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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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...
04-09-2016
Interstellar Space Travel: 7 Futuristic Spacecraft To Explore the Cosmos
Interstellar Space Travel: 7 Futuristic Spacecraft To Explore the Cosmos
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor
Credit: Adrian Mann
INTRO. To the stars
Astronomers recently announced strong evidence of an Earth-like alien planet around Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, making it the closest exoplanet found to date. Though the star system is our cosmic neighbor, it is still located 4.2 light-years, or 25 trillion miles, away from Earth. At such distances, could we ever visit the newfound planet?
Even the nearest stars would takes tens of thousands of years to reach using conventional spacecraft, such as the robotic probes being used now to explore the solar system. These spacecraft are driven by a combination of chemical rockets, low-thrust ion drives and gravity-assisted trajectories — including so-called "slingshot maneuvers" around the sun or large planets that give them a big burst of speed.
But if we're going to travel beyond our solar system, we're going to need something a little faster than that — perhaps something like the giant Project Daedalus fusion rocket, shown here to scale with NASA’s Saturn V rocket in an illustration by graphical engineer and space artist Adrian Mann, whose work is featured in this countdown of futuristic space technologies. Here are seven ways that robots, or even human explorers, could visit the Proxima Centauri system or other cosmic neighborhoods.
Credit: Adrian Mann
1. Project Daedalus
Project Daedalus is a concept design for an interstellar probe, developed in the 1970s by a group of technical specialists for the British Interplanetary Society. The target destination was Barnard’s Star — a red dwarf about 6 light-years away, in many ways similar to Proxima Centauri, where astronomers now report they have found signs of apotentially habitable planet. When Project Daedalus was conceived, some astronomers thought a gas giant planet might be in orbit around Barnard's Star, but since then, no planets have been found in the star system.
The result of the five-year project was the design of the Daedalus spacecraft, a two-stage, 54,000-ton nuclear rocket that would boost a 400-ton robotic probe to around 12 percent of the speed of light. This would enable the probe to make the 6-light-year journey to Barnard’s Star in around 50 years.
The rockets of the Daedalus spacecraft would be powered by nuclear fusion, using electron beams to detonate a stream of pellets of fuel such as helium-3, which could be mined from the surface of the moon. Even so, the engines would consume tens of thousands of tons of fuel to get the spacecraft up to its top speed in about 4 years — and because there wouldn’t be any fuel left to slow down, the end result of the 50-year journey would be just a 70-hour flyby of the destination system, before the spacecraft speeds past into interstellar space.
The Daedalus would be much too large to lift off from the Earth’s surface, so it would have to be built in orbit, which means spacecraft like this couldn’t be built without a capacity for construction in space that doesn’t exist today, said space scientist Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in the United Kingdom.
While Crawford thinks the science behind the Project Daedalus concept is better understood now than when the spacecraft was designed, he said the immense cost and enormous technical challenges likely mean it would be more than 100 years before something like the Daedalus sets out for the stars.µ
Credit: Adrian Mann
2. Project Icarus
The Project Daedalus concepts from the 1970s are the inspiration for Project Icarus, an ongoing joint project by the British Interplanetary Society and the Icarus Interstellar organization, an international network of scientists, engineers and enthusiasts who hope to develop the capabilities for interstellar spaceflight by the year 2100.
Project Icarus is designed to reach any star within 22 light-years of Earth that has a potentially habitable exoplanet, meaning if a planet is confirmed around Proxima Centauri, it could become a target destination.
Project Icarus aims to update the Daedalus design with new technologies and ideas. Among the refinements proposed are fusion rocket engines that use a different nuclear fuel, which would be detonated by lasers instead of electron beams — a technology that could draw from recent advances in laser-ignition fusion at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Crawford said.
The Icarus probe could also be smaller than the 400-ton probe envisioned for Project Daedalus, thanks to advances in electronic miniaturization and robotics, and future nanotechnologies — which would mean the spacecraft would need to carry less fuel to reach its full speed.
Credit: Adrian Mann
3. Light sail
Our best bet for interstellar travel may be to not use a rocket at all, Crawford said. Light sails, which use the pressure of light to propel a payload, are already being considered for interplanetary space probes, and in 2010 Japan’s experimental IKAROS spacecraft successfully used its 60-foot-wide (20 meters) light sail to maneuver during a six-month journey to Venus.
But although light sails driven by sunlight are already an effective way to explore the solar system, they are not fast enough to cover interstellar distances in a reasonable amount of time.
Crawford said the answer may be to use powerful lasers to push the light sail to very high speeds with bursts of light at the start of the journey, until the spacecraft is too far from the laser source to gain more thrust from the light beam.
Since the driving lasers would be built on Earth or in orbit, interstellar light-sail spacecraft would not need to carry fuel for the journey, and so the mass of the spacecraft could be kept small.
Laser-driven light sail spacecraft are the basis of the Breakthrough Starshot project that was announced this year by investor Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking. The project aims to build a working prototype by 2036 at a final mission cost of around $10 billion dollars.
The project envisages a swarm of around 1,000 stamp-size "StarChip" spacecraft, each weighing a few grams and attached to a light sail measuring 13 feet (4 m) across, which would be deployed from a "mothership" in orbit before being accelerated by ground-based lasers to speeds of around 15 to 20 percent the speed of light.
This would allow the spacecraft to make the 4-light-year journey to the Alpha Centauri system — a triple-star system that includes the star Proxima Centauri and its possible planet — in between 20 and 30 years.
The concepts behind the Breakthrough Starshot project have been studied by Philip Lubin, a professor of cosmology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who says the biggest challenge remaining is to create sufficiently powerful lasers to drive the light sail spacecraft.
Credit: Adrian Mann
4. Bussard ramjet
The Bussard Ramjet concept, proposed by physicist Robert Bussard in 1960, combines the high thrust of fusion rockets with the low fuel requirements of light sails.
Instead of carrying its own fuel, a Bussard Ramjet would scoop up the very thin traces of gas and dust found in interstellar space, known as the Interstellar Medium, using a vast funnel-shaped electromagnetic field that extends for thousands of miles in front of the spacecraft.
Hydrogen from the Interstellar Medium would then be compressed and used as fuel in a fusion rocket at the rear of the spacecraft that drives it forward.
In theory, a spacecraft driven by a Bussard Ramjet could continue to accelerate as long as there is enough interstellar gas in its path to provide enough thrust, and could reach a high fraction of the speed of light.
As a result, the venerable Bussard has seen long and honorable service in many works of science fiction, notably Larry Niven’s "Known Space" series of novels and short stories, including the "Ringworld" books; and the 1970 Poul Anderson novel "Tau-Zero" (Doubleday, 1970), in which an interstellar crew push their stricken Bussard spacecraft to relativistic speeds to avoid destruction.
Unfortunately, the Interstellar Medium around our solar system and the nearby stars is especially thin, and scientist have calculated that there’s just not enough hydrogen there to fuel a Bussard Ramjet. "It's not the ideal part of the galaxy," Crawford said.
But he explained that several ideas have been proposed to get around this limitation, including a concept known as a “Ram Augmented Stellar Rocket”, which uses collected matter as reaction mass to drive the spacecraft forward, using energy beamed to it by a laser; and an "Interstellar Runway," which would use deposits of fuel positioned in advance in the path of an accelerating Bussard spacecraft.
Credit: Adrian Mann
5. Antimatter rocket & black hole drive
Beyond light sails, giant lasers and fusion rockets, a few even more exotic options for interstellar travel have been proposed, such as rockets powered by the extremely violent (and supremely efficient) annihilation reaction of matter and antimatter.
"Antimatter would be an excellent rocket fuel, because its energy density is so high," Crawford said. "But, of course it doesn't exist in nature, we have to make it. And it's very difficult and expensive to make, and very dangerous once you've made it — so who knows whether it could ever be used as a rocket fuel?"
Another proposal for using exotic physics to drive a spacecraft is the "Schwarzschild Kugelblitz" drive, which would use a microscopic, artificial black hole contained within its engines as its power source.
One idea for a ship equipped with the so-called "SK Drive," shown above, would trap Hawking radiation from the rapid and extremely violent decay of the tiny black hole, and convert it to energy that can be used it to propel the spacecraft.
Each of the artificial black holes would only survive for a few years, so new black holes would need to be created on demand, possibly by compressing pellets of matter with gamma-ray lasers.
According to a 2009 research paper, an SK-drive starship powered by a microscopic black hole with the mass of a modern supertanker could accelerate to 10 percent of the speed of light within 20 days. The black hole would last around 3.5 years before it decayed entirely, and would output more than 160 petawatts, or 160 quadrillion watts, of power in its lifetime.
Credit: Adrian Mann
6. Human "Slow Boats"
Even with super-fast rockets traveling at speeds of 10 percent or more of the speed of light, it would take many human lifetimes to reach all but the very nearest stars. And although Crawford is an advocate of human exploration of the solar system, he said that interstellar distances are too vast to make a human voyage conceivable within the next few hundred years.
"I think humans can explore the planets more effectively than robots, and I also think there are cultural reasons for sending humans into space, to broaden our range of experiences and enrich human culture," he said. "Now, it’s true that all of that would apply on the interstellar scale as well — it’s just that the distances are so large and the technical difficulties so great that advocating it at this stage is almost inconceivable."
Even so, several ideas exist for what are known as "Slow Boat" concepts that might one day take humans to the stars, including:
Sleeper Ships, in which human crewmembers are kept in a state of "deep sleep" or "suspended animation" for the duration of the very long voyage. This idea has featured in several science fiction movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" made in 1969, Ridley Scott's "Alien" in 1979 and James Cameron's "Avatar" in 2009.
World Ships, also known as generation ships or interstellar arks, would be giant self-contained space habitats carrying large populations of humans and other species from Earth on a relatively leisurely journey to colonize exoplanets — journeys that would take many centuries to complete. Entire generations would live and die during the voyage, and only the descendants of the original population would arrive at the destination.
Embryo Shipswould send cryogenically frozen embryonic humans, instead of sleeping or living humans, to a distant colony planet, where they would be "hatched out" and educated on their mission by a crew of protective robots.
Credit: Adrian Mann
7. Faster than light?
Wherever astronomers look in the universe, the Theory of Relativity holds fast. As Albert Einstein showed, it's not possible to accelerate a mass to the speed of light in space, nor past it.
But Einstein's equations may yet hold a few tricks that could someday let science do an end-run around the known laws of physics and achieve faster-than-light (FTL) travel — a Holy Grail for generations of science fiction fans.
The best known scientific concept for FTL travel is the Alcubierre drive, proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994.
The proposed drive operates by using intense gravitational forces, generated by two rotating rings of dense exotic matter, to shrink the physical dimensions of space in front of the spacecraft while expanding the space behind it, at a rate that could appear to exceed the speed of light.
In Alcubierre's proposal, which requires a type of exotic matter for the rings that is not known to exist, the spacecraft inside the "warp bubble" created by the drive would never travel faster than light in its local space, and so would not violate the laws of relativity.
Other speculative ideas for FTL travel include using trans-dimensional wormholes — also theoretically possible, but not known to exist — to travel between entangled but distant regions of space; or to daringly skim the edges of a large, spinning black hole, as depicted in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie "Interstellar."
But Crawford notes that the concept of faster-than-light travel is rife with unknowns and apparent contradictions, such as violating the principle of causality, in which events are caused by other events that happened earlier in time, and not the other way around. So, it's likely the proposals would prove impossible, even if they were technologically feasible to attempt.
"I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, because I can see huge benefits of being able to travel to the stars, but the laws of physics are the laws of physics, and it is going to be really difficult," Crawford said.
Engineers Are 3D Printing Coral Reefs to Help Save Our Oceans
Engineers Are 3D Printing Coral Reefs to Help Save Our Oceans
BARTHOLOMEW COOKE
IN BRIEF
One island is turning to 3D printing to help preserve the region's fragile coral reefs. The island's Harbour Village Beach Club has teamed up with ocean preservationist Fabien Cousteau to bring the 3D printing technology to our waters.
Some 3D printing trends may come and go, but this latest effort—much like Fred the tortoise’s new shell—is sure to stick for life. The trend we’re referring to is 3D-printed corals.
Coral reefs, as we all learned in science class, are remarkably important. They contain the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and they also protect coastlines from waves and tropical storms, among other things. Sadly, coral reefs are in danger of disappearing, thanks to the combination of diseases, and damage that is caused by climate change, pollution, and other human acitivies
Such is the case in the Caribbean Island of Bonaire, which is turning to additive manufacturing for help to preserve the region’s fragile coral reefs.
3D-PRINTED REEFS
The island’s Harbour Village Beach Club has teamed up with ocean preservationist Fabien Cousteau to bring the 3D printing technology to Bonaire’s coasts. Cousteau is the grandson of the late oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who made scuba diving possible.
For this project, the younger Cousteau will help the island plan and print pieces of artificial coral that will bear the same shape, texture, and even chemical makeup of organic corals to attract floating baby coral polyps and other species that rely on coral reefs for protection, including algae, crabs, and other fish species.
“This technology is less labor-intensive than current coral restoration processes, creating a larger impact in a shorter amount of time,” Cousteau told the Caribbean Journal.
This isn’t the first time that 3D printing has been used to save the threatened coral reefs. In 2012, Australian organization Reef Design Lab implanted the first artificial reef using low carbon footprint sandstone material in Bahrain’s Reef Arabia.
“We can achieve a very ‘organic’ appearance, and produce far greater complexity, caves and tunnels compared to traditional moulding techniques—this can translate to greater biodiversity and biomass,” RDL said in its website.
VIDEODe Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft een primeur te pakken. Ze kon voor het eerst de noordpool van de planeet Jupiter gedetailleerd op foto vastleggen. De afbeeldingen werden genomen door de ruimteverkenner Juno en dit weekend door de NASA vrijgegeven.
"Het lijkt op niks dat we ooit eerder hebben gezien", zegt Scott Bolton van het Southwest Research Institute (Texas). Ook de zuidpool van de gasreus werd vereeuwigd, maar het is vooral de noordpool die de aandacht van de onderzoekers trekt. Ze kleurt immers blauwer dan de rest van het hemellichaam en het is er schijnbaar veel stormachtiger dan verwacht.
De ruimtesonde maakte ook infraroodbeelden van de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Zo is op een van de foto's het morgenrood op de zuidpool te zien.
Juno stuurde eerder al foto's van Jupiter door naar de aarde, maar de afbeeldingen die de NASA onlangs op haar website plaatste, zijn veel scherper.
De verkenner vloog vorige week 'dicht bij' de planeet op een afstand van circa 4.000 kilometer. Er volgen de komende maanden nog tientallen vluchten rond de gasreus om meer data te verzamelen. In 2018 is de missie afgelopen en zal Juno vergaan in de atmosfeer.
Ruimtesonde Dawn van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bestudeerde de berg op Ceres de afgelopen maanden. De vulkaan is half zo hoog als de Mount Everest. De laatste uitbarsting vond vermoedelijk honderden miljoenen jaren geleden plaats.
"Het is onwijs cool en onverwacht", zei Christopher Russell van de University of California vandaag. Ceres stond ooit te boek als een volwaardige planeet, maar werd later gedegradeerd tot asteroïde. Tegenwoordig valt Ceres in de categorie dwergplaneet, net als Pluto.
Ruimtesonde Dawn is de eerste die de dwergplaneet van dichtbij observeert. De sonde cirkelt als sinds maart 2015 rond Ceres.
Deze keer zijn ze er honderd procent zeker van dat ze het bewijs hebben dat we niet alleen zijn in het heelal. Ufospotters hebben op YouTube een filmpje gedeeld waarop het internationaal ruimtestation ISS te zien is. Op de beelden is plots twee keer een lichtgevend object waar te nemen dat passeert.
De beelden zouden afkomstig zijn van de NASA volgens StreetCap1, de ufojagers die het filmpje hebben gedeeld. Het ruimtestation is immers 24 uur per dag te volgen via een livefeed van de ruimtevaartorganisatie. Je kan de Russische Progress Capsule zien, die zich aan het ISS heeft vastgemaakt voor bevoorrading. Achter de capsule is tot twee keer toe een lichtbol waar te nemen.
Volgens Scott Warring van de website UFO Sightings Daily gaat het om het ultieme bewijs dat buitenaardse wezens het ruimtestation in de gaten houden. Onder het filmpje - dat intussen al 15.000 keer werd bekeken in enkele dagen tijd - zijn nog meer enthousiaste commentaren te lezen. En af en toe een kritische noot van iemand die er niets van gelooft en de spotters een dokter aanraadt.
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(video)NICARAGUAN WOMAN CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS KIDNAPPED BY GOBLINS!
(video)NICARAGUAN WOMAN CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS KIDNAPPED BY GOBLINS!
Everyone knows all about the "Alien abduction" phenomena and there have been countless stories regarding that topic. People who have been abducted by short little green men or even other humanoid looking creatures.
However some bizarre abductions aren't just exclusive to extraterrestrial origin. One account by a woman living in a village near Monte Escuro, Nicaragua, claimed being kidnapped by evil goblin creatures when she was a little girl. She was in a cave for six days before her family came to rescue her with the aid from a witch.
Locals tell of many supernatural and strange creatures living on the hills surrounding that region. Creatures like goblins and fairies are said to be common and are sighted occasionally.
Many accounts of similar "little people" are spoken around many of our world's cultures and legends. Who knows, perhaps the "Little Green Men" from space have always been little magical goblins.
AMAZING! STRANGE ALIEN CREATURE LURKING CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
AMAZING! STRANGE ALIEN CREATURE LURKING CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
On the depths of our world's oceans or even on the smallest of lakes we can spot some terrifying things. From there in the dark waters beyond the penumbra, lurks mysterious creatures that mankind will barely witness on their lifetime.
We know very well of the Lochness monster tale, the idea of a giant sea dragon or an aquatic dinosaur hiding somewhere on the lake is mindblowing. Or the stories of colossal Krakens that terrified our ancestors when journeying through the seas.
There are also conspiracy theories regarding Aliens who seem to roam the depths on their USO's (unidentified submerged objects) and have established underwater bases and cities.
A lot of myths and legends concerning our world's mysterious aquatic regions have been around since ever, however, there's little evidence to prove any of this to be true.
But recently a man from Leyland, Lancashire, has caught something surreal on camera.
Studie: Buitenaardse groepen houden aarde mogelijk bewust in isolement
Studie: Buitenaardse groepen houden aarde mogelijk bewust in isolement
Er is een nieuwe studie verschenen waarin wordt gespeeld met het idee dat aliens ons er bewust van weerhouden om contact met ze op te nemen.
Volgens de dierentuinhypothese bestaat er superintelligent buitenaards leven, maar kiest het ervoor om geen contact met het leven op aarde op te nemen om ons ongemerkt te bestuderen of om de menselijke beschaving zo de kans te geven zich te ontwikkelen.
Dergelijke ideeën zijn het meest aannemelijk als er een universele entiteit zou bestaan die zijn wil aan andere buitenaardse beschavingen kan opleggen. Volgens de hypothese is een voldoende geavanceerde beschaving in staat om de handhaving van regels effectiever af te dwingen dan de mensheid gewoon is.
Strijdende groepen
Astrofysicus Duncan H. Forgan van de Universiteit van St Andrews heeft een model gebruikt waaruit blijkt dat beschavingen in zo’n scenario meer geneigd zijn om groepjes te vormen in plaats van één grote galactische club.
Als alle beschavingen ongeveer tegelijkertijd zijn ontstaan en al meer dan een miljoen jaar bestaan, dan zou zo’n club volgens Forgan kunnen bestaan. Het is zijns inziens waarschijnlijker dat er meerdere strijdende groepen beschavingen zijn die het niet met elkaar eens kunnen worden over een universeel beleid.
Impasse doorbreken
“Het is goed mogelijk dat de aarde zich bevindt in een deel van de ruimte dat wordt bezet door een conservatieve groep die geen contact wil,” valt te lezen in zijn paper. “Nu we steeds beter in staat zijn om onbewuste signalen van zowel bestaande als vergane beschavingen te kunnen detecteren, zouden we deze impasse moeten kunnen doorbreken.”
Family spot UFO while walking on Yorkshire, England, Sept 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Family spot UFO while walking on Yorkshire, England, Sept 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Sept 2016 Location of sighting: Yorkshire, England News source:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1721172/family-spot-ufo-shaped-like-star-treks-starship-enterprise-while-walking-on-yorkshire-moors/ Here is a great photo of a UFO with two long appendages on its right and left size. Some say it looks like the Enterprise, I think it looks like a sideways disk. England is however one of two testing grounds for secret alien tech from the USAF. So, is this ours or is it alien? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A FAMILY out walking on a Yorkshire moorland claim to have captured a Star Trek-shaped UFO flying overhead. The dark grey object, which appears to have a halo around it, was snapped by Nicole Smith, 19, on her smartphone during a family day out to Bronte waterfalls, in West Yorkshire. She was with her parents Catherine and Shane at the time and was shocked when she discovered the UFO on one of her photos. Her mum Catherine, 49, from Normanton, said: “We went for a day out in Haworth and decided to drive to the moor and parked near a footpath leading to Bronte waterfalls.
“It was a good two and a half mile walk from where the car was parked. “My daughter was taking random pictures of the sheep and scenery on our way back from the falls. It was around 5.30pm when she took the picture on her mobile phone. “It was only when we were on our way home she was scanning through the photos she had taken, she noticed the object in the picture.” The picture has been studied by an American optical physicist formerly employed by the US Navy. Dr Bruce Maccabee, who is now a leading Ufologist, said: “I’m not aware of anything that looks like this. The image is too small for good resolution. “It was not seen at the time so no information on distance. It might be some sort of insect within ten feet from the camera.”
UFO Fleet Caught Passing Over A Suspected Alien Base
UFO Fleet Caught Passing Over A Suspected Alien Base
Incredible footage of multiple massive UFOs has emerged recently – bringing the theory of an alien base anew. A suspected alien spaceship moves through the clouds over the Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. The space vessel is believed to be over 100 meters across.
A gigantic super-volcano is a notable natural structure in the Yellowstone National Park. While staying dormant for 70,000 years, a potential eruption of this massive volcano could kill 90,000 people and spark a nuclear winter, experts have warned.
Flying saucers were seen in a live camera observing the park. YouTube user Jeanette Forestershared the video to the video sharing site. She regularly posts short videos of the park, but this is the first time she posted a clip of her UFO sighting, which she describes as once in a lifetime.
Many space alien enthusiasts believe the U.S. knows about an active alien base or bases in the Yellowstone Park because the government allotted 3,468 miles of land for the park.
It doesn't take much to convince people that they've seen an experimental missile or a UFO. A funny-looking cloud or an exceptionally bright planet will usually do the trick. Here, our top 7 things that drive space-related hoaxes.
Credit: NOAA
7. Lightning
Mysterious UFO sightings may go hand-in-hand with a natural weather phenomenon known as sprites flashes high in the atmosphere triggered by thunderstorms. Sprites suddenly appear when lightning from thunderstorms excites the electric field above the storm, producing dancing flashes of bright light.
Sprites can take the form of fast-paced balls of electricity, although they can also form streaks or tendrils. "Winter sprites" are common in the northern hemisphere during winter months.
In December 2009, a spectacular spiral light show appeared in the sky above northern Norway: A giant spiral, with a green-blue beam of light shooting from its center, lit up the sky in a raindrop-ripple effect pattern.
It looked like a wormhole to another dimension, but it turned out that the lights were caused by a Russian missile that failed just after launch, according to Russia's defense ministry. The botched Bulava ballistic test missile spun out of control, thus creating the mysterious rotating spiral effect.
5. Weird Cloud Formations
Balloons in the Sky UFO Test
UFO SIGHTING OR BALLOON? AN EXAMPLE OF MISIDENTIFYING A BALLOON FOR A UFO
Last October, footage of a giant halo in an overcast sky over Moscow surfaced on YouTube. The video had everything needed to ignite UFO rumors. It's grainy. At one point, a dark pointy object appears to bolt out of the ring. There's even a panicked-sounding Russian radio broadcast in the background.
Cool-headed meteorologists were quick to put the story to bed: It was just an optical illusion, the cause of sunlight hitting a cloud disturbed by wind or plane traffic in just the right way. Most likely it was what is known as a hole-punch cloud. These occur in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, which are often composed of ice crystals and super-cooled water droplets water that is below freezing temperature, but still in liquid form. The physical properties that hold these clouds together are delicate, and when disturbed by a jet plane, wind or even cloud seeding efforts the droplets can freeze instantly or evaporate, the latter of which will form the hole.
3. Venus
The planet Venus often gets mistaken for a UFO. To viewers on Earth, the second planet from the sun appears as a bright light that hangs in the sunset sky, seeming to slowly hover in the twilight as it outshines every star except for the sun. Because Venus orbits the sun inside our own orbit, from our perspective it constantly darts out on the either side of the sun, which people often mistake for a moving UFO.
Here's proof that anything funny-looking in the sky can cause an uproar. This past Monday, most of the U.S. woke up to reports that a mystery missile had launched off the coast of California. The sightings were spurred by video of a condensation trail, or contrail, streaking through clouds lit up by the rising sun. No one could conclusively say what it was at the timeofficials at the Department of Defense reported no scheduled missile launches, NORAD and USNORTHCOM detected no foreign activity and the FAA hadn't cleared any commercial space launches in the area. After a thorough investigation, many experts now believe that the streak was a wait for it a run-of-the-mill jet aircraft contrail that happened to hang around longer than usual. Contrails appear most vivid around sunrise or sunset, and it's not uncommon that one showing up in an unexpected location will generate whispers of a UFO or experimental military aircraft.
Lights in the sky, especially when viewed by pilots, can also cause a stir, but are almost always revealed to be running lights of other aircraft, or flares dropped by weather research craft.
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1. Military Experiments
The late 1940s and early 1950s were a great time for spotting UFOs and aliens in New Mexico, primarily because that's where the Air Force was conducting some of its top-secret research. One such program was known as Project Mogul and involved floating microphone-carrying balloons to high altitudes in an attempt to pick up the sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The Air Force has since confirmed that a 1947 crash of one of those balloons created the debris that birthed the Roswell UFO Incident.
Another military experiment provided the bodies for that UFO. In the 1950s, Air Force scientists dropped several dozen anthropomorphic dummies from planes to test new high-altitude parachutes and determine whether the bodies would enter a dangerous spin as they fell. Results from these studies contributed to designs for the parachutes and pressurized suits that fighter jet pilots and early astronauts would wear. The Air Force was more than happy to allow Russian spies to think New Mexicans were a little kooky than to reveal the true military origin of the sightings.
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SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away
SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means.
In May 2015, researchers using a radio telescope in Russia detected a candidate SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) signal that seems to originate from HD 164595, a star system that lies about 94 light-years from Earth, the website Centauri Dreams reported over the weekend.
The astronomers have not yet published a study about the detection; they plan to discuss it next month at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster, who wrote that one of the team members forwarded him the IAC presentation. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
HD 164595 is known to harbor one planet — a roughly Neptune-mass world that orbits too close to the star to support life as we know it. However, it's possible that other worlds lurk undiscovered in the system, said astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, who is not part of the detection team.
To be clear: Nobody is claiming that aliens beamed out this signal. But that is one of the possible scenarios at the moment, Shostak told Space.com.
The scientists who made the detection are respected researchers, and the signal is strong enough that it's probably not just random noise, Shostak said. Furthermore, the signal is consistent with something an alien civilization might send out — and if aliens did indeed do it, they are certainly far more advanced than we are, he added.
Based on the received signal's characteristics, aliens would have to generate about 100 billion billion watts of energy to blast it out in all directions. And they'd still have to produce more than 1 trillion watts if they beamed it only to Earth for some reason, Shostak said.
"The first number is hundreds of times more than all the sunlight falling on Earth," he said. "That's a very big energy bill."
The SETI Institute focused the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes in Northern California, at HD 164595 Sunday night (Aug. 28) and plans to do so again tonight (Aug. 29), Shostak said. He certainly hopes the ATA finds something that would suggest ET is behind the signal, but he said he suspects there's a more prosaic explanation.
For example, it's possible that interference by an Earth-orbiting satellite or something else close to home is responsible, Shostak said. Indeed, he said that such "terrestrial interference" would be his bet, if we ever do learn what caused the signal.
But, sadly, it's very possible that we'll never know. The Russia-based team apparently observed the HD 164595 system 39 different times and only detected the signal once, Shostak said. If nobody sees it again, it will probably remain a mystery, much like the famous "Wow!" signal of 1977.
SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away
SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means.
In May 2015, researchers using a radio telescope in Russia detected a candidate SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) signal that seems to originate from HD 164595, a star system that lies about 94 light-years from Earth, the website Centauri Dreams reported over the weekend.
The astronomers have not yet published a study about the detection; they plan to discuss it next month at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster, who wrote that one of the team members forwarded him the IAC presentation. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
HD 164595 is known to harbor one planet — a roughly Neptune-mass world that orbits too close to the star to support life as we know it. However, it's possible that other worlds lurk undiscovered in the system, said astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, who is not part of the detection team.
To be clear: Nobody is claiming that aliens beamed out this signal. But that is one of the possible scenarios at the moment, Shostak told Space.com.
The scientists who made the detection are respected researchers, and the signal is strong enough that it's probably not just random noise, Shostak said. Furthermore, the signal is consistent with something an alien civilization might send out — and if aliens did indeed do it, they are certainly far more advanced than we are, he added.
Based on the received signal's characteristics, aliens would have to generate about 100 billion billion watts of energy to blast it out in all directions. And they'd still have to produce more than 1 trillion watts if they beamed it only to Earth for some reason, Shostak said.
"The first number is hundreds of times more than all the sunlight falling on Earth," he said. "That's a very big energy bill."
The SETI Institute focused the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes in Northern California, at HD 164595 Sunday night (Aug. 28) and plans to do so again tonight (Aug. 29), Shostak said. He certainly hopes the ATA finds something that would suggest ET is behind the signal, but he said he suspects there's a more prosaic explanation.
For example, it's possible that interference by an Earth-orbiting satellite or something else close to home is responsible, Shostak said. Indeed, he said that such "terrestrial interference" would be his bet, if we ever do learn what caused the signal.
But, sadly, it's very possible that we'll never know. The Russia-based team apparently observed the HD 164595 system 39 different times and only detected the signal once, Shostak said. If nobody sees it again, it will probably remain a mystery, much like the famous "Wow!" signal of 1977.
The Kardashev Scale Type 0: Why Earth is a Level Zero Civilization
The Kardashev Scale Type 0: Why Earth is a Level Zero Civilization
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To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is fundamentally linked to how widespread the civilization is (you obviously can’t harness the power of a star if you are confined to your home planet). In a previous article, we offered an overview of the various civilization types, Subglobal Cultures, Galactic Cultures, Multiverse Cultures etc.
Today, I want to talk about what it would be like to live in a Type 0 Civilization—A Subglobal Culture.
This might seem like a rather strange topic for discussion. After all, we are a subglobal culture. So couldn’t I just say, “What you are doing right now is living in a subglobal culture. Congratulations. Look out your window or something.” Wouldn’t that give you a much better understanding of this civilization type than any explanation that I could give? No.
UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLD
Based on our energy use, in 1973 astronomer Carl Sagan estimated that Earth represented a Type 0.7 civilization, more current assessments put us at about 0.72. What does this mean? We’ve had 4.5 billion years and we still haven’t made it to a Type 1 civilization.
So there’s a lot more to a Type 0 civilization than simply what you see when you look out your window. What about what came before? And what will come next?
On our own planet, at the lowest civilization type (Type 0.1) you would be a proto-human. You would use sticks and other basic tools to hunt and forage for your food. You probably wouldn’t wear any clothes. Many of your fellow proto-humans would be eaten by proto-lions (which would not be terribly pleasant, I’m afraid).
However, as an individual in a proto-society, you’d have to fight to earn mating rights, protect your hunting territories, and establish leadership through a strength based dominance hierarchy…so your fellows getting eaten by proto-lions might actually work to your advantage. Warm showers would (of course) be out of the question. You’d have to rely entirely on natural resources such as hot springs, fires set by lightning, and your own muscle power.
But eventually a proto-human in your proto-society would start carving stones into tools. Thus, your little world would evolve into the Stone Age (how exciting for you!).
At this point, as you move to a Type 0.2 civilization and beyond, you figure out how to manipulate fire and use it to your advantage (like making roasted proto-lion). You also start wearing clothing and other items that protect you from the natural environment. Eventually, you harness animals and use them to herd and transport material (proto-Lassie and proto-Mister Ed).
You might use smoke signals to communicate to distant tribes as you expand across the planet. And so you would slowly evolve from relying on natural forms of energy to manipulating resources for use.
As your culture continues to develop, you will begin metalworking. But moving from the Stone Age into the Metal Ages takes time…a lot of time (the Stone Age on Earth lasted some 3.4 million years). But eventually you’ll stop using those ruddy stones, and you’ll progress through the Copper, Bronze, and Iron Ages, where metal tools replace previous devices (and you make swords to stab your enemies, which will be of great assistance as you continue to fight to earn mating rights, protect hunting territories, and establish leadership through an economic based dominance hierarchy). Better fuels, such as coal or oil secured from local tar pits, will replace wood in campfires (just be careful with your herds around those tar pits; if one of your animals slips in, it probably won’t be seen again until some bloody scientist from a Type 0.7 civilization unearths it in a few millennia).
As you form into a more advanced community, you develop large structures that allow you to harness water power and wind power. Populations around rivers and other water systems surge and cities begin to truly develop (which makes plague spreading a snap and sewage removal a serious problem). Assuming your civilization isn’t wiped out by dysentery (it’s caused by fecal contamination of food and water), you will plateau here for a bit, at about Type 0.4.
The large structures created to harness wind and water energy are really only capable of producing a tiny amount of energy. So slowly, ever so slowly, you transition into widespread use of fossil fuel burning. And as we all know, a tiny bit of oil or natural gas goes a long way: Cue the industrial revolution!
Of course, steam and electricity are soon to follow.
Once you have electricity, your subglobal culture will evolve at an amazing rate. With electricity comes the advent of instantaneous global communication systems, amazingly fast transportation systems (which enable people to traverse the planet on a whim), global markets and planetary trade activities…and the dawn of a global culture is at hand.
At this level, you begin to truly understand the processes that create the planet and cosmos (your archaeologists delve into the deep recesses of tar pits and learn much about the herding practices of your ancestors). Nuclear energy is soon to follow and, as the energy released by nuclear fission is a million times greater than that released in chemical reactions, it fuels industry and technology even further, bringing society ever closer to breaching the bounds of the planet.
AND HERE WE HAVE THE MAJOR TEST
Nuclear energy isn’t all fun and games. Sure, you can use it to power cities and expand world markets. But you can also use it to obliterate your enemies (and much of the planet in the process) as you continue to fight to earn mating rights, protect hunting territories, and establish leadership through an economic based dominance hierarchy.
If you pass the test, you will harness the power of your planet and advance to a Type 1 civilization—a united global society that is capable of harnessing all the solar energy that reaches your world, manipulating planetary weather systems, and you’ll start to pull energy from other objects in the cosmos. If you fail, you will quite literally bomb your society back into the Stone Age (assuming, of course, that you don’t completely obliterate every living member of your civilization).
A Brief Explanation of the Kardashev Scale: How Far Can Humanity Really Advance?
A Brief Explanation of the Kardashev Scale: How Far Can Humanity Really Advance?
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Let’s be honest, we have our fair share of problems on planet Earth: war, floods, disease, poverty, environmental destruction, Justin Bieber (the list goes on and on, really). But we also have a lot of things going for us: the Alcubierre Warp Drive, invisibility cloaks, the Mars rovermissions, the discovery of the Higgs (the list goes on and on, really).
How can we weigh all the exciting and inspiring scientific discoveries against all the destruction and chaos? We have an ever expanding list of catastrophes that is coupled with (indeed, that parallels) our unrelenting march towards technological perfection. With such a coupling of unimaginable horrors and magnificent advancements, how can we possibly measure our status as a civilization?
One of the easiest ways to answer this question is to form a scale that will allow us to scientifically measure our technological *abilities* against the technological *possibilities.* Or in layman’s terms, something that will allow us to measure our awesomeness against the total possible awesomeness. Fortunately, there are several ways of conducting such measurements.
If you just want to understand the basics of this scale, you can read the following paragraph and skip the more technical section, which is helpfully marked “The TLDR Part”
Essentially, to measure a civilization’s advancement (awesomeness), the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is linked to how widespread the civilization is (whether it populates a planet, galaxy, or an entire universe).
THE TLDR PART
The Kardashev scale exists because of a Russian astrophysicist known as Nicolai Kardashev (I bet you’ll never guess where the scale got its name from).
In 1964, Kardashev came up with the idea that the status of a culture, as a whole, depends on two primary things: Energy and technology. He theorized that a civilization’s technical advancement runs parallel to the amount of energy that the civilization is able to harness and manipulate. Essentially, the more energy that a society can produce, the more technologically advanced they are (this was originally just tied to energy available for communications, but has since been expanded).
In other words, according to this theory, a culture’s development (in the very widest sense) is a product of energy and of technology: Through technology, energy is harnessed, and as social systems are expressions of this technology, the status of a culture rests upon (and is determined by) the amount of energy that is harnessed.
The scale has a number of different categories (levels of classification…or levels of awesomeness). In recent years, scientists have expanded this scale to measure hypothetical civilizations—civilizations that are galactic, intergalactic, and even multiverse in nature.
Are you ready to find out where humanity falls? Then press on!
CIVILIZATION TYPES
• Type 0: Subglobal Culture —This civilization extracts its energy and raw-materials from crude organic-based sources such as wood, coal, and oil. Any rockets utilized by such a civilization would necessarily depend on chemical propulsion. Since such travel is so pitifully slow, a civilization at this level would be (for the most part) confined to its home planet. Unfortunately, this is about where we are. We haven’t quite made it to Type I yet :c
• Type I: Planetary Culture —This civilization would be slightly more advanced than those found on Earth. They would be capable of utilizing all available resources on their home planet, skillfully harnessing the energy output of an entire world (10^15 watts). With any luck (if we don’t blow ourselves to oblivion, or turn the Earth into an uninhabitable wasteland) we will reach this stage in 100-200 years. So maybe your grandkids will be around to see it; there’s some hope in that (assuming you have kids).
• Type II: Stellar Culture —This civilization would be far more advanced than we are (a few thousand years beyond our stage of evolution). Such a society would be able to harnesses all the energy of its star (in our case, about 10^26 watts). This culture might resemble the Federation of Planets, as seen on Star Trek; or the civilization might be like a majority of the humanoids in the Mass Effect universe, such as the Asari, Salarians, and Turians.
• Type III: Galactic Culture —This civilization would be able to harnesses the energy output of a galaxy (about 10 billion times the energy output of a Type II civilization, and about 100,000 to 1 million years more advanced than we are). They have colonized the galaxy itself, extracting energy from hundreds of billions of stars, traveling across interstellar space, and populating innumerable worlds. This civilization may resemble the Borg (but hopefully not as mean and “resistant-is-futile-like”), or perhaps they would resemble the Empire from Star Wars (but hopefully not so Darth-Vader-choke-hold-like), or maybe they would be more like the Reapers from Mass Effect (but hopefully not so break-your-body-down-into-biogoop-like)…did anyone else notice that the civilizations at this level all seem to be evil and horrid?
• Type IV: Universal Culture —This civilization would be an intergalactic culture, spanning the breadth and width of the Universe. They would travel across the cosmos, commanding the power of a billion trillion suns. These societies would be capable of attempting projects of gargantuan, superhuman proportions, such as changing the structure of space-time or the deliberate slowing of entropy (or even its reversal) to achieve ultimate immortality. (Or, said civilizations may ultimately become capable of living INSIDE the event horizon of extra-massive black holes!) For humanity, such accomplishments might be forever beyond our reach. This level may be achievable only by incorporeal beings, such as members of Star Trek’s Q Continuum, or the Gallifreyans from Doctor Who.
• Type V: Multiverse Culture —This civilization will have transcended their universe of origin. It would be capable of universe-scale manipulation (jumping between multiverses that contain varied forms of matter, physics, and space-time). A civilization such as this would be home to beings of unimaginable power and ability.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
I admit, it is a little disheartening that we haven’t even reached Type I yet. I would like to say something inspiring, like “given our lowly position, there’s nowhere to go but up!” Yet, it is entirely possible that some major catastrophe (be it natural or human induced) will send us spiraling back into the Stone Age.
So, what’s the ultimate take away from all of this?
If we want to advance beyond a Type 0 civilization, we’re going to need to play nice with one another (and maybe invest in science and education; that helps too)
NASA Director claims that UFO life may be discovered in the next 10 years. Also names a few planets that are inhabited by extraterrestrial life.
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In the words of the hit science fiction television show "X-Files," the truth is out there. In fact, aside from truth out in space, there could also be extraterrestrial life forms. NASA Director of Planetary Science James Green claims the discovery of alien life could be possible in 10 years.
"The data that we're receiving is really exciting in telling us, forcing us to think about this in new and exciting ways. I believe we're on the right track...If we answer it, and it's positive, then life is everywhere in the solar system. Just think about that-we might not be alone," stated Green.
Aside from predicting that alien life would be discovered in the next 10 years, the NASA director also named four planets where extraterrestrials may inhabit. These include Mars, Saturn's Moon Enceladus, Jupiter's Moon Europa and Saturn's Moon Titan.
It isn't hard to visualize Mars being inhabited by alien life as it's just a few months ago when NASA discovered signs of liquid water in its craters. In order to survive, water is a vital element, which is why scientists concluded the red planet could be inhabited by life forms or may be able to sustain life.
As for the moons of the ringed planets, Jupiter and Saturn, this is not the first time that a NASA director has claimed extraterrestrial life exists. Normal Bergrun, a NASA scientist, stated that "living alien UFO spaceships" have been proliferating on Saturn's rings.
"What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that's where I first discovered them, and they're proliferating. You can [also] find them around Uranus and Jupiter. Wherever you see some rings, that is where I see the crafts, I call them a ringmaker," stated Bergrun in his book, "Ringmakers of Saturn."
While Bergrun is focused on the ringed planets, Green states that planets which contain liquid water, energy and organic material are enough to sustain life.
"But recent observations have changed all of that. It's now turning our attention to the right places for us to take a deeper look and start to answer our life question. So when look out into the solar system, where are the possibilities?" stated Green.
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Alien abductions at Area 51 army base: Ex-soldier reveals secrets from inside joined HQ
Alien abductions at Area 51 army base: Ex-soldier reveals secrets from inside joined HQ
Bill Brooks joined the army in 1968 and claims he was subjected to an alien abduction while serving at the nuclear weapons base at Sennelager, Germany.But this incident was just the tip of the iceberg in a lifetime of contact with extraterrestrials which began when he was a boy.Incredibly he did not realise what had been happening to him until he experienced a “memory download” when he was 44 years old.A professional musician after leaving the army, he claimed to have had an encounter with a UFO when returning from a gig and then just two hours later a flood of memories was triggered – reminding him of seemingly mind-wiped UFO experiences as a child and disturbing encounters in the military.The ex-squaddie revealed he was told the Sennelager base was shared with a detachment of American agents who were from Area 51 – the infamous alien-sighting base.The now 66-year-old claims he witnessed a “mass abduction” event as soldiers on the base walked mesmerised into a bright light.He said he was dozing on top of a Saracen military vehicle when he came too and realised what was happening.The soldier said he was then held at gunpoint by an agent and forced to follow his comrades who were marching in a trance-like state across the base.Brooks described him as a “man dressed in black, with chiseled blonde hair, who probably was American, wearing a little blue patch on his right sleeve”.The man told him “walk towards the light” and cocked his gun, so Bill was left with no choice but to obey – which is the last thing he remembers of that night.When he regained consciousness he was instructed by top military brass not to talk about what he had seen to his comrades or anyone else – being forced to sign a second non-disclosure agreement.
Brooks claims he was also subjected to a series of mind-control experiments in the army at secretive government military science base Porton Down near Salisbury.
He was claims he was fed mysterious substance on a sugar lump, which he believes was LSD, and began to have psychedelic episodes – he had never used drugs before.
The experiments featured a large black spiral moving on a white wall while the two captors shouted out him as he felt he was being drawn into the spinning object.
Feelings of hyper-aggression gripped Brooks after the experiments.
He believes he unknowingly signed up to the programme after getting into trouble for “scrapping with the lads” and being told if he agreed to join the experiments it would “all go away” and he would get two weeks extra leave.
Brooks reveals his lifetime of experiences in his new book called ’44: Based on an Ex-Soldier’s True Story of Life-Long Encounters Involving Alien Abduction’ – which is avaliable now.
It was co-authored by alien abductee expert Joanne Summerscales, founder of the ET Newsroom – a UK based project which offers support for experiencers.
Summerscales focuses on helping those who have had alien encounters of any kind or who have undergone mind control experiments.
She said: “His whole life is incredible. The most amazing thing is someone can live two thirds of their life, until they are 44, without realising what has happened to him.
“It was like a near death experience, he saw every detail of these things that happened to him, and it seemed to come out of nowhere.”
Brooks said he is “really not sure” of the relationship between aliens and world governments, but he thinks those in the know are “frightened of what they can do”.Mr Brooks added: “I only know what has happened to me, and I do feel I’ve been used, and that makes me angry.”The trooper also believes the secret services knew about his experiences with aliens as a child – despite he himself not being aware due to having his mind wiped.When asked if extraterrestrial races pose a threat to mankind, he said “I haven’t got the foggiest idea in reality, but why the secrecy?”.
Mr Brooks’ first major encounter with alien life came in 1960 while lying in a crop of corn.The then 10-year-old witnessed the creation of a crop circle before he was approached by a family of four Nordics – tall blonde humanoid aliens which are commonly described by alien abductees.The Nordics told him “Earth was in trouble” and asked “would he help?” before taking him for a ride on their ship.The younger aliens showed him how to use his mind to command movement of small spheres, which he did, and then the adults showed him the propulsion system and tried to explain it to him.
He also had a dramatic encounter with grey aliens while working as a truck driver after he had left the army.Brooks was eating fish and chips in his van and preparing to bed down for an overnight stop when he noticed a light in a field – looking over to see a cow being levitated by an alien craft.But when the aliens noticed him, surrounding his van and taking him up through an orange light, passing through the windscreen as if it were not there.When he was aboard the craft he saw the greys were dumping the cow, fearing for his life the one grey told him “No, you’re human”.
After being subjected to experimentation aboard the craft, Bill awoke the next day with no memory of what had happened to him.
Dumped behind the van, parked in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, was the butchered corpse of a cow – showing trademark signs of the cattle mutilation phenomena which is often linked to alien experimentation.
After getting home to his wife, he discovered he had “lost a day” during the incident and had been left without his wedding ring.
He also had two implants in his nostril and mouth which he expelled – only for them to disappear during another UFO event the following night.
Brooks also recounts another paranormal experience he had after leaving the army and living in Germany in which he was shown a foreshadowing of where serial killers Fred and Rosemary West tortured their victims by mysterious wraith-like beings.The soldier said he did not believe in any type of extraterrestrials or the paranormal until he had the download event when he was 44.He said: “Sometimes I do get angry, because I feel I’ve been used. But sometimes, I also wonder whether these experiences have been ultimately for good or ill of humankind, I know it has screwed up my life, so I’m more likely to believe the latter.”
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The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
We have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars?
Experts assert that, as a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its energy demands will increase rapidly due to its population growth and the energy requirements of its various machines. With this in mind, the Kardashev scale was developed as a way of measuring a civilization’s technological advancement based upon how much usable energy it has at its disposal (this was originally just tied to energy available for communications, but has since been expanded).
MEET THE KARDASHEV SCALE
The scale was originally designed in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (who was looking for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy disposal level: Type I (10¹⁶W), Type II (10²⁶W), and Type III (10³⁶W). Other astronomers have extended the scale to Type IV (10⁴⁶W) and Type V (the energy available to this kind of civilization would equal that of all energy available in not just our universe, but in all universes and in all time-lines). These additions consider both energy access as well as the amount of knowledge the civilizations have access to.
First, it is important to note that the human race is not even on this scale yet. Since we still sustain our energy needs from dead plants and animals, here on Earth, we are a lowly Type 0 civilization (and we have a LONG way to go before being promoted to a type I civilization). Kaku tends to believe that, all things taken into consideration, we will reach Type I in 100 – 200 yearstime. But what does each of these categories actually stand for in literal terms?
A Type I designation is a given to species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a neighboring star, gathering and storing it to meet the energy demands of a growing population. This means that we would need to boost our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. However, being able to harness all Earth’s energy would also mean that we could have control over all natural forces. Human beings could control volcanoes, the weather, and even earthquakes! (At least, that is the idea.) These kinds of feats are hard to believe, but compared to the advances that may still be to come, these are just basic and primitive levels of control (it’s absolutely nothing compared to the capabilities of societies with higher rankings).
A Dyson Sphere (Credit: Slawek Wojtowicz)
The next step up – a Type II civilization – can harness the power of their entire star (not merely transforming starlight into energy, but controlling the star). Several methods for this have been proposed. The most popular of which is the hypothetical ‘Dyson Sphere.’ This device, if you want to call it that, would encompass every single inch of the star, gathering most (if not all) of its energy output and transferring it to a planet for later use. Alternatively, if fusion power (the mechanism that powers stars) had been mastered by the race, a reactor on a truly immense scale could be used to satisfy their needs. Nearby gas giants can be utilized for their hydrogen, slowly drained of life by an orbiting reactor.
What would this much energy mean for a species? Well, nothing known to science could wipe out a Type II civilization. Take, for instance, if humans survived long enough to reach this status, and a moon sized object entered our solar system on a collision course with our little blue planet–we’d have the ability to vaporize it out of existence. Or if we had time, we could move our planet out of the way, completely dodging it. But let’s say we didn’t want to move Earth… are there any other options? Well yes, because we’d have the capability to move Jupiter, or another planet of our choice, into the way – pretty cool, right?
A Cyborg (Credit: Justin Lee)
So we’ve gone from having control over a planet, to a star, which has resulted in us harboring enough “disposable” energy to essentially make our civilization immune to extinction. But now, onto Type III, where a species then becomes galactic traversers with knowledge of everything having to do with energy, resulting in them becoming a master race. In terms of humans, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution – both biological and mechanical – may result in the inhabitants of this type III civilization being incredibly different from the human race as we know it. These may be cyborgs (or cybernetic organism, beings both biological and robotic), with the descendants of regular humans being a sub-species among the now-highly advanced society. These wholly biological humans would likely be seen as being disabled, inferior, or unevolved by their cybernetic counterparts.
At this stage, we would have developed colonies of robots that are capable of ‘self replication’; their population may increase into the millions as they spread out across the galaxy, colonizing star after star. And these being might build Dyson Spheres to encapsulate each one, creating a huge network that would carry energy back to the home planet. But stretching over the galaxy in such a manner would face several problems; namely, the species would be constrained by the laws of physics. Particularly, light-speed travel. That is, unless they develop a working warp drive, or use that immaculate energy cache to master wormhole teleportation (two things that remain theoretical for the time being), they can only get so far.
An artist rendering of such a civilization (Credit: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV)
Kardashev believed a Type IV civilization was ‘too’ advanced and didn’t go beyond Type III on his scale. He thought that, surely, this would be the extent of any species’ ability. Many think so, but a few believe there is a further level that could be achieved. (I mean, surely there is a limit?) Type IV civilizations would almost be able to harness the energy content of the entire universe and with that, they could traverse the accelerating expansion of space (furthermore, advance races of these species may live inside supermassive black holes). To previous methods of generating energy, these kinds of feats are considered impossible. A Type IV civilization would need to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange, or currently unknown, laws of physics.
Type V. Yes, Type V might just be the next possible advancement to such a civilization. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Now, as I said, humans are a very, very long way from ever reaching anything like this. But it’s not to say that it cannot be achieved as long as we take care of Earth and each other. To do so, the first step is to preserve our tiny home, extinguish war, and continue to support scientific advances and discoveries.
Remarkably Strange Object Found Orbiting Backwards Beyond Neptune
Remarkably Strange Object Found Orbiting Backwards Beyond Neptune
A new object past Neptune has been found orbiting the Sun, nearly perpendicular to the planets in the Solar System. The newly found object, named Niku, was discovered by a team of astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) telescope in Haleakala, Maui. And it has astronomers scratching their heads.
“I hope everyone has buckled their seat belts because the outer solar system just got a lot weirder,” Michele Bannister, an astronomer at Queens University, Belfast tweeted.
Niku, which is around 200 kilometers (124 mi) in diameter, isn’t conforming to the Solar Systems norms: it’s not moving from East to West, but upwards. It orbits the Sun on a plane tilted 110 degrees above the orbital plane of the planets in the Solar System. But the weirdest thing about this finding is that this object is not only tilted, but also orbiting backwards, opposite the orbital direction of the planets. This is abnormal because the rest of the planets and objects in the Solar System orbit the sun counter-clockwise, or prograde.
“Angular momentum forces everything to have that one spin direction all the same way,” says Bannister. “It’s the same thing with a spinning top, every particle is spinning the same direction.”
Two planets in the Solar System, however do not follow this norm either. Venus and Uranus were believed to have been hit by another celestial body, thus altering their rotation. Initially, a similar collision was suspected to have caused Niku to orbit the sun backwards, which would also explain the object’s 110-degree inclination.
But while Niku could have easily been dismissed as just another collision victim, additional findings have astronomers throwing that logic out the window and scratching their heads even more. They found that Niku is not alone. Apparently, Niku is a part of an entire group of objects orbiting the Sun in this inclination, and in this direction.
THEORIES?
The mysterious and still mythical (as of now) Planet Nine was also a primary suspect to the alteration, but further scrutiny concluded that Niku is too close to the center of the Solar System—beyond a hypothetical Planet Nine’s gravitational reach.
“It suggests that there’s more going on in the outer solar system than we’re fully aware of,” Matthew Holman, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center told The New Scientist.
So do scientists have any hypotheses as to what, how, and why these objects are moving around us the way they do?
“We don’t know the answer,” says Holman.
Although there are no solid explanations at the moment, and the study is still up for peer review, astronomers are very excited.
“Whenever you have some feature that you can’t explain in the outer solar system, it’s immensely exciting because it’s in some sense foreshadowing a new development,” says Konstantin Batygin at the California Institute of Technology.
Bannister enjoys the confusion that comes with it: “It’s wonderful that it’s so confusing,” she says. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the theoretical analysts do once they get their hands on this one.”
Free Science: NASA Just Opened Its Entire Research Library to the Public
Free Science: NASA Just Opened Its Entire Research Library to the Public
NASA is opening up its research library to the public in the newly launched web database PubSpace…and it’s absolutely free.
From here on out, any NASA-funded research articles in peer-reviewed journals must comply to its new policy. This requires that papers be published and uploaded to the portal within one year of publication so that they are freely accessible to anyone. The only exception is studies that involve patents and material governed by personal privacy, proprietary, or security laws.NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan believes that this move will benefit fellow scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation. “Making our research data easier to access will greatly magnify the impact of our research,” she said. “As scientists and engineers, we work by building upon a foundation laid by others.”
Ellen Stoffan, chief scientist. NASA.
“At NASA, we are celebrating this opportunity to extend access to our extensive portfolio of scientific and technical publications,” NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman says in a press release. “Through open access and innovation we invite the global community to join us in exploring Earth, air, and space.”
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