A Star Is Headed in Our Direction and Could Threaten Life on Earth

It won't get too near, but it will come close enough to wreak unimaginable havoc on our planet.

Based on a recent study done, Gliese 710 — a K-spectral type star in the constellation Serpens Cauda  — is bound for a close encounter with our solar system. Right now, it’s still about 64 light years away. At its current speed and path, it is estimated that it will be at its nearest distance to Earth in about 1.35 million years. That distance is roughly 1.2 trillion miles or 77 light-days (1 light-day is the distance light can travel in one day, or about 26 billion kilometers). When that time comes and at that distance, even at the size of only half our sun, Gliese 710 will appear as the “brightest and fastest object on the night sky formed outside the solar system”.

Although that’s still quite a long way off, the devastating threat it poses when the flyby finally happens cannot be dismissed because its impact will be felt for the next 10 million years.

The information that Gliese 710 will pass close to us is not entirely new. In fact, scientists have been aware of this for years, which is why they have been tracking its movement. However, it’s knowing that it will make a much closer approach than what was once thought — probably about five times closer — that’s new. And more importantly, it’s the direction it’s taking that’s causing serious alarm.

According to the data collected from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission, Gliese 710 will not directly hit any object in our solar system, but it will likely travel through the Oort cloud, which is circling our solar system and is filled up with billions of comets and other icy objects. Because of its strong gravitational force, Gliese 710 — as it is passing through the Oort cloud — can influence the movement of the swarm of comets, change their course and hurtle towards our planet.

Not all those comets may make their way to us, though. Some may drift away further into space, get absorbed by the sun, pulled into other planets with stronger gravity, or maybe fall into a black hole? However, it’s impossible to think that none of those billions will hit us directly. And that’s what’s terrifying because we’re potentially looking at a comet shower that will last for 3 – 4 million years.

Remember that it took just one asteroid to wipe out the dinosaurs. Just imagine what a barrage of comets can do.

Authored by Filip Berski and Piotr A. Dybczyński from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, the paper detailing the latest findings on Gliese 710 was published in November 2016 through the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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09-03-2017 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

Detecting Life on Alien Planets Just Became Easier With This New Technique

The chemical-based analysis is not only simple. It's supposedly 10,000 times more sensitive than any existing method.

Searching for life outside Earth has become a never ending quest. And researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California might have come up with the easiest way yet.

Their method makes use of a process called capillary electrophoresis to separate liquid into its individual components. The process begins with mixing the liquid sample with a liquid reagent. Then, through a process known as induced fluorescence detection, different molecules moving at various speeds can be observed by shining a laser into the mixture. Finally, an electrical current is applied to the mixture, which then allows scientists to see the molecules separate from each other depending on how quickly they respond to the charge applied.

The test is meant to search for amino acids — what we acknowledge to be the building blocks from which all of life on Earth was derived from. It has been modified not just to enable detection of more amino acids in a single test, but also to detect amino acids regardless of how salty or alkaline the liquid sample is. This improvised method is specifically designed to detect alien life on an ocean world.

To find out if their method works, the research team analyzed amino acids in the waters of California’s Mono Lake. Specifically, they analyzed what is referred to as the ‘Signature 17 standard’ — the most common amino acids on Earth. Why did they choose this particular body of water? Because the lake has high alkaline content which makes it almost inhabitable, much like how alien waters probably are on surfaces like Mars; Europa — one of Jupiter’s moons; and Enceladus and Titan — Saturn’s moons.

To identify which amino acids were life-forming and which were not, the team studied the ‘chirality’ of the molecules. Chiral molecules — like what amino acids are — exist in two forms that are identical images of each other. These images are called right-handed and left-handed.

For amino acids that come from non-living sources, the distribution of right-handed and left-handed amino acids is nearly even. But for living sources, left-handed amino acids dominate over the right-handed ones. Taking off from this, scientists are inferring that alien life might also show a preference for either side. So finding such amino acids might be the clue that would point to the existence of alien life forms.

As reported by Phys.org, Peter Willis, the project’s principal investigator, was quoted as saying: “Using our method, we are able to tell the difference between amino acids that come from non-living sources like meteorites versus amino acids that come from living organisms.”

So when do we get to test this method outside our planet? Because it is supposedly ‘relatively simple and easy to automate’, there’s no reason to think that it can’t be deployed in a spacecraft soon. Especially since it’s the ideal complementary tool to help facilitate NASA’s upcoming missions that aim to find life on ocean worlds outside our planet.

The study was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry.

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09-03-2017 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

This New Tech Could Get Us To Mars In 72 Hours

Five months to get there is just too long. It’s about time we cut the Red Planet's travel time short as putting boots on Mars should no longer be just a sci-fi dream but rather a reality.

Mars may be our nearest neighboring planet, but with the conventional rockets we have right now, it will still take us about five months to get there. And that simply isn’t satisfactory. There has got to be a way to make that trip shorter.

There are currently a few ongoing projects working towards this end. There’s the controversial propellant-less EM Drive which no one can explain for certain how it works, but has somehow passed its initial test.

And then there’s Charles Bombardier’s space train concept — the Solar Express that is envisioned to travel at approximately 1,864 miles per second, or 1% the speed of light, and cut travel time to Mars from a few months to just 2 days.

There’s also Positron Dynamics co-founder and CEO Ryan Weed’s antimatter-powered rocket that will make use of matter’s annihilation property — hit matter with its anti-matter counterpart to annihilate each other and generate pure energy that will be used to power the rocket and blast it into space with an accelerated speed that can enable travel to Mars in just a few weeks.

And now comes the latest bet:  photonic propulsion — a concept that was explained by NASA scientist and University of California Physics Professor Philip Lubin in a recent video (posted below) released for NASA 360. It basically makes use of a beam of light for propulsion, hence the name photonic propulsion, for photons or visible light particles.

Lubin heads a team of scientists who has recently been given a $100,000 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant to start planning and testing this photonic propulsion project that’s being called Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration or DEEP-IN.

To make the plan work, a laser array first needs to be placed in the Earth’s orbit. This orbiting laser array will then be used to push a solar sail. Much like a normal sail that catches wind to propel water vessels, a solar sail works the same way. Instead of wind, however, it catches light, and uses this to propel a space-bound probe — one that’s ideally ultralight (wafer-thin is how it’s being described), fuel-less, frictionless, and capable of travelling for a longer period of time at a speed that has so far been unattainable — 621 miles per second, or about 30% the speed of light.

While the concept sounds pretty much like another science fiction movie plot, Lubin says it’s not that far-fetched because we already have the technology. It just needs to be enhanced further. If successful, an umanned probe using photonic propulsion is expected to reach Mars in only 3 days, while a manned craft will take about a month — four months faster than any normal spacecraft can do at this time.

It’s a grand new idea, and it comes with a myriad of potential problems, of course. Primarily, there’s the challenge on how the probe would be able to decelerate when it reaches Mars. There’s also the certainty of encountering space debris and how to protect the craft from those. Then there’s ‘time dilation’, the concept that says that as one gets farther out in the universe, the slower time seems to pass. Plus there’s also the matter of how we can beam the information back to Earth.

All those problems aside, the idea that we have in our midst viable tech that can revolutionize space travel is quite an exciting one. Especially because it’s production is not expected to be at an exorbitant cost. By successfully making these solar sails, Mars will just be one among the many possible destinations. So, let’s all patiently wait and root for Lubin’s team to work their way towards the new age of space travel.

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09-03-2017 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s New Plan Could Help Unravel Some of the Weirdest Mysteries of the Universe

It involves a super-freezer, quantum physics and dark energy.

As announced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) last Monday (March 6), a box the size of an ice-chest will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX CRS-12 this summer. Containing lasers, a vacuum chamber and an ‘electromagnetic knife’ that will be used to slow down gas particles until they become motionless, NASA intends to use this box to create the coldest spot in the universe.

The box and its accompanying set of instruments are collectively referred to as the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it is currently in the final stages of assembly at the JPL Complex in Pasadena, California, after which, it will undergo testing prior to its actual trip to space.

NASA’s ‘cool toolkit’ was designed to freeze atomic gas particles to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, which is over 100 million times colder than the deepest regions of the cosmos. Supposedly, when atoms are ultra-cooled to this extreme temperature level, they are capable of forming a state of matter referred to as a Bose-Einstein condensate.

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a kind of fluid that flows as if there was no friction, which is why it’s called a ‘superfluid’. While in this state, traditional laws of physics become overshadowed as quantum physics takes over. Instead of behaving like particles, matter tends to become more wave-like, moving as a single entity rather than several different entities.

So far, this behavior can only be observed for fractions of seconds on Earth because the atoms can’t help but be pulled to the ground by Earth’s gravity. In space, however, the story will be a little different. Without gravity to intervene, it might become possible to observe the atoms in their wave-like form longer. Instead of just a mere fraction of a second, the atoms can be observed for up to about 5 to 10 seconds. And with more improvements, that observation time can probably be stretched even further from just seconds into minutes.

A total of five teams are planning to run experiments using the Cold Atom Lab. Among them is Eric Cornell — of the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute for Standards and Technology — who won a Nobel Prize for being the first person ever to create Bose-Einstein condensates in the lab.

So what’s the whole point of this novel strategy? According to CAL Project Scientist Robert Thompson of JPL: “Studying these hyper-cold atoms could reshape our understanding of matter and the fundamental nature of gravity.”

What he specifically means is that the discoveries and lessons that will be gained from the experiments might one day lead to the construction and development of better sensors, quantum computers and atomic clocks for space navigation. Additionally, it might also help shed light on some of the most mysterious forces in the universe — dark energy and dark matter. Just think, this ‘supercool’ project might be the key that will allow us to cross over from our ordinary physical world into the bizarre realm of the quantum universe. Pretty exciting, isn’t it?

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09-03-2017 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

‘UFO’ lands at Murrow Primary School to help children with creative writing

Ben Jolley

Wisbech PSCO Ruth Moulder attended Murrow Primary School where a UFO had appeared in the school grounds.

PHOTO: Facebook/Policing Wisbech.

After checking the craft to make sure there were no occupants, the school children were allowed to take a closer look at the unidentified craft.

“No, aliens haven’t landed and are starting their world domination from Murrow,” she said.

The craft was built by school caretaker Martin Bane, after headteacher Ruth Bailey came up with the idea to encourage the children at the school in terms of their creative writing.

“Intergalactic checks will be made to ensure the craft is taxed, insured and has a valid MOT,” added PCSO Moulder.

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09-03-2017 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization

The new movie “Interstellar” is set in a not-so-distant future, but distant enough that they’ve managed to build something still elusive in 2014: a spaceship that can travel between solar systems. Such starships have been a technological mainstay in science fiction for decades, but they remain a crazily complicated proposition in everything from propulsion to human reproduction.

Still, that hasn’t stopped researchers from trying. Last month, a bunch of rocket scientists, microbiologists and entrepreneurs gathered in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to discuss—in level and serious tones—how to become a spacefaring civilization. The meeting is called the 100-Year Starship symposium, and it’s brought brains together once a year since 2011 to figure out what we need to do now if we want to have an interstellar spacerocket a century from now.

The group has made progress defining the challenges and pointing their noses toward solutions, but much work remains (like, say, building a starship). To quote Contact, it “sounds less like science and more like science fiction.”

Nonetheless, the 100-Year Starship adherents—backed by NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—keep plugging away. At their most recent gathering, 7 major hurdles emerged from their three days of discussion.

1. Before we can make an Enterprise, we may have to make an enterprise.

With all the obvious tech challenges, this top hurdle is easy to overlook—but it’s a question of human motivation. What would motivate people to work on something that won’t be finished till they’re dead? Like Veruca Salt, when we want things, we want them now.

But even if we manage to motivate ourselves, what mechanism can provide continuity in funding and oversight across decades, let alone across generations? Government funding is fickle and depends on election cycles and budget reviews. Philanthropy rests on the whims of the wealthy. The long-term viability of crowdfunding is unproven.

If we could create an “econosphere” around long-term space travel—one that makes money and produces spinoff products, so people get salaries and gadgets—it could support itself. Space travel may have to become a business. And not just any business: a profitable one. Companies like Virgin Galactic, Deep Space Industries, and Planetary Resources are aiming to do just that.

2. We have to move fast.

It’s in the very definition of the project that we have to get to the stars. But it took poor Voyager 38 years just to get out of the solar system. Ain’t nobody got time for that. We have to figure out how to move fast through space, for a long-ass time. Engineers have a few ideas: Fusion rockets, ion drives, hydrogen-scooping ramjets, and antimatter annihilation systems, for instance.

3. Staying alive, staying alive.

A starship has to be both sustainable and life-sustaining. It will be a closed ecosystem that must either have or produce everything humans need to survive and make more humans.ment discovery would take a year to reach the crew.) Its residents would in turn need to train the next generation of caregivers.

Medical professionals draw par

Oxygen, food, and water are no-brainers. But we also need our microbiome, and we’re only now starting to investigate what happens to our symbiotic microbes off-Earth. The microbiomes of babies born en route remain a totally open question. And if they’re in microgravity, will those babies’ eye cells know where to migrate to become eye cells?

4. Take me to the space hospital.

Nobody likes going to the hospital, but it’s nice to know they’re there if you get MRSA or need an MRI. An interstellar starship will have limited machinery, limited medicine, a limited supply of doctors. Plus, access to new Earth-medicine techniques would be delayed or nonexistent. (If the ship travels, say, a light-year away, word of a cancer treatallels between this situation and that in developing nations with little health-care infrastructure. Studying either could benefit the other.

5. Crew-on-crew interaction.

After a certain amount of time locked in a room together, you and even the most unobtrusive person will get on each other’s nerves. You’ll be like, “Why do you always have to look at me like that?” and they’ll be like, “I’m not looking at you like anything.” Etc. Now imagine that drawn out over years or decades on an interstellar mission.

And beyond the everyday communication problems, disseminating information in a crisis—without causing panic or misinformation—could prove difficult. Imagine small-town social dynamics, in space. That’s why it’s important to choose a mix of crew members most likely to succeed.

But first we have to find out what that mix is. Agencies across the world are already investigating this psychological puzzler. The Mars HI-SEAS experiment began its third mission on October 15, and six (lucky?) people will spend eight months on a simulated martian colony in Hawaii. The European Space Agency teamed up from 2007-2011 with the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems to do the Mars 500 mission, in which three different crews experienced isolation together aboard a pseudo-spaceship and then on a pseudo-Martian surface.

6. Oops-factor.

When you break your printer beyond repair, you go buy a new one. But when you break your 3-D space printer that makes all of the parts for your other space stuff? You’re in trouble. The 100-Year Starship team is endorsing what they term a “steampunk” approach: Teaching spacefarers how to make high-tech things work with low-tech, macgyvered solutions.

7. Stepping stones.

One does not simply walk into Mordor, and one does not simply build an interstellar starship. Giant leaps aren’t real: They’re just a bunch small steps added together. To become interstellar, we have to start with simply sending humans to space regularly, cheaply. We have to start manufacturing and mining off-planet. And we need to establish human colonies on the Moon, and probably on Mars, to make sure we have enough resources and practice before we set off toward Earth 2.0.

Currently, the best bet rests in the hands of private industry. NASA’s asteroid capture mission promises a step in that direction. But private companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, which have both announced partnerships with NASA, may be able to make space their material domain faster and cheaper.

Image by Algol / Shutterstock

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09-03-2017 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

"Fast Radio Bursts Could Be Powering Alien Probes" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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09-03-2017 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

Ringmakers of Saturn: 2,000 Mile Long UFO Photographed by NASA?

For more incredible information on the UFO/ET phenomenon please read The Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.

Dr. Norman Bergrun, a former NASA research scientist published an astounding bookRingmakers of Saturn which revealed photos taken of Saturn’s rings from the Voyager I flight in 1980. Voyager I was sent to the rings of Saturn to investigate some strange anomalies that they had witnessed through their observations from Earth and NASA couldn’t believe what they found in the images that were sent back.

Bergrun who worked with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has won prestigious awards which include the California Society of Professional Enigineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award. Aside from his involvement with NASA Bergrun also worked on high-profile, top-secret aerospace projects for Lockheed Martin.

Being privy to top-secret documents during his time there came at a cost, as Bergrun himself explained in a Project Camelot interview, "I had to sign my life away for thirty years." He also intimated that there was a limit to what he can say even now, and revealed that his life would be in serious danger should he say too much.

With exclusive access to the raw NASA photographs been sent back from Voyager I in 1980, Bergrun saw firsthand what the general public was not allowed to see, making him the first legitimate, verified member of the scientific community to discover cylindrical vehicles. Bergrun’s book exposed for the first time exactly what Voyager I saw, but unable to get it published in America he travelled to Scotland and finally got it published in Aberdeen, Scotland

One of the photographs in his book is of an artificially constructed object in the A-ring of Saturn that he calls an ‘electromagnetic vehicle’. It was an astounding 2000 miles long and over 450 miles in diameter, that is over twice the length of Great Britain! What kind of high-technology must it take to build an object of that size, and who could be responsible for such an impossible feat of engineering?

Dr. Bergrun said, "I don't know who built it but what I found out is these things inhabit Saturn, that's where I first discovered them. And they're proliferating, they're now in Uranus and Jupiter...wherever you see some rings now. I call it the ringmaker."

Describing what he could see in the anomalous Voyager I images, he explained "I could be looking down on the rings, I could see parallel lines crossing all of the rings at once - that's about as long as you can go. I could tell that those lines demarked the outside of an object."

He explained why what he was seeing was an electromagnetic vehicle, "I say that it is an electromagnetic vehicle because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called 'potential lines' and that says it was electrical".

Bergrun thought it could be possible that these craft were actually making the rings, hence the book’s title, but other scholars have raised the possibility that they could be mining the precious metals and nutrients that make up the rings. Either way, what an incredible discovery, another one that appears to have been left out of the public domain. A reviewer commenting on Bergrun’s book wrote, “Saturn's rings are ‘not’ natural, but are some type of effluent from massively huge, cylindrical objects, themselves measured in terms of earth diameters!”

In his 1986 book, Bergrun published images of these immense objects for the very first time, thus verifying his claims as legitimate. The pictures he presents show 'immensely large, enormously powerful space vehicles located in the vicinity of Saturn and its moons' as his introduction explains. 

'These photographic revelations are reinforced by, and are consistent with, scientific data extending over centuries as far back as Galileo. The pictures have been obtained by the author using simple, repeatable enhancement techniques applied to publicly available NASA photographs from Voyager 1 and 2 flybys of Saturn. Having been obtained by pre-scheduled flight programming, Voyager photographs are scientifically unique in that they are strictly impersonal.'

Whoever is responsible for these vast machines clearly has access to unimaginable technology which raises yet more questions surrounding the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Questions which for now will remain unanswered.

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09-03-2017 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

09-03-2017 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

DE AARDE VALT BIJNA UIT ELKAAR EN NIEMAND REAGEERT ( VIDEO )

Waar op ieder journaal de hoofdpunten van het nieuws de huidige gigantische aardveranderingen zouden moeten zijn, wordt het publiek afgeleid met “lijsttrekkers”. 

Vergeleken met dezelfde periode van de vorige eeuw is tussen 2000 en eind 2016 het aantal zware aardbevingen met 2.680 procent toegenomen. 

Wat er in onze tegenwoordige tijd nogal eens ontbreekt, is wat men vroeger “gezond verstand” noemde. Het zelf nadenken over iets en niet zomaar iets aannemen omdat een ander dat zegt. 

Tegenwoordig worden mensen gebombardeerd met informatie via de mainstream kanalen, wat niet alleen betekent dat ze dikwijls verkeerde informatie krijgen, maar ook dat ze zelf geen enkele moeite doen om over iets na te denken. 

Niet alleen worden ze zo volgepompt met foutieve, misleidende informatie, vervolgens worden ze vakkundig afgeleid door niet aflatende sportevenementen, beroemdheden en stompzinnige amusementsprogramma’s. 

Wanneer je die televisie eindelijk uitzet en zelf een stukje onderzoek gaat doen, dan schrik je. De bulk van de mensheid is in slaap gesukkeld met de mantra “klimaatopwarming” en denkt verder geen seconde na over de gigantische veranderingen die nu op onze aarde plaatsvinden. 

Door deze klimaatopwarming hoax programmering vergeten de meesten dat verschijnselen zoals aardbevingen en vulkanen niet worden beïnvloed door mensen die teveel CO2 zouden uitstoten. 

Hierna volgen twee afbeeldingen. De ene laat het aantal en locaties zien van zware aardbevingen (hoger dan 6 op de schaal van Richter) in de eerste 16 jaar van de vorige eeuw en het tweede plaatje die uit onze huidige eeuw. 

Op het eerste plaatje zie je een totaal van 97 zware aardbevingen, op de tweede een totaal van 2.697 zware!

Deze toename is dermate groot, dat je je toch eens moet gaan afvragen waardoor dit nu eigenlijk komt. Het lijkt alsof er onzichtbare krachten inwerken op de aarde, waardoor alles letterlijk beeft en schudt. 

Met vulkanen krijg je een vergelijkbaar beeld. Niemand vraagt zich af hoe het kan dat enkele van de meest gevaarlijke vulkanen ter wereld opeens weer tot leven komen. We zien dan wel eens beelden van de Etna vulkaan, maar er zijn er nog veel meer. Op dit moment zijn er 35 grote vulkanen die nu uitbarsten of op het punt staan om uit te barsten. 

Hoe kan het dat al deze vulkanen nu opeens allemaal actief worden? 

Volgens de USGS is magma ondergronds gesmolten rots en is lava gesmolten rots dat door het oppervlak van de aarde breekt. Iets zorgt er op dit moment voor dat het magma door de aardkorst naar buiten wordt geduwd. 

Nog niet zo lang geleden spraken wetenschappers van “dode vulkanen”, maar zoals we nu beginnen te merken, zijn die helemaal niet dood. Er zijn zoveel van die “dode vulkanen” die opeens weer vol leven lijken te zitten. 

Het is ook niet een plaatselijk fenomeen, het gebeurt wereldwijd, van IJsland tot Indonesië, waar de bekende Sinabung vulkaan onlangs zeven keer op één dag tot uitbarsting kwam. Ook geldt er opnieuw een waarschuwing voor IJsland waar klaarblijkelijk vier vulkanen op het punt staan uit te barsten. 

Er is nog een heel actieve, maar relatief onbekende vulkaan en dat is de Erta Ale 

Erta Ale is een actieve schildvulkaan gelegen in de Afar-driehoek, in het noordoosten van Ethiopië. Het is de meest actieve vulkaan van Ethiopië. 

Erta Ale is 613 meter hoog, en is een van de enige vier vulkanen ter wereld met een lavameer op de top. Dit lavameer is het langst bestaande lavameer ter wereld. 

Erta Ale’s laatste grote uitbarsting was in 2005, toen duizenden mensen die in de buurt van de vulkaan woonden moesten vluchten. In 2007 was er nog een kleinere uitbarsting 

Schematisch ziet die vulkaan er als volgt uit:

Echter, ook deze vulkaan is de laatste tijd veel actiever geworden dan gebruikelijk. 

Volgens onderzoekers die er kortgeleden zijn geweest, is het niveau in het lavameer de afgelopen weken aanzienlijk gestegen, waardoor het nu aan alle kanten overstroomt. Wetenschappers constateerden dat door tektonische bewegingen er ook nieuwe “scheuren” zijn ontdekt waardoor het lava naar buiten komt. 

In de volgende video zijn recente beelden te zien van deze vulkaan en na het zien daarvan begrijp je de bijnaam: “Gateway to hell”. 

 

De tektonische platen op aarde schuiven overal en dit is niet zomaar. De wereld staat er echter bij, kijkt ernaar en er is in het hele mainstream land niemand die in staat is om al deze vreemde zaken met elkaar in verband te brengen. 

Niemand die hardop durft te vragen hoe het in hemelsnaam mogelijk is dat er plotseling zulke grote krachten werkzaam zijn op onze planeet. 

Het hoofd in het zand steken heeft geen zin; het zelf nadenken en op onderzoek gaan wel. 

Volgens een astronoom van de Radboud Universiteit is een vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel die bovengenoemde effecten zou kunnen veroorzaken grote onzin. 

De verhalen over Niburu of 'Planet X' zijn allemaal quatsch, dat is allang weerlegd en dus hoaxes. Dit soort beweringen komt doorgaans niet van wetenschappers die zich full-time hiermee bezig houden, maar van amateurs die 's avonds na hun werk blijkbaar niets beters te doen hebben dan sprookjes verzinnen. 

De dame die dit antwoord kreeg, schreef ons verder nog (dank!): 

Wat ik nog wel wil benadrukken is dat die astronoom van de Radboud Universiteit mijn opmerking volkomen negeerde, over dat aantoonbaar UV C, helium en lithium in groeiende hoeveelheden het aardoppervlak bereiken, zodat alles wat leeft dit constant inademt (vandaar ongetwijfeld die explosief toenemende luchtwegklachten, ook bij niet-rokers en plattelanders!). Met name dat UV C ons op ooghoogte bereikt, is ongehoord, omdat wetenschappers (zoals bijv. meteorologen) altijd hebben beweerd dat UV C door de dampkring rondom de aarde wordt tegengehouden. Maar omdat die dampkring zo dun geworden is, bereikt kosmische straling ons steeds meer rechtstreeks. Voor goed onderbouwde toelichting hierop: zie de site op YouTube van Higher Truth Channel en ook BP Earth Watch, die sinds een paar dagen ook werkt met een meter, die nucleaire straling meet. 

Het maakt ons niet uit wat je wel of niet wilt geloven, we zouden het alleen erg prettig vinden wanneer bovenstaande je in ieder geval tot nadenken stemt. 

Want, de heftige aardveranderingen zijn echt en er is “iets” dat dit veroorzaakt.

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09-03-2017 om 18:51 geschreven door peter  

BUITENAARDSEN VERMAKEN ZICH OVER DOMHEID MENSEN ( VIDEO )

Het kan niet anders dan dat de buitenaardsen zich vol verbazing afvragen welk niet al te intelligent ras deze planeet aarde bevolkt. 

Ze vliegen open en bloot voor iedereen zichtbaar af en aan bij hun basis onder een vulkaan en de wereldbevolking doet net alsof ze helemaal niets zien. 

Wat is het toch met mensen dat ze willens en wetens hun ogen sluiten voor iets zo essentieels als volkeren van andere planeten die hier bases hebben, doen wat ze willen en wij aardbewoners die net doen alsof ze niet bestaan? 

Natuurlijk hebben bepaalde overheden overeenkomsten met buitenaardsen en doen ze hun uiterste best om deze informatie bij het publiek vandaan te houden, maar kom, we leven in 2017 en informatie kan op heel veel verschillende manieren worden gedeeld en toch verandert er helemaal niets. 

Deze week wordt er door een webcam bij de bekende Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico weer het zoveelste bijzondere tafereel vastgelegd. 

Je ziet van links een UFO aankomen die zo te zien verdwijnt in de krater van de vulkaan.

Dan zie je een tijdje niets en even later verschijnt de UFO weer, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.

Volgens ufologen is het een vaststaand feit dat er zich een buitenaardse basis bevindt op een diepte van enkele kilometers onder deze Popocatépetl. 

Maar, zelfs als je niet zou geloven dat er zich daar een buitenaardse basis bevindt, dan nog zijn de beelden die in de loop der jaren zijn gemaakt dusdanig, dat er geen enkele twijfel meer over bestaat dat er onbekende vliegende objecten in de vulkaan verdwijnen en ook weer uit tevoorschijn komen. 

De opname van enkele dagen geleden volgt hierna. 

 

De meest beroemde opname van de Popocatépetl is wel die uit oktober 2012 waar een enorm sigaarvormige UFO met onvoorstelbaar grote snelheid de vulkaan binnenvliegt. 

 

Een deel uit een eerder artikel over een andere beroemde vulkaan:

Naast de Popocatépetl is er in Mexico nog een bekende vulkaan, de Colima, waar regelmatig vreemde objecten worden waargenomen. 

Ook daar was het afgelopen vrijdag raak met een sigaarvormige UFO. 

Omdat er een goede vergelijking gemaakt kan worden met de krater van de vulkaan heeft men berekend dat deze UFO’s ongeveer 500 meter lang zijn. De grootste van de twee heeft ook een soort metallic-achtige glinstering, wat normaal is, omdat deze opnames gemaakt zijn bij zonsopgang. 

Deze vulkaan bevindt zich op ongeveer 500 kilometer afstand van de hoofdstad Mexico City.

De vulkaanuitbarstingen wereldwijd nemen toe en het was dan ook een kwestie van tijd totdat mensen verbanden gingen leggen tussen de toenemende UFO activiteit bij vulkanen en die van vulkanische uitbarstingen. 

Tenslotte iets wat misschien niet veel mensen weten, is dat er diverse getuigenverklaringen zijn van reddingswerkers die vreemde wezens hebben waargenomen op de hellingen van de Popocatépetl vulkaan. 

Navolgend een deel uit een eerder artikel. 

De professionele bergbeklimmers (Mountain Rescue) die zich bij en rond de vulkaan bezighouden met onder andere het in veiligheid brengen van verdwaalde toeristen en dergelijke, maken melding van vreemde wezens. 

Ze zijn tussen de twee en twee en een halve meter groot en worden waargenomen op de helling van de vulkaan, dichtbij de krater. 

Ze zijn lang en dun en beschikken niet over een uitrusting zoals een rugzak of iets dergelijks. Ze hebben niets om zich tegen de barre weerscondities op die hoogte te beschermen.

Deze wezens zijn niet een keer bij toeval waargenomen. Ze worden op regelmatige basis gezien door leden van Mountain Rescue en anderen. 

Tot grote verbazing van de bergbeklimmers kunnen de wezens in een heel korte tijd een aanzienlijke afstand overbruggen op de steile gladde berghelling. 

Een afstand op de berghelling waar de bergbeklimmers normaal gesproken drie uur over doen, wordt door deze wezens in tien minuten afgelegd. 

Guillermo Vidalez is één van de bergbeklimmers die ze met eigen ogen heeft gezien. Hij zegt dat het eigenlijk onmogelijk is voor iets of iemand om een berghelling in zo'n korte tijd te beklimmen, gezien de condities van het terrein en het weer. De wezens zagen er uit als dunne, lange figuren en ze waren te ver van Vidalez verwijderd om contact te kunnen maken. 

Grote vraag is natuurlijk: Wie zijn deze wezens en wat hebben ze daar op die helling van de vulkaan te zoeken.

Het enige dat wij kunnen doen is al dit soort vreemde voorvallen blijven rapporteren in de hoop dat er ooit eens ergens iets of iemand echt wakker wordt onder de grote massa en dat die zich gaan afvragen waarom ze hier nooit iets van in het journaal terug zien.

Ook voormalig minister van defensie van Canada doet niet aflatend zijn best de mensheid te laten doordringen van het feit dat buitenaardsen bestaan en ook hun voertuigen. Navolgend een interessant recent interview wat hij had met RT News.

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09-03-2017 om 18:34 geschreven door peter  

A Real Life “Hibernation Chamber” is Being Made For Deep Space Travel

 

An artist’s rendering of what Spaceworks’ human stasis pods would look like.

SpaceWorks

IN BRIEF

• Spaceworks, led by John A. Bradford, is proposing to use a new method to allow humans to 'hibernate' during extended space trips.
• The process involves cooling the body a little below the normal body temperature (37 C), to slow down heart rate and blood pressure.

THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA

Manned, long-term, deep space missions are an exciting prospect, but one that remains in the realm of distant possibilities–particularly because we don’t have all the technological innovations needed to make it happen.

One major consideration is the time it takes to reach the destination. Mars, which is at the top of various space programs’ go-to destinations for manned missions, is about six months if travel time away from Earth. If we wanted to explore even further, keep in mind that New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft to leave Earth, took nine and a half years to reach Pluto.

Science fiction conveniently sidesteps this challenge by putting the space explorers into deep sleep–a state of suspended animation. But slowing the human metabolism down while ensuring that a person will stay alive for extended periods is a lot easier said than done.

Spaceworks however, led by John A. Bradford, is proposing to use a method they refer to as “therapeutic hypothermia.” The process involves cooling the body a little below the normal body temperature (37 C), to slow down heart rate and blood pressure. This process is already being used in the medical world. By bringing the body temperature of patients undergoing treatment for cardiac arrest or traumatic brain injuries down to 32 and 34 degrees Celsius, doctors have more time to address the issues.

The method normally allows patients to stay in stasis for about 2-4 days, but has worked for as long as two weeks. Spaceworks not only believes they can extend this for months, but also that they can create the technology needed to automate the process and apply it for deep-space missions.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION

Unlike the cryo-chambers depicted in films however, where row upon row of space travelers are left in suspended animation in individual pods, Spaceworks is conceptualizing an open chamber that allows the crew to go into stasis in shifts.

“There would be some robotic arms and monitoring systems taking care of [the passengers]. They’d have small transnasal tubes for the cooling and some warming systems as well, to bring them back from stasis,” Bradford describes an interview with Quartz.

This not only addresses concerns of adding too much weight to a spacecraft, but also ensures that there will be people awake to manage possible emergencies and conduct standard monitoring.

As for the long-term health effects of space travel, Spaceworks is trying to find ways of incorporating exercise into stasis. The team is looking into using electrical stimulation, which is already used to aid physical therapy. Having this technology in place also solves a lot of logistical issues for manned space missions. With crew members awake, you have to factor in the volume of food, water, and air needed to keep them alive for months and years at a time. It could also help manage the psychological impact of long-term space travel and hopefully lower the risk of space crews succumbing to depression, claustrophobia, or anxiety.

According to Spaceworks, they are due to begin animal testing next year, with human testing set to follow after in space and on the International Space Station.

References: 

• Digital Trends, 
• Quartz, 
• Spaceworks/International Astronautical Congress

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09-03-2017 om 15:02 geschreven door peter  

Aliens, black holes and spoon bending: Freaky incidents scientists STILL can’t explain

SOMETIMES ignorance is bliss – particularly when it comes to alien lifeforms on other planets.

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09-03-2017 om 14:20 geschreven door peter  

UFOS OVER PYRAMIDS: Crystal clear footage of bizarre objects at Giza goes viral

A STUNNING video which appears to show three crystal clear UFOs hovering over the ancient pyramids of Giza has gone viral.

09-03-2017 om 13:28 geschreven door peter  

Revisiting the Gulf Breeze Six

I recently made a decision to add inquiring about the Gulf Breeze Six to my ongoing FOIA requests. I initially emailed James Carrion to get his input on most effectively composing the requests. In his response, James mentioned he would take a look around for some material he might have on the case and send it along in the event I'd find it useful. He soon emailed copies of dozens of relevant newspaper clippings, messages posted on listservs, interviews, and similar documents I very much appreciate and find of historic value. With James' permission I am sharing a 117-page pdf file he provided. In the post below I'll explore the case, discuss some of the many interesting points in the material James offered, and describe the resulting FOIA requests filed.

The Gulf Breeze Six

"Disembodied Voice: I'm the Virgin Mary, how many personnel are currently occupying your NSA listening station in Germany?"

- Kandinsky, commenting on Gulf Breeze Six case, Above Top Secret 

A long time ago in a UFO community far, far away, some interesting things actually happened. It might be hard for some to imagine, but events went down in ufology other than self-described disclosure activists frantically building urgency around what chronically amounts to nothing and a podcaster persistently trying to extract cash from email lists like third world con men hacking Yahoo.

The 1980's gave ufology a series of eyebrow-raising evolving into jaw-dropping events, compliments of the intelligence community, that included Airman Simone Mendez and her run in with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and FBI; Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe targeted for deception by OSI Special Agent Richard Doty; and in 1989, writer and researcher Bill Moore took the opportunity as keynote speaker at the annual MUFON symposium to declare he'd been collaborating with Doty and other members of the IC to distribute disinformation. 

While that was happening, the Florida community of Gulf Breeze gained global attention due to reported dramatic UFO sightings and, in particular, the controversial case of Ed Walters. As a result, Gulf Breeze was the site of the 1990 annual MUFON symposium, at which time - just a year since Moore cannonballed into the last gig - a crew of a half dozen AWOL intelligence analysts partial to using a Ouija board arrived at the home of a local psychic as the conference came to a close down the street. The group became known as the Gulf Breeze Six.

If you're not familiar with the saga of the Gulf Breeze Six, it's worth some time. The late Philip Coppens penned a pretty good summary of the case. It's complicated, but let's dive in:

Six Army intelligence analysts were serving in the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg, Germany, the largest NSA base in the world outside the States at the time. Each member of the group held a top secret security clearance. They began conducting meetings consisting of Ouija board sessions and explorations of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and they claimed to think they were communicating with spirits and religious icons, including the Virgin Mary, during the meetings. The six apparently perceived they were provided prophecies, and interpreted the predictions to be coming to pass, leading them to increasingly trust the means of communication and alleged entities.

Members of the group had lifelong interests in paranormal subject matter, including one, Spc. Vance A. Davis, who as a teenager took a course in "Silva Mind Control," and another, Spc. Kenneth G. Beason, who dabbled in hypnosis and reportedly was interested in UFOs. The six also included Sgt. Annette Eccleston, Pfc. Michael J. Hueckstaedt, Pfc. Kris P. Perlock, and Pfc. William N. Setterberg. They reportedly went over the proverbial wall in early July, 1990, after giving away some belongings and ceremoniously burning their records and books. 

Another key figure was a Gulf Breeze self-described psychic, Anna Foster, who Perlock met while in cryptology training in Pensacola prior to shipping off to Europe. Foster apparently also befriended Beason when he was stationed in Pensacola. All but Eccleston, the lone female of the six soldiers, were reportedly staying at Foster's apartment while Absent Without Official Leave. Eccleston was apprehended at a campsite at nearby Fort Pickens, for whatever reasons.
      

Former home of the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at the US Intelligence Field Station, Augsburg, Germany

Also adding to the confusion were statements by members of the Gulf Breeze Six, which at times seemed to be unclear if not lacking logic. What's more, some of their acquaintances were quoted in the media as saddling them with remarks and beliefs they later denied. Ideologies attributed to the group included a forthcoming Rapture, alien spaceships frequenting Gulf Breeze, a UFO cover-up conducted by the government, a plot to thwart the Antichrist, significant malevolent forces operating covertly within the U.S. government, and similar mindsets arguably being found with increasing frequency among members of the UFO community and related genres. Some of the beliefs were later defended by Vance Davis and his peers, while some were dismissed as rumors. 

Any way we look at it, the six were a pretty paranormal-friendly bunch, or at least claimed to be, and landed in Gulf Breeze about the same time a MUFON convention wrapped up on July 8. The six were apparently in Tennessee a few days earlier, where they bought a van and drove it to Florida, arriving July 9, according to Gulf Breeze police, but I strongly suspect that date was established from statements obtained. If not, it would be reasonable to question how police actually knew when the entourage hit town. At any rate, Hueckstaedt soon crossed paths with local law enforcement when he was pulled over in the van for driving with faulty taillights, and the entire group was eventually detained July 13-14. The six were transferred to the custody of intelligence agencies and taken to Fort Benning, GA, and Fort Knox, KY, for interrogation. 

They were soon issued general discharges and released with minimal consequences. Three of the six, Beason, Eccleston, and Hueckstaedt, returned to Gulf Breeze, remarkably arriving back in town within three weeks of first having been taken into custody. Beason said he returned to the area because of friendships he developed, according to an August 4, 1990, newspaper article titled, Three discharged soldiers return to Gulf Breeze, friends. 

Article explaining Beason, Eccleston, and Hueckstaedt returned to Gulf Breeze following their discharges,  found on page 67 of pdf file provided by James Carrion

Drilling Down

The above summary leaves many of us with more questions than answers. A sticking point, for instance, has long been understanding how the six navigated international airports without being detained. A partial explanation might include information contained in a July 19, 1990, New York Times article (see p 98 of thepdf file):

The Pentagon said that two of the soldiers went on authorized leave from their unit, the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg, West Germany, about two weeks ago, and never returned. At the same time, two other soldiers from the unit vanished, and officials suspected that two more who were on leave would not return.

Military authorities issued a worldwide alert for the six soldiers on July 9.

That might account for how they managed to get stateside, combined with circumstances reported in an article from the Northwest Florida Daily News (p 64 of the pdf), which suggested the group used forged leave papers. Before the worldwide alert was issued Monday the 9th, Beason and Hueckstaedt could feasibly have made it to Tennessee by Friday, July 6, as reported was the case by the Pensacola News Journal (p 91 of pdf). The two reportedly planned to soon meet the other four (p 69 of pdf,Marin Independent Journal, U.S. soldiers go AWOL to find 'Jesus in a spaceship'). Some, however, including Davis (as cited by Coppens), would later speculate intelligence officials knew of the group's plan all along and were monitoring the journey.  

A piece in the July 19, 1990, edition of the Pensacola News Journal (pp 90-91 of pdf,6 soldiers here to kill Antichrist) indicated Robert Hall, an Army spokesman, stated authorities didn't know how the six got to the United States. The author of the article also obtained comments from Stan Johnson, a contact of Beason's in Tennessee, who apparently picked up Beason and Hueckstaedt at the Knoxville airport on July 6 and helped them buy the van. 

"He did mention... about going to Pensacola for a UFO convention," Johnson was interestingly quoted as recalling about Beason. 

Oh, and the European Stars and Stripes was quoted in the same article (pp 90-91) as reporting the crew of six went to Gulf Breeze to kill the Antichrist, but we'll come back to that in a minute. First, the article indicated the MUFON conference was held in Pensacola July 6-8, and reported MUFON officials "could not say whether Beason or Hueckstaedt attended any of the symposium sessions," but get this: Anna Foster, the psychic who opened her home to the group, apparently did.

In what appears to be the next day's edition of the same paper, the July 20, 1990,Pensacola News Journal, a story was published titled, Soldiers were to expose UFO scam, sister says (pp 92-93 of pdf). The article highlights Beason's sister and her husband, Carolyn and Charles Reed, explaining how Beason "said they were going to expose a government cover-up of reports that aliens have visited Earth," although the couple did not seem to take him particularly seriously. The article continued, "The Reeds said Beason also told them that Foster had introduced him to a UFO group that believed the government was covering up alien visits to Earth."

"If anybody should be arrested, it should be that lady," Charles Reed told the News Journal about Anna Foster, for what it may or may not be worth. 

The article interestingly concluded:

The Mutual UFO Network held a symposium on UFOs two weeks ago July 6-8, but the group did not endorse any position on a government cover-up, said Don Ware, a Fort Walton Beach representative of the group.

Although Ware said Foster had attended the symposium, Foster refused comment again Tuesday night.

The Stand

Among the more dramatic of the many dramatic story lines to emerge from the saga involved the Antichrist. The previously referenced July 19 article published in the News Journal (pp 90-91 of pdf) reported members of the six were being held at Fort Benning, and that Maj. Joe Padilla, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said he didn't know why they left Germany or anything about their religious beliefs. Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown was similarly asked for comment. The article explained:

When he was told of the Stars and Stripes report Wednesday, Brown said, "I don't believe that. Who is the Antichrist?"

If the cult had talked about destroying the Antichrist, that person should have a name, he said. 

  
According to a Georgia MUFON State Section Director, who described a Fort Benning doctor as his source, at least some of the Gulf Breeze Six claimed to believe the Antichrist indeed had a name, and it was Ed Walters. In an August 4, 1990, letter to MUFON International Director Walt Andrus, the Section Director wrote (p 77 of pdf):

In regards to your request that I try to meet with the soldiers here at Fort Benning, Georgia who were involved in the recent "End of the World" deal at Gulf Breeze, Florida, the following negative report is submitted.

I was unable to meet with the soldiers who were being held in the stockade and my fraternity brother, who is a doctor at the base hospital, couldn't get me in to see the two men who were on the psychiatric ward. All I could get from the doctor was relatively the same as that which was out on the media wires. The soldiers had originally met while stationed together in Germany and they believed that the UFOs are works of the 'devil.' They also supposedly claim that Ed Walters is the anti-Christ and that is why the UFO activity has been so heavy in the Florida panhandle. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get anything better on this but the people at the Provost Marshall's office weren't very receptive to the idea of a UFO investigator. 

How Bizarre, How Bizarre

Other points of interest include Vance Davis describing his mastery of "self-hypnosis through active imagination" as taught in "Silva Mind Control courses that were held in Alex Merklinger's school in New York." Davis purported to interact with entities through such techniques (p 5 of pdf).

Davis stated GB6 colleague Kenneth Beason was practicing hypnosis techniques in an interview published in the January/February, 1995, edition of a Northern California MUFON periodical titled, Case Briefs: Explorations and Review. The item was reprinted with the permission of The Phoenix Newsletter. A passage I find interesting is pictured right and described below.

"Did you receive information from sources other than the Ouija Board?" the interviewer asked.

Vance Davis replied, "The UFO documents came from a woman (with Ashtar Command) in Germany. (That was the Cooper Report, and other documents.) We didn't really get anything from work, (but) we started seeing things differently. The first thing that really got us moving, and they didn't put this in the statements, (was) the Iran earthquake that year (1990), because we were told about it thirty days before it occurred. We were also doing hypnosis."

"Was Beason hypnotizing you?"

"Yeah. It was a relaxed state; like Edgar Cayce used to do. We were doing a lot of parapsychology research. A whole lot of it. We did Tarot cards, and all that kind of stuff. We were trying to disprove all of this stuff, until the Ouija Board happened and some hypnosis stuff."

Andrus explained to Journal readers:

This action stemmed from continued advisory statements by members of the Executive Committee to Don that he refrain from mailing books to Board members and Eastern Regional State Directors espousing "channeling" philosophies and techniques over a two year period.

As a result of Mr. Ware's fascination with channeling as a means of communicating with aliens or entities, he invited Dr. Norma Milanovich, a professed channeler, to attend the closed MUFON "Face-to-Face" meeting in Albuquerque, NM in July 1992 and allowed her to read her channeled answers to the questions posed for discussion by the participants. Much to the shock and dismay of MUFON officers attending, Dr. Milanovich read the answers from a computer print-out which she claims was obtained from "Master Kuthumi" during a 33-minute period the previous night.  

Ware went on to direct the International UFO Congress from 1993-2010.

- The former home of the Gulf Breeze Six and the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade, the US Intelligence Field Station of Augsburg, was the old stomping grounds of Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine and Sgt. Lyn Buchanan as portrayed in Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats. A few years before the Gulf Breeze Six arrived, career intelligence officer Stubblebine was deeply involved in unconventional avenues of research. He was credited with creating Remote Viewing and went on to become what could reasonably be described as an irrational conspiracy theorist. Buchanan, who worked with Stubblebine and was involved in the Remote Viewing initiative, considers himself an alien abductee, as explored in an interview he generously provided me.

- Rima Laibow, MD, was a speaker at the MUFON 1990 International UFO Symposium in Pensacola. Her pro-hypnosis platform and promotion of alleged alien abduction were viewed favorably by MUFON, as was the case with her fellow speaker, Budd Hopkins. Dr. Laibow went on to marry Maj. Gen. Stubblebine.    

- In 1991 the 701st MI Brigade was awarded the prestigious Director of the National Security Agency's Travis Trophy. The award was granted for having made the nation's most significant contribution in signals intelligence.

- In 1989 Anna Foster published her book, Song of my soul. 

FOIA

I recently submitted four FOIA requests on the Gulf Breeze Six. One was to the NSA, asking they conduct a Mandatory Declassification Review, or MDR, of the filereferenced by Coppens. He stated 1400 of its 1600 pages were withheld, so perhaps more of that will be released. I also requested NSA provide records pertaining to investigations of the individuals and their activities, as suggested in newspaper clippings. 

I similarly requested the Army conduct an MDR of the file referenced by Coppens, as well as related records on the group. Newspaper clippings, establishing the existence of such Army investigations of the six, were offered in support.

The CIA and FBI were also queried, with files requested on interactions with and investigations of the Gulf Breeze Six. Offered in support was a July 19, 1990, article (p 81 of pdf) which stated, "Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown said that no arrests were made, and [the six] were turned over to the CIA and FBI before going to Fort Benning." Also cited was a July 17, 1990, clipping (pp 86-87) which attributed Police Chief Brown with stating the FBI, CIA and NSA called the Gulf Breeze Police Department following the soldiers' detention.

09-03-2017 om 13:10 geschreven door peter  

Colombia: Three Alleged UFOs over Plata (Huila)

SOURCE: GIFPU and Planeta UFO
Date: 03.04.2017
A report by Joe Carpio, GIFPU

Colombia: Three Alleged UFOs Over Plata (Huila)

On March 3, 2017, starting at 3:00 p.m., a phenomenon was recorded over Plata (Huila) that left locals looking for answers. Three mysterious UFOs were sighted in the skies over the community. According to eyewitnesses, the objects remained static most of the time and as evening grew closer, they flew toward each other quickly until they vanished.

A witness to the event remarked: "Three unidentified flying vehicles remained static most of the afternoon until dusk, then flew quickly toward each other until they vanished," according to Lucas Martinez.

UFO sightings over Colombia are on the rise with many more cases reporting everything from small lights to possible structured craft flying over towns, municipalities and even some of the nation's cities.

Photos show white objects, clearly distant from the witnesses. A drawing depicts the manner in which the craft were described by witnesses.



The accompanying video is from Garzón (Huila) near Plata and shows the presence of UFOs in the afternoon of 20 February 2017:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3XkBuP9OaA

[Translation (c) 207 S.Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez and Joe Carpio]

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09-03-2017 om 12:50 geschreven door peter  

OVNIS dans le ciel de Saint-Leu

Patrice Huet a réalisé ce montage photographique avec en haut à droite l'horizon et plusieurs grossissements du phénomène observé dans le ciel de Saint-Leu.

(Photos Patrice Huet)

Quels sont ces objets volants qui se sont inscrits dans le ciel de Saint-Leu en fin d'après-midi dimanche dernier ? Le ballet aérien n'a semble-t-il eu que peu de témoins mais le hasard qui a mis Patrice Huet aux premières loges pour assister brièvement au spectacle a bien fait les choses.

Directeur scientifique de la Cité du volcan, Patrice Huet est autant passionné de volcanologie que féru d'astronomie. Observer le ciel est pour lui une seconde nature. Que ce soit lui qui ait immortalisé cet étrange phénomène, donne un poids particulier à cette observation dans la mesure où l'on est en présence d'un témoin crédible qui ne laisse aucune place au sensationnalisme ou à la manipulation.

Peu avant 19 heures, dimanche dernier, Patrice Huet roule en voiture avec sa compagne. À hauteur de Saint-Leu, il jette machinalement un regard vers le ciel. Il fait un temps superbe. «Nous étions quelques minutes après le coucher du soleil, confie Patrice Huet. À force d'observer le ciel j'ai acquis une certaine facilité à identifier les phénomènes qui s'y passent. Soudain avec ma compagne notre regard a été attiré par un point lumineux sur la mer en direction de l'ouest - sud-ouest et à environ 10, 15° au-dessus de l'horizon».

trois points lumineux dans le ciel

Patrice Huet pense avoir identifié Mercure. « C'est alors que j'ai aperçu deux autres points lumineux plus ou moins alignés au dessous. » Surpris par l'apparition de ces trois points lumineux, Patrice Huet décide de s'arrêter. « Le temps de garer la voiture, il n'en restait plus qu'un ». Par chance il a avec lui son appareil photo. Il réalise quelques clichés mais le temps de retourner à la voiture pour prendre un objectif plus adapté, le rideau est retombé sur cette scène des plus insolites.

« Je n'ai pas pu voir la fin du phénomène. Il semblait se déplacer avec des composantes verticales et horizontale vers la droite. »

Patrice Huet a marqué d'une flèche les différents points observés. En dessous de la flèche centrale l'objet qu'il a agrandi.

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09-03-2017 om 12:42 geschreven door peter  

Airbus Reveals Modular Car, Quadcopter, and Hyperloop Pod

Mike Brown

Ready to fly, drive and take the train to work? Airbus and Italdesign have taken the wraps off an incredible pod design that combines all three into the last vehicle you could ever need. The Pop.up system is a concept that combines artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and Hyperloop into a futuristic machine designed to traverse cities at speed.

“Adding the third dimension to seamless multi-modal transportation networks will without a doubt improve the way we live and how we get from A to B,” said Mathias Thomsen, general manager for urban air mobility at Airbus, at the vehicle’s world premiere during the 87th Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday.

At its core, the vehicle consists of a monocoque carbon-fiber pod with two seats, measuring 8.5 feet by 4.9 feet, standing 4.6 feet tall. The pod couples on the base with a four-wheel ground module for driving, but in certain situations, an air module will connect to the roof. The module, measuring 16.4 feet by 14.4 feet, has eight counter-rotating rotors that can propel it through the air at around 60 miles per hour. It can also drive at 60 miles per hour. Both the air module and the ground module take about 15 minutes to charge — the ground module has an 80-mile range, and the air module can go 60, without a payload. Airbus doesn’t state how far the air module can travel with passengers on board.

Passengers will use an app to call a ride, the system will choose the best module for the occasion, and the whole pod will work out the best way to drive itself. Artificial intelligence is used to make the experience as seamless as possible, for example by choosing the air module to avoid traffic congestion in major cities. An augmented reality overlay provides details about sights throughout the city, allowing users to give their opinion on city proposals and accept event invites. At the end of the trip, the components all return themselves to a charging station for the next user.

The batteries located inside the modules link up to the pod and share charge.

The modular system allows for integration with other forms of publicly-available transit, with Airbus naming Hyperloop as one example. Elon Musk’s design for a 700 mile per hour vacuum-sealed train has captured the imaginations of city and vehicle designers, and Pop.Up’s creators are no exception.

“[The] passenger pod concept envisaged by Hyperloop could intuitively integrate well with Pop.Up,” an Airbus spokesperson tells Inverse. “For instance, the last mile to and from Hyperloop stations could be transported with the Pop.Up air module.”

It’s not the first company to explore this idea. Hyperloop One, a company aiming to bring the train system to reality, has also described a system where self-driving cars can link up with the network, drive into the nearest Hyperloop portal and cut transit times dramatically. An Airbus spokesperson tells Inverse that the company does not yet have any direct contact with Hyperloop firms, but that it is open to exploring opportunities.

As for when you’ll be able to try one of these, Airbus has no current plans to bring the vehicle to market, but believes a vehicle similar to the concept could debut somewhere in the 2024 to 2027 range.

Watch the hypothetical pod in action here:

Photos via Airbus, Airbus/YouTube

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09-03-2017 om 12:00 geschreven door peter  

It’s Official: Astronauts Can Grow Potatoes in Martian Soil

Rosalie Chan

In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney starts growing a farm on Mars using the potatoes meant for Thanksgiving dinner. As it turns out, this might actually be possible in real life if humans ever do colonize Mars. Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) (yes, it’s an actual thing) successfully grew potatoes grown in a synthetic soil that mimics the Martian earth.

The CIP started the Potatoes on Mars project in February 2016 in Lima, Peru to see how potatoes would grow and survive in Martian conditions. Wednesday’s announcement of positive results could open up a world of extraterrestrial agriculture that makes it much easier for future generations living on another world to keep themselves full and fed.

“The question we want to know is, can you grow food on Mars,” Chris McKay of NASA’s Ames Research Center tells Inverse. “Potatoes are a good example of a good food. We eat a lot of them. There’s been a lot of research on potatoes as a life support crop. For this particular crop, we want to know how close to Mars-like conditions can potatoes grow.”

Scientists chose to experiment with potatoes because these crops have a high genetic capacity for adapting to extreme environments. Previously, the CIP has grown potatoes that can tolerate conditions caused by climate change, like soil salinity and drought. For this experiment, scientists grew potatoes in soil from the Pampas de La Joya desert in southern Peru, which is dry and similar to Mars’s soil.

These potatoes have been growing inside a CubeSat, which has a container with soil and the tubers and a suite of sensors and cameras to monitor the conditions. It delivers nutrient rich water and simulates Mars’s temperature, air pressure, and atmosphere.

The scientists will continue conducting experiments to find out what kind of potatoes grow best and what minimum conditions potatoes need to survive, including low pressures and low temperatures. This experiment also has practical uses for Earth, as scientists will test whether potatoes can grow in extreme conditions that might hit Earth because of climate change.

On Earth, farmers grow potatoes under warm conditions, but on Mars, the temperatures and pressure are much lower. However, if potatoes can stand Mars-like conditions, in the future, astronauts might not need to build a greenhouse that simulates Earth-like conditions.

“Maybe it could be a tenth of Earth-like conditions,” McKay says. “That makes the greenhouse a lot easier to build.”

Right now, astronauts in space currently eat freeze-dried space food. But for extended missions, like missions to Mars, this isn’t practical, as astronauts need more nutrients, and freezing takes up resources. Plus, if we move onto Mars, we need a sustainable way to grow food and produce oxygen — otherwise, we’ll run out.

NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is working on solutions to feed astronauts in space while minimizing waste and energy costs. If we were to send a crew to Mars now, we’d have to load their spacecraft with 7,000 pounds of food. But growing fruits and vegetables would lessen the amount of food astronauts would need to bring to Mars. Plus, astronauts will be healthier and happier from eating food that is not irradiated turkey or astronaut ice cream.

Previously, scientists have engineered an artificial leaf that can produce oxygen and sugar, proposed growing food and medicine using genetically engineered bacteria, planted sweet potatoes and strawberries in simulated Martian conditions, and even 3D printed pizza.

According to McKay, in the near future, NASA hopes to take this potato experiment to the red planet to actually grow them on Mars’s red soil. The payload would have to be as minimal as possible.

“We’d do that experiment way before people go to Mars,” McKay says. “The first time we grow potatoes on Mars isn’t going to be for someone’s dinner. It will be to make sure it works.”

Like Mark Watney, in the future, we may survive on Mars by getting our fill of potato carbs, without having to alter the soil much. But hopefully our crops don’t get destroyed by an airlock explosion.

“It looks like potatoes can do fine in the soil,” McKay says. “You don’t need to add human manure the way they did in that movie.”

Photos via International Potato Center

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09-03-2017 om 11:42 geschreven door peter  

Why This Part of the Universe Makes No Sense to Scientists

Cassie Kelly

New data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory is undoing a century of scientific evidence, boggling astronomer’s minds and proving that nothing in the universe is set in stone.

There are several star clusters sprinkled throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. A star cluster is a group of stars, originally believed to all be created around the same time, and held together by gravity until galactic winds eventually sweep them apart. Clusters have acted as a kind of control group for scientists who are studying how new stars form. But, now, it appears they aren’t actually controlled environments at all.

In some of these star clusters, a research group from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth observed the presence of newborn stars, which would indicate the cluster are not on a timestamped life but rather constantly evolving. To verify this, the group cross-matched the sites of the clusters with sites of newborn stars. In the resulting analysis, scientists concluded that there were at least 15 young stars residing in much older clusters. The results are published in the new issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

“We believe the younger stars have actually been created out of the matter ejected from older stars as they die, which would mean we have discovered multiple generations of stars belonging to the same cluster,” Kenji Bekki an ICRAR astronomer and co-author of the new paper, said in a press release.

This throws all previous knowledge of clusters out the window, affecting models and data that have been collected over the past 100 years. To further understand this new discovery, scientists will be using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the Large Magellanic Cloud with ultraviolet light to see beyond the stellar dust shrouding the young stars from scientists’ view.

“If we point Hubble at the clusters we’ve been studying, we should be able to see both young and old stars and confirm once and for all that star clusters can contain several generations of stars,” said Bekki.

Photos via NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team.

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09-03-2017 om 11:41 geschreven door peter