Complex Life May Have Emerged A Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought

 Organic fragments that Chinese scientists say are proof that multi-celled life on Earth began around a billion years earlier than previously thought. Photograph: Maoyan Zhu/AFP/Getty Images 

IN BRIEF

Researchers at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology have found fossils dating back 1.5 billion years ago, and they believe they are multicellular organisms. This challenges the idea that complex life started only around half a billion years ago.

DISCOVERY CHALLENGES HISTORY BOOKS

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology claim that a fossil they found in Hebei Province’s Yanshan region in China shows that multicellular life actually have started on Earth 1.5 billion years ago—a billion years earlier than previous studies dictate.

“Our discovery pushes back nearly one billion years the appearance of macroscopic, multicellular eukaryotes compared to previous research,” Maoyan Zhu, a professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.

Prior to this discovery, it was believed that only single-celled organisms existed for billions of years, a period referred to as the “boring billion” due to the lack of any significant evolutionary progress in this era.

After then, there was a great leap into complex life, resulting in the vast (and fast) evolutionary branching out of species. But when exactly this started remains unknown; however, the new study offers better insights into just how far back life goes.

The team says they gathered 167 measurable fossils, the largest of them measuring 30cm by 8cm. One third of the specimens were in one of four regular shapes, indicating complexity.

These are “compelling evidence for the early evolution of organisms large enough to be visible with the naked eye,” Zhu says. “This totally renews current knowledge on the early history of life.”

Previously, eukaryotes of comparable size had not been known to appear in the fossil record until about 600m years ago, when a multitude of soft-bodied creatures inhabited the world’s oceans. Prior to this, for the first 10 million centuries after the initial evolution of complex cells, the cells didn’t really do all that much evolving.

University of Bristol Palaeobiology professor Phil Donoghue says the discovery could be momentous: “They are not the oldest eukaryotes, but they are certainly the oldest demonstrably multicellular eukaryotes.”

SCIENCE MEETS RESISTANCE, AS IT SHOULD

As with most discoveries big enough to potentially rewrite history, the discovery is not exempt from resistance.

University of Oxford senior researcher Jonathan Antcliffe thinks the specimens are more likely colonies of bacteria, rather than eukaryotic. “There is nothing here to suggest that the specimens are eukaryotic, as opposed to bacterial,” he notes.

A researcher from the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani, whose discovery of a fossil supposedly of a 2.1-billion year old multicellular organism was also met with skepticism, thinks the evidence presented by the Nanjing team is also unsatisfactory for evaluation, as it could not clearly distinguish whether the specimens were multicellular, eukaryotic, or complex.

Source: The Guardian

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22-05-2016 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

Mysterie van het "Egyptische Atlantis": tentoonstelling toont gezonken stad die 1300 jaar op zeebodem lag - HLN.be

Door: Dimitri Antonissen 

VIDEO Meer dan 1300 jaar was het niet meer dan een legende: een gezonken Egyptische stad die ergens op de bodem van de Middellandse Zee verborgen moest liggen. Het "Egyptische Atlantis" werd ze in verhalen genoemd. Ooit moest Thonis-Heracleion de belangrijkste Egyptische havenstad zijn geweest. Tot een natuurramp de stad -en al haar monumenten- deed zinken. De legende blijkt nu écht te zijn. Een Franse onderwaterarcheoloog herontdekte de stad in 2000, en een prestigieuze tentoonstelling in het British Museum toont voor het eerst de schatten die de "duikende" Indiana Jones kon blootleggen. HLN was dit weekend bij de pas geopende tentoonstelling.

Voorzicht maken duikers riemen vast aan het 5 meter hoge beeld om het uit het slib te halen © British Museum.

 

Op een oppervlakte van verschillende vierkante kilometer vonden Fransman Franck Goddio en zijn team van duikers een enorme verzameling sfinksen, gigantische standbeelden, gouden ringen, delicate bronzen beeldjes en de grootste verzameling Egyptische boten (69 scheepswrakken en 700 ankers) ooit ontdekt

Het is een indrukwekkend zicht, helemaal in het begin van de tentoonstelling: het vijf meter hoge standbeeld van de Egyptische god Hapy dat bezoekers verwelkomt. En toch is het niet het beeld zelf, maar de foto's en video's ernaast die het meest tot de verbeelding spreken. Op één foto is te zien hoe duikers voorzichtig riemen aanbrengen rond het nog half in het slib verzonken standbeeld. Een andere video toont hoe het daarna met een open vrachtwagen door de straten van Caïro wordt gereden. Na meer dan 1300 jaar op de zeebodem, voor het eerst terug aan wal. Maar er zijn ook foto's van een duiker die met zijn zaklamp hiërogliefen probeert te ontcijferen op een gigantisch stenen tablet. Of hoe het team een Egyptische tempel ontdekt op de bodem. Zo krijg je ook als bezoeker het Indiana-Jones-gevoel dat de onderwaterarcheologen gehad moeten hebben toen ze voor het eerst hun ontdekking deden. Op een oppervlakte van verschillende vierkante kilometer vonden Fransman Franck Goddio en zijn team van duikers een enorme verzameling sfinksen, gigantische standbeelden, gouden ringen, delicate bronzen beeldjes en de grootste verzameling Egyptische boten (69 scheepswrakken en 700 ankers) ooit ontdekt. Nog maar 5% van alles wat op de bodem ligt, is al bovengehaald. Maar de tentoonstelling toont een imposante eerste selectie.

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Nog maar 5% van alles wat op de bodem ligt, is al bovengehaald © British Museum.

Uit de vondsten achterhaalden wetenschappers ook waarom Thonis-Heracleion verzwolgen werd door de zee. Het proces heet "bodemvervloeiing": de aarde gaat zich plots gedragen als een vloeistof. Een fenomeen dat meestal veroorzaakt wordt door een aardbeving. Dat blijkt ook bij de Egyptische stad het geval te zijn geweest. In de tweede eeuw voor Christus werd het gebied geteisterd door drie aardbevingen en overstromingen. Dat zette de bodemvervloeiing in gang die de stad langzaam deed wegzinken. Thonis-Heracleion verloor daardoor al snel zijn prominente status, maar een kleine groep bewoners probeerde er nog te blijven wonen. Tot uiteindelijk in 800 na christus de volledige stad kopje onder ging en al snel enkel nog in verhalen herinnerd werd. Om uiteindelijk pas deze eeuw terug boven water te worden gehaald.

Belangrijkste onderwaterarcheoloog

Verantwoordelijk daarvoor is de Franse onderwaterarcheoloog Franck Goddio (68). Hij deed in de Golf van Aboukir onderzoek naar Franse oorlogsschepen die in de 18de eeuw gezonken moesten zijn, toen hij per ongeluk op de archeologische schat stootte. Goddio geldt nu als één van de belangrijkste onderwaterarcheologen van deze eeuw. Naast deze vondst ontdekte hij eerder al het vlaggenschip van Napoleon Bonaparte, en verschillende andere belangrijke scheepswrakken. 

De tentoonstelling is nog tot 27 november te zien in het British Museum in Londen.

Meer info: britishmuseum.org

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22-05-2016 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

Werd Mars miljarden jaren geleden getroffen door 120 meter hoge tsunami's? - HLN.be

  Bron: ANP

Een recent NASA-beeld van Mars. © ap.

WETENSCHAP De planeet Mars is miljarden jaren geleden mogelijk getroffen door twee enorme tsunami's. De golven zouden 120 meter hoog zijn geweest en honderden kilometers landinwaarts zijn gekomen. De muur van water zou zijn veroorzaakt door de inslag van zogenoemde meteoroïden, die tientallen kilometers grote kraters achterlieten.

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22-05-2016 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

22-05-2016 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

New Study suggests Alien Civilizations may number in TRILLIONS

“We really do know that pretty much every star in the sky hosts at least one planet…” – astronomer Adam Frank.

If we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.” -Seth Shostak, SETI Institute senior astronomer. Image Credit

Rejoice Alien hunters, the possibility that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by an intelligent civilization has gained more credibility thanks to a brand new study that coincides with NASA’s recent planetary discoveries. The new study, published in the Journal Astrobiology proposes that more planets in our galaxy harbor advanced civilizations than anyone previously imagined.

“We really do know that pretty much every star in the sky hosts at least one planet,” said astronomer Adam Frank co-author of the study.

Woodruff Sullivan and Adam Frank looked at NASA’s recent discoveries of potentially habitable worlds and considered the odds whether sophisticated civilizations could have inhabited them or still do.

“What we showed was the ‘floor’ on the probability for a civilization to form on any randomly chosen planet,” Frank, a University of Rochester physics and astronomy professor, told The Huffington Post in an email. “If we are the only civilization in cosmic history, then that what we calculated is the actual probability nature has set. But if the real probability is higher than that floor, then civilizations have happened before.” 

According to Frank, the potential number of planets orbiting their host star within a habitable distance is staggering.

This raises hopes that one of those planets might host alien life, and with a bit of luck, we even might discover an advanced alien civilization inhabiting one of those planets.

“Even if you are pretty pessimistic and think that you’d have to search through 100 billion (habitable zone) planets before you found one where a civilization developed, then there have still been a trillion civilizations over cosmic history!” Frank wrote. “When I think about that, my mind reels — even if there is just a one in a 100 billion chance of evolution creating exo-civilizations, the universe still has made so many of them that we are swamped by histories other than our own.”

The Drake equation

One of the most famous equations dealing with the possibility of Alien life existing in the universe is the Drake Equation. It was created by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961, and it estimates the number of planets that may be home to advanced alien civilizations with the ability to communicate with other civilizations in the cosmos.

However, Frank and Sullivan modified the Drake equation implementing new data into it. Since the Drake equation analyzes the possibility od advanced civilizations existing in the Milky Way, the equation proposed by Frank and Sullivan calculate the possible number of advanced alien civilizations that have existed in our galaxy throughout the whole ‘known’ history of the universe.

The odds that no one is out there are very, very small. Image Credit

With all the suitable real estate that’s out there, if we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.” –Seth Shostak, SETI Institute senior astronomer.

Scienitsts consider the following when attempting to come up with numbers of Extraterrestrial worlds:

N

The number of civilizations in Galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable.

R_*

The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life, in stars per year.

f_p

The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.

n_e

The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.

f_l

The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.

f_i

The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.

f_c

The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.

L

The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space, in years.

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Writing in the Astrobiology study, Frank and Sullivan state:

“ Recent advances in exoplanet studies provide strong constraints on all astrophysical terms in the Drake equation. Using these and modifying the form and intent of the Drake equation, we set a firm lower bound on the probability that one or more technological species have evolved anywhere and at any time in the history of the observable Universe.” (source)

The two researchers write about what they call: “the cosmic frequency of technological species.”

“The universe is more than 13 billion years old,” Sullivan, of the astronomy department and astrobiology program at the University of Washington, said in a statement. “That means that even if there have been 1,000 civilizations in our own galaxy, if they live only as long as we have been around — roughly 10,000 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 finding another ‘contemporary’ active technological civilization, on average they must last much longer than our present lifetime,” Sullivan said. (source)

We have searched for traces of advanced alien civilizations, in hopes of finding out we are not alone for decades.

“With so many stars and planets filling the cosmos, it boggles the mind to think that we’re the only clever life to have made an appearance,” SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak told HuffPost in an email. “Frank and Sullivan use new research indicating that roughly one in five stars is orbited by a planet that could nurture biology. After that, it’s just a matter of counting up the tally of stars in the visible universe, and saying that — with all the suitable real estate that’s out there, if we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.”

However, Shostak tells us not to be overly optimistic or pessimistic about the SETI Institutes search for intelligent signals from our cosmic neighbors.

“The odds that no one is out there are very, very small. It’s a bit like an ant coming out of its hive, seeing the enormous amount of real estate stretching in all directions and deciding that, if its home is the only ant hill, then its existence is a near-miracle,” said Shostak in an interview with HuffPost.

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A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species in the Universe.

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22-05-2016 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

Experts say it’s too late to hide from Aliens

According to experts, we need to think to be more cautious about the messages we send to space in hopes of contacting our cosmic neighbors.

It’s too late to conceal ourselves in the universe say, researchers.

Scientists believe that if there is an alien civilization out there somewhere, they most likely already know we exist. That’s according to claims made by a group of researchers who think we need to be more careful next time when we send out messages out into space hoping that one day, our galactic neighbors will respond.

In an interview, Douglas Vakoch, president of the San Francisco-based non-profit Meti (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International said that the current signals that are being sent into space are far too simplistic. In fact, the messages might be considered as primitive by any alien civilization that intercepts the messages sent by earthlings, and therefore may not be easy to interpret the way we intended it.

“It’s too late to conceal ourselves in the universe, so we should decide how we want to represent ourselves, Vakoch told Forbes. Extraterrestrials may be waiting for a clear indication from us that we’re ready to start talking.”

That’s why his team at METI International have kickstarted a new campaign that aims to develop messages for extraterrestrial civilizations that are both informative and provocative.

Their plans are big, in fact, they want to send out the first radio transmission by the end of 2018, emphasizing on messages that will reveal basic mathematical and scientific concepts, which any alien civilization in the cosmos should be able to interpret.

‘It would be ideal to use a powerful transmitter like those used for planetary radar studies, such as Arecibo Observatory,’ said Vakoch.

Actually in the past, some similar signals have already been sent out into space, with perhaps the most famous one being sent out by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974.

The binary digits in the message reveal information about our star system, the human species, and Earth’s biochemistry. But according to Vakoch, we need to include an instruction manual so to speak, so that extraterrestrials can decode the messages we send out more easily.

„There are a lot of hidden assumptions embedded in the ways we portray three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces,’ said Vakoch. Even if aliens use pictures, they may use a different set of conventions to map solid objects onto flat surfaces.“

During his interview with Fobes, Vakoch said that the messages we send out need to be more detailed. Instead of sending only a few details on the biochemistry of our planet, we should include the entire Periodic Table of Elements.

However, not everyone is so optimistic about searching for aliens and hoping that one day, they contacted us or visited Earth.

In February, a leading scientists at Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) commented that if aliens did visit Earth, they would take control thanks to their advanced technology, giving them an edge and ultimately leading them to make the rules on Earth.

Astronomer and co-founder of the Seti Institute Jill Tarter told TechCrunch: ‘If they showed up on our doorstep that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours. And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules.’

However, there are hopes that Aliens Species are peaceful and intend no harm. She explained that if such an advanced alien species had developed the technology to travel long distances across space, they must have learned to behave in a peaceful manner.

Interestingly, according to NASA’s chief scientist Ellen Stofan, it’s very likely that in the next 20 to 30 years, we could find evidence of alien life forms.

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22-05-2016 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

The discovery of the century: Have researchers found the mythical Hall of Records?

It is said that the Hall of Records holds the key to understanding our civilization and real history of humanity.

Mythologically, it is said to be a library buried somewhere in Egypt, and many people believe it could be located under the enigmatic Sphinx of Giza, watching tall and proud over the Pyramids of the Giza Plateau. A discovery of a vast underground library made in 2008, could forever change history and the origin of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. 

The Hall of Records is said to house the knowledge of the Ancient Egyptians documented in ancient papyrus scrolls and is believed to account for the history of the lost continent of Atlantis, as well as its location. Compared in importance, the Egyptian Hall of Records is just as the Great Library of Alexandria, which housed Grecian Knowledge.

While mainstream scholars firmly state there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Hall of Records is real, scientists like Robert Schoch and Thomas Dobeck among other believe it could be located underneath the Sphinx.

In the book Message of the Sphinx, Graham Hancock, and Robert Bauval state that the Egyptian government together with American archeologists have blocked any investigations around or underneath the Sphinx, preventing anyone from locating the underground cavities and finding out what is located beneath the Sphinx.

While those who believe the Hall of Records exists was built by the ancient Egyptian civilization, there are others who think that the Hall existed but was not built by the Ancient Egyptians, but rather by a much older ancient civilization that predates the Ancient Egyptian.

However, what if the Hall fo Records was not located underneath the Sphinx? What if there is, in fact, a giant underground library somewhere in Egypt?

Suppressed by mainstream archeologists and scholars, there is an enormous underground library discovered in Egypt a while ago. It can easily be considered as one of the greatest discoveries of Ancient Egypt, yet only a few know about the existence of its existence. It is a discovery that could be considered as one of the most significant findings of the century, yet, for an unknown reason, most mainstream scholars, together with the Egyptian researchers have tried very hard to keep anyone far from it.

 The Lost Hall of Records, finally found?

Is it possible that this is the long-lost Hall of Records? Interestingly, the existence of the ‘underground library’ was mentioned by Herodotus and Strabo who had the pleasure of visiting and recording the legendary labyrinth before it vanished from history.

Among the first to mention its existence was Herodotus:

This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if anyone put together the buildings of the Greeks and display of their labours, they would seem lesser in both effort and expense to this labyrinth… Even the pyramids are beyond words, and each was equal to many and mighty works of the Greeks. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids.

Herodotus (‘Histories’, Book, II, 148),

According to writing by Herodotus I the IV century BC: the labyrinth was“situated a little above the lake of Moiris and nearly opposite to that which is called the City of Crocodiles” (‘Histories’, Book, II, 148).

Based on the descriptions of ancient texts such as those from Herodotus, and others who visited the magical labyrinth in the distant past, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar called  Athanasius Kircher, created the first pictorial reproduction of the enigmatic labyrinth just as Herodotusdescribed it: It has twelve courts covered in, with gates facing one another, six upon the North side and six upon the South, joining on one to another, and the same wall surrounds them all outside; and there are in it two kinds of chambers, the one kind below the ground and the other above upon these, three thousand in number, of each kind fifteen hundred. The upper set of chambers we ourselves saw […]

The incredible underground library could easily be what is referred to as the Hall of Records. Discovered in 2008 by a group of Belgian and Egyptian researchers, the underground temple consists of over 3000 rooms which are filled with incredible hieroglyphs and paintings, the enigmatic underground complex is located less than 100 kilometers from Cairo at Hawara, not far from the Pyramid of Amenemhat III.

This incredible discovery has been kept away from society under mysterious circumstances. The results of the expedition were published in 2008 shortly in the scientific journal of the NRIAG, and the results of the research were exchanged in a public lecture at the University of Ghent. Media from Belgium attended. However, the finding was quickly suppressed since the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt) put a hold to all further communications about the discovery due to Egyptian National Security sanctions.

In 2010, de Cordier opened a website, Labyrinth of Egypt in order to make the discovery available to the entire world. Even though researchers have confirmed the existence of the underground complex, major excavations need to take place in the future in order to explore the incredible finding. It is believed that the treasures of the underground Labyrinth could hold the answers to countless historical mysteries and the ancient Egyptian civilization.

Is this the long lost Hall of Records? Moreover, is it possible that because of its extreme importance, the government decided to deny further studies and excavations?

Interestingly, the discovery of the mystery underground library seems to fit perfectly into the accounts of the mythical Hall of Records.

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22-05-2016 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

Classic Flying Saucer Encounter In Utah

(Before It's News)

22-05-2016 om 19:01 geschreven door peter  

The Bible and Extraterrestrials

(Before It's News)

   

The Bible and Extra-Terrestrials

By Cheryl

 

http://cherylblogs.com/religion/the-bible-and-extra-terrestrials/

 

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I am a writer for various sites commenting and sharing ideas on all sorts of different topics, so I recently took the time to check out one of the top UFO websites on the Internet dealing with UFOs and Extraterrestrials, and I decided to do a little review of stories on UFODigest.com, 

While there, I took the time to watch and listen to a video interview of Erich von Däniken who authored Chariots of the Gods and numerous other books.  Some of the information he brought up was not entirely new to me, but I listened to see what new things I could learn.  The questions he brought up have been asked from time to timeby otyher writers over decades since he first published his works bginning in the 1960s.

Briefly, one of the questions he posed is whether Mankind was created by the “Lord God” or by Extraterrestrials posing as “gods.”

In my opinion, there is no need to fear truth because truth will reconcile itself when enough information is known.  For example, the law of gravity exists.  If that is all a person knows, that person would say that it would be impossible for a plane to fly.  The fact is, planes do fly because through the lprinciples of thrust and lift, they can overcome the law of gravity.

So how do we reconcile various differing viewpoints?  When there is a seemingly difficult question to reconcile, I start with the greatest mathematical probability as being the bottom line truth, around which others are tributaries.  I start with one truth that is mathematically impossible without divine intervention.  That is the truth of prophecies past surrounding Jesus the Christ.  I am not referring to what some refer to as  end times or “the rapture” or Armageddon or any of those.  I am referring to the ones that were fulfilled in Jesus’s first coming, his life, his death, his resurrection, and his purpose.  Depending on how these prophecies are counted there are somewhere around 300+ prophecies that had to be fulfilled. 

In other words, if two or three things are listed in one scripture, do you count that as 1, 2, or 3?   A scientist in times past figured the probability just 8 of the scriptures being fulfilled to be absolutely astronomical.  Three hundred of them would be out of the Milky Way ball park!

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So I start there.  If those prophecies have been fulfilled,  then we can rely on other things the Bible says. However, what does the Bible say about something that might be construed as something “extraterrestrial”? 

Genesis Chapter 6 talks about how “the sons of God” came down in to the daughters of men, chose some for wives, and procreated giants, known as the Nephilim.  That fits in with the stories of pyramids,  gigantic heads, sculptures and so forth that men ranging from roughly 4 – 6 feet in height or so, sometimes a bit larger, could never have  produced simply using prehistoric tools.

Then the Bible tells us that the world was corrupted.   Other studies of these matters have drawn conclusions that there was genetic modification to the point that only one man still retained a pure enough gene pool to save, and that was Noah, hi progeny and his posterity. 

Of course, his son Ham may have been influenced concerning genetic manipulation prior to the flood or “the seed” being preserved.  Some have postulated that Ham castrated his father, Noah, for Noah never had any further children after the flood, following and the tent incident with Ham. 

In any case, there are many stories about a worldwide flood and it fits in with information and legends known about extra-terrestrials.  It just depends through what lens you look at it.

I prefer to look at it through the Christian viewpoint since there is one defining thing that no other culture, explanation, or Holy Book has and that is the prophecies concerning Jesus the Christ.  To me, the mathematics of those prophecies supersedes any other information.  In other words, stories about extraterrestrials will have story lines in the Bible, but the Bible will not necessarily be in the story line of an extraterrestrial.

The War in Heaven …

Angels against Devils or Angels versus Extraterrestrials?

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There are other points that can fit in with the extraterrestrial story.  Why did they come?  Where did they come from and why?  The Bible gives us clues.  There was a “war in heaven.” 

A being named Satan was thrown to the Earth.  He tried to take over the Earth from a man namedAdam, who had been in charge.  The whole story of the redemption of Mankind and bringing it back to the One God from the clutches from Satan is told about in the Bible and is still in the process of being completed, i.e., returnig dominion over the earth to Man,it’s rightful owner.

Can stories of Extraterrestrials and the Bible be reconciled?   

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I feel they can be reconciled with modern scientific discoveries..  However, I feel that when there is a question of what story is the “correct story” line, due to prophecies of times past having been so completely fulfilled, that the Bible has to be taken as the final word over any stories that might be deduced otherwise.  The prophetic understanding and fulfillment simply is not there for any other story line.

As King David said, “I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”   David recognized that some directions of truth are a one way road and while interest in “extraterrestrials” may yield a lot of information, I personally believe the studies will finally culminate around the truth in the Bible, and not otherwise.

Of course, none of these questions, whether the questions of Extraterrestrials involvement in human affairs or questions about Jesus, are things the governments of the world particularly want studied.  They have figured out some good story lines to feed the masses.  They would prefer it if those same masses would bury their heads in entertainment or distractions and never raise them up again in questions.   If they do, they might not believe the story of evolution, a “modern myth” and cornerstone of science,and so they might not be so easily controlled, and, in fact, the ruling elite might lose economic power.

These are the underlying Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of mass media control of public opinion:

Don’t question any Magic Bullet, don’t question 911, don’t question ‘global warming.’ Don’t question anything that looks strange and where the facts don’t make sense.  Don’t question the safety of vaccines.  Don’t question GMO’s.  Don’t question Chemtrails.   Don’t question HAARP.  Don’t question the Fed.  Don’t question war.  Don’t question the military/industrial complex.  Don’t question the NWO cabal.  Don’t question the theory of evolution.  Don’t question Area 51.  Don’t question the truth about extraterrestrials.  Don’t question, don’t question, don’t question. 

That is how governments want everyone to reconcile truth: Hear and obey, don’t look, don’t study, don’t ask, don’t question.  That way they keep the masses ignorant, suppressed, poor, and enslaved.

These make up some very disturbing ideas for the average person.  However, those are thoughts for another blog post for another time.  The point of this is, yes, there is information about extraterrestrials to be studied, and if we try to understand, we may be able to reconcile more than we realize.  And, we may be able to reconcile it and correlate legends and myths of Extraterrestrial involvment with early Mankind to events described in the Bible.

Genesis 6:2

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 

that the sons of God saw that the daughtersof men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

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22-05-2016 om 18:51 geschreven door peter  

Earth Launches Mysterious Odd Shaped Object Into Space (Video)

(Before It's News)

The latest International Space Station live stream footage (May 20, 2016) shows an odd shaped unidentified red object which appears to rise over Earth’s horizon. The object then shoots off into space.

Given the speed of the strange object, what looks like three separate orbs reflecting a reddish light, it is not likely that the object is a satellite being launched into orbit.

Assuming the object is a man-made spacecraft, though given the odd shape of the object it does not look like a conventional craft, for what purpose they launched it into space?

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22-05-2016 om 18:40 geschreven door peter  

There’s a Massive Fleet of Spaceships Stationed Behind the Moon, Researcher Reveals

There’s a video circulating on the internet of a spaceship meeting just behind the Moon. The footage was made available by an esteemed academic that wants to reveal the truth to the world once and for all.

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There has been much talk about human activity in space. According to numerous sources, the chances for humans to experiment in space other than the International Space Station are extremely likely. Although there has been many intriguing evidence brought to light by the UFO community, authorities still have a closed mindset regarding this subject and go on ignoring it. However, when the academic community released images of an alleged spacecraft located beyond the moon, the matter took a different term.

 

What if I tell you there is conclusive evidence brought by various researchers that show massive movement in the vicinity of our planet? And that images provided are recognized by various universities as being authentic?

 

On March 23, 1983, President Reagan proposed the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would build a space-based anti-missile system aimed at defending the American people from any rogue missiles launched by the Soviets.

 

 

What President Reagan didn’t anticipate at that time was the lack of technological means needed to complete this daring project. The SDI, also dubbed ‘The Star Wars’ program would require extremely advanced technological systems that were yet to be researched and developed. The system (if successful) aimed at inclining the nuclear balance towards the US, giving them an unprecedented advantage when it came to intercepting nuclear attacks, but also mounting them more effectively.

 

According to atomicarchive.com, “among the potential components of the defense system were both space and earth-based laser battle stations, which, by a combination of methods, would direct their killing beams towards moving Soviet targets. Air-based missile platforms and ground-based missiles using other non-nuclear killing mechanisms would constitute the rear echelon of defense and would be concentrated around such major targets as U.S. ICBM soils. The sensors to detect attacks would be based on the ground, in the air, and in space, and would use radar, optical, and infrared threat-detection systems.”

 

Although a lot of effort had already been put into the ‘Star Wars’ program, the technology proved to be too complex to research and handle, so later administrations have decided to cancel it entirely. But was this really the end of the SDI considering the huge amount of effort and funding put into it so far?

 

The US government rejuvenated the idea of missile defense system in the years to come by establishing the National Missile Defense, but evidence suggest their SDI activity never actually seized to exist. Even more, the program has been classified and perfected using funds received through black budget programs. It seems that, at this point, an entire fleet of spaceships is stationed in the back of the Moon, and if it sounds impossible, you may want to watch the video below that’s showing just that.

 

 

 

It was discovered in 2011 by John S. Lenard and published on YouTube to make as many people aware of it as possible. The video reveals numerous objects found in space just near the Moon. If the entire visible design is a mothership or rather more crafts stationed in space remains a topic of debate, but the value of the provided footage is undeniably of extreme importance.

 

YouTube user josephsangelo commented on the promising capture expressing his gratitude towards its discoverer: “Thank you John for this video. The Interstellar Spaceships you’ve shown and are showing us all are immensely important to human historic evolution. Soon we’ll all know there’s life many millions and/or billions of years more advanced than our own. I hope you get an award one day for your professionalism and log endeavors. Is it just me or are there aliens on board moving around the exterior? Who gets the award for the 1st alien spacewalk?”

 

Although there’s a high chance for the UFOs to be alien in nature, the possibility of them being developed by the military is even more likely. After all, the massive funds directed by President Raegan towards the program cannot just sink down the drain, that’s why we suspect the ‘Star Wars’ initiative continued along the years, but it followed a different objective – to secretly develop and test advanced space technology.

 

So why doesn’t the world react more openly to such vital information? Why doesn’t the media disclose the entire deal? Could it be because most official institutions work hand in hand to supress the truth? ....

 

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22-05-2016 om 17:41 geschreven door peter  

The CIA Confirms There’s Extraterrestrial Activity on Our Planet

A wave of recently declassified UFO files and statements of high rank officials are slowly turning the UFO phenomenon into reality.

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Believing that we are the only civilization in the physical Universe – which scientifically speaking is infinite – shows not only an immense ego, but also an unfathomable ignorance. But what happens when high rank officials

 

On December 2012, the Russian prime-minister Dimitri Medvedev gave a live interview aired simultaneously on five television channels. After that, the Russian ex-president revealed to a journalist that every leader of the Kremlin is handed two folders with classified information regarding the visit of extraterrestrial beings.

 

At that time, Medvedev’s statement was a worldwide premiere, since it was the first time when a high level official publicly acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the presidential mandate.

 

 

A riveting news article was published in 1980 in the “Sputnik” magazine about the perceptions and experiences of UFOs. This article contains reports from ten Soviet and American astronauts. Only one of these astronauts refused the possibility of UFOs getting in and out of our galaxy.

 

Ievgheni Krunov declared that it’s actually impossible to deny the presence of UFOs, and we should admit that these are more than simple optical illusions, even some of their characteristics like the rapid change of flight course at a 90 degrees angle offers us a lot of food for thought.

 

Astronaut Ghenadi Strekalov mentioned that he witnessed numerous strange and inexplicable phenomena, but hesitates to classify these events in any way. Still, he described a phenomenon observed on September 28 1980, during his day shift on the Mir space station: a flying sphere above the Earth, at an altitude of 20-30 km, around Newfoundland. The atmosphere was clear and the visibility was perfect, so he could watch for about 10 seconds how the sphere was shifting beautiful vivid colors, and afterwards disappearing almost instantly.

 

Strekalov remembered that the UFO had a perfect oval shape. He claimed that he reported the event to the Mission Control Center, but it did not classify as a UFO, concluding that he must be more precautious in the relation with his superiors.

 

According to publicly released documents, in the year of 1952 alone have been checked and confirmed over 100 UFO phenomena with no logical explanation, that were registered and labeled in the CIA archives as “inexplicable”.

 

• “Almost 100 believable confessions remain inexplicable at the moment. However, the CIA monitoring will continue and no reports will be made public.”, the report notes.

 

To the disappointment of ufologists around the world, the declassification of those 10 documents coincides with the relaunch of the “X Files” series and apparently those documents do not contain any information regarding crashed UFOs, encounters or kidnappings.

 

According to the CIA spokesman, the organization believes that the public will find the information extremely fascinating:

 

 

• “We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for “X Files” agent Fox Mulder, but the other 5 files are perfect for his skeptical partner, agent Dana Scully.”

 

Conspiracy theorists believe that CIA’s decision to make these documents public does not coincide with the relaunch of the new X Files series, but rather are an attempt to warm-up the audience for later disclosures.

 

“Apparently, the CIA used the rebirth of the X Files franchise to remind the people that the agency has agents investigating these cases.”, declares Stephen Basset, executive director of Paradigm Research Group, an organization that militates at the White House in order for the government of the United States to admit that aliens are real.

 

If the world will eventually accept the UFO reality we are yet to find out, but hopefully it won’t take long until our governments will spill the beans about the existence of extraterrestrials.

 

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22-05-2016 om 17:37 geschreven door peter  

HET WARE EN COMPLETE VERHAAL VAN  ATLANTIS ( VIDEO )

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22-05-2016 om 17:29 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: “Voor de kust van Californië zit een onderzeese UFO-basis verborgen”

22-05-2016 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

Lobbyist: “President Obama gaat nog dit jaar bekendmaken dat de aarde is bezocht door aliens”

President Barack Obama gaat voor het eind van zijn ambtstermijn onthullen dat intelligente aliens bestaan en de aarde hebben bezocht. Dat stelt een Amerikaanse lobbyist in gesprek met de Britse Daily Express.

Steven Bassett, directeur van de Paradigm Research Group, lobbyt al meer dan 20 jaar. Hij wil dat het Witte Huis open kaart speelt. In een interview met de krant in Londen zegt de 69-jarige Bassett ervan overtuigd te zijn dat 2016 het jaar is waarin de meest historische aankondiging ooit wordt gedaan.

Bassett ziet het al helemaal voor zich: “Dit jaar zal op de voorpagina van alle kranten ter wereld staan dat we niet alleen zijn. Het belangrijkste nieuwsbericht dat ooit naar buiten is gekomen.”

‘Stel haar de volgende keer vragen over aliens!’

De lobbyist denkt dat zijn werk nu eindelijk vruchten zal afwerpen. Maar waarom het jaar 2016? Eerder dit jaar zei presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton dat ze het UFO-mysterie tot op de bodem gaat uitzoeken als ze in het Witte Huis belandt.

Haar campagnemanager John Podesta zei openlijk dat topgeheime UFO-stukken moeten worden vrijgegeven. In februari 2015 twitterde de voormalig beleidsadviseur van Obama: “Mijn grootste mislukking van 2014: wederom niet gelukt de UFO-stukken naar buiten te brengen.”

In september 2015 twitterde Podesta over een interview dat Clinton had met een journalist: “Stel haar de volgende keer vragen over aliens!” In maart dit jaar schreef de Daily Express over de betrokkenheid van Clinton bij het Rockefeller Initiative van Laurance Rockefeller in de jaren negentig, dat gericht was op het naar buiten brengen van gevoelige informatie over dit onderwerp.

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Bassett denkt echter niet dat Clinton de president zal zijn die de aankondiging gaat doen. Sterker nog, hij denkt niet dat ze de volgende president zal worden.

Waarheidsembargo

Hij is er zeker van dat wereldleiders na het Roswellincident in New Mexico een ‘waarheidsembargo’ opgelegd hebben gekregen om te voorkomen dat de waarheid over buitenaards bezoek naar buiten zou komen.

“Na Roswell werd dit waarheidsembargo opgelegd onder Truman,” zei Bassett. “Andere landen en internationale media stemden ermee in.”

Nu Clinton in de mainstream media al enkele maanden openlijk spreekt over aliens, wordt het waarheidsembargo doorbroken door Amerikaanse kranten, aldus de lobbyist. Het Witte Huis kan het volgens hem niet veel langer meer geheim houden.

Best bewaarde geheim ter wereld

Bassett is er zeker van dat aliens bestaan en ontmoetingen hebben gehad met wereldleiders op aarde. Hij zegt dat dit het best bewaarde geheim ter wereld is.

“De bekendmaking vindt dit jaar plaats,” zei Bassett stellig. “Ik weet niet zeker wie de verkiezingen gaat winnen, maar ik denk dat Obama het gaat aankondigen. Ik ben er 85 procent zeker van dat Obama de aankondiging zal doen voordat hij het Witte Huis verlaat. Enkele dagen later zal de Britse premier Cameron volgen.”

Bassett meent dat het waarheidsembargo ook van kracht is in landen als Rusland en China. Hij vindt het vreemd dat president Poetin nooit heeft geprobeerd de waarheid naar buiten te brengen.

“Ik probeer Obama hiertoe te dwingen,” besloot Bassett. “En ik denk dat dat gaat lukken.”

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22-05-2016 om 17:09 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Makes Drones Over Uttar Pradesh, India On May 20, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 20, 2016
Location of sighting: Uttar Pradesh, India

This UFO was seen over India yesterday and it has an appearance of a burning tail like a meteor, but the tail is actually similar size cubes. This is a drone maker. This ship was sent to earth and then creates drones to spread out across the sky in the clouds. I have reported them doing this over Japan during the daytime a four years ago. Really amazing catch. 
Scott C. Waring
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22-05-2016 om 16:58 geschreven door peter  

Alien UFO Secrets at Macquarie Island, Australia May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 2016
Location of sighting: Australian Antarctic Division
Source cam: http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/macquarie-island

This UFO was found on an Australian cam by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It shows the side view of a large green glowing disk moving over the mountains. These live cams are excellent tools for all UFO researcher because they allow the person to be everywhere at once. In 5 minutes, you can check 100 cams. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Streetcap1 States:
Check this out on the LINK before the Movie changes. This is the Station that has a constant Laser firing into Space, as per my recent videos. Why would you have a laser firing into space - to attract ufos of course. Streetcap1.

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22-05-2016 om 16:55 geschreven door peter  

UFO Documentary: Military Case Has New Evidence

Unidentified Flying Object is not readily recognizable to our naked eyes, but they are common these days because many people come forward to report their alleged sightings. A UFO was caught on the radar, and the two former radar technicians on the field came forward to report it. These claims were recorded in a new documentary known as the UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed. As named in the title, the documentary makes a statement that aliens have an interest in all the nuclear facilities. It supports the claims of the military witnesses and government documents that claim the alien presence in the nuclear storage areas and nuclear weapons.

The encounter took place at the Royal Air Force Base Bentwaters, in which the radar technicians were involved. During that time, U.S. military leased the bases. The incident commenced on December 26, 1980, when the lights were observed in the forest, and two policemen were requested to investigate. A mysterious object with strange lights was reported coming on their way. The men who approached the object described it as a triangular-shaped extraterrestrial vessel hovering above the forest. It moved to the treetop at a fast speed after watching it for a few minutes.

Nights later, the alleged lights came back. However, this time, Charles Halt, the Deputy Base Commander took with him a team of security law-enforcement officers to investigate. Soon after, they reported a red light with an eyeball-shaped move through the forest. It splits into five disc-shaped objects before they flew. Afterward, they saw another disc-shaped object hovering towards them. It stopped, flying above them with a shot of laser-like beam that lasted a few seconds. According to the documentary, when RAF Bentwaters became the largest American tactical nuclear bomb depot resides in Europe. Afterward, he conducted research to find the one who has been in the RAF Bentwaters control tower during that time. As incredible as this sighting sounds, the documentary covers the present documents obtained from the former Soviet Union that show the same events happened there.

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22-05-2016 om 16:46 geschreven door peter  

Swirling, Spinning Clouds Seen from Space

Whimsical cloud vortices dot the sky in a new satellite image of an island volcano.

The shot, captured by the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite, shows eddies in the air near Mawson Peak on Heard Island. The island is in the Indian Ocean and belongs to Australia. At 9,006 feet (2,745 meters), Mawson Peak is the island's highest point, according to NASA's Earth Observatory, which released the image May 8. [See Images of Some of the Weirdest Clouds]

Heard Island is off the beaten path, to say the least. It's nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Australia and more than 600 miles (1,000 km) from Antarctica. But wildlife finds refuge on Heard Island and the islands that surround it. According to the Australian government, four penguin species make their home in the island group, living alongside 15 species of breeding birds, including albatross and petrol. Southern elephant seals, Antarctic fur seals and subantarctic fur seals also use the islands as breeding grounds.

Heard Island is about 24 miles (40 km) long, and growing: Fresh lava has been flowing from Big Ben, the volcano whose highest peak is Mount Mawson, since at least the 1980s. What isn't dominated by fire is covered in ice: According to the Australian government, 70 percent of Heard Island is permanently glaciated.

None of that is visible under the cloud cover in the new image, which was taken May 3. What is visible are the disrupted air patterns caused by Mawson Peak. The clear circles are called von Kármán vortices after the physicist who first described them.

Mawson Peak is the highest point on Heard Island in the Indian Ocean.

It's not the first time satellite imagery has revealed such patterns. In 2012, NASA released a shot of Saint Helena, a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, featuring similar vortices. They also appear in a shot of Guadalupe in the Pacific taken that same year.

Heard Island is in the "Furious 50s," latitudes known for their strong westerly winds. In short, according to the Australian government, the island is cold, cloudy, wet and windy. Vortices aren't the only cloud formations seen downwind of Big Ben's peaks, either. Cap clouds, which are dome-shaped cloud formations, are sometimes seen hovering over the tops of mountains. UFO-shaped lenticular clouds and twirling roll or rotor clouds (so named because they seem to roll along a horizontal axis, like a barrel down a hill) also form in the turbulent atmosphere above the island.

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