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...
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.
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14-12-2016
WAS THE BIBLICAL LEVIATHAN AN AMPHIBIOUS UFO?
WAS THE BIBLICAL LEVIATHAN AN AMPHIBIOUS UFO?
Ancient texts are always a good source for finding clues about humanity’s forbidden history –if you learn to read between the lines.
The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Tanakh, with Job 41:1–34 being dedicated to describing him in detail: "Behold, the hope of him is in vain; shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?" In Psalms 74, God is said to "break the heads of Leviathan in pieces" before giving his flesh to the people of the wilderness. He is called the "wriggling serpent" who will be killed at the end of time.
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
In the Bible, the Leviathan is mentioned five times and while metaphoric in essence, these descriptions could be interpreted in a literal fashion and we’d have several reasons to suspect this was no mere creature, but an artificial craft built and operated by the gods themselves.
BIZARRE! LITTLE HOUSE INVADING "ALIEN" CREATURE CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
BIZARRE! LITTLE HOUSE INVADING "ALIEN" CREATURE CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
What's the worse thing than having uninvited guests in our home? That would be an intrusive tiny Grey alien creature creeping on us!
There's the thing about alien abductions where ETs invite us to their homes and we unwillingly "accept", but invading our household is some levels high on the creepy scale.
There was a recent report along with a short clip showing a man filming his bedroom window and a big alien head peeking through his window.
Now a new Grey creature sighting has happened in Washington State. The man that caught the creature on camera was having a video chat on his computer, when suddenly he spotted an invasive short big headed creature hiding in the shadows.
The Mutal UFO network aka MUFON, which is the biggest Alien and UFO network in the world, identified it as a potential grey alien.
The city’s acropolis is barely visible during a cloudy day on the Thessalian plains
(SIA/EFAK/YPPOA).
An international team of experts has discovered a mysterious ‘lost city’ in central Greece that could offer new clues to the region’s history.
Archaeologists from Greece, Sweden and the U.K. are involved in the research project at a village called Vlochós, about five hours north of Athens in the ancient region of Thessaly. The archaeological remains were found scattered across a hill near the village, according to a press release.
The Vlochos Archaeological Project is a collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa and the Swedish Institute in Athens. A team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University of Bournemouth in the U.K. began a two-year exploration of the Vlochós site this year.
“A colleague and I came across the site in connection with another project last year, and we realised the great potential right away,” said Robin Rönnlund, a doctoral student in classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Gothenburg, who is leading the fieldwork, in the press release.
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Fragment of red-figure pottery from the late 6th century BC, probably by Attic painter Paseas
(SIA/EFAK/YPPOA).
Remains of towers, walls and city gates were found on the hill’s summit and slopes, although hardly anything of the city is visible on the ground below. Archaeologists hope to avoid excavation by using technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, enabling them to leave the site in the same shape as when they arrived.
Experts have already made significant progress in the archaeological project. “We found a town square and a street grid that indicate that we are dealing with quite a large city,” said Rönnlund, in the press release. The area inside the city wall measures over 99 acres, or 75 football fields.
The discovery of ancient pottery and coins will help to date the city, according to Rönnlund. “Our oldest finds are from around 500 BC, but the city seems to have flourished mainly from the fourth to the third century BC before it was abandoned for some reason, maybe in connection with the Roman conquest of the area,” he said, in the press release.
Historians know relatively little about ancient cities in the region, which makes the latest discovery particularly significant. “The preliminary results of our investigation are important as they give clear evidence that western Thessaly was no backwater, but a rich and vibrant society within the ancient world,” Rönnlund told FoxNews.com, via email.
While local authorities have known about the Vlochós remains for some time, this is the first time that systematic research has been conducted in the area.
Additional fieldwork will be conducted with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa in August and September 2017. “We hope to complete our survey of the remains to get a complete picture of the ancient city,” Rönnlund told FoxNews.com.
Archaeologists in Egypt recently discovered an ancient ‘city’ and cemetery.
Archeologen ontdekken mysterieuze 2500 jaar oude ‘verloren stad’ in Griekenland
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Archeologen ontdekken mysterieuze 2500 jaar oude ‘verloren stad’ in Griekenland
Een internationaal team van experts heeft een mysterieuze ‘verloren stad’ ontdekt in Griekenland die nieuwe inzichten kan bieden in de geschiedenis van de regio.
Archeologen uit Griekenland, Zweden en Groot-Brittannië zijn betrokken bij het onderzoeksproject bij het dorpje Vlochós in centraal-Thessalië.
De archeologische resten zijn gevonden op een heuvel in de buurt van het dorp, zo blijkt uit een persverklaring.
Veel geheimen
“De heuvel verbergt veel geheimen,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Robin Rönnlund van de Universiteit van Göteborg. “Zoals overblijfselen van torens, muren en stadspoorten. Maar bijna niets ervan is te zien vanaf de grond.”
Het onderzoeksteam schat de grootte van de stad op minstens 40 hectare en de oudste opgravingen dateren van ongeveer 500 voor Christus.
Volgens Rönnland ligt de bloeiperiode van de stad tussen de vierde en derde eeuw voor Christus. Waarom de stad verlaten werd, is niet duidelijk.
Raadsel
Door deze ontdekking hoeft de Griekse geschiedenis niet herschreven worden, aldus Rönnland.
Maar wel is nu duidelijk dat de regio Thessalië veel belangrijker en rijker was dan werd aangenomen.
Het is voor de onderzoekers een raadsel waarom deze plek niet eerder is onderzocht. “Er is heel weinig bekend over oude steden in deze regio,” klonk het.
Nog steeds is Antarctica één van de meest mysterieuze gebieden op aarde, waar zich ongetwijfeld dingen afspelen waar wij gewone stervelingen geen weet van hebben.
Antarctica is ook het gebied waarvoor de Duitsers voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog grote belangstelling toonden en waar zich naar verluidt tot op de dag van vandaag nog geheime (Nazi) bases bevinden met vergevorderde technologie.
Keer op keer blijkt ook weer dat de Nazi’s wat technische ontwikkelingen betreft hun tijd ver vooruit waren en wel degelijk in staat waren om zogenaamde vliegende schotels te bouwen.
En nu komt Antarctica weer in het nieuws, niet alleen vanwege een bezoek van de Amerikaanse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, John Kerry, maar ook vanwege omdat er een nieuwe internationale overeenkomst is gesloten, waarbij het voor privé personen de eerstvolgende 35 jaar onmogelijk wordt om zonder voorafgaande toestemming naar Antarctica af te reizen.
Dit verbod komt dan in de vorm van het beschermen van de natuur, maar effectief betekent dit dat het gebied gesloten blijft voor pottenkijkers.
Sinds een maand geleden zijn er weer meer merkwaardige dingen gebeurd zoals de plotselinge evacuatie van de bekende voormalig NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Voormalig astronaut Buzz Aldrin is uit voorzorg geëvacueerd van de Zuidpool, nadat hij daar onwel was geworden.
De 86-jarige Aldrin was op een toeristische reis naar de Zuidpool. The Antarctic Company, de organisatie die reizen organiseert naar de Zuidpool, zegt dat de toestand van de oud-astronaut stabiel is.
Aldrin was in 1969 de tweede mens die voet zette op de maan, na zijn collega Neil Armstrong tijdens de missie van Apollo 11. De laatste jaren houdt Aldrin zich vooral bezig met het steunen van onderzoek naar de mogelijkheid van toekomstig menselijk leven op Mars.
Wat had een Buzz Aldrin te zoeken op Antarctica? Waarom opeens alle belangstelling voor dit continent door bekende en belangrijke mensen?
Buzz Aldrin gaf tijdens de Apollo 11 missie al aan dat ze absoluut niet alleen waren in de ruimte:
Net zoals Buzz Aldrin 7 jaar geleden met grote stelligheid wist te vertellen dat er een soort kunstmatige constructie te vinden was op Phobos, één van de twee manen van Mars.
Het bijzondere toeval wil dat Scott Waring enkele dagen geleden weet te vertellen dat hij de constructie waar Aldrin over sprak op Phobos heeft gevonden.
Vervolgens ontstaat er de nodige commotie op internet door een waarschuwing die door Aldrin zou zijn gegeven. Een tweet die even later weer is verwijderd met daarop de boodschap “we are all in danger, it is evil itself”
Er wordt getwijfeld aan de echtheid van dit bericht, maar ook al zou dat zo zijn, dan nog is het heel vreemd dat Buzz Aldrin nu opeens Antarctica bezoekt.
Even terug naar het eerdere artikel, waar onder andere de hiernavolgende video staat.
Een video die dieper ingaat op de verbanden tussen belangrijke personen, hun bezoek aan Antarctica, maar ook andere vreemde zaken zoals dat de as van de volgens ons vermoordde opperrechter Antonin Scalia op Antarctica is uitgestrooid.
Ook dat het niet voor niets is dat Wikileaks onlangs 23 foto’s heeft vrijgegeven van Antarctica waar ogenschijnlijk niets bijzonders op te zien is, maar die wellicht gecodeerde boodschappen bevatten. De maker van de video roept dan ook de hulp in van het publiek om hem te helpen bij het ontcijferen van die boodschappen omdat hij niet gelooft dat een Wikileaks zomaar 23 nietszeggend foto’s van Antarctica vrijgeeft.
Of hebben al deze bezoeken en eventuele boodschappen en waarschuwingen toch te maken met iets anders?
Een klein stukje uit een artikel eerder dit jaar en geschreven door een lezer die zich al jarenlang met onderzoek bezig houdt, met het accent op Duitse ufo’s:
Veel incidenten en waarnemingen zijn terug te voeren op de Duitse Flugscheiben, goed voorbeeld zijn de vele kat- en muisspelletjes met zowel de Russen als Amerikanen.
Met de Derde Macht bedoel ik de afzetbeweging die het Derde Rijk kort voor de ineenstorting heeft verlaten en zich heeft neergelaten in Zuid-Amerika en Antarctica.
Men noemt deze ook wel Hitlers laatste bataljon, verwijzend naar een speech van hem die hij hield op 9 november (=911) 1941 waarin hij duidelijk stelt dat het niet uit zal maken hoe lang de oorlog nog zal duren, want het laatste bataljon zal een Duits zijn.
Dezelfde Hitler zei enkele maanden voor het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog het volgende:
Dat klinkt nu niet bepaald als een man die op het punt staat een einde te maken aan zijn leven in een bunker. Het klinkt meer als iemand die alweer druk bezig is met een volgende fase.
Een fase die zich misschien afspeelt op Antarctica.
A Colorado witness at Castle Rock reported watching a series of nine arrow-shaped UFOs crossing the sky quickly, according to testimony in Case 80616 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was walking across a parking lot at 11:25 p.m. on October 21, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I took notice of a very distinct horizontal grouping of nine arrows crossing the sky from the northwest to the southeast,” the witness stated.“The width of the arrow grouping was the width of my fist with a fully-extended arm. Each of the nine arrows would slightly vary their speed whereby each would slightly go ahead of another (exchanging leads with respect to each other) while all remaining in their general grouping (please see my illustration – shows the extent of the arrow lead-changing with one another). Each arrow would ever so slightly pulsate with no specific rhythm, making each arrow become more/less faint to make out.”
The objects moved in from the northwest and were headed southeast. Pictured: Castle Rock, CO.
(Credit: Google)
The objects were moving very fast.
“They crossed the sky in a period of 15 seconds – far too fast for me to bother to get any smartphone pictures without missing it all together. Please see my illustration attached herein.”
The objects crossed the sky in 15 seconds. Pictured: Castle Rock, CO.
(Credit: Google)
Castle Rock is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Douglas County, Colorado, population 48,231. Colorado MUFON Field Investigator Kevin Benham is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Bizarre Spherical “Death Star” Cloud Hovers Over Japan On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Bizarre Spherical “Death Star” Cloud Hovers Over Japan On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:December 2016 Location of sighting: Fujisawa, Japan This sphere cloud was was seen over Japan last week and its holding together especially well. Clouds like this are often made by UFOs that want to hide, yet come especially close so they can scan and observe the humans on the ground. The unique thing about clouds made by UFOs is that they can hold together for hours, where most clouds change shape second by second. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan News states: UFOmaniaStates:
Japanese news site Rocket News has reported the appearance of a bizarre spherical cloud seen hovering above a train station in the town of Fujisawa just south of Tokyo. Some of the photos of the cloud show an otherwise clear blue sky, with the otherworldly orb of cloud floating ominously low to the ground.
UFO Shoots Below Motorcycle While Jumping On Video! Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Below Motorcycle While Jumping On Video! Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Unknown 2016? Location of sighting: Unknown China? There is very little about this video we know for sure, but its unique in that its a motocross biker thats making an unusually dangerous jump. As the rider gets into mid jump, a UFO shoots past him. Why? Because he is risking his life doing what he loves, and aliens love that. Thats something that they do not fully understand...taking risks. Aliens have lifetimes that are either incredibly long, or infinite, but accidents do take their lives...so they calculate the risks of everything in their heads before they do anything. Imagine calculating risks as you cross the street, then again as you pass a homeless guy talking to himself, then again as you walk under a construction crane (lots in my neighbourhood). Thats what they do. They calculate the odds before they ever take a risk, but no humans. That makes us unique and worthy of more studying. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen Over Hotel Pool In Columbia, Dec 11, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Over Hotel Pool In Columbia, Dec 11, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 11, 2016 Location of sighting: Bucaramanga, Columbia Source: MUFON #80946 This UFO just appeared in the sky over this hotel swimming pool. The eyewitness is on the rooftop pool, which appears to be 20+ floors high. Did you notice that the UFOs color is slightly changed along the bottom of the craft, where the top is much darker, more metallic? Its camouflage. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I WAS around the pool of my hotel taking sun on sunny, clear day when I saw something in the sky, I talk with my friend was beside I he saw too it our first impression was a paraglider but my friend said cant because it was very high and the shape does not like that, it was moving slow and looks like hovering over the city, I took my camera as soon I can I try to focus the object no was easy to focus only I take just one I try to take another one but it was going to the North and was moving fast and after it was gone.
A UFO that is about the size of a transit van came down in Devon to abduct some animals, according to UFOlogist John Mooner, who captured the shots of the mysterious event. Mooner was confident that extraterrestrials from the unidentified flying object wanted to get the genetic material of the animals.
Mooner, who works as World UFO Photos chief photographer, shot the unexpected encounter in Dawlish Warren, Devon in November.
Cattle mutilations have been reported more often in recent years. The theory is that aliens want to use DNA material from animals to make alien hybrids.
John Mooner said he observed a black object moving along the tree line. He initially thought of a helicopter, but he could only hear the passing train and nothing heard from the flying object. According to his estimate, the UFO has the same size of a large transit van. The witness continued to watch the object as it descended into a field. He saw the black object landed and stayed in there as if it waited for something to arrive. Mooner was amazed to witness the dark object went completely invisible.
The photographer claimed that he wanted to go to the landing area, but he didn’t have a means to get across the water, and the place was too far away. His speculation is that the object was waiting for the farmer to leave his livestock into the field to abduct some animals and kill them for genetic material.
Mass UFO sighting recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada 9-Dec-2016
Mass UFO sighting recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada 9-Dec-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of a multiple bright objects flying across the sky above Las Vegas in Nevada. This was filmed on 9th December 2016.
Witness report:
So last night I was walking in a local park in Las Vegas and i saw on the horizon 15-20 solid balls of yellow/orange light rising from ground level up to the clouds and then disappearing. They were probably 15-20 miles away so they weren’t paper lanterns as some have speculated. They also weren’t conventional aircraft as they were solid balls of light with no anti collision lighting.
Shocking Claim On Fireball Over Norway and Siberia
Shocking Claim On Fireball Over Norway and Siberia
A massive fireball that turned night into the day after its explosion over Earth was, in fact, a wormhole opening for the alien spacecraft to depart to another dimension. This is according to claim from conspiracy theorists on the incident observed over Norway and Siberia.
Amazing images of the massive fireball in Norway and Siberia were posted online as videos and pictures. The fireball is explained as a meteorite burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
However, some conspiracy theorists have come up with another explanation. They said that the UFO is forming a black hole around it as seen in the images that made the rounds online. The fireball is not exploding, but creating the hole first, then entering to a flash of light. The hole then gone after the UFO came into it, as explained by the conspiracy theorists.
They said that the images show a UFO opening up a wormhole before vanishing. Some UFO researchers even enhanced the images by adding light and discovered blackness all around the UFO. They speculated that some alien might be too lazy to leave the Earth’s orbit and just took off in a hurry through wormholes.
For some observers, they believe it was a huge meteor that came hurtling down the west coast of Norway. The event created daylight on the ground miles away. It is believed that the meteorite did not reach the land and burned in the atmosphere.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently climbing a mountain. The rover is in the business of climbing lots of things, but according to the data it’s transmitting back to scientists this particular mountain is full of groundwater, making the rock strata chemically active and diverse - a good sign as we search for microbial life. Curiosity also located boron, thefirst time the element has ever been found on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced the promising news in a press releaseTuesday.
The rover is drilling into Mount Sharp, a site scientists chose hoping it would provide us with exactly this kind of geologic record. The central mound’s sediment is layered, providing a chronological account of early environmental conditions on Mars.
“There is so much variability in the composition at different elevations, we’ve hit a jackpot,” California Institute of Technology professor John Grotzinger told JPL. “A sedimentary basin such as this is a chemical reactor … Elements get rearranged. New minerals form and old ones dissolve. Electrons get redistributed. On Earth, these reactions support life.”
As Curiosity progresses higher up the mountain, it’s also finding various clay minerals and hematite not present at lower altitudes. As for the boron, on Earth we generally find in drier regions where the water has evaporated, so scientists are still floating ideas as to why we just found it deposited by Mars’s groundwater. The two prevailing theories at the moment are that either a lake evaporated under a layer of boron, which later re-dissolved and trickled down through the cracks to the more ancient layers Curiosity is sampling, or that the process by which groundwater transports boron was chemically altered, an idea supported by the fact that we also found hematite.
“Variations in these minerals and elements indicate a dynamic system,” Grotzinger said. “They interact with groundwater as well as surface water. The water influences the chemistry of the clays, but the composition of the water also changes. We are seeing chemical complexity indicating a long, interactive history with the water. The more complicated the chemistry is, the better it is for habitability. The boron, hematite and clay minerals underline the mobility of elements and electrons, and that is good for life.”
The Curiosity rover touched down on Mars in 2012 and has been searching for signs of life ever since. While we’ve seen plenty of promising evidence from various forms of water and minerals that life could exist there, there’s still no proof that it does, which is why discoveries like this one are so crucial. The better we understand how microbial life might survive on Mars, the better-prepared we are to survive on it ourselves.
For nearly 200 years, scientists have seriously pondered the possibility of life on Mars. It’s been a rollercoaster of dreaming: for a long time, the more we studied Mars, the more it looked the like the Red Planet was acold, dry hellhole, lacking any of the essentials we consider a requirement for even the most primitive life.
Then we learned Mars was once teeming in liquid water. With the discovery that liquid water currently exists on the surface of the planet, the prospects that aliens actually still call Mars home now seem better than ever. During a Tuesday workshop called “Searching for Life Across Space and Time”, NASA Goddard Space Center biogeochemist Jennifer Eigenbrode made a pretty strong case for why the newest data were collecting about Mars is dramatically raising the prospects we might find signs of past of present Martian life.
It all comes down to what we’re starting to learn about the presence of organics on the Red Planet. Eigenbrode remembers that during the Curiosity rover’s landing in 2011, most members of the NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory were “very doubtful we would ever detect organics on Mars.”
Nowadays, MSL’s scientists realize “organics are all over Mars.” And where there are organics, there’s the potential for those compounds to come together and lead to the genesis of living organisms.
Does that mean there’s life on Mars? Not necessarily. But organic molecules and compounds are the constituents that lead to life. Organics on Earth were by no means a guarantor that life would evolve, but it was certainly essential to the evolution of organic life.
During her presentation in Irvine, California, Eigenbrode pointed to analyses of Martian rock samples from the Gale Crater floor, Yellowknife Bay, and Parhump Hills — areas that are thought to have once possessed liquid water reserves — and they all had traces of organic macromolecules.
This is important, because 70 to 90 percent of organic matter is macromolecular. The complexity is critical to making life work, since metabolism is a complicated process that requires complicated pathways. Organic matter also fuels metabolism itself, since it’s one potential source of energy or carbon. “We need to be looking for this stuff,” said Eigenbrode.
But as Eigenbrode emphasized, the big question is what are the sources for these organics. They could be biological, but they might also very well be abiotic. They may have formed de novo — that is, on the planet itself — or be the result of deposits brought to Mars through meteorite crashes. “if this stuff is abiological,” she cautions, “…looking for organics is not looking for life.”
Nevertheless, “the presence of organic matter actually supports the habitability of an ancient lake,” said Eigenbrode. She’s specially referring to the Gale Crater, which is thought to have been home to vast body of water 3.6 billion years ago.
So what’s next? NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will be the key to understand the extent to which life may have or perhaps does exist on the Red Planet. The new rover will be fitted with an large suite of different instruments that can do a better job assessing the composition and concentrations of Martian organics and how they might relate to life on Mars. Just a little over four years to wait before two centuries’ worth of speculation can finally be confirmed or debunked.
For nearly 200 years, scientists have seriously pondered the possibility of life on Mars. It’s been a rollercoaster of dreaming: for a long time, the more we studied Mars, the more it looked the like the Red Planet was acold, dry hellhole, lacking any of the essentials we consider a requirement for even the most primitive life.
Then we learned Mars was once teeming in liquid water. With the discovery that liquid water currently exists on the surface of the planet, the prospects that aliens actually still call Mars home now seem better than ever. During a Tuesday workshop called “Searching for Life Across Space and Time”, NASA Goddard Space Center biogeochemist Jennifer Eigenbrode made a pretty strong case for why the newest data were collecting about Mars is dramatically raising the prospects we might find signs of past of present Martian life.
It all comes down to what we’re starting to learn about the presence of organics on the Red Planet. Eigenbrode remembers that during the Curiosity rover’s landing in 2011, most members of the NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory were “very doubtful we would ever detect organics on Mars.”
Nowadays, MSL’s scientists realize “organics are all over Mars.” And where there are organics, there’s the potential for those compounds to come together and lead to the genesis of living organisms.
Does that mean there’s life on Mars? Not necessarily. But organic molecules and compounds are the constituents that lead to life. Organics on Earth were by no means a guarantor that life would evolve, but it was certainly essential to the evolution of organic life.
During her presentation in Irvine, California, Eigenbrode pointed to analyses of Martian rock samples from the Gale Crater floor, Yellowknife Bay, and Parhump Hills — areas that are thought to have once possessed liquid water reserves — and they all had traces of organic macromolecules.
This is important, because 70 to 90 percent of organic matter is macromolecular. The complexity is critical to making life work, since metabolism is a complicated process that requires complicated pathways. Organic matter also fuels metabolism itself, since it’s one potential source of energy or carbon. “We need to be looking for this stuff,” said Eigenbrode.
But as Eigenbrode emphasized, the big question is what are the sources for these organics. They could be biological, but they might also very well be abiotic. They may have formed de novo — that is, on the planet itself — or be the result of deposits brought to Mars through meteorite crashes. “if this stuff is abiological,” she cautions, “…looking for organics is not looking for life.”
Nevertheless, “the presence of organic matter actually supports the habitability of an ancient lake,” said Eigenbrode. She’s specially referring to the Gale Crater, which is thought to have been home to vast body of water 3.6 billion years ago.
So what’s next? NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will be the key to understand the extent to which life may have or perhaps does exist on the Red Planet. The new rover will be fitted with an large suite of different instruments that can do a better job assessing the composition and concentrations of Martian organics and how they might relate to life on Mars. Just a little over four years to wait before two centuries’ worth of speculation can finally be confirmed or debunked.
Three American Space Station projects have failed, but a dedicated U.S. Space Station will facilitate U.S. economic activities, accelerate humanity's colonization of the solar system, and allow us to tap the resources of the cosmos to aid our cause.
THE UNIVERSE BEYOND EARTH
“Mars is the next step of our space program. It’s the challenge that’s been staring us in the face for the past 30 years. At one time in the ancient past, Mars was very similar to the conditions of early Earth. We now have ‘eyes’ and ‘ears’ on the surface of this new world. The Mars rovers have captured our imaginations. They genuinely are explorers in the old-fashioned sense.”
Thirty years ago, Carl Sagan wrote these words, urging the continued funding of NASA’s programs in the U.S. budget. However, there are obstacles that we still face when it comes to exploring, understanding, and conquering the Red Planet.
The U.S. is the world’s leading aerospace manufacturer. We lead the globe in the exploration of the solar system and the development of commercial, military, and communication satellites. We can reach the Moon and Mars, but it seems we can’t (or don’t) stay long. Instead, we spend billions of dollars leaving and returning again.
In order to build on Mars, to stay on Mars, and ultimately expand to other worlds, there are two seemingly insurmountable obstacles. First, the establishment of a permanent presence in space requires the development of space-based infrastructures. We can see Mars with our “eyes” and “ears”—our probes—but we can neither physically reach it nor stay there until we’ve first established significant human enterprise, industry, and presence operating off Earth.
The second obstacle in relation to establishing a permanent human presence in space is the why? In short, to explore, understand, and build on the Red Planet, we need an economic impetus to do so.
So what is the next step? How do we maintain a human presence off Earth? How can we access the resources of the Solar System if we can’t stay in space any longer than it takes for the trip there and back again?
In the past half-century, we’ve had three real answers to this question: the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Skylab, and the Freedom. All projects towards permanent habitable space stations. Yet, all three projects were canceled due to financial obstacles.
With one exception.
A LONG VOYAGE INTO THE COSMOS
The Freedom Space Station project launched in 1994, and it was eventually converted into a larger Space Station, one that is still in operation today under a different name.TheFreedom and Russian Federal Space Agency space station project (MIR-2) modules were integrated, ultimately becoming the Russian Orbital Segments and American Orbital Segments of the International Space Station (ISS).
These canceled Russian and American projects formed the first joint international undertaking off Earth.
Can the U.S. maintain its place as a leader of the development of space-based industry? Could the U.S. create its own space station as a stepping stone into the cosmos? Let’s imagine it.
Image of Earth from the ISS. Credit: NASA/ISS
The space station could legally operate the way Tiangong 1 and 2 have. The Tiangong stations, translating to Heavenly Palace, have been the only other manned stations in space besides the ISS. Though small, the Tiangongs are nonetheless an entity of the Chinese government. An easy, if not entirely semantically correct, way to think about it is that the Tiangongs are a city of China in space.
Any developments by the U.S would be the American counterpart, the city in space—a design which was investigated by NASA more than a quarter of a century ago. The U.S space station should not only be intended as a scientific laboratory, but as a central location for U.S. economic activities, such as asteroid mining and space solar power (1). Ultimately, this new space station’s primary purpose would be to generate space-based industry, providing burgeoning enterprises with the resources to initiate economic activity off Earth. The new U.S. Space Station would be the realization of the three failed NASA projects to colonize the solar system
MAKING SPACE AFFORDABLE
With the development of space-based economic activities, such as space solar power and asteroid mining, this can lead to the creation of technology that will facilitate the accessibility of space by allowing companies to generate revenue from their efforts.
Currently, it costs millions of dollars to send a pound of anything into space, whether it’s computers, water, or personnel. Space solar power is an economic impetus that could lead to sustainable and renewable energy that does not emit greenhouse gasses, hazardous waste, and is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Additionally, asteroid mining can bring rare-earth metals and resources within our grasp, materials that are in limited supply on Earth and are used in everything from electric vehicles to computer chips. Resources that could be mined or extracted include iron, nickel, titanium, water, rare-earth metals, oxygen, and hydrogen. These could be used to sustain the lives of astronauts on-site, to create rocket propellants, and to send back to Earth. Notably, in space exploration, using resources gathered while on a journey is referred to as in-situ resource utilization, eliminating the need for billion-dollar-chemically-based rockets to bring such necessities from Earth.
These space-based industries are our frontier, the new frontier. Building a home amongst the stars can not only lead to the construction of the technology for easier ways of getting off the Earth, but also to new ways of thinking about space travel—like non-rocket space launches, a geosynchronous orbital tether to the stars, or even the laser propelled lightcraft (2).
UNDERSTANDING THE NEED
Of course, having a U.S. space station would not be simple. The project will require us to create new space-based industries and catalyze a new frontier of economic activity with a dedicated human presence in space. But imagine drastically reducing the financial burden of maintaining satellites in space. Imagine being able to build ships while in space as opposed to launching them from the Earth and battling the clutches of gravity. Imagine the military advantage of a space station that can send aid to any position on the globe. Imagine 1000 Americans in space on an American Space Station in a new branch of the military.
The early American enterprise of NASA’s three space station projects created unprecedented economic opportunities off Earth that we had never before considered and eventually led up to an even larger space station. The current I.S.S. is a testament to a confluence of nations, a foothold amongst the stars, and a shared dream of exploration. Ultimately, a permanent U.S space station is not only a step for American aerospace industry gaining the foothold to tap resources of the solar system, but another big step for humanity becoming a multi-planetary civilization and one day reaching (and staying) on the Red Planet
Footnotes:
(1) Unlike terrestrial solar and wind power, oil, gas, ethanol, nuclear plants, and coal plants, space solar power does not emit greenhouse gasses or hazardous waste. It is also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in huge quantities. It works regardless of cloud cover, daylight, or wind speed. Further, space solar power can be exported to virtually any place in the world, and its energy can be converted for local needs — such as the manufacturing of methanol for use in places like rural India, where there are no electric power grids. Space solar power can also be used for the desalination of sea water and the agricultural development of previously barren, open lands. Lastly, space solar power can provide a market large enough to develop the low-cost space transportation system that is required for its deployment. This, in turn, will also bring the resources of the solar system within economic reach.
(2) Laser propulsion is in its early stages of development. Lightcraft use an external laser source or maser energy to provide power for producing thrust. The laser/maser energy is focused to a high intensity in order to create a plasma. The plasma expands, producing thrust.
Echoes detected during a black hole merger that confirmed part of Einstein's theory of relativity could mean there is something at an event horizon, contradicting the same theory.
If confirmed, the information would challenge our current assumptions about physics and how black holes are structured, leading to a better understanding of our physical world.
Physicists studying LIGO’s data on the black hole merger claim it reveals “echoes” of gravitational waves that contradict predictions made by Einstein’s general theory, which has been proven by LIGO on more than one occasion now. Previously, physicists believed that Einstein’s theory broke down in extreme conditions, such as those found at a black hole’s core. However, these recently discovered echoes seem to indicate that relativity fails around a black hole’s edges, far from its center.
As part of the standard model based on Einstein’s theory, nothing should be found at the edge of a black hole (its event horizon). This contradicts other theories such as the one that corresponds to quantum physics, which suggests that an event horizon should have a firewall, a ring of high-energy particles, around it.
Cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi at the University of Waterloo in Canada created models of these black hole mergers that assumed they did have something at their event horizons. The timing of the echoes following the release of gravitational waves in the mergers recorded by LIGO matched up perfectly with those expected by Afshordi’s models. This supports the idea that the edges of black holes do have some structure and not a whole lot of nothingness as suggested by Einstein’s theory.
THE PUZZLE THAT IS THE UNIVERSE
“The LIGO detections, and the prospect of many more, offer an exciting opportunity to investigate a new physical regime,” said black-hole researcher Steve Giddings from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
For now, more research is needed to see if these echoes were a fluke or something that will completely reshape our understanding of a black hole’s event horizon. If proven to be permanent fixtures of a merger, we would need a new theory to explain this and similar phenomenon — at least until the elusive theory of everything comes along.
In any case, observation of future black hole mergers can confirm whether these echoes were just flukes or random noise. “The good thing is that new LIGO data with improved sensitivity will be coming in, so we should be able to confirm this or rule it out within the next two years,” said Ashfordi.
It’s no surprise that the universe continues to confirm theories of physics one minute and break them the next. So much of the universe is still a big unknown as far as we’re concerned. Theories come and go, and although Einstein’s has been relatively successful, the emergency of new technologies will continue to allow us to challenge earlier assumptions.
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