Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
27-04-2017
Distant Dwarf Planet DeeDee Stirs Up the Pluto Planethood Debate
Distant Dwarf Planet DeeDee Stirs Up the Pluto Planethood Debate
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
Artist concept of the planetary body 2015 UZ224, more informally known as DeeDee. ALMA was able to observe the faint millimeter-wavelength "glow" emitted by the object, confirming it is roughly 635 kilometers across. At this size, DeeDee should have enough mass to be spherical, the criterion for astronomers to consider it a dwarf planet, though it has yet to receive that official designation.
Credit: Alexandra Angelich/NRO/AUI/NSF
What's a planet? What's a dwarf planet? Should we make a distinction? Should we really care about these definitions in the first place?
As we learn more about the outer solar system, the boundaries begin to blur.
A tiny celestial body called 2014 UZ224 and informally known as DeeDee (for “distant dwarf”) is a distant world about 92 astronomical units, or Earth-sun distances, from our sun. Recent observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed that DeeDee is roughly 395 miles (635 kilometers) across, which would give it enough mass to be spherical.
Why does it matter if DeeDee is round? In 2006, a controversial vote by the International Astronomical Union defined three parameters for a planet. Simply speaking, the IAU says a planet must be in orbit around the sun, have enough mass to be round, and have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit — meaning it needs to be gravitationally dominant and hold any nearby bodies within its orbit.
It's the last part of the definition that most aggravates those who argue that Pluto – redefined as a "dwarf" planet under the IAU – is more planet than not. The argument is that the rocky planets of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury have also not cleared their neighborhoods, as many asteroids co-orbit along with them.
The planetary geologist Kirby Runyon, a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, wrote a paper this year proposing a geophysical-based definition of a planet that would dispense with the orbital criterion and basically include any round celestial body that isn’t a star. The idea hatched by Runyon and his co-authors — which include Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto — would increase the number of purported planets in our solar system to over 110, including Earth’s moon and DeeDee.
"What it's really showing is the diversity of planets in our solar system,” said Runyon of the DeeDee news, “and giving us a better understanding of planets in the rest of the galaxy.”
"DeeDee is almost certainly made out of ices — water ices, methane, and carbon dioxide — which is similar to what Pluto is made of," he added. "These are very soft materials, compared with rocky silicate. It's more easily pulled into a sphere than rock or metal."
Adding more fodder to the debate over the definition, when the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, it unveiled a world of surprising complexity, ranging from mountainous areas to vast nitrogen-ice lakes.
"We call Pluto a 'dwarf' planet, but it's just an adjective for 'planet,’” Runyon said. “It's still a planet, and that's where we take umbrage with the IAU.”
"Astronomers aren't experts in planetary science, and they basically passed a bunch of B.S. off on the public back in 2006 with a planet classification so flawed that it rules the Earth out as a planet, too," Stern remarked in 2016. "A week later, hundreds of planetary scientists, more people than at the IAU vote, signed a petition that rejects the new definition. If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day."
As a geomorphologist, Runyon is most particularly interested in the shape of landforms on worlds around the solar system. His dissertation deals with wind-blown sand geology on Mars, as mapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.
But he'll still keep his eye on the outer solar system. New Horizons is set to fly by a tiny world called 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. While MU69 is too small to be even a dwarf planet, Runyon will be looking for features on MU69 such as ripples, which were also seen during the Rosetta mission during observations of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. He'll also look at the shape of craters, among other things.
"MU69 has never warmed up since the formation of the solar system," he said. "It will be really interesting to see how different or complex it might be. There's a laundry list of things we'll be looking for, and hopefully we'll be surprised."
A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn's moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.
Credit: APL/Michael Carroll
A relocatable lander could explore the hazy skies of Saturn's intriguing moon Titan, according a new mission proposal. As the eight-bladed whirlybird travels across the moon, it could investigate some of the most promising potentially habitable sites on the Saturn satellite, where methane and ethane fall from the sky and flow as rivers and lakes.
The lander-size instrument, known as Dragonfly, would take advantage of Titan's low gravity and thick atmosphere to visit multiple sites over several years, moving from one promising site to the next and recharging between the brief flights.
"It's such a rich place to be able to explore in situ, and then it hands us the way to explore it," the project's principal investigator, Elizabeth Turtle, told Space.com. Turtle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory in Maryland, is leading the team that's proposing an in-depth exploration of Titan as part of NASA's New Frontiers mission program, which generally funds midsize missions to explore the solar system. She presented the Dragonfly concept last month at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. [Amazing Photos of Titan: Saturn's Biggest Moon]
On Titan, flowing methane and ethane rivers and seas provide a unique opportunity to explore the chemistry that could lead to the rise of life. But it's the thick atmosphere that would make the mission possible.
"The atmosphere is what is giving us this ability to travel on Titan," Turtle said.
When the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint initiative between NASA and the European Space Agency, arrived at Titan in 2004, it discovered a world where methane rained down onto the surface into organic-rich lakes and seas. It dropped the Huygens probe onto Titan's surface, providing a tantalizing peek at some of the chemistry beneath the clouds. Over the past decade, the orbiter revealed even more details about Titan's surface, including a variety of environments with the potential to have chemical evolution similar to Earth's, Turtle said.
"The kind of prebiotic chemistry that we're looking at, these are things we can't do in the lab — the timescales are too long to do these experiments in the lab — but Titan has been doing them for ages," Turtle said.
"The results are just sitting on the surface," she added. "If we can get to these different places on the surface of Titan, we can pick up the results of the experiments. They're just waiting for us."
When it came to exploring various locations on Mars, that meant rovers. Each rover dropped at a promising location could trek for tens of miles over its lifetime. As of April 2017, NASA's Opportunity rover had traveled a total of more than 27 miles (43 kilometers), and Curiosity had traveled nearly 10 miles (16 km).
But instead of sending multiple rovers to explore Titan, Turtle wants to use the moon's thick atmosphere to travel more efficiently. Titan's atmosphere is about four times as dense as Earth's, while its gravity is about a tenth as strong.
"Heavier-than-air flight is substantially easier [on Titan]," Turtle said. "That means we can take a really capable lander and move it by a few tens of kilometers in a single flight, and hundreds of kilometers over the time of the mission."
In the past, Titan mission proposals have included balloons and airships that took advantage of the thick atmosphere to travel. But these missions required these vehicles to be constantly in the air, which consumed a great deal of power, Turtle said. They also provided only cursory exploration of the surface.
Instead, Dragonfly would use two rotors positioned at each of its four corners to fly from one region of the moon to the next, then recharge while landed using the multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG) it would carry with it, which converts the heat from decaying plutonium-238 into electricity. This could mean Dragonfly could fly around Titan for years, or even decades, Turtle said. At the same time, the thick atmosphere would block damaging radiation, providing a welcoming environment for a long-lived mission, she added.
If NASA selects Dragonfly, the spacecraft would be ready for launch in the mid-2020s and should arrive in the 2030s, Turtle said. Cassini's data would provide potential landing sites, but once Dragonfly arrived, it would be able to scout them out and, using the same type of program that Mars rovers use to land safely, decide which one would be the best landing location. After landing, the quadcopter could launch and map several potential sites, and then return to its original spot to continue investigating while scientists decide where it should go next. [How Humans Could Live on Saturn's Moon Titan (Infographic)]
Flying isn't the only task Dragonfly would excel at, Turtle said: A drill and a sampling system would allow it to examine the surface up close, while a spectrometer would let it study the surface composition in larger patches. Meteorology and remote sensing would help characterize the atmosphere and weather of Titan, where a methane cycle stands in for Earth's water cycle, she added.
The spacecraft's ability to move would help it keep Earth in its line of sight, as it will be communicating directly with the planet. Dragonfly would arrive during Titan's northern winter, so it would start out in the southern hemisphere because Earth won't be in the sky in the north, Turtle said. But as the seasons shift, the quadcopter could move, too, heading up north when our planet rises again.
Dragonfly would land on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan and then could fly from point to point on the moon's surface and settle to investigate and recharge.
Credit: APL/Michael Carroll
Begging us to visit
With methane and ethane falling as raindrops from the sky, Titan boasts a hydration cycle both similar to and different from Earth's. The moon is covered with organic materials that make it a potential home for a different sort of life to evolve. That's just one reason many scientists are eager to visit the Saturn satellite. [Life on Titan? Saturn's Cold Moon Fascinates Scientists (Video)]
"Titan is the ideal destination to do prebiotic chemistry," Turtle said. "It has incredibly rich organic material all over the surface."
The giant sand dunes of organic material that stretch for thousands of kilometers across Titan's equator are a potentially intriguing target. Although scientists aren't certain how these dunes form, they may represent what Turtle called a "grab bag" of materials from across the surface.
Impact craters provide another interesting region to explore. The impacts should have melted ice in the crust, thus putting liquid water in close contact with organic material for extended periods, Turtle said.
"We can start to look at how the organic chemistry progressed," she added.
Along the way, Dragonfly could hunt for very basic signs of life on the methane-rich world.
"If we're taking the instrumentation to measure the details of the chemistry, we can also look for biosignatures, because it's the same measurements," Turtle said.
With a $1 billion price tag, NASA's New Frontiers missions are exploring some of the most intriguing places in the universe. Previous selections included the New Horizons mission to Pluto, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. The current competition lists six mission themes, including sample-return missions from comets or the moon, an ocean worlds explorer, a probe to Saturn, exploration of the Trojan asteroids and a Venus in-situ explorer. NASA plans to select a new mission every five years.
The deadline for the latest round of New Frontiers proposals is April 28, and Dragonfly will be one of the candidates. In November 2017, NASA will select a subset of the proposals for further study and will make its final selection in July 2019. That means there will be a long wait for Turtle, who is hoping Dragonfly comes out on top.
De NASA-missie van ruimtesonde Cassini, die al zo'n 13 jaar om de planeet Saturnus cirkelt, staat vandaag voor een spannende laatste opdracht. Na een missie van bijna 20 jaar duikt de sonde vandaag in het smalle gat tussen de ringen van Saturnus, waar nog nooit eerder in de geschiedenis een ruimtevaartuig zich heeft begeven. Het belooft niet alleen de laatste, maar ook de spannendste episode in de ruimtemisse van Cassini te worden.
De ruimtesonde Cassini-Huygens werd op 15 oktober 1997 gelanceerd in het kader van de Cassini-Hygens-missie, om Saturnus en zijn manen te bestuderen. Nu, bijna 20 jaar later, is de brandstof van de sonde bijna op. Het is daarom dat de NASA, die de sonde samen met ESA en ASI lanceerde, beslist heeft om het toestel in september te vernietigen, door het de opdracht te geven zich in atmosfeer van Saturnus te storten. Cassini wordt vernietigd om te voorkomen dat de sonde neerstort op een van de mogelijk leefbare manen van Saturnus en daar aardse microben die nog op het toestel aanwezig kunnen zijn, achterlaat.
Voor zijn laatste missie duikt Cassini vandaag in de ruimte tussen planeet Saturnus zelf en de ringen die rond de planeet cirkelen. In totaal zal de ruimtesonde deze actie liefst 22 keer herhalen, om zoveel mogelijk informatie te verzamelen over onder meer de zwaartekracht en de magnetische velden rond de planeet. In het beste geval kan ook de exacte rotatiesnelheid van Saturnus bepaald worden, waarna wetenschappers eindelijk kunnen bepalen hoe lang een Saturnusdag exact duurt. Ook worden spectaculaire beelden verwacht van het gebied waar nooit eerder een ruimtetuig geweest is.
De missie is niet geheel zonder risico, het is namelijk niet helemaal duidelijk wat er in het gebied speelt. Het is ook daarom dat ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA deze missie pas aan het eind van de levenscyclus van Cassini laat doorgaan. Bovendien is er tijdens deze opdracht geen contact tussen de aarde en de ruimtesonde mogelijk. Verwacht wordt dat de radiostilte 24 uur zal duren. Pas daarna weten we of de laatste missie van Cassini geslaagd is (lees verder onder de video).
Google eert Cassini
Om Cassini te eren is de zogenaamde Doodle van Google - het logo van Google op de homepage van de zoekrobot - vandaag aan de ruimtesonde gewijd. Hieronder zie je de leuke GIF:
Kleurt een stukje van de Rode Planeet in 2036 blauw? Als het van een groepje wetenschappers afhangt wel. Met een asteroïde hopen ze een krater te slaan in het oppervlak van de planeet, die op zijn beurt moet vollopen met gesmolten ijswater.
Het plan klinkt behoorlijk surrealistisch en zou zo in een sciencefictionfilm passen. Met een ruimtemissie willen ze een klein stukje Mars transformeren en bewoonbaar maken voor mensen. "Die terraformatie wordt afgerond in 2036, en opent de deur voor de eerste nederzetting en commerciële exploitatie van Mars", klinkt het op de website van de organisatie.
Met een satelliet, uitgerust met een laser, willen de wetenschappers een kleine asteroïde op Mars laten inslaan. De krater, die de naam Omaha zou krijgen, zou een diameter hebben van zo'n 9 kilometer. Die moet dan op zijn beurt vollopen met ijswater, dat door de hitte van de inslag gesmolten is.
In een volgende stap wil het team een gebouw rond en over de waterplas bouwen. "Waar eerdere ontwerpen van Mars-woningen steeds beperkt waren tot enkele duizenden kubieke meters, zou onze constructie miljoenen kubieke meters kunnen bedragen", klinkt het in een persbericht.
Het onderzoeksteam wil dat het gebouw uiteindelijk de thuis wordt van zo'n duizend kolonisten. "In die constructie kunnen dan al snel nederzettingen ontstaan, die zelfvoorzienend zijn en zelfs expedities kunnen uitvoeren op Mars. Hierdoor hoeft er vanuit de aarde minder vracht worden aangevoerd."
Overtollig zuurstof kunnen ze boven de krater pompen, zodat er een soort ozonlaag ontstaat. Uiteindelijk zouden er dan zelfs planten kunnen groeien rond het meer, menen de wetenschappers.
Tweede krater
Bij succes willen de wetenschappers in 2061 een tweede, grotere krater in de planeet slaan. Maar zal het zo'n vaart lopen? Dat valt moeilijk te zeggen. Het team heeft in de Verenigde Staten een patent genomen op het project, maar van concrete financiering lijkt er momenteel nog geen sprake.
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People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It
People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It
SYRACUSE— Why have sightings of unidentified flying objects around the nation more than tripled since 2001? Why is July the busiest month for U.F.O. sightings? Why did they spike in Texas in 2008, or in New Mexico in September 2015?
And how in the world, or out of it, has Manhattan racked up New York State’s second-highest tally of U.F.O. sightings in this century?
These questions and many others emerge from the first comprehensive statistical summary of so-called close encounters: 121,036 eyewitness accounts, organized county by county in each state and the District of Columbia, from 2001 to 2015.
It is the reference “U.F.O. researchers dreamed of having,” Gordon G. Spear, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at Sonoma State University in California, writes in the foreword.
The book contains no narrative or anecdotal accounts, just 371 pages of charts and graphs that slice and dice the geography and timing of the incidents and the various shapes that witnesses reported: flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, cigars.
Many of the sightings turn out to be explainable, the authors say, but a small percentage defy resolution.
The authors are Cheryl Costa, 65, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and her wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Working on PCs amid sewing tables in the upstairs parlor — the warmest room in their hundred-year-old house — the two spent weekends for the last 16 months extrapolating figures from sightings reports and laying out the graphics.
Cheryl Costa was writing New York Skies, a U.F.O. blog for The Syracuse New Times, when the Costas decided to expand their tallies of U.F.O. sightings nationwide. “We wanted to do our bit for disclosure,” she said. “It’s something the government should have been doing.”
The Costas realize some might find this a strange way to spend weekends. But both say they have spotted U.F.O.s themselves and want to detoxify the subject.
“We’re doing scientific research,” Cheryl Costa said. “What’s crazy is not being willing to look at research.”
She came to the collaboration roundabout, having served as a cable lineman in the Air Force in Vietnam, and afterward in the Navy’s submarine service, as a man before undergoing gender-reassignment surgery in the 1980s. Ordained as a Buddhist nun, she was running a theater group in Maryland when she met Linda. They wed in 2011.
U.F.O. trackers welcomed their publication.
“With this compendium, Cheryl and Linda Costa have reminded the public and the media the extraterrestrial phenomenon continues unabated,” said Stephen Bassett, founder and executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, which lobbies for disclosure of official U.F.O. records.
Cheryl Costa, left, and Linda Miller Costa, the authors of “U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference.”
HEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Rebutting a common perception that U.F.O. sightings are on the wane, the Costas’ book shows that sightings have risen in waves, to 11,868 nationwide in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001. Only a small fraction of sightings are actually reported to Mufon or Nuforc.
Their labor of love is about the numbers, just the numbers, and the Costas refrain from speculating on what exactly is happening. “We really don’t know,” Linda Costa said. “But all these people are seeing these things.”
The government officially quit the U.F.O. business in 1968, with the finding in the Condon report from the University of Colorado that there was nothing significant to investigate, although some 30 percent of the incidents were unexplained.
Mufon’s 500 volunteer investigators, however, continue to check out many of the sightings reported to the group. Roger Marsh, a Mufon spokesman, said that of the 270 cases his group investigated in Manhattan from 2002 through 2016, 44 eluded explanation and remained “unknown.”
One of the most intriguing occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 2011, when a man on the roof terrace of the New Museum on the Bowery photographed a fast-moving diamond-shaped object with windows and flashing blue and red lights against the TriBeCa skyline.
According to Mufon, it resembled an unknown flying object photographed in Round Rock, Tex., two weeks earlier.
The Costas listed 426 sightings in New York County from 2001 to 2015, second in the state’s tallies only to Suffolk County, on the tip of Long Island, with 554. How so many sightings in the nation’s densest core and around its toniest beach resorts have escaped wider notoriety is just part of the mystery.
For the U.F.O. enthusiast, the pages of graphs and charts are a treasure trove of hard-to-find detail.
The District of Columbia, with 9,856 people per square mile, had the fewest sightings: 154. (A political snub from deep space?) Wyoming, with 5.8 people per square mile, had more than twice as many: 337.
Fireballs made up nearly 8 percent of the sightings in Indiana (230) and fewer than 5 percent in Colorado (157).
California, the most populous state, led the nation in U.F.O. reports (15,836, more than the next two states, Florida and Texas, combined). Los Angeles County alone had more sightings than 40 states, followed by Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix.
Population fails to explain the figures conclusively, the Costas said. Washington State, with 6.7 million people according to the 2010 census, ranks No. 4 in sightings, ahead of Pennsylvania, with 12.7 million people, and New York State, with 19 million.
Rather, the Costas theorize, the figures may reflect good West Coast weather, which draws more people outside where they may spot U.F.O.s. Nationwide sightings peak in July, they found, and drop off between December and February.
Still, in Mississippi, U.F.O. reports spike in January and November; in New Mexico, in September.
The arduous breakdown by the nation’s more than 3,000 counties was notable for revealing clusters of sightings in remote regions, places where U.F.O.s are almost never mentioned. But every county in the United States appears to have seen at least one U.F.O.
In the end, the Costas noted, the spikes may have a lot to do with media coverage.
The latest research into the possibility of contacting advanced alien civilizations has concluded that finding traces of other civilizations may be much more difficult than first thought.
A paper headed by Professor Michael Garrett of the University of Leiden has found that attempting to detect waste energy through the use of mid-infrared (MIR) emission in galaxies with higher than usual emissions, is much more difficult than initially thought.
Dr. Jason Wright of Penn University put together a list of some 100,000 candidate galaxies that had higher than usual waste energy emissions, which Garrett and his team then studied. Unfortunately, all those studied by Garrett and his team were found to have high energy waste emissions through natural phenomena.
Garret elaborated:
"the original research at Penn State has already told us that such systems are very rare, but the new analysis suggests that this is probably an understatement and that advanced Kardashev Type III civilizations basically don't exist in the local Universe. In my view, it means we can all sleep safely in our beds tonight - an alien invasion doesn't seem at all likely!".
The study took place based on the Kardashev scale, which measures the level of technology a civilization has achieved based on the amount of energy it can generate. Currently, humans are a type 0 civilization.
Type I civilization are those capable or harnessing and storing the power of their parent star on their own planet. Something that humans are conceivably not too far away from achieving.
Type II civilizations can harness the entire energy of their parent star, usually in models through the use of Dyson spheres, and type III are capable of controlling energy in their entire host galaxy.
It is the theoretical type III civilizations that most alien researchers are looking for as it is assumed that their sheer size and energy output would make them the easiest to find. This is done through measuring galaxies for signs of excess heat waste, which it is assumed that all civilizations would produce.
One potential issue with the process currently used however is that sufficiently advanced civilizations may not produce heat waste at all, or at least not enough for other species to detect. If this is the case then advanced civilizations would need to be detected through other as yet unknown means. There are also limitations with the model itself, several revisions and alternative models have been proposed several times since the development of Kardashev's scale in 1964.
Verloren beschaving van aliens op aarde. Volgens deze professor kunnen we hier bewijzen vinden
Verloren beschaving van aliens op aarde. Volgens deze professor kunnen we hier bewijzen vinden
Leefden er ooit aliens in ons zonnestelsel? Een Amerikaanse ruimtewetenschapper denkt het antwoord op die vraag te hebben gevonden.
Professor Jason Wright claimt dat hoogontwikkelde aliens mogelijk ooit op één van de planeten in ons zonnestelsel hebben geleefd, voordat ze spoorloos verdwenen.
Wright, die lesgeeft aan de Pennsylvania State University, suggereert in een nieuwe paper dat aliens mogelijk op Mars, Venus of aarde hebben geleefd.
Spoedig
Hij claimt dat er een kans is dat we spoedig sporen gaan vinden die door de aliens zijn achtergelaten.
Het meeste bewijs voor deze aliens zou waarschijnlijk al verloren zijn gegaan. In het geval van Venus heeft het broeikaseffect mogelijk alle sporen van een eventuele beschaving uitgewist.
En op aarde is mogelijk het meeste bewijs verloren gegaan door erosie en platentektoniek.
Onder het oppervlak
Professor Wright denkt dat sporen van oude beschavingen hoogstwaarschijnlijk onder het oppervlak kunnen worden gevonden.
Hij denkt daarbij vooral aan het oppervlak van Mars en de maan of plekken in het buitenste deel van het zonnestelsel.
Wright meent dat met behulp van ruimte-archeologie, een relatief nieuw onderzoeksveld, kan worden gespeurd naar resten van oude beschavingen.
Verborgen structuren
Het gaat daarbij om het zoeken naar, vinden en interpreteren van menselijke artefacten in de ruimte, aldus de wetenschapper.
Wellicht kunnen satellietbeelden en bodemradar helpen om sporen van verborgen structuren of andere voorwerpen te vinden, besloot Wright.
Californians reported the most UFO sightings in recent years
Californians reported the most UFO sightings in recent years
This vintage-style photo is an artist’s conception of a UFO sighting, not the real thing.
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For Californians, the truth is out there. “UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” a new book on reported UFO sightings, found that California had the most reports of visual encounters with unidentified objects in the United States. This includes hundreds of reported sightings, CBS San Francisco reports.
The book analyzed more than 120,000 reports of UFOs and found more Californians believed they’d come in contact with extraterrestrial life than anyone else in the country.
“We found that UFOs were sighted in every county in the United States. Every county had at least one sighting sometime in the past 15 years,” the book’s co-author, Cheryl Costa, explained.
“We think a great deal of it has to do with California’s weather,” Costa said.
Costa explained that California’s mild weather allows people to be outdoors during much of the year and thus in position to spot possible UFOs.
According to Costa, Santa Clara County topped the list in Northern California with 569 reported sightings. Alameda County was second with 518, while San Francisco trailed with 327.
It should be noted that these reports are anecdotal and haven’t been investigated, let alone proven.
But for those who believe we’re not alone in the universe, the book may seem validating.
“Most people were very sincere about what they reported, about what they think they saw, Costa added. “They weren’t jerking us around. But we understand the only proof some people are going to accept is a space ship cracked up in the mall parking lot.”
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Glowing Orb Seen Over Field In Spain On April 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orb Seen Over Field In Spain On April 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2017 Location of sighting: Zargoza, Spain Here is a great example of a glowing orb that is often mistaken for a star. Movement is always eliminates any doubt, as you see in this video.The UFO is moving around a tall poll in a field. Spain has lots of ancient cultural things to see and to study for any alien. This glowing light is also similar to the UFOs seen over Denver, Colorado mountains and over the holy place of Dome of Rock. Scott C. Waring
Three UFOs Over Old UK City Of Exmouth On April 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three UFOs Over Old UK City Of Exmouth On April 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2017 Location of sighting: Exmouth, UK Here is a great catch above a parking lot in Exmouth this week. The UFO looks like a triangle spinning, but its hard to see so make the video full screen please, and place in HD mode. UFOs are frequently seen over England as well as the fact that many US documents report testing top secret craft (Aurora Project) over the UK back in the 1980-1990s. Its hard to tell which one this is, a USAF craft or UFO, but one thing is for sure, they don't want the public to know about it. This is not one individual UFO, but actually three separate UFOs that work together, like a fighter jet with his wingman. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was waiting for the bus while taking to a friend when i noticed 3 lights in a triangle pattern over the mouth of the river exe. Took some video and pictures with my phone before the bus came and I left. On april 17th at 9.41pm I was waiting for my bus to come in after my break, (I’m a bus driver) and was taking to my bestman about my upcoming wedding on the phone. I would normally be in our rest room but since the clock in the restroom was fast (about 7mins fast) I had gone out early to wait while still chatting to my friend. While i was talking i was just kind of walking about near the leisure center, where my bus stops, when I looked randomly over in the direction of the river which is when i saw the three lights in a triangle pattern rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly.
UFOs Over Sydney, Australia Investigate Passanger Jet On Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Over Sydney, Australia Investigate Passanger Jet On Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: April 2017 Location of sighting: Sydney, Australia This UFO was captured using an infrared camcorder which allows you to see things the human eye cannot. Any cloaked UFO will be seen. This is a great capture byColourUFO of Youtube. He is an expert in his field at catching anomalies over Australia and for his use of infrared camcorders. A necessary tool in this area. The UFO above, actually changes its shape in the video at 50 sec into video. Scott C. Waring
This was filmed in the sky above Douglas, Isle of Man in United Kingdom on 9th April 2017. For more info read the witness report below!
Witness report:
Hi there my name is Nicola and I would like to file a report of a UFO sighting. April 9th st 9:20 in the evening Douglas Isle of Man U.K. I had just got my young son to sleep and took my glasses off to wash my face, I walked into the living room and said good night to my husband that’s when I noticed a strange bright light through the blinds and kind of mumbled that I could see some thing bright out there and my husband said ‘what?’ But I wasn’t wearing my glasses so thought nothing of it, said never mind and good night to my husband then grabbed my glasses and wet to my bedroom, I thought I’d just have a look to see what it was that I noticed before and if it was silk there and it was, so I took a couple of photos and then started recording. I stopped recording after about three minutes to take a look at what I had filmed to zoom in on it to see what it could be.
The orb was still in the sky then after a little while it pulsated then drifted to the leg and disappeared although I didn’t get this on camera really wish I did was very unusual! After watching the video several times I noticed oddities within the video, flashing lights to the left of the orb throughout video! Hope this is of interest to you still trying to look for an answer have posted this on several pages
Nicola (source: submitted to www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net)
UFO sighting caught on tape over Carshalton (London), UK 26-Apr-2017
UFO sighting caught on tape over Carshalton (London), UK 26-Apr-2017
Strange light was filmed making maneuvers over London on 26th April 2017. What do you think this is?
Witness report:
Unidentified light in the sky over two areas in Sutton and Carshalton Surrey. This unexplained event happened over both my son and daughters rooftops. They live within a mile of each other and both saw the object and filmed it. The object travelled fast changing directions and hovered. It got brighter when it hovered. If you rule out laser or any other form light beam and any obvious aircraft that can manoeuvre like this, what are you left with? And the object was above the clouds.
The alien invasion has come to the minds of terrified residents after seeing a mysterious black circle hovering in the sky.
A video of the unusual sighting made the rounds online as it shows a black circle hanging calmly in the sky.
The shocked people on the ground call out to each other in disbelief as the bizarre smoky ring continues to float before finally vanishing into grey clouds.
The footage was recorded in Novosibirsk in Russia over the Siberian Mall shopping centre. It went viral after it was made available in social media.
Some think that the event is a kind of creepy warning. Others believe that it is a kind of supernatural power flying across the Russian city. There are also people who think that aliens are coming to get humans.
However, one witness suggests that that the mysterious circle or smoke ring is nothing but a soliton. They explain that black hydrocarbon with the vortex comprising a ring and lifting it into the air.
Weather experts didn’t have an explanation yet but lashed out alien-related claims as well as the soliton theory.
Renad Yagudin of the Siberian Hydrometeorological Centre said that there’s no such definition of soliton in meteorology, so it is not a meteorological event.
A fast moving, cylinder object was noticed crossing the horizon in approximately eight seconds in Lincoln, California. An unnamed witness reported their sighting to MUFON, which filed it in Case 82671 in its witness reporting database.
According to the report, the witness observed the mysterious object flying from the northeast to the northwest at a very high speed while sitting at a northbound stop light at 2:45 in the afternoon on March 16, 2017.
The witness estimated the size to be the same as the bus flying between 1,000 and 1,200 feet up. They said that the object managed to cross 60 percent of the horizon in just around eight seconds. The witness revealed that his wife also saw the bizarre aerial thing. They thought of a drone but changed their mind when they did not see any propulsion.
The reporting witness claimed that they are familiar with aircraft as a resident on several Air Force bases.
Shelley Goodman, a MUFON-California field investigator, closed the case as Unknown. Goodman said that she had a chat with both witnesses, who told her that they both saw the unusual object from the intersection at 110 Lincoln Blvd in California. The reporting witness revealed to her that he was in the Air Force and that he knows all about aircraft, including its speed. The witness said that the UFO flew through the sky three times faster than any plane. The object was underneath the cloud cover when they saw it clearly.
Amazing footage of Orbs flying over Summerlin, Nevada 19-Apr-2017
Amazing footage of Orbs flying over Summerlin, Nevada 19-Apr-2017
Here’s one new footage of an unknown objects or orbs flying in the sky above Nevada on 19th April 2017.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of April 19, 2017. It’s nice to see that these amazing UFOs (Orbs) are here again. Needless to say, I was pretty happy when I spotted them. Because of their location either on or next to the Nellis Test Range north of Las Vegas they cannot possibly be commercial or civilian operated crafts. As always I keep trying to see them visually with the naked eye and using my binoculars only to come up empty each and every time. There is never any sound either but that could be because they might be far enough away that I couldn’t hear them. I filmed them for nearly thirty minutes as the kept going back and forth turning or stopping on a dime. At the end of the video, the four objects that disappear one by one behind the mountain were headed in the direction of Area 51.
The nine-year-old girl was showing off the view out a window as her dad filmed when the mystery dark object was captured on camera.
David Woodward filmed daughter Georgia on the flight from Manchester to Lanzarote this month.
The video, which has been uploaded to YouTube, shows Georgia talking next to the view when the odd black object appears to zooms past the visible wing.
Mr Woodward told the Manchester Evening News: "We had set off from Manchester and were only in the air for around 10 minutes when we started filming Georgia for her YouTube channel.
YouTube
An object darting about by the plane was potted in the recorded video.
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25-04-2017
Nieuw type poollicht ontdekt en het heet...Steve!
Nieuw type poollicht ontdekt en het heet...Steve!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het poollicht kennen we allemaal. Maar dit flikkerende paarskleurige licht was tot voor kort nog niemand opgevallen.
En dat is best vreemd. “Steve blijkt eigenlijk heel vaak voor te komen,” vertelt onderzoeker Eric Donovan.
De foto’s Donovan kwam het nieuwe type poollicht op het spoor toen hij in gesprek raakte met de Alberta Aurora Chasers. Het is een groep op Facebook, bestaande uit mensen die geïnteresseerd zijn in het poollicht en dat – bijvoorbeeld middels foto’s – vastleggen. Donovan bekeek enkele van die foto’s en stuitte toen op iets wat hij nog nooit had gezien: een paarskleurige strook licht.
POOLLICHT
Poollicht ontstaat wanneer geladen deeltjes afkomstig van de zon door het aardmagnetisch veld in de buurt van de noord- en zuidpool worden afgebogen. De deeltjes dringen vervolgens met hoge snelheid de atmosfeer nabij de polen binnen en botsen op verschillende gassen. Daarbij ontstaat het veelkleurige licht dat wij poollicht noemen.
Steve Omdat niemand wist wat het was, maar er wel veelvuldig over gesproken werd, besloot men het mysterieuze verschijnsel een gemakkelijke naam te geven: Steve. Ondertussen spitten de Alberta Aurora Chasers in opdracht van Donovan door hun foto’s op zoek naar meer beelden van Steve. Donovan zelf dook in de gegevens verzameld door de Swarm-satellieten. Deze drie satellieten bestudeerden het magnetisch veld van de aarde en Donovan hoopte dat zij meer konden vertellen over de Steve die de Alberta Aurora Chasers hadden gefotografeerd. En hij had geluk.
Veranderingen Eén van de satellieten bleek op het moment dat Steve acte de présence had gegeven en gefotografeerd werd net over te vliegen. Tijdens die vlucht had de satelliet gegevens verzameld over Steve en zijn omgeving. “Gegevens van het instrument dat het elektrisch veld bestudeert, laat duidelijke veranderingen zien,” vertelt Donovan. “De temperatuur op 300 kilometer hoogte springt naar 3000 graden Celsius en de gegevens onthullen een 25 kilometer breed gaslint dat met een snelheid van 6 kilometer per seconde naar het westen beweegt.” Terwijl de materie aan beide zijden van het gaslint een snelheid van zo’n 10 meter per seconde heeft.
Foto: Dave Markel Photography (via ESA).
Acroniem Met die bijzondere eigenschappen is Steve zeker een nieuw fenomeen. Een fenomeen dat nu opgescheept zit met de tamelijk doodgewone naam Steve. Wetenschappers weten daar echter wel raad mee. Er is inmiddels voorgesteld om Steve als een acroniem te zien. Het zou dan staan voor Strong Thermal Emmission Velocity Enhancement.
Ondertussen blijft Steve onderwerp van gesprek. Want er zijn nog veel onbeantwoorde vragen. Onduidelijk is bijvoorbeeld nog hoe de temperatuur in Steve zo hoog kan oplopen.
Ook deze vliegende boot kun je later dit jaar aanschaffen
Ook deze vliegende boot kun je later dit jaar aanschaffen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Behalve de vliegende auto kun je ook de vliegende boot met een gerust hart aan je verlanglijstje voor Sinterklaas toevoegen. Beiden zijn namelijk nog dit jaar te bestellen!
Het bedrijf Kitty Hawk heeft aangekondigd nog dit jaar de Kitty Hawk Flyer op de markt te brengen. Hieronder zie je een prototype in actie.
Wat ‘ie gaat kosten? Dat blijft nog even in nevelen gehuld, maar het lijkt aannemelijk dat de meesten van ons er een klein hypotheekje voor af moeten gaan sluiten. Maar dan heb je ook wat. Wat precies? Een soort vliegende jetski. Om een beetje een beeld te geven van de mogelijkheden die dat biedt, heeft Kitty Hawk onderstaand filmpje vrijgegeven waarin een dame zichzelf uitnodigt voor een etentje en vervolgens – dankzij de Kitty Hawk Flyer – binnen twee minuten op de stoep staat. Fijn!
Geen vliegbrevet nodig Het prototype in het filmpje is ontworpen om boven water te vliegen en op water te landen. Het is voorzien van een elektrische aandrijving. Voor het ultralichte prototype heb je geen vliegbrevet nodig. En volgens Kitty Hawk heb je het besturen van de vliegende boot binnen enkele minuten onder de knie.
Iets ander uiterlijk Het vliegende gevaarte dat Kitty Hawk later dit jaar op de markt brengt, zal er iets anders uit gaan zien dan het prototype, zo laat het bedrijf weten. Maar verder geeft het weinig prijs. Wie meer wil weten, kan het bedrijf steunen door 100 dollar te doneren. In ruil daarvoor krijg je de laatste informatie over het object en 2000 dollar korting op de Kitty Hawk Flyer wanneer deze later dit jaar op de markt komt.
Vliegende auto De aankondiging van de Kitty Hawk Flyer komt amper een week na de aankondiging van de AeroMobil: een vliegende auto die eveneens nog dit jaar besteld kan worden. Wie ergens in een oude sok nog een geldbedrag met vijf nullen heeft slingeren, een rijbewijs en vliegbrevet bezit, kan de AeroMobil naar verwachting later dit jaar pre-orderen.
En Kitty Hawk en AeroMobil zijn lang niet de enige bedrijven die hun pijlen gericht hebben op het bouwen van vliegende consumentenvoertuigen. Veel andere bedrijven – waaronder Airbus – hebben het tot hun missie gemaakt om jouw door file geteisterde ritje naar het werk radicaal te veranderen. Of de vliegende voertuigen werkelijk op korte termijn voet aan de grond krijgen? Dat is zeer twijfelachtig. Veel mensen krijgen al de kriebels van drones en zullen zeker niet zitten te wachten op (veel lawaaiigere) auto’s in de lucht. En wie gaat het verkeer boven onze hoofden reguleren? En hoe houden we het veilig, ook wanneer zo’n vliegende auto pech krijgt? Genoeg om over na te denken alvorens je in jouw vliegende auto of boot stapt.
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It’s Official. In 2025, NASA and the ESA Will Land on Europa to Look For Alien Life
It’s Official. In 2025, NASA and the ESA Will Land on Europa to Look For Alien Life
So where do we land?
NASA/JPL/Ted Stryk
IN BRIEF
NASA and the ESA are planning to launch a joint mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. This icy satellite hosts a subterranean ocean larger than those on Earth, and it could host extraterrestrial life.
EXPLORING TOGETHER
Recent discoveries in space have made the search for life beyond Earth easier and more difficult at the same time. As more exoplanets and moons with the potential to support extraterrestrial life turn up, the probability of finding one that actually does increases. However, sending missions to explore all these potentially inhabited worlds has also become more difficult.
The plan is for JEM to launch by the mid-2020s, and it would run for about six-and-a-half years. The first five of those would be used simply to reach Jupiter, then a few more days would be needed to reach Europa.
Upon reaching Europa’s orbit, a lander would be launched to explore the surface for 35 days, scanning material samples for traces of life. Meanwhile, the orbiter craft would spend three months taking various measurements to reveal Europa’s basic structure, focusing on the ocean’s composition. After that, the lander could crash into Europa while taking and transmitting data about the moon’s atmosphere.
While both NASA and the ESA have existing plans to explore Europa and the other icy-watery moons in the solar system, the planned combined effort would offer a unique advantage for both space agencies. Pooling their resources might make it easier to figure out solutions to key problems, such as Jupiter’s intense radiation and the need to make sure Europa won’t be contaminated by organisms from Earth.
“There’s great enthusiasm for this on both sides,” Jakob van Zyl, director for solar system exploration at NASA JPL, told New Scientist. “The budget request is now with the president.”
Europa is just the first goal for collaborative space exploration. Potential missions to Jupiter’s other moons, as well as those of Saturn, could well be developed in the future. Perhaps alien life is just an Earth-formed partnership away.
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