Japan Has Created Black Mirror-Inspired Bee Drones

 

DRAPER

IN BRIEF

• Researchers in Japan have created insect-sized drones capable of artificial pollination, thanks to the help of horse hair and an ionic sticky gel.
• As bees enter the endangered species list in the United States, these natural pollinators will need all the help they can get.

ACCIDENTALLY REDISCOVERED

In the final episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror, the government claims to be using Autonomous Drone Insects to counteract the collapse of the bee population. Spoiler alert: they’re lying.

It’s soon discovered that these bee drones are actually being used for mass public surveillance. Worse, the drones are programmed to kill. The deaths are linked to a website promoting a ‘Game of Consequence’ where Twitter users can vote to kill one hated public figure using the hashtag ‘#DeathTo.’

Now, similar drones are coming to Japan, without all the government secrets and Twitter deaths (we assume). Japan’s insect-sized drones were turned into artificial pollinators with the help of a coating of horse hair and an ionic sticky gel. The drones work like bees and use their hairs to pick up pollen from one flower and deposit it into another.

Researchers from Japan actually discovered this ionic gel accidentally, and then published their work in the journal Chem. Back in 2007, one of the researchers, chemist Eijiro Miyako, was working on possible liquid electrical conductors. One attempt to do so produced a wax-like sticky gel. The gel was shelved after Miyako considered it a failure. It was rediscovered after a decade during a lab cleanup and, to Miyako’s surprise, the gel remained unchanged.

“This project is the result of serendipity,” Miyako said. “We were surprised that after 8 years, the ionic gel didn’t degrade and was still so viscous. Conventional gels are mainly made of water and can’t be used for a long time, so we decided to use this material for research.”

Miyako tested the pollen-grasping abilities of the gel by coating ants with it, which he then left to roam free in a box of tulips. Researchers observed that ants coated with the gel were able to collect more pollen than those that weren’t. In addition, a separate test applying the gel to houseflies revealed that it changes color when exposed to different sources of light — potentially giving it a camouflage effect that can help artificial pollinators avoid predators.

DRONES HELPING NATURE

With the gel tested and proven to be sticky enough, the next thing to do was to look for the artificial pollinator. Miyako found a $100-four propeller drone and gave it a fuzzy, bee-like exterior. It was the team’s AIST colleagues Masayoshi Tange and Yue Yu who decided to use horse hair on the drone’s surface. These bristles gave more surface area for pollen to attach to, and at the same time, provided electric charge that kept the pollens in place.

The drones were tested on Japanese lilies, with the team flying them by remote control. The drones would pick up pollen from one flower, and then flew to another flower to deposit the pollen.

“The findings, which will have applications for agriculture and robotics, among others, could lead to the development of artificial pollinators and help counter the problems caused by declining honeybee populations,” Miyako said. “We believe that robotic pollinators could be trained to learn pollination paths using global positioning systems and artificial intelligence.”

As bees enter the endangered species list in the United States, these natural pollinators will need all the help they can get. Artificial pollinators can lessen the burden of modern agricultural demand, giving the bees breathing space to recover their numbers. Hopefully, these drones won’t turn out to the way their Black Mirror counterparts did, but we can worry about that later. For now, getting these drones out there to see just how much they could help will keep the world pollinated.

References: 

• Eurekalert, 
• Chem

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11-02-2017 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

How to Watch Tonight's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and Comet 45P

Cassie Kelly

If you haven’t heard of a penumbral lunar eclipse, now’s the time to learn. Because on Friday night, February 10, North Americans will have a front-row seat for the penumbral lunar eclipse is different than a total lunar eclipse. Instead of the sun, Earth, and moon aligning perfectly, a penumbral eclipse involves the moon passing through the outer part of Earth’s shadow, so only a small sliver of sunlight bounces off.

The eclipse lasts for about four and a half hours and will occur in the early evening hours if you’re on the East Coast. The best time to watch will be between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Eastern. The peak of the effect will be around 7:45 p.m., when the moon is almost fully immersed in the penumbra shadow.

The moon will be blocked by Earth's outer shadow, the penumbra. 

Earth’s shadow has two dimensions: the umbra and the penumbra. The umbra is the stronger, denser shadow, which blocks the moon entirely during a total eclipse, offering up a few moments of complete darkness. But, the penumbra shadow is very faint, so the moon will simply just look dimmer.

No special equipment is needed to see the show, just look toward the eastern sky and watch as the moon becomes duskier. It should be easy to see as Friday night is also a full moon, known as the “Snow Moon.”

Penumbrals occur two to four times a year, making them fairly common for our celestial calendar. Total lunar eclipses are much more rare and the next one won’t be until January 2018.

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova will make a close pass traveling at 22.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system, at 3:23 a.m. Eastern time.

If you stay up late enough on Friday, you can look to the Western sky for Comet 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková — but you won’t see it, which streaks by by around 3 a.m. Eastern, but if you’re up, know that it will be a pale green color (from its fluorescent carbon gas).

“You will need an extremely dark sky and optical aid (at least binoculars, probably a telescope) to see this comet,” advises Deborah Byrd of EarthSky, about Comet 45P.

So, if you’re looking for a change of pace this Friday night, ditch the TV and watch the night sky. If you can’t make it outside, watch the “Full Snow Moon Eclipse” broadcast.

Photos via timeanddate.com, Flickr / blobrana2, Flickr / MarkGregory007

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11-02-2017 om 01:11 geschreven door peter  

This Star Is So Bright, Scientists Can't Even See It

Cassie Kelly

Alittle thing in outer space known as AG Carinae is one of the brightest objects ever observed. That’s saying a lot for a universe that has about one billion trillion stars and counting. But this particular star is so bright, scientists can’t even visualize it. The extreme glare coming from this Hubble Space Telescope image completely shrouds the star itself — a small pinpoint compared to the monstrous light it gives off. The criss-cross pattern is also just a glare-like effect caused by the telescope.

AG Carinae is one of the brightest objects in the universe.

The star is classified as a luminous blue variable star — the equivalent of being on the varsity team for star brightness competitions. There are about twenty known LBVs in the universe, one of which is also located in the constellation Carina along with AG. Though scientists are still unraveling the mysteries of variable stars, they do know that the powerful light signifies the beginning of the end for this blue supergiant.

In a process of decay, AG Carinae has already shed 15 times the mass of the sun in a massive outburst of stellar material about 10,000 years ago, which has formed a beautiful celestial ring around the star. The cavity between the gaseous ring and the star itself is void. Scientists think this is because strong pressurized winds moving at almost five million miles an hour are keeping the dust at bay.

For AG Carinae, the end is nigh. In a few million years it will reach supernova stage and burst into one of the brightest explosions the Milky Way has ever seen.

Photos via ESA/Hubble & NASA

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11-02-2017 om 01:03 geschreven door peter  

Here’s Our Plan If We Meet Aliens

 

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11-02-2017 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

WHY HAVEN'T WE FOUND ALIENS?

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11-02-2017 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

EVIDENCE: Extraterrestrial civilizations visited the Earth in the distant past. Ancient civilization – UFO and Extraterrestrial civilization.

Extraterrestrial civilization visited the Earth in the distant past and there is evidence all around us. It isn’t a question anymore, whether or no ancient man was visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings in the distant past.

A great amount of evidence has been gathered that proves that in the distant past, human beings were visited by beings from another planet. These visitors were misinterpreted by our ancestor as “Gods,” because our ancestor did not understand technology as we do today.

Almost all ancient civilizations that have been studied by researchers and archaeologists point to “myths” and texts of “divine” beings that came from the stars and got involved, in one way or another, with ancient humans on Earth. Ancient Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and many other ancient civilization make reference to “otherworldly” beings that descended from the sky, considered as divine, since ancient man, did not have the knowledge to explain in another way, these mysterious visitations.

Ancient texts from the Bible are perhaps the best evidence that point to the existence of “otherworldly” beings in the remote past of human history. The myths of creation, the mysterious light that guided the Israelites on the long journey through the desert, the description of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the union of children of the Gods with daughters of men, the power of the Ark of the Covenant and the trip to “heaven” of Elijah and Enoch are just some of the many biblical stories that involve divine beings who come from the skies, incredible technology of the past that was considered by ancient man as being “heavenly” or “divine”.

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11-02-2017 om 00:36 geschreven door peter  

DONALD KEYHOE, THE US MAJOR THAT WARNED US OF INTERPLANETARY WAR - UFO'S ARE REAL!

This video shows us the moment Major Donald Keyhoe exposes the truth on the UFO subject and states that UFO's are real. He is a true patriot and was one of the pioneers in exposing the cover-up by government agencies.

In 1956, Major Donald Keyhoe co-founded NICAP whose goal it was to stop the secrecy surrounding the UFO phenomenon. It became the largest and most prominent UFO research group in the US. Former CIA director Hillen Koetter and other military officers and prominent scientists like James McDonald were in ts board of directors.

Major Keyhoe sought congressional hearings, and in 1958 he made efforts to use Senator John McCiellan's committee to start public congressional hearings regarding the UFO mystery. All his attempts were blocked by high-ranking Air Force officials.

In 1958 Keyhoe was invited to join a live broadcast on CBS-TV. The Air Force officials tried to use this broadcast to manipulate the minds and hearts of the American public, which there was no truth in the UFO phenomenon. But they never anticipated to the fact that Keyhoe would use this opportunity to speak out on the UFO subject and publicly state that UFO's are real. Keyhoe tried his best to take the truth to the American public.

Keyhoe releases some interesting details on the United States military and how they handle reports of UFO sightings. He sums up the different theories explaining UFOs, how the government is covering up certain sightings and how this could lead to interplanetary war.

Major Keyhoe put his job on the line to speak out on the subject. This was the reason he was ousted out of NICAP in 1969.

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10-02-2017 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

Stunned motorist captures mysterious 'flying disc' being transported by police convoy near secretive US air base

UFO was spotted on the back of a lorry near near the top-secret US Airforce base Wright Patterson USAF where conspiracy theorists claim alien bodies have been hidden away

BY RACHEL BISHOP

A shocked witness stared in disbelief as they watched a UFO apparently being transported by a police convoy on the back of truck.

The anonymous witness said the lorry was driving near top-secret US Airforce Wright Patterson USAF (WPUSAF) base, which is believed to be one of several military bases where the authorities store alien UFOs.

The alleged sighting came to light after the man reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

Footage shows several police cars driving past before a lorry comes into shot - carrying what looks like a "flying saucer" - in the Fort Leonard Wood area of Missouri on February 1 at 10.15pm local time.

The location is around 240 miles from WPUSAF which is where conspiracy theorists claim crashed UFOs and even alien bodies, have been hidden away by the military.

Writing to NUFORC, the man said: "I was driving north 15 miles north of Fort Leonard Wood on I-44 north last night at exactly 10.15pm and saw a line of police cars spaced out about a mile with no traffic coming southbound.

"I noticed more police cars with lights keeping traffic held back in the distance about another mile and a semi with flatbed was in the centre.

"As the semi (articulated truck) approached, I couldn't believe that the semi was carrying what appeared to be a saucer shaped object.

"I passed within a hundred or so feet of the semi going in the opposite direction.

"The semi was moving at a moderate speed and the area was somewhat illuminated and my 16-foot Penske truck was elevated so I had a clear view.

"It was dull metallic grey, with thick short legs coming from the center bottom like fence posts, and a thick central body tapering to very thin edges.

”It encompassed the whole trailer and was hanging over the edges with no cockpit or windows or markings."

Peter Davenport, NUFORC director, responded to the post, highlighting about other sightings of UFOs on the back of trucks.

He said: "We have heard about that object before, and we believe that it is some kind of space vehicle, used by the US Air Force."

The previous sighting allegedly happened on January 15, 2015, in the Lordsburg area of New Mexico when a "triangle-shaped UFO" was seen being driven in convoy.

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10-02-2017 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

Le plan de la Nasa pour explorer Europe, la lune de Jupiter, à la recherche de vie extraterrestre

L'agence spatiale américaine a demandé à une équipe de scientifiques d'imaginer un atterrisseur dont le but serait d'étudier la surface gelée de la lune de Jupiter.

Gregory Rozieres Journaliste sciences et technologies, responsable de la rubrique C'est Demain

ESPACE - Et si la prochaine mission de la Nasa visait à explorer Europe? Non pas le continent terrestre, mais la lune de Jupiter. L'agence spatiale américaine a dévoilé ce mercredi 8 février un rapport rédigé par une équipe de 21 scientifiques qui ont planché sur un possible envoi d'une sonde et d'un atterrisseur sur Europe.

Pourquoi cet astre en particulier? Car la lune jupitérienne intéresse grandement les chercheurs. On la suspecte de cacher, sous une épaisse couche de glace, un gigantesque océan d'eau liquide, en contact avec de la roche. Celui-ci pourrait potentiellement abriter une vie extraterrestre.

En effet, pour que celle-ci se développe, il faut trois éléments: de l'eau liquide, une source d'énergie et de la matière organique, carbonée. Ces trois éléments sont potentiellement présents dans le sous-sol d'Europe.

Le rapport, qui n'engage en rien la Nasa pour le moment, évoque trois objectifs principaux: trouver des preuves de vie (microscopique, évidemment) sur Europe, analyser la surface pour savoir si celle-ci est habitable et enfin mieux comprendre la lune (dont on ne sait pas grand chose) pour de futures missions robotiques.

Rechercher la vie avec un robot, une première pour la Nasa depuis 40 ans

La Nasa précise que l'atterrisseur pourrait embarquer un système permettant de tester des échantillons afin de vérifier si une vie extraterrestre existe sur Europe. Ce serait une première pour l'agence depuis le déploiement sur Mars de la sonde Viking, dans les années 70. Celle-ci n'avait pas trouvé de preuve de vie (à moins que nous ne soyons passés à côté?).

Surtout que pour accéder à ces échantillons, la sonde n'aurait même pas besoin de creuser la glace pour atteindre l'océan. Comme le rappelle le rapport, la Nasa a découvert en septembre des gerbes d'eau sur Europe, propulsées par des sortes de geyser. Il suffirait donc d'analyser cette vapeur pour espérer y détecter de la vie.

Pour se poser à la surface, l'atterrisseur devra être innovant, car Europe ne dispose pas d'une atmosphère permettant de freiner la descente, par exemple avec un parachute. Les chercheurs ont donc imaginé un procédé technique complexe, où l'atterrisseur sera notamment déposé via des filins par une sonde volante, qui ira ensuite s'écraser en lieu sûr.

Pour l'instant, tout cela reste un simple projet. La Nasa prévoit d'ailleurs en parallèle d'envoyer une sonde uniquement en orbite autour d'Europe d'ici le début des années 2020.

Plusieurs réunions vont avoir lieu pour interroger la communauté scientifique sur la pertinence du rapport. Dans celui-ci, les auteurs précisent qu'en imaginant un lancement en 2024, l'atterrisseur pourrait toucher le sol européen en 2031.

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10-02-2017 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

10-02-2017 om 17:30 geschreven door peter  

UFO in Antarctica: The Final Proof that Aliens Have Landed on Earth? | Conspiracy Theories.VIDEO.

Mysterious object discovered in Antarctica, immediately provoked a stir among experts on UFOs.

Russian “expert” Valetin Degterev published on social media what he found in Antarctica while using Google Earth. This is a shot of the black spot, which it claims that it was a UFO, who are stuck in ice after an accident three years ago.

“In the endless ice desert is the most original UFO in the most classic form,” said the Russian.

Seemingly ignoring many other rock formations and shadows in this area, Degterev said that “UFO” measuring 20 to 70 meters and is adamant that the object can not be explained by anything other naturally on Earth

“I think this is a very large disc-shaped flying machine frozen in ice,” he said. According to him, there can be no image of any polar station or aircraft or ships lost in the area. “It seems that this is a man-made object from the distant universe,” he insisted.

Nigel Watson, author of a manual on investigating UFO, told MailOnline that it is difficult to say exactly what the image shows, but this place has a “long tradition” when landing alien spacecraft. Experts in Antarctica, however, argue that the black dot is a common tear.

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10-02-2017 om 11:59 geschreven door peter  

Reports of an alien abduction and UFO sightings made to police

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10-02-2017 om 11:43 geschreven door peter  

Grot ontdekt met duizenden jaren oude manuscripten - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

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De Hebreeuwse Universiteit van Jeruzalem heeft de ontdekking bekendgemaakt van een nieuwe grot waarin Dode Zeerollen werden gevonden, een "van de belangrijkste vondsten" met betrekking tot deze bekende geschriften sinds hun ontdekking een zestigtal jaar geleden.

De teksten, die dateren van de 3de eeuw voor Christus tot de 1ste eeuw na Christus, zijn een geheel van bijna duizend perkamenten, voornamelijk in het Hebreeuws, maar ook in het Aramees en Grieks, waaronder talrijke boeken van het Oude Testament. Het zijn de oudste bekende manuscripten van de Hebreeuwse Bijbel.

Tot dusver wisten de archeologen dat de geschriften die tussen 1947 en 1956 door een bedoeïenenherder ten noordoosten van de Dode Zee ontdekt werden, bij de archeologische site van Qumran, in elf grotten lagen.

"Deze ontdekking van een twaalfde grot zou de informatie die we over de Dode Zeerollen hebben, kunnen omgooien", zei Oren Gutfeld van het archeologisch instituut van de universiteit, dat verantwoordelijk is voor het archeologisch onderzoek.

De grot ten westen van Qumran, op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever, bevatte geen geschriften maar talrijke bewijzen van hun aanwezigheid, waaronder fragmenten van aardewerk waarin ze bewaard werden en leren banden die rondom de geschriften gebonden waren, preciseerde de archeoloog.

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10-02-2017 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Las Vegas Woman Sees Tall White UFOs Leaving Nellis Air Force Base Often, Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 8, 2017
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
News Source: 

http://www.ktnv.com/news/woman-claims-ufo-sighting-in-north-las-vegas

Las Vegas is near a lot of Extra Terrestrial action. Just on the outskirts of Las Vegas is Nellis Air Force Base, which has a Tall Whites Base near the old firing range area (all off limits fenced/guarded land). Its a huge base taking up 1,350 square miles! Enough for a small country.  So why would the Air Force need such  a large area of land? Because they gave some of it to aliens to build underground bases, but sometimes the are outside going for a walk, so the USAF gives them their own space so they don't accidentally encounter a person and kill them. Tall Whites like killing, its in their DNA, they are aggressive even with US solders. What this woman saw was Tall White ships coming and going from Nellis AFB.
Scott C. Waring

News states:
NORTH LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - A woman says she's seen the same strange light two times above her home near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Carey Avenue in North Las Vegas. She believes it's a UFO. Gwendolyn Mathews says it started Sunday around 7:30 p.m. She saw the same light not moving as she filmed it on Facebook Live for more than an hour. She says when she zoomed in with her binoculars, it appears to have legs coming out of it, similar to an octopus. She says the same light appeared again Tuesday night. "Whatever it is, it's beautiful, it's not a plane or a drone," Mathews says. We asked North Las Vegas airport and McCarran Airport about the UFO. They referred us to the FAA, who told us "we haven't had any unusual aircraft activity in the area. I'm not going to speculate about what that might be." Mathews still believes it could have been extraterrestrial visitors. "I know what I saw through those binoculars, I know what I felt," she says. After our initial story aired, a viewer who works at the weather station at the airport says it's the planet Venus. He says it appeared to "disappear" because it went behind a cloud, and says we had a broken layer of Cirrus cloud at 25,000 feet all night.

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10-02-2017 om 11:22 geschreven door peter  

UFO Seen Two Times Over Colima Volcano, Mexico On Live Camera, Feb 9, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 9, 2017
Location of sighting: Colima Volcano, Mexico
Source 1: http://webcamsdemexico.net/colima1/2017-02-09/0938.jpg
Source 2: http://webcamsdemexico.net/colima1/2017-02-09/0912.jpg

When looking at the live Colima volcano cam in Mexico, I noticed a UFO seen in two of its still shots archives. Both appear to be the same UFO, but were 26 minutes apart. One shows the UFO near the mouth of the volcano, the other shows it closer to the camera so it is larger. I and many others have been watching this volcano for over 5 years and we have come to the conclusion that UFOs would not come to visit for no reason. Instead they are coming and going because there is a alien base 4-5km below this very volcano. If you go to Youtube and search Colima UFO, You will find hundreds of old videos taken over the years. 
Scott C. Waring

Seen again below. 

Focused photo close up above, untouched original below. 

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10-02-2017 om 11:19 geschreven door peter  

Two new UFO videos from Las Vegas, Nevada – February 2017

Here are two new videos of a UFOs in the sky above Las Vegas, Nevada. Both were filmed by Youtube user Steven Barone.

Video #1

Witness report: 

I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of February 4, 2017.
I am a bit late getting this out, but here it is. This appears to be a single UFO searching for something. I know that because if it was on the hills and mountains south of the Blue Diamond Hills there is no way it could travel in a perfectly straight line while moving into the southern end of the Las Vegas Valley. I did my best to synchronize both the camcorder and night vision versions of the event.

Video #2

Witness report: 

February 8, 2017. It was an amazing night because something new happened. Red flashing UFOs were moving all over the place at the base of the Las Vegas Mountains. This was a difficult sighting to be operating two cameras. I made one big mistake by not checking that the night vision camera was running thinking it was filming when it wasn’t, so I missed some footage. The distance between my location and where this happened is approximately 15 miles. This is yet another amazing event.

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10-02-2017 om 11:09 geschreven door peter  

Skeptic Seeks Out Help From UFO Investigators After Filming A Flying Saucer

A man walking his dog had called paranormal investigators after taking a video of a UFO. He has sent the video recording to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a large organization that investigates such sightings.

According to the report, the anonymous dog walker first noticed the object as it flew over the field across his house.

The witness had no idea what he spotted, and his instinct told him to grab his phone and start recording because, for him, it was not something he had ever seen before. He saw the object flying quickly in a straight pattern over and away from his house.

The unnamed witness described the UFO as like a dark dome with a slight point on top, a typical flying saucer. He also noticed an apparent string on top and at the bottom of the mysterious aerial object.

The witness stated that he was skeptical about paranormal happenings, but after seeing the UFO, he was just so intrigued.

Some UFO enthusiasts believe the reporting witness had caught something amazing. They think the video shows a rotating UFO as it moves forward. They also explain that the string in the top and bottom were antennas and usually, a UFO has also two antennas sticking out its front area.

However, others think there was probably simple explanations for the said UFO sighting. They pointed out that the video is low in quality, making it difficult to determine whether the flying saucer is just a glider or a kite.

10-02-2017 om 11:04 geschreven door peter  

Betz Sphere Remains A Scientific Mystery Decades After It Was Discovered

The so-called evidence of extraterrestrial has been here for many decades. One of them happened to be the Betz sphere that was found in 1974. Experts conducted several tests of the sphere, and they concluded it as a magnetic object sensitive to magnetic fields, mechanical stimulation, and many sound emissions. They found out that it could stand a pressure of 120,000 pounds per square inch, making them conclude that the thing was composed of stainless steel, particularly magnetic ferrous alloy #431.

While many theories have been proposed, experts have never been fully explained the Betz Sphere or Betz Orb. Some suggested that it may be an extraterrestrial object because of the peculiar characteristic behind the artifact.

Medical student Terry Mathew Betz discovered the sphere after a massive fire had destroyed a large portion of a forest near his Jacksonville home in Florida.

The mysterious object, which measured around 20 centimeters in diameter, was in excellent condition with a triangle depicted on its surface.

The Betz family initially thought it was the remains of military equipment or satellite. However, no impact was found in the surrounding or any signs of damage, just a massive fire.

The family reportedly noticed the metallic sphere appeared to react to some musical notes. Not only that, they apparently also observed their family dog acting strangely. Many attributed the dog’s behavior to the high-frequency wave from the sphere, which was beyond human hearing range. As if those two strange happenings weren’t enough, the family reported that the orb changed direction on its own if placed on the floor and pushed. The weird thing was that it returned to the starting point after pushing it on the floor.

Photographer Lou Egner of the Jacksonville Journal went to the place of Betz family to check the strange thing. According to Lou, when he put the sphere on the floor it rolled away and stopped. Moments later, it turned and went to the right by itself around four feet. It then stopped, turned again, rolled to the left approximately eight feet, formed a big arc and came right to Lou’s feet. Moreover, a strange sound reportedly heard from inside the sphere. A reporter from the Tampa Bay Times confirmed all of these statements.

Interestingly, it appeared that the media was not the only group interested in the mysterious sphere. The NASA and the U.S. Navy had allegedly shown interest in the sphere. The family initially refused to give the sphere to the Navy but changed their mind after experiencing various weird phenomena surrounding the sphere.

A spokesman for the U.S. Navy Chris Berninger said their first x-ray attempts failed to determine metal components and they were planning to use a more powerful machine and run spectrograph on it. Further test revealed that the shell of the sphere was about half an inch thick and it was able to withstand a pressure of 120,000 pounds per square inch. Experts concluded that it was composed of magnetic ferrous alloy #431, a kind of stainless steel. They also found out that the alloy’s corrosion resistance was ideal for marine and aircraft applications.

Civil and Hydraulic Engineering professor Dr. James Albert Harder also showed interest in the strange sphere. He discovered that the two internal spheres were composed of elements far heavier than anything known to science. He asserted that drilling into the sphere would create an explosion like an atomic bomb.

Dr. Carl Williston of Omega Minus One Institution in Louisiana also conducted several tests to the so-called ball from space. He found out that it had three magnetic poles and a possible fourth. Dr. Williston stated that the flux density of the magnetic field seemed to vary in strength base in an unknown pattern.

An x-ray revealed that there were three similar spheroid shapes within the ball. Oddly, these shapes had some kind of a halo surrounding them. The metal was the same to stainless steel but with some unknown content.

Experts concluded that this unknown ball was a magnetic sphere sensitive to mechanical stimulation, various sound emissions, and magnetic fields. It might be in a damaged state if it was an extraterrestrial probe.

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10-02-2017 om 11:01 geschreven door peter  

Many scientists believe the Earth was dry when it first formed, and that the building blocks for life on our planet -- carbon, nitrogen and water -- appeared only later as a result of collisions with other objects in our solar system that had those elements.

Today, a UCLA-led team of scientists reports that it has discovered the existence of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere is rich in carbon and nitrogen, as well as in oxygen and hydrogen, the components of water. The white dwarf is approximately 200 light years from Earth and is located in the constellation Boötes.

Benjamin Zuckerman, a co-author of the research and a UCLA professor of astronomy, said the study presents evidence that the planetary system associated with the white dwarf contains materials that are the basic building blocks for life. And although the study focused on this particular star -- known as WD 1425+540 -- the fact that its planetary system shares characteristics with our solar system strongly suggests that other planetary systems would also.

"The findings indicate that some of life's important preconditions are common in the universe," Zuckerman said.

The scientists report that a minor planet in the planetary system was orbiting around the white dwarf, and its trajectory was somehow altered, perhaps by the gravitational pull of a planet in the same system. That change caused the minor planet to travel very close to the white dwarf, where the star's strong gravitational field ripped the minor planet apart into gas and dust. Those remnants went into orbit around the white dwarf -- much like the rings around Saturn, Zuckerman said -- before eventually spiraling onto the star itself, bringing with them the building blocks for life.

The researchers think these events occurred relatively recently, perhaps in the past 100,000 years or so, said Edward Young, another co-author of the study and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry. They estimate that approximately 30 percent of the minor planet's mass was water and other ices, and approximately 70 percent was rocky material.

The research suggests that the minor planet is the first of what are likely many such analogs to objects in our solar system's Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt is an enormous cluster of small bodies like comets and minor planets located in the outer reaches of our solar system, beyond Neptune. Astronomers have long wondered whether other planetary systems have bodies with properties similar to those in the Kuiper belt, and the new study appears to confirm for the first time that one such body exists.

White dwarf stars are dense, burned-out remnants of normal stars. Their strong gravitational pull causes elements like carbon, oxygen and nitrogen to sink out of their atmospheres and into their interiors, where they cannot be detected by telescopes.

The research, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how WD 1425+540 came to obtain carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.

"If there is water in Kuiper belt-like objects around other stars, as there now appears to be, then when rocky planets form they need not contain life's ingredients," said Siyi Xu, the study's lead author, a postdoctoral scholar at the European Southern Observatory in Germany who earned her doctorate at UCLA.

"Now we're seeing in a planetary system outside our solar system that there are minor planets where water, nitrogen and carbon are present in abundance, as in our solar system's Kuiper belt," Xu said. "If Earth obtained its water, nitrogen and carbon from the impact of such objects, then rocky planets in other planetary systems could also obtain their water, nitrogen and carbon this way."

A rocky planet that forms relatively close to its star would likely be dry, Young said.

"We would like to know whether in other planetary systems Kuiper belts exist with large quantities of water that could be added to otherwise dry planets," he said. "Our research suggests this is likely."

According to Zuckerman, the study doesn't settle the question of whether life in the universe is common.

"First you need an Earth-like world in its size, mass and at the proper distance from a star like our sun," he said, adding that astronomers still haven't found a planet that matches those criteria.

The researchers observed WD 1425+540 with the Keck Telescope in 2008 and 2014, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. They analyzed the chemical composition of its atmosphere using an instrument called a spectrometer, which breaks light into wavelengths. Spectrometers can be tuned to the wavelengths at which scientists know a given element emits and absorbs light; scientists can then determine the element's presence by whether it emits or absorbs light of certain characteristic wavelengths. In the new study, the researchers saw the elements in the white dwarf's atmosphere because they absorbed some of the background light from the white dwarf.

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In addition to Xu, Young and Zuckerman, co-authors of the research are Michael Jura, a UCLA professor of astronomy who died in 2016; Beth Klein, a former graduate student of Jura's; and Patrick Dufour, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Montreal.

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10-02-2017 om 00:39 geschreven door peter  

Alien abductee' reveals what it was like to be kidnapped and see a real UFO

A MAN who claims he was abducted by aliens has unveiled his experience in a groundbreaking video presentation.

By Andrew McDonald 

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10-02-2017 om 00:31 geschreven door peter