NASA KNEW ABOUT ALIEN STRUCTURES ON THE MOON – AND THESE OLD PHOTOS PROVE IT!

You’re a space agency and you know the public is expecting hi-res images of the Moon surface. What do you do? Bring out the ol’ airbrush!

 

In 1994, a joint mission between NASA and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) saw the successful launch of the Deep Space Program Science Experiment, formally known as Clementine.

 

One month after launch, the 500-pound spacecraft positioned itself into lunar orbit and began transmitting photos of our satellite’s surface. Equipped with state of the art imaging technology, Clementine was more than able to capture hi-res photos of the Moon’s crust. And during its 300+ orbits, it had plenty of chances to gather meaningful data.

 

 

Those on the ground who were expecting to see the high resolution images were in for a surprise when the Navy released its first set of images. They were heavily pixelated and in low resolution .gif format, and little detail could be extracted from the images made available to the general public. What gives? they asked themselves.

 

How could those blurry images be the best available format sent back by a $200 million piece of space equipment? The whole thing remained a mystery for years. But slowly, people began to realize the images they were given showed obvious signs of tampering and censorship. Multiple areas of lunar interest had been purposefully blurred out as if NASA and the Navy were intentionally hiding something.

 

In many photos, the Clementine data showed blacked out areas, like the one in the image below.

 

 

This is the Rainer Gamma region, a 40 mile-wide albedo region west of the Reiner crater. The official explanation for the black square is ‘data loss’ but we all know this isn’t the case.

 

The next photo is another great example of image manipulation. As with the image before, the same ‘data loss’ pretext was invoked, but even to the untrained eye, this looks like intentional smudging. They could have said data corruption but it looks like they weren’t even trying to cover their actions

 

 

This deliberate suppression becomes even more blatant in the famous lunar tower photos.

 

 

Even though they smudged the hell out of those unexplained structures, the cover-up artists managed to overlook a tiny detail. Find the center of the image, go right a little, if you reached the smudged lunar tower you’ve gone too far. Notice anything? Zoomed image below shows what I’m talking about.

 

 

This definitely looks like a solid object hovering well above the lunar surface. You can distinguish its triangular shape and even the fins at its rear end. These details can also be seen in the shadow the object casts below.

 

Even from sketchy, low-resolution images like these ones, the curious and free mind can extract some conclusions.

• NASA and the Navy should have provided photographs with a much greater level of detail. The fact that they failed to do so suggests some hidden motivation was at play;

• The intentional smudging further cements the idea that alien structures on the Moon are a possibility;

• If we’re being duped regarding these alien structures, it stands to reason we’re being subjected to a battery of other, equally-disconcerting lies.

Naturally, these assumptions are backed by the multitude of valid and verifiable conspiracy theories, but don’t let me tell you about what goes on the Moon. Instead, take a look at the following video where government whistleblower Karl Wolf describes what he saw during his involvement with NASA’s Lunar Orbiter project.

 

 

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04-03-2017 om 12:05 geschreven door peter  

NEUSCHWABENLAND ANTARCTICA'S LOST COLONY: EXPEDITION CREW MEMBERS REPORTED OF BATTLES WITH ALIEN SPACECRAFTS

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04-03-2017 om 11:57 geschreven door peter  

NASA SPOTS MYSTERY OBJECTS ORBITING SATURN'S RING!

04-03-2017 om 11:52 geschreven door peter  

UFOs In Delta Position Over Mesa, Arizona March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 1 2017
Location of sighting: Mesa, Arizona, USA

This video shows a UFO moving over to a triangle group thats in sitting in delta position. I also love that the person pulled their car over to take a more steady video of the UFOs. This could be the Tall Whites since they have a base just a few miles away over at Nellis AFB. One thing the Tall Whites hate...and thats being told what to do or not to do...they just do it. They probably felt cramped in the base and wanted to fly around to have a look. 
Scott C. Waring

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04-03-2017 om 11:39 geschreven door peter  

UFO Orb Fleet Over Conway, Washington On Sept 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 9-29-2016, reported today.
Location of sighting: Conway, Wa+6shington, USA
Source: MUFON #82483

This report just in. Its about a fleet of glowing orbs buzzing around a hill area in Washington back in September of 2016. As you can see from his photos (I didn't change them in any way) the glowing UFOs stay in a group of 4 while a single orb explores the ground. This keeps the ground one safe from being seen to closely, and the UFOs higher up are just there to keep look out.
Scott C. Waring

PS, guys if I ever do change a photo, I will usually say so and I will only add light or add darkness, never other things. SCW

Eyewitness states:

Event date: 9/29/16 20:45-21:30 My friends and I were at a place we have previously seen UFOs at, catching up, when we noticed at an approximate heading of 190 a craft that was first assumed to be a plane. First photograph shows first object approximately 1° below horizon. Craft is later seen 4-5° above horizon with an estimated distance of 2-8 miles. Shortly after first observation, a smaller light emerged from the first, and took up position near it. Then, a second did the same, along with a 3rd. Emerged lights seemed to orbit in irregular patterns around original object, as the larger one slowly seemed to move to a heading of 180° After roughly 10 minutes of observation, the 3 other objects seemingly rejoined the original, as though they were docking. 

 (Witness reporting is a pilot, and states that helicopters are incapable of docking, and that these craft, including craft from previous sightings in same location, behaved in ways impossible for even the most advanced military aircraft.)

The 4 objects were completely silent, and operated in a manner resembling spacecraft in orbit, though the objects maintained geological position ± 5° for 45 minutes, unlike an orbiting craft. Unfortunately, it was dark, and any surface details of the objects were impossible to see. Images will be provided in hopes that the reader of this report will observe them with photo editing software and share their observations with the witness. At 2129 hours, craft was last photographed before disappearing in the following 5 minutes. Craft was observed to 'fade away' instead of departing. (Witness states that standard night-flying procedure involves the constant use of lights to display location to local traffic. To turn off lights at 9:30 pm would be unsafe.

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04-03-2017 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Massive UFO Surfaces From The Lake And Flies Off

A triangular UFO was observed surfacing from Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, near Little Suamico in Wisconsin before flying off, according to the witness testimony filed in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) reporting database. The witness estimated the unidentified flying object to be 100 to 150 feet in length, which was apparently seen at 2:10 in the morning on November 28, local time.

Wisconsin MUFON investigator Susan Birttnen said the witness estimated the speed of the UFO to be about 35 knots. The object in question was so close that the witness was able to hear a muffled jet sound. As the strange aerial object emerged from the water, it turned on its side while flying towards the west and gained elevation.

Birttnen closed the case as unknown based on the evidence and the provided witness’ data.

The unidentified witness included a detailed description of the object. According to his account, the color was dark, and it had blue flashing lights. The distance was less than a thousand feet, and the elevation was approximately five hundred feet.  The side of the triangle, according to the witness, was between a hundred and a hundred fifty feet.

The witness somewhat believes that the UFO could have been a top secret craft developed through alien technology reverse engineering and run by the U.S. Air Force.

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04-03-2017 om 11:26 geschreven door peter  

This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'

TWO alien space crafts allegedly appeared in the sky after being summoned by a group led by one of the world's most well-known UFO investigators, it is shockingly claimed in a video.

04-03-2017 om 01:52 geschreven door peter  

ARJUN WALIA

Below is one video out of thousands floating around on the internet of supposed footage of unidentified flying objects. Keep in mind, many pictures and videos of these crafts have been published and analyzed thoroughly, so there is no shortage of verified footage and pictures. (More information on that can be found below the video.)

This one in particular comes from Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Known to some as the “Father of the Disclosure Movement,” he was instrumental in bringing forth hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to share their experience and testify on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.

There is, admittedly, plenty of disinformation being spread within the UFOlogy field, and many people seeking to manipulate the evidence and public opinion, which makes it difficult to assess what information is legitimate and what is not. It unfortunately comes down to doing your own research and using your best judgement.

Greer has had meetings with high level people in the Pentagon, according to himself, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14, who accompanied him on some of these meetings), and many more.

Dr. Greer has been doing these types of outings for quite a while, and he’s not the only one. Last year, a couple of CE members made a trip out to a gathering of researchers, whistleblowers. and enthusiasts, and witnessed something similar.

When you get to that level, and hang around those types of people, your going to draw attention, and anybody who draws massive amounts of attention will be praised, as well as vilified. Within the UFO movement, there are those that disagree and don’t associate with each other, which is very weird and shouldn’t be happening.

Interesting footage.

I think it’s safe to say that UFOs are no longer a fringe topic, as their existence has been verified in the mainstream world, but beyond that, most people are still in the dark. It’s important to keep in mind that a decade ago you were considered a conspiracy theorist for even believing in the existence of UFOs. Things have changed since then, but believing that some of these craft are extraterrestrial in origin is still considered ‘out there.’

This is why so many scientists around the world have been urging the scientific study of UFOs for decades. The Sturrock Report, for example, an effort that gathered the world’s top minds, was put together in the form of a paper urging that, if “the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles, but probably also extraterrestrial beings.”

Their main objective was to examine any possible physical evidence, and have it carefully collected and analyzed. These objects have been commonly photographed, as well as tracked on air/ground radar.

One example used in the Sturrock report was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)

The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined and disk-shaped,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.

An analysis of this case was also published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” vol. 13, #2, 1999).

This is one of many examples to give you an idea. Many documents indicate electrical equipment failure when entering the vicinity of these UFOs, like this one from the National Security Agency (NSA).

Just as there was evidence for UFOs when they were still considered a conspiracy, most, if not all researchers who have studied this phenomenon, will tell you with absolute certainty that there is ample evidence to support what’s known as the “extraterrestrial hypothesis,” and so will high ranking whistleblowers with verified backgrounds, from various decades — from Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, to Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon.

It’s similiar to Snowden’s mass surveillance revelation, which also used to be considered a conspiracy theory. His story stands as a great example of just how hard it is for someone to blow the whistle on secret, unacknowledged Special Access Programs.

“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” 

— Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)

These objects perform maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics. What’s more, there have been strange reports of involvement with and of extraterrestrials within the secret space program.

If you want to listen to a great lecture and learn more about the secret space program, you can check out this article we published on it earlier in the year.

If you’d like to go through some of that evidence, please visit the exopolitics section of our website. 

Or you can check out these two articles (out of many) that explore the different types of possible races we could be dealing with here:

Is This What You Think They Would Look Like? Supposed Pictures of Real Extraterrestrials

The Most Commonly Reported Extraterrestrials By Contactees, Abductees & Experiencers. 

Strong Evidence of Extraterrestrial Surface Interventions Found on Mars, According To New Study

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04-03-2017 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

NASA You Hide Truth From Us
Kincumbersky’s central coast Australia 5 th of January 2017′

I am looking at the sun and I see a planet? UFO? hitting sitting in our sun
Planet? UFO? leaving our sun with a hole in it

Warning! Solar Corona Explodes In a Burst of Ultraviolet 8.th of January.2017on in pack planet? UFO? the sun is this why our sun for a big hole it because a planet got it or comet or huge spaceship UFO solar. what ever it is what is it NASA you would know the clear photo shows us NASA you lie to us about this disgusting NASA you hide truth from us

Mark Anthony Reid

Is it a Sun anomaly or a giant object appears next to the sun, harvesting energy from the sun? The spherical object is similar to the infamous massive spherical dark object near the sun captured by

Warning! Solar Corona Explodes In a Burst of Ultraviolet 8.th of January.2017

Below is a video that shows an unexplained anomaly that occurred on NASA instruments using 304 Angstroms. An ultraviolet instrument shows an extreme and sudden change in both a composite image and again on SDO’s camera. Immediately the producers of the video went to the GONG network and were able to capture anomalies that happened at the exact same time. Within minutes of having captured these strange flashes the pictures began to disappear from the websites.

Since bizarre flashing has already been reported this month and the last few months I felt these images should be called to your attention. I am not pretending to know specifically what happened but, it appears to have happened in the corona of the Sun and may involve this helium cone that has been brought to everybody’s attention.

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04-03-2017 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

03-03-2017 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

ARVIND DILAWAR

An interview with the guy responsible for dressing astronauts.

Robert Trevino is a senior engineer with NASA's Crew and Thermal Systems Division. Among other duties, that means he's responsible for what astronauts wear in outer space. Whether it's regular cotton polos and cargo shorts on the International Space Station or textiles resistant to fire and bacteria designed for the mission to Mars, Trevino and his team must consider every aspect of astronaut wear, from comfort to weight to durability. The question of laundry might sound banal at first, but it in fact reveals how even the most trivial aspects of spaceflight must be considered long and hard if humanity is to push its boundaries.

I spoke with Trevino at length about the current state and future development of space-wear. The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Motherboard: Within the International Space Station, the astronaut uniform consists of a polo and cargo pants. Is there anything special about these?

No, that's just very comfortable clothing that the astronauts like. The space station is what we call a one-atmosphere, or shirtsleeve, environment. The air is just like the air we breathe on Earth–20 percent oxygen, 80 percent nitrogen–so we don't have the flammability concerns that we have in Apollo or Skylab, which have a much higher oxygen level.

Motherboard: This may be a stupid question, but where do you buy all the polos and cargo pants? Costco?

We have a contractor, Lockheed Martin, which provides the clothing, and they purchase from Lands' End, Cabela's, Blackhawk. They are commercial products, but we do test them to our requirements.

Motherboard: Besides flammability, are there any other concerns about the current uniform?

The clothes we're talking about are their daily wear, what they wear going through their daily routine inside the station—operating the equipment, doing experiments, doing maintenance, things like that. All the crew members are also required to do at least an hour of exercise a day. We have to do exercise to mitigate the effects of zero gravity on the body—muscle atrophy, loss of calcium in the bones. We have a whole different ensemble for exercise. The exercise clothes are also commercial, but we have been looking at new material that is much more breathable, odor absorbing and sweat resistant.

We don't have a laundry system, so the space station crew basically wear clothes until they smell bad, then throw them in the trash

Motherboard: Are the exercise clothes just tracksuits?

When the crews get assigned to a space station mission, they go to our lab that has clothing. In their training they get to evaluate some of the clothing, and they select what they like. For example, with exercise clothing, just like you might want a loose fit on a T-shirt, another crew member might want to have more of a compression fit. Almost all the exercise clothes are breathable, 100 percent polyester, and then the shorts, the socks tend to be polycotton. The underwear is up to them.

We don't have a laundry system, so the space station crew basically wear clothes until they smell bad, then throw them in the trash. After the Progress, the Russian cargo vehicle, docks and all the cargo's unloaded, they load it up with trash, which burns up on re-entry. In the future, on missions farther from Earth, we're not going to have that luxury, of the space station having cargo vehicles that bring them fresh clothing. We've done trade studies of providing a laundry system which uses water and power and requires something to take it up, versus the cost of just replacing the clothing, and right now it's essentially cheaper to replace the clothing because water is just too valuable of a resource.

Unless we find so much ice on Mars that we have plenty of water, water will still be a problem. We're interested in developing clothing that will be much more antibacterial, and I also have some research projects going on looking at alternate laundry systems that are not water-based.

We've looked at putting clothing that's already perspired on and has an odor into an airlock and exposing it to the vacuum of space. We did that and saw a decrease in bacteria, but odor comes from decaying bacteria. Ultraviolet is already being used in hospitals to disinfect rooms, so we've done some testing of exposing different material swatches to ultraviolet. We have a crew that's testing the frequency of microwaves and the amount of power provided because we know that microwaves will kill bacteria, but we don't want to also melt the clothing.

Even if we don't get the clothes as clean as you would in a full laundry cycle in your home with water and soap and everything, if we can just extend the life or the use of that clothing for two weeks to four weeks or six weeks, we've already cut the amount of clothing in half. We have a project here at NASA called Logistics Reduction for Advanced Exploration Missions, where we want to look at ways that we can reduce some of the logistics for these missions, because when you go to Mars, you're not going to have cargo resupply coming. It might be a three-year mission with a one-year stay on the surface, and you really need to bring everything with you. It would be too expensive to send cargo vehicles with clothing.

Progress 55 returns to Earth with laundry. Sadly, it will not survive.

Image: NASA

Motherboard: How long do the uniforms currently last?

They wear exercise clothing for not more than two weeks, but their other clothes last much longer. What they do in the space station is they get a certain amount of daily wear—polos and shorts. You normally have a rotation of three to six months. If they wear one shirt that they really like for a couple of months, they might throw that one away.

Before the term "wearable technology" came up, we were doing a lot of that – for example, in the spacesuit. Inside the spacesuit, one would wear a liquid cooling and ventilation garment. It basically looks like a pair of long johns that go from your ankles up to your wrist. In it, there's a series of tubing through which we circulate water. It acts just like a radiator in your car. As you're working in space and generating metabolic heat, you have air that will create conduction in the spacesuit. You've got to get that heat away from your body, so this garment will conduct your body heat. Water will circulate in cold and come out hot. It's basically keeping you comfortable by removing heat. We attach these tubings to the garment, and then underneath that we wear a heart monitor to measure heart rate. We also have looked at a CO2 sensor to monitor the amount of CO2 inside the suit because we're circulating oxygen inside the spacesuit, but we don't want a CO2 build up.

Motherboard: Any big upgrades to the spacesuit coming up?

We've looked into a lot of heads-up displays for the spacesuit. The difficulty there is, first of all, it has to work in 100 percent oxygen. Usually when you have electronics in 100 percent oxygen, you have to be very careful. There are safety issues there. The other thing is, there are some displays that are sort of like Google Glass or microvision, but if you mount anything on the head, you can't reach in there and adjust it. It has to be mounted on the spacesuit, outside in the vacuum of space, where it's exposed to really high and low temperature swings. The environment can be from minus 275 degrees Fahrenheit to plus 300 degrees. We are interested in technologies—some of them are inside the suit, some of them are outside—to provide the information astronauts need to monitor the suit. The status of their oxygen remaining, power remaining, their CO2 level—those are all things they have to monitor.

Motherboard: How do they receive that information now?

On their chest. You always see this module that's mounted on their chest called the Displays and Controls Module. If you look straight down at your chest, this module sticks out, maybe four, five inches above the chest outside of the spacesuit, and it has an LED display there. You press a button and it cycles through the different parameters. That's the aspects of the suit, but procedures or checklists could also be on the heads-up display. We actually have a laminated plastic checklist that's mounted on the wrist of the spacesuit. Many years ago we did look at an electronic checklist. We experimented with it on the space station, and we would've gone with that one, but at the time we used LCD, liquid crystal screens. We did some testing, but it got much colder than we expected and the crystal displays don't work very well in the cold, so the images started fading out.

Motherboard: Apparently fluid in the body shifts without gravity, so sometimes astronauts' limbs can become bloated?

Right, that's called a fluid shift. Our bodies have evolved for millions of years in one gravity. Gravity is always pulling you down and all of your fluids are fighting gravity, so when the heart pumps the blood out to the extremities, it doesn't have to pump back down because gravity is assisting it. When you get to zero G, you lose that. You don't have the evolutionary pull of gravity on you, so the fluids and your blood-flow re-distribute. Right now, when you're standing on Earth in one gravity, you have more fluids in your lower torso than your upper torso, so when you get to zero G, it [shifts]. The astronauts do get sort of puffy in their heads. Their bodies get a little bit less than their heads and torsos. It takes a little bit of adaptation to get them stabilized. Some are not so extreme, others are very, very puffy. We've heard the expression that they look like Charlie Brown. It's the Charlie Brown effect.

"My head feels funny." -Astronauts, probably.

Image: NASA

Motherboard: Is that something you guys have been trying to address?

For the spacesuit, [fluid shift is]critical. You have to have a very proper fit in the spacesuit for their arms and the gloves and the legs. Crew members actually grow, depending on their height on Earth, an inch or an inch and half. That is primarily in the spinal area because your spine is under compression under one G, so when you have zero gravity the spine stretches.

Motherboard: How quickly will they grow?

I think it's within the first few days that you start stretching. We take measurements to find out what's a comfortable fit for the spacesuit, then we'll add an inch or so to the height of their torsos anticipating this growth. It's not an issue with their daily wear because those are a little bit more adjustable. Your polo, if you get a little bit taller, is just not tucked in as much.

One more thing that also has a lot of applications in the future here on Earth: Outside the spacecraft, when you do a space walk, it's minus 275 degrees to 300 degrees. We have to provide insulation in the spacesuit for that. The current technology in the spacesuit for that is aluminized mylar with material between it in separate layers. That is called multi-layered insulation. It's the same as a thermos bottle, where you have a vacuum layer. There's nothing better than a vacuum layer in a thermos bottle because there's nothing to conduct the heat or the cold to the inner layer. In the spacesuit, we have that insulation that keeps the astronaut from getting the extreme heat or the extreme cold.

The problem is that insulation only works in a vacuum. It works on the moon because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, but on Mars, where we have an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, that technology will not work, so we'll have to provide another insulation. We can use the technology you have right now in your parka, thinsulate or permaloc, but those are very bulky and very thick. So we have been doing some research into insulation for future spacesuits that would work in an atmosphere like Mars, and we're working with this company called Aspen Aerogels that makes a really neat material called aerogel that's a super insulation. It's the world's lightest solid material. You can get a cube of this in your hand and you can hold it, but you won't feel it because it's so light. We're looking at it as kind of a flexible insulation. If we can develop this material, it can theoretically replace two or three inches of current fibrous insulation of thinsulate or permaloc with maybe like a base of a quarter inch of this aerogel. So in the future you could have a parka that would be as thin as a windbreaker and it would provide you the same insulation.

Motherboard: Any other interesting projects?

Most of the exercise clothing is polyester, and a lot of our food containers are plastic. Right now, with trash, we're just throwing it all away. But we've looked at something called a heat melt compactor, like a trash compactor but it gets to a high temperature. You can separate your plastics from your other trash and put it into this compactor, melt the plastic and compress it into a hockey puck—maybe an inch or three-quarters of an inch thick, maybe six inches in diameter. Plastic happens to be a really good radiation shielding material, so we can make these thick bricks and line the space station's sleeping compartments with them to provide radiation shielding for the astronauts. If we can get some of these materials from clothing and reuse them, turn them into these pucks, then, instead of flying hundreds of pounds of radiation material, we can be using this trash for long-term missions, making our own radiation shielding from the plastics in the clothing.

The other thing is 3D printing. If we have this hockey puck of plastic, could we develop a system that would heat that and put it into another device that would extrude it into a fiber? 3D printers use a feedstock that almost looks like spool, that sort of texture. We had the idea of converting our discarded clothes and plastics and other things to develop a plastic that would provide the feedstock for a 3D printer. We're thinking—again, long-term—of designing clothing that, instead of throwing it away, we can do something with it. Can we convert it into radiation shielding? Can we convert it to feedstock for a 3D printer? Do other things with it? If not, we have the mentality that we've had on previous missions, that we have all these logistics and we throw them away and get new supplies. But for three-year missions, our whole mentality for recycling air and water and clothing and trash has to be different.

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03-03-2017 om 23:35 geschreven door peter  

'Is this an alien invasion?' No, it's a cluster of paper lanterns over Longmont

By Amelia Arvesen

Staff Writer

Paper lanterns are sent up into the sky to memorialize Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez, who were killed in a Longmont DUI crash on Feb. 25, 2012. This photo is from 2015's commemoration; this year's sparked reports of mysterious objects floating over Longmont.

(Mary Moreno / Courtesy photo)

Learn more

Resources for helping identify mysterious objects in the sky:

Mutual UFO Network: mufon.com

National UFO Reporting Center:nuforc.org

NASA's All Sky Fireball Network:fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov

Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies: aerospace.org/cords

Space Weather: spaceweather.com

American Meteor Society: amsmeteors.org

Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey: cloudbait.com

Longmont Astronomical Society:longmontastro.org

CU's Sommers-Bausch Observatory: sbo.colorado.edu

CU's Fiske Planetarium:colorado.edu/fiske

At twilight on Saturday, about 15 glowing paper lanterns were sent into the sky over Longmont as a memorial to two men killed in a DUI-related car crash exactly five years earlier, on Feb. 25, 2012.

But the floating memorial left a handful of people in Longmont perplexed by the sight of mysterious lights, evoking thoughts of spaceships, UFOs and other extraterrestrial activities.

"I thought I was hallucinating or something," said Joyce Brooks, one of three Longmont residents who told the Times-Call they'd seen the objects.

For the fourth year since the crash, friends and family of Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez congregated at Ninth Avenue and Hover Street, lighting the reddish-orange lanterns and letting them float up toward the heavens.

"We watch them until we don't see them anymore," Mary Moreno, a friend of Palma's since third grade, said Thursday.

In years past, they've lit as many as 30 lanterns on Martinez's birthday — Feb. 21 — and the day of the crash.

The two 27-year-olds were killed when they car they were riding in rolled on St. Vrain Road near North 75th Street and ejected Sandoval-Palma and Martinez. The car's driver, Adolph Lopez, pleaded guilty in 2013 to DUI-related vehicular homicide.

At the most recent memorial this past weekend, Moreno said, she joked with Jessica Craft about the first year they sent the paper lanterns aloft. She said, "Remember, when the newspaper thought they were aliens?"

Moreno said the Times-Call questioned readers about it back then. She said she got a laugh out of witnesses expressing the same curiosity this year.

Craft, whose husband was close friends with both men, said they're planning on lighting lanterns again May 3, on Sandoval-Palma's birthday, and every year on the anniversary of the crash.

"I think it's very special that all of us get together," she said.

Aliens?

A Longmont resident named Sue, who spoke on the condition her last name not be used, was the first to call the Times-Call saying she was surprised not more people had been talking about the lights.

She said she thought the first object she saw on Saturday was a drone — until she saw another one, and then many more, trailing it.

Paper lanterns are sent up into the sky to memorialize Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez, who were killed in a Longmont DUI crash on Feb. 25, 2012. This photo is from 2015's commemoration; this year's sparked reports of mysterious objects floating over Longmont. (Mary Moreno / Courtesy photo)

"I am not an alien person, that's not where my head goes, but the thought that came into my head was, 'Is this an alien invasion?'" Sue said. "And then I thought no, there has to be a logical explanation."

It kept her up at night, she said, so she turned to Google for an explanation. Her search of "Six Orange UFO fireball phenomenon 2013" produced a still image of something similar to what she had seen, though the objects moved more in the video.

Brooks called the Times-Call after Sue's comments were printed in the newspapers's anonymous TC Line feature, saying she was relieved somebody else had come forward as a witness, otherwise she thought she was "going crazy."

A third woman, Joyce Todd, who said she is 90 years old, called to say she also saw red and pale yellow lights. She said it's hard to say how high in the sky they were, but they were visible in the distance from where she lives in the Fox Hill neighborhood.

"They're from space, there's no question in my mind," Todd said.

The lights hung in the air in a cluster at about 11 p.m. Saturday, she said, until they disappeared at about 2:30 a.m. She said she's positive they weren't airplanes, and her most recent sighting wasn't the first. She said she's seen lights in space all her life, and asserts they're real.

"I've seen so many things like this in my lifetime, it's just mind boggling," she said.

Educated guesses

Local astronomy researchers said they did not track anything that would seem exceptional to humans outside the space realm — Venus, fireballs, satellite break-ups or even UFOs — in the air over Longmont that night, meaning the objects to them remained a mystery.

Vern Raben, president of the Longmont Astronomical Society, said the club's all-sky camera shows nothing at the time the flying objects were reportedly seen.

"I'd guess it's something localized, closer to the ground, and not astronomical," he said in an email.

The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Washington state, did not respond to messages, though its database shows somebody reported seeing "orange fireballs, bright, scoping the forest" about 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Nederland. The list of Colorado reports did not extend past that date.

Leonard David, Boulder-area science journalist and author, said the description reminds him of either a misinterpreted fireball or a spacecraft breakup, such as one he saw about a year ago.

"When I hear multiple things when they're flying at the same speed, moving, that look like they're all connected, that's what some of those satellite breakups look like," he said.

But according to the American Meteor Society fireball log, two nearby fireballs were inconsistent with the time the objects were reportedly seen in Longmont. And according to the Aerospace rocket body tracker, a reentry of an SL-4 rocket body on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia was thousands of miles from Colorado.

Chris Peterson, operator of Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey, said objects in the high atmosphere over Longmont are usually visible from his location, but he tracked nothing that night on his camera.

"Given the time, objects at typical aviation heights might still be reflecting sunlight, giving the described color," he said. "Less likely, but still possible, would be a group of research balloons, which could be as high as the stratosphere and could reflect sunlight."

He believes that it was most likely a low-altitude phenomenon, such as aircraft or balloons, and nothing as high as space or descending from orbit.

Peterson's guesses weren't far from the truth.

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03-03-2017 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

Extraterrestrials Aren’t a Threat to Theology, Because They Aren’t New to the Ancient Church

Some say this sculpture depicts an extraterrestrial laptop . . . (Gravestone of a woman with her slave child-attendant, Greek, c. 100 BC, Getty Villa, USA, taken by Wolfgang Sauber; Source, Wiki Commons, CC BY SA 3.0).

I’m completely enthralled with the question, “Is there anybody out there?”
–Fr. Brian Reedy SJ

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration captured the attention and imagination of a global audience late last month when NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven planets orbiting a star dubbed TRAPPIST-1 (an acronym for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). These planets are a mere 40 light-years away from Earth, all of which are Earth-sized, and three of which are in the so-called “goldilocks” or habitable zone – meaning that their positions relative to their “home” star suggest they could have liquid water and temperatures capable of sustaining life as we know it.

The headlines were sensational: a few almost announcing the discovery of whole extraterrestrial civilizations; most seizing the moment to move copy and sell soap with variations on the theme of, “‘Incredible’ Star System Could Hold Life“, with follow-up stories announcing, “The Prospects for Life on TRAPPIST-1 Keep Getting Better” and “Soon, We’ll Know if there’s Life on TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets“. 

The interest is not only scientific, but also theological, with the leading English-language e-journal of Catholic affairs, Crux, holding its breat while asking, “Could Catholicism Handle the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?”

The fact is, such speculation is neither new, nor controversial.

The ancient Greeks split on the question, which they treated as a speculative scientific one; Arabic literature in the high Islamic period entertained the idea in fiction (notably in the “Adventures of Bulukiya”  portion of The Arabian Nights, in tales from the 486th to the 537th night); Nicholas of Cusa openly speculated that some heavenly bodies, at least, would almost certainly be inhabited; C.S. Lewis famously wrote a Space Trilogy in the middle of the last century.

The best starting point for reflection upon the ancient world’s fascination with this topic is The Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Antiquity -1915 – A Source Book, edited by Michael J. Crowe.

And so, if you are asking whether the discovery of extraterrestrial life would pose a challenge to the basic tenets of Catholic faith, then the answer is that it would pose no real trouble. There’s nothing new (under the sun) about the questions such a discovery would elicit.

However, the recent find does offer an occasion to do some serious thinking and ask challenging questions about life, the universe, and our place in it . . .

“If we’ve settled on the fat that there’s nobody out there,” Fr. Brian Reedy SJ concludes, “then we would – kind of – rationally miss them, and feel alone . . .” –

First, though: the science behind the discovery is on its own truly astounding.

“What we actually know is deduced: it is modeled from the data,” explained Fr. Brian Reedy SJ, a biophysicist, who – along with his students at the Jesuit Cristo Rey Preparatory School in Houston, Tx. – has designed experiments that have been conducted aboard the International Space Station, and who is currently pursuing a PhD in Moral Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

“We haven’t seen them, and we won’t see them for a while, because they are so distant,” Reedy told Vocaris Media’s flagship Thinking with the Church podcast. “What we see,” Fr. Reedy explained, “is changes to the intensity of the star,” measurements that require extremely sensitive telescopic hardware and highly sophisticated software.

“Just think about the complexity,” involved in isolating the static created by atmospheric interference (the telescope used to make the observations is a terrestrial instrument located in Chile), “to focus in on the steady signal, looking for variations,” Reedy said. “There’re so many things to marvel at in this story,” Reedy offered, “the science itself is fascinating.”

Fr. Reedy SJ speaks in detail about the marvels of the science in the special edition of Thinking with the Church.

He also addresses the questions the discovery  occasions at the intersection of religion and science, including: how we might share the Gospel with an extraterrestrial race, why we might share it and to what end; whether aliens might be capable of incorporation into the Body of Christ, both as a matter of ecclesiology and sacramental economy; and what guidance there might be for such an eventuality in Church history and scriptural typology.

Fr. Reedy SJ offers some surprising and challenging answers, especially regarding the desire to know, once and for all, whether we are alone in the universe.

“I think that – I would say there are two causes to that [wonder]: one is just natural curiosity – like, when you look out into space, and you see the vastness of it, and you see all these little stars that all might have planets – and you just wonder, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ and that’s one kind of question,” Reedy said.

“‘Are we alone in the universe?’ That is a different kind of question,” Reedy continued. “‘Is there anybody out there?’ I relate to that really strongly. ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ I don’t resonate with that question, and I think that – partly – the thing that is missing is that, in Western Civilization we now live in a kind of forcibly depopulated universe,” He explained. “To the medieval mind,” he went on to say, “creation was deeply populated with other beings, spiritual beings: so, the average Christian would believe he had a guardian angel, who was really a rational companion to him in his life, and believed in angelic beings and such, that populated the universe; but also, the kind of real, lived sense of going to Mass and knowing that the whole Communion of Saints was present with you at the Mass.”

Indeed, as the great altars of Christendom attest, the whole Church, past, present and future, from Adam into eternity, is present each time the Mass is offered.

“There are still plurals,” Fr. Reedy noted in reference to the pertinent particular of grammatical structure found in the prayer texts printed in the Missal. “Even if a priest is forced to say Mass by himself because there is no congregation, he still uses the plurals, because he still knows that everyone is there – so, you’re not alone – you’re never alone – and so I don’t connect to that [question] because I think that ‘Are we alone?’ dimension is partly coming from the fact that our universe has been so radically depopulated, and relatively recently.”

“I believe that we are attuned naturally to truth,” Fr. Reedy said, “and I believe in the Communion of Saints and in spiritual beings, and so therefore I think we have a sense that they’re there.”

“If we’ve settled on the fat that there’s nobody out there,” he concluded, “then we would – kind of – rationally miss them, and feel alone: so, on the first part, I’m completely enthralled with the question, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ – like, when you look out, are there people looking back at us? – but, ‘Are we alone?’ – I don’t resonate to that one.”

Listen to the full podcast here.

Chris Altieri is the co-founder and General Manager of Vocaris Media. He hosts the flagship program of the Vocaris production arm, Thinking with the Church. He lives in Rome, Italy, with his wife and two children.

For more on theology and extraterrestrial life see: Oscar Best Picture Nominee “Arrival” and the Bearable Heaviness of Being

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03-03-2017 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

First trailer for sci-fi film Phoenix Forgotten explores real-life UFO sighting

Trent Moore

The new sci-fi film Phoenix Forgotten aims to tell a fictional story around the real-life UFO sighting nicknamed the "Phoenix Lights" that appeared over Arizona back in 1997.

The story follows three people who take off into the desert to investigate the UFO sighting and find some alien horrors. The film is found footage, so your mileage may vary depending on the format -- think The Blair Witch Project with aliens and a touch of "based on a true-ish story" to make it a bit creepier. It looks like a fairly low-to-mid budget horror flick, though Ridley Scott did produce, so that helps.

The true story behind the concept stems from a UFO sighting on March 13, 1997, when hundreds of people saw lights that appeared to be a large spacecraft hovering over Arizona. In a classic Blair Witch-y twist, the film is being billed as the "recently unearthed footage" left behind by the trio that takes off to try to find the craft.

Phoenix Forgotten hits select theaters on April 21. Check out the trailer below.

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03-03-2017 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

George Bush Refuses to Talk About UFO Files

03-03-2017 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

A person being abducted by aliens in front of his house.

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Roughly 55 percent of Americans think the government would keep alien life secret if given a chance, according to a new YouGov poll.

The poll found U.S. residents were deeply skeptical of how the government would handle first contact with aliens.

When asked “if we discover or are discovered by an alien species one day, do you think it is more likely that the government would tell the public or keep it secret?” only 19 percent agreed the government would tell the public.

Republicans were more likely to be skeptical of the government’s trustworthiness than Democrats, with 61 percent saying the government would keep it secret. Only 51 percent of Democrats held that opinion. Republicans and Democrats are about equally likely to believe in UFOs.

Americans were unsure if aliens would be friendly to humanity, with 29 percent suspecting they would be, while 19 percent suspected any alien life would be hostile. Roughly 12 percent of U.S. adults believe that the government has already made contact with aliens, but is covering up that fact.

The poll was conducted in late February from a representative sample of 2,008 U.S. adults.

When pollsters surveyed the group about surveying the seven planets around the TRAPPIST-1 solar system for aliens, 40 percent of Americans think the planets likely contain some form of extra-terrestrial life, while only 16 percent thought they probably don’t.

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03-03-2017 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

03-03-2017 om 20:19 geschreven door peter  

Safe space travel: Protecting alien worlds from earthlings - and vice versa

The discovery of seven new Earth-like planets has risen hope to find extraterrestrial life. During space explorations, though, researchers have to be careful to avoid contaminating other worlds with life from Earth.

The dwarf star Trappist-1 and its seven newly discovered planets are promising targets to search for alien life  - but researchers might not even have to travel that far.

"We might find alien life in our own backyard of our solar system," said NASA's Kevin Peter Hand at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston this month.

Astrobiologists searching for extraterrestrial life pin their hopes on Jupiter's moons Europa, Callisto and Ganymede as well as on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

"They are covered in ice but beneath there might be oceans with rocky seafloors," said Hand, chief scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

NASA plans to launch a rocket in 2024 sending a lander to Europa which will explore the moon, take samples and possibly "find life that is alive today." 

Sure, the Europa mission probably won't discover intelligent, human-like life and possibly not even fish-like life. But bacteria, which have developed there, would be just as fascinating for researchers.

Although, there is one thing they have to ensure in the first place.

Does Europa harbour life?

Avoiding hitchhikers

The worst-case scenario for astrobiologists is to one day find life on Europa or elsewhere which has been brought there by humans themselves.

"We don't want to study bacteria from Florida [on other planets]," said Norine Noonan, biologist at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. 

Just as much as researchers have to prevent potential alien organisms from contaminating Earth, they work hard on protecting space from Earth-based life.

"Any equipment that is sent to touch down on moons or other planets is sterilized several times during its construction", Christian Gritzner of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), told DW.

Rovers, landers and other equipment that are sent to space are built in a clean facility, heated up to over 110 degree centigrade (230 degree Fahrenheit) for several hours or even days, they are irradiated with UV light and sanitized with solvents - measures to kill any bacterium or fungus that might try to get a free ride into outer space.

The Europa lander will also be wrapped in a biobarrier, NASA's Kevin Hand explained - an aluminum foil-like sheath that keeps out any contaminants until it reaches Jupiter's moon.

"The truth is still out there," Noonan pointed out. "Let's not destroy the opportunity to find it."

Protecting the ecosystem on other planets - every astronaut's challenge

Good citizens of the solar system

Protecting other worlds from Earth-based organisms is not just a voluntary moral conception which some responsible researchers cling to. It is international space law.

United Nations Outer Space Treaty which entered into force in October 1967 calls for all states to"avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies." The treaty came into being in preparation of the landing on the moon.

People were afraid that a visit to the moon might bring uninvited guests to Earth, for example, a deadly microorganism that causes a catastrophic outbreak - just like in the sci-fi novel "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton.

All rock samples that were flown in from the Moon - as well as the first men on the moon - were put into strict quarantine when entering Earth. Only later, when researchers had realized there is nothing alive on the Moon, rules were relaxed. Still later, people realized that contamination works in both directions. 

"NASA found strange bumps on the lens of some camera equipment of the unmanned Surveyor landers that had been sent to the Moon three years before," said Christian Gritzner. "Nobody knew what it was."

These bumps turned out to be flu viruses. They seem to have been delivered from Earth to the Moon with the help of some technician who had sneezed on the equipment, Gritzner explained.

"Even after 3 years in space, these viruses were still able to reproduce in the lab."

According to Gritzner, this was the moment that people realized how crucial planetary protection really was.

ExoMars lander Schiaparelli - particularly germ-free

Leaving Mars as it is

"It is unlikely we'll find life on Mars today," said Norine Noonan. Even if there had once been bacteria or other simple organisms, they are possibly long gone. Still, researchers might find remnants of previous life on Mars and get to know how it emerged and what it was like.

Unlike the Moon and many other celestial bodies in our universe, Mars has an atmosphere and a surface that can harbor life - that makes traveling there even more complicated.

"Any hitchhiker we might deliver there can spread," said NASA's Kevin Hand. According to the European Space Agency ESA, the ExoMars project which tries to find life on Mars, even built a new cleanroom in which to construct itslander Schiaparelli. The landing module even had a portable "clean tent" which traveled with it to its launch site in Baikonur.

"We cannot bake humans"

The challenge to avoid contamination gets even harder when astronauts join their equipment on its travel to Mars - i.e. on a manned spaceflight.

"We are spewing fountains of bacteria," said Norine Noonan, adding that it is impossible to sterilize humans: "We cannot put them into an oven and bake them."

It will still be a long way to figure out which measures will protect Mars from life on Earth during such a journey.

"Maybe a habitat on Mars will have a sanitizing air lock spraying disinfectants," Gritzner said. Astronauts would have to pass the lock every time they enter the Mars surface from their space settlement.

But there will be time enough to figure that out, Gritzner adds, as "a manned spaceflight to Mars is still a long way off."

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03-03-2017 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

Discovery of world’s oldest fossil suggests there was alien life on Mars

Toby Meyjes for Metro.co.uk

British scientists have found the remains of microbal bugs in what is the world’s oldest fossil suggesting similar organisms once existed on Mars.

The fossil, which was found in Quebec, Canada, shows life on earth was thriving as far back as 4.2 billion years, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.

This makes the prospect of life on the Red Planet a distinct possibility, as it was also bombarded with comets that are thought to have brought the building blocks of life to earth.

The bugs are believed to have thrived in a deep sea hydrothermal vent system – volcanic activity on the ocean floor.

Scientists, from University College London, believe the minieral-rich environment in the hot water surrounding the vent may have provided habitats for the early life form.

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Matthew Dodd, a member of the UK team, said: ‘Our discovery supports the idea that life emerged from hot, sea floor vents shortly after planet Earth formed.

‘This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by micro-organisms.’

Previously the oldest reported microfossils, from Western Australia, were dated at 3.460 million years old.

However, some experts believe they may be non-biological features in the rocks.

Lead scientist Dr Dominic Papineau, from UCL’s Earth Sciences department, said: ‘The fact we unearthed them from one of the oldest known rock formations suggests we’ve found direct evidence of one of Earth’s oldest life forms.’

The scientists believe the find, that was co-funded by Nasa, could help the search for life on other planets including Mars.

The bugs were living on Earth at a time when Mars is thought to have had oceans or lakes of liquid water on its surface.

Mr Dodd, a PhD student, told the Telegraph:  ‘Early Mars and early Earth are very similar places, so we may expect to find life on both planets at this time.

‘We know that life managed to get a foothold and evolve rapidly on Earth. So if we have life evolving in hydrothermal vent systems maybe even 4.2 billion years ago when both planets had liquid water on their surface, then we would expect both planets to develop early life.

‘If we do future sample returns from Mars and look at similarly old rocks and we don’t find evidence of life then this certainly may point to the fact that Earth might have been a very special exception, and life may just have arisen on Earth.’

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02-03-2017 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

One of the Most Witnessed UFO Events Ever

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02-03-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter