Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
29-01-2017
Weird Bright Light leaves Mexican Volcano
Weird Bright Light leaves Mexican Volcano
An awesome bright light was caught on the Live Stream of Webcams de Mexico on January 24, 2017.
It is unclear whether it is a helicopter leaving the side of the volcano flying towards the camera or a UFO that leaves the volcano.
The following live cam recording apparent shows the object that suddenly emits a bright light, then it flies upwards until it disappears.
Retired aerospace engineer William Tompkins said a photograph showing a flying saucer that is apparently landing on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck is genuine. Tompkins, who had served leading U.S. corporations for four decades up until 1984, discussed the photo on May 4 in a radio interview. He stressed that the picture was taken from one of the landings by friendly Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs, which were considered regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
Tompkins career started in 1942 as a Naval Intelligence operative. His duties include giving intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations on Nazi Germany’s secret development of anti-gravity spacecraft. To support his claims, he supplied multiple documents as proofs he was assigned to such secret operation and operated out of Naval Air Station in San Diego.
Tompkins said that the extraterrestrial craft would land to get the admiral of the naval battle group and bring him to the mothership in space to hold meetings with commanders of a Nordic Space Navy.
Tomkins explained that the alien craft would go down to talk to the admiral in command on a particular battle group. They would then conduct other programs and meetings. The admiral, together with some other people, would get into the extraterrestrial craft to go to the alien mothership. These aliens, of course, brought them back later, according to Tompkins. Tompkins further emphasized during the interview that the UFOs landed on their aircraft carriers many times.
Frank Chille, the one who got the photo, shared the story about it. He said the original photograph that shows the disk landing on the aircraft carrier was shown to him by Graham Bethune over 15 years ago. The photo was on thick paper and the back side it said “U.S. Navy, top secret, eyes only, 1955.” Chille stated that Bethune allowed him to make a copy of it.
Two recently “fired” NASA “officials” have revealed the best-kept secret of the US government that had been kept “safe” for forty years, saying that there are traces of constructions on the Moon.
Earth’s Moon has always been a much talked about subject and speculation about what it may have always been present. We have always wondered why we have not been to the moon recently, we have all seen the mysterious images of the moon that appear to show strange constructions on the surface of the moon yet no one has reached and explored the possibilities thoroughly.
As revealed by the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ken Johnston, former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program and Richard Hoagland, a former consultant of NASA, uncovered the secret at a conference held at the National Press Club in Washington. Both of them were involved in the Apollo missions, Hoagland in particular, who presided the Apollo moon landing transmission on television.
Skeptics have already attacked both Johnston and Hoagland suggesting that they have little to none evidence that can support their claims. But is there a chance that they might be right? And that there is something happening on the moon?
Johnston confirmed that, in the 70s, American astronauts saw and recorded “vestiges of human constructions of antiquity” on the moon and photographed some of the technological evidence found on the surface. After the astronauts brought back the images to Earth, they were handed over to Johnston, responsible for the conservation of the images. Even though some officials had ordered Johnston to destroy the images he kept them as a secret. Nearly forty years after, Johnston decided to publish these pictures. He accused NASA of editing original images of the Moon and replacing them with fake images where the structures on the moon had been erased.
The official photos underwent special treatment and, particularly those of the moon landing, which were eventually modified. According to Hoagland, the Apollo mission astronauts even brought back physical evidence of extraterrestrial technology, advancements that have already been incorporated and are used by countries such as the United States, Russia, China, India and Japan. The United States astronauts brought back from the moon, clear evidence of structures, and items.
Johnston believes that a new round of struggle will have its outcome and, unlike political competition with Russia 50 years ago, this outcome will decide the fate of each and every human being on Earth. Hoagland stated clearly that besides the truth hidden on the Moon, there are several pieces of evidence that point to the existence of life and traces of life on the red planet. Adding to the mystery, packages 698,699 and 700 where the moon landing records were kept have vanished from sight.
Whether these two individuals are right about their theories and are telling the truth is something that we will perhaps, not known. But we have to accept for a fact that the moon missions have been, since the beginning, surrounded by numerous enigmas. Why we have not been to the moon recently is another quest that nobody seems to address.
AMERICAN ASTRONOMER CLYDE TOMBAUGH DISCOVERED PLUTO AND HAD HAUNTING UFO ENCOUNTERS
AMERICAN ASTRONOMER CLYDE TOMBAUGH DISCOVERED PLUTO AND HAD HAUNTING UFO ENCOUNTERS
Clyde Tombaugh was the American astronomer who discovered the planet, Pluto. What many people do not know is that he also observed several UFOs during his career. In 1949 he had a UFO sighting in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The object consisted of several rectangles of light, which moved from northwest to southeast.
He was one of the first preeminent astronomers that made an official report about seeing UFOs.
In late 1948 and through the early 50's he saw three of the mysterious green fireballs, that made headlines in New Mexico.
Mr. Tombaugh stated: "I have seen 3 objects in the last 7 years which defied all explanations of the known phenomena, such as Venus, meteors, atmospheric optics or planes. I am a professional, highly skilled astronomer. ...I think that several reputable scientists are unscientific in refusing to entertain the possibility of extraterrestrial origin and nature."
In 1952 Clyde Tombaugh was one of the people that UFO researcher Allen Hynek interviewed. Hynek was working as a scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO study. He wanted to know whether other astronomers also witnessed UFOs.
Recently Pluto has been demoted. It's no longer considered to be a planet but was downgraded to the status of dwarf planet. Some researchers suggest that Clyde Tombaugh's outspoken opinion on the UFO subject could have been the cause for these actions. Did he see something he wasn't supposed to see?
VIDEO: Luister naar wat deze Canadese oud-minister heeft te zeggen over UFO’s en de Nieuwe Wereldorde
VIDEO: Luister naar wat deze Canadese oud-minister heeft te zeggen over UFO’s en de Nieuwe Wereldorde
De Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer sprak tijdens een MUFON-lezing over buitenaardse invloed op aarde.
Hij zei dat deze buitenaardse invloed al in Bijbelse tijden werd gevoeld, maar pas in de Tweede Wereldoorlog begon door te dringen ‘toen we erachter kwamen dat een buitenaards ras de Duitsers had geholpen’.
Op hetzelfde moment adviseerde een andere groep aliens de geallieerden, aldus Hellyer.
Rijk
Jaren voor het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog begon de Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) al plannen te smeden voor een Amerikaans rijk dat nog veel groter was dan het rijk dat Hitler voor ogen had.
De CFR, Bilderbergers, banken, oliebedrijven, grote corporaties, inlichtingendiensten en strijdmachten werden samengevoegd tot wat Hellyer ook wel de ‘Cabal’ noemt, een organisatie die in Amerika en daarbuiten ‘ongekend veel macht heeft’.
Werelddictatuur
Het uiteindelijke doel van deze organisatie is volgens de oud-minister een Nieuwe Wereldorde, een werelddictatuur, afgedwongen door de combinatie van financiële en militaire macht.
Hellyer claimt dat de Cabal ook beschikt over ruimteschepen die zijn gebouwd met behulp van buitenaardse technologie.
Alien Abducted 19th century Locomotives rest on the floor of the ocean, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Abducted 19th century Locomotives rest on the floor of the ocean, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: About 2008
Location of discovery: Ocean, 8 miles off New Jersey Shore
Lets face it, aliens steal stuff all the time. Jets, planes, ships, sailboats, people just disappear and we accept it as...normal. Well, here is a great video of not one, but two train engines that were found 8 miles off the New Jersey coast. There is no clear and exact explanation about how these trains got out there, but we can easily figure it out, once we realise that aliens love examining the most recent technology that humans have created. Like Hollywood Paparazzi, aliens seem overly anxious to get their grubby little green mitts on them.
This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 over Mexico coming from a volcano. It starts out far away and quickly grows in size. Thats one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes. The moon could not do that. Scott C. Waring Streetcap1 states: This was caught on the Live Stream of Webcams de Mexico. You can see the clock in the right hand top corner. Streetcap1.
Wikileaks has an email that states that the PM of Granada flatly states that UFOs exist and that the United Nations needs to do some serious research. All this makes me think that the tiny island of Granada must be having some serious UFO sightings for the Prime Minister of the country to step out and say it. Scott C. Waring
Email states: BEGIN UNCLASSIFIED. 1. SUMMARY: AS ANTICIPATED, GRENADIAN PM SIR ERIC GAIRY ADDRESSED THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE (SPC) ON AGENDA ITEM 126 AND INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION (DATAFAXED) WHICH WOULD ESTABLISH AN EXPERT GROUP TO SET GUIDELINES FOR A UN STUDY OF UFOS. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY DR. FRIDAY (MINISTER OF EDUCATION) AND FOUR OTHER SPEAKERS, ALL OF WHOM ARGUED IN FAVOR OF A "UN CLEARINGHOUSE" FOR THE EXCHANGE OF DATA AND COORDINATION OF RESEARCH ON UFOS. THE SPEAKERS WERE SUPPLEMENTED BY A SHORT FILM WHICH CONSISTED OF STILL AND MOTION PICTURES SPLICED TOGETHER PURPORTING TO DEPICT ACTUAL SIGHTINGS OF UFOS. CONSIDERATION OF THE ITEM WAS SUSPENDED TO PERMIT DELEGATES TO CONSIDER THE RESOLUTION. END SUMMARY.
This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 over Mexico coming from a volcano. It starts out far away and quickly grows in size. Thats one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes. The moon could not do that. Scott C. Waring Streetcap1 states: This was caught on the Live Stream of Webcams de Mexico. You can see the clock in the right hand top corner. Streetcap1.
Location:Space Date:20 January 2017 Submitted by John
Witness report:Iss live feed ufo came came into shot top of screen made its way to earth. Have been watching for years seen nothing then there it was amazing always believed now more than ever.
Nearby Alien Planet's Climate Swings May Be Too Wild for Life
Nearby Alien Planet's Climate Swings May Be Too Wild for Life
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
One of the closest rocky planets to Earth could have a wild climate that oscillates quickly between hot and cool periods, a new study reports.
This planet, known as Wolf 1061c, resides in the "habitable zone" of its host star, that just-right range of distances where liquid water could theoretically exist on a world's surface. But it's far from clear if Wolf 1061c could actually support life as we know it, study team members said.
For starters, Wolf 1061c — which circles a star located just 14 light-years from Earth's sun — lies at the inner edge of the habitable zone, similar to where Venus is in Earth's solar system. Venus has a hellish environment today, with surface temperatures reaching nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius). [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
Venus likely had oceans on its surface in the past, but was so close to the sun that the heat made all the oceans evaporate. The water vapor assisted in trapping heat, contributing to Venus' runaway greenhouse effect.
Something similar may have happened on Wolf 1061c, said the new study's lead author, Stephen Kane, of San Francisco State University.
Wolf 1061c is "close enough to the star where it's looking suspiciously like a runaway greenhouse," Kane said in a statement.
Kane and colleagues studied Wolf 1061c's parent star in detail using the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy array, which is located at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. The researchers' detailed measurements allowed them to better characterize the star's habitable zone and the conditions that planets in the system likely experience. (Wolf 1061c is one of three worlds known to circle the star; all are "super-Earths," planets slightly larger than Earth.)
"The Wolf 1061 system is important because it is so close [to Earth], and that gives other opportunities to do follow-up studies to see if it does indeed have life," Kane said.
The team found that Wolf 1061c's orbit varies at a faster rate than that of Earth, and this likely leads to greater climatic variations than Earth experiences.
"It could cause the frequency of the planet freezing over or heating up to be quite severe," Kane said.
So it's unknown whether or not Wolf 1061c actually is habitable, study team members said. Getting to the bottom of this question may require more-advanced telescopes than are currently in operation, the researchers added.
One future instrument that should help is NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in late 2018 and succeed the Hubble Space Telescope, Kane said. Webb is expected to reveal the composition of nearby exoplanet atmospheres in detail.
Findings from the new study will appear in the next issue of the Astrophysical Journal. A preprint version is available now on the website arXiv.
Clingy Alien Planets May Fling Their Moons Out of Orbit
Clingy Alien Planets May Fling Their Moons Out of Orbit
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Alien planets that orbit especially close to their stars have a bigger chance of losing their moons, which may reduce the chances that habitable alien moons will survive for very long around those planets, a new study finds.
In the past 20 years or so, astronomers have confirmed the existence of more than 3,400 worlds outside Earth's solar system. These discoveries have revealed that many exoplanets are very different from those seen in Earth's solar system; for instance, about 40 percent of exoplanets discovered to date orbit their stars at least 10 times closer than Earth orbits the sun. (In comparison, Mercury is at most about three times closer than Earth is to the sun.)
In Earth's solar system, there are far more moons than planets, with Jupiter alone having at least 67 moons. Previous work has suggested that exomoons, or moons around exoplanets, could be as big or larger than Earth. If an exoplanet happens to lie in a star's habitable zone — the area in which worlds have surface temperatures warm enough to host liquid water — then an Earth-size exomoon around such a planet could potentially harbor life. [Alien Life Possible on Exoplanet Moons]
However, so far, exomoons have eluded confirmed discovery, said Ji-Wei Xie, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China and a co-author of the new study. He and his colleagues wanted to uncover a potential explanation for why exomoons remain elusive. One possibility is that exomoons are difficult to see and thus simply haven't been detected yet. But another possibility, Xie said, is that, for some reason, exomoons are rare around the exoplanets that astronomers have spotted.
Most of the exoplanets that scientists have detected so far are close to their host stars, because those types of planets are easier to spot using the planet-hunting strategies astronomers have been able to employ. For instance, the radial velocity method looks for repeated wobbles in a star's movements that are signs of a planet's gravitational pull yanking it back and forth, and this quivering is bigger the closer an exoplanet is to its star. In addition, the transit method looks for dips in a star's brightness whenever a planet crosses in front of it, and such darkening is more frequent the nearer an exoplanet is to its star.
Planets that orbit close to their stars are naturally exposed to more high-energy radiation than ones farther away. The authors of the new paper reasoned that, over time, those higher levels of radiation might blast away the atmospheres of exoplanets that are close to their stars; in fact, this idea has popped up in other exoplanet studies as well. Such a "photo-evaporation" process could, in principle, make the orbits of moons around those exoplanets unstable, Xie said.
To see how strong an effect a star might have on an exoplanet's moons, Xie and his colleagues simulated a range of Neptune-like gas giant planets about 14 to 20 times the mass of Earth, each of which orbited a star about 10 times closer than Earth does the sun. The planets started out with up to 500 moons. The scientists simulated what would happen if photo evaporation gradually eroded away the gas planet's atmosphere, reducing the planet's total mass by half over time.
The scientists found that photo evaporation could play a major role in the fate of an exoplanet's moons. As photo evaporation caused the simulated exoplanet to lose mass, the planet's gravitational pull weakened and the orbits of the exomoons grew and became more eccentric, or oval-shaped. Eventually, many of those orbits became unstable, meaning the moons could exit their orbits around those planets altogether. Xie said the simulations could leave few or no moons around the planets.
In the scenario where planets had 500 small moons, the researchers found that only about a quarter of the moons still remained in orbit around their worlds by the end of the simulations. About half of these moons collided with their planets, while a quarter of the moons escaped their planets to become new planet-like objects circling their stars. In the simulations, some of the moons flew away on trajectories that could make them go on to become free-floating "rogue planets" that wander the galaxy.
In scenarios that included larger moons with masses up to twice that of Earth, even fewer moons remained in stable orbits around their evaporating planets. In these scenarios, in addition to escaping from or colliding with their planets, moons also collided with one another, the researchers found.
All in all, these findings "can help guide the future search for exomoons," Xie said. For instance, their findings suggest that exomoon hunters should avoid exoplanets that are very close to their stars. This holds especially true for red dwarf stars, which are luminous with X-rays that enhance photo evaporation, he said.
As for whether habitable exomoons are possible, Xie noted that sun-like stars possess habitable zones that are about as far away from them as Earth is from the sun. At such distances, "the photo-evaporation effect is very limited, and thus our findings will not apply to them," Xie said.
However, red dwarfs, which constitute up to 70 percent of the stars in the cosmos, are up to 50 times fainter than the sun, and so their habitable zones are much closer to them. "Our findings would suggest that there would be less habitable moons around red dwarfs due to the photo-evaporation effect," Xie said.
The scientists detailed their findings online Dec. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal.
'Alien' Life Could Exist High in Earth's Atmosphere
'Alien' Life Could Exist High in Earth's Atmosphere
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
Life on Earth shows up in surprising places. It's been found in high-temperature vents deep undersea and high in the air. But we're still trying to learn more about these so-called "extremophiles." Researchers are now pondering how well can life reproduce in these environments. Also, could microbes of this type be found on other worlds?
In March, a group of University of Houston students — piggybacking on a payload with a prime mission to scope out auroras — will fly a high-altitude experiment from Alaska to see what microbes are in the high atmosphere, between 18 km and 50 km (11 miles and 31 miles) from the ground. The instrument, which looks almost like a small laundry hamper, pops open to collect what's in the atmosphere. Then, as the balloon descends, it shuts closed for researchers to analyze.
Jamie Lehnen, a fourth-year student on the team, says this system could be less open to contamination than pumps and other complicated mechanisms that require servicing on Earth. But it's the first time her group has used it, so isn't sure how well it will function. If it does, however, she's interested in learning about how microbes will react under the stresses of living at high altitudes.
"A lot of times, these microbes when they go up there, they shut down. They are not replicating and they are not metabolically active," she said. "I'm interested in how their stress response is similar to those [microbes] back on Earth's surface."
Some of the earliest high-altitude microorganism experiments did not involve air travel at all — Charles Darwin picked up African dust on his ship while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, while Louis Pasteur made measurements on top of alpine glaciers. Both found microorganisms.
That said, microorganism research in the upper atmosphere has been active since the 1930s at least. One of the earliest flights involved Charles Lindbergh, a pilot best known for piloting the Atlantic solo in 1927. Accompanied with his wife, Lindbergh periodically passed the monoplane controls over to her to take samples from the atmosphere around them. The research team found spores of fungi and pollen grains, among other specimens.
Planes still require a substantial amount of atmosphere to fly, so it's with high-altitude balloons and rockets that we can get even higher — to the stratosphere and the mesosphere. According to NASA microbial researcher David Smith, some of the pioneering work in this field was done in the 1970s, particularly in Europe and the Soviet Union. "Everything they did was fascinating, but there hasn't been a lot of follow-up work to validate the results of those collections," he told Seeker.
There are open questions about how valid these early results are, given that contamination protocols may not have been strict. So Smith and other researchers are trying to figure out what kind of microbes live above Earth, and for how long. In May and June, Smith's team will fly with the team from NASA ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment), which uses a Gulfstream III jet to monitor how climate change affects animals, plants, the environment and infrastructure. In the spring, a vast airstream on the Pacific Ocean moves millions of tons of dust across the ocean, mostly from Asia.
"We want to know what kind of microorganisms are making that leap across the ocean, co-transported with aerosol species," Smith said. "Alaska will allow us an opportunity to test the atmospheric bridge hypothesis, which simply speaking, is continents sneezing on each other."
Smith's team will use a cascade sampler for collection, which passes air through progressively finer impact plates with holes in them, he said. As the air moves through, dust and any microorganisms impact the surface of those plates. A portion of them stick to the surface, allowing researchers to analyze what is there afterwards.
Smith is skeptical that microorganisms are growing or dividing at such high altitudes, because it's so cold and dry up there. But he says that microorganisms may be "persisting", or lingering and not being killed. "Nobody's been able to measure how long microorganisms can stay in the stratosphere. There's works that still needs to be done."
"Virtually all terrestrial and marine surfaces have microorganisms associated with them that can get disattached from the surfaces by wind or other physical disturbances," wrote Aarhus University assistant professor Tina Santl-Temkiv, who has studied microorganisms in hailstones, in an e-mail to Seeker.
"[They] can reach higher levels of troposphere, above around one kilometer, can stay suspended in air for around a week and can travel thousands of kilometers, riding on wind currents. Eventually, they get deposited back to the ground wither through the formation of rain or simply due to gravity."
If Earth's atmosphere is shown to be a great spot for life to divide, however, it could have implications for locations such as Venus. Back in the 1960s, astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan suggested that the upper atmosphere of Venus could harbor the descendants of organisms that could have evolved on the surface of the planet when it was cooler.
Even though today the surface can crush and cook unprotected spacecraft, 50 kilometers (31 miles) above is more temperate. Moreover, researchers have found an intriguing substance that blocks ultraviolet light in Venus' clouds. Life hasn't yet been ruled out as a possibility.
"Venus and Earth were similar for 3 billion years [of their evolution] and perhaps as recently as up to about half a billion years ago," said Dr. Lynn Rothschild, a NASA astrobiologist and synthetic biologist that is on Smith's research team. She said this includes liquid oceans, similar atmosphere, and probably the same sorts of minerals and organic compounds as well.
But Venus would be a difficult prospect if the life returns to the surface. The sun got more luminous as the solar system aged, evaporating the water from Venus' oceans. The water vapor, now in the atmosphere, contributed to giving Venus a hellish greenhouse effect on its surface.
It seems that life is hardy, but we don't know if it's tough enough to survive living high above a planetary surface. If it does, however, that could mean that even missions that sample a planet's atmosphere could have to worry about protections against hurting possible life. We'll have to see what these new experiments yield, though, before reaching any conclusions.
Unidentified Flying Objects seen over the United States for the past 18 years may be visitors from outer space here on reconnaissance missions, an eminent University of Arizona physicist said yesterday.
By Bob Thomas The Arizona Republic 1-7-1966
Dr. James E. McDonald, senior physicist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the university, said he reluctantly has accepted the extraterrestrial theory after intensive research into UFOs.
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This is the most CONVINCING video footage that proves UFOs exist
This is the most CONVINCING video footage that proves UFOs exist
A recently uploaded video footage shows a disc-shaped UFO traveling at 10,000 mph. A researcher from the Mutual UFO Networks says he is perplexed by the video footage. The video footage has reportedly been sent to NASA for analysis. “The object appears to be solid and emitting its own light, or reflecting light.”
Don’t believe in aliens? Check out this mind-boggling video which apparently shows a small UFO traveling at unimaginable speed. The video has reportedly been sent to NASA for analysis.
I guess its true when they say The truth is out there. The truth is all around us some would say. A newly uploaded video to Youtube, filmed by a US Air Force veteran, 59, sent to the ‘Mutual UFO Network’ for investigation promises to leave you shocked.
The object filmed in the video footage is estimated to have flown around 50 feet of the ground at an estimated speed of 10,000 mph.
In an interview with the Daily Star, the veteran from Ayden, North Carolina said: “This UFO video was captured with my DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K aerial camera. I thought I had seen it all. This footage took me back. I was flying my aerial camera from Ayden District Park. The skies were clear with unlimited visibility. I did not witness this object first hand; it wasn’t until I reviewed the 4K footage on my 4K TV that I first spotted the object on video.”
The video footage has left The Mutual UFO Network’s North Carolina investigator, Sanford Davis perplexed.
In a report detailing the sighting Davis wrote:
“It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage.
“The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.
“It appears as a white dot, flattening out somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen.”
What do you think about the video? What could the object be? Is it really the ultimate proof that the UFO phenomenon is real?
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Un OVNI chaque soir au dessus de La Roche-sur-Yon
Un OVNI chaque soir au dessus de La Roche-sur-Yon
Rédigé par Olivier de Sedona
Cela fait maintenant 2 semaines que des habitants de La Roche-sur-Yon observent une boule de feu qui émet des rayons bleus dans le ciel.
La photo a été prise d'un balcon, qui donne sur la rue Friedland dans le quartier de la Garenne, en direction de la prison.
Plusieurs hypothèses semblent déjà émerger de ce casse-tête qui a même passionné les plus sceptiques... :
-Le drone (livraisons de drogues ou de téléphones portables en prison?) -La planète Vénus selon Richard Tanguy, le président du Centre Astronomique Vendéen (par contre il faudrait juste l'informer que Vénus ne se déplace pas) -La lanternes thaïlandaise bien utile quand on n'a pas le moindre début de réponse.
Et enfin l'hypothèse qui semble pour le moment la plus sérieuse: L'Objet Volant Non Identifié...
Autre photo qui donne sur la rue Friedland dans le quartier de la Garenne, en direction de la prison.
'Buitenaards' insect gevonden; eerste nieuwe insectenorde sinds 2002
'Buitenaards' insect gevonden; eerste nieuwe insectenorde sinds 2002
Tim Kraaijvanger
Onderzoekers van de staatsuniversiteit van Oregon hebben een bijzonder diertje gevonden in een barnsteen. Met zijn driehoekige kop lijkt het een buitenaards wezen. Niets is minder waar: het is een nieuw insect.
Er zijn ongeveer een miljoen insecten bekend, maar er zijn nog miljoenen onbekende exemplaren. Ieder insect op aarde behoort tot een van de 31 orden. Een orde is één van de taxonomische ranken: hoger dan de onderorde en familie, maar lager dan de superorde of klasse. Dankzij de nieuwe vondst zijn er niet 31 insectenorden, maar 32. Het is voor het eerst sinds 2002 dat er een nieuwe insectenorde is toegevoegd.
“Dit nieuwe insect heeft een aantal kenmerken wat we niet kunnen matchen met andere insectenorden”, beweert professor George Pionar Jr. “Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien. Het lijkt een uniek wezentje. Na een flinke discussie is besloten om het aantal insectenorden uit te breiden.”
Het nieuwe insect behoort tot de nieuwe orde Aethiocarenodea. De naam van de nieuwe soort is Aethiocarenus burmanicus. Het is een referentie naar de Hukawng Valley-mijnen in Myanmar (voorheen Burma) waar dit insect is gevonden.
De meest opvallende kenmerken van de Aethiocarenus burmanicus zijn de grote ogen en de driehoekige kop. Het topje van de driehoek bevindt zich aan de onderkant van de nek. Dit maakt het insect uniek. Volgens Pionar Jr. kon de Aethiocarenus burmanicus 180 graden om zich heen kijken door zijn kop te draaien.
“Met zijn lange nek, grote ogen en vreemde kop lijkt dit insect op ET”, zegt Poinar Jr. “Ik heb een Halloween-masker gemaakt dat lijkt op de kop van dit insect. Toen ik het droeg tijdens ‘Trick Or Treat’, schrokken de kleine kinderen hier zo van, dat ik besloot om het masker af te zetten.”
Op dit moment zijn er twee exemplaren van de nieuwe insectenorde bekend. De Aethiocarenus burmanicus leefde zo’n honderd miljoen jaar geleden in de bossen van Burma, maar is ergens in de loop ter tijd uitgestorven. Toch is dit nog niet met zekerheid te zeggen. Wie weet kruipt deze ET nog ergens rond, zonder dat wij dit weten.
Al tachtig jaar proberen wetenschappers metaalwaterstof te maken, maar nu is het mogelijk eindelijk gelukt. Dit beweren wetenschappers in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science Magazine.
Waterstof komt in normale toestand in gasvorm voor. Toch zou het theoretisch mogelijk zijn dat waterstof onder extreme druk de vorm van een hard metaal aanneemt. De atomen en elektronen gedragen zich dan als een metaal, waardoor er allerlei interessante toepassingen mogelijk zijn. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan raketbrandstof.
Harvard-wetenschappers Ranga Dias en Isaac Silveira schrijven dat het metaalwaterstof niet groter is dan de breedte van een haar op jouw hoofd, oftewel veertig tot vijftig micronen. Het is dus nog te weinig om raketbrandstof te maken. Toch verwachten Dias en Silveira dat ze de productie in de toekomst kunnen opschroeven.
4,95 miljoen bar Om het metaalwaterstof te creëren, plaatsten de onderzoekers een kleine hoeveelheid moleculair waterstof tussen twee synthetische diamanten. De diamanten werden tegen elkaar geduwd, waardoor de druk toenam tot 495 gigapascal, oftewel 4.950.000 bar. Eén bar is de atmosferische druk op aarde, dus bijna vijf miljoen keer deze druk is waarschijnlijk niet voor te stellen. Zelfs in het midden van de aarde is de druk minder groot.
Van waterstof naar metaalwaterstof Naast dat de druk flink werd opgevoerd, koelden de onderzoekers het waterstof tot een temperatuur van -270 graden Celsius werd bereikt. De wetenschappers beweren in het paper dat de waterstofatomen aan elkaar kleefden, waardoor de atomen elektronen met elkaar gingen delen en een kristalrooster ontstond. Het materiaal zou vervolgens dezelfde eigenschappen hebben als metaal. “Toen we de druk opvoerden, zagen we de kleur van het materiaal veranderen van zwart naar glanzend metallic,” zegt Silvera tegen BBC. “Het materiaal kaatst evenveel licht terug als een spiegel van aluminium.”
Reacties De grote vraag is of het metaalwaterstof is. Eerst moeten de wetenschappers aantonen dat experiment herhaald kan worden. Daarnaast moeten grotere hoeveelheden metaalwaterstof gemaakt worden om aan te tonen dat het ook daadwerkelijk metaalwaterstof is. Andere onderzoekers zijn sceptisch, maar ook optimistisch. “Bij zo’n hoge druk is een overgang naar metaalwaterstof niet ondenkbaar”, reageert Marcus Knudson van Sandia National Laboratories. Natuurkundige Rinke Wijngaarde van de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam laat aan NRC weten dat de kans dat het echt metaalwaterstof is ongeveer zeventig procent is.
Raketbrandstof 2.0 Als metaalwaterstof ooit in grote hoeveelheden gemaakt kan worden, dan is dit wellicht de nieuwe raketbrandstof. Bij de omzetting van metaalwaterstof in waterstof komt twintig keer zoveel energie vrij als bij de verbranding van waterstof met zuurstof, waardoor metaalwaterstof drie tot vier keer meer stuwkracht per kilo brandstof biedt. Daarnaast kan metaalwaterstof gebruikt worden als supergeleider, waardoor windenergie bijvoorbeeld efficiënter getransporteerd kan worden naar huishoudens. Voor nu is dit allemaal nog toekomstmuziek.
Scientists at Harvard University succeeded in creating a tiny amount of the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet
For nearly 100 years, scientists have dreamed of turning the lightest of all the elements, hydrogen, into a metal.
Now, in a stunning act of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Harvard University have finally succeeded in creating a tiny amount of what is the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet, they reported in the journal Science.
For metallic hydrogen could theoretically revolutionise technology, enabling the creation of super-fast computers, high-speed levitating trains and ultra-efficient vehicles and dramatically improving almost anything involving electricity.
And it could also allow humanity to explore outer space as never before.
But the prospect of this bright future could be at risk if the scientists’ next step – to establish whether the metal is stable at normal pressures and temperatures – fails to go as hoped.
Professor Isaac Silvera, who made the breakthrough with Dr Ranga Dias, said: “This is the holy grail of high-pressure physics.
“It's the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you're looking at it, you're looking at something that’s never existed before.”
At the moment the tiny piece of metal can only be seen through two diamonds that were used to crush liquid hydrogen at a temperature far below freezing.
The amount of pressure needed was immense – more than is found at the centre of the Earth.
The sample has remained trapped in this astonishing grip, but sometime in the next few weeks, the researchers plan to carefully ease the pressure.
According to one theory, metallic hydrogen will be stable at room temperature – a prediction that Professor Silvera said was “very important”.
“That means if you take the pressure off, it will stay metallic, similar to the way diamonds form from graphite under intense heat and pressure, but remains a diamond when that pressure and heat is removed,” he said.
If this is true, then its properties as a super-conductor could dramatically improve anything that uses electricity.
“As much as 15 per cent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story,” the scientist said.
And metallic hydrogen could also transform humanity’s efforts to explore our solar system by providing a form of rocket fuel nearly four times more powerful than the best available today.
“It takes a tremendous amount of energy to make metallic hydrogen,” Professor Silvera said.
“And if you convert it back to molecular hydrogen, all that energy is released, so it would make it the most powerful rocket propellant known to man, and could revolutionize rocketry.
“That would easily allow you to explore the outer planets.
“We would be able to put rockets into orbit with only one stage, versus two, and could send up larger payloads, so it could be very important.”
However some scientists have theorised that metallic hydrogen will be unstable on its surface and so would gradually decay.
Asked what he thought would happen, Professor Silvera said: “I don’t want to guess, I want to do the experiment.”
But it could be a moment almost as exciting as the time the researchers first realised what they had created.
“Ranga was running the experiment, and we thought we might get there, but when he called me and said, ‘The sample is shining’, I went running down there, and it was metallic hydrogen.
“I immediately said we have to make the measurements to confirm it, so we rearranged the lab ... and that's what we did.
“It's a tremendous achievement, and even if it only exists in this diamond anvil cell at high pressure, it's a very fundamental and transformative discovery.”
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