Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Ooit werd de aarde door een heel andere mix van meteorieten bekogeld
Ooit werd de aarde door een heel andere mix van meteorieten bekogeld
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De meteorieten die we nu als zeldzaam bestempelen, landden meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden regelmatig op aarde.
Tot die conclusie komen onderzoekers in het blad Nature Astronomy. Het is verrassend. Aangenomen werd namelijk dat het zonnestelsel de afgelopen 500 miljoen jaar vrij stabiel was. “Dus het is verrassend dat de meteorietenstroom zo’n 467 miljoen jaar geleden zo anders was dan nu,” vindt onderzoeker Birger Schmitz.
466 miljoen jaar geleden Meteorieten zijn stenen die vanuit de ruimte op aarde vallen. De stenen komen vrij tijdens botsingen tussen planetoïden, manen en zelfs planeten en vormen een afspiegeling van de samenstelling van deze hemellichamen. Zo’n 466 miljoen jaar geleden vond er op grote afstand van de aarde een enorme botsing plaats. Een object sloeg in op een planetoïde die vervolgens uit elkaar spatte. Brokstukken van die planetoïde vallen sindsdien richting de aarde.
Micrometeorieten Maar hoe zagen de meteorieten die vóór die grote botsing plaatsvond op aarde terechtkwamen, eruit? Daarvoor moet je eigenlijk kijken naar meteorieten die meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden op aarde landden. Maar dergelijke meteorieten worden niet vaak teruggevonden. Daarom richtten onderzoekers zich in hun studie op micro-meteorieten – kleine stukjes steen (met een diameter kleiner dan 2 millimeter) – die voor die tijd op aarde terechtkwamen. Dergelijke micro-meteorieten zijn wat minder zeldzaam.
Vesta Uit een analyse van die micro-meteorieten blijkt dat deze heel anders waren dan de meteorieten die vandaag de dag op aarde landen. Maar liefst 34 procent van de onderzochte meteorieten die meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden op aarde landden, behoorden tot de zogenoemde ‘primitieve achondrieten’. Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,45 procent van de meteorieten die vandaag de dag op aarde landen, behoren tot dit type. Weer andere, oude micrometeorieten bleken resten van Vesta te zijn: de helderste planetoïde die ook vanaf de aarde zichtbaar is en meer dan een miljard jaar geleden een botsing meemaakte.
“We ontdekten dat de meteorietenstroom en de variatie aan meteorieten die op aarde vielen, heel, heel anders was dan vandaag de dag,” concludeert onderzoeker Philipp Heck. “Wanneer je naar de meteorieten kijkt die de afgelopen 100 miljoen jaar op aarde zijn gevallen, krijg je geen compleet beeld.” Onderzoeker William Bottke legt uit: “Het bestuderen van meteorieten die vanuit de planetoïdengordel op aarde worden afgeleverd kun je vergelijken met het bestuderen van aardverschuivingen die op verschillende momenten op de helling van een berg ontstaan. De stenen die je vandaag de dag aan de voet van de berg vindt, komen voornamelijk voort uit een aantal recente aardverschuivingen. Ga je verder terug in de tijd dan zijn oudere landverschuivingen belangrijker. Hetzelfde geldt voor planetoïden die uiteen zijn gevallen: jongere exemplaren domineren de huidige meteorietenstroom, terwijl in het verleden de oudere exemplaren domineerden.” Meer inzicht in die verschillende meteorietenstromen is belangrijk, benadrukt Heck. “Meer weten over de verschillende soorten meteorieten die door de tijd heen zijn gevallen, geeft ons meer inzicht in de evolutie van de planetoïdengordel en de wijze waarop verschillende botsingen ontstonden.”
Ooit werd de aarde door een heel andere mix van meteorieten bekogeld
Ooit werd de aarde door een heel andere mix van meteorieten bekogeld
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De meteorieten die we nu als zeldzaam bestempelen, landden meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden regelmatig op aarde.
Tot die conclusie komen onderzoekers in het blad Nature Astronomy. Het is verrassend. Aangenomen werd namelijk dat het zonnestelsel de afgelopen 500 miljoen jaar vrij stabiel was. “Dus het is verrassend dat de meteorietenstroom zo’n 467 miljoen jaar geleden zo anders was dan nu,” vindt onderzoeker Birger Schmitz.
466 miljoen jaar geleden Meteorieten zijn stenen die vanuit de ruimte op aarde vallen. De stenen komen vrij tijdens botsingen tussen planetoïden, manen en zelfs planeten en vormen een afspiegeling van de samenstelling van deze hemellichamen. Zo’n 466 miljoen jaar geleden vond er op grote afstand van de aarde een enorme botsing plaats. Een object sloeg in op een planetoïde die vervolgens uit elkaar spatte. Brokstukken van die planetoïde vallen sindsdien richting de aarde.
Micrometeorieten Maar hoe zagen de meteorieten die vóór die grote botsing plaatsvond op aarde terechtkwamen, eruit? Daarvoor moet je eigenlijk kijken naar meteorieten die meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden op aarde landden. Maar dergelijke meteorieten worden niet vaak teruggevonden. Daarom richtten onderzoekers zich in hun studie op micro-meteorieten – kleine stukjes steen (met een diameter kleiner dan 2 millimeter) – die voor die tijd op aarde terechtkwamen. Dergelijke micro-meteorieten zijn wat minder zeldzaam.
Vesta Uit een analyse van die micro-meteorieten blijkt dat deze heel anders waren dan de meteorieten die vandaag de dag op aarde landen. Maar liefst 34 procent van de onderzochte meteorieten die meer dan 466 miljoen jaar geleden op aarde landden, behoorden tot de zogenoemde ‘primitieve achondrieten’. Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,45 procent van de meteorieten die vandaag de dag op aarde landen, behoren tot dit type. Weer andere, oude micrometeorieten bleken resten van Vesta te zijn: de helderste planetoïde die ook vanaf de aarde zichtbaar is en meer dan een miljard jaar geleden een botsing meemaakte.
“We ontdekten dat de meteorietenstroom en de variatie aan meteorieten die op aarde vielen, heel, heel anders was dan vandaag de dag,” concludeert onderzoeker Philipp Heck. “Wanneer je naar de meteorieten kijkt die de afgelopen 100 miljoen jaar op aarde zijn gevallen, krijg je geen compleet beeld.” Onderzoeker William Bottke legt uit: “Het bestuderen van meteorieten die vanuit de planetoïdengordel op aarde worden afgeleverd kun je vergelijken met het bestuderen van aardverschuivingen die op verschillende momenten op de helling van een berg ontstaan. De stenen die je vandaag de dag aan de voet van de berg vindt, komen voornamelijk voort uit een aantal recente aardverschuivingen. Ga je verder terug in de tijd dan zijn oudere landverschuivingen belangrijker. Hetzelfde geldt voor planetoïden die uiteen zijn gevallen: jongere exemplaren domineren de huidige meteorietenstroom, terwijl in het verleden de oudere exemplaren domineerden.” Meer inzicht in die verschillende meteorietenstromen is belangrijk, benadrukt Heck. “Meer weten over de verschillende soorten meteorieten die door de tijd heen zijn gevallen, geeft ons meer inzicht in de evolutie van de planetoïdengordel en de wijze waarop verschillende botsingen ontstonden.”
Scientists: There is a Mirror Universe where Time moves backwards
Scientists: There is a Mirror Universe where Time moves backwards
Time as we know it is something extremely complex that according to many researchers around to globe, isn’t fully understood. We, humans, experience time in one direction meaning that we all get older, we remember our past but we cannot look at the future. However, nothing in the known laws of physics tells us that time MUST move forward.
Among other theories, some suggest the Big Bang was not the beginning of the universe and that we may be living in the past of a parallel universe.
In order to try and solve the biggest mystery of all, two separate groups of prominent scientists are creating models that are able to examine the initial conditions in the universe that might have created what we call ‘arrow of time’. Interestingly, both groups seem to show time moving in two different directions, a contradictory finding according to many researchers around the globe.
Scientists believe that when the Big Bang created our universe, it also created a second ‘mirror universe’ where time actually moves in the opposite direction. Looking at it from our perspective, time in the parallel universe moves backwards. However, ‘anyone’ inside the parallel universe would perceive our universe’s time as if it were moving backwards:
The first model which was published over a year ago in Physical Review Letters tells us that one of the most basic implications proposed in Newton’s theory of gravity creates the necessary conditions for time as we know it to move in a certain direction.
According to Julian Barbour from the University of Oxford, Tim Koslowski from the University of New Brunswick and Flavio Mercati from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, for any confined system of particles—a self-contained universe like the one we live for example—gravity creates a point when the distance between particles is reduced to a minimum. But, when the particles expand outwards, it occurs into different temporal directions, researchers argue.
According to quartz.com, Barbour and his colleagues created a simplified 1,000 particle point model of the universe showing this dual expansion, with gravity creating structure in both directions.
According to the Second Law of thermodynamics, systems like that converge and expand by necessity explains, Flavio Mercati.
According to researchers, the moment before the ‘expansion’ is referred to as the “Janus Point”.
In an interview with Quartz.com, Barbour explains “Time is not something that pre-exists.”
“The direction and flow of time we have to deduce from what’s happening in the universe. When we look at it that way, it’s natural to say that time begins at that central point and flows away in opposite directions.”
To simplify the explanations, Barbour compares the so-called Janus Point to the moment a river splits in two and flows in opposite directions.
“It’s the simplest thing,” he says. “You start at that central Janus point where the motion is chaotic –that’s like the Greek notion of primordial chaos—but then in both directions you get this structure forming. If the theory is right, then there’s another universe on the other side of the big bang in which the direction of experience of time is opposite to ours.”
While the above-mentioned theory isn’t accepted by all researchers, it did create excitement in the scientific community, what led towards more scientists exploring the theory.
Now, a new study, reported by popular website New Scientist suggest that two other researchers, —Sean Carroll from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Alan Guth from Massachusetts Institute of Technology— have come up with a similar model that demonstrates time moving in both directions, in ‘parallel universes.
Even though their study remains unpublished, the two researchers agree that their theory is, even more, simplified than that proposed by Barbour and his team since their study does not rely on gravity or particles confined in another system. According to reports, the study proposed by Carroll and Guth is based on the concept of entropy alone and does not include any other preconditions, meaning that it applies to particles in ‘infinite space’ rather than self-contained systems as in previous studies.
“We call it the two-headed arrow of time,” Guth tells the New Scientist. “Because the laws of physics are invariant, we see exactly the same thing in the other direction.”
The theory, however, is far from being accepted in the scientific community as reports suggest. According to New Scientist, there are initial stages in the model where the direction of entropy growth—and so the arrow of time—is not clearly defined, and so difficult to account for.
Barbour added that the work is being based on everything we know about classic physics.
Once questions of quantum physics are introduced, “all bets are still off.” He adds:
“Instead of having two streams emanating from a river, it could be more like a fountain where you have lots of pairs of springs. Or just a whole host of springs flowing out of a fountain in different directions.”
Meteorite Studies Reveal Surprises About Earth's Formation
Meteorite Studies Reveal Surprises About Earth's Formation
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite on Jan. 9, 2017.
Credit: NASA
Scientists now have a better understanding of three concepts regarding the early Earth: what kind of raw materials coalesced to form Earth long ago, when water arrived on our planet, and why Earth and its moon have such similar compositions.
Two studies published Wednesday (Jan. 25) in the journal Nature suggest that Earth's main building blocks were rocks similar to meteorites known as enstatite chondrites, and that the planet got most of its water gradually during the formation process, rather than in one big burst toward the end.
"The results presented in these papers lead to the troubling conclusion that the meteorites in our collection are not particularly good examples of Earth's building blocks," Richard Carlson, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., wrote in a commentary article that accompanied the two studies in Nature. (Carlson was not involved in either study.) [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]
When did water come to Earth?
Scientists have known since the 1970s that Earth rocks' oxygen-isotope abundance differs from that of most meteorites, except for enstatite chondrites, Carlson wrote. (variants of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei.)
But Earth rocks and enstatite meteorites differ in elemental composition, so most researchers have used Earth-formation models based on different meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites, which are rich in volatiles (compounds with low boiling points, such as water), he added.
By tracking different isotopic abundances in Earth rocks and meteorites, both new Nature studies concluded that carbonaceous-chondrite-like building blocks were not common late in the Earth's formation history.
Section of the enstatite chondrite meteorite Sahara 97096. Throughout its formation, Earth accreted material that was isotopically most similar to this group of enstatite meteorites. The dimensions of the section are 10 centimeters by 4 centimeters (4 inches by 1.6 inches).
Credit: Nicolas Dauphas
Specifically, one of the studies — by University of Chicago geochemist Nicolas Dauphas — suggested that several different meteorite types were likely responsible for the first 60 percent of Earth's growth, while almost all of the remaining 40 percent came from enstatite chondrites.
The second study, performed by Mario Fischer-Gödde and Thorsten Kleine of the University of Münster in Germany, bolstered that conclusion, showing that enstatite-like rocks probably dominated Earth's late accretion history.
These findings indicate that water came to Earth throughout the planet's formation history, and not just in a flurry of carbonaceous chondrites and/or comets near the end, as some researchers have proposed, Carlson wrote.
"If the last 0.5 percent of material accreted by Earth had been composed of a particular type of volatile-rich carbonaceous chondrite, known as a CI chondrite, an amount of water equivalent in mass to Earth’s oceans would have been added to the planet," he wrote. "Fischer-Gödde and Kleine's measurements instead show that this late-accreted material consisted of relatively 'dry' enstatite chondrites."
However, this conclusion still leaves a question: Why doesn't Earth's surface composition match that of enstatite chondrites? Carlson suggested two possible explanations: Earth's deep interior is very different from the surface (which is unlikely for a variety of reasons, he wrote), or, as Dauphas suggested in his paper, the enstatite chondrites were altered on Earth's surface as the planet evolved.
Why is the moon so similar to Earth?
Dauphas' study also sheds light on how the moon formed. Most astronomers think that, long ago, one or more Mars-size bodies smashed into the proto-Earth, blasting out material that eventually coalesced to form the moon.
Models suggest that such giant impacts likely would have created a moon whose composition was different from Earth's, because proto-Earth and the impactor(s) likely would have been made of different stuff. But measurements of Earth, the moon and enstatite meteorites "have almost indistinguishable isotopic compositions," Dauphas wrote in his new study.
The apparent problem can be traced to older models that suggest a diversity of meteorites formed Earth, Dauphas added. His research, on the other hand, indicates that the proto-Earth and the moon-forming impactor(s) probably formed in the same "isotopic reservoir," which was dominated by enstatite chondrites.
"Accordingly, the giant impactor that formed the moon probably had an isotopic composition similar to that of the Earth, hence relaxing the constraints on models of lunar formation," Dauphas wrote.
Texans report mysterious ‘big boom’ with no conclusion
Texans report mysterious ‘big boom’ with no conclusion
A Texas witness at Lake Jackson reported a loud rumbling sound “like thunder” that shook the house and was followed by an unusual whining sound, according to testimony in Case 80863 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness recounted what happened about midnight on December 6, 2016.
“We have a mystery, locally,” the witness stated.“About 12 midnight, many people felt/heard a boom and shaking. Some people reported that it was followed by a high-pitched whine. The area that seems to have gotten the worst effects was Lake Jackson, about 12 miles from us. Some people as far as Alvin (about 35 miles away northeast), and Brazos Bend State Park, (about 30 miles north) said they had experienced it also.”
‘The Facts’ newspaper covered the story.
(Credit: The Facts)
The witness has been hearing from more and more people who had the same experience.
“More recently, someone said that it had been reported as far away as Cypress, (80 miles north), and Porter, TX, (81 miles northeast), although those are unsubstantiated and single reports, as opposed to the hundreds of people who have been blowing up local Facebook threads. Police have checked all local chemical plants, all possible companies that place explosions to map geologic stuff – nothing. No natural gas explosions in residential areas. No major fires. Our only local paper has a thread going on their website; no news of what might have caused it. One of the Houston news channels sent a reporter, and it was treated about as credibly as a Santa sighting. (country hicks imagined feeling stuff).”
The witness believes that the incident is being treated as a mass delusion.
“Hundreds of people in the area, especially in Lake Jackson, felt their houses shake, and heard a loud rumble like thunder, although skies were clear. A friend in Detroit, TX, about 350 miles north, read my post on Facebook, and said that at about 11:30 a.m. she had heard a loud and odd rumble of thunder, and even brought it to her husband’s attention. They, also, were under clear skies.”
At least 100 witnesses at or near Lake Jackson, TX, heard a mysterious boom sound that shook homes on December 6, 2016.
(Credit: Google)
Texas MUFON State Section Director Charles Stansburge investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
“To really get some information about what happened, I made it my duty to go to Lake Jackson and find out what I could,” Stansburge wrote in his report. “I contacted the Clute Police Department and the dispatcher said that she did not hear the boom because she was out of town. I did contact a couple of other officers and three of them that I had talked to claim they may have heard it, but they had no idea what it was and they also said that they made phone calls and to all the big companies such as BASF Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, OLIN, Phillips 66 and Chevron Phillips in the area.
“I contacted Lake Jackson Police Department and one of the officers that was there brought me into the room and we talked about what took place. I asked him if he heard the noise, and he said no, but that we did get a lot of reports coming in from people saying that their houses were even shaking because of the boom. I asked him if he knows how many that had reported it and he stated about 75 that he knew of.”
The investigator also polled people in the street – and found an additional approximately 40 new witnesses. He also described the immediate area.
“The location is one big city, Lake Jackson, with a couple other smaller towns around it. There are railroad tracks, lots of housing and businesses, police departments, sheriff’s office, schools and multiple plants such as Dow Chemical, Phillips 66 and Chevron Phillips and others. Also a few lakes and they are not far from the Gulf of Mexico.”
The reporting witness is from Lake Jackson, TX.(Credit: Google)
The investigator filed case conclusions.
“There is no real evidence of anything other than a big boom. From here I went ahead and got the phone numbers of the different plants and made a phone call and asked them what they thought it might be or if they had any problems with their planet. Every one of them said that they had no explosions and no problems with anything. They all also said that they kept the plants operational and did some investigation on their own throughout the plants and found nothing.
“I also contacted the National Weather Service and asked them about the atmosphere if that was a boom from an exploding meteorite or was it something else. They claim that they have no idea what it was other than maybe a possible meteorite in the atmosphere and it exploded, but they claim they have no information of that from anywhere. I also talked to them about any earthquakes and they claim no earthquakes anywhere around the area or even in the state or surrounding states and they are just as baffled about it as anyone.
“The others I have contacted said that other people have told them about different cities. One of those was Katie, Texas, and the police department claims they had no reports about any kind of a boom. Sugarland Police Department also claims no calls from anybody and claimed not to hear any kind of big boom. I called the Sheriff’s Office and asked about any calls of this big boom and they sent me to records and the person in records claims they had calls from citizens but she did not hear herself being inside the building. I also contacted Rosenberg Police Department and I talked to dispatch and they don’t remember having anybody call in and I asked for records and she said they were closed right now – but you can call back on Monday. I called back on Monday and records claims there were people that had called in about the boom.
“I also contacted Alvin P D, Ellington Field, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Huston Police Department, and these were the ones that claim no calls. The city of Brazoria claim they had a few people call in. Also the Brazos Bend State Park also had people that were out in the park and Rangers as well that had heard the big boom.
“I contacted the Clute newspaper which is called The Facts and they went ahead and gave me a copy of the paper with the article in it.
“At the time of the big boom, which was on the 6th of December, I was sitting at my computer at about 12 to 12:15 and heard a big bang and couldn’t figure it out. I even went outside to check. I did not see any smoke anywhere and had no idea what it was.
“No other cases of the big boom have been reported to our database.
“The case is completed as an Unknown with at least 100 or more people witnessing hearing this big boom with some homes shaking. As far as my conclusion is, that I don’t know what it is or what was it could have been, perhaps an atmospheric explosion of a meteorite, but nobody knows what it was.”
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Soon printing a human heart on demand will no longer be sci-fi
Soon printing a human heart on demand will no longer be sci-fi
Julian Littler, special to CNBC.com
Sebastian Kaulitzk | Getty Images
Imagine being able to grow a liver in a laboratory from cells and tissue for a transplant patient. Or engineering cells to grow into a heart valve to replace one damaged from heart disease. Around the world, start-ups — like Tokyo-based Cyfuse Biomedical — are emerging to develop such breakthroughs in the field of regenerative medicine. It is a market projected to reach $101.3 billion by 2022.
Unlike conventional medicines and treatments, regenerative medicines have the ability to restore or heal the body's own cells or create new body parts from a patient's own cells and tissues, thereby eliminating tissue rejection and the excessively long wait for a donor organ.
It may sound like science fiction, but already scientists at Cyfuse have bioprinted blood vessels able to withstand 10 times the pressure of those already in the human body, according to Koji Kuchiishi, co-founder and former CEO.
Bioprinting works like this: Scientists harvest human cells from biopsies or stem cells, then allow them to multiply in a petri dish. The resulting mixture, a sort of biological ink, is fed into a 3-D printer that is programmed to arrange different cell types and materials into a three-dimensional shape. Doctors hope that when placed into the body, these 3-D printed cells will integrate with existing tissue.
While breakthroughs in central nervous system and cardiac treatments remain in the future for now, Cyfuse's Regenova bioprinter is attracting attention from the scientific community. The bioprinter is a robotic system that facilitates the fabrication of 3-D cellular structures by placing cellular spheroids in fine needle arrays according to predesigned 3-D data. Among Cyfuse's goals: to treat spinal injuries and heart failure.
This year the company transplanted human neural tissue into the brain of a small animal with positive results. Blood vessels migrated into the transplanted tissue and the graft was healing after a month.
Cyfuse has also started a clinical trial of a cartilage project, transplanting its stem cell construct into damaged articular cartilage that will gradually differentiate into cartilage and bone and regenerate the tissue.
Cyfuse is one of a growing number of tech start-ups trying to get a toehold in the global marketplace. The sector is blossoming due to innovations in stem cell therapy and tissue engineering. North America accounted for nearly 50 percent of revenue share of global market revenues for regenerative medicines in 2016. Europe is second, at US$24 billion, with Germany leading the region.
Japan and South Korea are steadily gaining ground, however. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry forecasts the regenerative medicine market to grow to 1 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) domestically by 2030.
With technological adoption and emphasis on research of these medicines, Asia-Pacific is currently one of the fastest-growing regions for regenerative medicine.
The medical power of Japanese art
While there are several companies around the globe leading the 3-D bioprinting space — including Organovo in San Diego, Aspect Biosystems in Vancouver, 3D Bioprinting Solutions in Russia and Rokit in South Korea — Cyfuse says its Kenzan method, a proprietary technique developed by Cyfuse co-founder and human tissue engineer, Koichi Nakayama, differentiates it from the pack.
Named after the spikes used to secure flowers in place in the Japanese art of Ikebana, Kenzan relies on the cultivation of cell aggregates into spheroids that are skewered on stainless-steel spines in the bioprinter.
Regenova is also scaffold-free, meaning the printer fabricates tissue without needing to add any extraneous matter that might pollute it. And unlike many of the other bioprinters, there is no need for collagen or hydrogels; the cells produce their own extracellular matrix.
"To unlock the potential [of bioprinting], it's going to take the marriage between the machine and the imagination of scientists."
-Dr. David Yu, vice president of business development at Cell Applications
In February 2016, San Diego-based Cell Applications became the first U.S. company to use Regenova. In the same month, Virginia-based Lifenet, an institution specializing in regenerative medicine and transplants, became the first buyer anywhere in the world to purchase the system.
"I did a market assessment and review and reached out to a number of companies, including Cyfuse," said Cell Applications' vice president of sales and marketing Daniel Schroen, Ph.D. "Some of them were pretty far upstream from commercialization."
The Californian company is using the bioprinter to create 3-D tissue for a range of clients spanning academic and corporate research.
"We've printed small, tiny beating heart tissue here. We've also printed blood vessels," explained Dr. Schroen.
Medical schools are finding uses for the bioprinter as well. Pediatric cardiac surgeon Narutoshi Hibino of Johns Hopkins is using Regenova to develop bioprinted heart patches to patch the damaged hearts of patients with heart failure who are unable to cope with medication or receive complex cardiac surgery.
At the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Lester Smith, assistant research professor of radiology and imaging sciences and manager of the school's 3D Bioprinting Core,is engaged in clinical biofabricating projects aimed at repairing bone and tendon damage and nipple tissue generation, as well as liver, pancreatic and breast cancer models for metabolic activity and drug-response analysis.
"The bioprinter holds promise to more naturally reproduce tissues in the body than other current bioprinting methods," said Dr. Smith.
Now, with a staff of 23, the company has eight 3-D printer systems operating at Japanese universities and five in U.S. institutions and companies.
While Cyfuse's prospects seem bright, just how quickly futuristic ideas resembling science-fiction fantasy can be realized is unknown.
"This system has a lot of potential because it is unique in many ways," said Dr. David Yu, vice president of business development at Cell Applications. "To unlock that potential, it's going to take the marriage between the machine and the imagination of scientists.
When liquid water was first discovered on Mars, experts thought the water was too salty to sustain life. But now a new study, published on the preprint archive server biorXiv, has shown that Earth microbes can survive in extremely salty waters, which suggests that alien microbes on Mars may have survived in them.
A long-time supporter of the Roswell UFO theory appears to have concluded he was wrong.
It is a question that has been at the forefront of the UFO debate ever since, with claims surfacing that dead aliens were even found there.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since the military announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the nearby desert, in July 1947.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
MUFON
A CGI image of a 'boomerang UFO' said to have been seen in Roswell.
But, now one of the leading supporters of the theory that aliens did crash land in the destroy nearly 70 years ago, appears to have had second thoughts.
Kevin Randle co-wrote with Donald Schmitt the 1991 book UFO Crash at Roswell, and in 1994, The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell.
But, in a new solo book revisiting the case, entitled Roswell in the 21st Century, he appears to have reached a different conclusion.
Writing on his own blog after a debate blew up on line that he had recanted the whole Roswell case in his new book, Mr Randle stopped short of a full admission of this, but did admit to a change of heart.
He said: "The question being asked about me, but never actually put to me, is if I have abandoned the alien model for the Roswell crash.
The short, flip answer is read the book.
"The more lengthy answer is well sort of.
"The book was meant to be a cold case look at the Roswell crash, starting at the beginning and shifting through the mountains of evidence that have been gathered by a number of researchers… all of whom seemed to have a biased opinion from 'yes, it was alien' to 'no, it was a Mogul balloon'.”
"To all of them (which at one time included me with some of them), I say I don’t know.
The question being asked about me, but never actually put to me, is if I have abandoned the alien model for the Roswell crash. The short, flip answer is read the book. The more lengthy answer is well sort of.
Kevin Randle
"And there you have it… I go through the whole story, document it as best I can, and in the end, I have to say that the case is built on testimony gathered decades after the fact and that everything we know about memory is that it really is no good when it comes to something like this."
Mr Randle in his new book said he had concluded that the eight people who told him they had actually seen alien bodies at the crash site "had not been telling the truth."
Sceptic Robert Sheaffer, who wrote Bad UFOs: Critical Thinking About UFO Claims, said: "So Randle has raised the number of those who lied about seeing alien bodies at Roswell from four to eight, and there never were more than eight.
"This completely undercuts the need for bizarre ET or non-ET explanations for alleged alien body sightings at Roswell.
"Stalin and Mengele sent in deformed children in a Commie Nazi saucer: Annie Jacobs.
"The US Army flew in dwarfish captured Japanese pilots in a bizarre craft: Nick Redfern. "The Air Force dropped crash test dummies in the desert: US Air Force.
"All of these highly implausible explanations are unnecessary, because there are no truthful accounts of alien bodies at Roswell to explain.
"Randle doggedly pursued the Holy Grail of alien evidence at Roswell for more than thirty years.
"When he realised it wasn't there, he was brave enough to admit it."
UK UFO expert, Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, does not believe the mystery will ever be solved.
He said: "Randle doesn't exactly debunk Roswell rather he hedges his bets and is open to an alien
explanation, but at the moment we don't have sufficient evidence to say one way or the other.
"Given the time lapsed and the many contradictory witness statements and rumours surrounding this incident I don't think there will be an answer that satisfies everyone, unless of course it was an alien spaceship craft and the US releases this to the public."
But Nick Pope, a former UFO researcher in the UK Ministry of Defence, has launched a campaign to solve the case before the 70th anniversary this July, in the hope that someone in the town hung on to a piece of the wreckage and can produce it.
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ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON IN CONVERSATION WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER BRIAN SCHMIDT
ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON IN CONVERSATION WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER BRIAN SCHMIDT
If you want an answer to the age-old question "are we alone in the universe?", than Neil Degrasse Tyson is pretty high on the list of people that can give you a satisfying answer.
But wait... there let's throw Brian Schmidt into the conversation, and the answer gets even better.
Brain Schmidt was the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2011 for his work on the discovery of the accelerating universe. He is best known for his work in Astrophysics and his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson doesn't really need an introduction, but did you know that he appeared in a Superman comic in which he helps Superman catch the bad guys?
In this amazing conversation Neil talks about the democratization of space, cube satellite technology and ... alien life in the universe.
We all know that it's statistical very probable that we are not alone in the universe, but if we would like to find our cosmic neighbors, how would we do that? What would they look like and what type of technology would they use? And most important question of all: "would they consider us humans as an intelligent species?"
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Our Universe is Expanding Faster Than it Should, Hinting at New Physics
Our Universe is Expanding Faster Than it Should, Hinting at New Physics
Bloomsbury T&T Clark
IN BRIEF
Astronomers used telescopes in space and on the ground to examine five galaxies – leading them to arrive at an independent measurement of the Hubble constant.
This new measurement is challenging the way we understand the universe, as it could possibly point toward new physics beyond our current knowledge.
NEW UNDERSTANDING
The theory that the universe is expanding is widely accepted by astronomers. It’s believed that this expansion happens at a constant rate, known as the Hubble constant, which is considered to be one of the fundamental quantities that describe our universe. However, this rate of expansion has been the subject of many studies, each presenting their own measurement of the Hubble constant.
One recent study offers another measurement of the Hubble constant. Astronomers from the H0LiCOW collaboration led by Sherry Suyu used telescopes in space and on the ground, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, to examine five galaxies – leading them to arrive at this independent measurement of the Hubble constant.
The five massive galaxies the study observed were located between the Earth and very distant quasars. These quasars are very luminous and the light they emit tends to bend around the huge masses of the galaxies due to strong gravitational lensing, which creates multiple background images of the quasar that usually smear into arcs.
“Our method is the most simple and direct way to measure the Hubble constant as it only uses geometry and General Relativity, no other assumptions,” said co-lead researcher Frédéric Courbin. The team measured the delays between the flickers of these different images of the quasars, which are directly related to the Hubble constant.
Using the time delays between the multiple images and computer models, the team arrived at an incredibly precise (at a 3.8 percent rate) measurement of the Hubble constant. “An accurate measurement of the Hubble constant is one of the most sought-after prizes in cosmological research today,” said researcher Vivien Bonvin.
NEW PHYSICS?
The measurement Suyu and her team arrived at agrees with other measurements of the Hubble constant in the local universe that relied on Cepheid variable stars and supernovae as points of reference. These measurements, however, differ in value with those made by the ESA Planck satellite. This is to be expected because Planck measured the Hubble constant by observing the cosmic microwave background for the early universe.
“The expansion rate of the universe is now starting to be measured in different ways with such high precision that actual discrepancies may possibly point towards new physics beyond our current knowledge of the universe,” Suyu explained. The values acquired by groups of astronomers for the local universe — the region of the nearby universe that stretches about 1 billion light years in radius — seem to disagree with the accepted theoretical model of the universe.
This new measurement of the Hubble constant is challenging the way we understand the universe. It’s not surprising, though, especially since there’s still a lot we don’t understand about our home. “The Hubble constant is crucial for modern astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the universe — composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter — is actually correct, or if we are missing something fundamental,” Suyu further explained.
Scientists Create the Highest Quality Hologram Device Ever Made
Scientists Create the Highest Quality Hologram Device Ever Made
Lei Wang, ANU
IN BRIEF
A researchers from Australian National University were able to develop a hologram device that gives the highest quality images to date.
According to the study, the compact device is made up of millions of tiny silicon pillars, which are up to 500 times thinner than human hair.
HIGH QUALITY
Holograms are a staple of almost every science fiction movie or TV show out there – from Star Wars to Star Trek. Now, thanks to researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), we may be a step closer to achieving just that — and sending messages to Obi Wan Kenobi.
The ANU team was able to develop a hologram device that gives the highest quality images to date. “As a child, I learned about the concept of holographic imaging from the Star Wars movies. It’s really cool to be working on an invention that uses the principles of holography depicted in those movies,” said lead researcher Lei Want, from ANU’s Research School of Physics and Engineering. The team published their research in the journal Optica.
Wang’s device is able to create high-quality hologram images in infrared, using “transparent metaholograms based on silicon metasurfaces that allow high-resolution grayscale images to be encoded,” according to the study. The device is also quite small. It’s made up of millions of tiny silicon pillars, which are up to 500 times thinner than human hair.
“This new material is transparent, which means it loses minimal energy from the light, and it also does complex manipulations with light,” said co-researcher Sergey Kruk. “Our ability to structure materials at the nanoscale allows the device to achieve new optical properties that go beyond the properties of natural materials. The holograms that we made demonstrate the strong potential of this technology to be used in a range of applications.”
DEFINING HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES
The real-life applications of such a hologram device aren’t too far from the sci-fi counterparts. “While research in holography plays an important role in the development of futuristic displays and augmented reality devices, today we are working on many other applications such as ultra-thin and light-weight optical devices for cameras and satellites,” Wang said.
Furthermore, because of its size, this device is very portable. This significantly reduces the size and weight of the usually bulky components used in other imaging devices. This can cut the cost for space missions, for example, where heavier loads translate to higher rocket fuel consumption. Apart from these, holograms can also be used to aid medical research and develop treatments for various diseases.
Holography isn’t very different from what augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) technology is enabling us to do. Essentially, this technology allows us to see and interact with our environment in a much deeper way, so to speak. This tech can even let us see something as if we were really there, in the moment, with added empathy. This could change the way we enjoy news, documentaries, or even live events from afar. Soon, we may be able to send messages that capture emotion or urgency much better than a phone call ever could.
The U.S. military claims to no longer investigate UFO sightings. That does not mean that there is no interest, nor does it mean UFOs are not being seen by military personnel. Two former Colonels have been researching this phenomenon for decades. One was a witness to the UK’s most famous mass-UFO sighting, and the other worked in intelligence and, along with colleagues, made inquiries as to what the government really knows about UFOs. He has since had his own sightings, and believes a number of strange phenomenon are associated with UFO experiences. Both will be sharing their insight into these topics at the International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills next month.
Charles Halt in 1981.
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt was the deputy base commander at RAF (Royal Air Force) Woodbridge on December 27, 1980 when strange lights were witnessed by base security in the early morning hours. The lights were over the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. Woodbridge, along with her sister base, RAF Bentwaters, on the other side of the forest, were both on lease to the U.S. Air Force.
Base security police were allowed to leave the gate and investigate. They returned saying they had seen unusual lights, and a triangular shaped craft that hovered over a field before raising into the sky above tree level and darting off into the night sky.
Halt was skeptical of the claims, even though the next day, impressions were found in the field where the craft was seen, along with elevated levels of radiation. That night, in the early morning of December 30, the lights were seen again. This time, Halt wanted to see them for himself. He took a group of men out into the field, and what they encountered was spectacular.
In a memo Halt sent to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), Halt wrote: “red sun-like light was seen through the trees.” He then described the object breaking into five white objects before disappearing. According to the memo, soon after, “three star-like objects” were seen in the night sky. They changed color and moved erratically. They also beamed a light down periodically. These objects were seen by Halt and others, and were in the area for two or three hours.
Memo written by Col. Halt related to the incident that was leaked to the press.
Halt had no intention of discussing the event with the public, but once his memo and an audio recording of Halt and his men in the field were leaked, the media sought him out. He has been asked to discuss the event in public ever since. In an effort to maintain the integrity of the sighting, Halt has sought to keep the facts straight. He has also begun to suspect the government knows more about UFOs than they are sharing.
John Alexander
Retired Army Colonel John Alexander feels differently. Assuming the government did know more than they were willing to admit, Alexander, a former intelligence officer, gathered colleagues to seek out the secret holders. What he says he discovered was less akin to a conspiracy, and more akin to bureaucratic bumbling. However, he is convinced there is a real mystery when it comes to UFOs.
In fact, Col. Alexander has seen a UFO, and he feels a number of paranormal experience are related to his UFO encounter. This will be the subject of his presentation on Friday, February 17, at the International UFO Congress.
The International UFO Congress is presented by OpenMinds.tv, an Arizona based organization dedicated to the dissemination of information related to UFOs and the search for extraterrestrial life. The conference was established in 1991 and is held annually. The event holds the Guinness World Record for the largest UFO conference in the world. It features presentations by scientists, academics, authors, researchers, experts, and those who have experienced paranormal or anomalous phenomena from all over the world. The event has over 20 Speakers, a Film Festival, and scores of vendors. Topics generally covered are UFO sightings, alien abduction, UFO crashes, crop circles, paranormal experiences, governmental UFO secrecy and more.
For more information about the UFO Congress, visit UFOCongress.com.
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Incredible super rare UFO-shaped cloud spotted in the sky over California
Incredible super rare UFO-shaped cloud spotted in the sky over California
'UFO' like cloud over California.
Picture: SWNS/Mega
Margi Murphy The Sun
A MYSTERIOUS UFO-shaped cloud has appeared over California.
Incredible pictures show the moment the clouds parted as though a spaceship was about to makes its descent into Huntingdon Beach, California.
The Sun reports, bizarre mile-long white cloud drifted eerily across the sky without breaking its shape before disappearing out of sight, according to witnesses.
It follows a super rare sphere-shaped ‘Death Star’ cloud spotted in the sky over Japan.
Resident Jake Epstein, 48, captured the spooky shapeshifting phenomenon during an afternoon walk last Saturday.
Another shot of the cloud over California.
Picture: SWNS/MegaSource:Mega
“I just looked up and there it was out of nowhere,” he said.
“The strange thing about it was when it was moving across the sky it didn’t change shape.
“People from 50 miles away could see the same thing later in the day.
“That’s really unusual for a cloud. It looks like a UFO, an alien flying saucer in the sky.”
Cloud experts dismissed suggestions the cloud was caused by aliens — and instead said it was a rare hole punch formation or fallstreak hole.
They form when a propeller plane flies through thin vertical cloud layers causing warmer temperatures below the wings which suddenly evaporates part of the clouds, leaving a hole.
This week NASA released an image of Saturn’s icy moon Tethys. The ‘Twitterverse’ responded by comparing the heavenly body to the Death Star from “Star Wars”.
The moon is one of many satellites orbiting the ringed gas giant. According to NASA, the image was taken late last year by the Cassini spacecraft. The probe has been traveling the solar system for nearly 20 years.
Scott Edgington, the deputy project scientist for the Cassini mission to Saturn, says it’s unlikely George Lucas found the inspiration to create the Death Star after the likeness of Tethys.
“We first saw that moon up close and personal with the Voyager flybys,” he told FoxNews. “Those took place well after the release of the Star Wars movie.”
He added that he wasn’t surprised people found the likeness nostalgic. Edgington himself watched "Star Wars" and other Sci-Fi movies during his childhood. His interest in science fiction inspired him to become a scientist.
“It invoked thoughts of my childhood,” Edgington said when asked about the Tethys’ comparison to the Death Star. “Because obviously you see that and you go ‘wow, here’s this moon which looks like something from a movie that I grew up with’.”
Edgington says the crater seen on the surface of the moon was created by an impact. The surface of Tethys is covered with many other craters, he explained, but the Odysseus crater stands out.
After traveling for nearly 20 years in space, the Cassini spacecraft is winding down its mission. Edgington says a planned descent into the atmosphere of Saturn will take place later this year after a series of orbits around the gas giant.
“In April we’ll begin our last phase of the mission,” he told Fox News. “[We’ll] have literally 22 orbits that will take the spacecraft in between the planet and the rings.”
He added that spacecraft like Cassini have expanded our understanding of the solar system and the search for life outside of Earth. He remains inspired by images of planets and moons beamed back from outer space.
But when asked the million-dollar question, “Death Star or eyeball?” here’s how he responded. “I think it looks like a Death Star,” Edgington said with a laugh.
Willie James Inman is a Fox News multimedia reporter based in Jackson, Mississippi. Follow him on twitter: @WillieJames
Alleged UFO under artillery fire in Tehran, Iran. Iranian Airforce identified the objects as UAVs.
(Photo : tsehay Sunshine/YouTube)
A strange UFO sighting from Iran triggered claims of extraterrestrials and government cover-ups. The Iranian Airforce was filmed firing on an alleged white orb UFO on Jan 17, which the Airforce later identified as drones. However, some alien enthusiasts and paranormal researchers does not believe the government report.
This is not the first incident of similar UFO sightings in Iran. The Iranian Airforce has encountered alleged UFOs as early as 1976 in the infamous Tehran UFO Incident. According to reports two F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors temporarily had system failures such as losing communication and failure to use weapons while approaching an unidentified object detected on radar. Residents reportedly saw bright light in the sky in the area and the system of the jets were restored upon withdrawal.
The latest incident also happened in Tehran. According to the anonymous report in filed in Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the incident was witnessed by a thousand of Iranian residents in the center of Tehran Enghelab square. Videos of the alleged UFO has also gone viral in the internet.
"Many Airforce aircrafts started flying above Tehran searching for these glowing orbs but they couldn't find anything," the report said. It added that the Airforce identified it as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones, however, the report continued that it looked nothing like drones. "As you see in videos UAVs can't fly like that and can't change their direction suddenly."
The report also pointed out that the Iranian Airforce doesn't need and start shooting UAVs in the center of Tehran like they are in the middle of war, hinting that it may be controlled by extraterrestrials. "Just UFOs and alien technology can fly and move like that," the report said describing the its swift movements.
The case is currently under investigation in the MUFON. However, the details of the UFO sighting were called into question because same videos have been uploaded in the internet a day before the reported date of the sighting according to Daily Express. MUFON also admitted that some videos submitted to their database are hoaxed.
A study released this fall posits that the universe has at least 2 trillion galaxies, 10 times the number previously thought. Scientists say the probability is high that one of those galaxies has a solar system with a planet that sustains life.
Some creationists insist that life exists only on Earth and point to the fact that no evidence of extraterrestrials has been found. But that has not been the Catholic approach
Nancy Wiechec/Catholic News Service
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, leads a faith and astronomy workshop in 2016 at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, Arizona.
“Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on Earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God,” Jesuit Father José Funes, then head of the Vatican Observatory, said in 2008. “This is not in contrast with our faith because we can’t put limits on God’s creative freedom.”
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, says it’s only a matter of time before we encounter extraterrestrial life.
Brother Guy, a planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids, says the discovery will pave the way to questions on salvation and how it relates to intelligent species.
If we’re not alone in the universe, what are the implications for our Christian story, in which God became incarnate on our planet and worked human salvation?
‘God loves his people’
“Scripture says Jesus is king of the universe,” says Father Bill Holtzinger, pastor of St. Anne Parish in Grants Pass. Father Holtzinger, who speaks and writes on the relationship of faith and science, says either way, it’s stunning: If we’re alone, we are pretty impressive; if we are part of a bustling cosmos, we have been cherished by the Creator despite our smallness.
“I come up with the same conclusion,” Father Holtzinger says. “God loves his people.”
he priest assumes that if there is other life in the universe, chances are it’s in need of a savior. He laughingly recalls the so-called perfect civilizations visited by the crew in “Star Trek” television shows and films. Things were never as ideal as they seemed.
“The savior would be incarnated in the form of those he is coming to save,” Father Holtzinger theorizes. He knows that the notion of a savior in other life forms may be disturbing, but says that would follow the pattern set on Earth.
“It used to be people thought the Mediterranean was the whole world, then the East and the West, then the globe,” Father Holtzinger says. “Science gives us more and more. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.”
This is first in a series on faith and science.
A matter of degree
Jesuit Father Michael Maher, a theologian at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, remembers 1969. In addition to the moon landing, that was the year Pope Paul VI changed the feast of Christ the King to the “Feast of Christ King of the Universe,” just in case life were discovered elsewhere.
“What will happen if we find life on Mars?” Father Maher asks. “It would be no different than finding the Chinese in the age of discovery. If the Jesus event begins in Jerusalem, it expands and the expansion in space is just a matter of degree, not a whole new thing.”
When Catholic missionaries encountered Chinese civilization, it was more advanced than in Europe. Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci wrote of deeply moral people who had never heard the Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes. That was a theological problem to solve. It eventually broadened everyone’s idea of God’s power and revealed the multipronged nature of goodness, beauty and truth.
For Europeans in the 16th century, the trek across the Atlantic was not different than our hoped-for trips across space. Father Maher reminds students that the Europeans called North and South America “The New World.”
The encounter with extraterrestrial life may follow the same path, the priest says.
From the head of the Vatican Observatory
• “Religious believers tend to say that the existence of extraterrestrials would support their religious faith, and the nonbelievers tend to say just the opposite — that the existence of extraterrestrials would invalidate religious faith.”
• “Nineteenth-century believers such as the German theologian Joseph Pohle or the English astronomer John Herschel argued that because God is so overabundant in his creativity, he must have filled the universe with intelligent beings, not just us.”
• “Instead of thinking we’re so tiny that God couldn’t possibly find us and love us, the fact that he actually does find and love each one of us, individually, and gives each of us all his attention, shows just how big God is. God doesn’t care about humanity; he cares about individual humans.”
SOURCE: Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, “Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?” written with Jesuit Father Paul Mueller, Image, 2014, 294 pp, ISBN 9780804136952; hardcover, $25.
A cosmic event?
Jesuit Father Christopher Corbally, president of the National Committee for Astronomy at the Vatican and a member of the International Astronomical Union, says St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure paved the way in the 13th century for an expansive understanding of creation.
“They put more emphasis on the incarnation being cosmic,” says Father Corbally, who works at the Vatican Observatory at the University of Arizona. “The idea is to complete the cosmos in Christ. The incarnation is not an Earth-based event; it is a cosmic event.”
Should we humans feel less valuable, since we may be among a crowd of sentient life forms among the galaxies? The answer is no, according to a long line of Catholic thinkers.
By the mid-19th century, an astronomer-priest named Angelo Secchi was observing the massive splendor of the universe and speculated that God and God’s love must be boundless, too. The Jesuit now has a crater on Mars named for him.
“Think of the billions of people on Earth,” Father Corbally says. “How could God possibly love me? Well, you and I would have trouble recalling all the names and faces. But not God. What we forget is that God is infinite. God can love anyone, wherever they are in the universe.”
Father Funes, the former Vatican Observatory chief, confirms the idea of God’s boundless love, but is not ready to accept the idea of incarnations elsewhere. “The discovery of intelligent life does not mean there’s another Jesus,” Funes told Agence France-Presse in 2015. “The incarnation of the son of God is a unique event in the history of humanity, of the universe.”
“I was not really sure if I believed in UFO’s or not,” said the senior studying civil engineering at Colorado State University. “But, after this there is no other explanation for it.”
According to Sphatt, he was letting his roommate’s dog out at about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18 when he saw “a group of fluorescent green lights in the form of a chevron,” Sphatt said. He saw the Chevron for about five to 10 seconds at approximately four blocks south of CSU’s campus.
“There were five to seven lights in the formation and were first seen 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon,” Sphatt said. “I was looking south when I first sighted them and watched them move north almost directly overhead.”
The event was quick as the Chevron, which shifted into a straight line, started accelerating and gaining altitude, disappearing when it reached 40 to 50 degrees above the horizon looking north without making a sound, according to Sphatt.
“The lights appeared relatively small but much larger than a star,” Sphatt said. “The individual lights were round, with a hazy edge and appeared to be about 1/6 the size of the moon.”
Sphatt said he has a good understanding of directions, physics, optics and trigonometry, which allowed him to determine that this flying object was not a plane.
Photo courtesy of: Jacob Sphatt
“I just know if it was something like a plane or something that low going that quick I would have heard something,” Sphatt said.
Sphatt urges others who may have seen the UFO to report their sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center. If anyone reports a similar experience it will be compiled together in the database, making it a more relevant occurrence, according to Sphatt.
“I was totally coherent when it happened,” Sphatt said. “It was on a weeknight. I didn’t think anything crazy would happen, just letting the dog out before bed, and then I just saw it. My roommates were up, and I immediately told them about it, and they were just as freaked out as me. The guy that I reported it to said that they had been getting some common reports significant to that, not from the area necessarily, but it has been a common occurrence recently.”
Scott Christensen is an art professor at Colorado State University and has also experienced an alien sighting and encounter in 2014 and a sighting in October of 2016. After his first encounter, Christensen has dedicated a lot of time to researching aliens and UFOs. As an active member of the Mutual UFO Network, he attends conferences as well contacts prominent researchers studying alien activity such as Michael Salla of exopolitics.
“For me, it happened because of that direct encounter,” Christensen said. “It had just never been more than entertainment except since then, and even today, I have already been researching, every single day. That’s the biggest change.”
Christensen said this big change has made a significant impact on his life.
“My life got changed, and I was just in my backyard,” Christensen said. “I look at it from all these ways and think sometimes I just wish I could go back to before the accident. You get into things that are so beyond. Even the physics of what I saw is beyond.”
According to Christensen, his worldview shifted after his first encounter. He dealt with this change by being open to his family and fellow faculty members about his experience.
“I’m always willing to talk about it,” Christensen said. “And, I don’t apologize for it but what other people do with it is sort of open.”
Christensen displayed an exhibited featuring art he had created inspired by his UFO experience. He has made no effort in creating an alien research group at CSU due to the complications that would bring up with the parents of students, according to Christensen.
“Some people find it interesting to a point, but then I have to stop because they get to a point when they get uncomfortable, even my family,” Christensen said.
According to Christensen, when looking at the circumstances of his encounter, he takes note of other alien activity that has occurred in Colorado and surrounding states including the Phoenix Lights phenomenon, Roswell UFO incident, cattle mutilation in the Colorado Springs area and the location of the Air Force in the area. Other states in the area are educating about alien activity on Earth, Christensen said.
“Arizona has had so much information about this,” Christensen said. “It is changing their education. If you went to the University of Arizona, you would find someone to talk to about UFO information. It would be open and accepted.”
At CSU, according to Christensen, there is no real community of people who are interested in the research of aliens. He goes to organizations such as the Mutual UFO Network, exopolotics.org and UFO.org to reach out to other people who have interest or experience with these phenomenon.
“Those have been great,” Christensen said. “I recommend joining an organization after an encounter or sighting because they are so helpful, and it does give you a way to find qualified information and evidential information.”
Sphatt said he wishes there were more of a community around alien encounters at CSU.
“I think a lot of people believe in aliens, and a lot of people have probably seen something too but just haven’t came forward or just don’t want to come forward,” Sphatt said.
Although Christensen’s research is mostly solitary due to the lack of community around it, he finds it to be a unique spiritual outlet.
“I think that’s why in some ways it’s this real inspiring research, but I just have this feeling that it just doesn’t go anywhere except for me,” Christensen said. “And, in some odd way I am trying to use that for my own benefit in a very humble, private connection to the almighty grace. So, it couldn’t come back to the more simpler thing that all of us have to deal with in some way.”
Through his extensive research, Christensen has drawn some possible conclusions about the future of “Earthling’s” relationships with aliens.
According to Christensen, disclosure, or the act of making secret information about aliens known, will be the “biggest event of the millennium,” whether the information is disclosed by the aliens or by “Earthlings” is up for debate.
“It isn’t that disclosure isn’t happening, it is happening, but along the way there will always be these forces of non-disclosure or disinformation or misinformation or downright lies in order to keep it boxed up for some people who would not be able to accept it for whatever reason. When the aliens would want to disclose, then it happens. I could be a mouthpiece for folks who what to have this information out there.”
According to Christensen, there is some debate on whether the general public is ready for full disclosure of this information.
“I think there are definitely some facts that are not known by the general population,” Sphatt said. “I think the government is holding back some information probably.”
Historically, Hollywood, more specifically within the sci-fi genre, has served as a platform for artists to represent their creative take on aliens, Christensen said. This subtle integration into culture is both helpful and detrimental to full disclosure.
“(Hollywood) helps us digest these things in a way,” Christensen said. “The difficulty is going to be taking the veil away from the sci-fi genre and just saying well this has actually happened, and then what?”
Sphatt advises those who want to learn more about aliens to be more aware of their surroundings, urging people to “keep looking up at the sky and off of their phones.”
De National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) heeft een prachtige update vrijgegeven van de iconische foto 'Blue Marble' die Apollo 17 45 jaar geleden nam. De nieuwe versie van de nieuwe supersatelliet GOES-16 nam op 15 januari een nieuwe foto, veel gedetailleerder.
Op 7 december 1972 nam de Apollo 17 een foto van de aarde. De foto, die 'Blue Marble' (blauwe knikker) werd genoemd, is ondertussen een van de meest iconische ruimtebeelden. Maar na 45 jaar was het tijd voor een update met de nieuwste satelliet GOES-16. Het resultaat is verbluffend.
De GOES-16 neemt elke vijf minuten een foto van de Verenigde Staten en elk kwartier een van de volledige aarde. NOAA-directeur Stephen Volz liet in een statement weten dat een van zijn wetenschappers de nieuwe foto's vergeleek met het zien van de eerste foto's van een pasgeboren baby. "Zo enthousiast zijn we."
De nieuwe beelden tonen de aarde in meer detail dan ooit mogelijk was. "De beelden zijn het resultaat van de meest geavanceerde technologie die ooit in de ruimte heeft gedreven", aldus Volz.
De GOES-16 bevindt zich 35.888 kilometer boven de aarde.
Boeing heeft de nieuwe ruimtepakken voorgesteld waarmee astronauten vanaf 2018 naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS zullen trekken. Ze zijn lichter, minder warm en hebben een aantal leuke nieuwe snufjes. En ze kregen ook een nieuw kleurtje: fel blauw.
Gedaan dus met de witte of oranje pakken waarmee astronauten tot nu toe de ruimte in werden gestuurd. "De nieuwe ruimtepakken wegen nog maar 9 kilogram, dat is 4,5 kilogram minder dan de huidige", aldus astronaut Eric Boe. "Ze passen beter en zijn eenvoudiger gemaakt. Dat laatste is een voordeel, want hoe complexer iets is, hoe meer er fout kan gaan."
Water Andere nieuwe eigenschappen: de pakken zijn flexibeler aan de ellebogen en de knieën, de helm is nu een onderdeel van het pak en de handschoenen zijn touchscreengevoelig. Verder is er ook een nieuw ventilatiesysteem, waardoor water uit het pak kan ontsnappen zonder daarbij lucht te verliezen. Dat maakt het pak meteen een stuk minder warm.
De pakken zullen voor het eerst gebruikt worden op de Starliner van Boeing, een ruimteschip dat astronauten naar het internationaal ruimtestation moet brengen. De eerste testvlucht staat volgend jaar gepland.
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THE REPTILIAN STATUE AT HORYUJI TEMPLE NARA, JAPAN
THE REPTILIAN STATUE AT HORYUJI TEMPLE NARA, JAPAN
This statue has been removed from the temple and is in a private collection in an unknown location, so we have been told.
This type of statues are found all over the world from asia to the American continent, they represent a race of beings that lived in the past and certainly still live today among the humanity.
Some say that there is a reptilian race that is benign and another malignant that seeks to enslave humanity and use it to feed.
These beings are very intelligent and have the capacity to contact telepathically and to inflame the leaders of the world.
This statue that was in the temple Horyuji Nara, Japan was withdrawn to a private collection and is in an unknown location.
It is not the first time that certain types of art and even bones of giants and strange creatures that defy the logic of educational institutions are taken from the eyes of the general public and hidden.
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