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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...
21-01-2017
Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting - Was it Venus, or a Space Cloud?
Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting - Was it Venus, or a Space Cloud?
A UFO sighting was reported in 1973 by at-that-time future president president Jimmy Carter. It didn't attract much attention at the time. I began investigating the case in 1976, when Carter was running for president. However, there was no accurate information available to make it possible to find out what Carter saw. I began making various inquiries, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.
It turns out that the sighting occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Carter's home town of Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. (Carter mis-remembered the date as sometime on October, 1969, but I contacted the Lions Club headquarters in Illinois, which established the date as January 6). The future president was then the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. A reporter taped Carter's exact words in 1973 describing the UFO sighting. Carter said,
There were about twenty of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunch room, and a kind of a green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter. And then eventually it disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was. I've never made fun of people who've seen other things of that kind (From the documentary recording Factual Eyewitness Testimony of UFO Encounters, Chicago: Investigative Research Associates, Inc., 1978).
A copy of Carter's hand-written UFO sighting report, that I obtained from Hayden Hewes.
Although Carter reports that "ten members" of the Leary Lion's Club also witnessed the event, attempts to locate ten other witnesses proved fruitless. No one else seems to have paid much attention to the "UFO." While most Leary residents I interviewed did recall Mr. Carter's visit, even those who attended the meeting had no recollection or knowledge of any unidentified object being sighted.
I began making inquiries of various UFO researchers, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.
Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees, azimuth 237 degrees. It was shining brilliantly at Magnitude -4.3, brighter than anything else in the sky. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting. Given the long history of Venus as "Queen of the UFOs," it seemed that we had the clear solution on hand. I wrote in The Humanist magazine (then edited by Paul Kurtz), July-August, 1977 (p.46)
President Carter's "UFO" Is Identified as the Planet Venus
President Jimmy Carter's widely-reported "UFO sighting," which he made public while Governor of Georgia, was in fact a misidentification of the planet Venus. Several errors of identification within Mr. Carter's report demonstrate that the eyewitness testimony of even a future president of the United States cannot be taken at face value when investigating UFO sightings.
The incident occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. Mr. Carter was the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting.
No other object generates as many UFO reports as the planet Venus. Venus is not as bright as the moon, nor does it actually approach the viewer, or change size and brightness, but descriptions like these are typical of misidentifications of a bright planet. Every time Venus reaches its maximum brilliance in the evening sky, hundreds of "UFO sightings" of this type are made. At the time of the Carter UFO sighting, Venus was a brilliant evening star, nearly one hundred times brighter than a first-magnitude star.
And for the most part, serious UFO researchers accepted this identification. After all, Jacques Vallee, who is certainly no debunker, had written,
No single object has been misinterpreted as a "flying saucer" more than the planet Venus. The study of these mistakes proves quite instructive, for it shows beyond all possible dispute the limitations of sensory perception and the weakness of accounts relating shapes and motions of point sources or objects with small apparent diameters. (Challenge to Science, 1966, p. 110).
The southwest sky as seen from Leary, Ga, at 7:15 PM January 6, 1969. The Bull's Eye shows the calculated position where a barium cloud might have been visible, quite close to Venus. (Sky chart generated using the free open-source program Cartes du Ciel.)
So there the matter stood for forty years. Then just a week ago, an associate of space writer and skeptic James Oberg contacted him, suggesting the possibility that what Carter might have seen was a bright barium space cloud from a NASA rocket, launched to study the behavior of the upper atmosphere. In fact, this possibility was discussed in episode 561 of the popular skeptics' podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe on April 9, 2016, although neither Oberg nor I was aware of this. I was familiar with such launches, and even saw one in the 1970s when I was living in Maryland. (Frankly, the one I saw was not all that bright or spectacular.)
James Oberg made this map, showing the location of Leary, Georgia, and the path of the rockets.
It turns out that there were in fact two rocket launches from Eglin AFB in the Florida panhandle on the evening of January 6 that might possibly have been seen from Leary. The first one was launched at 6:41 PM, and contained Barium, which would usually appear red. The second was launched at 7:35 PM, and contained Tri-methyl aluminum (TMA), which would appear white or blue. Each would have become visible about 3-4 minutes after launch, and might have remained visible for 30 minutes or more. Carter said that he was "Outside waiting for a meeting to begin at 7:30 PM." If that information is correct, it would seem to rule out them seeing the second launch. However, the cloud that became visible about 6:45 PM might still be visible at 7:15. And that cloud would have been right next to the brilliant Venus!
Supporting the Barium cloud hypothesis are Carter's statements that the object "Seemed to move tow(ard?) us from a distance - Sto(p?) move partially away Return then depart Bluish at first - then reddish - Luminous - not solid.
Against the Barium cloud hypothesis is Carter's statement that the object was "sharply outlined."
More research needs to be done before we can conclude that a Barium space cloud was definitely responsible for this famous sighting. But it seems an intriguing possibility.
André SkondrasIs it true, as some skeptics proclaim, that most UFOs are IFOs caused by the planet Venus, ice crystals, clouds and other atmospheric phenomena? Is this substantiated from the sightings statistics?Bekijk vertaling
André SkondrasI just received a reply from a highly skeptical researcher: "Skeptics and debunkers cannot provide any Venus IFO stats. I challenged a Belgian UFO researcher a few years back and he had nothing, in fact could not even find a single recent case on his UFO reporting group's sighting list." ;)Bekijk vertaling
André SkondrasAnd this highly skeptical researcher went on to say: "The Carter sighting has been nailed as the rocket barium cloud and here we find Sheaffer trying to oppose it with nitpicking and pleas for open mind because it explodes his Venus theory." ;)Bekijk vertaling
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
By 1983, the fundamental elements of American stealth innovation were at the point of being public knowledge.
After the war, the latest scientific improvements prompted the idea of planning an airframe that could sidestep radar. It was found that a jet-powered, flying wing design, just like the Horten Ho 229 will have a little radar cross-area to traditional contemporary twin-motor aircraft. This is because the wings were merged into the fuselage and there were no extensive propeller disks or vertical and horizontal tail surfaces to give a locatable radar signature.
Reimar Horten said he blended charcoal dust with the wood paste to soak up electromagnetic waves (radar), which he accepted could shield the aircraft from identification by British early warning ground-based radar that worked at 20 to 30 MHz (the top end of the HF band), which is called Chain Home radar.
Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had a great interest on the Ho 229, and a few of them went to the Smithsonian Museum’s office in Silver Hill, Maryland in the 1980s to learn about and study the V3 airframe. A group of engineers from Northrop-Grumman did some electromagnetic experimentation the V3’s multilayer wooden middle-area nose cones.
The cones are 3/4 of an inch (19 mm) thick and made up of thin sheets of veneer. The group inferred that there was surely some type of conducting element within the paste, as the radar signal lessened extensively as it passed through the cone.
So it turns out Hitler was far along with developing a plane that was far ahead of its time!
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De rover heeft gesteente met daarop kleine richeltjes ontdekt die mogelijk een heel interessant verhaal vertellen.
Wat nu richeltjes zijn, waren in een grijs verleden waarschijnlijk scheuren in opgedroogde modder, zo stelt NASA. De opgedroogde modder met daarin de scheuren zou zo’n drie miljard jaar geleden met sedimenten bedekt zijn. Veel later werden die sedimenten door toedoen van erosie verwijderd. Materialen die de scheuren in de modder gevuld hadden, konden die erosie beter hebben dan de opgedroogde modder eromheen. Vandaar dat we de scheuren nu als hogergelegen richeltjes aantreffen. NASA heeft de plek waar de vermoedelijke sporen van opgedroogde modder zijn aangetroffen Old Soaker gedoopt.
Old Soaker. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Curiosity doet onderzoek in de Gale-krater en heeft diverse aanwijzingen gevonden dat deze krater in het verleden gevuld was met water. Maar Old Soaker suggereert dat dit meer ook periodes van droogte kende, zo stelt NASA. Eerder zijn in gesteentelagen die lager liggen dan Old Soaker sporen gevonden van een oud meer. Hetzelfde trof de ruimtevaartorganisatie aan in gesteentelagen die jonger zijn dan Old Soaker. Die gesteentelagen – die elk uit een andere periode in de geschiedenis van Mars stammen – lijken van elkaar gescheiden te worden door een gesteentelaag die getuigt van een periode van droogte. Blijkbaar varieerde de diepte en omvang van het meer van tijd tot tijd en verdween het meer zelfs zo af en toe compleet. “We zien meer bewijs voor droge perioden,” stelt onderzoeker Ashwin Vasavada.
Onderzoekers zullen de komende tijd gebruiken om de gegevens die Curiosity over Old Soaker heeft verzameld te analyseren. De rover heeft Old Soaker inmiddels weer verlaten. De rover zoekt het nog altijd hogerop op Mount Sharp, de berg in het hart van de Gale-krater. Binnenkort zou Curiosity één van de gesteentelagen die deze berg rijk is nader moeten bestuderen met behulp van zijn boor. Onderzoekers kijken momenteel hoe de rover dat het beste aan kan pakken, aangezien er vorige maand een probleem met de boor ontstond.
Hoe zou een landing op dwergplaneet Pluto eruitzien? NASA heeft meer dan honderd New Horizons-foto’s gebruikt om een bijzondere video te maken van een afdaling op de ijskoude dwergplaneet.
In werkelijkheid is New Horizons natuurlijk niet geland op Pluto. Het ruimtevaartuig schoot in de zomer van 2015 langs de dwergplaneet en is nu op weg naar Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69.
Om het gevoel te geven van een landing op Pluto hebben wetenschappers beelden naadloos aan elkaar geknipt. Het resultaat spreekt voor zich! “Het is grappig om een keer mee te maken hoe het voelt om op deze dwergplaneet te landen”, zegt Alan Stern, de hoofdonderzoeker van de New Horizons-missie.
'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'
'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voordat onze voorouders ontstonden, leefden er wellicht andere complexe levensvormen op aarde die het uiteindelijk niet gered hebben.
Aangenomen wordt dat het ontstaan van complexe levensvormen op aarde heel bijzonder was en in de lange geschiedenis van onze planeet maar één keer plaatsvond. En wel nadat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer rap was toegenomen. Maar nieuw onderzoek trekt die aanname nu ernstig in twijfel. De studie toont namelijk aan dat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer niet één keer, maar zeker twee keer rap toe nam.
Kleine kans “Er is fossiel bewijs voor complexe levensvormen die tot zo’n 1,75 miljard jaar geleden leefden,” legt onderzoeker Roger Buick uit. “Maar het oudste fossiel is niet per se het oudste organisme dat ooit geleefd heeft, omdat de kans dat een organisme fossiliseert vrij klein is.” Onderzoek wijst nu uit dat de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer meer dan 1,75 miljard jaar geleden al eens sterk toenam om vervolgens – ongeveer een kwart miljard jaar later – weer af te nemen. “Dit onderzoek laat zien dat er nog voor het fossiele bewijs (voor complex leven ontstond, red.) genoeg zuurstof in de atmosfeer zat om de evolutie van complexe cellen mogelijk te maken. Het betekent niet dat dat ook echt gebeurde, maar het kan wel zijn gebeurd.”
Sedimenten Buick en collega’s trekken die conclusie nadat ze 2 tot 2,4 miljard jaar oude sedimenten bestudeerden. Ze richtten zich daarbij met name op het element seleen dat door de aanwezigheid van zuurstof beïnvloed wordt. Het onderzoek wijst uit dat er lang voor de oudste meercelligen waarvan resten zijn teruggevonden leefden, een periode was waarin de hoeveelheid zuurstof op aarde sterk toenam. En die hoeveelheid bleef ook een lange tijd hoog. Dat is belangrijk. Want de evolutie van complexe levensvormen vereist tijd. En dat was ze gegund in de eerste periode waarin de hoeveelheid zuurstof op aarde rap toenam.
Uniek Grote vraag is natuurlijk waarom de hoeveelheid zuurstof in de atmosfeer rap toenam om vervolgens een kwart miljard jaar later weer af te nemen en dus de ondergang in te luiden voor eventuele complexe levensvormen die dankzij de hogere zuurstofconcentratie waren ontstaan. Onderzoekers weten het niet. “Het is onbekend waarom het gebeurde en waarom er een einde aan kwam,” stelt onderzoeker Eva Stüeken. “Zoiets hebben we nooit meer in de aardse geschiedenis meegemaakt,” voegt Buick toe. “Als je kijkt naar de seleenisotopen door de tijd heen, dan is het een unieke interval: zowel ervoor als erna is alles anders.”
Het onderzoek vertelt niet alleen meer over de geschiedenis van de aarde, maar heeft tevens implicaties voor de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. “De erkenning van deze periode in het verre verleden van de aarde waarin er bijna net zoveel zuurstof in de atmosfeer zat als nu het geval is, maar de bewoners heel anders waren, kan erop wijzen dat de detectie van een zuurstofrijke wereld niet direct bewijst dat er sprake is van een complexe biosfeer,” stelt onderzoeker Michael Kipp. Want hoewel het goed mogelijk is dat er meer dan 1,75 miljard jaar geleden meercellige organismen ontstonden, was deze eventuele meercelligen niet genoeg tijd gegund om te diversificeren.
Wolf 1061c is een interessante kandidaat voor buitenaards leven. De mogelijk leefbare exoplaneet is slechts veertien lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en bevindt zich in de leefbare zone om de rode dwergster Wolf 1061.
De exoplaneet Wolf 1061c is vier keer zwaarder dan de aarde. De planeet is gehuisvest in de zogenoemde Goldilocks zone. Dit is een gebied om een ster waar water in vloeibare vorm voor kan komen. Ook de aarde bevindt zich in de Goldilocks zone van de zon. Mars bevindt zich net buiten deze zone: hier is het te koud, waardoor water bevriest. Op Venus is het weer te warm, waardoor hier water direct verdampt. De Goldilocks-zone is nooit op dezelfde plek. Bij een grote reuzenster is deze leefbare zone verder verwijderd van de ster, dan bij een kleinere dwergster als Wolf 1061.
Astronoom Stephen Kane van de staatsuniversiteit van San Francisco en zijn collega’s hebben de leefbare zone om Wolf 1061 uitgebreid onderzocht. De resultaten verschijnen in de eerstvolgende editie van de Astrophysical Journal.
Binnengrens Volgens Kane bevindt Wolf 1061c zich dicht bij de binnengrens van de leefbare zone. Dit vergroot de kans dat de exoplaneet minder leefbaar is dan we denken. Misschien lijkt Wolf 1061 meer op Venus: een overhitte broeikasplaneet waar het veel te warm is voor buitenaards leven.
Razendsnel van ijstijd naar interglaciaal Een andere conclusie is dat de baan van Wolf 1061c om zijn moederster onregelmatiger is dan die van de aarde om de zon. De aarde is soms verder verwijderd van de zon dan op andere momenten. Deze variaties zorgen op aarde voor klimaatveranderingen, zoals het ontstaan van een ijstijd. Dit proces duurt op onze aarde vele duizenden jaren. Omdat de baan van Wolf 1061c sneller verandert, geldt dit mogelijk ook voor het klimaat van de exoplaneet. Te snelle fluctuaties (van ijstijd naar interglaciaal en weer terug) zijn mogelijk niet gunstig voor buitenaards leven, omdat leven zich ook moet aanpassen aan veranderende omstandigheden.
Onzeker Terugkomend op de vraag bovenaan dit artikel: is er leven op Wolf 1061c? De onderzoekers kunnen deze vraag niet beantwoorden. Dankzij toekomstige telescopen – zoals de James Webb-telescoop – leren we mogelijk meer over de omstandigheden op het oppervlak van deze mysterieuze exoplaneet.
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Is this a UFO coming out of the ocean in El Salvador?
Is this a UFO coming out of the ocean in El Salvador?
According to Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher “Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans.”
So UFOs tend to stick to the oceans and flying in and out of the water?
Now look at this satellite image of the Gulf of Fonseca near the Island of Meanguera in El Salvador, it shows a very strange unknown object in the sea that generates strange patterns on the water.
According to researchers it is a natural maritime phenomenon but I don’t buy it. What kind of a natural phenomenon can create such strange patterns and ripples in a further perfectly calm ocean?
There is much discussion as whether it is a natural phenomenon or a UFO coming out of the water or going into the water.
Though essentially a love story [spoiler!], the film Passengers is set inside the starship Avalon, a futuristic interstellar spaceship carrying more than 500,000 passengers for a 120-year journey to a distant, habitable planet called Homestead II. These space colonists had to be put in hibernation in order to survive the journey, with the Avalon traveling via an intelligent autopilot, at half the speed of light.
The starship Avalon certainly doesn’t look like any ship that we have at present. Okay, it looks like an uber futuristic version of the ISS. But how much of the Avalon reflects real world science? Speaking to Space.com, a bunch of space travel experts weighed in on just how much of the technology seen in Starship Avalon can be real.
BUILDING A REAL LIFE AVALON
The Avalon is huge. So, most probably, it wasn’t built on Earth but rather in space. NASA physicist and science fiction author Geoffrey Landis thinks that it would have been built mostly in space, relying on space mining. Actual space mining is not so far off in the future, it would seem, but we are slowly getting there. A couple of companies are already working on the prospect—Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources—with plans to scout nearby asteroids to learn about their composition. They are also studying how to send spacecraft to these potential space mines.
Credits: Sony Pictures, screenshot
Landis believes that this would all be very possible in the near future. “In the long term, if we’re going to build these enormous habitats, we are going to have to build them from material in space,” he said. “That’s a very feasible idea. There’s literally millions of asteroids out there from which we could harvest materials without having to drag it out of the gravity well of the Earth.”
Another aspect to consider is generating gravity aboard the ship, and Landis thinks that the Avalon uses its spin to generate gravity artificially.
LONG-DISTANCE HIBERNATION
The film shows pods and pods of people in a prolonged state of hibernation—as long as 120 years—to survive their space exodus. This kind of stasis technology, however, doesn’t yet exist, although we do have ways of inducing coma that can last for a couple of days.
There is a company working on developing a similar kind of technology, one that can induce stasis in human beings much longer than what’s currently possible. This company is called SpaceWorks, and according to its COO, aerospace engineer John Bradford, induced stasis is theoretically possible, given that some mammals are known to be capable of long hibernation. SpaceWorks is working on developing a technology that can induce a similar state of hibernation in humans.
It’s different from what’s in Passengers, however, as “[w]e’re not trying to extend the human lifetime,” Bradford said. “We’re trying to put people in a small container to minimize the mass and power requirements, and the consumables [during spaceflight].” SpaceWorks has been working on the project since it received a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant in 2015.
Credits: Sony Pictures
FUELING INTERSTELLAR SPACE TRAVEL
Currently, we don’t really have technology yet that will allow for faster interstellar travel. Several options are being explored, like using nuclear fusion and the impossible EM drive. But both of these remain theoretical, at best—although the EM drive remains theoretically questionable. Nuclear fusion, on the other, if made possible would present logistical problems of constructing big enough reactors in space.
Other potential technologies are also being explored. A project under a NIAC grant is testing the idea of using lasers. University of California physics professor Philip Lubin is working on developing a concept known as Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration, which would use laser photons reflected on mirrors to generate propulsion in space. The idea is to generate enough propulsion to push a spacecraft to move through space at a fraction of the speed of light, similar to the starship Avalon.
Another idea involves building antimatter engines. “The energy [an antimatter engine] generates is very pure in that it generates a lot of photons when matter reacts with antimatter,” co-founder and president of Icarus Interstellar Andreas Tziolas told Space.com. “All of the matter is annihilated and it turns into pure photonic energy. However, the photons themselves are hard to capture.”
So, the bottom line is that a spaceship of the magnitude and sophistication of Avalon is theoretically attainable; it’s beyond the reach of present technology, but there’s nothing involved that requires a contravention of the known laws of physics. All that’s needed is a space-based economy to support the construction of such a monstrous interstellar “ark,” and the large-scale implementation of space propulsion technologies that are already on the drawing board.
Now all we need do is discover a cause challenging and urgent enough to provoke our ingenuity, and muster the willpower to just build the darned thing.
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starship Avalon approaches Arcturus in a scene from “Passengers.” (Sony Pictures via YouTube)
Cassini Gets Up Close and Personal With Saturn's 'Wavemaker' Moon Daphnis
Cassini Gets Up Close and Personal With Saturn's 'Wavemaker' Moon Daphnis
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Cassini's daring ring-skimming orbits of Saturn are already paying off, producing some beautiful and awe-inspiring views that have, until now, been too far away to see. But now, as this almost surreal observation of Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis shows, we're finally getting a really good look at the small-scale processes that are at work in Saturn's rings.
Orbiting the Saturnian system since 2004, NASA's Cassini mission has enriched us incredible views of the seemingly flat ring plane. Beyond the robotic probe's camera resolution, however, are the ripples and waves that are inevitably caused by the gravities of small moons embedded in the many ring gaps. In one 26-mile-wide gap, called the Keeler Gap, a 5-mile-wide moon roams and it has a pretty dramatic effect on the tiny particles at the gap's borders.
The oblique viewing angle is a little misleading; we're not looking directly down on the ring plane, we're actually looking at the moon from the side. The waves in the foreground are therefore rippling up and down as the moon goes about its orbit. The ring gap also looks more narrow than its 26-mile width, an optical effect known as foreshortening. Cassini was 17,000 miles from the moon when this image was captured on Jan. 16.
Previously, in 2009, Cassini was able to spot these waves in Saturn's rings, albeit from afar, when the ringed gas giant was passing through its equinox. At this time, the ring plane was parallel to the direction of sunlight, allowing any vertical structures in the rings to cast a long shadow:
Cassini's view of Daphnis and the waves it creates in 2009 when the spacecraft was 414,000 miles from the moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Viewing Daphnis so close means that previously unseen details pop into view. Of particular note is the narrow ridge that seems to run around the moon's equator and the smooth layer that covers its surface — traits shared by other ring moons Atlas and Pan. These features are likely a build-up of ring particles that have collided with the moon and accumulated during its orbits. Also, small craters are evident, proving that even the smallest of moons are not immune from impacts.
Another feature is a thin wisp of dusty material to the left of the moon, likely a clump of dust pulled from the gap's edge, which is now trailing the moon and spreading out.
Although Cassini's mission will end in September, with a fiery farewell into Saturn's atmosphere, as this latest observation shows, there's a lot more surprises in store as it sets itself up for a sequence of polar orbits that will take the spacecraft through the ring plane — a feat that has never before been attempted.
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last human to set foot on the moon, seen on the lunar surface in December 1972. Cernan passed away on Jan. 16, 2016.
Credit: NASA
The last human to walk on the moon died. A first-time astronaut shared his first-ever spacewalk with the world. The U.S. got a new president, leaving experts to contemplate the future of space policy. 2016 set a record for global temperatures. And scientists found ice spikes on Pluto and a meteorite on Mars. Here are our picks for the best and most important space stories of the week.
Donald J. Trump, who was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday (Jan. 20), may have to make some big decisions regarding NASA programs. Here are six things to know about the new administration's relationship with and plans for the nation's space agency. [Full Story: 6 Things to Know About Trump and NASA]
It's getting hot in here
2016 was officially the hottest year on record, and human activity is to blame for the rise in temperatures, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This is the third consecutive year to reach record temperature highs. NASA's Earth Science program assisted NOAA in measuring the year's global temperatures.[Full Story: 2016 Was Earth's Hottest Year on Record, and Humans Are to Blame]
This rock's not from around here
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found a rock that might have fallen from space. This photo shows the likely meteorite, known as "Ames Knob," on the surface of Mars on Jan. 12, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been a busy little bot of late. NASA released a photo from the rover showing shallow crevices in the Martian soil, perhaps formed from ancient mud cracks, indicating the presence of water. Curiosity also recently spotted a rock on the Red Planet's surface that likely fell from space. The gray, iron-nickel meteorite, dubbed Ames Knob, looks distinctly different from the typical red-hued Martian rocks. It is not the first meteorite that Curiosity has identified on the Martian surface. If the rock hit the planet long ago, scientists could use the meteorite to learn something about the ancient Martian surface. [Full Story: Weird Mars Rock Spied by Curiosity Rover Is Probably a Meteorite]
Ice spikes spotted on Pluto
Scientists think they've found evidence of naturally forming, spiked columns of ice and snow called "penitentes" on Pluto's surface. On Earth, these features can grow to be several feet high; they form at high altitudes where ice can transform directly into vapor. If Pluto has these features, it's likely that they also exist on other icy worlds in the solar system. [Full Story: Prickly Pluto Could Reveal Ice Spikes Are Common on Other Worlds]
The cost of a perfect solar storm
If a perfect solar storm were to hit the United States and knock out major power grids, it could create an economic loss of $42 billion per day, according to a new study. Solar storms are ejections of charged particles from the sun, and space experts have warned federal agencies of these storms' potentially devastating impacts on power grids and satellite communications. [Solar Storm Blackout Could Cost the US $42 Billion Per Day]
A photogenic spacewalk
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped a series of awesome space selfies during his first spacewalk, on Jan. 13, 2017
Credit: ESA/NASA
First-time astronaut and Frenchman Thomas Pesquet, who is currently living on the International Space Station, recently completed a 6-hour spacewalk. Pesquet is proving to be quite the space photographer; he snapped several photos while he was outside the station, including some spectacular self-portraits. [Full Story: Astronaut's First Spacewalk Photos Are Out of This World!]
Space traffic jams
Experts on spaceflight and space-based technologies say the federal government needs to act now to address the growing issue of space traffic. As more and more countries and private companies launch objects into orbit, the problem of space traffic grows larger, and experts fear governments aren't adapting quickly enough. [Full Story: Many Questions, Few Answers When it Comes to Space Traffic Management, Experts Say]
Mirror, mirror
The Giant Magellan Telescope will peer deep into the cosmos using the largest single-piece mirrors ever made. Each mirror takes years to complete, and even microscopic errors could sabotage the entire instrument. [Full Story: Making the Giant Magellan Telescope's Massive, Incredibly Precise Mirrors]
Waiting to boldly go …
The much-anticipated new television show that will take place in the "Star Trek" universe seems to have been delayed again. "Star Trek: Discovery" was initially scheduled to debut this month, but that date was pushed to May. Now, network executives say the debut date is "flexible," and that production is set to begin before February. [Full Story: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Delayed, Classic Character Re-Cast]
While the idea of alien life touching down on Earth has been around since the earliest of civilizations, no one had really been addressing any occurrences in our lifetime until the abduction of Barney and Betty Hill.
On September 19th,1961 while driving up Route 3 towards Portsmouth, NH from a Niagara Fall vacation, Betty had noticed something in the sky. It appeared to be a falling star, only its trajectory was abnormal and seemed to be getting bigger and brighter as they kept driving.
Since it moved so erratically, Betty’s curiosity grew to the point she urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look. They stopped just south of Twin Mountain. Here Betty observed the flying craft, through binoculars, and noticed flashing multi-colored lights as it traveled across the face of the moon.
When Barney first observed the craft, he came to the reasoning that it was just a commercial airliner. This conclusion changed however once the object changed course and descended, accelerating towards him without turning around. With the realization that no plane could maneuver in such a way, he quickly returned to the car and drove toward Franconia Notch, a narrow mountainous stretch of the road.
Driving slowly through the isolated road of Franconia Notch, the Hills observed the object as it came even closer. They watched as it passed over a restaurant, a signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain, and even near the Old Man of the Mountain.
Betty had stated that compared to the mountain profile, it was at least one and a half times its length, which was 40 feet (12 m) long. She also stated that it seemed to be rotating. The Hills kept watching the ever changing movements of the craft as it bounced through the night sky.
Just south of Indian Head, Barney had to stop in the middle of the highway as the object instantly descended toward their vehicle. As the enormous, inaudible craft hovered over the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, Barney grabbed the binoculars and pistol he kept in the car and headed towards the object by foot. Looking through the binoculars, Barney saw 8 to 11 humanoid figures who seemed to looking back at him from the windows of the spacecraft.
As if all at once, all but one figure moved towards a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front section of the craft. While the others went to the panel, the one stationary figure stayed looking at Barney and conveyed a message telling him to “stay where he was and keep looking.”
At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.
Looking through the binoculars, Barney saw 8 to 11 humanoid figures who seemed to looking back at him from the windows of the spacecraft. As if all at once, all but one figure moved towards a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front section of the craft. While the others went to the panel, the one stationary figure stayed looking at Barney and conveyed a message telling him to “stay where he was and keep looking.”
At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.
At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.
Ripping the binoculars from his face, Barney ran back to the car. As he rushed into the car he told Betty, with frantic hysterity, “They’re going to capture us!” At that same moment he saw the object shift its location to directly above their vehicle. With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object.
This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies. From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled.
The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies. From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds.
When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object. This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies.
From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds.
When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
At that same moment he saw the object shift its location to directly above their vehicle. With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object.
This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies.
From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.
More on the Hills’ experience can be heard at Alien Expo from guests like Stanton Friedman, who along with the Hills’ niece Kathleen Marden, co-wrote the book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World’s First Documented Alien Abduction.
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TRUMP TO NASA: 'FORGET MARS. I WANT YOU TO FIND ALIENS! GO TO JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA.'
TRUMP TO NASA: 'FORGET MARS. I WANT YOU TO FIND ALIENS! GO TO JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA.'
During the presidential campaign, neither of the two candidates made space exploration or the American space exploration NASA a primary part of their agenda, and no questions were put to them on the topic during the presidential debates.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS FOR NASA: SPACE EXPLORATION AND MINING
Reporters working specifically in the field of space said that when they directed questions towards the two candidates that Hillary Clinton showed herself to be a keen supporter of NASA and was very knowledge on the topic. Donald Trump, on the other hand, was described as giving vague and perfunctory answers. However, now Trump has been declared the President-elect, he has come out with a more detailed plan for NASA’s activities for his time in office, and his agenda promises to be the most ambitious in recent decades.
Trump has expressed his desire for NASA to move from a primarily Earth-monitoring agency to one that is more dedicated to space exploration. He has said that he would like NASA to be capable of exploring the farthest reaches of the solar system by the end of the century.
“I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low Earth orbit activity… Instead we will refocus its mission on space exploration.”
He has also spelled out specific plans for mining valuable minerals from the asteroid belt, visiting Europa (one of Jupiter’s moons which are believed to be a likely habitat for extra-terrestrial life) and perhaps even discovering planets close to our solar system which is home to alien life forms.
Robert Walker, a Republican congressman who sat on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee in the 1990s, is believed to have been instrumental in drawing up Trump’s plans for NASA. In public statements, he has focused more on the kind of technology the Trump administration hope that NASA will be able to create. He said;
“If you’re looking at technology that looks for the solar system, you are then likely to move toward plasma rockets, toward nuclear-powered rockets, certainly toward solar sails.”
Trump’s ambitious program for American space exploration has been compared to the goals set by President Kennedy in 1961 when he expressed a desire for the United States to overtake the Soviet Union in the space race.
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
If the words of Jim Bridenstine, who has been shortlisted to take over as the head of the space agency, are anything to go by then this patriotic line of thought is also prevalent in Trump’s plans for NASA.
“The United States of America is the only nation that can protect space for the free world and for responsible entities, and preserves space for generations to come, ”
said Bridenstine,
“America must forever be the preeminent spacefaring nation.”
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NEVER HEARD OF THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY? GET READY TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN
NEVER HEARD OF THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY? GET READY TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN
If there's one place that is still full of wonder, containing many different mysteries, it's probably the bottom of the ocean.
The deep, dark depths are a final frontier of sorts, and there is still much to see down there.
As an example of what's potentially waiting for us thousands of leagues under the sea, I'd like to introduce you to the so-called Baltic Sea Anomaly...
THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY
The Baltic Sea Anomaly is an unidentified structure that was discovered via sonar and radar by a Swedish diving team back in 2011.
The Swedish-based "Ocean X Team" was looking for a shipwreck somewhere between Sweden and Finland when they found the anomaly.
AN ANCIENT CRASHED UFO?
Since its discovery, theories about exactly what it is and where it came from have run the gamut. Most of the extreme opinions are based around the idea that what we're seeing is actually an ancient crashed UFO.
Conspiracy theorists postulate that the UFO must have crashed sometime during the Ice Age, though they aren't certain why it's there.
Sadly there is an extreme lack of evidence to support these claims. Rock samples of the structure collected by the Swedish diving team found nothing anomalous about the structure.
This has led many reputable authorities to brand the Baltic Anomaly a hoax. But that still hasn't stopped the conspiracy theory community from making videos like this about the anomaly.
I really want one of these "mysteries" to turn out to be a real alien one day, but I'm patient. I won't sacrifice logic and critical thinking just because I want something bad enough ( via viralnova.com ).
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Science ‘Finally’ Proves That We Are DEFINITELY NOT Alone In The Universe!
Science ‘Finally’ Proves That We Are DEFINITELY NOT Alone In The Universe!
Even though most of know that it is impossible for us to be the only advanced(ish) beings in an infinite Universe(s) Science has finally proven that we are very much not alone in the Universe, in fact it is impossible for us to be the only ones!
A New York Times article, by Adam Frank, published in the Sunday Review points out that “the Odds Are Less One in 10 BILLION TRILLION That We Are Not The First” advanced civilizations, and that the possibility of communicating with extraterrestrials and proving the the existence of an alien society can be viewed with the aid of the “Drake Equation”. Here are excerpts from Frank’s outstanding article.
“LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000.
This represents a revolution in planetary knowledge. A decade or so ago the discovery of even a single new exoplanet was big news. Not anymore. Improvements in astronomical observation technology have moved us from retail to wholesale planet discovery. We now know, for example, that every star in the sky likely hosts at least one planet.
But planets are only the beginning of the story. What everyone wants to know is whether any of these worlds has aliens living on it. Does our newfound knowledge of planets bring us any closer to answering that question?
A little bit, actually, yes. In a paper published in the May issue of the journal Astrobiology, the astronomer Woodruff Sullivan and I show that while we do not know if any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history.
Among scientists, the probability of the existence of an alien society with which we might make contact is discussed in terms of something called the Drake equation. In 1961, the National Academy of Sciences asked the astronomer Frank Drake to host a scientific meeting on the possibilities of “interstellar communication.” Since the odds of contact with alien life depended on how many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations existed in the galaxy, Drake identified seven factors on which that number would depend, and incorporated them into an equation.
Just imagine he wonders out there!
You might assume this probability is low, and thus the chances remain small that another technological civilization arose. But what our calculation revealed is that even if this probability is assumed to be extremely low, the odds that we are not the first technological civilization are actually high. Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.
To give some context for that figure: In previous discussions of the Drake equation, a probability for civilizations to form of one in 10 billion per planet was considered highly pessimistic. According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history.
In other words, given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.
In science an important step forward can be finding a question that can be answered with the data at hand. Our paper did just this. As for the big question — whether any other civilizations currently exist — we may have to wait a long while for relevant data. But we should not underestimate how far we have come in a short time.”
Basically people, we are VERY much not alone in the Universe and it is now pretty much impossible to think we are! Perhaps this is part of the drip feeding of disclosure!?
U.I.P SUMMARY
There was a time when the human race as a whole believed that we were completely alone in the Universe and that you would be crazy to think anything different – NOW, you would have to be crazy to think that we are alone in the Universe!
What with Sightings on the rise across the planet of UFO’s and Scientists now confirming the existence of Alien Beings and the Universe being infested with life, perhaps this is all part of the big build up to official disclosure, educating the masses that we are very much not alone in space.
If you read in between the lines of the above article it is clear that the odds are now changing as to whether or not the Elite are going to tell us the Truth about the ET’s – Thanks to people like all of us, we are all dragging the truth out kicking and screaming!
Wonder what other announcements will be coming out in 2017?
Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the univer
Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the univese!
Alone in the Universe…..Yeah right!
Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 BILLION habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way — significantly more than the previous estimate of around 17 billion. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe, meaning there is somewhere in the region of 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets. I’ll leave you to do the math on whether one of those 50 sextillion planets has the right conditions for nurturing alien life or not.
The previous figure of 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way came from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in January, which analysed data from the Kepler space observatory. Kepler essentially measures the dimming (apparent magnitude) of stars as planets transit in front of them — the more a star dims, the larger the planet. Through repeated observations we can work out the planet’s orbital period, from which we can usually derive the orbital distance and surface temperature. According to Phil Yock from the University of Auckland, Kepler’s technique generally finds “Earth-sized planets that are quite close to parent stars,” and are therefore “generally hotter than Earth [and not habitable].”
The University of Auckland’s technique, called gravitational microlensing, instead measures the number of Earth-size planets that orbit at twice the Sun-Earth distance. This results in a list of planets that are generally cooler than Earth — but by interpolating between this new list, and Kepler’s list, the Kiwi astronomers hope to generate a more accurate list of habitable, Earth-like planets. “We anticipate a number in the order of 100 billion,” says Yock.
Gravitational microlensing, an effect theorized by Einstein back in 1936, is exactly what it sounds like. Essentially, light emitted by a star is bent by the gravity of massive objects, ultimately allowing astronomers to work out just how large those objects are. Gravitational microlensing has been used in recent years to detect planets the size of Neptune or Jupiter, and now Yock his colleagues at the University of Auckland have proposed a new method for detecting Earth-sized planets. The astronomers hope to use this new microlensing technique with a huge suite of telescopes — located in Chile, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Texas — to confirm their estimate of 100 billion Earth-like habitable planets.
Suffice it to say, if the Milky Way contains 100 billion Earth-like planets, and there’s somewhere in the region of 500 billion galaxies, then there’s an extremely high chance of other planets harbouring life. As for how we’ll get to those planets, though — or, alternatively, how the residents of those planets will get to us — remains a very big question. The nearest probably-habitable planet is Tau Ceti e, which is 11.9 light years from Earth. The fastest spacecraft ever, Helios II, traveled at 43 miles per second (70km/s), or 0.000234c (the speed of light). At that speed it would take 51,000 years for a spacecraft to reach Tau Ceti e.
It gets worse: Helios II was only travelling that fast because it was orbiting close to the Sun; Voyager, for example, travels at just 8 miles per second (so, about 200,000 years to reach Tau Ceti e). To reach another star within a reasonable time period (say, 50-100 years) we would need a propulsion system that’s capable of around 0.1c (10% light speed). There are a few proposed methods for reaching such insane speeds (antimatter rockets, fusion rockets), but nothing that’s being immediately (and seriously) considered for interstellar travel. Who knows, maybe NASA’s warp drive will pan out? If they can work out the whole annihilating-the-star-system-upon-arrival issue, that is…
[The image at the top of the story is an infrared image of the core of the Milky Way, captured by NASA’s Spitzer space telescope. Infrared imaging allows you to see many stars which are normally obscured by intergalactic dust.]
UIP Summary
I remember as a child always being led to believe that we are alone in the vastness of the Universe and that we are all just some kind of a ‘miracle’ and out there in the darkness of space is just lots of dying stars and planets! How VERY wrong were they….The Galaxy we live in is infested with life! Out of a 100 Billion habitable planets there is going to be a lot of other planets out there that are inhabited, much like planet earth, but perhaps some far more sophisticated.
With all of these Scientists coming out with such amazing news such as this, it really does make me thing that perhaps this is part of the drip feeding of disclosure like everything else we have been presented with in the last few years! So that in the near future our so called world leaders can say “hell, we told you there was life out there” (even though they probably know where and who ‘some’ of the ET beings are!).
I don’t know about you, but this makes us here at UIP pretty damn excited about the prospect of meeting some of our 100 Billion neighbours out there….lets hope we meet the friendly neighbours first!
And some people think we are still alone in the Universe!!
“Nous sommes face à l’un des cas les plus extraordinaires de l’ufologie
“Nous sommes face à l’un des cas les plus extraordinaires de l’ufologie"
CAPUTRE D'ECRAN YOUTUBE
L e Chili vient de rendre publique une vidéo tournée par un hélicoptère de la marine en 2014 au large de Santiago. Les images laissent sans voix les spécialistes depuis deux ans.
“Nous sommes face à l'un des cas les plus extraordinaires, les plus documentés et les plus incontestables de l'ufologie.” Paris Match consacre sur son site internet un long article à une affaire d'Ovni présentée comme exceptionnelle.
Selon l'hebdomadaire, qui s'appuie notamment sur une enquête du Huffington Post, les autorités chiliennes ont décidé début janvier de déclassifier une vidéo dont les images ont agité pendant deux ans militaires et scientifiques. Sans que personne ne parvienne à expliquer le phénomène que l'on peut désormais observer publiquement sur YouTube.
Le film, d'un peu plus de 9 mn, a été tourné en novembre 2014 par un hélicoptère de la marine au large de Santiago. L'appareil était piloté par un capitaine expérimenté et à son bord se trouvait un technicien chargé de tester une caméra infrarouge ulra performante.
Les deux hommes ont aperçu peu avant 14 h, à une soixantaine de kilomètres, un objet volant non identifié, dont la forme - tout en longueur - ne ressemblait à aucun appareil connu. Ils ont tenté d'entrer en contact avec lui, sans résultat. L'Ovni, pourtant “vu” également par la caméra, était indétectable aux radars. Et, précise Paris Match, “les contrôleurs aériens ont confirmé qu'aucun appareil civil ou militaire n'était signalé dans la zone”.
L'hélicoptère a dû rentrer à la base avant la fin du phénomène. Qui reste à ce jour une énigme. Le chimiste nucléaire Mario Avila, qui étudié de près la vidéo, se dit sur le Huffington Post “très impressionné”, notamment parce que les témoins sont particulièrement crédibles.
Watch as a UFO comes exceptionally close to the space station, totally not caring if they are noticed or not. On Earth, aliens are suppose to respect our rules, but in space, its their rules. I love the detail on the UFO, and it looks like the same UFO we reported last week, just much closer this time. How often do UFOs appear near the space station? They are there 24/7 but usually they are not seen on the camera due to the camera angles and NASA often turns away from the blackness of space, because its easiest to spot a glowing UFO amid the darkness, so instead, NASA puts the cams on the Earth below. But believer you me, NASA is highly aware of them and even communicating with some of them from the space station. Excellent capture by Streetcap1. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Streetcap1 states: I honestly don't know what to think of this as it just disappears. Best watched in 1080p.
For some unknown reason, probably just out of the kindness of their iron hearts, the CIA has released some ancient CIA intelligence gathered from past UFO sightings and decided to ALLOW the public to read over them. You see, we the UFO researchers around the world have put so much pressure on the world governments by us getting in the news daily and different UFO facts and sightings, all of which are the latest sightings and news, that the CIA must have figured that these old documents from a time before most of us were born would some how appease our appetite for the truth, but, and I say this with laughter...why did they even waste their time posting this old information? Its a pile of garbage documents that have been picked out as being the least important and least revealing, and then they edit them until its so unreadable that no one will ever learn anything from them. The documents are not with the paper they were copied onto. Things you wont find in these documents...
1. No Roswell information. 2. No info about the March 1969 UFO crash in Russia 3. No info about the Brazil UFO crash of 1996 (USAF was gifted the UFO as a token of Brazil friendship.) 4. No info about the Kecksburg UFO crash in Dec 1965 5. No info about the UFO fleet the US Army shot at and had no effect on over Los Angeles in Feb of 1942 6. No info about the UFO crash in New Mexico in 2003 7. No info about the UFO crash in Needles, California in 2008 8. No info about the alien base below Los Alamos Labs
Look, I can go on and on with this list. What I'm saying is that the CIA documents are only good for carrying to the outhouse. Don't waste your time going though them. They want you to find nothing so you will give up on the subject, but we already know there their plan. So we keep on keeping on, doing what we do daily, trudging forward no matter what. We are already winning and the CIA and aliens know it too. Scott C. Waring
Aliens Give Escort To US President Donald Trumps Plane In Washington DC, Jan 19, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Aliens Give Escort To US President Donald Trumps Plane In Washington DC, Jan 19, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:January 19, 2017 Location of sighting: Washington DC, USA
Another UFO was seen near trump, but this time it was seen nearly colliding with the jet itself. As you can see the UFO shot past at such a speed even the camera had difficulty focusing on it. Fox News was lucky enough to catch it and show it on national TV today. It looks like Fox News has found proof that aliens have a deep interest in Americas new president and what he has destined for the world. The jet flies over a white disk at 1:50 into the video, then at 2:55 in the original Fox News video, there is another dark UFO that shoots past the jet and nearly hits it. I found the original and am placing it at the bottom of the post, but pause at the times I stated, and you will see them. Last year we reported a UFO that was seen near the Trump helicopter and I told you then, and no one believed me, that if aliens were watch Trump, then it means he will get elected. It happened as I said it would. And now, again, we see Trump landing at the airport with a alien escort to watch over him. Now, the big question is, is Trump where he is today, because aliens were helping him achieve it? The alien power of metal manipulation of controlling others thoughts could make an average person into a Trump very fast. Scott C. Waring
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