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...
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Latest UFO Sighting Video Shows Disc-Shaped Object At A Very High Rate Of Speed
Latest UFO Sighting Video Shows Disc-Shaped Object At A Very High Rate Of Speed
A new video footage from a group of UFO researchers appears to show a strange object hovering past the International Space Station.
SecureTeam 10, who run their YouTube channel with nearly 900,000 subscribers, claims that a disc-shaped UFO whizzed past the station at an incredible speed.
NASA has issued a statement regarding the alleged anomalies around the ISS saying that they are distortions in a lens and don’t represent any space alien life.
Tyler Glockner, who is behind the voice on SecureTeam 10 videos, said that the latest discovered UFO moved as if it knew the camera was recording.
Reported UFO sightings have increased in recent years. The book “U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference” revealed that UFO sightings in the U.S. rose to 11,868 in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001.
According to the book’s synopsis on Amazon, it presents data and analysis for over one hundred thousand sightings of UFOs reported during the first 15 years of the 21st century.
SecureTeam 10 has also recently posted videos on an alleged alien tank and a cigar-shaped disc over Paris. Despite openly running videos based on conspiracy theories, their YouTube channel has nearly 900,000 subscribers.
In September of 2015, scientists announced that the star known as KIC 8462852 (aka. “Tabby’s Star” or “Boyajian’s Star”) was experiencing a strange dip in luminosity. At the time, astronomers indicated that this mysterious behavior could be the result of comets transiting in front of the star, but other (perhaps more hopeful) individuals claimed that it could also be the result of an alien megastructure.
This led to a flurry of studies and articles that sought to offer entirely natural explanations for what has been observed. Even SETI weighed in, indicating that they would begin searching for indications of radio signals coming this mysterious star. But after two years and multiple studies that offer explanations other an alien Dyson Sphere (or some other type of megastructure), the star is at it again!
The first indications that the star was dimming again were reported late last month by the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona. The robotic telescope spotted what might be a dip in brightness on April 24th, 2017. Within a week, the brightness returned to normal levels, but the event (known as “Event 1” in the star’s light curve, shown below) caught the interest of astronomers around the world.
Preliminary analysis of incoming data of KIC 8462852, showing the apparent dip.
Credit: Matthew Muterspaugh/Tennessee State University/CEISEM
Then on May 18th, a more significant drop began, which prompted the observatory’s scientists to put out the call to observatories around the world to begin turning their telescopes to Tabby’s Star. According to the alert issued by the Observatory, the star had already dimmed by 2% after just one night of observation. As soon as the Sun set in their respective regions, observatories around the world began monitoring the star and recording its light curve.
The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT), which was regularly monitoring the star already, also joined the observation party. While this was happening, Tabetha Boyajian (for whom the star is named) called Jason Wright – an associate professor of astronomy at Pennsylvania State University – to tell him the news. Wright received the call on Friday, May 19th, at 4 a.m., at which point, he was told that the dimming had reached 3%.
Wright then tweeted the news out 24 minutes later (4:24 a.m. EDT) to let the world know that the most mysterious star in the known Universe was acting up again! Hours later, Wright and SETI Director Andrew Siemion also held a live webcast to update the public on everything that was being learned and to explain precisely what the scientific community was looking for.
As Wright said during the course of the webcast, which began at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), the goal here is to obtain a “spectral fingerprint” from the star:
“Tabby’s star… went through a lot of very strange dimming events that got up to 22% dimmer during the Kepler Mission, and since then we’ve been eagerly awaiting another dip. And the reason that we’ve been waiting for that is that whatever is causing the star to get dimmer will leave a spectral fingerprint behind. So if it’s a lot of dust between us and the star that’s passing by, it should block more blue light than red light. If there’s gas in that dust, that gas should absorb very specific wavelengths. So we’ve been eager to see one of these changes, these dips in the star, so we can take the spectra.
In other words, if we’re dealing with entirely natural phenomena – like clouds of debris, comets, a consumed planet or anything other than an alien megastructure – that will become clear from the spectra we obtain from the star. If, however, the spectra does not conform to these parameters, we will once again be back to speculating about the possible cause. And you can bet your bottom dollar the alien megastructure crowd will be out in full force!
As Wright went on to explain, during the preceding week, there were indications that something was happening around the star. However, none of it was significant enough for observatories to go from “yellow alert” – i.e. in a heightened state of readiness – to actively training their telescopes on the star. The reason for this is that telescopes have their observation time scheduled weeks or even months in advance.
Artist’s impression of an orbiting swarm of dusty comet fragments around Tabby’s Star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As such, no one can hit the override button and demand that their telescopes be trained on a new target without having a very good reason. However, on Thursday, the staff at Pennsylvania State University were waiting for data that would indicate if the dip was really happening. By Friday, in the early morning hours, that is precisely what they got! As Wright recounted during the broadcast:
“[At] about 4 a.m. this morning I got a phone call from [Tabitha Boyajian] that Fairborn Observatory in Arizona had confirmed that the star was 3 percent dimmer than it normally is. That is enough that we are absolutely confident that this is no statistical fluke. We’ve now got it confirmed at multiple observatories, I think.”
So far, several observatories have provided spectra that indicates that the star really is in the process of dimming. And in the coming days and weeks, additional observatories are expected to join in. This may include the Green Bank Observatory, which will collect radio observations, and even space-based observatories like the Swift Space Telescope – which will provide both optical and ultraviolet data.
Regardless of what they find, you can expect we will be hearing about shortly thereafter! And in the meantime, be sure to check out the full live broadcast below:
By Matt Williams - . Matt Williams is the Curator of the Guide to Space for Universe Today, a regular contributor to HeroX, a science fiction author, and a Taekwon-Do instructor. He lives with his family on Vancouver Island in beautiful BC
Astronomers may have ruled out an alien megastructure as the likely cause behind KIC 8462852's strange dimming, but it's still mysterious -- and that's partly due to the lack of live data (as live as you can get for a star 1,277 light years away, at least). How do you understand what's going on when you have to rely solely on historical info that doesn't even account for the star's spectrum? Thankfully, researchers are getting that big chance: they've caught the star in mid-dimming, and they have numerous telescopes trained on it. If they can record the spectrum before and after the oddball behavior, they may have a better idea of the root cause.
Scientists don't expect to find comets. They've mostly ruled that out given that the dimming has taken place for several decades or more. However, the spectral data could at least point them in the right direction. If there's consistent spectral dimming, it would point to a solid object like a planet. More uneven dimming, meanwhile, could point to dust or gas as the culprit.
A definitive answer isn't all that likely, at least not without extended analysis. With that said, just having a general idea of what's involved could be enough to shoot down wilder theories and narrow the focus. That, in turn, could improve humanity's overall understanding of the cosmos and prepare for the next time researchers spot something they can't immediately explain.
Plumes of gas erupting out of Enceladus — a small moon with an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust — contain hydrogen. Scientists infer a lot from that: that there are hydrothermal chemical reactions similar to those that occur at hot fissures at the ocean bottoms on Earth.
On Earth at least, hydrothermal vents thrive with microbial life, offering up the potential that icy moons far from Earth — called “ocean worlds” by NASA — could be habitable.
“That’s just going to be a tremendous opportunity to test our theories and see if there’s life there,” said James L. Green, director of planetary science at NASA.
This is the latest discovery by Cassini, which is heading into its final months after 13 years of exploring Saturn, its moons and rings. On April 22, Cassini begins a journey that will take it between the planet and its rings for 22 orbits before its mission finally ends with a crash into Saturn’s atmosphere in September.
Cassini’s findings also show that levels of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane measured in the Enceladus plume were out of equilibrium, an imbalance that could provide an energy source that organisms could tap into for food, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Mapping Saturn’s Moons
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final flyby of Saturn’s Enceladus moon on Saturday.
“It indicates there is chemical potential to support microbial systems,” said J. Hunter Waite Jr., program director for the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and lead author of the Science paper.
In a separate paper published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, another team of researchers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, once again spotted what appears to be a similar plume rising from Europa, one of Jupiter’s big moons that also possesses an ocean beneath an icy exterior.
Cassini had earlier found that there are seas of methane on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a discovery that has inspired some scientists to suggest sending a boat there.
At a mere 310 miles wide, Enceladus was considered too small to be geologically interesting; scientists suspected that its interior had frozen solid long ago. But 11 years ago, Cassini spotted plumes rising from the south pole region, one of the biggest, most surprising discoveries of the mission.
The tidal forces of Saturn pulling and squeezing Enceladus appear to generate enough heat to melt the ice. From additional Cassini observations, scientists concluded that not only is there a pool of water near the south pole of Enceladus to generate the plumes, but a global ocean that lies beneath the moon’s ice.
In October 2015, Cassini swooped to within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus, and one of its instruments collected and identified particles in the plume spray. It was mostly water molecules, but Dr. Waite and his colleagues also found hydrogen molecules, up to 1.4 percent by volume.
A NASA illustration shows how scientists studying the plumes at the south pole of Enceladus think water may be interacting with minerals in the moon’s rock. Such hydrothermal chemical reactions are similar to those that occur at hot fissures at the ocean bottoms on Earth. On Earth, hydrothermal vents thrive with microbial life.CreditNASA
While hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, it was not expected to be found in any quantity on a moon as small as Enceladus, where the gravity is too slight to hold on to the gas for long.
“Just finding hydrogen was a surprise,” said Christopher R. Glein, a geochemist at the Southwest Research Institute and another author of the Science paper.
After considering a variety of ways that could continually generate hydrogen, the scientists concluded that hydrothermal reactions offered the most likely explanation for producing that much of the gas. Each water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Geophysical models indicated that as hot water flows past the rocks, minerals in the rocks were grabbing the oxygen atoms and releasing hydrogen, the scientists reported.
There appeared to be enough energy to support microbes. “This is the first time we’ve been able to make a calorie count of an alien ocean,” Dr. Glein said. Asked what that calorie count was, Dr. Glein said the energy available was the caloric equivalent of 300 pizzas per hour.
“This is a great result for the habitability of Enceladus,” said Christopher P. McKay, a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., who was not involved with the research.
Dr. McKay said the hydrogen levels are far above what microbes need.
Still, the presence of hydrogen does not prove that life exists on Enceladus. It might suggest the opposite.
SCIENCEOUT THEREBy JASON DRAKEFORD, DENNIS OVERBYE and JONATHAN CORUM9:47Dark Oceans: Surveying Saturn’s Moons
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Dark Oceans: Surveying Saturn’s Moons
In a dozen years orbiting Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has changed our understanding of liquid in the outer solar system.
By JASON DRAKEFORD, DENNIS OVERBYE and JONATHAN CORUM on Publish DateOctober 28, 2015.
At hydrothermal vents on Earth, the hydrogen is quickly gobbled up by microbes. That so much hydrogen is rising through Enceladus’s ocean and reaching space could mean there is no life on the little moon to take advantage of it. At a department meeting, say, “if you have those stacks of pizzas, they disappear,” said Mary A. Voytek, head of NASA’s astrobiology program.
Or life could exist, but is limited by other factors. “If there is biology there, it isn’t very active,” Dr. Voytek said.
Scientists will not get any more data for a long time.
Cassini will make no more close flybys of Enceladus. The spacecraft is low on fuel, and the mission will come to a close in September. For the last few months, Cassini has shifted to a different orbit that will allow it to probe the interior properties of Saturn and take a close look at the inner part of its rings.
NASA has at present no plans to return to Saturn or Enceladus. But it is currently soliciting proposals for a mission with a price tag of up to $850 million, and one of the areas in which NASA specified an interest is a mission to explore Enceladus and Titan.
The Enceladus findings also aid the design of Europa Clipper, NASA’s next big planetary mission, which is to launch in the 2020s to study Europa.
In the new Astrophysical Journal Letters paper, researchers led by William B. Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore report on a Hubble Space Telescope observation in 2016 that revealed a likely plume of water vapor rising from the same spot on Europa where the researchers saw a similar plume two years earlier.
In addition, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s found that this location on Europa was unusually warm, and scientists would not be surprised to find hydrothermal vents there, too. “The geophysics is similar everywhere,” Dr. Voytek said.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“It brings back old memories,” said retired US Air Force colonel Charles Halt on his return to the spot where, in December 1980, he was at the centre of a UFO mystery in Rendlesham Forest.
Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
As deputy commander of Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, Mr Halt wrote a memo to the Ministry of Defence describing the incident, and recorded what became known as the Halt Tape – made public the following year.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest, with Dawn Holloway, John Hanson, Gary Baker and David Young.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“I never intended for it to get out,” said Mr Halt, who carried out his investigation on December 28, 1980, during which he saw mysterious lights like those witnessed by three airmen on security patrol two nights earlier.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“I did all I could to keep my memo private.
Colonel Charles I. Halt, Gary Baker and John Hanson (foreground) retrace the route of US airmen in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“When the three individuals came back, the desk sergeant and I had a chuckle and agreed there must be a logical explanation.
Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“The next day, we realised all the military cops were looking to the skies. On the third night, [Lieutenant] Bruce Englund came in and said ‘it’s back’. That’s when I became involved.
Gary Baker and Colonel Charles I. Halt walk the UFO trail in Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“I was very much a sceptic and expected to find nothing.
Gary Baker and Colonel Charles I. Halt walk the UFO trail in Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“Whatever we saw was under intelligent control,” said Mr Halt, who rubbished claims he was merely chasing lighthouse beams from Orford Ness.
David Young, John Hanson, Gary Baker, Colonel Charles I. Halt and Dawn Holloway in Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“The story has become muddied over the years. I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.”
In 2015, one of the airmen, John Burroughs, won compensation for illnesses he blamed on exposure to radiation from the event.
Mr Halt returend to Rendlesham with John Hanson and Dawn Holloway – authors of the Haunted Skies books, currently working on a second edition of The Halt Perspective – and by local ufologist David Young and Gary Baker, radar operator at RAF Neatishead from 1978-1980.
Mr Baker, from Ipswich, had returned from leave at the end of 1980 for the aftermath of the incident. He claims to have been told “this never happened” by RAF officers, and that radar tapes and bridge logs from the evening of the incident disappeared.
“Whatever the radar picked up, it wasn’t a subject of interest for interceptor aircraft because it didn’t come from the east – this was the height of the Cold War.
“It would have been sensible to quash any evidence. If something had happened, and it wasn’t picked up, it would have showed we weren’t capable of dealing with something from ‘above’.
“Later, I read the MoD said the radar had been switched off at the time, which is a load of rubbish.
“I’m no UFO nut, but something extraordinary happened here – outside the parameters of manned aircraft.”
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Take Me To Your Artist
Take Me To Your Artist
SETI Institute artists are being inspired by our search for alien life.
By Meghan Bartels
If one thing animates scientists looking for life elsewhere in the universe, it is the power of cultural exchange—not just with alien species, but also, in more modest ways, among our own species. In 2010 Jill Tarter, then the director of the SETI Institute, met Charles Lindsay, a geologist turned artist, photographer, and musician who had just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She told him about the wide-ranging research happening at the institute and invited him to visit its observatory. He became “a beta test,” as he put it, for the institute’s artist-in residence program.
Some of the products of that program are now on display at New Museum Los Gatos in California through March 2017. The exhibition, called “Making Contact,” shows what happens when contemporary artists and leading scientists exchange worldviews or, rather, universeviews. “There’s not an artist I’ve met who doesn’t think the idea of an artist-in-residence program at SETI Institute is just about the coolest thing they’ve ever heard,” said Lindsay, who is now director of the residency program. “The scientists to a person have loved it.”
Art can convey a deeper understanding of science rather than surface-level information.
So far, half a dozen artists have come through the program, with another half dozen doing their residency now. Each residency lasts two years—a year to meet and talk to some of the institute’s nearly 70 scientists, a year to create a project inspired by the science.
Astrobiologist Laurance Doyle, who has studied everything from extrasolar-planet detection to quantum effects in astronomy to humpback whale songs, said the program has made it more clear to him how art can convey a deeper understanding of science rather than surface-level information. “I can see the value of art a lot more clearly than I did before,” he said, adding that art conveys the motivation behind the science and helps people grasp what’s intriguing and exciting about it. He has applied some of these lessons to his own presentations.
We’ve selected three projects from the exhibition that explore what’s in the universe beyond our horizons.
DEAR DIARYArtist Martin Wilner’s interpretations of scientist Mark Showalter’s email correspondence (top, July 2015) and scientist Laurance Doyle’s email correspondence from November 2015. Martin Wilner and Sperone Westwater
“Making History,” by artist and psychiatrist Martin Wilner, looks at first glance like pages torn from a wall calendar. But there are no dates, no days of the weeks, and no notes about appointments or holidays. The artwork is a stylized representation of the daily email correspondence Wilner had with 12 SETI Institute scientists, one per month. In each would-be calendar square, Wilner has drawn something tied to the scientist’s email from that day. Over the course of the month, the eclectic mix of miniatures coalesces into a coherent picture. On the other side of the page, Wilner reproduces the entire correspondence in word art. “I’m not trying to depict the totality of a person’s mind or their life, but to capture something meaningful about this shared experience,” he said.
“I can see the value of art a lot more clearly than I did before.”
Some of the scientists chose which month to participate based on what would happen in their projects at that time. Mark Showalter, a leader of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, picked July 2015, the month of the spacecraft’s Pluto flyby. “I said, well it’s gotta be July because that’s going to be the most fascinating and stressful and interesting and overwhelming month of my professional career,” he said. Looking back on the experience, he says the correspondence helped support him during the month, as if “this psychiatrist was keeping an eye on me and making sure I was okay.”
SANDS OF TIMEArtist Rachel Sussman’s sand mandala of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Matt Reyes (top); Rachel Sussman (bottom)
“Cosmic Microwave Mandala,” by artist and photographer Rachel Sussman, is a Tibetan-style sand mandala of the cosmic microwave background, an image of the early universe before the first stars and galaxies. Whereas most published images of the microwave background subtract out the foreground light of our Milky Way galaxy, she left it in as what she calls a “red gash.” “It made sense to me that we would have this human-centric view of it,” she said. She added: “We’re always trying to anthropomorphize these things, to form a connection.”
“The process of making the piece was incredibly challenging,” Sussman said. She had injured her back and pushed herself to work until she noticed herself getting sloppy. “I kept thinking, well, as it should be, because the universe wasn’t created in a day,” she said. At the end of the exhibition, the mandala will be destroyed, as is traditional for Buddhist mandalas. Sussman hopes to send some of the sand home with museum visitors.
SOUNDSCAPESomnium audio and video interpretation of Kepler exoplanetary data. Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes, and Marko Peljhan
“Somniuim” is an immersive piece by roboticists and multimedia artists Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes, and Marko Peljhan. It reinterprets data from the Kepler mission, a space telescope that looks for exoplanets orbiting neighboring stars. (The piece is named for a science-fiction story written by the telescope’s namesake, astronomer Johannes Kepler.) The telescope records stellar brightness, looking for patterns that betray otherwise unseen companions, and the trio converted this brightness data to sound. They used raw light data, rather than the cleaned-up data, in order to capture the human quirks that shaped the data. “There’s a lot of stories in the data about when the telescope was turned on, when a particular piece failed, what was happening in a particular moment in time,” Bazo said. Yerkes added: “It also turned out to be a good aesthetic choice. It makes for a lot richer soundscape; there’s enough noise that it sounds, sometimes, like ocean waves.”
To create a visual piece to the installation, the trio etched a large glass disc with the first photograph Kepler took. The etching process used a laser—“literally using light as a hammer,” Bazo explained. “Like snowflakes, every single crater blast is unique. Under the microscope you can see this.” A microscope is programmed to wander across the disc like a lost record-player needle. As it travels, a screen displays its view, and speakers play matching Kepler data in acoustic form. “It kind of turns into a space orchestra,” Bazo said, conveying “this idea that we’re searching—almost like the cosmic radio dial.”
MEGHAN BARTELS is an editorial intern at Nautilus.
BEWARE OF DIE GLOCKE – NAZI “WONDER WEAPON” IN THE SKY
BEWARE OF DIE GLOCKE – NAZI “WONDER WEAPON” IN THE SKY
DID NORDIC-LOOKING STAR PEOPLE PROVIDE THE GERMANS WITH PLANS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY TIME TRAVEL DEVICE?
By Sean Casteel
“We cannot take credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped by the people of other worlds . . . We should think of the craft in the New Mexico desert as more of a time machine than a space craft.” Professor Hermann Oberth, Father of Rocketry
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“When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers.” Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Project Blue Book
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Ground Zero with Host Clyde Lewis
On a recent a recent airing of “Ground Zero,” a nationally-syndicated, conspiracy-focused program heard in the U.S. on the I Heart Radio Network, researchers Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz shocked bombastic host Clyde Lewis and his thousands of listeners by declaring that NOT ALL unidentified flying objects originate from the stars. Some may have been developed here on Earth by a group of Nazi earthling scientists who were working in collaboration with a group of Nordic-looking extraterrestrials channeling information to the German nationalists as far back as 1919.
This, say Beckley and Swartz, is partially the reason why there is no “Disclosure” in our future, because of fear that the American military would have to admit they have known about these “wonder weapons” in our sky ever since thousands of Nazi scientists and engineers were “legally” ushered into the United States under the highly classified “Operation Paperclip” program, which exonerated them from their war crimes, while many hundreds of other Nazis were executed or fled from the Fatherland.
The new book, “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?” is guaranteed to stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy.
While admittedly a sensational hypothesis, Beckley and Swartz, in collaboration with several other investigators, lay out their complex concept in a just released book, “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?” published by the Conspiracy Journal, an imprint of Beckley’s Global Communications paranormal publishing complex. For over half a century, Beckley and his writers have taken on just about every conceivable topic related to UFOs and Fortean phenomena. The iconoclastic Beckley and Swartz, who also co-host a weekly podcast, Exploring The Bizarre on KCORradio.com, produced “Nazi UFO Time Travelers” with the added assistance of “Phenomena Magazine” editor Brian Allan from the UK and, in the interest of full disclosure, myself.
At the outset we should explain that we in no way intended to glorify the Third Reich. In some instances, others have used the Nazi UFO theory as a springboard to promote pro-Nazi propaganda, which was the farthest thing from our minds. But, in all honesty, this complex theory needs to be bought to the attention of others who refuse to examine any of the evidence, evidence which indicates that we could be dealing with a number of explanations for the UFO phenomenon all rolled up into one. But the uppermost concern here is the acknowledgement that some of the craft we have been seeing in our skies could have been manufactured in underground bunkers somewhere in Germany during various phases of the Second World War. And if, indeed, some of these craft can travel through time, well, then some of the older sightings of “wonder weapons” could be attributed to highly advanced, Germanic technology.
Die Glocke – “The Bell”
As Beckley explains the matter in the book’s opening chapter, “Beyond the mere ability to fly what may still seem like technologically ‘miraculous’ aircraft is the haunting, troublesome possibility that the ships also function as time machines, bringing the ability to travel in time within human reach for the first time in recorded history. Devices like Die Glocke (translated as ‘The Bell’) may have been used to bend both space and time and give the Nazis the unthinkable power to explore the past freely and even to CONTROL THE FUTURE. Are we plummeting headlong toward a world under fascist domination – a nightmare in which grinning, sadistic, jackbooted thugs are waiting for us to ‘catch up’ in time with our own predestined subjugation to open worldwide rule by the Nazis, who are possibly hiding out on the surface of the moon or in ‘secret cities’ at the Poles? Do they lie in wait for us as the clock on our freedom runs down?”
At several archaeological sites, many bell- and saucer-shaped artifacts have been uncovered. Could this be proof of Nazi time travelers?
The concept is a little tricky, but it involves the idea that the Nazis were able to move into the future and exert total control once they got there. That concept does, of course, sound “fringe” on the surface. But, according to Beckley, we should not assume that the Nazis acted “alone” in achieving such a feat. They obviously had help from “Aryan Space Brothers” who seized an opportunity to use the fledgling Nazis to their own otherworldly ends. In other words, the aliens made building a time machine simple enough that mere humans, once properly instructed and provided with the raw materials, could accomplish the task sufficiently well in real-world terms.
What their motives were is open to dispute and debate. Some see the Aryan “Space Brothers” as friendly visitors from the future, while others wonder why they would want to share their secrets with a very negative group of earthbound scientists. Perhaps they were deceived by the attractive mediums who they thought they may have been related to. Or they could have simply lacked the information required to see their channels’ coming evil before sharing their technology.
Maria Orsitsch, also known as Maria Orsic, was a famous medium who later became the leader of the Vril Society.
The history of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis has always included elements of their occult beliefs, but the new book goes back further in time, to the early 20th century, and the mediums associated with the Vril Society. The female mediums, referred to as true “Nordic beauties,” began to channel messages from extraterrestrials whose origin was many light years away. The messages included the technical
designs of advanced aircraft unheard of in their day in addition to a kind of “blueprint” for a time machine. Some years later, Hitler himself, along with several of his SS henchmen, came under the influence of the Vril Society as he began his rise to power in a Germany that was sick enough and corrupt enough to be mesmerized by his unchecked anti-Semitism and militaristic obsessions.
When combined with the high caliber of scientists the Nazis “recruited” to design weapons for the war effort, which included now-legendary names like Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth, the fact that they had alien “help” along the way makes some of their more exotic advances a little more plausible.
In fact, the scientists themselves talked openly about this alien help.
The father of rocketry, Professor Hermann Oberth, said the space program was being helped by “Them.”
“We cannot take credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped by the people of other worlds . . . We should think of the craft in the New Mexico desert as more of a time machine than a spacecraft.”
So said Professor Hermann Oberth, one of the early fathers of rocketry and the mentor to the young Wernher von Braun.
Meanwhile, von Braun himself stated in 1959 that: “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base of operations is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into a closer contact with those powers, and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.”
While neither Oberth nor von Braun specify that they were aided in their efforts by Aryan Space Brothers, they are nevertheless surprisingly candid in what they DID say for public consumption. Their openness may have been part of some larger strategy to steer the belief in UFOs in the direction of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or the “ETH” for short) and therefore away from a darker point of origin in the blueprints and designs of the Nazis. In the decades-long campaign of disinformation waged against the truth of the UFO phenomenon, Oberth and von Braun may have simply been firing another salvo of confusion and subterfuge. Or were they simply being sincere in reflecting on their own invention processes? Was there an undeniable alien presence working alongside them? Like most unanswered questions about the UFO phenomenon, the answers await their time.
Another fascinating thread of the story that Beckley holds fast to is this: In many alien abduction accounts, especially the early stories from the late 1950s and early 1960s, the UFO occupants are said to speak in German and to speak English with unmistakable German accents.
On Oct. 5, 1957, 48-year-old Reinhold Schmidt said he stumbled across a spaceship when his car stalled near the Platte River in Kearney, Neb. Schmidt said he was invited inside to chat with the humanoid occupants – four men and two women, who spoke both English and German.
The new book quotes a well-known contactee named Reinhold Schmidt who encountered an alien ship in Kearney, Nebraska, in 1957. After accepting the flying saucer captain’s invitation to come onboard, Schmidt heard the captain and crew speaking to one another in “High German,” a dialect that Schmidt had been versed in by his parents from his youth up. Apparently unaware that Schmidt could understand them, the beings spoke to him with their Deutsche accents intact and made no effort to disguise their voices.
The 1961 abduction of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill is much better known than Schmidt’s, but, when studying their case, there is an often overlooked moment when Barney, as he undergoes regressive hypnosis with post-trauma specialist Dr. Benjamin Simon, begins to panic when one of his alien abductors takes on the appearance of a Nazi in full uniform. Was this a glimpse into the aliens’ “true” agenda? As an African-American in the early 1960s, Barney was certainly familiar with the oppressive fears that come from being a victim of racism. Did his unconscious mind somehow conjure the Nazi image as an expression of those fears? Or was it intended as a grim warning of future totalitarian domination?
George Adamski
The Nazis also cast a shadow over even the beginnings of the contactee movement in the 1950s. Many people will be familiar with the 1952 meeting between George Adamski and the androgynous, blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryan Space Brother who called himself Orthon. But one may not know that that first contact in the California desert was facilitated by Adamski’s associate, George Hunt Williamson, who worked out the time and location for the landing in the days before it took place by using an Ouija board to communicate with the Space Brothers. Williamson was himself associated with right wing extremist William Dudley Pelley, an American Nazi-sympathizer who had served time in jail for sedition and anti-government rabblerousing. While Williamson would later disavow that he held any racist beliefs at the time, he did serve in Pelley’s employ writing and editing pro-fascist pamphlets and magazines.
From an imprint left in the soft soil. Adamski’s space contact, known as Orthon, had the symbol of the swastika etched onto the sole of his space boots.
Admittedly, no one wants to give up the utopian hopes that accompany belief in the Space Brothers. But the fact that their physical appearance embodied the ideal of Aryan or Nordic “good looks” is not an easy one to ignore. In the case of the desert encounter between Adamski and Orthon, we have this to consider as well: the new book “Nazi UFO Time Travelers” offers a line drawing based on a plaster-of-Paris cast – taken at the site of the meeting – of the boot print of Orthon. One can easily discern a pair of swastikas engraved into the sole of the alien’s boot, leading one to consider the possibility that the visiting alien followed “on the heels,” so to speak, of the Nazis defeated some short few years before.
I think at this point we now have a clearer idea of just what Beckley is aiming for in “Nazi UFO Time Travelers.” When one combines these seemingly disparate events with one another, they coalesce into a picture of the possible: Aryan aliens who matched their advanced knowledge and technology with willing scientists bent on controlling the world, a kind of fifty-fifty split between extraterrestrial and human efforts that resulted in the flying saucer phenomenon as we know it today.
But there is still more. One of the most generally agreed upon historical aspects of the Nazis/UFO theory concerns an aircraft called “Die Glocke,” which is German for “The Bell.” It was believed to be a product of both alien guidance and the work of topflight scientists like the aforementioned von Braun and Oberth.
A mock-up of this purported airship is featured on the cover of “Nazi UFO Time Travelers,” and it is indeed a bell-shaped aircraft, although what kind of propulsion system could enable such an ungainly monstrosity to fly at mind-bending speeds remains unknown. The Bell is also said to contain the time travel apparatus that is so essential to the story, but which remains an even deeper mystery than what kind of fuel propelled it through the skies. Some contend that the propulsion system is based either in the long sought after antigravity energy or some manipulation of electronic principles which can be tapped into throughout the universe.
According to witnesses, the object that crashed near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania was acorn shaped, much like the descriptions of the Nazi Bell.
In 1965, in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, numerous witnesses saw an unknown object crash in the woods outside town. Locals reported that some kind of government/military cleanup crew was on the scene nearly immediately, which indicates that the federal interlopers had been following the craft’s descent on radar. The witnesses say the object was put on the back of a flatbed truck under some kind of tarp covering and hurriedly hauled away. But it was still possible to discern that the clandestine cargo was a large, acorn-shaped object that could easily be said to have resembled the contours of the Nazis’ Bell. In fact, the similarity is so remarkable that one hesitates to conclude that it’s all a simple coincidence.
“Nazi UFO Time Travelers” also features a pair of chapters by Tim R. Swartz, who writes about a tangled trail of conspiracy and secrecy that involves pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla’s research being commandeered by Nazi spies in their desperate quest to develop weapons for defeating the Allies. Swartz also contributes several anecdotal accounts of ordinary people who have experienced time distortion, missing time and other similar anomalies while within close proximity to a UFO. Time does more than stand still at such moments, and Swartz gives some needed insight into how ordinary, non-Nazi witnesses also encounter a kind of time that dances outside our normal understanding.
Brian Allan
Brian Allan, a Scotsman of longstanding fame in the world of the paranormal, provides an introduction into the many elements of the Nazi/flying saucer theory that are essential to the reader’s understanding, a kind of primer in the basics. Allan’s writing is both caustic and amusing, which is treading a fine line when it comes to this kind of analysis of this heavy, some would say “grim,” subject.
So, with “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?,” a certain amount of license must be granted to the authors. While most UFO believers quite understandably like to ignore the links between flying saucers, alien abduction, Germanic origin stories and Nazi technology rumors, Beckley and his crew prefer to look these nightmarish ideas in the eye and report on them as objectively as possible.
Have we assembled a book of “inconvenient truths,” to paraphrase environmental activist and former vice-president Al Gore? It might be more accurate to say “frightening possibilities,” and then to commence praying for deliverance from a future world of high-tech Nazis leering at us from some beer garden around the next corner in time.
Roswell was niet het begin. Is dit waarom aliens ons in de gaten houden?
Roswell was niet het begin. Is dit waarom aliens ons in de gaten houden?
Filmsite IMDb deelde eerder deze maand een fragment uit de nieuwe documentaire Unacknowledged over de UFO-crash bij het plaatsje Roswell op Twitter.
“Roswell was niet het begin,” aldus verteller Giancarlo Esposito, de acteur die bekend is van de populaire series Breaking Bad en Better Call Saul. “Het was een keerpunt.”
“We hadden net twee kernbommen afgeworpen en enkele maanden daarvoor in New Mexico een kernproef gedaan,” vertelt speciaal agent Richard C. Doty van het United Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
Dimensies
“Dit is waarschijnlijk gezien door aliens,” voegde hij toe. “Zij kwamen hier vervolgens naartoe omdat ze wilden weten wat er in vredesnaam was gebeurd.”
Ten tijde van de UFO-crash was in Roswell het enige squadron ter wereld gestationeerd dat was voorzien van kernwapens.
Ervan uitgaande dat er nog meer (ongeziene) dimensies zijn, hebben we hoogstwaarschijnlijk een heleboel schade aangericht, klinkt het.
Bedreiging
In andere werelden hebben we mogelijk nog meer schade veroorzaakt dan hier.
Close encounters zoals die bij Roswell vinden voornamelijk plaats in de buurt van onze kerninstallaties, zegt de commentaarstem.
Dat suggereert dat deze wezens erg bezorgd zijn over onze vijandigheid en de existentiële bedreiging die wij voor onszelf en voor anderen vormen.
PATENT GEHEIME DRIEHOEKIGE UFO TR-38 ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
PATENT GEHEIME DRIEHOEKIGE UFO TR-38 ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
De afgelopen jaren zijn er overal ter wereld mensen geweest die een spectaculair uitziende driehoekig object hebben zien vliegen.
Dit werd vaak geassocieerd met het geheime anti zwaartekracht toestel, de TR-3B, en terecht, want nu is door UFO onderzoekers de patentaanvraag van deze machine ontdekt.
Talloze meldingen zijn er de afgelopen jaren geweest van mensen die vreemde driehoekige objecten in de lucht hebben zien hangen of vliegen en die zich afvroegen of ze hier te maken hadden met een buitenaardse UFO.
Tot op de dag van vandaag gaan de meldingen door, zoals die van een maand geleden boven Exmouth in het Engelse graafschap East Devon.
Een Engelse buschauffeur neemt rond kwart voor tien ’s avonds even pauze en kijkt naar de lucht, waar hij iets vreemds ontdekt. En dat waren drie lichten in een driehoeksformatie die stil leken te hangen en als het ware om de eigen as ronddraaiden.
Hieronder volgt de opname die de man maakte en vooral zijn commentaar is heel interessant en toont aan hoezeer mensen onder de indruk zijn wanneer ze zoiets meemaken.
Hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards of een experimenteel toestel van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, zoals de TR3B?
Officiëel is er uiteraard weinig te weten te komen over dit toestel, maar op de website WijWordenWakker vonden wij de volgende uitleg:
Veel mensen verwarren dit vliegend object met een UFO, terwijl het dat niet is, wel zit er UFO technologie in verwerkt. Van de TR-3B wordt algemeen aangenomen dat het een product is van het "Aurora" zwart-project. Volgens verschillende bronnen is dit de top van de geheime projecten. Dit geheime project van de V.S. kost $ 3 miljard per object en onlangs zijn er 3 TR-3B Astra’s aan Israel verkocht.
De TR-3B is een nucleair aangedreven vliegende driehoek, in staat tot fenomenale snelheden. Het toestel kan door reactieve elektrische stimulatie van kleur en van uiterlijk veranderen en een andere vorm aannemen of onzichtbaar worden voor het menselijk oog. De TR-3B Astra bevat een plasmaveld versneller annex magnetisch veld verstoorder ('disruptor') , waardoor de massa van het toestel incl. inzittenden met 90% verkleind zou kunnen worden, zodat de zwaartekracht nauwelijks invloed heeft op de prestaties van het toestel.
Mede hierdoor zou de snelheid boven Mach 50 uit komen, ter vergelijking: de meeste gevechtsvliegtuigen hebben Mach 2. (Mach 1 is gelijk aan de snelheid van het geluid). Daarnaast zou de Astra uitgerust zijn met een deeltjesversneller/pulselasers, 'scalaire' wapens (waardoor de vijand zo verward wordt, dat men vrijwillig de wapens neerlegt) en tevens 40 neutronenbommen.
Maar, nu wordt het echt interessant, want de afgelopen dagen is er via een aantal UFO onderzoekers een patentregistratie naar voren gekomen uit 2004, wat in feite precies dit TR-3B anti zwaartekracht toestel beschrijft.
De samenvatting van de Amerikaanse patentaanvraag US 20060145019 A1 luidt als volgt:
A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.
Wie de hele aanvraag wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Het begint al vrij snel heel technisch te worden, maar wat hier wordt beschreven is een ruimtevaartuig zoals de TR-3B.
De aanvraag staat op naam van John St. Clair, op wiens naam nog talloze patenten zijn aangevraagd. Wie of wat John St. Clair is, is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Hierna twee video’s. De eerste waarin de maker uitlegt hoe ze aan dit patent gekomen zijn: Dit is gebeurd via een kijker van een eerdere video die ze maakten over dit onderwerp en die als tweede is geplaatst.
Is hiermee echt een mysterie opgelost of is er een andere verklaringen? Suggesties zijn welkom.
Voor een christen heet het het plotseling verdwijnen van de aarde, de opname, maar voor een niet gelovige lijkt het verdacht veel op een evacuatie met ruimteschepen.
NASA heeft een aantal telescopen in een baan in de ruimte waarvan de STEREO A en STEREO B de bekendsten zijn.
Deze maken vanuit verschillende posities opnames van de zon en op het volgende plaatje is te zien waar deze telescopen zich nu ongeveer bevinden ten opzichte van onze aarde en de zon.
Op 10 mei 2017 is er een bijzondere opname gemaakt met de STEREO B telescoop. Deze geeft ons dus een beeld van de achterkant van de zon; een gebied waar we normaal gesproken nooit zouden kunnen kijken.
Op die afbeelding staan een drietal enorme objecten.
Iets dichterbij zien we objecten die lijken op enorme ruimteschepen, waarbij op één een fel licht is waar te nemen aan het uiteinde van een soort uitsteeksel.
Een andere bekende ruimtetelescoop is de SOHO. Deze bevindt zich in een omloopbaan rond een fictief punt L, ergens halverwege de aarde en de zon, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
En ook op die telescoop is door de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan.
Ook daar enkele objecten die veel lijken op enorme ruimteschepen. Ook daar, bij één van die schepen, een soort uitsteeksel met aan het uiteinde iets wat misschien een kleiner schip zou kunnen zijn.
We hebben al eerder geschreven over een mogelijk verband tussen de vaker waargenomen enorme ruimteschepen bij de zon en de eindtijd zoals die in de bijbel wordt beschreven.
Velen herkennen de huidige tijd als kenmerkend voor deze eindtijd en voor christenen hoort daar de zogenaamde opname (rapture) bij. Voor hen zijn het geen ruimteschepen die hen komen halen, maar voor een niet gelovige vertoont het verhaal alle symptomen van een buitenaardse vloot die misschien klaarstaat om een deel van de wereldbevolking te evacueren voor de dingen die gaan komen.
Uiteraard blijft het allemaal speculeren, maar interessant is wel dat er wordt gesproken over een opname voordat het echt misgaat op aarde.
De opname van de gemeente is niet hetzelfde als Zijn wederkomst. Met de opname wordt de gemeente naar de hemel gebracht, zonder dat de Here Jezus op aarde neerdaalt. Als de Heer wederkomt zal iedereen Hem zien komen met de wolken. Dan zal Israël worden verlost van haar vijanden en zal Hij Zijn voeten op de Olijfberg zetten (Zach. 14:3,4). Het Koninkrijk van God zal dan op aarde gevestigd worden (Dan. 2:34,35; Zach. 14:8,9).
Door de opname wordt de gemeente bewaard voor de slotfase van de eindtijd, dat is de Grote Verdrukking.
Wederom, voor een niet gelovige klinkt dit als een evacuatie vanaf de aarde voordat er echte rampen zullen plaatsvinden.
De tijd zal het leren, maar dat het geen camera-afwijkingen zijn die worden waargenomen bij de zon, zoveel is duidelijk.
NEW ERA IN SPACE TRAVEL BEGINS: PLASMA JET ENGINE BREAKTHROUGH!
NEW ERA IN SPACE TRAVEL BEGINS: PLASMA JET ENGINE BREAKTHROUGH!
When it comes to plasma, the word alone invokes thoughts of sci-fi weaponry and space ships shooting out giant balls made of light and energy. What many do not know, however, is that plasma is actually a fourth state of matter alongside liquid, solid, and gas.
The term plasma comes from the Greek word from jelly and is interpreted as a moldable gas. What separates plasma from the previous states of matter, however, is that it never occurs naturally on the surface of the Earth, and must be created artificially by humans using various means of harnessing the plasma.
THE PLASMA ENGINE, NO LONGER SCI-FI?
While the process behind making plasma is enough for an article of its own, it is important to note that plasma is created by taking the electrons out of natural gas in a closed environment to create a reaction, like a neon tube sign. This is a very violate state of matter that is constantly trying to escape and dissipate into the atmosphere, so containment is necessary for some vacuum.
Now there has been a major breakthrough by a team from the Technical University of Berlin lead by Professor Berkant Goskel on a study into making plasma engines, and breakthrough that could change jet propulsion technology as we know it and revolutionize the aerospace industry overnight by creating an engine that runs solely off of air and electricity alone.
What makes these engines unique, is that unlike the normal large jet engine, the plasma genuine would be a series of smaller engines in an array made up of anywhere from 100 to 10,000 of these mini thrusters. The ramifications of an engine that runs purely on air and electricity are obvious and astounding; jet fuel would be a thing of the past and getting to the edge of space would require nothing but a constant supply of air and electricity.
For now, Berkant claims that the first generation of these engines will take aircraft to altitudes of 30 miles (or 50km) with the future being seemingly unlimited. Furthermore, Berkant states that the plasma jets will be able to be used at ground level as well to traverse speeds of up to 20 kilometers a second, something that would liquefy a person until we figure out how to handle the intense amount of g-force traveling at speed like that would create.
A normal jet engine burns fuel and compressed air, with the resulting pressure being forced out of the back of the engine create forward propulsion, a very simple concept that was mastered decades ago. The plasma engine, however, uses much more complicated technically in which it mimics the way a star or fusion reactor creates power.
By turning natural gas into plasma, then create an electromagnetic field around it electricity then is feed into the field, and forward thrust is created, that multiplied by up to 10,000 additional thrusters generating force is what will propel newly created aircraft through the sky if this engine is a success. Creating a public transport jet powered by these new plasma thrusters is exactly what Professor Berkant wishes to do.
There are, however, several problems that need to be overcome before the plasma jet engine will become a reality. First of all is the aforementioned issue where a full sized jetliner will be required to have about 10,000 of these thrusters to safely propel one through the sky which means that the size must be reduced, at the current size however they could use a thousand thrusters to power a smaller sized aircraft such as a private jet.
Secondly, these thrusters run off of electricity, a lot of it, which means there is a need for batters with a large storage capacity and transfer rate, that must also be lightweight enough to not significantly weigh down the aircraft.
So the final problem is the most significant one of them all, to generate that much power is impossible with current technology, and improvements in things such as solar electricity and compact fusion are the only solution. Still, at the rate technology is advancing these days, it isn't a stretch to imagine that ten years from now the technology jump in both electricity and plasma technology will have been enough to create the first real plasma propelled jetliner.
READY FOR SPACE WAR? RUSSIA ACTIVATES MYSTERIOUS 'KILLER SATELLITES'
READY FOR SPACE WAR? RUSSIA ACTIVATES MYSTERIOUS 'KILLER SATELLITES'
Three suspicious Russian satellites spring back into life after two years of dormancy.
International experts have expressed concern after Russia chose to re-activate some deeply suspicious satellites which are suspected of being powerful weapons after a period of two years of dormancy. These satellites are capable of operating in a military context in space which has led to some suspicion that the Kremlin are preparing for a space war.
The three satellites were launched between the years of 2013 and 2015 after Russia submitted a notification to the United Nations. While correct procedure was followed in the launching of the satellites, many nations became suspicious that the Russian government and military were not being entirely honest in the capabilities of these new satellites. Military intelligence in some western countries noticed that the satellites were capable of extraordinarily intricate maneuvers which led to the suggestion that the satellites were intended for use in combat or spying purposes. The suggestion caused such a furor that the Russian space agency chief Oleg Ostapenko was forced to call a press conference in 2014 to reassure the world’s media that the crafts were not ‘killer satellites’.
In 2015 the satellites appeared to go dormant and were not observed making maneuvers again. However, in March of this year, one of the satellites suddenly sprang back into life and was spotted passing within 1,183 meters of a now defunct Chinese weather satellite. Shortly after that, another one of the satellites was spotted moving and making maneuvers again.
It is believed that these three satellites can come within a few dozen feet of other satellites which means that they could be used to spy on, hijack or possibly even destroy foreign satellites. According to the Russian-born journalist and space historian Anatoly Zak, it is entirely possible that the satellites could be equipped with lasers or loaded with explosives which could make them an incredibly dangerous weapon if there was a space war.
Russia is not the only nation that appears to be preparing for this novel form of warfare. In recent years some countries including the United States, Sweden, Japan and China have all tested similar satellites.
Who is Australia’s Fox Mulder? Or in this case, who is Australia’s John Podesta? Social Services Minister Christian Porter — whose department is responsible for Australian government social services like mental health, families and children’s policy and support for careers for seniors and people with disabilities – wants to know why almost $6000 AUD (over $4400 US) of his department’s funds are going to a UFO Group. Are they all over 60?
The minister’s office has been advised that this group was previously funded under the Labor government in 2013 and that some of this grant goes to the transport costs of volunteers with a disability. However, the minister is somewhat surprised at the nature of this particular volunteer group being funded through this grant program and he has instructed his department to hold the transmission of funds pending a re-examination of the application.
Hold on a minute, says Social Services Minister Christian Porter
According to the group’s description on Yahoo, the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group on the NSW Central Coast was formed in 2009 to “share experiences about UFOs, ET contact and information related to those subjects” with “monthly meetings, special guest speakers, movie days and BBQ & Nightwatches” to support – without discrimination – “a common goal of seeking more understanding about ETs and UFOs.” While not an official membership list, the group’s Facebook page is said to have 822 members.
The group’s substantial membership may be due to the large number of UFO sightings reported in the NSW’s Central Coast area, including the famous 1994 Gosford UFO incident when numerous witnesses reported a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom” sucking water from Brisbane Water, and police later claiming to have chased a “strange metallic craft” until it shot upward and disappeared.
Minister Porter isn’t buying it … nor paying for it either, at least not for now.
It’s very hard to unpack cause and effect; you tend to find a lot of sightings when you’re funding UFO sighting groups. But we’ll see what they’re all about. I’m sure they’re very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it but looking at it from my perspective – representing taxpayers – it didn’t seem to me to pass a commonsense test.
Aren’t the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group members taxpayers too? Aren’t they doing good work for their community? A spokesperson explained it to the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate.
We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what’s going on. We also have outings out at night checking for unusual activity.
Given the opportunity, the members of the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group could easily find other taxpayer-funded groups they don’t believe should be receiving their tax money. Unfortunately, the budget is limited and the needs are vast. A continuation of funding doesn’t look good for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group.
Then again, Social Services Minister Christian Porter might want to think twice about dealing with a group who quite possibly has connections with aliens who could easily modify their water-sucking equipment to inhale politicians.
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DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
Dr. Steven Greer once said: "Anyone with knowledge of this stuff would have a bullet with their name written on it.”
Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American retired medical doctor and ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of allegedly suppressed UFO information.
When it comes to theories on how life began on Earth, there’s quite a high degree of disagreement. Aside from the belief that some glowing bearded man or flying spaghetti monster blinked His eyes and made everything suddenly appear, many scientists are now looking into the panspermia hypothesis. This theory suggests that life came to Earth on a meteorite, asteroid, or other planetoid that crashed into our planet and seeded Earth with living organisms or at least the building blocks necessary for the evolution of organisms.
There are several variations of the panspermia theory, the most popular being lithopanspermia – the theory that the original organic molecules or organisms were embedded into meteorites which crashed into Earth.
Many microorganisms have indeed recently been found to be able to survive the harsh conditions of outer space for long periods of time, lending some credence to the panspermia theory. Of course, there are still other problems to address before this theory can be confirmed, but that’s where a new experiment suggested by NASA-funded scientists comes in. At the recent Breakthrough Discuss conference, several Breakthrough Starshot scientists discussed plans to send human DNA throughout the universe in hijacked bacteria to test the panspermia theory. You might know Breakthrough Starshot as the group planning to propel postage-stamp-sized spacecraft throughout the galaxy by shooting lasers at them.
Breakthrough Starshot wants to send thousands of their nanocraft throughout the galaxy to survey surface features of other planets.
At a panel titled “Scientific Goals and Instrumentation for a Flyby of the Nearest Stars,” Breakthrough Starshot developer Philip Lubin says that human DNA could fly to other worlds on such a craft and that his team already has NASA funding for their panspermia project:
A part of our program — at least on the NASA side, because we haven’t cleared this with Breakthrough yet — is actually to put organisms to sleep, in stasis mode. And there are certain organisms known as C. elegans, which we’re going to embed human DNA into and send them out and then awaken them on arrival. However, I expect that will be a highly controversial thing to do.
Uh, yeah. It will. NASA and other space agencies are very careful not to contaminate other worlds with Earth germs, going so far as to slam their spacecraft and satellites into other planet’s atmospheres in order to incinerate them once they’ve reached the end of their lifespans. By proposing to send our DNA throughout the cosmos, these scientists essentially want to play at being gods.
What could go wrong?
I find some serious problems with this suggestion. First of all, who are we to say that our DNA should propagate throughout the universe? Such an experiment could have completely unknown side-effects that could be disastrous for other worlds. Maybe our DNA will take hold and (over eons) create another race of beings which will wipe out the indigenous life on whatever piteous planet it lands on. Or, that DNA could just spend eternity hurtling through the cold, empty vacuum of space only to burn up in some alien world’s atmosphere. The point is we don’t know. Which means this experiment is probably better suited to the domain of science fiction.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been busily promoting my latest book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Taking into consideration the fact that I dismiss the idea that aliens crashed outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947 (I go down the dark and disturbing “human experimentation” path), it’s not surprising that more than a few people within Ufology have taken me to task for daring to suggest that Ufology’s Sacred Cow is nothing of the sort. The same thing happened when I wrote my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert – the new book being the sequel to Body Snatchers. Back in 2005, some people screamed and ranted (I ranted back at them – I don’t do screams). Others complained that I was causing problems for Ufology. My reply: “So what?”
In light of all the above, I expected a near-identical response to the new book. This time around, however, things are a bit different. Far more people – twelve years after Body Snatchers provoked raised blood-pressures in Ufology – have been willing to give the “human experimentation” angle for Roswell serious consideration. And there is something else, too. It’s something which was also pretty much absent in 2005. Namely, ufologists turning on ufologists, all as a result of their attempts to try and keep the E.T. flag flying for Roswell. I’ll explain what I mean by that.
Several people in the “aliens crashed at Roswell and no other theory is acceptable” camp asked me how I could even consider Roswell as a non-UFO event. Two of them cited the many references to “alien bodies” found on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico in July 1947. In response, I pointed out – correctly – that in his latest book on the Roswell affair, titled Roswell in the 21st Century, Kevin Randle now dismisses most of the claims/sources relative to such extraterrestrial corpses. This provoked various messages and emails to me, suggesting that Kevin didn’t know what he was talking about, or that he had been “gotten to,” as one worded it. So, for the ranters, not only am I the enemy, but now Kevin – who certainly does not rule out the E.T.-angle – is the enemy too. Matters don’t end there.
In The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, I include a chapter on John keel’s research into Roswell and his theories of a Japanese connection to the case. This led one fairly well-known Ufologist to inform me that anything provided by “that half-baked demonologist” could be considered completely useless. Another said much the same, suggesting that Keel’s words on Roswell were not even worthy of comment. I also mentioned in the book how the late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield had been given the “Japanese bodies” angle way back in 1991. Stringfield suddenly became the bad guy to one “I want to believe”-driven soul who phoned me out of the blue. Ironically, there was probably no bigger believer in crashed saucer tales than Stringfield!
Then, there are the notorious Majestic 12 documents. After my interview on Greg Bishop’s Radio Misterioso, I got an email from a guy in San Diego who said that I was talking nonsense. How did he know? Because the Majestic 12 documents state that aliens crashed at Roswell, that’s how. I pointed out that – thirty years after the initial batch of papers first surfaced publicly – very, very few people in Ufology now believe the documents to be the real deal. I gave a few names of those researchers who seriously doubted the papers (Kevin again, and several more) and yet again the attack went away from me and was directed at the pro-UFO Roswell research community.
On top of this issue of pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologsist turning on pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologist (all specifically in the name of keeping the case “alive”), I detect a sense of panic. A fear that perhaps aliens didn’t crash at Roswell, after all. A worry that all those years of work might be worthless. But, also a determination to try and avoid even having to deal with such an unthinkable possibility. Interesting times…
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'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
By Nancy Atkinson, Seeker
An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, an exoplanet with Styrofoam-like density.
Credit: Walter Robinson/Lehigh University
Since the largest exoplanets are the easiest to spot and study, it makes sense that distant worlds with large "puffy" atmospheres would provide the best and most abundant information about the envelope of gases surrounding these faraway planets. But the challenge comes in finding planets with such large atmospheres.
Enter KELT-11b.
According to researchers at Lehigh University, KELT-11b has by far the largest atmospheric scale height of any ever studied, including our own solar system. Scale height describes the height at which an atmosphere "hugs" a planet, and while the scale height of Saturn's atmosphere is about 60 km (37 miles) and Earth’s is about 8 km (5 miles), KELT-11b's is a whopping 2,763 km (1,716 miles).
And the oddities of KELT-11b don't stop there. The planet itself is one of the most puffy and inflated planets in the known universe, with the density of a Styrofoam ball — the kind that students use to simulate planetary bodies in classroom presentations.
"It is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as Styrofoam, with an extraordinarily large atmosphere," said Joshua Pepper, astronomer and assistant professor of physics at Lehigh University, who led the study.
Pepper called KELT-11b an "extreme" version of a gas planet. It is orbiting very close to its host star, circling it in less than five days. The star, KELT-11, has started using up its nuclear fuel and is evolving into a red giant, so the planet will eventually be engulfed by its star and not survive the next hundred million years.
But this star is extremely bright — the brightest known transiting exoplanet host that can be seen from the southern hemisphere — and is the sixth brightest transit host to date. Such a bright star allows for precise measurements of the planet's atmosphere.
The team wrote in their paper that all "these attributes make the KELT-11 system a valuable target for follow-up and atmospheric characterization and it promises to become one of the benchmark systems for the study of inflated exoplanets."
Pepper also said that KELT-11b is "an excellent testbed for measuring the atmospheres of other planets," and that it will help astronomers develop the best tools to see the types of gases in atmospheres, specifically for assessing habitability or possible life on distant exoplanets.
"We don't know of any real Earth-like planets or stars for which we can measure their atmospheres, though we expect to discover more in future years," Pepper said. "These [giant gas] planets are the gold standards or testbeds for learning how to measure the atmospheres of planets."
Another unique aspect of this exoplanet is that it was found with the help of citizen scientists. In fact, 40 amateur scientists from 10 countries contributed directly to the discovery of KELT-11b and are listed as co-authors on the paper.
The KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) survey uses two small robotic telescopes in Arizona and in South Africa. The telescopes scan the sky every night, measuring the brightness of about five million stars. Like the exoplanet-finding "champion," the Kepler space telescope, KELT looks for stars that seem to dim slightly at regular intervals, which can indicate a planet is orbiting that star and eclipsing it, called a transit.
But most of the planets found by Kepler orbit faint stars, making it difficult to measure the planets' properties precisely.
"The KELT project is specifically designed to discover a few scientifically valuable planets orbiting very bright stars, and KELT-11b is a prime example of that," Pepper said.
KELT specifically looks for gas giant planets orbiting bright stars, but the team didn't expect to find planets with such low mass and large sizes.
"We were very surprised by the amazingly low density of this planet," Pepper said. "It's extremely big for its mass. It's got a fifth of the mass of Jupiter but is puffed up into this really underdense planet."
They hope that further study of this world by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes will provide additional information about the mechanism that causes inflated planets.
While exoplanet researchers are anticipating the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, both scheduled to launch in 2018, Pepper and his fellow researchers feel that small, ground-based telescopes still have a special niche to fill in exoplanet studies.
"Notably, the population of transiting planets discovered by the ground-based surveys tend to be large planets with short orbital periods orbiting bright stars," the team said in their paper. "These planets, unlike the vast majority of the Kepler planets, offer great potential for detailed characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. For that reason, the ongoing discoveries from ground-based transit surveys will continue to provide great value."
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met pijn in het hart nemen we in september afscheid van een ruimtesonde die ons beeld van Saturnus en zijn manen voorgoed veranderd heeft.
In oktober 1997 wordt ruimtesonde Cassini vanaf Cape Canaveral gelanceerd. Na een scheervlucht langs Venus, de aarde en Jupiter arriveert de sonde zeven jaar later – in 2004 – bij zijn eindbestemming: Saturnus. Inmiddels zijn we dertien jaar verder en cirkelt Cassini nog altijd rond de gasreus heen. Maar niet lang meer. Na een missie van bijna 20 jaar begint de brandstof van Cassini op te raken. En daarom krijgt deze in september opdracht om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een duik die de sonde al na korte tijd fataal zal worden. Met de snoekduik in de turbulente atmosfeer van Saturnus komt een einde aan een lange ruimtemissie die gekenmerkt wordt door grootse ontdekkingen. De tien belangrijkste hebben we voor je op een rij gezet.
1. De lovehandle van Iapetus Cassini heeft zich eigenlijk nog maar net in een baan rond Saturnus genesteld als deze tijdens een scheervlucht langs Saturnus’ maan Iapetus op een verrassing stuit. Ter hoogte van de evenaar blijkt de maan een flinke bergkam te bezitten. De richel is zo’n 20 kilometer breed en dertien kilometer hoog. Vervolgonderzoek wijst uit dat het gebergte (letterlijk!) uit de lucht is komen zetten. Waarschijnlijk is Iapetus in het verleden in botsing gekomen met een ander object waarbij een ring van puin rond de maan is ontstaan. En dat puin is uiteindelijk weer naar beneden komen zetten.
De bergrug op de evenaar van Iapetus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
2. Huygens In 2005 slingert Cassini de Huygens-lander richting het oppervlak van Titan. En met succes: de lander overleeft de reis door de dikke atmosfeer en landt heelhuids op het oppervlak. Voor het eerst kunnen we dat oppervlak – dat anders schuilgaat onder de dikke, nevelige atmosfeer van Titan, van heel dichtbij bekijken. Het levert spectaculaire beelden op. Zo’n 72 minuten nadat Huygens op Titan is geland geeft deze de geest: de batterij is leeg.
3. Er is vloeibaar water op Enceladus! Een paar jaar na aankomst bij Saturnus doet Cassini misschien wel de belangrijkste ontdekking uit zijn carrière. De sonde fotografeert geisers op het oppervlak van Saturnus’ maan Enceladus. En het lijkt erop dat deze geisers vloeibaar water in de lucht spuiten. Wetenschappers zijn door het dolle heen. Want waar vloeibaar water is, is wellicht leven. Inmiddels weten we dat het water dat de geisers uitspugen afkomstig is uit een wereldwijde oceaan die onder de ijskorst van Enceladus schuilgaat. Of er in die oceaan daadwerkelijk leven te vinden is, is nog altijd onduidelijk. Maar hoe meer onderzoek er naar de maan gedaan wordt, hoe aannemelijker het lijkt te worden dat het een vrij prettige plek is voor aliens. Enkele weken geleden verscheen bijvoorbeeld nog een onderzoek dat aantoont dat Enceladus hydrothermale bronnen bezit die de ondergrondse oceaan verrijken met een potentiële energiebron voor leven.
De geisers op Enceladus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
4. Titan heeft meren! En een paar maanden later doet Cassini weer een grootse ontdekking. Op Saturnus’ maan Titan treft de ruimtesonde verschillende meren aan. Sommige zijn slechts 1 kilometer breed. Anderen meten wel 30 kilometer. In de meren vinden we geen water, maar vloeibaar methaan en ethaan. Naast meren heeft Titan trouwens ook heel aardige bergen: de hoogste blijken meer dan 3300 meter hoog te zijn. En de maan heeft diepe valleien die gevuld zijn met vloeibaar methaan.
Meren op de noordpool van Titan.
Afbeelding: NASA.
5. En nog een maan..en nog één..en nog één Herhaaldelijk ontdekt Cassini tijdens zijn reisjes in de omgeving van Saturnus nieuwe manen. Methone en Pallene bijvoorbeeld. Maar ook de in Saturnus’ G-ring verstopte maan Aegaeon. Het laatstgenoemde hemellichaam is – met een gemiddelde straal van zo’n 300 meter – de kleinste maan die Saturnus rijk is.
De dunne en nauwelijks zichtbare ringen die Cassini enkele jaren na aankomst bij Saturnus ontdekte.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
6. Saturnus heeft meer ringen dan gedacht Naast manen heeft Cassini ook enkele nieuw ringen ontdekt rond Saturnus. De sonde spotte de ringen toen deze in de schaduw van Saturnus verbleef en de ringen in tegenlicht kon bestuderen. De ene ring is zo’n 2500 kilometer breed en bevindt zich tussen de E- en G-ring, in de baan van Pallene. De andere bevindt zich tussen de heldere hoofdringen en de G-ring, is zo’n 5000 kilometer breed en bevindt zich in de baan van de manen Janus en Epimetheus. Aangenomen wordt dat de ringen bestaan uit deeltjes die tijdens inslagen van het oppervlak van Janus, Epimetheus en Pallene zijn weggeslingerd. Dat die deeltjes zo’n mooie ring vormen, verbaast onderzoekers.
7. Storm verslikt zich..in zichzelf In 2010 en 2011 zien onderzoekers – via de ogen van Cassini – iets heel bijzonders gebeuren op Saturnus. In december 2010 ziet een enorme storm het levenslicht op de gasreus. Kort nadat de storm ontstaan is en richting het westen begint te bewegen, creëert deze een tegen de klok indraaiende vortex. De vortex beweegt veel langzamer dan de storm, waardoor een langgerekte monsterstorm ontstaat. Die storm wordt groter en groter en in het voorjaar van 2011 heeft deze zich – op 33 graden breedte – bijna helemaal rond Saturnus gewikkeld. In juni 2011 is het dan echt zover: de snel bewegende kop van de storm stuit op zijn veel trager bewegende staart. En daarop valt de storm stil. Het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers er getuige van zijn dat een storm zichzelf op zo’n manier ‘consumeert’. “Zelfs de reusachtige stormen op Jupiter consumeren zichzelf niet zo, wat maar weer eens laat zien dat de natuur heel wat indrukwekkende variaties kent en ons keer op keer kan verrassen,” stelt onderzoeker Andrew Ingersoll daar in 2013 over.
De enorme storm op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
8. Dione en Rhea hebben een atmosfeer In 2010 ontdekt Cassini dat maan Rhea een dunne atmosfeer heeft. De atmosfeer bevat zuurstof en koolstofdioxide. En een paar jaar later blijkt ook maan Dione een zuurstof bevattende atmosfeer te hebben. Ook Dione’s atmosfeer is maar dunnetjes. Maar het maakt de ontdekking niet minder interessant. “We weten nu dat Dione, net als de ringen van Saturnus en de maan Rhea een bron van zuurstofmoleculen is,” stelde onderzoeker Robert Tokar in 2012. “Het laat zien dat moleculaire zuurstof best veel voorkomt in het Saturnussysteem en versterkt het idee dat het kan voortkomen uit een proces waarin leven geen rol speelt.”
Een prachtige foto van Saturnus en enkele van zijn manen. Op de voorgrond zien we Rhea (1528 kilometer groot). Rechtsachter pronkt Enceladus (504 kilometer groot) en links achter Dione (1123 kilometer groot).
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
9. Magische eilanden Toch weer even terug naar Titan. Want daar ontdekt Cassini in 2014 iets heel bijzonders: magische eilanden. In Ligeia Mare – één van de grotere meren die Titan rijk is – ziet Cassini een 260 vierkante kilometer grote vlek verschijnen en weer verdwijnen. Tot op de dag van vandaag is onduidelijk wat het precies is geweest. Golven? Drijvende vaste stoffen? Of bubbels misschien?
Een magisch eiland.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / Cornell.
10. Bergen op de ringen van Saturnus Wie denkt dat de ringen van Saturnus plat zijn, heeft het mis. Cassini onthulde dat de ringen ook verticale structuren kennen. Op de foto hieronder zie je ze aan de rand van de B-ring. Ze torenen tot wel 2,5 kilometer boven het ringvlak uit. De structuren ontstaan mogelijk door toedoen van kleine maantjes (tot 1 kilometer groot) die het ringmateriaal omhoog dwingen.
Foto: NASA / JPL / SSI.
Het is zomaar een greep uit het veelbewogen werkzame leven van Cassini. En stiekem hopen we natuurlijk dat daar de komende maanden nog wat hoogtepuntjes bij komen. Dat zou niet heel verwonderlijk zijn, want de sonde duikt momenteel herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen. En dat is onontgonnen gebied en levert hoogstwaarschijnlijk behalve spectaculaire beelden ook spectaculaire inzichten over Saturnus en zijn ringen en manen op.
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Tabby's Star fluctuates in brightness so much, and at such irregular intervals, that scientists can not work out what causes it.
Image:This illustration of Tabby's Star was released by NASA. Pix: JPL-Caltec
Astronomers are scrambling to point their telescopes at one of the weirdest stars ever observed after it mysteriously dimmed again.
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, has been monitored for several years after it was noticed that its brightness changed significantly and at irregular intervals.
A range of theories have been put forward for this strange behaviour, including one hypothesis which suggests an alien megastructure may have been built around the star to harvest its energy.
Although the star was first discovered in the 1890s, it was not until observations between 2009 and 2013 when scientists first noticed something particularly odd about it.
It was subsequently named after Louisiana-based astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who wrote a paper about its strange behaviour.
Professor Boyajian noticed that at one point Tabby's Star's brightness had dropped by 22%, which can not be explained by any properly understood phenomenon.
Image:Artist drawing by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Last month scientists noticed what appeared to be another slight dimming of the star - but that accelerated significantly on Friday, causing a scramble for additional observations.
Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, told a web chat: "One of the difficulties here is that most telescopes are scheduled weeks, months in advance.
"We can't just jump on a telescope and take a spectrum typically. So we need to have a network of people around the world."
Tabby's Star is in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,275 light years from Earth.
Scientists hope they might be able to work out what is causing the star to dim by analysing its full spectrum of light. But to do this, they need to know when that dimming is going to occur.
Astronomers do not believe it is being caused by a planet passing in front the star as this would not cause such a significant change in brightness, and it would be more predictable.
A number of other theories have been put forward. One suggests there may be a large cloud of dust and debris around the star.
Another suggestion is that it is recovering having been hit by a planet and a third theory suggests a swarm of comets may be responsible.
The most unusual suggestion - but one which scientists can not yet dismiss - is that an alien megastructure has been built around the star to harvest its energy.
The concept, which sounds like it comes straight out of science fiction, is actually referred to as as Dyson Sphere.
It is named after British-born scientist Freeman Dyson who, in the 1960s, hypothesised that advance civilisations would seek to power their worlds in this way.
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