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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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
11-05-2017
UFOS AND DEAD ALIEN BODIES ARE BEING STORED BUT NOT IN AREA 51
UFOS AND DEAD ALIEN BODIES ARE BEING STORED BUT NOT IN AREA 51
Everyone has an opinion about Area 51 and what may or may not be contained there. Even those who would not consider themselves a conspiracy theorist has their suspicions of what top-secret government actions are taking place at the Nevada desert location. However, many are now coming forward to say that while Area 51 does have its secrets, the real action is in an underground bunker in the Papoose Mountain Range a few miles away.
Area 51 rose to fame when in 1947, it is believed an alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. For days government officials scoured the site of what they alleged to be an Air Force balloon crash making sure to erase any traces of what had occurred. People involved with the recovery of the craft stated that the remains of any ship or passengers thereof were hurriedly carried away to what they believed the destination to be Area 51.
Recently, some in the watchdog community have theorized that while Area 51 does house secret government military technologies, any alien tech is stored approximately 15 miles away from the famous site. It could be that the government allows speculation to run rampant about Area 51 to draw attention away from the true site of the government alien archives.
This mountain site would be the perfect place to hideaway and experiment with found alien technology and perhaps study beings from other worlds who found themselves stranded on our planet. Away from public eyes and with Area 51 shouldering the majority of suspicion, those officials and scientists at the Papoose Mountain facility would be more free to develop the government's own devices and weaponry.
If the government were in possession of alien spacecraft, it is certain that its top priority would be to re-create the technology contained within for its own advancement. This is what Jan Harzan, Executive Director of The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) believes makes up close to ten percent of the reported UFO sightings his organization receives. MUFON dedicates itself to documenting any sightings of strange aircraft so concerned individuals can look for correlation and validation between their own personal experience of extraterrestrial beings or crafts and those of similarly minded people around the globe.
The difference in obviously earth-made vessels and vessels made using the technology of alien races is obvious in construction and appearance. While man-made ships have hard lines, visible riveting, and external plumbing systems, ships made with the construction knowledge of advanced beings are smooth and rounded without visible signs of the construction process. It could be that with the information learned from collecting alien tech recovered on Earth, scientists have been successful in recreating the engineering feats of our extraterrestrial neighbors.
It is certain that there are things not easily explained navigating the skies around the world. Perhaps mankind is further along in their development of airspace travel than those in power would like us to believe. Whether the base for alien technology research is at the popular Area 51 or nestled within a secluded mountain range in rural Nevada, those with inquiring minds are keeping their watchful eyes open for signs of the truth.
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THE LATEST DISCOVERY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS SHOWS REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
THE LATEST DISCOVERY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS SHOWS REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
All of the major theories of science are predicated on the idea that everything in this world is formed from building blocks of material particles. However, new advances in the fascinating and ever-expanding field of quantum physics suggest that this long-held assumption might be completely wrong.
THE WORLD IS COMPOSED OF ENERGY, NOT OF MATTER
New experiments and studies conducted in laboratories such as CERN seem to suggest that everything is actually composed of energy rather than material particles, including human beings.
Researchers examining the behavior of particles on the quantum level have found through various experiments with particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that the building blocks of matter appear to be composed of pure energy.
These experiments have also yielded some incredibly interesting results about the way sub-atomic particles behave when exposed to different interactions and observations. It has been found that when these particles are being observed, they begin to act as physical units. However, when they are left unobserved for any period of time, they act as energy waves. This has suggested to many theoretical physicists that the material world is held together by consciousness rather than material reality.
Perhaps even more interestingly, researchers have also discovered that everything in the universe appears to be connected. This concept, which is referred to as quantum entanglement demonstrates that once particles have interacted with each other on one occasion, then they are irrevocably connected to one another and will respond to each other’s energetic cues. This response occurs no matter how physically distant the two particles are from one another. Given that all of the particles currently in existence have been present in the universe since the Big Bang, it seems logical to assume that every single particle in the universe is connected in this manner.
The scientific theories that explain the bizarre behavior of particles on the quantum level are still in progress, and a great deal more research will need to be conducted before researchers truly understand what these observations mean. However, it is certain that the discoveries relating to quantum physics over the past few years have the capacity to forever change the way that human beings understand and interact with the universe.
Another chapter in the “Aliens” saga is about to be released, and that gives director and “Alien” franchise founder Ridley Scott a chance to talk to the media about aliens again. This time he is warning people not to mess with any visitors from advanced civilizations or else you might be “taken out.”
Ridley Scott.
(Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
First, I have to brag a bit. Sorry. But as I write this I am excitedly awaiting a sneak peek of “Alien: Covenant,” the second prequel to the legendary franchise. While writing is not always lucrative, it can get you some perks, like early press movie screenings. The movie is set to officially release in the U.S. on May 19.
I am not as used to thrillers as I was when the first “Alien” movies came out, or even the first prequel, “Prometheus,” so I hope I do not squeal in the theater, or worse, wet myself in terror. This one is supposed to be pretty scary.
Even scarier than watching aliens wreak havoc on innocent human colonists seeking to find a new life on an extraterrestrial planet is the real-life prospect of getting annihilated by visitors from outer space.
“I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely,” Scott recently told Agence France-presse (AFP). “An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.”
However, if you “see a big thing in the sky,” Scott says you better run for it. Because, according to Scott, “they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds.”
In his movies, Scott’s aliens dispatch humans even faster than that.
This, of course, is not the first time Scott has shared his ideas about extraterrestrial life. In the first of the “Alien” prequels, “Prometheus,” suggested that life on earth was seeded by an intelligent alien species. This idea is the focus of the television series Ancient Aliens, and was referred to as the “ancient astronaut theory” in the 70s. It was popularized by a series of books written by Eric van Daniken. Books that Scott has apparently read.
NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way . . . That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.
One of my favorite scenes from “Prometheus” is when the protagonists are landing their spaceship in a valley surrounded by mountains. It is a beautiful shot. At the far end of the valley is a mountain that looks like an ancient extraterrestrial ruin, and, of course, it turned out it was.
Extraterrestrial valley from a scene in “Prometheus.”
(Credit: 20th Century Fox)
Scott’s reference to the growing belief that life must exist elsewhere in the universe, coupled with the burgeoning private space industry, makes his version of the future more and more likely. The idea that humans may discover ancient alien relics one day, like in the landing scene, fuels my deep interest in these topics. I just hope that when, or if, we do discovery intelligent alien life, it has more regard for us earthlings than the aliens in Scott’s movies.
Fortunately, I would argue, most scientists do not share Scott’s pessimistic outlook on our galactic neighbors. Sure, Stephen Hawking is often talking about how aliens might treat us like the Europeans treated Native-Americans, but others, such as Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku disagree. In fact, Time Magazine recently posted an article on why scientist do not think aliens will eat us.
So sleep tight tonight, and do not fear being mauled by aliens (fingers crossed). However, I will not blame you if you take Scott’s advice and run the opposite direction if you see a UFO. Better safe than sorry, right?
UFO Making Orbs Seen Over Ocean On Belgium Cruise, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Making Orbs Seen Over Ocean On Belgium Cruise, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 6, 2017
Location of sighting: Between UK & Belgium, ocean
Source: MUFON #83616
This UFO was seen over the ocean during a cruise to Belgium from the UK. Strangely enough, the UFO also has to small craft that came out of it and are flying away. Since the ocean covers 75% of the Earths surface and since UFOs are air tight and fly in space, it just stands to reason that UFOs can also travel under water (slower of course). It also stands to reason that 75% of all aliens and UFOs come from the ocean too. Its just logical.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was on a cruise from Southampton (UK)to Zeebrugge (Belgium). On the Saturday 6th May 2017 at 13.45 I took a picture of the cruise ship from inside the coach (through the window). At the time I did not notice anything in the sky. When we got back on the ship I was going through the pictures and saw the object. The picture was taken on a Samsung S7 Ed
Moon size UFO Near Sun, Looks Like Star Trek Enterprise Ship, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Moon size UFO Near Sun, Looks Like Star Trek Enterprise Ship, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 10, 2017
Location of sighting: Earths sun
These awesome UFOs were caught by Youtube user UFOnearSun. For those who are new to all this, UFO researchers look for the UFOs that are near the sun, because two Russian scientists about 10 years ago came out and told the world about many large moon and Earth size UFOs that orbit the sun and make erratic path changes like making 90 degree hard turns, suddenly speeding up, or even reversing course. This announcement all happened before Youtube, so no records exit today, however there are many of us that remember the Russian announcement from that day.
Scientists Dug 12 km Into Our Planet—What They Found Left Me Speechless [VIDEO]
Scientists Dug 12 km Into Our Planet—What They Found Left Me Speechless [VIDEO]
Some call it the ‘Door to Hell’. At 12,262 meters the Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest artificial point on our planet. No one expected these discoveries.
There are some who firmly believe the human race knows more about distant galaxies and alien planets located light years away from Earth than what lies beneath the surface of our planet.
Curiously, it took the Voyager 1 spacecraft nearly 26 years to exit our solar system, which is about the same amount of time scientists on Earth needed to penetrate 12 kilometers into our planet’s surface.
After more than two decades, scientists created the Kola Superdeep Borehole and a drill depth of more than 7.5 miles (12 kilometers).
The Kola Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 meters (40,230 ft) in 1989 becoming the deepest artificial point on our planet.
To put that into perspective, the Kola Superdeep Borehole descends further than the deepest point of the ocean, which lies at nearly 6.8 miles (11 kilometers).
Well, after 26 years of intensive drilling efforts, experts found that there’s a LOT of water down there. Scientists discovered hot mineralized water almost everywhere down the drilling path.
But not only is there water down there, scientists discovered the Earth has Gas. Not that type of gas. Scientists found, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, and even carbon dioxide (from microbes) all along the borehole.
One of the greatest surprises was that experts found there is no basalt under the continent’s granite. Scientists believed that at 9,000 meters the granite would give way to basalt. However, to their surprise, it doesn’t.
Furthermore, scientists discovered there are FOSSILS in granite located around 6,700 meters below the surface.
In addition to the above, scientists found that the temperature at the bottom of the hole reached a staggering 180 degrees celsius, officially too hot to continue, and rightfully earning the nickname ‘Door to Hell’.
“By far the most riveting discovery from the project, however, was the detection of microscopic plankton fossils in rocks over 2 billion years old, found four miles beneath the surface,”reports Bryan Nelson from Mother Nature Network.
“These ‘microfossils’ represented about 24 ancient species, and were encased in organic compounds which somehow survived the extreme pressures and temperatures that exist so far beneath the Earth.”
The project was officially terminated in 2005, leaving only a rusted metal cap as a marker of its existence.
De wolken zijn iets anders dan op aarde. Zo bestaan ze niet uit water, maar uit methaan.
Naast de wolkenbanden vallen ook de donkere vlekken op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus’ maan op. Het zijn de meren en zeeën die Titan rijk is. Ook deze zijn gevuld met methaan en ethaan in plaats van water.
Cassini maakte de foto afgelopen weekend. De ruimtesonde passeerde de maan toen op een afstand van zo’n 488.000 kilometer.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
De laatste keer dat Cassini met opzet rakelings langs Titan scheerde, was eind april. Cassini scheerde toen op een afstand van zo’n 979 kilometer over de maan heen. Zo dicht zal Cassini – wiens missie in september tot een einde komt – niet meer bij Titan in de buurt komen. Maar als zich – vanaf een veel grotere afstand – een kans voordoet om de maan te bestuderen, zal Cassini die grijpen. En dat deed Cassini dus ook afgelopen weekend.
De sonde houdt Titan onder meer in de gaten, omdat de zomer zich aandient op het noordelijk halfrond van de maan. En onderzoekers willen natuurlijk graag weten of dat veranderingen op de maan teweegbrengt. Naarmate de zomer dichterbij komt, hadden de onderzoekers wel verwacht dat het aantal wolken zou toenemen. Maar enigszins verrassend is dat we die wolken ook op lagere breedtes op het noordelijk halfrond zien ontstaan.
Op deze foto zien we ook donkere vlekken nabij de evenaar. Het zijn duinlandschappen. Wat verder opvalt is de donkere vlek ten noorden van die duinlandschappen die richting het noordoosten lijkt te zijn uitgesmeerd. Het is waarschijnlijk een gebied dat bedekt is met donker stof dat zich op sommige plekken in duintjes verzameld heeft.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
UFO captured on video by drone over North Carolina
UFO captured on video by drone over North Carolina
A North Carolina witness at Ayden reported discovering a UFO in video shot from a drone, according to testimony in Case 80053 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The 59-year-old witness is retired from the USAF with a 20-year military career who shot the footage at 2:12 p.m. on October 26, 2016.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
“I thought I had seen it all,” the witness stated.“This footage took me back. I was flying my aerial camera from Ayden District Park. The skies were clear with unlimited visibility. I did not witness this object first hand; it wasn’t until I reviewed the 4K footage on my 4K TV that I first spotted the object on video.”
The witness explained the footage.
“I shoot in 4K/30fps and you can view this object in 10 frames as it flies towards and passes under my drone. During these 10 frames of viewing, this object travels three-quarter to one mile in one-third of a second – about 10,000 mph. The object appears to be solid and emitting its own light, or reflecting light.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
The file size prevented the witness from uploading the video with his report and it was then posted on YouTube.
MUFON North Carolina Field Investigator Sanford Davis closed this case as an Unknown.
“This anomaly was neither observed or experienced firsthand,” Davis stated in his report.“It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage.The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground. The film slowed down, it appears as a white dot, flatting out somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen. Our own MUFON photo resource person reviewed the video without a definitive conclusion. A drone flying underneath was considered, then a shadow, then a refection or projection of some overhead object, then a glare, and finally a glitch in the drone camera. No one explanation stands out.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
The Galileo spacecraft took this image of Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon, in 1996. Credit: NASA.
Emcee Tom O'Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theater in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever - or whomever - may be living there.
"We're sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks," O'Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. "Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, 'We here on Earth care.'"
Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon - only 37 minutes away at light speed.
"Hi, Europa!" he said. "This is Zerrin on Earth. I'm turning 10."
Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.
"I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa," she said. "Now, I'm talking to you in person, and that's pretty nice."
The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intragalactic communication was fine with O'Key, who didn't hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club's "Europa is Alive!" event or "the giggle factor involved in all this."
It was O'Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: "An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about $400," O'Key said.
"We like to think we're bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people," he said.
"Of course, we'd need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa," Holmberg said. "But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we're sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it."
The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.
Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
O'Key and Holmberg consider themselves "Saganites," inspired by NASA's recent announcement that Europa and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingredients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.
"What they're doing is fine with me," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. "But it's fair to say we don't know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie 'E.T.,' or will they be like the Kardashians?
"In that case," he continued, "we should keep a low profile. You don't want your tombstone to read: I'm responsible for the obliteration of the human race."
Jim Bell, an astronomer at Arizona State University and president of the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, described the Joshua Tree effort as "delightful."
"It's a testament," Bell said, "to the ability of every man nowadays to have access to technology that was only a dream a decade ago."
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilizations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.
The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.
The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the North Star, Polaris.
In 2012, a now-defunct company leased a huge radio telescope in Carmel Valley, Calif., and offered to transmit personal messages and photos from Earth to various stars for free.
Now, there's the astronomy club led by O'Key, who as a boy liked to shine a flashlight beam at the Earth's moon knowing it would get there in 1.2 seconds.
"The only exceptional thing about our attempt to communicate with an alien world," he said, "is how easy and inexpensive it has become to give it a try."
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
The Galileo spacecraft took this image of Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon, in 1996. Credit: NASA.
Emcee Tom O'Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theater in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever - or whomever - may be living there.
"We're sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks," O'Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. "Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, 'We here on Earth care.'"
Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon - only 37 minutes away at light speed.
"Hi, Europa!" he said. "This is Zerrin on Earth. I'm turning 10."
Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.
"I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa," she said. "Now, I'm talking to you in person, and that's pretty nice."
The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intragalactic communication was fine with O'Key, who didn't hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club's "Europa is Alive!" event or "the giggle factor involved in all this."
It was O'Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: "An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about $400," O'Key said.
"We like to think we're bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people," he said.
"Of course, we'd need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa," Holmberg said. "But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we're sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it."
The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.
Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
O'Key and Holmberg consider themselves "Saganites," inspired by NASA's recent announcement that Europa and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingredients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.
"What they're doing is fine with me," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. "But it's fair to say we don't know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie 'E.T.,' or will they be like the Kardashians?
"In that case," he continued, "we should keep a low profile. You don't want your tombstone to read: I'm responsible for the obliteration of the human race."
Jim Bell, an astronomer at Arizona State University and president of the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, described the Joshua Tree effort as "delightful."
"It's a testament," Bell said, "to the ability of every man nowadays to have access to technology that was only a dream a decade ago."
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilizations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.
The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.
The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the North Star, Polaris.
In 2012, a now-defunct company leased a huge radio telescope in Carmel Valley, Calif., and offered to transmit personal messages and photos from Earth to various stars for free.
Now, there's the astronomy club led by O'Key, who as a boy liked to shine a flashlight beam at the Earth's moon knowing it would get there in 1.2 seconds.
"The only exceptional thing about our attempt to communicate with an alien world," he said, "is how easy and inexpensive it has become to give it a try."
Ridley Scott: aliens are out there and one day they'll come for us ... - modernsurvivalliving.com
In a recent interview with France Presse (AFP), #Ridley Scott, the director of "#Alien" talked about his belief in extraterrestrial species who are more advanced. He said there is a possibility that humanity could be threatened by an aggressive alien species. Scott thinks that the conflict between humans and #aliens may become reality because there are probably hundreds of more intelligent and more technologically advanced alien species in the Universe. If one of these species would get in contact with us, humans must prepare for the worst, according to the director of "Alien"..
"Alien" director thinks humanity would lose a war with aliens
Scott thinks that the reality could be worse than many science fiction scenarios. If a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial species would escalate, humans would almost certainly lose. Scott told AFP that aliens would annihilate us in three seconds if we challenged them.
The filmmaker argued that there are estimates from experts about the possibility of having "100-200 entities" on other planets. These extraterrestrial species could follow an evolutionary model similar to one from Earth. Scott said that if representatives of such civilizations came to us first (before we get to them) then it would be better to for us to run away and hide.
"Alien" was a great success of the science fiction genre
The possibility of the existence of intelligent beings on other planets fascinates and attracts many people. For this reason it's used very often in science fiction scenarios. Ridley Scott made his own contribution to this genre, especially through the series "Alien" — which describes a contact between humans and an extraterrestrial predatory species.
The aliens from this sci-fi horror movie are a species with a remarkable adaptive capacity and with a great morphological flexibility. They are called "xenomorphs", they multiply very quickly and they are extremely effective in eliminating humans.
A new sci-fi horror movie "Alien: Covenant ", the sequel to "Prometheus" and "Alien" will premiere on May 19 this year.
Contradicted by a researcher from Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Seth Shostak, a researcher from SETI Institute, whose goal is to search and to intercept radio communications from potential alien civilizations, disagrees with the position of the filmmaker. Shostak told Live Science that the estimation of the existence of 100 to 200 intelligent alien species is completely unsustainable.
More, the scenario in which aliens invade our solar system just to steal our resources does not have much practical support, according to the researcher from SETI Institute.
However Seth Shostak, agrees with Ridley Scott at a certain point: if an extraterrestrial civilization is able to build intergalactic vessels to bring them into the Earth's atmosphere, they certainly have a technology far superior to human technology. This means they can be dangerous.
WOW: The document revealed UFOs were still being sought by the US in 2002
The bombshell US Department of Defense files, from 2002, contains a manual on how to snap spaceships.
There are 27 pages in the document titled “DoD Instruction 5040.6, Life-Cycle Management of DoD Visual Information (VI)"
PAUL DEAN
SHOCK: Various documented sightings of UFOs in the US
“It’s actually asking for photos of damn UFOs”
Paul Dean
It contains a section on how to document UFOs.
Section 21 of Chapter 5 of the document says: "The following table concerns imagery that records UFOs and other aerial phenomena not obviously identifiable as conventional aircraft or missiles.
"The table also lists the priority assigned to each category of imagery and provides relevant handling instructions."
It says the military should make digital copies and send all media to the Defence Visual Information Center.
Paul Dean, the UFO researcher and blogger who uncovered these documents via the Freedom of Information Act, was gobsmacked.
PAUL DEAN
REVEALED: The document tells US military to document UFOs
Speaking to Mysterious Universe, he said: "What's particularly odd about that the table of what to photograph and what not to, is that it doesn’t vaguely say ‘UFOs…’
"It lays out fully both ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ with descriptors, and then ‘Aerial Phenomena…’ with descriptors."
It also blows out of the water the widely held belief the US stopped documenting and researching UFOs after the 1960s ended.
Dean points out the documents do not link UFOs to aliens.
But he adds: "How can they keep a straight face about the UFO issue when they shove it in plain English for the Armed Forces to digest.
A fascinating new book seriously tackles the question of extraterrestrial life from the perspective of leading astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
Theoretical physics may be difficult and complicated, "but it does have sex appeal." So says quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili. "It's easy to find an audience for popular science or for a TV documentary about the Big Bang or about black holes," he recently told me. Al-Khalili's work in the field has led to the fascinating new book Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, which explores what he believes is the likely possibility of alien life.
The Iraqi-born, UK-based Al-Khalili's intro opens with an anecdote: The Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi is jokingly discussing flying saucers with some colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory when he poses a simple question: "Where is everybody?" His point, Al-Khalili writes, is that the universe is so massive and contains so many planets, that it makes little sense for Earth to be the only place where life blossomed, unless our planet is "astonishingly and unjustifiably special."
Aliens, out this week from Picador, proceeds in the way that one imagines that Fermi's conversation at Los Alamos might have: serious scientists, in occasionally cheeky dialogue with one another, acknowledging that the question they're pursuing—Is anybody out there?—has long been pursued by kookier personalities, conspiracy theorists obsessed with Area 51, and alien abductions. Instead, Al-Khalili's book offers research-driven essays by prominent astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists, and their pieces offer a wide range of ways to think about the question of extraterrestrial life. Several astrobiologists consider what life requires and which planets and moons might have the right mix: neuroscientist Anil Seth considers the "alien" intelligence of the octopus here on Earth; cosmologist Martin Rees speculates on the possibility of humans merging with machine intelligence and setting out to explore the universe as a new cyborg species.
But for the most part, these experts are weighing in on one fundamental question: Is life special, a unique and almost impossible trick that happened here on Earth? Or is it easy, almost inevitable, a spark that just arises where the conditions are right? It's an age-old question, that, as Al-Khalili explains, we may finally have the technology to answer.
Photo courtesy of Jim Al-Khalili
VICE: What drew you to the questions that the book addresses? Are you someone who has had a lifelong interest in the idea of aliens?
Jim Al-Khalili: It's not so much aliens, but more to do with the question of what is special about life. Probably all scientists find that topic fascinating. There are certain questions in science that we don't have answers to, which we say, those are the big questions: What was there before the universe, before the Big Bang? How did life begin on Earth? How did chemistry turn into biology? What is the nature of consciousness? These are the questions that transcend disciplines. If you get a chemist, a physicist, a biologist, a computer scientist—all of them are going to be fascinated by this.
When I was young, I suppose I was interested in aliens like anyone else. I'm a sci-fi fan. But, for me, the question was really what is so special about life—how did it start on Earth and whether it is unique to Earth.
The book is serious, but the interest in extraterrestrial life has a reputation for being pretty quirky.
Someone once told me that half the internet is devoted to conspiracy theories to do with alien abductions and UFOs. Half is probably too much, but there's so much out there, from X-Files to science fiction in movies, that it is surprising to think that scientists would treat the question of extraterrestrial life seriously at all. And that's what made this so refreshing. The book is highlighting the fact that there are lots of questions that are of interest to scientists that you can actually treat seriously. If you really want to know the possibility of whether there are little green men out there, here are the serious scientific takes on it, from all angles. So, it's meant to be of interest to the wider lay audience but dealt with in a grown-up way.
You mention that there has been a shift within the scientific community toward taking this seriously and away from the era of imagining little green men. Do you have thoughts on when and how that changed?
This shift has come about because of advances in astronomy and space exploration in the last decade or two. We have started to send probes to Mars, to the moons of the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter, and we are seriously starting to be able to study the places where there potentially could be life in our solar system. And at the same time, in the past decade, we have discovered planets around stars outside our solar system, exoplanets. Astronomy has been advancing so quickly that what was unthinkable a decade ago is now reality. We can now not only pinpoint which stars have planets going around them, but we can look at those planets and even tell whether they have an atmosphere. Just from the light passing through the atmosphere from the star that they are going around, we can study that light and that can tell us the chemical composition of the atmosphere—and that can tell us what elements, what molecules, what compounds are in that atmosphere, and would they be there naturally or would there have to be life present to have made them. So, these advances in astronomy and space exploration suddenly mean that we can actually address this question. It's got to the point now where I'm quite optimistic that in my lifetime, it's likely that we will discover life elsewhere.
Wow.
Ten years ago, I wouldn't have thought that. Now, all these things are coming together. One of the contributors in the book, [professor of evolutionary biochemistry] Nick Lane, talks about the building blocks of life. What do you need? Is there anything magical? You get molecules getting more and more complicated, and then eventually you get something that can make copies of itself, and that's the first precursor of life. Well, until recently we thought there was a missing step—"and then some magic happens"—and then you get biology from chemistry! But there seems to be no magical steps necessary. I now reckon that the consensus among most scientists is that it would be quite surprising if we don't find life elsewhere, probably within our lifetime. It might not be interesting life—it won't be men in flying saucers—it will be some form of microbial life. But, hey, for scientists that will be enough.
"Astronomy has been advancing so quickly that what was unthinkable a decade ago is now reality. It's got to the point now where I'm quite optimistic that in my lifetime, it's likely that we will discover life elsewhere."
So on the big question in the book, which is something like "is life on Earth special and unique or is it common?"—and there are great arguments posed for each side—where do you fall on that spectrum personally?
There's a wide spectrum of opinion among informed scientists. So the fact that I sit somewhere in the middle is because I've been influenced by both sides. My kind of naïve view is that we only know of life happening somewhere: on Earth. We are beginning to see that the conditions on Earth are not unique. Forgive the metaphor, but a lot of stars have to have aligned for that—we have to be the right distance from the sun, we have to have an atmosphere, we have to have a moon that gives us tides, we have to have a big planet like Jupiter that is sucking up the debris so it doesn't bombard us. But there are so many other star systems; there are so many other exoplanets, just in our galaxy alone, that there must be millions, billions of other Earths that have the conditions necessary for life. So in that sense we know we are not unique.
But that doesn't mean that we know how life got started, just because those conditions exist. We know that life began on Earth very soon after Earth cooled down enough for life to possibly exist, almost 4 billion years ago. Now, over 4 billion years ago, the Earth was just a ball of fire. It wasn't conducive to anything. So, as soon as the conditions were right for life, life got started. But it didn't develop into complex life until much, much later. So I'm of the view that life as a simple single cellular form may well be not that difficult. It may be almost ubiquitous in the universe. But multicellular life, life that could then evolve into complex organisms, some of which could develop consciousness and intelligence and civilizations—that actually may be the harder step. How hard it is, we don't know yet.
I wonder if you can talk a little bit about the role of human radio, TV, and satellite communication and how that factors into the search for alien life. Why do people assume that aliens would also use this same kind of signaling?
We're starting with the assumption with the idea that the laws of physics and the forces of nature are the same throughout the universe. We know of four of these forces. Two of them are active inside of atoms, the nuclear forces. And the only other ones are gravity and the electromagnetic force. Gravity is limited technologically, but the electromagnetic force is versatile: Light is the electromagnetic force, and radio waves are the electromagnetic force. So it's a means of sending information from one place to the other. So we're assuming that whatever form life takes elsewhere, even if its not carbon based—it could be something really beyond our imagination—we still think they will make use of electromagnetic forces. It is a potentially universal way of communicating.
So if we are announcing our existence to the rest of the universe, then it may be that life elsewhere that is doing the same thing. Which is why the whole SETI program is about listening out into the universe to hear some electromagnetic signal that we don't think could have just happened naturally. Of course, we've only been announcing our existence to the world for about 100 years or so, when we first developed radio. So our electromagnetic signals have only extended out to a radius of 100 light years. And actually there aren't that many star systems within 100 light years. The universe is vast—there's billions of stars in our own galaxy—but there are only a handful within that range. Of course, an alien civilization may have been announcing their existence to the universe millions of years ago, for all we know, so those signals, if we do receive those signals, they may have traveled across vast distances—it won't mean that we can then say, "Hi, we're here," and then make contact with them. But just the knowledge that there is life out there somewhere would be profound.
Rachel Riederer is co-editor-in-chief of Guernica. Follow her on Twitter.
3.6-Million-Year-Old Early Human Footprints Have Been Discovered In Tanzania
3.6-Million-Year-Old Early Human Footprints Have Been Discovered In Tanzania
3.6 million years ago, a group of Australopithecus afarensis went out for a stroll. 40 years ago, a team lead by famed paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found the footprints of these hominins at a site in Tanzania called Laetoli. And now today, for the first time since Leakey’s original discovery, scientists describe new footprints from the same site that reveal more about the lives of individuals from the same Australopithecus community.
This research, published today in the journal eLife by a team of scientists from Tanzania and Italy, builds upon research on the first Laetoli footprints discovered in 1976. These original tracks, from an area called Site G, represent three individuals and provided one of the first pieces of direct evidence that humans walked upright 3.6 million years ago. But while this evidence is tantalizing, it is limited.
Preliminary digging and cleaning operations at Laetoli Site S.
(Image Credit: Sofia Menconero)
In 2015, only 150 meters away from Site G, Fidelis Masao from the University of Dar es Salaam and colleagues made a fortuitous find. While doing a survey of the Laetoli area and assessing its viability as a site for a museum, they stumbled on something in a test pit they had not found in decades—footprints from two new early human individuals.
The footprints from these individuals at the newly named Site S were found on the same ash layer as the original Site G footprints, which now combined represent a total of five individuals. Study author Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi from University of Florence was excited about the new find because it meant more data: “Now we have a new series of quantitative data,” he says, “and step and stride length can help us figure out how large these individuals were.”
Estimates of body size from these step and stride measurements were surprising when compared to the other individuals from Site G. One of the individuals in Site S was substantially larger—about 5 feet 4 inches tall compared to the other individuals who were 4 feet 9 inches and under. This range in sizes of Au. afarensis is likely explained by sexual dimorphism, with the females outsized by males. For comparison, the male individual from Site S is nearly 20 inches taller than the most famous Au. afarensis, “Lucy.”
Reconstruction of the Laetoli palaeolandscape 3.66 million years ago.
(Artwork by Dawid A. Iurino)
3.6 million years ago this was likely a dry, tropical bushland that was a popular place to hang out. Hominins were not the only living things in this area, as study author Marco Cherin from University of Perugia explains: “The entire locality is completely covered by animal footprints.” He describes over 500 footprints from small cow-like creatures (similar to dik-diks), but also gazelles, giraffes, rhinos and rabbits, conjuring up images of a busy landscape teeming with life.
Discoveries like this inspire the imagination and begin to fill in details about early human life in Laetoli. Now researchers can say with confidence this area contained five individuals of varying sizes and sexes walking on the same wet ash surface, all while surrounded by a diverse community of animals. Finds like this are not only vital for understanding how hominins moved around, but also for understanding how differences in size between sexes developed. Beyond that, Cecchi says, this find is inspiring on a uniquely human level: “We can witness where our earliest relatives took a prehistoric walk, and understand the everyday life of the species.”
INVENTOR FLYS WITH HOMEMADE ‘IRON MAN’ JET SUIT OVER HARBOR
INVENTOR FLYS WITH HOMEMADE ‘IRON MAN’ JET SUIT OVER HARBOR
Inventor Richard Browning has showcased his “Iron Man-inspired” homemade jetpack by taking off from the shore of Vancouver Harbor Thursday.
Using a suit equipped with miniature jet engines attached to a specially designed exoskeleton, the British inventor demonstrated the machine by flying in a circle for a captivated audience who were attending a TED conference in the Canadian city.
“The hypothesis was that the human mind and body, if properly augmented, could achieve some pretty cool stuff,” Browning said in a speech before the demonstration.
The personal flight suit can currently fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes and Browning said it is capable of flying much higher than shown at the TED event. He said it is easily capable of flying at over 320kmph (200mph) and reaching an altitude of over 1,000ft (300 meters).
The extreme athlete and engineer regaled the audience with tales of the various knocks and mishaps he experienced while building the machine.
“The whole journey was about trying and failing, and learning from that,” Browning said.
Gravity Industries, Browning’s startup company, recently debuted with an early-version suit called Daedalus. The company attracted huge interest when Browning posted video footage of the suit’s maiden flight.
The inventor revealed that he has received attention from investors and even from the British military. However he does not think that the suit is ready for mainstream use anytime soon.
“I don’t think anyone is going to be going down to Wal-Mart with it or taking anybody to school for quite a while, but the team at Gravity is moving it along,” Browning said.
Browning said that his vision is a flight suit that will allow its wearer to launch from a beach, soar along the coast and then perhaps hop into a helicopter in the air to continue their journey.
So remote, they are steeped in legends of snow yetis and mysterious monsters devouring all who dare to venture into these remote areas. With strange occurrences such as that of theDyatlov Pass, which have supported such fears for many years.
Maybe even as old as the great sphinx. More and more is being learnt about them, with ever more daring explorations of the ruins being undertaken, a team discovered a vault in one of the stone megaliths, an access fault that led them into an artificially made stone cavern systems.
These underground structures are truly massive, and are undoubtedly constructed by an intelligent builder, hidden for many millennia these caverns are not only massive but constructed using blocks placed upon one another that are over 50 feet in length in some instances, making these stones many thousands of tonnes in weight, seemingly placed effortlessly into the shape of underground walls.
This discovery has not really shed light upon how the ancients built such structures, but rather pushed their apparent capabilities farther from our understanding.
Not only are these structures purpose a vast mystery, but they also contain placed stones bigger than any we have ever discovered, even eclipsing the unfinished stone found at the ancient chinese quarry known as yangshan, a stone can be found here half cut away from the bedrock, in excess of 16,000 tonnes, thought by scholars throughout time, to have been left at the quarry due to them not being able to move it, yet here we have stones placed into a cave system design which even outweigh yangshan.
This not only proves they could move them, but lift them and work them, just how many quote “natural formations”, are really just extremelly weathered once extremelly large stone built structures? Maybe there are many stone granite hills and even maybe mountains that dot our earth, which were, before mellinia of rain, grand structures of a forgotten people.
The first where to start this journey Vottovaara Mountain – the highest point of the West Karelian Upland – 417.3 m above sea level. Mountain area of 6 square meters. km. The place is just full of strange artifacts after which you start to think about ancient advanced technologies for stone processing, let’s look at the photo.
Mountain Vottovaara. Megaliths scattered blocks.
Middle block cut down at an angle of 90 degrees or a freak of nature?
As if the laser spent geologists believe that the cracks and fissures are formed by a powerful earthquake around 9000 years ago. Smooth stones same plane – the result of the local properties of the rock – quartzite, whose structure and defines a flat plane as the split.
So all the same nature or man-made? Let’s take a closer look.
More like a perfectly sawed blocks podognanye tightly to each other. It is hard to imagine the ancient ancestor with a copper chisel which is somewhere on Mount grinds such smooth blocks.
Good view, perfectly smooth wall.
Who lost the ball?)
There is clearly no high technology for stone processing has not been, or still a freak of nature?
Mountain Pidan. At first glance it looks like an unremarkable pile of stones cracked rock.
But coming closer it becomes more like a megalithic masonry.
Peering between the blocks, where the stones were less susceptible to erosion from wind and rain can be seen as the man-made and kept straight faces.
In a place where the joint units sold can be seen even saw cut, and before us the technology of stacking these blocks.
Stone Town in the Perm region. According to scientists, Stone Town – is the mouth of the river, a tributary of millions of years ago in the Permian Sea this explains beautifully and smoothly, at right angles, carved stones, masonry and trim them perpendicular to each other “channels”, “mouth”.
Stone Town.
See how smooth side of megaliths as if cut down.
Again the old method to look into the masonry between the blocks, looking at the long-range block in the center, clean cut across the length of the block.
Say somewhere on the Kola Peninsula is the swimming pool carved into the rock.
In the south of Western Siberia in the mountain Shoria in Mezhdurechensk area there is a small village called Geological Stones.
In this village lives a few educated talented geologists. This Alexander Bespalov, Vyacheslav Pochotkin and others. These people all his life engaged in research of mountain systems in Western Siberia. One day they came across in the mountains of strange megalithic constructions that for themselves they could not explain. These were the walls, lined with giant stone blocks and a strange construction with vertically mounted stone obelisk. On the Internet, they contacted George Sidorov, since the first expedition was assembled.
Mountain Shoria. Some granite blocks stacked below were red granite, crowned their gray blocks of granite, as above lying polygonal masonry of various blocks as red granite and gray.
Granite in some places oplavilsya from the effects of huge temperatures and flowed under the weight of the upper rows. Kungurov if to say such a thing, it traces the re-flow of a thermonuclear explosion
Wall composed of polygonal masonry blocks of different color.
Block sizes are impressive, according to one version, a find – a man-made structure of the age of more than 100 thousand years.
In the photo Georgy Sidorov, in his opinion all this megalithic structure may be the ruins of an ancient power which translates seismic energy in any other.
Again looking inside masonry where the blocks were less prone to erosion, seen flat straight edge, watching as the two units are tight, man-made, is better visible.
Polygonal masonry.
Mountain Shoria. Huge blocks at the Department of Radio Physics at Tomsk State University showed pictures on the screen, telling about the different types of masonry, stone of the castle, which secured the giant granite blocks and no scientist physicist, said that all this is of natural origin. Most of them were surprised, as they could raise the ancient giant blocks of stone to a height of over 1,000 meters and there to set them on a special platform.
Then the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society, scientists have studied photos of geologists and geographers. And they both came to the conclusion that the presented artifacts are handmade.
Sklyarov was asked to comment on the find. And what did he say? That all artifacts found nothing but a cracked rock at right angles. That there is nothing man-made here. Just a freak of nature, nothing more. After these words, I do not wonder why Laia does not study Russian megaliths.
Between blocks.
For comparison, the left megalith in Baalbek, in the mountainous right megalith Shoria seems one author
Shaman Mountain near with. Nizhneleninskoye, Khabarovsk Territory.
Ancient megalithic masonry.
Again, the best man-made visible between the blocks and straight lines.
A large block of megalith.
A large block of megalith on small stones, so make for better seismic resistance.
Megalithic masonry reminiscent Mountain Shoria.
Kabardino-Balkaria, a cave in the Baksan Gorge.
First it is necessary to squeeze into the size of 40 by 120 cm hole, and then down on the rope on the narrow vertical shaft.
Its form, two parallel flagstones. At 9 meters – the first “knee”: hole goes away and immediately breaks down again. Already here you will cover the absolute silence – the outside does not get any sound. 23 more meters in depth – and a new “tribe”.
To reach the bottom of the cave, it is necessary to overcome more than 80 meters, and it will take an hour. But, having passed the “bottleneck”, you will find yourself in a huge room, which the researchers called “jar”. Inside, we see the treated wall of tufa and granite, composed of different-sized, closely matched to each other polished megaliths.
The descent into the cave.
Clearly visible faces of blocks and the seams between them.
Smooth clutch hits and stone seams, well adjusted to each other.
Triangular blocks slightly parted.
Barely visible seams blocks on the left wall and crescent on the wall behind her.
Rotate the cave at an angle of 90 degrees. Two large megalithic blocks are on each other.
“Tuff is a cluster of volcanic emissions products – ash, bits of lava , volcanic glass and, to a small extent, debris that form crater wall. release material when the accumulation was hot and so the solidification cracks were formed separately – that is the whole array of tufa appeared as if broken into blocks. Deepening discovered near the village of Zayukovo, is one of these cracks gravity separation, which is characterized by smooth contact surface”.
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP to Reach Mars
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP to Reach Mars
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA and its partner agencies should retire the International Space Station and focus on getting astronauts to Mars instead, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said.
Credit: NASA
If NASA and its partner agencies are serious about putting boots on Mars in the near future, they should pull the plug on the International Space Station (ISS) at the earliest opportunity, Buzz Aldrin said.
"We must retire the ISS as soon as possible," the former Apollo 11 moonwalker said Tuesday (May 9) during a presentation at the 2017 Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C. "We simply cannot afford $3.5 billion a year of that cost."
Instead, Aldrin said, NASA should continue to hand over activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) to private industry partners. Indeed, the space agency has been encouraging that move by awarding contracts to companies such as SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Boeing to ferry cargo and crew to and from the ISS. [Buzz Aldrin's Visions for Mars (Video)]
Bigelow Aerospace, Axiom Space or other companies should build and operate LEO space stations that are independent of the ISS, he added. Ideally, the first of these commercial outposts would share key orbital parameters with the station that China plans to have up and running by the early 2020s, to encourage cooperation with the Chinese, Aldrin said.
Establishing private outposts in LEO is just the first step in Aldrin's plan for Mars colonization, which depends heavily on "cyclers" — spacecraft that move continuously between two cosmic destinations, efficiently delivering people and cargo back and forth.
"The foundation of human transportation is the cycler," the 87-year-old former astronaut said. "Very rugged, so it'll last 30 years or so; no external moving parts."
Step two involves the international spaceflight community coming together to build cyclers that ply cislunar space, taking people on trips to the moon and back. Such spacecraft, and the activities they enable, would allow the construction of a crewed lunar base, where humanity could learn and test the techniques required for Mars colonization, such as how to manufacture propellant from local resources, Aldrin said.
Then would come Earth-Mars cyclers, which Aldrin described as "an evolutionary development" of the prior cyclers.
Aldrin foresees these various cycler iterations enabling a crewed mission to a near-Earth asteroid by 2020 and a Venus flyby by 2024. If all goes well, the first future Mars settlers could launch in the early 2030s, he said.
And they will be settlers, not just visitors, if Aldrin's vision comes to pass.
"Let's be certain that we've developed a sustainable plan to stay on Mars," he said. "No flags and footprints this time."
The ISS is currently funded through 2024, and officials of NASA, the Russian federal space agency and other partners have floated the possibility of extending the $100 billion outpost's life through 2028. NASA officials have repeatedly said that the ISS is a key part of the agency's "Journey to Mars" vision, which aims to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s.
Never mind Star Trek‘s Squire of Gothos; what if we really found an alien civilization at a 16th-century level of technological development? How would we know? How could we make contact–and should we?
(Credit: Paramount)
Readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of Quora, because it lets non-experts raise the kinds of speculative questions that don’t normally come up in formal scientific discussions. One frequent theme that comes up is the issue of what we would do if we found intelligent life on a planet around another star. A recent posting in particular caught my eye: “What would we do if we found an Earthlike planet with intelligent life that is 500 years behind us in technology and advancements?”
Well, that’s a fun thought experiment! It’s not one question, really, but a whole set of nested questions about how to find alien life, how to determine the presence of alien intelligence, how to determine the nature of that intelligence, and then how we would study it, or even try to make contact with it. There’s a big moral issue at the end, but a lot of juicy scientific ones along the way. And that got me thinking…
First, how will we find a truly Earthlike planet? Despite all the amazing recent discoveries of planets around other stars, astronomers have yet to find a true Earth twin—that is, an Earth-size planet orbiting a sunlike yellow star at an Earthlike distance. The closest they’ve come is a planet called Kepler 452b. It’s roughly five times the mass of Earth and probably belongs to the class of planets called super-Earths. Habitable, maybe; Earthlike, no. The same goes, even more so, for the recently discovered Earth-size planets around the star Trappist-1. These are extremely exciting worlds to study, and it is possible that some of them could support life. But the Trappist-1 planets orbit a dim red-dwarf star, which means that they are blasted with energetic radiation and are probably tidally locked, with one hemisphere always facing toward the star.
Closer analogs are surely out there, but they are hard to find. NASA’s Kepler space telescope spots planets by the way they blot out a tiny bit of their star’s light when they transit: that is, they pass between the star and us. But for a planet in a one-year orbit (like ours!), that means you see a shadow only once a year, and very briefly. To confirm that the planet is real—and not, say, a random flickering of the star—you want to observe at least three events. So you need to watch a lot of stars, and watch them all for several years. Even then, the only planets you’ll find are the ones that happen to be lined up exactly between us and their star.
Planets in the habitable zones around other stars may not be anything like our own. Kepler-186 (top) is a miniature system similar to Trappist-1. Kepler-452 (middle) is a sunlike star but its key planet is bigger and more massive than Earth.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/R. Hurt)
Second, how would we know if a superficially Earthlike planet is truly habitable? The leading method right now is to look at light streaming through the planet’s atmosphere when it passes between us and the star. That’s an extremely difficult task even for giant planets. Right now, we don’t have the technology to do it for a true Earth twin—if we even had one to study. Another approach is to search directly for other Earths alongside their stars, and then analyze their light. To do that, you need both a very powerful telescope and a highly effective way to block out the glare of the star, since an Earthlike planet would be right alongside it in the sky, but on the order of a billion times fainter!
Astronomers have some clever ideas about how to do that, using either an external light blocker (called a starshade) flying in front of a space telescope, or an internal device (coronagraph) built into the telescope itself to create a kind of artificial eclipse. The upcoming WFIRST telescope will test the coronagraph concept, but it won’t be sensitive enough to observe other Earths. That will take improved telescopes that are unlikely to be built at least until the 2030s.
Bringing other Earths into view won’t be easy. This is the plan for NASA’s upcoming WFIRST space telescope and its starlight-blocking coronagraph.
(Credit: NASA-JPL/G. Blackwood/Noecker et al)
Third, how would we know if there’s intelligent life on the planet? Proving the presence of any kind of life will be hugely challenging, even after we get past steps one and two above. Astronomers will analyze the atmospheres of the planets looking for “biosignatures”–unusual, out-of-balance chemical compositions such as those associated with life on Earth (eg, free oxygen plus methane). SETI searches focus on possible signals sent by alien civilizations, but aliens with 16th-century technology won’t be beaming us any radio messages. We’d have to find them in more subtle ways. For instance, we might detect heavy-metal signatures associated with smelting and other types of simple industry, although that still would not yield unambiguous proof. Some extreme, speculative types of lensing telescopes might be powerful enough to see evidence of cities or geometric clearing of forests; such observations would certainly be a lot more convincing.
Note, by the way, that it would be extremely unlikely to find an alien civilization that is so close to us in technological development, even if intelligent alien life is fairly common. Stars and planets have most likely been forming in our galaxy for more than 10 billion years. Maybe it’s normal for it to take 4 billion years for intelligent life to emerge; maybe not. Regardless, life on other worlds could have begun billions of years earlier or later than life on Earth. Out of that vast range, the odds that an alien civilization would be within 500 years of our stage of development are millions to one—and that assumes that other planets follow the same path as ours, which is a huge leap of faith. But let’s keep digging into the question.
How to launch an interstellar probe using a laser lightsail. The tech doesn’t exist yet, but it’s all near-term realistic.
(Credit: Breakthrough Starshot)
Fourth, what would we do if we really found rock-solid evidence of a pre-industrial civilization on a planet around another star? We couldn’t communicate with them by any currently known method. Unless physicists make some kind of wildly unanticipated new discovery, there is no practical way that humans could travel there, either. Potentially we could send miniature interstellar probes to examine the planet and learn more about its inhabitants. A project called Breakthrough Starshot is exploring the kind of technology needed to do something like that. Such probes would be so small and speedy that the aliens there would have no idea they were being watched.
Assume a best-case scenario (because, why not?). Sometime next decade we find a potentially Earthlike planet around Alpha Centauri A, the closest sunlike star, or maybe we find encouraging information about the Earth-size planet orbiting its companion star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. In the 2030s we find plausible biosignatures on one of these nearby exoplanets. In the 2050s we image the planet and see plausible indications of an intelligent civilization. What a moment of discovery that would be! We launch interstellar probes there, which arrive in the 2090s. By 2100, we’re convinced not only that the planet is inhabited, but that it is home to an advanced, semi-industrial civilization. So now what?
NASA will crash Cassini into Saturn in September, to make sure the probe doesn’t contaminate one of the planet’s potentially habitable moons. This kind of caution should extend to any future contact with sentient alien beings.
(Credit: NASA-JPL)
That brings us to the fifth and final part. Should we try to establish contact? Potentially we could use interstellar probes to drop coded messages all over the planet. Maybe the inhabitants could respond by setting huge geometric fires that we could observe from space. We would have a lot of time to think about whether making contact is a good idea and, if so, how best to do it. Each back-and-forth message would take about 9 years—and remember, this is for the very nearest star. Suppose we found a civilization on Kepler 452b. It is 1,400 light years away. Each round-trip message would take 2,800 years minimum. A Starshot-style probe would take at least 7,000 years to get there.
But let’s take all of the what-ifs all the way. What if we find this quasi-technological alien civilization, and what if humans develop some kind of faster-than-light technology (currently thought to be physically impossible, but we’re speculating here) so that we could jump in a ship and go visit, Star Trek style? How would we behave?
Right now, NASA has a detailed set of planetary-protection rules to make sure that humans do not contaminate Mars or other possibly habitable worlds. That is part of the reason the Cassini probe is being crashed into Saturn: to make sure it doesn’t contaminate the moons Enceladus or Titan. I like to think that by the time we are smart enough to find life in other planetary systems and advanced enough to travel there, we will have advanced versions of those planetary protection rules to make sure we don’t contaminate other civilizations, either.
On Earth, meetings between technological and non-technological cultures have generally not gone very well. If we ever get to the point where we find a non-technological culture on another planet, I expect that we will have enough good sense to observe from afar and not interfere.
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The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be REAL.
Many reports tell of a silent triangle shape, defined by a series of lights, that are said to be in some cases as big as a football field, moving slowly across the sky.
The new sighting took place on April 25.
In a report to MUFON, the witness, who was driving back from Tybee Island with a roommate, said: "I was sitting in the passenger seat, looking out of the window.
We were headed south on East Broad when I saw two very large, triangular crafts hovering above the city.
UFO witness
Five lights in a formation were seen by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
The sightings took place a cross a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.
It was blamed by officials as military flares at the time.
Another mysterious case was the Belgian UFO wave from November 1989.
Thirty different groups of witnesses and three groups of police officers reported seeing on November 29 a large object flying at low altitude.
The craft was described as "flat, of triangular shape, with lights underneath", and being silent as it slowly moved across Belgium towards the Netherlands and Germany.
Some alien hunters believe they are the motherships of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.
However, many conspiracy theorists believe they are actually secret aircrafts developed by the US Air Force (USAF) which are being tested.
The TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Earlier this month Express.co.uk revealed how Steve Bassett, a prominent UFO disclosure lobbyist in the US, believes that many triangle UFOs could have been secretly built by the US using technology recovered from crashed flying saucers.
The mysterious star with the catchy nickname that refuses to explain itself just got a little more mysterious … and a lot dimmer. Data on KIC 8462852 – aka Tabby’s Star, aka the star that might be surrounded by a Dyson sphere – was analyzed by another set of astronomers and they noticed a 200-day period where it dimmed drastically in comparison to other times. Did the aliens sucking power from the star via the sphere need an emergency energy boost? Did something else temporarily block it from our view? Is this proof it’s some new kind of star? Or what?
KIC 8462852 was nicknamed Tabby’s Star after its discoverer, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. The erratic behavior of its light, especially the constant dimming, caused speculation that it was partially or fully surrounded by a so-called Dyson sphere of panels absorbing its energy to be used by an alien species for fuel. Farfetched but not yet eliminated as an explanation.
According to a new study, Caltech astronomer Ben Montet and Joshua Simon of the Carnegie Institute measured the light from the star recorded by the Kepler satellite observatory over four years. The dimming occurred at a steady rate of around 0.34 percent per year for about the first thousand days of observation. At that point, the dimming increased dramatically to an annual rate of 2.5 percent for the next 200 days. It then returned to the 0.34 rate for the duration of the Kepler observation. Montet said in an interview with Gizmodo:
The part that really surprised me was just how rapid and non-linear it was. We spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn’t real.
The big dip was real
But it was. What caused the sudden drop in light? Suspecting some cosmic mass (comets, thick dust cloud) may have passed in front of Kepler, Montet and Simon checked the brightness of 500 surround stars and found that only KIC 8462852 took a dip. That means the cause is either in front of, around or inside of Tabby’s Star.
Well, that narrows it down, doesn’t it?
These results introduce us to another delightfully unexpected piece of the puzzle.
Tabetha Boyajian has set up a Kickstarter crowdfunding program to raise enough money to use the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network for a year to watch her namesake and catch it in the act of flickering, dimming, Dyson sphere construction, starship fueling or whatever else it might be.
We will keep you all in the loop as things progress, and will soon send out surveys to gather information for reward fulfillment.
What would Galileo think of a Dyson sphere? Would crowdfunding have saved him from church persecution?
For $10, let’s give them a scroll with my picture on it.
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