Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
14-11-2016
Amateur Drone Captures UFO Traveling 1.2 Miles in 0.33 Seconds (Video)
Amateur Drone Captures UFO Traveling 1.2 Miles in 0.33 Seconds (Video)
I was on my way home from work and when I reached the 4 way stop I saw something large off in the distance to my left. I originally thought that it might be a blimp but as I continued to drive closer I realized that this wasn’t a blimp and it wasn’t an airplane. It was very large and it was flying very slowly from the North to the South.
When I got to a place where I could pull over and take pictures I observed 2 cars already pulled over doing the same thing and then another car pulled over right after I did. This large object was very large and solid and the only light that it gave off was it was glowing white at the top. There were no other type of lights on it to indicate that it was a plane or anything else that would have those type of lights. It continued flying South and I eventually lost sight of it behind some trees. Anyway this was something that I’ve never seen before and I thought I would report it to you guys to see if you could figure out just what it was.
This is a report of an interview I conducted of a person who was at the Roswell crash site. I am a retired engineer. I joined the staff of the then new campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. There were several sightings of UFO’s in the mountains behind the campus in 1969 and reported to the University. I was asked to interview 3 people and file a report. I could find on credibility or evidence in these events but, because it was a small campus and everybody in the Sciences knew what was going on, I got the unwanted reputation of someone who knew about UFO’s.
One day in 1970, a maintenance worker who I knew well from my church, came into my lab and said he had a friend who wanted to talk to me but did not want to meet in a public place. I suggested we meet at my home that evening. At the time, I did not know he wanted to tell me about a UFO incident. That evening I was told by the two men that they had been captured by the Germans during WW2 and spent a year and a half in a POW camp. They became good friends during that time and remained so after the war. The individual I interviewed was a welder by trade and after the war was employed at the Roswell Air Force base welding jigs and fixtures for servicing aircraft. He began by stating that the week before the 4th of July flying saucers would fly over the base in pairs every once in a while. He said they were circular and had a large dome on the top. They were flat on the bottom and were silent. He assumed they were some technology obtained from the Germans. He said everyone working there called them “flats.” . He said that he had just returned back to work after the 4th of July holiday when a truck pulled up and an officer got out and told him to load a cutting torch and fresh tanks and that they were going out to the desert. He said that it was mid afternoon when they arrived at the crash site. He said at the time he thought a plane had gone down. He said they had a flatbed truck loaded with wreckage and there were soldiers on their hands and knees picking up every piece of wreckage and putting it in cloth bags. He said the bags were the kind used for sandbags. He said they drove a little farther out of sight from the wreckage and came upon a second group of people standing around an intact UFO. He said the brush was knocked down indicating the craft had skidded across the ground and came to rest nosed into a natural berm with the back side slightly off the ground. He described the craft as being about 25/26 feet in diameter with a large dome on top. He said the craft was the ‘color of weak tea’ with a burnished finish. He said there were no signs of weld marks, seams, or rivets and that all of the edges had either an inside or outside radius. There were no visible windows or openings. That was why he was brought there. He was told to cut an opening in the dome big enough for a man to crawl through. By this time it was getting to be late afternoon and there were soldiers setting up a bank of portable lights. He said he began cutting a hole from the base of the dome. He said it was a tough alloy and slow cutting but the material was surprisingly thin. He tried bending the metal out of his way as he was cutting but the metal would spring back to its original shape without creasing.
He finished his cut and set the metal piece aside and looked into the cockpit for a few seconds before he was ordered off the craft. He said it was difficult to see very far into the craft because of the glare from the portable lights and the cockpit was full of smoke from the cutting torch. He said he saw two beings who appeared to be dead. He said the cockpit had a strong smell of ammonia. He described the two beings as being about 4′ tall but they were doubled up so it was hard to say. They were wearing what he said were skin tight purplish flight suits that reminded him of sequins. He described their heads as what we now refer to as greys. He said there were no visible instruments that he could see. He was ordered off the craft with his gear and returned to the Air Base. He said it was dark when they arrived and he was escorted by armed guards into a building for a debriefing. He said there were several high ranking officers at the table along with 4 or 5 civilians in suits. He said that after he was debriefed he was told that he was not to talk about what he had seen as it was a state secret and if he was caught divulging anything he would spend the rest of his life in prison or worse. He was scared to death by the threat and my friend and myself are the only people he ever told and that was 23 years after the event. When we started the interview, I was told that I could not take notes or use a recorder. He was very nervous telling the story and had to be reassured by my friend that I would not betray him. He said that what had been described as the Roswell event was not true and he wanted the truth told after his death. He asked that I keep what he told me a secret until after his death which I have done. He and my friend both passed away in the late 1980’s. When I heard this story I did not know what to think. I was not a UFO buff and had never heard the Roswell story. My friend said this guy was the real thing and during the interview I never sensed anything odd about his presentation or with his mannerisms. He provided a lot more information that I have stated but the interview was almost 50 years ago and forgotten. I think he was telling the truth. My friend was a very honorable and trustworthy man who would knowingly support a bogus story. I never saw or spoke the welder again after that evening. I have shared my knowledge of this interview with a couple of investigators but I think they doubted my credibility. – MUFON CMS
The recent John Kerry 11-7-2016 departure trip to Antarctica by discussing the new agreed upon Nation State Treaty, banning private ships from traveling to Antarctica without advanced authorized permission to do so, for a period of 35 years.
Image above released by Wikileaks on October 18, 2016.
Add to this element of information the previous events occurring in Antarctica, when Obama visited Antarctica in March, and he was preceded by Patriarch Kirill of Russia.
Simultaneous to Obama’s visit to the South Pole, his director of CIA, James Clapper, made a secret trip to Australia, another country with heavy interest in Antarctica. Kirill offered a strange blessing of Antarctica, calling the barren land an “ideal for human kind” because there were no weapons down there or any type of science experiments.
Image above released by Wikileaks on October 18, 2016.
We know that is not true at all: there are multiple scientific expeditions that have gone to Antarctica: this was confirmed in an interview with Richard Byrd, who said that the region would become the center of scientific inquiry directly after WW2.
Due to the fact that prior to Kerry’s visit to Antarctica, Wikileaks released on October 18, 2016 23 images of Antarctica, MrCati comes to the conclusion that all these visits are intended to limiting investigation into Antarctica’s secrets from the past.
(VIDEO) WAS THIS FOOTAGE OF A GREY EXTRATERRESTRIAL REALLY SMUGGLED OUT OF TOP SECRET AREA 51?
(VIDEO) WAS THIS FOOTAGE OF A GREY EXTRATERRESTRIAL REALLY SMUGGLED OUT OF TOP SECRET AREA 51?
Area 51 is the government facility popularly believed to be involved in investigations into other forms of intelligent life and the cover-up of UFO crashes and other alien incidents.
FILM OF ALIEN INTERROGATION LEAKED FROM AREA 51
A man going by the alias 'Viktor' was able to obtain footage that he claims shows a 'Grey' extraterrestrial being interrogated by government officials. It is unclear whether he took this footage himself or was able to obtain it directly from Area 51.
The video can be viewed below.
The video although only short contains footage believed to be highly classified if Viktor and other alien life fanatics are to be believed. It first surfaced in 1997 although it is purported that the interrogation itself took place significantly earlier, in 1966. This matches with the period in which conspiracy theorists claim that Area 51 was at its most active.
'Ufologist' Sean David Morton was amongst the first to view Viktors tape, and although he can recount the details, his description leaves some ambiguity. Morton described the creature in detention as a "small, beige-skinned, black-eyed, bulbous headed creature." An image that would send a shiver down the spine of many however he is unable to provide any details that prove the videos legitimacy. Although the room and equipment seen in the video appear to be what one would expect in the context of an alien investigation, this makes the footage perhaps too perfect and lends strength to claims that it is not real.
Most disturbingly, towards the end of the footage the medical equipment monitoring the 'alien' sounds alarms and the creature is in physical distress, supposedly dying soon after. This supports claims that have been made many times by UFO believers that aliens were being subjected to cruel and in this case, fatal, experiments at a government location in the desert.
UFO disappears into clouds seen from Space Station, Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO disappears into clouds seen from Space Station, Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, ISS
This is an extraordinary find by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This is a UFO recorded on the live NASA space station cam. The interesting thing about it is that it actually passes below the clouds. That means this object has perfectly matched the speed of the space station and is traveling at an altitude of most passenger jets. Sure alien tech has no difficulty in keeping up with the 27,600 km/h space station, but still its remarkable to see it pass below those clouds. The size of the UFO looks to be about 1/3 that of the space station. That makes the UFO about 33 meters across. Great catch, please go to Youtube and give Streetcap1 a supportive thumbs up for his hard work. Scott C. Waring
UFO Turns Lights On Over Lima, Peru Excites Locals, Nov 2016, Video, 👽 UFO Sighting News 👽
UFO Turns Lights On Over Lima, Peru Excites Locals, Nov 2016, Video, 👽 UFO Sighting News 👽
Date of sighting: Nov 2016 Location of sighting: Lima, Peru This is cool. A UFO was recorded over Lima, Peru this week and in the recording we see a street light suddenly light up. Coincidence? Probably not, since hundreds of UFO reports report electrical problems when the UFO was near. This is important evidence that this object was a UFO. Scott C. Waring News states:
A mysterious ‘burning’ UFO has been filmed traveling across the sky above a capital city. Residents of Lima, Peru, were left stunned as the orange light floated slowly through the air in the slightly darkened sky. The video, which lasts a full minute and was revealed by Peruvian media last night, has left observers mystified. To add to the mystery, people in other parts of the South American country, including the highlands to the southeast of Lima and the area near the Amazon rainforest, also spotted strange lights in the sky. One theory is that the lights could be the high-altitude balloons used by Google’s Project Loon, an initiative that provides Internet access to people in remote and rural areas. The balloons float in the stratosphere about 18km, 11 miles, above the Earth’s surface and do contain lights. Is this where aliens from Mars relax? British conspiracy theorist spots a SOFA on Red Planet However, there are a number of people who believe Peru is a regular stop-off for aliens who are drawn to the country by its many ancient sites, including the world famous Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
UFO Caught Passing In Front Of Moon, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Passing In Front Of Moon, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Surprise, Arizona, USA
This is odd. A UFO in orbit that has a haze mist around it. The object is solid, because if it was transparent, we would see the light of the moon through it. I believe that the field around it is due to the alien propulsion, because the haze has been seen in thousands of UFO photos before. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
While taking video of the Supermoon, with NexStar 6se telescope, UFOs do a fly by. Camera was a Sony CX500V HandyCam HD, 5X optical zoom, manual focus at .9m, maxview 40 lens for a 38X telescope magnification. The UFOs appear to have distortion surrounding them, perhaps bending light.
Mysterious 'burning' UFO spotted in the sky above capital city 'favoured by aliens'
Mysterious 'burning' UFO spotted in the sky above capital city 'favoured by aliens.
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The mysterious orange light was filmed for a full minute.
A mysterious ‘burning’ UFO has been filmed travelling across the sky above a capital city.
Residents of Lima, Peru, were left stunned as the orange light floated slowly through the air in the slightly darkened sky.
The video, which lasts a full minute and was revealed by Peruvian media last night, has left observers mystified.
To add to the mystery, people in other parts of the South American country, including the highlands to the southeast of Lima and the area near the Amazon rainforest, also spotted strange lights in the sky.
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The 'burning' UFO was filmed travelling across the sky above Lima, Peru, for a full minuteSome people think the light could a Project Loon balloon while other believe Peru is a favourite destination for aliens
One theory is that the lights could be the high-altitude balloons used by Google’s Project Loon, an initiative that provides Internet access to people in remote and rural areas.
The balloons float in the stratosphere about 18km, 11 miles, above the Earth’s surface and do contain lights.
However, there are a number of people who believe Peru is a regular stop-off for aliens who are drawn to the country by its many ancient sites, including the world famous Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
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Beagle 2 is niet gecrasht op Mars
Beagle 2 is niet gecrasht op Mars
Tim Kraaijvanger
De gedoemde Marslander Beagle 2 is in 2003 niet neergestort, maar toch zachtjes geland op het oppervlak van de rode planeet. Dat is de conclusie van een nieuw onderzoek.
“Waarschijnlijk lukte het de lander ook om de mees000te zonnepanelen uit te klappen”, beweert onderzoeker Nick Higgett van de De Montfort universiteit. Higgett en zijn collega’s gebruikten publiekelijk beschikbare foto’s van Beagle 2 om een 3D-model van de Marslander op de landingsplaats te maken. Vervolgens konden zij verschillende situaties simuleren, zoals de positie van de zon, om te kijken of de satellietfoto’s overeenkomen met de daadwerkelijke situatie volgens het 3D-model. Daaruit blijkt dat Beagle 2 drie – en misschien alle vier – zonnepanelen heeft uitgeklapt.
Wat gebeurde er? “Wat is er gebeurd met Beagle 2? We komen steeds dichter bij een antwoord op deze vraag”, zegt professor Mark Sims. “Natuurlijk komen we er nooit achter waarom Beagle 2 er niet in slaagde om te communiceren, maar we weten wel dat de landing een succes was.” De meest aannemelijke theorie is dat er drie panelen zijn uitgeklapt en dat dit niet genoeg stroom opleverde om contact op te nemen met Mission Control.
Werkt Beagle 2 nu nog? “Misschien werkte Beagle 2 wel enkele honderden dagen, afhankelijk van hoe snel het stof zich opstapelde op de zonnepanelen en of stofstormen (zogenoemde ‘dust devils’, red.) de zonnepanelen regelmatig reinigden”, vertelt Sims aan de BBC. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat Beagle 2 vandaag de dag nog steeds functioneert, maar dat is zeer onwaarschijnlijk en ik heb er twijfels over.”
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Amerikaanse wetenschappers hebben een trechter op Mars gevonden. Het gaat om een depressie die is gevormd door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer. Is er ooit microscopisch leven ontstaan in deze warme omgeving?
De kans dat er nu nog microscopisch leven op Mars is, is klein, maar het is niet onmogelijk. Het oppervlak van de rode planeet is vele malen droger dan de droogste plekken op aarde. Maar miljarden jaren geleden was de planeet veel natter en warmer.
Sommige plekken op Mars zijn interessant om te onderzoeken als ‘hot spots’ van leven. Dit zijn plaatsen waar de ingrediënten voor leven ooit aanwezig waren, namelijk water, hitte en voedingsstoffen. Dit geldt voor een bijzondere depressie die lijkt op een trechter. De depressie is te vinden in een krater op de rand van het Hellas Bassin. Met een diameter van 2300 kilometer is het Hellas Bassin de grootste inslagstructuur op Mars. “We hebben verschillende scenario’s getest en denken dat de depressie is ontstaan door de interactie van lava en ijs”, concluderen de onderzoekers in het paper.
En dat is bijzonder, want als het gebied is ontstaan door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer, dan waren alle ingrediënten voor het ontstaan van leven aanwezig, inclusief vloeibaar water en chemische voedingsstoffen. Het is geen gek idee om een Marslander in dit gebied neer te zetten en om op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven.
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
By Douglas Messier, Space.com Contributor
Artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's SR-72 concept vehicle, which the company says could potentially fly six times faster than the speed of sound.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
MOJAVE, California — The world is at the start of a renaissance in supersonic and hypersonic flight that will transform aviation, but the effort will need steady commitment and funding if the United States wants to lead the way, congressional leaders and industry officials said at a forum late last month.
"What's exciting about aerospace today is that we are in a point here where suddenly, things are happening all across the board in areas that just haven't been happening for quite a while," said former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke.
"There was a period where engine technology had just sort of stagnated — a point where all materials technology was going along at about the same pace," Bedke added. "There just wasn't much happening. But suddenly, in all sorts of areas that apply to aerospace, things are happening." [NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel (Images)]
Bedke was one of five panelists to speak Oct. 27 at the Forum on American Aeronautics here at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Sponsored by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the forum was hosted by committee chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and member Steve Knight, R-Calif. Bedke, Smith and Knight were joined by David McBride, director of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Craig Johnson, director of business strategy and development for Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Former Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stu Witt moderated.
Knight has taken the lead on the House Science Committee in getting NASA's aeronautical program to focus on a new set of experimental aircraft. He said his passion for these programs isn't just about improving American aviation — it's personal.
"In 1967 was the last time we went hypersonic in an airplane," Knight said, referring to an X-15 flight piloted by his late father, William J. "Pete" Knight. That flight reached Mach 6.7 — 6.7 times the speed of sound — a record for piloted aircraft that still stands nearly 50 years later. (Hypersonic flight is generally defined as anything that reaches Mach 5 or greater. "Supersonic" refers to any flight that exceeds Mach 1.)
"We collected an awful lot of data," he said. "But what I would like to see is that we can move that data into something, whether we are going to move into an aircraft that we're going to put people into or we're going to use it for some other program. We've got to have that continuity and move forward."
Knight noted that it still takes the same 4.5 hours or so to fly from New York to Los Angeles today as it did 30 years ago. Supersonic aircraft flights over land have been banned for decades because of the sonic booms they produce. No supersonic passenger planes have been in operation since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003.
NASA wants to change that. In February, the space agency awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the design of an experimental plane to test technologies that can significantly reduce the sonic booms caused by aircraft. If the program is successful, the ban on overland supersonic flights could be lifted.
"We're poised on the brink of a new era in air transportation," McBride said. "We do need to go faster. There is a market for supersonic flight over land in an efficient manner that can fly without being an annoyance to everyone on the ground."
NASA also is exploring ways to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts of subsonic aircraft. Engineers are experimenting with blended wings and other innovations.
Smith admitted that the difficulty that Congress and the president have experienced in passing budgets has caused problems in sustaining research.
"None of that is conducive to good work getting done in an efficient way," Smith said. "And we can do better. We need to get to the point where continuity actually lasts beyond just one administration, much less beyond tomorrow. And we're with you on that."
Bedke said there is no time to waste in moving these programs forward.
"It is inevitable that hypersonic technologies are going to happen," he said. "It is not inevitable that we are going to be the country to do it first. But we can be the country to do it first, but we're going to have to put our minds to it, and we're going to have to stop the history of fits and starts, of throwing money at a big program, achieving a wild success, and then having no follow-up. Or throwing a lot of money at too big a program, taking too giant a bite, failing miserably and then deciding hypersonics isn't going anywhere. Neither of those must be allowed to happen in the coming years."
NASA to Launch 'Swarms' of Small, Earth-Observing Satellites
NASA to Launch 'Swarms' of Small, Earth-Observing Satellites
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
NASA plans to launch a suite of tiny, next-generation satellites into Earth's orbit to study weather patterns and climate change. These missions will conduct important scientific research while also advancing the technology needed to launch smaller, cheaper satellites, NASA said.
The space agency hosted a teleconference today (Nov. 7) from its headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss some of the new small satellites, or "smallsats," that will launch in the coming months.
Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters, explained that small satellites can reduce the costs of space-based Earth observations. Additionally, the satellites can increase access to space for private companies as well as universities and students interested in pursuing science experiments in Earth's orbit, Stofan said.
Small satellites have several advantages," he said during the teleconference. "They reduce the risk and cost of demonstrating precursor technologies and infusing them into larger flight projects. They're used for flight testing and demonstrating new proof-of-concept components. And they enable affordable distributive science observation systems using constellations or swarms of small satellites to achieve broad coverage."
For example, eight identical spacecraft in NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission slated to launch Dec. 12 will fly in formation over the Earth's most hurricane-prone latitudes to monitor the weather and improve storm-forecasting capabilities.
All eight CYGNSS observatories prepped for launch on the Pegasus rocket.
Credit: University of Michigan
Another mission, the Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes (RAVAN) project, aims to encompass the globe with several orbiting satellites that will monitor the greenhouse gas effect and Earth's changing climate. The first RAVAN is a three-unit CubeSat, or mini satellite, scheduled to launch later this month, said Bill Swartz, the mission's principal investigator. If all goes well, RAVAN satellites may someday swarm around the entire planet.
A planned constellation of multiple RAVAN (Radiometer Assessment using VerticallyAligned Nanotubes) satellites would be evenly distributed around planet Earth to measure energy balances in the global atmosphere and monitor climate change.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
In a separate mission, a swarm of 12 CubeSats will study tropical cyclones while also measuring and tracking air pollution. This mission is called TROPICS, short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. Each satellite will use a radiometer instrument to measure temperature and water vapor profiles of storms. William Blackwell, the principal investigator for TROPICS, said during the teleconference that the satellites are about the size of a milk carton and weigh about 8 lbs. (3.6 kilograms) each.
With 12 individual CubeSats, the TROPICS constellation of small satellites will fly over any part of the tropics about every 30 minutes. This will allow the mission to monitor the quickly changing features of tropical cyclones as they progress. Each TROPICS CubeSat is the size of a loaf of bread and weighs eight pounds (3.6 kilograms), flying 350 miles (560 kilometers) above Earth.
Credit: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
These new missions mark the beginning of a new era in satellite technologies. Missions like those mentioned above may also pave the way for swarms of mini satellites to orbit around the moon, Mars and other objects in the solar system, Stofan said in the teleconference. And the initiative is making it easier than ever for space researchers outside of NASA to get involved in small satellite projects.
Stofan said that the agency is "actively promoting the small spacecraft approach as a paradigm shift for NASA and the larger space community," through contracts with industry, NASA directive projects, collaborations with universities and partnerships with other space agencies.
'Impossible' Space Engine Might Actually Work, Study Suggests
'Impossible' Space Engine Might Actually Work, Study Suggests
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Engineers are working on ways to make spaceflight faster and cheaper, in an effort to open the heavens to exploration.
Credit: NASA/Glenn Research Center
An experimental propulsion system that seems to violate the laws of physics may actually work, a new study suggests.
A controversial and puzzling engine design known as the EmDrive generated small amounts of thrust in a lab test, NASA researchers reported in the study, which has yet to be published or peer-reviewed but was recently leaked online.
The EmDrive, which was developed by British researcher Roger Shawyer more than a decade ago, generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber. According to Newton's third law of motion— for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction — this shouldn't work, because there's no exhaust expelled out of the EmDrive system. (Think about rockets, which get their oomph by blasting superheated gases and other material out of nozzles at high speeds.) [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)]
But the NASA team, led by Harold "Sonny" White of the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, did measure some thrust. Specifically, their EmDrive variant produced about 1.2 millinewtons of force per kilowatt of energy. That's about 100 times more thrust than solar-sailing spacecraft, which harness the momentum of photons streaming from the sun, are able to achieve, White and his colleagues wrote.
Like solar sails, the EmDrive requires no propellant; a spacecraft equipped with this propulsion system could generate all the microwaves it needs using solar panels. So the EmDrive could make space travel much cheaper and faster, theoretically opening up the heavens to greater exploration, advocates have said.
Don't get too excited — that's a long way from happening, if it happens at all. The new study is just a proof of concept, and further testing is needed to definitively rule out all possible sources of experimental error, White and his team said. (For example, it's possible that air within the EmDrive system could have heated up and expanded, causing some of the observed effect, the researchers wrote.)
But the new result is the latest in a series of apparent successes for EmDrive technology. Shawyer reported generating thrust with his version, as did Chinese researchers who tested their own variant in 2012. And White and his colleagues reported a positive result back in 2013 as well.
So this seemingly impossible engine may actually work — perhaps by somehow harnessing the energy of subatomic particles that are constantly popping into and out of existence, White and his team have speculated. (Shawyer has his own ideas about what's happening inside the EmDrive, and he doesn't think Newton's Third Law is being violated at all. Check out his explanation here: http://emdrive.com/faq.html.)
The most important movie of 1997 was not Titanic; it was Men in Black. MiBgrossed less than half of what James Cameron’s flick made (although nearly $600,000 is still plenty of money). It won exactly zero Academy Awards — or any film accolades, for that matter. The film was not responsible for launching any of its cast members into superstardom, and it certainly possess no iconic scene of a nude portrait in progress — despite how badly the public was clamoring to see a naked Tommy Lee Jones grace the silver screen.
And yet, 19 years later, Men in Black has maintained a bigger influence on our lives than an overwrought piece of historical fiction directed by a megalomaniacal director — because it’s a movie about the future, or at the very least, a version of what our future might be.
The existence of extraterrestrials has been pondered endlessly since heliocentric theory was accepted as fact by the world’s scientists. Once the globe understand that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, people became more open to the idea that life — even intelligent life — could have evolved on other planets. And of course, the notion that life might exist elsewhere also meant those beings could possess some of the more gruesome qualities that humans do.
Namely, that they might be hostile.
So the 20th century was filled with stories and films depicting aliens invading us puny Earthlings, thereby forcing us to band together and fight off oppressors from across the galaxy. Although movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) and E.T. (1982) demonstrated a more positive version of what a chance meeting with aliens might look like, the ‘90s saw a push for much more grim views of extraterrestrials visiting the third rock from the sun. Independence Day(1996) gave us the destructions of Earth’s major cities. The X-Files was smack in the middle of stoking ideas about government conspiracies, alien abductions, and an alien invasion that substituted lasers and guns for viruses and clandestine operations. Mars Attacks! was hilarious but also demented, showcasing an alien force composed of equal parts technological intelligence and id.
Men in Black changed all of that. It flipped the script of a half-century’s worth of stories about governmental secrecy, and presented a world where aliens were pretty much as dumb, simple, and happy-go-lucky as most human beings. Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) do spend a bit of their time firing guns and chasing down baddie extraterrestrials, but for the most part, they are playing the insanely dull role of having to just talk to people (or rather, aliens disguised as people) and help them with their problems.
Why are they so good at their jobs? Simple: they’re good at communicating with others. For Agent K and (to some extent) Agent J, a world with aliens is actually really mundane. They’re just people with more arms, ugly faces, and hotter tempers.
Men in Black posits the idea that maybe a scenario in which humans learn they aren’t alone is actually just as boring a universe as it is right now. And paradoxically, this is actually as crazy as the idea that aliens would come to this planet to wage war and conquer our species — because how the hell could lifeforms who have mastered interstellar travel be so consumed with, well, consumption?
But that’s exactly what makes Men in Black so brilliant. The film’s dry sense of humor demonstrates that, perhaps, if aliens ever do show up at our doorsteps, we shouldn’t heed hysterical notions that they’ll take over our world – nor should we consider that revelation as a foundational shift in our ideas about humanity. Instead, we should reaction to aliens the way we do most scientific findings: “hey, this is some pretty neat shit, and I can’t wait for our lives to be transformed by it, but for now I’m gonna get on with sharing cat gifs with all my buddies!”
The scientists who spend their days looking for aliens have still not found anything. To make your life’s work the search of something that has never before experienced any success must be existentially daunting. Men in Black highlights that a self-effacing approach to this absurd task at hand is exactly what allows you to pursue a difficult passion without becoming obsessively consumed by it.
As space travel and exploration moves faster, and allows us to peer off into far away worlds, the idea that we might one day meet extraterrestrials is feeling closer than ever before. We should look at Men in Black as a lesson that if and when that day arrives, let’s not lose our shit. Be like Agent K and just remember that everything and everyone is still pretty bad — and that the best thing we can do is to focus on our jobs, take care of the little things, and let the big things work themselves out.
When T.S. Eliot wrote that, he was considering the end of WWI and the dissolution of his marriage and the Treaty of Versailles, he was not (consciously at least) contemplating physics-based simulator. But he almost certainly would have been enamored of the visual poetry that Universe Sandbox2puts on offer. It’s a worlds-building game, an attempt to take the Sim genre to its logical conclusion, but it’s also a way to craft a personal vision for the end of Earth. And it is a profound reminder that we exist at the mercy of larger forces.
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The lifelike simulator allows users to inject carbon dioxide into Mars’ atmosphere to try to make life or reenact the Big Bang, or, and this feels so inevitable, crash shit into Earth to see what happens.
To describe the simulated destruction of Earth as satisfying is to undersell the delight of a child with a magnifying glass and some plastic soldiers. Or a skilled Mortal Kombatant given the go ahead to “Finish Him.” Here’s how it might go down if it was me, not God (or whatever), in charge….
Despite being extremely unlikely, the scenario that immediately springs to mindis the collision of Earth and the Moon. It’s a visit that would not end well for humanity.
Beyond being immediately catastrophic, the collision would fundamentally alter the earth’s rotation, as this GIF demonstrates. Consequently, every extant ecosystem would have its weather changed. Time, indeed, might run backwards. (Sure, but would broken coffee cups come back together?)
Roughly 17 hours from impact, the release of energy from impact has increased Earth’s surface temperature to 1657 degrees Celsius, according to the physics simulator (which allows you to track surface conditions of your experiments, including atmospheric measurements).
Earth’s a goner….
A similar possibility: Mars gets hit and pieces from that detonation rocket into Earth’s atmosphere….
Predictably, this is no better a scenario for Earth’s chances than contact by the Moon. Surface temperature of the Earth about 12 hours after impact is actually hotter, 2205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the result doesn’t look much more liveable than the post-Moon impact world.
Fortunately, that’s still pretty unlikely.
The luminosity of the Sun is a function of both its size (measured by radius) and the surface temperature. Astronomers suppose the Sun’s luminosity will increase by 1% every 100 million years.
A projection of the Earth after 1.5 billion years have passed and the Sun’s luminosity has increased by 15% shows things already getting hot:
The most widely-agreed-upon endpoint for Earth as a life-sustaining force (all other disaster scenarios notwithstanding) is the increasing luminosity of the Sun, which is expected to make Earth so hot as to be entirely unlivable in three billion years.
An analysis of the Earth at this point reveals a surface temperature of 101.9 degrees celsius, or just past the boiling point of water — consistent with projections that one of the first things to disappear from late-stage Earth will be the oceans.
The surface temperature of the earth has more than tripled, to 376 degrees Celsius—according to the simulation—while the Sun’s radius has expanded from the current 696,300 km to 702,020 km. This is consistent with predictions that at the three billion year point, Earth’s temperature will resemble Venus’s (with a present temperature of 462 degrees celsius)….
Another well-known end times prediction from scientists states that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, will collide in about 4 billion years.
Supposing that we’ve already found a way to get off the burning rock Earth will have become and colonize Mars or a planet further on, scientists speculate that the merging galaxies will make life difficult by ejecting our Solar System into outer space or, at minimum, moving us further from the galactic core.
The goods news is that we probably won’t hit anything. Scientists actually expect this interaction to feature few real collisions because the amount of space between celestial bodies is vast. Still, things get iffy when supermassive black holes are in play.
Universe Sandbox2 is like a physics lesson on the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Perhaps the most nihilistic game on the market, it serves as a stark reminder that the Trump presidency will be nothing more than a galactic hiccup — barely worth worrying about at all.
Everyone understands time, and no one knows how it works. And that may be the least contradictory thing about something that feels like a solid, inflexible part of reality, but consistently bends under the weight of culture and psychology. To live is to time travel and people experience that trip in different ways, but no one can reverse course or alter speed — a collective dream since H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895. Author James Gleick wanted to know why, so he dug in, talking with philosophers and black hole-hunting theoretical physicists.
Though his book, Time Travel: A History, fails to offer practical tools for chronological self-determination, it does offer readers the opportunity to grapple with one of the few remaining restraints on human movement. Gleick spoke to Inverse about pulling on that last restraint.
Time Travel isn’t a new topic, and it isn’t a reality, so why does it fascinate us? Is there anything in particular about being a human in 2016 that draws us to the idea of time travel?
When I started the book, I did have in the back my head that sort of wacky, speculative idea that maybe time travel was basically over. That it had run its course and all the things that needed to say had been explored. That was in 2011 or 2012 — now I just think that’s a stupid thing to have thought, because that’s not what happened at all. As I was working on this book, incredibly interesting new variations on the theme of time travel appeared. Even this Fall I think there are at least three network television shows that have a time travel theme.
Why is this? Because our relationship with time is as froth, intense, and anxiety producing as ever. Probably even more so than before because everything in the world is going so fast — all the complications and confusions that come from living in a network existence, where we are getting information on multiple channels. Those channels come to us as though they are a part of our present. We’ve gotten good at different versions of time shifting, like instant replay or tape delay. So, for better or for worse, we’re filling our lives with things that resemble time travel. No wonder we are still interested in it.
Doctor Who's Tardis is England's most prominent modern time machine.
Do you think our perception of time will change or has?
I’m comfortable believing that we are never going to arrive at any kind of complete, final, satisfactory answer to what time is. I’m constantly resisting the bumper sticker slogans as to what time is, sayings like “time is what happens when nothing else does” and “time is nature’s way of keeping everything apart.” I love them, but I resist them.
There are serious physicists trying to answer the question of what time is. They are the ones with the official answer, if you believe in science, like I do. But I also believe that there is no official answer, and that the physicist’s version of time is only a part of the picture. We also have psychological time, which is different from that.
It’s my view that we have to accept that we have a very complicated view of something that we expect to understand simply.
Your book makes the case that literal time travel, as in going back and forth in time, is impossible exist. Did you encounter any scientists in your research who disagreed?
Yes. Lots. As you say, my view is that the literal view of time travel is an impossibility. I say that because of my view of what time is. There are people who don’t agree with me and I hope there are many of them because I’m raining on my own parade.
The kind of person most likely to say, ‘Well, we can’t be sure that time travel is impossible’ is your modern, up-to-date, theoretical physicist. There are lots of them who want to remain open to the possibility of time travel and they are a lot smarter than I am. I have a great respect for the way they think about these issues.
There are also theoretical physicists who think that a literal understanding of time travel implies a kind of view of reality that probably isn’t the right one — mainly, that the future is already there in some way, waiting for us to arrive in our machine. Or, that the past is also still there in some way and it’s not irretrievably gone so, if you had the right kind of machine or portal, you could go there. I don’t think that’s how it is and I think in their heart of hearts, most physicists don’t either. It’s just that with equations and models for reality, it’s hard for them to rule it out.
I appreciate a scientist who likes to keep an open mind.
When I was reading your book, it dawned on me that people probably wouldn’t want to time travel if they realized it would most likely mean they would slip into a black hole and hope that a worm hole would spit them out. That’s less appealing than jumping in a pod and going to 1920s Paris.
That’s right. We want there to be a good glass of wine waiting for us at the other end and to have the chance to talk to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Exactly. Do you think that popular culture will ever shift, and portray this more realistic version of time travel? Much of what we receive now seems to be a regurgitation of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
Of course — and that’s good. That’s what attracted me to the subject in the first place. Even if I don’t think that we’re literally able to get into a time machine, I do think that it’s a real and powerful way of thinking about the world and helps us.
A recurring theme in my book is how time travel presentation has paralleled the evolution of ideas in popular culture and in science. H.G. Wells said that time in the fourth dimension was a gimmick, a trick that he was playing to get the reader to believe his story.
He didn’t imagine that, 10 years later, this German fellow Albert Einstein would be putting forward a whole theory of the universe in which it’s very useful to view time as a fourth dimension. That would in fact become modern orthodoxy. It’s not because Einstein read “The Time Machine*; it’s because they were both living in the same universe where, for many reasons, it was becoming more natural to think of time as space.
If you went back in time and saw the 2002 movie 'The Time Machine' than someone would have.
But even Einstein couldn’t nail down time.
Advances in physics during the last century have increased our knowledge of the world we live in, to an astonishing degree and — it can’t be underestimated — contributed to answering philosophical questions about the nature of reality. It’s interesting that, to an extent, these questions are still wide open.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Photos via Doctor Who/BBC, Back to the Future, The Time Machine, Wikimedia Commons
The theory of gravity gets a little weird in a few spots in our universe. One of those spots is the outer edges of galaxies. Stars in the outer regions of a galaxy rotate around the galaxy’s center faster than we would expect. This extra speed seems to come from some sort of extra gravitational force, and sincewe haven’t seen the matterresponsible, we’ve basically just stuck dark matter into the theory of gravity to explain the speedy rotation.
But we might not actually need dark matter to explain the extra speed. In a paperreleased this week on arXiv (pronounced “archive”), physicist Erik Verlinde at the University of Amsterdam argues his emergent theory of gravity accounts for the extra speed without dark matter.
“Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it?” he recently wondered aloud on Twitter.
Verlinde first proposed the emergent theory of gravity back in 2010, and, ever since, it’s been controversial in the physics community. Verlinde’s theory casts gravity as an emergent property of the universe and an effect of entropy, rather than a fundamental force. Other physicists disagree, citing experimental results involving quantum particles.
Challenging Newton’s and Einstein’s theories is pretty ballsy. But viewing gravity from Verlinde’s perspective could not only help physicists better understand how stars move in the outer reaches of galaxies, but also how matter behaves around black holes and other situations traditional gravity has been unable to describe correctly.
Spoiler Alert: Hundreds of Stars Have “Strange, Alien Signals”
Spoiler Alert: Hundreds of Stars Have “Strange, Alien Signals”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope stands out against the breaktaking backdrop of the Sacramento Mountains. 234 stars out of the Sloan's catalogue of over 2.5 million stars are producing an unexplained pulsed signal.
Image: SDSS, Fermilab Visual Media Services
IN BRIEF
When analyzing a spectra of 2.5 million stars, researchers came across 234 that produced the same strange signal — pulses of light at constant time intervals.
The conclusion? Either these are effects of the Sloan instrument itself and data reduction, or they are ETI signals.
STRANGER THINGS IN SPACE
Too often, when we encounter a seemingly unexplainable occurrence in space, we automatically think Aha! Aliens! It’s not exactly best practice to jump into declaring extraterrestrial life with a snap of a finger. But neither should we be too skeptical. A bit of both, certainly.
That’s why, when Laval University astronomers E.F. Borra and E. Trottier submitted a study about stars producing what appears to be ETI signals, we shouldn’t ignore it, nor swallow it entirely. In any case, the strange phenomena comes from their study of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Analyzing the spectra of 2.5 million stars, they came across 234 that produced the same strange signal — pulses of light at constant time intervals.
The stars were all “overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range,” the authors claimed, very similar to our own Sun. Is it possible that, like our Sun, these stars host a system with intelligent life, and are sending signals to contact other intelligent species?
WITH GREAT CLAIMS COME GREATER BURDEN OF PROOF
To Borra, it seems very likely, especially since the findings match a 2012 study he’d written about ETI signals. The authors easily dismissed three of the five possible explanations to the phenomena and settled on two: either these are effects of the Sloan instrument itself and data reduction, or they are ETI signals.
But are they really? It remains difficult to say, especially since the authors acknowledged that “the signals are due to highly peculiar chemical compositions in a small fraction of galactic halo stars.” And it is very possible to have a subset of stars that behave this way.
Not to mention the paper’s still up for peer review.
As the saying goes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” which the Breakthrough Listen Initiative team quotes in a response to Borra’s findings. The Breakthrough team isn’t too eager about the whole study, giving it a 0 to 1 score on the Rio Scale. That says a lot coming from a group dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life.
In this case, we’ll have to stick to the likeliest possibility: the 234 blinking stars are what they are — blinking stars.
Modern astronomy lets us image and look at the skies in much more detail than ever before. Telescopes like the ROSAT, the Fermi Telescope, and the Planck Telescope have allowed us to see the universe in many different lights.
Now, a new astronomical survey reveals the heavens under a different spectrum — radio waves. The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) shows what 300,000 galaxies look like if we could see radio waves.
Humans can only see everything under visible light. But any physics student can tell you visible light is but one of many spectrums of light out there. Humans can also see with only three primary colors, while the GLEAM survey imaged galaxies with 20 primary colors.
The GLEAM survey used data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a radio telescope in the Australian outback. While previous observations have imaged parts of the sky using radio waves, this is the most comprehensive one yet.
Below are remarkable photos of the Milky Way galaxy in all its glory via different lenses.
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