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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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
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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...
17-12-2016
Dwergplaneet Ceres verstopt water in de duisterste hoekjes
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Onderzoek wijst uit dat naast de maan en Mercurius ook Ceres water herbergt in permanent beschaduwde kraters.
Dat schrijven onderzoekers in het blad Nature Astronomy. Ze baseren zich op foto’s gemaakt door ruimtesonde Dawn. De sonde cirkelt sinds maart 2015 om de dwergplaneet heen.
Heldere vlekken De onderzoekers bestudeerden 634 kraters op Ceres die nooit zonlicht zien. En in tien ervan troffen ze heldere vlekken aan. Van één van die heldere vlekken kunnen de onderzoekers met zekerheid zeggen dat het om waterijs gaat.
Weinig Wat echter opvalt, is dat er maar relatief weinig permanent in de schaduw gelegen kraters met daarin heldere vlekken zijn op Ceres. Het kan ons meer vertellen over de mate waarin water op Ceres beschikbaar is.
Cold trap Permanent in de schaduw gelegen kraters zijn dé plek om op zoek te gaan naar waterijs. Deze kraters kunnen namelijk dienst doen als ‘cold traps’: plekken waar waterijs zich verzamelt en stabiel blijft. Eerder stelden onderzoekers al dat Ceres voldoende massa heeft om watermoleculen vast te houden. Berekeningen wezen toen uit dat van elke 1000 watermoleculen die op het oppervlak van Ceres gegenereerd worden er per jaar (een jaar op Ceres duurt 1682 dagen) 1 in zo’n ‘cold trap’ belandt. Dat lijkt misschien niet zoveel, maar over een periode van tienduizenden jaren kan zo een dunne, maar voor Dawn detecteerbare laag waterijs ontstaan.
En nu is dus bewezen dat kraters op Ceres daadwerkelijk waterijs herbergen. Ceres is daarmee het derde hemellichaam dat deze ‘cold traps’ bezit. Eerder werden ze ook al op de maan en Mercurius gespot. “Deze detectie versterkt het bewijs dat permanent in de schaduw gelegen gebieden waterijs kunnen bevatten op planetaire lichamen zonder atmosfeer,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers.
ANASA scientist expressed a grim assessment of humanity’s ability to defend itself against an oncoming asteroid or comet crash, at a presentation on Monday. And he advocates building a defense system comprised on a rocket capable of intercepting one those sort of threatening space rocks in order to mitigate or possibly eliminate the ability for an asteroid or comet to wipe out our species.
During a presentation at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting,Joseph Nuth, a researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center spoke about the grave dangers large asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth. While acknowledging the chances of a collision with a rock big enough to pose an existential threat are quite small, he opined that an extinction-level event was not unthinkable, especially given the history of the planet.
“Things like dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 million years apart, essentially,” he told AGU attendees. “You could say, of course, we’re due.” The agency has found what it estimates to be 90 percent or more of near-Earth objects larger than a kilometer — big enough to cause significant devastation to life on Earth.
While most scientists are paying attention to a surprise asteroid that’d headed for Earth (hi there, Queen guitarist Brian May!) Nuth emphasizes we should also spend our energy and attention on looking at comets, which usually orbit the sun with on a set path but sometimes flyby Earth in an aberrant manner. Nuth cites two instances in 1996 and 2014 when comets nearly crashed into Jupiter and Mars, respectively.
“The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment,” he said.
NASA recently opened up a planetary defense office, and while its investing a lot of money and time into augmenting our ability to spot oncoming rocks that could pose a threat, we still have no way to actually stop a large asteroid or comet from hurtling right into the planet.
It sounds like a science fiction movie, but Nuth seriously recommends we build a interceptor rocket fitted with a nuclear bomb that could potentially stop an asteroid or comet, or at least reduce the damage it could induce. He also suggests we build an observer spacecraft that could be launched to conduct more in-depth study of a nearby that’s raising alarms. If the observer finds the treat credible, we can just fire off the interceptor in time to create a deflection.
Nuth stressed that this is just his suggestion, and that NASA certainly has no official opinion or thoughts on such a plan. “We’re talking a considerable amount of money,” he said. “The NASA request would probably be for several hundred million dollars to produce one of these spacecraft.”
That might be money well spent. We won’t always have Bruce Willis around to save our asses.
Two teams have advanced to the final round of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition to create a medical tricorder inspired by the one in the "Star Trek" television series.
A handheld diagnostic device could improve healthcare tremendously, giving people instant access to information about their vital signs, illnesses, and more.
Credit: Paramount Television
“I’M A DOCTOR, NOT AN ENGINEER”
Nonprofit organization XPRIZE aims to incentivize innovation through competition, and they recently teamed up with Qualcomm to host a contest inspired by one of the most beloved of all sci-fi universes, “Star Trek.”
The world was first introduced to the medical tricorder in the original “Star Trek” series, which debuted in 1966. The device was used by Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise, to quickly scan and diagnose medical conditions. XPRIZE is hoping to help bring that kind of futuristic technology to the present.
The competition has chosen two finalists to continue developing their tech. One, Dynamical Biomarkers Group (DBG), is composed of physicians, scientists and engineers out of Taiwan. The other, Final Frontier Medical Devices, is led by siblings Basil and George Harris, an ER doctor and a network engineer, respectively.
According to Space.com, the DBG group’s device employs an HTC smartphone they’ve modified and several sensors. Those sensors connect to the smartphone via Bluetooth, and all of the components fit into a box where they can be charged using just one USB cable. The Final Frontier Medical Devices’ tricoder prototype comes in a kit that includes multiple 3D-printed devices that are wirelessly paired with an iPad Mini for diagnoses.
Credit: XPRIZE
BEAMING UP THE FUTURE
Under the rules of the competition, each device must be able to detect or monitor three different sets of information: the Core Set, the Elective Set, and the Vital Signs Set.
In this final round, the devices must be able to test for all 13 of the conditions on the Core Set list, which includes anemia, diabetes, and stroke. It must also be able to test for any three items from the Elective Set list, which includes hypertension, food poisoning, strep throat, and HIV. Finally, the device must be able to continuously monitor five essential vital signs: blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
With just a little incentive, like $6 million, we can move the clock of technology forward centuries. “Star Trek” is set in 2265, but we have already surpassed a lot of the technology portrayed in the original series with devices like smartphones and software like Skype. Who knows? By the time even 2200 rolls along, we could be centuries ahead of those who first lived long and prospered.
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UFO conspiracy theorist who sent cryptic final text to mum 'vomited two litres of black fluid' before dying
UFO conspiracy theorist who sent cryptic final text to mum 'vomited two litres of black fluid' before dying
The family of UFO and government cover-up investigator Max Spiers, 39, believe he was murdered
BY GERRY WARREN, ADAM BENNETT
UFO CONSPIRACY THEORIST SLURS 'BEFORE' 'VOMITING FLUID' AND DYING
A conspiracy theorist whose mum believes he was 'murdered by his enemies' vomited two litres of black fluid shortly before he died, an inquest heard.
Max Spiers, 39, sought to expose government cover-ups and visited Poland to speak at a conference before he died on a sofa 24 hours later.
Just days before his death, the dad-of-two had texted his mum Vanessa Bates the chilling message: "Your boy's in trouble. If anything happens, investigate."
Mr Spiers, a world-renowned conspiracy theorist from Canterbury, Kent, was said to have been probing into the lives of well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment.
He made a name for himself investigating UFO sightings and alleged cover-ups.
The UFO expert was found dead in mysterious circumstances in Poland(Photo: YouTube / Max Spiers)
His mum, 63, said: "I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead."
Mr Spiers, who went to school with Orlando Bloom, had visited Poland after holidaying in Cyprus with a friend, who later discovered his body.
The inquest at Canterbury coroner's court into his death in Otwock on July 16 opened on Monday after his body was repatriated.
Polish authorities had initially dismissed his death as being down to natural causes, but a post-mortem examination at Margate Hospital, Kent, was unable to determine how he died.
In a statement, coroner's investigations officer Caroline O'Donnell said: "When they returned, Mr Spiers became ill with a high temperature and was weak.
"The following day, Mr Spiers vomited two litres of black fluid.
Vanessa Bates and son Max Spiers(Photo: Facebook)
"The friend called a doctor who attempted resuscitation before pronouncing him dead."
Mr Spiers had lived in America for a few years, but had returned to Canterbury to stay with his mum before jetting off to Poland.
Vanessa, an English teacher who also buys into the theories, said: "He was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July.
"He was staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa.
"But I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead.
"Max was a very fit man who was in good health and yet he apparently just died suddenly on a sofa.
Max's mother believes her son may have been poisoned(Photo: Gofundme)
"All I have is a death certificate from the Polish authorities that it was from natural causes, but no post-mortem was done so how can they tell that?
"They are also refusing to release any paperwork about it to me because, absurdly, I don't have his written permission."
Coroner Alan Blunsdon told the court he was still awaiting a report from Polish authorities.
He also hopes to secure funding to have Mr Spiers' laptop and mobile phone forensically analysed.
Fellow conspiracy theorists, UFO investigators and bloggers have claimed the circumstances of the death suspicious.
On one website, blogger Project Camelot wrote: "The entire circumstances are suspicious and I urge everyone to encourage the release of details about what really happened and call for an autopsy."
Another, Craig Hewlett, added: "If it wasn't true what he talks about then why would they kill him? Healthy people don't just get sick and die, they get poisoned."
His mum added: "It's been a long time coming, but I'm just relieved that at last something is happening and there is a proper investigation and inquest."
She previously spoke of her belief that her son was murdered: "These people (who Max was mixing with) appeared to be involved with some very dark and dangerous areas of the world.
"I was afraid that as he was gaining popularity and fame that perhaps someone would want him out of the way, i.e. not alive any longer. I believe somebody's killed him.
"He has a brother, Josh, and sister, Becky, who are both devastated, as are his two boys. We all want answers to this and I will continue to fight to get to the truth."
Mr Spiers was buried in Canterbury after his family had his body flown home a week after his death.
The bizarre object struck a mountain top with a massive bang in remote Zhangjiapan village, Shaanxi Province, China.
Residents who rushed to investigate found a burning crater and pieces of broken metal nearby, leading to speculate of a UFO or man-made space junk crashing to Earth.
The crater was just one metre by 50cms in size.
Metal parts, which police believe may have caused the crater were found by officers in three locations away from the crater.
HSW.CN
This metal object was found nearby, but the crater itself was empty and flaming.
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16-12-2016
Mysterious black helicopter appears to chase UFO in scenes straight out of the X-Files
Mysterious black helicopter appears to chase UFO in scenes straight out of the X-Files
Window cleaner Darren Cooper raced to get his camera after spotting a small dark object zooming across the evening sky
As it hovered above him for a few minutes he managed to capture it in the sky - before it flew off into the distance.
But just two minutes later, the dad-of-four was startled when a black helicopter swooped over his house in hot pursuit of the UFO.
Window cleaner Darren Cooper raced to get his camera when he spotted a small dark object zooming across the evening sky(Photo: CASCADE NEWS)
Darren, who lives in Southampton, said: "As I went back into the house to look at the footage, within two minutes the helicopter was above the house so I ran back outside with the camcorder and the chopper was on the same path as the object in the sky.
"Notice in the video the helicopter is turning as if looking for something."
The mysterious footage looked like something out of sci-fi series the X-Files
Black helicopters showing up after UFO sightings have been reported across the world since the 1960s but nobody has managed to film one.
They are said to be a covert military force engaged in a secret UFO monitoring program.
Declassified FBI files have revealed how ranchers in Colorado reported seeing the jet-black aircraft during a wave of cattle mutilation cases where animals had organs removed with surgical precision and were completely drained of blood.
Some investigators even claim to have been harassed by these 'phantom' helicopters, which sometimes fly silently and have no identification markings.
As it hovered above him for a few minutes he managed to capture it in the sky - before it flew off into the distance(Photo: CASCADE NEWS)
Darren, 39, who lives in Thornhill, doesn't think the UFO he filmed was a balloon or drone.
He said: "It's most certainly not a balloon because the wind would have made it act like a balloon and gave it more of a wobble or speed it up or made it move erratically but there was no movements like that at all.
"I thought it could have been a drone because there are so many of them about now but this thing continued to glide off into the distance.
"Before jumping to conclusions I ran back inside to grab my camcorder.
A few minutes after spotting the UFO, the dad-of-four was startled to see a black helicopter swoop over his house appearing to chase it(Photo: CASCADE NEWS)
"It was a little higher in the sky when I first noticed the object but it seemed to change course and turn slightly around the houses while descending before eventually disappearing into the distance.
"Seconds later after I had gone back inside the house to take a closer look at the footage, I suddenly heard a helicopter overhead.
"So I grabbed the camcorder again and ran back outside to film the helicopter on the identical path of the UFO filmed just minutes beforehand."
Darren had the footage analysed and was startled to find out the UFO looked like a dark ring.
Darren had the footage analysed and was startled to find out the UFO looked like a dark ring(Photo: CASCADE NEWS)
He added: "On closer inspection of the object on the PC I noticed that zooming into the object it looks like it has a hole in the centre.
"The same day a friend of mine told me he had also taken a closer look at the video and found even more strange things hiding in the clouds and other objects."
It is not the first time Darren has seen a UFO followed by helicopters.
Two years ago he claims he observed a 100ft V-shaped UFO with a friend.
Soon afterwards, a chopper flew over the building he was working in at the time.
Darren added: "The encounter in 2014 triggered my interest in UFOs and since then I seem to see all different shapes, sizes and colours.
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Max Spiers: Man 'investigating UFOs and alleged cover-ups' vomited black fluid before he died, inquest hears
Max Spiers: Man 'investigating UFOs and alleged cover-ups' vomited black fluid before he died, inquest hears
'Your boy's in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate,' said deceased's last message to his mother
Max Spiers' mother said he had recently moved on to investigating politicians, business people, and celebrities
Conspiracy theorist Max Spiers vomited two litres of black liquid before he died, an inquest has heard.
His death caused widespread suspicion among his friends and family, who said he had been investigating some “dark” things.
The 39-year-old, from Canterbury, was complaining of illness before he was found dead in Warsaw, Poland on 16 July. He had been due to speak at a conference.
Despite not performing a post mortem, an investigation by the Polish authorities found Mr Spiers died of natural causes – a verdict met with dismay by his family and colleagues in the conspiracy community.
In October, The Independent revealed that the Foreign Office would not be investigating the death. They said the procedure was the responsibility of the Polish authorities.
However, an inquest was opened in Canterbury after a British post mortem was unable to establish a cause of death.
“Mr Spiers became ill with a high temperature and was weak,” said coroner’s investigations officer Caroline O’Donnell, according to the Kentish Gazette.
'The following day, Mr Spiers vomited two litres of black fluid.”
Ms O’Donnell added that the friend he was staying with called a doctor who tried to revive him but later pronounced him dead.
The coroner, Alan Blunsdon, said he was awaiting a report from the Polish authorities and was hoping for funding to run forensic tests on Mr Spiers’ phone and computer.
His mother, Vanessa Bates, has been pushing for a thorough investigation into her son's death, and has reached out to another prominent conspiracy theorist, David Icke, for help.
Two days before he died, Max Spiers allegedly told her: "Your boy's in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate."
Ms Bates, 63, told the Daily Mail that when she was given her dead son's laptop computer, it had been wiped, adding to her suspicions.
Mr Spiers had made a career out of investigating UFOs and alleged cover-ups. Ms Bates said he had recently moved on to investigating politicians, business people, and celebrities.
The inquest was adjourned and will be continued in February 2017.
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UFO secrets revealed
UFO secrets revealed
Paul Richardson
By Paul Richardson
(Information for this article was obtained from recently declassified CIA documents.)
As secrets come and go, the truth is usually revealed over time. So is the case with many early UFO sightings dating back to the 1950’s and 60s. The CIA has finally confessed, they were the culprit behind more than half of the UFO sightings in all of the 1950s and early “60s. (What about the other half….?)
The CIA report was part of documents recently declassified that also admitted for the first time, the existence of Area 51 in Nevada.
The top secret organization admits to testing the U-2 spy plane at an altitude of 60,000 feet when such heights seemed impossible to reach, leading observers, especially seasoned airline pilots, to suspect sightings were not anything earthly.
In the 1950s, commercial aircraft flew below 20,000 feet while military flights were limited to 40,000 feet. Consequently, once U-2s started flying at 60,000 feet, air-traffic controllers began receiving an increasing number of UFO reports from pilots.
So this clears up many early UFO reports. But what about the others?
It was 1967 when the public accidently learned of an even more sophisticated flying machine, one that went higher, faster, and further, the grand and glorious SR-71 Blackbird, designed to fly at 100,000 feet and twice the speed of the U-2. Reports claim an SR-71 could leave California at daylight, fly over Russia and China and be home for supper. (At 2600 mph, the SR-71 is one of the fastest planes ever flown.)
There are also confirmed reports of over 1000 Surface to Air missiles were fired at the speedy craft, most by Russia, but not one scored a hit.
But even the fleet of Blackbirds have now been retired, many believe they were replaced by something called “Aurora.” (Google Aurora and see what pops up)
But with the advent of the spy satellite, most manned plane missions are now unnecessary. Even the way war is fought has changed. We now have a host of deadly, unmanned options that lower our causality count while vastly upping the enemy’s fatality count.
First and foremost on this list are airborne and submersible drones. But who knows what else is lurking in the shadows?
We’ve already talked about the Army’s new long range, laser sighted, Infantry rifle, the MXT-135, the Navy’s new high intensity laser weapon, and the “Laws” which fires nothing more than a beam of light, but is deadly and inescapable.
And the recently revealed military space drone that no one knows the purpose of. It resembles a miniature space shuttle, no windows and too small to carry a pilot, but can stay aloft for years with an unknown cargo, and can land itself when needed.
As extraordinary as it seems, I have read about a small Arial drone that can be programmed to kill a certain target and be field launched by a soldier. It has the photograph of the intended target downloaded and searches for that one and only individual. Once found and identified, the drone assassinates the target.
I have only found one obscure reference to this weapon, nothing really credible. But in addition to war-time applications, just think of the real-time possibilities for something that smart, such as finding lost children, locating criminals on the run, finding lost hikers, even searching for someone lost at sea. What could possibly be next?
The only way we may ever know is to wait for the next batch of declassified CIA documents someday.
There is no doubt such technology is available. It would be nice to see it put to good use for a change. www.PRichardson.net to read past articles. Books are available at amazonbooks.com
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Are planets like those in 'Star Wars: Rogue One' really out there? NASA plans to find out
Are planets like those in 'Star Wars: Rogue One' really out there? NASA plans to find out
Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars film "Rogue One" wade through the water of an alien ocean world. NASA scientists believe ocean worlds exist in our own galaxy, along with many other environments. Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
In the "Star Wars" universe, ice, ocean and desert planets burst from the darkness as your ship drops out of light speed. But these worlds might be more than just science fiction.
Some of the planets discovered around stars in our own galaxy could be very similar to arid Tatooine, watery Scarif and even frozen Hoth, according to NASA scientists. Sifting through data on the more than 3,400 confirmed alien worlds, scientists apply sophisticated computer modeling techniques to tease out the colors, light, sunrise and sunsets we might encounter if we could pay them a visit.
Some of these distant worlds are even stranger than those that populate the latest Star Wars film, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." And others are eerily like the fictional planets from a galaxy far, far away.
Planets with double suns
Tatooine
A real planet in our galaxy reminded scientists so much of Luke Skywalker's home planet, they named it "Tatooine." Officially called Kepler-16b, the Saturn-sized planet is about 200 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The reality of its two suns was so startling, George Lucas himself agreed to the astronomers' nickname for the planet.
"This was the first honest-to-goodness real planetary system where you would see the double sunset as two suns," said Laurance Doyle, an astrophysicist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute and Director of the Institute for the Metaphysics of Physics, who discovered the planet using NASA's Kepler space telescope.
Astronomers have found planets with double sunsets like Tatooine in our galaxy. Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
A person on Kepler-16b would have two shadows. In a storm, two rainbows would appear. Each sunset would be unique, because the stars are always changing their configuration. Building a sundial would require calculus.
Astronomers have discovered that about half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are pairs, rather than single stars like our sun. So while Kepler-16b aka Tatooine is probably too cold and gaseous to be home to life, or a hopeful desert farm boy, it's a good bet that there might be a habitable Tatooine "twin" out there somewhere.
Desert worlds
Jakku, Jedha
George Lucas has a fondness for desert planets, and at least one NASA scientist thinks he's on the righttrack.
The gas giant Kepler-16b, nicknamed 'Tatooine,' orbits a pair of stars. One star is a small red dwarf star, the other is a larger K dwarf. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"Desert planets are possible. We have one right here in our solar system in Mars. We think desert planets elsewhere could be even more habitable than Mars is," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, an astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
He likes Lucas' proliferation of arid worlds because he believes it might reflect the galaxy we live in.
"The recurring theme of desert worlds in 'Star Wars' is really interesting, because there is some research that shows that these would be likely habitable worlds to find," said Domagal-Goldman, who is, among other things, a climate scientist.
Desert worlds are not only a very real possibility, but they are probably very common, he said. They could be hot, like Tatooine and Jakku, or cold, like Mars and Jedha in "Rogue One."
"The lack of water on a desert planet might be what makes it more habitable. Water amplifies changes to climates and can cause planets to end up being really hot like Venus, or really cold like Europa," said Domagal-Goldman.
Ice planets
Hoth
Light and color would look different on a planet orbiting a tiny red star, like this artist's impression of Proxima b. The Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone is the nearest exoplanet to our sun. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
There is a world named Hoth in our galaxy—an icy super-Earth discovered in 2006. It reminded scientists so much of the frozen Rebel base they unofficially nicknamed it after the planet that appears in "The Empire Strikes Back." The planet's scientific designation is OGLE 2005-BLG-390L, after the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) that found it.
Our galaxy's Hoth is too cold to support life as we know it. But life may evolve under the ice of a different world, or a moon in our solar system. On Earth, it's been found inside volcanoes, deep ocean trenches, even the frozen soil of Antarctica.
NASA is currently designing a Europa mission to look for life under the crust of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. And Saturn's moon Enceladus also contains an underground ocean that could harbor alien life.
Ocean worlds
Kamino, Scarif
Obi-Wan Kenobi's ship lands on the ocean world of Kamino in "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones." In our galaxy, Kepler-22b could be a super-Earth with a super ocean. Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
For the scientists who characterize exoplanets, the most important planet to study is Earth-the only known planet with life. And life on Earth began in the ocean.
"We need Earth climate science to help us understand planetary habitability and the potential diversity of life on exoplanets," said astrobiologist Nancy Kiang, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. As an astrobiologist, her job is to model the kind of plant life that might exist on planets around other stars—also known as exoplanets.
We haven't confirmed the existence of ocean worlds like the perpetually rainy Kamino in "Attack of the Clones," or worlds with oceans, like the beachy Scarif from "Rogue One." But we have found frozen ocean worlds in our solar system, in the moons Europa and Enceladus.
'Star Wars' is driven by beings from many planets trying to get along. NASA scientists are looking for life on a planet other than Earth, and believe the next decade may bring breakthroughs. Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
We may even be able to glimpse an ocean on an exoplanet in the not-so-distant future.
"Ocean glint can be detected over large distances," said Victoria Meadows, a professor at the University of Washington and director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.
Such a glint was first observed reflecting from the liquid methane seas on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Forest worlds
Endor, Takodana
Enceladus is an icy world much like Hoth, except that it may have an ocean under its frozen crust. Astronomers believe this moon of Saturn may be a good candidate for having extraterrestrial life beneath its surface. Credit: NASA
Both the forest moon of Endor, from "Return of the Jedi," and Takodana, the home of Han Solo's favorite cantina in "The Force Awakens," are green like our home planet. But astrobiologists think that plant life on other worlds could be red, black, or even rainbow-colored.
A few months ago, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri b, a planet only 4 light-years away from Earth, which orbits a tiny red star.
"The star color would be peachy to the human eye," Meadows said. "And the planet would appear dark purple to light purple, looking at it from a spacecraft." From the surface of Proxima b, the sky would appear to be periwinkle.
The light from a red star, also known as an M dwarf, is dim and mostly in the infrared spectrum, as opposed to the visible spectrum we see with our sun. The planet also doesn't have sunrises or sunsets like Earth: one side always faces its sun.
"If you have photosynthetic organisms, they would always get fixed amounts of light all the time. It would be a permanent sunset around the planet. You would see a gradation of color," Kiang said.
Jakku, a desert planet in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," is populated with scavengers and creatures. Astronomers think that our galaxy also has many desert worlds that may be habitable. Credit: David James/Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
Just as seaweed changes color from green to dark brown as you dive deeper into the ocean, plants on a red dwarf planet may brilliantly change color from the day side to the night side.
And that could mean rainbow plant life.
Inhabited worlds
Just about any 'Star Wars' planet
In the "Star Wars" universe, Lucas and company envision scores of worlds bustling with intelligent beings. In our galaxy, we know of only one such world so far-Earth. But NASA exoplanet scientist think we have a fighting chance of finding life beyond our solar system.
The Millennium Falcon cruises over the lush forest planet Takodana in "The Force Awakens." Unlike the green worlds of 'Star Wars,' scientists believe that plant life in our galaxy could come in many colors. Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM
The next few years will see the launch of a new generation of spacecraft to search for planets around other stars. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to determine what's in the atmospheres of other planets. Then, in the next decade, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will bring us images of exoplanets around sun-like stars.
That's one step closer to finding life.
"The idea of life on other planets resonates with people on a very personal level," Doug Hudgins, NASA's program scientist for exoplanet exploration, said of the "Star Wars" films' enduring popularity. "They portray this image of a universe that is teeming with life."
"We are at our heart explorers," he said. "We want to know what's out there. Through the imaginings of George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry, we get to feel for a bit of time like we really can go out and explore the stars."
HADDEN DE MAYA'S HET MISSCHIEN TOCH GOED? ( VIDEO )
HADDEN DE MAYA'S HET MISSCHIEN TOCH GOED? ( VIDEO )
Overal ter wereld werd uitgekeken naar de magische datum van 21 december 2012, want toen zou het gebeuren.
Er gebeurde niets, maar dat wil nog niet zeggen dat de befaamde Maya kalender er volkomen naast zat.
Bovenstaande is de conclusie van Planet X oftewel Nibiru onderzoeker Marshall Masters. Zijn theorie is dat die kalender wel degelijk goed was, maar dat het punt dat werd aangegeven niet een bepaalde gebeurtenis was, maar de voorbode van iets dat wij als mensheid kunnen verwachten en waar ons op zouden moeten voorbereiden.
De machthebbers werden, zo zegt Masters, behoorlijk in de kaart gespeeld door deze hype en ze hielpen zelfs nog mee door het verder op te blazen met dure Hollywood films. Daarna was de meerderheid van de mensheid zo teleurgesteld dat er helemaal niets was gebeurd, dat ze maar gelijk helemaal de ogen sloten voor alles, zoals de machthebbers dat het liefste zagen.
Masters en de mensen om hem heen doen al jaren onderzoek en één ervan was om te kijken of die datum van 2012 inderdaad iets bijzonders was. Om dat te kunnen meten/vaststellen, gebruikten ze twee sets met gegevens. De ene had betrekking op aardbevingen en de andere op vuurbollen in de lucht.
En wanneer je begint met de aardbevingen dan zie je inderdaad na december 2012 een nogal spectaculaire toename.
Ook wanneer je kijkt naar de waarnemingen van het aantal vuurballen, zie je dat deze sedert eind 2012 sterk zijn toegenomen.
Je hebt natuurlijk vuurballen in alle soorten en maten, maar de voor de mens meest gevaarlijke zijn natuurlijk de wat grotere.
Een bekend voorbeeld daarvan is natuurlijk de gebeurtenis in Rusland in 2013.
Op 15 februari 2013 ontplofte een meteoroïde nabij Tsjeljabinsk in het Russische Oeralgebied. Rond 9.15 uur plaatselijke tijd werden aldaar verschillende explosies gehoord en werd er een vuurbal in de hemel waargenomen.
Meteoren kunnen eigenlijk worden ingedeeld in vier verschillende soorten: vallende sterren, vuurbollen, bolides en superbolides.
Vooral de laatste twee zijn gebeurtenissen die je niet wilt meemaken. Deze ontploffen in de lucht net zoals Tsjeljabinsk met een enorme knal en een bijbehorende lichtflits.
De energie die bij een dergelijke ontploffing zoals Tsjelnabinsk vrij komt, staat gelijk aan 30 keer die van de atoombom op Hiroshima en de lichtflits is 30 keer feller dan de zon. Bij die gebeurtenissen raakten dan ook 7.200 gebouwen beschadigd en 1.500 mensen gewond. Veel van die verwondingen hadden te maken met de gevolgen van rondvliegend glas of brandwonden.
In het algemeen kan je stellen dat hoe meer mensen een vuurbol waarnemen, des te groter en gevaarlijker zal deze blijken te zijn. Masters heeft dan ook als definitie van een enorme vuurbal genomen het criterium dat deze door minstens 100 verschillende mensen moet zijn gemeld.
Wanneer we voor dat soort gebeurtenissen wederom kijken naar een grafiek van wat er na die bewuste decembermaand is gebeurd, dan lijkt verder commentaar overbodig.
Als je kijkt naar de cijfers per maand, dan zie je dat het grootste aantal van dit soort gebeurtenissen zich heeft voorgedaan in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar. Ook Tsjelnabinsk gebeurde in de maand februari.
De conclusie van Masters is dan ook dat de Maya’s wel degelijk wisten dat er rond deze tijd iets bijzonders zou gebeuren en dat die datum een soort laatste waarschuwing was voor de mensheid om serieus voorbereidingen te treffen voor de dingen die gaan komen.
Bovenstaande en nog veel meer wordt door Marshall Masters in de volgende half uur durende video uitgelegd en toegelicht.
Neon Red UFO Seen At Space Station On Live Cam, Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Neon Red UFO Seen At Space Station On Live Cam, Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit at Space Station One type of anomalies that have been seen around the space station almost daily is the rainbow colored objects that appear for a split second and then are gone. The move incredibly fast, and act like tiny fist sized drones that have AI. I say they have AI, because they move incredibly fast, yet often stop in front of the camera and then shoot away. Just as this one did. I have seen yellow, green, purple, blue and even pink and red. Each time the object has a definite shape, but is different in shape each time. Sometimes its egg shaped, other times is a square or rectangle shaped object. I have to agree with Streetcap1 who caught this...it is a UFO and it acts alive...probably AI micro drones created by aliens to be less intrusive on the space station and the astronauts. They are so small and fast, astronauts wont even notice them. But they always glow a neon color on video. A few times, I saw them by the hundreds. Scott C. Waring
Neon Red UFO Seen At Space Station On Live Cam, Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Neon Red UFO Seen At Space Station On Live Cam, Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit at Space Station One type of anomalies that have been seen around the space station almost daily is the rainbow colored objects that appear for a split second and then are gone. The move incredibly fast, and act like tiny fist sized drones that have AI. I say they have AI, because they move incredibly fast, yet often stop in front of the camera and then shoot away. Just as this one did. I have seen yellow, green, purple, blue and even pink and red. Each time the object has a definite shape, but is different in shape each time. Sometimes its egg shaped, other times is a square or rectangle shaped object. I have to agree with Streetcap1 who caught this...it is a UFO and it acts alive...probably AI micro drones created by aliens to be less intrusive on the space station and the astronauts. They are so small and fast, astronauts wont even notice them. But they always glow a neon color on video. A few times, I saw them by the hundreds. Scott C. Waring
UFO Falls From Sky Over Queensland, Australia On Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Falls From Sky Over Queensland, Australia On Dec 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia A UFO was caught this week on video over the town of Toowoomba and its clearly not a meteorite. The object has a controlled reentry, where a meteor would be moving 50X the speed of this UFO. At first, I thought this could be the Russian cargo ship sent to the space station that failed...crashing to Earth, however that took place on Dec 1, 2016. This object has a controlled fall, its slow, even for something thats crashing to earth. This does move and looks like a UFO. It looks like it didn't land to far away. An expedition to find out if its still there should be made. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
In Newtown, Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, one could observe in the sky on 14.12.2016, as a very bright light, very slowly fallen to the ground. Astronomers say that it can not be a meteor or comet because the sink rate is too slow.
Interesting footage of Orbs flying over Ukranian city
Interesting footage of Orbs flying over Ukranian city
Here’s a new footage that was just submitted to me by a reader. It shows a bright objects making maneuvers in the sky. This was seen and recorded over Poltava in Ukraine on Tuesday, 13th December 2016.
Fireball Plummets to Earth Way Slower Than A Meteor
Fireball Plummets to Earth Way Slower Than A Meteor
Witnesses went mystified after seeing a mysterious fireball UFO falling to Earth. The unusual thing was observed dropping from the sky above Newtown, Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. The fireball even seen moving sharply to the right and then left as it was falling.
Newtown resident Rod Bishop captured the event on video.
The witness claimed that he spent 18 years in the army barracks and is an amateur astronomer, so he knows very well about aircraft. The mysterious thing he just captured on video made his jaw drop, according to the witness.
Some viewers of the video are wondering why alien spacecraft went to Toowoomba.
However, astronomer professor Jonti Horner believes the light is not a meteor or fireball because it looks too slow to be one. For him, it is also too slow to be a bit of space junk returning to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere.
Horner thinks it is the International Space Station. He explains that the ISS is brighter than the brightest stars and moves quite slow, making them quite spectacular.
Though it ‘s hard to tell the identity of the strange thing in the blurry video, Jonti stresses that’s the most likely explanation to him as an astronomer professor.
A Man Wonders If He Saw A UFO Or Just Flashing Lights In Las Vegas
A Man Wonders If He Saw A UFO Or Just Flashing Lights In Las Vegas
Las Vegas has its share when it comes to unusual objects in the sky, from explainable to unexplainable involving what are called UFOs.
Recently, another strange sighting was recorded on video. Out for an evening stroll, Robert Jones stunned to see strange lights hovering in the sky on Thursday. Jones said he just arrived at Cornerstone Park when the sighting took place. He could not figure out where the lights were coming.
Jones said the lights filled up the entire sky.
He saw orange colored lights floating in an upward motion and disappearing. He could not rule out military operations, but he wanted to know if it was indeed explainable as he was searching for an answer online.
He first thought they were balloons or even aircraft, but he saw them with a solid color and without warning lights.
He claimed that he looked on social media and asked Nellis Air Force base if they were from them, but Nellis replied they had no idea what they were.
The video has been keeping all the viewers guessing, just like many other videos and photos taken over Las Vegas sky.
In 1947 Admiral Richard E. Byrd commanded 4000 troops and a fleet of war ships and airplanes on the legendary “Operation Highjump” expedition to the South Pole. What was supposed to be an eight month mission was cut short after only eight weeks. Stories of underground Nazi bases, Alien UFOs and an occult race to find a secret passage to a hidden Atlantian realm beneath the ice are all explored in detail in this fascinating fact-filled program. The final conclusions are both shocking and amazing.
Huge orbs flying over Chicago Heights, Illinois 13-Dec-2016
Huge orbs flying over Chicago Heights, Illinois 13-Dec-2016
Check out this UFO sighting that happened east of Chicago Heights, a city in Cook County, Illinois. This was filmed on Monday, 13th December 2016.
Witness report:
3-5 Orange lights. Size of orbs were like distant street lights in the sky. Moving precisely, not with the wind. My girlfriend and I were picking her kid up from gymnastics, in Frankfort, IL, and started heading north on Laraway rd. It was a full moon so we were looking at it casually, and then observed 5 orange lights near each other toward the east. We thought to ourselves those “planes” are really close to each other, but then thought planes don’t fly that close to each other; or emit a solid orange lights. Normally they pulse a tiny white and red light. On our way home we couldn’t stop gazing upon the lights, we were fixated trying to figure out what they were. They weren’t moving in any specific direction just kind of motionless. Then one light noticeably went to the left, and another to the right, and then disappeared. Then there were three left. We thought Chinese lanterns because of the color. But that means the lights would move with the wind or move in a general direction, which they didn’t, and even Chinese lanterns start to dim over time and distance. These were noticeable bright orange lights. Once we hit Route 30 we started heading East, traveling toward the lights. We started in Frankfort and ended up about 10 miles East (past Chicago Heights). Over that course of time the lights formed a triangle formation, vertical line, horizontal line, and staggered vertical line, and then went to two lights. It went to two lights after it formed a perfect triangle. When it became two lights they seemed to create distance from each other, and close back up. They again formed a vertical and horizontal line, and when they were in the lines they moved simultaneously and in unison; keeping a perfect distance from each other moving down, up, left, and right (slowly but precisely). When the lights were vertical, the one on the bottom moved to the left of the other one (while the other one remained motionless) and then slowly disappeared (within 3 seconds). Then approximately a minute later the last light disappeared. We turned around because we were in a bad area. So then we started heading west, the direction we just came from, and my girlfriend told me to look behind us and see if I could see anything. Sure enough there were 3 lights again in a vertical line. Still gives me goosebumps thinking about it and writing this out.
Curiosity Delivers New Evidence That Life Could Have Thrived on Mars
Curiosity Delivers New Evidence That Life Could Have Thrived on Mars
NASA
IN BRIEF
NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered boron on Mars, marking the first time that this element has been found on the Red Planet.
Evidence of chemical complexity suggests that Mars had a long, interactive history with water, improving the chances that life existed on the planet for a lengthy period of time.
GALE CRATER CURIOSITIES
Ever since NASA’sCuriosity rover made its historic landing inside Mars’ Gale Crater in August 2012, its study of the composition of rocks in the area has led researchers to the conclusion that life could’ve been present at some point during the Red Planet’s history. Studies done by other rovers have also arrived at a similar conclusion, with evidence suggesting Mars had a “wet era” during which life — even microbial life — could’ve survived.
A recent discovery supports these claims. The Curiosity rover’s study of different rocks over the Gale Crater’s elevational range of about 200 meters (650 ft) covers a timespan of roughly tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years. Throughout this period, the environment in the crater, which supposedly cradled an ancient Martian lake, was continually changing, but not enough to preclude life from existing.
The newest evidence of this ancient life on Mars is Curiosity’s discovery of boron, marking the first time that this element has been found on the Red Planet.
“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,” John Grotzinger, Curiosity team member and geologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, explained in a press release. “The boron, hematite, and clay minerals underline the mobility of elements and electrons, and that is good for life.”
WHERE THERE IS WATER…
Based on observations by Curiosity, the ancient lake in the Gale Crater was initially composed of fresh water (neutral-pH water). It became slightly acidic over time, and saltier still a little later.
This all happened over a period of millions of years, as the crater’s lake went through periods of drying out and then filling up again as groundwater rose. Despite these changes, Grotzinger believes that the area remained mostly habitable, as some forms of microbial life could’ve been sustained by groundwater during the lake’s dry spells.
If the conditions on ancient Mars were largely similar to those on Earth, where there is water, there is a great chance that life could exist, as well. The abundant traces of silica, which is excellent at preserving microbial life on Earth, found in Curiosity’s samples could aid future life-hunting missions on Mars. “I think this is a tremendously exciting discovery,” said Grotzinger.
This pair of drawings depicts the same location at Mars’ Gale Crater at two points in time: now and billions of years ago. Water moving beneath the ground, as well as water above the surface in ancient rivers and lakes, provided favorable conditions for microbial life, if Mars has ever hosted life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes
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