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...
19-06-2017
MYSTERIEUZE ZAKEN ROND DE TEMPELBERG, ISRAEL ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUZE ZAKEN ROND DE TEMPELBERG, ISRAEL ( VIDEO )
Eén van de meest spraakmakende en ook ontzagwekkende plekken ter wereld is de Tempelberg in Jeruzalem.
Laat er nu precies op die plek de afgelopen jaren zich een aantal vreemde zaken hebben voorgedaan die verband kunnen houden met CERN of met de buitenaardse Goden.
De Tempelberg of de berg Moria, door joden Har ha-Bayit en door moslims Haram al-Sharif genoemd, is een heuvel in het oostelijk deel van de door Israël bezette en geannexeerde oude stad Jeruzalem (in Oost-Jeruzalem), die voor elk van de drie abrahamitische religies (jodendom, christendom en islam) van groot belang is. De Haram es-Sharif wordt beheerd door een islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting.
De bovenzijde van de berg is onder Herodes de Grote vlak gemaakt en vormt een plein met een oppervlakte van ongeveer 15 hectare. Midden op dit tempelplein staat de Rotskoepel, en aan de zuidzijde de Al-Aqsamoskee, gebouwd door de Omajjaden. Tevens bevinden zich hier meerdere islamitische bouwwerken, waaronder de Dome of the Chain, de Kettingkoepel.
De Westmuur (ook wel Klaagmuur genoemd) is een gedeelte van de westelijke muur dat het plateau omringt onder het niveau van het tempelplein en vormt mede het fundament waarop de Rotskoepel en de Al-Aqsamoskee staan. Vanaf het plein aan de Westmuur, waar tot 1967 de Marokkaanse wijk lag, loopt nu de houten Mughrabibrug omhoog, vanwaar men via de Mughrabipoort toegang heeft tot het tempelplein. Voor niet-moslims is dit de enige manier om de Tempelberg te bereiken.
Vorig jaar bezocht een vrouw deze Tempelberg en zij zag een paar merkwaardige dingen in de lucht en niet alleen dat, ze kreeg er ook een heel akelig gevoel bij.
Ze maakte een aantal foto’s en zegt dat ze niet alleen een soort vreemde cirkelvormige wolk ontdekte, maar ook drie verschillende zonnen zag.
Van de drie “zonnen” die zij zag lijkt de kleinste op een lensflare, maar naast de zon is inderdaad een tweede lichtbron te zien en ook zie je de contouren van een soort cirkelvormige chemtrail. (Redactie: De dame verklaart in de video dat ze dingen met het blote oog zag maar we zijn er niet zeker van of dat ook met deze 3 zonnen het geval was.)
In de onderstaande video doet de vrouw haar verhaal en vertelt de verslaggever dat zij ervan overtuigd is dat we hier te maken hebben met een fenomeen dat waarschijnlijk is veroorzaakt door CERN omdat zij nu ook beschikken over een soort filiaal in Jordanië, Sesame genaamd.
In het kader van de samenwerking met CERN claimt zij verder dat de koning van Jordanië een enorme generator heeft geïnstalleerd op de Tempelberg, waarvan zij zegt dat deze ook een rol speelt in de totstandkoming van de taferelen in de lucht.
Het is een bizarre situatie rondom die Tempelberg, want de koning van Jordanië zou dit inderdaad kunnen doen.
Net als de andere wijken van de Oude Stad in Oost-Jeruzalem, heeft Israël het gebied van de Tempelberg geannexeerd. Het beheer ervan is gebleven bij de Jordaanse islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting. In 1988 erkende Israël de bevoegdheid van koning Hoessein van Jordanië om het toezicht op de heiligdommen op de Tempelberg te blijven behouden.
Dat CERN een honderd procent satanisch instituut is dat heel goed in staat zou zijn om bovengenoemde effecten te veroorzaken, staat buiten kijf.
Maar, gezien de bijzondere locatie is er wellicht ook nog een andere mogelijkheid en dat is dat er misschien toch ook een verband bestaat met de Goden uit de oudheid. Deze Goden, de Anunnaki, die nu met de nadering van hun planeet Nibirusteeds dichter in onze buurt komen.
In de video zegt de vrouw op een gegeven moment het volgende:
Lichtstralen die vanuit de Tempelberg lijken te komen en de lucht in schijnen.
Volgens Nancy Lieder waren de piramides navigatiebakens voor de Annunaki en het is dan ook geen toeval dat deze piramides met de komst van Nibiru de afgelopen jaren weer tot leven zijn gekomen.
Op een bijzondere manier, want verschillende keren zijn er de laatste jaren opnames gemaakt van piramides die een felle lichtstraal de hemel insturen zoals de volgende:
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
In 2011 vond er nog een merkwaardig voorval plaats op de Tempelberg. Een gebeurtenis die door talloze mensen is gezien en vastgelegd en waarvan de mainstream-media niet wisten hoe snel ze dit tot hoax moesten verklaren.
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in.
Voor de mainstream wereld zou het hier gaan om een hoax, in elkaar gezet door iemand die met zijn video zoveel mogelijk bezoekers wilde trekken om hiermee geld te verdienen, maar de werkelijkheid ligt ook hier zoals zo vaak wat anders.
Er is namelijk niet één opname van dit fenomeen gemaakt, maar meerdere, door verschillende mensen en vanaf verschillende posities. De kans dat deze opnames echt zijn, is dan ook veel groter dan dat ze allemaal nep zouden zijn.
Bovendien zijn er nog meer merkwaardigheden, zoals te zien in de volgende video:
DISCOVERED: MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACTS DEPICTING AN ANCIENT SPACESHIP
DISCOVERED: MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACTS DEPICTING AN ANCIENT SPACESHIP
There are many mysterious artifacts that have been found around the world which resembles spaceships - but they date back to thousands of years ago. Intriguing, is it not? The first on the list is the most recently discovered, named "Toprakkale Space Shuttle".
It was only recently discovered after 25 years in storage at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, which has caused many scientists and archaeologists to question its authenticity. It is, however, said to be dated back 2,500 years ago. The "spaceship" is a detailed sculpture from the kingdom of Urartu, and it specifically shows four thrusters that surround one large one, and a pilot seat in the front, very much like the modern jets we have today.
TOPRAKKALE'S SPACE SHUTTLE
The second on the list is Ezekiel's Spaceships - NASA engineer Josef Blumrich much was out to disprove the conspiracy that the prophet Ezekiel saw an "alien spaceship" rather than a vision of God. However, he later changed his stance on the issue and believed the very stand he once set out to destroy - that Ezekiel saw an "alien spaceship". He later then published his theory in a book, called "The Spaceships of Ezekiel" in 1974. His engineering background coupled with his analysis of the Bible led him to draw detailed figures of the "alien spaceship", which was also published into the book.
The last alien spaceship on the list is The Sibiu Manuscript. Back in 1961, a professor at the University of Bucharest in Romania rediscovered this ancient manuscript, which was a document that was 450 pages long that was created back in 1570 with encompasses several hundred years of history within the region where it was from. The manuscript, although dating back hundred of years ago, had shockingly detailed steps that described solid-fueled manned-rockets. A description of a successful launch of a giant "flying javelin" was also included in the manuscript.
This is not all that has been found regarding "ancient" spaceships that civilizations before us might have already discovered.
If you are interested to know more and see more illustrations view this video here:
STS 48 - PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING 'UFO' FOOTAGE YOU'VE EVER SEEN
STS 48 - PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING 'UFO' FOOTAGE YOU'VE EVER SEEN
STS-48 was a Space Shuttle mission that launched on 12 September 1991, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The orbiter was Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary payload was the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The mission landed on 18 September at 12:38 am at Edwards Air Force Base on runway 22. The mission was completed in 81 revolutions of the Earth and traveled 2.2 million miles. The 5 astronauts carried out a number of experiments and deployed several satellites. The total launch mass was 240,062 pounds (108,890 kg) and the landing mass was 192,780 pounds (87,440 kg).
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
A PARANORMAL radio show host insists she has seen a top secret report on Roswell, which proves the alleged incident did occur.
Tom Michael The Sun
A ROSWELL conspiracy theory “expert” has claimed to have found proof the supposed UFO crash really did happen.
Heather Wade insists she has got her hands on an “ultra top secret” report confirming the fabled alien encounter in the desert of New Mexico, USA, was real, The Sunreported.
Wade says she got the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document from an unnamed source, according to The Express.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3, 1947.
Wade — who hosts a late night online radio show focusing on the paranormal — claims the documents describe how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
The radio host said she passed the report on to Stanton Friedman — a nuclear physicist who is also a Roswell believer and investigator.
All four aliens died in the crash.
Source:News Corp Australia
The supposed government report states: “Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. “These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
“All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.”
A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: “Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
“She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, ‘I have never seen anything like this, this is new MJ12 information.’
“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
Does alien life exist? Scientists are closer than ever to finding out thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. This revolutionary spacecraft is on a mission to find habitable alien planets.
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A UFO Rises Into An Apparent Portal And Disappears
A UFO Rises Into An Apparent Portal And Disappears
A UFO vanishes into a portal looking thing in the sky in an interesting video that has been viewed more than a million online.
The Facebook page “I’m From Denver” posted the video on the popular social networking website claiming that the unidentified flying object appeared over southern Colorado.
The clip shows a strange cluster of lights forming an odd shape. As the lights rise, a seemingly squared portal opens up in the night sky. They then disappear without a trace.
Many believe that the recording is one of the most compelling footages showing proof of UFO activity. However, several others also think that it is likely faked deliberately using CGI technology.
The video does not say exactly where in Southern Colorado the video was recorded, so it is quite difficult to verify the claim with local authorities whether residents noticed something that looked unusual in the sky and caused alarm. Additionally, no local news media picked up the story even after the video made the rounds online.
However, experts say that it is not possible to prove or disprove the video without knowing more on what and where exactly it is taken because the video is blurry.
If Hillary Clinton made to the White House, she would likely reveal aliens exist, according to the man who made a shocking documentary that made the rounds online.
Dr Steven Greer, who has been advocating governments around the world to admit intelligent aliens are visiting Earth, is convinced Mrs Clinton knows more what she already revealed to the public.
The Unacknowledged documentary film debuted on iTunes on May 9 and instantly became the number one digital documentary worldwide.
Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito narrates the documentary under the direction of Michael Mazzola. Dr Greer received $700,000 or around £543,000 through crowd funding to make the film.
Mrs Clinton and her campaign manager Mr John Podesta made references to the issue of UFOs and aliens during her unsuccessful presidential campaign. She even promised to form a task force and send them to Area 51 US Air Force base in Nevada to know what is going on there. Many conspiracy theorists believe that alien remains and UFO debris are stored in the facility.
Dr Greer thinks that Mrs Clinton is aware of the issue, however, hopes that the truth would come out were dashed with the victory of President Donald Trump, who remained silent on the subject.
Watch – A UFO Flying In Circles In The UK Sky Leaves A Trail Of Bright Light
Watch – A UFO Flying In Circles In The UK Sky Leaves A Trail Of Bright Light
An unidentified flying object has been captured on camera circling in the sky above a hill on the Longleat Estate in Wiltshire. A resident in a nearby Frome, Somerset caught the strange event on camera. The video shows an apparent UFO circling over National Trust-owned Cley Hill, creating a trail behind it in a blazing white.
The area near Warminster town has been a UFO hotspot. The local who saw this particular mysterious object noted that it had been seen several times already.
The witness did not discount the probability that it was a drone with an amazing flame effect tail or something. He said that it had been spotted a few times locally.
The clip has caught the attention among UFO enthusiasts online, especially those who study UFO sighting videos from around the world.
The footage was then posted to YouTube by the well-known alien conspiracy YouTube channel. The channel said that they had never seen anything like it before – the unique circular movement and the ravishing light.
Some sceptical viewers of the video suggested it could be an acrobatic aeroplane or a meteor.
Ook al werden er al meer dan een eeuw geleden kristallen schedels ontdekt, er is nog niet veel over bekend. Ze zijn al even mysterieus als glanzend. Zijn het authentieke schedels van de Maya’s of een ander oud volk? Bezitten ze dan magische krachten en kunnen we er de toekomst in zien of onze gezondheid uit aflezen? Of is heel deze hype bedrog en werden alle schedels gefabriceerd door enkele kunstenaars uit de voorbije twee eeuwen? Carl Bries neemt dit mysterie met jou onder de loep.
Oude culturen
Toen de eerste kristallen schedels ontdekt werden, schreef men ze toe aan volkeren uit de precolumbiaanse tijd. Men dacht dat de oude Maya’s ze gebruikten bij hun rituelen; wellicht om de goden gunstig te stemmen bij mensenoffers. Hoe en waarom ze dat precies deden, kon men niet zeggen. Maar volgens deze kenners waren de schedels net oud genoeg om te passen in het tijdskader waarin de Maya’s leefden, dus moesten ze wel een heilig voorwerp zijn voor het volk. Misschien werden ze wel gebruikt om rampen of ziektes te voorspellen. Of misschien bezitten ze een mystieke kracht die de Maya’s tegen hun vijanden gebruikten.
Volgens anderen waren het echter niet de Maya’s, maar leden van een ander volk die de schedels hadden gemaakt. Dat volk werd echter verdreven door de Maya’s en ging verloren in de dichte nevelen der geschiedenis. Deze kenners beweerden dan weer dat de schedels werden gemaakt om de doden te eren, maar ook hiervan zijn er geen bewijzen.
Volgens nog een derde stroming zijn de schedels afkomstig uit Atlantis. Daar zouden ze met extreme nauwkeurigheid zijn gecreëerd door speciaal opgeleide kunstenaars. Ze zouden de geheime krachten van het verloren rijk herbergen. Wat er ook van zij, deze drie theorieën gingen de wereld in als waarheid. De schedels waren een fenomeen voor archeologen, maar zouden pas echt groot nieuws worden bij het publiek na de vondst van de meest legendarische onder hen.
Mitchell-Hedges
In 1923 ondernam de Britse ontdekkingsreiziger Frederick Mitchell-Hedges een tocht naar het Centraal-Amerikaanse land Belize. Vergezeld door zijn dochter Anna ging hij op zoek naar sporen van een oude beschaving. Hij stootte er op enkele ruïnes, die hij met zijn expeditieleden grondig onderzocht. Na een jaar ter plekke te zijn geweest, ging Anna op een ochtend op pad door de ruïnes, wanneer ze plotseling beneden iets vreemds zag liggen. Ze daalde de heuvel af en begon te graven. Enkele ogenblikken later haalde ze een grote kristallen schedel tevoorschijn. De legende van de Mitchell-Hedges-schedel was begonnen.
Volgens Anna Mitchell-Hedges begon ze de kracht van de schedel meteen te voelen toen ze hem oppakte. Hij zou verschillende keren van kleur zijn veranderd en zelfs even gloeiend heet aangevoeld hebben. Dat was volgens Frederick het bewijs dat deze kristallen schedel heel bijzonder was. Of dat ook werkelijk zo was, is altijd onderwerp van discussie gebleven. Er werd van in het begin immers fel getwijfeld aan het hele verhaal. Sceptici, vooral archeologen, hebben er nooit een woord van geloofd. Frederick Mitchell-Hedges werd nooit serieus genomen in de wereld van geleerden, laat staan dat ze dit fantastische verhaal zouden geloven. En dat om de volgende redenen:
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges was geen echte archeoloog, hij was slechts een amateur die nooit zelf opgravingen verrichte. Hij ging in plaats daarvan naar sites die al ontdekt waren om er dan te gaan zoeken naar vergeten schatten. Zoiets doet elke geleerde huiveren en vandaar dat Mitchell-Hedges veeleer als onwaardig wordt beschouwd. Sommigen noemen hem een aasgier, een dromer of een fantast en hij zou ooit zelf gezegd hebben ‘ooit iets te ontdekken wat zonder enige twijfel de geschiedenisboeken zal halen’. Heeft hij dat uiteindelijk zelf in de hand gewerkt door zijn dochter Anna een gefabriceerde schedel te laten ontdekken? Het lijkt in ieder geval wel zo volgens de meeste archeologen.
Hoewel hij geen echte archeoloog was, werd de expeditie naar Belize toch als officieel bestempeld. Daarom moest Mitchell-Hedges elk teamlid opschrijven en doorgeven aan de instanties. Er was echter geen sprake van Anna, wat dus betekent dat zij niet eens aanwezig was op deze tocht.
Recent onderzoek bracht aan het licht dat de schedel wellicht die van een vrouw moet voorstellen. Hij is echter niet gemaakt naar het voorbeeld van een Mayavrouw, maar naar een Europees model. Dat bevestigt de eerdere geruchten dat de schedel dus gewoon in West-Europa moet zijn gemaakt. Eerst dacht men dat Mitchell-Hedges hem had laten maken voor zijn dochter, maar in een oud document van een veilinghuis staat te lezen dat hij er ooit zo’n kristallen schedel had gekocht. Wellicht zal dat de befaamde Mitchell-Hedges-schedel geweest zijn.
Redenen genoeg dus voor sceptici om het hele verhaal rond de beruchte schedel de kop in te drukken. Anna Mitchell-Hedges bleef echter tot aan haar dood volhouden dat het om een authentiek stuk ging, waaraan gigantische krachten moesten worden toegeschreven. Onzin, zo blijkt nu al jaren. En ook haar claim dat de schedel niet nagebootst kan worden, werd inmiddels met de grond gelijk gemaakt. Onderzoekers van National Geographic hebben voor een aflevering omtrent kristallen schedels aan een Chinese kunstenaar gevraagd de Mitchell-Hedges-schedel na te maken en die slaagde daar perfect in. Toch blijft het een leuke legende om eens over te lezen.
Wereldheerschappij!
Hoewel de laatste jaren is aangetoond dat kristallen schedels niet echt over bovenaardse krachten beschikken, blijven de gelovers vasthouden dat er wel degelijk iets mee aan de hand is. Eén legende zegt nog dat er dertien schedels verborgen zijn in de wereld en dat die moeten samengebracht worden in een uniek patroon. Wie daarin slaagt, zal de macht over de wereld krijgen. Helaas (of gelukkig?) is ook hier geen bewijs van te vinden en dus lijkt het bij een spannend verhaal te blijven. Tenzij iemand er in de toekomst toch in slaagt de dertien schedels te vinden en wie weet dan inderdaad de heerschappij van de wereld in zijn handen heeft. Tot dan blijven kristallen schedels vooral mooie voorwerpen om te bestuderen en om er nog mooiere legendes rond te creëren.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
POWs and Slaves
Human sacrifice victims buried at the Shang Dynasty Royal Cemetery were kept as slaves before being killed, archaeologists have found.
Credit: beibaoke/Shutterstock
At an ancient site of human sacrifice in China, war captives may have been kept as slaves for years before they were killed, a new study finds.
Archaeologists have previously uncovered evidence of ritual human sacrifice in many ancient societies, including the ancient Greeks, the Vikings, the ancient Maya, and the Aztecs and the Incas, as well as in ancient China. [Read more about the doomed lives.]
Not a Comet
A color scan of the original computer printout of the "Wow!" signal as detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in 1977.
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American Astrophysical Observatory (NAAPO)
An astronomer thinks he's pinpointed the source of a mysterious radio signal from space: a passing comet that nobody knew about. But his colleagues said they're still skeptical of the explanation, noting that comets don't emit radio waves in the right way.
Others aren't so sure. "We do not believe the two-comets theory can explain the Wow! signal," Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who discovered the Wow! signal in 1977, told Live Science. [Read more about the 'WOW!' signal.]
Tanning by Pill
A new drug can give human skin a "natural" tan — it activates the same process that causes skin to darken in the sun, without exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays, according to early research.
Much more research is needed to determine if the drug is safe before it could be used in people, the researchers said. But they are hopeful that the drug might actually protect people against skin cancer, because the presence of melanin in the skin is linked with a lower risk of skin cancer. [Read more about sunless tanning.]
Splitting Protons
A Chinese satellite has split pairs of "entangled photons" and transmitted them to separate ground stations 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) apart, smashing the previous distance record for such a feat and opening new possibilities in quantum communication.
Quantum entanglement has interesting applications for testing the fundamental laws of physics, but also for creating exceptionally secure communication systems, scientists have said. That's because quantum mechanics states that measuring a quantum system inevitably disturbs it, so any attempt to eavesdrop is impossible to hide. [Read more about hack-proof communications.]
Charging on the Go
A new wireless power system could help people avoid the inevitable jumbled mess of tangled cords and offer a more efficient way to charge electric vehicles on the go, according to a new study.
The problem lies in the design of these wireless power systems. They typically consist of a source, which is the charging pad, and a receiver, which could be a phone or an electric car. [Read more about wired roads.]
A Severe Condition
The section of colon that was removed was 30 inches long and weighed nearly 29 lbs.
Credit: Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital
When doctors in China removed 30 inches of a young man's colon, they also removed nearly 29 lbs. (13 kilograms) of his feces.
The remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec wind god Ehécatl were found at a site in Mexico City.
Credit: Héctor Montaño/INAH
An ancient ceremonial ball court and an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god Ehécatl have been identified in what is now a modern section of Mexico City.
And close by the ball court lay a grisly surprise: sets of neck bones representing about 30 individuals, all infants and children, INAH officials said in the statement. [Read more about the gruesome find.]
Sex in Space
Artist's illustration of colonists on Mars. Scientists don't yet know how babies would develop and grow away from Earth, and this lack of knowledge poses a possible hurdle to establishing sustainable space settlements, experts say.
Credit: Illustration: Pat Rawlings/NASA
If humanity is serious about colonizing Mars, we need to get busy studying how to get busy in space.
Off-Earth reproduction isn't a completely ignored topic, of course. Just last month, for example, a group of researchers in Japan announced that freeze-dried mouse sperm that was stored on the International Space Station for nine months gave rise to healthy pups. [Read more about the final frontier.]
Renaissance Mom
Leonardo da Vinci circa 1510.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The identity of Leonardo da Vinci's mother has eluded historians for years, but now one scholar said he's found the woman behind the Renaissance man.
After digging through overlooked records in Italy, Martin Kemp, a leading Leonardo expert, claimed that the artist was born to Caterina di Meo Lippi, a 15-year-old orphan, on April 15, 1452. [Read more about Da Vinci's mom.]
Work and Sexism
The recent case of man in a powerful position making a sexist comment — during a company meeting aimed partly at addressing discrimination against women — raises the question of why gender issues in the workplace are so difficult to quash.
Companies don't talk about things such as masculinity and the role it plays in gender inequality, Pascoe told Live Science. But dominance over women is a "central part of the contemporary understanding of masculinity," and that extends beyond the workplace, she said. [Read more about workplace sexism.]
The briefing will incude a panel of four experts, according to a statement by NASA: Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington; Susan Thompson, Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California; Benjamin Fulton, doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology; and Courtney Dressing, NASA Sagan Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. A question-and-answer session will follow. [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]
Kepler has been hunting for extrasolar planets since its launch in 2009. This latest set of exoplanet candidates will use a more complete data set than ever before, with analysis of greater sophistication. The spacecraft started a new mission, called K2, after the failure of two reaction wheels that stabilized the spacecraft in 2013. The K2 mission was a modified version of the original planet-hunting mandate, seeking worlds around relatively nearby red dwarf stars.
Newfound exoplanets are often listed as candidates because it can take time to verify that they are actually there. Kepler finds planets by observing the light of stars over a period of time, using a process called the transit method. If the light dims, then it's possible a planet passed in front of it. The evidence for an exoplanet is considered stronger if the light dims more than once on a predictable schedule, indicating that something is in orbit around the star.
Kepler was the first mission capable of seeing planets the size of Earth around other stars in the "habitable zone" — the region at a distance from a star where liquid water could exist without freezing or boiling away immediately.
According to NASA, thus far Kepler has found 4,496 exoplanet candidates. Some 2,335 have been confirmed and 21 are Earth-size planets in the habitable zone. Since the mission was renamed K2, an additional 520 exoplanet candidates have been found, with 148 confirmed.
Heather Wade, who hosts a radio show on the paranormal, says she has found proof the UFO really did crash land in New Mexico, US, back in 1947.
She insists she has got her hands on an "ultra top secret" US Defence Intelligence Agency document from an unnamed source.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO crashed on July 2 or 3, 1947.
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MYSTERY: It is claimed there is proof a UFO crashed in New Mexico in 1947
A weird flying disc smashed into a ranch in Roswell.
The US military stated that it was merely a weather balloon but conspiracy theories have flourished ever since.
Wade claims it describes how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
This is probably the work of someone in Ufology”
Nick Redfern
The alleged government report says: "Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
"These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
"All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed."
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PROOF: Heather Wade believes she has the key to the mystery
A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
"At this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
But the documents have been dismissed as fake by British UFO investigator Nick Redfern.
He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month the timing was too suspicious.
He said on Facebook: "While I don't know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there's not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.
"This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents – and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it."
Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some advanced alien civilizations have already gone this route, which is why some SETI folks are on the lookout for these hypothetical objects. But a new study proposes that aliens are more likely to build megastructures around pulsars than stars—and importantly, we should be able to detect these objects from Earth using current technology.
When Freeman Dyson came up with his mind-altering idea back in 1959, he wasn’t imagining an energy solution for future humans. Instead, he was thinking about aliens, and the kinds of things we should be looking for to finally prove they actually exist. Today, the search for alien megastructures is referred to as Dysonian SETI, and we haven’t found anything yet (though we’ve had some false signals).
Conceptually, Dyson’s hypothetical sphere makes a lot of sense, particularly for advanced civilizations with a huge appetite for energy. By constructing a thin spherical shell around its sun, a civilization could capture oodles of solar energy that would otherwise bleed uselessly into space.
Graduating to a Type 2 Kardashev civilization sounds all good and well, but constructing—and maintaining—a megastructure of this scale won’t be easy. The shell itself would be located around one AU from the host star (that’s the average distance the Earth orbits the Sun). Consequently, the amount of material required to build a Dyson Sphere would be literally astronomical, and some experts have speculated that, if we were to ever build a Dyson Sphere, we’d have to dismantle Mercury, and possibly even Venus and the Asteroid Belt. Unfortunately, this could disrupt the delicate gravitational balance within the Solar System, leading to downstream consequences like planet-on-planet collisions. Other challenges exist as well, such as maintaining the shape and position of the shell, and repairing the endless damage wrought to the structure by incoming asteroids and comets.
It’s for these and other reasons that Zaza Osmanov, an astronomer from the Free University of Tbilisi, believes that Dyson Spheres aren’t the way to go. In a paper he published last year in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Osmanov said that Dyson Spheres are “unrealistically massive and cannot be considered seriously,” and that aliens (or future humans for that matter) are more likely to build Dyson Rings—a stripped down version of a Dyson Sphere. What’s more, he said aliens weren’t likely to construct these solar-collecting rings around stars, but pulsars instead. Now, in a follow-up study to this first paper, Osmanov is arguing that we should be able to detect these structures from Earth.
Osmanov’s idea is actually kind of awesome. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars or white dwarfs that emit a concentrated beam of electromagnetic radiation. From our vantage point on Earth, we can only see pulsars if their beams are pointing directly at us. Pulsars have short and highly regular rotational periods, which is why they blink. (Fun fact: When the first pulsar was discovered in 1967, astronomers thought they had stumbled upon an alien intelligence—they even named it LGM, which stands for Little Green Men.)
According to Osmanov, advanced alien civilizations are likely to exploit this high-power celestial phenomenon. Extending Dyson’s concept to pulsars, he says a ring of solar panels could be constructed around a slowly-rotating pulsar (spinning around about once every half second, so not that slow) at a distance of around nine million miles, or roughly one-third of the distance between Mercury and our Sun. He estimates that the Dyson Ring would be exposed to temperatures of around 117 degrees C (242 degrees F), which would make the object visible to observers on Earth in the infrared (IR) band.
Consequently, and assuming these objects actually exist, Osmanov says we could detect these Dyson rings from Earth using existing telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and in future, the James Webb Space Telescope. “The search of infrared rings is quite promising for distances up to [652 lightyears], where one will be able to monitor potentially 64 [known] pulsars by using the IR instruments,” he writes in the study. “Observation of distant pulsars [up to 3,262 lightyears]... will significantly increase the total number of potential objects to [around] 1,600, but at this moment the UV instruments cannot provide such a level of sensitivity.”
Artist’s impression of a Dyson Ring.
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“This is pretty cool,” Milan M. Ćirković, an astronomer and astrobiologist at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, told Gizmodo. “I do agree that they are detectable in principle... and this study is worthy of attention just for that. Whether [the construction of Dyson Rings around pulsars] is likely to happen depends on too many issues, including perhaps the most intriguing one, namely what other [kinds]... of megastructures could we expect from a Type 2 civilization that has capacity and will to build pulsar rings.”
Anders Sandberg, a senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, likes Osmanov’s idea, but he’s still a big believer in good ol’ fashion Dyson spheres.
“For stars, a Dyson swarm [a variation of the Dyson sphere] can pick up most of the energy because the star shines evenly in all directions,” Sandberg told Gizmodo. “For a pulsar there is not much light, but indeed a big electromagnetic field with a lot of directionality one can capture and use using much smaller rings. Osmanov is right in that this requires less material, but it is not clear why this would matter much. One could build a thin yet energy-collecting Dyson swarm out of a few large asteroids in the solar system. If you have self-replicating [robotic] technology, scale is not a problem, and if you lack it you will struggle to build even a Dyson ring.”
Sandberg also says that Dysonian superstructures don’t have to be located in a star system’s habitable zone, and that we should look for alien megastructures in other regions of space as well.
“But it makes sense to look at pulsars to see if there is something there: They are rare enough to stand out—and it has been suggested that SETI should look near them for this very reason—and they might have accessible energy sources useful in ways normal Dyson swarms aren’t,” he said.
So what the hell are we waiting for? Time for someone with access to an IR-scanning telescope to hone in on on this rather small set of candidate objects. Who knows, the celestial phenomena we once thought were signs of alien intelligence may in fact be home to ET—and possibly a glimpse into our very own future.
'ROSWELL PROOF' Is alleged US DIA leak that proves 'alien UFO crashed' fact or fiction?
'ROSWELL PROOF' Is alleged US DIA leak that proves 'alien UFO crashed' fact or fiction?
UFO experts have waded into a debate about a newly released document which purports to be US Government proof that the Roswell UFO crash actually happened.
A page from the document that many in the UFO community believe is a blatant hoax.
This week Express.co.uk revealed that a report had surfaced, allegedly leaked from the US Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA), which confirmed the legendary Roswell UFO crash happened, dead aliens were found, and there was a Government cover up.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a top-secret US military base.
The 47-page dossier, said to be drafted in the 1980s, contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.
So far the consensus among UFO experts seems to be that the report is nothing but an elaborate hoax.
Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) until 2009, described them as "fake with a capital F".
Mr Pope, who now speaks at UFO conferences across the globe, told Express.co.uk: "These documents are completely and utterly bogus.
"As with previous such documents that have surfaced in the US, I suspect they've been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers."
He spent 21 years in the MoD and said he knew how genuine documents were prepared.
He said: "The language and the wider Œfeel¹ of these UFO documents is just plain wrong.
"It¹s as if someone was playing buzzword bingo with all the words and phrases that excite UFO believers, and throwing in some New Age philosophy for good measure.
"Anyone sitting on genuine documents of this nature who really wanted to get the story out, I suspect, would have sent them to the New York Times, the Washington Post, or WikiLeaks, and not to a radio show host in the UFO community.
But there are those who think the US Government was actually behind it.
Tom Livesey, posted on Mr Randle's blog: "I hope Nick Redfern is wrong and that this is disinformation not a hoax.
"With documents such as this I suspect a fishing exercise, whereby people on the other side - who may be as perplexed as we are - put information out to see if the internet can come up with answers through pooled intelligence.
"The documents must be poorly written and obviously fake, or disclosure would actually occur which is not the intent."
Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained the document from a known but unnamed military source who sat on them for years.
She wrote on her website it had been passed to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who is a long term Roswell believer and Roswell investigator, and so far he had reported nothing to say they were faked.
A statement on the midnightinthedesert.com website said: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
I suspect they've been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers."
Nick Pope
"She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, 'I have never seen anything like this.'
"Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said previous "majestic 12" documents which surfaced were regarded as fake.
But, he was impressed by the lengths any hoaxer went to if the new report was bogus.
He added: "The amount of documentation and the details in them, including this 'latest'
document, does show a considerable amount of effort and knowledge has been expended to prove the presence of aliens in our midst."
He even floated the conspiracy theory of Government insiders releasing the false documents.
He added: "It could be part of a US government disinformation project or a hoax to try to smoke out the truth from the authorities.
"Certainly they are more fake than fact."
UFO publisher Philip Mantle claimed it was irrefutable they were fake, as they referred to a fictitious location in Nevada.
He posted on Facebook: "The final nail in the coffin is. . . according to these documents, the SECRET MJ-12 HQ is under Flat Rock, Nevada, a fictional town invented for Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain" novel!"
British UFO investigator Nick Redfern is convinced they are fake, and not part of a government misinformation conspiracy.
He said on Facebook: "While I don't know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there's not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.
"This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents - and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it."
He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month it was perfect timing.
He added: "I am looking forward to seeing certain ufological fence-sitters who will 100 percent refuse to denounce the documents.
"Why won't they denounce them? Because they fear they won't get booked at next year's conference here, or conference there, and are fearful of not being in with the 'in-crowd' of Ufology anymore."
Kevin Randle, a US Ufologist, who worked at length on the Roswell case, said they were fake in a lengthy blog post that tore apart discrepancies in them.
He said: "The writing does not sound as if it came from a government source, and without names, without government agencies, without any way to check things out, this just doesn¹t seem to be authentic."
Mr Randle blogged about Ms Wade¹s source writing: "I did ask Heather Wade about the source, or sources, and she didn¹t give me names, only that they were ex-military and had possessed the documents for a very long time.
"She didn¹t know which government agency had originated them, and there seemed no way to verify them through government sources."
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth, is sitting on the fence.
It has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.
It released a statement saying: "Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence."
It gave four possible explanations:
*Government disinformation
*Fully legitimate government documents
*A hoax by a debunker
*A hoax by a believer
It added: "The first two options are the most likely and about equal in probability."
Steve Bassett, PRG founder, later said on Facebook: "Whatever the status of this document - real, hoax or disinformation - PRG's principal concern is that top researchers in
the extraterrestrial phenomena research field be the first to assess this document and to the extent possible run it to ground before the debunkers and trolls do their thing.
"The message is this to either government disinformation entities or knucklehead hoaxers: this is not 1960 or 1970 or 1980 or 1990.
"It is 2017 and disinformation and hoaxes will be engaged immediately and your misguided effort will amount to little."
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UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
Worldwide UFO sightings hit all-time high
Beam me up, Jean Paul!
A new video has appeared of what was claimed to be a cigar-shaped ship hovering over Paris, France, which UFO watchers say is potentially the same object spotted over China and Australia several years ago.
It is unclear if the object -- which the video shows beaming light down on the ground -- is a hoax. The video was posted to YouTube by Secureteam10, a conspiracy channel that often posts UFO sightings.
Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10, said on the video that he was unable to find the original recording of the video and wondererd aloud whether it could be a hoax.
NAMED: Secret US team of scientists and military who ‘experimented on aliens and UFOs’
NAMED: Secret US team of scientists and military who ‘experimented on aliens and UFOs’
MEMBERS of an alleged top secret team of scientists and US military bosses who experimented on crashed flying saucers and dead aliens have been "named."
The 12 late scientists and officials who have been named as belonging the alleged Majestic-12 group.
The identities of the late officials are revealed in what conspiracists say is a leaked document from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from the Eighties.
Yesterday, Express.co.uk revealed how the 47-page alleged "above top secret" file had been released and contained claims the 1947 RoswellUFO crash did happen, dead aliens were found and there was a major cover up to hide the truth.
The document is said to have been given to Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, from a known source who has not been named.
Many UFO experts have branded the document fake, but the release has set the conspiracy theory world on fire, with others convinced it could be genuine.
The document claims a highly secretive team of top scientists, government officials and military leaders - all now dead - was set up in the wake of the Roswell incident to investigate the "captured flying sauce remains" and "four dead aliens" and assess the risk to the planet of "visiting aliens".
The document claims the group was called Majestic 12 and set up on the orders of President Harry S Truman, in the wake of Roswell.
Four decomposed aliens were found 2km from the Roswell crash site
Alleged DIA leaked report
It identifies these people as the original members:
*Lloyd Viel Berkner, an American physicist and engineer, who died in 1967 aged 62, and had investigated the Earth's atmosphere.
*Detlev Wulf Bronk, another US scientist, educator, who died aged 78 in 1975, and was recognised for developing biophysics as an established science.
*Vannevar Bush, an American engineer and inventor and science, who led the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
It carried out military research and development. He died aged 84 in 1974.
*Donald Howard Menzel, who died in 1976 aged 75, who was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the US, and discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae.
*Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, a US Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence, who died in 1954 aged 54.
*Nathan Farragut Twining, who died in 1982 aged 84, who was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and during the Roswell UFO incident.
*Sidney William Souers, who died in 1973 aged 80, and was a former director of central intelligence, and the executive secretary of the National Security Council, before becoming special consultant to the President on military and foreign affairs from 1950 to 1953.
*Robert Miller Montague, a Lieutenant General in the US Army who was deputy commander of Fort Bliss, Texas and commander of the Sandia Missile Base in New Mexico, who died in 1958 aged 58.
*James Vincent Forrestal, who died in 1949 aged 57, and was the first United States Secretary of Defense.
*Gordon Gray, who died in 1982 aged 73, who was a defense and national security government official.
*Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, the third director of the post-World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), who died aged 85 in 1982.
*Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, who died aged 98 in 1984, and was from 1941 to 1956 chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Part of the document, a four page report, said to have been prepared on January 8, 1989, claims to be a preliminary briefing about Majestic 12.
The report says the group had the remains of seven crashed flying saucers and 27 aliens.
Seasoned UFO expert and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is investigating the authenticity of the document and is said to believe it could be genuine.
The Paridigm Research Group (PRG) which tries to pressure the White House to disclose documents about UFOs believes the report could be genuine, but accepts it could also be fake.
Express.co.uk has contacted the DIA and awaits a response.
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SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city
SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city
By Mike Wall Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of a SpaceX colony ship arriving at Mars. The company aims to help establish a million-person city on the Red Planet.
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Elon Musk has put his Mars-colonization vision to paper, and you can read it for free.
SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO just published the plan, which he unveiled at a conference in Mexico in September 2016, in the journal New Space. Musk's commentary, titled "Making Humanity a Multi-Planetary Species," is available for free on New Space's website through July 5.
"In my view, publishing this paper provides not only an opportunity for the spacefaring community to read the SpaceX vision in print with all the charts in context, but also serves as a valuable archival reference for future studies and planning," New Space editor-in-chief (and former NASA "Mars czar") Scott Hubbard wrote in a statement. [ SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport for Mars in Images ]
Musk's Mars vision centers on a reusable rocket-and-spaceship combo that he's dubbed the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). Both the booster and the spaceship will be powered by SpaceX's Raptor engine, still in development, which Musk said will be about three times stronger than the Merlin engines that power the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
The booster, with its 42 Raptors, will be the most powerful rocket in history, by far. It will be capable of launching 300 metric tons (330 tons) to low Earth orbit (LEO), or 550 metric tons (600 tons) in an expendable variant, Musk said. For comparison, NASA's famous Saturn V moon rocket, the current record holder, could loft "just" 135 metric tons (150 tons).
ITS rockets will launch the spaceships to Earth orbit, then come back down for a pinpoint landing about 20 minutes later. And "pinpoint" is not hyperbole: "With the addition of maneuvering thrusters, we think we can actually put the booster right back on the launch stand," Musk wrote in his New Space paper, citing SpaceX's increasingly precise Falcon 9 first-stage landings .
The ITS boosters will launch many spaceships and fuel tankers (which will top up the spaceships' tanks) to orbit over the course of their operational lives; the rockets will be designed to fly about 1,000 times each, Musk wrote. The spaceships, meanwhile, will hang out in orbit, and then depart en masse when Earth and Mars align favorably. This happens once every 26 months.
Eventually, Musk wrote, he envisions 1,000 or more ITS spaceships, each carrying 100 or more people, leaving Earth orbit during each of these Mars windows. The architecture could conceivably get 1 million people to Mars within the next 50 to 100 years, he has said.
The ships would also fly back from Mars, using their nine Raptor engines and methane-based propellant that was manufactured on the Red Planet. Each ITS ship would probably be able to make 12 to 15 deep-space journeys during its operational life, Musk wrote, and each fuel tanker could likely fly to Earth orbit 100 or so times.
The ITS' reusability is key to making Mars colonization affordable . This reusability — combined with other measures, such as fueling the spaceships in Earth orbit and making propellant on Mars — could bring the price of a Red Planet trip down to $200,000 or so per person, from an estimated $10 billion using conventional spaceflight systems, Musk said.
ITS spaceships could begin flying to Mars about 10 years from now, if everything goes well, Musk added. But he acknowledged that success is far from guaranteed.
"There is a huge amount of risk. It is going to cost a lot," Musk wrote. "There is a good chance we will not succeed, but we are going to do our best and try to make as much progress as possible."
And SpaceX has a history of overcoming long odds. When Musk founded the company in 2002, he wrote, "I thought we had maybe a 10 percent chance of doing anything — of even getting a rocket to orbit, let alone getting beyond that and taking Mars seriously."
You can download a free copy of Musk's Mars paper here:
One of the earliest searches for signals indicative of extraterrestrial intelligence was made in 1960 with this 26-meter antenna at Greenbank Virginia.4( Photo courtesy National Radio Astronomy Observatory / Associated Universities, Inc. / NSF.
One of the more intriguing unsolved modern mysteries is the fast radio burst (FRB) phenomenon. Over the last several years, radio telescopes on Earth have been detecting more and more very brief, very powerful radio signals which originate from deep space. While astronomers have been able to locate the source of several of these signals, the exact mechanisms of their production remain a mystery. Of course, it has been speculated that they might be attempts at communication made by advanced alien races, or even that they might be a form of alien spacecraft propulsion for deep-space travel.
While it would be nice if these signals were indeed being beamed at us by an alien race, there are possible natural explanations.
Whatever these radio bursts happen to be, astronomers believe that similar signals might indeed be used for communication across vast distances of space. While we haven’t determined that any of them might be a collect call from deep space, one astrophysicist has just published a study which sought to determine whether such signals could indeed encrypt information and if our squishy little human brains could decode them. Turns out we can – with the help of social media, naturally. It is the weird future, after all.
And why shouldn’t an entire species communicate directly to another? Because not everyone has access the internet yet, that’s why.
This crowdsourced experiment was conceived by Rene Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, who encrypted seven different pages of information into a simulated alien fast radio burst signal, which can be heard here. The signal’s electromagnetic frequency was set to 452.13 MHz, a figure derived from multiplying pi by the emission frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms. That same frequency was used in Carl Sagan’s Contact, as the values are commonly found throughout the universe. Heller released the message to social media and challenged the public to decrypt it, calling his experiment the “SETI Decrypt Challenge.” The following rules were attached:
Suppose a telescope on Earth receives a series of pulses from a fixed, unresolved source beyond the solar system. The source is a star about 50 light years from Earth. The pulses are in the form of short/long signals and they are received in a very narrow band around an electromagnetic frequency of 452.12919 MHz. A computer algorithm identifies the artificial nature of the pulses. It turns out the pulses carry a message. The pulses signify binary digits. Suppose further that you were, by whatsoever reason, put in charge of decoding this message.
If you successfully decrypted the message, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is the typical body height of our interstellar counterparts? What is their typical lifetime? What is the scale of the devices they used to submit their message? Since when have they been communicating interstellar? What kind of object do they live on? How old is their stellar system?
Within just a month, Heller was greeted with a high number of successful decryptions, particularly after the challenge was posted to Reddit. 300 complete replies were received, out of which 66 contain correct solutions, half of which appeared to be derived independently without help. The majority of the correct responses were submitted from the two coasts of the United States and western Europe. When decrypted, the message consists of a binary code which specifies dimensions of a grid. When the message’s data are plugged into the grid, it creates a picture:
The images are composed of 0s and 1s and explain basic facts about an “alien” race.
The image shows the first 10,000 prime numbers, a grey alien, a sine wave, the exomoon Kepler 22b, and an image of the Square Kilometer Array telescope, chosen to simulate the device used by the “alien civilization” which sent the message. The message is similar to the Arecibo message, a radio signal designed in part by Carl Sagan which was beamed from Earth to a nearby star cluster in 1974. The experiment’s author is hopeful that these results demonstrate the power of social media in decrypting possible future messages from alien civilizations. That is, if governments decide to let this kind of discovery to be made public at all.
In 1977, scientists working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) recorded an unusually strong radio signal, the origin of which many scientists believe has not been explained. While the most exotic theory is that the signal is a call from ET, a paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences claims the origins of the signal is much more mundane. They think a comet or two caused it. SETI scientists, including the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, Seth Shostak, and the man who discovered the signal, disagree.
Seth Shostak
As Shostak puts it in a recent article, the “Wow! Signal” is in the “A-List” of signals recorded by scientists that may potentially have been generated by an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization. It is an exclusive list. Shostak did not mention how long the list is, but it can be argued the “Wow! Signal” is the only signal on that list.
In August of 1977, a signal was captured by a radio telescope called Big Ear at Ohio State University. Upon discovering the signal while reviewing the logs, astronomer Jerry Ehman circled it on the computer printout and wrote “Wow!” off to the side.
The signal was very strong, and according to Shostak, “It had all the characteristics one would anticipate from a signal produced by a deep space transmitter.”
However, despite efforts to capture the signal a second time, it was never heard again.
“So the WOW signal seemed destined to be an enduring mystery of the universe – maybe it really was ET launching a signal in our direction, a whistle that was either very short or very intermittent,” Shostak wrote. “Then again, perhaps it was something else…”
This is where the new paper in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences comes in. The paper is authored by Antonio Paris and Evan Davies. Interestingly, Paris, an astronomer at St. Petersburg College in Florida, also has an interest in UFOs. In fact, he was been an investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and has lectured on the topic at several UFO conferences.
A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout, taken several years after the 1977 arrival of the “Wow!” signal. It was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. The signal appears to have come from an area of the sky with no stars or planets, northwest of the globular cluster M55. Image Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
In the paper, the authors argue that the signal likely came from a comet or two that was not catalogued at the time the signal was detected. That would explain why Ehrman and others would not have known suspected the comet(s).
“Neutral hydrogen is well known for generating radio static at a frequency of 1420 MHz, which is indeed the spot on the dial where the Big Ear overheard the signal,” admits Shostak. However, he continues, “The comet hypothesis, in my opinion, doesn’t work. To begin with, there’s the slightly dismaying fact that I’ve never heard of anyone measuring strong hydrogen signals from a comet, and I’ve spent a lot of time on radio telescopes tuned to 1420 MHz.”
Shostak also points out that there were two receivers that examined the area of the sky the signal was received. The second sweep, which was only 70 seconds later.
“But the WOW signal only appeared in one of the feeds,” Shostak continued. “Of course, that could be explained if the signal simply went off the air in the time between observation by the first and second feed. Terrestrial interference could be compatible with this requirement, easy peasy. And a signal from impatient aliens could too.”
Comets, on the other hand, do not turn on and off. They move slowly, and should have been detected in the second feed.
Ehman recently told Live Science in a recent interview that he does not buy the comet theory for the same reasons Shostak presented.
“We should have seen the source come through twice in about 3 minutes: one response lasting 72 seconds and a second response for 72 seconds following within about a minute and a half,” Ehman told Live Science. “We didn’t see the second one.”
Antonio Paris
Paris admits this is an issue. However, he suggested to Live Science that the telescope might not have detected the signal in the second feed due to an error with the telescope itself.
“There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself,”Paris told Live Science.
So the mystery continues. However, Paris has not finished making his case. He plans to continue to observe comets and the reasons behind why they create the signals.
“There have been a handful of studies, but I suspect we are the first to specifically build a 10-meter radio telescope to specifically look at this type of solar system body,” he said.
Cyborgs – hybrid creatures forged from human beings and machines – have gradually been making the transition from science fiction staple into reality in the past decades.
Primarily, the use of robotic technology in human beings is used as a medical tool in the present day but as the technology improves it may be employed for a whole host of different reasons. This has led leading philosophers to suggest that the time has come to discuss the ethical implications of creating cyborg humans in the near future.
Most people do not tend to think of prosthetic limbs as the type of robotics which lead to the creation of cyborg humans. However, the latest technology in this field is far more advanced than the majority of people suspect. Carbon fiber and titanium prosthetic limbs are used as a matter of routine in the modern age and the vast majority of false limbs which are fitted today are fully functional.
Prosthetic limbs have become so adept and dexterous recently that experts are even beginning to discuss whether they are more effective than organic limbs. Researchers have also created phenomenal robotic hands which can be triggered by the brain of the patients. Some of the most recent robotic hands produced even have a sense of touch.
Recently, robotic engineers have progressed beyond artificial limbs and have begun to dabble with the idea of implanting human beings with microchips. In recent months, there has been news that a company in Sweden has begun to implant its employees with microchips so that they can perform tasks such as opening doors with the wave of a hand. Even more ambitiously, the Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in the process of developing a so-called neural lace which will eventually be capable of connecting the human mind to electronic devices such as computers and smartphones.
Humanity is becoming more and more ambitious with its plans to push the boundaries of science and technology, particularly regarding space exploration. For many individuals, developing effective cyborg technology could be an essential step towards achieving these dreams. However, others believe that before cyborg technology goes too far that it is incredibly important to discuss the moral and legal questions posed by this next stage of human history.
Ethical philosophers are already beginning to question various aspects of life with cyborg human beings such as establishing safeguards to ensure that human beings cannot be hacked. There are also concerns that there could be troubling implications for the world’s military forces who might use the new developments in cyborg technology to create humans with exoskeletons.
It is very important to consider these questions now to make sure that this next stage in human development is a success and not a complete disaster
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NASA: MARS AND THE EARTH HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE THOUGHT
NASA: MARS AND THE EARTH HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE THOUGHT
It looks like Earth and Mars have a lot more in common that what was first thought. This conclusion has been reached after NASA revealed photographs taken of Mars in an exploration that has lasted 12 years. The photographs were taken using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and it shows that Mars actually looks a lot like Earth.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured many thousands of images and sent them back to scientists on Earth. The vibrant photographs have managed to capture everything from mineral hills on Mars to dust storms. The landscapes revealed in the photographs look like canyons or red deserts on Earth, which led to NASA saying that Earth and Mars has a lot in common.
The MRO was used by NASA so that scientists could get a much better understanding of the materials, dust, subsurface water and the weather on Mars. The website of NASA has been providing some stunning photos of Mars, including a mesa of 0.4 kilometers, the surface of Mars covered with materials that are of fine grain and which hide the bedrock and the Saheki Crater, which is 84 kilometers across.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA was first launched on 12 August 2005, and it went on a search to try to find evidence of water and whether or not it has persisted on Mars surface over a long period of time. Other missions to Mars have revealed that water flows over the surface of Mars, but it has been something of a mystery as to whether the water had been around for long enough to have provided a habitat for life on Mars.
It was said that the studies would help scientists to find out if there were deposits of minerals forming in the water over a length of time, along with detecting shorelines from ancient lakes and seas. NASA said that one of the cameras on the Orbiter was the biggest to have ever flown on a mission to a planet.
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