Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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China Is Working on Creating Its Own Colossal Stealth Bomber
China Is Working on Creating Its Own Colossal Stealth Bomber
China's military is working on its first-ever strategic stealth bomber, which is expected to feature a similar subsonic low-observable "flying wing" design as the U.S.'s B-2 Spirit.
Though it may take 10 years to develop, the H-20 would be a significant step forward on China's path to modernizing its military.
As the latest move in the country’s ambitious military modernization program, China is in the process of developing its first-ever strategic stealth bomber. The aircraft, called the Xian H-20, is expected to be able to deploy long-range weapons — something their current Xian H-6 models aren’t capable of doing.
The Director of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) Expert Consultation Committee, Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo, said that the H-20 will be on the same level as the U.S.’s Nothtrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, which was made operational in 1997. Expected similarities with the B-2 Spirit include a subsonic low-observable flying wing design.
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Adm. Zhuo believes that all the pieces are in place for this project, as China has gained a working knowledge of stealth technology and heavy transport design, both of which will be useful in creating the H-20. He also revealed that all the weapons that will arm the new aircraft, like nuclear bombs and cruise missiles, are ready.
The Xian H-20 will be produced by Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, the same company that produces the H-6 models currently in use. Adm. Zhuo noted that the creation process could take a long time, so the bomber might not be in service until 2025.
UFO Sightings 2016 Increase Worldwide, Year-end Witness To Many Of Them; Are Aliens For Real? [Video]
UFO Sightings 2016 Increase Worldwide, Year-end Witness To Many Of Them; Are Aliens For Real? [Video]
29th December 1953: An Unidentified Flying Object in the sky over Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Photo : Photo by Barney Wayne/Keystone/Getty Images)
With 2016 is coming to a close, reports on UFO sightings abound. There are rumors that the increase in UFO sigthings is a sign that aliens are preparing for a possible invasion. Check out the latest UFO sightings.
Triangle UFO Over Ohio
Spotted at Springfield, Ohio, the eyewitness described the apparent UFO as "gigantic and enormous" that looks like cylinder at first but at a close look it looks like a triangular-shaped airplane with colors green white and red. The UFO sighting happened in November 29, 2016 at around 10:00 p.m. along highway 2-75. The report was filed at Ohio MUFON in Dec. 4 and is now being investigated by Chief Investigator Ron McGlone, Openminds reported.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Burning Fireball Caught On Camera
The strange blue fireball was reportedly spotted in South America including Colombia and Venezuela on Dec. 16 around 11:25 p.m. Many people believed that they have spotted another UFO though experts suggest that it is just a large meteor.
Residents captured the meteor on camera(Photo: unotv.com)
UFO Crash
An apparent UFO crashed creating a hole in the ground in Fugu County, North Eastern China, Peoples Daily Online reported.
UFOs Spotted in Turkey
Mysterious lights were spotted in Turkey and are believed to have come from an UFO.
Bolt of Lightning Spotted in Arizona
The light seems to be just like lightning or meteorite but it's going up and so theories came out that it may be an alien ship leaving the earth. According to Scott Waring, a UFO enthusiast from UFO Sightings Daily website, Arizona is a famous hotspot for Alien bases and UFOs and the recent incident is an evidence of their existence in the area. Although there were suggestions that the spotted bolt of lightning is a hoax, Waring said that it is an alien ship leaving the earth, Mirror reported.
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Don't Be Fooled by This Giant 'Mech' Robot
Don't Be Fooled by This Giant 'Mech' Robot
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
Photos on Facebook and Instagram purport to show a humanoid robot 13 feet (4 meters) tall, weighing 1.5 tons, being developed in South Korea.
Credit: Courtesy Vitaly Bulgarov
New video clips purporting to show a 13-foot-tall (4 meters) humanoid robot piloted by a person in its torso look like something straight out of "Avatar" or "Transformers," but a Live Science investigation has revealed reasons to believe some skepticism might be in order.
The robot clips have been picked up by a variety of online news and technology outlets, including Kotaku and Wired UK. But the South Korean company that is supposedly developing the robot has virtually no online presence and was unfamiliar to robotics researchers contacted by Live Science.
Furthermore, the only source for the videos or any information about them is the Facebook and Instagram pages of a designer whose website mentions a conceptual art project about a "fictional robotics corporation that develops its products in a not-so-distant future."
The designer, Vitaly Bulgarov, told Live Science that the robot is real. However, he declined to share the names of scientists or engineers working on the project, and messages to the purported CEO of the company went unreturned. [Gallery: See Images of the Giant Humanoid Robot]
Mystery business
According to Bulgarov's Facebook page, the videos were taken in South Korea at a company called Korea Future Technology. Almost all references to this company online appear to be associated with Bulgarov's posts and the subsequent news pieces on the robot. Bulgarov said the company has been operating for several years.
The domain name of the supposed company, found on Bulgarov's file names, hankookmirae.com, meaning "South Korea Future," was registered in February to is Lim Hyun Kuk, the name of the person Bulgarov said was CEO of the company. There is no active website associated with the domain; Bulgarov said one is slated to go online next week.
"If you look at this from a Western point of view, then yeah, that might seem strange, but in that part of the world, the culture is a little different. The company wants to make something first before they advertise themselves," Bulgarov said of the inactive website. [Gallery: Disaster-Response Robots Face Off]
The person who answered the phone number associated with the domain registration said Lim worked at that address but was not available to talk. Lim did not return a message left at that number or emails sent to three addresses possibly associated with him.
Bulgarov told Live Science in an email that the release of the videos was intended for his circle of followers only, and that the company would do a "proper press release" when the robot is completed in 2017. He said a "Professor Park" was associated with the work but would not provide a given name or affiliation for that researcher. ("Park" is the third-most-common surname in Korea.) He also declined to answer questions about funding for the project.
"Frankly, right now, we don't even really care if people think this is legit because we didn't try to promote it," Bulgarov said.
Technical difficulties
The robot itself looks like one of the military robots in the movie "Avatar." A pilot inside the torso moves his arms to control the robot's upper limbs. (This kind of design is known as a "mech.") The robot is tethered by a power cable above, but walks several steps in the video clips. [The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created]
The technology shown in the video is plausible, said Ronald Fearing, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, who has developed a jumping robot.
The robot looks a bit top-heavy, Fearing said, but its external power source could mean it would be light enough to function. The idea of developing robots steered by a person inside goes back to at least the 1960s, Fearing said. Several research teams are developing robotic exoskeletons to help people lift heavier loads or to allow paralyzed people to walk again.
Bipedal robots much more graceful than the one shown in the new video are already a reality. Robotics company Boston Dynamics has Atlas, an approximately human-sized bipedal automaton that can even navigate rough ground. And Georgia Tech's DURUS robot walks with a heel-to-toe gait, just like a human.
Fearing said the technology in the video would be a "nice piece of work." He estimated that something like it might cost $20 million and take a couple of years to make.
But there are also questions about the video. Though Bulgarov wrote on his Instagram page that the ground shakes as the giant robot walks, the camera and nearby objects appear steady. The lab itself is also remarkably sleek and futuristic compared to academic labs in the United States and even industry labs like those of Boston Dynamics.
Georgia Tech's DURUS robot walks with a heel-to-toe motion to make the bipedal machine more efficient.
Credit: Christian Hubicki / Georgia Tech
"Robots are messy business," said Christian Hubicki, a postdoctoral robotics researcher at Georgia Tech who worked on the DURUS robot. "They get torn apart and put back together over and over, and transmission grease gets all over the place. Even the nice white floor is beautifully unscuffed [in these videos]. Never once during likely hundreds of hours of debugging the giant robot did it kick in a way that scratched it up?"
The people around the robot also appear to be too close for safety and are not following the standard practice of wearing safety goggles, Hubicki said.
Bulgarov said the company's CEO required that the lab be clean, and that the videos had been brightened in postproduction. Fearing said robotics labs in Asia can be relatively neat.
However, there's another problem: Hubicki told Live Science that the robot's leg joints look unusually smooth given the force that the step of a 1.5-ton robot would exert on the motors. [5 Reasons to Fear Robots]
"When I look at the bulk of the leg — say, above the ankle — it still stops its downward motion extremely quickly (I think within a frame of the video)," Hubicki wrote in an email. "[N]ot impossible, but if it is real, I'd be really curious about how the effects of that impact are being handled."
Bulgarov said dampers in the robot's feet make its motion smooth. He also said the robot wasn't built for use as is but as a platform to show off various technical feats, like the human-machine interface for moving the arms or the bipedal locomotion. Right now, he said the robot couldn't walk on an uneven surface but might be useful for industrial purposes, though there are no plans to use the robot in its current state. The cockpit and arms could be attached to a wheeled vehicle for rough terrain, Bulgarov said. The company is considering applications such as cleanup at the Fukushima power plant, which was damaged during the 2011 tsunami in Japan, Bulgarov said.
Some companies do make demonstration robots without many practical applications, Fearing and Hubicki said. However, building a 1.5-ton robot for this purpose would be a quite extreme, Hubicki added.
"To me, building a giant, walking mech to showcase your arm technology is a bit like building a rocket ship to demonstrate your cockpit technology," he said.
When asked directly if the robot was real, Bulgarov said, "It is real, and more footage is coming."
Fearing wondered if perhaps the company was intentionally obscuring its origins and goals to create more interest. There have also been situations where companies have exaggerated reality, he said.
"I don't know of this group, but unfortunately, I know other groups have mixed CAD [computer-aided design] images and reality to raise money and [have] not disclosed the mixture," Fearing said.
Hubicki urged skepticism. "As intriguing as the video is," he said, "at some point, you have to ask yourself, 'Did a secret company with no obvious ties to existing humanoid robotics groups actually develop a giant humanoid robot with likely unparalleled power and torque, and instead of sending out a press release, they unveil the robot by dribbling out low-resolution videos on Instagram via an affiliate who just so happens to be a visual effects artist?'"
Automation through robots and other artificial intelligence could affect nearly half of all US jobs, a report from the Obama administration has found. Education and job-training programs could prevent the sea change from destroying the American economy.
Scientists and economic advisers within the executive branch studied the potential effects of artificial intelligence on the US workforce and economy over the next 20 years, as well as ways to prevent the technological advances from automation from potentially destroying job opportunities for Americans ‒ which they said it could, for up to 47 percent of jobs. Rather, the authors sought to guide the government’s automation policy to create better economic opportunities for the country as a whole.
“These transformations will open up new opportunities for individuals, the economy, and society, but they have the potential to disrupt the current livelihoods of millions of Americans,” the 55-page report said. “Whether AI leads to unemployment and increases in inequality over the long-run depends not only on the technology itself but also on the institutions and policies that are in place.”
The authors compared use of AI to how the Industrial Revolution introduced mass production to the economy, which negatively affected the livelihoods of skilled craftsman, as well as to the rise of computers in the workplace, which benefited white-collar workers.
“Output per hour rose [in the 19th Century] while inequality declined, driving up average living standards, but the labor of some high-skill workers was no longer as valuable in the market,” they wrote. “The advent of computers and the Internet raised the relative productivity of higher-skilled workers.”
“Shifting demand towards more skilled labor raised the relative pay of this group, contributing to rising inequality,” they continued. “At the same time, a slowdown in the rate of improvement in education, and institutional changes such as the reduction in unionization and decline in the minimum wage, also contributed to inequality—underscoring that technological changes do not uniquely determine outcomes.”
Although the report cautioned that it’s difficult to predict exactly how robots and other AI might change the economy in the future because it’s “not a single technology, but rather a collection of technologies that are applied to specific tasks,” the authors noted that the trend has been similar to what happened with computerization that occurred at the end of the 20th and start of the 21st centuries. AI could affect as little as 9 percent of jobs over the next decade or two ‒ or it could threaten nearly half of all jobs.
A September report released by Forrester Research found that 6 percent of jobs could be taken by “early-stage intelligent agents,” as soon as 2021. In November, a brief from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) claimed that up to two-thirds of all jobs in the developing world could be replaced by automation. More than 1.3 million Brits could lost their jobs to computers by 2030, according to research by Oxford University and consultancy firm Deloitte.
Although “AI-driven automation has yet to have a quantitatively major impact on productivity growth,” the administration’s report said, industries such as transportation and fast food are already seeing the results of automation, thanks to self-driving cars and the use of kiosks and other automated ordering systems.
The authors offered three policy strategies to guide the technological changes in the economy to be “compatible with productivity, high levels of employment, and more broadly shared prosperity.” They then noted: “Most of these strategies would be important regardless of AI-driven automation, but all take on even greater importance to the degree that AI is making major changes to the economy.”
The US must invest in and develop AI in a way that responsibly maximizes its development, especially in the areas of cyber defense and the detection of fraudulent transactions and messages, the report said. In order to fill all the positions to “support and advance the field,” the government should prioritize diversity and inclusion in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Another important way to affect how AI develops is to foster competition from new and existing firms with “sound pro-competition policies.”
It will be important not just to educate and prepare young Americans for careers in AI, but to help current workers with transitioning into the field, including by expanding the availability of job-driven training and improved guidance on how to navigate job and field transitions. The authors recommended “providing all children with access to high-quality early education so that all families can prepare their students for continued education.”
To train the current workforce in AI, the authors called on policymakers to ensure rising wages by modernizing the social safety net and expanding healthcare access, and by introducing new programs such as wage insurance and emergency aid for families in crisis. Other ideas they proffered included strengthening worker bargaining power, modernizing tax policy, and pursuing strategies that prevent AI jobs from clustering in certain areas of the country, the way the automobile industry did in Michigan.
The report was produced by a team assembled by the Obama administration, including staff from the Council of Economic Advisers, Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of Management and Budget, and Office of Science and Technology Policy.
From all the recent hand-wringing about “fake news,” you would think that the hand-wringers had never stood in a supermarket checkout line, surrounded by 72-point headlines about alien abductions and miracle cures. Fake news has been around as long as real news, as any historian of early modern Europe can tell you (Renaissance readers gobbled up stories about women giving birth to rabbits, and men from Africa with faces in their chests). Social media has certainly transformed how fake news circulates, speeding up its circulation and extending its reach and impact. The temptation to blame many of our current ills on it—and by extension, on Mark Zuckerberg—is understandable. But the hand-wringing has in fact distracted attention from a much more important problem involving the American media. That problem is not fake news but the continuing delegitimization of real news by American conservatives. This delegitimization has been taking place for a long time (as The Nation’s Eric Alterman has meticulously reported, and as even some conservative media figures have admitted), but during the past year it has taken a frightening new turn. If the mainstream American news media are to have any hope of avoiding potentially catastrophic results—both for themselves and for American democracy—they need to change how they report on American politics, and on the ideological apparatchiks they continue to describe, misleadingly, as “journalists.”
Anyone masochistic enough to tune into Rush Limbaugh regularly will soon recognize a strange pattern in his rants. Limbaugh has an extremely long list of enemies, all of whom he paints as mortal threats to the American republic. But there is one absolutely constant enemy, whom he mentions in every single broadcast, without fail. It is not Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama. It is not the “Democrat party.” It is not even the federal government. It is the mainstream news media, whom he accuses of extreme liberal bias and hatred of America. In every single show, contempt oozing out of his voice, he flagellates mainstream media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, or the major broadcast networks. He collectively labels them “drive-bys,” comparing them to drive-by shooters. And his strategy has been followed by virtually the whole of the conservative media machine, from fellow radio hosts like Mark Levin and Michael Savage, to television personalities like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, to pundits like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. If some hapless liberal caller to a conservative radio show, or some hapless liberal guest on a Fox News program, dares to support an argument by invoking a story from The New York Times, he or she is likely to be met with contemptuous laughter. In this milieu, the Times has no more credibility than The National Enquirer at a scientific conference on extraterrestrial life. A conservative radio talk-show host, Charlie Sykes, who opposed Trump in the election, puts it this way: “We have spent 20 years demonizing the liberal mainstream media…. At a certain point you wake up and you realize you have destroyed the credibility of any credible outlet out there.”
It is important to recognize that if the conservative media machine has delegitimized real news for their audiences, it is not in the service, at least not primarily, of peddling so-called “fake news.” There is a real dividing line between figures like Limbaugh and Hannity on the one hand, and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, who describes the Sandy Hook massacre as a hoax, and claims that Barack Obama is literally a demon (yes, literally). Generally, the Limbaughs and Hannitys will not even come out and state forthrightly that Obama is a Muslim, although they hint at it, and their audiences almost certainly take this idea for granted. They do not accuse Hillary Clinton of abducting children to serve as sex slaves. Again, what is now being labeled “fake news” is not the real story.
What the conservative media machine does, in tandem with its delegitimization of real news, is much more dangerous. Its leaders take any story that, however glancingly or speculatively, throws doubt upon the patriotism, honesty, or competence of public figures they dislike, and immediately cast it as the greatest outrage in American history. They return to it as often as possible, greeting every new revelation, however tiny or questionable, as a smoking gun. Just for the Obama administration alone, the list of such scandals is almost endless: “Operation Fast and Furious”; the IRS auditing scandal; the supposed “ransom” paid to Iran as part of the nuclear deal; the loans made to the Solyndra solar panel company; alleged misdeed involving the Secret Service, the General Services Administration, and the EPA; Benghazi (Benghazi!); and of course Hillary Clinton’s e-mail. Anyone relying on The New York Times for news over the past eight years would have seen little of genuine importance in most of these stories, and little to challenge the conclusion that Barack Obama has presided, by historical standards, over a virtually entirely scandal-free administration. Anyone relying on Rush Limbaugh or Fox News would have seen in them a pattern of corruption and malevolence unmatched in American history, and one which the untrustworthy mainstream media deliberately covered up. This is not “fake news.” It is a blatantly ideological distortion of real news. But, as Charlie Sykes has noted, because of the delegitimization of real news sources, the machine’s audiences simply do not, for the most part, believe it when any mainstream media outlet seeks to correct the distortions.
The machine has been operating in this way for many years, as Alterman and others have detailed. But since the election, the delegitimization of real news has taken a new, dangerous twist. It has now become clear that faithful followers of Limbaugh, or Fox News, will not only immediately discount any mainstream-media story that reflects badly on politicians or policies they like, no matter how well sourced and substantiate; they will consider the story itself yet another reason to support those politicians and policies, and will quite possibly believe the opposite, simply as a matter of principle. Polling data suggests that even during the election, the revelations about Trump’s failure to pay federal income taxes, and then the Access Hollywood tape, failed to significantly affect his support within the Republican base. The stories were unquestionably true, but that was less important than the fact that they were reported in the mainstream media (broken, in fact, by The New York Times and The Washington Post, respectively). By definition the stories demonstrated the power and extent of the dark liberal conspiracy against America, making Trump’s victory even more important for the Republican base.
Even more striking are the reactions to the new revelations about Russian interference in the election. Limbaugh, with his usual keen instinct for turning his opponents’ tactics against them, has played off the recent mainstream media obsession and labeled the story “fake news.” Of course, from Limbaugh’s perspective, any story broken by The New York Timesshould be considered fake news until proven otherwise. Most other conservative media stars have reacted in the same way, and as a result, a distressingly large number, not just of Republican voters but of the Republican office-holders in thrall to them, have been entirely incapable of taking seriously even the possibility that a foreign power deliberately interfered—perhaps decisively—with an American election. Indeed, one poll has shown that since the election, Vladimir Putin has actually gained popularity among Republicans. The liberal hand-wringing about “fake news” has helped the conservative media machine, in this regard, because it has provided yet another useful, and widely used catch phrase with which to discredit the mainstream media.
The implications of this shift for the incoming Trump administration are frightening. Even entirely blatant corruption, and blatant violations of the Constitution are likely to be dismissed as “fake news” by the conservative media machine. Reports in the mainstream media will be denounced as part of a nefarious plot by liberals to destroy the administration (and, by extension, America), and could well intensify Trump’s support. Criticism by Democrats, and attempts to hold Trump accountable, will be treated as grievous attacks on American democracy, justifying extraordinary—and perhaps extra-constitutional—responses.
Unfortunately, up to now the mainstream media has shown absolutely atrocious instincts in responding to this phenomenon. Above all, they have simply failed to acknowledge and report adequately on the role that the conservative media machine now plays in American politics, and the way it has delegitimized real news. Consider the fact that in the month before the election, The New York Times mentioned Rush Limbaugh in eleven stories. Eight of these were opinion columns of one sort or another, and one was a magazine story on Hillary Clinton. Just two were news stories, neither of which focused on Limbaugh himself. But Limbaugh has about 13 million listeners. While his influence has waned somewhat over the past few years, conservative politicians still quail in fear of his disapproval. He has more influence on American politics than nearly all American elected officials. He played a non-negligible role in the presidential election—in large part because of his ability to convince his listeners to distrust any revelations about Donald Trump that appeared in The New York Times. Did he not deserve more coverage than the Times gave him?
Unfortunately, the mainstream media still tends to treat figures like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter as “conservative commentators,” as if they were nothing more than slightly rabid versions of William Safire, or right-wing counterparts to Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd. The term suggests a tidy equivalence between left and right, in which each side has its own flock of columnists, radio hosts, and television personalities. But Limbaugh and company are not “commentators,” who might have an ideological slant, but who can also be expected to think through each issue they tackle on its own terms, with due attention to verifiable facts. They are ideologues, who concoct their broadcasts and columns with the sole goal of advancing the fortunes of their own ideological camp in what they openly describe as an apocalyptic conflict to save America. They make no pretense of thoughtfully weighing the pros and cons of the issues they discuss, and never—ever—acknowledge that the other side could have a point.
It is long past time that the mainstream media acknowledge that whatever equivalency once existed in American political life between liberals and conservatives has long since disappeared. The point is not so much that the conservative movement has turned extreme, although of course it has. The point is that the conservative media machine, and a majority of Republican officeholders, up to and including the president-elect, now form part of a coherent, united ideological apparatus that has fought with enormous success to capture the principal levers of power in this country, and that attempts systematically to discredit and demonize anyone who opposes it. It has become an illiberal (in every sense of the word) political party of a sort the United States has never before known, one that bears striking similarities to fascist and communist parties that operated within democratic societies in the 20th century. And the members of it who work in broadcast studios and so-called newsrooms are not journalists. They are the party’s media arm, full stop. They should be treated as such.
The mainstream media today is unfortunately in a very weak position vis-à-vis this party. Nothing that appears in the Times or on CNN can now make much of an impact on the people who live within the party’s steel-walled ideological bubble—including a very large proportion of Trump voters. As noted, new revelations, however damning and sensational, are more likely to intensify their support for Trump than to weaken it. But reporting on this party as a party, as an ideological apparatus, can still have an effect. Figures like Limbaugh and Hannity benefit enormously from the perception among their listeners that they are just commentators. In a grotesque, and enormously effective, act of projection, they denounce liberals for being what they themselves actually are: a ruthless ideological movement that cares nothing for verifiable facts. This self-representation is not challenged nearly enough by the mainstream media, which continue to portray these figures as journalists and commentators, rather than as ideological apparatchiks—indeed, as members of a conservative Nomenklatura. At the very least, the mainstream media should be identifying them as such, and fighting back far more vigorously against the conservative media machine’s delegitimization of real news. It should be reporting on Limbaugh and Hannity, Savage and Levin, Ingraham and Coulter, as often as it reports on the Republican “Freedom Caucus,” and it should respond systematically to their delegitimization of real news. When so-called conservative “commentators” attack The New York Times, the gray lady should not act as if responding to them is beneath her dignity. This tactic has not worked, to say the least. The Times should be covering the charges as part of the ideological battle now being waged in America, and it should be responding to them. So should The Washington Post, and CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media. If they don’t, then in the end, they could be signing their own death warrants.
There has even been two more reported in the last two days, according to The Mutual UFO Network.
On Wednesday in Chebba, Tennessee, a witness said they saw a UFO in the sky.
This comes as bizarre footage of a spaceship appearing through a wormhole emerged online.
MUFON
MYSTERY: The UFOs all appear in a triangle shape with lights
They said in a report to the network: "We were standing in the street me, my dad and my neighbour when it appeared in the sky.
"It was flying pretty fast in a straight line.
"Only me and my neighbour saw it.
"It felt crazy, I was the only one who felt like I was dragged into it.
"It looked like in the pictures I am going to send."
The network said there have been around a hundred reports about triangle UFOs this year.
They are all said to be huge, with bright lights and travelling at low altitude.
In another report posted yesterday to The Mutual UFO Network, a witness described seeing a low-flying triangle at Elk Grove, California, last week.
“I started freaking out, because of what I saw and how close it was to my house and family”
Witness
The report said: "I looked up and saw a triangular shape moving at a high rate of speed.
"It was highlighted by thin dim lines of the triangle with lights on the corners of the triangle with halos around them.
"The triangle went in a straight line and I lost sight of it behind my plum tree, I tried to follow it but it disappeared. I wasn't scared, I stayed out there for another ten minutes or so so I could see if I could see anything else. I didn't see anything else.
“When I went back inside I started freaking out, because of what I saw and how close it was to my house and family."
A CGI fake UFO from a YouTube video supplied to MUFON to show what a sighting Chebba looked like.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) received two more reports in the last 48 hours, its database has revealed.
Since Tuesday Express.co.uk has reported on the growing number of alleged triangle UFO sightings, with at least 21 now reported to US-based MUFON this December.
On Wednesday, we revealed how two people claimed to see four triangle UFOs tailed by a series of other objects flying low over homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
MUFON keeps a global at a base of UFO and alien sightings and has received hundreds of reports about so-called triangle UFOs.
The reports are often the same that they are seen at relatively low altitudes, of large size, with lights marking out the sides and slow silent travel.
However, there are variations such as in the latest sightings reported to MUFON yesterday which were said to travel at speed.
MUFON
A CGI image of a triangle UFO reported to MUFON after being seen in Elk Grove, California.
"The triangle went in a straight line and I lost sight of it behind my plum tree, I tried to follow it but it disappeared. I wasn't scared, I stayed out there for another ten minutes or so so I could see if I could see anything else. I didn't see anything else. When I went back inside I started freaking out, because of what I saw and how close it was to my house and family."
He also provided a CGI mock up of what was seen, which is similar to many others received by MUFON.
But, Scott Brando, a forensic UFO investigator of website ufoofinterest.org, believes there are no such thing as triangle UFOs.
He feels that every sighting has been a misidentified plane, military flares or Chinese lanterns.
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Alien Russia. KGB.VIDEO.
Alien Russia. KGB.VIDEO.
According to information from Russia knows about extraterrestrial civilizations over several decades, so for many it is not surprising that such rumors are circulating for many years. Russia’s first contact with the gray aliens allegedly occurred in 1942. At that time, were planned series of diplomatic visits to discuss issues of mutual interest – by alleged Russian documents and agreements that have been created
According to the document, 072 / E at meeting the 1961 incident occurred that involved three entities for breach of contract officers army base, when they discovered that their arrival was filmed hidden devices without their consent. Based on the agreement were 23/04 confidential meetings and filming or taking pictures was not allowed.
According to the Truth KGB allegedly special unit designed to collect and monitor all kinds of information regarding the mysterious and unexplained phenomena that report back inside, and inside the Soviet Union.
It may be three billion light-years away from Earth, but this distant constellation could be trying to contact us.
Six bursts of radio waves have been detected from the constellation Auriga, each lasting just a few milliseconds.
While the source of the waves remains unknown, some suggest they mysterious bursts of energy could be a sign of alien life trying to contact us.
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Six bursts of radio waves have been detected from the constellation Auriga, each lasting just a few milliseconds
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WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2007.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
The waves were detected by researchers from McGill University in Montreal, using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
In their paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal, the researchers, led by Paul Scholz, wrote: 'We have detected six additional radio bursts from this source: five with the Green Bank Telescope at 2 GHz, and one at 1.4 GHz with the Arecibo Observatory, for a total of 17 bursts from this source.'
The detection follows 11 previously recorded outbursts from the same location, called FRB 121102.
This is the only known repeater of fast radio bursts (FRBs) - radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly.
Despite there being a number of FRBs from the site, the origin of the bursts is an ongoing puzzle to researchers.
But the researchers say that the repeated outbursts imply that whatever is causing the radio bursts is not a one-time event, such as an explosion or collision.
Instead, they say that flares from a young neutron star – the dense core left behind where a star explodes – are a promising candidate.
The researchers added: 'Whether FRB 121102 is a unique object in the currently known sample of FRBs, or all FRBs are capable of repeating, its characterisation is extremely important to understanding fast extragalactic radio transients.'
The waves were detected by researchers from McGill University in Montreal, using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia (pictured), and at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
Previously when waves have been detected, astronomers have also asked Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to take a closer look at whether they could be a message from ET.
But it is unclear if the McGill researchers will ask Seti to help this time.
If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.
The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.
In the 2016 film, Arrival, a linguist is hired by the military to assist in translating alien communications. But if there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them
But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.
She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.
'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.
IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO GET IN CONTACT WITH ALIENS?
If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.
The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.
But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.
She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.
'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.
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Zijn we alleen? Zes mysterieuze radiosignalen opgepikt uit de ruimte
Zijn we alleen? Zes mysterieuze radiosignalen opgepikt uit de ruimte
In maart detecteerden wetenschappers 10 krachtige radiosignalen die allemaal uit hetzelfde gebied in de ruimte kwamen.
Onderzoekers hebben nu nog eens zes radiosignalen opgepikt die uit dezelfde regio lijken te komen, ver buiten onze Melkweg.
Deze zogeheten snelle radioflitsen behoren tot de meest raadselachtige signalen die ooit zijn waargenomen.
Lastig
Ze duren slechts enkele milliseconden, maar in die korte periode produceren ze net zoveel energie als de zon gedurende een hele dag.
Wetenschappers hebben nog altijd geen idee hoe ze ontstaan.
Tot maart dit jaar werd gedacht dat de flitsen afkomstig waren van willekeurige locaties. Er werd geen duidelijk patroon waargenomen.
Onderzoekers schatten dat iedere dag 2000 van deze snelle radioflitsen door het heelal schieten, maar omdat ze zo kort duren is het lastig om ze waar te nemen.
Herhalend patroon
In mei en juni 2015 werden 10 radioflitsen uit dezelfde regio opgevangen. Ze vormden bovendien een onbekend, zich herhalend patroon.
Toen het team door de gegevens spitte, werd een snelle radioflits uit 2012 ontdekt die uit dezelfde regio leek te komen.
Een onderzoeksteam van de McGill-universiteit in Canada heeft nu nog zes mysterieuze signalen gevonden, allemaal afkomstig van dezelfde plek.
Buiten de Melkweg
“We hebben nog eens zes radioflitsen gedetecteerd die afkomstig zijn van de bron FRB 121102,” schrijft het team in The Astrophysical Journal.
“Vijf met de Green Bank Telescope en één met de Arecibo-sterrenwacht. Daarmee komt het totale aantal van deze bron op 17,” klinkt het.
Het team kan niet precies bepalen waar FRB 121102 ligt, maar de bron bevindt zich in ieder geval ver buiten de Melkweg.
Aliens
Astronomen denken dat snelle radioflitsen worden veroorzaakt door een botsing tussen neutronensterren, waardoor een zwart gat ontstaat.
Dat lijkt nu onmogelijk, gezien het feit dat de signalen een patroon vormen en dezelfde oorsprong hebben.
Sommigen suggereren dat de mysterieuze signalen zijn verstuurd door aliens die proberen contact te leggen.
Meer
De onderzoekers kunnen in ieder geval niet met zekerheid zeggen wat er precies aan de hand is.
Er moeten meer van deze radiosignalen worden gedetecteerd om voor eens en voor altijd te bepalen waar ze vandaan komen.
In 1976, the United States sent a pair of space probes, known as Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars. Viking 1 was launched on August 20th, 1975, and Viking 2 was launched in September of the same year. Both probes photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and one studied the planet from the surface. The first one touched down on the surface of Mars on July 20th, 1976 and the second a couple of months later. The main objectives of the mission were to obtain high-resolution images of Mars, to look for any evidence of life, and to learn more about the structure and composition of the atmosphere.
As Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. A pyramid structure was also seen. This will be the main topic of this article.
As a quick side note here, for years we’ve been made to believe that Mars is a dry and arid planet, completely devoid of life, but that’s just not the case. Mars actually used to be an Earth-like planet, with giant oceans and extensive greenery. The soil is moist and wet, and there is a very high likelihood that some type of life exists within the interior of Mars today. You can watch that full press conference HERE.
The question to ask here is, did NASA know this information from the Viking data in 1976? According to multiple insiders who have worked for the agency, NASA is not always honest, and we are only being told this now because they believe we are ready to process and accept these facts. For example, Bob Dean, a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, gave a lecture on footage and photos that had been erased and kept hidden for decades:
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.
He is one of multiple people accusing NASA of doing this. The Russian government did the same last year. You can read more about that here.
The Giant Face and Pyramid on Mars
Above, you’ll see the original picture taken by Viking which, as you can imagine, created quite the buzz when the world got to see it. To the left, you can see a closeup of the face, as well as a pyramid in close proximity, taken by Viking. To the right, you will see the original picture taken by NASA, straight from their website in 1976. Above the picture to your left and right you will see three different images which, according to NASA, are clearer versions of the pictures taken with improved instruments. In their original caption of the picture, NASA described it as a “huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth.” The authors reasoned it would be a good way to “engage the public and attract attention to Mars.”
Well, according to multiple insiders with extensive backgrounds, this is not the case, and NASA lied about the images and data they collected, as well as fudged data and images. Based on these testimonies, among others, the photos released in 1998 and 2001 were meant to debunk rumours and put the issue to rest.
The Scientists
1. Dr.John BrandenburgThe picture above, which includes the pyramid, was taken from a lecture given by Dr. John Brandenburg (at the 26:46 mark). Any scientist who publicly shares information that challenges commonly held belief systems, as well as what’s been put out by mainstream media, will always come under public scrutiny and ridicule. But when you have worked on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion, and invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion, you deserve to be taken seriously.
This is the case with Dr. John Brandenburg. He has also worked for the government with top-secret security clearances on various projects. He worked on the Rocket Plume Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science.
Brandenburg was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
He currently works as a consultant to Morningstar Applied Physics. Here is one of his latest research endeavours. Brandenburg also works as a part time instructor of astronomy, physics, and mathematics at Madison College, and other learning institutions in Madison, Wisconsin.
Here’s what he had to say:
“Someone complained to me, John, why do you have to bring Cydonia into this? And I said, because I can read a map. . . . Here’s what’s at Cydonia Mensa. There’s the face on Mars, there’s the D & M pyramid. . . . Here it is in a second shot, this was taken July 25th, this was taken 30 days later, the government was apparently doing a follow-up investigation. These two pictures (pictures above to your left) tell you everything you need to know about what’s at Cydonia Mensa (region of Mars). If you see on a planet that used to be Earth-like, a carved human face and a pyramid within 5 km of each other . . . it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what this all means, you can connect the dots. . . . I mean sometimes, and I can tell you as a scientist and I’ve seen other scientists do this, if you’re cornered, you’re just brazing it out, you hold up a picture of a buffalo and insist that it’s a dog.
You can watch his entire lecture, or read THIS article we recently published on it to get his main points.
2. Dr. Brain O’Leary
Dr. Brian O’Leary was a NASA astronaut, and a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1967. After this, he was recruited by Carl Sagan to teach at Cornell University in the late 1960s, where he researched and lectured in the Department of Astronomy and Physics. After Cornell, he taught physics, astronomy, and science policy assessment at various academic institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, Hampshire College, and finishing off at Princeton University from 1976 to 1981. After that, he went on to Washington, where he would become an advisor to various political leaders, presidential candidates, and the United States Congress. O’Leary was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s Planetology Section. Furthermore, he was the team leader of the Asteroidal Resources Group for NASA’s Ames Summer Study on Space Settlements. He was a founding board member of the International Association for New Science as well as founding president of the New Energy Movement.
O’Leary was always skeptical about Mars, and there are several others within these circles who were as well. I will be focusing on three.
He had some interesting things to say during a live interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot (view full live interview here, read transcript of video here). O’Leary and Carl Sagan were close for a number of years, but had a falling out when O’Leary decided to leave Cornell.
In the interview, he remarked:
“It was… One very cold snowy day in May, I landed in Syracuse, and there was a horizontal blizzard — in May — and I said: That’s it for upstate New York. And Carl thought that was very frivolous. Because, of course, he was kind of an empire-builder kind of guy; and he also had a huge ego.”
After he left, O’Leary started to examine some of Carl’s work. He said that the famous “Face” in Cydonia on Mars — photographed by Viking in 1975, this enormous formation (about a mile across) resembled a human face and created a major buzz at the time — was tampered with by Sagan before being released to the public:
“It was very, very disappointing to me, because not only was Carl wrong, he also fudged data. He published a picture of the ‘Face’ in Parade Magazine, a popular article, saying that the ‘Face’ was just a natural formation, but he doctored the picture to make it not look like a face.”
At this time, Sagan and O’Leary were arguably the world’s two leading experts on Mars, and they entered into many disagreements over that face. This rift was made clear in O’Leary’s publication in 1998, “Carl Sagan & I: On Opposite Sides of Mars.” It can be found in The Case for the Face: Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars, eds. Stanley V. McDaniel and Monica Rix Paxson. Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press.
I began to realize, just directly from the scientific point of view, not only hearsay, that this man was colluding with NASA, that there might be more to this than before. . . . Carl was on a committee with a number of notable people. There was a report issued by the Brookings Institution in 1961 — and that’s about when I knew Carl, during those years; the ’60s mostly was when I worked closely with him — that he and this other group said: Well, if any ETs ever showed up on the Earth, it has to be covered up. That’s the only way we’re going to be able to manage this, because if we can’t, then it would be too much of a culture shock.
Quite a shocking statement from someone of Brian’s stature, isn’t it? In the interview, he goes on to say that Carl and his colleagues recommended that the governments cover up the UFO phenomenon, and that he believes this provided justification for the ongoing coverup.
When it comes to Mars, as mentioned earlier in the article, Sagan was a big debunker of the face, publishing multiple works stating that it was not a face, there were no pyramids, and that these are all the stuff of conspiracy theories.
What’s interesting here is that not only does O’Leary mention Sagan and his relationship with him, but so does Dr. John Brandenburg. In the lecture he gave, cited earlier in the article, Brandenburg also mentions that he was in contact with Sagan, that he sent Sagan the images of Mars with an analysis of the Face and Pyramids, and that it was clear that that’s what they were. The response from Sagan to Brandenburg? “I never received them.”
3. Dr. Norman Burgrun
A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research. Obviously, he is another qualified individual with an impressive background. You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
In THIS interview, Bergrun accuses that agency of “garbling” photos and fudging data, as well as the face that was found in Mars in 1976.
What Does This Tell Us and Why Is It Important?
We live in an age where more and more people are waking up to the secrecy that plagues our planet. Ten years ago, if you were to mention that we are being ‘watched’ through various high tech means, it would have been unbelievable, but thanks to people like Edward Snowden, we know this to be true.
It’s unfortunate to realize that so many facts about our world are kept hidden from us, supposedly for the sake of ‘national security,’ but it’s quite evident that there are also special interests at stake, and secrecy is used to preserve and uphold these interests, whatever they may be.
Today we have many whistleblowers with verified credentials from various agencies and branches of government who are spilling the beans on several different topics, as well as other evidence to corroborate and back up what the say. Our website is full of examples; the ones presented in this article represent just a select few.
While witness testimony is not always deemed credible, when you have up to, arguably, more than one thousand qualified people coming forward, it becomes difficult to ignore.
Today, in 2016, it’s important to keep an open mind, because information will keep emerging that threatens the belief systems of many. Too often we completely shut down any chance of even entertaining this type of information, and that’s done out of fear. When we’ve been shielded from the truth for so long it can indeed be scary, and sometimes downright unbelievable, to wake up to the truth.
Secrecy is a great way for the establishment to keep us in line and prevent the human race from growing, expanding, and exploring, but our consciousness is shifting. We are becoming more aware, more curious, and more passionate about creating a better human experience for the entire race. We are constantly distracted with our own lives, trying to put food on the table and make it through another work week, having our minds, thoughts, and wants programmed into our brains through mass marketing, but many people are no longer resonating with this type of human experience.
It’s time to start asking the bigger questions. It’s time for the human race to leave its infancy and grow into adulthood, and transparency is the first step. Proper progress cannot be made if a civilization tries to move forward blindly, unconscious of the true nature of reality.
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3 ex-wetenschappers van de NASA die hebben geclaimd dat het enorme gezicht op Mars echt is
3 ex-wetenschappers van de NASA die hebben geclaimd dat het enorme gezicht op Mars echt is
Toen ruimtesonde Viking 1 in 1976 foto’s van de rode planeet maakte om een geschikte landingsplek te vinden voor de Viking 2, werd het beroemde gezicht op Mars vastgelegd.
Sommigen geloofden dat het was achtergelaten door een intelligente beschaving. In de Verenigde Staten ontstond een mediahype rond het gezicht, dat de naam Cydonia Mensa draagt.
Volgens de standaardtheorie werd het oppervlak van Mars in het verleden opgewarmd door vulkanen en ontstond er een landschap van geïsoleerde bergen, waarvan Cydonia Mensa er één is.
Dr. John Brandenburg
Dr. John E. Brandenburg heeft onlangs tijdens een conferentie gezegd dat rond deze plek mogelijk archeologische artefacten kunnen worden gevonden.
Nieuwe foto’s van het gezicht tonen volgens de fysicus namelijk ogen, een neus, mond en een helm.
Hij vertelde tijdens het congres ook dat er twee nucleaire ontploffingen zijn geweest in de Marsatmosfeer.
Dat zouden doelbewuste pogingen zijn geweest om al het leven op de rode planeet uit te roeien.
Dr. Brandenburg, die in 1994 meewerkte aan NASA’s Clementine-missie, suggereerde dat het gezicht is achtergelaten door een buitenaards ras.
Dr. Brian O’Leary
NASA-astronaut Brian O’Leary (1940-2011) zei in een interview dat de beroemde astronoom Carl Sagan de foto van het gezicht op Mars had bewerkt voordat de afbeelding beschikbaar werd gemaakt voor het publiek.
“Ik was heel erg teleurgesteld,” zei dr. O’Leary. “Niet alleen zat Carl ernaast, hij had ook gegevens gemanipuleerd.”
“Hij publiceerde een foto van het gezicht in Parade Magazine en zei dat het gewoon een natuurlijke formatie was,” voegde hij toe. “Maar hij had de foto bewerkt zodat het gezicht minder duidelijk te zien was.”
In mei 1990 publiceerde de astronaut een paper over de mogelijk intelligente herkomst van het gezicht op Mars, dat werd gepubliceerd in het Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.
Sagan en zijn collega’s drongen er bij de overheid op aan om het UFO-fenomeen in de doofpot te stoppen, aldus O’Leary.
Dr. Norman Bergrun
Dr. Norman Bergrun, die onder meer voor het Ames Research Laboratory heeft gewerkt, stelt dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA knoeit met foto’s om bepaalde dingen te verbergen, waaronder het gezicht op Mars.
Hij zei in een interview dat ‘een zeer betrouwbare bron’ hem verteld had dat het ruimteagentschap onder meer foto’s van de maan bewust donkerder maakt.
Bergrun ontdekte naar eigen zeggen dingen op foto’s die de NASA dacht te hebben weggepoetst.
KONDIGT UITBLIJVEN WONDER UITBARSTING SUPERVULKAAN AAN ? ( VIDEO )
KONDIGT UITBLIJVEN WONDER UITBARSTING SUPERVULKAAN AAN ? ( VIDEO )
Net nadat de Italiaanse stad Napels in zak en as zit omdat een wonder dat bijna altijd gebeurt, nu uitblijft en wat rampspoed en tegenslag betekent, gebeurt er nog iets.
De Campi Flegrei, één van de gevaarlijkste supervulkanen ter wereld onder de stad Napels, toont tekenen van ontwaken en de druk zou volgens wetenschappers een kritiek punt naderen.
Het is misschien niet zo slim om een stad te bouwen bovenop een vulkaan, maar dat heeft de Italianen er niet van weerhouden om ooit de stad Napels te bouwen, alhoewel het eigenlijk de Grieken waren die hier in 800 voor Christus de eerste nederzetting bouwden. De stad heette toen ook nog Neapolis en 400 jaar later werd de stad overgenomen door de Romeinen en heet vanaf die tijd Napels.
Deze stad is dus gebouwd op een supervulkaan, maar wat is dat eigenlijk?
De term supervulkaan wordt gebruikt voor vulkanen die in staat worden geacht supererupties voort te brengen, waarbij meer dan 1000 km³ tefra wordt uitgeworpen (VEI=8). Het zijn de zeldzaamste en tegelijk meest verwoestende vulkanische uitbarstingen. De gevolgen zijn mondiaal en catastrofaal: door het stof in de hogere luchtlagen kan de temperatuur op aarde met meerdere graden dalen. Volgens sommige geleerden kan een dergelijke uitbarsting zelfs een nieuwe ijstijd uitlokken.
Door de gassen te onderzoeken die ontsnappen uit de Campi Flegrei maken de vulkanologen op dat de vulkaan 'op scherp' staat. Daarover schrijven de onderzoekers in het blad Nature.
500.000 mensen in gevaar
De stad Napels is deels over de vulkaankrater gebouwd. In de Italiaanse stad wonen 4,4 miljoen mensen. Bij een uitbarsting lopen zeker een half miljoen mensen gevaar, zij wonen in een gebied dat in de vulkaankrater ligt.
De Campi Flegrei (wat 'brandende velden' betekent) is een zogenoemde supervulkaan. Deze is 39.000 jaar geleden ontstaan tijdens een enorme explosie, de zwaarste vulkaanuitbarsting in Europa van de laatste 200.000 jaar. In 1538 is de vulkaan ook uitgebarsten, maar toen ging het om een relatief kleine uitbarsting die rustig verliep.
Vulkaan zwelt al jaren op
De vulkaan vertoont al decennia tekenen dat hij weer tot leven komt, schrijven de onderzoekers. Zo steeg de bodem halverwege de jaren tachtig zo'n 1,8 meter. Het is normaal dat een vulkaan groeit en krimpt, maar sinds 2005 zwelt de vulkaan op met zo'n 4 centimeter per jaar. Dat komt omdat er steeds meer gesmolten steen in de vulkaan komt vanuit de diepte.
Net voordat wetenschappers het volgende bekendmaken, gebeurde er al een soort ramp in Napels, waarover wij het volgende schreven:
De inwoners van Napels zijn net zoals veel mensen bezig met de voorbereidingen van de feestdagen, maar echt van harte gaat het niet dit jaar.
Op drie dagen worden deze relikwieën van de heilige echter uit zijn crypte gehaald; op 19 september om zijn martelaarschap te herdenken, op 16 december omdat op deze dag in 1631 San Gennaro de stad beschermde tegen een uitbarsting van de Vesuvius en de zaterdag vóór de eerste zondag in mei, om de hereniging van San Gennaro’s relieken te herdenken. Op deze drie dagen per jaar vindt er een wonder plaats; het bloedwonder van San Gennaro.
San Gennaro (of de heilige Januarius zoals wij hem kennen) was bisschop van Benevento en werd in het jaar 305 onthoofd tijdens de vervolging van de christenen door Diocletianus. Volgens de legende ving een vrouw wat van het bloed van San Gennaro op en bewaarde dit in een kleine ampul. Het geraamte en het bloed van de heilige werden een tiental jaren na zijn dood overgebracht naar Napels en werden bewaard in de catacomben van de stad. Sinds de 17e eeuw liggen de overblijfselen van Gennaro in een crypte onder het hoofdaltaar van de kathedraal van Napels.
Wanneer het wonder weer heeft plaatsgevonden heerst er grote vreugde in de stad, want velen geloven dat het wonder van het bloed de stad beschermt tegen onheil en het uitblijven van het wonder doet de bijgelovige inwoners rampen verwachten. De adem wordt dus ingehouden en heel Napels wacht met spanning op het schouwspel, dat soms wel uren of dagen op zich laat wachten. Er zijn zelfs feestdagen waarop het bloed gestold blijft, een gebeurtenis die alleen maar slechts nieuws kan brengen…. Zo behield het bloed zijn vaste vorm in 1527, toen een epidemie van de pest uitbrak, toen een zware aardbeving de stad trof in 1980 en bij verschillende uitbarstingen van de Vesuvius. En het wonder bleef uit bij de inval van Napoleon in Napels.
Echter, enkele dagen geleden, op 19 december 2016, is één van die zeldzame keren gebleken dat het wonder is uitgebleven.
Volgens de abt van de Kapel, Vincenzo De Gregorio, “Wij moeten niet denken aan rampspoed en tegenslag. Wij zijn gelovigen en wij moeten bidden”.
De gebeurtenis of beter gezegd de gebeurtenis die niet plaatsvond, heeft wel degelijk voor de nodige onrust gezorgd, ondanks de mooie woorden van de priester, want volgens de folklore betekent het gewoon komende rampspoed en tegenslag.
Wanneer de vulkaan uitbarst is niet te voorspellen, maar in het artikel staat dat een uitbarsting binnen een paar jaar mogelijk is. Hoe heftig die uitbarsting zal zijn, is niet te voorspellen. De kans bestaat dat de magma afkoelt en er geen uitbarsting komt.
Toch waarschuwen de vulkanologen de autoriteiten voor een mogelijke uitbarsting. Wat er nu gebeurt met de Campo Flegrei hebben onderzoekers eerder gezien voorafgaand aan uitbarstingen van de Rabaul in Papoea Nieuw Guinea en de Sierra Negra op de Galapagos eilanden.
Van de drie data in het jaar dat het bloed van San Gennarro normaal gesproken vloeibaar wordt, heeft 16 december de volgende betekenis:
“op 16 december omdat op deze dag in 1631 San Gennaro de stad beschermde tegen een uitbarsting van de Vesuvius.”
De enige dag in een lange tijd dat het bloed niet vloeibaar wordt is 16 december, de dag die in verband word gebracht met vulkanische uitbarstingen. Dit alles gebeurt net op het moment dat de wetenschap bekendmaakt dat de supervulkaan onder de stad Napels tot leven is gekomen en dat deze mogelijk zal gaan uitbarsten.
Laten we hopen dat de Campi Flegrei voorlopig nog even rustig blijft, want San Gennarro krijgt een kans om het wonder alsnog te laten geschieden op de zaterdag vóór de eerste zondag in mei. Dat zal dan dit komend jaar op 6 mei zijn.
Onrustige tijden, niet alleen voor de inwoners van Napels, maar voor de hele wereld, want een uitbarsting van een supervulkaan heeft mondiale gevolgen.
Ligt de Campi Flegrei grotendeels onder en aan de westkant van Napels, aan de oostkant heeft de stad ook een indrukwekkende buurman: de Vesuvius.
Die hoeft geen nadere introductie, want deze was in 79 na christus verantwoordelijk voor de verwoesting van Pompeii, de stad aan de andere kant van de vulkaan.
Wat er nu eigenlijk gebeurde en hoe gevaarlijk een vulkaanuitbarsting wordt duidelijk in de volgende animatie over die vreselijke dag: 24 augustus in het jaar 79
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Pennsylvania UFO reporting moving out of funnel cloud
Pennsylvania UFO reporting moving out of funnel cloud
A Pennsylvania witness at Elverson reported watching a “metallic craft” moving out of a cloud formation that quickly split into two where each object then moved away in opposite directions, according to testimony in Case 81049 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image 1.
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The witness had just let his dog outside at 7 a.m. on December 19, 2016, from a front porch facing north.
“I was sitting on porch and I heard this ‘jet sound,’ just like the gas burner of a hot air balloon,” the witness stated.“ And I looked left, to the west and I saw this silver-gray, circular object come down from this group of clouds. There were no other clouds around, nothing but blue sky, except for this cluster.”
The witness immediately stopped and turned to look at the event.
Witness image 2.
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“It stopped and the aircraft split; and one headed due west and the other went due east towards me. I saw the metallic reflection of the craft that came towards me, because the sun was coming up. After 1-2 seconds, both craft disappeared into thin air, only leaving its exhaust or ‘trail.’”
The witness then ran into his house to get a phone to take pictures of what was left.
“At that point, the cloud cluster and trails were directly north of me and moving east. As I studied enlargement on my computer screen, I can see a circular, semi-white cloud ‘burst’ amidst the gray cluster above, almost like the burst pushed the clouds out into a circle and the object came down out of the clouds before it separated into two.”
Witness image 3.
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The sighting frightened the witness.
“Scariest thing I’ve ever seen. I just couldn’t believe my eyes. I see all kinds of weird things out here where I live, but can never get photos in time. But this morning, I got it; well, the latter part of it, anyway.”
Elverson is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, population 1,225. Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director Julia Weiss investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
Witness image 4.
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“The sighting is unknown because it came out of a funnel cloud and then split into two objects, leaving vapor trails,” Weiss stated in her report.“The round object and sounds is not consistent with military jets and-or anything I can think of. The actual funnel cloud disappearing right after the objects split in both directions is also quite puzzling. The cloud, if itself a vapor trail, would remain. I am deeming this sighting unknown.”
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.
Two UFO Over Mexico City Seen Close Up, Dec 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFO Over Mexico City Seen Close Up, Dec 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 18, 2016 Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico These two UFOs are keeping perfect distances from one another. There are no strings or ropes, not advertising, so we know they are not balloons. The are metallic or at the least...reflective. The shapes are not that of balloons, but seem to be slowly changing. It was probably one UFO, but had slit up to explore apart. Notice how the UFOs have a very white, cloud like appearance? Perfect camouflage to hide in the sky. How long before the US military has craft that hover and make clouds to hide in? Mexico has always been a UFO hotspot, so much so that even the ancient Aztecs and Mayans said the gods often moved through the sky and exited and entered through the volcanos. In other words, they saw the UFOs and mistook them for gods. Something advanced technology could easily do when near a civilisation no technologic advancements yet. Nice video reported by UFOVNI of Youtube. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen Rising Out Of Ocean At China Beach, Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Rising Out Of Ocean At China Beach, Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 10, 2016 Location of sighting: China I watched this video, but in small screen and couldn't make out the detail. At first it looked like a whale, but when I made it large screen I could see that this was a solid object long and cigar-like. The object is emitting its own cloud, and is seen above the water, not touching it, but making a cloud to hide within so it can rise into the sky unseen. Very cool an very rare appearance, but similar sightings have been seen by the US Navy. Scott C. Waring
UFO Fleet Over Poltava Region, Ukraine On Dec 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Poltava Region, Ukraine On Dec 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Poltava, Ukraine Here is a fleet of UFOs that are gathering in this area and putting on show for the locals. UFOs like this often gather in groups when they are traveling a long distance with an important person on board. Excellent catch of an alien convoy heading to deep space. Scott C. Waring Video states: On Tuesday, December 13th in the sky near the village Rozsoshentsy, in the Poltava region, unknown objects emitting light were seen. Locals had to shoot them on the camera. The viewer can see how the first one appears in the sky, followed by another and another bright point. They randomly change their positions, with the bright light in the sky, almost out of sight.
MILWAUKEE -- Unidentified Falling Object -- it's a UFO that has one local man scratching his head. His van damaged by a large object, but so far, no one can say exactly what that object is.
The damage is extensive, the owner of the van thinks the object fell from the sky. It's a mystery that plays out like an episode of "The X-Files."
"I was like, what is that?! What happened?! I kept looking around and I couldn't see where it came from. It had to have come from the sky," said Michael Robinson.
Michael Robinson
You could classify this case as an "X-Mas File" just days before the holiday and Marshall Robinson is getting a special delivery. Maybe it fell from Santa's sleigh, or maybe it came from space.
"It's like a cone shape, but on the top it's heavy and inside it's hollow," said Robinson.
Robinson says Tuesday he got a call from his neighbor.
"She heard a loud 'thump,' she was looking out the window," said Robinson.
He saw his van with a huge gash.
"There was no footprints around or nothing," Robinson said.
The rear window shattered and an odd object was found next to it.
"It looked like a barbecue grill in the snow," Robinson said.
Robinson has been racking his brain all week trying to figure out what caused so much damage.
"It's a round-something, looks like it might be the cover to an engine or something," said Robinson.
Robinson called Milwaukee police.
"They was baffled," Robinson said. "They couldn't figure out where it came from."
Robinson says police noted it smelled like diesel fuel, and took the heavy object as evidence. No one could have thrown this, based on the damage, Robinson is convinced the object dropped from above.
"That's a lot of force to put a dent in the top of the van like this," said Robinson.
For now, the chunk of metal is unidentified, unexplained and now most certainly unforgettable.
"I thank God I wasn't standing there when it happened," said Robinson.
FOX6 News reached out to the FAA for comment in the event the object is some sort of airplane debris. A spokesman says they haven't been contacted by investigators.
Milwaukee police say, like a true episode of "The X-Files," their investigation is ongoing. They haven't been able to determine what the object is either.
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New book 'Void' explores the mysterious physics of empty space
New book 'Void' explores the mysterious physics of empty space
by Julia Paskin
James Weatherall, Author of "The Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing"STEVE ZYLIUS/UC IRVINE COMMUNICATIONS
Nothingness. It sounds pretty bleak. For scientists, the physics of nothing is actually pretty exciting. In fact, some say that it's critical to understanding the very nature of the universe.
The new book, "Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing" explores history, theories, and the possible scientific importance of unlocking the mystery of empty space.
Take Two's A Martinez spoke with the book's author, James Weatherall. He's a professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.
HIGHLIGHTS
The idea behind "Void":
One of the things I'm very interested in is how science can provide insight in to the big philosophical questions. And I think how we understand what the world would be like if there were nothing in it— what it would mean for there to be nothing in the world... and understanding what physics does say is important to the old philosophical project.
Defining "nothing" in physics:
I think about it in terms of what space and time are like. What our modern physical theories tell us about the structure of empty space over time.
I think one of the striking things especially about 20th century physical theories like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Field Theory— which is the theory underlying particle physics— is that in both of these theories, what we would ordinarily mean by nothing or emptiness or something like that, isn't really possible in the theory. Or at least isn't the only possibility in the theory. Perhaps more interestingly though, is that in these two theories, what nothingness or empty space is like are really radically different from one another. We don't have a single conception of empty space that I think makes sense across all of our modern physical theories.
The practical applications:
The sorts of things that I talk about in the book are not going to lead to building a better mouse trap. These are fundamental issues in modern physics. But the fact is, the kind of physical theories that these ideas come out of like General Relativity and like Quantum Field Theory, turn out to be essential for ordinary technological applications. For instance, GPS systems wouldn't work if we didn't understand General Relativity. It turns out, General Relativity is essential for getting GPS to work. And built into General Relativity is this conception of what the world would be like if there were no matter. So, it's maybe a step or two away but fundamental physical theory is essential, I would say to ordinary technical applications.
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