Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
17-06-2016
Astronomen meten tweede zwaartekrachtgolf - HLN.be
Astronomen meten tweede zwaartekrachtgolf - HLN.be
Een internationaal team van wetenschappers heeft opnieuw een zwaartekrachtgolf gemeten. Het is pas de tweede keer dat dit lukt. Zulke golven zijn misschien wel het grootste mysterie van het universum. De wetenschap heeft jaren geploeterd en gespeurd, maar nu wordt duidelijk dat ze inderdaad bestaan. De bijzondere meting is gisteren bekendgemaakt op een persconferentie in San Diego naar aanleiding van de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de American Astronomical Society.
De nieuwe zwaartekrachtgolf, waarvan het signaal zwakker was dan dat van de eerste gedetecteerde ooit, werd in de nacht van eerste op tweede kerstdag opgepikt door geavanceerde sensoren van het Ligo-instrument in het zuiden en in het westen van de Verenigde Staten, 3000 km van elkaar verwijderd. Het signaal is in feite een schokgolf die door de vezels van het heelal trekt.
Zwarte gaten De golf werd verstuurd op het moment dat twee zwarte gaten samensmolten. Dat gebeurde ongeveer 1,4 miljard jaar geleden. Het ene zwarte gat woog veertien keer zo veel als onze zon, het andere zwart gat ongeveer acht keer zo veel. Bij elkaar wegen ze dus 22 'zonnen', maar het nieuwe object blijkt 21 keer zo zwaar als onze ster. De ene resterende 'zonnenmassa' werd weggeslingerd als energie, naar alle hoeken van het heelal, en komt nu in onze omgeving.
Er is mogelijk ook al een derde zwaartekrachtgolf gemeten, op 2 oktober, maar dat staat nog niet helemaal vast. De wetenschappers hebben tijd nodig om die meting na te pluizen.
De onderzoekers hadden in februari voor het eerst bekendgemaakt dat ze een zwaartekrachtgolf hadden gemeten. Die kwam van de fusie van twee andere zwarte gaten. Door de golf verschoof een speciale laserstraal een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een meter.
Ruimtetijd Albert Einstein had in 1915 geopperd dat het heelal bestaat uit ruimte en tijd en dat die één geheel vormen. Na een heftige gebeurtenis kan die 'ruimtetijd' trillen. De schokgolven, de zwaartekrachtgolven, gaan dan door het heelal als rimpelingen na een steen in een vijver. Bij zo'n rimpeling rekt de ruimte iets uit of krimpt hij iets. Pas nu kan het gelijk van Einstein worden bewezen, dankzij de meest geavanceerde laserapparatuur.
Wetenschappers kunnen met zwaartekrachtgolven op een hele nieuwe manier naar het heelal kijken. Dan zien ze dingen die tot nu toe verborgen bleven, zoals objecten die geen licht uitstralen.
Wetenschappers van het Amsterdamse onderzoeksinstituut Nikhef, de Radboud Universiteit in het Nederlandse Nijmegen en de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam zijn bij het onderzoek betrokken.
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Het team dat eerder dit jaar het bestaan van Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven kon bevestigen, heeft voor vanavond opnieuw een persconferentie aangekondigd. De verwachtingen onder natuurkundigen zijn (opnieuw) groot - er wordt vermoed dat de onderzoekers een tweede zwaartekrachtgolf hebben gezien. Het LIGO-team houdt op de jaarvergadering van astronomen in San Diego een persconferentie, om 19.15 uur Belgische tijd.
LIGO mocht op 11 februari aankondigen dat zij voor de eerste keer de al door Albert Einstein in 1916 beschreven zwaartekrachtgolven hadden opgemerkt. De Duitse fysicus omschreef de golven destijds als "rimpels in het weefsel van ruimtetijd". Volgens Einsteins theorie vervormt elk object dat zich in de ruimte beweegt de ruimte. Hoe zwaarder dat object, planeten bijvoorbeeld, hoe meer vervorming er is. Zwaartekracht is dan het gevolg van de vervorming die massa's geven aan de ruimtetijd.
Die rimpelingen zijn vanop de aarde nauwelijks vast te stellen, maar LIGO kon dat, met de hulp van twee reusachtige L-vormige laseropstellingen in de Verenigde Staten, voor de eerste keer opmerken. Die trilling werd veroorzaakt door de botsing van twee zwarte gaten, 1,3 miljard lichtjaar verwijderd van de aarde.
Bronnen in de sector menen dat LIGO eind december een tweede ruimtetrilling heeft waargenomen. Het signaal zou wel veel zwakker zijn, wat de theoretische analyse minder zeker maakt.
RUIMTEMorgenavond houdt het team van gravitatiegolfdetector LIGO een persconferentie, vermoedelijk met de mededeling dat een tweede ruimtetijdgolf is waargenomen, een rimpeling van het heelal zelf.
Op 11 februari bevestigde LIGO de voorspelling van Albert Einstein uit 1916 dat ruimte en tijd kunnen trillen door heftige botsingen of explosies ver in het heelal. Volgens Einsteins zwaartekrachttheorie vormen ruimte en tijd één geheel en is zwaartekracht het gevolg van de vervorming die massa's eraan geven.
Grote massa's als planeten willen naar elkaar toe bewegen zoals twee bowlingballen op een matras naar elkaar rollen. Heftige botsingen van grote massa's kunnen rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd teweegbrengen als in een waterbed waar een klap op is gegeven.
Versmeltende zwarte gaten
Heftige botsingen van grote massa's kunnen rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd teweegbrengen als in een waterbed waar een klap op is gegeven
De Einsteintrilling werd volgens LIGO veroorzaakt door een botsing van twee zwarte gaten, 1,3 miljard lichtjaar ver weg. Die draaien dan steeds sneller rond elkaar, tot ze versmelten. De golven die ze veroorzaken hebben een steeds hogere frequentie, waardoor een typisch 'chirp-signaal' ontstaat.
Volgens ingewijden is nu een tweede ruimtetrilling waargenomen, weer met de kenmerken van twee versmeltende zwarte gaten. De nieuwe waarneming kan volgens astronomen vooral meer zicht geven op de vraag of op elkaar klappende zwarte gaten in het heelal een zeldzaam verschijnsel zijn of juist vrij normaal.
Ruim tachtig procent van de wereldbevolking kan 's nachts nauwelijks sterren zien door lichtvervuiling. Dertig procent van de wereldbevolking kan zelfs helemaal geen sterren onderscheiden. Oorzaak is kunstmatige verlichting op de aarde, zo blijkt uit onderzoek.
Het onderzoek van de Amerikaanse wetenschappers verscheen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science Advances. "Het is goed om via dit onderzoek de ogen van mensen te openen", zegt de Amerikaanse wetenschapper Travis Longcore. Hij bestudeert stadsecologie aan de universiteit van Zuid-Californië in Los Angeles en is niet aan het onderzoek verbonden. "Wat een afschuwelijk idee dat we altijd leven in permanente schemer en dat we de sterren over een aantal jaren niet meer kunnen zien."
Meeste lichtvervuiling
Uit eerder onderzoek bleek dat de afgelopen halve eeuw de lichtvervuiling in Europa en Amerika met zes procent per jaar is toegenomen. In West-Europa zijn alleen in Schotland, Zweden en Noorwegen nog gebieden te vinden die 's nachts compleet donker zijn. Met name de lucht boven Singapore en San Marino is het meest vervuild door licht. Ook in de regio rond Nederland, België en Duitsland is de Melkweg nog maar moeilijk te zien.
In Afrika is de sterrenhemel juist goed te zien: de top tien landen die de lucht het minst vervuilen, bevinden zich allemaal op dit continent.
Volgens onderzoeker Fabio Falchi heeft de lichtvervuiling sterke invloed op dieren en mensen. "Sterke kunstmatige verlichting kan ervoor zorgen dat vogels bijvoorbeeld eerder hun eieren gaan leggen. Mensen die te lang blootstaan aan licht kunnen volgens Falchi meer melatonine gaan produceren, wat leidt tot een verstoord slaapritme en een verhoogd risico op bepaalde vormen van kanker", zegt hij op de nieuwssite Science Now.
"We kunnen de schade zeker verlagen. Maar de schade die we al hebben aangericht kan niet worden teruggedraaid." De onderzoekers zeggen dat het gebruik van afgeschermd straatlicht en bewegingssensoren de lichtvervuiling kan tegengaan. Ook zouden kantoren hun lichten uit moeten doven tijdens sluitingstijd.
Landen waar de Melkweg moeilijk te zien is:
- Singapore en San Marino (100%) - Malta (89%) - West Bank (61%) - Qatar (55%) - België en Koeweit (51%) - Trinidad, Tobago en Nederland (43%) - Israël (42%)
Afrika, Australië en Canada zijn het minst vervuild.
From the the intricate monuments and cities that once covered the ancient Indus Valley, to the weathered steppes of Central Asia; and much further beyond, the ruined, vine-decorated temples of South America, such remnants of the ancient world have long remained among our most fascinating treasures.
The ancient past has long kept many mysteries, some of which we possess at least a degree of knowledge here in modern times. Among these are the notions of ancient cataclysms of truly epic proportion, which seem to suggest that there was more great change on our planet in ancient times than history has managed to yet account for.
Some of the most famous examples of epic, earth-shaking mysteries from times long past come to us in the retellings found in documents from antiquity. For instance, Plato’s dialogue Critias, a text for which only incomplete portions exist today, is famous among both historians and alternative scholars alike, for its description of the fabled island kingdom of Atlantis.
Critias divulges the following about the mythic Atlantean kingdom, and its war with those further inland:
“Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on the one side, the city of Athens was reported to have been the leader and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean.”
The passage is indeed a curious one, likened by many to an actual retelling of events, while others maintain that its origins had been a mere thought experiment, never with intention that its contents should be taken literally. Whatever the truth may be, this odd bit of information from the halls of antiquity has spun innumerable legends about the true nature of the lost kingdom of Atlantis, as well as speculation about its origins and possible existence.
Perhaps of equal interest, however, is Plato’s reference to a war that had transpired nine thousand years prior to his own retelling of the events. This, again, might only be a brief, but novel aside in the broader legend; however, its similarity to stories that appear elsewhere — namely those within ancient Hindu epics like the Mahabharataand the Bhagavad-Gita — also seem to describe ancient battles that were fought not only on an epic scale, but with weapons possessing tremendous destructive potential.
The Mahabharata speaks, for instance, of an “unknown weapon” that destroyed an entire race, which is described thusly:
“…. a blazing shaft possessed of the effulgence of a smokeless fire (was) let off… That was how this weapon was perceived. The consequences of its use also evoke involuntary associations. ‘… This makes the bodies of the dead unidentifiable… The survivors lose their nails and hair, and their food becomes unfit for eating. For several subsequent years the Sun, the stars and the sky remain shrouded with clouds and bad weather’.
The weapon, sometimes called either the “Weapon of Brahma,” “Flame of Indra,” was described in the Hindu epics in such a way that, to the modern mind, many of its characteristics resemble our conception of modern nuclear weapons, the likes of which were developed and first used during the Second World War:
“(It was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor… it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.”
It would be difficult build a case around the existence of actual weapons of mass destruction that were utilized in the ancient world. Nonetheless, such descriptions have provided fodder for the speculations of “ancient alien theorists”, as well as the research of alternative historians like Graham Hancock, which suggests the existence of an ancient super-civilization. With little doubt, there are likely to have been many formations of civilization that have come and gone, and of which we may possess little knowledge today. Could they have utilized technologies similar to those in use in the modern world, and perhaps those with equal destructive potential?
A more plausible scenario would hold that the evidences of epic cataclysms found in texts from antiquity likely represent catastrophic changes occurring on Earth long ago, possibly stemming from any number of different natural sources that range from asteroid impact, to supernovae, or even cosmic ray jets, as suggested by researchers William Topping and Richard B. Firestone, in their 2001 article, “Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophy in Paleoindian Times”, in which the authors related that, “The entire Great Lakes region (and beyond) was subjected to particle bombardment and a catastrophic nuclear irradiation that produced secondary thermal neutrons from cosmic ray interactions.”
Perhaps this can account for the evidence of mass-destruction in the ancient world, the likes of which many have compared with the effects of modern warfare though, in likelihood, such ancient occurrences were of natural origin. And yes, there is scientific data that helps substantiate such ideas, based on geological and other data spanning the last several hundred thousands of years, showing the degree to which wild changes have occurred on our ancient planet.
Still, no complete picture seems to have emerged. In truth, we may never fully reveal the epic levels of destruction that occurred on this planet since ancient times, though perhaps the persisting question is whether the holy epics and dialogues of antiquity, opposed to being merely folk tales, are actually based on factual occurrences that detail multiple levels of devastation that occurred — perhaps on a global scale — in our ancient world.
Damn you, Fermi! In yet another attempt to determine why we haven’t yet been contacted in some way by extraterrestrials (for those who don’t believe it’s already happened), astronomers at Cornell University say Fermi’s paradox may be resolved and Earth will hear from aliens … but not for 1,500 years.
It’s strictly mathematical, according to Cornell student Evan Solomonides, co-author ofA Probabilistic Analysis of the Fermi Paradox, a paper prepared for the American Astronomical Society’s current meeting.
We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there.
Solomonides estimates that Earth has been sending out electronic signals – radio and television – for about 80 years. The good news is, this means they’ve reached around 8,500 stars and 3,500 planets within 80 lights years from us. The bad news is, according to Solomonides, there’s still 200 billion stars left to contact in the Milky Way alone. Then there’s the challenge of deciphering our signals, translating our languages and sending a message back that we can possibly understand.
What about the stars that have heard our signals so far? Isn’t it possible one of them is working on breaking our code and responding in 80 years? Based on the Mediocrity Principle, which basically states that we humans aren’t that special, and the Drake Equation, which estimates the number of possible communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy, that’s a definite possibility. However, Solominides’s calculations would seem to tell Fermi that the clock only started 80 years ago and we need to give it more time.
It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now. Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone – even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.
The latest in a series of videos appearing online that purportedly show a strange, unidentified triangle-shaped aircraft, has come to the attention of UFO researchers following a submission to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
The video, which the Express featured on its site recently, shows an odd, slow moving object in the distance, which appears on camera for several minutes. The object appears to have a red, green, and white light, each marking one of the three corners of the object (see below).
The object in the recent MUFON video appears to have some resemblance to another aircraft, which was filmed over Longview, Texas one year ago. At that time, the observers labeled it the “Texas (Belgium) Triangle”, due to it’s similarity to an object that appeared throughout a famous wave of sightings over Belgium in the early 1990s.
MUFON has been collecting a number of similar reports over the last several weeks. As reported by Roger Marsh at MUFON’s website, in one recent observation the witness described seeing a large, dark triangle aircraft as it passed at an altitude of just 500 feet as it moved over Shelby County, Ohio. Initially, the witness believed the object had been “a motorized glider.”
Additional reports came from areas that include the town of Indian Land, South Carolina, where a witness reported that on May 26, 2016, the craft was observed as it quickly moved through the sky outside their residence:
“I see a white light with red and blue lights blinking on it flying by. I thought it was just a plane, but what really caught my attention and made me get up and run to the window was how fast the object was moving. I have never seen a plane or anything for that matter move that fast before.”
Additional reports have been made as far away as Britain, where one witness observing the sky in the early evening managed to capture a photograph of an odd, triangular object at it hovered in the sky at some distance.
According to the witness report:
“There was a black triangle hovering in the sky,” the witness stated.“We didn’t take our eyes off it. Very slowly it moved to the north. After approximately 10minutes and to the left of it a black orb appeared. There was another object just below and to the right of the orb that looked like a line and seemed to follow the orb.”
The reports of the alleged triangle “UFOs” appear within weeks of one particularly interesting video, filmed by a motorist in Florida back in May, which appeared to show what some hold to be the best recent footage of one of the unidentified “triangles”, as seen below:
Speculation about the origins of these aircraft have included the theory that many sightings have been of a secret military aircraft. A study carried out by the National Institute of Discovery Science in 2004 noted that, “The United States is currently experiencing a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified in the 1990s, especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues. The Flying Triangles are being openly deployed over and near population centers, including in the vicinity of major Interstate Highways.”
Space.com similarly reported on NIDS and its findings, which suggested a link to known flight corridors used by the US Air Force. Their conclusion at the time had been that the aircraft are, in likelihood, a variety of stealth blimp being operated by the Department of Defense.
To date, no explanation that offers a conclusive determination on these aircraft has been offered. Hence, the debate as to their origins, and ultimate purpose, remains very much alive; and in likelihood, it is a conspiratorial debate which will continue for some time.
Many decades ago, when the construction of the library facilities at Western Carolina University near Cullowhee, North Carolina, had been underway, a local story tells of the discovery of an underground chamber, in which the bodies of what appeared to be a number of Native Americans were found. As the story goes, the construction proceeded as planned at the time, and the chamber was sealed shortly after a small group of archaeologists were allowed to examine the remains, along with a number of items that also filled the ancient underground chamber.
Whether the story above, related to me by a member of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, is based on fact, or merely legend, is a worthwhile question. However, there are similar stories that surface from time to time in other parts of the United States as well. The March 12 & April 5, 1909 issues of the Arizona Gazette purportedly carried a story about a similar underground discovery, this time an entire “city”, which was found near the Grand Canyon. One account of the narrative (which can be found here), borrows the very familiar trope of involvement by the Smithsonian Institute in relation to the alleged discovery:
“Smithsonian archaeologists S. A. Jordan and associates also explored the man-made cavern with hundreds of rooms, enough to hold over 50 thousand people. The underground city is about 42 miles up river from El Tovar Crystal Canyon and Crystal Creek, and about 2000 feet above the river bed on the east wall. John Rhodes after 3 years of field research reportedly discovered the Grand Canyon city, which is now being used as a museum for elitist groups and has lower levels that are being used by “super secret black book operatives”, which can only be entered via a stainless steel door at the bottom of a stairwell deep within the “city” that is “guarded by a very lonely soldier staring into the darkness… dressed in a white jumpsuit and armed only with an M16 assault rifle to ward off his imagination.”
The story above is indeed tantalizing, though it should be noted that it contains some conflicting information; namely, the fact that the excerpt discusses a “lonely soldier” armed with an M16 which, despite the story’s attribution to the year 1909, didn’t come into use until after World War II (it is unclear, based on the source, whether the anecdote about the lonely guard was added later).
Similar stories do emerge from time to time that stem from more reliable sources. Researcher Chris O’Brien, author of books like The Mysterious Valley trilogy and co-host of The Paracast, recently told a story related to him by an individual he describes as a “very reliable source”, who had been involved with expansions of the lab facilities at Los Alamos a number of years ago. The individual in question had been an underground demolitions expert, and described “an ancient, antediluvian tunnel system” that he and his team discovered during the underground expansion operation, which he and several others followed for some distance. “They literally went as far as they could before they had to turn around so they could get back by the end of their shift,” O’Brien recalled, with his contact having estimated the tunnels to be at least several thousands of years old.
Another story involving odd underground happenings was featured on the same podcast, as O’Brien and host Gene Steinberg interviewed a friend of mine, Walter Bosley, who discussed his new book Origin: The Nineteenth Century Emergence of the 20th Century Breakaway Civilizations. The book focuses primarily on the 19th Century airship mysteries (as outlined in Bosley’s earlier book, Empire of the Wheel II: Friends from Sonora), although at one point in the interview, Walter begins to discuss an unusual story his father had shared with him decades ago, which seems to offer a radically different interpretation of the famous alleged crash of a mysterious aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947.
Bosley’s father had been a member of the U.S. Air Force throughout the 1950s, in what would have been the early years of Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program which lasted from 1958 to 1963. The senior Bosley’s unit was involved in testing for pressurized spacesuits, and possessed a high security clearance.
At one point, Bosley’s father was stationed further East at Gunter Air Force Base (now called Gunter Annex) near Montgomery, Alabama, when he and a number of others from his unit were ordered to travel to a USAF base in Texas for what was described as a “briefing issue” at the time. As the aircraft carrying the unit passed above Louisiana, its direction changed to a northerly course, and the men in Bosley’s father’s unit were told they were being taken to Wright Patterson in Ohio. Upon arriving, the group was debriefed about what is known today as the Roswell incident.
“From there,” Bosley recalls of his father’s story, “He and the two guys from his unit were then sent out to Arizona, to a specific location — all I know is that it was in the vicinity of Winslow — an underground location where they were a part of the retrieval of the pilots, crew, or whatever of another crash.” Bosley’s father explained that the aircraft, rather than being of “alien” origin, had belonged to “a hidden civilization here on Earth, in the underground, and that’s what Roswell had been.” In other words, the aircraft recovered during these alleged crashes, as well as the bodies (one of which Bosley’s father said he had been shown while visiting Wright Patterson Air Force Base), had belonged to hidden civilization that exists below ground.
“For what it’s worth, he was very sincere telling this story,” Bosley notes, who says the story was told to him years prior to the initial book on the Roswell incident, authored by Bill Moore and Charles Berlitz. “Over the years, he would tell me a little more about it,” Bosley explained. “But I learned the most about it after I was working for the government myself.” (Walter served with the U.S. Air Force for a number of years).
Walter’s story is similar to one told by another colleague of mine, Nick Redfern, in which Redfern recounted an incident involving “mysterious people” that were found in the southwestern desert (admittedly, I don’t recall right off-hand if this was information that appeared in one of Nick’s articles here at Mysterious Universe, or if it was told to me during one of our many personal conversations on subjects like this). Nonetheless, it was implied in Nick’s story that these “people” may have also had some kind of subterranean origin.
Of his father’s strange story, Walter explains that, “Of course, people ask me, do you believe that? Do you think that?” He also notes that he plans to write a forthcoming book which looks more deeply at his father’s claims… stories which, coming from a man who had been involved with the early innovations in manned spaceflight, are indeed rather interesting.
It is worth noting that a lot of insinuations have been made over the years that, in similar fashion, look at the “underground” angle as it relates to UFOs and similar odd happenings. Many of these theories seem to draw influence from earlier narratives and, specifically, the popular “Shaver Mystery” tales that appeared in Ray Palmer’sAmazing Stories magazine back in the 1940s. But whether or not the answers to things like UFO sightings can literally be attributed to legions of lost inner-earth dwellers, it seems an almost inescapable reality that much of the strange phenomena that has been recounted over the years probably have origins of the terrestrial kind… despite having the appearance, at times, of being quite “unearthly”.
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Astronomers predict when aliens will finally make contact with mankind
Astronomers predict when aliens will finally make contact with mankind
BYJOHN VON RADOWITZ
Experts have calculated when ET will finally phone Earth - and don't hold your breath
UFO over a city
It might take another 1,500 years before extraterrestrial aliens make contact with the human race, a team of astronomers has predicted.
The scientists performed a calculation based on the likelihood of technological civilisations arising among the stars, and the probable length of time they had been transmitting signals across space.
They concluded there was no reason to think we are alone in the universe. We just need to exercise a little patience.
US researcher Evan Solomonides, a PhD student from Cornell University, said: “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place - but that doesn’t mean no one is out there.
“It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now.
“Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone - even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.”
Astronomers have long pondered why, given the number of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, there has been such a deafening silence from the cosmos, despite attempts by Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists to eavesdrop on alien signals.
There are more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, almost half of which may host Earth-like planets, according to one estimate.
If life is not unique to the Earth and has evolved in a similar way elsewhere, the galaxy should be teeming with civilisations. Yet not one confirmed alien signal has ever been detected.
This puzzle was highlighted in 1950 by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in what has become known as the “Fermi Paradox”.
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A number of logical reasons for the lack of contact have been suggested. These include the possibility that intelligent extraterrestrial life is very rare or non-existent, that all intelligent civilisations eventually destroy themselves before reaching out to the stars, that the aliens have decided inter-species communication is too dangerous, or that they are observing us from afar as part of a “hands off” experiment.
The new research suggests there is nothing contradictory about “Fermi’s Paradox” and we should not have expected to make contact so soon.
The scientists’ starting point is the fact that humans have only been broadcasting TV and radio signals into space for around 80 years. By now these signals should have reached more than 8,500 stars within 80 light years of the sun.
Although this seems a large figure, it is tiny compared with the number of stars in the Milky Way.
Adopting the so-called “Mediocrity Principle” that says there is nothing at all special about the Earth or its occupants, the team ruled out the likelihood of humans being among the first or last civilisations to develop radio technology.
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As a result, the average length of broadcasting history in the galaxy was found to be the same as ours, roughly 80 years.
This figure was included in an equation that also measured the frequency of life arising on extrasolar planets.
The conclusion was that we could expect to start hearing from alien civilisations once their signals had spread across half the Milky Way.
And that could take another 1,500 years, said the scientists, who are to present their findings at the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in San Diego, in the US.
“This is not to say that we must be reached by then or else we are, in fact, alone,” Mr Solomonides pointed out. “We simply claim that it is somewhat unlikely that we will not hear anything before that time.”
He added: “We are on the third planet around a tediously boring star surrounded by other completely normal stars about two-thirds of the way along one of several arms of a remarkably average spiral galaxy.
“The Mediocrity Principle is the idea that because we are not in any special location in the universe, we should not be anything special in the universe.”
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Interview with John Mack Psychiatrist, Harvard University
Interview with John Mack Psychiatrist, Harvard University
NOVA: Let’s talk about your own personal evolution from perhaps skepticism to belief …
MACK: When I first encountered this phenomenon, or particularly even before I had actually seen the people themselves, I had very little place in my mind to take this seriously. I, like most of us, were raised to believe that if we were going to discover other intelligence, we’d do it through radio waves or through signals or something of that kind. Quote: I came very reluctantly to the conclusion that this was a true mystery
The idea that we could be reached by some other kind of being, creature, intelligence that could actually enter our world and have physical effects as well as emotional effects, was simply not part of the world view that I had been raised in. So that I came very reluctantly to the conclusion that this was a true mystery. In other words, that I—I did everything I could to rule out other sources, or sexual abuse. Some of these people are abused. But they’re able to tell, distinguish clearly the abduction trauma from other forms of abuse. Some forms of psychosis or people making up stories—I could reject that on the basis that there was no gain in this for the vast majority of these people.
…. I’ve now worked with over a hundred experiencers intensively. Which involves an initial two-hour or so screening interview before I do anything else. And in case after case after case, I’ve been impressed with the consistency of the story, the sincerity with which people tell their stories, the power of feelings connected with this, the self-doubt—all the appropriate responses that these people have to their experiences.
NOVA: So tell us, please, how literally you intend people to take this? Are you suggesting people are really being snatched from their beds by aliens and experiments on board a spaceship?
MACK: Just how literally to take this, is one of the most interesting and complex aspects of this. And I want to walk through that as clearly as I can. There are aspects of this which I believe we are justified in taking quite literally. That is, UFOs are in fact observed, filmed on camera at the same time that people are having their abduction experiences.
People, in fact, have been observed to be missing at the time that they are reporting their abduction experiences. They return from their experiences with cuts, ulcers on their bodies, triangular lesions, which follow the distribution of the experiences that they recover, of what was done to them in the craft by the surgical-like activity of these beings.
All of that has a literal physical aspect and is experienced and reported with appropriate feeling, by the abductees, with or without hypnosis or a relaxation exercise.
….There is a—I believe, a gradation of experiences and that go from the most literal physical kinds of hurts, wounds, person removed, spacecraft that can be photographed, to experiences which are more psychological, spiritual, involve the extension of consciousness. The difficulty for our society and for our mentality is, we have a kind of either/or mentality. It’s either, literally physical; or it’s in the spiritual other realm, the unseen realm. What we seem to have no place for—or we have lost the place for—are phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm, and cross over and manifest and show up in our literal physical world.
So the simple answer would be: Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.
NOVA: I wonder, if in that vein, you can speak to what you think this experience is about?
MACK: ….There are several effects that these experiences have for those who undergo alien abduction encounters. First is the most familiar aspect or fit, which is a traumatic event in which a blue light or some kind of energy paralyzes the person, whether they’re in their home or they’re driving a car. They can’t move.
They feel themselves being removed from wherever they were. They floated through a wall or out a car, carried up on this beam of light into a craft and there subjected to a number of now familiar procedures which involve the beings staring at them; involves probing of their body, their body orifices; and a complex process whereby they sense in the case of men, sperm removed; in the women, eggs removed; some sort of hybrid offspring created which they’re brought back to see in later abductions. That’s the sort of literal experience.
Now, the effect of that is—or what seems to be going on there, in a number of abductees—not just people I see, but the ones Budd Hopkins and other people see—is to produce some kind of new species to bring us together to produce a hybrid species which—the abductees are sometimes told—will populate the earth or will be there to carry evolution forward, after the human race has completed what it is now doing, namely the destruction of the earth as a living system. So it’s a kind of later form. It’s an awkward coming together of a less embodied species than we are, and us, for this evolutionary purpose.
However, that might not be literally true. It might be that that this is a communication to us. That perhaps we need to change our ways. It may not be that these are literally our babies. It may be a kind of expression of images of babies; or it may be that these hybrids we’re told is what will have to be. It’s a kind of insurance policy if the earth continues to be subjected to the exploitation of its living environment to the point where it can’t sustain human and other life as it’s now occurring. But it may not be literally what is going to happen. So that’s one area.
Another area is the whole visual environmental and informational aspect of this in which people are shown on television screens a huge variety of scenes of environmental destruction of the earth polluted; of a kind of post-apocalyptic scene in which even the spirits have been routed from their environment because they live in the same physical and spiritual environment that we do; and canyons are shown with trees destroyed; pieces of the earth are seen as breaking away—portions of the East Coast or West Coast.
NOVA: …..Alien hybrid. What does that mean?
MACK: Sometimes along the way, as you go deeper and deeper into the person’s consciousness, into their experience, they will discover….what is called a dual identity. In other words, that they are both human—in one dimension; but they also are themselves, have an alien identity. That they are participatory in this reproductive hybrid program, as if they were altogether part of it. And that they may, in fact, even experience themselves as aliens.
One of the men in my book actually was an active participant in taking a woman from Texas up into the ship and being, and acting the reproductive function of the alien being, and felt he was himself alien. And often the abductees will feel that their job, developmentally, is to integrate these two dimensions or these two aspects of themselves: the human and the alien. And that the alien dimension is a part of ourselves, our souls, if you will even, from which we were or have been cut off over the centuries of human beings living on this earth in this densely embodied form.
NOVA: You and others have said that there is no other psychological explanation. But that there is some reality to it. What do you think of the work of people like Michael Persinger and Robert Baker who have these complicated theories about neurology or they charge that hypnogogic hallucinations being at the root of these perceived—these experiences?
MACK: These experiences often occur in literal consciousness. Not in a hypnogogic or dreamlike state. The person may be in their bedroom quite wide awake. The beings show up. And there they are and the experience begins. That they’re not occurring in any dreamlike state. Now sometimes they do occur when a person is dozing off or in a hypnogogic state. But very frequently not.
Also, any theory that is going to look upon this as a purely endogenous phenomenon, by which I mean generated purely from the psyche of the person themselves. Which is a kind of arrogance too, really. Because it means that we just can’t accept the notion there could be another intelligence at work here. Which is a much more economical explanation. But if we must find a theory within ourselves, then we should keep in mind that any theory that’s going to even begin to address this, has to take into account five factors:
Number one, the extreme consistency of the stories from person after person. Which you would not get simply by stimulating the temporal lobes. You would get very variable idiosyncratic responses that would differ a great deal from person to person.
Number two, you would have to deal with the fact that there is no ordinary experiential basis for this. In other words, there’s nothing in their life experience that could have given rise to this, other than what they say. In other words, there’s no mental condition that could explain it.
Third, you have to account for the physical aspects: the cuts and the other lesions on their bodies, which do not follow any psychodynamic distribution, like the stigmata associated with the identification with the agony of Christ.
Fourth, the tight association with UFOs, which are often observed in the community, by the media, independent of the person having the abduction experience, who may not have seen the UFO at all, but reads or sees on the television the next day that a UFO passed near where they were when they had an abduction experience.
And finally, the phenomenon occurs in children as young as two, two and a half, three years old. And any theory that simply attributes this to the activity of the brain, does not take into account at least three of those five fundamental dimensions…
NOVA: Aren’t you really at risk of losing quite a bit, personally and professionally, because of …criticism?
MACK: I think that, in some ways, I’ve gained more than I’ve lost in terms of inviting people into this mystery, having a dialogue with all kinds of very wonderful, open, intelligent, brilliant people from many different fields. It’s been quite exciting. I mean I’ve been attacked, but the attacks have not been really nearly as serious to me as the openness that I’ve found among many people throughout the culture and internationally, who are saying: Yeah, I always suspected something like this was going on, and I’m glad you were willing to come forward and report about it.
……It’s often said that I’m a believer and sort of have gone and lost my objectivity. I really object to that. Because this is not about believing anything. I didn’t believe anything when I started, I don’t really believe anything now. I’m come to where I’ve come to clinically. In other words, I worked with people over hundred and hundreds of hours and have done as careful a job as I could to listen, to sift out, to consider alternative explanations. And none have come forward. No one has found an alternative explanation in a single abduction case.
NOVA: Many say that this is just really a function of cultural images.
MACK: …I have been looking at this phenomenon as it manifests in indigenous people, in Native Americans—the Cherokee, the Hopi, who know these beings as the star people. We’ve looked at this in South Africa, particularly in interviewing in depth a leading South African sangoma, or medicine man, who calls these beings “mandingdas”.
We’ve investigated it in Brazil with a farmer in—outside Belo Horizante who had identical abduction experiences to what have been reported in this country. I’m getting recent—I received a letter about abduction experiences from a person in Malaysia today. In other words, this is—as far as we can tell—a worldwide phenomenon. This is not restricted, as some people have thought, to Western or particularly American culture.
I’ve interviewed airline pilots who have had sighting—close up sightings of UFOs. They will not report it, because they will be removed from their work. Even if they’ve had abduction experience, they will not talk about it. And 25 to 30 percent of airline pilots, according to a survey that one of the people I’ve talked with did, have had close up sightings, but will not discuss it.
This simply is not something that is accepted as OK to talk about or—And that may be changing. I recently saw a Harvard Divinity School student, and I asked him these questions. I said: Do you talk about this among your fellow students? And he said: ‘Oh, yes.’ And it turned out several of them had also had abduction experiences. And even the ones that had not, were fascinated, interested, didn’t ridicule ’em. So maybe the climate is changing.
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Why should we pay attention to the UFO ET Question ?
Why should we pay attention to the UFO ET Question?
When it comes to the question of UFOs and Aliens, a majority of the populace on our Planet remain divided about their understanding and knowledge on the subject, thanks to all the disinformation propaganda and covert planting of false beliefs and self limiting ideas which have confused us, making it even more challenging to find the truth. There has been enough said about this on this website … but its never enough, as we still have a long way to go before we are really ready to face what lies ahead of us … Our true galactic origins and our deep connection with other races and advanced human civilizations. We are being nudged forward to see our true nature ….. realize our true origins which would make us realize how we are all united in spirit, however remain divided when we feed the illusions of separation !
Here is an article by Steven Greer about the UFO/ET questions and its implications ….. Hope this helps some of us deepen our understanding of whats really going on …
NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE UFO/ETI SUBJECT
A Brief Summary by Steven M. Greer, M.D August 1995
National security implications of the UFO/ETI subject are profound and far-reaching, albeit currently unrecognized. These implications may be considered in separate but related aspects: those intrinsic to extraterrestrial activity and those arising from current covert management of the issue.
Historical Background:
Early national security considerations dealt with concern over public panic arising from the detection of near-earth and earth-landed extraterrestrial spacecraft (ETS), and from the technological implications of advanced extraterrestrial material as it may impact the arms race and Cold War. Additional concerns were related to the impact on religious belief systems, the political order and economic systems.
Importantly, once actual ETS were retrieved in 1947, thereby allowing extraterrestrial hardware to be studied and back-engineered for possible human military applications, the need for complete secrecy regarding the matter was deemed paramount by authorities at that time. Given the tensions of the early atomic era and the mounting ‘Cold War’ with the USSR, it is understandable that the introduction of extraterrestrial technology was thought to be destabilizing to an already dangerous situation. Moreover, given the history of technological secrets related to atomic and hydrogen weapons being stolen by agents of the USSR, there was understandable concern that any technological breakthrough related to extraterrestrial technology might find its way into Soviet hands. If such an event enabled the USSR to produce actual military applications before the US, obviously this would have placed the US military capability in a potentially catastrophic disadvantage.
Since the 1970’s, we have reason to believe that a degree of cooperation on this matter has evolved with the USSR and the US and perhaps other nations. Certainly the end of the Cold War has largely removed earlier concerns vis a vis technological breakthroughs and the fear of Soviet aggression.
Moreover, the psychological reasons for secrecy related to public panic are not valid today. At least 57% of the population accept that UFOs are real and are of extraterrestrial origin. And 30-40 years of space exploration by human society has prepared the population for the possible existence of other extraterrestrial civilizations capable of space travel. In short, the previous concerns motivating secrecy are not relevant today. Intrinsically, there is no reason to believe that the extraterrestrial presence pose a threat to the national or world security. If hostility and aggression were related to their purpose here, it is likely that events congruent with hostility would have transpired long before now. It is our assessment that the extraterrestrials are not hostile, but are very concerned with human capability related to warfare and the militarization of space. Activity by extraterrestrial assets related to the neutralization of ICBM facilities and to containing military-oriented space exploration should be understood in light of their concern over a known history of human aggression which has been coupled with the advent of weapons of mass destruction and space exploration. Indeed, given the past history of human military assets focusing on and pursuing extraterrestrial spacecraft, we believe the extraterrestrials have responded with remarkable restraint.
Ironically, the threat to national security exists not with the extraterrestrial presence, but the current covert management of the subject. In the absence of extra-terrestrial hostility over 50 years, current secrecy cannot be justified on the basis of fear of extraterrestrial aggression. A disclosure related to the extraterrestrial presence, if calmly and rationally presented, will not cause panic in the USA or elsewhere. 1995 is not 1945, and world society has evolved to the point where this information can be assimilated in a positive fashion.
In contrast, the covert and apparently extra-constitutional management of this matter is a real threat to national and world security, and undermines constitutional freedom and democracy. Unless it is terminated, this covert management will greatly harm US national security and the chances of a lasting world peace.
Assessment:
It is our assessment that the current covert management of this issue involves the following elements which are a direct, immediate and ongoing threat to the national security. 1. The continued denial of the extraterrestrial presence creates a situation where a sudden, undeniable public extraterrestrial event could induce panic, since proactive disclosure efforts which could ameliorate public fears are non-existent. It is likely that such a public extraterrestrial event will transpire within the next 2-10 years or sooner. Therefore, secrecy and denial are a real threat to national and world security.
2. The current covert management of this issue appears to be operating independently and outside of the constitutional chain of command. The group controlling these operations, which involves reconnaissance, extraterrestrial technology back-engineering, and space-based targeting of ETS (among others) is non-responsive to congressional or Executive Branch oversight and control. This constitutes a real and grave threat to national security and to constitutional democracy and freedom. 3. We have credible, first-hand sources who insist that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been targeted by human covert space weapons and on at least two occasions have been destroyed. If true, the risks to world peace and security are real and imminent, and the continuation of these covert activities constitute the gravest dangers to national and world security. Hostile actions taken by human covert assets against extraterrestrial assets constitute a grave and immediate threat to the national security. A relatively small, covert entity, acting without consultation with the United Nations, the Congress, the President of the United States, or the public is engaging in actions on behalf of all humans which endanger the earth and world peace. Unless controlled, these actions could precipitate interplanetary conflict and a disaster for the world generally and the United States specifically. This covert management must be terminated and control of this issue returned to constitutional authority and to public domain.
4. The concentration of the technological advances related to the back-engineering of extraterrestrial technology into the hands of a small covert operation constitutes a grave and immediate threat to the national security, to world security, and to the future of the earth. These extraterrestrial technologies, which have been the object of covert research and development for over 45 years, are potentially of great benefit to humanity if used wisely for peaceful purposes, but are of immense danger when concentrated into a small covert operation which is unresponsive to the public or the legal and constitutional chain of command. The threat this poses to the US and world security is great, and the longer this situation continues, the greater the concentration of advanced technological power in the hands of a relative few. The secret control of such powerful technologies is inherently a threat to freedom, democracy, and to our nation and the world. Its utilization for covert agendas outside constitutional control represents a grave danger to the US and must be restrained and reversed.
5. Importantly, secrecy and covert operatives per se constitute a real threat to the national security, since national security in a constitutional democracy can only be legitimately related to freedom and democratic government. Only in very rare and well- justified circumstances can extreme secrecy and covert operations exist, since by nature freedom and democracy cannot coexist with unrestrained secrecy and secret power. The profound implications of the detection of extraterrestrial civilizations cannot be allowed to be the exclusive domain of covert operations which are unrelated to public discourse and consultation. To do so is to undermine the US Constitution, democracy and freedom, and this constitutes a real and grave threat to national security. 6. Finally, exclusive covert control of this matter has resulted and continues to result in the loss of opportunity for the world to come to terms with the extraterrestrial presence in a peaceful and mutually beneficial fashion. This means that the people of the world, the United Nations and other international and national institutions are deprived of the opportunity to deal rationally with this issue. National and world security are therefore negatively impacted by the loss of opportunities in the following areas:
The environment, which is seriously at risk for large-scale collapse over the next 100 years, would be profoundly improved if extraterrestrial technologies could be peacefully deployed. So-called zero point or free energy systems, which are non-polluting, would permit a sustainable technological civilization to exist on earth and would transform the earth environmentally and economically. Establishing peaceful and mutually beneficial relations with extraterrestrial civilizations would eventually permit us to understand and apply such technologies.
World unity and peace will be enhanced by the global realization that we are not alone in the universe. The acknowledgement of this fact will enhance the awareness that we are really one people living on the shared homeland of earth, and many of the conflicts currently afflicting the earth will be seen in a new perspective. This can be achieved without either deifying or demonizing the extraterrestrial presence, but rather placing it in a fair, scientific, and neutral light. Eventually, world peace and a significant enhancement in the current geopolitical situation may result from the disclosure that we are not alone. An international infrastructure, and institutions capable of dealing peacefully with relations with extraterrestrial civilizations would, of necessity, evolve, and this in turn would strengthen world unity and cooperation.
World culture, ideas, science and many other diverse areas may benefit through the development of peaceful relations with other worlds. While this process may take decades, if not centuries, its delay only puts off the time when the people of the earth will be united not only globally, but with other planetary civilizations as well.
In summary, it is imperative to the national security that the President and Congress undertake measures to terminate the secret, covert management of the UFO/ETI subject. Failure to place this matter in open, public discourse and control constitutes the gravest failure of democracy and government in the history of the world. That we do this is a test of our faith in democracy and our faith in the people. As the 21st century approaches, we must roll up the cancerous excesses of secrecy which are the legacy of the Cold War and unfurl a new era wherein democracy is reaffirmed and a lasting world peace is given a chance.
Steven M. Greer, M.D. Here is an interesting compilation of some intriguing videos by Steven Greer …
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If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
This is a question I ponder many times when thinking about UFO’s and a possible Extraterrestrial Presence on Earth.
What would I do if a Extraterrestrial craft landed in my backyard and the door opened or some kind of entry appeared where it seemed like I was being invited in to the craft?
Here is my thoughts on how my experience may play out! Please tell me what yours may be!
Maybe “they” would even be beckoning me telepathically or even standing by the entrance gesturing for me to come forward into the craft.
So hopefully after my initial shock and disbelief I would be still be thinking rationally and come up with a answer and either move forward and enter or maybe try to ask a few important questions like, “So you’re not going to poke and probe?”,..and “We are coming back right?”
As I run this scenario thru the my thought process, I realize I also should be documenting my experience with photo’s and video! “Where’s my Camera?”, “I’m Exited, Overwhelmed and Delirious in What I should Do!”
Then reality sets in and questions rise up as to why I would be experiencing this?
Why Me?
If a highly advanced race of Aliens made the journey to earth ,…why my backyard?
Surely Stephen Hawking, Seth Shostak (head of SETI), or even Giorgio A. Tsoukalos the “Alien Guy” would be a better choice?
This cant be Good!
I revert back to instinct and a voice in my head screams load and clear!
“NOT IN MY BACKYARD!”
Humans are the Species on Earth that claims ownership to the Planet and the dirt beneath its feet. Although we share the Planet with millions of other species we have claimed that we are the dominate species and ruler of the Planet,..and its Galaxy. With our technological advances we have claimed the Moon, Mars and more as ours. If we land there,we own it type attitude. Consuming property as our history as shown over and over again with each human empire pushing for more land and more control.
We defend what we own.
As humans we own our backyard and eliminate any intruders we find “unworthy”. We manicure our lawns and eliminate pests, rodents and plants we consider undesirable. We get angry if our space is trespassed by other people, I myself have been frustrated with teenagers who use my backyard as a short cut between streets. Also in our community complaints arise about crop duster noise and low flying planes over “MY BACKYARD”.
Even if we traverse past our own claimed domains we make temporary ownership. We camp in a forests and bring weapons to protect agonist predators!… in their own backyard! We dam rivers, manipulate weather, and continue to defy mother nature and build wherever we want to.
We may decide that parts of the Amazon are needed for our expansion?,..Oh we have done that!,.. or the Moon is ripe for strip mining! The Planet Mars for our new home away from home!
Haman quest is to always to reach past that final frontier and stake the flag indicating ownership.
“Planting the flag” usually means making a claim to something, usually … Throughout history men have “planted the flag” claiming ownership.
Realizing that no self-respecting galactic colonization force can conquer other planets without a proper flag, Oskar Pernefeldt created the International Flag of Planet Earth and showed off how it might look on a spacesuit and planted on extra-terrestrial soil.
So what would I do if a Alien Craft landed in my backyard?
Well, I didn’t go in to the backyard at night without some protection!
As the craft approached and attempted landing in my garden I unleashed a a warning shot over its spinning translucent top.
With visible extraterrestrials in the cockpit and as they ignored my warnings and landed on my sweet corn I took action.
I unleashed my Pit bulls on the open door in the craft! They took off as I unloaded the remaining bullets in the clip and although as they took off with my earth enslaved animals and seemed to explode in space due to the carnage I expect on board, I cant help wonder if they came in Peace?
This is just my thoughts and yours could be vastly different!
I hope they are and would love to hear them! (Cause I’m not a good ambassador candidate, obviously)
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Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
Orbits sun at greater distance than any other known object
• 2012 VP 113 may be shepherded by unseen planet • Discovery team call it VP, or ‘Biden’ after US vice president
Astronomers have increased the size of the observable solar system after spotting a 450-km wide object orbiting the sun.
The lump of ice and rock circles the sun at a greater distance than any known object, and never gets closer than 12bn kilometres – 80 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
If its size is confirmed it could qualify as a dwarf planet in the same category as Pluto. Researchers said the discovery proves the existence of the inner Oort cloud, a region of icy bodies that lies far beyond the orbit of Neptune – which at 4.5bn kilometres from the sun is the most remote planet in the solar system.
Until a proper name is decided upon, the body is known only as 2012 VP113.According to the science journal Nature, the team that discovered it call it VP for short, or “Biden”, after US vice president Joe Biden.
Its pink tinge comes from radiation damage that alters the make-up of frozen water, methane and carbon dioxide on the surface.
Three images of the newly discovered dwarf planet 2012 VP 113 taken about two hours apart on 5 November 2012. Photograph: Scott S Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science
Though exciting in its own right, the discovery raises a more tantalising prospect for many astronomers: that a “Super Earth” up to 10 times the mass of our planet orbits the sun at such a great distance that it has never been seen.
Astronomers found 2012 VP113 by taking snapshots of the night sky an hour or so apart with an instrument called the Dark Energy Camera on the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory telescope in Chile. When they turned the images into a time-lapse movie of the sky, they could see the new body moving against the background of stationary stars.
“This object has the most distant orbit known,” Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution of Washington told the Guardian. “It extends the known boundary of the observable solar system.”
The object’s orbit brings it as close as 12bn kilometres from the sun, and swings out as far as 67bn kilometres. There are comets that come from even farther out, but they pass much closer to our home planet.
The solar system has three distinct regions. Closest to the sun are the rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth and Mars. Farther out are the gas giants, such as Saturn and Jupiter. More distant still, beyond the orbit of Neptune, is a band of icy objects called the Kuiper belt.
In 2003, astronomers found an object beyond the Kuiper belt, which they called Sedna. For more than a decade, the object was a loner, an anomaly in the solar system. But the new body, 2012 VP113, lurks in the same no-man’s land of space, leading astronomers to believe there could be thousands of similar bodies waiting to be discovered there.
“People wondered if Sedna was unique, and 10 years on, we have at last found another object that shows it is not. There is probably a large population of objects out there,” Sheppard said.
The dwarf planet (coloured dots). Three images, each taken about two hours apart, were combined into one. The first was artificially colored red, second green and third blue. The background stars and galaxies did not move and so their red, green and blue images combine to show up as white sources. Photograph: Scott S Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science
The region of space where Sedna and 2012 VP113 were found is called the inner Oort cloud. Astronomers are unsure how this remote cloud of objects formed, but there are three competing theories. One is that a rogue planet was flung out of the early solar system and dragged the Oort cloud material with it.
Another is that the material was pulled out of the inner solar system by a passing star. The third option has the same job done by planets orbiting stars born in the same cluster as the sun.
“What is exciting about this work is that we know the inner Oort cloud is there. This is the second object we know of, and it’s a smoking gun,” said Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at theInstitute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academica Sinica in Taiwan. By studying the objects, astronomers hope to confirm how the inner Oort cloud formed.
Sheppard found the new object, reported in Nature, with fellow astronomer, Chad Trujillo, who works at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. Trujillo was a co-discoverer of Sedna in 2003.
The latest work has already thrown up an intriguing possibility. The angle of the body’s orbit and that of Sedna’s are strikingly similar, an effect most likely caused by the gravitational tug of another, unseen body. One possibility is a “Super Earth” that traces so large an orbit around the sun that it has never been seen.
“If you took a Super Earth and put it a few hundred astronomical units out, the gravity could shepherd Sedna and this new object into the orbits they have,” said Sheppard. An astronomical unit (AU) is around 150m kilometres, or the mean distance from Earth to the sun.
Earlier this month, Nasa’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise) reported the results from its search for “Planet X”, a hypothesised planet far out in the solar system. It found no evidence for a new planet larger than Saturn within 10,000 AU of the sun. But Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth, so a smaller Super Earth could go undetected in that region.
A fragment of a mysterious meteorite has been discovered
A small chunk of a giant meteorite has been discovered in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had been hidden for more than 270 million years.
The small slice of meteorite – which was once part of a 19 mile long meteorite which smashed into another body before being scattered over Earth – is different to every meteorite that has so far been found on Earth.
Experts have found fragments of the other body, but this is the first time they have discovered a part of the second meteorite that was involved in the collision.
The other meteorite, a much bigger body which was about 93 miles across, is believed to have crumbled in deep space and formed a debris belt between Mars and Jupiter.
However, some of the debris is believed to have rained down on Earth at the same time that invertebrate ocean life boomed – scientists are yet to conclude if the two events are linked.
Study co-author Birger Schmitz of Lund University in Sweden said: “The single meteorite that we now found ... is of a type that we do not know of from today’s world.
“The object contains very high concentrations [compared to Earth materials], of elements such as iridium, which is very rare on Earth.
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At the time the meteorite scattered on Earth, ocean life began to bloom
“The meteorite also contains high concentrations of rare isotopes of the element Neon.”
Scientists base their understanding of the formation of the solar system on meteorites which have fallen to Earth.
But this discovery adds more mystery about how our Sun and its surrounding bodies came to be.
The team explain in their study published in Nature Communications: “Apparently, there is potential to reconstruct important aspects of solar-system history by looking down on Earth sediments, in addition to looking up at the skies.”
It has launched a competition for scientists to create a thick and functional skin tissue that could survive off the planet.
The space agency is studying the health risks and improvements needed to medicine keep space crews healthy during future, longer, space missions.
It was worked with Methuselah Foundation's New Organ Alliance to investigate how to improve bioengineering through a competition called the Vascular Tissue Challenge.
The agency fund to three teams asked to create a "metabolically-functional" human vascularized organ tissue that can be artificially controlled inside a laboratory.
To win, teams have to produce a 1cm-thick tissue that can maintain more than 85 percent survival of its cells over 30 days.
Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA, said: "The humans who will be our deep space pioneers are our most important resource on the Journey to Mars and beyond."
The competition will test if the human tissue can withstand the factors involved in deep space explorations.
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A NASA spokesman said: "The result of the competition will not only be beneficial to space exploration but it is also expected to revolutionize health care on Earth as well.
"The competition will test if the human tissue can withstand the factors involved in deep space explorations."
Tissues produced during the competition will serve as a model or organ substitute that will be used to study the effects of deep space factors such as radiation.
The spokesman added: "This technique will help NASA minimise the damage to actual healthy cells."
NASA believes that once the key barrier is removed, progress and further understanding follows, "once the 'vascularization limit' is solved, via the NASA Vascular Tissue Challenge, there inevitably will be a historic advance in progress and commercialization of tissue engineering applications to everyone's benefit," said Jurczyk, in a statement.
There are fears that creating artificial tissue will lead on to body parts and possibly eventually, full-blown human cloning.
Moons orbiting the gas giant could house alien life.
The US space agency has announced how scientists using the Kepler Space Telescope, which is used specifically to look for habitable planets, have found a giant Jupiter-sized planet orbiting two suns.
The planet would be unlikely to support life, as like Jupiter it is made of gas.
However, they said any moons orbiting it may be suitable for life to develop.
A team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b.
A NASA spokesperson said: "Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4billion years old, roughly the same age as Earth.
"The stars are similar to the Sun, with one slightly larger than our home star and the otherslightly smaller.
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Comparison of the relative sizes of several Kepler circumbinary planets. Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously known circumbinary planets.
"The planet has a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found.
"Like Jupiter, however, Kepler-1647b is a gas giant, making the planet unlikely to host life. Yet if the planet has large moons, they could potentially be suitable for life."
Planets that orbit two stars are known as circumbinary planets, or sometimes “Tatooine” planets, after Luke Skywalker’s home world in Star Wars.
Using Kepler data, astronomers search for slight dips in brightness that hint a planet might be passing or transiting in front of a star, blocking a tiny amount of the star’s light.
SDSU astronomer William Welsh said: "Finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars.
Like Jupiter, however, Kepler-1647b is a gas giant, making the planet unlikely to host life. Yet if the planet has large moons, they could potentially be suitable for life.
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“The transits are not regularly spaced in time and they can vary in duration and even depth.”
SDSU astronomer Jerome Orosz, a co-author on the study, said: "It’s a bit curious that this biggest planet took so long to confirm, since it is easier to find big planets than small ones.
“But it is because its orbital period is so long.”
The planet takes 1,107 days – just over three years – to orbit its host stars, the longest period of any confirmed transiting exoplanet found so far.
The planet is also much further away from its stars than any other circumbinary planet, breaking with the tendency for circumbinary planets to have close-in orbits.
Interestingly, its orbit puts the planet with in the so-called habitable zone–the range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet
Mr Welsh said: "Habitability aside, Kepler-1647b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets.”
Once a candidate planet is found, researchers employ advanced computer programs to determine if it really is a planet. It can be a grueling process.
Laurance Doyle, a co-author on the paper and astronomer at the SETI Institute, noticed a transit back in 2011. But more data and several years of analysis were needed to confirm the transit was indeed caused by a circumbinary planet.
A network of amateur astronomers in the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope 'Follow-Up Network' provided additional observations that helped the researchers estimate the planet’s mass.
The discovery was announced today in San Diego at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal with Veselin Kostov, a NASA Goddard postdoctoral fellow, as lead author.
L’Hexagone vient de se doter d’un réseau unique au monde de détection des météorites, auquel participe la Suisse. Objectif: faciliter la récupération de ces objets riches en informations
Le 17 mai dernier à 0h50, un bolide a fendu le ciel du nord-est des Etats-Unis et du sud-est du Canada. Les centaines de personnes qui assistaient à la scène raconteront avoir aperçu une «boule de feu», très lumineuse, lancée à pleine vitesse. Quelques-unes feront aussi état d’une détonation, semblable à celle produite par un avion franchissant le mur du son.
De quoi s’agissait-il? Selon l’American Meteor Society (AMS), un petit astéroïde de moins d’un mètre, probablement un objet double, a pénétré cette nuit-là dans l’atmosphère terrestre et explosé en altitude. Mais ces experts ne peuvent guère en dire plus. Ils n’ont réussi ni à établir la provenance de ce corps dans le système solaire, ni à découvrir l’endroit où il était tombé.
Une telle mésaventure devrait être évitée en France. Une équipe du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN), de l’Observatoire de Paris, du CNRS et d’Universités vient, en effet, d’annoncer le lancement d’un ambitieux projet, baptisé «FRIPON», (pour «Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network») visant à doter l’Hexagone d’un réseau unique au monde de «détection des bolides et des boules de feu», ces météores qui, à la différence des étoiles filantes, sont assez gros pour atteindre le sol.
Points de chute
Grâce à une vingtaine de détecteurs radio et à une centaine de caméras, offrant une vue du ciel sur 360°, disséminées sur le territoire français et dans certains Etats voisins dont la Suisse, ces chercheurs espèrent être bientôt en mesure de repérer et de suivre, au besoin sur des centaines de kilomètres, la trace flamboyante produite par ces astres au moment de leur entrée dans l’atmosphère. Avec un double objectif: reconstituer la trajectoire dans l’espace de ces objets avant leur rencontre avec la Terre et déterminer leurs points de chute à 1 km près. L’idée est de partir ensuite à la recherche des météorites, quitte à faire appel pour cela à des volontaires!
Caméra FRIPON à l'Observatoire du Pic du Midi
C’est ce qu’explique Brigitte Zanda du MNHN: «Une météorite peut apporter autant d’informations sur les astéroïdes que des échantillons ramenés par une mission spatiale.» Ces millions de petits corps rocheux ou cométaires dont 700 000 environ parmi les plus gros sont connus, naviguent, pour beaucoup d’entre eux, dans une région située entre Mars et Jupiter. Classés par familles selon les orbites qu’ils occupent, ils s’écrasent sur notre sol lorsqu’ils croisent le chemin de la Terre.
En théorie, l’analyse des météorites qui en sont les restes pourrait fournir une moisson de renseignements sur leur composition minéralogique, chimique ou isotopique, et permettre de mettre au jour de nouvelles catégories voire d’établir s’ils se regroupent en essaims d’objets de grande taille.
Un voyage mouvementé
Malheureusement, réussir à relier la météorite trouvée au sol à l’astéroïde ou au bolide aperçu dans l’espace, ou dans le ciel, s’avère ardu. En effet, au cours de son voyage mouvementé, l’objet subit toutes sortes de transformations, qui le rendent à chaque étape de moins en moins reconnaissable. Résultat, indique François Colas, de l’Observatoire de Paris: «A quelques exceptions près, on ne sait pas associer à une classe de météorites une famille d’astéroïdes, et encore moins un astre en particulier.»
Et cela même, dans le cas rarissime où la météorite a été récoltée suffisamment vite après sa chute pour ne pas avoir été contaminée par son séjour terrestre! Quant à essayer de suivre de bout en bout l’aventure aérospatiale vécue par l’un de ces objets, la méthode serait affaire de chance. Une seule équipe du SETI (le programme américain de recherche d’une intelligence extraterrestre) a réussi, en 2008, cet exploit. Mais elle avait bénéficié d’un formidable concours de circonstances!
D’où l’idée de revisiter à l’aune des progrès technologiques les vieilles méthodes. Installés en République tchèque, au Canada, en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis, et en Australie, des réseaux «fireball» («boule de feu») constitués d’abord d’appareils photographiques, puis de caméras automatiques tentent, depuis les années 1950, de saisir l’image des bolides et des boules de feu lorsque, à 100 kilomètres d’altitude, ils pénètrent à une vitesse de 30 à 70 km par seconde dans les hautes couches de l’atmosphère.
Grâce à ces données et en faisant appel à des logiciels sophistiqués tenant compte de la topographie de la région, des vents et même d’une éventuelle fragmentation en morceaux de ces objets, les astronomes qui les utilisent réussissent à déterminer des points de chute. Une quinzaine de météorites ont été récoltées par ce moyen et une vingtaine d’orbites reconstituées!
La participation du public
«FRIPON» prétend faire beaucoup mieux. Le réseau français, entièrement automatisé, a d’abord à son actif d’être le plus dense et le plus étendu du monde. «Il déborde sur des pays voisins comme la Suisse où l’installation de quatre caméras est prévue sur des sites gérés par des amateurs comme celui de l’Observatoire astronomique du Jura à Vicques», explique le passionné suisse Michel Ory, qui est en relation avec l’équipe de «FRIPON».
Il aura ensuite l’avantage d’être équipé d’une vingtaine de récepteurs radio. Branchés en permanence sur le signal du radar militaire français «GRAVES» de surveillance des satellites survolant le territoire de l’Hexagone, ces dispositifs détecteront l’écho des bolides au moment de leur arrivée afin d’établir précisément leur vitesse. Une donnée qui, combinée à d’autres, permettra aux astronomes de reconstituer l’orbite où ils circulaient avant de rencontrer la Terre. Et de là, peut-être, de déterminer la zone du système solaire dont ils sont issus.
Enfin, «FRIPON» pourra compter sur la participation du public mobilisé dans le cadre d’un ambitieux programme de science participative. L’un de ses objectifs est de créer, dans chaque région, des groupes de volontaires prêts à se rendre sur les points de chute, à la recherche des météorites!
Grâce à l’ensemble de ces dispositions, les membres de FRIPON espèrent reconstituer en dix ans l’orbite d’un millier de bolides. Et retrouver une trentaine des 50 à 250 météorites qui selon leurs calculs tomberont sur le territoire français au cours de cette période.
La communauté scientifique suisse pourrait-elle être impliquée? «Ce n’est pas d’actualité, mais il n’est pas interdit de réfléchir à l’idée d’une collaboration tant le projet est enthousiasmant», estime Pierre Bratschi, astronome à l’Observatoire de Genève.
POSSIBLE ALIEN CRAFT CRASH IN SOUTH AFRICA’S WATERS
FEBURARY 18, 2008 …………. PORT SHEPSTONE SOUTH AFRICA
Port Shepstone rescuers are monitoring a mysterious situation in which “numerous” eye-witnesses reported an unidentified object crashing into the sea on 20 May 2006 around Cape Town, during the afternoon, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) in South Africa had reported.
Eddie Noyons, NSRI Shelley Beach Station Commander, said eye- witnesses reported that an unidentified object had crashed into the sea behind the breaker line off-shore of the Port Shepstone High School. Police, rescue craft and a fixed wing aircraft were alerted to the scene to investigate. “Following a full scale search of the area covering 12 square nautical miles nothing has been found.” “There are no reports of activity in the area that may be related to this incident and there are no aircraft reported to be overdue or missing,” said Noyons.
He said numerous eye witnesses—including teachers and pupils attending a sports event at the high school and other by-standers including local fishermen—were convinced they had seen an craft go into the water, including seeing smoke and water exploding. Interviews with the witnesses revealed that some also reported seeing flames. “Some reported seeing something, an unidentified object, splash into the sea causing a ripple effect of waves,” Noyons said.
Due to the number of eye-witnesses with similar reports, it was presumed that weather activity in the area at the time might have given the impression of something falling into the sea. “We will continue to monitor the situation which remains a mystery,” he had said.
An image of the center of our galaxy, where Sagittarius B2 is located.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI)
A peculiar new molecule hovering within a star-forming dust cloud in deep in space could help explain why life on Earth is the way it is.
The cloud, called Sagittarius B2, resides near the center of the Milky Way, and it’s there that researchers from the California Institute of Technology discovered an organic element that displays a key property shared by all life. Propylene oxide is the first element discovered outside of our solar system to exhibit chirality, or the presence of two distinct, mirror-image forms. Many complex molecules have this property, including myriad organic molecules necessary for life. The chemical formula of these two versions is exactly the same, but the structure is flipped.
Chirality? So What?
All life on Earth is composed of chiral molecules, and the versions organisms use, either right- or left-handed, determines fundamental properties of their biology. For example, all living things only use the right-handed form of the sugar ribose to form the backbone of DNA, giving it that the signature twist. You can think of molecular handedness by picturing gloves — hence the “handed terminology”. The gloves, or molecules, may look similar, but you could never put a left-handed glove on your right hand.
Ignoring the chirality of the molecules that we put in our bodies can have deadly consequences. The drug thalidomide, used in the mid-20th century as a sedative for pregnant women, turned out to cause terrible birth defects if taken at the wrong time. It turned out that thalidomide was made up of chiral molecules — some were left-handed and others were right-handed. One version would act as a sedative, while the other would lead to birth defects.
The fact that we are made up of molecules that look one way and and not the other has long presented a near-ontological question for researchers. The various building blocks of life here, sugars and amino acids, all share chirality with each other —sugars are all right-handed and amino acids are all left-handed — what’s called homochirality. While just one version may exist here on Earth, both right and left-molecules are possible. It isn’t known how life on this planet chose its preferred molecular handedness.
The question for researchers now is whether molecules on Earth are inherently better suited for life, or if chirality is a product of pure chance. It could be that conditions in the universe favor one form of organic molecules over the other — it has been suggested that the way that photons or electrons are polarized could preferentially destroy one form of a molecule over another.
“[It] provides us with a lab to try and test theories about the role chiral molecules played in the origins of life on earth and elsewhere in the galaxy,” says Brandon Carroll, a PhD candidate at Caltech and coauthor of the paper.
Powerful Telescopes
The researchers found traces of propylene oxide in Sagittarius B2 with the help of two radio telescopes, one in West Virginia and one in Australia. Every molecule emits radio waves in a unique frequency as it moves through space, which serves as an invisible signature. Using radio telescopes, researchers detect these emissions and match the wave frequency to known spectra. Using this method, the Caltech researchers determined that Sagittarius B2 contains significant amounts of propylene oxide, an organic chemical often used to manufacture plastics here on Earth.
While this propylene oxide is not used by any organic lifeforms here on Earth, it does prove that finding chiral molecules beyond our solar system is possible. They couldn’t determine which form of the molecule was present in Sagittarius B2, but the researchers say that it may be possible to determine handedness in the future by exploiting differences in how polarized light passes through the cloud.
We have previously found chiral organic molecules on comets and asteroids from our solar system, but scientists wanted to discover the presence of such molecules beyond our backyard. Our entire solar system was likely formed from a cloud of dust and gas much like Sagittarius B2, and the chirality of the molecules that went on to form the Earth, and eventually us, determined some of the most basic features of Earthly life. Discovering chiral molecules elsewhere is an important step toward elucidating the role that chirality plays in creating life and guiding its development.
This post has been updated to clarify that amino acids and sugars display different handedness.
1) Thalidomide rapidly racemizes under physiological conditions. Resolving the optical isomers achieves nothing. NSAIDs like ibuprofen had better be resolved, for the wrong isomer is overtly toxic - and these molecules slowly racemize in vivo. Think about that, pill poppers. 2) Any tetrahedral carbon with four different substituents is a chiral center. Finding propylene oxide in space pronounces on nothing re biological homochirality. "the structure is flipped." No, the structure is mirror-image (one coordinate axis' signs all reversed) non-superposable by only translations and rotations. 3) "you could never put a left-handed glove on your right hand." Turn it inside-out. Right glove! 4)" sugars and amino acids, all share chirality with each other" NO, all natural chiral sugars are right-handed, all natural chiral amino acids are left-handed - and don't use CIP notation for that, re cysteine. Racemases invert amino acid handedness for biological advantages. Remember naughty glycine. 5) "They couldn’t determine which form of the molecule was present in Sagittarius B2" Enantiomers have rigorously identical physical properties absent a chiral field to create diastereomeric divergence re optical rotation, linearly polarized light being a racemic mixture of left- and right-circularly polarized light interacting with a net chiral medium to suffer different refractive indices, hence a relative phase shift. 6) Electronic chirality is generated by a pseudoscalar, a vector, and a pseudodeviator. Only the first requires geometric chirality. 7)"Discovering chiral molecules elsewhere is an important step toward elucidating the role that chirality plays in creating life and guiding its development." Aw, crap. Yo momma so stupid she she thinks menopause is a boy's bathroom.
Initially the article' writing made me think they'd found a lot of left-handed propylene oxide. That would have been stunning. However, it looks to me like they have zero evidence the stuff they found is not merely a racemic mixture. And that "discovery" is of absolutely no interest.
Aliens unlikely to be in contact for 1,500 years, scientists calculate
Aliens unlikely to be in contact for 1,500 years, scientists calculate
Based on the number of stars in the Milky Way, aliens will not be in touch for 1,500 years
Humans are unlikely to hear from aliens for at least 1,500 years, scientists have calculated
Astronomers at Cornell University in the US have developed a new equation which seeks to explain the Fermi Paradox, a philosophical conundrum which asks why extra-terrestrials have not been in touch if billions of Earth-like planets exist in our galaxy.
Essentially, if the universe is teeming with aliens, as predicted, where is everyone?
The scientists have calculated that signals from Earth would need to reach half of all the Sun systems in the Milky Way to be sure of being picked up by an advanced civilisation. And that is unlikely to happen for 1,500 years.
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“We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said student Evan Solomonides , who is presenting the equation at Astronomical Society’s meeting June 16 in San Diego.
“It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now.
“Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone, even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.”
Signals are being beamed from Earth - pictured here surrounded by orbiting satellites - all the time, and should be picked up by a civilisation within 1,500 years
Aliens are likely to first hear TV and radio signals that are being sent into space all the time as a by-product of broadcasting.
These signals have been traveling from Earth for 80 years at the speed of light.
For aliens receiving these transmissions, they would likely be indecipherable, and only an advanced civilisation would be capable ofdecoding radio waves into sounds, then working out the languages spoken.
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So far Earth’s broadcast signals have reached every star within about 80 light-years from the Sun, around 8,531 stars and 3,555 Earth-like planets. But our Milky Way galaxy alone contains 200 billion stars so there is still a long way to go.
However Mr Solomonides is optimistic because of the Mediocrity Principle, which suggests that Earth is unlikely to be unique in the Universe.
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“We are on the third planet around a tediously boring star surrounded by other completely normal stars about two-thirds of the way along one of several arms of a remarkably average spiral galaxy,” he added.
“We are not in any special location in the universe, we should not be anything special in the universe.”
Last year Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Professor Stephen Hawking announced a multi-million pound project to hunt for signs of alien life.
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