Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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...
23-01-2017
Another spaceship is spotted over Devon as ‘alien invasion looms’
Another spaceship is spotted over Devon as ‘alien invasion looms’
It’s one of the big, important questions facing mankind today – why are visitors from beyond the stars so interested in Devon?
This week, dedicated UFO spotter John Mooner saw yet another hi-tech spacecraft over the county.
Mooner – who has previously spotted several other aliens – says, ‘I was stargazing looking at different astronomical bodies and taking photographs of the moon when I just happened to notice a very bright star like object to the left of me. I knew that it could not be a star because it was moving.
‘I zoomed in on the bright object which then to my surprise started to move anticlockwise in a semi circle. The bright object then shot towards my direction and then just disappeared.
But UFO investigator Mooner says he saw eight UFOs in just three months – including a close-up encounter with aliens in a Newton Abbot car park, chronicled on his site World UFO Photos and News.
Either that, or it could be evidence that people from Devon are just really, really weird.
Picture: John Mooner
On 12 September, 2016, a man reported triangular spacecraft flying over the county – and others spotted them, too, according to the London Economic.
That very same month, a family saw strange bright lights over the area.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, says, ‘Devon has had a long history of UFO visitations, that have ranged from sightings of lights in the sky to close encounters with UFO craft. Triangular UFOs seem to be in vogue at the moment, plus interest in looking to the skies of Devon has been encouraged by postings of UFO videos and picture that show unusual aerial activity over the county. For believersthis shows ‘they’ are on the verge of publicly revealing themselves, to sceptics it highlights the folly of internet rumours and human perception.’
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FASCINATING: THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PARACAS ELONGATED SKULL DISCOVERED TO DATE!
FASCINATING: THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PARACAS ELONGATED SKULL DISCOVERED TO DATE!
The human body is a super complex machine that we probably won't understand until the day of our eventual extiction.
Scientists have studied the little details that make up our body system, how blood vessels work, how oxygen circulates throught he body, how the brain functions, etc. There are tons of details that are so complex and mind blowing about the human body which makes us an incredible species meant to do great things.
But there are several other mysterious human characteristics that we have never encoutnered within our own species, at least alive today.
The elongated skulls from Peru are some of the most peculiar remains of human beings that was ever discovered. It is known that elongated skulls can be made artificialy and takes a few months to get the desired results. But the Paracas elongated skulls are all natural, meaning it's part of a genetic making up an ancient and lost humanoid species.
Recently, one of the most fascinating Paracas skulls ever discovered has something very odd about it.
FASCINATING WALL IN THE FROZEN REALM OF ANTARCTICA
FASCINATING WALL IN THE FROZEN REALM OF ANTARCTICA
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe published "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" describing an adventure to Antarctica where the adventures found ancient ruins, labyrinths and Egyptian hieroglyphs on the walls.
Pym and Peters hide discover a labyrinth of passages in the hills with strange marks on the walls, and disagree about whether these are the result of artificial or natural causes. Facing a shortage of food, they make a desperate run and steal a pirogue from the natives, narrowly escaping from the island and taking one of its inhabitants prisoner.
In 1936, Howard P. Lovecraft published an article about a scientific expedition to Antarctica titled “At the Mountains of Madness” The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930.
By using Google Earth ufosightings hotspot found some structures and anomalies in Antarctica which could be remnants from the past. Of course, all of this proves nothing really, but merely deepens the Antarctic mysteries even further.
RECENTLY RELEASED DECLASSIFIED CIA PAPERS REVEAL UFO AND ESP SECRETS
RECENTLY RELEASED DECLASSIFIED CIA PAPERS REVEAL UFO AND ESP SECRETS
It has been believed for decades if not centuries now that there was such a thing as UFO's and that individuals did have ESP or psychic powers. Of course, there was never any documentation by any government sanctioned office that these phenomena exist. That is none that was made open to the public, that is until now.
The CIA has now declassified million of documents that use to be top secret information. Some of these documents were stuff that many of us would expect to find, such as information about various war efforts over the years, But among these was also stuff that proved once and for all what so many of us already knew was true, the UFO sightings were real and there have been extensive study into ESP behavior.
The documentation shows investigations into UFO's dating back to the mid-seventies. These go into the fact that around twenty percent of these sightings were that of a flying craft that couldn't easily be explained nor did it seem to be anything that was technology known to man. There was also information on the fact that the Air Force did research into whether or not these UFO's were a threat to the earth and whether or not we should prepare for an attack.
According to one of the papers at least 20 percent of unidentified flying craft sightings could not be scientifically explained.
"The IAC has reviewed the current situation concerning unidentified flying objects, which have caused extensive speculation in the press and have been the subject of concern to Government organizations… Since 1947, approximately 1,500 official reports of sightings have been received and, of these about 20 percent are as yet unexplained," the document says.
There was also documentation that in the early seventies the CIA was doing a study on ESP. This study included doing research on an illusionist from Israel by the name of Uri Gellar. Gellar over the years had displayed signs of having psychic abilities, and he was among those well-known figures the CIA wanted to study.
But why was the CIA interested in those who displayed such abilities? Well, it would seem that US Military was initiating Project Stargate in 1978 which was about finding out about how psychic abilities were being used by military and other organizations in foreign countries or even at home. As for, Gellar's part of this research how did he pan out?
It would depend on who did the research according to the documentation he did have ESP. However, a few nights before he did this study he appeared on Tonight Show then hosted by Johnny Carson and didn't fair up as well. Maybe it comes down to what some say psychic abilities isn't something someone can turn on like a light switch it just happens. In any case, as for this, research and even Project Stargate it ended in the mid-nineties and this information was declassified.
Anyway, these documents prove what so many of us knew there were cover-ups going on. The truth was out there; it was just not being made known. That is until now, and it isn't anything knew that we didn't already suspect.
'Big Bang not true': This is what REALLY created universe, says man 'abducted by aliens'
'Big Bang not true': This is what REALLY created universe, says man 'abducted by aliens'
THE Big Bang never started the universe, according to a man who bizarrely claims to have been abducted by aliens who put him straight on the scientific theory.
The man detailed his experience on a popular conspiracy forum, giving details of what he alleges they told him.
Among his supposed revelations are that the universe did not come about as a result of the Big Bang and that aliens are able to communicate with each other via telepathy.
The anonymous man claimed his first contact with beings from outer-space happened when he was young when one got in touch with him through his brainwaves.
He the says that since then, he has been constantly conversing with them.
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Aliens told a man they abducted the big bang did not happen... allegedly.
He wrote: "For the last 17 years it’s been an on and off again thing. I’d just gone five years without any contact or communication incidents, but in August 2016, things got very serious, very fast.
“I went to bed one Saturday night just like any other night. But Sunday morning was not anything like any Sunday I’d been through before.
"I woke up and realised immediately what happened. I was freezing. And soaking wet. And I felt like I was in a dream. Have you ever been under anaesthetic? Same feeling when waking up.”
He claims that during this encounter, he was told that the universe was created by something called “The One” – something that is neither alive nor dead, male nor female, but responsible for everything in existence.
I was told that the universe was created by something called The One – something that is neither alive nor dead.
Alleged alien abductee
The man then made a series of outlandish claims about the history of the Earth from the Garden of Eden to today.
He added: “You likely won’t believe me yet, but that voice in your head, your conscience, is actually what’s left of the telepathic connection to our counterpart on Eden.
“Of course today we are raised to believe thinking anything other than ‘it’s your own voice’ will get you locked up in a psych ward.”
Several people believe or claim that they have been abducted by aliens, to the point that a "close encounter" conference was held in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, this week.
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A CGI impression of how the Big Bang may have happened at the start of the universe.
Wolf 1061c sits in its host star’s ‘habitable zone’ – massively increasing the chance of finding alien life.
The planet is relatively close by, sitting in a star system just 14 light-years away – which is “so close and that gives other opportunities to do follow-up studies to see if it does indeed have life”, San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane.
Wolf 1061c orbits the star Wolf 1061 with two other planets and is in the goldilocks zone – an orbital region which is neither too hot, nor too cold to sustain life.
However, the astronomers say that it is on the edge of being too close to the star, which could mean that heat gets trapped in its atmosphere, leading to a greenhouse effect where the temperature steadily rises.
Experts state that this is likely what happened to Venus where temperatures now reach 880 degrees Fahrenheit – way too hot to sustain life.
Speaking about Wolf 1061c, Mr Kane said: “It's close enough to the star where it's looking suspiciously like a runaway greenhouse.”
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Venus was once a habitable planet
The team also state that, unlike Earth which experiences climatic changes such as the ice age because of minor variations in its orbit, Wolf 1061c’s orbit changes rapidly which could lead to chaotic climate change.
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An artist's illustration of an exoplanet
Mr Kane added: "It could cause the frequency of the planet freezing over or heating up to be quite severe.”
However, the team says that this could actually counter the effects of the “runaway greenhouse” cause, essentially keeping the planet cool enough to support life.
Two computer scientists say they proved that there is a holy supreme force after confirming the equations.
In 1978, mathematician Kurt Gödel died and left behind a long and complex theory based on modal logic.
Dr Gödel’s model uses mathematical equations that are extremely complicated, but the essence is that no greater power than God can be conceived, and if he or she is believed as a concept then he or she can existin reality.
But two computer scientists have used computers to run such complicated which they say confirms that the equation does indeed add up.
The point of the researchers’ argument was that they were not directly trying to prove the existence of God, but rather to showcase the power of computers.
Christoph Benzmüller of Berlin's Free University, who ran the calculations along with Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo of the Technical University in Vienna, told Spiegel Online: "It's totally amazing that from this argument led by Gödel, all this stuff can be proven automatically in a few seconds or even less on a standard notebook.
“I didn’t know it would create such a huge public interest but [Gödel’s ontological proof] was definitely a better example than something inaccessible in mathematics or artificial intelligence…
It’s a very small, crisp thing, because we are just dealing with six axioms in a little theorem.
“There might be other things that use similar logic.”
Wetenschappers gebruiken wiskundige berekeningen om te ‘bewijzen’ dat God bestaat
Wetenschappers gebruiken wiskundige berekeningen om te ‘bewijzen’ dat God bestaat
Twee computerwetenschappers zeggen aan de hand van wiskundige vergelijkingen te hebben bewezen dat er een hogere macht is.
In 1978 stierf de Oostenrijks-Amerikaanse wiskundige Kurt Gödel. Hij wordt gezien als één van de belangrijkste logici aller tijden.
Hij ontwikkelde een complexe theorie op basis van de modale logica.
Hiernamaals
Gödel, een persoonlijke vriend van Einstein, geloofde in een leven na de dood. Hij stelde: “Ik ben overtuigd van een hiernamaals. Als de wereld rationeel in elkaar zit, moet er een leven na de dood zijn.”
In de jaren zeventig verspreidde hij onder zijn vrienden een uitwerking van Anselmus van Canterbury’s ontologisch bewijs van het bestaan van God.
Gödels wiskundige vergelijkingen zijn extreem ingewikkeld. Zijn complexe theorie gaat ervan uit dat het concept van God te groot, te anders is voor het menselijke begrip, dat hij gemaakt moet zijn door God.
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Kurt Gödel
Twee computerwetenschappers zeggen dat Gödels godsbewijs klopt.
De onderzoekers wilden niet zozeer het bestaan van God bewijzen, maar vooral laten zien over hoeveel rekenkracht computers beschikken.
“Het is zeer indrukwekkend dat dit slechts in een paar seconden kan worden bewezen met behulp van een laptop,” vertelden Christoph Benzmüller van de Vrije Universiteit Berlijn en Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo van de Technische Universiteit Wenen aan Spiegel Online.
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De twee wetenschappers maakten de theorie van Gödel compleet.
“Gödels ontologisch bewijs was zeker een beter voorbeeld dan iets onbereikbaars in de wiskunde of kunstmatige intelligentie,” aldus het tweetal.
UFO Appears From Bottom OF Cloud Over Mexico, Jan 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Appears From Bottom OF Cloud Over Mexico, Jan 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 2017 Location of sighting: Michoacan, Mexico News source:
https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/doble-via/573894-un-ovni-conoce-al-fenomeno-que-sorprende-a-michoacan Yesterday in Mexico a large cloud was forming when suddenly a round disk was seen appearing pushing through its bottom layer. The disk was of a different color than the cloud itself and looked smooth and rounded. Some people ask me, why would a UFO want to make a cloud to hide it? Because it can really rock the world of those people who are on the edge already or a little unstable or especially sensitive. They don't want to be the cause of someone getting hurt down here. They just want a close look and want you to think...they are not there, its just a coincidence that such a cloud exists. It keeps people calm. I remember a report from the W56 Friendship case at Rocca Pia Italy, where some people were becoming friends with the aliens in the base below the castle there. One of the aliens said that they could never harm another living thing. To do so would be against all they believe and stand for (this only represents views of W56, not all aliens). That they would rather self destruct than harm a single human being. Its odd, but we certainly can't judge multiple alien species based on our culture, also compounded by the fact that humans have a small IQ and aliens have an astronomically high IQ. Level of intelligence changes the perceptual field...the way each individual views the world around them. Scott C. Waring News states: HUETAMO.- At approximately 06:30 in the morning of this Saturday a strange meteorological phenomenon was visualized in several municipalities of the state of Michoacán, mainly in the hill of Tejerias, pertaining to the municipality of Huetamo. It is a spot with swirling figure and in the lower part a red light, which was appreciated in the sky, and was seen in several municipalities of Michoacan territory. People observed for more than an hour this phenomenon, which had never been seen.
UFO Shoots Past Live Interview At Capital Hill, Jan 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Past Live Interview At Capital Hill, Jan 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 22, 2017 Location of sighting: Washington DC, USA News Source:http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=10 This is a great find by UFOvni of Youtube. Its a UFO shooting past a guy giving an interview at Capital Hill. The white craft moves quickly from the left to the right side of the screen. This is similar to what we saw at the Obama inauguration long ago on live CNN, but back then, even the CNN announcers noticed it and were trying to figure it out, but couldn't. This looks very similar. Strangely enough, the source video was gone, possibly deleted by CTV News after the UFO was made public, or maybe its just my location here in Taiwan. Some videos don't work outside the US. Can anyone confirm in comments inside the US if the video source works please? Thanks, Scott C. Waring
Giant Glowing UFO Over Portugal Leaves Dark Trail. Jan 17, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Glowing UFO Over Portugal Leaves Dark Trail. Jan 17, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 17, 2017 Location of sighting: Portugal Source: MUFON This just in from Andries Riphagen of Youtube. The video not only shows a bright UFO that appears and disappears, but it shows a dark trail behind the UFO. The object moves slightly to the right and then is gone. It wasn't falling to earth and it was very slow, so we know it was not a meteor. Its huge and yet disappears in a heart beat. Very odd, but very exciting to get a report from Portugal. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Yesterday around 10 pm in the sky a bright, static light of white color was captured "increasing and decreasing the density of light. Enthusiast of the ovnology and collaborator of Ufo Portugal of the parish of Maceira, Leiria, has sighted and filmed in the same place hundreds of UFOs in the space of 4 years.
Filer’s Files #4 – 2017 UFOs are interplanetary devices - PART I
Hawaii Flying Objects above plane on January 12, 2017
Filer’s Files #4 – 2017 UFOs are interplanetary devices - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Admiral Hillenkoetter UFOs are interplanetary devices, Letter from Reader about an Underground Base, Ancient Dowth, Ireland one of the World’s Oldest Structures, Leprechauns, Japan Would Use a Tether to Nab Debris and Destroy Them, Clark McClelland Verifies Some of Bill Tompkins Data, and December Sightings.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Iran, New Zealand, Taiwan, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Admiral Hillenkoetter UFOs are interplanetary devices
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, was the third Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1947 to 1950, and the first Director of the CIA, which was established in September 1947.
Hillenkoetter was one of the first intelligence chiefs to make public his conviction that UFO’s were real.” On August 22, 1960, he stated,
“I am aware that hundreds of military and airline pilots, airport personnel, astronomers, missile trackers and other competent observers have reported sightings . . . These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI)–The Air Force has sent its commands a warning to treat sightings of unidentified flying objects as “serious business” directly related to the nation’s defense, it was learned today. An Air Force spokesman confirmed issuance of the directive after portions of it were made public by a private “flying saucer” group. The new regulations were issued by the Air Force inspector general Dec. 24. The regulations, revising similar ones issued in the past, outlined procedures and said that “investigations and analysis of UFO’s are directly related to the Air Force’s responsibility for the defense of the United States.”
Committee Reveals Document
Existence of the document was revealed by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. The privately financed committee accused the Air Force of deception in publicly describing reports of unidentified flying objects as delusions and hoaxes while sending the private admonition to its commands. Vice Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter (Ret.), a committee board member and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said in a statement that, “A copy of the inspector general’s warning had been sent to the Senate Science and Astronautics Committee.”
Letter from Reader about an Underground Base
Richard Bantel writes, “In 2000, I was flying my Cessna 150 my home base airport in Maryland (2W2) to Lewisberg, West Virginia airport.
9lWB). I chose to fly direct because of the solid VFR weather VFR weather and this direct route took me over the most rugged mountains in the eastern U.S. I was flying about 5000 feet AGL and I was enjoying the beautiful mountains. The terrain was all forest and no dwellings were visible in any direction and I believe the national forest was below me in this part of West Virginia. As I was looking around I noticed a C-123 a mile away at a flight level much below my flight level commencing what appeared to be final approach to landing. From my experience in Vietnam I know this aircraft was used for supply. The C-123 was not very far above the tree level in a relatively flat area and was headed directly for a rather high mountain. I immediately became concerned because there was no landing area visible and the aircraft continued heading for the mountain. I watched closely expecting the C-123 to impact with the mountain and prepared to notify ATC of a crash. There was no indication of a crash, smoke or fire, etc as it flew into the mountain and I found it difficult to believe what I had seen.
C-123 Provider
The incident was so unbelievable I neglected to get GPS coordinates. I believe the location was south southwest of Grant County, WV. A year later I mentioned it to Stephen Bassett who stated, “He was not surprised because he had heard of an underground facility in the general area where government officials meet with alien representatives”.We both agreed that stealth technology available most likely concealed an entrance to an underground facility. Thanks to Richard Bantel
Ancient Dowth, Ireland one of the World’s Oldest Structures
Dowth the Fairy Mound of Darkness is about the same size as Newgrange and Knowth ancient sites and was built in the same period over 5000 years ago before the pyramids or Stonehenge. It is one of the oldest structures on Earth and thought to have an astronomical purpose. Marie Moroney has been observing winter sunsets at Dowth since 1997. From the beginning of October to the end of February the sun sends its rays from the south-west into the chamber. As the sun appears progressively lower in the sky towards the winter solstice, the beam travels first over the sill stone, then enters the chamber and finally shines directly onto the stones at the back of the chamber. The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth-Edward Spenser. Motorways continue to be constructed over ancient cairns and cromlechs, stone circles continue to be leveled, and geomantically positioned monuments aligned to the constellations are replaced by shopping malls, housing estates, and corporate towers. The testimony of Megalithic Europe and of the Western origin of civilization continues to be deliberately obliterated so that men are condemned to believe what they are told from official sources about their history and origins.
Most of the Dowth art are discs
The men who looked up into the night sky were really looking into themselves. The gnosis of the heavens is the gnosis of the soul. Civilizations erected upon astronomical principles are erected upon the infinite ancestral reservoir of knowledge within man’s own being. There are no stronger foundations. As the Hermetic motto states: As Above, So Below. Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. …the Irish system is the oldest surviving complete codified legal system in Europe. Peter Berresford Ellis (The Druids)
The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil – Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
It is known as Eire in the Gaelic language, which comes from the old Irish Eriu, the name of a daughter of the mother goddess Ernmas of the Tuatha De Danaan, the mystical pre-Celtic race of Ireland. Eriu and her sisters asked that they name the island after them. also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé (“tribe of the gods”),[a supernatural race in Irish mythology. They are thought to represent the main deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.[1]
Much of Irish mythology was recorded by Christian monks, who often depicted the Tuath Dé as kings, queens and heroes of the distant past who had supernatural powers or who were later credited with them. Other times they were explained as fallen angels who were neither good nor evil.[
The Tuath Dé dwells in the Otherworld but interact with humans and the human world. Each member of the Tuath Dé has been associated with a particular feature of life or nature. Much of Irish mythology was recorded by Christian monks, who often depicted the Tuath Dé as kings, queens and heroes of the distant past who had supernatural powers. Other times they were explained as fallen angels who were neither good nor evil.[
Some of their key red and blonde haired gods were the Tuatha De Danann, also known as… The Dragon Lords of Anu … the name means literally “the folk of the god whose mother is Dana.” because they were said to be the offspring of the fallen angels (Anunnaki). They allegedly landed out of the heavens in a dark dense cloud on Iron Mountain. They were the alien gods, the ancient spacemen, and a group of blond, fair-skinned, and handsome beings, who ruled the Earth in prehistoric times. Their superior intelligence, artistic skills, and magical powers, which were based on highly advanced technology, laid the foundation of Druids. The ancient stories are significant, but they actually built some of the oldest structures in the World have an interesting resemblance to disc UFO mother ships and smaller disc craft.
From November to February the rays of the evening sun reach into the passage and then the chamber of Dowth South. During the winter solstice the light of the low sun moves along the left side of the passage, then into the circular chamber, where three stones are lit up by the sun. Much of the art is also in disc shapes.
There is mounting evidence in Ireland to support the notion that the ancients were adept in studying the movements of the heavens. The July 2008 issue of Astronomy & Space magazine article appraises the capabilities of the astronomer builders of 5,000 years ago and examines some of the evidence pointing towards a more complicated knowledge than is currently acknowledged. http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/dowth/
The stories of Leprechauns in Ireland have always intrigued me. They are described as three feet tall often with large eyes that have magical powers. Leprechauns are protected by Irish law and stories about them have been told for centuries. People have observed wonderful aerial objects, variously designated as flying saucers, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and so on. Many narratives describe bountiful blonds or three foot tall aliens with large eyes. But investigators have neglected to recognize one important perspective of the phenomenon: the fact that beliefs identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer’s country, race, and social regime. If we take a wide sample of this historical material, we find that it is organized around one central theme: visitation by an aerial people from one or more remote, legendary countries.
A gray alien could easily disguise himself as a Leprechaun. Some claim to visit the Leprechauns home, to catch one he will allegedly give a pot of gold to be released. The names and attributes vary, but the main idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, Elf land – all such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. They influence civilizations through mystical revelation. They can produce rings or designs on the ground and sometimes take children or babies. These matters are the subject of Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee’s seminal master-work that changed our understanding of the UFO phenomenon. An instant classic the book remains a must-have resource for anybody interested in the topics of UFOs and alien contact, as well as those fascinated by fairy folklore and other paranormal encounters. https://www.amazon.com/Passport–Magonia-Folklore..
Japan Would Use a Tether to Nab Debris and Destroy Them
Calla Cofield writes, “The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency will test an early space junk removal tether prototype using its HTV-6 robotic cargo ship, as seen in this artist’s illustration.” The cargo ship launched to the International Space Station will attempt to test the prototype.
Space debris, or “space junk,” is becoming an increasingly large problem for space agencies and private companies. Even small pieces of space debris, when moving fast enough, can tear through satellites and human habitats such as the International Space Station; a collision with space debris may have been responsible for the loss of a Japanese science satellite earlier this year.
In 2013, more than 500,000 pieces of space junk were being tracked by space agencies, according to NASA. That includes more than 21,000 pieces of space trash larger than 4 inches (10 centimeters) in size, and half a million bits of junk between 0.4 inches and 4 inches (1 cm and 10 cm). Thanks to Space.com
Clark McClelland Verifies Bill Tompkins Data
There was some very interesting validation of the Bill Tompkins material by the return of Clark McClelland (former NASA Apollo Engineer who had direct, longtime access to Dr. Debus the Director of NASA) to the Jeff Rense program on Thursday night. Bill Tompkins designed the NASA Control Room for the Apollo Project.
Links to the archived program have been emailed out. Much more will be revealed regarding the planet Aldebaran’s connection. One of Clark’s final comments about giving notice – upon his passing – that his remains are to be returned to Aldebaran was fascinating!
Tompkins told me that Dr. Debus was indeed telepathic and was in touch with the Nordic Navy women that were working alongside him inside the secret think tanks. Debus really bonded with Tompkins having him chair three project missions and participate in design work & consulting for seven mission projects.
Dr. Debus Director of NASA
Tompkins said that when he was tasked with presenting the original design concept for the Apollo Program on a Monday morning at the Redstone Arsenal outside Huntsville, Alabama to Dr. Debus, and Dr.Von Braun and the entire team of German scientists assigned to the project. After the one hour the presentation was completed Debus approached Tompkins, and took him into his office.
Again, Debus bonded immediately with Tompkins, introduced him to all the other German scientists working there, asked Tompkins to both lunch and then much later dinner where they discussed extreme details of the Apollo Program and the overarching master plan of the program. At the end of that first evening Debus asked Tompkins to remain at Redstone as his personal guest for the balance of the week – of course Tompkins did so and he had the full approval of Douglas Aircraft to pursue this endeavor. Tompkins said it was an amazing week in his life – much was confirmed to him by Debus regarding the info gained by the German operatives debriefed during WWII.
Just some really astounding secret history is coming to Light. Thanks to Frank Chille and the www.renseradio.com/
Letter from Colonel Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson writes, “I worked under with MAJI Chain of command.” The MJ-12 Index is all I know to be true, whereas the document Index is a conglomeration of things so people could get the most documents floating around the web in one spot. Incidentally, when Bob Lazar was interviewed several years ago for Michael Lindemann’s “Six Viewpoints” book; he mentioned that his supervisor wore a “MAJI” badge. Supervisors there must have a Cosmic Q, level 10 clearances.
I have pretty amazing pictures of alien craft and our hope is to capture one before the authorities can get there and hide it. I’m fighting cancer so I’ll leave my photos to the person I trust most in this world, and will receive the location of all the photos and documents I have in the event of my death. Don’t ask who the person is. Whitley Strieber seems to believe that and it would really depend on the “aliens” themselves – if they chose to reveal themselves to the world on a mass scale. Do you agree with him? Do you think they would ever reveal themselves?
I do agree we won’t ever know the truth from our government although I saw a plan once to stage a landing of our benevolent brothers from space. Then they could say our benefactors have arrived, and everyone would soon forget the rest. It was to be staged tentatively at White Sands, New Mexico on Aug 28, 1997 or 98 but was never put into effect.
Of all the crashes I was at there was strong evidence was that the aliens are from other galaxies, two of those were questionable about coming from other dimensions.
Jacques Vallee thinks they’ve been with us throughout our history and he may be correct.
Maybe the very highest in MAJI might know why they are here. I sure don’t, but wouldn’t trust a grey or reptoid out of my sight, no matter how much others voice their opinion about how benevolent they think they are. Their ability to make a person think what they want them too is uncanny. It doesn’t matter what Vallee believes. Our government knows they have been coming here for hundreds of thousands of years.
The strongest evidence is the frozen body of a blond, seven foot tall woman hand in hand with a Neanderthal man found in the Ice Caves in France. Somehow they were frozen in mid stride. The caves were closed for a year or two while they removed them. Similar ancient blondes have been found near a hundred ancient pyramids in China. Another is the 30,000 year old skeleton of a gray found in Colorado. This was hushed up and the skeleton removed.
There seems to be well over 100 different races of extraterrestrials currently operating on this planet. Some are conducting medical experiments, military maneuvers, and cultural observations. Some have a much darker, malevolent intent, and have been responsible for controlling our species for thousands of years. It is tough to know why they are here. Is there a friendly Universal alliance of planets? What is their purpose and their goal? Are they taking action to stabilize the Earth? They appear to be taking samples of surface flora and fauna into great underground Halls of Remembrance to replenish and repopulate the upper world once a possible Great Purification begins? Will they step in to help humanity and rescue us in time or are we on our own, against forces we cannot hope to win? They do claim it will be a wonderful world when they take over. Thanks to Colonel Steve Wilson Note: Steve allegedly passed away and I doubt if he was Colonel, but appears to have some inside information.
December 2016 Sightings
December 2016 saw a total of 539 UFO sightings reported to MUFON from around the world. US 405, UK 36, Canada 28, Mexico 6, Australia 6, Brazil 6, Puerto Rico 4, China 4, and Iran 4.
The National UFO Reporting Center also had 323 reports in December according to Peter Davenport.
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Filer’s Files #4 – 2017 UFOs are interplanetary devices - PART II
Filer’s Files #4 – 2017 UFOs are interplanetary devices - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alaska Orange Orbs Aligned
Girdwood–- I saw orange orbs at 10:38 PM on January 1, 2017, from Hightower Road and Stumpy’s Way. The weather was clear without any wind. They looked to be hovering east over a mountain. At first, one looked on top, another near the middle and third towards the bottom.
They might be Chinese lanterns. But still it didn’t seem right. The more I thought it just didn’t make sense. They stayed too aligned although maybe the pressure was keeping them lined up because of how still the weather was. They were spaced apart and were not really moving suggestive these were not Chinese Lanterns. The glow was steady and intense, but not bright.
After the video, I walked towards my place and trees blocked the view, but I could still see them. The kids went inside. I petted the neighbors’ dog, looked up and couldn’t see them. I walked back to the end of the driveway and they were gone.
Note: The orbs were not visible on the two video clips sent by the witness. This is not unusual as objects have to be very bright to show up on conventional cameras.
Update – Jan 11, 2017: The witness sent the above enhanced images which show the “aligned orange orbs.” Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
California Object
Llano— My sighting was on January 11, 2017, about 9 PM. If you can zoom in one picture you will see two small aircraft of some sort flying and there were about 6 of them. I was only able to capture these.
Note: The witness sent 3 photos an identified two much smaller lights that appeared to be star-like. The photo of the large (green colored) object is shown in this report. One could conclude that the green object could be a reflection, but the witness said that he saw six objects including the above object so the object could be real? Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Colorado Cylinder
Denver — I saw it for about 45 minutes on January 4, 2017, and finally stopped and took pictures at 11:00 pm. I kept noticing it in the sky while driving around doing deliveries. So I was in several places around the metro area during this time. I was compelled to stop and grab my camera after not getting a good shot with my phone. It was foggy that night and you can’t see the city well in the photo, but the object appeared to be over downtown Denver. From my perspective south of the city it looked like it was between mile high stadium and the buildings of downtown. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Pensacola — On the evening of Tuesday, January 10, 2017, at around 18:47 CST. I was recording time lapse footage on my GoPro HERO 5 camera of the moon. Looking towards northeast Pensacola I was using a short exposure and capturing at 3 fps. The event happened in less than one minute. While editing the footage I noticed two long cylindrical objects close to the center of the screen, one and then the other as if one was chasing the other. The objects enter the frame and exit in a distinct arch. When I zoom in on the second object and frame that shows the object permanently I see a clearly defined cylindrical object. I then realized that I may have captured something incredible and unidentified. I lost sight of the objects when they exited the frame after having momentarily entered the frame. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Flying Objects
This was just seen on a picture I took out the airplane window on January 12, 2017.
I noticed while I was looking at my pictures.
I never saw these other than in my photos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Hovering Light
Naperville – I was outside smoking at dusk on January 12, 2017, and I noticed right away a bright light beaming in the sky, just above a plane flying level. I even observed planes flying a distance below it. It was definitely in our atmosphere. In the far distance, a red/orange object was observed as well. The red object hovered way out in the distance, directly about the bright light. It looked to beyond our atmosphere, up in the stars. Perhaps, it was watching the bright white light.
The bright light did move and seemed to be moving forward. As I continued to watch, it stopped suddenly and hovered. I watched for almost an hour, both lights did not move. I went inside for about 30 minutes and looked back outside, but could not see anything due to cloud coverage. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iowa Triangle
Des Moines – I was driving from my dad’s house to my mom’s house. When I got very near my mom’s house I saw a bright orange light over some condos. Maybe a couple thousand feet above it there was a fainter yellow light. As I drove a bit more I had to stop in the middle of the street and watch. It was moving very very slowly and almost right towards my car. As it got closer I noticed that there were also green and red lights on this thing. I figured it was a drone but it kept getting bigger as it got closer. It must have been 100 feet across which is not a drone. It was triangular with a couple of pointed edges on the back. It made a faint humming noise as it passed and I just watched it until I couldn’t see it anymore. My estimation for speed is about 40 mph. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Sphere
Buena— So I took a picture of the sky on January 6, 2016, upon looking at the pictures the next day noticed a yellow sphere in the sky with smaller yellow dots it looked like on it. I didn’t see the object with my naked eye only noticed it in the picture the day after.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Lights
I was outside feeding my dogs and I heard a loud humming noise on January 12, 2017.
I looked to my right and there was an aircraft like I’ve never seen before. It was shaped like a triangle with three bright lights but had no color. I got a video of it and then it was like it just disappeared; it was weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Lights
Philadelphia — I usually get up to go to work, so I decided to go outside to smoke a cigarette, then I notice a flash of light real bright light on January 11, 2017,. Then as I look up to see what it was I freak out a little as I notice that these two objects were silently chasing each other. Then one leads the other to follow. When I saw this I took a picture with my phone and ran inside to tell my wife what I just saw. She does not believe me, but I know what planes and helicopters look like. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cookport— On January 15, 2017 at 1:15PM, I was driving when I noticed a huge completely round hole through cloud cover in the sky. There was a visible cloud trail up through the hole as if something huge just went right up through it. I stopped, took some photos, and also noticed that everything was completely silent. Too silent with no sounds of any kind whatsoever. Also as I began to drive off I saw a relatively large black helicopter flying right by the hole. I unfortunately didn’t get a photo of the helicopter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Triangle
Chesapeake — I love looking at the stars on clear nights and January 18, 2017, was cloudless at the time when I saw this object. It was flying low, maybe around 500 feet or so, almost directly over my house. It was triangular in shape and had three lights near each angle. It was traveling at approximately 100-200 mph and I only observed for approximately five seconds before it faded away in what appeared to be it cloaking itself. When it was visible it seemed like it was already semi-cloaked. The three lights were not bright but still visible enough to where I could make out its triangular shape and the exact placement of its lights. This object made zero noise. I was a Military Police Officer and have seen some questionable things in the sky, but never anything like this. It was an absolutely amazing experience! I live in a heavily populated area with a heavy military presence. There are always aircraft in the sky. After I observed this object I continued to look at the sky and observed aircraft flying in ways they normally don’t as if they were searching for something.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Triangle
I was sitting in the front of the garage looking at the sky, waiting for them to appear when suddenly the dark triangular ship appeared and she turned to the side of my house. They are appearing every day with side lights in the form of ” V. ” It stopped in the air almost on top of my house. It then turned back continuing his way toward the highway. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Long Light
Whitehorse— I flew to the Yukon Territory from San Francisco to try to film the Aurora Borealis lights. There were a few clouds on January 13, 2017. My wife was doing timed shots leaving the shutter open for 8 seconds. She said there was nothing seen in the air, but this streak turned up on her picture. If you look closely you can see a halo of sorts in the picture. Also if you look in the background you can see the big dipper. We are stumped as to what it is. Any help is welcome. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oshawa— On Sunday, January 8, 2016, I went outside and thought to capture the moment of some good clarity in the sky in very cold temps below 0 C.
Random pictures taken between 2:43 – 3:11 pm, had a series of anomalies.
These series of UFOs were taken on my deck facing west towards Durham and towards Lake Ontario. I captured these various round blue orbs to thin cigar types. It is even more interesting to wonder what flies around NOT seen with the naked eye. Thanks to Paul Shishis
Costa Rica Disc
Liberia — I was on a ride with friends near Playa Panama on Culebra Bay in the province of Guanacaste on January 5, 2017. We stopped to take pictures of the bay at about 14:00 hours. (2 pm) We took several pictures and got on our bikes and rode home it was not until today 01/18/2017 that I uploaded and viewed them on my computer. After looking I found one picture that had an object in the right corner so I zoomed in on it. Frankly, it does not look like a plane or a bird to me and it has a distinct disk shape when zoomed in. I did not see it when the picture was taken and saw it only when I reviewed my pictures. The camera that I used is a Sony Cyber shot set to Auto so if it was a bird the Auto Focus would have picked it as being the closer object I think. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Disc
Rust– My girlfriend and I went to a coaster park last year in August 2016. My complete life I see things that nobody else can see. Since I am nearly blind and can only see two percent of a complete seen. We were in the park and go to a tower 50 meters high. On top I believe I saw an invisible object directly in front of me 100 meters away. But nobody else does. Two times more that day I saw them. Now I was looking at our pictures and there it is, but not invisible. I took two photos maybe three seconds between and one has the disc and the other it is gone at 5:01 PM. It’s an UFO far away. I had sleep paralysis and men in my room since I was a child. There are always three and always the same essence. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iran Sightings
Tehran City— A lying object was seen on TV over the city and military tried to attack the UFO on January 16, 2016.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tehran — Iranian Air Force Defense started shooting heavily at many ufos on January 17, 2017, at 5 PM, at the center of Tehran’s Enghelab Square. Thousands of people were seeing this unbelievable incident and many pictures and videos captured the shooting. Many Iranian Air Force aircraft flew above Tehran searching for these glowing orbs, but they couldn’t find anything. Then they said they were UAVs to sensor and tried to debunk this incident. But as you see in videos the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can’t maneuver fly like that. They can’t change their direction suddenly like these craft are able to do. Only ufos and alien technology can fly and move like that. Also they don’t start to shoot that heavily at the center of Tehran at UAVs like it’s a war! They don’t use the air force aircraft just for finding UAVs! I am the admin of the biggest disclosure page on Instagram: Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Strange Cloud
Dublin –This video presents real flying spacecraft captured during my usual drive from my town to Dublin on September 9, 2016.
Thanks for Your Time Witold Ligezowski
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Sphere
Rangier — I was trying to make my dog jump into the air to get an action shot of her on January 13, 2017, I do this often and end up with allot of dud photos. I was about to delete this off my camera when I noticed what looks like a large rock in the sky with a blue glow.
I did not see this with my naked eye but wish I had so I could have zoomed in on it!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Taiwan Strange Object
Taipei– I saw the light after I took the picture at Yehliu Geopark on January 14, 2017.
It looks like an object shooting out of the water. There was a yellowish trail of light following the object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Rattlesden, Suffolk – I was out walking alone on Mitchery Lane heading north and saw a reflective object that caught my eye. There’s a gliding club in the village not far from there, so I thought it was a glider but I couldn’t see any wings. I tried to take some pictures and video whilst it was still to the west. I lost sight of it trying to take a photo as a helicopter passed- but the object was much higher than the helicopter. The object reappeared more or less directly above me seven minutes later. Then it just disappeared again. I felt like it was watching me. I’ve always wanted to see a ufo, and I convinced myself it was wishful thinking. When I got home I forgot about the event, until a week later I looked at my pictures and to my surprise I had actually captured the object three times. It’s an old Samsung phone, so not the best camera, but when I zoomed in on the object- in one of the photos, it looked bulbous at the ends like two white balls stuck together. It’s definitely not a glider!! Thanks to MUFON CMS
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22-01-2017
New Paradigm Of Alien Contact
New Paradigm Of Alien Contact
If ETs are traveling the stars by means beyond our knowledge of physics, they are likely violating time and space to the point where they get from one-star system to the next within a span where intelligences at that level can interact. I think that it’s the wrong point of view not only to go by the SETI model of contacting ET, but Propulsion traveling mentality is even worse.
As long as our scientific orthodoxy evaluate highly intelligent ET beings based on our limited knowledge of physics, we will assume that they cannot get here because we’re still stuck on very physical means of space exploration based on propulsion based science. It is almost as though we keep thinking that riding horses is the only way to cross wide expanses. What’s boggling my mind is that the conservative scientific status quo refuses to imagine outside the box and project reality as such. If we accept the idea that there are thousands of civilizations in our galaxy that’s at least five hundred thousand years more advanced than us, then we must entertain the idea that some have figured out how to manipulate space-time and roam the stars.
Life on Earth began as chemical reactions between proteins and enzymes which are highly abundant in the universe that formed the first DNA and cells. Meteorites have been recovered containing some of these chemicals. Life on Earth is also dependent on carbon and composed mainly of hydrogen and oxygen (water H2O), some of the most abundant reactive elements in the universe. This suggests a possibility that DNA-based life on aquatic-terrestrial planets could be more abundant than commonly thought.
Early life on Earth came in all kinds of whacky shapes and forms. Weird worm things with no apparent back or front, animals with no symmetry etc. These forms mostly gave away and aside from the cnidarians (jellyfish and hydras) and the echinoderms (sponges and starfish) most animal genera possess certain common traits, such as bilateral symmetry (mouth and anus on opposite ends, an equal number of limbs on each side of the body if limbs present). These traits have won out, particularly among land-dwelling animals, because they possess certain evolutionary benefits. Having the food receptacle placed as far away as possible from the waste disposal is good for reducing the danger of infection. Having equal numbers of limbs reduces necessary brain power devoted to balance and coordination. Also, having the sensory organs located as close as possible to the brain reduces reaction times and increases reflexes as signals have less distance travel, thus leading to the evolution of heads. These are a few examples, I’m sure evolutionary biologists would have more.
This is not to say that aliens are likely to look like humans with prosthetics stuck on their noses but I think it’s entirely implausible that there would be worm-like aliens or reptile-like aliens or mammal-like aliens out in the universe. We will see unique expressions of life, not ones we are familiar with. The biggest most obvious difference might be size (scale). Slightly larger terrestrial planets with higher gravity would favor smaller organisms to reduce the energy and structural requirements of resisting gravity. Vice versa on smaller worlds. Planets with more oxygen-rich atmospheres would also favor larger animals that respire via gas exchange, so animals with exoskeletons could grow larger, like how arthropods on Earth used to be much larger when there was more atmospheric oxygen then shrank when it reduced.
Of course, there could also be aliens whose evolution and biology is nothing like ours and whose entire consciousness, if they even have one, is totally alien to ours. In this case, in my opinion, sci-fi writers are perfectly reasonable in creating any kinds of aliens they want and having them be equally plausible as long as they obey the laws of physics and chemistry.
We have all heard that we inhabit an average planet, orbiting an average star, in an average place in an average galaxy … nope.
Most galaxies are either “red” or “blue.” A “blue” galaxy is actively forming stars. This means it is forming a lot of really big stars. These stars outshine the great majority of smaller, dimmer stars, and since their characteristic colors tend toward the blue end of the spectrum they are called “blue” galaxies. What seems to drive star formation in these galaxies is that they have active giant black holes in their centers, that emit jets of material and radiation that roil the tenuous gas within the galaxy into concentrated areas that then produce stars.
A “blue” galaxy has a lot of heavy elements because these big stars become supernovas that “seed” the galaxy with heavy elements. But all these supernovas mean these galaxies are awash with radiation; which will effectively keep complex life from developing.
A “red” galaxy has stopped star formation because its central supermassive black hole is quiet. It’s “blue” stars have exploded, and all that is left are red dwarfs (which last for hundreds of billions of years). These galaxies do not have enough heavy elements to form much in the way of rocky planets. No significant planets, no significant life.
There are a few “green” galaxies. These are galaxies where the supermassive black hole at the center periodically turns “on” and “off.” There are enough supernovas to “seed” heavy elements, but not so many that they sterilize all the higher life.
The Milky Way is one of those very few “green” galaxies.
Only a really massive galaxy can form supernovas densely enough to have enough heavy elements to create large rocky planets. The Milky Way is the most massive galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies. (The Andromeda Galaxy is half again larger, but has slightly less mass.) There are galaxies far larger than the Milky Way or Andromeda, but they are rare; the Milky Way is one of the largest, most massive galaxies in the known universe.
The central core of a galaxy has too much radiation; too far out and there are not enough heavy elements. We are in the Milky Way’s “Goldilocks” zone, about 2/3 of the way toward the rim.
The bigger a star, the bigger its zone where liquid water can exist. But a star that is too big will die before intelligent life can evolve. Our sun is unusually large (95th percentile), but still small enough to last long enough.
Most solar systems are binary or trinary; planets can form around such stars but usually, the orbits are unstable. Even with a stable orbit the extreme variations in heating make most such worlds uninhabitable. But our solar system has only one star.
Most single-star systems have a gas giant that migrates into a position very close to its star. On its way, it usually expels other planets (or at least puts them into wildly elliptical orbits). Jupiter was on its way to doing that but ended up in a resonance orbit with Saturn that stabilized it. Thus Earth, Mars, and Theia were spared.
Earth and Theia were too close to the sun for life to develop; too much ultraviolet radiation for the precursor molecules to stick together. But Mars was far enough away that life could develop. It was also smaller, so it cooled faster, allowing simple life to develop while Earth was still molten.
Theia crashed into Earth in such a way that most of the material of Theia was absorbed by (molten) earth, but some of Theia ended up in orbit and ultimately coalesced into our very unusual moon. It was very close to Earth and raised huge tides. Tidal forces sent the moon spiraling out while slowing Earth’s day from 6 to the current 24 hours.
Meteor impacts on Mars ejected Mars rocks, some with primitive life “aboard.” Freeze-dried in space, a very few of these unintentional space travelers reached Earth. A subset unfroze and was viable; thus seeding Earth with life. (Meanwhile, Mars cooled and froze.)
The high tides caused by our (relatively) huge moon resulted in tidepools, which accelerated earlyevolution.
Most rocky planets are bigger than Earth, and if they are in the right place and have the right conditions they no doubt have complex life. However, being large they are still in their prime. Earth’s prime was the age of dinosaurs; not a time when intelligent life is going to evolve. Earth has passed its prime and is dying. (On a galactic time scale.) This led to conditions where intelligence was a survival characteristic since it allowed for instant adaptation in the face of rapidly changing conditions. (Again, “rapidly” in galactic timescales.) Ultimately the Pleistocene with its ice ages produced … us.
The point of all of the above is that the preconditions for intelligent life are quite rare. It is hard and slow to make an intelligent life form
Getting to other galaxies will be a challenge but not impossible. Especially if a usable “faster-than-light” drive works out. The point of all this is, if there were aliens, they would already be here. Intelligent life by nature inhibits the development of other intelligent life. So if there were aliens, they would already be here, and they would be us. So while some of us are, unfortunately, we’re not collectively ready for this new paradigm of Alien contact. If they are here and have nearly always been here we can infer a few interesting things. For something to be allegedly so pervasive and be still subject to debate after all this time it has to be elusive and invisible.
Life forms may be so advanced that we can not perceive them. Our senses may not be up to the task of perceiving them in their true nature.
Bacteria are entirely incapable of comprehending us. In fact, they are not capable of being aware of us at all. They inhabit the same space we do, even living inside our bodies as symbionts, but they are entirely incapable of being aware of us. Consider ants, which are far more complex than bacteria and are separated from us by only 500 million years of evolutionary development. They too inhabit the same space. They can be affected by our actions. They can see us, eat the food we drop on the ground, crawl all over our picnic tables, but they aren’t really aware of us. They are entirely incapable of understanding any message we might try to send to them. We have come to understand the chemical signals ants use to communicate with each other, and we can lay down trails for them to follow etc., so basically we humans are able to speak an ant’s language, but still we cannot convey to them any concept of what we are because ants lack the brains to comprehend what we are.
So, assuming the pace of evolutionary development is roughly constant, aliens out there would likely be so much more advanced that we would be incapable of comprehending them even if we were living right in front of them on their picnic table. They could even learn to speak our language, as we have with ants, and it wouldn’t do much good. That in itself could explain why it seems that no alien intelligence has contacted is. But really, the difference is even more extreme than the rate biological evolutionary development would suggest.
With the advent of technology, the rate of development has increased enormously, such that the complexity gap will be even bigger over the coming few billion years
About 40,000 years ago, humans began to develop Technology. Unlike evolutionary development, which advances by a process of random mutation, technological development advances through directed and systematic procedures. As a result, the pace of development has accelerated enormously.
Most people are probably familiar with cargo cults. For those who are not: cargo cults exist on some remote islands in the pacific. During WW2, the American and Japanese militaries established bases on some remote islands that had little to no previous contact with developed civilizations. When the war ended, the bases were abandoned. The natives on the islands had seen technologies that they did not understand. The lights and flying machines appeared to them as magic. Now, some of the people on these islands have adopted rituals that mimic the movements of air traffic controllers and radio operators, hoping that they can call down cargo from the sky.
These people are separated from us by only 8,000 years of development (the time it took from the establishment of the first agricultural civilizations until the present day) and yet they couldn’t understand what they saw, and they worship our technology in a religious manner.
8,000 years is far less than an eye-blink on the billions-of-years timescale of the head start that some planets had on ours. It took 8,000 years for us to appear as gods to other humans – how much longer would it take before we would recede from their ability to understand altogether? Maybe 100x that amount of time? But consider also that the rate at which technology is developing is increasing exponentially. Most of the developments that separate us from hunter-gatherers were made in the last 200 years.
So, with technological development beginning 3.4 billion years ahead of ours, the gap between us and an alien race would not be just the gap between bacteria and us, but conceivably exponentially greater.
Now consider again the ants. They can’t conceive of what we are. All they know are that there are lots of crumbs that tend to show up in a certain area near their anthill. For the ants, this is just a fact of life–“there are lots of crumbs over there usually” is just part of the nature of reality as they perceive it. Similarly, the evidence of alien life is probably all around us, but they are so much more advanced than we are, that the evidence of their existence appears to simply be woven into the nature of reality as we perceive it.
We must somehow prepare ourselves for alien contact of such obfuscation and occultation that makes our brains boil. Such an event to our monkey brain physiology is going to be traumatic. Perceptual filters will paradox. Extruded through the looking glass. Curiouser and curiouser. You knew who you were when you got up in the morning, but, you think it has been changed several times since then. You’re not the same as you were before. You are much more… muchier… you’ve lost your muchness. Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it. Can we find the moral, the meaning from such an advanced creature as is hypothesized here?
No matter what happens perspective must be preserved. The perspective is that what we think it might mean is almost assuredly wrong and incomplete. We will be nothing but spectators in this exchange. Frantically grappling at meaning from the mix of infinity. Maybe just knowing they exist in its own way is enough? Just a flicker of comprehension. Proof of concept. More questions than answers.
The slice of extraterrestrial life is not going to be like anything envisioned in any entertainment media. It will be stranger than imagined, it will be stranger than we can imagine.
Universe Is Too Big For Extraterrestrial Life To Get Here… Wrong!
Universe Is Too Big For Extraterrestrial Life To Get Here… Wrong!
At the blackboard
In our daily mundane lives, we are oblivious to much of the Universes grand weirdnesses. Our neurology has evolved to react to and manipulate its environment. To survive. Our minds and our intellect are forever separate and silent witness to the Universe. Many of science’s grandest and profound discoveries go against all those billions of years of evolutionary programming. On the surface, they do not make colloquial sense. Our sense which is a product of a long line of evolutionary winners, the ones that managed to survive to breeding age. Each and every one of us is the product of a very long unbroken line of winners.
The Universe has no obligation to make sense. The advanced science of the last century began to shed light on some of the more intriguing and profoundly bizarre physical characteristics of the Cosmos. It is one of these counter-intuitive bizarre physical characteristics that can if not destroy the old argument that the “Universe is too big for extraterrestrials to get here” it will put a huge kink in it.
We all have heard about light speed. It is an old staple in TV and Movies. The true implications of Special Relativity on what happens at light speed is not usually discussed with any actual substance on TV shows or documentaries. For some people, my explanation and supposition will be a new interpretation.
We must consider several aspects of Albert Einstein’s magnum opus “Special Relativity”.
Note:The following is an import part to understand to follow my suppositions later on.
One of the bizarre characteristics is what is called “Time Dilation”. A good example that some people have heard of is called the “Twin Paradox”. Embracing the twin paradox is an important first step as you dip your toe into the nonintuitive world of special relativity. If you dig a little deeper into the links given here (and show a little determination), hopefully, you’ll begin to be more comfortable that Einstein really was right.
One must be very careful. The “relativity” in the theory’s name comes from the absolute core premise of Einstein’s idea, which is that nothing is absolute. If you are standing on a train platform and a train whizzes by, you would say that a person on the train is moving. On the other hand, a person sitting on the train would say that he is stationary and that you are moving. Relativity says that both of you are right. Who is moving and who is stationary is just a matter of perspective, and the laws of physics must work equally well for both people.
But this raises a conundrum when applied to the question of moving clocks. How can moving clocks tick more slowly than stationary ones if the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion? If I can say you are moving and your clock is slow, and if you can say I am moving and my clock is slow, something is inconsistent.
This longstanding question about special relativity is called the twin paradox. Suppose one in a set of twins sets off in a spaceship, travels to a distant star and then returns. On both legs of the trip, he accelerates to high velocity and then coasts for most of the journey. According to the “moving clocks tick slower” premise, the twin who stays on Earth will have experienced one duration, while the traveling twin will have experienced another, slower duration. The spacefaring twin will return to Earth younger than his homebody brother.
“But wait,” says the traveling twin, “according to my definition, I was just sitting there on my stationary spaceship while the Earth zoomed away from me and then zoomed back. By all rights, Earth twin should be younger!”
The solution to this seeming paradox has to do with the idea of a reference frame, which is central to special relativity. “Reference frame” is just a fancy term that means “the world according to me,” putting each person at the center of his or her universe. All “inertial” observers — those who don’t experience any acceleration — will agree that the homebody never changed his reference frame. He just sat there. Similarly, all observers will agree that the traveler lived in two reference frames, one moving away from Earth and one returning. Any third observer coasting through space will see that the homebody’s velocity doesn’t change while the traveler’s velocity does.
The law of relativity takes the traveler’s two reference frames into account. Thus the so-called paradox isn’t really a paradox. While the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion, the question of who has experienced two reference frames is not.
This is not just unfounded claims, it has been proven way back in 1971. In 1971, American physicists Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating verified time dilation at low relative velocities by flying extremely accurate atomic clocks around the Earth on commercial aircraft. They measured elapsed time to an accuracy of a few nanoseconds and compared it with the time measured by clocks left behind. Hafele and Keating’s results were within experimental uncertainties of the predictions of relativity.
If in the “Twins Paradox” one twin zooms off in a rocket at 90% of the speed of light. Time on the spaceship would be running 44% as fast as his twins on Earth. If the spaceship kicked it into overdrive and traveled at 99.9% of light, the brother’s clock on the spaceship would be running at 4.5% as fast as the Earthbound one now. What this means is if the twin (from his reference frame) went on a trip for 5 years at 99.9% speed of light, he would age 5 years. But his brother would have aged 110 years on Earth. This is a fact.
That is interesting but not my point. Using the laws that we know to be true. It is what happens when 100% light speed is achieved. Only one thing that I am aware of travels at light speed and that is a photon. If time slows down as we approach the speed of light the equations tell us that at the speed of light time stops. That means that if you were a photon time does not pass for it at all. That has some freaky consequences and is the crux of my assertion.
What this means is that at the instant that a photon is emitted anywhere in the Universe, typically they come out of atoms or get sent out by a star. The instant it gets emitted it gets absorbed at its destination. If you are the photon. For the rest of us, we observe it trundle through the Universe at light speed. But, for the photon time does not elapse. Hundreds of millions or billions of years of our time are zero time for the photon. From its unique point of view, the Universe goes by in an instant. From the point of view of the photon distance as we know it does not matter. It can traverse a googolplex squared in zero time. It can be everywhere, from its reference frame. For the rest of us, we bask in the time it takes to get to its destination. If time is the fire in which we burn, we burn incredibly slow. With this built-in transit ability in our Universe, is it so unfathomable that someone has figured out how to utilize it? The power of infinity is a strong pull.
Think about that for awhile…
Now hypothesize about a highly advanced alien civilization that has solved the light speed barrier and can traverse space at the speed of light. They have mastered an ocean of unimaginable technology. Not the least of which is Mass cancellation.
What they would have to have figured out is how to cancel Mass. We do not have any clue at all at this time in our scientific pursuits how to do that. But who knows if an intelligence that is a million or a billion of years advanced has not figured this stumbling block out. If they can make their ships or crafts massless they could be everywhere and I mean everywhere at will at any time. Shades of Douglas Adams “Infinite Improbability Drive”. It is only us primitives that think distance is an issue, a showstopper for alien visitations. But that is not the case.
This alien race could act like the photon. Instantaneous Universal transport. Zero time for them to cross from one side of the Universe to the other. As soon as they turn on the light drive they are already at their destination. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have no human analog. The reason that mass is an important factor in this hypothesis is that it is integral to the properties of light speed. Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light.
No need for such human contrived nonsense such as warp drive. No need for such things if they could cancel the physical property of Mass (there are other issues as well to consider which are beyond this article). As soon as the turn on the light drive they are already at their destination no matter where it is in the Universe. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have not discovered so far.
The aliens that were left at home would age as we do but their emissaries on the craft are timeless. For a civilization such as this, I would hypothesize that they bring their entire culture with them on civilization ships. Otherwise, the forces of relativity would disjoint the two factions of the civilization severely. Makes sense to bring them all with you to keep the temporal differential to an absolute minimum.
It must be noted that us primitive humans have already begun the quest towards Mass cancellation. It is startling to ponder that we newcomers to the pantheon of galactic intelligence’s have already had an inkling, a beginning success, a baby step, a beachhead in our sciences. Our cutting edge scientific frontiers have identified and have been able to quantitatively gather information on what is referred to as the “Higgs Boson”. This tiny elusive subatomic particle is believed to a high degree of certainty to be the harbinger of all Mass in the Universe. It and it’s corresponding “Higgs Field” is the reason and method the Universe uses to create the phenomena of Mass. We can see it using billions of dollars of technology in infinitesimally small slices of time. We are nowhere anywhere near being hands on with it at all. But if we hairy primates even can fathom it, it must not be that difficult in the grand scheme of things.
I get tired of the same old rhetoric that spouts such unfounded certainty in UFOlogy. We must open our minds to unconventional thoughts. No one knows what is possible in the Universe. Our knowledge is woefully incomplete. I do not know of course if any of this supposition is true or not. We must have this type of intelligent dialog or UFOlogy will fall stagnant and be taken over by the UFO lunatic fringe. I wish that part of the human condition that is in each and every one of us contained the drive towards logical truths. It has manifested in many, many of us but not nearly enough. The real and verifiable Universe is more fascinating, wondrous, and awe-inspiring than we can handle. No need to play make believe with UFOlogy.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
~ Albert Einstein (The World As I See It, 1930)
Science is the language of the Universe… Learn how to play.
A Man In Arizona Observes Reflective UFO Hiding Behind Cloud
A Man In Arizona Observes Reflective UFO Hiding Behind Cloud
A witness claimed he noticed a cloud hiding an alien spaceship. Anthony Sakowski said he observed the cloud surface to be reflective while driving along a country road in Arizona.
Anthony published the video to YouTube on January 6, but the exact date and time of the sighting is not stated. The video has received mixed comments or reactions from the viewers. Anthony said that a UFO reflected on haze above.
Most viewers suggested that Anthony has indeed caught on video something that’s not frequently seen. They stated that he just captured a video of a lenticular cloud, which has often been mistaken for UFO sightings. Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction. They form in the troposphere- the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere.
However, some viewers offered a different view. They said that the unidentified flying object appeared to the view of the witness when the sun lit it up, which caused a disk reflection above it on the clouds. They explained that only a metal reflective surface could do such thing. They further speculated that the actual UFO is the dark area of the cloud.
A Man In Arizona Observes Reflective UFO Hiding Behind Cloud
A Man In Arizona Observes Reflective UFO Hiding Behind Cloud
A witness claimed he noticed a cloud hiding an alien spaceship. Anthony Sakowski said he observed the cloud surface to be reflective while driving along a country road in Arizona.
Anthony published the video to YouTube on January 6, but the exact date and time of the sighting is not stated. The video has received mixed comments or reactions from the viewers. Anthony said that a UFO reflected on haze above.
Most viewers suggested that Anthony has indeed caught on video something that’s not frequently seen. They stated that he just captured a video of a lenticular cloud, which has often been mistaken for UFO sightings. Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction. They form in the troposphere- the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere.
However, some viewers offered a different view. They said that the unidentified flying object appeared to the view of the witness when the sun lit it up, which caused a disk reflection above it on the clouds. They explained that only a metal reflective surface could do such thing. They further speculated that the actual UFO is the dark area of the cloud.
Two Types Of Invisible Terrestrial Entities Identified
Two Types Of Invisible Terrestrial EntitiesIdentified
Nuclear physicist Ruggero Santilli claimed to have detected invisible entities living in the atmosphere of the Earth. Harvard-educated Santilli published an article revealing the existence of these mysterious invisible entities, which are the black and bright type. The Italian-American said that they are completely invisible to the human eyes. Dr. Santilli added that these beings could be spying on human activities.
Interestingly, Santilli, who runs an energy, nuclear physics, and optics company Thunder Energies Corporation, said that these entities appear to be performing unauthorized surveillance of sensitive military, industrial, and civil installations. He suggested that the government should answer the question about the real identity of those invisible beings.
President of the Corporation, Dr. George Gaines, said that they learned the reality is much bigger than they originally thought. He stated that there are things that are invisible even using a standard telescope.
Dr. Santilli said that they were able to identify two different kinds of invisible terrestrial entities or ITEs and added that more types of these beings might be identified in not so distant future.
Beyond Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Heads to Next Adventure
Beyond Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Heads to Next Adventure
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Artist's illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Alex Parker
To Pluto and beyond!
Nearly two years after its historic encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting ready for its next big adventure in the icy outskirts of the solar system.
Now, the spacecraft is on its way to a small, ancient object located about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. This distant region surrounds the solar system and is filled with trillions of icy rocks that have yet to be explored. The new target was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in June 2014, and it was dubbed 2014 MU69.
Pluto, which officially lost its planetary status shortly after New Horizons launched in 2006, is also a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), and the largest of its kind. New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit the Pluto system when the probe flew by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. [Destination Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures]
Artist's illustration of NASA's New Horizons probe flying through the Pluto system in July 2015.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
A world of discoveries
It took the spacecraft about 16 months to beam back all of its data from the Pluto flyby, and planetary scientists have had a ball with that data.
"The New Horizons flyby of the Pluto system was completely successful, and now we've got all the data on the ground and we're putting a bow around it," Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute, said in a Facebook Live event on Thursday (Jan. 19).
Thanks to New Horizons, scientists now have a global map of Pluto and the most detailed images yet of the dwarf planet's bizarre, mountainous landscape and icy volcanoes. Tall mountain ranges seen on Pluto also suggest recent geological activity on the dwarf planet's surface.
New Horizons additionally beamed back a gorgeous photo of a huge, heart-shaped basin (unofficially called "Tombaugh Regio") that quickly became Pluto's most famous feature, taking the internet by storm and gracing the front page of hundreds of newspapers worldwide. The New Horizons science team has said Pluto's "heart" seems to indicate the presence of a subsurface ocean.
The Pluto flyby also provided an opportunity to study Pluto's moons, particularly Charon. Researchers discovered that Charon and Pluto are both tidally locked, meaning the same side of the moon always faces the dwarf planet and vice-versa. As a result, Pluto's heart is always facing Charon. A giant red spot discovered on Charon's surface revealed that the moon is taking some of its atmosphere from Pluto.
"One thing that we discovered is that small planets can be just as complex as big planets, and that really blew away our expectations," Stern said, adding that all the new findings from Pluto "wet our appetite for future exploration of the Kuiper Belt."
New Horizons' photo of Pluto showing the heart-shaped area now informally named "Tombaugh Regio"
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Exploring beyond Pluto
While the team continues to analyze the plethora of data — something that could go on for decades — it's also busy planning for the next big stage of the mission, the flyby of 2014 MU69. That will occur in January 2019.
Pluto is the largest object known to exist in the Kuiper Belt, but MU69 is much smaller and more representative of the trillions of other KBOs, Kelsi Singer of the New Horizons science team told Space.com. Pluto is comparable to the size of North America at 1,475 miles (2,370 km) in diameter, while MU69 is less than 30 miles (about 45 km) across.
But MU69 isn't just any old KBO. Singer said that the object "has a special kind of orbit that makes it possibly a type of object that is primordial and left over from early solar system formation. So we think that we'll be able to look at what the building blocks of the solar system were like by going to this special object that has a special orbit."
This overhead diagram of the solar system shows New Horizons' full trajectory and current position. The green part of the line shows where New Horizons has already traveled, and the red shows the probe's future path to and beyond the Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Plutonium power
Part of the rationale for choosing MU69 as the next target was that it had a good location given the amount of fuel left on the New Horizons spacecraft.
"MU69 turned out to be really interesting, but we also had limited options," Singer said. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, "we were searching the area of space where we had enough fuel left in the spacecraft to get to any objects that were there," she said. Three good potential targets were located, but the other two "were just on the edge of where [the spacecraft] had enough fuel to get to."
New Horizons runs on a radioactive plutonium power supply that could keep the spacecraft going through the mid-2030s, Glen Fountain, the New Horizons encounter project manager at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, said during the Facebook Live event.
But after the 2019 flyby of MU69, the spacecraft probably won't have much fuel left for special maneuvers, Singer said. "We won't be able to switch directions, but we'll still keep going out. It's possible that we'll be able to observe some other objects, but we haven't identified any of them yet. So we're going to keep an eye out to see what we can find."
Get ready for MU69!
For now, the team will remain focused on planning the MU69 flyby and sifting through data from Pluto. The researchers need to plan the spacecraft's every move far ahead of time; because of a 6-hour delay in communications with the distant spacecraft, they won't be able to tell the probe what to do in real time. Instead, the team must program New Horizons at least several months in advance to do every observation and data transmission.
The spacecraft will take photos of MU69 along the way, starting out with pictures of a single-pixel speck from afar, Singer said. During the flyby, New Horizons will be able to get even closer to MU69 than it did with Pluto, because the small object has much less gravity. This means that the photos of MU69 will have a higher resolution than the photos of Pluto. Singer said that's something she and the team look forward to seeing.
In April, New Horizons will be halfway to MU69 from Pluto, with 21 months of spaceflight left to go.
An artist's impression of what Mars might have looked like with water, when any potential Martian microbes would have evolved.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Microbes that rank among the simplest and most ancient organisms on Earth could survive the extremely thin air of Mars, a new study finds.
The Martian surface is presently cold and dry, but there is plenty of evidence suggesting that rivers, lakes and seas covered the Red Planet billions of years ago. Since there is life virtually wherever there is liquid water on Earth, scientists have suggested that life might have evolved on Mars when it was wet, and life could be there even now.
"In all the environments we find here on Earth, there is some sort of microorganism in almost all of them," said Rebecca Mickol, an astrobiologist at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and the lead author of the study. "It's hard to believe there aren't other organisms out there on other planets or moons as well." [Mars Methane - Could It Mean Life? (Video)]
Mickol and her team detailed their findings in the paper "Low Pressure Tolerance by Methanogens in an Aqueous Environment: Implications for Subsurface Life on Mars," which was published in the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.
Previous research detected methane, the simplest organic molecule, in the Martian atmosphere. While there are abiotic ways to produce methane — such as volcanic activity — much of this colorless, odorless, flammable gas in Earth's atmosphere is produced by life, such as cattle digesting food.
"One of the exciting moments for me was the detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere," Mickol said. "On Earth, most methane is produced biologically by past or present organisms. The same could possibly be true for Mars. Of course, there are a lot of possible alternatives to the methane on Mars and it is still considered controversial. But that just adds to the excitement."
On Earth, microbes known as methanogens produce methane, also known as natural gas. Methanogens typically live in swamps and marshes, but can also be found in the guts of cattle, termites and other herbivores, as well as in dead and decaying organic matter.
Methanogens are among the simplest and most ancient organisms on Earth. These microorganisms are anaerobes, meaning they do not require oxygen. Instead, they often rely on hydrogen for energy, and carbon dioxide is the main source of carbon atoms they use in creating organic molecules.
Methanogens contained in these test tubes, which also contained growth nutrients, sand and water, survived when subjected to Martian freeze-thaw cycles.
Credit: Rebecca Mickol
The fact that methanogens neither require oxygen nor photosynthesis means they could live just beneath the Martian surface, shielded from harsh levels of ultraviolet radiation on the Red Planet. This could make them ideal candidates for life on Mars.
However, the area just below the surface of Mars is exposed to extremely low atmospheric pressures, normally considered inhospitable to life. The surface pressure on Mars on average ranges from one-hundredth to one-thousandth that of the surface pressure of Earth over the course of the Martian year, too low for liquid water to last on the surface. In such thin air, water easily boils. (In contrast, the pressure at the highest point on Earth's surface, the top of Mount Everest, is about one-third that of Earth's surface pressure at sea level.)
To see if methanogens might survive such extremely thin air, Mickol and Timothy Kral, the senior author of the study and an astrobiologist at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, experimented with four species of methanogens. They included: Methanothermobacter wolfeii, Methanosarcina barkeri, Methanobacterium formicicum, and Methanococcus maripaludis. Previous experiments on these four species over the course of more than 20 years generated a lot of data on these organisms and their rates of survival in simulated Martian conditions. [Water on Mars: Wet Martian Discovery Explained (Infographic)]
The more recent set of experiments, which took about a year, involved growing the microbes in test tubes within liquids as a proxy for the fluids potentially flowing through underground Martian aquifers. The microbes were fed hydrogen gas, and the liquids were covered with cotton swabs, which in turn were covered with dirt simulating what might be found on the Martian surface. The insides of each test tube were then subjected to low pressures.
Graduate students Rebecca Mickol and Navita Sinha prepare to load methanogens into the Pegasus Chamber housed in W.M. Keck Laboratory.
Credit: University of Arkansas
Oxygen kills these methanogens, and maintaining a low-pressure, oxygen-free environment "was a difficult task," Mickol said. Moreover, water evaporates quickly at low pressure, which can limit how long the experiments can last and can also clog the vacuum system with water.
Despite these problems, the researchers found that these methanogens all survived exposure of lengths varying from 3 to 21 days at pressures down to roughly six-thousandths of Earth's surface pressure. "These experiments show that for some species, low pressure may not really have any effect on the survival of the organism," Mickol said.
The scientists are also measuring methane to see whether methanogens are actively growing at low pressure and producing methane.
"The next step is to also include temperature," Mickol said. "Mars is very, very cold, often getting down to -100ºC (-148ºF) at night, and sometimes, on the warmest day of the year, at noon, the temperature can rise above freezing. We'd run our experiments just above freezing, but the cold temperature would limit evaporation of the liquid media and it would create a more Mars-like environment."
Mickol stressed that these experiments do not prove life exists on other planets. "That being said, with the abundance of life on Earth, in all the different extremes of environments found here, it's quite possible there exists life — bacteria or tiny microorganisms — somewhere else in the Universe," she said. "We're just trying to explore that idea."
This research was supported by the Exobiology & Evolutionary Biology element of the NASA Astrobiology Program.
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