’s satellite data, the majority of the globe is covered including places that might be lacking on-the-ground measurements like rainforests and deserts in developing countries. Those areas are also home to a number of threatened and endangered species that will face growing pressure from climate change.
“Having the best possible environmental data will lead to best species model distribution approach,” he said, noting that that modeling could in turn help inform management decisions.
Timing of peak cloudiness.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
Species distribution modeling incorporates a whole host of environmental data from climate to the type of soil on the ground to get a better view of where individual plants and animals live. Wilson and his colleagues recently authored a study that plugged the new cloud data into a model for two species and found it helped improved their range estimates.
“One thing that’s been a disconnect between the climate community and the ecological community is this gap in spatial resolution,” he said. “Using remote sensing like we’ve done that’s capable of directly observing cloud cover is how we can get down to fine spatial resolution.”
Climate change is expected to put more stress on plants and animals. That means decisions on how to manage them, what areas to conserve and whether and where to relocate threatened species will take on ever greater importance. The new data could help answer some of those pressing questions.
Because the data is publicly available, users beyond the ecological realm can also play around with it. Wilson told Vox there could be a whole host of applications in the solar industry, which perhaps not surprisingly has a lot invested in the sunny side equation.
Bolivia: Remembering the Tarija UFO Crash (6 May 1978)
Bolivia: Remembering the Tarija UFO Crash (6 May 1978)
Source: PLANETA UFO (Argentina) and El Deber (Bolivia) Date: 05.06.2016
Bolivia: Remembering the Tarija UFO Crash (6 May 1978)
38 Years Since Mysterious Object Fell at the Border An unidentified flying object fell to the ground at the border between Bolivia and Argentina. Eyewitnesses remember that moment. According to their stories, NASA was involved.
38 years after a metallic and incandescent object fell at the border between Bolivia and Argentina, there are enduring mysteries about what took place on May 6, 1978.
Elias Vacaflor, a witness to the events 38 years ago, says that NASA was on the scene and did not say a word about what was taken away after the UFO crash. According to the former congressman, letters were sent to the government - both to the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Relations, without replies having ever been received. They only agreed that it was a "subject that did not give rise to any concerns."
"I remember that the sky lit up in an unusual way due to the flying of an object resembling a cylinder flying for Northwest to Southeast," says Vacaflor.
Residents of Mecoya, Mecoyita, Sidras, La Merced and other communities surrounding the crash area also witnessed the object and heard the subsequent explosion. Residents of Argentina, the neighboring country, also felt it, and the press offered information on the extraordinary event. The Clarín newspaper ran the headline "UFO Found on the Border Between Argentina and Bolivia."
Journalist Juan Antonio Abarzúa, who worked for El Tribuno de Saltaat the time, said that NASA helicopters arrived at the crash site.
Abarzúa, who formed part of that newspaper's visit to the scene, coincided with another team headed by physicist Orlando Bravo. He says that upon reaching the crash site, they found a scene of total destruction: a mountain - Cerro El Salle - had been destroyed, leaving a furrowed crater measuring 1,500 meters long, 800 meters wide and 50 meters deep (4920 ft. x 2600 ft. x 160 ft.).
Residents of Mecoya had already told them that the "gringos had taken away" the remains of whatever had fallen there.
(Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to David Maygua of El Deber and Guillermo Giménez of Planeta UFO)
Whether we visualize aliens as ray gun-toting invaders or peace-loving geniuses, we are fascinated by whether they exist and how they might finally contact us. It seems that scientists are no different.
From alien megastructures to space tractors, here are some of the more bizarre ways scientists have theorized that aliens are likely to contact humans.
10. The Megastructure
The mysterious monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey turned out to be an alien machine designed to observe species and trigger evolutionary behaviors. Some scientists have argued that alien megastructures could be acting as a giant beacon to other civilizations.
In fact, scientists have been closely watching the star KIC 8462852, whose luminescence has mysteriously varied over the past few years. Some argue that the star is surrounded by an alien megastructure that occasionally blocks light coming from the star. Other, less exciting explanations are a swarm of exoplanets or a planet-forming disc. Scientists have searched for brief laser pulses from the distant star, but have yet to find any.
“The hypothesis of an alien megastructure around KIC 8462852 is rapidly crumbling apart,” said Douglas Vakoch, president and author of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International. He also stated, “We found no evidence of an advanced civilization beaming intentional laser signals toward Earth.”
9. Flashing A Billion Stars
Astrophysicist Ragbir Bhathal works with SETI to scan the skies for possible communications from extraterrestrial intelligence. Unlike most SETI facilities, which look for radio signals, Bhathal’s facility looks for laser pulses at his lab. The pulses sweep a nearby volume of space—within about 100 light-years—to find laser bursts that come in regular patterns. Scientists are now capable of detecting signals as faint as a single photon of light every few fractions of a second.
Lasers can, in principle, help transmit messages over extraordinary distances. While scientists have monitored a large number of stars looking for alien laser signals—like the facilities at Harvard and Princeton that scanned more than 10,000 Sun-like stars for several years—no evidence for any alien communication has been found.
8. Alien Probes
Perhaps alien signals aren’t traveling in electromagnetic waves at all. Instead, signs of intelligent life may be very small objects sent out to explore the universe. After all, we have sent out probes to planets such Mars, Saturn, and Venus. Mathematicians in Scotland have suggested that “self-replicating” alien probes could have already explored our solar system andmay still be here, but are undetectable to our inferior technologies.
The robotic probes could explore our galaxy and self-replicate themselves from interstellar dust and gas. Afterward, the parent and child probes would each set off for a different star, where they would look for signs of life and self-replicate themselves again. Doctors Nicholson and Forgan concluded that a fleet of these probes could explore the entire galaxy in the relatively short time of 10 million years.
Dr. Forgan said that the fact that we have not detected or seen any evidence of alien probes in the solar system suggests either that there have been no probe-building civilizations in our neighborhood in a few million years or that the probes are so hi-tech we are unable to observe them. Another possibility is that we are failing the aliens’ intelligence test by not detecting the probes.
7. Radio Waves From Far Away
For years, mysterious blasts of radio waves coming from billions of light-years away have stumped our scientists. Lasting only several thousandths of a second, the blasts, called fast radio bursts, have appeared randomly in the sky. Scientists haven’t been able to figure out what these blazing bright bursts actually are. Alternately, they have suggested that the culprits could be evaporating black holes, colliding dense objects, or flaring dead stars.
After studying how the incoming radio waves from a newly detected burst were twisted and scattered, a team of scientists have uncovered some crucial clues about the blast’s origin: It originated far away, in an area with dense, highly magnetized plasma, and it traveled through two gas clouds before colliding with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
Now, astronomers suspect that flaring magnetars (magnetic stars) might also emit radio waves and could be the culprits behind fast radio bursts. “It’s very exciting,” says Duncan Lorimer, the astronomer at West Virginia University who discovered the first fast radio burst in 2007. “We are definitely moving further forward to solving the mystery.”
6. Junk Radiation
Not all aliens may be looking for other creatures in the universe. Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has argued that even shy aliens might develop technology to siphon energy from a nearby star using an orbiting object known as a Dyson sphere. If humans were to collect all of the Sun’s energy, we would probably use some form of Dyson sphere.
Freeman J. Dyson first explored this idea as a thought experiment in 1960. He proposed that searching for such structures might lead to the discovery of advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy. These Dyson sphereswould throw off waste heat in the form of infrared radiation. Already, researchers at the Allen Telescope Array and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope are scouring the skies for signs of such waste radiation.
If it sounds like science fiction, Dyson did admit that he borrowed it from the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker and used it as inspiration.
5. Space Tractors
Jaron Lanier suggested that it was time to start thinking about repositioning the Sun and other nearby stars in order to send signals to aliens. After that, we should begin to search for signs that suggest aliens might have done the same for us.
In fact, when neutron stars were discovered, scientists thought they might be messages from “little green men.” Lanier suggested sending a significant number of “tractor” spacecrafts over many years into the outer solar system. The spacecraft would be programmed to operate for hundreds of thousands of years, with their gravitational pull diverting solar objects.
The point of moving stars around is to guide them into orbital formations that would not have occurred naturally. A group of stars organized to present a sign in this way might be called a “graphstellation”—like a constellation, but also a form of writing. This message would say “Hey, we are here.”
4. Needle In A Haystack
Even if aliens are trying to make contact, there’s no guarantee we would receive their messages. The universe is 91 billion light-years across, and messages could come from anywhere. To narrow the search, some argue that aliens would be more likely to send messages our way if they knew where we were. A study published in February 2016 found that there are only 82 stars that we know of that have a direct line of sight to Earth.
Heller and his colleague, Ralph Pudritz at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, predicted that there might be up to 100,000 stars within this zone of the sky—some of which could have planets teeming with life orbiting them. One advantage of this approach is that this tiny slice of sky is relatively easy to search.
“You could just skim or scan the whole Earth transit zone over the course of maybe a few dozen nights or so, depending on how large the field of view of your radio telescope is,” Heller told Live Science. If these hidden exoplanets harbor life, they’d also be in the same galactic neighborhood . . . just a few hundred light-years away.
3. Destruction Of An Alien Planet
One of the ways we may be able to spot alien civilizations is through the destruction of their own planet, says Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, who is leading the hunt for alien life at the SETI Institute in California. “There is a window in time when you can expect a civilization to get to this disequilibrium as we are in now. During this time, you will find signatures in the atmosphere of a planet that shouldn’t be there.”
Cabrol’s views echo that of the former astronaut, John Grunsfeld, who earlier this year said, “If there is life out there, intelligent life, they’ll know we’re here.” He believes advanced alien civilizations may spot humans from afar due to the changes we’ve made to Earth’s environment. At the Astrobiology Science Conference in Chicago, he stated, “We put out atmospheric signatures that guarantee someone with a large telescope 20 light-years away could detect us.”
2. Wait A Few Billion Years
Researchers from NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) used observations from telescopes, like the Hubble and Kepler, to calculate that Earth is only in the first 8 percent of all Earth-like planets that will ever form. The other 92 percent of Earth-like planets haven’t even been formed yet. Author Peter Behroozi said, “Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early.”
Because it is so early, the researchers think it is highly unlikely that ours is the only planet that will ever develop intelligent life. In the paper, Behroozi and his co-author, Molly Peeples, wrote, “The Earth formed before 92 percent of similar planets that the universe will form. This implies an 8 percent chance that we are the only civilization the universe will ever have.” Those are pretty good odds to say that we aren’t alone. We might just need to wait a few billion years to make sure.
1. Find A Clone Of Our Sun
What if we could find a star that’s similar in temperature, size, and chemical composition to our Sun? Our Earth relies on the Sun’s energy to fuel life by using photosynthesis. If we could find a star that matches our Sun, then maybe there could also be a twin solar system.
In 2012, astronomers discovered HP 56948, the Sun’s “clone,” only 200 light-years away. The chemical composition of HP 56548 has unusual amounts of aluminum, calcium, magnesium, and silicon—the same ratio as our Sun. However, the system may not have an Earth-sized planet in its habitable zone. Even if there is one, it may not have the right chemical ingredients for life, such as water and carbon. And, even if there is a flourishing world with life forms, it may not have progressed to an intelligent species.
If it takes four billion years for intelligent beings to emerge, and if there is an Earth-like planet, then a civilization should be orbiting HP 56548 right now.
A long time ago in a Welsh aircraft hangar far away: Never-before-seen images reveal secret 1979 project to construct Star Wars' Millennium Falcon for classic films
A long time ago in a Welsh aircraft hangar far away: Never-before-seen images reveal secret 1979 project to construct Star Wars' Millennium Falcon for classic films
The only full-scale model of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spaceship was built in a Welsh hangar in 1979
The life-size version of the spaceship was constructed for The Empire Strikes Back, the second film in the series
Workers at Pembroke Dock were sworn to secrecy over the project and it was nicknamed the 'Magic Roundabout'
The secret of how the legendary Star Wars spaceship the Millennium Falcon was built has been revealed - in a high-security project codenamed 'Magic Roundabout' in the Welsh countryside.
The only full-size model of Han Solo's iconic craft was constructed at an aircraft hangar in Pembroke Dock, west Wales, where workers were sworn to silence over what they were making.
Newly released photographs show dozens of joiners, welders and metal-platers at work during the three months they spent putting together the giant freighter flown by Harrison Ford in the famous science fiction series.
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Engineering foreman John Clark and two friends are pictured beside the life-size Millennium Falcon model in a newly released photo of the project
The distinctive shape of the Millennium Falcon is clearly recognisable in the second photo taken by Mr Clark
A group of workers go over the plans for the massive spaceship during its construction at Pembroke Dock
It was built inside an aircraft hangar with workers involved in the project sworn to secrecy
The huge prop was made inside an aircraft hangar which had been home to the Sunderland flying boats during the Second World War.
The giant steel doors were kept shut from morning until night to hide the construction - there were no unauthorised visits, photographs were banned and the workers were sworn to secrecy.
But one amateur photographer managed to get a snap of the 'fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy' as it was nearing completion.
The never before seen picture shows how the Millennium Falcon earned its wings in the town of Pembroke Dock.
John Evans, a historian in the town, said: 'Star Wars has a global following and this is yet another great reason for tourists to come here.
'Pembroke Dock is a military town and we have people coming from far and wide to follow family footsteps, be it Navy, Army or Air Force.
'But there is also this incredible link to Star Wars which is almost a cult thing and a 21st century concept.
'People can still see the very building where the Millennium Falcon was made.'
The photograph was taken by local man John Clark, a foreman with Marcon Fabrications, a heavy engineering firm that serviced the UK's petrochemical and oil industries.
Work on the model (pictured) finished in 1979 and it was transported to film studios in Hertfordshire
Mr Clark recalled: 'One of the directors was in cahoots with someone with the studios or someone associated with the Star Wars films.
'I was very surprised that we'd gone that type of work because we built stuff for the oil industry and the offshore industry, but we got the contract. It was just a reasonable size team of workers that built all the framework.
'I was foreman on the job at the time. When we built it - as you can see on the photographs - we had it on hover pads on the legs so that it could be moved as though it was going to take off and so forth.
'We tried to keep it as much a secret as possible because you didn't want everybody prying and coming round the hangar, but it got out. People were prying and trying to see what was going on but half of them didn't believe it, saying: "Building a spaceship? That's rubbish".'
He said the Millennium Falcon was then disassembled into pieces so it could be transported to the studios in Hertfordshire.
'The artists in the film industry, the craftsman, went to work on it and made it into what you see on The Empire Strikes Back.'
This rare photograph was taken during the top-secret project which was codenamed Magic Roundabout
Work on the spaceship finished in 1979 and the prop was then transported to Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire
The company had been asked by filmmakers to build a life-sized, moving prop for key scenes in the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
And Mr Clark used his pocket-sized 110 camera to get a colour photograph of himself and two friends standing next to the Millennium Falcon.
Work on the spaceship finished shortly after the picture was taken in 1979 and the prop was transported to Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.
The film was released in 1980 and was a box office smash around the world. This was followed up by the third film in the trilogy, 1983's Return of the Jedi.
A permanent exhibition of Star Wars photographs, artefacts and memorabilia is being opened to celebrate Pembroke Dock's links with the iconic movie franchise.
Mr Evans added: 'This has been a huge thing for us.
'This is great for tourism and a very unique claim to fame for Pembroke Dock.'
Star Wars The Force Awakens Millennium Falcon Scene Reversed
THE MILLENNIUM FALCON: HAN SOLO AND CHEWBACCA'S LIGHT FREIGHTER
Han Solo's much-loved Millennium Falcon (pictured) has taken a unique place in pop culture
In the 38 years since it first appeared on the big screen, the space ship piloted by Han Solo and his Wookiee assistant Chewbacca in the original Star Wars series has become an easily recognizable piece of pop culture.
Armed with laser cannons and the famed 'hyperdrive' technology, it featured in the first movie A New Hope and went on to become a regular setting throughout the series.
Such is the high esteem in which fans hold it, the exact specifications of the model, its weaponry, shielding systems and engines have all been meticulously documented.
The ship is technically a light freighter measuring 111ft in length by 82ft wide. While it is rounded and flat in shape, it measures 26ft high - inclusive of the attached exterior weaponry.
Its maximum speed is 1,050kmph. But this is vastly surpassed when it goes into 'hyperdrive' - a mode illustrated in the films when the stars surrounding it appear stretched or blurred as it travels through light years within the space of hours.
The ship is powered by five different engines - primarily a 'Quadrex power core' and four backup or emergency generators.
Its main weapons are 2G Quad Laster cannons and a hidden ground-defence blaster cannon, though many other improvised weapons make brief appearances in the films.
Capable of carrying six passengers, it is crewed by two people - those usually being Han Solo or Chewbacca - with provisions for two others to man guns during space battles.
The ship was piloted by Harrison Ford's character Han Solo (right). Here he pictured next to Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia and Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker
Peter Mayhew is dressed as Chewbacca during filming for the original Star Wars trilogy.
He is pictured centre alongside co-stars Luke Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford
'World on brink of being told aliens EXIST' after NASA 'hints at announcement'
'World on brink of being told aliens EXIST' after NASA 'hints at announcement'
THE world's population is being primed for an announcement that aliens have visited Earth after NASA hinted at new developments, conspiracy theorists have shockingly claimed.
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
But, whereas the NASA chief was likely referring to signs of the earliest forms of life, such as single-celled organisms in space, the conspiracy community has taken the remarks a giant leap further.
In a posting on Conspiracyclub.com, the website argued: "Most people 'in the know' realise that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that 'there are indications of alien life' is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
"It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes."
What we’re going to understand is that our 'secret' government has been hiding this fact for ages.
Conspiracy Club
The website report suggested that rather than being on the brink of an historic discovery, the world's leaders have been hiding the existence of aliens from us for years.
The post added: "What we’re going to understand is that our 'secret' government has been hiding this fact for ages.
"Our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
"We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10million years old."
Conspiracy theorists claim that a global elite comprised of people more senior than the US President have been hiding evidence from the general population for years for fear of their reaction and the potential impact on religion, the rule of law, and civil disorder.
But sceptics claim much of these conspiracies are just myths that begin life as sic-fi novels and explode once someone puts them forward, before they are repeated online over and over.
But the website is convinced something is coming, but that NASA's talk of new announcements were just a "ruse."
It added: "Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed."
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“Wereld krijgt binnenkort te horen dat aliens bestaan”
“Wereld krijgt binnenkort te horen dat aliens bestaan”
De wereldbevolking wordt warm gemaakt voor buitenaards bezoek op aarde. Dat maken complottheoretici op uit uitspraken door NASA-wetenschappers, schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
Volgens hoofdwetenschapper van de NASA Ellen Stofan zullen we in de komende 10 jaar sterke tekenen van buitenaards leven hebben en in de komende 10 tot 20 jaar definitief bewijs ervan.
“We weten waar we moeten zoeken en hoe we moeten zoeken,” zei ze. “In de meeste gevallen hebben we daar ook de technologie al voor. De vraag is niet of we bewijs van buitenaards leven zullen vinden, de vraag is wanneer.”
Verborgen gehouden
Hoewel de hoofdwetenschapper waarschijnlijk microben bedoelde, gaan complottheoretici een stap verder. De website Conspiracyclub.co schrijft bijvoorbeeld: “De meeste ingewijden beseffen dat NASA onderdeel is van het militair-industrieel complex, maar de recente bekentenis in de media dat er ‘sterke aanwijzingen zijn voor buitenaards leven’ is waarschijnlijk een poging om je aandacht te trekken voordat de openbaarmaking plaatsvindt.”
“Het zal niet zo lang gaan duren als we onze ogen openen,” klinkt het nog.
De website suggereert dat de wereldleiders het bestaan van aliens al jaren voor ons verborgen houden. “Onze ‘geheime overheid’ verbergt dit al een eeuwigheid. Onze schaduwregering heeft gelogen over buitenaardse ontvoeringen, goedaardige wezens die weinig kunnen doen tot ons collectieve bewustzijn stijgt en nog veel meer.”
Met ons DNA geknoeid
“We zullen erachter komen dat buitenaardse wezens niet alleen onze planeet bezoeken, maar ook dat veel buitenaardse rassen door de jaren heen met ons DNA hebben geknoeid en dat er oude mensachtige rassen zijn die meer dan 10 miljoen jaar oud zijn.”
Complottheoretici claimen dat de wereldelite, bestaande uit mensen die boven de Amerikaanse president staan, al jaren bewijs verborgen houden voor het publiek uit angst voor de reactie en de impact op religie.
Sceptici beweren dat veel van deze complotten mythes zijn die gebaseerd zijn op sciencefictionboeken. De website is echter overtuigd dat er ‘iets’ aanstaande is, maar dat de aankondiging door de NASA slechts een zoethoudertje is.
Een voor velen bekend gegeven, is dat wanneer er een UFO in de buurt is er elektrische storingen optreden.
Talloze verhalen van ooggetuigen waarbij automotoren opeens niet meer werken en batterijen van mobiele telefoons zomaar ineens leeg zijn.
Het komt echter niet vaak voor dat je iets dergelijks in de praktijk kunt zien.
In de buurt van een klein Pools dorp, Majdan in de buurt van Lublin, gebeurde iets heel merkwaardigs.
In de onderstaande video zie je hoe een cirkelvormige ufo langzaam een windmolenpark nadert.
Dan gebeurt er iets wat je niet dagelijks zult zien; de windmolen stopt met draaien. Nadat de UFO is gepasseerd, beginnen de wieken weer gewoon te draaien alsof er niet is gebeurd.
UFO Orb Visits Wind Farm In Poland, Stops Propellers, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Orb Visits Wind Farm In Poland, Stops Propellers, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 17, 2016 Location of sighting: Majdanek, Lublin, Poland Here is an interesting catch from Poland. A UFO exlpores a wind farm and the propeller stops as the UFO comes closer to it. This kind of UFO is known well by NASA, because this metallic orb style UFO had a fleet of 3 or more following so close the the Shuttle Atlantis that they delayed landing for 24 hours. The orbs were similar to this. I will place the videos below to compare. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Film recorded April 17, 2016 near the small village of Majdan in the upper region of Lublin. According to witnesses, the object came flying from the east and flew over the area for about an hour. After the recording object disappeared.
Moon Of Saturn Is An Artificial Alien Construct, May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Moon Of Saturn Is An Artificial Alien Construct, May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 2016 Location of discovery: Moons in Earths Solar System Here is an interesting video by Youtube user Securityteam10 which discusses a few of the many pieces of evidence that moons in our solar system are not naturally made, but made and controlled by intelligent aliens. The evidence is mourning and in the next ten years, the tech necessary to confirm these moons are artificial, will be in the hands of the public. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Advanced Aliens Were Around BEFORE US: Confirms Exoplanet Scientists
Advanced Aliens Were Around BEFORE US: Confirms Exoplanet Scientists
It is becoming very clear that us humans may not be not the universe’s first advanced civilization.
This is the conclusion of a recent revision of the famous 1961 Drake Equation, which actually estimates the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe.
Their new equation includes recent data from Nasa’s Kepler satellite on the number of exoplanets that could harbour life.
Researchers also adapted the equation from being about the number of civilizations that exist now, to being about the probability of civilization being the only one that has ever existed!
We are FAR from alone
This important recent study shows that unless the odds of advanced life evolving on a habitable planet are astonishingly low, then humankind is not the only advanced civilization to have lived and there are probably far more advanced Beings out there in the greater Universe!
In fact, the odds of an advanced civilization developing need to be less than one in 10 billion trillion for humans to be the only intelligent life in the universe.
But Kepler data places those odds much higher, which means technologically advanced aliens are likely to have existed at some point.
Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and co-author of the paper, went on to say:
‘The question of whether advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the universe has always been vexed with three large uncertainties in the Drake equation,’
‘We’ve known for a long time approximately how many stars exist.
‘We didn’t know how many of those stars had planets that could potentially harbour life, how often life might evolve and lead to intelligent beings, and how long any civilizations might last before becoming extinct.’
‘Thanks to Nasa’s Kepler satellite and other searches, we now know that roughly one-fifth of stars have planets in ‘habitable zones,’ where temperatures could support life as we know it.
‘So one of the three big uncertainties has now been constrained.’ He said.
Frank went on to say that the third big question is. how long civilizations might survive – something which is as of yet still completely unknown.
‘The fact that humans have had rudimentary technology for roughly ten thousand years doesn’t really tell us if other societies would last that long or perhaps much longer,’ he explained.
The Drake equation (top row) has proven to be a durable framework for research. But it is impossible to do anything more than guess at variables such as L, the probably longevity of other advanced civilizations. In new research, Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan offer a new equation (bottom row)
But Frank and his co-author, Woodruff Sullivan of the astronomy department at the University of Washington, found they could eliminate that term altogether by simply expanding the question.
‘Rather than asking how many civilizations may exist now, we ask ‘are we the only technological species that has ever arisen?’ said Sullivan.
‘This shifted focus eliminates the uncertainty of the civilization lifetime question and allows us to address what we call the ‘cosmic archaeological question’ – how often in the history of the universe has life evolved to an advanced state?
Rather than guessing at the odds of advanced life developing, they calculate the odds against it occurring in order for humanity to be the only advanced civilization.
With that, Frank and Sullivan then calculated the line between a universe where humanity has been the sole experiment in civilization and one where others have come before us.
‘Of course, we have no idea how likely it is that an intelligent technological species will evolve on a given habitable planet,’ says Frank.
‘But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the only civilization the universe has produced.
‘We call that the pessimism line. If the actual probability is greater than the pessimism line, then a technological species and civilization has likely happened before.’
Using this interesting approach, Frank and Sullivan can now calculate how unlikely advanced life must be if there has never been another example among the universe’s ten billion trillion stars, or even among our own Milky Way galaxy’s hundred billion.
‘One in 10 billion trillion is incredibly small,’ says Frank. ‘To me, this implies that other intelligent, technology producing species very likely have evolved before us.
‘Think of it this way. Before our result you’d be considered a pessimist if you imagined the probability of evolving a civilization on a habitable planet were, say, one in a trillion
‘But even that guess, one chance in a trillion, implies that what has happened here on Earth with humanity has in fact happened about a 10 billion other times over cosmic history.’
For smaller volumes the numbers are less extreme.
For example, another technological species likely has evolved on a habitable planet in our own Milky Way galaxy if the odds against it are better than one chance in 60 billion.
But if those numbers seem to give ammunition to the ‘optimists’ about the existence of alien civilizations,
Sullivan points out that the full Drake equation – which calculates the odds that other civilizations are around today – may give solace to the pessimists.
‘The universe is more than 13 billion years old,’ said Sullivan.
‘That means that even if there have been a thousand civilizations in our own galaxy, if they live only as long as we have been around – roughly ten thousand years – then all of them are likely already extinct.
‘And others won’t evolve until we are long gone. For us to have much chance of success in finding another ‘contemporary’ active technological civilization, on average they must last much longer than our present lifetime.’
‘Given the vast distances between stars and the fixed speed of light we might never really be able to have a conversation with another civilization anyway,’ said Frank.
‘If they were 20,000 light years away then every exchange would take 40,000 years to go back and forth.’
But, as Frank and Sullivan point out, even if there aren’t other civilizations in our galaxy to communicate with now, the new result still has a profound scientific and philosophical importance.
‘From a fundamental perspective the question is ‘has it ever happened anywhere before?” said Frank.
Our result is the first time anyone has been able to set any empirical answer for that question and it is astonishingly likely that we are not the only time and place that an advance civilization has evolved.’
Their new equation includes recent data from Nasa’s Kepler satellite on the number of exoplanets that could harbour life. Pictured is an artist’s impression of the probe
U.I.P SUMMARY
Once upon a time leading Scientists wanted us all to believe that we are alone in the Universe – this has now been proven to be pretty much impossible. The Universe is infested with life out there, and we the Human Race are probably far less developed than many older/wiser advanced Alien species.
You will notice that these Scientists nearly always play down their investigations into Alien life, but we mustn’t be too harsh on them for this as they are scared about disclosing too much after so many leading Scientists have recently been killed off (so it appears).
Please check out some previous articles on this subject matter:
Lets not forget that NASA have PROMISED To discover aliens by 2015……!?
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Eerste complete topografische kaart van Mercurius is een feit!
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Eerste complete topografische kaart van Mercurius is een feit!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Topografisch gezien kent Mercurius nu weinig geheimen meer: alle hoogte- en dieptepunten van de planeet zijn ons nu bekend!
De nieuwe topografische kaart is gebaseerd op gegevens die ruimtesonde MESSENGER heeft verzameld. Eerder brachten onderzoekers al een kaart uit waarop de topografie van het noordelijke deel en het gebied rond de evenaar van Mercurius pronkte. Hoe het zuiden topografisch gezien in elkaar stak, bleef een raadsel. Tot nu.
De complete topografische kaart van Mercurius. Lagergelegen gebieden zijn blauw en paars, hogergelegen gebieden zijn oranje, bruin en rood. Klik voor een vergroting.
Afbeelding: USGS.
Hoog en laag Onderzoekers hebben zo’n 100.000 foto’s gebruikt om een topografisch model van geheel Mercurius te maken. Het nieuwe model onthult tal van interessante topografische kenmerken, waaronder het hoogste en diepste punt van Mercurius. Het hoogste punt op de binnenste planeet van ons zonnestelsel ligt zo’n 4,48 kilometer boven de gemiddelde hoogte van het oppervlak. Het laagste punt ligt daar zo’n 5,38 kilometer onder. Het hoogstgelegen punt vinden we net ten zuiden van de evenaar in één van de oudste gebieden die Mercurius rijk is. Het laagste punt vinden we in het Rachmaninoff-basin.
Nabij de noordpool Ook geeft de nieuwe kaart een prachtig beeld van het gebied nabij de noordpool van Mercurius. “MESSENGER heeft eerder ontdekt dat vulkanische activiteit in het verleden dit deel van de planeet met lava heeft ontdekt, op sommige plekken is de laag lava meer dan 1,6 kilometer dik,” vertelt onderzoeker Nancy Chabot. Het is in het verleden lastig gebleken om dit deel van Mercurius goed in beeld te krijgen. De zon staat hier altijd laag aan de horizon, waardoor lange schaduwen over het gebied vallen. En toch is het MESSENGER gelukt om een paar goede foto’s te maken en die leiden tot een prachtig topografisch kaartje (zie hieronder). “Dit is één van mijn favoriete kaarten van Mercurius,” stelt Chabot. “Nu de kaart beschikbaar is, kijk ik ernaar uit dat deze gebruikt wordt om deze epische vulkaanuitbarstingen die het oppervlak van Mercurius vormgaf te onderzoeken.”
De vulkanische vlakten nabij de noordpool van Mercurius.
Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Het is alweer een jaar geleden dat de missie van ruimtesonde MESSENGER tot een einde kwam. De sonde boorde zich in het oppervlak van Mercurius. En zo kwam een einde aan een missie die eigenlijk één jaar had moeten duren, maar uiteindelijk vier jaar in beslag nam en een schat aan informatie over Mercurius heeft opgeleverd.
Veel waterijs te vinden op het oppervlak van Pluto's maan Hydra
Veel waterijs te vinden op het oppervlak van Pluto's maan Hydra
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat blijkt uit nieuwe gegevens van ruimtesonde New Horizons. Het kan verklaren waarom Hydra zoveel licht reflecteert.
We wisten dat Pluto vijf manen telde, maar tot voor kort hadden we – zeker van de kleinere exemplaren – geen flauw idee hoe ze er in detail uit zagen. Ruimtesonde New Horizons heeft daar verandering in gebracht. De sonde scheerde vorig jaar juli langs Pluto en zijn manen en dat heeft prachtige gedetailleerde foto’s opgeleverd. Op die foto’s was onder meer te zien dat maantje Hydra – de maan die het verst van Pluto verwijderd is – bijzonder veel licht reflecteert. En nu weten onderzoekers – wederom dankzij New Horizons – hoe dat komt.
Waterijs Het oppervlak van de maan is voor een groot deel bedekt met vrijwel zuiver waterijs, zo laat NASA weten. Dat blijkt uit gegevens die New Horizons al op 14 juli verzamelde, maar die nu pas op aarde zijn gearriveerd.
Schoon Net als Charon – de grootste maan van Pluto – wordt het oppervlak van Hydra gedomineerd door waterijs. Maar het ijs op Hydra lijkt veel ‘schoner’. Zo is het waterijs op Charon ‘verontreinigd’ door donker materiaal dat zich door de tijd heen op de maan heeft verzameld. Hoe weet Hydra het oppervlak zo schoontjes te houden? Dat is nog onduidelijk. “Misschien wordt het oppervlak van Hydra continu ‘ververst’ door inslagen van kleine meteorieten die verontreinigingen verwijderen,” vertelt onderzoeker Simon Porter. “Dit proces zou op het veel grotere Charon niet effectief zijn, omdat Charons sterke zwaartekracht al het puin dat bij deze inslagen ontstaat, naar zich toe trekt.”
Hoewel het alweer bijna een jaar geleden is dat New Horizons langs Pluto scheerde, zijn nog lang niet alle gegevens die de sonde tijdens en kort na de scheervlucht verzamelde, binnen. Pas dit najaar is de download compleet. Tussen de gegevens waar astronomen nu nog op wachten, bevinden zich onder meer gegevens over de samenstelling van de andere manen van Pluto.
New compositional data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a distinct water-ice signature on the surface of Pluto’s outermost moon, Hydra. Pluto’s largest moon Charon measures 752 miles (1,210 kilometers across), while Hydra is approximately 31 miles (50 kilometers) long.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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"Pluto’s Icy Moon Hydra" - NASA De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Astronaut Tom Jones during one of his three spacewalks on Space Shuttle mission STS-98 in February 2001 which activated the U.S. Destiny Laboratory, the historic scientific centerpiece of the International Space Station.
Stories have been told for decades about American astronauts who supposedly have seen unexplained aerial phenomena (as Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton prefers to call UFOs).
But how many astronauts have really reported close encounters with objects that could be verified as actual unknowns? Vanishingly few, it turns out.
Veteran NASA astronaut Tom Jones said he wondered about UFOs long before he joined the space agency.
“I used to be a big UFO fan when I was a teenager, thinking that this was the next great frontier of exploration,” Jones said in a recent interview with The Huffington Post. “I dropped that opinion later on, after not seeing the evidence that I was looking for.”
In his Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine column, “Ask the Astronaut,” Jones answered a recent question about whether he or other astronauts had ever seen UFOs from orbit. He wrote:
Astronauts have not seen any evidence of alien life. Reports of unidentified flying objects in images returned from the shuttle or [space] station have turned out to be ice crystals, drifting orbital debris, lightning flashes, or meteors streaking through the dark atmosphere below. So far, our search for extraterrestrial life — and other civilizations in space — has turned up no proof of alien civilizations.
Jones told HuffPost how, during his 1996 space shuttle mission, there were reports that his crew saw UFOs:
I was on the shuttle Columbia — STS-80 — and even made a blog entry, ‘Did UFOs Visit The Shuttle Columbia?’ Because when we came back from that mission in 1996, NASA got several queries from people who were watching the video — NASA TV back then — and said, ‘Hey, we saw spaceships on the shuttle video. What’s NASA got to say about that?’
Public affairs referred them to me because I was one of the crew members, and I looked at the video and I said, ‘Oh, I know what this is — this is just ice crystals floating along beside the ship for the first couple of days of the flight.’ What looked to some people like a spaceship streaking across the star field, was — to us, looking out the windows — a complete non-event. And yet, it was very significant to people who were watching.
Jones flew on four space shuttle missions over 11 years, culminating with STS-98, in February 2001, as seen in the below video. On that mission, he led three spacewalks to install the U.S. Destiny Laboratory — the historic scientific centerpiece for the International Space Station.
Jones said no contemporary astronaut has ever told him of seeing something unexplained or inexplicable. “Certainly, nothing in the way of spaceships,” he added.
“Now, I’m aware that there have been a couple of astronauts in the past who’ve spoken out and said they know from other people that there’s evidence of UFOs and spaceships that have visited the Earth and that the government might be withholding it.
“They all seem to be secondhand, or they seem to be sightings of things that they’ve seen in orbit that, perhaps, they couldn’t explain at the time. And that’s where the story seems to peter out.”
One of those mentioned by Jones was the late Gordon Cooper, an original Mercury astronaut — one of the famous “Right Stuff” space voyagers. In 1975, Cooper told this writer how, in 1951 (before he became an astronaut), he and several other officers at an Air Force base in Germany witnessed groups of circular objects passing over the base.
“A weatherman spotted some strange objects flying at fairly high altitude and before long, the entire fighter group was out peering through binoculars at these groups of objects coming over in very strange patterns. But unlike fighters, they would almost stop in their forward velocity and change 90 degrees in their flight path. We never could get close enough to pin them down, but they were round in shape and very metallic-looking.
“I’d like to point out that most astronauts are very reluctant to even discuss UFOs due to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold fake stories and forged documents abusing their names and reputations without hesitation,” Cooper said.
Jones said it’s important to be cautious about unusual aerial objects.
“Even from people that I respect, like a couple of very early and famous astronauts, I haven’t seen the proof that would satisfy me that there’s really something there,” he said. “And I think it’s far more likely that people who see unexplained things in the sky, there’s no proof that they’re actually intelligently guided or alien spaceships of any kind.
“Until all these people running around with cellphones and video cameras now can really produce something that’s really grabbing, I don’t think that I should change my mind about it.”
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